Zero Configuration Networking or Internet Routing Architectures

Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide

Author: Daniel Steinberg

It used to be that two laptops, sitting side by side, couldn't communicate with each other; they may as well have been a thousand miles apart. But that was then, before the advent of Zero Configuration Networking technology. This amazing cross-platform open source technology automatically connects electronic devices on a network, allowing them to interoperate seamlessly-without any user configuration. So now you don't have to lift a finger! Needless to say, it has completely changed the way people connect to devices and programs for printing, file sharing, and other activities.

Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide walks you through this groundbreaking network technology, with a complete description of the protocols and ways to implement network-aware applications and devices.

Written by two Zero Configuration Networking experts, including one of Apple's own computer scientists, the book covers more than just file sharing and printing. Zero Configuration Networking also enables activities such as music and photo sharing and automatic buddy discovery on Instant Messaging applications. In fact, Zero Configuration Networking can be used for virtually any device that can be controlled by a computer. And this handy guide has the inside scoop on all of its capabilities-and how you can easily apply them in your own environment.

For the technically advanced, Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide examines the three core technologies that make up Zero Configuration Networking: Link-Local Addressing, Multicast DNS, and DNS Service Discovery. It also reviews a series of APIs, including C-API, Java API, CFNetServices, and Cocoa's NSNetServices.

Whetheryou want to understand how iTunes works, or you want to network a series of laptops and other devices at your office for maximum efficiency, you'll find all the answers in this authoritative guide.

New interesting textbook: una Introducción a Economía Behaviorística:un Guía para Estudiantes

Internet Routing Architectures

Author: Sam Halabi

Internet Routing Architectures is the 'first' book that came out of the Cisco Press series while I was still at Cisco. It took a lot of effort to tackle a complex subject like Internet routing and turn it into something that everyone could read and understand. I truly thank all my readers who have made this book a huge success. You can now find me at the halabiconnect.com site where networking is made simple.

Table of Contents:

Pt. I	The Contemporary Internet
Ch. 1	Evolution of the Internet
Ch. 2	ISP Services and Characteristics
Ch. 3	IP Addressing and Allocation Techniques
Pt. II	Routing Protocol Basics
Ch. 4	Interdomain Routing Basics
Ch. 5	Border Gateway Protocol Version 4
Pt. III	Effective Internet Routing Designs
Ch. 6	Tuning BGP Capabilities
Ch. 7	Redundancy, Symmetry, and Load Balancing
Ch. 8	Controlling Routing Inside the Autonomous System
Ch. 9	Controlling Large-Scale Autonomous Systems
Ch. 10	Designing Stable Internets
Pt. IV	Internet Routing Device Configuration
Ch. 11	Configuring Basic BGP Functions and Attributes
Ch. 12	Configuring Effective Internet Routing Policies
App. A	BGP Command Reference
App. B	References for Further Study
App. C	BGP Outbound Route Filter (ORF)
App. D	Multiprotocol BGP (MBGP)

Principles of Robot Motion or Online Marketing Success Stories

Principles of Robot Motion: Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations

Author: Howie Choset

Robot motion planning has become a major focus of robotics. Research findings can be applied not only to robotics but to planning routes on circuit boards, directing digital actors in computer graphics, robot-assisted surgery and medicine, and in novel areas such as drug design and protein folding. This text reflects the great advances that have taken place in the last ten years, including sensor-based planning, probabalistic planning, localization and mapping, and motion planning for dynamic and nonholonomic systems. Its presentation makes the mathematical underpinnings of robot motion accessible to students of computer science and engineering, rleating low-level implementation details to high-level algorithmic concepts.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
2	Bug algorithms	17
3	Configuration space	39
4	Potential functions	77
5	Roadmaps	107
6	Cell decompositions	161
7	Sampling-based algorithms	197
8	Kalman filtering	269
9	Bayesian methods	301
10	Robot dynamics	349
11	Trajectory planning	373
12	Nonholonomic and underactuated systems	401
A	Mathematical notation	473
B	Basic set definitions	475
C	Topology and metric spaces	478
D	Curve tracing	487
E	Representations of orientation	489
F	Polyhedral robots in polyhedral worlds	499
G	Analysis of algorithms and complexity classes	513
H	Graph representation and basic search	521
I	Statistics primer	547
J	Linear systems and control	552

Go to: Womens Health Solutions or The Organic Foods SourceBook

Online Marketing Success Stories: Insider Secrets from the Experts Who Are Making Millions on the Internet Today

Author: Rene V Richards

Standing out in the turmoil of today's Internet marketplace is a major challenge. There are many books and courses on Internet marketing; this is the only book that will provide you with insider secrets. We asked the marketing experts who make their living on the Internet every day—and they talked. Online Marketing Success Stories will give you real-life examples of how successful businesses market their products online. The information is so useful that you can read a page and put the idea into action—today! With e-commerce expected to reach $40 billion and online businesses anticipated to increase by 500 percent through 2010, your business needs guidance from today's successful Internet marketing veterans. Learn the most efficient ways to bring consumers to your site, get visitors to purchase, how to up-sell, oversights to avoid, and how to steer clear of years of disappointment. We spent thousands of hours interviewing, e-mailing, and communicating with hundreds of today's most successful e-commerce marketers. This book not only chronicles their achievements, but is a compilation of their secrets and proven successful ideas. If you are interested in learning hundreds of hints, tricks, and secrets on how to make money (or more money) with your Web site, then this book is for you. Instruction is great, but advice from experts is even better, and the experts chronicled in this book are earning millions. This new exhaustively researched book will provide you with a jam-packed assortment of innovative ideas that you can put to use today. This book gives you the proven strategies, innovative ideas, and actual case studies to help you sell more with less time and effort.

Mastering Perl Tk or The Computer and the Brain

Mastering Perl/Tk: Graphical User Interfaces in Perl

Author: Steve Lidi

Perl is a powerful programming language used primarily for system administration, web programming, and database manipulation. Perl/Tk is the marriage of Perl with the Tk toolkit, which allows Perl programs to be built with attractive, intuitive GUIs. Mastering Perl/Tk is the "Bible" of Perl/Tk: the one and only book needed not only to get started with Perl/Tk, but also to learn the techniques of experienced Perl/Tk programmers. The first half of the book contains the basics on how to use Perl/Tk, with coverage of all the basic widgets and a thorough tutorial of the geometry managers that determine how each widget is laid out. Mastering Perl/Tk then branches out into advanced applications of Perl/Tk, with a series of extensive program examples. The result is a book that is not only accessible for novices, but will also take experienced programmers to the next step in learning how to program elegantly and effectively in Perl/Tk. The book also includes a complete quick reference for each standard widget and listings of all the extended examples in the book.

Interesting textbook: Recovering Our Ancestors Gardens or The Apprentice

The Computer and the Brain

Author: John Von Neumann

This book, composed of material prepared for the Silliman Lectures by john von Neumann before his death, represents the views of one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century on the analogies between computing machines adn the living human brain. He concludes that the brain operates in part digitally, in part analogically, but uses a peculiar statistical language unlike that employed in the operation of man-made computers. At the time of his death in February 1957, Dr. von Neumann, renowned for his theory of games and his work at the Electronic Computer Project at the Institute for Advanced Study, was serving as a member of the Atomic Energy Commission. A year earlier, he had written: "I still cherish the hope that I will be able to deliver hte Silliman Lectures as planned." These plans were never brought to fruition, however, and the manuscript for this book constitutes the last writing to come from him.

S. Ulam

Highly original and intensely stimulating.
— Scientific American

Mathematical Review

An outstanding example of J. von Neumann's insight, brilliance and clarity.

