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Holy Blood, Holy Grailby Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln Available from Amazon $7.99 On 7-22-2006 
See Item's Page Product Review Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln, and Richard Leigh, authors of The Messianic Legacy, spent over 10 years on their own kind of quest for the Holy Grail, into the secretive history of early France. What they found, researched with the tenacity and attention to detail that befits any great quest, is a tangled and intricate story of politics and faith that reads like a mystery novel. It is the story of the Knights Templar, and a behind-the-scenes society called the Prieure de Sion, and its involvement in reinstating descendants of the Merovingian bloodline into political power. Why? The authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail assert that their explorations into early history ultimately reveal that Jesus may not have died on the cross, but lived to marry and father children whose bloodline continues today. The authors' point here is not to compromise or to demean Jesus, but to offer another, more complete perspective of Jesus as God's incarnation in man. The power of this secret, which has been carefully guarded for hundreds of years, has sparked much controversy. For all the sensationalism and hoopla surrounding Holy Blood, Holy Grail and the alternate history that it outlines, the authors are careful to keep their perspective and sense of skepticism alive in its pages, explaining carefully and clearly how they came to draw such combustible conclusions. --Jodie Buller Book Description Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete? • Is it possible Christ did not die on the cross? • Is it possible Jesus was married, a father, and that his bloodline still exists? • Is it possible that parchments found in the South of France a century ago reveal one of the best-kept secrets of Christendom? • Is it possible that these parchments contain the very heart of the mystery of the Holy Grail? According to the authors of this extraordinarily provocative, meticulously researched book, not only are these things possible — they are probably true! so revolutionary, so original, so convincing, that the most faithful Christians will be moved; here is the book that has sparked worldwide controversey. "Enough to seriously challenge many traditional Christian beliefs, if not alter them." — Los Angeles Times Book Review "Like Chariots of the Gods?the plot has all the elements of an international thriller." — Newsweek |
Provence Made Easy: The Best Sights and Walks of Provence and the French Riviera (Open Road Travel Guides)by Andy Herbach Available from Amazon $9.95 On 7-22-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description Like Open Road's series of foreign language menu-readers, our new compact lightweight travel guides are for those travelers who already know where they're staying and don't want to lug around a huge book during the day. With a sprinkling of restaurant selections, our Europe Made Easy series focuses on taking readers to the best, as well as the most different and unusual, sights and walking tours. Tuck this guide into your pocket and head out for a great day of sightseeing: you'll have over 100 sights at your fingertips, from the Papal Palace in Avignon to the mysterious spring in Fontaine-de-Vacluse, from the Roman amphitheater in Nimes to the strange stone huts near Gordes. Features insider tips on hip cafes, sidebars on great places to eat, interesting shops, fun outdoor markets, suggestions on where best to sample Provence's world-famous wines, and beautiful walks in Provence's loveliest towns, including a wine-themed walk in Chateauneuf-du-Pape; a stroll through medieval Avignon; a baroque walking tour of Aix; and a Roman-era walk through Arles. Bonus excursion info on the French Riviera. Attractive design features a second color on the inside. About The Author Andy Herbach, an attorney in Milwaukee, WI, is the author of Open Road's Paris Made Easy (October 2004) and co-author of Eating & Drinking in Paris, Eating & Drinking in Italy, Eating & Drinking in Spain, and Eating & Drinking in Latin America. |
The AIX Survival Guideby A. Siegert List Price: $55.99 Available from Amazon $45.38 On 7-22-2006 
See Item's Page Book Info Filled with numerous practical details and helpful hints, pointers to potential problems and pitfalls. Provides valuable guidance to AIX administrators and power users. Covers many topics, from account configuration to disk and printer management, from tuning to networking. Paper. Back Cover Copy
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Accelerating AIX: Performance Tuning for Programmers and Systems Administratorsby Rudy Chukran List Price: $54.99 Available from Amazon $48.98 On 7-22-2006 
See Item's Page Book Info Provides key information for both system administrators & application programmers, with full coverage of monitoring, diagnostic, & development tools, remedies for performance slowdowns, techniques for relieving LAN bottlenecks, & proven methodologies for isolating, analyzing, & solving performance problems. Paper. DLC: AIX (Computer file). Publisher Description As an AIX system administrator or programmer, you know that performance tuning is critical to ensuring that your operating system can meet the demands placed on today's computer systems and LAN operations. However, the methods of tuning have often been difficult to divine without expert assistance. In Accelerating AIX, Rudy Chukran shares his AIX know-how, experience and insight gained from spending over ten years as one of IBM's tuning experts. In this comprehensive book you will find information for both system administrators and application programmers with comprehensive coverage of monitoring, diagnostic, and development tools; remedies for performance slowdowns; techniques for relieving LAN bottlenecks; and proven methodologies for isolating, analyzing, and solving performance problems. A complete, one-stop reference, the book addresses topics such as: * AIX system design, emphasizing those areas where tuning is possible and most effective * System administration tools, including vmstat, iostat, sar, ps, AIX Monitor, Rmss, PDT, and more * CPU, memory, and disk-bound remedies, such as Schedtune, Time Slice, tuning memory overcommitment algorithm, and disk caching effects * LAN monitoring tools and remedies, including transmit and receive queues, send and receive buffers, MTU, Name Resolution, and Client and Server NFS Daemons. * programming performance tools, such as XL compiler flags for numerous languages, dynamically and statically linked objects, various profilers, program visualizer, and techniques for implementing shared libraries * AIX system call remedies emphasizing interprocess communications and shared memory, for example, Pthread_mutex lock and unlock, Power PC Weak Memory Ordering, and Matrix Access Optimization Drawing on his years of practical experience with AIX, the author then shows you "what to do when" in a special chapter that discusses how to recognize and evaluate problems and plan and implement appropriate solutions using many of the tools and techniques presented.
