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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows Server 2003 in 24 Hours

Paperback: 600 pages
Data: April 21, 2003
Format: PDF
Description: Quick and concise coverage of the most important features of .NET Server. Hands-on, easy-to-follow content that allow the reader to install and configure .NET Server. Coverage of advanced networking features such as Virtual Private Networking and Routing and Remote Access. Provides an overview of the .NET initiative and what that means for IT Professionals. Windows .NET Server fixes problems such as security and scalability found in Windows 2000 and adds a number of new services and application deployment tools. This book will appeal to many IT professionals who wish to configure a .NET test Server and read about its deployment. Network administrators and IT professionals often want a quick fix when it comes to learning about new IT solutions such as the .NET Server software. This book provides a hands-on approach to quickly learning and running the features of .NET Server. The book will also provide information on advanced features such as routing and remote access and Virtual Private Networking, which is often skipped in books of this size and intent. Joe Habraken is a computer technology professional and best-selling author with more than fifteen years of experience in the information technology field. He has written more than twenty computer and information technology publications including Microsoft Office XP 8 in 1, Practical Cisco Routers, and the Absolute Beginner's Guide to Networking, Third Edition. Joe, a Microsoft Certified Professional and Cisco Certified Network Associate, currently serves as an assistant professor in the business management program at the University of New England where he teaches a wide variety of LAN, WAN, OS, and other information technology courses.

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Killer Web Content: Make the Sale, Deliver the Service, Build the Brand

Paperback: 224 pages
Data: September 1, 2007
Format: PDF
Description: "Genius! Gerry McGovern gets it! If you read one book on managing a website, this is it. A must read for any web manager in any organization, large or small, government or private."-Bev Godwin, director of FirstGov.gov

Written by an internationally acclaimed specialist in this field, Killer Web Content provides the strategies and practical techniques you need to get the very best out of your web content. The book helps readers to: provide visitors to their website with the right content at the right time, write compelling web content that users respond to and want more of, make sure their website has the best possible chance of getting into the first page of search results, and understand the benefits of blogs, RSS, and e-mail newsletters.

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ATL Internals: Working with ATL 8 (2nd Edition)

Paperback: 888 pages
Data: July 5, 2006
Format: CHM
Description: Four leading Windows programming experts systematically reveal ATL's inner workings, explaining not just how ATL works, but why it works the way it does. Client-side developers will master ATL's resources for windowing, COM control, MFC integration, web service proxy generation, and more. Server-side programmers will discover ATL's full COM server and object services, and its extensive support for high-throughput, high-concurrency web applications, and services. Every Windows developer will learn powerful ways to increase flexibility, reduce overhead, and maximize transparency and control.

* Discover ATL's internals through diagrams, example code, and internal ATL implementation code
* Walk through wizards that simplify ATL usage in common applications
* Master string handling in C++, COM, and ATL
* Leverage ATL smart types, including CComPtr, CComQIPtr, CComBSTR, and CComVariant
* Understand and choose the right options for implementing IUnknown
* Create glue code that exposes COM objects from COM servers
* Use canned interface implementations to support object persistence, COM collections, enumerators, and connection points
* Build standalone applications and UI components with ATL window classes and controls
* Use ATL Server to develop web applications that run on Microsoft IIS

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Distributed and Parallel Systems: In Focus: Desktop Grid Computing

Paperback: 210 pages
Data: August 15, 2008
Format: PDF
Description: APSYS (International Conference on Distributed and Parallel Systems) is an international biannual conference series dedicated to all aspects of distributed and parallel computing. DAPSYS 2008, the 7th International Conference on Distributed and Parallel Systems was held in September 2008 in Hungary.

Distributed and Parallel Systems: Desktop Grid Computing, based on DAPSYS 2008, presents original research, novel concepts and methods, and outstanding results. Contributors investigate parallel and distributed techniques, algorithms, models and applications; present innovative software tools, environments and middleware; focus on various aspects of grid computing; and introduce novel methods for development, deployment, testing and evaluation. This volume features a special focus on desktop grid computing as well.

Designed for a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers in industry, this book is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science.