What People Are Saying

Paul and Patricia Churchalnd
This innocent-looking little book lies at the eye of a hurricane. It represents a locus of clarity and calm at the center of a vast vortex of powerful arguments and competing research programs. And it is all the more singular for having been written . . . at the very beginning of the recent explosion in electronic computer technology.(Paul and Patricia Churchland, from the foreword)

EJB 3 in Action or The Definitive Guide to Django

EJB 3 in Action

Author: Debu Panda

EJB 2 is widely used but it comes at a cost - procedural, redundant code. EJB 3 is a different animal. By adopting a POJO programming model and Java 5 annotations, it dramatically simplifies enterprise development. A cool new feature, its Java Persistence API, creates a standard for object-relational mapping. You can use it for any Java application, whether inside or outside the EJB container. With EJB 3 you will create true object-oriented applications that are easy to write, maintain and extend.

EJB 3 in Action is a fast-paced tutorial for both novice and experienced Java developers. It will help you learn EJB 3 and the JPA quickly and easily. This comprehensive, entirely new EJB 3 book starts with a tour of the EJB 3 landscape. It then moves quickly into core topics like building business logic with session and message-driven beans. You'll find four full chapters on the JPA along with practical code samples, design patterns, performance tuning tips, and best practices for building and deploying scalable applications.

Table of Contents:

Preface     xix
Acknowledgments     xxi
About this book     xxiv
Overview of the EJB Landscape     1
What's what in EJB 3     3
EJB overview     5
EJB as a component     5
EJB as a framework     7
Layered architectures and EJB     9
Why choose EJB 3?     12
Understanding EJB types     14
Session beans     16
Message-driven beans     16
Entities and the Java Persistence API     17
Getting inside EJB     19
Accessing EJB sendees: the EJB container     20
Accessing JPA services: the persistence provider     20
Gaining functionality with EJB services     21
Renaissance of EJB     23
HelloUser Example     24
Simplified programming model     25
Annotations instead of deployment descriptors     26
Dependency injection vs. JNDI lookup     27
Simplified persistence API     27
Unit-testable POJO components     29
EJB 3 and Spring     30
Summary     32
A first taste of EJB     33
New features: simplifying EJB     35
Replacing deployment descriptors with annotations     35
Introducing dependency injection     40
Introducing the ActionBazaar application     41
Starting with the architecture     42
An EJB 3-based solution     43
Building business logic with session beans     45
Using stateless beans     45
The stateless bean client     47
Using stateful beans     50
A stateful bean client     54
Messaging with message-driven beans     56
Producing a billing message     57
Using the order billing message processor MDB     59
Persisting data with EJB 3 JPA     61
Working with the Java Persistence API     62
Using the EntityManager     65
Summary     67
Building Business Logic with EJB 3     69
Building business logic with session beans     71
Getting to know session beans     72
Why use session beans?     73
Session beans: the basics     75
Understanding the programming rules     78
Conversational state and session bean types     79
Bean lifecycle callbacks     79
Stateless session beans      83
The BidManagerBean example     84
Using the @Stateless annotation     86
Specifying bean business interfaces     87
Using bean lifecycle callbacks     90
Stateful session beans     93
Additional programming rules     94
The BidderAccountCreatorBean example     94
Business interfaces for stateful beans     98
Stateful bean lifecycle callbacks     98
Session bean clients     102
Using the @EJB annotation     104
Injection and stateful session beans     104
Performance considerations for stateful beans     105
Using stateful session beans effectrvely     105
Stateful session bean alternatives     107
Session bean best practices     108
Summary     109
Messaging and developing MDBs     110
Messaging concepts     111
Message-oriented middleware     112
Messaging in Action Bazaar     112
Messaging models     114
Introducing Java Messaging Service     117
Developing the JMS message producer     117
The JMS message interface     119
Working with message-driven beans     121
Why use MDBS?     122
Programming rules     124
Developing a message consumer with MDB     124
Using the @MessageDriven annotation     127
Implementing the MessageListener     127
Using ActivationConfigProperty     128
Using bean lifecycle callbacks     132
Sending JMS messages from MDBs     135
Managing MDB transactions     136
MDB best practices     137
Summary     139
Learning advanced EJB concepts     140
EJB internals     141
EJB behind the scenes     141
EJB context: accessing the runtime environment     143
Accessing resources using DI and JNDI     146
Resource injection using @Resource     146
The @Resource annotation in action     152
Looking up resources and EJBs     155
AOP in the EJB world: interceptors     157
What is AOP?     157
What are interceptors?     158
Specifying interceptors     160
Implementing business interceptors     162
Lifecycle callback methods in the interceptor class     165
Scheduling: the EJB 3 timer service     167
What are timers?      168
Using the timer service     169
When to use EJB timers     174
Summary     175
Transactions and security     176
Understanding transactions     177
A transactional solution in ActionBazaar     178
ACID properties     178
Transaction management internals     181
Two-phase commit     183
Transaction management in EJB     184
Container-managed transactions     185
Snag-It ordering using CMT     185
The @TransactionManagement annotation     186
The @TransactionAttribute annotation     187
Marking a CMT for rollback     191
Transaction and exception handling     193
Bean-managed transactions     196
Snag-It ordering using BMT     196
Getting a UserTransaction     198
Using UserTransaction     199
The pros and cons of BMT     201
Exploring EJB security     202
Authentication vs. authorization     202
Users, groups, and roles     203
A security problem in ActionBazaar     203
EJB 3 and Java EE security     205
Declarative security     208
Using EJB programmatic security     210
Summary     213
3 Diving into the Java Persistence API (JPA)     215
Implementing domain models     217
Domain modeling and the JPA     218
Introducing domain models     219
The ActionBazaar problem domain     219
Domain model actors     222
The EJB 3 Java Persistence API     224
Domain objects as Java classes     225
Implementing domain objects with JPA     227
The @Entity annotation     228
Persisting entity data     229
Specifying entity identity     233
The Embeddable annotation     238
Entity relationships     239
@OneToOne     240
@OneToMany and @ManyToOne     244
@ManyToMany     247
Summary     249
Object-relational mapping     250
The impedance mismatch     251
Mapping objects to databases     252
Introducing O/R mapping     257
Mapping entities     258
Specifying the table     261
Mapping the columns     262
Using @Enumerated     264
Mapping CLOBs and BLOBs      265
Mapping temporal types     265
Mapping an entity to multiple tables     266
Generating primary keys     267
Mapping embeddable classes     270
Mapping entity relationships     273
Mapping one-to-one relationships     273
One-to-many and many-to-one     278
Many-to-many     281
Mapping inheritance     284
Single-table strategy     285
Joined-tables strategy     287
Table-per-class strategy     288
Mapping polymorphic relationships     291
Summary     292
Manipulating entities with EntityManager     293
Introducing the EntityManager     294
The EntityManager interface     294
The lifecycle of an entity     297
Persistence contexts, scope, and the EntityManager     301
Using the EntityManager in ActionBazaar     303
Creating EntityManager instances     304
Container-managed EntityManagers     305
Application-managed EntityManager     308
Managing persistence operations     313
Persisting entities     314
Retrieving entities by primary key     319
Updating entities      325
Deleting entities     328
Controlling updates with flush     330
Refreshing entities     331
Entity lifecycle listeners     333
Using an entity listener     334
Default listener classes     336
Listener class execution order and exclusion     337
Entity operations best practices     338
Summary     338
Using the query API and JPQL to retrieve entities     340
Introducing the query API     341
The big picture     341
Anatomy of a query     343
Defining named queries     344
Executing the queries     345
Creating a query instance     346
Working with the Query interface     347
Specifying query hints     353
Introducing JPQL     354
Defining statement types     356
Using the From clause     358
Conditional expressions and operators     362
Working with JPQL functions     367
Using a Select clause     370
Using aggregations     372
Ordering the query result     374
Using subqueries     374
Joining entities      376
Bulk updates and deletes     379
Native SQL queries     380
Using dynamic queries with native SQL     381
Using a named native SQL query     382
Summary     383
Putting EJB 3 Into Action     385
Packaging EJB 3 applications     387
Packaging your applications     389
Dissecting the Ear file     391
Loading the Ear module     392
Exploring class loading     394
Class-loading basics     394
Exposing the classic parent delegation model     396
Class loading in Java EE applications     398
Dependencies between Java EE modules     398
Packaging session and message-driven beans     400
Packaging EJB-JAR     400
Deployment descriptors vs. annotations     402
Overriding annotations with deployment descriptors     406
Specifying default interceptor settings     407
Using vendor-specific annotations and descriptors     408
Packaging entities     410
Exposing the persistence module     410
Describing the persistence module with persistence.xml     411
Performing O/R mapping with orm.xml     418
Best practices and common deployment issues     422
Packaging and deployment best practices     422
Troubleshooting common deployment problems     423
Summary     424
Effectively integrating EJB 3 across your application tiers     425
Design patterns and web technologies     426
Presentation tier     427
Using the Entity Access Object pattern     429
Visiting the Session Facade pattern     434
Accessing session beans from the web tier     439
Accessing session beans using dependency injection     441
Referencing session beans from helper classes     442
Dealing with transactions     445
Working with stateful session beans     446
Using JPA from the web tier     447
Using a container-managed entity manager     448
Using an application-managed EntityManager with JTA transactions     450
Accessing an application-managed EntityManager outside the container     451
Summary     454
Taming wild EJBs: performance and scalability     455
Handling entity locking issues     457
Understanding locking types     458
Optimistic locking and entity versioning     461
EntityManager and lock modes      462
Improving entity performance     464
Remodeling and schema redesign     464
Tuning the JDBC layer     468
Reducing database operations     470
Improving query performance     474
Caching     478
Improving performance of EJB 3 components     483
Session bean performance     484
Improving MDB performance     487
Clustering EJB applications     488
Collocated architecture     489
Load-balancing stateless session beans     490
Clustering statefal session beans     493
Entities and clustered cache     495
Summary     496
Migration and Interoperability Issues     497
Migration to EJB 3     499
Backward compatibility and interoperability with EJB 2     500
Packaging EJB 2 and EJB 3 together     501
Invoking EJB 2 from EJB 3     502
Using EJB 3 from EJB 2     503
Migrating session beans     505
Converting interface and bean classes     506
Resource usage     510
Transactions and security settings     511
Client applications     511
Migrating message-driven beans     313
Migrating CMP 2 entity beans to the EJB 3 JPA     513
Redesign your domain model     514
Using DTOs as entities     517
Entity bean classes and interfaces     519
Client applications     526
Migrating JDBC DAOs to use the EJB 3 JPA     529
Identifying entities     529
Reworking a DAO implementation class to use the EntityManager API     530
Swapping SQL queries for JPQL     531
Helping O/R frameworks to use the EJB 3 JPA     533
Approaches to migration     535
Strategies     535
Manual vs. automated     536
Summary     536
Exposing EJBs as web services     537
What is a web service?     539
Identifying web service components     541
Web services styles     547
Approaches to developing web services     548
JAX-WS: Java EE 5 web services platform     549
Introducing the web services platform     549
Why choose EJB over a POJO for a web service?     550
Developing EJB web services with JAX-WS 2.0     551
Using the @WebService annotation     553
Specifying the web service style with @SOAPBinding      555
Using @WebMethod     557
Using the @WebParam annotation     558
Using the @WebResult annotation     560
Using @OneWay and @HandlerChain     561
Accessing a web service from an EJB     562
Accessing the PlaceBid web service     562
EJB as a web service client     564
Best practices for web service development     565
Summary     567
EJB 3 and Spring     568
Introducing the Spring framework     570
Benefits of the Spring framework     571
The inversion of control principle     571
The separation of concerns principle     572
Using JPA with Spring     573
Building JPA EAOs for Spring     574
Configuring Spring to use the JPA     577
Combining the power of EJB 3 and Spring     581
Developing Spring-enabled EJBs     581
Using session beans from Spring beans     585
Summary     585
RMI and JNDI     587
Reviewing relational databases     596
Annotations reference     603
Deployment descriptors reference     623
Installing and configuring the Java EE 5 SDK      646
Resources     660
Index     663

