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19 favorite carols that correlate page-by-page with the Yamaha Band Student Books 1 & 2. ... Read more

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Edgar Award-winning writer Tony Hillerman has earned a reputation as a Grand Master of the popular mystery. This is the first full-length examination of his work. One of the most successful contemporary American writers, Hillerman has made his stories of Native American detectives instrumental in understanding modern American life. Through the creation of his Navajo detective characters, Hillerman has given new vigor to the popular genre of mystery with his treatment of the problems of order and identity in modern society. This study examines each of his 13 novels in turn and includes a biographical chapter and a chapter on his innovations in the genre of detective fiction. ... Read more

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This volume contains 15 studies on movements of religious reform and the literary conventions of the period from 1491 to 1591. It concentrates on the life and writing of Ignatius Loyola and the writings of John of the Cross. ... Read more

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John Boyle O’Reilly (1844-1890) was an Irish-born poet and novelist. As a youth in Ireland he was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, for which crime he was transported to Western Australia. After escaping to the United States, he became a prominent spokesperson for Irish sentiment and culture, through his editorship of the Boston newspaper The Pilot, his prolific writing, and his lecture tours. O’Reilly published his first book of poems, Songs from the Southern Seas, in 1873. Over the next fifteen years, he would publish another three collections of poetry, a novel, and a treatise on health and exercise. His poetry was extremely popular at the time, and he was often commissioned to write poems for important and commemorative occasions. Most of his earlier work is nowadays dismissed as mere popular verse, but some of his later, more introspective poetry, such as his best known poem The Cry of the Dreamer, is still highly regarded. Amongst his other works are: Moondyne (1879), Songs, Legends, and Ballads (1878) and The King’s Men: A Tale of To-morrow (with others) (1884). ... Read more

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There are few Americans who went to England before the late wars but will remember Ripon House. ... Read more

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Larry McMurtry's award winning novels have redefined not only the literature of the west, but also the essential myths with which the west is associated. Readers were initiated into the world of the modern cowboy with McMurtry's first novel Horseman Pass By. Nearly 35 years later McMurtry revisits his hometown project with his latest update on the characters who populated The Last Picture Show and Texasville in his most recent novel Duane's Depressed. This Critical Companion examines all 22 of McMurtry's works. By considering individual literary elements and overall construction of the novels, this analysis probes how McMurtry has given contemporary relevance to traditional elements of the Western story. ... Read more

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The poet and Irish patriot John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890) led a life as adventurous and dangerous as any fictional hero. His Fenian activities in England resulted in tranportation to Western Australia. Against all odds he escaped from his convict working party, boarded and American whaler and eventually reached Boston. In America, he became a successful newspaper editor, orator and champion of Irish immigrants and racial minorities. His death at th age of forty-six shocked the nation. Tony Evans draws on O'Reilly's poetry and writings - some which have only recently been discovered - to reflect the events which shaped O' Reilly's life. ... Read more

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John Boyle O'Reilly
This was a well-written, detailed biography of a man who deserves to be more well known than he is.I agree with the other reveiwer that it did focus too much on his time in Australia nad not enough on his Boston career, but that is understandable since it was first published in Australia.

good work on a forgotten hero
i wish that the author had concentrated more on his career in boston and less on his time spent in australia , but overall this is a superb book for those unfamiliar with o'reilly. o'reilly was way ahead of his time in his social views and in his regard for oppressed groups and should definitely be remembered for that. the author has done a fine job. i greatly admire o'reilly -though i must admit i have a bias as i am related to him indirectly through his wife. ... Read more

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Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++ is an important new resource for developers serious about writing secure code. It contains a wealth of solutions to problems faced by those who care about the security of their applications. It covers a wide range of topics, including safe initialization, access control, input validation, symmetric and public key cryptography, cryptographic hashes and MACs, authentication and key exchange, PKI, random numbers, and anti-tampering. The rich set of code samples provided in the book's more than 200 recipes will help programmers secure the C and C++ programs they write for both Unix®(including Linux®) and Windows® environments. The book's web site supplements the book by providing a place to post new recipes, including those written in additional languages like Perl, Java, and Python. Monthly prizes will reward the best recipes submitted by readers. The Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++ is destined to become an essential part of any developer's library, a code companion developers will turn to again and again as they seek to protect their systems from attackers and reduce the risks they face in today's dangerous world. ... Read more

