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Product: Book - Paperback
Title: How to Do Everything with Adobe® Acrobat® 6.0 (Windows) Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Authors: Doug Sahlin Rating: 5/5  From simple memos to interactive forms, How To Do Everything With Adobe Acrobat 6.0 shows why Acrobat is the tool for any electronic publishing task - including projects that require multimedia. How To Do Everything With Adobe Acrobat 6.0 will help its reader master the many different components and purposes for creating and publishing documents for electronic distribution.
Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security Publisher: Wiley Authors: Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon, Steve Wozniak Rating: 5/5 Kevin Mitnick has put together an excellent book, that fills a major gap in the computer and network security literature. The examples are realistic (I suspect more than one is a thinly-veiled example from real life) and clear depictions of the principles they illustrate. The book is well-organized, and most importantly, it gives sound advice on how to defeat the social engineer. The suggested information security policies at the end of the book are worth the price of the book all by themselves. This is a must-read for information security professionals and corporate executives. It is nice to see that Kevin Mitnick has returned something of value to the world.
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Title: Classical Electrodynamics Publisher: Wiley Authors: John David Jackson Rating: 4/5  Classical electrodynamics is the perfect archetype of what a scientific theory should be. This textbook is, probably, the most important reference in the subject: it is, even today, the most used at the graduate level. It has -- and I think this is an almost unanimous opinion -- the most comprehensive and challenging collection of problems that one can find in a graduate level book on classical electrodynamics. However, science is the most important achievement of humankind -- whereas religion is its worst manifestation. Therefore, science and the way science is taught can only be regarded as a work in progress. The most important characteristic about science is this: it is an open structure where, on the one hand, one cannot prove that a theory is correct but, on the other hand, it is always possible to prove that it is wrong. Nowadays, there is a plethora of different approaches to Maxwell equations -- the theoretical framework of classical electrodynamics. In modern physics, a geometric viewpoint is simpler, clearer, and sheds light on possible unification(s) -- the ultimate scientific goal. Probably because this book is an achievement that began in 1962 (first edition), is was written and rewritten along several decades: in this third edition (1998) we are left with the impression that there are several layers of accumulation and the author cannot choose between them. This book, having fulfilled its historic purpose, paved the way for a new geometric treatment -- either based on differential forms or on geometric algebra. Preferably, a coordinate-free (and also, a metric-free as possible) approach to the foundations -- but whith the possibility of being readily translated into the more appropriate coordinates for each particular problem. For the foundations of classical electrodynamics my current answer would be the book by Friedrich W. Hehl and Yuri N. Obukhov. On the other hand, if the elegance of a synthesis is what we are looking for, then my current answer would be Hestenes' geometric algebra (as in the book by Chris Doran and Anthony Lasenby). However, these books cannot, in any way, replace Jackson's opus: they just point to new geometric and unified approaches; that work is still waiting to be done. In summary: only fools or ignorants would undermine the importance of this book or the fact that it uses, by modern standards, an outdated language.
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Title: Learning the Korn Shell (2nd Edition) Publisher: O'Reilly Authors: Bill Rosenblatt, Arnold Robbins Rating: 4/5 When I bought this book, I had already spent a year working in a UNIX environment, but I had no real experience with shell programming. However, after reading this book, I'm having no problems writing intermediate to advanced level Korn scripts at work. It sounds like some people who have reviewed this were expecting a Nutshell book, but apparently they didn't read the description of the book. To truly appreciate this book, one should read it in a fairly linear fashion, from cover to cover (like a textbook). It's not really meant to be skimmed, since it's not one of the Nutshell books. Whatever the case, I think that for anyone interested in Korn shell programming, this is a pretty good introduction to it. My only recommendation is that you practice the concepts in the book while reading, and make sure you have a copy of 'UNIX in a Nutshell'.
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