Inside Microsoft Windows Internals Covering Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Server 2003 or The Betterphoto Guide to Digital Nature Photography

Inside Microsoft Windows Internals, Covering Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003

Author: Mark E Russinovich

Delve inside the Windows kernel with noted internals experts Mark Russinovich and David Solomon, in collaboration with the Microsoft Windows product development team. This classic guide-fully updated for Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000, including 64-bit extensions-describes the architecture and internals of the Windows operating system. You'll find hands-on experiments you can use to experience Windows internal behavior firsthand, along with advanced troubleshooting information to help you keep your systems running smoothly and efficiently. Whether you're a developer or a system administrator, you'll find critical architectural insights that you can quickly apply for better design, debugging, performance, and support.

Table of Contents:

1	Concepts and tools	1
2	System architecture	35
3	System mechanisms	85
4	Management mechanisms	183
5	Startup and shutdown	251
6	Processes, threads, and jobs	289
7	Memory management	375
8	Security	485
9	I/O system	537
10	Storage management	615
11	Cache manager	655
12	File systems	689
13	Networking	787
14	Crash dump analysis	845

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The Betterphoto Guide to Digital Nature Photography

Author: Jim Miotk

*Step-by-step lessons cover every aspect of digital nature photography

*Clear text and helpful photos demystify digital photography

*Miotke has taught hundreds of photo workshops!

From the tiniest ladybug to a towering glacier, from a horse running in a field to a leaf falling slowly from a tree, nature subjects offer some of the greatest challenges and the greatest rewards to photographers. In the Better Photo tradition, here's a complete photo course in a book. Hands-on lessons cover every aspect of digital nature photography, from buying the right camera for close-ups, landscapes, and movement, to understanding how the camera works, to taking great pictures. Author Jim Miotke uses straightforward text and inspiring yet informative photos to show the best ways to approach nature photography. Everything a beginner or intermediate photographer needs to know is here, including a buyer's guide, full information on camera features, file formats and settings, exposure, low-light photography, filters and white balance, composition and lens choice, creative ideas, manipulating, and printing, along with a glossary and list of useful websites. The Better Photo Guide to Digital Nature Photography helps photographers everywhere get great photos in the great outdoors.

Jim Miotke, the founder of the website BetterPhoto.com and an instructor at the site. He is the author of the Better Photo Guide to Digital Photography and The Absolute Beginners Guide to Taking Great Photos. He lives in Washington state.

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In this comprehensive guide to digital nature photography, Miotke begins with the digital demands of light, composition, and exposure, then goes on to shooting landscapes, macro photography, and wildlife. In a clear and accessible style, he helps students gain command of the technical concepts of exposure, aperture, shutter speed, and shooting in camera RAW. Scattered throughout are tips on practical matters, e.g., planning, packing, safety, and weather. Miotke is particularly good at defining composition, style, and dramatic effects and transmitting his enthusiasm for the overwhelming beauty available to the photographer in nature. Recommended.

The Data Warehouse Toolkit or IT Governance

The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling

Author: Margy Ross

Single most authoritative guide from the inventor of the technique.

• Presents unique modeling techniques for e-commerce, and shows strategies for optimizing performance.

• Companion Web site provides updates on dimensional modeling techniques, links related to sites, and source code where appropriate.

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Utilizing case studies from a variety of business applications, the authors present dimensional modeling techniques for data warehousing. Emphasizing user understandability and query performance, chapters cover techniques in the areas of retail sales , inventory, procurement, order management, customer relationship management, accounting, human resource management, financial services, telecommunications and utilities, transportation, education, health care, electronic commerce, and insurance. Final chapters discuss the construction of the data warehouse framework and future trends. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results

Author: Peter Weill

Firms with superior IT governance have twice the profit of firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives. These top performers have custom-designed IT governance for their strategies. Just as corporate governance aims to ensure quality decisions about all corporate assets, IT governance links IT decisions with company objectives and monitors performance and accountability.

Based on a study of 250 enterprises worldwide, IT Governance shows how to design and implement a system of decision rights that will transform IT from an expense to a profitable investment.

