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An 87th Precinct Mystery

In this book "Heat" Ed McBain weaves a tale about a dead alcoholic found in a hot apartment, and the cause of death, Seconal Poisoning. After reviewing the subject the officers of the 87th Precinct cant decide whether they have a suicide or whether the victim was killed because all of the clues lead back to suicide, however where was the suicide note, and why would he leave everything to a stranger instead of with his wife, and what about the ex wife who says he was deathly afraid of taking pills so Seconal Poisoning must be some mistake.     more.....

Building Websites with e107

Nearly 80% of Content Management Systems runs under Open Source license with PHP as the programming language and MySQL as the database backend. e107 is one among them and it ships with tons of powerful features and utilities. Users need not have any knowledge of PHP to manage a website built with e107 since the system itself contains user friendly wizards, which can be used to accomplish various tasks. Tad Boomer thoroughly examines all aspects of managing an e107 powered website in his latest book published by Packt Publishing.     more.....

Cookies With ASP

Cookies can be a good method for passing data between pages and especially for retaining data between sessions. Today, it's pretty safe to assume that anyone who is using your site can use cookies, since nearly every site that is non-static makes use of them(including all ASP sites that use sessions). It is also possible to set and read cookies using client-side code, but it is a bit more difficult. Reading and writing cookies using Active Server Pages' built in Request and Response objects is incredibly easy.     more.....

Death by Black Hole

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries By Neil deGrasse Tyson W.W. Norton & Company, January 2007 $24.95, ISBN 0-393-06224-3

The power of Death by Black Hole is in the telling where Neil deGrasse Tyson delivers a drama expressing beauty and terror in equal measure. He provides for the general reading public a basic understanding of how the universe works. This was no simple task. A population socialized to view science as distant, cold and unrelated to everyday life is hard to win over.     more.....

Hiding Place

The ever growing eminence of politics all around the globe has compelled writers to express their relevant views time and time again. This is for the most part to make people aware of the political tools employed by leaders and the affects of the decisions taken by them on behalf of an entire nation. Politics, just another science with its many logics and interpretations, could not have been anymore minimally put than the words lined up within Corrie Ten Boom's 'The hiding place' which was perhaps a vintage best-seller in the 1970's.     more.....

Hoops – Poems

Hoops: Poems By Major Jackson W.W. Norton & Company, March 2006 $23.95, ISBN 0-393-05937-5

In his sophomore collection, Hoops, Major Jackson stitches poems with an invisible thread. Divided into three sections, Hoops is narrative, meditative and confessional with the seamless, single thread being Jackson's firm control of voice.     more.....

Increasing popularity of Biography

Biography books are gaining lots of popularity among the people these days. These books act as a source of inspiration for the readers.
Books are considered as the best friends of humans. Books inform us about the latest happenings taking place throughout the world. Nowadays, to entertain and inform the users, large number of books have been written by renowned authors on a variety of subjects like comedy, architecture, finance, law, music,horror, nature, Drama, science, poetry and many more. Reading offers entertainment and fun. This fun increases if the book you are reading is about some great people whom you consider your idols and inspirations.     more.....

Papa, Do You Love Me?

Barbara M. Jossee’s children’s picture book Papa, Do You Love Me? is a delight. Like her children’s picture book Mama, Do You Love Me?, Papa, Do You Love Me? features the watercolors of artist Barbara Lavallee. Through a story about a Maasai father and son in Africa, Joosse focuses on a father’s love for his son.     more.....

Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0: Core Reference

When Microsoft released ASP.NET 1.1 in 2003, Microsoft Press published Programming Microsoft ASP.NET, authored by Dino Esposito.  The book is known for its definitive and great in-depth coverage of ASP.NET 1.x internals.

With ASP.NET 2.0, Dino and Microsoft Press have refined the strategy and this time the entire coverage of ASP.NET 2.0 platform has been separated into two books, Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0: Core Reference and Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Applications: Advanced Topics.  This review is about the former.     more.....

Real Stories Are The Inspiration

The Other Mozart: The Life of the Famous Chevalier de Saint-George By Hugh Brewster Illustrated by Eric Velasquez Abrams Books for Young Readers February 2007, $18.95, ISBN 0-810-95720-5 Ages 8-14

Here is the little-known biography of Joseph Bologne, the son of slave and a wealthy French nobleman, who moved from Guadeloupe to Paris, where he was educated as a young aristocrat. Christened the Chevalier de Saint-George, Joseph became a champion swordsman, an accomplished composer and violinist.     more.....

Simply in Season Children's Cookbook

If you are worried about childhood obesity and anxious to teach your children to enjoy eating foods that are good for them, then your family needs a copy of Simply in Season Children's Cookbook. According the publisher,

This cookbook is part of the World Community Cookbook Series commissioned by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) to promote the understanding of how the food choices we make affect our lives and the lives of those who produce food.     more.....

The Hades Factor

The book starts with a destitute soldier named Mario who walks into a drugstore with a splitting headache and begging for medicines. When he doesnt have enough money the steals them from the store but is subdued by two policemen outside. In the melee Mario suddenly collapses and dies which is confirmed by the post mortem. Elsewhere Billie Zoe a young teenage girl also dies of a deadly hemmorhagic virus along with an US Army major. The autopsy of the bodies reveal that the virus is nothing that has ever been seen before. The U.S. Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases(USAMRIID) and Center for Disease Control(CDC) are immediatly called in to investigate.      more.....

Visions of Dystopia in The Giver

The world of The Giver centers on a strictly controlled society known as The Community. Its members live in a sort of self-imposed stasis, meaning that their population, behavior, speech, activities, and emotions are all regulated by a select group of elites known as The Elders. Just to be safe, though, humanity’s collective memories – which include pre-reform experiences of things like love, lust, hate, fear, fun, pleasure, envy… hell, even color – are all stockpiled into one guy known as “The Receiver of Memory,” who keeps everyone from having to make choices that could be dangerous. Let’s hope he never falls down the stairs or anything.      more.....

Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why

Ebony and Jet announcing that "it" would never again appear in their pages was no big deal. The real shock came when Mr. Paul Mooney, comedian extraordinaire, decided to wash his mouth out. Until Michael Richards's comedy club rant, Mooney took public glee in saying that he held onto it so tightly because it whitened his teeth. That conversion, more than any other, marked the change of time and tide. The "It word," yesterday, today and tomorrow, is nigger--the slur birthed by white supremacy, cradled in Old England and its colonies and, forever young, resides happily within the political and cultural DNA of the 21st-century American Empire.     more.....

Why Books Will Always be Popular

Technology continues to bring changes to our lives and many objects that people once placed great value in are being consigned to history. This has led people to speculate that the traditional type of book will be replaced by an electronic version; they point to the record industry as evidence to what will happen to books. Other people feel certain that the format of the book will also be completely revised because people no longer have the attention span to be wading through long narrative; they want something short and zappy.     more.....

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