Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers (Paperback)

Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers (Paperback)
By Steve Souders

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Performance is critical to the success of any web site, and yet today's web applications push browsers to their limits with increasing amounts of rich content and heavy use of Ajax. In this book, Steve Souders, web performance evangelist at Google and former Chief Performance Yahoo!, provides valuable techniques to help you optimize your site's performance.

Souders' previous book, the bestselling High Performance Web Sites, shocked the web development world by revealing that 80% of the time it takes for a web page to load is on the client side. In Even Faster Web Sites, Souders and eight expert contributors provide best practices and pragmatic advice for improving your site's performance in three critical categories:

• JavaScript--Get advice for understanding Ajax performance, writing efficient JavaScript, creating responsive applications, loading scripts without blocking other components, and more.
• Network--Learn to share resources across multiple domains, reduce image size without loss of quality, and use chunked encoding to render pages faster.
  
• Browser--Discover alternatives to iframes, how to simplify CSS selectors, and other techniques.

Speed is essential for today's rich media web sites and Web 2.0 applications. With this book, you'll learn how to shave precious seconds off your sites' load times and make them respond even faster.

This book contains six guest chapters contributed by Dion Almaer, Doug Crockford, Ben Galbraith, Tony Gentilcore, Dylan Schiemann, Stoyan Stefanov, Nicole Sullivan, and Nicholas C. Zakas.

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• Published on: 2009-06-17
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HTML, XHTML & CSS All-In-One For Dummies (Paperback)

HTML, XHTML & CSS All-In-One For Dummies (Paperback)
By Andrew Harris

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A complete and fully updated reference for these key Web technologies

HTML, XHTML, and CSS are essential tools for creating dynamic Web sites. This friendly, all-in-one guide covers what programmers need to know about each of the technologies and how to use them together.

Like the bestselling first edition, HTML, XHTML, and CSS All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition makes it easy to grasp the fundamentals and start building effective Web pages. With new information about Web 2.0 and Ajax, it's the perfect reference as well.

• HTML, XHTML, and CSS are the key technologies for building dynamic Web pages
• This friendly, all-in-one guide explains each technology, shows how to use them together, and examines quality Web design and layout
• Six self-contained minibooks cover HTML, CSS, design and layout, client-side JavaScript, Ajax and server-side, and putting it all together
• Covers new Web development advancements including new technologies and changes to the standards
• Includes a CD with additional valuable Web development programs and a companion Web site featuring the code used in the book

Web programmers and designers will find what they most need to know in HTML, XHTML, and CSS All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition, helping them create the type of Web sites that today's market demands.

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• Published on: 2010-11-16
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• 1080 pages

JavaScript: Visual QuickStart Guide (8th Edition) (Paperback)

JavaScript: Visual QuickStart Guide (8th Edition) (Paperback)
By Tom Negrino

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This task-based, visual-reference guide has been fully revised and uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to give beginning and intermediate scripters what they need to know to keep their skills up-to-date. Readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the programming language, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. In this updated eighth edition, readers will find new information on using frameworks and libraries--such as jQuery--and modern coding techniques.

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• Published on: 2011-08-06
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• 544 pages

Web Design with HTML and CSS Digital Classroom, (Book and Video Training) (Paperback)

Web Design with HTML and CSS Digital Classroom, (Book and Video Training) (Paperback)
By Jeremy Osborn

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"An invaluable full-color training package for Web design

Web design consists of using multiple software tools and codes-such as Dreamweaver, Flash, Silverlight, Illustrator, Photoshop, HTML, and CSS, among others-to craft a unique, robust, and interactive websites. This book teaches you how to effectively use all the major tools involved in web design to create a site that is both attractive and functional.

You'll go beyond the basics to learn best practices of good web design so you can go from the drawing board to a successful site.

Combining full-color, step-by-step instructions with lesson files and video training from web experts is like having your own personal instructor guiding you through each lesson-but you work at your own pace!

• Discusses properties of good web design and best practices for building a site that is both attractive and functional

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Web Development and Design Foundations with HTML5 (6th Edition) (Paperback)

Web Development and Design Foundations with HTML5 (6th Edition) (Paperback)
By Terry Morris

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Using Hands-On Practice exercises and Website Case Studies to motivate readers, Web Development and Design Foundations with HTML5 includes all the necessary lessons to guide students in developing highly effective websites.

This textbook has a unique approach that prepares students to design web pages that work today, in addition to being ready to take advantage of the new HTML5 coding techniques of the future. XHTML syntax is introduced, but the focus is on HTML5 syntax. New HTML5 elements are presented, with an emphasis on coding web pages that work in both current and future browsers.

