Alice in Action with Java

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Alice in Action with Java, an innovative new text by Joel Adams, provides CS1 users with a meaningful and motivating introduction to object-oriented programming. Using a spiral pedagogy, Adams introduces key object-oriented topics using Alice 2.0, then circles back to the same concepts in Java. Alice was developed to help teach introductory programming techniques in a less syntax-intensive environment, and addresses some of the barriers that currently prevent many users from successfully learning to program. By initially introducing basic concepts in Alice, users will have a positive first programming experience and a foundation on which to build when they revisit those concepts in Java.

Mexico: Some Travels and Some Travelers There (Destinations)

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Mexico: Some Travels and Some Travelers There (Destinations)
Alice Adams
Manufacturer: Touchstone Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0671792776

Trucking: Tractor-Trailer Driver Handbook/Workbook

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Doesn't Provide Answer Key

Trucking: Tractor-Trailer Driver Handbook/Workbook
Alice Adams
Manufacturer: Cengage Delmar Learning
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ASIN: 1418012629

Book Description

A severe shortage of trained tractor-trailer drivers faces the trucking industry and the nation. Trucking: Tractor-Trailer Driver Handbook/Workbook, Third edition and its ancillaries can help solve this problem by providing a great turnkey curriculum for the latest in tractor-trailer driver training, complete with up-to-date compliance and regulation standards. This new edition delivers not only the technical content the driver needs to know, but also teaches the procedures that, with practice, will enable the student to become a skilled driver. This book stresses the importance of developing the skills, traits and behaviors that characterize true professionals. Professional truck drivers must maintain safe standards throughout all facets of a trip, and this book provides the "must have" information new drivers need to stay safe before, during, and after a route. Coverage focuses on attaining and preserving safe standards throughout all aspects of a professional driving career, from securing one's load to hazardous materials handling, with helpful guidelines for maintaining a healthy lifestyle on the road. This edition delivers not only the technical content tractor-trailer drivers need to become skilled professionals, but also the healthful habits and "best practices" that can lead to improved safety and well-being.

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Doesn't Provide Answer Key.......2007-07-30

This is a great resource, however its value is limited because there is no answer key for the workbook. The publisher says that the only way to get the answers is to spend $104.95 on the instructors CD. This really should be stated up front before people buy this book and learn the hard way.

A Survival Guide for Truck Drivers: Tips From the Trenches (Medium/Heavy Duty Truck)

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tittled incorrectly
More BS from a "wanna be"....(who could'nt take it...)

A Survival Guide for Truck Drivers: Tips From the Trenches (Medium/Heavy Duty Truck)
Alice Adams , and Andrew Ryder
Manufacturer: Cengage Delmar Learning
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1401810624

Book Description

An employer's cost to replace a driver ranges from $5,000 to $8,000. Turnover can be prevented and retention increased by developing a driver with the life skills necessary to be successful in their daily working lives. A Survival Guide for Truck Drivers is the only book written for students or experienced drivers that offers, in a straightforward and nonpatronizing style, the practical tips for making life on the road more stress-free and comfortable - both for the driver and his or her family. Until now, drivers usually entered the transportation industry armed with a Commercial Drivers License and perhaps stories and information from friends and family. This new guide not only provides valuable information and invaluable insights into the life of a professional driver, but also offers resources and encouragement for those who keep North America's commerce moving down the highway. Topics range from Money Management and Professional Improvement to Staying Healthy and Dealing With Stress - presenting advice to make the driver's life better and happier. This lifestyle guide has a universal application that will appeal to student drivers, company drivers, owner-operators, and also the drivers' families. A driving school graduate's chance of landing a good job partly depends on his or her possession of life skills. Good retention tools are needed for the experienced but problem driver. A Survival Guide for Truck Drivers is the one solution for successful drivers.

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tittled incorrectly.......2006-06-13

pitiful. this is a short intro to primitive psyc behavior on personal awareness for the road. if it has anything to do with trucking, i missed it.

