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Advent of Netwarby John Arquilla, David RonfeldtISBN 0833024140 (0-8330-2414-0)
Softcover, Rand Corp
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The Age of the Network: Organizing Principles for the 21st Centuryby Jessica LipnackISBN 0939246716 (0-939246-71-6)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Art Song: The Marriage of Music and Poetryby Barbara MeisterISBN 0893416355 (0-89341-635-5)
Hardcover, Hollowbrook Pub
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Building Local Area Networks With Novell's Netwareby Patrick H. Corrigan, Aisling GuyISBN 1558510109 (1-55851-010-9)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Business Data Communicationsby David A. StamperISBN 0805303022 (0-8053-0302-2)
Hardcover, Benjamin/Cummings Pub Co
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Ccda: Cisco Certified Design Associate Study Guideby Donald Porter, James Chellis, Todd LammleISBN 0782125344 (0-7821-2534-4)
Hardcover, Sybex Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ccda: Cisco Certified Design Associate Study Guide'Book summary:Of the preparation guides available for the Cisco Certified Design Associate exam (640-441), CCDA: Cisco Certified Design ssociate Study Guide comes out on top. Authors Todd Lammle and Donald Porter clearly explain what you need to know, both to pass the exam and to prove yourself a competent network technician once on the job. Some of the material that appears in these pages--a table listing various Cisco router product lines, their capabilities, and suitable applications for them, to cite one example--makes great reading, and will prove useful long after the exam is over.
The authors' presentation style uses text to great effect, explaining potentially confusing topics with clear, fact-rich prose that rewards close attention from the reader. There are plenty of helpful conceptual diagrams (illustrating network segmentation with a bridge, for example) and flow charts (a good one illustrates packet-switching logic) as well.
It's sometimes possible to forget that this is an exam preparation aid, but realistic problems and multiple-choice review questions bring readers back to the task at hand. Elaborate solutions to the problems and quick answers to the review questions appear in the back of this book (along with an excellent, extensive glossary), but the answer key would be more helpful if it included brief discussions explaining the reasoning behind the correct answers. --David Wall
Topics covered: All proscribed elements of the CCDA exam (640-441), including the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) reference model, Ethernet, network topologies, network protocols, routing, bridging, switching, and the fundamentals of Cisco hardware and software products. [via]
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Ccna Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide: Exam 640-801by Donald Porter, James Chellis, Todd LammleISBN 0782123813 (0-7821-2381-3)
Hardcover, Sybex Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ccna Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide: Exam 640-801'Book summary:An impressive offering, CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide does a terrific job of making networking basics approachable. Though written for those already familiar with technology, it nonetheless manages to clearly explain what makes networks work without undercutting their inherent complexity. Authors Lammle and Chellis set the stage by going through such fundamentals as local area network (LAN) devices, the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model and various data transport protocols. From there, the book delves into such topics as network congestion--what causes it and what to do about it--Internet protocol (IP) addressing and subnetting, interior routing protocols and basic routing configuration.
As is characteristic of any quality study guide, each chapter ends with a summary followed by a mountain of review questions, which are good practice for the written CCNA exam. Answers are listed in one of the six appendices, which also cover AppleTalk and related Request for Comments (RFCs). In addition, this book contains a fantastic 116-page glossary--again, a terrific feature for networking newcomers. An added bonus is the bundled CD-ROM that holds the SureCert CCNA Exam Prep Program as well as the Visio Network Professional and Network Equipment package, useful for testing out newly minted network-design skills. --Sarah L Roberts-Witt [via]
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Ccna Exam Notes: Cisco Certified Network Assocby Todd Lammie, Todd LammleISBN 0782125352 (0-7821-2535-2)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Cities in a World Economyby Saskia SassenISBN 1412936802 (1-4129-3680-2)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities in a World Economy'Book summary:Cities in a World Economy presents sociologists with a new perspective on the study of urban sociology. The decentralization and privatization of the world's economies has radically altered such things as the organization of labour, the structure of consumption, and the distribution of earnings in ways that have yet to be fully realized. In a world economy that is truly more global than it has ever been, the Second Edition of this popular textbook addresses the need to account for the global economies' increasing influence on the social structures of cities.
