Pediatric Examination and Board Review (Mcgraw-Hill Specialty Board Review Series)

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A comprehensive review highlighted by full-color photos

Covering the entire scope of pediatric medicine, this comprehensive, case-based review is destined to become the field's leading exam prep guide.

300 complete clinical cases and 1000 questions reflect the board exam format
Includes complete answers and explanations for all cases

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VERY GOOD.......2007-02-25

WELL ORGANIZED,AND CLARIFIES DIFFICULT TOPICS.VERY GOOD TOOL TO GRASP EVERY DAY PRACTICE IN PEDIATRY

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Exhaustive
Don't waste money unless you are a dummy
Building Your Own Home For Dummies
Should be titled "Financing" your own home for Dummies.
Good information source for the beginner

Building Your Own Home For Dummies
Kevin Daum , Janice Brewster , and Peter Economy
Manufacturer: For Dummies
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Build Your Dream Home for Less

ASIN: 0764557092

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Keep construction on track with helpful checklists

Turn your dream of a custom home into reality!

Thinking about building your own home? This easy-to-follow guide shows you how to plan and build a beautiful home on any budget. From acquiring land to finding the best architect to overseeing the construction, you get lots of savvy tips on managing your new investment wisely — and staying sane during the process!

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How to build a dream house - without breaking the bank Packed with useful information, tips, and checklists, this easy-to-follow guide shows people step by step how to build a unique, beautiful home on any budget. It covers all the must-know issues, from acquiring land, finding the best architect, and cutting design costs to putting together financing, hiring (or not hiring) a general contractor, and overseeing construction. Kevin Daum (Alameda, CA) has 20 years of experience in the real estate and mortgage industry and is founder and CEO of Stratford Financial Services. Janice Brewster (Arlington, VA), former editor of Log Home Living magazine, has been involved in the custom home industry for more than 10 years. Peter Economy (La Jolla, CA) is a veteran For Dummies author and the Associate Editor of the Drucker Foundation's Leader to Leader magazine.

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Exhaustive.......2007-10-07

This book has exhaustive information about building a home employing a general constructor and sub-contractors. It's more useful as a reference. I say that because of the way it's organized. It's not a sequential read, and has no logical beginning or ending. I bought this book hoping to understand each step that goes into building a home. However, this book is NOT about that. It's more about effectively dealing with things that come along in each step.

Don't waste money unless you are a dummy.......2007-01-23

I had never purchased a book from this series because I knew I wasn't a dummy and figured them to have little useful advice. But I decided to take a chance on this one since I know nothing about building a home. Big mistake.

This book is a waste of money for anyone who is seriously thinking about hiring a contractor to build a home. There is no useful advice, but rather obvious suggestions such as "you will pay a higher rate on a loan if you don't have a high down payment" etc. - information that any 12-year old could find by searching the web. Save you money and instead purchase one of the many other books written on this subject by architects, contractors, etc.. Trust me, a book like this which is written for a "dummy" isn't one that will be useful to anyone with half a brain.

It was so bad I'm doing something I've never done before - I'm returning it.

Building Your Own Home For Dummies.......2006-08-11

I have 3 degrees, but I did not know the 1st step about buying raw land, building a home, and getting a construction loan. I read this book from start to finish and could not imagine going through the process without using the guidelines in this book. I learned what questions to ask the broker about the loan and what questions to ask my contractor about the construction. It is so important to go into this kind of huge project knowing what check lists to take care of and have some kind of timeline. Nice to know what is around each new corner! I think this is a must have book if you're planning on building a home!

Should be titled "Financing" your own home for Dummies. .......2006-03-15

If you intend to be an Owner-Builder don't waste your time here. This is mainly about financing a project with the rest about using a General Contractor. You'd be better off saving your money to buy coffee for one of your crews than buying this book.

Good information source for the beginner.......2006-01-23

This book covered lots of detail and is bound to get the fire started in most.

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A Funny Account That Fails as a Strong Novel
Felt like I was reading a draft
One of the few books about the real Midwest
Quality read... I enjoyed this one and couldn't put it down.
Characters Flat rather than Colorful.

