Networks on Chip

Networks on Chip presents a variety of topics, problems and approaches with the common theme to systematically organize the on-chip communication in the form of a regular, shared communication network on chip, an NoC for short. As the number of processor cores and IP blocks integrated on a single chip is steadily growing, a systematic approach to design the communication infrastructure becomes necessary. Different variants of packed switched on-chip networks have been proposed by several groups during the past two years. This book summarizes the state of the art of these efforts and discusses the major issues from the physical integration to architecture to operating systems and application interfaces. It also provides a guideline and vision about the direction this field is moving to. Moreover, the book outlines the consequences of adopting design platforms based on packet switched network. The consequences may in fact be far reaching because many of the topics of distributed systems, distributed real-time systems, fault tolerant systems, parallel computer architecture, parallel programming as well as traditional system-on-chip issues will appear relevant but within the constraints of a single chip VLSI implementation. The book is organized in three parts. The first deals with system design and methodology issues. The second presents problems and solutions concerning the hardware and the basic communication infrastructure. Finally, the third part covers operating system, embedded software and application. However, communication from the physical to the application level is a central theme throughout the book. The book serves as an excellent reference source and may be used as a text for advanced courses on the subject.

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Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices

In designing a network device, you make dozens of decisions that affect the speed with which it will performsometimes for better, but sometimes for worse. Network Algorithmics provides a complete, coherent methodology for maximizing speed while meeting your other design goals.
Author George Varghese begins by laying out the implementation bottlenecks that are most often encountered at four disparate levels of implementation: protocol, OS, hardware, and architecture. He then derives 15 solid principlesranging from the commonly recognized to the groundbreakingthat are key to breaking these bottlenecks.

The rest of the book is devoted to a systematic application of these principles to bottlenecks found specifically in endnodes, interconnect devices, and specialty functions such as security and measurement that can be located anywhere along the network. This immensely practical, clearly presented information will benefit anyone involved with network implementation, as well as students who have made this work their goal.

Addresses the bottlenecks found in all kinds of network devices, (data copying, control transfer, demultiplexing, timers, and more) and offers ways to break them.
Presents techniques suitable specifically for endnodes, including Web servers.
Presents techniques suitable specifically for interconnect devices, including routers, bridges, and gateways.
Written as a practical guide for implementers but full of valuable insights for students, teachers, and researchers.
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VHDL Coding Styles and Methodologies

This text follows up the first edition of the same book and also “VHDL Answers to Frequently Asked Questions”, first and second editions. The book was originally written as a teaching tool for a VHDL training course. This new edition provides practical information on reusable software methodologies for the design of bus functional models for testbenches. It also provides guidelines in the use of VHDL for synthesis. All VHDL code described in the book is on a companion CD, which also includes the GNU toolsite with EMACS language-sensitive editor (with VHDL, Verilog, and other language templates), and TSHELL tools that emulate a Unix shell. Model Technology included an evaluation version of ModelSim, a recognized industry standard VHDL/Verilog compiler and simulator that supports easy viewing of the models under analysis, along with many debug features. The text is intended for professional engineers as well as students. It is organized in 13 chapters, each covering a separate aspect of the language, with complete examples. It provides a practical approach to learning VHDL. Combining methodologies and coding styles, along with VHDL rules, the text aims to lead the reader in the right direction from the beginning. Included is a CD that contains: all code included in the book; GNU EMACS language-sensitive editor with VHDL, Verilog, and templates for other languages; GNU TSHELL tools that emulate Unix shell; 30-day evaluation of ModelSim VHDL compiler/simulator from Model Technology; 20-day evaluation of Synplify VHDL/Verilog FPGA synthesizer from Synplicity; VHDL template demonstrating the language syntax; and VHDL ‘87 and HDL ‘93 formal syntax in HTML format.



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Unix Power Tools

With the growing popularity of Linux and the advent of Darwin, Unix has metamorphosed into something new and exciting. No longer perceived as a difficult operating system, more and more users are discovering the advantages of Unix for the first time. But whether you are a newcomer or a Unix power user, you’ll find yourself thumbing through the goldmine of information in the new edition of Unix Power Tools to add to your store of knowledge. Want to try something new? Check this book first, and you’re sure to find a tip or trick that will prevent you from learning things the hard way.
The latest edition of this best-selling favorite is loaded with advice about almost every aspect of Unix, covering all the new technologies that users need to know. In addition to vital information on Linux, Darwin, and BSD, Unix Power Tools 3rd Edition now offers more coverage of bash, zsh, and other new shells, along with discussions about modern utilities and applications. Several sections focus on security and Internet access. And there is a new chapter on access to Unix from Windows, addressing the heterogeneous nature of systems today. You’ll also find expanded coverage of software installation and packaging, as well as basic information on Perl and Python.