A well-rounded balance of hard skills (HTML5, XHTML, CSS, and an introduction to JavaScript) and soft skills (web design, e-commerce overview, website promotion strategies) presents everything beginning web developers need to know to build and promote successful websites. Topics include:

• Internet concepts
• Creating web pages with HTML5
• Configuring text, color, and page layout with CSS
• HTML5 Video and Audio
• HTML5 Form Controls
• New CSS3 properties
• Web design best practices
• CSS media queries
• Designing web pages for mobile devices
• Web accessibility standards
• The web development process
• Choosing a domain name
• Selecting a web host
• Website promotion and search engine optimization
• E-commerce Overview
• JavaScript Introduction

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• Published on: 2012-02-27
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Programming the Mobile Web (Kindle Edition)

Programming the Mobile Web (Kindle Edition)
By Maximiliano Firtman

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Today's market for mobile apps goes beyond the iPhone to include BlackBerry, Nokia, Windows Phone, and smartphones powered by Android, webOS, and other platforms. If you're an experienced web developer, this book shows you how to build a standard app core that you can extend to work with specific devices. You'll learn the particulars and pitfalls of building mobile apps with HTML, CSS, and other standard web tools.You'll also explore platform variations, finicky mobile browsers, Ajax design patterns for mobile, and much more. Before you know it, you'll be able to create mashups using Web 2.0 APIs in apps for the App Store, App World, OVI Store, Android Market, and other online retailers.Learn how to use your existing web skills to move into mobile developmentDiscover key differences in mobile app design and navigation, including touch devicesUse HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Ajax to create effective user interfaces in the mobile environmentLearn about technologies such as HTML5, XHTML MP, and WebKit extensionsUnderstand variations of platforms such as Symbian, BlackBerry, webOS, Bada, Android, and iOS for iPhone and iPadBypass the browser to create offline apps and widgets using web technologies

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HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition (Paperback)

HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition (Paperback)
By Elizabeth Castro

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Need to learn HTML fast? This best-selling reference's visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, Web expert and best-selling author Elizabeth Castro uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's HTML and XHTML essentials. You’ll learn how to design, structure, and format your Web site. You'll create and use images, links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms, and you'll add sound and movies to your site. Finally, you will test and debug your site, and publish it to the Web. Along the way, you'll find extensive coverage of CSS techniques, current browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox), creating pages for the mobile Web, and more.

Visual QuickStart Guide--the quick and easy way to learn!

• Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through HTML and show you what to do.
• Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time.
• Page for page, the best content and value around.
• Companion Web site at www.cookwood.com/html offers examples, a lively question-and-answer area, updates, and more.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #9591 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-26
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• 456 pages

Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS (Paperback)

Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS (Paperback)
By Ian Lloyd

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Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS teaches web development from scratch, without assuming any previous knowledge of HTML, CSS or web development techniques. This book introduces you to HTML and CSS as you follow along with the author, step-by-step, to build a fully functional web site from the ground up.

However, unlike countless other "learn web design" books, this title concentrates on modern, best-practice techniques from the very beginning, which means you'll get it right the first time. The web sites you'll build will:

Look good on a PC, Mac or Linux computer Render correctly whether your visitors are using Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, or Safari Use web standards so your sites will be fast loading and easy to maintain Be accessible to disabled users who use screenreaders to browse the Web

By the end of the book, you'll be equipped with enough knowledge to set out on your first projects as a professional web developer, or you can simply use the knowledge you've gained to create attractive, functional, usable and accessible sites for personal use.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #604165 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-09
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JavaScript and Ajax for the Web, Sixth Edition (Paperback)

JavaScript and Ajax for the Web, Sixth Edition (Paperback)
By Tom Negrino

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Need to learn JavaScript fast? This best-selling reference’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with JavaScript in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to JavaScript, leading Web and computing experts Tom Negrino and Dori Smith use crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today's JavaScript essentials. Along the way, you'll find extensive coverage of Ajax and XML techniques, current browsers (Opera, Safari, Firefox), and more.

Visual QuickStart Guide--the quick and easy way to learn!

• Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through JavaScript and show you what to do.
• Concise steps and explanations get you up and running in no time.
• Page for page, the best content and value around.
• Companion Web site at www.javascriptworld.com offers sample scripts, updates, and more!

