2014, ISBN: 9780070449022
Hardcover
Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., 2.5, O'Reilly Media. Very Good. 7 x 0.9 x 9.19 inches. Paperback. 2007. 362 pages. <br>Wa… More...
Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., 2.5, O'Reilly Media. Very Good. 7 x 0.9 x 9.19 inches. Paperback. 2007. 362 pages. <br>Want to tap the power behind search rankings, prod uct recommendations, social bookmarking, and online matchmaking? This fascinating book demonstrates how you can build Web 2.0 appl ications to mine the enormous amount of data created by people on the Internet. With the sophisticated algorithms in this book, yo u can write smart programs to access interesting datasets from ot her web sites, collect data from users of your own applications, and analyze and understand the data once you've found it. Program ming Collective Intelligence takes you into the world of machine learning and statistics, and explains how to draw conclusions abo ut user experience, marketing, personal tastes, and human behavio r in general--all from information that you and others collect ev ery day. Each algorithm is described clearly and concisely with c ode that can immediately be used on your web site, blog, Wiki, or specialized application. This book explains: Collaborative filt ering techniques that enable online retailers to recommend produc ts or media Methods of clustering to detect groups of similar i tems in a large dataset Search engine features--crawlers, index ers, query engines, and the PageRank algorithm Optimization alg orithms that search millions of possible solutions to a problem a nd choose the best one Bayesian filtering, used in spam filters for classifying documents based on word types and other features Using decision trees not only to make predictions, but to mode l the way decisions are made Predicting numerical values rather than classifications to build price models Support vector mach ines to match people in online dating sites Non-negative matrix factorization to find the independent features in adataset Evo lving intelligence for problem solving--how a computer develops i ts skill by improving its own code the more it plays a game Each chapter includes exercises for extending the algorithms to make t hem more powerful. Go beyond simple database-backed applications and put the wealth of Internet data to work for you. Bravo! I c annot think of a better way for a developer to first learn these algorithms and methods, nor can I think of a better way for me (a n old AI dog) to reinvigorate my knowledge of the details. -- Da n Russell, Google Toby's book does a great job of breaking down the complex subject matter of machine-learning algorithms into p ractical, easy-to-understand examples that can be directly applie d to analysis of social interaction across the Web today. If I ha d this book two years ago, it would have saved precious time goin g down some fruitless paths. -- Tim Wolters, CTO, Collective Int ellect Editorial Reviews About the Author Toby Segaran is a sof tware developer and manager at Genstruct, a computational systems biology company. He has written free web applications for his ow n use and put them online for others to try, including: tasktoy, a task management system; Lazybase, an online application that le ts users design, create and share databases of anything they like ; and Rosetta Blog, an online tool for practicing Spanish and Fre nch by reading blogs along with their translations and lists of c ommon words. Each of these has several hundred regular users. ., O'Reilly Media, 2007, 3, Knopf. Very Good. 6.68 x 1.38 x 9.58 inches. Hardcover. 2014. First edition. 416 pages. <br>Pub Date: 2014-05-13 Pages: 416 Language: English Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing ... The author of the best- selling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying stand-alon e novel set inside Oslo & rsquo; s maze of especially venal . hig h-level corruption Sonny Lofthus is a strangely charismatic and c omplacent young man Sonny & rsquo;.... s been in prison for a doz en years. nearly half his life The inmates who seek out his uncan ny abilities to soothe leave his cell feeling absolved They don & rsquo; t know or care that Sonny has a serious heroin habit & md ash; or where or how he gets his uninterrupted supply of the drug Or that he & rsquo;. s serving time for other peoples & rsquo;. crimes Sonny took the first steps toward addiction when his fathe r took his own life rather than face exposure as a corrupt cop No w Sonny is the seemingly malleable center of a whole infr... Edi torial Reviews From Booklist *Starred Review* On the surface, Ne sbø's gripping new stand-alone might seem like another installmen t of the Harry Hole series but featuring a new cast of characters . A serial killer is at work in Oslo, and a maverick cop with his share of personal demons is on his trail. But beneath that surfa ce, there is a complex psychological thriller churning its way in to the reader's nightmares. Sonny Lofthus is in prison for crimes he didn't commit but for which he has agreed to take the fall--i n exchange for an unending supply of heroin. The drugs are Sonny' s way of dealing with the knowledge that his father, an apparent suicide, was a dirty cop. As the novel begins, however, Sonny has new information about his father's death and has engineered a da ring escape from prison. His revenge-fueled plan is to kill those responsible for the crimes he was convicted of by re-creating th e murders with the real killers now the victims. The more we lear n about Sonny, the more we root for him to evade capture, either by the police or by the crime lord who wants him dead. Juggling p oint of view between Sonny, Simon Kefas (the cop chasing him), an d the various corrupt officials who risk exposure the longer Sonn y is free, Nesbø thwarts our every attempt to draw conclusions ab out both what happened in the past and who is the least guilty am ong the principals. There is an element of the classic film noir Breathless at work here but with more characters of varying shade s of gray whose fates hinge on numerous moving parts. A terrific thriller but also a tragic, very moving story of intertwined char acters swerving desperately to avoid the dead ends in their paths . HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: With 24 million copies of his books sold , Nesbø is now second only to Stieg Larsson among Scandinavian cr ime writers. His fame is sure to grow still more as Martin Scorse se and Leonardo DiCaprio are about to begin filming The Snowman. --Bill Ott Review A deftly plotted novel that probes the deepest mysteries: sin, redemption, love, evil, the human condition. . . . One of Nesb's best, deepest and richest novels. --Kirkus Revie ws (starred review) Excellent . . . Nesb takes the reader on a c hilling ride with many unexpected twists. --Publishers Weekly (st arred review) The standard bearer for the phenomenon that is Sca ndinavian crime fiction. . . . Fast-paced and imaginatively viole nt, this latest example of Nesbo's Nordic noir hurtles like an ex press train towards a last act of almost operatic extravagance th at leaves dead bodies and carefully nurtured reputations litterin g the stage. Great stuff altogether. --Independent (Ireland) [Ne sb is] one of the current leading lights in Scandinavian crime fi ction . . . Ridiculously talented . . . with his clear gift for h airpin twists