Lightweight Sandwich Construction

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Lightweight sandwich construction, which uses two thin metal sheets sandwiched with a layer of insulation, is now used widely for factories and warehouses. However, designers are faced with a range of problems, including insulation and condensation, durability and fire spread, and there is little authoritative guidance on the subject. This book brings together a group of European experts to provide practical information for designers, specifiers and manufacturers.

POJOs in Action: Developing Enterprise Applications with Lightweight Frameworks

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Good overview of Spring, EJB, Hibernate
it has 560 pages?

POJOs in Action: Developing Enterprise Applications with Lightweight Frameworks
Chris Richardson
Manufacturer: Manning Publications
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ASIN: 1932394583

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The standard platform for enterprise application development has been EJB but the difficulties of working with it caused it to become unpopular. They also gave rise to lightweight technologies such as Hibernate, Spring, JDO, iBATIS and others, all of which allow the developer to work directly with the simpler POJOs. Now EJB version 3 solves the problems that gave EJB 2 a black eye-it too works with POJOs. POJOs in Action describes the new, easier ways to develop enterprise Java applications. It describes how to make key design decisions when developing business logic using POJOs, including how to organize and encapsulate the business logic, access the database, manage transactions, and handle database concurrency. This book is a new-generation Java applications guide: it enables readers to successfully build lightweight applications that are easier to develop, test, and maintain.

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Perfect.......2007-04-15

Got the book alle the way up to ice-cold Norway in no time. The packing was a bit ripped up; probably due to ice-bear attack.

Excellent Book.......2007-02-22

I won't repeat what other reviewers already said.
The book is explains very good how to build enterprise apps using the pojo frameworks like spring, hibernate, jdo. It shows very nicely how to integrate these technologies. The code of the book is also awesome. It has a lot of examples.

Before reading this book I knew only hibernate. I saw the hard way that hibernate was not enough for building a complex project. So this made me to read this book. Reading this book I was forced to learn Spring too. When I tried to run the examples I saw that the examples project are built with Maven. I liked how simple and elegant the project was structured using Maven, so I learned Maven too(the book's code is an excellent example of Maven usage too).
I also saw that handling the concurrency in an (web) app is not an easy thing to do. The book has a good explanation of this topic in the last chapters. Chris is implementing some of the Fowler's patterns and that made me to get some more details about that so this is how I bought and read Fowler's book:Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture which is by the way a excellent book too.

I highly recommend this book!
Good job Chris!

PS: too bad that I didn't have this book 2 years ago.

Must have book.......2007-01-23

POJOs in Action describes how POJOs and lightweight frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, JDO, iBatis make it easier and faster to develop testable and maintainable applications. You will also learn how to apply test-driven development and object design to enterprise Java applications. This book is all about implementing enterprise applications using design patterns and lightweight frameworks.

This book is for developers as well as architects who are experienced in developing enterprise applications in Java using EJB framework and want to know how to use POJOs and lightweight frameworks effectively.

This book consists of four parts. Part 1 which has 2 chapters is an overview of POJOs and lightweight frameworks. Part 2 has 5 chapters in which you will learn about a combination of options to design applications with POJOs and lightweight frameworks. In Part 3 you will learn about other approaches for designing the business and database tiers. Part 4's 3 chapter's looks at some important database-relates issues we normally encounter when developing enterprise Java applications. I should also mention that this book is not a complete reference for any of the frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, iBATIS etc.

Chris Richardson has done an outstanding job; this book deserves 5 out of 5. I wish I could have given more. Once I started reading the book, it was hard for me to put it down. This book teaches you when to use and when not to use each of the frameworks while many other books blindly advocate the use of their favorite frameworks. It is a must have book for every Java developer as well as architect. This is an excellent book, go get it; should be in your library.

Good overview of Spring, EJB, Hibernate.......2007-01-03

Honestly I think this book is a little out of date, since the EJB 3.0 spec has come out. The author did go back and change some of the text to acknowledge that the EJB 3.0 spec is not as heavy weight as the older 2.1 spec, but was still heavier than Spring. I really would have liked to seen a deeper comparison between EJB 3 and Spring, but he seems to really push the Spring model.

