Hack Proofing Linux – Your Guide to Open Source Security

The Linux operating system continues to gain market share based largely on its reputation as being the most secure operating system available. The challenge faced by system administrators installing Linux is that it is secure only if installed and configured properly, constantly and meticulously updated, and carefully integrated with a wide variety of Open Source security tools. The fact that Linux source code is readily available to every hacker means that system administrators must continually learn security and anti-hacker techniques.Hack Proofing Linux will provide system administrators with all of the techniques necessary to properly configure and maintain Linux systems and counter malicious attacks.

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Astronomy, Second Edition

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Astronomy, 2E is the most comprehensive astronomy book for beginners, covering: the history of space exploration, our solar system, galaxy, and beyond, tools of the trade-including equipment available for amateurs, and exciting, controversial topics such as the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and the Big Bang theory.

Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry (2 Volume Set)

New York Univ., New York City. Brandon/Hill Medical List first-purchase and minimal-core selection (#500). Previous edition: c1995. Major reference for practitioners, residents, and students. Includes new sections, chapters, and color highlighting. Also includes the definitions diagnostic criteria of mental disorders used in DSM-IV and ICD-10. DNLM: Mental Disorders.

Macmillan Science Library: Animal Sciences, 4 volume

Animal Sciences brings together a wide range of scientific, historical and cultural information about the animal world. In addition to covering biological concepts, the history of zoology, biographies of scientists in the field, and ethical issues, such as the practice of animal experimentation, it also covers careers in the animal sciences. Each fully illustrated volume includes sidebars, charts and a glossary, as well as bibliographies, filmographies and a list of the addresses of institutions devoted to the protection and study of wild and domesticated animals around the world.

Interactive Hand 2nd Edition

This second edition of the award winning Interactive Hand provides an accurate, highly detailed and newly revised 3D model of the hand, wrist, forearm and elbow.
New content for this new edition include a revised 3D model with new anatomy, larger, high resolution images, 8 new dissection style views that allow you to add and remove layers as if performing a dissection plus 17 muscle function animations.

Macmillan Science Library: Space Sciences, 4 vol.

Grade 9 Up-Covering scientific, technological, and business aspects, this set offers a unique approach to its subject. Each alphabetically arranged volume has a different focus. The first, Space Business, covers current commercial activity in space, such as medical research, satellites, space law, business applications, and associated careers. Planetary Science and Astronomy has information on galaxies, stars, planets, and other celestial bodies. Space travel, vehicles, equipment, and explorers are covered in Humans in Space. The final volume, Our Future in Space, is highly speculative in its discussion of potential possibilities, technology, and conjectural ideas, such as faster-than-light travel, from science fiction writers, books, and movies. Biographical entries appear throughout the set. Articles include events and publications through 2001. Captioned color and black-and-white photos featuring people and equipment are informative, sometimes spectacular, although often small. Each table of contents covers the entire set and cross-references refer readers to articles in the other volumes. Glossary terms are highlighted in the text and defined in the margins as well. A useful and appealing approach to the subject.

Upgrading and Repairing PCs 17th Edition

Be a part of the best-selling Upgrading and Repairing series with the latest edition of the flagship book, Upgrading and Repairing PCs. Author Scott Mueller has taught thousands in his seminars and millions through his books, videos and articles. Since 1988, everyon from PC technicians and students to hobbyists, have turned to Scott Mueller’s Upgrading and Repairing PCs books for help with computer problems. Upgrading and Repairing PCs, 17th Edition includes new and updated content covering the latest processors, motherboards, memory, and more, including a fully-loaded DVD with new video and reference material.

Upgrading and Repairing Laptops 2nd Edition

Scott Mueller has gone where no computer book author has gone before right past all the warranty stickers, the hidden screws, and the fear factor to produce a real owner’s manual that every laptop owner should have on his desk. Upgrading and Repairing Laptops, Second Edition shows the upgrades users can perform, the ones that are better left to the manufacturer, and how to use add-on peripherals to make the most of a laptop. This second edition has been updated to include:

• The latest processors and motherboards

• Complete assembly and disassembly information

• Updated memory standards

• Upgrading your hard drive to increase performance

• Changes in networking and firewalls.

Upgrading and Repairing Servers 2nd

As the price of servers comes down to the level of desktop PCs, many small- and medium-sized businesses are forced to provide their own server setup, maintenance and support, without the high-dollar training enjoyed by their big corporation counterparts. Upgrading and Repairing Servers is the first line of defense for small- and medium-sized businesses, and an excellent go-to reference for the experienced administrators who have been asking for a reference guide like this one for a long time! It’s all here in one, incredibly useful tome that you will refer to again and again.

Vilppu Animal Drawing Manual

Glenn Vilppu’s drawing techniques manual, used worldwide as course material for animation students.