and turns. . . . The thriller is so tightly plotted that it will keep readers steadfastly glued to their seat. . . . What Nesb has crafted is not a whodunit in the traditional sense , as the writer is interested in the far more fascinating questio n of what can drive a person to evil? --Daily Style (Australia) Scandinavian Reviews Nesb's new book makes all the hype before p ublication seem like false modesty, and is quite simply a fantast ic piece of crime literature. . . . First and foremost, this is a clever, enthralling and driven story that is impossible to put d own. --Dagens Nringsliv (Norway) Yet another powerful demonstrat ion of Nesb's talent for creating a story that plays on all nerve strands and with so much intensity that it embodies both the Bib le and Batman at once. It is really well done. It is still early in the year, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone should dub Th e Son as the crime novel of the year. --Ekstra Bladet (Denmark) The pace proves to be on top in the new book, in a positive sense . This remains Norwegian crime literature in a class by itself. A plot that stretches and spreads out like great mathematical form ulas, with many unfamiliar characters in the equation, but withou t being arcane or excessive in his fantastic interpretations. . . . Jo Nesb prevails once again. --Dagsavisen (Norway) The Son is a modern take on the story about Christ, that tackles the corrup tion in Oslo. . . . Jo Nesb's writing is incredible as usual. --J yllands-Posten (Denmark) Tremendously well written by Nesb. . . . There is something unstoppably vital about Jo Nesb as a designe r of crime stories in the baroque style. His pen is on fire and a lthough it may be noted that it goes too fast sometimes linguisti cally, the stories he creates has so many staggering twists and t urns that it is almost physically impossible not to get hooked. - -Aftenposten (Norway) Crime novels are rarely so skillfully told and at the same time so much more than pure entertainment. But N esb is a master. --Berlingske (Denmark) No Norwegian crime write r can create such complex crime plots without losing in detail li ke Nesb can. You might say that Nesb is both high and low in his texts, and that is one of the main reasons why his novels rise ab ove most others in this genre. --Dagbladet (Norway) It is a form idable, diabolically clever and devilishly good book that is well put together, down to the smallest detail. --Nordjyske Stiftstid ene (Denmark) The story . . . is propelled with great force and an unerring sense of detail. . . . It is simply thrilling to read . --NRK (Norway) Fast-paced and rip-roaring suspenseful. --Polit iken (Denmark) No one at our latitudes knows the game like Nesb does. No one is even close to his craftsmanship in writing crime novels that hold such international standard. --Adresseavisen (No rway) A high level of suspense all the way and limitless brutali ty. The bad guys get what they deserves and Nesb's writing is alm ost more cynical and concrete than usual. There are also a few lo ve stories along the way, that--almost--end happily. --Lolland-Fa lsters Folketidende (Denmark) About the Author JO NESB is a musi cian, songwriter, and economist, as well as a writer. His Harry H ole novels include The Redeemer, The Snowman, The Leopard, and Ph antom, and he is also the author of several stand-alone novels an d the Doctor Proctor series of children's books. He is the recipi ent of numerous awards including the Glass Key for best Nordic cr ime novel. Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserve d. 1 Rover kept his eyes on the white-painted concrete floor in the eleven-square-metre prison cell. He bit down on the slightly too long gold front tooth in his lower jaw. He had reached the ha rdest part of his confession. The only sound in the cell was his nails scratching the madonna tattoo on his forearm. The boy sitti ng cross-legged on the bed opposite him had remained silent ever since Rover had entered. He had merely nodded and smiled his blis sful Buddha smile, his gaze fixed at a point on Rover's forehead. People called the boy Sonny and said that he had killed two peop le as a teenager, that his father had been a corrupt police offic er and that Sonny had healing hands. It was hard to see if the bo y was listening--his green eyes and most of his face were hidden behind his long, matted hair--but that didn't matter. Rover just wanted his sins forgiven and to receive Sonny's distinctive bless ing so that tomorrow he could walk out of Staten Maximum Security Prison with the feeling of being a truly cleansed man. Not that Rover was religious, but it could do no harm when he intended to change, to give going straight a real try. Rover took a deep brea th. I think she was from Belarus. Minsk is in Belarus, isn't it? Rover looked up quickly, but the boy made no reply. Nestor had n icknamed her Minsk, Rover said. He told me to shoot her. The obv ious advantage of confessing to someone whose brain was fried was that no name and incident would stick; it was like talking to yo urself. This might explain why inmates at Staten preferred this g uy to the chaplain or the psychologist. Nestor kept her and eigh t other girls in a cage down in Enerhaugen. East Europeans and As ians. Young. Teenagers. At least I hope they were as old as that. But Minsk was older. Stronger. She escaped. Got as far as Tyen P ark before Nestor's dog caught her. One of those Argentine mastif fs--know what I'm talking about? The boy's eyes never moved, but he raised his hand. Found his beard. He started to comb it slowl y with his fingers. The sleeve of his filthy, oversized shirt sli pped down and revealed scabs and needle marks. Rover went on. Bl oody big albino dogs. Kills anything its owner points at. And qui te a lot he doesn't. Banned in Norway, 'course. A guy out in Rlen gen got some from the Czech Republic, breeds them and registers t hem as white boxers. Me and Nestor went there to buy one when it was a pup. It cost more than fifty grand in cash. The puppy was s o cute you wouldn't ever think it . . . Rover stopped. He knew he was only talking about the dog to put off the inevitable. Anyway . . . Anyway. Rover looked at the tattoo on his other forearm. A cathedral with two spires. One for each sentence he had served, neither of which had anything to do with today's confession. He used to supply guns to a biker gang and modify some of them in hi s workshop. He was good at it. Too good. So good that he couldn't remain below the radar forever and he was caught. And so good th at, while serving his first sentence, Nestor had taken him under his wing. Nestor had made sure he owned him so that from then on only Nestor would get his hands on the best guns, rather than the biker gang or any other rivals. He had paid him more for a few m onths' work than Rover could ever hope to earn in a lifetime in h is workshop fixing motorbikes. But Nestor had demanded a lot in r eturn. Too much. She was lying in the bushes, blood everywhere. She just lay there, dead still, staring up at us. The dog had tak en a chunk out of her face--you could see straight to the teeth. Rover grimaced. Get to the point. Nestor said it was time to teac h them a lesson, show the other girls what would happen to them. And that Minsk was worthless to him now anyway, given the state o f her face . . . Rover swallowed. So he told me to do it. Finish her off. That's how I'd prove my