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Webmastering for Dummies drives home to its readers that Webmastering is not just about knowing HTML and being familiar with some graphics software. Though it's fast retreating from the bleeding edge it once occupied, Webmastering is one of the last jack-of-all-trades job descriptions. A good Webmaster has to know something (quite a bit, actually) about computer networking, telephone services, software, database design and administration, user administration, electronic money transactions, an... less info

Webmastering for Dummies drives home to its readers that Webmastering is not just about knowing HTML and being familiar with some graphics software. Though it's fast retreating from the bleeding ed... more info

Publishing on the Web is a very simple task. Publishing content that works well in the online medium and truly communicates effectively is quite another matter. In Writing for the Web, author and freelance writer Crawford Kilian shares his insights about producing just the right type and amount of content for your target sites. Kilian acknowledges early on his bias toward print publishing, but his viewpoint offers a particularly relevant discussion for other writers moving traditional content... less info

Publishing on the Web is a very simple task. Publishing content that works well in the online medium and truly communicates effectively is quite another matter. In Writing for the Web, author and f... more info

With Internet security an increasing concern, so in turn there has been an increase in firewall solutions aimed to protect enterprise organisations from unwanted intrusion and malicious attack. Supporting the deployment of Microsoft's upgrade to Proxy Server 2.0, Configuring ISA Server 2000 is a true heavyweight designed to help network professionals muscle through the minefield of installation. Written by experienced trainers and authors Thomas and Debra Shinder, this hardback reference is r... less info

With Internet security an increasing concern, so in turn there has been an increase in firewall solutions aimed to protect enterprise organisations from unwanted intrusion and malicious attack. Sup... more info

The idea of the first e-mail novel could have been a disaster but instead is a minor comic triumph thanks to Matt Beaumont's E. The novel of letters goes back to Richardson, of course, but things have moved on from Regency rape to the lethal office politics of an advertising agency. The beleaguered protagonists may appear to be concerned with pitching for the Coca-Cola account but their real problem is watching their backs: the knives are out and everyone from head honcho David Crutton downwa... less info

The idea of the first e-mail novel could have been a disaster but instead is a minor comic triumph thanks to Matt Beaumont's E. The novel of letters goes back to Richardson, of course, but things h... more info

Windows Me has a lot to offer someone who wants to use Microsoft Windows in a home or small-office setting. Author Andy Rathbone competently explains its advantages (as well as some of its shortcomings) in Microsoft Windows Me for Dummies, a fine example of software documentation that appeals to novices without shirking its responsibility to include lots of details. To his credit, Rathbone knows that what's interesting to the Microsoft marketing department isn't necessarily important to most ... less info

Windows Me has a lot to offer someone who wants to use Microsoft Windows in a home or small-office setting. Author Andy Rathbone competently explains its advantages (as well as some of its shortcom... more info

In November 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army took Nanking (Nanjing), the capital of China and home to 1.3 million people, and began an orgy of murder, rape, and looting. By the time discipline was restored two months later, hundreds of thousands of Chinese were dead with hundreds of thousands more homeless, starving, and traumatised. The "Rape of Nanking" still causes international controversy, as Japanese politicians refuse to unequivocally apologise to China and school textbooks c... less info

In November 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army took Nanking (Nanjing), the capital of China and home to 1.3 million people, and began an orgy of murder, rape, and looting. By the time discipline was ... more info

Textbooks tell us that the Earth is 4.6 billion years old and that the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. Just as our understanding of human history is helped by dates, so the history of the Earth and life of the geological past has also been dated by scientists. Most people have heard of radiocarbon dating, which can be used to date archaeological materials up to 50,000 or so years old but how is it possible to put a date to a rock? It was only a couple of hundred years ago that many s... less info

Textbooks tell us that the Earth is 4.6 billion years old and that the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. Just as our understanding of human history is helped by dates, so the history of the ... more info

Academic business analyst Henry C Lucas, Jr seeks strategies that work and reports on them in Strategies for Electronic Commerce and the Internet. The Internet isn't going anywhere. Businesses that exploit it wisely will succeed, while those who don't will have to struggle mightily to compete. Definitely not light reading, the prose is targeted at managers, executives and entrepreneurs charged with developing or improving their company's Internet-related business. Following the work of succe... less info

Academic business analyst Henry C Lucas, Jr seeks strategies that work and reports on them in Strategies for Electronic Commerce and the Internet. The Internet isn't going anywhere. Businesses that... more info

For those of you who have read Georges Ifrah's first book, The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer, this is the third of a two-volume set! Just to clarify this, the first volume is being split into two and, together with this new third volume, republished as a trilogy. For those of you who have not read the first book, volume III begins with what could have been a very useful "Chronological Summary" and a "Recapitulation" of the i... less info

For those of you who have read Georges Ifrah's first book, The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer, this is the third of a two-volume set! Just to clarify... more info

Computer security is a crucial aspect of modern information management, and one of the latest buzz words is "incident response"--detecting and reacting to security breaches. Computer Forensics offers information professionals a disciplined approach to implementing a comprehensive incident-response plan, with a focus on being able to detect intruders, discover what damage they did and hopefully find out who they are. There is little doubt that the authors are serious about cyber inve... less info