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #758633 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-07
• Original language: English
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• 512 pages

Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics (Paperback)

Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics (Paperback)
By Jennifer Niederst Robbins

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Everything you need to know to create professional web sites is right here. Learning Web Design starts from the beginning -- defining how the Web and web pages work -- and builds from there. By the end of the book, you'll have the skills to create multi-column CSS layouts with optimized graphic files, and you'll know how to get your pages up on the Web.

This thoroughly revised edition teaches you how to build web sites according to modern design practices and professional standards. Learning Web Design explains:

• How to create a simple (X)HTML page, how to add links and images
• Everything you need to know about web standards -- (X)HTML, DTDs, and more
• Cascading Style Sheets -- formatting text, colors and backgrounds, using the box model, page layout, and more
• All about web graphics, and how to make them lean and mean through optimization
• The site development process, from start to finish
• Getting your pages on the Web -- hosting, domain names, and FTP

The book includes exercises to help you to learn various techniques, and short quizzes to make sure you're up to speed with key concepts. If you're interested in web design, Learning Web Design is the place to start.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #8426 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-15
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Pro Drupal Development (Paperback)

Pro Drupal Development (Paperback)
By John K. VanDyk

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Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems in use today. With it, you can create a variety of community-driven sites, including blogs, forums, wiki-style sites, and much more. Pro Drupal Development was written to arm you with knowledge to customize your Drupal installation however you see fit. The book assumes that you already possess the knowledge to install and bring a standard installation online. Then authors John VanDyk and Matt Westgate delve into Drupal internals, showing you how to truly take advantage of its powerful architecture.

Youll learn how to create your own modules, develop your own themes, and produce your own filters. You'll learn the inner workings of each key part of Drupal, including user management, sessions, the node system, caching, and the various APIs available to you. Of course, your Drupal-powered site isnt effective until you can efficiently serve pages to your visitors. As such, the authors have included the information you need to optimize your Drupal installation to perform well under high-load situations. Also featured is information on Drupal security and best practices, as well as integration of Ajax and the internationalization of your Drupal web site. Simply put, if you are working with Drupal at all, then you need this book.

• This book is written by Drupal core developers.
• Drupal architecture and behavior are mapped out visually.
• Common pitfalls are identified and addressed.
• Chapters provide regular discussion and reference to why things work they way they do, not just how.
• Features a foreword by Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #662384 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-16
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Dreamweaver CS5 Digital Classroom, (Book and Video Training covers CS5 & CS5.5) (Paperback)

Dreamweaver CS5 Digital Classroom, (Book and Video Training covers CS5 & CS5.5) (Paperback)
By Jeremy Osborn

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Learning Dreamweaver is a dream with this instructional book-and-video training package!

Dreamweaver CS5 Digital Classroom covers Dreamweaver CS5 and Dreamweaver CS5.5. Adobe Dreamweaver allows you to easily create robust Web sites without needing extensive programming knowledge or skills. The latest version of Dreamweaver boasts enhanced capabilities and this exciting book-and-downloadable video training package makes learning the new features of Dreamweaver less intimidating. Sixteen self-paced lessons explain how to design, develop, and maintain a fully functioning site. The complementary lessons featured in the video tutorials are each approximately five minutes long and demonstrate the concepts and features covered in the lesson.

• Features full-color, step-by-step tutorials that complement the topics covered in each lesson

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  • Published on: 2010-06-21
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Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual (Paperback)

Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual (Paperback)
By David Sawyer McFarland

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Welcome to Dreamweaver CS3. This new version of the popular web design software offers a rich environment for building professional sites, with drag-and-drop simplicity, clean HTML code, and dynamic database-driven web site creation tools. Moreover, it's now integrated more tightly with Adobe's other products: Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, and their siblings. But with such sophisticated features, the software isn't simple.

So say hello to Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual, the fifth edition of this bestselling book by experienced web site trainer and author David McFarland. This book helps both first-time and experienced web designers bring stunning, interactive web sites to life. With jargon-free language and clear descriptions, this new edition addresses both beginners who need step-by-step guidance as well as long-time Dreamweaver users who need a handy reference to address the inner-workings of the program.

Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual teaches designers how to construct and manage web sites by examining web-page components and Dreamweaver's capabilities through "live examples". With a complete A-Z guide to designing, organizing, building and deploying a web site for those with no web design experience, this book:

• Takes you through the basics to advanced techniques to control the appearance of your web pages with CSS
• Shows you how to design dynamic database-driven web sites, from blogs to product catalogs, and from shopping carts to newsletter signup forms
• Teaches you how to master your web site, and manage thousands of pages effortlessly

Witty and objective, Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual is a must for anyone who uses this highly popular program, from beginners to professionals. Altogether, it's the ultimate atlas for Dreamweaver CS3.

