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From: wilde@hri.com (Scott Wilde)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: book club
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:23:39 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.035817.27884@sq.sq.com>, msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
|> a book that I consider to be trash, but this isn't frequent.  They *regularly*
|> select books that are nothing to do with science, but are about improving
|> one's time management, public speaking, or other such qualities; this is
|> not why I joined a *science* book club.  The "new selections" brochure is

Well, I don't know about Toronto, but in the US the "Main Selections" are _always_
science books.  They do throw in separate sheets/brochures with some business or management
books, but the vast majority of books are science books.  There is also the occasional
atlas or other general reference book; I don't have any problems with this, and have 
purchased several of them (with a bonus certificate,  the price of a Times World Atlas
comes down to a reasonable level).

Scott
From: sp_pm@space.alcbel.be (Paul Moore)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Wanted: UNIX book mail-order suppliers in  USA.
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:04:20 GMT
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Hello,


I'm looking for suppliers of UNIX books that can deliver to Europe by mail- order, since what you pay in dollars in the USA, you have to pay in pounds in Europe.

Can anyone recommend some USA-based suppliers? Please include (non toll-free) telephone numbers and fax numbers, if possible.


Please email responses, as I don't have a News connection. As usual, I'll summarise responses if there is sufficient interest.


Thanks in advance for any replies,

- Paul

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From: gnn@wsl.dec.com (George Neville-Neil)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: networking text
Date: 25 Aug 92 16:23:58 GMT
Reply-To: gnn@wsl.dec.com (George Neville-Neil)
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab

In article <garzione.714746488@convex.convex.com>, garzione@convex.com (Michael Garzione) writes:
|> I'm trying to locate books on basic networking and network administration
|> on UNIX systems.  Emphasis should be on the practical and applied rather
|> than theoretical.  Ideally, a textbook which can be used as part of a
|> networking course.  Any/all comments welcome.  Thanks.
|> 

For practical information on setting up a network and administering
it under UNIX I like:

Unix System Administration Handbook
By Nemeth, Snyder, and Seebass
Prentice Hall c) 1989
ISBN 0-13-933441-6

My copy cost me $38.

Later,
George


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From: acw@Apple.COM (Art Willis)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: American bookshop - Mail order
Summary: Computer Literacy in San Jose does MO
Keywords: Mail order Computer Books
Date: 28 Aug 92 22:58:51 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

In article <1992Aug24.123654.18245@csd.brispoly.ac.uk> ir_johns@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (Ian Johnson) writes:
>This probably belongs in a FAQ but here goes ...
>
>Does anyone know of a good academic bookshop in the US that I
>can phone and order computing / systems books (US published)
>using a credit card for despatch to the UK.
>
> [... omitted]
>
>Ian Johnson  (irj@uk.ac.brispoly.hal) 
>             Usual disclaimer applies


Computer Literacy, which claims to have the largest collection of computer
books in the world, says that they accept credit card orders for shipment
to Europe.  Probably others parts ot the world as well.  They can be
contacted at:

Phone:    (408)435-1118
Fax:      (408)435-1823
email:    info@clbooks.com

I wouldn't place any order by email without first exchanging some email
with them, but, Hey! that's just the kind of guy I am.

Regards,

Art Willis
acw@apple.com

Not affiliated with Computer Literacy Bookshops, except that they have
extracted a great deal of money from me over the years.
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From: quanbook@world.std.com (Quantum Books)
Subject: New Book: Client/Server Programming with OS/2 2.0
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:23:29 GMT


Client/Server Programming with OS/2 2.0, 2d edition
by Robert Orfali and Dan Harkey
ISBN 0-442-01219-5
$39.95 1088 pages. Available now.

From the back of the book:

Through clear, in-depth tutorials and C programs, the authors show you 
how to integrate a myriad of technologies to build working, "mission 
critical" client/server applications.
 
Choose between developing skinny clients for fat servers or vice versa.
 
Create sizzling, multithreaded , 32-bit applications on OS/2 2.0.
 
Use the full power and flexibility of SQL databases, and learn how to 
make the important tradeoffs between transaction and database servers.
 
Add pizazz to you client applications using the state-of-the-art, 
object-oriented graphical features of the Workplace Shell.
 
Choose and use the right communications protocol, whether you need to 
communicate between PCs in adjacent offices using named pipes, Novell's 
NetWare and NetBIOS, or to host computers across the country using CPI-
C, APPC, and TCP/IP.
 