More BS from a "wanna be"....(who could'nt take it...).......2006-02-17

After reading this book (and surviving 29 years in the trucking industry) I am greatly inclined to agree with Mr. Pendergast's points of view. Too much is wasted on trying to fit in with a lifestyle that needs to change, not "be adjusted" to. Sweatshops on Wheels was the definitive book on the current "race to the bottom" of the trucking industry. Want poor wages (when you add up your TOTAL time put in) and NO life ? No real health benefeits or pension (if your non-union) ? Then by all means come join us in the trucking industry and completely throw your life away. Everyone TALKS about doing something to help the driver, but as usual nothing is ever done. Truck drivers are STILL the ONLY labor group in the United States NOT covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act. And this book still does'nt address that..

Alice in Action: Computing Through Animation

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Alice in Action: Computing Through Animation
Joel Adams
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Alice in Action with Java

ASIN: 1418837717

Book Description

This six-chapter supplementary text uses Alice, a three-dimensional virtual reality authoring system, to make programming easy and fun for the novice programmer. Alice was developed to help teach introductory programming techniques in a less syntax-intensive environment, and addresses some of the barriers that currently prevent many users from successfully learning to program. By introducing core programming topics such as objects, methods, and variables within the context of the Alice environment, users will be motivated to continue their studies in programming.

CDL Test Preparation Guide: Everything You Need to Know, 2nd Edition (Pass the Cdl Exam)

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It would be a great addition to interactive tests CDL COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE MANUAL

CDL Test Preparation Guide: Everything You Need to Know, 2nd Edition (Pass the Cdl Exam)
Alice Adams
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ASIN: 1418038474

Book Description

This up-to-date and easy-to-read Commercial Driver's License (CDL) test preparation guide covers everything you need to know before taking the exam, setting you on a path to success. Aside from presenting the "need to know" material tested on the CDL exam, the 2nd Edition provides tips for new drivers, and added step-by-step illustrations to help make certain that you understand the information you've read. Students of all levels, even those with English as a second language, will feel comfortable with the thorough, easy-to-use information contained within.

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It would be a great addition to interactive tests CDL COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE MANUAL.......2007-05-21

It is a great book that covers many areas of CDL secrets. However, to pass the test you need more. The interactive tests CDL COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE MANUAL offered by AplusB Software Corporation on Amazon, would be a perfect addition to this book. The information presented visually is received and processed by the brain faster than only a written message. People think much faster than they can read, so their minds tend to wander during a reading. The CDL COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE MANUAL, visualised software application helps keep you focused on the information.

CDL: Commercial Driver's License Manual

Trucking Rules and Regulations: Reference Guide to Transportation (A Nafta Guidebook for North American Truckers)

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Helpful Book.

Trucking Rules and Regulations: Reference Guide to Transportation (A Nafta Guidebook for North American Truckers)
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This handbook of transportation industry rules and regulations will arm professional drivers with the knowledge they need to avoid penalties and infractions when driving coast-to-coast and state-to-state. Trucking Rules and Regulations: A Reference Guide to Transportation teaches variations in interstate laws for the education and preparation of drivers for over-the-road duty. It is written in a user-friendly style that provides explanations for many of the issues and terms relative and specific to local, state, and federal traffic policies in each of the 50 states including Hawaii and Alaska. Coverage has been compiled from numerous sources and includes regulations from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Association, making this book an essential reference for carriers and interstate truckers alike.

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Helpful Book........2007-08-23

This book gives a lot of information that you need to operate a trucking business. Gives detailed instructions for DOT compliance. Good book.

