After a bit of an absence, Arjen Laarhoven has returned with a stellar review, this time of Eric Greenberg's new book Network Application Frameworks. Click below if you are interested in the design and implementation of networks in combination with the applications that run on them.

Thanks to rw2 for taking some time to review Michi Henning and Steve Vinoski's Advanced CORBA Programming with C++. For more information on this book, click below.

Thanks to return reviewer Janice Wright for the following review of Terry Prachett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen's effort The Science of Discworld. The book's a fun attempt to explain the science behind Prachett's incredibly funny world, Discworld. For those of you who haven't read Prachett, I am ashamed for you. Click below for more information.

Ellen Spertus has sent us a review of Phillip (and his dog!)'s Guide to Web Publishing. Known for being an outspoken prof at MIT, with interesting ideas, his web publishing manual is similarly interesting, focusing on collabrative web sites.Piotr has updated me. Neither the man, nor the dog is a prof at MIT, although they spend time there. Mea Culpa.

Thanks to SEGV for the this review of Jacobson, Booch, Rumbaugh's latest effort The Unified Software Development Process. A book designed for those of you who love process (or want to learn development process), click below for more information.

While I'm still making my way through my auto-graphed (thanks Chris!) copy of Neil Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, new reviewer Nathan Bruinooge sent us over an excellent review of what it appears to be my favorite fiction of 1999. Click below - it's well worth it.

ErikSev has graciously submitted a review to Mathias Kalle Dalheimer's latest O'Reilly effort Programming with Qt. For those of you interested, click below to find out more about.

In "The Meme Machine", psychologist Susan Blackmore has taken a brilliant and contemporary idea -- the meme -- and beaten it nearly to death with incomprehensible psycho-babble.

As we've done before, both jonkatz and myself have read, and written reviews of Po Bronson's forthcoming book, Nudist on the Late Shift. While this book will get a huge amount of media attention - it's worth it. Click below to read more.

Rick Franchuk - TranSpecT Consulting, has returned with a book that's a little different then the norm - Michael Langford's 35mm Handbook. For those with the photographic bent, click below to read more about fine-tuning your art.

I've finally gotten off of my duff, and written my take on Erik Davis' Techgnosis: Myth, Magic + Mysticism, one of the more esoteric books that we've reviewed. For those of you interested in the sociologic roots of our culture, click below to read more.

Winning one of the longer title awards, SEGV has returned with a review, this time of Mickey Kawick's Real Time Strategy Game Programming using MS DirectX 6. For those of you want to know how to program the next Warcraft or Age of Empires, click below.

Jason Bennett has sent us a review of one of the O'Reilly staples, UNIX in a Nutshell. Click below to read more.

Well, after a long wait and fanfare, Kurt has sent a review of John Blair's Samba effort Samba: Integrating UNIX and Windows. If you need to make those two play well together, click below for more information.

Andrew Shapiro has written a new book that almost perfectly -- and presciently -- captures the big idea about the Internet right now: In "The Control Revolution," he describes how the Net is putting individuals in charge of their lives and changing the world.

Doc Technical, writer of the famous Story about Ping review, which I have now seen on Amazon, and on mailing lists, can review books other then allegories. Yes, it's true-and to prove his point, Doc has taken a hard look at Kirk Waingrow's Unix Hints and Hacks, a book for the system administrators, or those who think they want to one of the few, the proud, etc.

Probably a name familar to most of you, Alvin Toffler, authored the well-known book The Third Wave. This is a book that explores the emerging change in the world, called, (duh) The Third Wave. Thanks to joshy for sending this review our way.

Andrew Gardner has reviewed a book that I'm sure sits on many shelves: Perl in a Nutshell. Designed to be your desktop reference, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, and Nathan Patwardhan have produced a multi-use tool. Click below for the review.

Rounding at a full week of stern reviews, stern takes a look at Andrew Leonard's new book Bots: The Origin of New Species. You may recognize Leonard's name from Wired and Salon. Click below to get the natural selection on his new book.

Stern has gifted us with a review of Dave Barry's In Cyberspace. The book itself is 1996, but I can attest to the sheer humour of it, simply by it's long half-life in washroom. Click below to read more.