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Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece that takesus far from the calm and familiar images of Polykleitos and the Parthenon, and reveals a culture ofslavery, of blood

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Devaluation Under Pressure illustrates the options open to a developing country's political leaders when faced with a balance of payments crisis. It focuses on the practical problems that policymakers

In describing the technical experiences of one company from the beginning of the computer era, this book unfolds the challenges that IBM's research and development laboratories faced, the technologica

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Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions is written for network administrators who want to learn the tools and trade of computer hackers, so they can defend their businesses against the

Troubleshooting reference for the Java programmer. Authors computer science teaching experience led him to discover the importance of debugging. His research showed that people who learn debugging ski

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Emphasizing the four primary goals of computer security--confidentiality, authentication, integrity, and non-repudiation--this helpful handbook provides a detailed tutorial on data security models tha

An introductory guide to using the Internet provides a solution-oriented handbook designed to help novice computer users learn the basics of browsing, searching, communications, and safety on the Inte

The E-Process Edge: Creating Customer Value and Business Wealth in the Internet provides a practical roadmap to improving and automating business processes.-- Co-marketing with ComputerWorld, includin

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Database Management Systems (DBMS) is a must for any course in database systems or file organization. DBMS provides a hands-on approach to relational database systems, with an emphasis on practical to

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New, in the My First Little People, Big Dreams series: Introduce your littlest one to the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace. Told in simple sentences, this young reader edition of the b

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