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A LOVE STORY
Not exciting...but made to savor slowly
Almost Perfect
Good writing, not her best work
An indepth look at a woman questioning love with Adonis

Almost Perfect
Alice Adams
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0671020692

Book Description

At the time Stella Blake meets Richard Fallon, she is nearly broke. Her semi-famous father, who has always neglected her, is dying. Her job at a San Francisco newspaper is only tentative. Richard, on the other hand, is wildly successful as a commercial artist, even if both his marriages to bosomy blondes have failed. Of course, he immediately notes that Stella is not his type, being small, dark, and exotic-looking. For her part, Stella thinks Richard is far too sure of himself, and vain. Naturally they fall in love. Theirs is an almost perfect relationship -- except for the violent fights followed by passionate reconciliations. And there is Stella's suddenly ascending career...and a shimmering San Francisco whose dark side is AIDS.

Something is terribly amiss with this golden couple, something one of them is only beginning to suspect. In Almost Perfect, Alice Adams creates her most searing account of modern relationships when illusions crack, secrets seep out, and women face the consequences of falling madly in love.

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A LOVE STORY.......2006-03-19

"Richard arrives, bearing wine and sometimes bourbon, often flowers, and after an endless languishing kiss at the door, they settle in the living room for several drinks. For talking, for kissing."

I just had to read this book, having just completed Superior Women by this author. I found this book rather entertaining with a multitude of characters of the art a literary world.
The couple in the story, Stella Blake and Richard Fallon seems to have the world at their feet for them, and they are compatible in many ways. They both love cooking for each other, dining out at exotic restaurants, and they truly seem to love each other very much. But do they really? For Richard Fallon is a dificult man, sometimes hard to please and poor Stella finds herself sometimes trying too hard. That's the mystery of it all and the reason this book is called Almost Perfect, so you must read on and see what happens when the party decorations come down and life challenges are thrown their way.
Almost Perfect held my interest and attention, and I highly recommend it.
Reviewed by Heather Marshall Negahdar (SUGAR-CANE 18/03/06)

Not exciting...but made to savor slowly.......2003-09-18

I found this book very easy to read. Indeed after picking up the book for the first time I put it down at the 6th chapter. I think that I enjoyed Superior Women more, although this book was also good in its way. It is far more personal with only one main character. And doesnt really draw out on more themes other than male-female bonds and rich-poor bonds. It is a study in to the needs-wants and what makes them up especially in love. I enjoyed this and would recommend this to anyone who likes character portrait books rather than a plot driven novel. I think I will remember this book for a long time.

Almost Perfect.......2003-06-14

Story of a dysfunctional romance, compelling at times, but eventually tiresome.

Good writing, not her best work.......2000-01-07

I read Almost Perfect right after I read Adams' Superior Women. Almost Perfect is not as good, but still display's Adams' talents: character studies, touching upon the protagonists' motives, describing the ambiance and politics to romance and keeping it all readable and engaging. I walked away from this book still not really knowing the characters and I know that Adams does better at getting inside her characters' heads.

Read it anyway. Then read Superior Women.

An indepth look at a woman questioning love with Adonis.......1998-08-07

The beauty of this book is the author's inside the mind of the woman who knows what she's thinking and why, but continues to continue. The ambiguity of loving the wrong man in the right way at the right time. Positing her own development as a personality and a published author against the neediness of the beautiful man who loves me; therefore, I must be beautiful and lovable even if my famous, important father did not think so. Reveals the male character as well as the female character by balancing the power plays of his success vs her success and his neediness and her neediness. The triumph of the strong woman while her friends still search for the male completeness is an ironic ending. You just can not have success and love? The descriptions of place and how they fit the yuppiness of the Bay Area add to the ambience. The characters recreate their environments and themselves. I loved the angst...

Pass The CDL Exam: Everything You Need to Know (Spanish Edition)

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Combination Vehicles
Good for Spanish Translation of English Truck Terms
Great book, includes info needed for CDL exam, and industry.

