A great starting point...
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This book is a great starting point for anyone who wants to give their life a 180 degree "eco-twist"... I'm an architect currently completing an eco-house project and this book proved to be a great resource for simple common sense knowledge that technical books leave out...
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This book is a good starting point for someone who may be interested in real estate investing and wants a quick, simplified overview of what it entails.

Once you have finished reading this book, you will have a better idea of what type of investing (if any) interests you and go from there.

Also, the links provided within each chapter provides a great way to get more in depth information about a specific area of real estate investing for no additional cost.
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I've just been getting started in screenwriting for the last year, and while I can't say if this is the "last" book, it is a good one.

It does seem to lean pretty hard on some reliable/overused (depending on your perspective) ideas - even pushing some tropes pretty hard - but a lot of this is tried and true stuff that's great until you likely find your own voice. If that's even what you're going for. If you're looking for a solid, basic guidebook on how to get started...this is a great start.
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This is a well thought out book. For anyone questioning the concept of a god, wondering why someone would question, or just looking for more information on the topic, this book is an excellent starting point. It has very clear, concise arguments for why gods and religion make no logical sense. Great read.
21528
Great starting point to technical analysis. Helps if you already have some background and experience, but would be fine for the pure beginner as well. Lots of charts and graphs to illustrate the points.
3487928
A good starting point for beginners to get all the right pointers and references to further dive deep and get into the domain
4664762
...to make the subject such an easy read and still present it in a very structured way. I am just starting a UNIX journey, and the book brings this newbie in a state of infinite infatuation loop. The fact that the FreeBSD OS is a masterpiece of global collaboration adds to it. I am not a pro, just a curious hobbyist. The book comes with the FreeBSD 4.3 for PC installation CD, so you can install it right away: a few concise yet thorough chapters handhold you along the way. After you are done, you'll be presented with a set of useful commands. The author shows advantages of one way of doing the task at hand over another and teaches a few simple yet witty tricks - a nice way to teach good habits from the start and giving you a chance to think for yourself at the same time. Not everybody can do this, pedagogical talent is obviously present here. There are few small errors and omissions, but for the beginner to intermediate level nothing comes close in the whole UNIX Universe. The best cab money I ever spent
2138764
The book offers sound advice and an excellent starting point for those of us whom have chosen to look for clarity in our quest to better ourselves.....and those around us.
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If you want to learn the various ways in which you can use Amazon's Web Services, this is an excellent starting point. Shanahan goes beyond "mashups" in the strict Web 2.0 sense of the term; he looks at the various ways of supporting wireless devices, and the use of the S3 storage service. The only nits (so far - I'm still working through some of the material) are that he assumes the use of Microsoft tools, and he identifies the term "JSON" with one particular style of mashup using script retrieval. (JSON is a serialization scheme which can be used for many different use cases, including RESTful interactions.) But these are minor points; this is an excellent book - and a lot of fun, too.
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If you want to know what you need to get started as a blogger, this book is a great starting point. You will have to do more research for detailed info but at least you know where to start and what to look for. Great book.
668129
I'm in the first year of a PhD in Education, and this book has proven to be a very useful starting point. I highly recommend it.
1031310
This book provides a great introduction to BizTalk.  The author puts the software into its proper context, provides a solid introduction to its architecture, and gives just enough "how-to" to get started.
Reading this book first will give you what you need to approach more in-depth material, e.g. Microsoft Press's BizTalk Server 2000 Documented.
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Jim Lord has put together a solid, realistic approach to preparing for the change of the century.  He has provided a reference to many critcal sources of information that we will need as we move into the early part of the next  century.  His sample letters provide us with the basis to get started on  the information retrieval and archiving process.  His references provide us  with sources to obtain the materials and provisions we may decide to  gather.  All-in-all, Jim Lord's book is a great beginner's starting point  and one that I recommend EVERYONE read. If you read only this book as your  starting point to understanding and preparing for the Y2K problem, you will  have enough information to intelligently begin your preparations.
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This book got my feet wet with MongoDB and Node.js. It was a great starting point and I would recommend it to anyone trying to learn some backend stuff with JavaScript. Jason builds an app from the ground up and his workflow was incredibly educational.  Overall it was a great introduction to using Mongo with Node.
4415621
Basic stuffs. Still you can find there some nice ideas and I need to admit that it's a great start for beginers.
1821731
Simple and straight forward. A great place to start.
1120659
Terrific introduction into this complex subject that also has a rapidly growing knowledge base--great place to start, as well as to use as a review for those who have become "rusty" in this matter!!