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The Social Sciences collection forms a definitive resource for those entering, researching, or teaching in any of the many disciplines making up this interdisciplinary area of study. Written by experts and researchers from both Academic and Commercial domains, titles offer global scope and perspectives.

Key subject areas include: Library and Information Science; Transportation; Urban Studies; Geography, Planning, and Development; Security; Emergency Management.

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    • Children at the Millennium

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 6
      • August 29, 2001
      • Timothy J Owens + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 0 7 6 2 3 0 7 7 6 0
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 0 8 0 5 4 5 1 6 5

    • configuring exchange server 2000

      • 1st Edition
      • March 12, 2001
      • Syngress
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 1 9 2 8 9 9 4 2 5 1
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 0 8 0 4 7 6 7 5 9
      E-mail configuration for the System Administrator.Window... 2000 users will find Configuring Exchange Server 2000 valuable for its coverage of all the popular e-mail clients, such as Outlook and Outlook Express. In addition, System and E-Mail Administrators will find the coverage of large system E-Mail Providers such as Exchange indispensable.Config... Exchange Server 2000 focuses on e-mail configuration from the standpoint of the system administrator. It covers installation and management of all the major email programs, as well as covering mobile email, web-based email, email security and implementation of email within multinational companies.

    • The Psychology of Stalking

      • 1st Edition
      • April 17, 2001
      • J. Reid Meloy
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 1 2 4 9 0 5 6 1 0
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 0 8 0 5 1 8 9 8 5
      The Psychology of Stalking is the first scholarly book on stalking ever published. Virtually every serious writer and researcher in this area of criminal psychopathology has contributed a chapter. These chapters explore stalking from social, psychiatric, psychological and behavioral perspectives. New thinking and data are presented on threats, pursuit characteristics, psychiatric diagnoses, offender-victim typologies, cyberstalking, false victimization syndrome, erotomania, stalking and domestic violence, the stalking of public figures, and many other aspects of stalking, as well as legal issues. This landmark text is of interest to both professionals and other thoughtful individuals who recognize the serious nature of this ominous social behavior.

    • Condensed Encyclopedia of Polymer Engineering Terms

      • 1st Edition
      • April 3, 2001
      • Nicholas P Cheremisinoff
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 1 2 3 9 5 8 4 3 3
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 0 7 5 0 6 7 2 1 0 8
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 0 8 0 5 0 2 8 2 3
      This reference book provides a comprehensive overview of the nature, manufacture, structure, properties, processing, and applications of commercially available polymers. The main feature of the book is the range of topics from both theory and practice, which means that physical properties and applications of the materials concerned are described in terms of the theory, chemistry and manufacturing constraints which apply to them. It will therefore enable scientists to understand the commercial implications of their work as well as providing polymer technologists, engineers and designers with a theoretical background.

    • VB.Net Web Developer's Guide

      • 1st Edition
      • September 4, 2001
      • Syngress
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 0 8 0 4 8 1 5 9 3
      Visual Basic has long been the language of choice when designing Windows-based applications and the Web. Touted as both the most popular and productive computing language, Visual Basic has amassed quite a following of devoted programmers, and is a sought after programming skill. With the introduction of .NET Enterprise, Microsoft launch VB.NET, offering a streamlined, simplified version of Visual Basic language. With increased power, scalability, functionality and reliability, VB.NET is positioned to be the most productive tool in a programmer's toolbox. VB.NET Developer's Guide is written for previous Visual Basic Programmers looking to harness the power of the new features and functionality incorporated in Visual Basic.NET.

    • Cisco AVVID and IP Telephony Design and Implementation

      • 1st Edition
      • December 5, 2001
      • Wayne Lawson
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 1 9 2 8 9 9 4 8 3 1
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 0 8 0 4 7 6 5 3 7
      Corporate demand for AVVID solutions is rapidly increasing - engineers will need this bookCisco AVVID (Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data), the latest development from Cisco Systems, is redefining the way businesses communicate. AVVID allows businesses to transmit voice, data, and video over a single integrated architecture called a "multiservice" or "converged" network. Cisco AVVID Design and Implementation is designed to be a complete desk-reference for network administrators and engineers responsible for a complicated AVVID network. Covering history, protocols, hardware, servers, switches, bridges, routers, and discussions about implementation issues, realities of cost, requirements and network limitations. Engineers will learn how to design and build a comprehensive Cisco AVVID network infrastructure.

