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From the mid-16th century to the beginning of World War II, foreigners learned a great deal about China through trade contacts. This lavishly illustrated social history highlights the lives and lifestyles of the merchants, mercenaries, missionaries, adventurers and refugees who came to China during this period, set against the backdrop of China’s great cities and the ancient culture of its people.
A short commentary on the history of the period sets the scene in each chapter, allowing readers to follow the dramatic changes that took place through these turbulent years. The informative text and hundreds of images, many never published before, brilliantly capture the atmosphere of China throughout the centuries.
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Wanchai''s past is not just the world of Suzie Wong, and this book is not just a history of an urban district of Hong Kong. Where once gangster and police exchanged shots, a city with a future is developing.' ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an amusing collection of the impressions and antics of some of Hong Kong''s thousands of visitors, beginning with the Tang Dynasty poet, Han Yu, and ending with the Material Girl, Madonna' ... Read more

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The Hong Kong Visitor's Book: A Historical Who's Who
Over the years, the eclectic East and West influences of Hong Kong has turned it into a colony of unprecedented excitement. From legendary poet Han Yu, President Ulysses S. Grant, authors Rudyard Kipling and George Bernard Shaw to pop singer Madonna, this book details a range of exciting people who have visited Hong Kong over the last 100 years. With descriptive text and over 200 illustrations, this book is an absolute must for those interested in Hong Kong. Makes a great gift or coffee table book for your own collection! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Learn to stop digital espionage-before it happens!Manage your way to security in an increasingly interconnected world. Network data has become increasingly valuable in today's public and private sectors, as has become painfully clear to those in Fortune 500 companies and to those in top branches of government who store information digitally. But exactly how safe is the informaton that is accessible from a network?According to the expert authors of Defending Your Digital Assets Against Hackers, Crackers, Spies & Thieves and RSA Security, the most trusted name in e-security, NO data is safe. In fact, digital espionage, theft and destruction occur every day, and most attacks go undetected until it is too late.This groundbreaking new work discusses the growing vulnerabilities due to interconnectivity and the importance of protecting digital information. It offers detailed explanations of how and why attacks in progress, and quickly recover business operations. This is the first title from RSA Press, the new publishing group from RSA Security. RSA Security helps organizations build secure, trusted foundations for e-business through its two-factor authentication, encryption and public key management systems.Amazon.com Review
Computer security holds a unique position among information technology disciplines. Because threats to systems are so numerous and varied, you can spend years studying them (and general strategies for counteracting them) before you start to work with specific security tools. Defending Your Digital Assets Against Hackers, Crackers, Spies and Thieves is a guide to computer security that remains one step back from security software itself. In place of specific how-to information, readers learn about the motives of online attackers and the strategies they use to gain unauthorized access to systems and data, plus overarching concepts like public-key cryptography. They also find out about defensive and forensic strategies for preventing attacks and limiting their potency when they occur.

The authors of this book--a cryptographer, a couple of mathematicians, and a handful of others--employ a very text-heavy presentation style that's best suited to attentive study. The prose tends to be dense and a bit academic, and certain conceptual diagrams approach inscrutability. Still, security is a complicated matter, and a simplistic treatment wouldn't be as useful. It's possible to scan the index for a topic that interests you--keystroke biometrics, say--and find a definition and a statement of pros and cons. You'll also find endnote references to more specialized works but little mention of software products that implement the ideas the authors explain. --David Wall

Topics covered: Computer and network security, including risk management, security policy, cryptography, access control, authentication, biometrics, actions to be taken during an attack, and case studies of hacking and information warfare. ... Read more

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Well Worth The Effort
I am a relative newcomer to the security field. I have been adding books to my library to help me in my job.I picked up Defending your Digital Assets and was pleasantly surprised. The sections on Security Verificationof Systems and Networks and Cryptography were a rare read, and veryenjoyable.

I also found the chapter on Biometric Countermeasures one ofthe clearest presentations on the subject, that I have found inprint.

The authors clearly understand the INFOSEC field and their writingshows it. They make difficult concepts interesting. Too many books on thissubject read like swiss cheese or with too much useless detail. Defendingis the exception. I liked it. I recommend it.

Too long, too general
This book does not live up to its title and subtitle.Very general material. For example, Denial of Service Attacks are in the news these days.Looking through the index, I find four references to DOS attacks.The first on page 45 tells me that DOS attacks can be costly.The secondon page 85 describes some previous DOS attacks, including one that tookplace 12 years ago.The next reference is on page 304 and is a historicaldescription of DOS attacks over the past three years.The last referenceon page 452 tells me that I should conduct DOS testing for my web server. Most of the book's content is similar.If this is useful to you, pleasebuy this book.For specific help in hardening your network, please lookelsewhere.

An Excellent Guide to Computer Security
As a neophyte I am tangentially aware of the importance of computer security, but reading "Defending Your Digital Assets" really brought the message home. As our world becomes more "wired", andour reliance on the information we receive through computersincreasesexponentially, the importance of computer security cannot beoverstated.

This book is very approachable for the layperson and is anexcellent primer for computer/information security overall. It was the onlybook I could find that that covered the topic so completely.

In addition,the book is very readable. The authors did a very commendable job inwriting the book, i.e., it doesn't read like a text book.

