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The journal entries from Scott's 1829-30 trip present a vivid picture of Jacksonian America and of the prominent people of the era. In the second half of the book, Clark traces the later life of this fascinating diarist."

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Since Lotus Notes has become the dominant product in the Groupware market, there are plenty of related books on application design and development. But this is the first and most authoritative guide to what the implementers really need to know-how to design and administer a stable, secure, large-scale Lotus Notes network. Covering Notes only and Domino-based Web systems, this highly visual guide is rich with hands-on information. Readers will absorb tips and warnings on such topics as naming standards, replication, e-mail routing, security, server management, platform and protocol discussions, and how using Domino as a Web server affects the implementation. ... Read more

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Great Book
This is a well thought out well-written reference and learning tool for today's most used groupware product, Lotus Notes. It contains some erroneous information related mostly to the OS/2 operating system but truthbe told most Notes implementations today are done on the Windows NToperating system.This is a must read for any Notes administrator seriousabout best practices related to administration. Buy it. Read it. Use it. Besuccessful.

Great Book
I have to agree with the reader from Alamedia CA. My company just went through a large conversion to Notes 4.5. Currently I only have tops... 6 mos experience in Notes Administration.When I say Notes Administration I mean everything from creating users and troubleshooting to bringing up new servers and database developement.There are plenty of occasions a reference book is needed.

I found that the author does a great job at providing the reader with useful information, in an easy to follow manner, rather than assuming experience and knowledge.The author identifies key elements to a successful roll-out, gives installation guidelines, explains all parts of Notes and how they work together, provides the how to's of Administration and tops it off with Security issues.

It may not include all information wanted on OS/2, but nowadays how many shops are OS/2? Let's keep in mind that this book is focused on LOTUS NOTES DOMINO Archetecture,Administration and Security.

This author also has a study guide out for the CLP exams, all of the reviews I have read are excellent, I'll reserve that review until I take the test.

Good book - I use it a couple of times a week
Unlike some other reviewers, I found this very useful in explaining some things better than the product documentation. I'm afraid OS/2 is not that important these days (my company doesn't bother putting it on my professional resume anymore), so I'm not that interested about any alleged details which are missing or incomplete in that area. This book takes the time to explain advanced concepts for those who already understandthe basics in Notes. Despite the mention of 4.6 on the cover, this is hardly mentioned - but I think this is the fault of the editors, not the authors. I would look forward to an updated version for R5 of this book.

Take it with severalgrains of salt
I'm beginning a review of this book for our local PC Users Group. So far I'm just into the beginning of Chapter Three and have already found several glaring errors.

In the section "Operating System Platforms", on page 30, there are several omissions; Table 2.3 for Notes server platforms, IBM OS/2 Warp Server SMP is omitted. It should also be noted that AppleTalk is supported on OS/2 servers only with the addition of LAN Server for Macintosh (although AppleTalk is a poor choice for Notes).

In Table 2.4, TCP/IP is omitted as a protocol for OS/2 Warp, which has been natively supported since before Windows 95 was released.

Page 21. It is stated that HTTP services are only supported on NT an Unix. I've been providing Domino HTTP services in a production environment on Warp Server since Domino's release.

Pages 33-34. It appears that the authors have a bias towards the Windows platform. While later in the chapter they state that you should be sure to apply the latest patches to OS/2 if you are running it on that platform, they fail to mention how it is even more important to apply the latest patches to NT. I work with both operating systems, and I find NT to be *much* more vulnerable to TCP/IP attacks (due to a poorly written TCP/IP stack, according to the CIAC), which in my opinion can be disasterous in a system provideing Internet services. This was exemplified in March with NT machines going down nationwide from TCP/IP attacks.

Page 37. The authors state that OS/2 "will provide adequate performance for large Lotus Notes installations." I'm supprised that they didn't decribe the NT platform as only "adequate". My Notes programmer spent nine months last year at IBM migrating their Charlotte site to Notes, and reports that they found Notes' performance on Warp Server to be much superior to it's performance on NT server using the same hardware.

In chapter three, they again make the mistake that TCP/IP is not supported on the OS/2 client. Also in chapter three, table!3.4, they error in stating that OS/2 (server, I assume), can only support 100 Netbios sessions. Warp server can support up to 254 Netbios sessions *per adaptor*, and can have four adaptors using Netbios.

Given this many errors and important omissions this early in the book, I would hesitate to use or recommend it as a reference. ... Read more

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Now you can draft and defend accurate, well-supported third party legal opinions with complete confidence! In Glazer and FitzGibbon on Legal Opinions: Drafting, Interpreting, and Supporting Closing Opinions in Business Transactions, Third Edition, three outstanding authorities give you intensely practical guidance - including sample opinion language throughout the text - that shows you how to determine which versions of the standard opinion clauses you should use, establish the factual basis for the opinion, and take all the steps necessary to support your opinion. The authors describe customary practice and its implications, identify areas of uncertainty and suggests how disputed areas should be resolved.
Extensive appendices reproduce all the ABA and TriBar Opinion Committee Reports, as well as all the Bar Association reports of various states. This valuable information is also included on a bonus companion CD-ROM. ... Read more

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Many surprises in this superb history
Having grown up in Marietta, the Cobb County seat, in the 1940s and '50s I recently returned and wanted to catch up on what I had missed after moving away. Scott's history fills in the story of those decades from the '60s to the end of the 20th century -- in essence, the story of the rise of Southern Republicanism as it happened in what has been referred to as the East Coast counterpart to Orange County, California. The book also provides many fascinating details of the period I thought I already knew pretty well from watching and listening during my boyhood. There is much here of which I had no idea. For example, I didn't personally experience the Marietta school desegregation, which occurred after I had moved away. I was thrilled to read of the brilliant leadership roles played by people such as Lloyd Cox and Louis Walker, who made a difficult transition go smoothly. At the same time, by reading the book I learned to my surprise that closing the all-black schools instead of integrating them was a disappointment to members of the black community who had been accustomed to playing leadership roles in running and supporting those separate but unequal schools.

Any reader with an interest in Cobb County will find Scott's book a rich history, well told by a professional historian who prepared for the writing of it by leading his Kennesaw State University students in taking oral histories from surviving movers and shakers and ordinary people alike. ... Read more

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The ways of old merge with the magical and fantastic in this wondrous world. Experience Westermead's thaw and awakening season by season, the lush heat of summer's passion and the retreat into winter's desolate embrace. Come celebrate and mourn with the people of Westermead as they make their way through a world steeped in both beauty and dread.More than just a collection of tales, Westermead brings to life an enchanted country where the supernatural is as natural as the sunrise. Follow the intrepid documentarians, Purdy and Beech, on their hunt for the fearsome Frost Mare. Learn the secret of the stranger whose life little Melly saved in Four Bronze Sisters. Face The Mask of Black Tears alongside Mullein Wick while he fights for his sister's release from servitude.This new mythology is ripe with unique characters, spiced with folkways and mixed throughout with a deep respect for all things natural. Given storytelling this vibrant, it is both easy and thrilling to get lost in Thomas' unique landscape. ... Read more

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Marvelous fantasy in a hard-to-characterize book
I read Westermead on its first release and I was a bit taken aback to find that there were no reviews yet.Scott Thomas is not as well known as his brother Jeffrey, who pens the Punktown stories.Too bad!Scott Thomas is a powerful author in his own right.In fact, lately I've enjoyed his stories more, even his Punktown ones.

Westermead is a really good book; it could serve as an example of world building for new authors.The setting is a country (perhaps not in the sense of a nation) similar to an alternate Ireland, some distant time ago when there were highwaymen and single shot blunderbusses, where just about everyone was provincial (in the best sense) and where ghosts and spirits are very real.Interspersed with the stories are brief desciptions of hauntings, plants, history, etc, in short vignettes, adding to the impression that this is more a travelogue.For me, the stories had a very Celtic flavor of sorrow overshadowed with humor, perhaps of doomed inevitability.Violence would find the characters more than they would seek it out.Maybe the stories weren't *that* gloomy but I did come away with a distinct autumnal feel.The cover art gets the mood exactly right.I was swept up in the prose, the characters that seemed to come alive and the natural dialogue.There was no overall story arc, although we begin to understand the wild history of this country through the background in each tale as we wander from township to forest to island to coast.Westermead seemed so real that I wondered if the author has actually been there somehow.At the end I regretted that there was not more and I sincerely hope that Mr. Thomas will take us back to Westermead some day. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The Garden of Ghosts is a gathering of original Victorian ghost stories by Scott Thomas. Whether set in rural England or a summery New England village, or in snowy London or a haunted house in Boston, each ghostly tale harkens in some way to the mysterious realm of vegetation."Scott Thomas' stories have a delicate muscularity and a poignancy that lingers long after reading them. The Garden of Ghosts is a rare and beautiful collection. The tales within deserve to be doled out in increments and savored as one would a good cigar paired with a 20-year-old whiskey." -- Jeff Vandermeer, Author of Shriek: An Afterward"Thomas rises from the eerie evolution of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, F. Marion Crawford and H.P. Lovecraft." -- Jonathan Sisson, The Quoddy Tides ... Read more

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A modern master of the classic spooky tale
There's a general connection to the realm of vegetation in each of this collection's stories, though it isn't uncommon for Scott Thomas to evoke the natural world in his tales, which herein are all set in Victorian times in England and New England (whereas his previous Dark REgions Press collection OVER THE DARKENING FIELDS contains stories set in the past, stories set in our contemporary world, and a novella set in an alternate world -- a mix that makes it one of my favorites of his collections). Scott Thomas maks it look too easy, each story a glowing gem of poetry, pathos, and truly disturbing eeriness. Whether the story is a brief couple of pages -- and a few of the shorter pieces are experiemental and almost surreal -- or longer and more involved, he holds your attention and grips your heart. Here's a line from one story, an imaginative take on the Jack the Ripper killings, called "Mr. Pickergill's Unusual Oak-wood Box," in which we follow an unorthodox inspector on the Ripper's trail. "Barrett, dressed in a fine cut-away and his comfortable bowler, strode along through the mist, the jar containing Catherine Eddowes' kidney bulging in his pocket." Tell me that doesn't hook you. Another tale, "A Night on Little Orchard," in which a man gets stranded on a spooky little island overnight, has the feel of Algernon Blackwood's classic "The Willows." The author is particularly masterful at tragedy, making Thomas Hardy look positively happy-go-lucky - I've choked up even describing some of his stories to other people -- but fortunately there is also a whimsical side to a bunch of them here, in addition to heart-renders like "Rush-bearing" and the extremely creepy "Syringa Vulgaris." The cover, by the way, is a wonderful painting by Wayne Miller that captures the tone of the author's ghostly fiction perfectly, making it my favorite of his covers to date. ... Read more