All About the Personal Computer is about understanding the internal computer system. Many people have questions about computer terminology, its birth, components, and what are their functions inside a computer.

This book illustrates the basic components and how they interact with each other to form a fairly complex device that is known as a "computer." It gives a brief history of the change in electronics technology from the early 80’s to today’s computers.

This complete ABAP command reference provides you with key information on the most important ABAP commands with a comprehensive Table of Contents and an exhaustive command reference section, you’ll have all the essential information you need to master ABAP command – at your fingertips!

Versatile and easy to use, this reference provides you with complete syntax for most ABAP command. With instant access to all the ABAP information you need, you’ll achieve peak performance!

The SAP ABAP Command Reference covers:

• Most features of the SAP ABAP language, though release 4.6.
• Complete listings of command, options, operators, functions and system variables.
• Complete tables of SAP system fields and ABAP type conversions.
• Tables of selected SAP transaction codes, database tables and utility programs.

Tenser’s Tirades documents the obsession of self-styled author/consultant/evangelist James Tenser with the astonishing phenomenon of dot-com retailing. This collection of 32 essays appeared over a period of about five years in a dozen leading retail trade periodicals. Collectively, they track the early promise, exhilarating rise and stunning demise of born-for-the-Web retailing through a series of snapshots taken in the moment. As one of the earliest observers to grasp and comment upon the unvarnished realities of e-retailing, Tenser was right more often than he was wrong, but as these rants reveal, he never kept his opinions to himself.

America’s prisons are bursting at the seams. More than two million Americans are now behind bars, with the inmate population growing more than 10% year. Since it costs more to maintain a prisoner than to send someone to the finest medical or law school, this has become a corrosive political and social issue, capturing unprecedented media attention: cover stories in The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, The Economist, American Prospect, and Atlantic Monthly; a five-part Nightline series with Ted Koppel reporting from behind bars, etc.

Fidel & Leo (the title is a pun on Beethoven’s prison opera, Fidelio) is the story of a young Venezuelan software genius (Rocco, nicknamed "Fidel"), an old holocaust survivor (Leo), and a pioneering American woman filmmaker (Nora) who find a way to solve this problem by creating a new industry: small, inexpensive, and humane prisons with computer-simulated environments. The prisons are adapted from ordinary commercial real estate, franchised, and adopted all over the world, making billionaires of the partners. The story is about what happens to them, their prisoners – and America.

"YOU’VE GOT Funny MAIL" is a compilation by Divad Yvel of five years of humorous emails about love, life and happiness. Many of us have received these emails, but often delete them as junk mail when we are busy, or, at best, after reading them, immediately delete the message from our computer’s memory and our own memory, and lose that fleeting smile from our face. This book offers the opportunity to remember that "good one" that you wanted to share with a friend, savor the "dry one" that you had to read twice, and discover the "great one" that you will want to go back to again when you are feeling down. Some of these jokes may be perceived to pick on someone, but be assured that there is no offense intended. Divad just wants to make you laugh. Enjoy!