Unix Power Tools 3rd Edition is a browser’s book…like a magazine that you don’t read from start to finish, but leaf through repeatedly until you realize that you’ve read it all. Bursting with cross-references, interesting sidebars explore syntax or point out other directions for exploration, including relevant technical details that might not be immediately apparent. The book includes articles abstracted from other O’Reilly books, new information that highlights program tricks and gotchas, tips posted to the Net over the years, and other accumulated wisdom.

Affectionately referred to by readers as “the” Unix book, UNIX Power Tools provides access to information every Unix user is going to need to know. It will help you think creatively about UNIX, and will help you get to the point where you can analyze your own problems. Your own solutions won’t be far behind.

Table of Contents

How to Use This Book
Preface
Part I. Basic Unix Environment

1. Introduction
1.1 What’s Special About Unix?
1.2 Power Grows on You
1.3 The Core of Unix
1.4 Communication with Unix
1.5 Programs Are Designed to Work Together
1.6 There Are Many Shells
1.7 Which Shell Am I Running?
1.8 Anyone Can Program the Shell
1.9 Internal and External Commands
1.10 The Kernel and Daemons
1.11 Filenames
1.12 Filename Extensions
1.13 Wildcards
1.14 The Tree Structure of the Filesystem
1.15 Your Home Directory
1.16 Making Pathnames
1.17 File Access Permissions
1.18 The Superuser (Root)
1.19 When Is a File Not a File?
1.20 Scripting
1.21 Unix Networking and Communications
1.22 The X Window System

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Part II. Customizing Your Environment

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6. Your X Environment

Part III. Working with Files and Directories

7. Directory Organization

8. Directories and Files

9. Finding Files with find

10. Linking, Renaming, and Copying Files

11. Comparing Files

12. Showing What’s in a File

13. Searching Through Files

14. Removing Files

15. Optimizing Disk Space

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16. Spell Checking, Word Counting, and Textual Analysis

17. vi Tips and Tricks

18. Creating Custom Commands in vi

19. GNU Emacs

20. Batch Editing

21. You Can’t Quite Call This Editing

22. Sorting
Part V. Processes and the Kernel

23. Job Control

24. Starting, Stopping, and Killing Processes


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51.3 Free SSH with OpenSSH
51.4 SSH Problems and Solutions
51.5 General and Authentication Problems
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Pro Tools LE and M-Powered: The complete guide

Pro Tools LE and M-Powered is an authoritative guide to Digidesign’s entry-level hardware and software systems. Illustrated throughout with color screen grabs, the book starts by giving you useful overviews and advice about the hardware options available. Subsequent chapters are packed with easy-to-follow instructions, valuable hints and time-saving tips on how to use the software.

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The Real Warren Buffett : Managing Capital, Leading People

Investors around the globe worship Warren Buffett, the “Oracle of Omaha,” and British businessman O’Loughlin is no different. Buffett, after all, jostles with Bill Gates for the title of richest man in America and has built Berkshire Hathaway from a small textile concern into a multi-billion-dollar corporate mammoth. So how does he do it? O’Loughlin tackles the question enthusiastically, laying out Buffett’s investing strategies, his management techniques and his unconventional wisdom. Much of it is already well known, of course, from Buffett’s love of the cash-generating insurance business, to his hands-off managerial style, to his early passion for the ideas of value-investing guru Benjamin Graham. But the book is a useful distillation of everything business buffs know about the inscrutable Buffett. After the dot-com years, during which his plodding investing style went out of favor, it was he who emerged from the bust relatively unscathed. As O’Loughlin fawns, “We may never see the like of Warren E. Buffett again.”
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Mind Performance Hacks

You’re smart. This book can make you smarter. Mind Performance Hacks provides real-life tips and tools for overclocking your brain and becoming a better thinker. In the increasingly frenetic pace of today’s information economy, managing your life requires hacking your brain. With this book, you’ll cut through the clutter and tune up your brain intentionally, safely, and productively.

