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Posted: May 27th, 2008, 7:09am CEST
In composing The Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security (EEIS), our goal was to shape a modern encyclopedia offering immediate value to our intended readers by emphasizing matters of espionage, intelligence, and security most frequently in the news.
EEIS is not intended as a classical “spy book,” filled with tales of daring operations. Instead, within a framework of historical overviews, EEIS emphasizes the scientific foundations, applications of technology, and organizational structure of modern espionage, intelligence, and security. High school and early undergraduate students can use this book to expand upon their developing awareness of the fundamentals of science, mathematics, and government as they begin the serious study of contemporary issues.
EEIS is also intended to serve more advanced readers as a valuable quick reference and as a foundation for advanced study of current events.
EEIS devotes an extensive number of articles to agencies and strategies involved in emerging concepts of homeland security in the United States. Faced with a daunting amount of information provided by agencies, organizations, and institutes seeking to put their best foot forward, we have attempted to allocate space to the topics comprising EEIS based upon their relevance to some unique facet of espionage, intelligence, or security—especially with regard to science and technology issues—as opposed to awarding space related to power of the agency or availability of material.
A fundamental understanding of science allows citizens to discern hype and disregard hysteria, especially with regard to privacy issues. Spy satellites powerful enough to read the details of license plates do so at peril of missing events a few steps away. With regard to electronic intercepts, the capability to identify what to carefully examine—often a decision driven by mathematical analysis—has become as essential as the capacity to gather the intelligence itself. Somewhere between the scrutiny of Big Brother and the deliberately blind eye lie the shadows into which terrorists often slip.
With an emphasis on the realistic possibilities and limitations of science, we hope that EEIS finds a useful and unique place on the reference shelf.
It seems inevitable that within the first half of the twenty-first century, biological weapons may eclipse nuclear and chemical weapons in terms of potential threats to civilization. Because informed and reasoned public policy debates on issues of biological warfare and bioterrorism can only take place when there is a fundamental understanding of the science underpinning competing arguments, EEIS places special emphasis on the multifaceted influence and applications of the biological sciences and emerging biometric technologies. Future generations of effective intelligence and law enforcement officers seeking to thwart the threats posed by tyrants, terrorists, and the technologies of mass destruction might be required to be as knowledgeable in the terminology of epidemiology as they are with the tradecraft of espionage.
Knowledge is power. In a time where news can overwhelm and in fact, too easily mingle with opinion, it is our hope that EEIS will provide readers with greater insight to measure vulnerability and risks, and correspondingly, an increased ability to make informed judgments concerning the potential benefits and costs of espionage, intelligence, and security matters.
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Posted: May 27th, 2008, 7:04am CEST
Choice : "Entries are well written and easy to understand, Summing Up: Highly Recommended."
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Choice, June 2005
As the modern business world continues to expand, today's business researchers are in search of a more global perspective. Unlike many other directories, this four-volume set contains in-depth biographical narratives on more than 600 figures, nearly half profiling individuals outside the U.S. In addition to examining the career paths, business achievements, leadership styles, business strategies and industry impact of Fortune 500 and Global 500 corporate leaders, the
International Directory of Business Biographies also covers entrepreneurs and other notable businesspeople. Also includes 350 photos, four indexes and helpful in-depth bibliographies designed to facilitate further research.
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Posted: May 27th, 2008, 6:27am CEST
This book was written with several practitioners and professionals in mind. The first group is the software engineers. Not everyone has had the opportunity (or wants) to take classes in human-computer interaction, usability, or user interface design, and not every company can afford to hire usability professionals to assist with optimizing the user friendliness of a website or the discoverability of the new features of an application. If you are a developer or an architect, you are one for a good reason: Your magic and craft is turning ones and zeros into a solution that makes life and work better. However, just as it is good to know what to do if you get a flat tire and not rely on a mechanic, it is good for you to be able to apply simple concepts to improve the usability and appeal of your solution.
The second group of readers I had in mind consists of usability professionals. This group includes a subset of my colleagues at Microsoft whose job responsibilities and talent make them the "voice of the user" to the rest of the company to ensure that our products and services are easy to use, easy to learn, and so on. If you are like my colleagues, you care not only about how a product or service is used or consumed, but also how it is perceived, what emotions it may conjure up, and what behaviors it may cause. This book provides the research, the logic, and other useful knowledge to help you understand how to deal with and correct usability issues arising from time and timing.
A third group of readers is everyone else who has some responsibility to ensure that a solution is delivered with quality and value. This includes program and product managers, testers, marketing professionals, and all other decision makers involved in putting a solution in front of the user. Reality is such that we have to make tradeoffs, compromises, and workarounds. Reality also dictates that we work with the resources that we have. This book takes that into consideration and provides as much practical guidance as possible on how to set reasonable and informed tradeoffs.
This portable reference to Windows PowerShell summarizes both the command shell and scripting language, and provides a concise reference to the major tasks that make PowerShell so successful. It's an ideal on-the-job tool for Windows administrators who don't have time to plow through huge books or search online.
Written by Microsoft PowerShell team member Lee Holmes, and excerpted from his
Windows PowerShell Cookbook,
Windows PowerShell Pocket Reference offers up-to-date coverage of PowerShell's 1.0 release. You'll find information on .NET classes and legacy management tools that you need to manage your system, along with chapters on how to write scripts, manage errors, format output, and much more.
