books by Martin Fowler     books:     Martin Fowler      Home For Christmas: Heart Full of Love/Ride the Clouds/Don't Look Back/To Keep Me Warm (Heartsong Novella ... Colleen Coble, Carol Cox, ... Barbour Publishing, Incorporated, 2001 Very Good!! A very good book. I'm not a big fan of reading and haven't finished a book since who knows when. But I started reading this book and couldn't put it down. It's very intersting!! I wish I could fine more books like it!             Wild Orchids Of South Carolina: A Popular Natural History James Alexander Fowler University of South Carolina Press, 2005 Finally, a book focusing exclusively on orchids in South Carolina. A must have compendium of SC species presented in a first-hand accounting of one man's remarkable journey with these plants. Each has a photo of a grouping in situ and closeups of floral parts, there is room for notes and extensive explanations of habitat needs, ...             Refactoring: Ruby Edition (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) Jay Fields, Shane Harvie, ... Addison-Wesley Professional, 2009             Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series) Martin Fowler Addison-Wesley Professional, 1996 Study, don't just read this book. I bet you are an object oriented software developer striving to build better applications. If you have not read GoF Design Patterns and followed that with Vlissides's Pattern Hatching , read those first. Follow those with this, Martin Fowler's Analysis Patterns . ...             The Ethical Practice of Critical Thinking Martin Clay Fowler Carolina Academic Press, 2008 It's incredible that critical thinking texts can describe skills of logical deduction, inference, and argument as if thinking were something other than an activity which real people do together. Critical thinking is not just private pondering, nimble mental gymnastics, or a bland set of teachable skills. The Ethical Practice of Critical Thinking ...             UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (3rd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Object ... Martin Fowler Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003 Excellent introduction to UML and the software design process. If you would like to get a better grasp on doing some high-level software design, UML Distilled turns out to be a much better book than I had anticipated. I expected a dry tutorial of the UML notation, but it is thankfully much more than this. UML Distilled (3rd Ed.) ...             The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (The Virtual Laboratory) Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Aristid Lindenmayer Springer, 1991 All the detail you need to produce your own graphical plants The beauty of plants has attracted the interest of mathematicians for centuries. Plants have many conspicuous geometric features such as symmetry in their leaves, rotational symmetry in their flowers, and then there are the interesting helical arrangements of pine cone ...             Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series) Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, ... Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999 Must have in any developers collection I was referred to this book from a colleague after a quick discussion on "Replace temp with Query" in our projects code base. I thought I knew it all as a software developer, but reading this book, I soon came to realize that as a software developer I was leaving a ...             Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Addison-Wesley Signature Series) Martin Fowler Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002 Must have reference for all developers Even if you don't do "Enterprise Application" development, this book is a must have in your library. If you have been developing for more than a couple of years and you haven't seen 1/2 of the patterns in this book, then you are probably doing something wrong and this ...             Planning Extreme Programming (XP Series) Kent Beck, Martin Fowler Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000 Excellent book This book lays out the point of planning, the approach taken, and the steps to do. This book has a lot of content not found in any other XP book that I own. The gold nuggets in here are useful for project management for years to come. It's a 5 star for sure.             Tales from West Africa (Oxford Myths and Legends) Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 This lively collection comes from West Africa, a place 'where stories grow on trees'. Here are the famous tricksters: Hare, Tortoise, and the greatest of them all - Ananse, the spider. The stories are full of larger-than-life characters and situations, and include the tale of how Ananse got his thin waist, how Crocodile learnt his lesson, and how ...             UML Distilled: Applying the Standard Object Modelling Language Martin; Scott, Kendall Fowler Addison-Wesley, 1997 If you know OO programming it is a good overview of UML Short and to the point. A good working guide if you know OO programming. Examples are clear but not too detailed. If you are into the high ceremony, fill out every form, type of design documentation this book won't be detailed enough for you. If you are a working ...             Advanced Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Using UML Cambridge University Press, 1998 Very advanced and appropriate for graduate studies This book is certainly for a very advanced student. If you are just beginning, it's not going to tell you much. But if you are into graduate studies and need some good references, this is the book for you. I will probably read this book several times to get the ...             CALABASH Christopher Fowler Warner Books, 2000          products you might be interested in search for books addison-wesley, algorithmic, architecture, object-oriented, professional, refactoring      geepe.com    web we recommend Must have in any developers collection randomly chosen book: Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Post-Contemporary ...