That being said I think there are some excellent points the book brings out about the different Persistence layers and how debugging POJO's is so much easier than the alternatives.

it has 560 pages? .......2006-12-13

Computer books today can go beyond 500+ pages way too easily, it's hard to understand what these editors are doing:-), for me most books can be reduced to half without loss any meaningful content. But this book is an exception! It's very practical, cover lots of area in a clean, easy reading style. Every page deserves the paper. really enjoy it. Note you need Marven to build the source code, which I think it's too much for exmaple code.

Lightweight Backpacking and Camping: A Field Guide to Wilderness Equipment, Technique, and Style (Backpacking Light)

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The most advanced book on the subject
Heavy on the basics, light on specifics
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Not for the average Backpacker wanting to pack lighter.
Ye Tome of Knowledge

Lightweight Backpacking and Camping: A Field Guide to Wilderness Equipment, Technique, and Style (Backpacking Light)
George Cole , Carol Crooker , Alan Dixon , and Richard Dreher
Manufacturer: Beartooth Mountain Press
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The days of carrying monster packs into the wilderness are officially over!

New Book Completely Redefines How to Enjoy Backcountry Travel

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"Backpacking should be comfortable, safe, and fun."

So say the backcountry experts at Backpacking Light Magazine in their new book, Lightweight Backpacking & Camping: A Field Guide to Wilderness Equipment, Technique, and Style. And they should know: Backpacking Light Magazine is recognized as the outdoor industry's leading authority in lightweight hiking and backcountry travel, and has helped thousands of outdoor enthusiasts discover the joy of going light.

"The notion that you need to carry 40 or 50 pounds of gear into the backcountry to be comfortable and safe is absolutely ridiculous," says the book's Editor, Ryan Jordan, who is also the Publisher of Backpacking Light Magazine and the outdoor industry's chief proselytizer of today's exploding lightweight backpacking movement. "Gear manufacturers continue to contaminate the market with too much gear that is overbuilt, overdesigned, overpriced, and overweight. Backpackers deserve to be told the other side of the story: that you can do more with less, and that a pack weight of less than 15 pounds (not including food and water) is easily accessible even to beginners."

A book about lightweight backpacking should be smart, fat, and heavy.

This new book redefines modern day backpacking as safe, comfortable, and fun - but with a much lighter pack. And, it doesn't take a casual approach to the topic: 436 pages of content educate backcountry users of all levels about the gear and technique required to make them experts.

Lightweight Backpacking & Camping fills major gaps in existing outdoor literature by offering:

- Multiple, balanced perspectives that appeal to a wide range of experiences, skills, and personal styles.

- In-depth content that provides basic, intermediate, and advanced discussions of skills that grow with the reader.

- Up-to-date information about the best lightweight gear and apparel, including the manufacturers that make it and the retailers that carry it.

Lightweight Backpacking & Camping is the most comprehensive and rigorous text ever published on the subject. In addition to chapters about gear and basic skills, consider its more advanced topics: why the biomechanics of walking justifies the use of running shoes instead of boots; how an examination of thermoregulation science suggests why today's high-tech synthetic clothing is too heavy and poorly engineered; how super-ultralight backpacking with a five pound pack can allow someone in average physical condition to hike a 30 mile day, and why some inclement weather conditions can be ideally suited for sleeping under an ultralight tarp, rather than a heavy tent.

Lightweight Backpacking & Camping not only sets the standard for backcountry education, it raises the bar to heights never before seen in the outdoor industry. Unlike other texts, Lightweight Backpacking & Camping justififes its claims with good science, proper technique, and rationale discussions: not marketing, hyperbole, and guesswork.

Yes, lightweight backpacking works for everyone.

Lightweight backpacking (often, with a pack weight of less than 20 pounds) is the fastest growing trend in backpacking. Going light makes backcountry hiking more accessible to families, Boy Scouts, and aging baby boomers - groups normally excluded from enjoying the backcountry because of their inability to carry absurdly heavy backpacks.

Lightweight Backpacking & Camping is targeted not only to "heavy school" backpackers trying to get the motorhome off their back, but also to advanced wilderness travelers trying to do more with less. To that end, the volume is as well-suited for beginning hikers as it is to elite mountain athletes.