    • Emergency and Security Lighting

      • 1st Edition
      • September 17, 2001
      • Gerard Honey
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 7 5 0 6 5 0 3 7 3
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 0 8 0 4 7 7 5 9 6
      The comprehensive guide for identifying needs, specification and installation of emergency and security lighting systems.Emergency and Security Lighting is a thoroughly practical guide for lighting installers and electricians, intruder alarm and fire alarm installers, and managers with security and health and safety responsibilities. Covering the latest workplace directives, building and fire regulations, it is essential reading. The text is concise and accessible and includes the latest technical developments such as low-energy systems for extended period lighting.This book provides the underpinning knowledge necessary for the level 3 NVQs from SITO / City & Guilds. The concise, accessible text makes it an ideal coursebook. This accessibility also makes it ideal for hard-pressed practitioners.Gerard Honey is a practising security installer working in the UK and Spain. He is author of a number of security books and a regular contributor to magazines including Security Installer and PSI.

    • Ocean Circulation

      • 2nd Edition
      • August 10, 2001
      • Open Open University
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 7 5 0 6 5 2 7 8 0
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 0 8 0 5 3 7 9 4 8
      This second edition retains the general structure of the first edition, buthas been updated in the light of recent oceanographic research, and improvedas a teaching text on the basis of feedback from past students and otherreaders.Notable additions include new sections addressing the topic ofnumerical modelling, and more discussion of natural oscillations in theocean-atmosphere system (previously confined to the El Niño phenomenon). Inparticular, the Chapter on the North Atlantic now includes a discussion ofthe North Atlantic Oscillation, as well as of the Great Salinity Anomaly. Inthe final Chapter, treatment of water mass formation has been updated toreflect recent ideas about the processes involved and how they relate toclimatic change over different time-scales, from decades to millennia.

    • Hack Proofing Linux

      • 1st Edition
      • July 6, 2001
      • James Stanger + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 0 8 0 4 7 8 1 1 1
      From the authors of the bestselling E-Mail Virus Protection Handbook!The Linux operating system continues to gain market share based largely on its reputation as being the most secure operating system available. The challenge faced by system administrators installing Linux is that it is secure only if installed and configured properly, constantly and meticulously updated, and carefully integrated with a wide variety of Open Source security tools. The fact that Linux source code is readily available to every hacker means that system administrators must continually learn security and anti-hacker techniques. Hack Proofing Linux will provide system administrators with all of the techniques necessary to properly configure and maintain Linux systems and counter malicious attacks. Linux operating systems and Open Source security tools are incredibly powerful, complex, and notoriously under-documented - this book addresses a real need Uses forensics-based analysis to give the reader an insight to the mind of a hacker

    • Webmasters Guide To The Wireless Internet

      • 1st Edition
      • December 3, 2001
      • Syngress
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 1 9 2 8 9 9 4 4 6 6
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 0 8 0 4 8 1 7 1 5
      The wireless Web is a reality - don't get left behind!The wireless Web is not a future dream. It is here today. Already, more than 20 million people have access the Internet through PDAs, mobile phones, pagers and other wireless devices. What will people find on the Wireless Internet? This is the question that every Webmaster and Web developer is being challenged to answer. The Webmaster's Guide to the Wireless Internet provides the Wireless Webmaster with all of the tools necessary to build the next generation Internet. Packed with the essential information they need to design, develop, and secure robust, e-commerce enabled wireless Web sites. This book is written for advanced Webmasters who are experienced with conventional Web site design and are now faced with the challenge of creating sites that fit on the display of a Web enabled phone or PDA.

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