Computer security is a crucial aspect of modern information management, and one of the latest buzz words is "incident response"--detecting and reacting to security breaches. Computer Fore... more info

Academic business analyst Henry C Lucas, Jr seeks strategies that work and reports on them in Strategies for Electronic Commerce and the Internet. The Internet isn't going anywhere. Businesses that exploit it wisely will succeed, while those who don't will have to struggle mightily to compete. Definitely not light reading, the prose is targeted at managers, executives and entrepreneurs charged with developing or improving their company's Internet-related business. Following the work of succe... less info

Academic business analyst Henry C Lucas, Jr seeks strategies that work and reports on them in Strategies for Electronic Commerce and the Internet. The Internet isn't going anywhere. Businesses that... more info

These days we seem to be creating information faster than we can store it, but the near future is looking bright. Cornell University professor William Y Arms offers a programme for that future in Digital Libraries, a synthesis of library and computer sciences that presents the history and current developments in each field with special emphasis on their interactions.Since the book necessarily must appeal to a broad spectrum of professionals, any given reader will find some parts elementary, b... less info

These days we seem to be creating information faster than we can store it, but the near future is looking bright. Cornell University professor William Y Arms offers a programme for that future in D... more info

These days we seem to be creating information faster than we can store it, but the near future is looking bright. Cornell University professor William Y Arms offers a programme for that future in Digital Libraries, a synthesis of library and computer sciences that presents the history and current developments in each field with special emphasis on their interactions.Since the book necessarily must appeal to a broad spectrum of professionals, any given reader will find some parts elementary, b... less info

These days we seem to be creating information faster than we can store it, but the near future is looking bright. Cornell University professor William Y Arms offers a programme for that future in D... more info

Publishing on the Web is a very simple task. Publishing content that works well in the online medium and truly communicates effectively is quite another matter. In Writing for the Web, author and freelance writer Crawford Kilian shares his insights about producing just the right type and amount of content for your target sites. Kilian acknowledges early on his bias toward print publishing, but his viewpoint offers a particularly relevant discussion for other writers moving traditional content... less info

Publishing on the Web is a very simple task. Publishing content that works well in the online medium and truly communicates effectively is quite another matter. In Writing for the Web, author and f... more info

Lots of newcomers to Linux, having heard from friends and publications how great the operating system is, enthusiastically set out to install and use it. They then become frustrated by the unfamiliar conventions Linux employs--"How in the world do I dial my Internet provider?!"--and give up because of the learning curve. The Linux Cookbook aims to provide new Linux users with enough instructions to get them familiar with the Linux conventions that surround everyday procedures. Using... less info

Lots of newcomers to Linux, having heard from friends and publications how great the operating system is, enthusiastically set out to install and use it. They then become frustrated by the unfamili... more info

For those of you who have read Georges Ifrah's first book, The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer, this is the third of a two-volume set! Just to clarify this, the first volume is being split into two and, together with this new third volume, republished as a trilogy. For those of you who have not read the first book, volume III begins with what could have been a very useful "Chronological Summary" and a "Recapitulation" of the i... less info

For those of you who have read Georges Ifrah's first book, The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer, this is the third of a two-volume set! Just to clarify... more info

Textbooks tell us that the Earth is 4.6 billion years old and that the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. Just as our understanding of human history is helped by dates, so the history of the Earth and life of the geological past has also been dated by scientists. Most people have heard of radiocarbon dating, which can be used to date archaeological materials up to 50,000 or so years old but how is it possible to put a date to a rock? It was only a couple of hundred years ago that many s... less info

Textbooks tell us that the Earth is 4.6 billion years old and that the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. Just as our understanding of human history is helped by dates, so the history of the ... more info

Without requiring its administrators to understand the complexities that are characteristic of Sendmail, Postfix offers electronic mail services reliably and with considerable configurability. The program is pretty easy to set up and get going, so it's possible for Postfix, Richard Blum's commendable book about the mail server, to do a good job of explaining installation and have room left over for lots of advanced hints and tricks. This book will serve well on the bookshelf of anyone who's d... less info

Without requiring its administrators to understand the complexities that are characteristic of Sendmail, Postfix offers electronic mail services reliably and with considerable configurability. The ... more info

For those of you who have read Georges Ifrah's first book, The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer, this is the third of a two-volume set! Just to clarify this, the first volume is being split into two and, together with this new third volume, republished as a trilogy. For those of you who have not read the first book, volume III begins with what could have been a very useful "Chronological Summary" and a "Recapitulation" of the i... less info

For those of you who have read Georges Ifrah's first book, The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer, this is the third of a two-volume set! Just to clarify... more info

Is cyberculture really a culture? Critical theorist Mark Poster asks what we mean by these words in What's the Matter with the Internet? Drawing on the work of Heidegger, Foucault, Baudrillard, and many more heavy hitters, he explores how we think about culture in an age when the word has been appropriated by practically everyone to the point of meaninglessness. Are ethnicity and sexuality important any more, if they even exist? Is the Net a radical tool for marginalised people or another arm... less info

Is cyberculture really a culture? Critical theorist Mark Poster asks what we mean by these words in What's the Matter with the Internet? Drawing on the work of Heidegger, Foucault, Baudrillard, and... more info