Table of Contents:

Preface and Acknowledgments

Office 2007 or The New Influencers

Office 2007: The Missing Manual

Author: Chris Grover

Quickly learn the most useful features of Microsoft Office 2007 with our easy to read four-in-one guide. This fast-paced book gives you the basics of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access so you can start using the new versions of these major Office applications right away. Unlike every previous version, Office 2007 offers a completely redesigned user interface for each program. Microsoft has replaced the familiar menus with a new tabbed toolbar (or "ribbon"), and added other features such as "live preview" that lets you see exactly what each option will look like in the document before you choose it. This is good news for longtime users who never knew about some amazing Office features because they were hidden among cluttered and outdated menus. Adapting to the new format is going to be a shock -- especially if you're a longtime user. That's where Office 2007: The Missing Manual comes in. Rather than present a lot of arcane detail, this quick & friendly primer teaches you how to work with the most-used Office features, with four separate sections covering the four programs. The book offers a walkthrough of Microsoft's redesigned Office user interface before taking you through the basics of creating text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and databases with: Clear explanations Step-by-step instructions Lots of illustrations Plenty of friendly advice It's a great way to master all 4 programs without having to stock up on a shelf-load of different books. This book has everything you need to get you up to speed fast. Office 2007: The Missing Manual is truly the book that should have been in the box.

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The New Influencers: A Marketer's Guide to the New Social Media

Author: Paul Gillin

The New Influencers is a practical guide to engaging with the people who are defining the rules of the conversation-based marketplace. To be successful, companies and organizations of all sizes are going to have to learn how to interact within this new milieu.

Attention marketers, business owners, CEOs: your job will never be the same now that the new social media have changed the dynamics of marketing. The real influencers are no longer marketing experts, nor the traditional media that have always controlled and filtered marketing messages, but millions of ordinary people who are determining in direct and powerful ways what people hear, say, and believe.

This isn't a book about blogging. It is a book about transformation in media that is handing influence to people who have never before had the tools or platform to express themselves. It is about what marketers and executives need to understand in order to engage this new group of people and influence them. Blogs and podcasts happen to be a way to exercise this influence, but they are just tools. Fundamentally, this is a book about people.

Bloggers and podcasters come from all walks of life. Many are journalists, some are technologists, but others are single mothers, educators, graphic designers, and even dairy farmers. They share a passion for community journalism, thoughtful discourse, and commitment to change. They are the New Influencers.

Essentials of Modern Business Statistics or Systems Analysis and Design

Essentials of Modern Business Statistics (with CD-ROM)

Author: David R Anderson

From the renowned author team that has been writing market-leading business statistics textbooks for more than 20 years, ESSENTIALS OF MODERN BUSINESS STATISTICS, 3e provides a brief introduction to business statistics that balances a conceptual understanding of statistics with the real-world application of statistical methodology. The latest version of Microsoft Excel is integrated throughout the text, showing step-by-step instructions and screen captures to enhance student learning. The Third Edition contains the same student learning features that have made ASW products best-sellers for years; features include the problem-scenario approach and real-world examples that introduce statistical techniques.

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Systems Analysis and Design

Author: Kenneth E Kendall

Dynamic, comprehensive coverage makes this the perfect book on systems analysis and design, with a reader-friendly presentation of development, methods, tools, and techniques. A variety of review questions and problems, an ongoing case study, and an Internet-based case study offer learners an understandable and motivating look at the SAD field. For production supervisors and other business personnel in similar positions who want a working knowledge–without the in-depth command–of information systems.

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This fifth edition of a text for undergraduates at a university, graduate school, or community college includes new mini cases on designing for e-commerce and modeling with UML, new approaches for designing e-commerce Web sites, expanded coverage of GUI design, and new coverage of Web site security and privacy. Full color has been added for this edition, making concept diagrams and screen captures more clear. Coverage encompasses systems analysis fundamentals, information requirements analysis, the analysis process, essentials of design, and software engineering and implementation. An ongoing case takes students through all phases of the systems development life cycle, and cases at a Web site immerse students in a virtual organization. The authors are affiliated with the School of Business- Camden at Rutgers University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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A textbook for a one- or two-semester course in the undergraduate curriculum. .... Among the features of this edition (2nd ed., 1992) are a new chapter on object-oriented systems analysis and design, and a number of group projects. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Table of Contents:

Pt. I	Systems Analysis Fundamentals
1	Assuming the Role of the Systems Analyst	1
2	Understanding Organizational Style and its Impact on Information Systems	27
3	Determining Feasibility and Managing Analysis and Design Activities	49
Pt. II	Information Requirements Analysis
4	Information Gathering: Interactive Methods	89
5	Information Gathering: Unobtrusive Methods	123
6	Prototyping: RAD, and Extreme Programming	151
Pt. III	The Analysis Process
7	Using Data Flow Diagrams	191
8	Analyzing Systems Using Data Dictionaries	245
9	Describing Process Specifications and Structured Decisions	283
10	Preparing the Systems Proposal	319
Pt. IV	The Essentials of Design
11	Designing Effective Output	359
12	Designing Effective Input	405
13	Designing Databases	443
14	Designing User Interfaces	497
15	Designing Accurate Data Entry Procedures	543
Pt. V	Software Engineering and Implementation
16	Quality Assurance Through Software Engineering	581
17	Successfully Implementing the Information System	621
18	Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design Using UML	657
	Glossary	703
	Acronyms	713
	Index	714

Software Estimation or MCSE Self Paced Training Kit

Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art

Author: Steve McConnell

Often referred to as the "black art" because of its complexity and uncertainty, software estimation is not as hard or mysterious as people think. However, the art of how to create effective cost and schedule estimates has not been very well publicized. While the average software organization can struggle with project costs that run double their original estimates, some of the more sophisticated organizations achieve results with estimation errors as low as 5-10%. These best-in-class organizations use scientific techniques that are not cost-effective, however, making them of limited use to most software development organizations. To address these issues, Software Estimation focuses on the art of software estimation and provides a proven set of procedures and heuristics that software developers, technical leads, and project managers can apply to their projects. Instead of arcane treatises and rigid modeling techniques, award-winning author Steve McConnell gives practical guidance to help organizations achieve basic estimation proficiency and lay the groundwork to continue improving project cost estimates. This book is organized from simple tips to more advanced ideas; it does not avoid the more hairy mathematical estimation approaches, but the non-mathematical reader will find plenty of useful guidelines without getting bogged down in complex formulas.

Table of Contents:

1	What is an "estimate"?	3
2	How good an estimator are you?	15
3	Value of accurate estimates	21
4	Where does estimation error come from?	33
5	Estimate influences	55
6	Introduction to estimation techniques	77
7	Count, compute, judge	83
8	Calibration and historical data	91
9	Individual expert judgment	105
10	Decomposition and recomposition	113
11	Estimation by analogy	127
12	Proxy-based estimates	135
13	Expert judgment in groups	149
14	Software estimation tools	157
15	Use of multiple approaches	165
16	Flow of software estimates on a well-estimated project	171
17	Standardized estimation procedures	181
18	Special issues in estimating size	197
19	Special issues in estimating effort	207
20	Special issues in estimating schedule	221
21	Estimating planning parameters	233
22	Estimate presentation styles	249
23	Politics, negotiation, and problem solving	259

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MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-291) Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure

Author: J C Mackin

Announcing an all-new MCSA/MCSE Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on Exam 70-291, a core exam for the new Windows Server 2003 certification. This kit packs the tools and features that exam candidates want most-including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and a robust testing suite. It also provides real-world scenarios, case study examples, and troubleshooting labs for skills and expertise that you can apply to the job.

Focusing on network infrastructure management for Windows Server 2003, this official study guide covers topics such as implementing, managing, and maintaining IP addressing, name resolution, network security measures, routing and remote access, and monitoring and troubleshooting network infrastructure.

Ace your exam preparation and ramp up quickly on Windows Server 2003 by working at your own pace through the lessons, hands-on exercises, and practice tests. The flexible, best-of-class test engine on CD features 300 practice questions and pre-assessment and post-assessment capabilities. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on discrete objectives or chapters, and get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers-including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get a 120-day evaluation version of Windows Server 2003 and a 15 percent exam discount voucher-making this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment.