Provides a history of computer security breaches, explores current and future threats, and offers information on how to combat security risks.[...]

Provides executives and managers with the essential information, tools, and techniques for creating an effective Web hosting strategy by covering such topics as shared and dedicated servers, co-location, MSPs, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), backup and recovery, domain name service (DNS), and much [...]

Did you know that games and puzzles have given birth to many of today's deepest mathematical subjects? Now, with Douglas Ensley and Winston Crawley's Introduction to Discrete Mathematics, you can explore mathematical writing, abstract structures, counting, discrete probability, and graph theory, thr[...]

Volcanic dust, climate change, tsunamis, earthquakes - geoscience explores phenomena that profoundly affect our lives. But more than that, as Doug Macdougall makes clear, the science also provides important clues to the future of the planet. In an entertaining and accessibly written narrative, Macdo[...]

The aim of this book is to highlight and begin to give ‘voice’ to some of the notable ‘silences’ evident in recent years in the study of contentious politics. The seven co-authors take up seven specific topics in the volume: the relationship between emotions and contention; tempo[...]

The classic tale of the gingerbread man who thinks he can outrun everyone...until he meets the quick-witted fox
Format: Paperback book and CD
The Gingerbread Man runs as fast as he can in this fast-paced classic about a very determined little cookie A perfect gift for any little one startin[...]

When cardboard creatures come magically to life, a boy must save his town from disaster.
Cam's down-and-out father gives him a cardboard box for his birthday and he knows it's the worst present ever. So to make the best of a bad situation, they bend the cardboard into a man-and to their astonish[...]

In the tradition of OLD YELLER comes the heartwarming friendship between a boy and his Tyrannosaurus Rex
When Ely's beloved dog, Tommy, is hit by a car, he goes to his grandpa's house for the summer to get his mind off things. While exploring a nearby cave one day he discovers a full-grown but f[...]

A little hero faces big challenges in the first book of this totally unique fantasy-adventure series.
The first book in the Nnewts series follows the story of Herk, a lovable Nnewt who longs for stronger legs, something his mother and father wish they could give him. When his quaint village is a[...]