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The most advanced book on the subject.......2007-08-13

This the best book on the subject. I think the detail is a bit too much for the novice. "Lighten Up" is a better introductory work, but the depth offered here is without comparison. I loved it all except for the detail on walking. Either I don't have the patience/intellect, or it's just a bit too much. All that said, it truly is the best book on the subject, and I learned an incredible amount from it.

Heavy on the basics, light on specifics.......2007-08-01

For those who are skeptical that backpacking relatively comfortably while carrying less weight is possible, this book does a pretty good job of making the case for dropping the extra pounds. However, if you're already convinced that lightweight or ultra lightweight backpacking is the way to go, this book feels a lot like preaching to choir.

I've been a lightweight convert for two years, and I bought this book hoping to learn some advice and techniques to shave my pack weight down even further. While the book has some useful specifics on some topics (I now swear by the bear bagging technique I learned from it, and the first aid section is very good), I found that it mostly lacked the level of detail I was looking for.

The essays all talk about how great going lightweight is and drool over expensive boutique gear. Indeed, there is a distinctly worshipful tone when discussing the latest carbon fiber and silnylon technologies. The book promotes a lot of very high end equipment while remaining seemingly oblivious to far less expensive alternatives that offer minimal performance compromises. But nothing really goes into specifics beyond what you could find on the internet for free. For example, the book extols the virtues of using a tarp tent, and has pictures of several brands, but provides only vague information on how to actually pitch one correctly, or how to pitch one when there aren't any trees while keeping it stable.

It seems obvious to me that carrying 20lbs would be better than carrying 50, I no longer need to be convinced. I was looking for more technical information and this book just didn't have it.

Also, the book is really just a collection of essays, many of which were written for Ryan Jordan's magazine/web site Backpacking Light, and as a result the book lacks a consistent voice and tone. The essays are also not really organized in an intuitive way.

Ryan Jordan also seems obsessed with light weight for light weight's sake, rather than as a means to add enjoyment to your backpacking experience. Sure it possible to get your pack weight down to 5lbs, if you're willing to shell out lots of money for lightweight fabrics and gear that's often not versatile and that you will probably have to replace every season because of its lack of durability. This might give you bragging rights at the trailhead, but I question if its really worth the added expense and inconvenience over say, a 15 pound pack, which is less weight than the average middle schooler carries every day, and can be acquired much less expensively.

This book has some useful ideas and recommendations on gear, so I'd recommend it to anyone who is interested in learning about lightweight backpacking for the first time, which is why I'm giving it three stars. If you've already shed some pounds from your pack, or are trying to enjoy the outdoors on a fixed budget, there are better and more detailed books out there, like The Complete Walker IV or Ray Jardine's Beyond Backpacking.

Handy "How To" Guide.......2007-03-24

Backpackers who hope to lighten their load will find valuable information in this book. I did. I was impressed with the author's experience, knowledge and research. He clearly offers a unique perspective on the art and science of lightweight backpacking. With the current technology available I am also convinced that the days of 30+ pound backpacks are over when one is heading out for a week on the trail.

Not for the average Backpacker wanting to pack lighter........2007-01-31

This is not a useful book for the eastern Backpacker, who has been carrying 55-60 lb. on the AT and wants to reduce his pack to a 20-25 lb. pack load, without going to the poor house in the process. The book lacks personality and feelings about why we backpack.

This is a highly analytical book on the technical aspects of Lightweight Backpacking in the west. Be less clinical and enjoy the experience a little more.This book is for those who mainly buy at the high end and at a few select sources. It is also assumes that most backpackers live or pack near or west of the continental divide. It does not mention our many fine supply houses in the east, nor the different environments we encounter in the east.

Ye Tome of Knowledge.......2007-01-27

After purchasing several books on backpacking, I was starting to come to the conclusion that most books simply were written by an author with the idea of pushing their own ideas of backpacking. Everything had this slant, but I decided to give Lightweight Backpacking and Camping a shot. I'm so glad I did.

First, with all the various authors, you get different perspectives on ultralight backpacking. No one approach is necessarily the right way, and different views and tones in thier writings help to cement that idea.

Second, this isn't necessarily a "gear guide" type book with listings of what gear to buy. While there are suggestions, they comprise a small amount of the text, which instead focuses on the meat of ultralight backpacking.

