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Dave Taylor

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Dave Taylor has been involved in the online world since the ARPANET era and is recognized internationally as an expert in technology and business. He has published more than a thousand articles, launched four Internet startups, written over twenty business and technical books, and holds both an MBA and an MS Ed.

He runs the popular YouTube consumer electronics review channel AskDaveTaylor, writes for the Boulder Daily Camera newspaper, and contributes to various other publications online and in print. Dave teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in marketing, public speaking, film, and media & society at the University of Denver, where he has been recognized as a Leader in Teaching Excellence.

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	Wicked Cool Shell Scripts 3.68 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning Unix for OS X: Going Deep With the Terminal and Shell 3.74 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2012 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sams Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours 3.42 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1991 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning Unix for Mac OS X by Dave Taylor (Goodreads Author), Brian Jepson, Grace Todino 3.44 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger 3.55 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS 3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Idiot's Guide to Growing Your Business With Google 3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sams Teach Yourself Unix System Administration in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself in 24 Hours) 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creating Cool HTML 4 Web Pages really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teach Yourself Unix in a Week liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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"Moriarty: The Silent Order" is an Audible Original by Charles Kindinger that offers an entertaining twist on the Sherlock Holmes universe by shifting the spotlight to the infamous Professor Moriarty while Holmes himself is largely sidelined, struggl ...more
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"A Jewel in the Crown" is a wonderfully entertaining historical thriller, blending espionage, intrigue, humor, and a generous helping of wartime adventure. It's 1940s England, shortly after the evacuation of Dunkirk. The story follows Caitrin Colline ...more
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"Dealing, or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues" is a splendid slice of early 1970s college drug culture, filled with marijuana, youthful rebellion, questionable decisions, and the peculiar confidence of privileged undergrads who think ...more
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"Murder Most Foul" is a wonderfully imaginative work of historical fiction that transports readers to Elizabethan England in 1593, the year playwright Christopher Marlowe was mysteriously murdered. At the heart of the story is a young, impetuous Will ...more
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A Murder in Hollywood, written by Michael Crichton under the John Lange pseudonym, is a dated but breezy pulp mystery set during the location shoot of a Western in Old Tucson, Arizona. Told from the perspective of the film’s publicity agent, it assem ...more
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