Pass The CDL Exam: Everything You Need to Know (Spanish Edition)
Alice Adams
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Pass the CDL Exam is a book written for a specific audience of adult learners. With a straight-forward style, along with study helps and encouragement throughout, this new book brings CDL training into the 21st century with email addresses and Web sites to assist the learner each step of the way. Pass the CDL is a positive, upbeat approach to preparing for the CDL, without the frills, without the smoke-and-mirror learning devices featured in other publications. Pass the CDL provides just what each driver candidate needs to know…to pass the CDL. Extensive learning aids, vocabulary listings, a huge glossary and sample quizzes are available in each book and for each chapter. And, for supplemental reading, the “Dispatch Board” at the end of each chapter provides insights into today's transportation industry and life on the road as a professional driver.

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Combination Vehicles.......2006-04-08

This book combines Combination Vehicles with Doubles and Triples. They are seperate test. The book does not go into the Trailer Hand Valve (trolley valve, johnson bar); Tractor Protection Valve; Trailer Air Supply Control, which are all required reading for the Combination Vehicle test. Beware if you are taking the CDL in the state of Texas the book does not cover Special Requirements for Texas Commercial Motor Vehicles. That is 16 pages of missing information that you need to know.

Good for Spanish Translation of English Truck Terms.......2006-03-16

I bought this book for my spanish CDL students whose english is limited. I felt it was a good companion to the english CDL study guide. It was helpful for translation of truck part terms that you cannot find in an english/spanish dictionary. I also bought the spanish video that goes with the book and found that useful and informational as well. I would recommend the book and video as a supplement to the english CDL study guide and videos when studying for the CDL permit tests. The only downfall is that if the instructor does not speak english and spanish this may be a problem as the instructor needs to understand both languages to correctly translate the book.

Great book, includes info needed for CDL exam, and industry........2003-03-18

I purchased this book b/c I am looking to get into the trucking industry. After I received this book, I was pleased. This book is well-layed out and describes all aspects of the trucking industry and CDL requirements. Each chapter is followed by a series of questions and the authors give tips throughout the book for passing CDL exams. Includes all endorsements, and the book was published in 2001, so you know it is not out-dated. Overall, I am satisfied with the contents and hope to get into the industry.

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A REAL TREAT!!! I LOVED IT!!!
So-so
Ambitious, but flawed novel about the lives of five women.
A beautiful book, an accurate rendering.
INTRIGUING TALE OF FIVE WOMEN TOLD BY GIFTED AUTHOR

Superior Women
Alice Adams
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Eager to escape her carhop mother and the rank and file of her California town, Megan Greene heads for Radcliffe -- in part to pursue an older man (twenty-one, Harvard medical school, Cape Cod summers) who represents her dream of the upper-middle-class, conservative East Coast. What Megan finds are four other girls -- Janet, Lavinia, Peg, and Cathy -- who seem to have little in common save for their freshman status. Neither they nor Megan could know that their destinies are about to inextricably intertwine.

The year is 1943, and these superior women, as often enemies as friends, will share a place in each other's lives that no one else can -- not husbands, not lovers. Across four decades, as time and events sweep away their expectations, five women discover their sexuality, reveal their secrets, struggle with independence -- sometimes surrendering, sometimes making stunning choices -- in Alice Adams' richly drawn, uncompromising novel about women's intimate, interior, and often unsuspected lives.

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A REAL TREAT!!! I LOVED IT!!! .......2006-03-15

"Getting of the train, on a Friday night that is also New Year's Eve, Lavinia is very beautiful. With the perfectly fitted, perfectly simple black coat (that cost more than a month salary of the Negro fitting woman), she wears perfect black suede shoes, with high thin heels, and a filmy pale pink scarf at her throat. As she steps down carefully from the high train, off and into Gordon's arms, she sees her own beauty reflected in Gordon's eyes. In his kiss."

