By Brian Hill Since Cisco manufactures much of the hardware underlying both corporate LANs and the Internet, network professionals appreciate material covering Cisco basics. Practical Studies targets network professionals studying for their Cisco Certification Network Assistant (CCNA) exam, focusing mostly on the newer performance-based testing section. It provides hands-on information about configuring and troubleshooting a complex network using Cisco devices. Although the recommended lab simulation equipment is pricey, the book can be used as a study guide on its own, step-by-step resolutions of real-world scenarios are helpful both as study aids and as practice for network professionals. Complete Reference is a professional-level source on configuring and troubleshooting Cisco devices. Useful features include charts on product characteristics/capabilities and an extensive appendix that summarizes Cisco commands and refers back to lengthier chapter explanations. Both titles are recommended for larger libraries where advanced networking titles circulate. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

By Dave Crane , Bear Bibeault , Tom Locke , Thomas Fuchs Pretty darned definitive Plenty of useful examples, including counter-examples Shows how to migrate existing code, not just start from scratch Scriptaculous labs are excellent, and are available for download Okay, all the labs are excellent JavaScript haters beware! Prototype, Scriptaculous, and yes, this excellent book about these two JavaScript libraries, could change your mind. After reading Prototype and Scriptaculous In Action, you are in danger of saying to yourself, "Hey, I''d like to try some of this stuff out," and, before you even realize it, you''re writing JavaScript, getting stuff done, and maybe even enjoying it.

Improving service delivery for the poor is an important way to help the poor lift themselves out of poverty. Are You Being Served? presents and evaluates tools and techniques to measure service delivery and increase quality in health and education.

In a little more than a decade, the internet has revolutionised the lives of millions of its users. Our study explores one aspect of this revolution: its growing use by businesses and individuals as a retail channel.
In 1995, someone wanting to buy an old Betamax video recorder could spend weeks scouring specialist shops and markets, placing adverts in collectors’ magazines or calling individual dealers. If they wanted to buy a flight, they could visit or call their local travel agents and wait to receive the tickets in the post or collect them in person.

Written by the inventors of the technology, The Java™ Language Specification, Third Edition, is the definitive technical reference for the Java™ programming language. If you want to know the precise meaning of the language's constructs, this is the source for you.

Henri Poincaré was one of the greatest mathematicians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He revolutionized the field of topology, which studies properties of geometric configurations that are unchanged by stretching or twisting. The Poincaré conjecture lies at the heart of modern geometry and topology, and even pertains to the possible shape of the universe. The conjecture states that there is only one shape possible for a finite universe in which every loop can be contracted to a single point.

Ben Longstaff, New Scientist
"The Mathematical Century gives us his selection of the subject's crowning achievements since 1900".

Choice, December 2003
"For a book that intends to convey the nature of pure mathematics, Posamentier's is far superior to many...highly recommended."

The Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review library newsletter, June 2004
"Designed as a combat to math phobias, this guide tells how to make math intriguing and fun."

The battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (nee Merrimack), at Hampton Roads was neither the beginning nor the end of the story of the ironclad warships in the Civil War. Both the Union and the Confederate navies not only had other ironclad ships in commission at the time of the battle, they already had used them in combat. The months following saw the appearance of squadrons of monitors and casemate ironclads of the general design of the Virginia. It is with the sequels to the Battle of Hampton Roads that this book is primarily concerned.

Considering the communicative and symbolic roles of language in articulating national identity, Yasir Suleiman provides a fresh perspective on nationalism in the Middle East. The links between language and nationalism are delineated and he demonstrates how this has been articulated over the past two centuries.