loyalty, you see. I had an old R uger MK II pistol that I'd done some work on. And I was going to do it. I really was. That wasn't the problem . . . Rover felt hi s throat tighten. He had thought about it so often, gone over tho se seconds during that night in Tyen Park, seeing the girl over a nd over again. Nestor and himself taking the leading roles with t he others as silent witnesses. Even the dog had been silent. He h ad thought about it perhaps a hundred times. A thousand? And yet it wasn't until now, when he said the words out loud for the firs t time, that he realised that it hadn't been a dream, that it rea lly had happened. Or rather it was as if his body hadn't accepted it until now. That was why his stomach was churning. Rover breat hed deeply through his nose to quell the nausea. But I couldn't do it. Even though I knew she was gonna die. They had the dog at the ready and I was thinking that me, I'd have preferred a bullet . But it was as if the trigger was locked in position. I just cou ldn't pull it. The young man seemed to be nodding faintly. Eithe r in response to what Rover was telling him or to music only he c ould hear. Nestor said we didn't have all day, we were in a publ ic park after all. So he took out a small, curved knife from a le g holster, stepped forward, grabbed her by the hair, pulled her u p and just seemed to swing the knife in front of her throat. As i f gutting a fish. Blood spurted out three, four times, then she w as empty. But d'you know what I remember most of all? The dog. Ho w it started howling at the sight of all that blood. Rover leane d forward in the chair with his elbows on his knees. He covered h is ears with his hands and rocked back and forth. And I did noth ing. I just stood there, looking on. I did fuck all. While they w rapped her in a blanket and carried her to the car, I just watche d. We drove her to the woods, to stmarksetra. Lifted her out and rolled her down the slope towards Ulsrudsvannet. Lots of people t ake their dogs for walks there so she was found the next day. The point was, Nestor wanted her to be found, d'you get me? He wante d pictures in the papers of what had happened to her. So he could show them to the other girls. Rover removed his hands from his ears. I stopped sleeping; every time I closed my eyes I had nigh tmares. The girl with the missing cheek smiled at me and bared al l her teeth. So I went to see Nestor and told him I wanted out. S aid I'd had enough of filing down Uzis and Glocks, that I wanted to go back to fixing motorbikes. Live a quiet life, not worry abo ut the cops the whole time. Nestor said that was OK, he'd probabl y sussed that I didn't have it in me to be a tough guy. But he ma de it very clear what would happen to me if I talked. I thought w e were sorted. I turned down every job I was offered even though I still had some decent Uzis lying around. But I kept thinking th at something was brewing. That I would be bumped off. So I was al most relieved when the cops came and I got put away. I thought I' d be safer in prison. They got me on an old case--I was only an a ccessory, but they had arrested two guys who both said that I had supplied them with weapons. I confessed to it on the spot. Rove r laughed hard. He started to cough. He leaned back in his chair. In, Knopf, 2014, 3, Pragmatic Bookshelf. Very Good. 7.5 x 0.9 x 9.25 inches. Paperback. 2011. 450 pages. <br>Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) gives you the b est of Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, and Accepta nce Test Driven Planning techniques, so you can create better sof tware with self-documenting, executable tests that bring users an d developers together with a common language. Get the most out o f BDD in Ruby with The RSpec Book, written by the lead developer of RSpec, David Chelimsky. You'll get started right away with RS pec 2 and Cucumber by developing a simple game, using Cucumber to express high-level requirements in language your customer unders tands, and RSpec to express more granular requirements that focus on the behavior of individual objects in the system. You'll lear n how to use test doubles (mocks and stubs) to control the enviro nment and focus the RSpec examples on one object at a time, and h ow to customize RSpec to speak in the language of your domain. Y ou'll develop Rails 3 applications and use companion tools such a s Webrat and Selenium to express requirements for web application s both in memory and in the browser. And you'll learn to specify Rails views, controllers, and models, each in complete isolation from the other. Whether you're developing applications, framewor ks, or the libraries that power them, The RSpec Book will help yo u write better code, better tests, and deliver better software to happier users. Editorial Reviews Review Some authors would be satisfied with just writing the definitive guide for a technolog y. These folks go a step further, and show you insider tips that will keep your tests clean and maintainable.--Ian Dees, Software Engineer The second generation of tools for the XP generation e xplained by their creators and maintainers. Awesome, a must read. --Marcus Ahvne, software developer, Valtech The RSpec Book teach es you much more than how to use RSpec's features; it teaches you how to write code the way the RSpec team does: patiently, and wi th great precision and clarity. There is something here for every one: beginners are given plenty of gentle attention but there is some real meat for the more experienced reader to chew on, too.-- Matt Wynn, independent programmer and coach About the Author D avid Chelimsky is the lead developer/maintainer of RSpec, and has contributed to several other open source projects including Cucu mber, Aruba, and Rails. He has been developing software for over a decade, including three years training and mentoring agile team s at Object Mentor. He is currently a Senior Software Engineer at DRW Trading Group in Chicago, IL. In his spare time, David likes to play guitar, travel, and speak something resembling Portugues e. Dave Astels is the Director of Technology at ChannelFireball. com and has been involved with software and computing for over 25 years, recently having spent several years working exclusively w ith Ruby and Rails. Dave wrote the article that prompted Steven B aker to start the RSpec project. Bryan Helmkamp maintains Webrat , a Ruby library to implement acceptance tests for web applicatio ns in an expressive and maintainable way, and is an active partic ipant in the New York City Ruby community. Bryan is the CTO of Ef ficiency 2.0, a startup that helps people understand and reduce t heir energy use. Dan North writes software and coaches teams and organizations in agile and lean methods. He believes that most p roblems that teams face are about communication and understanding , which is why he puts so much emphasis on getting the words righ t. In 2003-4 this led him to develop the ideas that would become Behaviour-Driven Development. He is delighted by the community th at has grown up around RSpec and Cucumber, and especially the ent husiasm and dedication of their core contributors. Dan is current ly a Senior Software Engineer at DRW Trading Group in London, whe re he gets to actually code again! Zach Dennis is a co-founder a nd fellow human at Mutually Human Software, an expert custom soft ware strategy and design consultancy in Grand Rapids, Michigan. H e has