After the 'big' decisions are made in legislatures and executive offices, what is done by those who implement and operate social service programs will determine their success or failure. Yet, over and over again, the managers of public organization disregard or handle poorly the critical problems in[...]
New biography of one of the key figures in British history focusing on both his writing and legacy. Sir Walter Raleigh is a figure writ large in popular imagination. Yet how can we understand this man who was soldier, voyager, visionary, courtier, politician, poet, historian, patriot and 'traitor'? [...]
Although integrating security into the design of applications has proven to deliver resilient products, there are few books available that provide guidance on how to incorporate security into the design of an application. Filling this need, Security for Service Oriented Architectures examines both a[...]
In the war against the ruthless Yuuzhan Vong, the fall of Coruscant leaves the New Republic divided by internal strife and on their verge of bowing to conquest. But those who refuse to surrender - Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo and their children and comrades-in-arms are determined to se[...]
In the wake of the disintegrating empire of the Shaa, the tyrannical rulers of the universe, chaos threatens to erupt as various alien races struggle for power, and Gareth Martinez, a young Terran naval officer, stumbles upon an insidious plot by the Naxid, a warlike insectoid society, to replace th[...]
The Dread Empire of the Shaa is no more, following the death of the last oppressor. But freedom remains elusive for the myriad sentient races enslaved for ten centuries, as an even greater terror arises. The Naxids--a powerful insectoid species themselves subjugated until the recent Shaa demise--pla[...]
Ini the dramatic conclusion to the Dread Empire's Falls series, two troubled warriors working on opposite sides of the galaxy--one in deep space, the other undercover on an unoccupied planet--fight to save their Empire from the vicious, alien enemy. Original.[...]
The empire of the Shaa lasted 10,000 years. Years of terror, infinite violence and oppressive, brutal order. Now the Shaa are no more, but the terror and violence are only beginning...[...]
Nationally syndicated columnist and prolific author Walter E. Williams recalls some of the highlights and turning points of his life. From his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly black neighborhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at George Mason University, Willia[...]
Steward is a clone - a beta. His memories are fifteen years old, because his alpha never did have a brain-scan update. And in those fifteen years, the entire world has changed: The Orbital Policorp which held his allegiance has collapsed; dozens of his friends died in an off-planet war which he surv[...]
From Walter Jon Williams, the celebrated and influential author of "Hardwired", "Voice of the Whirlwind", and "Angel Station comes Implied Spaces", a new novel of post-singularity action, pyrotechnics, and intrigue. Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, a scholar of the impli[...]