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802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guideby Matthew GastISBN 0596100523 (0-596-10052-3)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Accelerandoby Charles StrossISBN 0441014151 (0-441-01415-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Accelerando'Book summary:Expanding upon his award-winning short story cycle from the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Charles Stross-author of such revolutionary science fiction novels as Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise-delivers the story fans have been anticipating with Accelerando, a novel destined to change the face of the genre.
For three generations, the Macz family has struggled to cope with the rampant technological achievements that have rendered humans near obsolete. And mankind's end encroaches even closer when something starts to dismantle the nine planets of the solar system in an effort to annihilate all biological lifeforms. [via] 
The Age of the Network: Organizing Principles for the 21st Centuryby Jessica Lipnack, Jeffrey StampsISBN 0471147400 (0-471-14740-0)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940by Claude S. FischerISBN 0520086473 (0-520-08647-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Analyzing Decnet/Osi Phase Vby Carl MalamudISBN 0442003757 (0-442-00375-7)
Hardcover, Cengage Learning
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Being Digitalby Nicholas Negroponte, Marty AsherISBN 0679762906 (0-679-76290-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Being Digital'Book summary:As the founder of MIT's Media Lab and a popular columnist for Wired, Nicholas Negroponte has amassed a following of dedicated readers. Negroponte's fans will want to get a copy of Being Digital, which is an edited version of the 18 articles he wrote for Wired about "being digital."
Negroponte's text is mostly a history of media technology rather than a set of predictions for future technologies. In the beginning, he describes the evolution of CD-ROMs, multimedia, hypermedia, HDTV (high-definition television), and more. The section on interfaces is informative, offering an up-to-date history on visual interfaces, graphics, virtual reality (VR), holograms, teleconferencing hardware, the mouse and touch-sensitive interfaces, and speech recognition.
In the last chapter and the epilogue, Negroponte offers visionary insight on what "being digital" means for our future. Negroponte praises computers for their educational value but recognizes certain dangers of technological advances, such as increased software and data piracy and huge shifts in our job market that will require workers to transfer their skills to the digital medium. Overall, Being Digital provides an informative history of the rise of technology and some interesting predictions for its future. [via]
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Communityby Robert D. PutnamISBN 0743203046 (0-7432-0304-6)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community'Book summary:Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work; but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified and describes in this brilliant volume, "Bowling Alone."
Drawing on vast new data from the Roper Social and Political Trends and the DDB Needham Life Style -- surveys that report in detail on Americans' changing behavior over the past twenty-five years -- Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbors, and social structures, whether the PTA, church, recreation clubs, political parties, or bowling leagues. Our shrinking access to the "social capital" that is the reward of communal activity and community sharing is a serious threat to our civic and personal health.
Putnam's groundbreaking work shows how social bonds are the most powerful predictor of life satisfaction. For example, he reports that getting married is the equivalent of quadrupling your income and attending a club meeting regularly is the equivalent of doubling your income. The loss of social capital is felt in critical ways: Communities with less social capital have lower educational performance and more teen pregnancy, child suicide, low birth weight, and prenatal mortality. Social capital is also a strong predictor of crime rates and other measures of neighborhood quality of life, as it is of our health: In quantitative terms, if you both smoke and belong to no groups, it's a close call as to which is the riskier behavior.
A hundred years ago, at the turn of the last century, America's stock of social capital was at an ebb, reduced by urbanization, industrialization, and vast immigration thatuprooted Americans from their friends, social institutions, and families, a situation similar to today's. Faced with this challenge, the country righted itself. Within a few decades, a range of organizations was created, from the Red Cross, Boy Scouts, and YWCA to Hadassah and the Knights of Columbus and the Urban League. With these and many more cooperative societies we rebuilt our social capital.
We can learn from the experience of those decades, Putnam writes, as we work to rebuild our eroded social capital. It won't happen without the concerted creativity and energy of Americans nationwide.