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City of Golden Shadowby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886777100 (0-88677-710-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Collaborative Advantage: How Organisations Win by Working Togetherby Elizabeth LankISBN 1403993459 (1-4039-9345-9)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Communication and Computer Networks: Modelling With Discrete-Time Queuesby Michael E. WoodwardISBN 0818651725 (0-8186-5172-5)
Hardcover, IEEE Computer Society
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Communication and Control: Networks and the New Economies of Communicationby Geoff MulganISBN 0898623111 (0-89862-311-1)
Hardcover, Guilford Pubn
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Computer Networks: A Systems Approachby Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. DavieISBN 155860832X (1-55860-832-X)
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Computer Peripherals That You Can Buildby Gordon W. WolfeISBN 083062449X (0-8306-2449-X)
Hardcover, Tab Books
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Computers & Social Controversyby Tom LogsdonISBN 0914894145 (0-914894-14-5)
Hardcover, Computer Science Press
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The Connective Edge: Leading in an Interdependent Worldby Jean Lipman-BlumenISBN 0787902438 (0-7879-0243-8)
Hardcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Connexity: How to Live in a Connected Worldby Geoff MulganISBN 0875848508 (0-87584-850-8)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Connexity: How to Live in a Connected World'Book summary:Many books have been written about the implications of a globalized and interconnected civilization. But few have the range and depth of Geoff Mulgan's Connexity. The central issue Connexity addresses is the fundamental conflict that exists between the freedoms enjoyed by many, mainly in the Western world, and the growing economic interdependence of so many more worldwide. Mulgan, who is the founder of Demos, a liberal think tank based in London, and a member of Tony Blair's Policy Unit, writes, "Our problem is that freedom to behave as we would wish, without regard for our effects on others, runs directly counter to the other striking fact of the contemporary world: our growing dependence on other people. The world may never have been freer, but it has also never been so interdependent and interconnected. Only a small proportion of the world's population could now be self-sufficient. The rest of us depend on complex systems to deliver us water, food, justice, energy and health."
Mulgan probes the nature of the conflict between freedom and interdependence by examining everything from the nature of markets in a free society to the role of governments in a shrinking world and problems posed by economies which tend to ignore national boundaries. The author argues that reciprocity, or the golden rule, "is the most important idea for a developed democratic society." Whether you agree with Mulgan politics or not, you will find this book to be thought-provoking and timely. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativityby Siva VaidhyanathanISBN 0814788076 (0-8147-8807-6)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity'Book summary:Copyright reflects far more than economic interests. Embedded within conflicts over royalties and infringement are cultural valuesabout race, class, access, ownership, free speech, and democracywhich influence how rights are determined and enforced. Questions of legitimacyof what constitutes intellectual property or fair use, and of how to locate a precise moment of cultural creationhave become enormously complicated in recent years, as advances in technology have exponentially increased the speed of cultural reproduction and dissemination.
In Copyrights and Copywrongs, Siva Vaidhyanathan tracks the history of American copyright law through the 20th century, from Mark Twains vehement exhortations for thick copyright protection, to recent lawsuits regarding sampling in rap music and the digital moment, exemplified by the rise of Napster and MP3 technology. He argues persuasively that in its current punitive, highly restrictive form, American copyright law hinders cultural production, thereby contributing to the poverty of civic culture.
In addition to choking cultural expression, recent copyright law, Vaidhyanathan argues, effectively sanctions biases against cultural traditions which differ from the Anglo-European model. In African-based cultures, borrowing from and building upon earlier cultural expressions is not considered a legal trespass, but a tribute. Rap and hip hop artists who practice such borrowing by sampling and mixing, however, have been sued for copyright violation and forced to pay substantial monetary damages. Similarly, the oral transmission of culture, which has a centuries-old tradition within African American culture, is complicated by current copyright laws. How, for example, can ownership of music, lyrics, or stories which have been passed down through generations be determined? Upon close examination, strict legal guidelines prove insensitive to the diverse forms of cultural expression prevalent in the United States, and reveal much about the racialized cultural values which permeate our system of laws. Ultimately, copyright is a necessary policy that should balance public and private interests but the recent rise of intellectual property as a concept have overthrown that balance. Copyright, Vaidhyanathan asserts, is policy, not property.
Bringing to light the republican principles behind original copyright laws as well as present-day imbalances and future possibilities for freer expression and artistic equity, this volume takes important strides towards unraveling the complex web of culture, law, race, and technology in today's global marketplace.
