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.Inside Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005: T-SQL Programming (Solid Quality Learning)

by: Dejan Sarka; Roger Wolter Itzik Ben-Gan (Solid Quality Learning)

May 01, 2006
Itzik is an internationally renown lecturer, trainer and writer who anyone familiar with SQL Server will immediately recognise.
"Inside SQL Server: T-SQL Programming" is an excellent book, invaluable to both SQL Server DBA or Developer and has something for even the most experienced programmer. This book will help you take full advantage of all the new T-SQL features in SQL 2005.
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.Language, Truth and Logic (Penguin Modern Classics)

by: A.J. Ayer

April 26, 2001
I read Ayer's obituary in the Telegraph and he seemed like an interesting man, so I bought this book.

As a teenage layperson, I found it VERY heavy-going, I kept a dictionary nearby to refer to and my copy is littered with notes to myself on word meanings. It was worth the perseverance to discover so much. His debunking of inexact, ambiguous metaphysics really helped me to make the switch from being a wooley agnostic to a fully confirmed atheist.

Say what you like about positive optimism, it's Ayer's use and insistance of the importance of accuracy of meaning and expression in communication that I responded to.

This book modified my outlook on life and I have given away and bought the book 4 times now. ... Read More:
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.Photographic Guide to Sea and Shore Life of Britain and North-west Europe (Oxford natural history)

by: Ray Gibson, Ben Hextall, Alex Rogers

June 07, 2001
A beautifully illustrated book with many of the common intertidal and sublittoral species represented. This book gives a little information about the biology and distributions of covered organisms. However identification mainly relies on photographs, without the use of keys. A good book for anyone interested in the organisms of the seashore, but for detailed and certain identification the keen biologist may require a more in depth approach.
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.X-Men: Complete Age Of Apocalypse Epic Book 4 TPB: Complete Age Of Apocalypse Epic Bk.4 (X-Men: The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic)

by: Scott Lobdell, Warren Ellis, Jeph Loeb, John Francis Moore, Fabian Nicieza, Larry Hama, Terry Kavanagh, Mark Waid, Judd Winnick
by: Chris Bachalo, Ken Lashley, Steve Skroce, Steve Epting, Terry Dodson, Salvador Larroca, Andy Kubert, Adam Kubert, Carlos Pacheco, Roger Cruz, Trevor McCarthy, Bryan Hitch, Jeff Matsuda, Gary Frank, Mike McKone, Ben Herrera, Paul Pelletier, Luke Ross

November 29, 2006
Cut out the gum-ball superheroes and enter a world where a hero will kill you as quickly as a villain. This imagining of a world where Xavier died is one of the most powerful visions of the X-Universe out there. The grit and doomed nature of the Age of Apocalypse comes through in every story, but you also have characters you care about and want to see escape what you know will happen eventually.

Only four out of five stars because some of the art isn't amazing. Dont let that disuade you from an excellent story that showcases characters regular X-book readers will know and not know all at once.
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.BizTalk 2006 Recipes: A Problem-solution Approach (A Problem-Solution Approach)

by: Mark Beckner, Ben Goeltz, Brandon Gross, Brennan O'Reilly, Stephen Roger, Mark Smith, Alexander West

September 22, 2006
Cut out the gum-ball superheroes and enter a world where a hero will kill you as quickly as a villain. This imagining of a world where Xavier died is one of the most powerful visions of the X-Universe out there. The grit and doomed nature of the Age of Apocalypse comes through in every story, but you also have characters you care about and want to see escape what you know will happen eventually.

Only four out of five stars because some of the art isn't amazing. Dont let that disuade you from an excellent story that showcases characters regular X-book readers will know and not know all at once.
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.Science Uncovered AQA Chemistry for GCSE Revision Guide (Science Uncovered AQA)

by: Ben Clyde, Roger Norris

June 13, 2007
Cut out the gum-ball superheroes and enter a world where a hero will kill you as quickly as a villain. This imagining of a world where Xavier died is one of the most powerful visions of the X-Universe out there. The grit and doomed nature of the Age of Apocalypse comes through in every story, but you also have characters you care about and want to see escape what you know will happen eventually.

Only four out of five stars because some of the art isn't amazing. Dont let that disuade you from an excellent story that showcases characters regular X-book readers will know and not know all at once.
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.Beef and Liberty: Roast Beef, John Bull and the English Patriots

by: Ben Rogers

April 17, 2003
This is a tasty entry (or maybe I should say entree) in the "cultural history of food" genre. Mr. Rogers provides a brief history of the importance of beef, beer, bulldogs and John Bull in helping to forge an English national identity. Why, in particular, the above items? Good, hearty roast beef is used to differentiate the Englishman from the "foppish and effeminate" Frenchman, who can't be trusted because all of his food is hidden under a bunch of fancy sauces. Beer is a "honest," healthy drink- which won't lead to drunkeness and ruin- as opposed to, say, gin (brought over from Holland with William III) and fortified wines such as port. The bulldog exemplies the simplicity, directness, courage and tenacity of the "typical" Englishman, as does John ... Read More:
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.Reinventing the Town Hall: A Handbook

by: Ben Rogers

March 08, 2004
This is a tasty entry (or maybe I should say entree) in the "cultural history of food" genre. Mr. Rogers provides a brief history of the importance of beef, beer, bulldogs and John Bull in helping to forge an English national identity. Why, in particular, the above items? Good, hearty roast beef is used to differentiate the Englishman from the "foppish and effeminate" Frenchman, who can't be trusted because all of his food is hidden under a bunch of fancy sauces. Beer is a "honest," healthy drink- which won't lead to drunkeness and ruin- as opposed to, say, gin (brought over from Holland with William III) and fortified wines such as port. The bulldog exemplies the simplicity, directness, courage and tenacity of the "typical" Englishman, as does John ... Read More:
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.Beef and Liberty: Roast Beef, John Bull and the English Nation

by: Ben Rogers

March 04, 2004
This is a tasty entry (or maybe I should say entree) in the "cultural history of food" genre. Mr. Rogers provides a brief history of the importance of beef, beer, bulldogs and John Bull in helping to forge an English national identity. Why, in particular, the above items? Good, hearty roast beef is used to differentiate the Englishman from the "foppish and effeminate" Frenchman, who can't be trusted because all of his food is hidden under a bunch of fancy sauces. Beer is a "honest," healthy drink- which won't lead to drunkeness and ruin- as opposed to, say, gin (brought over from Holland with William III) and fortified wines such as port. The bulldog exemplies the simplicity, directness, courage and tenacity of the "typical" Englishman, as does John ... Read More:
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.The Great Philosophers:Pascal (Great Philosophers)

by: Ben Rogers

November 02, 1998
This is a tasty entry (or maybe I should say entree) in the "cultural history of food" genre. Mr. Rogers provides a brief history of the importance of beef, beer, bulldogs and John Bull in helping to forge an English national identity. Why, in particular, the above items? Good, hearty roast beef is used to differentiate the Englishman from the "foppish and effeminate" Frenchman, who can't be trusted because all of his food is hidden under a bunch of fancy sauces. Beer is a "honest," healthy drink- which won't lead to drunkeness and ruin- as opposed to, say, gin (brought over from Holland with William III) and fortified wines such as port. The bulldog exemplies the simplicity, directness, courage and tenacity of the "typical" Englishman, as does John ... Read More:
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