Blue Books

Christmas in Italy (Christmas Around the World) (Christmas Around the World from World...

Book Description
Each 80-page Christmas Around the World book includes full narratives explaining the customs of the region covered, photography and illustrations, special sections of native songs, recipes, and fun-to-do crafts. The books are produced by the editors of World Book Encyclopedia.

Card Catalog Description
Describes the celebration of Christmas in Italy and includes stories, songs, recipes, and craft projects.

Christmas in Spain (Christmas Around the World) (Christmas Around the World from World...

Book Description
Each 80-page Christmas Around the World book includes full narratives explaining the customs of the region covered, photography and illustrations, special sections of native songs, recipes, and fun-to-do crafts.

Card Catalog Description
Describes in text and illustrations how Christmas is celebrated in Spain. Also includes stories, songs, recipes, and craft projects.

Christmas Postcards: Victorian Designs

Product Description
The period between 1880 and the First World War was the great era of the picture postcard. Inexpensive postal rates and high-quality, high-speed printing methods encouraged the growth of this craze, which swept the world and brought countless thousands of postcards into existence. Christmas was naturally a popular postcard subject, and here we reproduce thirty very different and interesting antique postcards from our large collection.

Clymer Powersport Vehicle Blue Book Spring 2006 (Clymer Powersport Vehicle Blue Book)

Clymer Powersport Vehicle Blue Book: March 1, 2005 - August 31, 2005 (Clymer Powersport...

Clymer Powersport Vehicle Blue Book: September 1, 2004- February 28, 2005 (Clymer...

Collected Books: The Guide to Values 2002 Edition (Collected Books)

From Library Journal
This book has the strengths and weaknesses of its predecessor, Van Allen Bradley's Handbook of Values (Putnam, 1982). It provides a convenient, one-volume source for prices of many collectible books, mainly first editions published since 1800, and includes brief notes to identify first printings. The continued popularity of Bradley's book and the appearance of this one suggest that booksellers and collectors find the list useful, and libraries (especially those lacking fuller resources like American Book Prices Current ) may find it useful for ready reference. Yet it should be used with caution: it omits many collectible books, prices vary widely, and the absence of a dustjacket can reduce value of a book listed by hundreds of dollars. The front matter notes some of the caveats, but the casual user may still be misled.
- Joseph Ro senblum, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Book Description
Here is the largest and most comprehensive single-volume guide to current market values of collectible books in America. Used by most book dealers and serious collectors in the country, this guide explains how to identify first editions of books and covers a wide range of subjects, including Americana, early printed books, literature, mysteries, science fiction, children's books, natural history, photography, and travel. Prices range from $200 for Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, to $750,000 for the original London 1865 edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and beyond.

COM DCOM Blue Book: The Essential Learning Guide for Component-Oriented Application...

Product Review
Nathan Wallace's COM/DCOM Blue Book provides an excellent guide to the Component Object Model (COM) development using today's Microsoft tools, from the Active Template Library (ATL) and Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) in Visual C++ to Visual Basic and Visual J++. Alternating chapters in this book feature either tools-based programming exercises (using ATL, MFC, VB, and Visual J++) or explanations of the technical details underlying COM's many attributes and functions.

After showing off basic COM projects, the author presents a short history of COM and its elemental pieces such as interfaces, reference counting, containment, and aggregation. The book also spotlights coding with object linking and embedding (OLE) Automation, including an early example of a simple COM server for encrypting string data, a sample that's just right for demonstrating essential COM principles.

COM/DCOM then looks at ActiveX controls; shows off properties (and property pages), event handling, and persistence; and discusses distributed COM (DCOM) with examples that show how to run COM servers from remote clients.

The best sections of the book cover the COM Variant data-type, Strings (or BSTRs), and the SAFEARRAY data type in all four programming environments. The book does a fine job of explaining these essential COM topics. Later sections glance at Internet programming (with ASP and dynamic HTML [DHTML] support in each tool). More in-depth coverage of Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) comes at the end of the book (though the final chapter repeats whole paragraphs from an earlier section verbatim--obviously an editorial glitch).

Overall, this book is a perfect choice for developers who want to take their COM skills to the next level. It demystifies many of the trickier aspects of COM using concise examples from each of Microsoft's major COM development tools. --Richard Dragan --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Book Description
To demonstrate COM's language independence, the book develops projects in four different development environments from the industry's leading vendor--ATL, MFC, VB, and VJ++. Integrates learning about all four aspects of COM (Component Object Model): COM, Automation, ActiveX, and DCOM. Emphasizes component creation and use techniques independent of any single programming language. Focuses on technologies created atop COM: MTS (Microsoft Transaction Server), ASP (Active Server Pages), and OLE DB. Demonstrates COM techniques most appropriate for real-world development in the corporate world. No "ivory tower" demos! --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Comic Book Artist Collection, Volume One

Stan Lee, founder of Marvel Comics
"also be of great interest to the general reading public because it's so intelligent and interestingly done."

Julie Schwartz, DC Comics
"Comic Book Artist is the best magazine about comic books I've ever read."

Complete Book of Mixed Drinks : More Tha

Complete Book Of The Guitar

Product Description
For the first time in a single volume, The Complete Book of the Guitar brings together the history of the instrument, the music, the manufacturers and the greatest performers in the story of today's most popular and compelling musical instrument.

Complete Patio and Deck Book: Creative Ideas and Fabulous Fix Ups (Lowe's Home...

Book Description
When its time to deck out your house, youre smart to check in first with the patio pundits at the corner of Sunset and Lowes. Thats where youll find stylish outdoor solutions that fit every size, style, and budget. Lowes Complete Patio & Deck Book takes you through the entire processdesigning your ideal space; selecting materials; construction and installation; adding decorative or functional elements; plus maintenance and repair. An extensive photo gallery and comprehensive planning guide put you on the path toward expanding the outdoor living spaces of your home.

Key Features:

- More than 300 step-by-step photos

- 30 projects to build, from a simple gravel patio and a basic deck to benches and shade structures

- Inspiring ideas and helpful tips