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Countering the New Terrorismby Ian O. Lesser, John Arquilla, Bruce Hoffman, David Ronfeldt, Michele ZaniniISBN 0833026674 (0-8330-2667-4)
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Cuckoo's Eggby Clifford StollISBN 1416507787 (1-4165-0778-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cuckoo's Egg'Book summary:A sentimental favorite, The Cuckoo's Egg seems to have inspired a whole category of books exploring the quest to capture computer criminals. Still, even several years after its initial publication and after much imitation, the book remains a good read with an engaging story line and a critical outlook, as Clifford Stoll becomes, almost unwillingly, a one-man security force trying to track down faceless criminals who've invaded the university computer lab he stewards. What first appears as a 75-cent accounting error in a computer log is eventually revealed to be a ring of industrial espionage, primarily thanks to Stoll's persistence and intellectual tenacity. [via]
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Else/Where: Mapping : New Cartographies of Networks and Territoriesby Janet Abrams, Peter HallISBN 0972969624 (0-9729696-2-4)
Softcover, University of Minnesota, Design Institute
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End of Millenniumby Manuel CastellsISBN 1557868727 (1-55786-872-7)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Fiber Optics Technician's Manualby Jim HayesISBN 076681825X (0-7668-1825-X)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructureby Ian Foster, Carl KesselmanISBN 1558604758 (1-55860-475-8)
Hardcover, Morgan Kaufmann Pub
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Handbook of Data Communications and Computer Networksby Dimitris N. ChorafasISBN 0830696903 (0-8306-9690-3)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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How Networks Workby Frank Derfler, Les Freed, Michael TrollerISBN 0789732327 (0-7897-3232-7)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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How Networks Workby Les Freed, Frank J. DerflerISBN 0789727536 (0-7897-2753-6)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Networks Work'Book summary:If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Frank Derfler and Les Freed's fourth edition of How Networks Work is worth about a quarter of a million words. With lavish illustrations on almost every page, this book--like the entire How It Works series--teaches technology with detailed visuals on everything from the inner workings of a modem to the configuration of a Token Ring network. Departing somewhat from the usual form of the series, however, the authors take a historic approach. Part 1 briefly discusses the operation of the telegraph, telephone, and printing telegraph. This material is of interest, but is not presented with any detail (Edison's Carbon Transmitter, for example, is depicted as a museum piece with a bit of textual explication). Where the volume excels is in its diagramming and simplifying of complicated networked systems. The Network Interface Card is dissected, fiber optic and STP wires are cut open, and Server-Based LANs are mapped out. While Derfler and Freed don't address the nitty-gritty issues of picking specific machines and setting up specific networks, How Networks Work offers an essential first step toward understanding and implementing multiuser systems. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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How Networks Work: Millennium Editionby Les Freed, Frank J. Derfler, Patricia Douglas, Stephen Adams, Laura Robbins, Michael TrollerISBN 0789724456 (0-7897-2445-6)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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How the Internet Worksby Preston Gralla, Michael TrollerISBN 0789736268 (0-7897-3626-8)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Internet Works'Book summary:How the Internet Works promises "an exciting visual journey down the highways and byways of the Internet," and it delivers. The book's high quality graphics and simple, succinct text make it the ideal book for beginners; however it still has much to offer for Net vets. This book is jam- packed with cool ways to visualize how the Net works. The first section visually explores how TCP/IP, Winsock, and other Net connectivity mysteries work. This section also helps you understand how e-mail addresses and domains work, what file types mean, and how information travels across the Net. Part 2 unravels the Net's underlying architecture, including good information on how routers work and what is meant by client/server architecture. The third section covers your own connection to the Net through an Internet Service Provider (ISP), and how ISDN, cable modems, and Web TV work. Part 4 discusses e-mail, spam, newsgroups, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), and Net phone calls. In part 5, you'll find out how other Net tools, such as gopher, telnet, WAIS, and FTP, can enhance your Net experience. The sixth section takes on the World Wide Web, including everything from how HTML works to image maps and forms. Part 7 looks at other Web features such as push technology, Java, ActiveX, and CGI scripting, while part 8 deals with multimedia on the Net. Part 9 shows you what intranets are and covers groupware, and shopping and searching the Net. The book wraps up with part 10, a chapter on Net security that covers firewalls, viruses, cookies, and other Web tracking devices, plus cryptography and parental controls. [via]
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How the Internet Works: Millennium Editionby Preston Gralla, Stephen Adams, Mina Reimer, Sarah IshidaISBN 0789721325 (0-7897-2132-5)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Internet Works: Millennium Edition'Book summary:The Internet does many wondrous things, but an alarming number of them remain "black boxes" whose interior workings are a mystery. In How the Internet Works, Preston Gralla shows how information gets from here to there on the world's biggest computer network. With assistance from illustrators Sarah Ishidi, Mina Reimer, and Stephen Adams, Gralla presents a series of full-color spreads, each of which picks apart some aspect of Internet technology. You'll find explanations of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), Web browsers, electronic mail, Web search engines, multimedia, and more. There's a spread that shows how bulk e-mailers (known as spammers) extract addresses from newsgroups and send advertisements to them. There's also an excellent graphical depiction of how the infamous Melissa trojan horse wreaked havoc among Microsoft Outlook users in early 1999.
Some of the explanations are weaker than others. While Gralla gives a lot of details about how Internet telephony works, his explanation of PointCast consists of, to paraphrase, "You install the special client software, which communicates with the special server software and presents news to you." It's more of a definition than an explanation. The book is split about evenly between simple definition entries and detailed, commendable how-it-works entries. There's no glossary per se, but the index is good. --David Wall
Topics covered: Internet architecture, addressing, domain names, routers, connectivity, e-mail, newsgroups, Web browsers, push technologies, and Internet safety and security. [via]
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How to Build a Digital Libraryby Ian H. Witten, David BainbridgeISBN 1558607900 (1-55860-790-0)
Softcover, Morgan Kaufmann Pub
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How Wireless Worksby Preston Gralla, Eric LindleyISBN 0789733447 (0-7897-3344-7)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Wireless Works'Book summary:"Any sufficiently advanced technology," said 2001 author Arthur C. Clarke, "is indistinguishable from magic." By that standard, those of us who carry wireless phones and palmtop computers have been running around with more magical devices than the average character in a Harry Potter novel. How Wireless Works aims to strip wireless of its mystical characteristics, and succeeds wonderfully with illustrations and highly modular text. The proven How It Works series format suits wireless technology very well, largely because wireless services can be explained as stories (the handset sends the dialed number to the nearest base station, which contacts its switching center, which routes the call, and so on). Preston Gralla, a great explainer of technical subjects who's written several fine books, makes great use of the "enhanced comic book" style to show what talks to what, when, and why. He doesn't oversimplify, either. Though reading this book won't fully prepare you for a job at a wireless service provider, it will enable you to speak intelligently about the differences among various mobile telephony standards.