Like defining works from the past that have endured -- such as "The Lonely Crowd" and "The Affluent Society" -- and like C. Wright Mills, Richard Hofstadter, Betty Friedan, David Riesman, Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, and Theodore Roszak, Putnam has identified a central crisis at the heart of our society and suggests what we can do. [via]
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Cisco IOS In A Nutshellby James BoneyISBN 0596008694 (0-596-00869-4)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cisco IOS In A Nutshell'Book summary:Cisco IOS in a Nutshell documents the most important bits of the frequently arcane IOS command line from aaa accounting to write, thereby providing a valuable resource to everyone who works with IOS. Three cheers for the Nutshell format! There may be no better printed style for command-line environments, like the Internetwork Operating System (IOS) that runs on Cisco Systems routers. The reference section--which makes up about 60 per cent of this book--summarises each command (again, they're not all covered, but the ones that aren't are pretty obscure) with a statement of its scope (global, interface, line, or whatever), followed by generalised syntax summaries in the style of Unix man pages (these indicate the legal combinations of switches and parameters). Then, a detailed discussion of each switch and parameter clarifies what each is for. The whole reference section is alphabetical, with lettered dark boxes on the pages' outer edges that are easy to scan while flipping pages rapidly.
Prior to the reference section, the author explains how the IOS interface refers to and controls aspects of routers, such as lines and interfaces. He does a great job of it, too--you could do far worse than to read his explanations before going to work under IOS for the first time. The other great value of this early section is in the author's discussion of how to configure a new router by bringing interfaces, data-communication protocols (like TCP/IP), routing protocols (like Border Gateway Protocol, or BGP), and services like Domain Name Service (DNS) online. This book is a tremendous value for Cisco engineers. --David Wall
Topics covered: How to configure a Cisco Systems router with the Internetwork Operating System (IOS). The most popular commands are documented, and there's a tutorial section that gets readers oriented in the Cisco way of thinking about a router's work. The author uses IOS 12.x as his baseline, though users of older versions will find his work valuable. [via]
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The Codeby Kenneth SheldonISBN 0595093140 (0-595-09314-0)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspaceby Lawrence LessigISBN 0465039138 (0-465-03913-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace'Book summary:"We, the Net People, in order to form a more perfect Transfer Protocol..." might be recited in future fifth-grade history classes, says attorney Lawrence Lessig. He turns the now-traditional view of the Internet as an uncontrollable, organic entity on its head, and explores the architecture and social systems that are changing every day and taming the frontier. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace is his well-reasoned, undeniably cogent series of arguments for guiding the still-evolving regulatory processes, to ensure that we don't find ourselves stuck with a system that we find objectionable. As the former Communist-bloc countries found, a constitution is still one of our best guarantees against the dark side of chaos; and Lessig promotes a kind of document that accepts the inevitable regulatory authority of both government and commerce, while constraining them within values that we hold by consensus.
Lessig holds that those who shriek the loudest at the thought of interference in cyberdoings, especially at the hands of the government, are blind to the ever-increasing regulation of the Net (admittedly, without badges or guns) by businesses that find little opposition to their schemes from consumers, competitors, or cops. The Internet will be regulated, he says, and our window of opportunity to influence the design of those regulations narrows each day. How will we make the decisions that the Framers of our paper-and-ink Constitution couldn't foresee, much less resolve? Lessig proclaims that many of us will have to wake up fast and get to work before we lose the chance to draft a networked Bill of Rights. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex Worldby Ian Stewart, Jack CohenISBN 0670849839 (0-670-84983-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspaceby Pierre Levy, Robert BononnoISBN 0738202614 (0-7382-0261-4)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Combinatorial Optimization: Networks and Matroidsby Eugene LawlerISBN 0486414531 (0-486-41453-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identityby Etienne WengerISBN 0521663636 (0-521-66363-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity'Book summary:Learning is becoming an urgent topic. Nations worry about the learning of their citizens, companies about the learning of their workers, schools about the learning of their students. But it is not always easy to think about how to foster learning in innovative ways. This book presents a framework for doing that, with a social theory of learning that is ground-breaking yet accessible, with profound implications not only for research, but also for all those who have to foster learning as part of their responsibilites at work, at home, at school. [via]