This is my kind of book; the type of book I always long for. The women characters are so absolutely different, so terribly complicated and oh so very much like the people we know, or where some of the very personalities shown, remind us of ourselves, of the ways we were, or are.
Superior Women takes us into the lives of five women who were college students at Radcliffe together at one time, and then Ms. Adams carries us into their adult lives, so we at least read about twenty years into the lives of these females.
Meet Lavinia from Virginia, so vain, the perfect blonde who has everything going for her, or has she? She has wealth and good looks, but can these things give her what she truly wants out of life? Then we have Janet, not a favourite of Lavinia's, who does not considers Jews. But Janet is a good student and dedicated to her beau an army lad. Now let's look at Cathy who is the mysterious one, who everyone tries to figure out and no one seems to be able to do this with any luck. A very interesting person but??? Then we meet Peg who has a problem with her weight but and tends to remain on the heavy side, and sticks to Lavinia and Megan. It is in the latter part of her life that her life changes beyond belief; just wait for this surprise, and then lastly, the one woman I consider the main character of the entire novel Megan Greene. Megan hails from California but has yearned to come to the East after meeting a young man from Cape Cod whom she suspects is wealthy, and she thinks she might have a chance with. Megan pulls out all the stops to get to Radcliff in Massachusetts, eager to leave her dowdy existence and her humble parentsin California.
You will be mesmerized and entertained as the lives of these five women interlace in this amazing book. If you like Rona Jaffe's books you will certainly enjoy this one. Highly recommended!!!
A treat!!!
Reviewed by Heather Marshall Negahdar (SUGAR-CANE 15/03/06)

So-so.......2005-09-27

A group of intelligent young women meets at Radcliffe College in 1943 and immediately bonds, because of the proximity of their dormitory rooms. As a group, they are almost a cliche, one rich and beautiful, one overweight and very plain, another, dark, intense and Jewish, yet another, dark, intense and Catholic and the last of them, not quite beautiful, not quite stylish but with an as yet unkindled, but very strong, sexual drive. The story continues through their study years, marriages, love affairs and business successes. Of course, there is lots of drama and breast beating as the story progresses through several wars, straying husbands and recalcitrant children, but it's all a bit too much like a soapie for me to really enjoy...an ok read !

Ambitious, but flawed novel about the lives of five women........2004-05-12

Alice Adams produced a good book in "Superior Women". It is good enough to recommend reading, but it has some flaws that prevent it from being great. Adams's books tend to be feminist, which this book definately is. I do like Megan and Peg, who both become rather feminizied by the end. Adams also likes to portray sex. Lots and lots of sex. This book doesn't disappoint, that way. I did find Megan a bit annoyingly neurotic. Peg has the best transformation: from overweight, unsure girl to confident lesbian activist. The "bitchy" one, Lavinia, reaps the whirlwind, which is satisying. And Cathy wrestles with her faith, and is deal a bad hand. The ending was fitting, and I did like how some of the friends got together to help others. Unfortunely, these women may be "superior", but this novel is sadly mundane.

A beautiful book, an accurate rendering........2001-07-03

Alice Adams draws the reader into the lives of five college women and then leads us through to their old age. The writing in this book is masterful. It shows us the interior lives of women -- the need for love, for lust, for career success, for acceptance. I could see parts of myself in each of the girls. Adams renders the relationship of women so accurately. Most books try to make female relationships too slap happy or too backstabbing. This is a gentle balance of both. The girls don't really like each other, but they do. It's real. And, the girls are real, too. I once had a literature professor who said that women can be categorized into three cubbyholes -- the black widow, the sea cow, and the ladybug. The black widow was sexiness, the sea cow was motherliness, and the ladybug was girlishness. Well, Alice Adams defies those stereotypes and creates five women who are not just surface pretty pictures of what women should be, but complete women who are as capable of sin as they are of kindness -- superior women.

INTRIGUING TALE OF FIVE WOMEN TOLD BY GIFTED AUTHOR.......2000-05-25

Being allowed into the lives of intersting people is the goal of every reader. Alice Adams, a truly gifted writer, hands the reader this gift on a silver platter by the presentation of such compelling and interesting characters.

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