If you are a network administrator, you're under a lot of pressure to ensure that mission-critical systems are completely safe from malicious code, buffer overflows, stealth port scans, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, CGI attacks, and other network intruders. Designing a reliable way to detect intruders before they get in is an essential--but often overwhelming--challenge. Snort, the defacto open source standard of intrusion detection ...
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the founder of modern feminism -- in her time, the most famous woman in Europe and America. In this exciting new biography, Lyndall Gordon proposes that at each stage of a passionate and courageous life -- as teacher, writer, lover, and traveler -- Mary Woll-stonecraft was an original. She had advanced ideas on education, and her views on single motherhood, family responsibilities, working life, domestic aff...
Buzzing from flower to flower, honeybees are busy gathering nectar and pollen. The nectar will be made into honey, and the pollen will feed their queen bee and her offspring back in the hive. Like people, bees form societies with leaders -- the queen -- and workers, and like people, their survival depends on every bee doing its part. Read and find out about bees, honey, and life in the hive.
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Die Kapitel 24?27 des Jesajabuches ? auch Jesaja-Apokalypse genannt ? gehören zu jenen Texten des Alten Testaments, welche die Gelehrten besonders viel Tinte kosteten. Weshalb also noch eine weitere Arbeit über dieses Stück hinzufügen? Der bis heute bestehende Dissensus bezüglich mehrerer Fragen zur Jesaja-Apokalypse unter den Forschern zeigt, dass weiterhin ein Bedarf an Klärung vorliegt. Unsere Arbeit möchte ein we...
by Daniel Herman This book takes an inside look at the artists who created the Silver Age of comics. Based on dozens of interviews, this book carefully shows the development of the art of comic book storytelling from its roots in comic strips and the first generation of comic book artists in the Golden Age. Hundreds of pieces of original artwork illustrate the lengthy text. The first comprehensive overview of the art and artists of the Silver ...
The History of Heresies and Their Refutation by St Alphonsus M. Liguori. Unedited Reprint of 1857 edition. Some references in Latin, the rest of the book is in English. In the First part, St Alphonsus M Liguori goes over the History of Heresies. A supplementary chapter was added by the translator of the Heresies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. In the Second Part, the Refutation of Heresies, the Holy Author comprises, in a small spa...
Whacking Buddha is a unique comparison of the works of William Shakespeare and theworld of Buddhism. This book takes you on a journey through Shakespeare's work andthe Buddha's teachings, opening your mind to the philosophies within.Whacking Buddha is spiritual-literary dynamite. -Jon Winokur, author of Zen to GoDoes Will Shakespeare have a Buddha nature? Mark Lamonica makes anintriguing case in Whacking Buddha, a fascinating journey into Eliz...
Based on the 2003 Conway Lectures Strohm delivered at the University of Notre Dame, this book states that England experienced its own "pre-Machiavellian" moment between 1450 and 1485. In support of this thesis, he analyzes a range of fifteenth-century English political texts along with several contemporary writings from Burgundy, France, and Italy.
BoycottFew modern British sportsmen have fascinated the public more than Geoff Boycott. In this first comprehensive and balanced account of Boycott's life - fully updated to include his battle against cancer - award-winning author Leo McKinstry lifts the lid on one of cricket's great enigmatic characters.A record-breaking Test cricketer and acerbic commentator, Geoff Boycott has never been far away from controversy during his long career in th...
In one of the most explosive and hotly debated books of the past year, Sir Peregrine Worsthorne presents a reactionary and playful look at the origins, evolution and demise of the aristocracy and what we can expect to replace them.