been enjoying Ruby for nearly eight years and has contribut ed to several projects such as Ruby's standard library documentat ion, Ruby on Rails, and RSpec. In his spare time, Zach loves spen ding time with his family, continuously learning, playing music, and running continuousthinking.com. </div About the Author Davi d Chelimsky is the lead developer/maintainer of RSpec, and has co ntributed to several other open source projects including Cucumbe r, Aruba, and Rails. He has been developing software for over a d ecade, including three years training and mentoring agile teams a t Object Mentor. He is currently a Senior Software Engineer at DR W Trading Group in Chicago, IL. In his spare time, David likes to play guitar, travel, and speak something resembling Portuguese. Dave Astels is the Director of Technology at ChannelFireball.com and has been involved with software and computing for over 25 ye ars, recently having spent several years working exclusively with Ruby and Rails. Dave wrote the article that prompted Steven Bake r to start the RSpec project. Bryan Helmkamp maintains Webrat, a Ruby library to implement acceptance tests for web applications in an expressive and maintainable way, and is an active participa nt in the New York City Ruby community. Bryan is the CTO of Effic iency 2.0, a startup that helps people understand and reduce thei r energy use. Dan North writes software and coaches teams and or ganizations in agile and lean methods. He believes that most prob lems that teams face are about communication and understanding, w hich is why he puts so much emphasis on getting the words right. In 2003-4 this led him to develop the ideas that would become Beh aviour-Driven Development. He is delighted by the community that has grown up around RSpec and Cucumber, and especially the enthus iasm and dedication of their core contributors. Dan is currently a Senior Software Engineer at DRW Trading Group in London, where he gets to actually code again! Zach Dennis is a co-founder and fellow human at Mutually Human Software, an expert custom softwar e strategy and design consultancy in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He h as been enjoying Ruby for nearly eight years and has contributed to several projects such as Ruby's standard library documentation , Ruby on Rails, and RSpec. In his spare time, Zach loves spendin g time with his family, continuously learning, playing music, and running continuousthinking.com. </div ., Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2011, 3, McGraw-Hill , 1982. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. 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1990, ISBN: 9780070449022
Audioworks, 02/01/00 12:00 AM. Audio Cassette. Very Good. 0671784706 Amazon Review Catherine Ryan Hyde's Pay It Forward takes as its premise the bumper-sticker phrase "Think Gl… More...
Audioworks, 02/01/00 12:00 AM. Audio Cassette. Very Good. 0671784706 Amazon Review Catherine Ryan Hyde's Pay It Forward takes as its premise the bumper-sticker phrase "Think Globally, Act Locally" and builds a novel around it. The hero of her story is young Trevor McKinney, a 12-year-old whose imagination is sparked by an extra-credit assignment in Social Studies: "Think of an idea for world change, and put it into action." Trevor's idea is deceptively simple: do a good deed for three people, and in exchange, ask each of them to "pay it forward" to three more. "So nine people get helped. Then those people have to do twenty-seven.... Then it sort of spreads out." Trevor's early attempts to get his project off the ground seem to end in failure: a junkie he befriends ends up back in jail; an elderly woman whose garden he tends dies unexpectedly. But even after the boy has given up on his plan, his acts of kindness bear unexpected fruit, and soon an entire movement is underway and spreading across America. Trevor, meanwhile, could use a little help himself. His father walked out on the family, and his mother, Arlene, is fighting an uphill battle with alcoholism, poor judgment in men, and despair. When the boy's new Social Studies teacher, Reuben St. Clair, arrives on the scene, Trevor sees in him not only a source of inspiration for how to change the world, but also the means of altering his mother's life. Yet Reuben has his own set of problems. Horribly scarred in Vietnam, he is reluctant to open himself up to the possibility of rejection--or love. Indeed, the relationship between Arlene and Reuben is central to the novel as these two damaged people learn to "pay forward" the trust and affection Trevor has given them. Hyde tells her tale from many different perspectives, using letters, diary entries, and first- and third-person narratives from the various people whose lives Trevor's project touches. Jerry Busconi, for example, the addict Trevor tried to help, one night finds himself talking a young woman out of jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge: I'm a junkie, Charlotte. I'm always gonna be a junkie. I ain't never gonna be no fine, upstanding citizen. But then I thought, hell. Just pay it forward anyway. Kid tried to help me. Okay, it didn't work. Still, I'm trying to help you. Maybe you'll jump. I don't know. But I tried, right? But let me tell you one thing. I woke up one morning and somebody gave me a chance. Just outta nowhere. It was like a miracle. Now, how do you know that won't happen to you tomorrow? Pay It Forward is reminiscent of Frank Capra's classic It's a Wonderful Life. Like the film, this novel has a steely core of gritty reality beneath its optimism: yes, one person can make a difference, can help to make the world a better place, but sickness, pain, heartache, and tragedy will still always be a part of the human condition. If at times Hyde stumbles a bit while negotiating the razor-thin line between honest feeling and sentimentality, it's generally not for long. And the occasional lapse into artificially colored emotion can be forgiven when weighed against the courage it takes to write so unabashedly hopeful a story in such cynical times. --Sheila Bright --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly An ordinary boy engineers a secular miracle in Hyde's (Funerals for Horses) winning second novel, set in small-town 1990s California. Twelve-year-old Trevor McKinney, the son of Arlene, a single mom working two jobs, and Ricky, a deadbeat absentee dad, does not seem well-positioned to revolutionize the world. But when Trevor's social studies teacher, Reuben St. Clair, gives the class an extra-credit assignment, challenging his students to design a plan to change society, Trevor decides to start a goodwill chain. To begin, he helps out three people, telling each of them that instead of paying him back, they must "pay it forward" by helping three others. At first, nothing seems to work out as planned, not even Trevor's attempt to bring Arlene and Reuben together. Granted, Trevor's mother and his teacher are an unlike, Audioworks, 02/01/00 12:00 AM, 3, McGraw-Hill Companies. Paperback. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., McGraw-Hill Companies, 2.5<
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1992, ISBN: 9780070449022
Hardcover
Vintage, 3/31/1992. Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x7. Paperback book in good condition., Vintage, 3/31/1992, 3, McGraw-Hill Companies, The, 1982. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Page… More...