It's very hard to find fault with this book. All the latest technologies receive attention, including the emerging Voice XML (VXML) concept and the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) standard that sees widespread Japanese use in NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service. Gralla also does his readers a service by explaining activities like mobile-phone service theft. --David Wall
Topics covered: Ways of communicating voice, data, video, and pretty much anything else over distances, without having a wired connection. This covers the whole range of technologies, from old-fashioned AM radio to swanky new services like third-generation (3G) mobile and location-based services. Internetworking is explained in the context of the unplugged Internet, and short-range wireless specifications like Bluetooth get attention, too. [via]
In Athena's Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Ageby John Arquilla, David F. Ronfeldt, National Defense Research Institute (U.S.), United States Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of DefenseISBN 0833025147 (0-8330-2514-7)
Softcover, Rand Corp
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In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Workby Laurence Prusak, Don CohenISBN 087584913X (0-87584-913-X)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economyby Hal R. Varian, Carl ShapiroISBN 087584863X (0-87584-863-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy'Book summary:Chapter 1 of Information Rules begins with a description of the change brought on by technology at the close of the century--but the century described is not this one, it's the late 1800s. One hundred years ago, it was an emerging telephone and electrical network that was transforming business. Today it's the Internet. The point? While the circumstances of a particular era may be unique, the underlying principles that describe the exchange of goods in a free-market economy are the same. And the authors, Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian, should know. Shapiro is Professor of Business Strategy at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and has also served as chief economist at the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department. Varian is the Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley. Together they offer a deep knowledge of how economic systems work coupled with first-hand experience of today's network economy. They write:
Sure, today's business world is different in a myriad of ways from that of a century ago. But many of today's managers are so focused on the trees of technological change that they fail to see the forest: the underlying economic forces that determine success and failure.
Shapiro and Varian go to great lengths to purge this book of the technobabble and forecasting of an electronic woo-woo land that's typical in books of this genre. Instead, with their feet on the ground, they consider how to market and distribute goods in the network economy, citing examples from industries as diverse as airlines, software, entertainment, and communications. The authors cover issues such as pricing, intellectual property, versioning, lock-in, compatibility, and standards. Clearly written and presented, Information Rules belongs on the bookshelf of anyone who has an interest in today's network economy--entrepreneurs, managers, investors, students. If there was ever a textbook written on how to do business in the information age, this book is it. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards [via]More editions of Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy:
Internetworking Lans: Operation, Design and Managementby Nathan J. Muller, Robert P. DavidsonISBN 0890065985 (0-89006-598-5)
Hardcover, Artech House
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Linux Network Administrator's Guideby Olaf KirchISBN 0916151751 (0-916151-75-1)
Softcover, Specialized Systems Consultants
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Linux Network Administrator's Guide'Book summary:If you are running a one- or two-system LAN using Linux, you probably only need simple connectivity between your systems. However, if you are setting up a Linux server for your network and its connection to the Internet, you've got a lot of work to do in installation, configuration, and maintenance---and you probably require some assistance. Olaf Kirch wrote Linux Network Administrator's Guide as part of the Linux Documentation Project to cover just such information. Although you can download the book for free, the O'Reilly version of the book looks (better layout and graphics) and feels better than the online version and has a superlative index.
This book details all the tasks associated with e-mail setup and maintenance, news group setup, and essential network applications such as rcp and rlogin. In some cases you may find the level of detail not sufficient to complete the task. In those cases, Kirch tells you where to find more detailed information on the Internet. This methodology has kept the book to a very handy size, which makes it an easy-to-use, versatile resource for anyone managing a Linux network. --Robert Frankland [via]
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Markets Hierarchies and Networks: The Coordination of Social Lifeby Grahame Thompson, Rosalind Levacic, Jennifer Frances, Open University, Jeremy MichellISBN 0803985908 (0-8039-8590-8)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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Mathematics and the Study of Social Relationsby Patrick DoreianISBN 0805234152 (0-8052-3415-2)
Hardcover, Schocken Books
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The Matrix: Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwideby John S. QuartermanISBN 1555580335 (1-55558-033-5)
Softcover, Elsevier Science Ltd
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Mountain of Black Glassby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886778492 (0-88677-849-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mountain of Black Glass'Book summary:Otherland, the quartet of which Mountain of Black Glass is the powerful third part, combines some terrifying speculation on the future of virtual reality with adventures no less terrifying because they are technologized dreaming. These are dreams the adventurers cannot awaken from and in which, if they die, they are really dead.