The Quality of Life Report
meghan daum
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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ASIN: 014200443X
Release Date: 2004-05-25

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Meghan Daum's first book, the essay collection My Misspent Youth, was written with effortless humor and excoriating insight. This was a writer who made fun of everything, most especially herself. Humor and self-knowledge infuse her debut novel, The Quality of Life Report. Fans of Daum's essays probably know that her unworkable, expensive New York lifestyle led her to move to the Midwest. Same goes for the fictional Lucinda Trout, a New York TV producer who, while on assignment, falls in love with the town of Prairie City. Daum, with typical acuity, is wise to her character's real motivations for moving to the country: she wants to be a better person, and believes the Midwest will do the trick: "This was, after all, serious country. The real heartland, the plains. It was Willa Cather-novel serious. It was Sissy Spacek-movie serious and documentary-film-about-poor-conditions-in-meat-packing-plants-serious." Lucinda soon discovers that she's not immune to the less-than-perfect aspects of Prairie City living, and acquires a boyfriend of questionable hygiene and judgement; a rambling, isolated farmhouse that looks like the set to a Sam Shepard movie but is impossible to heat; and a tanning-bed tan and a set of false nails that are the region's signature style. The plot of the novel unwinds rather messily, and Daum doesn't always seem in control of her material. But she never lets Lucinda off the hook, and that's the key to the book's success. Daum has given her heroine a voice that is prickly, a little ruthless, and lovably vulnerable all at once. We don't always respect Lucinda, but we're pretty sure we'd be friends with her. --Claire Dederer

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Meghan Daum's unforgettable debut novel brings her sharp wit and courageous social commentary to the story of Lucinda Trout, a New York television reporter in search of greener pastures. Moving to the slower- paced, friendly, and vastly more affordable Midwestern town of Prairie City, Lucinda zealously creates a series of televised reports for her New York audience about her newfound quality of life. But when Lucinda falls for eccentric local Mason Clay, her naïveté about the real world leads her down an unexpected path, where she encounters, among other things, a drafty old farmhouse filled with children, an ever-growing menagerie of farm animals, and the harshest winter the region has seen in twenty years. In other words, simplicity just isn't as simple as it is cracked up to be, and "quality of life," Lucinda learns, is much more complicated than she ever imagined.

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A Funny Account That Fails as a Strong Novel.......2007-05-29

I enjoyed this book although, as others have pointed out, not half as much as her essay collection. And therein lies the problem: Daum is a gifted, at times brilliant writer with some beautiful insights and compelling, often heartbreaking, at times hilarious observations. I could read one essay from her after the other about virtually any topic and never get bored. However, is she a fiction writet? Not really.

This book is about 80% Telling and 20% Showing. Worse, the Telling sections, which dominate, are told pretty much the way Daum writes essays, making it almost impossible to get under the skin of Lucinda, her problems, NY, the Midwest, or any of the other characters. And the Showing parts, which are so few, since creating and sustaining a fiction scene is clearly not her forte, never delve as deep as they should. I always got the feeling that as soon as Daum--thankfully, I thought--opened up a scene and allowed us to "see" things, she abruptly stopped. Here, the intellect as opposed to the gut or the heart wins out and it's exhausting.

For example, why are we, as readers, supposed to believe Lucinda really falls in love with Mason? We first "spot" him enigmatically in the park, seen from Lucinda's very movie-biased eyes and the, wham, they're together! Not conneciton, no emotion, no magic--nothing to justify the relationship except rationalizations from, of course, Lucinda's own mouth. Therefore, when we find out he's turned to meth and their relationship sours, why should we care?

Basically, either Daum should stick to non fiction essays or she should hone her fiction skills. As it stands, this book would NEVER have been published had she not become well-known first. Just goes to show what cowards most people in the publishing world are!

Felt like I was reading a draft.......2006-12-10

I wanted to, but I didn't love this book. Here's why:

1. Watery. I felt like I was reading a draft. The relationship between our protagonist Lucinda Trout (a 29 yo New Yorker who moves to the Midwest ostensibly to create slice-of-life reports for the a.m. TV show for which she works) and her boyfriend Mason seems ... translucent. Lucinda states things that come out of the left field to the reader. For example, when Lucinda claims to have fallen in love, it didn't make sense. As a reader, I hadn't yet met her boyfriend. I mean, I'd heard Lucinda talk about him. But I hadn't seen them interact. To make their relationship (and to an extent, her experience in the Midwest) real, Daum needed to

a. Condense, hone, refine. Enough with the repeat-y peat peat.
b. Show, not tell. More dialogue. More dramatic intrigue. More action, less narration.

