Guide to Linux Certification - John Schitka, Jason W. Eckert

Guide to Linux Certification 

                              - John Schitka, Jason W. Eckert

This particular study guide is very strong on Linux installation, administration, X-Windows, networking, and most of the major areas where you really need to know what you are doing in order to pass the exam or work with a real world Linux system. On the other hand it is a little weak on the hardware side. While most people, including myself, feel that the book covers hardware sufficiently for learning Linux and using Linux in the real world, it is a Linux+ certification guide and so should cover hardware in the same detail required for the exam. The exam may include questions like showing four different interfaces and asking the test-taker to identify which one is a SCSI3 interface. This is not covered in that level of detail in the book. In my opinion that sort of question belongs on a hardware exam and not in a Linux+ exam, but the fact of the matter is that sort of question is on the exam and so should be covered in any exam preparation book. If this were a guide to learning and using Linux I would not treat this as a problem at all.
When comparing the book to other Linux+ study guides I consider it to be one of the top choices. The other recommended guide (from Sybex) doesn't do any better of a job in dealing with the hardware problem. This is a problem consistent throughout all the study guide books. It does use RedHat and include a copy, which is a positive point. And finally, it has one of the best indexes of all the Linux+ study guides. This can be very important if you don't pass the exam the first time and need to study some specific areas. If you are looking for a keyword that you were unsure about on the exam then you need to be able to look it up. For example, when I took the exam there were some basic questions on Squid and iptables. All you really needed to know was that Squid is a proxy server and iptables is related to firewall services. This is the only book I've reviewed that actually had entries in the index for Squid and iptables. The others had the information but no index entry and so no knowledge of where to look for the information. There is really no excuse for a poor index in any book that seeks to help the reader become certified and this is the one with the best index. If you want to pass the exam on the first try you should add a hardware book like one of the certification guides for the CompTIA A+ hardware exam. "Linux+ Guide to Linux Certification" is a recommended purchase for people new to Linux seeking to learn the system and pass the exam.

The Complete Guide to Google Android 2010 by Matt Egan, Rosie Hattersley

The Complete Guide to Google Android 2010 

by Matt Egan, Rosie Hattersley 

The Complete Guide to Google Android - is about how to get the most out of your Android smartphone.

Google's Android smartphone is the ultimate communication tool – and one of the most desirable gadgets around. The Complete Guide To Google Android looks at the hardware and the software behind Android’s incredible success, featuring buying advice for the various versions of the smartphone OS and reviews of the latest handsets. This 120-page guide shows new smartphone owners how to get the most from their Android device, how to personalise it and how it can seamlessly become part of your everyday life. Featuring reviews of more than 50 of the best Android apps, The Complete Guide To Google Android is an essential companion for every Android owner.

Multiple Choices: Planning Your Career for the 21st Century

 Multiple Choices: Planning Your Career for the 21st Century

Alberta Employment and Immigration | 21st century | 65 pages | English |
Product description :
Every day you are making multiple choices on this journey called your life. This book will help you become comfortable with your choices along the way and provide you with the career building knowledge and skills you need to make decisions more easily. Practical exercises help you clarify your dreams, identify your skills and assets and recognize attitudes and beliefs that either support or hinder you on your life's journey.
Multiple Choices : Planning Your Career For The 21st Century.
Cover
Copyright
Table Of Contents
Chapter 1 Career Building
Career Building In A Constantly Changing World
Some Common Words With Uncommon Definitions
The Four Stages Of Career Building
Focus On The Journey
Chapter 2 Taking Stock Of Your Assets
What Have You Dreamed Of Doing?
What Are Your Values?
What Interests You?
What Beliefs Are Influencing Your Behaviour?
What Skills Can You Transfer To Different Work Situations?Multiple Choices : Planning Your Career For The 21st Century.

Where the Jobs Are Now: The Fastest-Growing Industries and How to Break Into Them - Joe Watson

Where the Jobs Are Now: The Fastest-Growing Industries and How to Break Into Them 

                                             - Joe Watson

The current employment outlook might seem grim at first glance, but only if you don’t know where to look. Government and individual investors are pouring billions of dollars into a handful of industries, sparking long-term growth and a wealth of great new career opportunities.
Where the Jobs Are Now explains how you can find a long and lucrative career, at any level, in one of these robust, cutting-edge industries:

• Health Care
• Biotechnology
• Energy
• Education
• Government
• Security
• Information Technology

This book helps you match your existing skills to the market and get the training you need—without overturning your life. Take control of your future with an exciting new career that is guaranteed to weather any economic climate.

Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows: Visual QuickStart (Visual QuickStart Guide) by Steve Schwartz

Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows: Visual QuickStart (Visual QuickStart Guide)  

by Steve Schwartz

Visual QuickStart Guides, designed in an attractive tutorial and reference format, are the quickest, easiest, and most thorough way to learn applications, tasks, and technologies. The Visual QuickStart Guides are a smart choice and guide the learner in a friendly and respectful tone. Visually presented with copious screenshots, the focused discussions by topic and tasks make learning a breeze and quickly take you to exactly what you want to learn.

Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, written by best-selling author Steve Schwartz, has been extensively rewritten to provide expanded coverage of the core Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, and also provides a thorough introduction to the Office Web Apps. Coverage of each application is jam-packed with information and tips that not only explain HOW to perform a task, but WHY you need this procedure and WHEN it's best to use it.