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IBM e(logo)server Certification Study Guide: pSeries AIX System Administrationby IBM Redbooks List Price: $69.00 Available from Amazon $43.47 On 7-22-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description This redbook is designed as a study guide for professionals wishing to prepare for the certification exam to achieve: IBM Certified Specialist - pSeries AIX System Administration. The system administration certification validates a broad scope of AIX administration skills and the ability to perform general AIX software system maintenance. This redbook helps AIX administrators seeking a comprehensive and task-oriented guide for developing the knowledge and skills required for the certification. It is designed to provide a combination of theory and practical experience needed for a general understanding of the subject matter. It also provides sample questions that will help in the evaluation of personal progress and provide familiarity with the types of questions that will be encountered in the exam. This redbook does not replace practical experience you should have, but is an effective tool that, when combined with education activities and experience, should prove to be a very useful preparation guide for the exam. Due to the practical nature of the certification content, this publication can also be used as a desk-side reference. So, whether you are planning to take the pSeries AIX System Administration certification exam, or if you just want to validate your AIX system administration skills, this redbook is for you.
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Francois-Marius Granet: Watercolors from the Musee Granet at Aix-En-Provence by Francois-Marius Granet and Edgar Munhall Available from Amazon $16.25 On 7-22-2006
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AIX Logical Volume Manager, from A to Z: Introduction and Concepts (IBM Redbooks)by IBM Redbooks Available from Amazon $60.00 On 7-22-2006
See Item's Page Book Description "LVM: Logical Volume Manager. What is its role in the AIX operating System? How does it perform this function? Its role is to control disk resources by mapping data between a more simple and flexible logical view of storage space and the actual physical disks. How it performs this function is a topic vast enough to fill two books. This first volume, AIX Logical Volume Manager, from A to Z: Introduction and Concepts describes the basic components and defines physical volumes, including volume groups and logical volumes. This book also describes the advanced functions of the Logical Volume Manager, such as the mirroring to increase the availability of the data, the striping to spread data across several disks and increase the performance in accessing large amounts of sequential data, or the online backup function included in AIX Version 4.3.2. This book is aimed at every IT specialist who wants to know more about the core element of AIX, which is the Logical Volume Manager."
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AIX Logical Volume Manager from A to Z: Troubleshooting and Commands (IBM Redbooks)by IBM Redbooks Available from Amazon $60.00 On 7-22-2006
See Item's Page Book Description "LVM: Logical Volume Manager. What is its role in the AIX operating System? How does it perform this function? Its role is to control disk resources by mapping data between a more simple and flexible logical view of storage space and the actual physical disks. How it performs this function is a topic vast enough to fill two books. The first volume, AIX Logical Volume Manager from A to Z: Introduction and Concepts, SG24-5432, describes the basic components and defines physical volumes, volume groups, and logical volumes. This second volume focuses on the practical aspects of the Logical Volume Manager and describes, in detail, the commands, including some undocumented commands and options. The last section of this volume is on troubleshooting and provides hints on how to handle certain problems, how to investigate them, and what commands are needed to run and solve these problems. Most importantly, this volume discusses what commands not to run in order to avoid ruining your entire system. This book is aimed at every IT specialist who wants to know more about the core element of AIX, which is the Logical Volume Manager. "
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