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This book provides an introduction to RFID technology. It describes and addresses the following: How RFID works, how it is and can be used in current and future applications. The History of RFID technology, the current state of practice and where RFID is expected to be taken in the future. The role of middleware software to route data between the RFID network and the information technology systems within an organization. Commercial and government use of RFID technology with an emphasis on a wide range of applications including retail and consumer packaging, transportation and distribution of products, industrial and manufacturing operations, security and access control. Industry standards and the regulatory compliance environment and finally, the privacy issues faced by the public and industry regarding the deployment of RFID technology.
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A disappointing read.......2007-10-09
This book is published in the John Wiley Interscience series, but does not in any way represent a serious scientific work. In the preamble - specifically the Staff Acknowledgments section - it states "this book was prepared as an account of work sponsored by John Wiley & Sons". No details appear to be provided in this book concerning the nature of this work, and the book is heavily biased in terms of its focus on the commercial opportunities offered by RFID technologies. It is for this reason that I say that it is not a serious scientific work - the focus is not on the underlying science. The actual text is 135 pages in length. This is followed by a useful glossary of terminology. Subsequently 41 pages are devoted to supplying details of RFID vendors - information that is readily available on the Internet and its appearance in this book re-emphasizes the book's bias to furthering the commercial interests associated with RFID technologies vis-a-vis ethical and scientific issues which one may expect to be discussed in an impartial and balanced way in a book that appears in the John Wiley Interscience series. As a Wiley author I am personally amazed that John Wiley has allowed this book to appear in the Interscience series - specifically given the statement at the beginning of the book regarding the book being an account of work sponsored by John Wiley & Sons. At the very least, the authors should have provided some information concerning the nature of this work/sponsorship. Without this information, this book is seriously flawed. The absence of references within the book again detracts from any scientific value it may have. I am indeed sorry not to be able to give it a positive review - unfortunately Amazon does not appear to accommodate a zero star rating.
Dr Barry Blundell
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An annually updated road map of Southern Italy, covering the main and secondary road networks across the region. Scale: 1/400,000 - 1cm=4km Legend/Key in four languages (Italian, French, English, German)
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Great Map but...........2007-05-16
I just returned from a road trip through southern Italy. This map was excellent for finding the small towns and roads.Great for pointing out elevations, specific mountains and sites and gives a good idea of the topography. However, we did find an additional map (AAA map of Italy) to be a vital compliment. It points out major roads more clearly, indicates service areas and inserts of city maps of Rome and Naples. And it's free to AAA members! I suggest you have both.
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Flavors of Puglia
Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Manufacturer: Broadway
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ASIN: 0553066757
Release Date: 1997-05-19 |
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The realization that Italy is shaped like a boot is about as old a notion as footwear itself. But how often is the heel of that boot, the region called Puglia, ever considered? Rarely, to be sure. It's not just the glorious, far-reaching history of Puglia that begs to be explored, but also the living culture and the living foods. Nancy Harmon Jenkins, author of the Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, has at least taken on the food of Puglia, and through that portal we catch glimpses of the country's people, culture, and history. For Jenkins is no mere cookbook author, and Flavors of Puglia is no bottomless sump of recipes cast willy-nilly upon the page. She brings a keen intellect to her work as well as a passion for food, people, and the connections that can be made at a well-laid table--connections unlike any others. She is an anthropologist of the human soul as revealed through food, and the recipes she selects push the reader into a much deeper understanding of the soul of Puglia than would otherwise be possible. And the bonus? The sheer simplicity and deliciousness of it all.
"The cuisine of Puglia was shaped by the cuisine of poverty," Jenkins reports. But the region is unusual for the way the poor and the wealthy eat the same dishes, the same foods; "the rich simply eat more," as Jenkins says. So the point of the food is to take a few ingredients--never a lot of meat--and maximize the flavors. The results, both heavenly and healthy, turn the cook back to the origins of good food and diet. Jenkins's great trick is that she can make you smell the dish prepared on the page and even see the ocean change color as the sun fades and night embraces the land.