2. NYCentric. Perhaps, as a woman who was born & raised in the Midwest, my radar was atwitter on this topic, but Daum assumed that her readers were all Manhattanites. Which, as a Midwesterner, I found condescending. Again, this problem could have been solved by a more elegant use of dialogue, e.g., phone calls to her girlfriends back home. As it is, it seems like Daum wants to tell her readers all the great things she now knows about the Midwest (people use tanning bed and get fake nails and drive trucks, etc.). Well good for you honey. Tell me something I don't know!

That said, I didn't hate this book, either. There were moments of funny, a realistic portrayal of the Midwest (meth addicts are people too, and yes, tanning beds can make you feel just as good as "personal coaches"), and Daum's Trout doesn't take her self to seriously.

One of the few books about the real Midwest.......2006-08-14

As a peripatic Midwesterner who has lived in many places, I'm a little touchy about fictional representations of the heartland. Most urban authors paint Midwestern folks either in peeling whitewash (portraying them as illiterate, inbred yokels) or else in circus colors (creating humorous, folksy characters full of unintentional homespun wit to amuse and delight patronizing readers).

Meghan Daum chooses a far more difficult and rewarding path--she writes supporting characters full of contradictions. The 90,000 "government employees, farmers, academics, insurance salesmen, and assembly-line workers" (etc.) are variously shallow, insightful, generous, and oblivious, just like real Midwesterners--or people from any other region, for that matter. Definitely pick up this book if you want to read about real people in a real (or realistic, at any rate) Midwestern small city.

Quality read... I enjoyed this one and couldn't put it down........2006-07-26

I found this book on the clearance rack at Barnes and Noble. It was only a couple of bucks. I'm glad I picked it up because I enjoyed reading it. The book is essentially about a television reporter based in New York City who ends up moving out to the midwest (Prairie City). She is looking for that "Quality of Life" that so many people in NY and large urban areas yearn for. Cheap rent, lots of open space, relaxation, etc. I can identify. I presently live in NY. I am originally from the midwest. Because I know both NY and the midwest I think the author did a very good job of describing both. Her characters were interesting and I found myself smiling and sometimes, giggling out loud. It is not a comedic novel exactly, but it is humorous at times. Personally, I yearn for the same things that Lucinda yearned for. I hope to be moving out of NY myself. Maybe then I can enjoy a higher quality of life.

The book was well-written and entertaining. There were some plots twists that came along that I didn't predict beforehand. It's always good when you don't see something coming. It means a writer has done their job! I hope Meghan Daum releases more novels and soon! I like her style. If there is one thing I have to pick at, it would be the fact that Lucinda lives in a rent stabilized apartment in NYC at the beginning of the book. Her rent gets increased to $2,100 and she can no longer afford her apartment. First, I'm a real estate appraiser in NY. Second, an increase like that would never happen with someone making her salary (hence the fact that its rent stabilized!)... but overall, good job.

Characters Flat rather than Colorful........2006-06-03

Young New York television reporter moves to the midwest in search of a better quality of life but seems to make all the wrong choices. Some laugh out loud parts, but what are supposed to be quirky characters from both NY and the Midwest seemed flat and unreal to me - and the worst part, mostly unlikable. I couldn't find any redeeming qualities in Lucinda - and toward the end of the book, after all the crap she has been through, says that ashamedly she admits being uninteresting was the truly unacceptable condition. Shallow, shall we say?

Impressionist Camera: Pictorial Photography in Europe, 1888-1918

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Captures the creations and sentiments of the era.

Impressionist Camera: Pictorial Photography in Europe, 1888-1918

Manufacturer: Merrell
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From its earliest days, photography could not escape the pictorial traditions that had gone before it. This book, the first comprehensive study of Pictorialism in Europe, analyses the remarkable diversity of approaches taken by photographers across the continent whose practice was infused with contemporary debate about photography's relationship to art. Written by an international team of art and photography historians, Impressionist Camera examines the ways in which practitioners realized their pictorial vision, from the re-creation of Academic painting in photography to the use of soft focus to lend images an impressionistic quality. Also explored are the cross-currents with photography in America - where Pictorialism went on to flourish - including the seminal work of Alfred Stieglitz.