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Selling with Emotional Intelligence

Paperback: 288 pages
Data: March 30, 2003
Format: PDF
Description: In today's ultra-competitive business environment, it's not enough for sales professionals to be adept at technical and tactical skills such as getting appointments, making presentations, and closing deals. To really succeed, they must develop and apply their relational skills-or what is known as emotional intelligence-to help them connect with people, recognize customer wants and needs, and build strong, lasting relationships. The concept of emotional intelligence was first popularized in the late 1990s, and later linked to leadership and management success. Studies show that a person's emotional intelligence has an 80 to 85 percent influence on success in the workplace, while his or her IQ has at best a 25 percent influence. Now, in Selling with Emotional Intelligence, author and sales trainer Mitch Anthony presents the first-ever examination of emotional intelligence as it relates to sales performance. Anthony first explains what emotional intelligence is, then presents sales professionals with a proven program for increasing their emotional intelligence, thus improving their sales success.
The program, which is known as the ARROW Program, includes five steps:
1. Awareness-Tune-in to natural strengths and weaknesses. Examine how one's personality impacts others. Be aware of emotions controlling the sales process.
2. Restraint-Identify negative emotions that can damage relationships, inflict pain, and cost money. Prepare a rational response that will restrain emotions.
3. Resilience-Learn to develop an optimistic, persistent nature. Embrace adversity. Recognize the true source of discouragement. Embrace intrinsic motivators.
4. Others (empathy)-Discern feelings and motives. Develop emotional radar. Learn to be a better listener and observer.
5. Working with others (building rapport)-Communicate. Resolve conflicts. Learn to relate to and lead others. A great deal of time and money is spent training salespeople in the technical aspects of their work. However, the real need in sales training lies in helping representatives and managers hone emotional and relational skills. Selling with Emotional Intelligence provides sales professionals with a program for dealing with the emotional challenges of their work and for enhancing sales performance.

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The Martian Principles for Successful Enterprise Systems: 20 Lessons Learned from NASAs Mars Exploration Rover Mission

Paperback: 138 pages
Data: May 1, 2006
Format: PDF
Description: * For the first time ever, the senior architect and lead developer for a key enterprise system on NASA's ongoing Mars Exploration Rover mission shares the secrets to one of the most difficult technology tasks of all-successful software development
* Written in a conversational, brief, and to-the-point style, this book presents principles learned from the Mars Rover project that will help ensure the success of software developed for any enterprise system
* Author Ronald Mak imparts anecdotes from his work on the Mars Rover and offers valuable lessons on software architecture, software engineering, design patterns, code development, and project management for any software, regardless of language or platform

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Building Multiservice Transport Networks

Paperback: 576 pages
Data: July 13, 2006
Format: CHM
Description: A comprehensive handbook for understanding, designing, and deploying multiservice network architecture and applications
Design, deploy, operate, and troubleshoot ONS 15454 applications and services
Learn SONET/SDH and DWDM fundamentals
Understand Multiservice Provisioning Platform (MSPP) network architectures that support Ethernet, storage area networking, wavelength, and DWDM transport applications
Extend your MSPP with Cisco storage solutions

A new generation of SONET and DWDM systems providing the functions of multiple network elements in a single platform has emerged. This new platform is called a Multiservice Provisioning Platform (MSPP). MSPPs are a popular solution for building new networks and upgrading existing networks to take advantage of new services and integration of voice and data. Cisco Systems provides an MSPP product, the ONS 15454, for both service provider and enterprise networks. Cisco Systems is the market leader in MSPP technology in North America. More than 1,000 Cisco customers use the ONS 15454 MSPP in their networks and over 40,000 ONS 15454s have shipped, creating a need for accurate, comprehensive technical information for users to understand and maximize the potential of this MSPP product. Building Multiservice Transport Networks will become an indispensable reference for Cisco customers and constituents who are deploying MSPP solutions. Building Multiservice Transport Networks teaches all facets of MSPP networks in an easy-to-understand manner and from both the service provider and enterprise perspective. It provides the background material necessary for readers to learn key aspects of SONET, SDH, DWDM, Ethernet, and storage networking, and does so through network diagrams, application examples, design guidelines, and detailed configurations.

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Managing Catastrophic Lo of Sensitive Data: A Guide for IT and Security Professionals

Paperback: 400 pages
Data: March 3, 2008
Format: PDF
Description: Offering a structured approach to handling and recovering from a catastrophic data loss, this book will help both technical and non-technical professionals put effective processes in place to secure their business-critical information and provide a roadmap of the appropriate recovery and notification steps when calamity strikes.