While it is true that a previous reviewer, Andrew Skurka works for Ryan Jordan, what he says is no less accurate. It is, quite simply, the best book out there for ultralight backpacking. Further, it works well for the beginner backpacker or the advanced hiker like Andrew.

Now, despite the five star rating, it's not without some flaws. First, one company seems to get top billing in most all of the gear suggestions, though admittedly they tend to be the lightest gear out there. Second, as another review said, there is no index, which makes looking up information a bit more difficult. Still, to me these are insufficient to rate this text as less than a five. Style issues in the layout and a brand preference I don't necessarily share are minor things not worth considering in my opinion.

Lightweight ballistic composites: Military and law-enforcement applications (Woodhead Publishing in Materials)

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Lightweight ballistic composites: Military and law-enforcement applications (Woodhead Publishing in Materials)

Manufacturer: CRC
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ASIN: 0849391199

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Ballistic composites are lightweight and durable under a variety of environmental conditions, such as water and chemicals, and they exhibit high performance levels, including high strength, impact and ballistic resistance, and damage tolerance. These advantages make ballistic composites the perfect choice for use on lightweight vehicles, watercraft, aircraft armor, and anywhere else where lightweight bullet protection is required. They also have exceptional insulating properties in high temperature environments. After an introductory chapter, Lightweight Ballistic Composites is split into two main sections. The first half explores requirements and testing. A chapter on bullets and bullet deformation provides important background information, which is expanded in chapters on the material response to ballistic impact and modeling of the impact. Standards and specifications are discussed as are testing methods. The second half of the book focuses on the types of material available, with an emphasis on applications. This major new book is the first of its kind to give a comprehensive review of the current use of lightweight ballistic composites in both military and law-enforcement applications. It will be invaluable for all those working in the safety and protective materials industry and all concerned in health and safety in a variety of industries. It will also be an important work for health and safety workers and researchers in the military and police service.

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The Only Book Available on the Subject.......2006-09-25

The advent of fire arms spelt the end of the armored knight of old. Until very recently the soldier on the battlefield had no protection from being shot. The problem is that the only materials that would offer suitable protection was steel, and steel is so heavy that it is impractical to protect more than a small part of the body. Usually only the head was protected using helmets that offered some protection from the fragments of shrapnel of grenades and exploding artillery.

Beginning with the war in Viet Nam, the Army began fielding 'bullet proof vests' made of woven materials that extended protection to the torso of the soldier. These vests were capable of withstanding handgun fire and most shrapnel.

Since that time other new materials have been invented and they, along with their applications are the subject of this book. It is written by a selection of experts in the field. About half the authors are from the US and include writers from the military, industry, and research groups. The remailing authors are from literally around the world.

Most of the book is on the new materials themselves. But the latter parts are on specific applications including material on the new vehicles and equipment that has been introduced or which is still in the planning stages.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive review of the materials used in modern armored systems. Not only does it cover the woven fabrics, but it also included material on things like ceramic faced molded armor.

This is the state of the art in armor as it exhists today.

Beginning POJOs: Lightweight Java Web Development Using Plain Old Java Objects in Spring, Hibernate, and Tapestry

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Well written but...
Too Much and Confusing
A "big" little book.
Buzzword headache
Good luck for me to meet the book!

Beginning POJOs: Lightweight Java Web Development Using Plain Old Java Objects in Spring, Hibernate, and Tapestry
Brian Sam-Bodden
Manufacturer: Apress
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...this is still the best book on end-to-end development of enterprise applications that I've seen.

— Ernest J. Friedman-Hill, JavaRanch Sheriff

Beginning POJOs was a complete pleasure to read. It teaches a way of Java-based development that is very much up-to-date and cutting edge.

— Thomas Wagner, wagnerblog.com

Beginning POJOs introduces you to open source lightweight web development using Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs) and the tools and frameworks that enable this. Tier by tier, this book guides you through the construction of complex but lightweight enterprise Java-based web applications. Such applications are centered around several major open source lightweight frameworks, including Spring, Hibernate, Tapestry, and JBoss (including the new lightweight JBoss Seam).