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1982, ISBN: 0070449023
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1982, ISBN: 9780070449022
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2014, ISBN: 9780070449022
Hardcover
Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., 2.5, O'Reilly Media. Very Good. 7 x 0.9 x 9.19 inches. Paperback. 2007. 362 pages. <br>Wa… More...
Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., 2.5, O'Reilly Media. Very Good. 7 x 0.9 x 9.19 inches. Paperback. 2007. 362 pages. <br>Want to tap the power behind search rankings, prod uct recommendations, social bookmarking, and online matchmaking? This fascinating book demonstrates how you can build Web 2.0 appl ications to mine the enormous amount of data created by people on the Internet. With the sophisticated algorithms in this book, yo u can write smart programs to access interesting datasets from ot her web sites, collect data from users of your own applications, and analyze and understand the data once you've found it. Program ming Collective Intelligence takes you into the world of machine learning and statistics, and explains how to draw conclusions abo ut user experience, marketing, personal tastes, and human behavio r in general--all from information that you and others collect ev ery day. Each algorithm is described clearly and concisely with c ode that can immediately be used on your web site, blog, Wiki, or specialized application. This book explains: Collaborative filt ering techniques that enable online retailers to recommend produc ts or media Methods of clustering to detect groups of similar i tems in a large dataset Search engine features--crawlers, index ers, query engines, and the PageRank algorithm Optimization alg orithms that search millions of possible solutions to a problem a nd choose the best one Bayesian filtering, used in spam filters for classifying documents based on word types and other features Using decision trees not only to make predictions, but to mode l the way decisions are made Predicting numerical values rather than classifications to build price models Support vector mach ines to match people in online dating sites Non-negative matrix factorization to find the independent features in adataset Evo lving intelligence for problem solving--how a computer develops i ts skill by improving its own code the more it plays a game Each chapter includes exercises for extending the algorithms to make t hem more powerful. Go beyond simple database-backed applications and put the wealth of Internet data to work for you. Bravo! I c annot think of a better way for a developer to first learn these algorithms and methods, nor can I think of a better way for me (a n old AI dog) to reinvigorate my knowledge of the details. -- Da n Russell, Google Toby's book does a great job of breaking down the complex subject matter of machine-learning algorithms into p ractical, easy-to-understand examples that can be directly applie d to analysis of social interaction across the Web today. If I ha d this book two years ago, it would have saved precious time goin g down some fruitless paths. -- Tim Wolters, CTO, Collective Int ellect Editorial Reviews About the Author Toby Segaran is a sof tware developer and manager at Genstruct, a computational systems biology company. He has written free web applications for his ow n use and put them online for others to try, including: tasktoy, a task management system; Lazybase, an online application that le ts users design, create and share databases of anything they like ; and Rosetta Blog, an online tool for practicing Spanish and Fre nch by reading blogs along with their translations and lists of c ommon words. Each of these has several hundred regular users. ., O'Reilly Media, 2007, 3, Knopf. Very Good. 6.68 x 1.38 x 9.58 inches. Hardcover. 2014. First edition. 416 pages. <br>Pub Date: 2014-05-13 Pages: 416 Language: English Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing ... The author of the best- selling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying stand-alon e novel set inside Oslo & rsquo; s maze of especially venal . hig h-level corruption Sonny Lofthus is a strangely charismatic and c omplacent young man Sonny & rsquo;.... s been in prison for a doz en years. nearly half his life The inmates who seek out his uncan ny abilities to soothe leave his cell feeling absolved They don & rsquo; t know or care that Sonny has a serious heroin habit & md ash; or where or how he gets his uninterrupted supply of the drug Or that he & rsquo;. s serving time for other peoples & rsquo;. crimes Sonny took the first steps toward addiction when his fathe r took his own life rather than face exposure as a corrupt cop No w Sonny is the seemingly malleable center of a whole infr... Edi torial Reviews From Booklist *Starred Review* On the surface, Ne sbø's gripping new stand-alone might seem like another installmen t of the Harry Hole series but featuring a new cast of characters . A serial killer is at work in Oslo, and a maverick cop with his share of personal demons is on his trail. But beneath that surfa ce, there is a complex psychological thriller churning its way in to the reader's nightmares. Sonny Lofthus is in prison for crimes he didn't commit but for which he has agreed to take the fall--i n exchange for an unending supply of heroin. The drugs are Sonny' s way of dealing with the knowledge that his father, an apparent suicide, was a dirty cop. As the novel begins, however, Sonny has new information about his father's death and has engineered a da ring escape from prison. His revenge-fueled plan is to kill those responsible for the crimes he was convicted of by re-creating th e murders with the real killers now the victims. The more we lear n about Sonny, the more we root for him to evade capture, either by the police or by the crime lord who wants him dead. Juggling p oint of view between Sonny, Simon Kefas (the cop chasing him), an d the various corrupt officials who risk exposure the longer Sonn y is free, Nesbø thwarts our every attempt to draw conclusions ab out both what happened in the past and who is the least guilty am ong the principals. There is an element of the classic film noir Breathless at work here but with more characters of varying shade s of gray whose fates hinge on numerous moving parts. A terrific thriller but also a tragic, very moving story of intertwined char acters swerving desperately to avoid the dead ends in their paths . HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: With 24 million copies of his books sold , Nesbø is now second only to Stieg Larsson among Scandinavian cr ime writers. His fame is sure to grow still more as Martin Scorse se and Leonardo DiCaprio are about to begin filming The Snowman. --Bill Ott Review A deftly plotted novel that probes the deepest mysteries: sin, redemption, love, evil, the human condition. . . . One of Nesb's best, deepest and richest novels. --Kirkus Revie ws (starred review) Excellent . . . Nesb takes the reader on a c hilling ride with many unexpected twists. --Publishers Weekly (st arred review) The standard bearer for the phenomenon that is Sca ndinavian crime fiction. . . . Fast-paced and imaginatively viole nt, this latest example of Nesbo's Nordic noir hurtles like an ex press train towards a last act of almost operatic extravagance th at leaves dead bodies and carefully nurtured reputations