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  • The Threatened Net

    How the Web Became a Perilous Place

    The Internet can appear to be elegantly designed, but as The Washington Post's Craig Timberg demonstrated in his illuminating series "Net of Insecurity," the network is much more an assemblage of kludges—more Frankenstein than Ferrari—that endure because they work, or at least work well enough.The defects hackers use often are well-known and ancient in technological terms, surviving only because ... Read more

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    Desert Rescue & Trailing a Killer & Mountain Survival

    Series series

    Unabridged

    16 hours 59 min

    Desert RescueWith his K-9’s help, can he save the son he didn’t know existed?Rescuing a kidnapped child is part of the job for search-and-rescue K-9 handler Patrick Sanders—but this time it’s his son. Now Patrick and his furry partner must work with his high school love, Jennie Wilcox, to shield the little boy he just learned about. But with someone targeting them, will Patrick and Jennie survive ... Read more

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  • Thermal Energy Harvesting for Application at MEMS Scale

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book discusses the history of thermal heat generators and focuses on the potential for these processes using micro-electrical mechanical systems (MEMS) technology for this application. The main focus is on the capture of waste thermal energy for example from industrial processes, transport systems or the human body to generate useable electrical power. A wide range of technologies is ... Read more

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    Current worldwide trends are not sustainable. The Club of Rome’s warnings published in the book Limits to Growth are still valid. Remedies that are acceptable for the great majority tend to make things worse. We seem to be in a philosophical crisis. Pope Francis says it clearly: our common home is in deadly danger. Analyzing the philosophical crisis, the book comes to the conclusion that the world ... Read more

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  • Energy Economics

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    Since its modest beginning in the 1970s, the academic and research focus on energy has grown substantially and energy has established itself as an independent, interdisciplinary subject area. It attracts attention from people in a range of different fields including engineers, scientists, geologists, environmentalists, bankers, investors, policy makers and politicians. Energy Economics introduces ... Read more

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  • Hacking: The Next Generation

    The Next Generation

    With the advent of rich Internet applications, the explosion of social media, and the increased use of powerful cloud computing infrastructures, a new generation of attackers has added cunning new techniques to its arsenal. For anyone involved in defending an application or a network of systems, Hacking: The Next Generation is one of the few books to identify a variety of emerging attack vectors ... Read more

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  • Energy and the Wealth of Nations

    Understanding the Biophysical Economy

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    For the past 150 years, economics has been treated as a social science in which economies are modeled as a circular flow of income between producers and consumers. In this “perpetual motion” of interactions between firms that produce and households that consume, little or no accounting is given of the flow of energy and materials from the environment and back again. In the standard economic model, ... Read more

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  • Web Application Security, A Beginner's Guide

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  • Energy Efficiency and the Future of Real Estate

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  • Malware, Rootkits & Botnets A Beginner's Guide

    Series series Beginner's Guide
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