*Addresses a very topical subject of great concern to security, general IT and business management
*Provides a step-by-step approach to managing the consequences of and recovering from the loss of sensitive data.
*Gathers in a single place all information about this critical issue, including legal, public relations and regulatory issues

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Microsoft Excel 2003 Programming Inside Out

Paperback: 700 pages
Data: November 12, 2003
Format: CHM
Description: Take your Microsoft Office experience to the next level by programming custom business solutions with Excel 2003. This supremely organized reference and tutorial packs hundreds of timesaving answers, tips, and workarounds for advanced Excel users.

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High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More

High Performance MySQL is the definitive guide to building fast, reliable systems with MySQL. Written by noted experts with years of real-world experience building very large systems, this book covers every aspect of MySQL performance in detail, and focuses on robustness, security, and data integrity. High Performance MySQL teaches you advanced techniques in depth so you can bring out MySQL’s full power. Learn how to design schemas, indexes, queries and advanced MySQL features for maximum performance, and get detailed guidance for tuning your MySQL server, operating system, and hardware to their fullest potential. You’ll also learn practical, safe, high-performance ways to scale your applications with replication, load balancing, high availability, and failover. This second edition is completely revised and greatly expanded, with deeper coverage in all areas.

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Introduction to Computer Security

In this authoritative book, widely respected practitioner and teacher Matt Bishop presents a clear and useful introduction to the art and science of information security. Bishop’s insights and realistic examples will help any practitioner or student understand the crucial links between security theory and the day-to-day security challenges of IT environments.

Bishop explains the fundamentals of security: the different types of widely used policies, the mechanisms that implement these policies, the principles underlying both policies and mechanisms, and how attackers can subvert these tools–as well as how to defend against attackers. A practicum demonstrates how to apply these ideas and mechanisms to a realistic company.

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Windows XP Live USB Edition 2008

Portable Windows XP Live USB Edition 2008 Did you ever want to boot up into Windows XP via a USB memory key? Well, now you can !!! This is a miniature version of Win XP enough to get you up and running so you can restore from backup, access your files, or do whatever you have to do. Instructions inside!

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Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Twentieth-Century United States

Anyone who seeks to understand the dynamics of culture and politics in the United States must grapple with the importance of religion in its many diverse and contentious manifestations. With conservative evangelicals forming the base of the Republican Party, racial-ethnic communities often organized along religious lines, and socio-political movements on the left including major religious components, many of the country's key cultural-political debates are carried out through religious discourse.

In this volume, Mark Hulsether leads readers on a tour of religion in the United States. He introduces key players and offers a set of case studies to explore the interaction of these players with major trends in U.S. cultural history. Students in American studies and cultural studies will especially appreciate how Hulsether frames his analysis using categories such as cultural hegemony, race and gender contestation, popular culture, and empire, enabling a more informed and constructive discussion of religion in these fields. Hulsether offers a synthesis that is concise yet internally complex and dynamic& mdash;one that gives special attention to religious diversity and conflict, the relations between religious groups and broader historical trends, and the internal struggles of religious people as they set priorities and cope with emerging change

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Malware Forensics: Investigating and Analyzing Malicious Code

Dissecting the dark side of the Internet - with its infectious worms, botnets, rootkits, and Trojan horse programs (known as malware)-- this in-depth, how-to guide details the complete process of responding to a malicious code incident, from isolating malware and testing it in a forensic lab environment, to pulling apart suspect code and investigating its origin and authors. Written by information security experts with real-world investigative experience, Malware Forensics: Investigating and Analyzing Malicious Code is the most instructional book available on the subject, providing practical step-by-step technical and legal guidance to readers by featuring tools, diagrams, examples, exercises and checklists.

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Flash and PHP Bible

Matthew Keefe, “Flash and PHP Bible”
Wiley | ISBN: 0470258241 | May 5, 2008 | 508 pages | PDF | 6.2MB

The demand for rich Internet applications (RIAs) such as complete storefronts and interactive surveys is skyrocketing, as is the pressure to create these dynamic apps overnight and at low cost. This in-depth Bible provides the step-by-step instructions you need to quickly create RIAs in Flash using cost-effective, open-source PHP programming tools. You’ll learn how PHP works, when you should use it in Flash, and above all, vital security techniques for keeping your interactive sites secure.

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Scripted GUI Testing with Ruby

Scripted GUI Testing with Ruby is a practical, quick-moving tutorial based on real life, and real-world GUI applications.

