Authors: Robin M., PhD Kowalski. Susan P., PhD Limber. Patricia W., PhD Agatston.
Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date: 2007-11-26


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    Cyber bullying has become more prevalent through the use of e-mail, instant messages, chat rooms, and other digital messaging systems. It brings with it unique challenges. Cyber Bullying provides the most current and essential information on the nature and prevalence of this epidemic, providing educators, parents, psychologists and policy-makers with critical prevention techniques and strategies for effectively addressing electronic bullying.

• Provides an empirically-based resource with up-to-date information about the nature and prevalence of cyber bullying through the use of email, instant messages, chat rooms, and other digital messaging systems
  
• Examines the role of anonymity in electronic bullying
  
• Includes feedback from focus groups and individual interviews with students and parents
  
• Offers a handy reference with practical strategies for educators, parents, psychologists and policy makers about prevention and intervention of cyber bullying

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Authors: Greg Holden.
Paperback, 714 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 2007-08-27
Edition: 2

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    If you've always wanted your own business, here's your chance

Now you can join the millions of eBay users who earn some or all of their income from eBay, with the in-depth instruction you'll find in this comprehensive guide. The basics are all here—how to register, set up a PayPal account, create compelling listings, track income and expenses, report taxes—plus loads of ideas and strategies to help you grow your business and get profitable. Packed with illustrated instructions, valuable tips, and terrific techniques, this is the book you need to move from shopper to eBay PowerUser—and succeed.

• Open a seller's account and create listings that sell

• Field questions, add new information, and drive the sale

• Launch an eBay Store and build inventory

• Find the best ways to receive payment and ship goods

• Master Accounting 101 for eBay sellers

• Market yourself and manage your business for growth

• Learn sniping and other bidding strategies

• Make business phone calls with Skype

• Avoid licensing, legal, and other pitfalls

Use your blog as a door for customers to meet you

eBay sellers can link to their Web sites' home pages

Check out the eBay Shipping Center for shipping services...

Authors: Jan Ozer.
Paperback, 472 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 2003-11-24


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    Guide provides everything you need to know about digital video, such as which camera to choose and why, how to shoot the best footage, how to capture the best sound, how to get the video from the camera to a computer, and more. Softcover....

    Digital cameras for still pictures have become pretty commonplace, but digital video remains less widely adopted. This must be purely because of equipment cost, because everyone with a recent-model personal computer has access to excellent editing software, and has all the required data ports. PC Magazine Guide to Digital Video shows how to capture, edit, and publish digital movies with the tools available for the Microsoft Windows operating system. This is a fairly comprehensive guide meant for someone who's never had training in videography, doesn't really know about the multimedia file formats Windows uses, and doesn't want to invest a lot of money in professional-grade software for editing and publishing. It's all you need to take some digital home movies, edit them so they're not too boring, and burn them to DVD for distribution to the remote parts of the family.

Jan Olzer explains how to shoot video properly in the first place, offering advice on lighting, composition, and action. Then, focusing on Windows Movie Maker and (to a lesser degree) Pinnacle Studio, he walks the reader through techniques for chopping up the raw footage, disposing of the dull parts, and reassembling the rest into a coherent storyline. Titling and other production techniques get attention, too. His style is highly example driven, and easy to follow. --David Wall

Topics covered: How to capture, edit, and publish (to DVD) home videos and amateur movies. There's coverage of composition, lighting, and sound for when you're filming, and explanations of how to use popular editing suites when you're back home assembling a final product....

Authors: Bruce F. Katz.
Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Publication Date: 2008-06-20
Edition: 1

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    Awe-inspiring Look at the Future of Man and Machine! We are on the cusp of a broad revolution, one with startling implications for perception, cognition, emotion, and indeed, personal identity. Still in its relative infancy, this rapidly progressing field is poised to move from perceptual aids, such as cochlear implants to devices that will enhance and speed up thought, to the ultimate goal of researchers-that of downloading the mind from its bound state in the body to a platform-independent existence. This controversial book describes the science that will make these transformations possible. It begins by describing how the brain works, including an overview of the architecture of the brain. It then examines the current state-of-art neural technologies, including devices that read from the brain, and devices that can write information into the brain. The book also describes how insights from the nascent field of consciousness studies show how the full transfer of the soul could be realized. Finally, it considers what it would be like to be a mind unbound, and the possibilities beyond those found in ordinary corporeal life. Features Contains a comprehensive description of current neural technologies, and describes how they work with reference to material in earlier developmental chapters Shows which scenarios are most likely for transfer of the mind to a machine Describes short-term prospects for neural enhancement, with a specific description of how such devices will work. Avoids vague pronouncements and concentrates on specific technological possibilities Discusses the ethical, cultural, and existential implications of the unbound mind Focuses on a given line of technological development: from the simple enhancements of today to the brain-machine interfaces of the near future to the final departure of the mind from its corporeal home Table of Contents (tentative) Part I. Foundational Material 1. Introduction. 2. The Brain, as Designed by Evolution: Functional Neuroanatomy. 3. The Brain as Designed by Evolution: High and Low-level Computation. 4. The Data of Consciousness. 5. Conciousness: In search of a theory. 6. Personal Identity. Part II. The State of the Art 1. Repairing the Spine. 2. Brain Machine Interfaces. 3. Non-invasive Control. 4. Neural Implants 5. On the Horizon. Part III. Engineering the Future Mind 1. From Thinking Caps to Eureka Caps. 2. Happy on Demand. 3. Downloading the Soul: A Formula. 4. Ethical Implications. 5. The Mind, Unbound....