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Captures the creations and sentiments of the era........2006-09-24

Pictorial photography flourished at the turn of the 20th century and crossed genres, styles and international borders as it produced celebrated artists and fostered artistic change. Here to celebrate these changes is Impressionist Camera: Pictorial Photography in Europe, 188-1918, a narrowed focus on European community photography approaches. Selections consider how photographers created unique works and visions, how they influenced on another, and how they contributed to the fusion and symbolism of pictorial photography as a genre. This book represents the first comprehensive country-by-country examination on the topic and draws together contributions by an international team of art and photography scholars and historians. Sepia and black and white photos throughout capture the creations and sentiments of the era.

Diane C. Donovan
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A great book on a company's hidden assets

Intangible Assets and Value Creation
Juergen H. Daum
Manufacturer: Wiley
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ASIN: 0470845120

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With the use of practical in-depth case studies and interviews with leading experts in the field, this book analyses the key elements in value creation in the new age. It provides practical guidance to organisations that will allow them to migrate successfully into an economy that demands new business models.

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A great book on a company's hidden assets.......2003-10-10

An impressive business book on the "exotic" topic of intangible assets, the importance of which has so dramatically increased during the last decade, especially so for knowledge-based companies. What makes the book special is that it strikes a fine balance between practical insights, case studies and applications on the one hand, and state-of-the-art theoretical concepts on the other. Because of this, it has a strong appeal to both practitioners and theorists.

The book has an ambitious and multi-faceted focus: It not only addresses the scope and functions of intangible assets, but it also discusses related topics such as accounting for intangibles; the implications of intangibles for internal and external reporting; and the foundations of a new management system. The book is carefully investigated, well-written and nicely structured. Several interviews with leading specialists such as Leif Edvinsson (a pioneer in the area of Intellectual Capital management), Baruch Lev (an expert on intangibles accounting) and David Norton (co-creator of the Balanced Scorecard concept) provide also a helpful bridge between the practice and theory of managing intangible assets.

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Meghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers of her generation, widely recognized for the fresh, provocative approach with which she unearths hidden fault lines in the American landscape. From her well-remembered New Yorker essays about the financial demands of big-city ambition and the ethereal, strangely old-fashioned allure of cyber relationships to her dazzlingly hilarious riff in Harper's about musical passions that give way to middle-brow paraphernalia, Daum delves into the center of things while closely examining the detritus that spills out along the way. She speaks to questions at the root of the contemporary experience, from the search for authenticity and interpersonal connection in a society defined by consumerism and media; to the disenchantment of working in a "glamour profession"; to the catastrophic effects of living among New York City's terminal hipsters. With precision and well-balanced irony, Daum implicates herself as readily as she does the targets that fascinate and horrify her. In a review of The KGB Bar Reader, in which Daphne Merkin singled out Daum's essay about the inability to mourn a friend's death, Merkin wrote: "It's brutally quick, the way this happens, this falling in love with a writer's style. Daum's story hooked me by the second line. Hmm, I thought, this is a writer worth suspending my routines for."

Customer Reviews:

Tortured Pleasure.......2006-11-01

Having purchased this book based upon an Amazon rec, I spent the first chapter cursing Meghan Daum and Jeff Bezos. It was EXCRUTIATINGLY true of everything I know about young adult life in New York City, and I hated having it served up to me in such precise, laboriously correct fashion. However, I persisted, and was ultimately rewarded by much of what I read...finally succumbing altogether when I reached the "Music is My Bag" segment; as one bearing the viciously peculiar scars of an adolescent oboe experience, I laughed OUT LOUD during a morning rush-hour train ride, and forgave everything remotely unsatisfying that had come before. Anyone who has ever had the burden of Eccentricity as Excellence imposed by a parent, for whatever reason, will both cringe and rejoice at this INCREDIBLY detailed accounting of what it costs to be too smart and unique for the flute (or its functional equivalent--name the field). Congratulations, Meghan: You finally put down that heinous 'horn' and its attendant reed making, as did I, and never looked back. I fantasize that someday I'll have the privilege of recounting "The Horror of Interlochen (Michigan) All-State Orchestra 1979" to you over coffee...I thank you for giving voice to every over-achiever who's ever questioned the mission we were unwittingly assigned, and found the courage to defy the twin tyrannies of conformity AND its evil twin, The Subculture of Bagdom.