See also: Bowersox Protocol for Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue or Alzheimers Disease

The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right

Author: Adrian Holovaty

Django, the Python-based equivalent to the Ruby on Rails web development framework, is presently one of the hottest topics in web development today. In The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right, Adrian Holovaty, one of Django's creators, and Django lead developer Jacob Kaplan-Moss show you how they use this framework to create award-winning web sites. Over the course of three parts, they guide you through the creation of a web application reminiscent of chicagocrime.

The first part of the book introduces Django fundamentals like installation and configuration. You'll learn about creating the components that power a Django-driven web site. The second part delves into the more sophisticated features of Django, like outputting non-HTML content (such as RSS feeds and PDFs), plus caching and user management. The third part serves as a detailed reference to Django's many configuration options and commands. The book even includes seven appendixes for looking up configurations options and commands. In all, this book provides the ultimate tutorial and reference to the popular Django framework.

Microsoft Windows Vista Administration or Robotic Surgery

Microsoft Windows Vista Administration

Author: Anthony T Velt

Administer Windows Vista in the enterprise

This in-depth implementation guide teaches network administrators how to effectively deploy and manage Microsoft Windows Vista within an enterprise environment. You will learn how to efficiently and effectively use the all-new features such as Windows Defender, Network Access Protection, Windows Service Hardening, and Active Directory.

Anthony T.Velte, CISSP, CISA, is cofounder of Velte Publishing, Inc. He is the coauthor of Windows 2000 Enterprise Networking.

Toby J.Velte, Ph.D., is part of Accenture's North American Consumer and Industrial practice. He is the coauthor, with Anthony Velte, of Cisco: A Beginner's Guide, Third Edition.

Interesting book: Kalifornien: Amerikas Experiment der Hohen Anteile

Robotic Surgery: Theory and Operative Technique

Author: Farid Gharagozloo

A groundbreaking look at an OR revolution

Robotic Surgery is the first comprehensive book on a subject so new that doctors looking to perform robotic surgery must resort to learning how to use surgical robots from fellow surgeons. Robotic surgery is growing in popularity because, in many cases, it provides the least invasive surgery possible, thus reducing stress on the body and, therefore, recovery time and hospital stays. This is, simply, the only book where you'll find key information on operating via robot.

Written by surgeons from the world's leading center for robotic technology, Robotic Surgery outlines the benefits of this process, which include using cameras dextrous-head cameras providing a three-dimensional view of a person's insides; in essence, the camera sees around corners of anatomy. This guide covers various types of surgery, including urologic, providing urologists with a greater grasp of a technology already prevalent in their field. Robotic surgery is the new buzz in the field. This is the ultimate source to help you stay ahead of the game.

