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Aligned for Success: Reset Your Body from the Ground Up

City Point Press, 2019

How to reach your fitness goals, prevent pain and injury, and achieve optimal performance in work, sports, and life.

Pain is a byproduct of our busy, active lives, but it doesn’t have to be a constant and hindering presence. Whether your daily activity consists of caring for children, or training for marathons, Dr....

Digital Identity

O'Reilly, 2005

The rise of network-based, automated services in the past decade has definitely changed the way businesses operate, but not always for the better. Offering services, conducting transactions and moving data on the Web opens new opportunities, but many CTOs and CIOs are more concerned with the risks. Like the rulers of medieval...

HornetQ Messaging Developer's Guide

Packt Publishing, 2012

Any person involved in the field of software development has used and is comfortable with the expression "big data".

With the rise of the social network paradigm, new types of challenges have raised attention in the developer community. Only to make an example of the numbers involved, let us take a look...

ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices for C# Programmers

Apress, 2002

Written specifically for COM-based ADO developers retooling for ADO.NET using the C# language, this book brings fresh insights and tips on the ADO.NET technology. Veteran authors William Vaughn and Peter Blackburn have packed this formative guide with practical advice on how to write code that is both faster...

Deploying Optical Networking Components (McGraw-Hill Telecom)

McGraw-Hill, 2001

With cheaper bandwidth and greater robustness, optical networking components are looking increasingly tempting--perhaps even mandatory for maintaining your network's competitive edge. Here's how you get there from here, without being overwhelmed by optical science.

Optical technologies' advantages over copper have caught your...

We See It All: Liberty and Justice in an Age of Perpetual Surveillance

PublicAffairs, 2021

This investigation into the legal, political, and moral issues surrounding how the police and justice system use surveillance technology asks the question: what are citizens of a free country willing to tolerate in the name of public safety?

As we rethink the scope of police power, Jon Fasman’s chilling examination...

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

Back Bay Books, 2012

The thrilling memoir of the world's most wanted computer hacker

"Mitnick manages to make breaking computer code sound as action-packed as robbing a bank." -- NPR

Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed...

Leadership for the Common Good: Tackling Public Problems in a Shared-Power World

Jossey-Bass, 2005

Intuition and experience teach us that no one is really 'in charge' of anything complex or important. Barbara Crosby and John Bryson have developed this idea into a vividly positive image of the leader's role. 'Shared-power,' as they describe, dissect, and show how to work with it, transforms the very definition of leadership for the twenty-first...

Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Acrobat 5 in 24 Hours

Sams Publishing, 2001

Advances in the business world in recent years have caused many companies to rethink how they handle the sharing of information. With the invention of e-mail, our lives have changed dramatically. No longer must we wait for a reply to arrive in the mail or by courier. Replies can be instantaneous: the sender clicks the Send button and off goes the...

The Power of Culture: Driving Today's Organisation

McGraw-Hill, 2004

Organisational culture is one of the most powerful performance levers available for managers. It can drive strategy and productivity, but if mishandled or ignored it will destroy gains and sabotage change.

Yet most managers are either unable or unwilling to harness the power of culture, thereby missing a critical opportunity to turn the...

Russia's Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives

Routledge, 2010

Russia’s Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives provides a thorough examination of the phenomenon of skinheads, explaining its nature and its significance, and assessing how far Russian skinhead subculture is the ‘lumpen’ end of the extreme nationalist ideological spectrum. There are large numbers of...

The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One

Oxford University Press, 2009

David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare. A Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq, his vision of war dramatically influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the surge."

Now, in The Accidental...

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