Additional support comes from the most successful and prevalent open source tools: Eclipse and Ant, and the increasingly popular TestNG. This book is ideal if you're new to open source and lightweight Java. You'll learn how to build a complete enterprise Java-based web application from scratch, and how to integrate the different open source frameworks to achieve this goal. You'll also learn techniques for rapidly developing such applications.

Customer Reviews:

Well written but..........2007-05-25

I like the style of the book but I found myself having to play around with code to get the examples to work. They seemed to work about 25% of the time without major tweaking. Maybe it is just me but this book needs a newer edition pronto. I'd look elsewhere for more up to date information.

Too Much and Confusing.......2007-04-11

I bought this book to get understanding of POJOs. To see how they are much simpler to use than EJB, if they really are!!
But this book tries to pack the whole project into it, which makes it hard to remember things after few chapters. It also tries to explain technologies (like Spring and Tapestry) in few pages, omitting the explanations where required. My opinion is, it requires pre-understanding of these technologies before you will find reading this book useful.

Also, I was not convinced with writing style of author. Author tries to use complex words where they can be avoided and twisted sentences where same thing can be explained in plain English statements.

Overall, I guess author has in-depth knowledge but he lacks the ability to express the knowledge in simple words

A "big" little book........2007-03-22

If you are just starting to see what the lightweight framework application hubbub is about this is the best introductory book on the subject that I have read.

I purchased this book, got distracted by another project and only recently picked it up to read the chapter on Spring. I read the Introduction, became hooked by the authors very natural and readable narrative style and soon I had read the entire book. That is unusual.

The author has chosen a unique Technical Conference Application as a test case and described it's development in various light weight frameworks and applications.
The examples are bit dated by the use of Eclipse 3.1 but everything with the exception of an older version of SQL Explorer runs with Eclipse 3.2. If you are an experienced Spring - ORM developer your mileage may vary but chances are you will learn some new things.

This is a very big little book. Technologies covered in some depth with references are: Eclipse, Spring-MVC, Hibernate, Tomcat, Tapestry-HiveMind, JBoss, SQL Explorer, DynaDTO, Ajax with Tacos, TestNG and AspectJ along with discussions of several patterns and methods of Dependency Injection. The discussion and reasoning behind the use of the techniques is well thought out and insightful.

My only caveat is that the author and I belong to the same Java users group. I plan to leverage that personal contact to encourage Brian to write more books.

Buzzword headache.......2007-03-06

I should quote this book, but I really don't want to spend anymore time with it. The buzzword-speak is rife through this book, and it really hinders learning when you have to stop and think, 'Now what is that supposed to mean?'. I haven't learned much, and the only reason I don't give this 1 star is I got it for < $1 from amazon used. It had 3 1/2 stars when I bought it, and my new rule is not to shell out for anything less than 4 1/2.

Good luck for me to meet the book!.......2006-12-04

I am a student just leave college for company in China,in my company, Hibernate+Spring+Tapestry are used,the best thing for me is being familiar with the framework soon.Then I found this book Beginning POJOSWhich is helpful for me.I am enjoying reading it,and I can do my job now.
Thank you Brian!Great job!

Agile Documentation: A Pattern Guide to Producing Lightweight Documents for Software Projects (Wiley Software Patterns Series)

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Agile Documentation: A Pattern Guide to Producing Lightweight Documents for Software Projects (Wiley Software Patterns Series)
Andreas Rueping
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Software documentation forms the basis for all communication relating to a software project. To be truly effective and usable, it should be based on what needs to be known. Agile Documentation provides sound advice on how to produce lean and lightweight software documentation. It will be welcomed by all project team members who want to cut out the fat from this time consuming task. Guidance given in pattern form, easily digested and cross-referenced, provides solutions to common problems.

Straightforward advice will help you to judge:

What details should be left in and what left out
When communication face-to-face would be better than paper or online
How to adapt the documentation process to the requirements of individual projects and build in change
How to organise documents and make them easily accessible
When to use diagrams rather than text
How to choose the right tools and techniques
How documentation impacts the customer

Better than offering pat answers or prescriptions, this book will help you to understand the elements and processes that can be found repeatedly in good project documentation and which can be shaped and designed to address your individual circumstance. The author uses real-world examples and utilises agile principles to provide an accessible, practical pattern-based guide which shows how to produce necessary and high quality documentation.

