This reference provides in-depth technical information on Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server's directory services architecture. System administrators and IT professionals will learn the details of how to deploy Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server within a multiplatform, heterogeneous environment, with an emphasi[...]

The only Apple-certified book on Mac OS X v10.6, this revised best-seller will take you deep inside the latest big-cat operating system--covering everything from installation to automation, customizing the operating system, supporting applications, setting up peripherals, and more. Whether you're a [...]

Adopting a back-to-the-basics approach, this bestselling little Mac classic has been revised and overhauled to introduce users to Snow Leopard, Apple's newest version of its operating system. In the gentle, friendly, funny style that generations of computer users have come to know and love, author R[...]

While there are several books on programming for Mac OS X, Advanced Mac OS X Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide is the only one that contains explanations of how to leverage the powerful underlying technologies. This book gets down to the real nitty-gritty. The third edition is updated for Mac OS[...]

The best-selling introduction to Cocoa, once again updated to cover the latest Mac programming technologies, and still enthusiastically recommended by experienced Mac OS X developers. "Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X is considered by most to be the de-facto intro-to-OS X programming text.""--Bo[...]

Masculinity is gaining increasing popular and academic interest. At one level, football hooligans, absent fathers, 'Essex man' and 'new men' are regular media presences. At the same time, masculinity is the subject of increasingly sophisicated theoretical discussion, and there are a wide range of [...]

Explores the complexity of the links between violent conflict (civil wars) and development, under-development and uneven development. This book investigates developmental issues during conflict management and post conflict reconstruction. It considers the main contemporary theories on conflict, deve[...]

Across media, academy and popular culture in western societies there is much talk of an implosion of the modern gender order. Education is often presented as a key site in which a crisis of masculinity is played out, and schools have become a focus for practical attempts to reconcile social and cult[...]

A guide to using a Mac covers such topics as using Finder, system preferences, networking, word processing, printing and scanning, iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes, iChat, and UNIX.[...]