Right out of the gate you'll start working with code to drive a desktop GUI. You'll discover the kinds of gotchas and edge cases that don't exist in simple, toy programs. As you add more tests, you'll learn how to organize your test code and write lucid examples. The result is a series of "smoke tests" team will run on Continuous Integration servers.

Next, we'll explore a variety of different testing tips and tricks. You'll employ a series of increasingly random and punishing test monkeys to try to crash programs. Table-driven techniques will show you how to check dozens of different input combinations. See how to use longer acceptance tests (in the form of stories) to represent the way a typical customer would use your program.

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Oracle PL/SQL by Example, 4th Edition

This integrated learning solution teaches all the Oracle PL/SQL skills you need, hands-on, through real-world labs, extensive examples, exercises, and projects! Completely updated for Oracle 11g, Oracle PL/SQL by Example, Fourth Edition covers all the fundamentals, from PL/SQL syntax and program control through packages and Oracle 11g’s significantly improved triggers.

One step at a time, you’ll walk through every key task, discovering the most important PL/SQL programming techniques on your own. Building on your hands-on learning, the authors share solutions that offer deeper insights and proven best practices. End-of-chapter projects bring together all the techniques you’ve learned, strengthening your understanding through real-world practice.

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Refactoring SQL Applications

What can you do when database performance doesn't meet expectations? Before you turn to expensive hardware upgrades to solve the problem, reach for this book. Refactoring SQL Applications provides a set of tested options for making code modifications to dramatically improve the way your database applications function. Backed by real-world examples, you'll find quick fixes for simple problems, in-depth answers for more complex situations, and complete solutions for applications with extensive problems.

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Ruby Phrasebook (Developer's Library

Ruby Phrasebook gives you the code you need to quickly and effectively work with Ruby, one of the fastest-growing languages in the world thanks to popular new Ruby technologies like Ruby on Rails.

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Broadband Optical Access Networks and Fiber-to-the-Home: Systems Technologies and Deployment Strategies

Paperback: 334 pages
Data: September 29, 2006
Format: PDF
Description: Broadband Optical Access and Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) will provide the ultimate broadband service capabilities.

Compared with the currently well-deployed broadband access technologies of ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) and Cable Modems, optical broadband access with Fiber-to-the-User’s home will cater for much higher speed access for new services.

Broadband Optical Access Networks and Fiber-to-the-Home presents a comprehensive technical overview of key technologies and deployment strategies for optical broadband access networks and emerging new broadband services. The authors discuss network design considerations, new services, deployment trends and operational experiences, while explaining the current situation and providing insights into future broadband access technologies and services.

Broadband Optical Access Networks and Fiber-to-the-Home:
Offers a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to new developments in broadband access network technologies and services.
Examines the impact of research and development in photonics technologies on broadband access and FTTH.
Covers ADSL, VDSL with FTTC (Fiber-to-the-Curb), Cable Modem over HFC (Hybrid-Fiber Coax) and Gigabit Ethernet.
Discusses the roles of Broadband Wireless LAN and integrated FTTH/Wireless Broadband Access as well as Broadband Home Networks.
Provides a global view of broadband network development, presenting different technical and system deployment approaches and strategic considerations for comparison.
Gives insight into the worldwide broadband competition and the future of this technology.

Broadband Optical Access Networks and Fiber-to-the-Home will be an invaluable resource for engineers in research and development, network planners, business managers, consultants as well as analysts and educators for a better understanding of the future of broadband in the field of telecommunications, data communications, and broadband multimedia service industries.

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Communication Systems for the Mobile Information Society

Paperback: 382 pages
Data: August 30, 2006
Format: PDF
Description: Many wireless systems like GSM, GPRS, UMTS, Bluetooth, WLAN or WiMAX offer possibilities to keep people connected while on the move. In this flood of technology and claims that one single resource will serve all our needs, this book seeks to enable readers to examine and understand each technology, and how to utilise several different systems for the best results.

Communication Systems for the Mobile Information Society not only contains a technical description of the different wireless systems available today, but also explains the thoughts that are behind the different mechanisms and implementations; not only the 'how' but also the 'why' is in focus. Thus the advantages and also limitations of each technology become apparent.