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Superb collection of serious backpacking recipes.

Inspiring!

Don't buy for dinner recipes unless you have a dehydrator

Good recipes & information

Hardy but Heavy

Lipsmackin' Backpackin': Lightweight Trail-tested Recipes for Backcountry Trips
Christine Conners
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Tasty backcountry cookbook filled with trail-tested recipes providing nutritional information, food preparation and meal-planning tips from experienced long-distance hikers.

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Superb collection of serious backpacking recipes........2007-09-05

`Lipsmackin' Backpackin, Lightweight Trail-Tested Recipes for Backcountry Trips' by Tim and Christine Conners is but the second book I've seen on the subject since I started reviewing cookbooks. The first is almost 35 years old, being `Backpacker's Cookbook' by Margaret Cross and Jean Fiske.
On first blush, the newer book seems better in almost every way, in that it includes the total weight of every recipe, all recipes specify the number of servings, and almost all are for one or two servings, just right for the average camping experience. The Conners' book also includes a nutritional analysis by serving for each recipe. Best of all, for those true disciples of Colin Fletcher's `The Complete Walker', the book includes miniature summaries of each recipe on their own little slip of paper, each weighing no more than the borders of the maps you cut off, per Master Fletcher, to reduce your packing weight.
The book is also very advanced, and allied to some extent with the `raw' food movement, in that it makes extensive use of a food dehydrator as a means of reducing the packable weight of each recipe. My favorite aspect of this book is that it also includes several recipes for bread, including two based on the truly amazing technique of wrapping the dough around a stick and suspending the dough over the campfire by jamming the stick into the ground at the side of the fire. This technique is at least as old as the Boy Scout Handbook of 50 years ago, and I was never brave enough to try it then, but I'm happy to see it's still around.
But, the venerable old `Backpacker's Cookbook' is not ready to be put out to pasture yet. The two books really represent two different models of camping. The older book seems to be written primarily for the weekend hiker or someone who at most may go for a four to five day hike. There is less emphasis on weight and advance preparation and packing. Virtually everything is straight off the supermarket shelves, with a little repackaging of premeasured ingredients. And, there is no systematic division of advance preparation steps with `on the trail' work. The Conners' book is clearly written for those who are intent on multi-week treks on the Appalachian Trail, the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, or any other major hiking venue.
Another big difference is that while I believe Cross and Fiske have food writing or food business vocations, the Conners are amateurs in the world of food writing. And, virtually all their recipes are collected from contributions by friends, colleagues, and correspondents.
The last difference of note is that the Conners' book gives no attention whatsoever to backpacking cooking equipment, while Cross and Fiske treat the subject in detail, and give extensive references to other books on the subject, although except for Fletcher's classic, I would not guarantee that many are still in print, but you may be surprised.
So, while the Conners have done an excellent job, they left some things undone, for which I offer Cross and Fiske as an excellent supplement.

Inspiring!.......2007-08-31

I can't wait to go backpacking so I can try out some of the tasty sounding recipes! Very easy to read and packed with great backpacking tips!

Don't buy for dinner recipes unless you have a dehydrator.......2007-07-20

I agree with the person who wrote that you need a dehydrator for this book's recipes. The author commented (rather self-defensively) that a full 2/3 of the recipes do not require one, but that's not true for the dinners.

I'll be honest and say that dinners are why I bought this - snacks and breakfast aren't that hard to make, but dinners, especially for a group, can be challenging. I did a quick count, and 40 of the 59 dinners require a dehydrator. Of the ones that don't, the authors include recipes with ramen, spam, and macaroni and cheese, none of which I need a cookbook for and two of which I bought the book to get away from.

And then there's the "Trail-grown sprouts" dinner which suggests growing sprouts for three days in netting, presumably in your pack, and then eating. This is hardly a full meal. There are also a few dinner recipes with the main ingredient being plants or fish caught while in the backcountry, such as "Sandy's Weed Salad" with "Collect greens along the way in a plastic sack and wash them in streams" and then toss with dressing as the directions. Most experienced hikers know to not plan on a meal being caught or harvested in the wild.

The book is also padded with information about National and Historic Scenic Trails in the United States, which is ok information I guess, but a) is of very little use to most people unless they plan on traveling the entire country, and b) odd to have in a cook book.

