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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...

Paths: Why is life ?lled with so many detours?

Birkhauser, 2020

This open access book explores the amazing similarity between paths taken by people and many other things in life, and its impact on the way we live, teach and learn.

Offering insights into the new scientific field of paths as part of the science of networks, it entertainingly describes the universal nature of paths in...

Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, Third Edition

Sams Publishing, 2003

Welcome to Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, Third Edition. This book provides a clear and concise introduction to TCP/IP for newcomers, and also for users who have worked with TCP/IP but would like a little more of the inside story. The third edition includes new material on recent developments in TCP/IP and...

Perl Power!: The Comprehensive Guide

Course Technology PTR, 2006

Perl Power! provides programmers with a learning and reference resource on Perl. All readers will find tutorials that utilize a ?learn by doing? approach that they can work from as soon as they get the book home. The tutorials build upon each other throughout the book until a level of expertise is reached. All chapters offer complete programs to...

Professional Windows PowerShell Programming: Snapins, Cmdlets, Hosts and Providers

Wrox Press, 2008

Welcome to Professional Windows PowerShell Programming.

Way back in 2003, I attended a talk at a conference center at Microsoft by some engineers from the Microsoft Management Console team who were giving a demonstration of a prototype enhancement to MMC. The prototype was one of the early murmurs of Microsoft’s response to the...

Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Tonality: Theory and Applications

Springer, 2014

From the Preface:

Blending ideas from operations research, music psychology, music theory, and cognitive science, this book aims to tell a coherent story of how tonality pervades our experience, and hence our models, of music.

The story is told through the developmental stages of the Spiral Array model for tonality, a...

Leaning Into Six Sigma : A Parable of the Journey to Six Sigma and a Lean Enterprise

McGraw-Hill, 2003

Warning: Reading this tale could result in effective change occurring in your organization!

This is the book you will want everyone in your company to read before you start your Lean Six Sigma deployment. Written by professionals who have successfully rolled out Lean Six Sigma in numerous organizations, Leaning Into...

The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number

Broadway, 2002

Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden...

Advertising Secrets of the Written Word: The Ultimate Resource on How to Write Powerful Advertising Copy from One of America's Top Copywriters and Mail Order Entrepreneurs

Delstar, 1998

Every trade has its role models. And for me, there is no better model for ad copywriters or maazine editors... -- Ray Schultz, Editor, DIRECT Magazine

I have been a fan of Joseph Sugarman's copywriting and marketing ideas for years and have benefited greatly... -- Jack Canfield, Co-author, Chicken Soup for the Soul...

Zamba: The True Story of the Greatest Lion That Ever Lived

Harper Perennial, 2005

When Ralph Helfer, now one of Hollywood's top animal behaviorists, first began working, he was shocked by the cruelty that was accepted practice in the field. He firmly believed in "affection training" -- that love, not fear, should be the basis of any animal's development, even when dealing with the most dangerous of...

Dawn of the Electronic Age: Electrical Technologies in the Shaping of the Modern World, 1914 to 1945

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Electrical power is supplied to virtually every home and workplace in our industrialized world. Providing a much-needed comprehensive overview of electrical and electronics history, Dawn of the Electric Age takes an international perspective within a chronological framework. The book explains how our engineering knowledge and its main applications...

Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Praise for Poorly Made in China

"This fast-paced travelogue through the world of Chinese manufacturing is scary, fascinating, and very funny. Midler is not only a knowledgeable guide to the invisible underbelly of the global economy, he is a sympathetic and astute observer of China, its challenges, and its...

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