An epidemic of comatose children has led Renie and her San friend !Xabbu into the net and to a series of dream worlds created as palaces by the corrupt aspiring immortals, the Grail Brotherhood. Two of those children, Orlando and Fredericks, have become adventurers in their own right, while their parents' lawyer Ramsey follows real-world money and lesbian cop Calliope tracks a serial killer with serious ambitions to become an angry god. In this volume, adventures take place in a mythic ancient Egypt and a rambling Gormenghastlike house before all the virtual adventurers meet where they were always destined to, before the walls of Troy.
"All around, death. It was not a quiet presence during the long day--not a pale-faced maiden bringing surcease from pain, not a skillful reaper with a scalpel-sharp blade.... Death on the Trojan plain was a crazed beast that roared and clawed and smashed, which was everywhere at once, and which in its unending fury showed that even armored men were terribly frail things."
Tad Williams takes the gameworld and turns it on its head, passionately; how do we know that what bleeds does not feel pain? He writes a classic of cyberspace adventure that has a sorrowful heart. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural Systemby Joanna R. MacYISBN 0791406377 (0-7914-0637-7)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Net Gain: Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communitiesby Arthur Armstrong, John HagelISBN 0875847595 (0-87584-759-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Net Gain: Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities'Book summary:Building relationships with customers has been a buzz phrase in many business circles for years. Now John Hagel and Arthur Armstrong declare that's not enough. They make a strong case that business success in the very near future will depend on using the Internet to build not just relationships, but communities. The payoff, they maintain, will be phenomenal customer loyalty and high profits. But, they warn, this race will definitely go to the swift. Here's a cyberspace book that could make your business future. Not everyone agrees with Hagel and Armstrong, but with stakes so high they deserves a serious reading. [via]
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Network Analysisby James H. Kuklinski, Knoke, David and Kuklinski, James H.ISBN 080391914X (0-8039-1914-X)
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Networking CompleteISBN 0782141439 (0-7821-4143-9)
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Networking Completeby Christa Anderson, Pat ColemanISBN 0782126103 (0-7821-2610-3)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Networking Completeby Kari BrooksISBN 0782129145 (0-7821-2914-5)
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Networking Essentials: Hands-On, Self-Paced Training for Supporting Local and Wide Area Networksby Microsoft CorporationISBN 1556158068 (1-55615-806-8)
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Networking the World, 1794-2000by Armand Mattelart, Liz Carey-Libbrecht, James A. ChenISBN 081663288X (0-8166-3288-X)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Organizations Working Togetherby Jerald Hage, Catherine AlterISBN 0803948271 (0-8039-4827-1)
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Otherlandby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886777631 (0-88677-763-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Otherland'Book summary:Tad Williams began his Otherland series with the massive City of Golden Shadow and continues it with the equally hefty River of Blue Fire. Williams says it will require four (big) books to tell his complex, multithreaded tale, and at the rate that the plot of this second novel moves, readers will see what he means. Not that the book is a slow read; in fact, River is as much a suspenseful page-turner as the first book.
As River opens, we join up again with the ragtag bunch of searchers trapped in an astoundingly detailed and frightfully dangerous virtual world known as Otherland. Lurking in disguise among the group is the brutally vicious serial killer Dread, trying to find information that will help him overthrow his Grail Brotherhood masters. The group follows a ubiquitous river through world after world, unable to go offline, and subject to the increasingly terrifying certainty that things in this supposedly virtual place are all too real. Meanwhile, Paul Jonas, an amnesic (but somehow pivotal) character fleeing from two sinister beings, finds more and more of his memory as he does his own Huck Finn river trip. As in the first novel, each new world that the characters enter, from Paleolithic Ice Age to something suspiciously like Oz, is fully realized and completely unpredictable.
Williams is a master at parceling out information to the reader in dribs and drabs, which is frustrating yet tantalizing, like a particularly good computer game. When the group is split up and the adventure divides further, the reader senses the author as a puppet master, following some incredibly complex flows of information. The best course is just to hang on and enjoy Williams's deft characterizations, lush descriptions, and wildly divergent plot. If you've ever been white-water rafting, you'll recognize the feeling. --Therese Littleton [via]
Pathfinder Associative Networks: Studies in Knowledge Organizationby Roger W. SchvaneveldtISBN 0893916242 (0-89391-624-2)
Hardcover, Intl Specialized Book Service Inc
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Pc Magazine Wireless Solutionsby Neil Randall, Barrie SosinskyISBN 0764574388 (0-7645-7438-8)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pc Magazine Wireless Solutions'Book summary:Wireless is freedom. Wireless is now. And who better than PC Magazine to help you break free?
Wireless is more than cell phones. It's Web surfing from your deck, or tuning up your Xbox? to take on opponents on the opposite coast. But whatever wireless is, it isn't simple--or it wasn't, until these two guys made it so. Here's the straight scoop on setup, security, trouble-shooting, wireless capabilities, and a whole lot more. Plenty of books will tell you how to build a wireless network, but only this one offers proven solutions from PC Magazine.