Authors: Jim Buyens.
Paperback, 752 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Publication Date: 2005-03-09


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    Take your Windows SharePoint Services experience to the next level! Designed for advanced users, this supremely organized reference packs all the information you need to master every major tool, task, and enhancement in Windows SharePoint Serviceswithout the fluff. Discover how to simplify information sharing, make team collaboration more efficient, and improve your personal productivity. Find hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds, all in concise, fast-answer format....

Authors: Susannah Gardner. Kris Krug.
Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: For Dummies
Publication Date: 2005-10-14


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    Share your home movies or download new software

Find safe files to download, create your own, and use BitTorrent for business

There's certainly a torrent of interest in BitTorrent! But while it enables you to download all kinds of cool files and to distribute your own creative efforts, it also carries some risks. This book not only shows you how to acquire BitTorrent, but also how to use it without picking up worms, viruses, and lawsuits.

Discover how to
* Select, download, and install a BitTorrent client
* Manage and store files you download
* Choose software for making movies and audio files
* Understand the legal risks of file sharing
* Trim business costs with BitTorrent...

Authors: Frederick Gallegos. Daniel P. Manson. Sandra Senft. Carol Gonzales.
Hardcover, 720 pages
Publisher: Auerbach Publications
Publication Date: 2004-03-26
Edition: 2

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    Text provides an introduction to IT auditing, covering topics such as the audit process, the legal environment of IT auditing, security and privacy, and more. For professional reference and for students. Includes review questions, chapter exercises, answers, references, and index. Previous edition: c1999. DLC: Information technology--Auditing--Handbooks, manuals, etc....

Authors: Dan Verton.
Hardcover, 219 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Publication Date: 2002-03-26
Edition: 1

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To many who knew him, there was nothing odd about him. He was a normal kid...

On February 7, 2000, Yahoo.com was the first victim of the biggest distributed denial-of-service attack ever to hit the Internet. On May 8^th, Buy.com was battling a massive denial-of-service attack. Later that afternoon, eBay.com also reported significant outages of service, as did Amazon.com. Then CNN's global online news operation started to grind to a crawl. By the following day, Datek and E-Trade entered crisis mode...all thanks to an ordinary fourteen-year-old kid.

Friends and neighbors were shocked to learn that the skinny, dark-haired, boy next door who loved playing basketball--almost as much as he loved computers--would cause millions of dollars worth of damage on the Internet and capture the attention of the online world--and the federal government. He was known online as "Mafiaboy" and, to the FBI, as the most notorious teenage hacker of all time. He did it all from his bedroom PC. And he's not alone.

Computer hacking and Web site defacement has become a national pastime for America's teenagers, and according to the stories you'll read about in The Hacker Diaries--it is only the beginning. But who exactly are these kids and what motivates a hacker to strike? Why do average teenagers get involved in hacking in the first place? This compelling and revealing book sets out to answer these questions--and some of the answers will surprise you. Through fascinating interviews with FBI agents, criminal psychologists, law-enforcement officials--as well as current and former hackers--you'll get a glimpse inside the mind of today's teenage hacker. Learn how they think, find out what it was like for them growing up, and understand the internal and external pressures that pushed them deeper and deeper into the hacker underground. Every hacker has a life and story of his or her own. One teenager's insatiable curiosity as to how the family's VCR worked was enough to trigger a career of cracking into computer systems. This is a remarkable story of technological wizardry, creativity, dedication, youthful angst, frustration and disconnection from society, boredom, anger, and jail time. Teenage hackers are not all indifferent punks. They're just like every other kid and some of them probably live in your neighborhood. They're there. All you have to do is look.

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Authors: Manuel Castells.
Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: 2003-04-03


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    Manuel Castells is one of the world's leading thinkers on the new information age, hailed by The Economist as ""the first significant philosopher of cyberspace,"" and by Christian Science Monitor as ""a pioneer who has hacked out a logical, well-documented, and coherent picture of early 21st century civilization, even as it rockets forward largely in a blur."" Now, in The Internet Galaxy, this brilliantly insightful writer speculates on how the Internet will change our lives. Castells believes that we are ""entering, full speed, the Internet Galaxy, in the midst of informed bewilderment."" His aim in this exciting and profound work is to help us to understand how the Internet came into being, and how it is affecting every area of human life--from work, politics, planning and development, media, and privacy, to our social interaction and life in the home. We are at ground zero of the new network society. In this book, its major commentator reveals the Internet's huge capacity to liberate, but also its ability to marginalize and exclude those who do not have access to it. Castells provides no glib solutions, but asks us all to take responsibility for the future of this new information age. The Internet is becoming the essential communication and information medium in our society, and stands alongside electricity and the printing press as one of the greatest innovations of all time. The Internet Galaxy offers an illuminating look at how this new technology will influence business, the economy, and our daily lives....

Authors: Alan Liu.
Paperback, 552 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Publication Date: 2004-10-01
Edition: 1

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