If you're a manager, MIS analyst, or architect, the first  200 pages 
bring you the latest developments in client/server technology and the 
exciting new OS/2 2.0 platform.


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From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: book club
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 20:07:17 GMT

There was a request earlier for a mailing address for the Library of
Science book club.  A lot of their regular mail uses various box numbers,
but they do have a street address:

	3000 Cindel Drive
	Delran, NJ 08075-9888

That's in the USA.  By the way, Canadian members do not get a special
version of the catalog, as they do in at least one other book club;
we see the US dollar prices, and they are converted when we order.
I don't know about other countries.

However, by watching for advertisements rather than writing to them
directly, you may get a better choice of introductory specials.  For
example, the advertised special that got me to join was a very cheap copy
of the (then) current edition of Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia.
Also, as has been mentioned, you have the additional option of asking
an existing member to recruit you, in which case they too get a bonus.
-- 
Mark Brader			"People with whole brains, however, dispute
SoftQuad Inc., Toronto		 this claim, and are generally more articulate
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com	 in expressing their views."	-- Gary Larson

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Newsgroups: misc.books.technical,comp.misc
From: droms@regulus.cs.bucknell.edu (Ralph E. Droms)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Journal of Internetworking
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:07:41 GMT
Reply-To: droms@bucknell.edu
Distribution: misc

In article <YOUKI.92Aug27003336@nozomi.rd.ecip.osaka-u.ac.jp> youki@rd.ecip.osaka-u.ac.jp (Youki Kadobayashi) writes:


   Dr. A.C. Ijsselstein informed me of another journal devoted to
   Internetworking technologies:
   ----------------
   From: A.C.Ijsselstein@cwi.nl
   Subject: Re: Journal of Internetworking?

   "Internetworking: Research and Experience" [ISSN 1049-8915] is pub-
   lished quarterly by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 1992 subscription price
   US$195.00. Orders should be addressed to:

	   Subscriptions Department
	   John Wiley & Sons Ltd,
	   Baffins Lane,
	   Chichester,
	   West Sussex PO19 1UD,
	   England.

"Journal of Internetworking" and "Internetworking: Research and
Experience" are one and the same.  The former was sort of an early
"working title," while the latter is the official name as it appears
on the cover.

--
- Ralph Droms                 Computer Science Department
  droms@bucknell.edu          323 Dana Engineering
  (717) 524-1145              Bucknell University
  (717) 524-3760 (fax)        Lewisburg, PA 17837
From: madhavan@sal-sun86.usc.edu (Bindu Madhavan)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: second hand techincal bookstores in LA
Date: 2 Sep 1992 16:24:37 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sal-sun86.usc.edu



Hi!

I wonder if anyone can point me to second hand technical bookstores
in the LA area and/or within a 200 mile radius of LA.

thanks

bindu


madhavan@usc.edu
From: sp_pm@space.alcbel.be (Paul Moore)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Wanted: UNIX system/network programming book recommendation
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:54:17 GMT
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Hello,


I'm looking for books that deal with UNIX network and system programming.

A book that has been recommended to me is:

    UNIX Network Programming, by W. Richard Stevens

Are there any other books available in this field?


I've heard that Stevens has another book available, just recently published:

    Advanced UNIX SYstem Programming

or some such similar title. Has anyone seen this book, or offer any comments?


Please email responses, as I don't have a News connection. As usual, I'll summarise responses if there is sufficient interest.


Thanks in advance for any replies,

- Paul

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From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Subject: Re: book club
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 16:09:56 GMT

Beware in technical book clubs for dumping of old editions of texts.
I have been informed by authors and users that this is happening at an
increasing rate.  One such area is in concurrent (OS) programming.
Make certain you are getting the most current edition.

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
  Resident Cynic, Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers
  {uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugene
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A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
From: youki@rd.ecip.osaka-u.ac.jp (Youki Kadobayashi)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: SUMMARY: Journal of Internetworking
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:33:36 GMT
Distribution: misc
Organization: R&D, Edu Center for Info Processing, Japan


Few days ago I queried how to get Journal of Internetworking. Since
several people mailed me ``me too'' message, I post the summary here.

As for the Journal of Internetworking, two people kindly told me:
----------------
From: droms@sol.cs.bucknell.edu (Ralph E. Droms)
Subject: Journal of Internetworking?