No strings attached! Here's how to
* Share printers, files, Internet connections and more--all without wires
* Wirelessly connect your video, audio, and game consoles
* Connect and control wireless "smart home" devices
* Guard your Wi-Fi network against intruders withWEP and WPA encryption
* Surf from anywhere in your home or office
* Untether your employees for greater creativity and productivity
* Take your wireless world on the road
* Understand wireless standards and protocols
* Learn how to choose the right wireless equipment
A Taste of Honey
A honeypot litters the airwaves with simulated access points, inviting intruders to take advantage of the network but. . . offering them no-where to go. Instead of trying to hide your real AP. . . you put it out with fake APs, hiding (it) by giving the intruder too much to do.
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Physical Layer Interfaces and Protocolsby Uyless D. BlackISBN 0818656972 (0-8186-5697-2)
Hardcover, IEEE Computer Society
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Policy Networks: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Considerationsby Bernd Marin, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Max-Planck-Institut Fur Gesellschaftsforschung, Renate MayntzISBN 0813314585 (0-8133-1458-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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The Power Of Many: How the Living Web is Transforming Politics, Business, and Everyday Lifeby Christian CrumlishISBN 0782143466 (0-7821-4346-6)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Programming Distributed Systemsby H.E. BalISBN 0929306058 (0-929306-05-8)
Softcover, Silicon Pr
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Readings in Distributed Computing Systems/Eh0359-0by Thomas L. Casavant, Mukesh SinghalISBN 0818630329 (0-8186-3032-9)
Hardcover, IEEE Computer Society
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Restructuring World Politics: Transnational Social Movements, Networks, and Normsby James V. Riker, Kathryn Sikkink, Sanjeev KhagramISBN 0816639078 (0-8166-3907-8)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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River of Blue Fireby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886777771 (0-88677-777-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'River of Blue Fire'Book summary:Tad Williams began his Otherland series with the massive City of Golden Shadow and continues it with the equally hefty River of Blue Fire. Williams says it will require four (big) books to tell his complex, multithreaded tale, and at the rate that the plot of this second novel moves, readers will see what he means. Not that the book is a slow read; in fact, River is as much a suspenseful page-turner as the first book.
As River opens, we join up again with the ragtag bunch of searchers trapped in an astoundingly detailed and frightfully dangerous virtual world known as Otherland. Lurking in disguise among the group is the brutally vicious serial killer Dread, trying to find information that will help him overthrow his Grail Brotherhood masters. The group follows a ubiquitous river through world after world, unable to go offline, and subject to the increasingly terrifying certainty that things in this supposedly virtual place are all too real. Meanwhile, Paul Jonas, an amnesic (but somehow pivotal) character fleeing from two sinister beings, finds more and more of his memory as he does his own Huck Finn river trip. As in the first novel, each new world that the characters enter, from Paleolithic Ice Age to something suspiciously like Oz, is fully realized and completely unpredictable.
Williams is a master at parceling out information to the reader in dribs and drabs, which is frustrating yet tantalizing, like a particularly good computer game. When the group is split up and the adventure divides further, the reader senses the author as a puppet master, following some incredibly complex flows of information. The best course is just to hang on and enjoy Williams's deft characterizations, lush descriptions, and wildly divergent plot. If you've ever been white-water rafting, you'll recognize the feeling. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Sea of Silver Lightby Tad WilliamsISBN 0756400309 (0-7564-0030-9)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sea of Silver Light'Book summary:With Sea of Silver Light, Tad Williams completes his massive Otherland quartet, one of SF's more intriguing explorations of the eroding boundaries of the human and the nonhuman, the living and the dead. Otherland is a sequence that contains many secrets, and Williams plays fair by unpacking all of them in the final book. A group of adventurers searching for a cure for comatose children find themselves trapped in a sequence of virtual worlds, the only opponents of a conspiracy of the rich to live forever in a dream. Now, they are forced to make an uneasy alliance with their only surviving former enemy against his treacherous sidekick Johnny Wulgaru, a serial killer with a chance to play God forever.
Williams manages a vast cast of emotionally involving characters with considerable panache, but the real strength of the book is its endlessly questing intelligence; it is, among other things, an enquiry into the nature of storytelling as a way for human beings to give structure to their perceptions of the universe around them. It is as story that Sea of Silver Light ultimately works so well--involving us in the grueling descent of a vast mountain, the siege of an underground fortress, gun battles in a nightmare Wild West. Williams never neglects to tell us how things feel. He efficiently ties up every plot strand and convincingly reveals every secret in this large, complex plot. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
Smart Homes for Dummiesby Daniel D. Briere, Patrick J. HurleyISBN 0764525395 (0-7645-2539-5)
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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Townby Cory DoctorowISBN 0765312808 (0-7653-1280-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town'Book summary:With Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and Eastern Standard Tribe, Cory Doctorow established himself as one of the leading voices of next-generation SF: inventive, optimistic, and comfortable with the sheer strangeness of tomorrow. Now Doctorow returns with a novel of wrenching oddity, heartfelt technological vision, and human pity set on the streets of Toronto today.[via]
Alan is a middle-aged entrepeneur in contemporary Toronto, who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in the bohemian neighborhood of Kensington. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wings--wings, moreover, which grow back after each attempt to cut them off.
Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain; his mother is a washing machine; and among his brothers are a set of Russian nesting dolls.
