Books on Business and Software from 6 Amazon shops

Manager's Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act : Improving Internal Controls to Prevent Fraud by Scott Green, Wiley, Feb'04. Provides a practical approach for managers in assessing internal control structure at the transaction level. 5 star review ""the best starting point for stakeholders who are peripherally involved in compliance."

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What is Sarbanes-Oxley? by Guy Lander. 5 star review "easy to read, straight forward, relatively brief, an excellent primer for business people."

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TECHNICAL BOOKS

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ECDL4: The Complete Coursebook for Office XP Paul Holden, Brendan Munnelly. Five star reviews for this accredited complete coursebook.. By using case studies, practical examples and exercises, readers can learn the skills they are required to pass the exam.

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Design, Charts, Graphics

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte. (2001) A timeless classic in presenting complex information graphically.

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"Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte.(1990)

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Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten by Stephen Few. (2004) Accessible and practical

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Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward R. Tufte (1997) a third volume to his indispensable series on information display

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"Homepage Usability" by Jakob Nielsen & Marie Tahir
All about making that first impression. Is your tag line effective? Can visitors find your search box? How difficult is navigation? This book contains fifty critically analysed websites, good and not so good. The lessons are summarised in 113 guidelines.

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The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience by Douglas K. van Duyne (Author), James A. Landay (Author), Jason I. Hong. Distils the principles and best practices that make sites enjoyable to visit and a huge asset to the organizations they serve.

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"The Art and Science of Web Design" by Jeffrey Veen Never mind the technology--just what are you trying to do with that Web page? Stylishly presented and beautifully written, "The Art and Science of Web Design" is about what makes Web sites work for the user.

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"Learning Web Design" by Jennifer Niederst
A beginner's tutorial, a foundation course in HTML and an ideal starting point for learning how to build Web pages.

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Web Design in a Nutshell by Jennifer Niederst

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Web Design For Dummies® by Lisa Lopuck

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"The Non-Designer's Design book" by Robin Williams

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Visual Basic .NET Complete by Sybex Inc.1,000 pages of in-depth content for only US$19.99! The new development environment, basic object-oriented programming, creating Windows applications with Windows Forms, web programming with ASP.NET, creating XML Web Services, and accessing databases with the latest version of ADO.NET.

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"Programming ASP.NET" by Jesse Liberty has code examples in both C# and Visual Basic, and the authors explain rapid Web development with Visual Studio, ASP.NET controls, data access, and Web services. Deployment is also covered, including performance optimisation and security.

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Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Professional (Microsoft) Software. An extremely versatile, sophisticated, and capable development tool

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Sun Certified Programmer & Developer for Java 2 Study Guide (Exam 310-035 & 310-027) by Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates. Step-by-step instruction, practice exercises, and test- taking tips. Well reviewed.

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Effective Java Programming Language Guide by Joshua Bloch. A compilation of 57 tips for better Java code organized by category. Many of the tips make use of software patterns and demonstrate an up-to-the-minute sense of what works best in today's design.

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"Just Java 2" by Peter van der Linden. An excellent introduction to the Java platform, especially for those with some existing programming skills.

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"Enterprise JavaBeans" by Richard Monson-Haefal voted "Best Java Book" by the editors and readers of Java Developer's Journal. Readers of JavaPro named it the "Best Java Book for Experts." And Amazon.com included it in the Top Computer Books

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"Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans", by Ed Roman. An indispensable developer's perspective on what is fast becoming the dominant technology for building server-side applications.

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Enterprise JavaBeans(tm) For Dummies (r) by Mac Rinehart shows the technology underpinnings and assumptions that contribute to EJB applications, describes the use of session beans that perform tasks in an EJB application, entity beans that represent business data, and message-driven beans.

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"Effective VisualAge for Java version 3" by Stanchfield and Mauny

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Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies, Deepak Alur , Dan Malks , John Crupi. This guide presents the best practices for development using J2EE technologies and details 21 design patterns that produce applications notable for their performance, scalability, and robustness.

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PHP and MySQL Web Development, Luke Welling, Laura Thomson. Teaches the reader to integrate and implement these technologies by following real-world examples and working sample projects, to build a commercial Web site.

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Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL by Hugh E. Williams, David Lane. How to use the PHP server-side scripting language and the MySQL database engine to underlie dynamic Web sites that rely on database queries and full-on Web applications.

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Essential XML Quick Reference: A Programmer's Reference to XML, XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, SOAP, and More by Aaron Skonnard, Martin Gudgin. a handy but thorough quick reference that answers the most common XML-related technical questions.

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"XML in a Nutshell" by Elliotte Rusty Harold and W Scott Means. A dense tutorial on its subject, as well as a useful day-to-day reference.

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XML Weekend Crash Course (with CD-ROM) by Kay Ethier. 30 fast, focused sessions.

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"Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI" by Steve Graham (Editor) covers the most talked about developments in the XML space and in enterprise computing. The book presents an increasingly complex project as it moves through its development cycle.

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"Beginning JavaScript" by Paul Wilton

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SECURITY

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Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions, 4th edition Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, George Kurtz. Explains operating systems, switch and network vulnerabilities--used by the bad guys to get in--and how to remove them.

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"Hack Attacks Revealed" by John Chirillo
Hacking consultant, John Chirillo gets inside every detail of the hacker's world, including how hackers exploit security holes in private and public networks and how network hacking tools work.

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"Hacking Linux Exposed" by Anne Carasik et al.

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Coping with IS/IT Risk Management by Tony Moynihan
Real project managers talking about how they manage risk, rather than the theory behind what they are taught to do. It focuses on a small number of key issues that worry project managers, rather than trying to mention every conceivable thing that can go wrong on a project.
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Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job by John Mongan, Noah Suojanen. With their help, you’ll gain critical interviewing skills such as how to ask effective questions, how to best approach a problem, and what to do when you get stuck.

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The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers : The Guide for Achieving Success and Satisfaction by Richard Smith , James M. Citrin. They urge mid-career executives with suppressed feelings of anxiety and helplessness to view a career as a free-form project of self-actualization that should fit with their personalities and inspire passion.

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Human Error by James Reason (1990) The fundamental text on error, perception, risk, and avoiding mistakes

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BOOKS ON THE EURO

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Managing the Euro in Information Systems: Strategies for Successful Changeover. Patrick O'Beirne.

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A Guide to the Euro by Jay H. Levin, Wayne State University (pub. Houghton Mifflin, 2002) explaining both the historical and political background as well as the economic underpinnings of monetary integration.

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Preparing for the Euro
by Colin Stringer. UK Companies can and should make preparations now. This briefing explains what lessons can be learned from the experiences of companies across the eurozone.

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Understanding the EURO : The Clear and Concise Guide to the New Trans-European Currency By Christian N. Chabot. The euro in the context of global commerce; how the euro will affect businesses and investments worldwide.

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The Euro: Yes or No? Anthony Browne. Should the UK join the single currency? Arguments for and against sterling going into EMU giving the advantages and disadvantages of the eurozone.

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Blowing the Whistle Paul van Buitenen, Lorna Dale (Translator) In 1998 Paul van Buitenen, an assistant auditor in the Financial Control Directorate of the European Commission in Brussels, lifted the lid on the internal corruption and fraud he had unearthed at the heart of the Commission.

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