litterin g the stage. Great stuff altogether. --Independent (Ireland) [Ne sb is] one of the current leading lights in Scandinavian crime fi ction . . . Ridiculously talented . . . with his clear gift for h airpin twists and turns. . . . The thriller is so tightly plotted that it will keep readers steadfastly glued to their seat. . . . What Nesb has crafted is not a whodunit in the traditional sense , as the writer is interested in the far more fascinating questio n of what can drive a person to evil? --Daily Style (Australia) Scandinavian Reviews Nesb's new book makes all the hype before p ublication seem like false modesty, and is quite simply a fantast ic piece of crime literature. . . . First and foremost, this is a clever, enthralling and driven story that is impossible to put d own. --Dagens Nringsliv (Norway) Yet another powerful demonstrat ion of Nesb's talent for creating a story that plays on all nerve strands and with so much intensity that it embodies both the Bib le and Batman at once. It is really well done. It is still early in the year, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone should dub Th e Son as the crime novel of the year. --Ekstra Bladet (Denmark) The pace proves to be on top in the new book, in a positive sense . This remains Norwegian crime literature in a class by itself. A plot that stretches and spreads out like great mathematical form ulas, with many unfamiliar characters in the equation, but withou t being arcane or excessive in his fantastic interpretations. . . . Jo Nesb prevails once again. --Dagsavisen (Norway) The Son is a modern take on the story about Christ, that tackles the corrup tion in Oslo. . . . Jo Nesb's writing is incredible as usual. --J yllands-Posten (Denmark) Tremendously well written by Nesb. . . . There is something unstoppably vital about Jo Nesb as a designe r of crime stories in the baroque style. His pen is on fire and a lthough it may be noted that it goes too fast sometimes linguisti cally, the stories he creates has so many staggering twists and t urns that it is almost physically impossible not to get hooked. - -Aftenposten (Norway) Crime novels are rarely so skillfully told and at the same time so much more than pure entertainment. But N esb is a master. --Berlingske (Denmark) No Norwegian crime write r can create such complex crime plots without losing in detail li ke Nesb can. You might say that Nesb is both high and low in his texts, and that is one of the main reasons why his novels rise ab ove most others in this genre. --Dagbladet (Norway) It is a form idable, diabolically clever and devilishly good book that is well put together, down to the smallest detail. --Nordjyske Stiftstid ene (Denmark) The story . . . is propelled with great force and an unerring sense of detail. . . . It is simply thrilling to read . --NRK (Norway) Fast-paced and rip-roaring suspenseful. --Polit iken (Denmark) No one at our latitudes knows the game like Nesb does. No one is even close to his craftsmanship in writing crime novels that hold such international standard. --Adresseavisen (No rway) A high level of suspense all the way and limitless brutali ty. The bad guys get what they deserves and Nesb's writing is alm ost more cynical and concrete than usual. There are also a few lo ve stories along the way, that--almost--end happily. --Lolland-Fa lsters Folketidende (Denmark) About the Author JO NESB is a musi cian, songwriter, and economist, as well as a writer. His Harry H ole novels include The Redeemer, The Snowman, The Leopard, and Ph antom, and he is also the author of several stand-alone novels an d the Doctor Proctor series of children's books. He is the recipi ent of numerous awards including the Glass Key for best Nordic cr ime novel. Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserve d. 1 Rover kept his eyes on the white-painted concrete floor in the eleven-square-metre prison cell. He bit down on the slightly too long gold front tooth in his lower jaw. He had reached the ha rdest part of his confession. The only sound in the cell was his nails scratching the madonna tattoo on his forearm. The boy sitti ng cross-legged on the bed opposite him had remained silent ever since Rover had entered. He had merely nodded and smiled his blis sful Buddha smile, his gaze fixed at a point on Rover's forehead. People called the boy Sonny and said that he had killed two peop le as a teenager, that his father had been a corrupt police offic er and that Sonny had healing hands. It was hard to see if the bo y was listening--his green eyes and most of his face were hidden behind his long, matted hair--but that didn't matter. Rover just wanted his sins forgiven and to receive Sonny's distinctive bless ing so that tomorrow he could walk out of Staten Maximum Security Prison with the feeling of being a truly cleansed man. Not that Rover was religious, but it could do no harm when he intended to change, to give going straight a real try. Rover took a deep brea th. I think she was from Belarus. Minsk is in Belarus, isn't it? Rover looked up quickly, but the boy made no reply. Nestor had n icknamed her Minsk, Rover said. He told me to shoot her. The obv ious advantage of confessing to someone whose brain was fried was that no name and incident would stick; it was like talking to yo urself. This might explain why inmates at Staten preferred this g uy to the chaplain or the psychologist. Nestor kept her and eigh t other girls in a cage down in Enerhaugen. East Europeans and As ians. Young. Teenagers. At least I hope they were as old as that. But Minsk was older. Stronger. She escaped. Got as far as Tyen P ark before Nestor's dog caught her. One of those Argentine mastif fs--know what I'm talking about? The boy's eyes never moved, but he raised his hand. Found his beard. He started to comb it slowl y with his fingers. The sleeve of his filthy, oversized shirt sli pped down and revealed scabs and needle marks. Rover went on. Bl oody big albino dogs. Kills anything its owner points at. And qui te a lot he doesn't. Banned in Norway, 'course. A guy out in Rlen gen got some from the Czech Republic, breeds them and registers t hem as white boxers. Me and Nestor went there to buy one when it was a pup. It cost more than fifty grand in cash. The puppy was s o cute you wouldn't ever think it . . . Rover stopped. He knew he was only talking about the dog to put off the inevitable. Anyway . . . Anyway. Rover looked at the tattoo on his other forearm. A cathedral with two spires. One for each sentence he had served, neither of which had anything to do with today's confession. He used to supply guns to a biker gang and modify some of them in hi s workshop. He was good at it. Too good. So good that he couldn't remain below the radar forever and he was caught. And so good th at, while serving his first sentence, Nestor had taken him under his wing. Nestor had made sure he owned him so that from then on only Nestor would get his hands on the best guns, rather than the biker gang or any other rivals. He had paid him more for a few m onths' work than Rover could ever hope to earn in a lifetime in h is workshop fixing motorbikes. But Nestor had demanded a lot in r eturn. Too much. She was lying in the bushes, blood everywhere. She just lay there, dead still, staring up at us. The dog had tak en a chunk out of her face--you could see straight to the teeth. Rover grimaced. Get to the point. Nestor said it was time