I am one of the editors of Journal of Internetworking.  I would be
happy to send you an advertising brochure and a sample copy if you'll
send me your mailing address.

- Ralph Droms                 Computer Science Department
  droms@bucknell.edu          323 Dana Engineering
  (717) 524-1145              Bucknell University
  (717) 524-3760 (fax)        Lewisburg, PA 17837

----------------
From: Gene Spafford <spaf@cs.purdue.edu>
Subject: Re: Journal of Internetworking?

Contact the editor, Douglas Comer:  dec@cs.purdue.edu

----------------

Dr. A.C. Ijsselstein informed me of another journal devoted to
Internetworking technologies:
----------------
From: A.C.Ijsselstein@cwi.nl
Subject: Re: Journal of Internetworking?

"Internetworking: Research and Experience" [ISSN 1049-8915] is pub-
lished quarterly by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 1992 subscription price
US$195.00. Orders should be addressed to:

	Subscriptions Department
	John Wiley & Sons Ltd,
	Baffins Lane,
	Chichester,
	West Sussex PO19 1UD,
	England.

I hope this helps

----------------
That's all replies I got so far.
Thanks again to Ralph Droms, Gene Spafford and A.C. Ijsselstein!
--
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			Department of Information and Computer Sciences
			Osaka University, Japan
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: edbob@watson.ibm.com (Ed Strickland)
Subject: Re: Dover publications question 
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 23:05:54 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

In article <1992Sep1.044531.19515@dsd.es.com>, rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson) writes:
|> Does anyone have an address I can write to for a catalog of publications
|> from both Dover and Chelsea publishing?  I know that Dover publishes
|> alot of old mathematics books (geometry is popular, it seems).
|> 
|> 						--> Rich              
 
     If you call 516-294-7000, Dover will mail you a complete catalog of their publications
  within a week. Dover also has a bookstore in Manhattan at 180 Varick Street, which is 
  open Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM until 4:30 PM.
From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: networking text
Date: 1 Sep 1992 00:50:07 -0400
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
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The Nemeth / Scott / Seebass book is showing its age a little; it was
written just as SunOS 4.0.x was coming out, and thus says some things that
just aren't quite relevant or true any more.  The detailed instructions
on (e.g.) how to install a 150 pound 400Mb Eagle drive, the Ethernet
discussion that glances over 10BaseT as "not yet a standard", and some
addresses that end in .arpa all betray its age.

That said, it's definitely the book that would have saved me more than
once as a rookie sysadmin, and the book you have to go back to to compare
with when looking at any new text on networking or on unix admin.  The
instructions are generally sensible, thorough, and knowlegable.  It's
thick (just shy of 600 pages), well indexed, and quite useful.

How does it compare to the O'Reilley TCP/IP admin book?  I don't know, I
don't have the other text to look at right here.  Your outline makes it
look like it's 3, maybe 4 chapters of the Nemeth book, which leads me to
wonder why it's 500 pages.  (I know *I* didn't have 500 pages to wade
through when learning how a network works - what can you possibly say that
would take that much text?)  Go to a bookstore that has them both and take
a look at both.  It may be that the newer one says enough about things
that have changed since the older one was written to make it worthwhile.

--
Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com
      MSEN Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI  48103 +1 313 741 1120
 A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't
 even know existed can render your own computer unusable. (Leslie Lamport)

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From: rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson)
Subject: Re: book club
Reply-To: rthomson@dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson)
Organization: Design Systems Division, Evans & Sutherland, SLC, UT
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 04:44:03 GMT

In article <37163@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
	arao@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Andy Rao    ) writes:
>Does anybody know how good the Library of Science book club is?

I think they are quite good; I have bought enough books through them
that I've accumulated a backlog of "bonus certificates" (you get books
at 60% off the publisher's price with a certificate).

>(i think it is run by the people that publish scientific american)

Actually, they are a Newbridge Bookclub, the same people who do the
Library of Computer and Information Sciences bookclub.  Ironically,
LOS has (I think) a better collection of CS books than LCIS, which seems
to have an endless ream of MIS/data processing type books.

>do they have a good selection?  what about prices?

