http://www.netvouz.com/narky/tag/amazon.com?feed=rss narky's bookmarks tagged "amazon.com" on Netvouz http://www.amazon.com/Robbing-Bees-Biography-Honey-Seduced/dp/0743250214/sr=1-2/qid=1168327240/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-9352662-8720707?ie=UTF8&s=books Holley Bishop loves bees. No, more than that: she idolizes them. She marvels at their native abilities and the momentous role these misunderstood and unjustly feared creatures have played in the development of human history. And with her book, Robbing the Bees, she succeeds in making the reader love bees, too. Take this nifty bit of information, one of countless fascinating factoids offered by Bishop in her celebration of all things bee-related: "Because of bees' starring role in the drama of pollination, we humans are indebted to them, directly and indirectly, for a third of our food supply. Visiting bees are required for the commercial production of more than a hundred of our most important crops including alfalfa, garlic, apples, broccoli, Brussels sprou Lifestyle > Gifts narky Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:27:32 GMT http://www.amazon.com/Music-Primes-Searching-Greatest-Mathematics/dp/0060935588/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-7250087-6485431?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1178413008&sr=1-1 The quest to bring advanced math to the masses continues with this engaging but quixotic treatise. The mystery in question is the Riemann Hypothesis, named for the hypochondriac German mathematician Bernard Reimann (1826-66), which ties together imaginary numbers, sine waves and prime numbers in a way that the world's greatest mathematicians have spent 144 years trying to prove. Oxford mathematician and BBC commentator du Sautoy does his best to explain the problem, but stumbles over the fact that the Riemann Hypothesis and its corollaries are just too hard for non-tenured readers to understand. He falls back on the staples of math popularizations by shifting the discussion to easier math concepts. Educational > Mathematics > Textbooks/Books narky Sun, 06 May 2007 01:00:13 GMT http://www.amazon.com/Implementing-CIFS-Common-Internet-System/dp/013047116X/sr=8-1/qid=1164006445/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5383166-5882422?ie=UTF8&s=books For years, developers and administrators have struggled to understand CIFS, Microsoft's poorly documented standard for Internet file sharing. Finally, there is an authoritative, cross-platform guide to CIFS capabilities and behavior. Implementing CIFS not only delivers the priceless knowledge of a Samba Team member dedicated to investigating the inner workings of CIFS, it also identifies and describes crucial specifications and supporting documents. * Provides essential information for designing and debugging large Windows® and/or Samba networks * Offers clear, in-depth introductions to Server Message Block (SMB), NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NBT), browser services, and authentication Computing > Linux > Books narky Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:12:28 GMT http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Bees-Monk-Kidd/dp/0142001740/sr=1-1/qid=1168327240/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-9352662-8720707?ie=UTF8&s=books In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest. Lifestyle > Gifts narky Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:25:17 GMT http://www.amazon.com/Tori-Amos-Piece/dp/076791676X After over a decade of making big-selling albums, but also being pigeonholed as an eccentric New Age princess, singer/songwriter Amos redefines her image in this appealing mishmash (coauthored with critic and Experience Music Project curator Powers) of her essays, quotes from her conversations with Powers and oral history observations from her band mates, husband, managers and friends. Readers may still find a few sprinklings of fairy dust in the proceedings, but Amos comes across as thoughtful, likable and witty, fully aware of her role as a female musician in the mainstream pop world yet determined to keep her work true to her spiritual and feminist perspectives. The book's structure lets Amos and Powers retain elements of a traditional biography--they ca Lifestyle > Music > Books narky Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:06:08 GMT