I will probably sell this book and look for another that doesn't have so many major meals (e.g. dinners) that require a dehydrator.

Good recipes & information.......2007-06-12

Still haven't tried all the recipes, but there's something for everyone!

Hardy but Heavy.......2007-01-16

Some very good suggestions and recipes, but for an ultralight hiker without a frying pan many items are not adaptable.

Tensioned Fabric Structures: A Practical Introduction

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Tensioned Fabric Structures: A Practical Introduction

Tensioned Fabric Structures: A Practical Introduction

Manufacturer: American Society of Civil Engineers
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This committee report describes the basic design principles, behavior, materials, and construction process of tensioned fabric structures. The book examines the role of each participant in the project from inception through completion. The advantages and disadvantages of various methods for shape determination and analysis are addressed, as are the connections between the various materials and the attachments to the supporting structure, patterning, and erection.

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Tensioned Fabric Structures: A Practical Introduction.......2007-06-15

It is a little bit out of date. Too expensive. Should buy the Tensioned Fabric Roof by Huntington.

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This Book Will Not Disappoint!
Great for at Home, Too!
Lipsmackin' Vegetarian Backpackin'
Great cook book
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Lipsmackin' Vegetarian Backpackin'
Christine Conners , and Tim Conners
Manufacturer: Three Forks
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0762725311

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This collection of more than 150 trail-tested recipes, the meat-free sequel to the best-selling Lipsmackin' Backpackin', features instructions for at-home preparation, packable trailside cooking instructions, nutritional information, serving details, and the weight of the ingredients.

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This Book Will Not Disappoint! .......2007-08-10

My S/O and I took our first serious back-country trip in more than 15 years last week. We relied completely on this book for meal planning and food preparation. We were not disappointed. The recipes are all written in clear language, and are easy to follow. Packable trail instructions are available on-line, which helps with cooking in remote campsites. Of course, we could not try every single recipe -- but here are some of the best ones we tried. We had Olympus Oatmeal for breakfast every day. The Brunswick Stew was excellent, although it took a long time and lots of fuel to rehydrate the dried beans. The Vegan Super Hero Burritos were our favorite. The Whole-Food Granola Bars and Horse Thief GORP (we used unsweetened chocolate chips instead of carob chips) saw us through some long days of paddling and hiking. Our favorite snacks were the Energy Balls. We fought over the last one of those! I would warn others that many of the recipes call for prepackaged foods, such as Zatarain's Red Beans and Rice. People with specific health concerns should check the contents of these items before they use them. Fortunately, Zatarain's makes a low-sodium version of Red Beans and Rice, which we used. Otherwise, this is an excellent book. You can truly trust the recipes. I recommend it highly.

Great for at Home, Too!.......2007-07-24

This is such a good book, not only for vegetarian trail food, but for at-home cooking as well. Simple instructions, common ingredients, quick and easy preparation - not to mention great taste!

Highly recommended!

Lipsmackin' Vegetarian Backpackin'.......2007-03-26

I stumbled upon this book while perusing other vegetarian titles and must say the Connors' title immediately grabbed me. "Lipsmackin' Vegetarian Backpackin'" -- makes you want to read the book and recommend it to someone, just so you can mouth those toothsome words! Obviously, a healthful lifestyle and thoughtful approach to diet have served the authors' intellectual capacities well, everything about the book is smart. The recipes are mostly contributed, apparently by friends the Connors' have made on and around trails, and the recipe titles are sometimes almost as clever as the book's title; more importantly, the recipes look simple and delicious (at this writing I haven't tried them), and their presentation is smartly organized. Nutritional information is included. For its niche audience, be they vegan, lacto-ovo vegetarian, or ready-to-improve omnivore, this book has got to be as good as it gets.

Great cook book.......2007-03-14

This book is full of quick and easy recipes that taste good. My family used recipes from this book on a 9-day road trip and saved a ton of cash by not eating out every day. The easy clean up and little need for cooking equip make this a great camping cook book.

Vegitarian Backpacking Cooking Bible.......2007-02-01

This book is a God send for a Vegitarian Backpacker and especially one into lightweight Backpacking!
The food really taste good and is so simple to make.

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