to teac h them a lesson, show the other girls what would happen to them. And that Minsk was worthless to him now anyway, given the state o f her face . . . Rover swallowed. So he told me to do it. Finish her off. That's how I'd prove my loyalty, you see. I had an old R uger MK II pistol that I'd done some work on. And I was going to do it. I really was. That wasn't the problem . . . Rover felt hi s throat tighten. He had thought about it so often, gone over tho se seconds during that night in Tyen Park, seeing the girl over a nd over again. Nestor and himself taking the leading roles with t he others as silent witnesses. Even the dog had been silent. He h ad thought about it perhaps a hundred times. A thousand? And yet it wasn't until now, when he said the words out loud for the firs t time, that he realised that it hadn't been a dream, that it rea lly had happened. Or rather it was as if his body hadn't accepted it until now. That was why his stomach was churning. Rover breat hed deeply through his nose to quell the nausea. But I couldn't do it. Even though I knew she was gonna die. They had the dog at the ready and I was thinking that me, I'd have preferred a bullet . But it was as if the trigger was locked in position. I just cou ldn't pull it. The young man seemed to be nodding faintly. Eithe r in response to what Rover was telling him or to music only he c ould hear. Nestor said we didn't have all day, we were in a publ ic park after all. So he took out a small, curved knife from a le g holster, stepped forward, grabbed her by the hair, pulled her u p and just seemed to swing the knife in front of her throat. As i f gutting a fish. Blood spurted out three, four times, then she w as empty. But d'you know what I remember most of all? The dog. Ho w it started howling at the sight of all that blood. Rover leane d forward in the chair with his elbows on his knees. He covered h is ears with his hands and rocked back and forth. And I did noth ing. I just stood there, looking on. I did fuck all. While they w rapped her in a blanket and carried her to the car, I just watche d. We drove her to the woods, to stmarksetra. Lifted her out and rolled her down the slope towards Ulsrudsvannet. Lots of people t ake their dogs for walks there so she was found the next day. The point was, Nestor wanted her to be found, d'you get me? He wante d pictures in the papers of what had happened to her. So he could show them to the other girls. Rover removed his hands from his ears. I stopped sleeping; every time I closed my eyes I had nigh tmares. The girl with the missing cheek smiled at me and bared al l her teeth. So I went to see Nestor and told him I wanted out. S aid I'd had enough of filing down Uzis and Glocks, that I wanted to go back to fixing motorbikes. Live a quiet life, not worry abo ut the cops the whole time. Nestor said that was OK, he'd probabl y sussed that I didn't have it in me to be a tough guy. But he ma de it very clear what would happen to me if I talked. I thought w e were sorted. I turned down every job I was offered even though I still had some decent Uzis lying around. But I kept thinking th at something was brewing. That I would be bumped off. So I was al most relieved when the cops came and I got put away. I thought I' d be safer in prison. They got me on an old case--I was only an a ccessory, but they had arrested two guys who both said that I had supplied them with weapons. I confessed to it on the spot. Rove r laughed hard. He started to cough. He leaned back in his chair. In, Knopf, 2014, 3, Pragmatic Bookshelf. Very Good. 7.5 x 0.9 x 9.25 inches. Paperback. 2011. 450 pages. <br>Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) gives you the b est of Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, and Accepta nce Test Driven Planning techniques, so you can create better sof tware with self-documenting, executable tests that bring users an d developers together with a common language. Get the most out o f BDD in Ruby with The RSpec Book, written by the lead developer of RSpec, David Chelimsky. You'll get started right away with RS pec 2 and Cucumber by developing a simple game, using Cucumber to express high-level requirements in language your customer unders tands, and RSpec to express more granular requirements that focus on the behavior of individual objects in the system. You'll lear n how to use test doubles (mocks and stubs) to control the enviro nment and focus the RSpec examples on one object at a time, and h ow to customize RSpec to speak in the language of your domain. Y ou'll develop Rails 3 applications and use companion tools such a s Webrat and Selenium to express requirements for web application s both in memory and in the browser. And you'll learn to specify Rails views, controllers, and models, each in complete isolation from the other. Whether you're developing applications, framewor ks, or the libraries that power them, The RSpec Book will help yo u write better code, better tests, and deliver better software to happier users. Editorial Reviews Review Some authors would be satisfied with just writing the definitive guide for a technolog y. These folks go a step further, and show you insider tips that will keep your tests clean and maintainable.--Ian Dees, Software Engineer The second generation of tools for the XP generation e xplained by their creators and maintainers. Awesome, a must read. --Marcus Ahvne, software developer, Valtech The RSpec Book teach es you much more than how to use RSpec's features; it teaches you how to write code the way the RSpec team does: patiently, and wi th great precision and clarity. There is something here for every one: beginners are given plenty of gentle attention but there is some real meat for the more experienced reader to chew on, too.-- Matt Wynn, independent programmer and coach About the Author D avid Chelimsky is the lead developer/maintainer of RSpec, and has contributed to several other open source projects including Cucu mber, Aruba, and Rails. He has been developing software for over a decade, including three years training and mentoring agile team s at Object Mentor. He is currently a Senior Software Engineer at DRW Trading Group in Chicago, IL. In his spare time, David likes to play guitar, travel, and speak something resembling Portugues e. Dave Astels is the Director of Technology at ChannelFireball. com and has been involved with software and computing for over 25 years, recently having spent several years working exclusively w ith Ruby and Rails. Dave wrote the article that prompted Steven B aker to start the RSpec project. Bryan Helmkamp maintains Webrat , a Ruby library to implement acceptance tests for web applicatio ns in an expressive and maintainable way, and is an active partic ipant in the New York City Ruby community. Bryan is the CTO of Ef ficiency 2.0, a startup that helps people understand and reduce t heir energy use. Dan North writes software and coaches teams and organizations in agile and lean methods. He believes that most p roblems that teams face are about communication and understanding , which is why he puts so much emphasis on getting the words righ t. In 2003-4 this led him to develop the ideas that would become Behaviour-Driven Development. He is delighted by the community th at has grown up around RSpec and Cucumber, and especially the ent husiasm and dedication of their core contributors. Dan is current ly a Senior