Provides readers with a solid introduction to major global wireless standards and compares the different wireless technologies and their applications
Describes the different systems based on the standards, their practical implementation and the design assumptions that were made
The performance and capacity of each system in practice is analyzed and explained, accompanied with practical tips on how to discover the functionality of different networks by the readers themselves
Questions at the end of each chapter and answers on the accompanying website make this book ideal for self study or as course material
Illustrated with many realistic examples of how mobile people can stay in touch with other people, the Internet and their corporate intranet

This book is an essential resource for telecommunication engineers, professionals and computer science and electrical engineering students who want to get a thorough end-to-end understanding of the different technical concepts of the systems on the market today.

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Samba: UNIX and NT Internetworking

Paperback: 304 pages
Data: January 3, 2000
Format: PDF
Description: This Long-Awaited Guide is the Most Comprehensive Collection of Samba Administration Tools Available Anywhere!

Samba, the important new set of tools for accessing UNIX files systems and printers from a Window client via Microsoft's Server Message Block (SMB) is today's hottest technology. This book/CD-ROM package provides UNIX administrators with all the tools needed to integrate Windows 2000 into corporate networks.

Best-selling author James DeRoest clearly explains the nuts and bolts of the Samba toolkit as well as the particular complexities of al the Windows Domain Systems and file system issues. In addition, installation, user interface, security, namespace, and troubleshooting are discussed extensively.

UNIX system administrators and programmers will find Samba: UNIX & NT Internetworking to be their best and most up-to-date resource for unlocking the power of UNIX and successfully integrating Windows 2000 operating systems.

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Modeling & Simulation-Based Data Engineering: Introducing Pragmatics into Ontologies for Net-Centric Information Exchange

Paperback: 448 pages
Data: August 3, 2007
Format: PDF
Description: This book provides a practical methodology and framework to address some of the most pressing challenges impacting the interoperability and supportability of Information Technology (IT) systems and their viability as part of the Global Information Grid (GIG).

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Programming Language Pragmatics, Second Edition

Paperback: 912 pages
Data: November 7, 2005
Format: PDF
Description: As a textbook suitable for the classroom or self-study, Michael Scott's Programming Language Pragmatics provides a worthy tour of the theory and practice of how programming languages are run on today's computers. Clearly organized and filled with a wide-ranging perspective on over 40 different languages, this book will be appreciated for its depth and breadth of coverage on an essential topic in computer science.

With references to dozens of programming languages, from Ada to Turing and everything in between (including C, C++, Java, and Perl), this book is a truly in-depth guide to how code is compiled (or interpreted) and executed on computer hardware. Early chapters tend to be slightly more theoretical (with coverage of regular expressions and context-free grammars) and will be most valuable to the computer science student, but much of this book is accessible to anyone seeking to widen their knowledge (especially since recent standards surrounding XML make use of some of the same vocabulary presented here).

The book has a comprehensive discussion of compilation and linking, as well as how data types are implemented in memory. Sections on functional and logical programming (illustrated with Scheme and Prolog, which are often used in AI research) can expand your understanding of how programming languages work. Final sections on the advantages--and complexities--of concurrent processing, plus a nice treatment of code optimization techniques, round out the text here. Each chapter provides numerous exercises, so you can try out the ideas on your own.

Students will benefit from the practical examples here, drawn from a wide range of languages. If you are a self-taught developer, the very approachable tutorial can give you perspective on the formal definitions of many computer languages, which can help you master new ones more effectively.

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Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet

Paperback: 336 pages
Data: October 31, 2007
Format: PDF
Description: Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services. The Internet lies at the core of an information infrastructure for distributed, data-intensive, and collaborative research. Although much attention has been paid to the new technologies making this possible, from digitized books to sensor networks, it is the underlying social and policy changes that will have the most lasting effect on the scholarly enterprise. In Scholarship in the Digital Age, Christine Borgman explores the technical, social, legal, and economic aspects of the kind of infrastructure that we should be building for scholarly research in the twenty-first century.

Borgman describes the roles that information technology plays at every stage in the life cycle of a research project and contrasts these new capabilities with the relatively stable system of scholarly communication, which remains based on publishing in journals, books, and conference proceedings. No framework for the impending "data deluge" exists comparable to that for publishing. Analyzing scholarly practices in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, Borgman compares each discipline's approach to infrastructure issues. In the process, she challenges the many stakeholders in the scholarly infrastructure--scholars, publishers, libraries, funding agencies, and others--to look beyond their own domains to address the interaction of technical, legal, economic, social, political, and disciplinary concerns. Scholarship in the Digital Age will provoke a stimulating conversation among all who depend on a rich and robust scholarly environment.