Table of Contents:

1.
CONTENTS:

Table of Contents:

Foreword

General Section

1.
Preface

2.
Overview of Robotic surgery

3.
Robotic surgery: Technology, from Zeus to da Vinci

4.
Physiological Advantages of Minimally Invasive Surgery

5.
Psychological Impact of Minimally Invasive Surgery

6.
Economic Considerations in Minimally Invasive Surgery

7.
The Operating Room Design for Robotic Surgery

8.
Anesthesia for Robotic Surgery

9.
Critical Care for Robotic Surgery

Cardiac Surgery

1.
Robotics in Cardiac Surgery

2.
Single Vessel Small Thoracotomy Robotic Assisted CABG

3.
Multivessel Small Thoracotomy Robotic Assisted CABG

4.
Robotic Assisted Totally Endoscopic Closed Chest CABG

5.
Robotic Assisted Mitral Valve Repair

6.
Robotic Assisted Atrial Septal Defect Closure

7.
Robotic Assisted Pulmonary Vein Ablation

8.
Robotic Assisted Trasmyocardial Revascularization:

9.
Robotic Assisted Epicardial Lead Placement

Thoracic Surgery

1.
Robotics in Thoracic Surgery

2.
Robotic Lobectomy, Evolution from VATS to RAVS

3.
Robotic Lobectomy

4.
Robotic Surgery for Benign Esophageal Diseases

5.
Robotic Heller Myotomy- Abdominal Approach

6.
Robotic Heller Myotomy- Thoracic Approach

7.
Robotic Paraesophageal Hernia Repair

8.
Robotic NissenFundoplication

9.
Robotic Belsey Repair

10.
Robotic Assisted Transhiatal Esophagectomy

11.
Robotic Assisted Ivor-Lewis Esophagectomy

12.
Robotic Mediastinal Surgery

General Surgery

1.
Robotics in General surgery

2.
Robotic Gastric Bypass for Obesity

3.
Robotic Gastric Surgery

4.
Robotic Pancreatic Surgery

5.
Robotic Abdominal Aortic Surgery

6.
Robotic Colorectal Surgery

7.
Robotic Recto-Vaginopexy

Urological surgery

1.
Robotics in Urology

2.
Robotic Assisted Prostatectomy

3.
Robotic Sacral Colpopexy

4.
Robotic Assisted Pyeloplasty

5.
Robotic Donor Nephrectomy

New Frontiers

1.
The Application of Robotic Principles in Telemedicine

2.
The Role of Robotic Surgery During Space Exploration

3.
New Horizons in Robotic Surgery

Real World Compositing with Adobe Photoshop CS4 or HTML

Real World Compositing with Adobe Photoshop CS4

Author: Dan Moughamian

In Real World Compositing with Adobe Photoshop X, experts Scott Valentine and Dan Moughamian show readers how to enhance their photography and Photoshop skills—from scene selection and preparation to photographic technique.

Professional photographers and digital artists wishing to produce photo-real composite images and surreal artwork by blending—or compositing—many individual images can learn all they need to know right here. Building from a presumed skill set, the authors provide detailed examples and explanations that cover the newest features in Photoshop CS4 and popular 3D applications.

More than just a guide for using the software, this book also instructs readers on photographic planning and technique, key graphic design concepts, and even visual perception as applied to creative images—an increasingly popular approach which requires the digital artist to become more involved in the presentation and concept of their images.

Look this: Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks with Openswan or Tailored Health Messages

HTML

Author: Elizabeth Eisner Eisner Reding

Part of the Illustrated Series, this text offers a quick, visual, step-by-step approach for learning how to create, format, and enhance a Web page using HTML.

Table of Contents:

Unit A: Creating an HTML Document
Unit B: Formatting Text with HTML
Unit C: Adding Graphics and Multimedia
Unit D: Using Forms to Control Output
Unit E: Working With Tables
Unit F: Controlling Page Layout
Unit G: Designing Web Pages
Unit H: Scripting for HTML
Appendix

The Art of Cartooning with Flash or Microcontroller Projects in C for the 8051

The Art of Cartooning with Flash

Author: Daniel Gray

Face it, funny doesn't come in the Flash box. Alas, there's no "make funny" button.

At long last, here's a book with the pure intent of helping you squeeze more entertaining bits out of Flash. If you've ever dreamt of creating your own animated cartoon, this book is a must read.

In The Art of Cartooning with Flash, you'll learn how to:
* Apply the 12 classic principles of cartooning to Flash
* Build bandwidth-stingy digital puppets
* Master the walkcycle and other intricate techniques
* Craft a strong story and dynamic characters
* Storyboard and layout like a pro
* Create an animatic to test your ideas
* Analyze a cartoon, frame-by-frame Check out the Flash-enabled companion site at twinkleland.com/book1.html.

Interesting book: Les Problèmes Globaux et la Culture de Capitalisme

Microcontroller Projects in C for the 8051

Author: Dogan Ibrahim

This book is a thoroughly practical way to explore the 8051 and discover C programming through project work. Through graded projects, Dogan Ibrahim introduces the reader to the fundamentals of microelectronics, the 8051 family, programming in C, and the use of a C compiler. The specific device used for examples is the AT89C2051 - a small, economical chip with re-writable memory, readily available from the major component suppliers.

A working knowledge of microcontrollers, and how to program them, is essential for all students of electronics. In this rapidly expanding field many students and professionals at all levels need to get up to speed with practical microcontroller applications. Their rapid fall in price has made microcontrollers the most exciting and accessible new development in electronics for years - rendering them equally popular with engineers, electronics hobbyists and teachers looking for a fresh range of projects.


Microcontroller Projects in C for the 8051 is an ideal resource for self-study as well as providing an interesting, enjoyable and easily mastered alternative to more theoretical textbooks.

Dogan Ibrahim has been Associate Professor and Head of Department at the Near East University, Cyprus, lecturer at South Bank University, London, Principal Research Engineer at GEC Hirst Research Centre, and is now a hardware and software systems consultant to London's Traffic Control Systems Unit.

Practical projects that enable students and practitioners to get up and running straight away with 8051 microcontrollers
A hands-on introduction to practical C programming
A wealth of project ideas for students and enthusiasts

Booknews

Assuming the reader to have no knowledge of either programming or computer chips, Ibrahim introduces both, then presents projects in light, sound, temperature, and communication for readers to cut their teeth on. He uses the AT89C2051 version of the 8051 family of chips because it is cheap, readily available, and re-writable so only one need be bought. Microcontrollers, single-chip microprocessor systems, are becoming increasingly popular with engineers and electronics hobbyists. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Preface; Microcomputer systems; Programming the microcontrollers in C; Light projects; Sound projects; Temperature projects; RS232 serial communication projects; Appendix; Glossary; Index

Photoshop CS Bible or LabVIEW for Data Acquisition

Photoshop CS Bible

Author: Deke McClelland

"I’ve learned more from Deke’s Photoshop Bible than any Photoshop book, ever."

– Scott Kelby, President, National Association of Photoshop Professionals

"When someone asks me something I don’t know about Photoshop, I tell them to go read the Photoshop Bible. It does something no other book does – it tells you everything."

– Russell Preston Brown, Senior Creative Director, Adobe Systems

World-renowned Photoshop expert and Hall of Famer Deke McClelland has earned more than 20 industry awards and written over 60 books on computer graphics and design with more than 3 million copies in print. Now, in this thoroughly updated edition of his international bestseller, McClelland shows you how to master every aspect of Photoshop CS – from image-editing basics to new techniques for working with the File Browser, layer comps, Lens Blur, Match Color, the color replacement tool, customizable keyboard shortcuts, camera raw images, and more.

• Get creative with text on a path

• Give bad color the slip with the Match Color command

• Give images a colorful new look with the color replacement tool

• Create depth-of-field effects with the Lens Blur filter

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
Pt. I	Welcome to Photoshop	1
Ch. 1	Introducing Photoshop CS	3
Ch. 2	Inside Photoshop	15
Ch. 3	Image Management	77
Pt. II	Painting and Retouching	159
Ch. 4	Defining Colors	161
Ch. 5	Painting and Brushes	213
Ch. 6	Filling and Stroking	271
Ch. 7	Retouching and Restoring	311
Pt. III	Selections, Masks, and Filters	361
Ch. 8	Selection and Paths	363
Ch. 9	Masks and Extractions	435
Ch. 10	Corrective Filtering	487
Ch. 11	Distortions and Effects	561
Pt. IV	Layers, Objects, and Text	633
Ch. 12	Working with Layers	635
Ch. 13	The Wonders of Blend Modes	693
Ch. 14	Shapes and Styles	769
Ch. 15	Fully Editable Text	811
Pt. V	Color and Output	849
Ch. 16	Essential Color Management	851
Ch. 17	Mapping and Adjusting Colors	875
Ch. 18	Printing from Photoshop	947
App	Shortcuts and Modifiers	993
	Index	1033

LabVIEW for Data Acquisition

Author: Bruce Mihura

The practical, succinct LabVIEW data acquisition tutorial for every professional.