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Completely useless for PKI programming
The title "Secure Programming Cookbook" is more than a reach, but downright misleading. I bought this book fully expecting to find recipes for using OpenSSL's crypto library to generate CSRs, handle private CA functions such as create Digital ID Certificates, and other functions actually used in writing secure applications. What I found was the author spending more time talking about products and services offered by Verisign, and very little code whatsoever. There is some code for verifying a certificate, and downloading a revocation list, but sadly I've found more useful information reading OpenSSL's lackluster man pages than I have in this book. If you're looking for high level information about "how stuff works", or some simple command-line help, this book will suit you. If you're looking for content living up to the book's title - content that would actually help you implement things like PKI - you'll unfortunately come up short.

Good developer reference
This is a well-written and example oriented book for C/C++ programmers that covers secure programming in all aspects. I had been using this book for last one year now and It helps me as a quick reference and also real source code demonstrating practical approaches that can be incorporated into their software projects.

The book needs a little update but still helps any aspiring C/C++ programmer involved with crypto.

a good reference if you've really got to be secure
If you are not sure that you need this book, then you probably don't. But if there is something it the table of contents that you've got to know, and you've got to get it right, then this would be a good book to have. Chapter 12 on Anti-Tampering was a really enjoyable read, though probably a futile task.

Great book for anyone using C
This is simply a great book for anyone using C or C++.

These guys literally wrote the book on secure code.

Read it!

A task-oriented reference guide
This well-written book covers a lot of topics that I have not read in other books.

Its strengths include:

--Good coverage of cryptography programming
--Task-oriented solutions to specific programming problems
--Easy to navigate "cookbook" style ("with recipes" as the authors call them)

However, some areas of improvement might be:

--Could use more coverage of important subjects (buffer overflows, etc.)
--spends a lot of space on narrower examples (like explaining certain APIs that are documented well online)
--Sometimes jumps into material without much background explanation (which was confusing for me)

It is probably not the first book you should read on the subject. This is more of a recipe guide that is useful if you get stuck on coding a particular topic that happens to be covered. The authors have done a good job of explaining what coverage they do and don't include. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / General; ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!Alejandro O'Reilly (1722, Dublin, Ireland - March23, 1794, Bonete, Spain) (English: AlexanderO'Reilly), was a military reformer and Inspector- General of Infantry for the Spanish Empire in thesecond half of the 18th century. O'Reilly served asthe second Spanish governor of colonial Louisiana,being the first Spanish official to actuallyexercise power in the Louisiana territory afterFrance ceded it to Spain. For his much appreciatedservices to the Crown of Spain, he was ennobled as aconde (count), and granted a coat of arms. ... Read more

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The King's Men: A Tale of To-morrow was first published in 1884. It was written by Judge, Robert Grant (1852-1940), John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890), J.S. Dale, and John Tyler Wheelwright (1856-1925). ... Read more

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In the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican world, histories and collections of ritual knowledge were often presented in the form of painted and folded books now known as codices, and the knowledge itself was encoded into pictographs. Eight codices have survived from the Mixtec peoples of ancient Oaxaca, Mexico; a part of one of them, the Codex Zouche-Nuttall, is the subject of this book. As a group, the Mixtec codices contain the longest detailed histories and royal genealogies known for any indigenous people in the western hemisphere. The Codex Zouche-Nuttall offers a unique window into how the Mixtecs themselves viewed their social and political cosmos without the bias of western European interpretation. At the same time, however, the complex calendrical information recorded in the Zouche-Nuttall has made it resistant to historical, chronological analysis, thereby rendering its narrative obscure.

In this pathfinding work, Robert Lloyd Williams presents a methodology for reading the Codex Zouche-Nuttall that unlocks its essentially linear historical chronology. Recognizing that the codex is a combination of history in the European sense and the timelessness of myth in the Native American sense, he brings to vivid life the history of Lord Eight Wind of Suchixtlan (AD 935-1027), a ruler with the attributes of both man and deity, as well as other heroic Oaxacan figures. Williams also provides context for the history of Lord Eight Wind through essays dealing with Mixtec ceremonial rites and social structure, drawn from information in five surviving Mixtec codices.