Now two of the three nesting dolls, Edward and Frederick, are on his doorstep--well on their way to starvation, because their innermost member, George, has vanished. It appears that yet another brother, Davey, who Alan and his other siblings killed years ago, may have returned...bent on revenge.
Under such circumstances it seems only reasonable for Alan to involve himself with a visionary scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who builds miracles of hardware from parts scavenged from the city's dumpsters. But Alan's past won't leave him alone--and Davey is only one of the powers gunning for him and all his friends.
Wildly imaginative, constantly whipsawing us between the preposterous, the amazing, and the deeply felt, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is unlike any novel you have ever read.More editions of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town:
Swarming and the Future of Conflictby John Arquilla, David Ronfeldt, United States Department of Defense, Rand Corporation, National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)ISBN 0833028855 (0-8330-2885-5)
Softcover, Rand Corp
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Systems, Networks, and Computation: Basic Conceptsby Michael L. DertouzosISBN 0882759167 (0-88275-916-7)
Hardcover, R. E. Krieger Pub Co
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TCP/IP Foundationsby Andrew G. BlankISBN 0782143709 (0-7821-4370-9)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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› Find signed collectible books: 'TCP/IP Foundations'Book summary:The world of IT is always evolving, but in every area there are stable, core concepts that anyone just setting out needed to know last year, needs to know this year, and will still need to know next year. The purpose of the Foundations series is to identify these concepts and present them in a way that gives you the strongest possible starting point, no matter what your endeavor.
TCP/IP Foundations provides essential knowledge about the two protocols that form the basis for the Internet, as well as many other networks. What you learn here will benefit you in the short term, as you acquire and practice your skills, and in the long term, as you use them. Topics covered include:
- The origins of TCP/IP and the Internet
- The layers comprising the OSI and DoD models
- TCP/IP addressing
- Subnet masks
- Creating custom subnet masks
- Supernetting and Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)
- Name resolution
- The Domain Name System (DNS) and Dynamic DNS
- Windows Internet Naming Services (WINS)
- The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- What to expect with IPv6
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Tcp/Ip Jumpstartby Andrew G. BlankISBN 0782126448 (0-7821-2644-8)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Tcp/Ip Jumpstart Internet Protocol Basics: Internet Protocol Basicsby Andrew G. BlankISBN 0782141013 (0-7821-4101-3)
Softcover, Sybex Inc
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Telecommunications Network Management into the 21st Century: Techniques, Standards, Technologies, and Applicationsby Salah Aidarous, Thomas PlevyakISBN 0780310136 (0-7803-1013-6)
Hardcover, IEEE
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Tutorial: Computer Communications Architectures, Protocols, and Standardsby William StallingsISBN 0818606045 (0-8186-0604-5)
Softcover, IEEE Computer Society Press
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Unleashing the Ideavirus: Stop Marketing at People! Turn Your Ideas into Epidemics by Helping Your Customers Do the Marketing for Youby Seth Godin, Malcolm GladwellISBN 0786887176 (0-7868-8717-6)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Unleashing the Ideavirus: Stop Marketing at People! Turn Your Ideas into Epidemics by Helping Your Customers Do the Marketing for You'Book summary:Treat a product or service like a human or computer virus, contends online promotion specialist Seth Godin, and it just might become one. In Unleashing the Ideavirus, Godin describes ways to set any viable commercial concept loose among those who are most likely to catch it--and then stand aside as these recipients become infected and pass it along on to others who might do the same. "The future belongs to marketers who establish a foundation and process where interested people can market to each other", he writes. "Ignite consumer networks and then get out of the way and let them talk."
Godin believes that a solid idea is the best route to success in the new century, but one "that just sits there is worthless". Through the magic of "word of mouse", however, the Internet offers a unique opportunity for interested individuals to transmit ideas quickly and easily to others of like mind. Taking up where his previous book Permission Marketing left off, Godin explains in great detail how ideaviruses have been launched by companies such as Napster, Blue Mountain Arts, GeoCities, and Hotmail. He also describes "sneezers" (influential people who spread them), "hives" (populations most willing to receive them) and "smoothness" (the ease with which sneezers can transmit them throughout a hive). In all, an infectious and highly recommended read. --Howard Rothman [via]
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Upgrading and Repairing Networksby Scott MuellerISBN 0789728176 (0-7897-2817-6)
Hardcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Upgrading and Repairing Networks'Book summary:Though he didn't do the writing himself, Scott Mueller's involvement in Upgrading and Repairing Networks is evident in the thoroughness of the book's coverage and the quality with which documentation has been written and compiled. Like Mueller's highly respected books on personal computer hardware, this book treats its subject in great depth, acknowledging that information about older technologies is valuable to the significant numbers of people who still run those technologies. Pretty much every local area network (LAN) technology from the past 15 years--as well as the most popular internetworking technologies and the emerging wireless networking protocols--are documented here. Author Terry Ogletree explains how the technologies work in order to help you figure out where to turn when they're misbehaving. One difference between this book and the PC hardware book: this one is much less hardware-centric, focusing instead on software, protocols, and network services.
