The Basics of Cyber Safety: Computer and Mobile Device Safety Made Easy presents modern tactics on how to secure computer and mobile devices, including what behaviors are safe while surfing, searching, and interacting with others in the virtual world. The book's author, Professor John Sammons, who teaches information security at Marshall University, introduces readers to the basic concepts of protecting their computer, mobile devices, and data during a time that is described as the most connected in history. This timely resource provides useful information for readers who know very little about the basic principles of keeping the devices they are connected to―or themselves―secure while online. In addition, the text discusses, in a non-technical way, the cost of connectedness to your privacy, and what you can do to it, including how to avoid all kinds of viruses, malware, cybercrime, and identity theft. Final sections provide the latest information on safe computing in the workplace and at school, and give parents steps they can take to keep young kids and teens safe online.

The Basics of Cyber Safety: Computer and Mobile Device Safety Made Easy

Computers & Technology

Sammons, John

Cross, Michael

Networking & Cloud Computing

Syngress

The quest for responsible government took place in turbulent times. The "very strange" personality driving this quest, Robert Baldwin, comprises the stuff of narrative so compelling it seems at times less history than novel. Baldwin's intervention in Canadian history was momentous, and in this account history is intertwined with Baldwin's enigmatic private life. Decades of research by historian Michael Cross has unearthed new insight into this highly complex, troubled, and exceptional man. In Cross's exploration, Baldwin inhabits an intricate emotional world, entangled with reflections on past and future. Cross' narrative flows with elegant non-linearity, reflecting Baldwin's own fluid psychological chronology; the memory of his wife Eliza, who died comparative young, haunted Baldwin's often distressed mental landscape. In fact, the first chapter may contain one of the biggest surprises in any recent historical biography-taking place a month after Baldwin's death. Even so, the book is full of comedy and charm. Cross is a delightfully polished writer, with a remarkable knack for character. Lord Sydenham is a "coxcomb" and a "rake" in the original sense of the words; Lord Elgin is an "unprepossessing little man" but with "steely determination," "a countenance stern in its frame of iron-grey muttonchops"; Louis LaFontaine is "handsome and charming but irritatingly pretentious." Interactions with the deep thinking and duty-bound Baldwin are at times chaotic collisions of markedly different personalities.The book covers events such as the War of 1812, the 1841 Union of the Canadas, and mass migration of Irish famine refugees; it also contains a detailed chronology, portraits, maps, and paintings. Here is not just a vision of an unsettled Canada that will take many readers aback, but also an encounter with a fascinating, "very strange" personality whose profound influence changed Canadian history forever.

A Biography of Robert Baldwin:: The Morning-Star of Memory

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Oxford University Press

Changes in job content and in company structure result inevitably from technological advance and competitive pressures. This step-by-step guide explains how such changes can be managed to give improved performance of the manufacturing or service enterprise. The practical techniques that are described here, which are already successfully applied in many leading companies, are based firmly in case studies and data received from Dr Cross's research and cooperation with industry since the early 1980s. This work is funded by over 50 companies and by four trade unions.

Changing Job Structures: Techniques for the Design of New Jobs and Organization

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Butterworth-Heinemann

Many exciting frontiers of science and engineering require understanding the spatiotemporal properties of sustained nonequilibrium systems such as fluids, plasmas, reacting and diffusing chemicals, crystals solidifying from a melt, heart muscle, and networks of excitable neurons in brains. This introductory textbook for graduate students in biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, and physics provides a systematic account of the basic science common to these diverse areas. This book provides a careful pedagogical motivation of key concepts, discusses why diverse nonequilibrium systems often show similar patterns and dynamics, and gives a balanced discussion of the role of experiments, simulation, and analytics. It contains numerous worked examples and over 150 exercises. This book will also interest scientists who want to learn about the experiments, simulations, and theory that explain how complex patterns form in sustained nonequilibrium systems.