Grounded in current research and theory, but offering practical solutions you can apply immediately, Mind Performance Hacks is filled with life hacks that teach you to: [*]Use mnemonic tricks to remember numbers, names, dates, and other flotsam you need to recall [*]Put down your calculator and perform complex math in your head, with your fingers, or on the back of a napkin [*]Spark your creativity with innovative brainstorming methods [*]Use effective systems to capture new ideas before they get away [*]Communicate in creative new ways-even using artificial languages [*]Make better decisions by foreseeing problems and finding surprising solutions [*]Improve your mental fitness with cool tricks and games



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In The Line of Fire. By President of Pakistan (Gen. Pervaiz Musharraf) Best Seller Book

Best Seller Book in the world, written The President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Gen. Pervaiz Musharraf) Editorial Reviews From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's military president, is a contradictory figure: a dictator convinced that he's the best hope for democracy, a moderate Muslim reluctant to confront fundamentalists, a powerful man who exudes confident aplomb but suffers from lifelong insecurity as a migrant in his own land. In the Line of Fire, Musharraf's English-language memoir, is an equally contradictory effort to explain himself to a Western world that largely views Pakistan as a fount of Islamist terrorism, a potential nuclear threat and an impoverished, military-ruled desert in the sullen shadow of shining, democratic India. In pursuit of international absolution, Musharraf -- who seized power in 1999 -- devotes many pages to his vision of a modern Pakistan, his values as a soldier, his disillusionment with corrupt civilian leaders, his efforts to seek peace with India and his contributions to the war on terrorism. Last month, he launched an extraordinary pre-publication charm offensive in New York and Washington. The bespectacled general bantered easily with Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" and earned an impromptu sales boost from President Bush after a joint White House press conference. ("Buy the book," a smiling Bush told reporters.) But before it hit the stores, In the Line of Fire had been dissected by a wide array of critics. In the United States, Musharraf kicked up a storm by accusing a former deputy secretary of state, Richard L. Armitage, of threatening to bomb Pakistan "back to the Stone Age" in the wake of 9/11 if it chose al-Qaeda and its Taliban hosts over the United States. (Armitage has acknowledged the stark tenor of his message but flatly denied making such a military threat.) In India, outraged critics focused on Musharraf's description of a summit with India, where he charges that its then-prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, backed out of an agreement over the disputed territory of Kashmir because mysterious higher powers had overruled and "humiliated" Vajpayee. But the worst vitriol came from Pakistan itself, where some critics trashed the book as a self-serving rewrite of history that betrays the nation's interest. For example, Musharraf goes to great lengths to prove that Pakistan's 1999 invasion of the mountainous Kargil district of Kashmir, a political and military disaster, was a triumph that will someday be "written in golden letters." Others expressed outrage at Musharraf's excoriation of A.Q. Khan, the Pakistani scientist who is believed to have sold nuclear know-how to pariah regimes such as Iran, North Korea and Libya but who remains a hero to many Pakistanis. Musharraf, under heat from Washington over Khan's activities, portrays him here as a greedy rogue who somehow managed to hide all his evil deeds from the government. Many of the negative notices ring true. Alternately coy and candid, Musharraf glosses airily over unanswered questions, denies widespread reports that leaders of Afghanistan's Taliban movement are operating inside Pakistan and portrays himself as staunchly opposed to Islamic fundamentalism, even though he has backed off on many reforms in deference to radical clerics. Even when expressing noble sentiments, Musharraf can undercut his message with clumsy insults and undiplomatic observations that might have been better left unsaid. (After all, how do you edit a dictator?) But despite its limits as a window into history, In the Line of Fire offers valuable insights -- sometimes intentionally, sometimes not -- about an important U.S. partner in the war on terrorism whose powerful, secretive military-intelligence apparatus was once the Taliban's chief patron. At some points, the story is gripping simply because the author was at the center of it. Much has been written about the coup that brought Gen. Musharraf to power after then-president Nawaz Sharif tried to fire him while he was on a commercial plane heading home from a foreign trip. Now, we are finally in the cockpit of the fuming general's plane as his pilot is ordered not to land -- even though the craft has only moments of fuel left. The most compelling episodes are the operations launched to hunt down al-Qaeda operatives and suicide bombers, especially after two attempts on Musharraf's life in 2003. The dutiful reader is snapped to attention by dramatic chases that read like a thriller, full of fascinating details that only an insider would know -- and perhaps outsiders should not. For instance, Musharraf reveals that, during various operations, Pakistani agents have found a piece of shirt collar from a suicide bomber and traced it to his hometown tailor, used an elaborate system to track cell phone use among suspects, and covered themselves in burqas to shadow and snatch a major al-Qaeda figure. In Musharraf's zeal to prove his counterterrorist bona fides, he exaggerates the importance of some captives and gloats over successful missions, clearly enjoying the experience of calling Bush in May 2005 to say Pakistan has captured an al-Qaeda leader, Abu Faraj al-Libbi. (Musharraf then undiplomatically calls Libbi "the one al Qaeda operative whose name Bush knew, apart from Osama bin Laden and Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri.") The book also airs some military dirty laundry that may infuriate Musharraf's own institutions. The general acknowledges hurt and bewilderment at being passed over for promotions early in his career, much as he confesses to schoolboy pranks and slights of a half-century ago after his family fled India during the chaotic partition that created Pakistan in 1947. In his writing, as in many of his public comments, Musharraf can prove both his own best salesman and his own worst enemy. Still, this memoir tells us a great deal about a military Muslim leader we need to understand -- and about a country to which we should have been paying much more attention. Reviewed by Pamela Constable Copyright 2006, The Washington Post. All Rights Reserved. Book Description According to Time magazine, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf holds "the world's most dangerous job." He has twice come within inches of assassination. His forces have caught more than 670 members of al Qaeda in the mountains and cities, yet many others remain at large and active, including Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri. Long locked in a deadly embrace with its nuclear neighbor India, Pakistan has come close to full-scale war on two occasions since it first exploded a nuclear bomb in 1998. As President Musharraf struggles for the security and political future of his nation, the stakes could not be higher for the world at large. It is unprecedented for a sitting head of state to write a memoir as revelatory, detailed, and gripping as In the Line of Fire. Here, for the first time, readers can get a firsthand view of the war on terror in its central theater. President Musharraf details the manhunts for Osama and Zawahiri and their top lieutenants, complete with harrowing cat-and-mouse games, informants, interceptions, and bloody firefights. He tells the stories of the near-miss assassination attempts, not only against himself but against Shaukut Aziz (later elected prime minister) and one of his top army officers (later the vice chief of army staff), and of the abduction and beheading of Daniel Pearl -- as well as the forensic and shoe-leather investigations that uncovered the perpetrators. He details the army's mountain operations that have swept several valleys clean, and he talks about the areas of North Waziristan where al Qaeda is still operating. Yet the war on terror is just one of the many headline-making subjects in In the Line of Fire. The full story of the events that brought President Musharraf to power in 1999 is told for the first time. He reveals new details of the 1999 confrontation with India in Kashmir (the Kargil conflict) and offers a proposal for resolving the Kashmir dispute. He offers a portrait of Mullah Omar, with stories of Pakistan's attempts to negotiate with him. Concerning A. Q. Khan and his proliferation network, he explains what the government knew and when it knew it, and he reveals fascinating details of Khan's operations and the investigations into them. In addition, President Musharraf takes many stances that will make news. He calls for the Muslim world to recognize Israel once a viable Palestinian state is created. He urges the repeal of Pakistan's 1979 Hudood law. He calls for the emancipation of women and for their full political equality with men. He tells the sad story of Pakistan's experience with democracy and what he has done to make it workable. Product Details Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Free Press (September 25, 2006) Language: English ISBN: 0743283449 Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches