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Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight

Paperback: 456 pages
Data: May 31, 2008
Format: PDF
Description: As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer’s software nearly caused a mission abort. Neil Armstrong responded by switching off the automatic mode and taking direct control. He stopped monitoring the computer and began flying the spacecraft, relying on skill to land it and earning praise for a triumph of human over machine.

In Digital Apollo, engineer-historian David Mindell takes this famous moment as a starting point for an exploration of the relationship between humans and computers in the Apollo program. In each of the six Apollo landings, the astronaut in command seized control from the computer and landed with his hand on the stick. Mindell recounts the story of astronauts' desire to control their spacecraft in parallel with the history of the Apollo Guidance Computer. From the early days of aviation through the birth of spaceflight, test pilots and astronauts sought to be more than "spam in a can" despite the automatic controls, digital computers, and software developed by engineers. Digital Apollo examines the design and execution of each of the six Apollo moon landings, drawing on transcripts and data telemetry from the flights, astronaut interviews, and NASA's extensive archives.

Mindell's exploration of how human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate in flight--a lunar landing--traces and reframes the debate over the future of humans and automation in space. The results have implications for any venture in which human roles seem threatened by automated systems, whether it is the work at our desktops or the future of exploration.

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Middleware for Communications

Paperback: 522 pages
Data: August 27, 2004
Format: PDF
Description: A state-of-the-art guide to middleware technologies, and their pivotal role in communications networks.

Middleware is about integration and interoperability of applications and services running on heterogeneous computing and communications devices. The services it provides - including identification, authentication, authorization, soft-switching, certification and security - are used in a vast range of global appliances and systems, from smart cards and wireless devices to mobile services and e-Commerce.

Qusay H. Mahmoud has created an invaluable reference tool that explores the origins and current uses of middleware (highlighting the importance of such technologies as CORBA, J2EE and JMS) and has thus compiled the roadmap to future research in this area.

Middleware for Communications:
discusses the emerging fields of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and grid middleware detailing middleware platforms such as JXTA and the Globus middleware toolkit.
shows how Middleware will play a significant role in mobile computing.
presents a Platform Supporting Mobile Applications (PLASMA) - a middleware platform that consists of components for location, event, and profile handling of Location-Based Services.
introduces middleware security focusing on the appropriate aspects of CORBA, J2EE, and .NET and demonstrates how to realize complex security capabilities such as role-based access control (RBAC) and mandatory access control (MAC).
discusses how Quality of Service (QoS) component middleware can be combined with Model Driven Architecture (MDA) technologies to rapidly develop, generate, assemble and deploy flexible communications applications.

This incomparable overview of middleware for communications is suitable for graduate students and researchers in communications and computing departments. It is also an authoritative guide for engineers and developers working on distributed systems, mobile computing and networked appliances.

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The Fat-Burning Bible: 28 Days of Foods, Sup and Workouts that Help You Lose Weight

Paperback: 288 pages
Data: December 3, 2004
Format: PDF
Description: Ideally, being healthy isn't just about being a certain weight: It's about having all the systems of your body performing at optimum levels for as long a time as possible. Mackie Shilstone, in his role as medical advisor to professional athletes, presents a complex plan in The Fat-Burning Bible that incorporates supplements, sleep and stress management alongside the standards of diet and exercise.

The first section of the book helps you establish your honest starting point--it's easy to be at an acceptable weight but have unacceptably high fat percentages, cholesterol or blood sugar. Establishing this point involves a fair amount of measuring and math, and includes checklists that will help you identity potential concerns like Syndrome X or thyroid problems.

Diet and nutrition follow; the section encompasses fairly complex suggestions on intake percentages as well as simple meal plans and recipes. Portion control figures highly--it's back to the old 'four ounces of skinless chicken breast' as a basic building block. A short section on supplements refers in a general way to recent research, but is more of an introduction than complete system. More time is devoted to the exercise program, but this could be more complex than a typical dieter feels ready for. Clear photos show off specific exercises, but they require regular trips to the gym or a set of dumbbells at home. The last section, which Shilstone suggests photocopying, is a day-to-day journal that allows you to check off goals and note areas for further work. It's a helpful tool, but also requires a fair amount of dedication.

Ultimately, this book seems designed for those who are already fairly fit, but are hoping to achieve a more ideal version of good health. It could be especially helpful for amateur athletes--if you're prepping for a marathon or other big event, this might be just the tool you need.

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