"In questi ventidue racconti veloci, nitidi, ricchi di originale immaginazione, la realtà e l'invenzione rendono avvincenti i vari episodi dove il mondo del sogno e il mondo effettivo non si sovrappongono, ma si fondono perfettamente." (Angela Padellaro)

Museum professionals will find much useful advice on how to make historic house museums best fulfill their function of teaching the public for whose visits they're designed. The contributors, all with experience in managing a house museum, describe techniques and issues that broaden the interpretation and presentation of historic houses to include gender issues, the landscape context, furnishings, access, tours, theme-based tours, communication with visitors, and the role of historic house museums in education. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Master operation system development. FreeDOS Kernel explains the construction and operation of Pat Villani's DOS-C - a highly portable, single threaded operating system. Written in C and with system calls similar to MS-DOS, the FreeDOS kernel provides an

Teach yourself the essentials of operating system design and development with this guide to FreeDOS -- a highly portable single threaded OS! You'll learn about kernel architecture, file systems, memory management, the API, and the command line interpreter. FreeDOS is an excellent source code base for experimenting.