Authors: Colin Bennett. Charles Raab.
Paperback, 382 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication Date: 2006-05-16


Reviews :

    Privacy protection, according to Colin Bennett and Charles Raab, involves politics and public policy as much as it does law and technology. Moreover, the protection of our personal information in a globalized, borderless world means that privacy-related policies are inextricably interdependent. In this updated paperback edition of The Governance of Privacy Bennett and Raab analyze a broad range of privacy policy instruments available to contemporary advanced industrial states, from government regulations and transnational regimes to self-regulation and privacy-enhancing technologies. They consider two possible dynamics of privacy regulation—a "race to the bottom," with competitive deregulation by countries eager to attract global investment in information technology, versus "a race to the top," with the progressive establishment of global privacy standards.

Bennett and Raab begin by discussing the goals of privacy protection, the liberal and individualist assumptions behind it, and the neglected relationship between privacy and social equity. They describe and evaluate different policy instruments, including the important 1995 Directive on Data Protection from the European Union, as well as the general efficacy of the "top-down" statutory approach and self-regulatory and technological alternatives to it. They evaluate the interrelationships of these policy instruments and their position in a global framework of regulation and policy by state and non-state actors. And finally, they consider whether all of this policy activity at international, national, and corporate levels necessarily means higher levels of privacy protection....

Authors: Roger Pearson.
Hardcover, 280 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: 1993-06-24


Reviews :

    This is the first comprehensive study in English of Voltaire's contes philosophiques--the philosophical tales for which he is best remembered and which include his masterpiece Candide. Pearson situates each story in its historical and intellectual context and offers new readings in light of modern critical thinking. He rejects the traditional view that Voltaire's contes were the private expression of his philosophical perplexity, and argues that it is narrative that is Voltaire's essential mode of thought. His book is a witty, lucid, and scholarly guide to the "fables of reason" through which Voltaire's skepticism undermined the contemporary religious and philosophical explanations of human experience....

Authors: Doug Maxwell.
Digital, 469 pages
Publisher: SYNGRESS
Publication Date: 2002-11-04
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    As the number two leader in the firewall/VPN appliances market, Nokia has received numerous accolades for the reliability and security of its systems. There are over 50,000 Nokia systems currently installed and, until now, no book for Nokia administrators existed. The Nokia Network Security Solutions Handbook will show network professionals how to configure and administer Nokia’s newest, most popular security hardware and software products. ...

Authors: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto.
Paperback, 407 pages
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Publication Date: 2007-11-04
Edition: Pap/Dvdr

Reviews :

    The World: A Brief History gives students the whole story. Prentice Hall is proud to offer The World: A Brief History--the new brief version of The World: A History adapted by author Felipe Fernandez-Armesto himself. The use of The World: A Brief History offers added flexibility in teaching World History, allowing instructors to supplement the text with additional readers or other material of their choice. And because the brief text was written by Fernandez-Armesto himself, it continues to offer the holistic, narrative approach to history that has made the comprehensive text successful at schools across the nation....

Authors: David Porter.
Kindle Edition, 275 pages
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1997-02-25
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    The internet has grown in recent years from a fringe cultural phenomenon to a significant site of cultural production and transformation. Internet Culture maps the contours of this new domain of language, politics and identity, locating it within the interconnected histories of communication and the public sphere. Neither a user's guide to the Net nor a futuristic manifesto, Internet Culture offers instead a critical interrogation of the sustaining myths of the virtual world and of the implications of the current mass migration onto the electronic frontier.

Among the topics discussed in Internet Culture are the virtual spaces and places created by the citizens of the Net, and crucially, their claims to the hotly contested notion of "virtual community"; the virtual bodies that occupy such spaces; and the desires (whether for pleasure or transcendence) that animate these bodies. The contributors also examine the communication medium behind the worlds of the Net, analyzing the rhetorical conventions governing online discussion, literary antecedents,and potential pedagogical applications. The book concludes by looking at the dynamics of power that have shaped the spaces of public discourse; in a new medium that prides itself on its democratizing tendancies, it is especially important to cast a critical eye on the social and political assumptions that sustain it....

Authors: Breck Carter.
Paperback, 470 pages
Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc.
Publication Date: 2004-09-25


Reviews :

    Describes in detail how to administer and program for the leading relational database for mobile, distributed and emmbedded applications, Sybase's SQL Anywhere Studio 9 software....

Authors: David T Hill.
Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Publication Date: 2005-08-09
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    This text provides a detailed study of the legal, economic, political and cultural practices surrounding the provision and consumption of the internet in Indonesia at the turn of the twenty-first century. Hill and Sen detail the emergence of the Internet into Indonesia in the mid-1990s, and cover its growth through the dramatic economic and political crises of 1997 and the subsequent transition to democracy.

Conceptually the Internet is seen as a global phenomenon, with global implications, however this book develops a way of thinking about the Internet within the limits of geo-political categories of nations and provinces. The political turmoil in Indonesia provides a unique context in which to understand the specific local and national consequences of a global, universal technology.

This is the first book of its kind to fully focus on the implications of the internet on an Asian national political context and will appeal to anyone wishing to question the connection between media, technology and democracy....

Authors: Robert J. Shimonski. Laura E. Hunter. Norris L. Johnson.
Digital, 969 pages
Publisher: SYNGRESS
Publication Date: 2005-05-24
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    The Network Study Guide covers all the objectives on the CompTIA exam, including the features and functions of networking components, and ensuring that readers have the knowledge and skills needed to install, configure and troubleshoot basic networking hardware, protocols and services. It covers exam topics such as media and topologies, protocols and standards, network implementation, and network support, as well as new exam topics on technologies such as wireless networking and Ethernet. ...

Authors: Mark Vail.
Paperback, 307 pages
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Publication Date: 1993-08


Reviews :

    This new edition is the ultimate exploration of the upstart instruments - and their unique analog growls and screams - that paved the way over the last four decades for today's fast-paced electronic music world. Explores the development of the modern synthesizer from 1962 on, with in-depth interviews with pioneering designers Bob Moog and Alan R. Pearlman of Moog Music and ARP Instruments fame. These and other designers reveal their initial ideas, reflect on their hits and misses, and discuss how star performers have used their creations. Histories of groundbreaking instruments examine modular, analog and digital synths and samplers, plus more unusual instruments like the Mellotron. Noted synthesist Keith Emerson and composer Wendy Carlos ("Switched-On Bach") offer musical insights and performance techniques. Includes fully updated pricing and production info, and more than 200 photos and a stunning color section....

Authors: Kenneth Aizawa.
Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2002-11-30
Edition: 1

Reviews :

   

The Systematicity Arguments is the only book-length treatment of the systematicity and productivity arguments. It explores each of the arguments in detail addressing the explanatory standard that is involved in the arguments, what is to be explained in the arguments, how diverse theories have attempted to meet the explanatory challenges of systematicity, and how successful these attempts have been. Classical, Connectionist, Tensor Product Theories of cognitive architecture, among others, are examined.

While not intended to be an introductory work, the book presupposes no familiarity with the leading theories of cognitive architecture or the systematicity and productivity arguments. The theories, the arguments, and their ramifications are explored in detail. The book is, therefore, suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and specialists in cognitive science, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of mind.

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