No matter how much LabVIEW experience you have, this compact tutorial gives you core skills for producing virtually any data acquisition (DAQ) application-input and output. Designed for every engineer and scientist, LabVIEW for Data Acquisition begins with quick-start primers on both LabVIEW and DAQ, and builds your skills with extensive code examples and visual explanations drawn from Bruce Mihura's extensive experience teaching LabVIEW to professionals.

• Includes extensive coverage of DAQ-specific programming techniques
• Real-world techniques for maximizing accuracy and efficiency
• The 10 most common LabVIEW DAQ development problems-with specific solutions
• Addresses simulation, debugging, real-time issues, and network/distributed systems
• Preventing unauthorized changes to your LabVIEW code
• An overview of transducers for a wide variety of signals
• Non-NI alternatives for hardware and software

LabVIEW for Data Acquisition includes an extensive collection of real-world LabVIEW applications, lists of LabVIEW tips and tricks, coverage of non-NI software and hardware alternatives, and much more. Whatever data acquisition application you need to create, this is the book to start and finish with.

RELATED WEBSITE

The accompanying website includes an evaluation version of LabVIEW and key LabVIEW code covered in the book.

Booknews

An introduction to the LabVIEW graphical programming language for monitoring and controlling physical phenomena with a computer via electrical signals. These electrical signals are usually attached to scientific or industrial equipment by means of transducers that convert physical values like pressure, temperature, position, and flow rate. Mihura, who worked as a LabVIEW developer for National Instruments, addresses simulation techniques, debugging, real-time issues, and networked and distributed systems. The CD-ROM contains an evaluation version of LabVIEW 6i for Windows. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Pro Access 2007 or Microsoft Project 2000 for Dummies

Pro Access 2007

Author: Martin Reid

Pro Access 2007 covers the new features of Microsoft Access 2007, including working with SharePoint Office Server and customizing Ribbons. The book is aimed at professional developers and power users who are new to Access 2007. Among other topics, you'll learn about the new Access menu structure, including customization, as well as new SharePoint features.

This book provides good, short, solid information with as little waffle as possible. And the book includes solid examples that thoroughly explain new features. Author Martin Reid is also a working Access developer who is respected by his peers and knows what working developers face, especially at the time of a new release.

Book review: Métrica y Modelos en Ingeniería de Calidad de Software

Microsoft Project 2000 for Dummies

Author: Martin Doucett

Why put yourself through all the trouble of figuring out a project management software program? And why find out about project management techniques when you've been muddling through on your own up until now? The answer is self-evident. Because you've managed projects before and you know there has to be a better way. You're ready to discover what all this project management hoopla is about, and you'd like to use Microsoft Project to do the job. You've just made two good management decisions right there.

Deep down, you're probably wondering whether this is going to hurt. You'll be relieved to know that getting to know Microsoft Project is straightforward and kind of fun. You don't have to know anything special about computers or project management to begin. Of course, once you start throwing those Gantt charts around the office, people might assume that it took grueling labor and a steel will to figure out the program. Whether you choose to display modesty or bask in their amazement will be entirely up to you.

As this book's title so subtly implies, it will show you how to use Microsoft Project 2000. But what the title doesn't say is that this book also gives you a basic explanation of project management. You'll cover all of the following topics, and more:

• Identifying project phases
• Getting comfortable with the Microsoft Project interface
• Predicting your resource needs
• Reading and creating Gantt charts
• Staying ahead of details with a calendar
• Setting budgets and reviewing costs
• Subdividing and combining projects
• Tracking your project
• Using and customizing reports

Microsoft Project 2000 For Dummies iswritten in a way that lets you master your project management skills by practice. The enclosed CD-ROM is loaded with a number of project files so that you can read the material and practice. In addition, you'll get evaluation and demo copies of some excellent project management programs designed to make your job even easier.

Table of Contents:

Introduction.

PART I: Starting a Protect.

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Microsoft Project 2000.

Chapter 2: Gathering Your Project Information.

PART II: Building a Project.

Chapter 3: Using Microsoft Project to Put the Pieces Together.

Chapter 4: Task Relationships.

Chapter 5: Delegating Resources to Tasks.

PART III: Analyzing a Project.

Chapter 6: Viewing Your Project from All Sides.

Chapter 7: Using the Gantt Chart for All It's Worth.

Chapter 8: Shedding Light on Relationships with the Network Diagram View.

Chapter 9: Staying Ahead of Details with a Calendar.

Chapter 10: Keeping an Eye on Resources.

Chapter 11: Filtering and Sorting Views.

PART IV: Refining a Project.

Chapter 12: Setting Budgets and Viewing Costs.

Chapter 13: Getting Your Plan Ready for Reality.

Chapter 14: Making Life Easier by Subdividing and Combining Projects.

Chapter 15: Personalizing Your Project Environment.

PART V: Tracking and Reporting a Project.

Chapter 16: Setting a Baseline and Manually Tracking a Project.

Chapter 17: Communicating Your Views.

Chapter 18: Using and Customizing Reports.

Chapter 19: Communicating in Workgroups with Microsoft Project Central.

PART VI: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 20: Ten Terrific Toolbars.

Chapter 21: Ten Innovative Ways to Spruce Up Your Project.

PART VII: Appendixes.

Appendix A: Glossary.

Appendix B: Working with Data from Other Applications.

Appendix C: About the CD.

Index.

IDG Books Worldwide End-User License Agreement.

Installation Instructions.

Book Registration Information.

Portable Shell Scripting or Starting Out with Java

Portable Shell Scripting

Author: Peter Seebach

Portable shell scripting is today the future of modern Linux, OS X, and Unix command–line access. Beginning Portable Shell Scripting: From Novice to Professional teaches shell scripting by using the common core of most shells and expands those principles to all of scripting.

You will learn about portable scripting and how to use the same syntax and design principles for all shells. You’ll discover about the interaction between shells and other scripting languages like Ruby and Python, and everything you learn will be shown in context for Linux, OS X, bash, and AppleScript.

What you’ll learn

This book will prime you on not just shell scripting, but also the modern context of portable shell scripting. You will learn

The core Linux/OS X shell constructs from a portability point of view

How to write scripts that write other scripts, and how to write macros and debug them

How to write and design shell script portably from the ground up

How to use programmable utilities and their inherent portability to your advantage, while pinpointing potential traps

Pulling everything together, how to engineer scripts that play well with Python and Ruby, and even run on embedded systems

Who is this book for?

This book is for system administrators, programmers, and testers working across Linux, OS X, and the Unix command line.

About the Apress Beginning Series

The Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information you need to land that crucial entry–level job. These books will teach you a standard and important technology from the ground upbecause they are explicitly designed to take you from “novice to professional.” You’ll start your journey by seeing what you need to know—but without needless theory and filler. You’ll build your skill set by learning how to put together real–world projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you there—it is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!

Look this: La Salud en la Mujer or Behind the Smile

Starting Out with Java: Early Objects

Author: Tony Gaddis

  In Starting Out with Java: Early Objects, Gaddis looks at objects—the fundamentals of classes and methods—before covering procedural programming.  As with all Gaddis texts, clear and easy-to-read code listings, concise and practical real-world examples, and an abundance of exercises appear in every chapter. Introduction to Computers and Java, Java Fundamentals, A First Look at Classes and Objects, Decision Structures, Loops and Files, A Second Look at Classes and Objects, Arrays, Text Processing and Wrapper Classes, Inheritance, Exceptions and Stream I/O, GUI Applications, Applets, Recursion. For all readers interested in an introduction to the Java™ programming language covering objects—the fundamentals of classes and methods—before procedural programming.  