Excellent writing.......2003-10-23

So often you read a highly recommended book, even an award-winning book, and it stinks. This is why I generally read 19th century fiction....but along comes Meghan Daum and what a refreshing discovery. She is an excellent writer - clear, direct, authoritative, and very funny. It's strange in a way, to be reading about my own generation from one of its members. Her recollections of the 80's made me laugh out loud. And the essay about carpet was brilliant - I felt as though it had been written about me. She puts into words so many ideas, thoughts, and feeling that I have had but could never properly articulate. It seems that the Generation X'ers are finally getting a chance on the stage. I hope she writes about the insufferable arrogance of the baby-boomers.

The Truth will set you free.......2003-07-11

I found MY MISSPENT YOUTH almost too painful to read. Thankfully I stuck with her wonderfully written essays and can say I'm a better man for it. I too suffered at the hands of a New York City and almost went bankrupt trying to self-actualize on my creative ambitions. The big break never happened, something that never factored into the game plan. New York City, that place drives me nuts!

I just can't help but talk about my plight because what Meghan perfectly verbalized in MY MISSPENT YOUTH captures my New York experience and my twenties in ways I could never articulate. And at the root of her essays Meghan subtly answers the meaning of life. For real! That is, the meaning of life for those who failed.

oh stinky.......2002-09-17

Don't waste your time with this dreck. go get Dan Zevin's "The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up."

My relationship with Meghan.......2002-07-19

I fell in love with Meghan while reading her book but our love was short-lived, as I'm not compatible with Meghan for reasons you can guess while turning these pages. It is the sort of love that doesn't leave you because it cannot ultimately be satisfying, but rather the kind of compromised love one would possess after the slow realization that the person one is planning marriage with is simply a little too much this or not quite enough that. I don't find Meghan arrogant or annoying, and I understand her repugnance for carpeting. I may not agree with all of her social and material preferences but I endlessly admire the conviction of her idiosyncratic nature. Meghan, if you're reading this: please do write again.

Anomalies Of Binocular Vision: Diagnosis And Management

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Anomalies Of Binocular Vision: Diagnosis And Management
Robert P. Rutstein , and Kent M. Daum
Manufacturer: Mosby
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ASIN: 0801669162

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This comprehensive text explains the diagnostic and optometric management procedures involved in the care of patients with binocular vision anomalies. Provides thorough descriptions of the many binocular vision anomalies, describes the necessary testing procedures to correctly diagnose each disorder, and suggests the most appropriate management.

A Dictionary of Russian Verbs: Bases of Inflection, Aspects, Regimen, Stressing, Meanings

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Excellent. A "must have" for serious students of Russian.

A Dictionary of Russian Verbs: Bases of Inflection, Aspects, Regimen, Stressing, Meanings
E. Daum , and W. Schenk
Manufacturer: Hippocrene Books
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Excellent. A "must have" for serious students of Russian........1999-08-20

With some 20,000 verb entries, this dictionary is an excellent source of reference. It contains the conjugation of the verb as well as any other forms it might have including long and short form verbal adjectives ("participles"). In addition it has the syntactic regimen of each verb as well as its stress. A section is also included which discusses the "syntax and semantics of the verb in present-day Russian". It is very informative. My compliments and thanks to the authors E. Daum and W. Schenk for their extensive research which was based upon various up-to-date sources such as the great 17 volume dictionary of modern literary Russian.

Modeling Business Objects with XML Schema (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Software Engineering and Programming)

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Useful for folks who need to move from ERM to XML based modeling
No essence, poorly presented
Just another useless modeling idea
The most practical book to create multi-namespace models
Best book for XML in a corporate environment

Modeling Business Objects with XML Schema (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Software Engineering and Programming)
Berthold Daum
Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann
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ASIN: 1558608168

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XML Schema is the new language standard from the W3C and the new foundation for defining data in Web-based systems. There is a wealth of information available about Schemas but very little understanding of how to use this highly formal specification for creating documents. Grasping the power of Schemas means going back to the basics of documents themselves, and the semantic rules, or grammars, that define them. Written for schema designers, system architects, programmers, and document authors, Modeling Business Objects with XML Schema guides you through understanding Schemas from the basic concepts, type systems, type derivation, inheritance, namespace handling, through advanced concepts in schema design.