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Dazzling combinations of colorful, earthy vegetables. Comforting soups with beans, grains, and fragrant herbs. Simple seafood dishes prepared with fish and shellfish straight from the sea. Pasta adorned with fresh, flavorful sauces. Food that embraces the humble abundance of Puglia, from olive groves, wheatfields, vineyards, gardens, and the blue waters of the Adriatic and Ionian Seas. In this first-ever cookbook devoted to the foods of this bountiful region, located at the heel of the Italian boot, Nancy Harmon Jenkins combines her masterful knowledge of the Mediterranean with the recipes and traditions of Pugliese home cooks.
Featuring more than 100 recipes, for every course from the antipasti to dessert, Flavors of Puglia introduces American home cooks to the aromas and flavors of the cuisine of Puglia. Taking a culinary tour of this remarkable region, Jenkins offers recipes for classic Pugliese dishes including tiedda, a casserole made with mussels, potatoes, tomatoes, and zucchini; and orecchiette, Puglia's famous ear-shaped pasta, tossed with pungent broccoli rabe and dressed with a sprightly mix of oil, garlic, and red pepper. Other recipes include panzerotti, deep-fried tarts filled with onion-olive stuffing or a spicy pork filling; stewed black olives served with chunks of country-style bread for sopping up herb-scented olive oil; calzone, a two-crusted pizza with olives, leeks, and a hint of anchovy; and fresh fish and shellfish served on their own, in casseroles, or seafood stews.
Jenkins offers graceful descriptions of Puglia's landscape and introduces readers to local fishermen, bakers, pastamakers, olive oil producers, and winemakers who produce the best food the region has to offer. A detailed section for travelers offers restaurant and hotel suggestions and provides a list of dishes and food products that are specialties of the region. A resource guide and extensive notes on choosing ingredients round out this splendid cookbook, which will win readers over to this charming and, as yet, undiscovered region of Italy.
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Anorher excellent road map from the Italian Touring Club.......2007-05-13
Like other maps in the series, this road map confirms the high degree of quality of the Italian Touring Club's maps. A great help for the traveller.
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Whether long haul, short haul, regional tours or city breaks – Travellers help planning the trip and are full of useful information on walks and tours, eating out, shopping and top travel tips.
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Barely Adequate.......2007-09-02
There are very few books available about Puglia, so I bought this one. It covers the region in about 160 pages. It has a lot of nice color photos. I am not sure I learned more from this book than I had from indepth research on the web. I prefer the Insight and Eyewitness guides because they are indepth and have great maps. Don't get me wrong, this book will help you along, but it is not as good as it could be.
Travellers Puglia.......2007-08-23
Skimpy overview of Puglia. Virtually no details and no info about beaches etc to speak of.
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Castel Del Monte: Geometric Marvel of the Middle Ages
Heinz Goetze
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You don't have to be an architectural historian to reap the multifarious rewards of this gorgeous volume. There may be one square root too many for the math-challenged multitudes, but otherwise this book's brilliant, clearly written text should appeal to classicists, abstract art admirers, and lovers of historical mysteries--hark, fans of The Name of the Rose--to suggest just a few of many possible audiences.
Already in its third printing in Germany, the lushly illustrated book offers Heinz Götze's reasoned arguments tying the design of the Castel Del Monte, the mysterious, singular, southern Italian fortress built under the revered leader Frederick II, to the Mediterranean culture of the Middle Ages and to the intricacies of Arab geometry circulating in North Africa at the time. Götze is steeped in his subject: he has led architectural digs at other sites to search for European antecedents for this extraordinary eight-sided star of an edifice (there are none), and he draws on a seemingly vast knowledge of the delicate geometries of celestial and terrestrial designs of the period that stretch from France to Syria. His impeccable scholarship seems to liberate him from the pedestrian prose of many such books (there are cheerily triumphal exclamation points scattered throughout this one).