Software Engineer at DRW Trading Group in London, whe re he gets to actually code again! Zach Dennis is a co-founder a nd fellow human at Mutually Human Software, an expert custom soft ware strategy and design consultancy in Grand Rapids, Michigan. H e has been enjoying Ruby for nearly eight years and has contribut ed to several projects such as Ruby's standard library documentat ion, Ruby on Rails, and RSpec. In his spare time, Zach loves spen ding time with his family, continuously learning, playing music, and running continuousthinking.com. </div About the Author Davi d Chelimsky is the lead developer/maintainer of RSpec, and has co ntributed to several other open source projects including Cucumbe r, Aruba, and Rails. He has been developing software for over a d ecade, including three years training and mentoring agile teams a t Object Mentor. He is currently a Senior Software Engineer at DR W Trading Group in Chicago, IL. In his spare time, David likes to play guitar, travel, and speak something resembling Portuguese. Dave Astels is the Director of Technology at ChannelFireball.com and has been involved with software and computing for over 25 ye ars, recently having spent several years working exclusively with Ruby and Rails. Dave wrote the article that prompted Steven Bake r to start the RSpec project. Bryan Helmkamp maintains Webrat, a Ruby library to implement acceptance tests for web applications in an expressive and maintainable way, and is an active participa nt in the New York City Ruby community. Bryan is the CTO of Effic iency 2.0, a startup that helps people understand and reduce thei r energy use. Dan North writes software and coaches teams and or ganizations in agile and lean methods. He believes that most prob lems that teams face are about communication and understanding, w hich is why he puts so much emphasis on getting the words right. In 2003-4 this led him to develop the ideas that would become Beh aviour-Driven Development. He is delighted by the community that has grown up around RSpec and Cucumber, and especially the enthus iasm and dedication of their core contributors. Dan is currently a Senior Software Engineer at DRW Trading Group in London, where he gets to actually code again! Zach Dennis is a co-founder and fellow human at Mutually Human Software, an expert custom softwar e strategy and design consultancy in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He h as been enjoying Ruby for nearly eight years and has contributed to several projects such as Ruby's standard library documentation , Ruby on Rails, and RSpec. In his spare time, Zach loves spendin g time with his family, continuously learning, playing music, and running continuousthinking.com. </div ., Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2011, 3, McGraw-Hill , 1982. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. 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Audioworks, 02/01/00 12:00 AM. Audio Cassette. Very Good. 0671784706 Amazon Review Catherine Ryan Hyde's Pay It Forward takes as its premise the bumper-sticker phrase "Think Gl… More...
Audioworks, 02/01/00 12:00 AM. Audio Cassette. Very Good. 0671784706 Amazon Review Catherine Ryan Hyde's Pay It Forward takes as its premise the bumper-sticker phrase "Think Globally, Act Locally" and builds a novel around it. The hero of her story is young Trevor McKinney, a 12-year-old whose imagination is sparked by an extra-credit assignment in Social Studies: "Think of an idea for world change, and put it into action." Trevor's idea is deceptively simple: do a good deed for three people, and in exchange, ask each of them to "pay it forward" to three more. "So nine people get helped. Then those people have to do twenty-seven.... Then it sort of spreads out." Trevor's early attempts to get his project off the ground seem to end in failure: a junkie he befriends ends up back in jail; an elderly woman whose garden he tends dies unexpectedly. But even after the boy has given up on his plan, his acts of kindness bear unexpected fruit, and soon an entire movement is underway and spreading across America. Trevor, meanwhile, could use a little help himself. His father walked out on the family, and his mother, Arlene, is fighting an uphill battle with alcoholism, poor judgment in men, and despair. When the boy's new Social Studies teacher, Reuben St. Clair, arrives on the scene, Trevor sees in him not only a source of inspiration for how to change the world, but also the means of altering his mother's life. Yet Reuben has his own set of problems. Horribly scarred in Vietnam, he is reluctant to open himself up to the possibility of rejection--or love. Indeed, the relationship between Arlene and Reuben is central to the novel as these two damaged people learn to "pay forward" the trust and affection Trevor has given them. Hyde tells her tale from many different perspectives, using letters, diary entries, and first- and third-person narratives from the various people whose lives Trevor's project touches. Jerry Busconi, for example, the addict Trevor tried to help, one night finds himself talking a young woman out of jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge: I'm a junkie, Charlotte. I'm always gonna be a junkie. I ain't never gonna be no fine, upstanding citizen. But then I thought, hell. Just pay it forward anyway. Kid tried to help me. Okay, it didn't work. Still, I'm trying to help you. Maybe you'll jump. I don't know. But I tried, right? But let me tell you one thing. I woke up one morning and somebody gave me a chance. Just outta nowhere. It was like a miracle. Now, how do you know that won't happen to you tomorrow? Pay It Forward is reminiscent of Frank Capra's classic It's a Wonderful Life. Like the film, this novel has a steely core of gritty reality beneath its optimism: yes, one person can make a difference, can help to make the world a better place, but sickness, pain, heartache, and tragedy will still always be a part of the human condition. If at times Hyde stumbles a bit while negotiating the razor-thin line between honest feeling and sentimentality, it's generally not for long. And the occasional lapse into artificially colored emotion can be forgiven when weighed against the courage it takes to write so unabashedly hopeful a story in such cynical times. --Sheila Bright --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly An ordinary boy engineers a secular miracle in Hyde's (Funerals for Horses) winning second novel, set in small-town 1990s California. Twelve-year-old Trevor McKinney, the son of Arlene, a single mom working two jobs, and Ricky, a deadbeat absentee dad, does not seem well-positioned to revolutionize the world. But when Trevor's social studies teacher, Reuben St. Clair, gives the class an extra-credit assignment, challenging his students to design a plan to change society, Trevor decides to start a goodwill chain. To begin, he helps out three people, telling each of them that instead of paying him back, they must "pay it forward" by helping three others. At first, nothing seems to work out as planned, not even Trevor's attempt to bring Arlene and Reuben together. Granted, Trevor's mother and his teacher are an unlike, Audioworks, 02/01/00 12:00 AM, 3, McGraw-Hill Companies. Paperback. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., McGraw-Hill Companies, 2.5<
1992
ISBN: 9780070449022
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