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Community in the Digital Age: Philosophy and Practiceby Andrew Feenberg, Darin BarneyISBN 0742529584 (0-7425-2958-4)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systemsby Paul CilliersISBN 0415152879 (0-415-15287-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Changeby David HarveyISBN 0631162941 (0-631-16294-1)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change'Book summary:The Condition of Postmodernity is David Harvey's seminal history of this, our most equivocal of eras. What does postmodernism mean? Where did it come from? Harvey, a Professor of Geography, and a key mover behind extending the scope and influence of the discipline of geography itself, does a thorough job here delineating the passage through to postmodernity and the economic, social and political changes that underscored and accompanied it. As he clearly states, the rise in postmodernist cultural forms is related to a new intensity in what Harvey terms "time-space compression" but this new intensity is a qualitive and not a quantitive change in social organisation and does not point to a era beyond capitalism as "the basic rules of capitalistic accumulation" remain unchanged. Unlike Fredric Jameson (whose equally rewarding Postmodernism stands as the twin pillar to Harvey's critique), who explicitly relies on Ernest Mandel's periodisation of Late Capitalism, Harvey eschews a narrowly economic focus, the limits and contradictions of production that have led to the rise in the service sector, and takes a more multidisciplinary approach to his history: as comfortable discussing Manet as he is labour markets. Harvey is an excellent writer and The Condition of Postmodernity is an exceptionally informative and enjoyable read. Mark Thwaite [via]
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Coordination Without Hierarchy: Informal Structures in Multiorganizational Systemsby Donald ChisholmISBN 0520080378 (0-520-08037-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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Cuckoo's Eggby Clifford StollISBN 0743411463 (0-7434-1146-3)
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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The Cuckoo's Egg: Inside the World of Computer Espionageby Clifford Stoll, Julie RubensteinISBN 0671726889 (0-671-72688-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cuckoo's Egg: Inside the World of Computer Espionage'Book summary:Cliff stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at lawrence berkeley lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized users on his system. The hacker's code name was "hunter"-- a mystery invader hiding inside a twisting electronic labyrinth, breaking into u.s. Computer systems and stealing sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own, spying on the spy-- and plunging into an incredible international probe that finally gained the attention of top u.s. Counter-intelligence agents. "the cuckoo's egg" is his wild and suspenseful true story-- a year of deception, broken codes, satellites, missile bases and the ultimate sting operation-- and how one ingenious american trapped a spy ring paid in cash and cocaine, and reporting to the kgb [via]
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Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontierby John Markoff, Katie HafnerISBN 0684818620 (0-684-81862-0)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier'Book summary:A classic look into cracker subculture, Cyberpunk tells the stories of notorious hackers Kevin Mitnick, Robert T. Morris, and the Chaos Computer Club. Like Where Wizards Stay Up Late, the book Hafner co-wrote on the origins of the Internet, Cyberpunk is informative, well-written, and entertaining. The story of Morris, who became infamous for unleashing a crippling worm that brought the Internet to a grinding standstill, is still as relevant and ominous today as it was at the time. The space devoted to Mitnick is a must-read companion to either Takedown or The Fugitive Game. Many of the stories surrounding the Dark Side Hacker, such as the story of his Norad break-in, are called into question in Cyberpunk, making this book a good launching pad for many different accounts of the Mitnick legend. The portrait of the two members of the Chaos Computer Club is a memorable look into the minds of the younger generation of computer hackers. Before you check out any book of this genre, read Cyberpunk. [via]
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Deploying Secure 802.11 Wireless Networks With Microsoft Windowsby Joseph DaviesISBN 0735619395 (0-7356-1939-5)
Softcover, Microsoft Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deploying Secure 802.11 Wireless Networks With Microsoft Windows'Book summary:[via]Get in-depth technical guidance for deploying a security-enhanced wireless network for your corporate, public, or small business networkdirect from the Microsoft Windows Networking and Communications team. This essential reference details the latest IEEE 802.11 and related technologies for public and private wireless LANs, including the new Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) standard. Youll learn how to design and deploy an authentication infrastructureincluding how to configure clients, Internet Authentication Service (IAS) servers, Active Directory directory service users and groups, certificate services, wireless access points, and other componentsusing best practices and real-world troubleshooting tactics from the extensive wireless LAN deployment at Microsoft.
