Learn IT - Books tags society

Wiki: Web Collaboration

Springer, 2005

Imagine you are surfing the Internet, and you stop at a site where
you could and would like to add or modify something. For instance,
you have a literary reference or link to add. Or you've noticed a typing
error. Perhaps you even have a lengthy article that you'd like to
display on a separate page. So, you just click on the...

Complex Dynamics in Communication Networks (Understanding Complex Systems)

Springer, 2005

Computer and communication networks are among society's most important infrastructures. The internet, in particular, is a giant global network of networks with central control or administration. It is a paradigm of a complex system, where complexity may arise from different sources: topological structure, network evolution, connection and node...

The Discipline of Organizing: Professional Edition, 3rd Edition

New Society Publishers, 2015

This ebook exploits many advanced capabilities with images, hypertext, and interactivity and is optimized for EPUB3-compliant book readers, especially Apple's iBooks and browser plugins. These features may not work on all ebook readers.

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Life Isn't Binary

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019

'Barker and Iantaffi have written the book we all need for this moment in time.' - CN Lester

Much of society's thinking operates in a highly rigid and binary manner; something is good or bad, right or wrong, a success or a failure, and so on. Challenging this limited way of thinking, this...

Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians

Dey Street Books, 2019

In the vein of Neil Strauss’ The Game and Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein comes the fascinating story of one man’s colorful, mysterious, and personal journey into the world of magic, and his unlikely invitation into an underground secret society of revolutionary magicians from...

Three Laws of Nature: A Little Book on Thermodynamics

Yale University Press, 2019

A short and entertaining introduction to thermodynamics that uses real-world examples to explain accessibly an important but subtle scientific theory

A romantic description of the second law of thermodynamics is that the universe becomes increasingly disordered. But what does that actually mean? Starting with...

Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction

Oxford University Press, 2002

We are surrounded by cryptography, from the ATM, where we withdraw cash, mobile phones, and the Internet, to workplace security systems that protect business secrets, and the civil and military codes that protect the skies above us.

In this fascinating introduction to how cryptography actually works, Fred Piper and Sean Murphy highlight...

Building a Cisco Network for WIndows 2000

Syngress Publishing, 2000

The release of Windows 2000 Server represents a major advance in the integration of Microsoft's and Cisco's network technologies. Windows 2000 provides an LDAP-compliant directory service called Active Directory. It is accessible over any TCP/IP based internetwork, including the Internet. As such, the Active Directory is the foundation of this...

Building the E-Service Society: E-Commerce, E-Business, and E-Government (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing)

Springer, 2004

Building the E-Service Society is a state-of-the-art book which deals with innovative trends in communication systems, information processing, and security and trust in electronic commerce, electronic business, and electronic government. It comprises the proceedings of I3E2004, the Fourth International Conference on E-Commerce,...

Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Third Edition

Morgan Kaufmann, 2011

The convergence of computing and communication has produced a society that feeds on information. Yet most of the information is in its raw form: data. If data is characterized as recorded facts, then information is the set of patterns, or expectations, that underlie the data. There is a huge amount of information locked up in...

CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook, Third Edition

CRC Press, 2000

"This is a classic work for two reasons. First, it continues the long tradition of CRC handbooks and their commitment to excellence. Second, it establishes a new standard for handbooks in terms of layout and design. There is not much to say about this work other than 'Well done!' Highly recommended for any organization dealing with materials...

Technological Turf Wars: A Case Study of the Antivirus Industry

Temple University Press, 2008

In Technological Turf Wars, Jessica Johnston analyzes the tensions and political dilemmas that coexist in the interrelationship among science, technology and society. Illustrating how computer security is as concerned with social relationships as it is with technology, Johnston provides an illuminating ethnography that...

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