March 2012 | Text Language List

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I am a foreign citizen living in the US for about 4 years for graduate level degree in the US. Culture as well as language are the biggest obstacles of my life in the US. I overcame the basic survival and class language barrier after living 2-3 years, but the cultural barrier with combined with conversational...

Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, 2nd Edition Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I have just started learning some PHP & MySQL development using "PHP & MySQL Web Development" published by Sams and "Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL" from O'Reilly. Prospective readers might be wondering the difference between the two in deciding which one to buy, so I hope to...

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (P.S.) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Francine Prose, in "Reading Like a Writer," argues that creative writing cannot be taught in a classroom. A workshop may provide valuable encouragement and support for a fledgling writer, and a good instructor may show a novice how to edit his work more effectively. However, a writer learns his craft...

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Hamilton's mythology deserves its place with Bulfinch's mythology as one of the primary anthologies of classical mythology. Although the book covers Greek/Roman myths thoroughly, the Norse myths are touched upon only briefly, which is why I have given the book four stars rather than five. Nonetheless,...

Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book allowed me to quickly create some simple applications using the processing API. So, in that respect, the book was successful. However, the book falls short in three respects.1) One would expect a book with the title "Visualizing Data" to be crammed with pictures showing many different data...

WordPlay: 550+ Words You Need to Know Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)+5 for stories but -4 word selection I enjoyed the humerous plays - great writing/acting - and agree that these are words you need to know, but I'd assume you already do unless English is a 2nd lang. If you don't know Technology, Perceive, Compound, Drudgery, Implore, Tinge, Badger, Realm, indiscriminate,...

Head First SQL: Your Brain on SQL -- A Learner's Guide Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Before I talk about Head First SQL, let me tell you about other database books I have used in the classroom. I teach an enterprise databases sequence (DBs I and II) at a tribal college in Montana. On the course evaluations for this sequence, students have a common complaint: "Liked the class. Hated the...

The Connectors in Modern Standard Arabic Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is organized into 27 lessons, each covering some 3-8 connectors. By connectors, the authors mean the various particles that serve to conjoin two or more verbs, nouns, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. Some simple examples in English would be "and", "but", and "or". Some more complex examples...

The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition (Seventh Edition) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I bought The Norton Sampler for an English 101 course at a community college. Amazon's price was the same as a used edition from my college bookstore, so I opted for the new version. I usually don't mind reading textbooks for classes, but I liked this one enough that I have read it purely for enjoyment....

Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems (Edición bilingüe) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A MUST HAVE. Es sin duda un libro que vas a cuidar y conservar con mucho cariño. La recoleccion de poemas es brillante, exquisita, de primera. Quien no ha leido a Neruda? Lo bello del libro es que ofrece los poemas en el idioma que fueron escritos y en Ingles. La traduccion al ingles es excelente. No...

ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Solutions for Flash Platform and Flex Application Developers Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book was exactly what I was looking for: a reference-style book to quickly look up how to do something specific with ActionScript 3. It is for generally experienced developers that already know what they want to do and just need to see how it's done in with AS3 in the classic cookbook style.There...

Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I have taught writing for the past five years utilizing the teaching structure, writing workshop. I have also taught teachers how to teach using writing workshop and this has been the most helpful book in training new teachers. It is an easy read with lots of timelines, teacher guides, quick summaries...

PHP and MySQL Web Development (4th Edition) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Although i love the book itself and would give it a 5 star rating, i have to say that the Kindle edition is a blatant rip off. First, its the same price as the paperback with a CD-Rom included, second, they did not bother to make the sources of the CD-Rom available (via a Website) to those who bought...

Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python (Pragmatic Programmers) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I had not programmed for 30 years and wanted to do a bit for a small project. After trying several Python books I found this one. I suspect that no one programming book will appeal to all, but this one was a great book to get me started again. Well-written. Good examples. Clear explanations.Click Here...

C: The Complete Reference, 4th Ed. Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Having come across Schild's book when starting out as a programmer Ibelieved it to be one of the best I've read. In this respect it isvery good for a beginner, but searching now for a reference manual(I've misplaced the misnomer: "C, A Complete Reference") as amore experienced programmer I realise this...

Collected Poems (Oxford India Collection) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Nissim Ezekiel is often described as a founder of modern English verse in India, or as the leading writer to come out of the "Bene Israel" a long-isolated Jewish community in Western India. This is not really fair to a highly readable modern poet with affinities to Yeats, W.C. Williams, and others, although...

Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Our organization recently implemented Scrum, and although theBeedle/Schwaber book was great to get us off the ground on Scrumtheory, we immediately had many questions once we actually tried to implement it in real life projects. I agree with the notion that Scrum is conceptually easy to understand, but...