Get the technical drill-down you need to:
- Configure wireless client support for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows 2000
- Build the authentication infrastructureincluding IAS RADIUS servers and proxies, Active Directory users and groups, and a public key infrastructure (PKI)
- Determine the placement of wireless access points
- Configure a Windows PKI to issue certificates for authentication of wireless access
- Use the EAP-TLS or PEAP-MS-CHAP v2 authentication protocol to help maximize security for a wireless intranet
- Design wireless intranets for business partners, cross-forest authentication, or large-scale deployment
- Help mitigate network attacks by using the new Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) and Michael features of WPA
- Troubleshoot Windows wireless clients, wireless access points, and the authentication infrastructure
To learn about the changes in wireless standards and wireless support in Windows that have occurred since the publication of this book, download Updates to Deploying Secure 802.11 Wireless Networks with Microsoft Windows, a white paper by author Joseph Davies.
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Design Patterns in Communication Softwareby Linda RisingISBN 0521790409 (0-521-79040-9)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Digital Formations: IT And New Architectures In The Global Realmby Robert Latham, Saskia SassenISBN 0691119872 (0-691-11987-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Distant Proximities: Dynamics Beyond Globalizationby James N. RosenauISBN 0691095248 (0-691-09524-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Dns and Bind Cookbookby Cricket LiuISBN 0596004109 (0-596-00410-9)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Drew Heywood's Windows 2000 Network Servicesby Drew Heywood, Zubair AhmadISBN 0672317419 (0-672-31741-9)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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End of Millenniumby Manuel CastellsISBN 0631221395 (0-631-22139-5)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Exploratory Social Network Analysis With Pajekby Wouter De Nooy, Andrej Mrvar, Vladimir BatageljISBN 0521602629 (0-521-60262-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Finding Out About : A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the WWWby Richard K. Belew, C. J. van RijsbergenISBN 0521630282 (0-521-63028-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finding Out About : A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the WWW'Book summary:The World Wide Web is rapidly filling with more text than anyone could have imagined a short time ago. However, the task of determining which data is relevant has become appreciably harder. In this original new work Richard Belew brings a cognitive science perspective to the study of information as a computer science discipline. He introduces the idea of Finding Out About (FOA), the process of actively seeking out information relevant to a topic of interest. Belew describes all facets of FOA, ranging from creating a good characterization of what the user seeks to evaluating the successful performance of search engines. His volume clearly shows how to build many of the tools that are useful for searching collections of text and other media. While computer scientists make up the book's primary audience, Belew skillfully presents technical details in a manner that makes important themes accessible to readers more comfortable with words than equations. Resources are available from the book's web site [via]
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The Future of Knowledge: Increasing Prosperity Through Value Networksby Verna AlleeISBN 0750675918 (0-7506-7591-8)
Softcover, Butterworth-Heinemann
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Game, Set and Math: Enigmas and Conundrumsby Ian StewartISBN 0631171142 (0-631-17114-2)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Global City: New York, London, Tokyoby Saskia SassenISBN 0691070636 (0-691-07063-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Google Storyby DAVID VISE, MARK MALSEEDISBN 0553383663 (0-553-38366-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Google Story'Book summary:"Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors' and Ford's combined, its staff eats for free in a dining room that used to be run by the Grateful Dead's former chef, and its employees traverse the firm's colorful Silicon Valley campus on scooters and inline skates. THE GOOGLE STORY is the definitive account of the populist media company powered by the world's most advanced technology that in a few short years has revolutionized access to information about everything for everybody everywhere. In 1998, Moscow-born Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University to, in their own words, "change the world" through a search engine that would organize every bit of information on the Web for free. While the company has done exactly that in more than one hundred languages, Google's quest continues as it seeks to add millions of library books, television broadcasts, and more to its searchable database. Readers will learn about the amazing business acumen and computer wizardry that started the company on its astonishing course; the secret network of computers delivering lightning-fast search results; the unorthodox approach that has enabled it to challenge Microsoft's dominance and shake up Wall Street. Even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult choices that will enable it to continue expanding while sustaining the guiding vision of its founders' mantra: DO NO EVIL." [via]
Google's Pagerank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankingsby Carl D. Meyer, Amy N. LangvilleISBN 0691122024 (0-691-12202-4)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Hardening Cisco Routersby Thomas AkinISBN 0596001665 (0-596-00166-5)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hardening Cisco Routers'Book summary:To harden a router is to render it more heavily defended and more difficult to attack. Because routers (by definition) serve as points of entry into your network, it makes sense to devote extra effort to their security. Hardening Cisco Routers shows how to make adjustments to the configurations of routers from Cisco Systems to improve their resistance to attack, particularly external attack. This is essentially a book of specialised Internetwork Operating System (IOS) commands, as well as explanations of their behaviour. It'll appeal to the router administrator--employed either by an organisation's internal network staff, an outside consultancy, or a service provider--who wants to know which IOS commands he or she should add to routers' configuration files to tighten their security without a lot of hassle.