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300 Best Jobs Without a Four-year Degree

In just two steps, “300 Best Jobs without a Four-Year Degree” helps the non-college grad quickly and easily narrow their career options and learn more about jobs of interest. Step One: Readers browse a variety of “best jobs” lists. Step Two: Readers learn more about the jobs of interest by looking up their descriptions. Features more than 50 “best jobs” lists, including best pay, fastest growth, most openings, best part-time, best for self-employment, and more.

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Unleashing the Idea virus

Treat a product or service like a human or computer virus, contends online promotion specialist Seth Godin, and it just might become one. In Unleashing the Ideavirus, Godin describes ways to set any viable commercial concept loose among those who are most likely to catch it–and then stand aside as these recipients become infected and pass it on to others who might do the same. “The future belongs to marketers who establish a foundation and process where interested people can market to each other,” he writes. “Ignite consumer networks and then get out of the way and let them talk.”

Godin believes that a solid idea is the best route to success in the new century, but one “that just sits there is worthless.” Through the magic of “word of mouse,” however, the Internet offers a unique opportunity for interested individuals to transmit ideas quickly and easily to others of like mind. Taking up where his previous book Permission Marketing left off, Godin explains in great detail how ideaviruses have been launched by companies such as Napster, Blue Mountain Arts, GeoCities, and Hotmail. He also describes “sneezers” (influential people who spread them), “hives” (populations most willing to receive them), and “smoothness” (the ease with which sneezers can transmit them throughout a hive). In all, an infectious and highly recommended read. –Howard Rothman –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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The Internet industry has been enamored of buzz-based marketing ever since venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson coined the phrase “viral marketing” in 1997 to describe Hotmail’s strategy of tagging every e-mail message with a promotion for its service. The self-replicating promotion helped the company achieve an epidemic growth rate of zero to 12 million users in a mere 18 months. Since then, viral marketing has propelled everything from Napster to The Blair Witch Project to legendary success.

