Author: David Brickner
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Keywords: linux, seconds, windows, test, driving
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 2005-04-20
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 059600754X
ISBN-13: 9780596007546

For years, computer users have put up with the bugs, security holes, and viruses on Windows because they had no choice. Until recently, there has never been a good alternative to Windows. But now, Windows users can switch to Linux, the reliable, secure, and spyware free operating system. Linux is easy to use, runs on almost any PC, and enables you to perform all the tasks you can do with Windows. Getting to know Linux has never been easier, because now there’s a way to test-drive Linux without changing, installing, or configuring a thing on your computer. It’s called Test Drivi

Author: David Brickner
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Keywords: pocket, reference, guide, linux, desktop
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-09-23
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 059610104X
ISBN-13: 9780596101046

While Mac OS X garners all the praise from pundits, and Windows XP attracts all the viruses, Linux is quietly being installed on millions of desktops every year. For programmers and system administrators, business users, and educators, desktop Linux is a breath of fresh air and a needed alternative to other operating systems. The Linux Desktop Pocket Guide is your introduction to using Linux on five of the most popular distributions: Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, SUSE, and Ubuntu. Despite what you may have heard, using Linux is not all that hard. Firefox and Konqueror can handle all your web brow

Authors:C. Dale Brickner, John E. Traister, Dale Brickner,
Publisher: Craftsman Book Co
Keywords: guide, preparation, exam, electrician
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $49.50
ISBN-10: 1572182032
ISBN-13: 9781572182035

If you’re getting ready to take the electrician’s exam and drowning in pages of tables, rules, and exceptions, here’s the book you need.You’ll find almost a thousand multiple-choice questions to study, based on actual tests administered over the last few years in states and counties across the U.S. The questions are written just as they are on the exams, except the answer, and an explanation is provided below each question. You can test your knowledge as you go through the book.Each chapter of the book begins with a basic explanation of the topic, followed by dozens of

Author: Bryan W. Brickner
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: hereafter
Number of Pages: 129
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $18.30
ISBN-10: 1411678745
ISBN-13: 9781411678743

The story hereafter is a trippy love novel - as in love your self. Just remember, no one has to die in a love story to make it a tragedy: it is the thoughts that die. They perish in time or the lack thereof. - Bryan W. Brickner is the author of The Promise Keepers: Politics and Promises (1999) and received his Ph.D. in political science from Purdue University in 1997. This is his first novel. He is currently a writer and activist in Chicago.

Authors:John E. Traister, Dale C. Brickner,
Publisher: Craftsman Book Company
Keywords: based, nec, guide, preparation, exam, electrician
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2004-12
List price: $39.50
ISBN-10: 1572181524
ISBN-13: 9781572181526

Need help in passing the apprentice, journeyman, or master electrician’s exam? This is a book of questions and answers based on actual electrician’s exams over the last few years. Almost a thousand multiple-choice questions -- exactly the type you’ll find on the exam -- cover every area of electrical installation: electrical drawings, services and systems, transformers, capacitors, distribution equipment, branch circuits, feeders, calculations, measuring and testing, and more. It gives you the correct answer, an explanation, and where to find it in the latest NEC. Also tells

Authors:David Jessop, David Jones, Peter Baily, David Farmer,
Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc.
Keywords: management, principles, purchasing
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2005-01-13
List price: $89.50
ISBN-10: 0273646893
ISBN-13: 9780273646891

Providing a proactive managerial view of the purchasing function, this text meets the needs of the modern manager as a practical guide and satisfies the requirements of students of purchasing management, whether functional, specialist or general. Suitable for undergraduate Business or Engineering students taking a module in Purchasing and Supplies Management, MBA and CIPS students.

Authors:Joyce E. Penner, David Lister, David J. Griggs, David
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: report, special, atmosphere, global, aviation
Number of Pages: 373
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0521664047
ISBN-13: 9780521664042

This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report is the most comprehensive assessment available on the effects of aviation on the global atmosphere. The report considers all the gases and particles emitted by aircraft that modify the chemical properties of the atmosphere, leading to changes in radiative properties and climate change, and modification of the ozone layer, leading to changes in ultraviolet radiation reaching the Earth. This volume provides accurate, unbiased, policy-relevant information and is designed to serve the aviation industry and the expert and policymaking