MVS is IBM's strategic mainframe operating system, used in major enterprises throughout the world. MVS Systems Programming provides an overview of the specialist skills and knowledge that systems programmers require, as well as serving as a practical guide to their fundamental tasks. Although designed primarily as a readable introduction to the subject, the breadth of detailed information included in this book could only be acquired by years of 'on the job' experience. It will therefore also be a valuable reference source for practicing systems programmers and for associated staff who need to know the basics of this important operating system. Every stage of the implementation of an MVS system, and the essential IBM systems software is covered, from installation through to maintenance, problem diagnosis, and disaster recovery, complete with practical information in every area.

MVS Systems Programming

Computers & Technology

Dave Elder-Vass

Computer Science

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Is this the greatest discovery of all time … or the biggest hoax? Bob Hanson, the chief scientist of a major aerospace corporation, has made an incredible discovery: a wrecked alien spacecraft adrift in the Asteroid Belt. The evidence is compelling—video images from the Prospector space probe he himself had created. The military enthusiastically embraces an investigation of the extraterrestrials, remarkably indifferent to the inconsistencies that begin to appear. Undeterred, Hanson keeps digging … and finds much more than he had ever bargained for. Soon on the lam, he, and everyone to whom he turns, is hunted. Before long only one conclusion remains unassailable—that his mysterious opponents play for keeps. Are aliens manipulating events on Earth? Did unscrupulous corporate executives invent the aliens in search of giga-buck government contracts? Has the Pentagon fabricated an alien menace for its own purposes? Or is the truth something really unimaginable?

Probe

Lerner, Edward M.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Award-winning journalist David DeKok tells, for the first time, how the Centralia mine fire really started in 1962. He shows how local, state and federal government officials failed to take effective action, allowing the fire to move underneath the small town of Centralia, Pennsylvania. By early 1981, the fire was sending deadly gases into homes, forcing the federal government to install gas alarms. A 12-year-old boy dropped into a steaming hole in the ground wrenched open by the fire's heat on Valentine's Day as the region's congressman toured nearby. DeKok tells how the people of Centralia banded together to demand help from the government, finally winning money to relocate much of the town.

Unseen Danger: A Tragedy of People, Government, and the Centralia Mine Fire

History

David DeKok

Americas

When young Eddie Gillespie discovers a World War II airplane in the jungle, with a grinning skeleton at the controls, he sets a story in motion. Two American fighter pilots in the Chinese Air Force, with their English and Burmese girlfriends, and a Japanese suicide pilot whose name happens to mean "tree of the sun"--they clash at Rangoon, while the British empire falls about their ears. Here is a story of the Flying Tigers, immortalized by their exploits in Southeast Asia in the opening months of the Pacific War, as told by a man uniquely qualified to write about those stirring times. Ford's history of the Flying Tigers won the award of excellence from the Aviation-Space Writers Association, while his novel of the Vietnam war inspired the Burt Lancaster film _Go Tell the Spartans_, which the _Cincinnati Enquirer_ called "one of the noblest films, ever, about men in crisis." Here he deftly melds fact and fiction in an unforgettable wartime romance. "You can't beat remains, kid," Lieutenant Atherton says in a beautifully limned conclusion. "They'll tell the story every time."

Remains (a story of the Flying Tigers)

Literature & Fiction

Ford, Daniel

United States

Legends abound about the Gods who walked the earth at the beginnings of time. In The Occult Connection, Ken Hudnall explores a connection between these Ancient gods who once ruled the earth, the UFOs that populate our skies and secret societies which seem to have influenced the development of our society since the beginnings of time. Is it possible that the Gods intend to come back to rule mankind directly? Do these mysterious beings walk among us today? Come explore these possibilities in this first book of a series which deals with these events.

The Occult Connection: U.F.O.S, Secret Societies and Ancient Gods

Self-Help

Hudnall, Ken

Stress Management

"It's a bust!" someone cries out...and thus starts a series of adventures for fourteen year old Reason Nelson that takes him into the dark world of drugs and alcohol and serious crime...adventures that force him to walk a tightrope stretched between the police and the underworld.This is the exciting and heart-tugging story of how Reason and his friends cope with their own world and the adult world. Sometimes funny and sometimes tragic, it tells how they deal with the pressures within themselves and the pressures forced upon them, and how they deal with the attraction and subsequent addition of alcohol and drugs.Written from personal experiences, it accurately portrays the pre-teen and teenage viewpoint. This is a must reading for anyone that is fourteen, was fourteen or will be fourteen.

Scratchin' on the Eight Ball

Children's Books

Frye, Tom

Growing Up & Facts of Life

When MGM paired Nelson with Jeanette MacDonald in "Naughty Marietta", America's Sweethearts were born. The became a source of frenzied curiosity for years to come. Rumors of their feuds and love affairs abounded. Nelson was fiercely protective of his private life, even aloof at times, but always captivating, always charming and always, always...a gentleman. Little known anecdotes and stories of Nelson the concert singer, the radio personality, the motion picture idol, and the multitalented painter and sculptor bring him to life. Then when movies lost their guilded edge, he risked his career by bypassing the wave of the future, television. He and his partner, Gale Sherwood, became the hottest nightclub act of the fifties. From opera to the nitery crowd, Nelson did it all. It is all here...his triumphs and his private heartbreaks, his insecurities and dreams. His sister Ginny says, "It's Nelson to a tee".

Nelson Eddy, America's Favorite Baritone: An Authorized Biographical Tribute

Lulay, Gail

Humor & Entertainment

"Roll-Call: The Old Rose Breeder" is the first ever complete listing of the breeders of old roses with their introductions classified and dated, as well as location information and other thumbnail data. This handy reference, compiled over nearly two decades of study by the top authority on the history of old roses, is a necessary guide for old rose enthusiasts and researchers who wish to have a full idea of the careers and contributions of those who bred and released old roses. The reader will be able to trace the efforts of each breeder/introducer year-by-year, casting light on their hybridization, their goals, their abilities--and their luck. Have the complete historical sweep of the world of old roses at your fingertips!

Roll Call-The Old Rose Breeder: A Gazetteer of Breeders, Introducers, and Their Roses Through 1920

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Dickerson, Brent C.

Gardening & Landscape Design

Dog Days: The New York Yankees' Fall from Grace and Return to Glory, 1964-1976

Sports & Outdoors

Bashe, Philip

Baseball

The Tomato Canis a compellingly comedic and entertaining novel, in the "Runyonesque" mode that captures the excitement, intrigue and perils of a group of New York wise guys who are as memorably raffish and colorful a cast of characters as has been assembled between two covers in a long time. The twisting plot will evoke laughter, tears and surprise after surprise.You will be taken on a raucously bumpy, up-and-down roller-coaster type ride through the Thirties and Forties with a back drop of Coney Island to Madison Square Garden - so sit back, hold on and ENJOY!!!

The Tomato Can

Ross, Ron

Humor & Satire

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