Beginning with a whirlwind tour of Windows PowerShell, this convenient guide covers:
- PowerShell language and environment
- Regular expression reference
- PowerShell automatic variables
- Standard PowerShell verbs
- Selected .NET classes and their uses
- WMI reference
- Selected COM objects and their uses
- .NET string formatting
- .NET datetime formatting
An authoritative source of information about PowerShell since its earliest betas, Lee Holmes' vast experience lets him incorporate both the "how" and the "why" into the book's discussions. His relationship with the PowerShell and administration community -- through newsgroups, mailing lists, and his informative blog Lee Holmes -- gives him insight into problems faced by administrators and PowerShell users alike.
If you're ready to learn this powerful tool without having to break stride in your routine, this is the book you want.
About the Author
Lee Holmes is a developer on the Microsoft Windows PowerShell team and has been an authoritative source of information about PowerShell since its earliest betas. His vast experience with Windows PowerShell lets him integrate both the "how" and the "why" into discussions. Lee's integration with the PowerShell and administration community (via newsgroups, mailing lists, and blogs) gives him a great deal of insight into the problems faced by all levels of administrators and PowerShell users alike.
Undoubtedly, you've heard of Extensible Markup Language, commonly known as XML. You may have even seen some of it, though you might not have been aware of it at the time. One thing's fairly certain, however: You'll be seeing a lot more of it in the future.
My certainty is based on the fact that XML is beginning to spread at a pace that almost justifies the hype that accompanied its introduction, now that commercial vendors have discovered its potential. XML is showing up everywhere from configuration files to content management, from electronic data interchange to Web services to…well, you get the idea.
This book talks about all of these things, and does it in such a way that you'll be off and running pretty quickly, ready to start tackling your own projects. Before we get too far, though, let's talk about what XML actually is, so you'll have a feel for what you're doing here.
Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours teaches the basics of COBOL programming in 24 step-by-step lessons. Each lesson builds on the previous one providing a solid foundation in COBOL programming concepts and techniques. Coupled with the source code and the compiler available from Fujitsu, this hands-on guide is the easiest, fastest way to begin creating standard COBOL compliant code. Sams Teach Yourself COBOL in 24 Hours utilizes the most modern client/server and Internet programming techniques available to COBOL programmers today! Readers build examples based on real-world scenarios not trivial or fictitious ones like our competitors. Business professionals and programmers from other languages will find this hands-on, task-oriented tutorial extremely useful for learning the essential features and concepts of COBOL programming. This book will familiarize business managers with COBOL thus enabling them to more effectively communicate with their IT staff about technical programming issues. Writing a program can be a complex task. By concentrating on one development tool (Fujitsu COBOL) we can guide the reader and get good results every time. There will be no programs that will not compile!
About the Author
Thane Hubbell has been a COBOL programmer for 15 years. Thane possesses a working knowledge on a variety of systems, from mainframes to minis to PCs. He has designed and developed full scale systems from the initial concept or idea to the deployed product. Through his role as a flight instructor, Thane has come to understand how people learn and think in high pressure situations – like in a programming environment . Initially a self taught programmer, with later education from IBM, Thane knows what it takes to learn a programming language on your own and how to teach one.
If you are an architect responsible for a service-oriented architecture (SOA) in an enterprise, you face many challenges. Whether intended or not, the architecture you create defines the structure of your enterprise at many different levels, from business processes down to data storage. It defines the boundaries between organizational units as well as between business systems. Your architecture must go beyond defining services and provide practical solutions for a host of complex distributed system design problems, from orchestrating business processes to ensuring business continuity. Implementing your architecture will involve many projects over an extended period, and your guidance will be required.
In Succeeding with SOA, I discussed the need for an enterprise to pay close attention to its architecture, the role of its architects, and the importance of setting the right organizational context for their success. In this book, Implementing SOA, I turn to the work of the architects themselves—your work—guiding you through the process of defining a service-oriented architecture at both the project and enterprise levels. Whether you are an architect putting SOA into practice or you are an engineer aspiring to be an architect and wanting to learn more, I wrote this book for you.
Doing SOA well can be very rewarding. Done properly, your enterprise will comprise a robust and flexible collection of reusable business and infrastructure services. The enterprise will be able to efficiently recombine these services to address changing business needs. On the other hand, if you do SOA poorly, your enterprise will be encumbered with a fragile and rigid set of functionality (which I hesitate to call services) that will retard rather than promote enterprise evolution. You don't want to end up there. Implementing SOA will show you the pitfalls as well as the best practices. In short, it will guide you to doing SOA well.
Perl, now more than ever!
A few years ago, Perl was a secret of UNIX® programmers who wanted to combine the power of grep, awk, sed, tr, shells and C in a single easy language. These days it's everywhere, as the source language for the CGI scripts that make the Internet go 'round.
This Second Edition of Perl by Example is completely revised and updated to bring you up to the minute with:
* Complete coverage of Perl 5.
* Bug fixes to existing versions.
* Full treatment of CGI scripting.
Written with the same friendly tone and filled with practical examples, Perl by Example still focuses on bringing you practical information without a lot of fluff. From basic scripting to complex network applications, you'll maximize your learning with:
* Hands-on tutorials, from simple reports to sophisticated Perl scripts.
* One-to-one comparisons with other familiar languages and utilities.
* Convenient reference for ongoing learning.
The enclosed CD-ROM contains distributions of Perl for Windows 3.1, 95, NT, and UNIX systems, plus multiple add-on libraries for all users. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Ellie Quigley has taught scripting languages in Silicon Valley for more than twenty years. Her Perl and shell programming classes at the University of Santa Cruz Extension program have become part of Silicon Valley lore. Her best-selling books include UNIX® Shells by Example, Fourth Edition; PHP and MySQL by Example (with coauthor Marko Gargenta); and JavaScript by Example, all from Prentice Hall.