The great thing about this book is that you can approach it in either of two ways. If you just want to clamp down on your routers' security weaknesses as soon as possible, you can begin with the checklists at the end of each chapter (each of which focuses on a particular area, such as SMTP) or the big one in an appendix, which is comprehensive. These checklists include both "how" and "why" information, as exemplified by "Disable ICMP broadcasts with the no ip directed-broadcast command". If you want more information on the big picture, or want to prepare for a specific kind of attack, read the individual chapters for detailed advice on how to set IOS to behave as you want. --David Wall
Topics covered: Internetwork Operating System (IOS) commands you can use to protect Cisco Systems routers from a variety of attacks. Specialised sections deal with security assessment, auditing, access control, privileges, optional services and the legal importance of your login banners' contents. [via]
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Information Flow: The Logic of Distributed Systemsby Jon Barwise, Jerry SeligmanISBN 0521583861 (0-521-58386-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Information Flow: The Logic of Distributed Systems'Book summary:Information is a central topic in computer science, cognitive science, and philosophy. In spite of its importance in the "information age," there is no consensus on what information is, what makes it possible, and what it means for one medium to carry information about another. Drawing on ideas from mathematics, computer science, and philosophy, this book addresses the definition and place of information in society. The authors, observing that information flow is possible only within a connected distribution system, provide a mathematically rigorous, philosophically sound foundation for a science of information. They illustrate their theory by applying it to a wide range of phenomena, from file transfer to DNA, from quantum mechanics to speech act theory. [via]
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Inside Network Perimeter Securityby Scott Winters, Lenny Zeltser, Not AvailableISBN 0672327376 (0-672-32737-6)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inside Network Perimeter Security'Book summary:Security professionals and administrators now have access to one of the most valuable resources for learning best practices for network perimeter security. Inside Network Perimeter Security, Second Edition is your guide to preventing network intrusions and defending against any intrusions that do manage to slip through your perimeter. This acclaimed resource has been updated to reflect changes in the security landscape, both in terms of vulnerabilities and defensive tools. Coverage also includes intrusion prevention systems and wireless security. You will work your way through fortifying the perimeter, designing a secure network, and maintaining and monitoring the security of the network. Additionally, discussion of tools such as firewalls, virtual private networks, routers and intrusion detection systems make Inside Network Perimeter Security, Second Edition a valuable resource for both security professionals and GIAC Certified Firewall Analyst certification exam candidates.
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Inside Network Perimeter Security: The Definitive Guide to Firewalls, Vpns, Routers, and Intrusion Detection Systemsby Stephen Northcutt, Scott Winters, Lenny Zeltser, Karen Kent Frederick, Ronald W. Ritchey, Mark T. Edmead, Daniel Martin, Neil F. Johnson, Brian O'BerryISBN 0735712328 (0-7357-1232-8)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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Integrated Network Management, I: Proceedings of the Ifip Tc 6/Wg 6.6 Symposium on Integrated Network Management Boston, Ma, U.S.A., 16-17 May, 1989by Branislav Meandzija, Jill WescottISBN 0444873988 (0-444-87398-8)
Hardcover, Elsevier Science Ltd
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Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicateby Steven A. JohnsonISBN 0465036805 (0-465-03680-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate'Book summary:Steven Johnson turns the tables on the way we consider our computer interfaces. While many discussions focus on how interfaces help us work by adapting to our ways of thinking and our real-world metaphors, Johnson jumps from there to look at how our thinking and world view are altered by our computer interfaces.
He begins with the simple: The mouse improved the spatial nature of our computers by letting us move, by the proxy of our pointers, within the screen. The windows metaphor made cyberspace a 3-D space. And while we tend to think about the graphical nature of interfaces, Johnson also explores the textual side and how it has changed the way we work with the written word.
