Whether you need a network of ten Linux PCs and a server or a datacenter with a few thousand UNIX nodes, you need to know how to automate much of the installation, configuration, and standard system administration. Build your network once using cfengine, and the network build will work, without user[...]

Introduction to Bio-Ontologies explores the computational background of ontologies. Emphasizing computational and algorithmic issues surrounding bio-ontologies, this self-contained text helps readers understand ontological algorithms and their applications. The first part of the book defines ontolog[...]

Food Matters explores central questions around the seemingly simple topic of food: what is food, exactly? Do we eat for sustenance, for health, for pleasure? Where does our food come from, and why should we care? What does it mean to eat ethically? Readings by a range of essayists, scientists, healt[...]

Striking full-colour guides. Bound in water repellent, film laminated covers. Extensive center-spread maps of the state highlights locations featured in each book. Special 8-pocket and 4-pocket lucite display racks available with purchase of the series.[...]

Ludwig van Beethoven was a great innovator who expanded the limits ofclassical music to write some of the biggest, boldest, most complex and revolutionary compositions of all time. This fascinating man and his works are brought vividly to life and made relevant to today in "Beethoven for Kids." Youn[...]

Psychologist Susan Bauer-Wu presents mindfulness and compassion practices designed to help readers with terminal illnesses find fulfillment and peace. Readers learn a variety of skills for improving their quality of life, coping with fears, and making meaningful connections with others. Millions of [...]

We read to explore the unknown, but also to recognize ourselves in others. Arno Geiger's "We Are Doing Fine" offers both pleasures. This fourth novel (winner of the German Book Prize 2005) of the 1968-born Austrian writer highlights events in the lives of three generations of a Viennese family as vi[...]

Jeni's first book achieved what no other book had: it taught readers how to make fabulously creamy and scoopable ice cream in an inexpensive home machine. In her second book, new flavours of ice cream melt deliciously onto hot brown Bettys, cobblers, and sweet empanadas. Bright new sundaes are toppe[...]

No other figure embodies revolutionary politics, radical chic, and the promises and failures of the New Left quite like Ulrike Meinhof (1934-76). In the 1960s, she was known in Europe as a journalist and public intellectual, leading an exciting life in Hamburg's high society with her publisher husba[...]