Excel 2007 Just the Steps For Dummies or Machinima for Dummies

Excel 2007 Just the Steps For Dummies

Author: Diane Koers

• Completely updated to reflect the many changes in the latest release of Excel, this helpful book presents readers with concise instructions for carrying out common Excel 2007 tasks

• An easy-to-navigate design features a two-column layout and is packed with step-by-step directions and illustrations that incorporate the notable changes to Excel 2007

• Readers can pick the task, find it fast, and get it done quickly, all while gaining a clear understanding of Excel 2007 enhancements, such as a new user interface, improved charting and PivotTable capabilities, and better data exchange with XML

Table of Contents:

Introduction     1
Putting Excel to Work     3
Working with Excel Files     5
Entering Spreadsheet Data     15
Building Formulas     27
Protecting Excel Data     37
Sprucing Up Your Spreadsheets     45
Formatting Cells     47
Applying Additional Formatting Options     55
Designing with Graphics     63
Managing Workbooks     73
Viewing Data in Different Ways     81
Changing Worksheet Views     83
Sorting Data     91
Creating Charts     101
Printing Workbooks     113
Analyzing Data with Excel     123
Working with Outlines     125
Filtering Data     135
Creating PivotTables     145
Building Simple Macros     157
Saving Time with Excel Tools     163
Utilizing Excel with Other People and Applications     169
Collaborating in Excel     171
Integrating Excel into Word     177
Blending Excel and PowerPoint     185
Using Excel with Access     191
Practical Applications for Excel     199
Designing an Organization Chart     201
Creating a Commission Calculator     209
Tracking Medical Expenses     215
Planning for Your Financial Future     223
Index     227

Read also Fraude de Soins de santé et Abus :l'Indicateur d'un Médecin devant l'Acquiescement

Machinima for Dummies

Author: Hugh Hancock

This book shows how the reader can, at little or no expense, make virtually any movie using Machinima. We take the reader from making their first Machinima movie to a grounding in both conventional filmmaking and Machinima technology that will let them tackle very complex film projects.

The book will focus on the following Machinima platforms:

The Sims 2: Arguably the most popular Machinima platform of all time, The Sims 2 allows you to tell stories ranging from romance to noir action.

World Of Warcraft: Tell your own tales of heroism in the world of Azeroth, following in the footsteps of award-winning Machinima creators and even the makers of South Park.

Medieval 2 : Total War - This astonishing new game allows you to create Lord of the Rings-scale medieval battle films using just a home computer!

MovieStorm : For the first time, unleash the power of Machinima as a professional user using a fully-featured, fully-licensed commercial Machinima platform.

The book will contain introductions to all aspects of Machinima production, from live filming in a game through the creation of sets, props and characters, as well as the basics of cinematography, storytelling and sound design.

Publish Your Own Magazine Guidebook or Weekly Newspaper or The Cult of Mac

Publish Your Own Magazine, Guidebook, or Weekly Newspaper: How to Start, Manage, and Profit from Your Own Homebased Publishing Company

Author: Thomas A Williams

A dynamic step-by-step guide to creating everything from tourism books and niche market magazines to specialty tabloids, using a home computer. Having built his own publishing business from scratch, Williams is uniquely qualified to shorten the learning curve by sharing the soup to nuts of what he has learned.

He begins with a basic premise: Start a publication on something known, or about a specific area. The publications that have made him successful are local papers, speciality magazines, and guides. Once subject and venue are determined, it's time to consider software tools, arranging an office for productivity, how to get advertisers, how to market your product, whom to hire (and how much to pay them), and all the other aspects of profitability.

In the sea of publishing books on the market, here's one that tells everything publishers need to know in one place. This revised version includes updated technological information on software products and addresses current fluctuations in the market and the changing business environment.

Author Biography: Experienced on both sides of the editorial desk, Tom Williams has written for magazines ranging from Esquire to Writer's Digest, and is the author of 14 books. He has also started, edited, and published city and regional magazines and is editor-in-chief of Venture Press, a home-based book publishing company specializing in historical reprints, civic picture-histories, folklore, and oral history.

In 1979, he bought the Mecklenburg Gazette, a weekly newspaper in North Carolina. In three years, he increased circulation 400% and revenues by 1000%, and sold out to a newspaper chain for 50 times the purchase price. Subsequently, he founded Venture Press.

He started and published many magazines, including Tar Heel: The Magazine of North Carolina (state-wide), the New East Magazine, NCEast Magazine, and Washington Magazine. He published association directories and chambers of commerce "quality of life" magazines, newcomer guides, and tourism guides.

Williams is a student of hard knocks. He learned how to position his publications for success on his own and shares his knowledge with us in his books.

See also: Trying to Give Ease or Into the Shadows

The Cult of Mac

Author: Leander Kahney

No product on the planet enjoys the devotion of a Macintosh computer. Famously dedicated to their machines, many Mac fans eat, sleep and breathe Macintosh. In The Cult of Mac, Wired News managing editor Leander Kahney takes an in-depth look at Mac users and their unique, creative, and often very funny culture. From people who get Mac tattoos and haircuts, to those who furnish their apartments out of empty Mac boxes, the book details Mac fandom in all of its forms. This paperback edition includes an all-new chapter about the iPod, updates throughout, and new photos that reflect current Apple technology.

Library Journal

Kahney, a journalist for Wired News (www. wired.com), goes inside the psyche of fervent Mac fans everywhere, examining various aspects of the Apple underground. Presenting himself as an example of someone obsessed with possessing the latest Apple product, he writes about the psychosexual bond that Macintosh users have with their machines. It gets weirder: there is a cult of Mac Classic collectors who claim that owning said model is like owning a hot rod-it's impractical but cool. Another counterculture invented the "iBong" to celebrate the utopian nature of Apple computing. The Mac has even inspired haircuts and tattoos, to which Kahney devotes one chapter. In addition, readers will find stories of Apple cofounders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs and basic background on the benefits of Mac ownership for those who work in the arts, music, and filmmaking. Brimming with more than 500 color photos, this fun book won't stay on the shelves long. Highly recommended for public libraries.-Joe Accardi, Harper Coll. Lib., Palatine, IL Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Techno fetishism	4
Ch. 2	Macs and the counterculture	31
Ch. 3	Worshipping the two Steves	47
Ch. 4	Mac tattoos and haircuts	56
Ch. 5	Trainspotting	68
Ch. 6	Mac evangelism	75
Ch. 7	The Mac Web	84
Ch. 8	Tales of Macworld	96
Ch. 9	Macs in Japan	119
Ch. 10	Macquariums	146
Ch. 11	Fantasy Macs	150
Ch. 12	Hardware mods	172
Ch. 13	Paper Macs	181
Ch. 14	Mac collectors and collectibles	194
Ch. 15	Antique Macs	206
Ch. 16	IPod	234
Ch. 17	What makes Mac fans so loyal?	246

Avid Xpress Pro Editing Workshop or Civic Life Online

Avid Xpress Pro Editing Workshop

Author: Steve Hullfish

This book moves beyond the basics of "pushing the buttons"; explaining the most efficient and effective ways of using Xpress Pro to tell the story. Readers develop a working knowledge of the application with lessons and tutorials that cover every essential method and technique. An excellent resource for students and professional editors new to Xpress Pro, this book and DVD combo provides valuable hands-on practice with an extended example that demonstrates the edit of an entire sequence. Project media and plug-ins are provided on the companion DVD.

This book moves beyond the basics of 'pushing the buttons,' explaining the most efficient and effective ways of using Xpress Pro to tell the story.

Read also Il lettore globale di trasformazioni: Un'introduzione al dibattito di globalizzazione

Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth

Author: W Lance Bennett

Young people today have grown up living substantial portions of their lives online, seeking entertainment, social relationships, and a place to express themselves. It is clear that participation in online communities is important for many young people, but less clear how this translates into civic or political engagement. This volume examines the relationship of online action and real-world politics.

The contributors discuss not only how online networks might inspire conventional political participation but also how creative uses of digital technologies are expanding the boundaries of politics and public issues. Do protests in gaming communities, music file sharing, or fan petitioning of music companies constitute political behavior? Do the communication skills and patterns of action developed in these online activities transfer to such offline realms as voting and public protests? Civic Life Online describes the many forms of civic life online that could predict a generation's political behavior.