While the book is extremely learned and contains much material that is over the head of the ordinary reader, Götze manages to urge readers to stretch their intellects. The hardest part, ultimately, is sitting in an armchair to read this book, rather than standing at the Castel Del Monte in person and gazing at it with newfound understanding. --Peggy Moorman
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Casa Rossa: A Novel
Francesca Marciano
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Release Date: 2002-08-20 |
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In Casa Rossa, Roman native Francesca Marciano tells a riveting tale of three generations of women whose separate acts of betrayal set the stage for later destruction. Renée, the grandmother, forsakes her artist husband and her life in rural Puglia at Casa Rossa, to live with a woman. Alba, her daughter, takes a lover and pushes her husband to suicide. Isabella and Alina, Alba's daughters, take extreme measures to keep each other out of their lives, leading to upheaval. Told through the voice of the youngest daughter, Alina, Casa Rossa weaves the selling and closure of the family estate with the family's sordid and unforgettable history. Spanning the 20th century and providing entrée into the not-so-incompatible worlds of Italian cinema and political terrorism, Marciano, author of Rules of the Wild, reveals an authenticity in the way this emotionally warped family comes to terms with its fragmented past. It's a fine, highly entertaining work, laced with lovely writing and emotionally resonant characters. --Emily Russin
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A mesmerizing story of three generations of a twentieth-century Italian family.
Casa Rossa—a farmhouse in Puglia owned by the Strada family—is being sold. And as she packs up the house, Alina Strada pieces together the history of her family’s past, and of the lives of three extraordinary Strada women.
Grandmother Renée, a beautiful Tunisian, is wife, muse, and model for Alina’s painter grandfather, but she leaves him and flees to Nazi Germany. Alina’s mother, Alba, marries a melancholic screenwriter and lives la dolce vita in 1950s Rome until her husband’s mysterious death. Isabella, Alina’s sister and once her best friend, finds herself drawn to a dangerous ideology in the 1970s; the sisters’ love for one another soon shifts to a betrayal of which they can never speak. As these individual lives unfold, so does the larger one—the story of a family whose secrets collide with history.
From the duplicity of Italy’s role in the thirties to the dark years of terrorism in our own times, and moving from Rome and Southern Italy to New England and New York City, Casa Rossa is a brilliant weave of lives and memories: an enthralling novel.
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Artful, real and eloquently told story about being the younger sister.......2005-08-15
This book is fluid and readable and yet complex in how the story reveals itself one thread at a time---not always in sequence. Marciano is an extremely intelligent and insightful writer who is a master at building tension and subtext into a scene and at revealing the dimensions of human psychology. It is a universal story about sisters and how deeply that bond inspires us and at times criples us. It is the story of 2 sisters surviving a dysfunctional family: one crumbles as an adult while the other does not-- but instead, learns to process it, make art from it and live beyond it (healing seems too simplistic a word). It is a story that takes place in Italy but it is a story that could have taken place anywhere.
Italian Secrets.......2004-03-15
A unique blend of page-turning drama with thoughful prose that makes the reader want to linger over the words. The varied plots about family secrets, political unrest, unfulfilled yearnings and an insider's view of Italy are skillfully woven into an enchanting tapestry. CASA ROSSA left this reader eager to visit Italy. Even before I finished this novel, I went out and bought the author's other novel.
Compelling and insightful.......2003-04-30
Francesca Marciano has the verbal equivalent of a master sculptor's chisel for creating believable characters. In "Casa Rossa" she not only tells a compelling tale about three generations of a southern Italian family, she gives many wonderful insights into daily life in Italy today and in the early 20th century. I particularly liked her spin on the tarantella. Although now merely a lively dance at Italian wedding receptions, Marciano reveals the folkloric purpose of the tarantella and the ritual that is connected with it with a clarity I had not before read. The novel has great atmospheric sense as well, whether the location is the deepest Italian south, Rome, northern Italy or New York. It's only drawback is its cinematic pace.