Prices vary.  The amount of discount they list is always about 20%,
but the number of bonus credits is a whole number, so you can shave
off a little extra by paying attention to the number of bonus credits
in relationship to the price of the book.  I look at $/bonus credit
for each book I'm interested in so that I can accumulate bonus credits
for the least amount of money.  You can always go back and buy a book
with a bonus certificate if you pass it by on the introductory selection.
You need 4 (four) bonus credits to get a certificate, which they mail
you separately.  Each selection lists how many bonus credits you have
accumulated until your next certificate is sent.  It is a good idea to
keep the descriptions of the introductory selections as the catalog of
recent selections just lists the title, author and price.

							-- Rich
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From: lijewski@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Mike Lijewski)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: computer books for sale
Summary: books for sale
Keywords: books computer forsale
Date: 31 Aug 92 15:46:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: tc.1992Aug31.154659.14932
Organization: Cornell National Supercomputer Facility


I have the following books for sale.  The price includes postage.


o "Compiler Design in C", Holub, $20.00
o "Compiling with Continuations", Appel, $15.00
o "Compilers: Priciples, Techniques and Tools", Aho, Sethi & Ullman, $20.00
o "Intro. to Automata Theory, Languages & Comput.", Hopcroft &Ullman, $15.00
o "Exploring Ada, Volume 1, Bryan &  Mendel, $15.00
o "Exploring Ada, Volume 2, Bryan &  Mendel, $15.00
o "Software Engineering with Ada, Booch, $15.00
o "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach", Hennessy, $15.00
o "Decline and Fall of the American Programmer", Yourdon, $5.00
o "A Practical Guide to Splines", de Boor,  $10.00
o "Esentials of Programming Languages", Freidman, Wand & Haynes, $15.00
o "Programming Languages: An Interpreter-Based Approach", Kamin, $15.00
o "Designing Object-Oriented Software", Wirfs-Brock, Wilkerson & Wiener, $15.00
o "Power Programming with RPC", Bloomer, $15.00
o "Managing NFS and NIS", Stern, $15.00
o "Programmer's Guide to Fortran 90", Brainerd, Goldberg & Adams, $15.00
o "Systems Programming  with Modula-3", Nelson,, $15.00
o "The Standard C Library", Plauger, $15.00
o "Mathematical Elements for Comp. Graphics, 2nd Ed.", Rogers & Adams, $10.00
o "Computer Graphics: Principles & Practice, 2nd Ed.", Foley & van Dam, $20.00

-- 
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Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: karen@ora.com (Karen Lewis)
Subject: O'Reilly X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual updated for R5
Organization: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:16:06 GMT

   Volume 4M, X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual, Motif Edition
                             By Adrian Nye
                  714 pages, ISBN 1-56592-013-9, $34.95
              (Now available. Available overseas in October.)


Newly updated to cover X11 Release 5, Volume 4M is a complete guide to 
programming with Xt Intrinsics, the library of C language routines that 
facilitate the design of user interfaces, with reusable components called 
widgets.  It provides concepts and examples that show how to use the various 
X Toolkit routines.  The Motif widget set (and in a few cases, the Athena
widget set) are used for examples to demonstrate how to use the Xt 
Intrinsics.  New coverage of internationalization and resource management
and an introduction to what's new in Motif 1.2 are also included.

Contents include:
 - introduction to the X Window System
 - building applications with widgets
 - constructing a bitmap editor with widgets
 - basic widget methods
 - events, translations, and accelerators
 - event handlers, timeouts, and work procedures
 - resource management and type conversion
 - selections and window manager interaction
 - geometry management
 - menus, gadgets, and cascaded pop-ups
 - miscellaneous techniques
 - comparison of Athena, OSF/Motif, and AT&T OPEN LOOK widgets
 - master index to volumes 4M and 5

This book is designed to be used with Volume 5, X Toolkit
Intrinsics Reference Manual, which provides reference pages
for each of the Xt functions and the widget classes defined
by Xt.  Detailed coverage of Motif widgets and features is 
found in Volume 6.  

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From: rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson)
Subject: Re: Dover publications question
Reply-To: rthomson@dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson)
Organization: Design Systems Division, Evans & Sutherland, SLC, UT
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 04:45:31 GMT

Does anyone have an address I can write to for a catalog of publications
from both Dover and Chelsea publishing?  I know that Dover publishes
alot of old mathematics books (geometry is popular, it seems).

						-- Rich
-- 
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Disclaimer: I speak for myself, except as noted; Copyright 1992 Rich Thomson
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