Actually, I considered recommending them too, but made a quick check before. Ordering "The Pragmatic Programmer" and "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning" from Amazon (+shipping) totals at $77, as opposed to $86 on Combooks. Always compare :)
Aviv 2009/7/15 Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladyp...@gmail.com> > Have you tried Combooks? I used to invite them to August Penguin to have a > discounted sale of FOSS software (organizers - you might wish to do this > again). > > http://www.combooks.co.il/Combooks_Il2/ > > Orna. > > 2009/7/15 Shlomo Dubrowin <dubrowin.l...@gmail.com> > >> I live and work in the Jerusalem area. Generally, when I want Linux >> and/or other types of computer books (right now I'm learning Perl), I wait >> till we have family coming from the US and force them to bring the books to >> me here. >> >> I keep saying there must be a better way to get good books here in >> Israel. Is there a bookstore somewhere that already imports these kinds of >> books, or that can order them for me and deliver them to me via IL Post or >> where I can pick them up somewhere local in this part of the country? >> >> I have ordered books through a previous employer from Amazon.co.uk, but I >> remember it being much more expensive than getting them in the US. What are >> your experiences. Thank you. >> >> Shlomo >> >> ----------------------------- >> Shlomo Dubrowin >> >> The Solution to the water crisis in Israel: >> >> # According to WikiPedia, the Kinneret can hold >> # 4 km^3, so FULL here is in cubit meters >> FULL="4000" >> while [ "$LEVEL" -lt "$FULL" ]; do >> cat /sea/med /sea/red |\ >> grep -vi "salt" |\ >> tee /sea/dead /lake/kinneret >> LEVEL=`du -c /sea/dead /lake/kinneret | grep total | awk '{print $1}'` >> done >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > -- Aviv Ben-Yosef Miracle Max: You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.
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