Ogletree relies heavily on text, and takes time to explain everything from the histories of various protocols to Microsoft's design goals for Active Directory in Windows 2000 networks. Reading his text is rewarding, particularly if you have an appropriately networked system nearby with which you can investigate the features he points out. Operating system coverage is broad--Unix, Linux, NetWare, and Windows are all covered in turn--though most generic sections (such as those having to do with protocols) use Windows NT or Windows 2000 in their examples. --David Wall
Topics covered: The state of the art in local and wide area networking technology (emphasis on LANs), and the older technologies that led us here. Physical network design, protocols, operating systems, and services all get attention. [via]
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Users' Directory of Computer Networksby Tracy L. Laquey, University of Texas at Austin Computation Center, Carol E. KrollISBN 1555580475 (1-55558-047-5)
Softcover, Elsevier Science Ltd
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A Walk in the Woodsby Bill BrysonISBN 0767902521 (0-7679-0252-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Walk in the Woods'Book summary:Your initial reaction to Bill Bryson's reading of A Walk in the Woods may well be "Egads! What a bore!" But by sentence three or four, his clearly articulated, slightly adenoidal, British/American-accented speech pattern begins to grow on you and becomes quite engaging. You immediately get a hint of the humor that lies ahead, such as one of the innumerable reasons he longed to walk as many of the 2,100 miles of the Appalachian Trail as he could. "It would get me fit after years of waddlesome sloth" is delivered with glorious deadpan flair. By the time our storyteller recounts his trip to the Dartmouth Co-op, suffering serious sticker shock over equipment prices, you'll be hooked.
When Bryson speaks for the many Americans he encounters along the way--in various shops, restaurants, airports, and along the trail--he launches into his American accent, which is whiny and full of hard r's. And his southern intonations are a hoot. He's even got a special voice used exclusively when speaking for his somewhat surprising trail partner, Katz. In the 25 years since their school days together, Katz has put on quite a bit of weight. In fact, "he brought to mind Orson Welles after a very bad night. He was limping a little and breathing harder than one ought to after a walk of 20 yards." Katz often speaks in monosyllables, and Bryson brings his limited vocabulary humorously to life. One of Katz's more memorable utterings is "flung," as in flung most of his provisions over the cliff because they were too heavy to carry any farther.
The author has thoroughly researched the history and the making of the Appalachian Trail. Bryson describes the destruction of many parts of the forest and warns of the continuing perils (both natural and man-made) the Trail faces. He speaks of the natural beauty and splendor as he and Katz pass through, and he recalls clearly the serious dangers the two face during their time together on the trail. So, A Walk in the Woods is not simply an out-of-shape, middle-aged man's desire to prove that he can still accomplish a major physical task; it's also a plea for the conservation of America's last wilderness. Bryson's telling is a knee-slapping, laugh-out-loud funny trek through the woods, with a touch of science and history thrown in for good measure. (Running time: 360 minutes, four cassettes) --Colleen Preston [via]
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A Walk in the Woods : Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trailby Bill BrysonISBN 0767902513 (0-7679-0251-3)
Hardcover, Broadway Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Walk in the Woods : Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail'Book summary:Bill Bryson has made a living out of traveling and then writing about it. In The Lost Continent he re-created the road trips of his childhood; in Neither Here nor There he retraced the route he followed as a young backpacker traversing Europe. When this American transplant to Britain decided to return home, he made a farewell walking tour of the British countryside and produced Notes from a Small Island. Once back on American soil and safely settled in New Hampshire, Bryson once again hears the siren call of the open road--only this time it's a trail. The Appalachian Trail, to be exact. In A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson tackles what is, for him, an entirely new subject: the American wilderness. Accompanied only by his old college buddy Stephen Katz, Bryson starts out one March morning in north Georgia, intending to walk the entire 2,100 miles to trail's end atop Maine's Mount Katahdin.
If nothing else, A Walk in the Woods is proof positive that the journey is the destination. As Bryson and Katz haul their out-of-shape, middle-aged butts over hill and dale, the reader is treated to both a very funny personal memoir and a delightful chronicle of the trail, the people who created it, and the places it passes through. Whether you plan to make a trip like this one yourself one day or only care to read about it, A Walk in the Woods is a great way to spend an afternoon. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Centuryby Thomas L. FriedmanISBN 078627722X (0-7862-7722-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The groundbreaking new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Thomas Friedman is a timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists. [via]
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X Protocol Reference Manual for Version 11 of the X Window Systemby Adrian NyeISBN 0937175501 (0-937175-50-1)
Hardcover, O'Reilly
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X.25 and Related Protocolsby Uyless BlackISBN 0818689765 (0-8186-8976-5)
Hardcover, IEEE Computer Society
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Yangtze: Nature, History, and the Riverby Lyman Van SlykeISBN 0916318281 (0-916318-28-1)
Softcover, Stanford Alumni Assoc
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The Zapatista Social Netwar in Mexicoby Graham E. Fuller, John Arquilla, David Ronfeldt, Melissa FullerISBN 0833026569 (0-8330-2656-9)
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