Creator: Julius Wiedemann
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-09-30
Dewey code: 658.872
RRP: £24.99
Price: £14.74
Review Advertising Now! Online / Taschen GmbH:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2008-10-02
Dewey code: 658.872
RRP: £31.99
Price: £19.18
Review Search Engine Marketing, Inc.: Driving Search Traffic to Your Company's Web Site / IBM Press:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2007-01-15
Dewey code: 658
RRP: £14.95
Price: £11.96
Review Introduction to Project Management (Cosmic MBA Series) (Cosmic MBA Series) / Burke Publishing:
Publication date: 2006-02-07
Dewey code: 005
RRP: £18.99
Price: £16.14
Review Building Online Stores with OsCommerce: Beginner Edition / Packt Publishing Limited:
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publication date: 2004-11-26
Dewey code: 658.8
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.51
Review Marketing Kit for Dummies (For Dummies) / John Wiley & Sons:
Publication date: 2008-10-22
RRP: £16.99
Price: £11.21
Review Planet Google: How One Company is Transforming Our Lives: How One Company Is Transforming Our Lives / Atlantic Books:
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publication date: 2004-11-26
Dewey code: 658.8
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.51
Review Marketing Kit for Dummies (For Dummies) / John Wiley & Sons:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-05-04
Dewey code: 609
RRP: £17.50
Price: £7.82
Review The Myths of Innovation / O'Reilly Media, Inc.:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-01-31
Dewey code: 621
RRP: £8.99
Price: £18.28
Review Crypto: Secrecy and Privacy in the New Cold War (Penguin Press Science) / Penguin Books Ltd:Author Steven Levy, deservedly famous for his enlightening Hackers, tells the story of the cypherpunks, their foes, and their allies in Crypto; if the National Security Agency (NSA) had wanted to make sure that strong encryption would reach the masses, it couldn't have done much better than to tell the cranky geniuses of the world not to do it. From the determined research of Whitfield Diffie and Marty Hellman, in the face of the NSA's decades-old security lock, to the commercial world's turn-of-the-century embrace of encrypted e-commerce, Levy finds drama and intellectual challenge everywhere he looks. Although he writes, "Behind every great cryptographer, it seems, there is a driving pathology", his respect for the mathematicians and programmers who spearheaded public key encryption as the solution to Information Age privacy invasion shines throughout. Even the governmental bad guys are presented more as hapless control fetishists who lack the prescience to see the inevitability of strong encryption as more than a conspiracy of evil. Each cryptological advance that was made outside the confines of the NSA's Fort Meade complex was met with increasing legislative and judicial resistance. Levy's storytelling acumen tugs the reader along through mathematical and legal hassles that would stop most narratives in their tracks-his words make even the depressingly silly Clipper chip fiasco vibrant. Hardcore privacy nerds will value Crypto as a review of 30 years of wrangling; those readers with less familiarity with the subject will find it a terrific and well-documented launching pad for further research. From notables like Phil Zimmerman to obscure but important figures like James Ellis, Crypto dishes the dirt on folks who know how to keep a secret. -Rob Lightner.
Publication date: 2007-12-14
Dewey code: 658.872
RRP: £21.99
Price: £11.75
Review SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible / John Wiley & Sons:
Publication date: 2008-03-14
Dewey code: 658.872028546
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.61
Review DigiMarketing: The Essential Guide to New Media and Digital Marketing / John Wiley & Sons:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-05-04
Dewey code: 609
RRP: £17.50
Price: £7.82
Review The Myths of Innovation / O'Reilly Media, Inc.:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2005-11-02
Dewey code: 381.4500202854678
RRP: £9.49
Price: £8.46
Review The Home-Based Bookstore: Start Your Own Business Selling Used Books on Amazon, EBay or Your Own Web Site / Weber Books:
Publication date: 2006-04-01
Dewey code: 658
RRP: £31.99
Price: £29.80
Review Metrics for IT Service Management: ITSM Library / VAN HAREN PUBLISHING:
Publication date: 2008-03-22
Dewey code: 380
RRP: £14.00
Price: £6.14
Review Introduction to Internet Marketing; Search Engine Optimization, Adword Marketing, Email Promotion, and Affiliate Programs / Althos:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2004-03-31
Dewey code: 658.478
RRP: £51.00
Price: £41.65
Review A Practical Guide to Managing Information Security (Artech House Technology Management Library) / Artech House:
Creator: Patti Shank
Publication date: 2007-04-17
Dewey code: 371.3344678
RRP: £26.99
Price: £14.68
Review The Online Learning Idea Book: 95 Proven Ways to Enhance Technology-based and Blended Learning / Jossey Bass:
Publication date: 2002-10-31
Dewey code: 004
RRP: £15.99
Price: £11.98
Review The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business and Society (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies) / OUP Oxford:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-02-26
Dewey code: 650
RRP: £13.95
Price: £4.10
Review Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software / Three Rivers Press (CA):
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-08-16
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.42
Review A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Tea Shops and the World's First Office Computer / HarperPerennial:Whether you like a good story, social history, computers, or are just nostalgic about Joe Lyons' "caffs", A Computer Called LEO is an appealing tale, illustrated with black and white photos, about the advent of the first computer. Georgina Ferry conjures up the image of some 300 female accounts clerks, clacking away continuously on their Burroughs mechanical calculators checking bills against takings for the 250 or so J Lyons & Co high street teashops in the 1930s. The manager of the accounting operation in pre-war times was a bright young man called John Simmons. According to Ferry, as Simmons surveyed the room "all he saw was a waste of human intelligence" and he began to dream of the day when machines would be invented capable of doing all this work automatically. Within 10 years he made the first stage in that dream a reality by persuading the board of Lyons that their company must become the first in the world to build its own electronic digital computer. A Computer Called LEO is the wonderful story of this one remarkable man's ambition and success in achieving it. Ferry interweaves LEO's story with the history of computing. British mathematicians have played an integral role in this development ever since the days of Charles Babbage (1792-1871). Like Simmons, Babbage had been interested in improved factory management. The ultimately tragic figure of Alan Turing and the wartime development of computers at Bletchley Park also figure in the lead up to LEO. [+]Development was delayed by World War II and Ferry expertly goes on to tell how, on November 29, 1951, LEO took over Bakery Valuations and became the first computer in the world to run a routine office job. But it wasn't until 1954 that LEO was judged reliable enough to finally take over from the clerks. By the following year, John Simmons had fulfilled his dream and was able to declare that "LEO leaves clerks free to use their brains to their own greater benefit and the service of the community". One needs to add that to Lyons & Co's great credit this was achieved without any compulsory redundancies; indeed employment increased. Britain led the world in computer development at the time and there was considerable potential for the turning of a cottage industry in to an international money-maker, but that required considerable investment. The end of Ferry's story of LEO tells of how Britain let an advantage slip from their grasp as US money, muscle, management and determination took over and IBM went on to win the day. -Douglas Palmer.
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