*Reviews basic XML syntax and the Schema recommendation in detail.
*Builds a knowledge base model step by step (about jazz music) that is used throughout the book.
*Discusses Schema design in large environments, best practice design patterns, and Schema's relation to object-oriented concepts.

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Useful for folks who need to move from ERM to XML based modeling.......2007-07-02

This is a useful book for analysts and programmers who are coming from an Entity Relationship Modeling background - and who need to understand the theory and mechanics of developing XML Schemas for applications.

No essence, poorly presented.......2006-12-04

You can expand relation model whatever you like, as long as you have implementation support. Does not see much value of his model, and the book does a poor job presenting the idea.

Just another useless modeling idea.......2004-10-23

The book is poorly organized. If one does not know the context of the topic ahead, it would be very hard to follow. The book did not even mention where to download, how to use its companion modeling tool. The reader has to figure that out.

There are a lot of theoretical sections that I don't see necessity to be empasized or even presented.

The author conveyed the idea of AOM (Asset Oriented Modeling), but I am still clueless about the value of this AOM modeling. I am not convinced to adopt this modeling methodology to solve a real world problem. To me, it is just another proprietary practice of modeling, with no or very little pratical value. The material is very difficult to be tied to technical implementation, thus it is only good on paper.

I don't understand why there are so many good comments about this book. But after going through the book briefly, I realized it is a waste of time and money.

The most practical book to create multi-namespace models.......2003-12-22

I just finished reading "Modeling business Objects with XML Schema" for the second time. It is the most useful book on XML modeling that I have read. After defining the ERM and UML modeling techniques, the author introduces AOM (Asset-Oriented Modeling) in a simple and thorough way. The book emphasizes on the best practices for modeling heterogeneous and multi-namespace systems. It emphasizes on the compatibility of the XML Schema with RDF and SQL. The reuse and composition of XML Schemata constitute the main focus of the book. The example given in the book is processed through several iterations and improvements, with complete and clear explanations for improving the XML code. The KLEEN Modeler tool (http://www.aomodeling.org/tools.htm) is used to create the conceptual models throughout the book. Mapping the XML Schema code into SQL, and normalization of the XSD code is clearly defined. The XML metalanguage itself, is concisely and efficiently covered in the book. I highly recommend this book; you learn a lot from this book.

Best book for XML in a corporate environment.......2003-09-14

This is the best book out there on XML. If you want an intro to XML get Mark Johnson's article "XML for the Absolute Beginner." If you want to go in depth, this is the place to go.

Unlike the hundreds of other books that just describe what XML and XML Schema are, Daum's book gets deeply into why it is the way it is, by exploring how it fits in with conceptual modeling and how you would fit it into a complex environment.

He introduces a beguiling simple example domain (jazz musicians) which he revisits over and over again throughout the book. Through this simple example he works out subtle differences in different approaches to modeling, to schema construction, to constaint definition and modeling and finally how would you map this back to Object or Relational technology.

He introduces Asset Oriented Modeling, which is a form of conceptual modeling more attuned to XML schema model creation. His treatement of polymorphism in Schema, and techniques for evolving schema are as good as I've seen anywhere.

Excellent treatment of constraints, both conceptually as well as practical approaches to realizing the constraints in XPath or XSLT. These were worth the price of the book by themselves.

It's probably too late, but if you get no other book on XML and XML Schemas, this is the one to get.

The American Petroleum Industry: The Age of Illumination, 1859-1899; The Age of Energy, 1899-1959 (Northwestern University Studies in Business History)
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The American Petroleum Industry: The Age of Illumination, 1859-1899; The Age of Energy, 1899-1959 (Northwestern University Studies in Business History)
Harold Francis Williamson , Arnold R. Daum , Gilbert C. Klose , and Ralph L. Andreano
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press Reprint
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0313227888

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