Enjoyable Fiction.......2003-02-27
Loved the fact that it was based in Italy. The family was a good depiction of the real thing. Liked the characters. Too predictable. Held my interest enough to finish the book. I would recommend reading.
Great Character Development.......2003-01-08
I was not certain I would enjoy Casa Rossa after reading the first chapter, but was shortly thereafter swept away by the various stories within the novel. Marciano does a fantastic job at character development. More than likely, you will need to keep reading to find out what will happen to them. Each character also has a distinct personality that shows the depth of the novel. This is the type of novel that remains in your thoughts throughout the day until you can return to it again. If you are interested in Italian culture, this novel should also intrigue you.
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About Italy: Puglia to the Po
David D. Hume
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Acquaviva delle Fonti: Inventario archivio storico, 1796-1945 (La Puglia nei documenti)
Antonia Patrizia Cimaglia
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- This book takes away from the mystery
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ASIN: 0689873247 |
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Sixteen-year-old Lucy Szabo is Undead -- at least according to her own theories about vampirism. Lucy believes that the first vampires -- with their pale skin, long teeth, and uncontrollable thirst -- were dying diabetics. And she should know. She's a diabetic herself.
When Lucy becomes involved with Draco -- a self-proclaimed "real" vampire she meets in the Transylvania Internet chat room -- her world begins crashing down around her. Caught up in late-night parties and Goth culture, she begins to lose control of her grades, relationships, and health. Lucy realizes she needs to make some important choices, and fast. But it may already be too late.
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This book takes away from the mystery.......2007-08-19
This book takes away from the mystery, darkness, and romance behind what a vapire can really mean. Its a very good theory that is expressed in the book. But i believe most teens are looking to get into a good Teen Vampire Romance...not hear about every reason why vampires arent real but their are freaky people who want to be like them....its still a good read, but not the typical vampire novel.
One of the best!!.......2007-07-27
This is one of the best vampire books I've read EVER!! it really makes you re-think the whole vampire mythology, and then look up a whole bunch of stuff on the net!! LOVED IT!!
Close to Fantastic.......2007-07-10
I picked this book up at a second-hand store. The cover is what caught my attention as well as the back synopsis. I decided to give it a read and was pleasantly surprised at what a good read it was. I read almost the entire book in one sitting. However, the back synopsis doesn't really accurately describe the book in my opinion.
A common problem with YA novels is that the authors aren't exactly "hip" on how real teenagers carry about themselves. There were a few parts in this book like that (only the chat room sequences), but the rest was pretty dead on. I thought it was a pretty accurate description of a stereotypical teen goth scene, very believable.
The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars was because of the somewhat stale ending. The book was going along at a great pace and then at the end it seemed to fizzle out and just die.
I think this would be great for all teens, especially those who lean towards the darker side of life (or have an interest in it).
Courtesy of Teens Read Too.......2007-03-16
Lucy Szabo is diabetic, and that's led her to think up some interesting theories about vampires. Lucy believes that vampire legends were inspired by dying diabetics--the uncontrollable thirst, the deathlike appearance.
When Lucy gets involved with an interesting crowd--including a "real" vampire, a cute boy from school, and a bunch of burnout Goths--she starts to lose control of her life. She's sneaking out at night, her grades are plummeting rapidly, and she passes out at school because of an insulin reaction. Lucy's life is falling apart, and only she can pull the pieces back together again.
SWEETBLOOD is definitely an interesting novel, and very original. It's interesting in terms of Lucy's theories and in terms of how vampire legends started, but also just as a personal story, as the story of Lucy's life. There are good, intriguing characters throughout the novel, it's quite well-written, and very much worth reading.
Reviewed by: Jocelyn Pearce
This book was pathetic.......2007-02-22
This book has hardly any Vampire stuff in it, which was what I was looking for. If you want to buy this book, MAKE SURE YOU'RE NOT LOOKING FOR A VAMPIRE STORY. It was a very negative book too. If I could do it all over again, I wouln't buy it at all.
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Sweetblood
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