Pattern Formation and Dynamics in Nonequilibrium Systems

Science & Math

Greenside, Henry

Physics

Cambridge University Press

Many exciting frontiers of science and engineering require understanding the spatiotemporal properties of sustained nonequilibrium systems such as fluids, plasmas, reacting and diffusing chemicals, crystals solidifying from a melt, heart muscle, and networks of excitable neurons in brains. This introductory textbook for graduate students in biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, and physics provides a systematic account of the basic science common to these diverse areas. This book provides a careful pedagogical motivation of key concepts, discusses why diverse nonequilibrium systems often show similar patterns and dynamics, and gives a balanced discussion of the role of experiments, simulation, and analytics. It contains numerous worked examples and over 150 exercises. This book will also interest scientists who want to learn about the experiments, simulations, and theory that explain how complex patterns form in sustained nonequilibrium systems.

The adventures of Cooper the Photographer Cat are documented with his micro Cat Cam! See the world from a cat's point of view in this stunning, full-color photo book. A portion of the proceeds is donated to PAWS: Progressive Animal Welfare Society. Michael and Deirdre Cross often wondered what their cat did while prowling their Seattle neighborhood. They found a micro camera to attach to Cooper's collar, rigged to fire every two minutes. He came back with cat's-eye images of the world. Cooper's work has exhibited in Seattle and Chicago, and his photos have been seen in People Magazine, and on Animal Planet and Good Morning America. "Cat Cam" explores the secret life of a cat. Through Cooper's eyes we explore places only cats go, witness interactions with other neighborhood animals, and see the seasons change from a rare and vivid point of view. The book includes many never-before-seen photos, as well as commentary and tips from Cooper himself. Critical raves for Cooper and his photography: "Have you ever wondered what your cat does when you're not there? This is a year in the life of a cat." - GOOD MORNING AMERICA "Deirdre and Michael Cross put a camera on the collar of their cat, Cooper, that automatically takes a picture every two minutes... Cooper's view of the world is so different from what most people see." - ANIMAL PLANET's "CATS 101" "We were blown away!" - PEOPLE MAGAZINE "Cooper... the first-ever feline photographer!" - IN TOUCH WEEKLY "We've often wondered what our pets do when we're not looking -- but one Seattle couple took an unusual step to find out... Meet Cooper, a cat who took a cue from owners Michael and Deirdre Cross (both filmmakers themselves) and documented his daily goings-on with his own Cat Cam." - LA TIMES "Vivid, imaginative, and abstract... Offering a point of view most people never see. That's the very definition of an artist... even an accidental one." - EVENING MAGAZINE

Cat Cam: The World of Cooper the Photographer Cat

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Cross, Deirdre

Pets & Animal Care

PhotographerCat.com

A guide for companies seeking compatible partners when engaged in benchmarking studies. It lists details of a wide range of companies to enable those involved to find another company of comparable size and make-up with whom to benchmark. Business students may also find this a useful reference.

The Benchmarking Sourcebook: A Guide to Identifying Potential Partners

Investing

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

Imagery of Identity in South African Education examines the role that images embedded in the language and discourses of colonialism and apartheid have played in shaping diverse and conflicting identities in South Africa. It explores images and modes of discursive representation in South African education, and the associated struggles for constitution and hegemony of group identities over years. Images should be understood in the context of "the struggle in words and by words," in the sense that images and represntations of group identities are not neutral intellectual activity. They are action and practice with profound implications for the affirmation of desire, power and interests within society. Cross shows how the question of group identity has dominated the history of intellectual and cultural production in South Africa, particularly within the educational field.

Imagery of Identity in South African Education: 1880-1990

History

Africa

Carolina Academic Press

Towards the flexible craftsman

Technical Change Centre

Poetry. "In HAECCEITIES, Michael Cross has made an interim language, his invention a relation between the words—as if this unknown relation or 'noumenon' is 'a hide enthinned' of futuristic Elizabethan single words each at once tactile, optical, aural simultaneously traces and events of reinterpreted future-present spurred in 'the many hundred wing-lit hives'"—Leslie Scalapino.

Haecceities

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Cuneiform Press

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