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The Demise of the Dollar… and Why It’s Great For Your Investments

Our long history of economic power and wealth is being eroded from within,” writes Addison Wiggin, and the result will be reduced foreign investment, slow foreign demand for U.S. goods, and unfavorable currency exchange rates. A heavy debt burden, the trade deficit, and structural imbalances have created an unstable dollar bubble, and according to Wiggin, it’s not a matter of if the bubble will burst, but when.

That’s the bad news. The good news is that hidden investment opportunities are waiting behind the weakening dollar. In The Demise of the Dollar… and Why It’s Great for Your Investments Wiggin offers advice to readers looking to capitalize on this reality; specifically, he encourages investing in precious metals, tangible resources, and some select foreign markets.

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Wiggin is highly critical of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan’s policies, particularly the massive shift from production to credit that he has espoused, and calls into question his efforts to manage the dollar’s value. Of course, Greenspan was not working alone–every president since Ronald Reagan has embraced his views. Written for lay readers, The Demise of the Dollar offers a practical analysis of what the “twilight of the Great Dollar Standard Era” may bring.

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Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution

In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes found the writing case of Charles Darwin’s beloved daughter Annie, who died at the age of ten. Within the box, among the typical keepsakes of a Victorian girlhood, were the notes Darwin kept throughout Annie’s illness and the eloquent and devastating eulogy he delivered at her funeral. For Keynes, a great-great grandson of Darwin, Annie’s writing case became the point of entry into the story of Darwin’s family life and its influence on the development of his revolutionary understanding of man’s place in nature.

From Publishers Weekly

In this intimate portrait of the great naturalist as devoted family man, Keynes describes how Charles Darwin’s “life and his science were all of a piece.” The great-great-grandson of the scientist, Keynes uses published documents as well as family papers and artifacts to show how Darwin’s thinking on evolution was influenced by his deep attachment to his wife and children. In particular, his anguish over his 10-year-old daughter Annie’s death sharpened his conviction that the operation of natural laws had nothing to do with divine intervention or morality. Keynes, also a descendant of economist John Maynard Keynes, shows that much of Darwin’s intellectual struggle in writing On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man arose from his efforts to understand the role of suffering and death in the natural order of the world. Early in his career, Darwin saw the indifference of natural law as an answer to the era’s religious doubts about how a benevolent god could permit human misery; cruelty and pain, he argued, should not be seen as moral issues, but as inevitable outcomes of nature. After Annie’s death, however, Darwin’s views darkened, and in a private letter he railed against the “clumsy, wasteful, blundering low and horridly cruel works of nature!” Though Keynes doesn’t break new ground about Darwin’s life and work, he produces a moving tribute to a thinker who, despite intimate acquaintance with the pain inflicted by the “war of nature,” could still marvel that, from this ruthless struggle, “endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” Photos not seen by PW. (Jan.)Forecast: General readers attracted by the book’s warm, sentimental cover won’t be disappointed by Keynes’s equally accessible prose.

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When the great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin inherited the writing case of Darwin’s daughter Annie, who died at age ten, he discovered notes from his famous forbear that he used to reinvestigate the entire family.
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Converged Multimedia Networks

“This book focuses largely on enabling technologies for network
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The Java Tutorial: A Short Course on the Basics, 4th Edition (The Java Series)

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the Java platform has been the quality of its documentation. This has included the tutorials, as well as the detailed documentation of the APIs by means of JavaDoc, and the many books published in the Java series. One could argue that the quality of the documentation resources has been every bit as important to the widespread adoption of the Java platform as the quality of the language and libraries themselves. Indeed, they are all of a piece, and each deserves recognition and credit for the qualities it manifests.

Millions of developers spend their professional lives enveloped in the ecosystem engendered by the Java platform. There are myriad standards, APIs and tools. There is so much to learn! What’s more, the amount of information you need to know keeps on growing. While this growth is something we software professionals should all be thankful for, it is an ongoing challenge for developers. I hope this tutorial will make it easier to meet this challenge and obtain competence and even mastery of the Java platform.