Interface Culture then goes on to show how, with each advance in technology, the interface shapes our perceptions in new ways. Where mice and windows turned the computing world into cyberspace, agents have created a perception of software as personality. On the larger scale, Johnson sees these tools, originally built on noncyber metaphors, as creating, in their turn, a new set of metaphors for looking at the rest of the world. And while he finds it exciting, he spends considerable time on such shortcomings in our approach to interfacing: what he considers the excessive emphasis on graphics elements at the cost of anything textual. Johnson, who is the editor of the cerebral Feed Web site and whom Newsweek called one of the most influential people in cyberspace, has written an intelligent book about interface design, its relationship to the real world, and how it affects our perception of worlds both cyber and physical. [via]
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Internet Measurement: Infrastructure, Traffic And Applicationsby Balachander Krishnamurthy, Mark CrovellaISBN 047001461X (0-470-01461-X)
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Ip Routingby Ravi MalhotraISBN 0596002750 (0-596-00275-0)
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Kerberos: The Definitive Guideby Jason GarmanISBN 0596004036 (0-596-00403-6)
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Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainmentsby Martin GardnerISBN 0716717999 (0-7167-1799-9)
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Linux Network Administrator's Guideby Olaf Kirch, Terry Dawson, Gregor N. Purdy, Tony BauttsISBN 0596005482 (0-596-00548-2)
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Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italyby Robert Leonardi, Robert D. Putnam, Raffaella NanettiISBN 0691037388 (0-691-03738-8)
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Mapping Cyberspaceby Martin Dodge, Rob KitchinISBN 0415198844 (0-415-19884-4)
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Models And Methods In Social Network Analysisby Stanley Wasserman, Peter Carrington, John ScottISBN 0521600979 (0-521-60097-9)
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Naked Conversations: How Blogs Are Changing the Way Businesses Talk With Customersby Robert Scoble, Shel IsraelISBN 047174719X (0-471-74719-X)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked Conversations: How Blogs Are Changing the Way Businesses Talk With Customers'Book summary:From the creator of the number one business blog comes a powerful exploration of how, and why, businesses had better be blogging: Naked Conversations. According to experts Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, blogs offer businesses something that has long been lacking in their communication with customers -- meaningful dialogue. Devoid of corporate-speak and empty promises, business blogs can humanize communication, bringing companies and their constituencies together in a way that improves both image and bottom line. The authors use more than 50 case histories to explain why blogging is an efficient and credible method of business communication. You'll find yourself excited about the possibilities blogs present after reading just a few pages. Discover how: Prominent business leaders, including Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks, Bob Lutz from General Motors, and Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microsystems, are beginning to use blogs to connect with their customers in new ways. Blogging has changed the rules of communication and competition. You can launch an effective blogging strategy and the reasons why you should. Featuring a foreword by Tom Peters, this is a resource you and your business can't do without. [via]
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Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selectionby Gerald M. EdelmanISBN 0465049346 (0-465-04934-6)
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Patterns in the Sand : Computers, complexity and Lifeby Terry Bossomaier, David Green, Paul DaviesISBN 0738201723 (0-7382-0172-3)
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Patterns in the Sand: Computers, Complexity, and Everyday Lifeby Terry Bossomaier, David GreenISBN 0738200158 (0-7382-0015-8)
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Pricing Communication Networks: Economics, Technology, and Modellingby Richard Weber, Costas CourcoubetisISBN 0470851309 (0-470-85130-9)
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Probabilistic Reasoning in Expert Systems: Theory and Algorithmsby Richard E. NeapolitanISBN 0471618403 (0-471-61840-3)
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Programming Jabberby D. J. AdamsISBN 0596002025 (0-596-00202-5)
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Questioning Technologyby Andrew FeenbergISBN 0415197554 (0-415-19755-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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In his lucid and engaging style, Feenberg shows that technology is the medium of daily life. Every major technical changes reverberates at countless levels: economic, political, and cultural. If we continue to see the social and technical domains as being seperate, then we are essentially denying an integral part of our existence, and our place in a democratic society.