Contributors:

Marina Umaschi Bers, Stephen Coleman, Jennifer Earl, Kirsten Foot, Peter Levine, Kathryn C. Montgomery, Kate Raynes-Goldie, Howard Rheingold, Alan Schussman, Luke Walker, Michael Xenos.

MCTS or Crashing the Gate

MCTS: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Implementation and Maintenance Study Guide (70-431)

Author: Dandy Weyn

With the release of SQL Server 2005, Microsoft is introducing a new multi-exam certification program. The Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Implementation and Maintenance exam (70-431) is the first stop for everyone entering this new certification track, and serves as both a single exam certification as well as the entry exam for the MCITP-level certifications. This book provides an introduction to the development and administrative aspects of SQL Server 2005 and features practical guidance for all aspects of the exam.

Get a great start in your certification process today with this comprehensive guide which includes:

• Hundreds of challenging practice questions plus two bonus exams

• Leading-edge exam preparation software, including a test engine

Authoritative coverage of all key exam objectives, including:

• Installing and Configuring SQL Server 2005

• Implementing High Availability and Disaster Recovery

• Supporting Data Consumers

• Maintaining Databases

• Monitoring and Troubleshooting SQL Server Performance

• Creating and Implementing Database Objects

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2005	1
Ch. 2	Creating and configuring databases	31
Ch. 3	Working with tables and views	61
Ch. 4	Performing indexing and full-text searching	107
Ch. 5	Introducing more database objects	141
Ch. 6	Implementing security in SQL Server 2005	189
Ch. 7	Working with relational data	241
Ch. 8	Working with XML data	281
Ch. 9	Working with service broker and HTTP	311
Ch. 10	Maintaining and automating SQL Server	347
Ch. 11	Performing backups and restores	415
Ch. 12	Achieving high availability through replication	463
Ch. 13	Introducing more high-availability methods	521
Ch. 14	Monitoring and optimizing SQL Server 2005	557

Read also Gymnastics Conditioning for the Legs and Ankles or The Alzheimers Health Care Handbook

Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics

Author: Jerome Armstrong

Crashing the Gate is a shot across the bow at the political establishment in Washington, DC and a call to re-democratize politics in America.

This book lays bare, with passion and precision, how ineffective, incompetent, and antiquated the Democratic Party establishment has become, and how it has failed to adapt and respond to new realities and challenges. The authors save their sharpest knives to go for the jugular in their critique of Republican ideologues who are now running—and ruining—our country.

Written by two of the most popular political bloggers in America, the book hails the new movement—of the netroots, the grassroots, the unorthodox labor unions, the maverick big donors—that is the antidote to old-school politics as usual. Fueled by advances in technology and a hunger for a more authentic and populist democracy, this broad-based movement is changing the way political campaigns are waged and managed.

A must-read book for anyone with an interest in the future of American democracy. "

About the Authors:
Jerome Armstrong, a pioneer of the political blogosphere, founded one of the first political blogs, MyDD.com, in 2001. The person behind the netroots strategy that used blogs and meetups for Howard Dean's campaign, Jerome works as an internet strategist for advocacy organizations and political campaigns. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

Markos Moulitsas Zъniga served in the U.S. Army for three years and later earned two bachelors degrees from Northern Illinois University and a law degree from Boston University. After moving to California to work in the tech industry, Markos started DailyKos.com in May 2002. His blog has had a meteoric rise and now gets more than a million unique visitors each day, making it one of the most popular blogs in the nation. Markos lives in Berkeley, California.

Simon Rosenberg is president and founder of the New Democrat Network, a national membership organization that promotes strategies to modernize progressive politics. Before founding NDN, Rosenberg was a key member of Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. He and his family live in Washington DC.

The New York Times - Peter Beinart

Armstrong and Moulitsas may well be right that the next great partisan transformation will be theirs. In Crashing the Gate they have written an insightful guide to how the Democratic Party can retake power. Now all they need to do is figure out why it deserves to.

Library Journal

Armstrong (MyDD.com) and Zuniga (DailyKos.com), both popular liberal political bloggers, offer a critique of Democrats and lay out their strategy to save the party and win back control of government at all levels. They present a blistering attack on the Republican Party's ideological constituencies-the theocons, neocons, corporate cons, etc.-and the policies of the Bush administration, but they move quickly to a lengthy critique of the Democratic Party, which they describe, borrowing from Howard Dean, as a collection of single-issue interest groups (e.g., pro-choice, environmental, big labor, and gun control advocates) unwilling to make concessions for the greater good: the success of the party. The authors also note outdated old-boy systems of raising money, outmoded campaign strategies, and a lack of technological sophistication. The Democrats must nurture places where new ideas germinate, such as the world of the blog. Their plan strikes this reader as na ve, considering that Dean didn't win a single primary and that the Republicans have successfully mobilized large numbers of people in support of their candidates. Moreover, they assume that their progressive ideas are, in fact, what the masses subscribe to. While the book may spark some interest among blog readers and writers, its wider appeal will be limited. Recommended for larger public libraries and academic libraries with comprehensive holdings on campaigns and elections. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

The Ebay Millionaire or Spooked

The Ebay Millionaire: Titanium PowerSeller Secrets for Building a Big Online Business

Author: Amy Joyner

Proven strategies and the latest selling tips from eBay's most elite merchants

With an estimated 200,000 people making a full-time living selling goods on eBay, and millions more earning a part-time income, it's clear that eBay can create some impressive profits for those who know what they're doing. The eBay Millionaire profiles 25 of eBay's elite Titanium Power Sellers-those who move more than $150,000 in goods every month-and reveals the secrets to their success. Author Amy Joyner reveals the fifty top lessons for profitably selling almost anything on eBay, from how to select the best mix of merchandise, ship goods, and keep customers happy to working with wholesalers, making the leap from part-time to full-time selling, and looking like a million-dollar business even if you're working from your kitchen table.

Amy Joyner (Greensboro, NC) is an award-winning reporter for the News & Record in Greensboro, North Carolina, who has been covering e-commerce and entrepreneurship for many years. She is the coauthor of Making Dough (0-471-43209-1) and has won awards for her writing from the Associated Press, North Carolina Press Association, and other organizations, as well as three Knight Center Fellowships for business, aviation security, and military reporting.

Table of Contents:

PART ONE: Building an eBay Empire.

Introduction.

The Power of the Titanium Secrets.

Getting Started.

Sixteen Essential Steps to Launching Your eBay Business.

PART TWO: The Titanium PowerSellers.

PROFILE 1: A City Discount.

PROFILE 2: AuctionDrop.

PROFILE 3: Carsyours.

PROFILE 4: Cord Camera.

PROFILE 5: Dealtree.

PROFILE 6: Designer Athletic.

PROFILE 7: eMoviePoster.com.

PROFILE 8: eValueville.

PROFILE 9: Glacier Bay DVD.

PROFILE 10: Grapevine Hill.

PROFILE 11: Hess Fine Art.

PROFILE 12: Inventory Solutions.

PROFILE 13: 1StopAuctions.

PROFILE 14: Pugster.

PROFILE 15: Rock Bottom Golf.

PROFILE 16: SCGaynor Auctions.

PROFILE 17: Sell2All.

PROFILE 18: zTradingPost.

PART THREE: Putting the PowerSeller Techniques to Work for You.

Fifty Strategies for Successful eBay Selling.

Resource List for Building Your eBay Business.

Acknowledgments.

Index.