Whether you become a truly “competent programmer,” as Edsger Dijkstra put it many years ago, is up to you; but if you don’t, it cannot be blamed on the lack of a good Java tutorial. A number of dedicated professionals have done their best to see to that.

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Succeeding At Your Yahoo! Business

The Yahoo! Stores have grown into one of the largest online shopping destinations on the Web today. The nearly 20,000 Yahoo! Stores have a 71% reach among online consumers, the highest on the Web. Many of these stores have become so successful that they have grown from small ‘mom and pop’ or part time businesses into full time money-making ventures. A whole new set of skills and knowledge are needed to operate a Yahoo Store like a full time eCommerce business.

Succeeding At Your Yahoo! Business teaches you how to customize a Yahoo! Store using the basic elements of the popular web design program Dreamweaver, including architecting an eCommerce web site. It then takes three different types of Yahoo! Stores and deconstructs them, showing you how they are formed and how they sell the products or services they offer. There is also an entire section on how to position a Yahoo! Store, acquire customers, and retain those customers. Finally, the book will show you how to set up the necessary accounting and operations systems, and how to hire the staff necessary to successfully run your business.

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Advertising and the Mind of the Consumer

Just how does advertising work? This text takes the reader into the mind of the consumer, explaining how and why advertising messages do or do not work. The authors aim to unravel the mysteries that surround the art of advertising by sharing their own commercial insights.

Review published in The Australasian Journal of Psychology

This is how the book was reviewed in TheAustralasian Journal of Psychology Vol.48 No2 1996 pp107 This is not a textbook. but an A5 size paperback. The contents are weighty and important. Yet the writing style is accessible to all, The book is in two parts: Part A - for the interested general public Part B - for advertising and marketing professionals. In Part A. Sutherland looks into the myths and mechanisms of advertising: for example, how advertising uses positively charged features for positioning, and negatively charged features to reposition opposition!

Other mechanisms include; making brands into symbols, badges of identity,communication by association’, learning .without awareness, conformity and the bandwagon effect ads as mini-dramas identifying, with a character immersion and empathy. It seems clear to me that we are dealing with a powerful technology. 1 must, therefore point out the author’s rather disingenuous remarks when he claims that most advertising agencies don’t really understand how ads work or which ads will work..

In a similar vein his disclaimer that advertisements don’t persuade anybody to do anything they merely “influence the order in which we evoke or notice the alternatives we consider.” (p. 19) Part B reviews “What Works, What Doesn’t . and Why.” And it is all solid, practical material for anybody who has the responsibility to spend an advertising dollar effectively. One should learn to ask questions like: Does advertising work in this market’? and What type of advertising’? Maximising ad effectiveness is given a full chapter. “Planning campaign strategies around consumer’s mental filing,, cabinets” merits a chapter. as does the “Measurement of advertising effects in memory.” Other topics of obvious relevance to psychological science: “positioning for cognitive consistency” and “learning to use 15-sccond TV commercials, memory activation vs. new learning.”

For readers interested strictly from the business point of view, there is competent discussion of, what happens when advertising stops. belt-tightening strategies such as ‘drip’ media usage. challenges in advertising durable goods vs. repeat purchase supermarket products. Target Audience Rating Points (TARPS): ad execution and flighting, This is all interesting and solid material, presented by a very experienced professional. Sutherland is the Director of MarketMind Technologies Pty Ltd.; Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Monash University: and a principal of Sutherland Smith Pty Ltd. one of the top ten market research companies in Australia. The concluding chapter is entitled “The Buy-ology of Mind.”

The books conclusion informs us that “when we die we will have spent an estimated 1.5 years, just watching TV commercials.”.(p.225). Sutherland has gone a long way with this volume to demystify the effects of advertising. This was his goal. But the increasing power and persuasiveness, of this applied psychological technology also should be considered from a consumer and societal point of reference. After all. the interests of Coke and British Petroleum are not necessarily incongruent with yours. mine. and the community’s. Guruneel Singh Khalsa Goodman, 3HO Foundation.

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Plants that Fight Cancer

Plants that Fight Cancer is an extensive review of plant genera and species with documented anticancer properties. The current conclusions are described, along with conventional, advanced and alternative treatments for cancer. More than 150 plant genera and species are examined, including their distribution, botany, traditional usage, active ingredients and product applications, as well as expected results and risks. An analysis of algal extracts and isolated metabolites is included, as well as a summary of published research for each species. For experts, the chemical structures of the most important compounds are also listed.

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