User and Task Analysis for Interface Design by Joann T. Hackos --   Task analysis is an important aspect of user interface design, insuring that the end product is usable and practical. Written by task analysis experts, this book is the first book that provides full-length coverage of task analysis. It covers in detail every step of the task analysis process, and discusses the methodologies behind it. 

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UNIX Backup and Recovery by W. Curtis Preston 

Unix Backup & Recovery includes a lot of general "recommended practices" advice and lots of scary stories about lost files (and more than a few about heroic system administrators who saved the day, or at least the data). But it gets down to brass tacks too, documenting lots of backup and recovery tools that can make the administrator's job much easier when they're used properly (including cpio, tar, and AMANDA). Coverage of specific systems' backup and recovery issues (including those of Solaris, HP-UX, Oracle, Sybase, and Informix) are invaluable, as is the coverage of techniques for extracting information from ancient, obsolete backup media. The point: read this book before you have a disaster, so you can do everything required to head one off and be ready to deal with problems when they happen. --David Wall

Topics covered: Strategies for protecting the contents and availability of Unix systems, particularly those running Solaris, Linux, Compaq True-64 Unix, HP-UX, IRIX, and AIX. Coverage also includes backup and recovery software (free and commercial), and the mechanics of protecting and fixing large database management systems. There's also a lot of advice on defensive administration, backup hardware, and obsolete media.  (Amazon's review)

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E-Business : Roadmap for Success (Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series) by Ravi Kalakota, Marcia Robinson, Don Tapscott   Rothman reviews: "To the uninitiated, e-business refers solely to the process of buying and selling goods over the Net. In our increasingly interactive age, however, it actually means much more. e-Business: Roadmap for Success, by Ravi Kalakota and Marcia Robinson, defines the term as "the complex fusion of business processes, enterprise applications and organizational structure necessary to create a high-performance business model." Kalakota and Robinson--specialists in the field who serve as founder-CEO and president, respectively, of a company called e-Business Strategies--show how to employ its tenets to compete more effectively in today's brave new world. Aiming at managers who recognize the need to plan and implement just such a course of action, the authors (with help from some pioneers currently practicing these techniques) offer solid advice for designing interrelated strategies focused on customer relationships, resource planning, order management, and supply chains, and on evaluating investments needed to make them a reality. Describing efforts undertaken by successful e-businesses such as Charles Schwab, which adopted a system that provides sales reps with real-time access to information on customers and appropriate new products, the two chart the course that trailblazing companies are following and savvy business people would be wise to emulate." A reader says "This book really asks and answers fundamental questions, how do you systematically invest in building an integrated e-business  infrastructure. What pieces do you invest in and how do you sequence your decisions when each framework (CRM, supply-chain etc.) take 3 years to implement. The key point that I got out of this book is that e-business is a journey that requires tremendous commitment especially in a large firm. Managers who are after e-business better understand what it takes to build rock-solid applications."     Executive's Guide to E-Business : From Tactics to Strategy by Martin Deise An authoritative guide to becoming an industry leader through e-commerce Between 1993 and 1997, Internet users have soared from three million to more than 100 million. Driven by the Internet, consumers are redefining buying patterns and businesses are analyzing new strategies to leverage the power of the next generation of information technologies. Executive's Guide to E-Commerce shows businesses how to develop new relationships with customers, distributors, resellers/retailers, suppliers, logistics providers, and business partners through electronic commerce. Here, readers will discover how e-commerce can impact a corporation and improve business performance, and learn what can inhibit the growth of e-commerce. This book presents tailored e-commerce strategies for such industries as consumer products, entertainment, media, communications, financial services, the public sector, petroleum, and utilities. PricewaterhouseCoopers is a world-leading professional services organization. With 155,000 people in 150 countries, PricewaterhouseCoopers helps its clients solve complex business problems and measurably enhance their ability to build value, manage risk, and improve performance.   E-Business and ERP: Transforming the Enterprise by Grant Norris also look at: e-Process Edge: Creating Customer Value and Business Wealth in the Internet Era by Peter Keen, Mark McDonald Dynamic E-Business Implementation Management : How to Effectively Manage E-Business Implementation (E-Business Solutions) by Bennet P. Lientz, Kathryn P. Rea eCommerce: Formulation of Strategy by Robert T. Plant Executive's Guide to E-Business : From Tactics to Strategy by Martin Deise(Editor), et alE-business (R)evolution, The by Daniel Amor Net Success : 24 Leaders in Web Commerce Show You How to Put the Web to Work for Your Business by Christina Ford Haylock, et al The E-Commerce Book: Building the E-Empire by Steffano Korper, et al Digital Darwinism : 7 Breakthrough Business Strategies for Surviving in the Cutthroat Web Economy by Evan I. Schwartz and The Business of E-Commerce : From Corporate Strategy to Technology (Breakthroughs in Application Development) by Paul Richard May E-Profit : High-Payoff Strategies for Capturing the E-Commerce Edge by Peter S. Cohan Digital Transformation: The Essentials of e-Business Leadership by Keyur Patel, et al Value Nets : Breaking the Supply Chain to Unlock Hidden Profits by David Bovet, et al

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The Britannica (EB) defines Literary Criticism as " a discipline concerned with a range of enquiries about literature that have tended to fall into three broad categories: philosophical, descriptive, and evaluative. Criticism asks what literature is, what it does, and what it is worth."   The discipline can be traced as far back as Plato and Aristotle 's Poetics.  Recently, says EB, " An early product of this in the English-speaking world was I.A. Richards' Principles of Literary Criticism (1924), which became influential as the basis of "Practical Criticism From this developed the "New Criticism " of the 1940s and '50s, which was associated with such American critics as John Crowe Ransom and Cleanth Brooks .  The premise of the New Critics, that a work of literature should be studied as a separate and self-contained entity, set them in opposition both to biographical criticism and to those schools of criticism--Marxist, psychoanalytical, historical, and the like--that had their roots in the 19th century and that set out to examine literature from perspectives external to the text." The Britannica  also mentions that "The late 20th century saw a radical reappraisal of traditional modes of literary criticism. Building on the work of the Russian Formalist critics of the 1920s and the examinations of linguistic structure carried out by the Swiss philologist Ferdinand de Saussure , literary theorists began to question the overriding importance of the concept of "the author" as the source of the text's meaning. Structuralist and poststructuralist critics, such as Roland Barthes  and Jacques Derrida of France, instead directed attention toward the ways in which meaning is created by the determining structures of language and culture."  Later, we'll focus on Terry Eagleton and his works in the area of Literary Theory.    The discussion will come in version three  In the meanwhile,  consider the resources presented below... you can't go wrong.  If you are hardy, we'll even get to  Edward Sapir "All grammars leak".  (How about that?)

... definitely get  the classic interpretive masterpiece - LITERARY THEORY by University of  Oxford  Thomas Warton Professor Terry Eagleton.  The book covers the major movements of literary studies of our (just completed) century. Reviewer: Roger T. Whitson writes "Eagleton gives us, what I believe to be, one of the most simple introductions to the topic of Literary Theory currently availiable"   if you dare tread beyond the summaries  ..   The Illusions of Postmodernism by Terry Eagleton Ideology : An Introduction by Terry Eagleton   and the  Idea of Culture

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