Found a bookstore here abroad with some very interesting titles being sold at firesale prices. If you guys are interested, I can buy them and send them to you via surface mail from here. I'm only going to be here for a little less than two weeks, so if you want something on the list, be sure to notify me quickly.
Prices should already cover surface shipping to a Metro Manila address. I will double check again, but if ever there needs to be additional payment, it should not exceed P100 in most cases.
These are _new_ copies. Some of the covers may have slight folds or a bit of sticker dirt on them, but they are otherwise in mint condition.
Titles ====== What, Not How - The Business Rules Approach to Application Development C.J. Date P500
Description: C.J. Date talks about building business applications declaratively (using business rules) instead of procedurally. From the blurb: "What ... Date has done is nothing less than to lay out the foundational concepts for the next generation of business logic servers based on predicate logic..."
URL: http://www.pgro.uk7.net/books.htm
Programming Pearls, Second Edition Jon Bentley P700
Descriptions: This is the 2nd edition of the famous Programming Pearls book.
URL: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/
Firewalls and Internet Security - Repelling the Wily Hacker William Cheswick, Steven M. Bellovin P650
Description: This is the well-known Addison Wesley Professional Computing Series book.
URL: http://www.wilyhacker.com/1e/
Cryptography Decrypted H.X. Mel, Doris Baker P850
Description: A thorough and meaty discussion of modern cryptographics methods without but without the math. Perfect for technical managers or those who just want to understand the algorithms being used without having to know exactly how to implement them. I think I will get a lot further reading this than Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography.
URLs: http://www.awprofessional.com/catalog/product.asp?product_id=%7B4E463F81-EE04-4059-BD1B-032B9EE44450%7D http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,4096,0201616475-TOC,00.html http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201616475/102-9823562-5145714?v=glance
Mastering Data Modeling - A User Driven Approach John Carlis, Joseph Maguire P450
Description: Looks like a good, if not great, book for business application and DBMS designers. From the blurb - "A complete guide to becoming a successful data modeler featuring a requirements-driven aproach, this book clearly explains fundamental concepts, introduces a user-oriented data modeling notation, and describes a rigorous step-by-step process for collecting, modeling and documenting the kinds of data that users need."
URL: http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,4096,020170045X,00.html
Ruminations on C++ Andrew Koenig, Barbara Moo P570
Description: I hate C++, but this book looks readable enough that I got my own copy.
URLs: http://www.research.att.com/~ark/bibliography/ruminations.html
There are a lot more interesting books at bargain prices:
Some of the C++ books available: C++ Primer Plus Answers book, Stroustrup's Design and Evolution of C++, Herb Sutter's Exceptional C++, Tom Cargill's C++ Programming Style, Koenig's Accelerated C++, Efficient C++: Performance Programming Techniques
Also a few Java books from the Sun series (iirc, the one dealing with the JVM)... networking books... Peachpit Visual Quickstart Guides (for older software), etc...
Will post the more interesting ones in my next message, also feel free to ask me to look up any titles you may be interested in.
How to order ============
1) Email me your shipping address and the title(s) you are interested in.
2) Make a deposit for the full amount to my Metrobank account (I will email you the total amount and the account details.)
3) Once your deposit is confirmed, I will mail the book to the shipping address. *** Please make sure your shipping address is correct. ***
4) If, for some reason, the order cannot be fulfilled (I wasn't able to buy it in time or they ran out of the book), I will refund the full amount once I get back to Metro Manila (should be end of Feb at the latest) or, if you are also a Metrobank account holder (must provide me with your account #), within 72 hours.
Allow 4-6 weeks shipping time.
PLUGgers, this is the only message I will post on the PLUG list (to avoid spamming the list with ads) so check out:
http://lists.free.net.ph/pipermail/compsci/2004-January/date.html
instead in the next couple of days for the updated list of more books if you are interested.
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