Guide to Networking Essentials, Fifth Edition has been revised and provides a baseline level of knowledge for success in industry and preparation for networking certifications, including the MCSA, MCSE, CNA and CCNA designations.

This new edition has been updated to cover new industry topics such as Networked Attached Storage (NAS), Cable Installation and Management, as well as, Fixed and Mobile WiMAX. Written with a focus on networking operating systems, this book continues to provide up-to-date coverage of Microsoft Windows XP and Server 2003 technologies along with UNIX, Red Hat Linux, and Novell Netware operating systems. Read the rest of this entry »

Contemporary photographs that cleverly capture a child’s mood or personality—whether that’s a big, toothy grin or a teary tantrum—are easily created with the tips and techniques explored in this in-depth handbook.

Often called “lifestyle photography”, modern techniques such as tightly cropped close-ups, vignettes, wide angles, and shallow depths produce images that are markedly less stiff and more expressive than traditional portraitures.

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Network Know-How is a straight to the point description of networks, what they do, how they operate, and how to manage them. The book is largely free of jargon and arcane, obscure terminology. Of course, normal network lingo has a certain amount of jargon, but the author does a good job of laying out the essentials in an easy to understand format.

Wired and wireless networks are covered, and good advice is given on securing wireless networks. Router functions are described in detail, the basics of using network file servers and network attached storage are documented. Instructions on setting up network access in Windows XP, Vista, Leopard, and Linux are provided. There is some basic information on a few of the network tools that provide problem solving abilities, such as IpConfig, ping, and TraceRoute.

There is a section on home entertainment, including setting up a media center, attaching a TIVO, and attaching your game console, such as a WII, PlayStation, or Xbox 360 to your network. Read the rest of this entry »

Marketing Metrics, Second Edition, is the definitive guide to today’s most valuable marketing metrics. In this thoroughly updated and significantly expanded book, four leading marketing researchers show exactly how to choose the right metrics for every challenge.

The authors show how to use marketing dashboards to view market dynamics from multiple perspectives, maximize accuracy, and “triangulate” to optimal solutions. You’ll discover high-value metrics for virtually every facet of marketing: promotional strategy, advertising, and distribution; customer perceptions; market share; competitors power; margins and pricing; products and portfolios; customer profitability; sales forces and channels; and more.

This edition introduces essential new metrics ranging from Net Promoter to social media and brand equity measurement. Last, but not least, it shows how to build comprehensive models to support planning–and optimize every marketing decision you make. Read the rest of this entry »

COLD WINTER’S KILL is a fast paced thriller that takes place in the scenic mountains of Lincoln County, New Mexico and throws Jim West into a race against time to stop a psychopath who abducts and kills a young blonde every Christmas.

It was one of those phone calls Air Force Special Agent Jim West never wanted to receive–an old friend calling to ask if he could drive down to Ruidoso, New Mexico to help locate his daughter who has disappeared while on a ski trip with friends. Jim found himself heading to Ruidoso even though he believed, much like the local authorities, that if she had gone missing in the mountains in December, her survival chances were slim. He didn’t want to be there when they found her, but still he drove on. Read the rest of this entry »

Duct Tape Marketing is the small business marketing road map – A collection of proven tools and tactics woven together in a step-by-step marketing system that shows small business owners exactly what to do to market and grow their businesses. This guide combines insights gained from over twenty years of successfully working, in the field, with real-life small businesses.

The book plods through basic marketing precepts such as finding your ideal client, honing your message, being memorable, and making your Web site work for you. The chapters that draw from the author’s Web expertise provide a solid overview of creating productive Web sites and automated referral systems. Read the rest of this entry »

Mayan myth, including the much-ballyhooed 2012 doomsday theory, forms the backbone of this action-packed debut. Danielle Laidlaw, an investigator for a covert branch of the National Research Institute, sets off into the Amazon with a small group of mercenaries, renegades, rogues, and scholars to uncover the source of mysterious radioactive crystals, hoping to find an ancient Mayan city and a possible source for clean energy. Ruthless billionaire Richard Kaufman has his own plans for the technology and will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means killing Danielle and her team.

There are other dangers lurking in the rain forests, including a cartoonishly savage tribe of natives called the Chollokwan and a mysterious man-eating creature. A few sections seem unnecessarily padded, but the fast pace and nonstop violence will keep readers forging ahead. Read the rest of this entry »

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You are about to close the Rome film festival, but there is still time for a nice surprise. A screening of Waiting for Superman, documentary by Davis Guggenheim, which has nothing to do with the famous superhero. Director Davis Guggenheim, who with an inconvenient truth won an Oscar for best documentary won criticized, with waiting for superman the grievances in the American educational system. For German viewers documentation appears to be very interesting if it allows it to draw parallels. An examination of the American school system, and its current plight. A story that starts from the director’s candid admission: “My children were lucky, because I could choose to send them to a private school.” But for those who are forced to go to public discourse is very different.

Guggenheim examines the various aspects of the problem, lack of funds to the sometimes uncomfortable role of teacher unions that prevent the establishment of a merit system that rewards teachers with better performance and allows the hand to dismiss those who are not only well their work, but there’s even committing crimes such as sexual harassment. In contrast, a law against dismissal and therefore encourages the proliferation of bad teaching.

Guggenheim does intervene in this matter many teachers and educators, among them Geoffrey Canada, founder of a so-called Charter School, with funding from private or public schools that are based on a limited number and the lucky students chosen through an annual lottery. The focus of the documentary are still the lives of four students from similar social backgrounds everyone from families in financial difficulties and their route to the fateful day of the lottery. The director succeeds in ambition to move him to talk about an important topic at the same time, but without falling into melodrama.
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Carolyn J. Nygren has been a legal education consultant for Franklin Pierce Law Center, Harvard University Law School, New York University School of Law, Southern New England School of Law, and Suffolk University School of Law. The result of eight years of Nygren’s work with first-semester students in five different law schools, this book melds information about the legal system usually found in legal methods books with information about study skills usually found in books with a “how to succeed in law school” focus.

The book uses one area of law — the implied warranty of merchantability as it applies to food — to illustrate various legal issues and the skills needed to master them. It introduces basic legal concepts and vocabulary in the context of one hypothetical case, and then focuses on the structure of cases and types of reasoning courts use. When finished with the book, readers will have the background they need in order to demonstrate a thorough knowledge of legal materials. Read the rest of this entry »