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Title: Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Second Edition Publisher: Wiley Authors: Bruce Schneier Rating: 5/5  If you want to buy a book which is a wonderful introduction to cryptography, then you have just found it. Many books suffer from excessive bloat where the author tries to be everything to everybody. This book is not one of them.It's lean and clean and it'll turn you into a mean cryptographic machine. Some reviewrs seem to berate the author for:a) losing his jobb) trying to make a buck by writing booksc) not writing a mathematical tome Well, I have some news for you:a) Anyone can get laid off from any job at any time - period.b) All authors write books for money.c) The author clearly states at the beginning of the book under the heading, How to read this book - 'I wrote Applied Cryptography to be both a lively introduction to the field of cryptography and a comprehensive reference...This book is not intended to be a mathematical text.' Need I say more.
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Title: Microsoft SharePoint 2003 Unleashed (Unleashed) Publisher: Sams Authors: Lynn Langfeld, Colin Spence, Mike Noel Rating: 4/5  I was a bit skittish about buying this book based on some of the negative reviews. Having played around with the software but still having alot of questions, I wanted to judge for myself so I picked it up at the bookstore. If you can make it through the first section, which is basically fluff, there is some excellent content in the later parts of the book, particularily in the sections on Office use with SharePoint and SQL maintenance of the databases, which is not covered much at all in the other SharePoint books out today. My guess is that many of the other reviewers may have stopped reading after the first few chapters, and I can't really blame them. I would agree that it is better to skip them and going straight to the good stuff.
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Title: The PMP Exam: How to Pass on Your First Try Publisher: Velociteach Press Authors: Andy Crowe Rating: 4/5 I've passed the PMP. This book was really a very good reference for me to capture all ideas quickly and easily. It made the studies more simple and even easy. It has better short-cuts ways that will save your time in the exam(ex. calculating float for a task , calculating PV , EV). This was my best resource (out of four others) for professional responsibility study and review. It just need to be reviwed by the Author for certain areas against other references , like Risk mng. , quality mng. Also some situational questions answers was ambigous and not well fabricated. I beleive this was my best quick resource. I bought it with Rita Mulcahy and once I started reading it ,it encourages me to complete till the end. Adel Eid,PMP
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Title: Access 2000: The Complete Reference Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Authors: Virginia Andersen Rating: 3/5  This book was useful as a quick reference for the things that are simple to do, that you may have just forgotten or did not know how to go about doing. But as far as getting to the more intermediate and advanced applications of Access, it left you with little help. The book highlighted many of the MOUS exam objectives that were suppose to be applied in each chapter, but the book lacked enough substantive examples to help the reader truly understand the concepts if they did not already have in-depth knowledge. The book oversimplified some of the more difficult tasks and overkilled the most basic fundamentals that are easily walked through by the wizards. The most annoying part of the book was the reference to other parts of the book for the answers to questions posed by the author. If a topic comes up,(like a how do you do this?) a reader wants to know how to solve the dilemma when the question is posed, not 20 chapters later. The author made too much of an attempt to section the book into defined topics and forgot that this is a relational database we are dealing with and so things should flow more smoothly. This book wasn't enough of a reference and therefore should only be relied upon for simplistic reading.
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