Microsoft Office for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide provides in-depth instructions on many of the new features and changes introduced in Office 2010, such as the following:

Office-wide features
Backstage (File tab), customizing the Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar, Paste Preview, image-editing tools, screen clippings, Office Web Apps

Word
Navigation Pane, searching for graphics and tables, text effects, contextual spell checking

Excel
Sparklines (cell-based charts), new conditional formatting options

PowerPoint
Reading View, presentation sections, Animation Painter tool, video-editing tools, comparing and combining presentations, creating videos from presentations, broadcasting presentations on the Web

Outlook
Using and finding commands in the new Ribbon interface, working with Conversation view, creating Quick Step macros

Steve Schwartz is uniquely qualified and readers benefit from his 30+ years of experience as a software expert, technical support director, magazine editor, and writer. Steve has written almost 60 books, many on Office and other Microsoft products, and has been using Office since the first version. Although this book is geared toward the beginning through intermediate user, Steve won¹t waste your time with pages of stories and analogies before actually discussing the topic at hand. Each page is clearly focused on the needs of the reader. In fact, Steve’s guiding principal in creating this and his many other Visual QuickStart Guides is “The Three C’s.” The material must be clear, concise, and correct. Thumb through a copy today and find out why this is the quickest and easiest way to learn Microsoft Office 2010 

A Comprehensible Guide to Controller Area Network by Wilfried Voss

A Comprehensible Guide to Controller Area Network 

by Wilfried Voss

NOTICE: THE FULL BOOK IS NOT AVAILABLE, SO HERE WE HAVE UPLOADED ONLY FEW CHAPTERS.

A Comprehensible Guide to Controller Area Network by Wilfried Voss represents the most thoroughly researched and most complete work on CAN available in the marketplace. Controller Area Network (CAN) is a serial network technology that was originally designed for the automotive industry, especially for European cars, but has also become a popular bus in industrial automation as well as other applications. The CAN bus is primarily used in embedded systems, and as its name implies, is a network technology that provides fast communication among microcontrollers up to real-time requirements, eliminating the need for the much more expensive and complex technology of a Dual-Ported RAM. This book provides complete information on all CAN features and aspects combined with a high level of readability. The author, Wilfred Voss, is the President of esd electronics, Inc., a company that specializes in CAN technology. The company is located in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Mr. Voss has worked in the CAN industry since 1997 and before that was a specialist in the paper industry. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wuppertal in Germany. Mr. Voss has conducted numerous seminars on CAN and CANopen during various Real Time Embedded And Computing Conferences (RTECC) and ISA (Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society) events all over the United States and Canada.

NOTICE: THE FULL BOOK IS NOT AVAILABLE, SO HERE WE HAVE UPLOADED ONLY FEW CHAPTERS.

Penguin Quick Guides: Really Useful English Idioms - D'Arcy Adrian-Vallance

Penguin Quick Guides: Really Useful English Idioms 

                                                                 - D'Arcy Adrian-Vallance 

Do you want to understand and use more idioms in English? With over 130 of the most common idioms used in English today, this guide will help you use idioms to talk about many things, including: friends and family; work and business; dating and romance; thinking and learning, and much more.

Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows: Visual QuickStart (Visual QuickStart Guide) by Steve Schwartz

Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows: Visual QuickStart (Visual QuickStart Guide)  

by Steve Schwartz

Visual QuickStart Guides, designed in an attractive tutorial and reference format, are the quickest, easiest, and most thorough way to learn applications, tasks, and technologies. The Visual QuickStart Guides are a smart choice and guide the learner in a friendly and respectful tone. Visually presented with copious screenshots, the focused discussions by topic and tasks make learning a breeze and quickly take you to exactly what you want to learn.

Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, written by best-selling author Steve Schwartz, has been extensively rewritten to provide expanded coverage of the core Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, and also provides a thorough introduction to the Office Web Apps. Coverage of each application is jam-packed with information and tips that not only explain HOW to perform a task, but WHY you need this procedure and WHEN it's best to use it.

Microsoft Office for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide provides in-depth instructions on many of the new features and changes introduced in Office 2010, such as the following:

Office-wide features
Backstage (File tab), customizing the Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar, Paste Preview, image-editing tools, screen clippings, Office Web Apps

Word
Navigation Pane, searching for graphics and tables, text effects, contextual spell checking

Excel
Sparklines (cell-based charts), new conditional formatting options

PowerPoint
Reading View, presentation sections, Animation Painter tool, video-editing tools, comparing and combining presentations, creating videos from presentations, broadcasting presentations on the Web

Outlook
Using and finding commands in the new Ribbon interface, working with Conversation view, creating Quick Step macros

Steve Schwartz is uniquely qualified and readers benefit from his 30+ years of experience as a software expert, technical support director, magazine editor, and writer. Steve has written almost 60 books, many on Office and other Microsoft products, and has been using Office since the first version. Although this book is geared toward the beginning through intermediate user, Steve won¹t waste your time with pages of stories and analogies before actually discussing the topic at hand. Each page is clearly focused on the needs of the reader. In fact, Steve’s guiding principal in creating this and his many other Visual QuickStart Guides is “The Three C’s.” The material must be clear, concise, and correct. Thumb through a copy today and find out why this is the quickest and easiest way to learn Microsoft Office 2010