Also, the bookoffers a large number of references/resources the reader can refer to forfurther study...as well as a glossary and a thorough appendix.

In sum, ifyou have a scintilla of interest in computer security, pick up this book.If you're a manager and concerned with computer security in yourorganization, pick up this book. If you are a student, pick up this book.In fact, if you use a computer at all, you should get this book.

Thebetter informed we are, the harder it will be for hackers and crackers towreak havoc on our computer systems and the information we rely on.

Thankyou --Sean

Proper Planning Improves Information Security
The recent Denial of Service (DoS) attacks that crippled AMAZON.com, eBay, CNN and other major sites highlights the need for a concerted effort to protect our networked data."Defending Your Digital Assets AgainstHackers, Crackers, Spies and Thieves" recognizes the value of network datain our public and private sectors and presents a blueprint for its defenseagainst attacks effecting availability, confidentiality, integrity andauthenticity.It advocates twelve building blocks to improve security:building the right organization, performing risk analyses, evaluatinglevels of impact, applying practical countermeasures, mandating vitalbackups, using anti-virus / intrusion detection software, establishingemployee training and security programs, performing audits and continuouslymonitoring operations, staying on top of and reporting incidents,developing an alert system and triage responses, and finally launching aDoS attack on our own computers to determine the level of damage andpotential loss of customers or revenue.

"Defending Your Digital AssetsAgainst Hackers, Crackers, Spies and Thieves" is unique in its coverage ofthe growing vulnerabilities due to interconnectivity and the importance ofprotecting digital information. It offers the responsible security managerdetailed explanations of who does it, how and why attacks occur and givesdue diligence advice on how to prevent future attacks, detect attacks inprogress, and quickly recover business operations. Although NO data is 100%safe,the authors' recommendations will help organizations to maintainappropriate security levels, to provide resistance to penetration andultimately to mitigate damage from attacks. ... Read more

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A married couple in New York City awake one day to discover, in a plot worthy of Kafka or Orwell, that their private lives are no longer private. Even more frightening, their lives seem to bear no relation to anything they knew.

An edgy, erotically charged information-age thriller, this new play by award-winning playwright Arthur Kopit exposes the control that computers can have over our lives, morality, even bank accounts. Acclaimed by the critics as the best new play at the 1999 Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, it is one of the major productions in the Manhattan Theatre Club's 1999--2000 season in New York.

"Sizzling . . . dark comedy that becomes a horrifying cautionary tale . . . the play has a lethal feedback."-- The New York Times

"Kopit's cool topical thriller exploits technophobes' fear of the new millennium and the increasing power cybergeeks will wield at the expense of the computer-illiterate. . . . Kopit's writing is laced with mordant wit, and the central characters are subtly drawn."-- Variety ... Read more

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Providing comprehensive coverage of the theoretical bases of metacognition and its applications to educational practice, this compendium of focused and in-depth discussions from leading scholars in the field:

• represents an intersection of education, cognitive science, and technology;
• serves as a gateway to the literature for researchers and practitioners interested in one or more of the wide array of topics included; and
• sets the standard for scholarship for theoretical research and practical applications in this field.

The Handbook of Metacognition in Education — covering Comprehension Strategies, Metacognitive Strategies, Metacomprehension, Writing, Science and Mathematics, Individual Differences, Self-Regulated Learning, Technology, Tutoring, and Measurement — is an essential resource for researchers, faculty, students, curriculum developers, teachers, and others interested in using research and theory on metacognition to guide and inform educational practice.

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This volume presents the most current perspectives on the role of metacognition in diverse educationally relevant domains. The purpose is to examine the ways in which theoretical investigations of metacognition have recently produced a strong focus on educational practice.

The book is organized around four general themes relevant to education: metacognition and problem solving, metacognition and verbal comprehension, metacognition and the education of nontraditional populations, and metacognition and studentship. Chapter authors review current literature as it applies to their chapter topic; discuss theoretical implications and suggestions for future research; and provide educational applications. Each chapter describes testable theory and provides examples of how theory can be applied to the classroom. The volume will have wide appeal to researchers and students concerned with the scientific investigation of metacognition, and to practitioners concerned with the cultivation of learning and achievement in their students.

The unique contribution of this book to the literature on metacognition is its presentation of the most current research examining specific theoretical aspects of metacognition in domains directly relevant to education. This is especially valuable for the many researchers and practitioners who subscribe to the concept that by fostering metacognitive processes during instruction, more durable and transferable learning can be achieved.
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This book intends to bridge the gap between knowledge aboutglobal warming and practical implementation in the political processof the necessary measures for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG)emissions. It therefore deals with climatology, economics andpolitical science in five sections:- The state ofscientific knowledge of climate change, the influencing factors, theman-made effects and the monitoring of GHG sources and sinks. - The transformation of scientific results into politicallyachievable aims, the criteria for the allocation of the reductiongoals, and the GHG inventories of European countries.- Therelevant political and economical instruments, such as voluntaryapproaches, the carbon/energy-tax and Activities Implemented Jointly(AIJ) and their working principles.- The instrument of tradeableemission permits (the US Acid Rain Programme as an example) andpossible designs of a system for CO2 on the national andinternational level.- Comparison and summaries of the efficacy,the cost-efficiency, the achievability and political acceptability ofthe different instruments. ... Read more