Interesting book: Classroom Cupboard or Terrific Pacific Cookbook

Spooked: Espionage in Corporate America

Author: Adam L Penenberg

Imagine your main business competitor building a satellite-equipped "war room" to secretly monitor your new ventures. Imagine your classified product prototype mysteriously landing on the market under the brand name belonging to your archrival. Impossible? This isn't a story line from the latest spy thriller, it's modern-day corporate America. Spooked thrusts readers into a clandestine world-where business means war and information is worth stealing.Through narrative accounts of corporate spies within companies such as IBM, Microsoft, and Motorola, Spooked dramatically brings to life one of America's fastest-growing industries: Corporate Intelligence. In this page-burning exposé, Adam Penenberg and Marc Barry uncover and describe in thrilling detail the alarming regularity of espionage in industry. They offer an unsettling portrait of America's publicly traded companies, and unravel the truth and hypocrisy behind the multi-billion dollar corporate intelligence industry.

Publishers Weekly

Paranoia levels will shoot through the ceiling among those who read this riveting report on the growing number of companies that spy on their competition in the U.S. Penenberg, an investigative journalist for Forbes, and Barry, founder of a corporate intelligence agency, argue that, in an environment of blistering competition, the edge belongs to the company with the best information on its rivals. In-house spy units, Penenberg and Barry claim, are cloaked behind doors with division titles like external development, market research and strategic marketing and, therefore, can't be accurately counted. Nevertheless, they contend, a clear indicator of growth in the new corporate-spy industry is the emergence of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, which sets ethical guidelines and standards of conduct for the industry and reportedly has 7,000 members. In the tradition of John le Carr , the industry has already developed its own colorful lingo for its various types of snoops, ranging from "the librarian"Dwho only searches publicly available sources of informationDto the "trade-show cowboy," who assumes a false identity to skulk around conventions. Penenberg and Barry report hair-raising tales of corporate skulduggery in loving detail, including how companies like Motorola and Avery Dennison have reaped huge benefits from their corporate-intelligence investments. Agent, Lisa Swain. (Dec. 18) Forecast: With publication coming on the heels of the recent break-in at Microsoft, and a New York Times Magazine excerpt scheduled for December 3, Penenberg and Barry's deeply intriguing book is bound to get a lot of play and should wind up as one of the season's must-have reads. Marketing to both the business set and fans of cloak-and-dagger will enhance sales. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Business 2.0

A page-turner that details the current frenzied state of industrial thievery....Spooked successfully sheds light on a subterranean sector of the New Economy. Think you told your secrets to a venture capitalist? Think again.

Beyond Human or Network Security Essentials

Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs

Author: Gregory Benford

Would your body work better with some artificial parts? Will you live longer, perhaps a lot longer, than you now expect?  The next decade promises another qualitative shift in the way we view technology, as once purely fictional concepts—robots, cyborg parts, and the many variations in between—become part of reality.

Beyond Human treats the landscape of human self-change and robotic development as poles of the same phenomenon. Can we go too far in making ourselves machine-like or making machines resemble us? Once made, what will such creatures think about us? These questions will arise in myriad ways in the next few decades, as we press against boundaries that a short while ago existed only in works of the imagination. Written in a lively and provocative style, this is a readable book about the accumulation of small scientific advances that add up to something large and challenging.

Go to: Ten Years Younger or Cross Training For Dummies

Network Security Essentials: Applications and Standards

Author: William Stallings

This book provides a practical, up-to-date, and comprehensive survey of network-based and Internet-based security applications and standards. Covers e-mail security, IP security, Web security, and network management security. Includes a concise section on the discipline of cryptography–covering algorithms and protocols underlying network security applications, encryption, hash functions, digital signatures, and key exchange. For system engineers, engineers, programmers, system managers, network managers, product marketing personnel, and system support specialists.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Ch. 2	Symmetric encryption and message confidentiality	28
Ch. 3	Public-key cryptography and message authentication	59
Ch. 4	Authentication applications	94
Ch. 5	Electronic mail security	130
Ch. 6	IP security	177
Ch. 7	Web security	221
Ch. 8	Network management security	257
Ch. 9	Intruders	299
Ch. 10	Malicious software	332
Ch. 11	Firewalls	355
App. A	Some aspects of number theory	381
App. B	Projects for teaching network security	386

Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring or An Intermediate Guide to SPSS Programming

Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring: Including Plug-Ins and Hardware Devices

Author: Max Schubert

Nagios is an Open Source network, hardware, and application monitoring program. It is designed to inform system administrators of problems on their networks before their clients, end-users or managers do. Nagios is a SysAdmin's best friend. Nagios is installed on over 300,000 machines worldwide, and truly is a global product: approximately 25.6% of users are in the U.S., and 30% in EMEA. Nagios can monitor everything from network bandwidth to the temperature and humidity in a server room. SysAdmins are able to use Nagios for such a variety of purposes through custom software "plug ins" and third party hardware. SysAdmins customize these plug ins instructing Nagios to monitor the servers, applications, or devices that are most critical to their network infrastructure. These plug ins also allow SysAdmins to integrate Nagios with other monitoring devices and applications like Snort and Wireshark. Nagios can also be fully integrated with third party environmental monitoring devices and remote power supplies. When Nagios detects a problem, it can notify the SysAdmin in a variety of different ways (email, instant message, SMS, etc.). Current status information, historical logs, and reports can all be accessed via a web browser. Nagios could send a text message to a SysAdmin sitting on his couch at home that the temperature in the server room is too hot and could potentially damage the equipment. The SysAdmin can then check the status of the server from home using his Nagios Web interface, and then coordinate with the appropriate facility management personnel to check the air conditioning in the server room. This is merely one example of Nagios? capabilities. The same scenario couldbe applied to an overloaded Exchange server, a router being pounded by a Denial of Service Attack, or a user accessing or downloading unauthorized materials.

* Contains complete case study on deploying Nagios in an enterprise environment
* Companion website offers a wide variety of working Scripts for customizing Nagios plug-ins
* Helps organizations adhere to federally mandated compliance regulations such as Sarbanes- Oxley or HIPAA
* Details how to integrate Nagios with third-party hardware

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1 Nagios 3 1

Ch. 2 Designing Configurations for Large Organizations 25

Ch. 3 Scaling Nagios 85

Ch. 4 Plug-ins, Plug-ins, and More Plug-ins 115

Ch. 5 Add-ons and Enhancements 245

Ch. 6 Enterprise Integration 273

Ch. 7 Intrusion and Security Analysis 295

Ch. 8 Case Study: Acme Enterprise 315

Index 341

Go to: Pilates Edge or Profound Healing

An Intermediate Guide to SPSS Programming: Using Syntax for Data Management

Author: Sarah Boslaugh

"The book makes a distinct and important contribution to the field by focusing on an important set of skills that is often only briefly touched upon (if at all) in courses or texts. SPSS users benefit from having solid familiarity with syntax coding in addition to being able to use the pull-down menus. A careful study of this book will help readers advance these important skills."
--Eric Einspruch, RMC Research Corporation

"Where was this manual when I was trying to learn SPSS for my dissertation after switching from MiniTab? It would have been a valuable tool to save enormous amounts of time. It is succinct and to the point."
--Wanda J. Long, St. Charles Community College

An Intermediate Guide to SPSS Programming: Using Syntax for Data Management introduces the major tasks of data management and presents solutions using SPSS syntax. This book fills an important gap in the education of many students and researchers, whose coursework has left them unprepared for the data management issues that confront them when they begin to do independent research. It also serves as an introduction to SPSS programming. All the basic features of SPSS syntax are illustrated, as are many intermediate and advanced topics such as using vectors and loops, reading complex data files, and using the SPSS macro language.

Key Features

• Overview of data management issues, with practical solutions
•  A beginner-level introduction to SPSS and computer programming
•  Many examples of SPSS syntax and annotated output
•  Chapters on date and time variables in SPSS, missingdata, nonstandard data files, and SPSS macro language, and random processes

An Intermediate Guide to SPSS Programming will be a welcome addition to advanced undergraduate and graduate statistics courses across the social sciences, education, and health. Professional researchers, data managers, and statisticians will also find this an invaluable reference for SPSS and data management.