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• Published on: 2007-06-29
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Sergey's HTML5 & CSS3 Quick Reference: Color Edition (Paperback)

Sergey's HTML5 & CSS3 Quick Reference: Color Edition (Paperback)
By Sergey Mavrody

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Handy one-stop HTML5 and CSS3 reference source which is comprehensive but still concise, simple, easy-to-read, and structured. 

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• Published on: 2010-12-30
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HTML5 Digital Classroom, (Book and Video Training) (Paperback)

HTML5 Digital Classroom, (Book and Video Training) (Paperback)
By Jeremy Osborn

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A complete training package—full-color book and instructional DVD—teaches you HTML5

HTML5 boasts extensive new features that allow you to create dynamic Web pages and present users with amazing multimedia experiences. This personal training course uses a full-color book plus video tutorials on a DVD to teach you how to take full advantage of the new Web standard for creating rich multimedia experiences. While learning at your own pace, you’ll discover how to approach site concept creation and bring your vision from the drawing board through to full operability. The step-by-step directions, lesson files, and an instructional DVD demonstrate the many exciting features of HTML5.

• HTML5 allows you to create dynamic Web pages; this book-and-DVD package offers step-by-step training on its abilities

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  • Published on: 2011-10-04
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The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP (Paperback)

The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP (Paperback)
By David Powers

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Dreamweaver is a huge selling product with over 3 million users worldwide, and the new version, Dreamweaver CS3, promises to be just as popular, with new features such as Ajax support.

The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP is written by best selling Dreamweaver author David Powers. Inside he presents a strictly practical, real world series of tutorials to teach aspiring and existing Dreamweaver users how to do everything they could possibly want to do in terms of CSS, PHP (bar far the most popular server-side language Dreamweaver supports, and the only one that is really used a great deal,) and Ajax web sites, from beginner to advanced topics.

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PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (Paperback)

PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (Paperback)
By Larry E. Ullman

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It hasn't taken Web developers long to discover that when it comes to creating dynamic, database-driven Web sites, MySQL and PHP provide a winning open source combination. Add this book to the mix, and there's no limit to the powerful, interactive Web sites that developers can create. With step-by-step instructions, complete scripts, and expert tips to guide readers, veteran author and database designer Larry Ullman gets right down to business: After grounding readers with separate discussions of first the scripting language (PHP) and then the database program (MySQL), he goes on to cover security, sessions and cookies, and using additional Web tools, with several sections devoted to creating sample applications. This guide is indispensable for intermediate- to advanced level Web designers who want to replace their static sites with something dynamic. In this edition, the bulk of the new material covers the latest versions of both technologies: PHP 6 (due out in 2008) and MySQL 5 (available now). The book's publication date is likely to beat the official release of PHP 6, making it one of the first books available on the subject.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #160580 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-29
• Original language: English
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• 648 pages

High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers (Paperback)

High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers (Paperback)
By Steve Souders

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Want your web site to display more quickly? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 25% to 50% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages on the Web. Even sites that had already been highly optimized, such as Yahoo! Search and the Yahoo! Front Page, were able to benefit from these surprisingly simple performance guidelines.

The rules in High Performance Web Sites explain how you can optimize the performance of the Ajax, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, and images that you've already built into your site -- adjustments that are critical for any rich web application. Other sources of information pay a lot of attention to tuning web servers, databases, and hardware, but the bulk of display time is taken up on the browser side and by the communication between server and browser. High Performance Web Sites covers every aspect of that process.

Each performance rule is supported by specific examples, and code snippets are available on the book's companion web site. The rules include how to:

• Make Fewer HTTP Requests
• Use a Content Delivery Network
• Add an Expires Header
• Gzip Components
• Put Stylesheets at the Top
• Put Scripts at the Bottom
• Avoid CSS Expressions
• Make JavaScript and CSS External
• Reduce DNS Lookups
• Minify JavaScript
• Avoid Redirects
• Remove Duplicates Scripts
• Configure ETags
• Make Ajax Cacheable

If you're building pages for high traffic destinations and want to optimize the experience of users visiting your site, this book is indispensable.

"If everyone would implement just 20% of Steve's guidelines, the Web would be a dramatically better place. Between this book and Steve's YSlow extension, there's really no excuse for having a sluggish web site anymore."

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"Steve Souders has done a fantastic job of distilling a massive, semi-arcane art down to a set of concise, actionable, pragmatic engineering steps that will change the world of web performance."

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #51613 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-18
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• 176 pages