Questioning Tecchnology convinces us that it is vital that we learn more about technology the better to live with it and to manage it. [via]More editions of Questioning Technology:
Radiusby Jonathan HassellISBN 0596003226 (0-596-00322-6)
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Random Graph Dynamicsby Rick DurrettISBN 0521866561 (0-521-86656-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Dayby Jennifer Grappone, Gradiva CouzinISBN 0471787531 (0-471-78753-1)
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Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks Between Order and Randomnessby Duncan J. WattsISBN 0691005419 (0-691-00541-9)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks Between Order and Randomness'Book summary:Everyone knows the small-world phenomenon: soon after meeting a stranger, we are surprised to discover that we have a mutual friend, or we are connected through a short chain of acquaintances. In his book, Duncan Watts uses this intriguing phenomenon--colloquially called "six degrees of separation"--as a prelude to a more general exploration: under what conditions can a small world arise in any kind of network? The networks of this story are everywhere: the brain is a network of neurons; organisations are people networks; the global economy is a network of national economies, which are networks of markets, which are in turn networks of interacting producers and consumers. Food webs, ecosystems, and the Internet can all be represented as networks, as can strategies for solving a problem, topics in a conversation, and even words in a language. Many of these networks, the author claims, will turn out to be small worlds. How do such networks matter? Simply put, local actions can have global consequences, and the relationship between local and global dynamics depends critically on the network's structure. Watts illustrates the subtleties of this relationship using a variety of simple models---the spread of infectious disease through a structured population; the evolution of cooperation in game theory; the computational capacity of cellular automata; and the sychronisation of coupled phase-oscillators. Watts's novel approach is relevant to many problems that deal with network connectivity and complex systems' behaviour in general: How do diseases (or rumours) spread through social networks? How does cooperation evolve in large groups? How do cascading failures propagate through large power grids, or financial systems? What is the most efficient architecture for an organisation, or for a communications network? This fascinating exploration will be fruitful in a remarkable variety of fields, including physics and mathematics, as well as sociology, economics, and biolog [via]
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Snow Crashby Neal StephensonISBN 0553380958 (0-553-38095-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Social Capitalby David HalpernISBN 0745625487 (0-7456-2548-7)
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Social Capital Versus Social Theory: Political Economy and Social Science at the Turn of the Millenniumby Ben FineISBN 0415241804 (0-415-24180-4)
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State of War: Tom Clancy's Net Force #7by Tom Clancy, Steve Perry, Larry Segriff, Steve R. PieczenikISBN 0425188132 (0-425-18813-2)
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Step by Step Home Networking With Microsoft Windows Xpby Matthew Danda, Heather T. BrownISBN 0735614350 (0-7356-1435-0)
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Systems Biology: Properties of Reconstructed Networksby Bernard O. PalssonISBN 0521859034 (0-521-85903-4)
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The Theory of Externalities, Public Goods, and Club Goodsby Richard Cornes, Todd SandlerISBN 0521477182 (0-521-47718-2)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperityby Francis FukuyamaISBN 0684825252 (0-684-82525-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity'Book summary:In his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of 21st-century capitalism. In Trust, a penetrating assessment of the emerging global economic order "after History," he explains the social principles of economic life and tells us what we need to know to win the coming struggle for world dominance.
Challenging orthodoxies of both the left and right, Fukuyama examines a wide range of national cultures in order to divine the underlying principles that foster social and economic prosperity. Insisting that we cannot divorce economic life from cultural life, he contends that in an era when social capital may be as important as physical capital, only those societies with a high degree of social trust will be able to create the flexible, large-scale business organizations that are needed to compete in the new global economy.
A brilliant study of the interconnectedness of economic life with cultural life, Trust is also an essential antidote to the increasing drift of American culture into extreme forms of individualism, which, if unchecked, will have dire consequences for the nation's economic health. [via]
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Understanding Data Communications and Networksby William A. ShayISBN 053495054X (0-534-95054-X)
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Unix Networkingby Stephen G. Kochan, Patrick H. WoodISBN 0672484404 (0-672-48440-4)
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Using Sambaby Robert Eckstein, David Collier-BrownISBN 0596002564 (0-596-00256-4)
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A Walk in the Woodsby Bill BrysonISBN 0613225783 (0-613-22578-3)
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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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Web Theory: An Introductionby Robert Burnett, P. David MarshallISBN 041523834X (0-415-23834-X)
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Wireless Hacksby Rob Flickenger, Roger WeeksISBN 0596101449 (0-596-10144-9)
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