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  • Circuits, Packets, and Protocols

    Entrepreneurs and Computer Communications, 1968-1988

    by James L. Pelkey, Andrew L. Russell, Loring G. Robbins ...
    Series series ACM Books
    As recently as 1968, computer scientists were uncertain how best to interconnect even two computers. The notion that within a few decades the challenge would be how to interconnect millions of computers around the globe was too far-fetched to contemplate. Yet, by 1988, that is precisely what was happening. The products and devices developed in the intervening years—such as modems, multiplexers, ... Read more

    $158.19 CAD

  • Tropological Thought and Action

    Essays on the Poetics of Imagination

    Edited by Marko Živković, Jamin Pelkey, James W. Fernandez ...
    Series Book 9 - Studies in Rhetoric and Culture
    From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnographic essays offering in-depth studies of the human imagination at work and play around the world. ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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  • Kill It with Fire

    Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)

    by Marianne Bellotti ...
    Kill It with Fire chronicles the challenges of dealing with aging computer systems, along with sound modernization strategies.How to survive a legacy apocalypse“Kill it with fire,” the typical first reaction to a legacy system falling into obsolescence, is a knee-jerk approach that often burns through tons of money and time only to result in a less efficient solution. This book offers a far more ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

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  • Where Wizards Stay Up Late

    The Origins Of The Internet

    by Matthew Lyon, Katie Hafner ...
    Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for creating the most talked about, most influential, and most far-reaching communications breakthrough since the invention of the telephone.In the 1960's, when computers where regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Future of Ideas

    The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World

    by Lawrence Lessig ...
    The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating the law for their own purposes, corporations have ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Reaching The Goal

    How Managers Improve a Services Business Using Goldratt's Theory of Constraints

    by John Ricketts ...
    “There is no doubt that this is a truly original and groundbreaking work in applying the Theory of Constraints. I run a services company and learned some things about the services business. Anyone involved in large services companies needs to look at what John is proposing. I will definitely quote this material frequently.”Chad Smith, Managing Partner, Constraints Management Group“The information ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • A History of Modern Computing, second edition

    by Paul E. Ceruzzi ...
    Series series History of Computing
    From the first digital computer to the dot-com crash—a story of individuals, institutions, and the forces that led to a series of dramatic transformations.This engaging history covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation of the computer in the late ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog

    A History of the Software Industry

    by Martin Campbell-Kelly ...
    Series series History of Computing
    A business history of the software industry from the days of custom programming to the age of mass-market software and video games.From its first glimmerings in the 1950s, the software industry has evolved to become the fourth largest industrial sector of the US economy. Starting with a handful of software contractors who produced specialized programs for the few existing machines, the industry ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • 3-Critical Chain Tutorial/Value Earned Problems

    by Charlene Spoede Budd, Janice Cerveny ...
    The definitive guide to the theory of constraints In this authoritative volume, the world's top Theory of Constraints (TOC) experts reveal how to implement the ground-breaking management and improvement methodology developed by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt. Theory of Constraints Handbook offers an in-depth examination of this revolutionary concept of bringing about global organization performance ... Read more

    $8.39 CAD

  • Cyber Security Policy Guidebook

    by Jennifer L. Bayuk, Jason Healey, Paul Rohmeyer, Marcus H. Sachs, Jeffrey Schmidt, Joseph Weiss ...
    Drawing upon a wealth of experience from academia, industry, and government service, Cyber Security Policy Guidebook details and dissects, in simple language, current organizational cyber security policy issues on a global scale—taking great care to educate readers on the history and current approaches to the security of cyberspace. It includes thorough descriptions—as well as the pros and cons—of ... Read more

    $118.99 CAD

  • Beautiful Security

    Leading Security Experts Explain How They Think

    by Andy Oram, John Viega ...
    Although most people don't give security much attention until their personal or business systems are attacked, this thought-provoking anthology demonstrates that digital security is not only worth thinking about, it's also a fascinating topic. Criminals succeed by exercising enormous creativity, and those defending against them must do the same.Beautiful Security explores this challenging subject ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Auditing Cloud Computing

    A Security and Privacy Guide

    by Ben Halpert ...
    Series Book 21 - Wiley Corporate F&A
    The auditor's guide to ensuring correct security and privacy practices in a cloud computing environmentMany organizations are reporting or projecting a significant cost savings through the use of cloud computing—utilizing shared computing resources to provide ubiquitous access for organizations and end users. Just as many organizations, however, are expressing concern with security and privacy ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD