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Product Description: "This book is written from a powerfully felt, personal perspective: that software construction is primarily a problem-solving activity; that all problem-solving requires creativity; that software problem-solving is deeply complex, perhaps more deeply complex than any other activity; and that, therefore, software problem-solving requires the ultimate in creativity...read more
By Tom Demarco (foreword by), Robert L. Glass and Dwayne Phillips (contributor)
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9780977213313 | Developer * Books, November 30, 2006, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: "This book is written from a powerfully felt, personal perspective: that software construction is primarily a problem-solving activity; that all problem-solving requires creativity; that software problem-solving is deeply complex, perhaps more deeply complex than any other activity; and that, therefore, software problem-solving requires the ultimate in creativity.

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Product Description: Any software project that's worth starting will be vulnerable to risk. Since greater risks bring greater rewards, a company that runs away from risk will soon find itself lagging behind its more adventurous competition. By ignoring the threat of negative outcomes—in the name of positive thinking or a Can-Do attitude—software managers drive their organizations into the ground...read more
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9780932633606 | Dorset House, March 1, 2003, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Any software project that's worth starting will be vulnerable to risk.

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Product Description: These stories poke fun at college professors and religion, examine the complex mathematics of finding both love and the proverbial needle in a haystack, and deftly probe the boundary between imagination and reality. From a dying man who makes a blanket for himself from his favorite books to a young boy who discovers love in the unlikeliest form, the characters come wonderfully to life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780892725861 | Down East Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: These stories poke fun at college professors and religion, examine the complex mathematics of finding both love and the proverbial needle in a haystack, and deftly probe the boundary between imagination and reality.

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Argues that the 'lean and mean' corporate model of workaholism and downsizing is proving counterproductive, explaining how companies can implement downtime, promote flexibility, and foster creativity as part of realizing increased revenues. Reprint. (view table of contents)
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9780932633613 | Dorset House, March 1, 2001, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: To most companies, efficiency means profits and growth.

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9780767907699, titled "Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency" | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, April 1, 2002), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Argues that the 'lean and mean' corporate model of workaholism and downsizing is proving counterproductive, explaining how companies can implement downtime, promote flexibility, and foster creativity as part of realizing increased revenues.

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9780767908993, titled "Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency" | Crown Pub, November 27, 2001, cover price $14.95

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Argues that the 'lean and mean' corporate model of workaholism and downsizing is proving counterproductive, explaining how companies can implement downtime, promote flexibility, and foster creativity as part of realizing increased revenues. (view table of contents)
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9780767907682 | Broadway Books, April 1, 2001, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Argues that the 'lean and mean' corporate model of workaholism and downsizing is proving counterproductive, explaining how companies can implement downtime, promote flexibility, and foster creativity as part of realizing increased revenues.

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Product Description: Bring together a wonderfully varied mix of characters in a once-grand Maine island summer cottage, leave them to their own devices over the course of a long, idyllic summer in the late 1940s, and you have all the ingredients for a fine comedy of manners...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780892725113 | Down East Books, September 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Bring together a wonderfully varied mix of characters in a once-grand Maine island summer cottage, leave them to their own devices over the course of a long, idyllic summer in the late 1940s, and you have all the ingredients for a fine comedy of manners.

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Product Description: Demarco and Lister demonstrate that the major issues of software development are human, not technical. Their answers aren't easy--just incredibly successful. New second edition features eight all-new chapters. Softcover. Previous edition: c1987. DLC: Management.
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9780932633439 | 2 edition (Dorset House, February 1, 1999), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Demarco and Lister demonstrate that the major issues of software development are human, not technical.
9780932633057 | Dorset House, November 1, 1987, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Amazon.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781884387005 | Victory Audio Video Services, October 1, 1993, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Demarco and Lister demonstrate that the major issues of software development are human, not technical.

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9780932633392 | Dorset House, June 1, 1997, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: dust cover intact. pages unmarked.
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9780932633347 | Dorset House, December 1, 1995, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: dust cover intact.

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Product Description: Concerned as we are about information anxiety and about possible deformation of tectonic plates due to the accumulation of unread Datamations and Computerworlds, we decided to search through the tons of software literature published over the last ten years and select the good stuff...read more
By Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister (editor)
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9780932633149 | Dorset House, June 1, 1990, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: Concerned as we are about information anxiety and about possible deformation of tectonic plates due to the accumulation of unread Datamations and Computerworlds, we decided to search through the tons of software literature published over the last ten years and select the good stuff.

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Suggests quantitative methods for estimating software development time, describes various system models, and explains how to gather numerical information about a project
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9780131717114 | Facsimile edition (Prentice Hall, November 1, 1982), cover price $72.67 | About this edition: Suggests quantitative methods for estimating software development time, describes various system models, and explains how to gather numerical information about a project

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Product Description: This classic book of tools and methods for the analyst brings order and precisions to the specification process as it provides guidance and development of a structured specification. Covers functional decomposition; data dictionary; process specification; system modeling; structured analysis for a future system...read more
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9780138543808 | Facsimile edition (Prentice Hall, June 1, 1979), cover price $84.67 | About this edition: This classic book of tools and methods for the analyst brings order and precisions to the specification process as it provides guidance and development of a structured specification.

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9780131670730 | Yourdon, May 1, 1979, cover price $24.00

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