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Planning and Engineering Guidelines for the Seismic Retrofitting of Historic Adobe Structures (Gci Scientific Program Reports)
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A companion volume to Seismic Stabilization of Historic Adobe Structures: Final Report of the Getty Seismic Adobe Project, this book offers guidance for planners, architects, and engineers in the retrofitting of historic and culturally significant adobe structures. The text consists of a
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This digital document is an article from Architectural Science Review, published by University of Sydney, Faculty of Architecture on December 1, 2003. The length of the article is 478 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Historic adobe structures.(Book Review)
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The remarkable Mary Nisbet was the Countess of Elgin in Romantic-era Scotland and the wife of the seventh Earl of Elgin. When Mary accompanied her husband to diplomatic duty in Turkey, she changed history. She helped bring the smallpox vaccine to the Middle East, struck a seemingly impossible deal with Napoleon, and arranged the removal of famous marbles from the Parthenon. But all of her accomplishments would be overshadowed, however, by her scandalous divorce. Drawing from Mary's own letters, scholar
Susan Nagel tells Mary's enthralling, inspiring, and suspenseful story in vibrant detail.
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A charming women.......2006-01-18
Mary Nisbet was the definition of an aristocrat. She lived a life most people dream of: She was good looking, charming, intelligent, extremely wealthy, and was admired and respected by some of the most powerful people around.
So what will you get out of by reading this book? Your be put into the shoes of Mary Nisbet and her extravagant lifestyle. Your get to know her spendthrift husband and his preoccupation with marbles from Parthenon. But really not much else.
The book is based off of Mary's diary, which really helped give the book life.
So, I'm giving the book 3 stars because the book was written fairly well, but the story was a little boring.
Absorbing.......2004-10-29
I just finished reading Susan Nagel's wonderful Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin. Rarely do I read Biographies and feel so intimately close to the subject as I did with this well researched piece of work. I felt as if I had lived right along with Mary through her travels, adventures, exploits and tragedies. Packed with Romantic locals and historical people. An intimate peek into a fascinating life, who was Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin.
Quite a Girl!.......2004-10-29
Quite a Girl! We have this vision of the women of a century ago being totally subservient to the men. It has been the men who made history. Where there have been women in the story, they are often viewed only as a companion to the men, as examples, the recent biographies of Washington and Nelson. In recent years we've begun to see well written biographies of women who certainly led fascinating lives.
Mary Nisbet was smart, rich, beautiful. She took smallpox vaccine to the Middle East, brought classical marbles from the Parthenon back to England (before Napoleon could get them). Then she 'replaced' her husband with his best friend.
Quite a Girl, Very interesting character, well written book.
If you love Patrick O'Brian..........2004-09-10
"Remember the ladies" Abigail Adams charged her husband John -- that's what Nagel does with "Mary Nisbet"; she fills in fascinating and colorful details of the world of the women of society in England during the war against Napoleon. All the teasing glimpses we get in O'Brian's masculine epic are fleshed out, as it were; the opulence of the Bey's court; Emma Hamilton's manipulation of Admiral Nelson; the impact of the war with Napoleon on life and travel -- all the dinner parties O'Brian glossed over in passing come springing to vivid life as we read from Mary's actual letters. If you loved Master and Commander or the whole series, pick this up and treat yourself to a richer picture of the period.
Captivating History-With Romance and Adventure.......2004-08-24
Susan Nagel's biography of the Countess of Elgin makes history come alive in a dramatic, romantic page-turner. You'll be transported to a land of wealth and privilege, where egg-sized emeralds are exchanged as small tokens of affection, where cannons salute the arrival of dignitaries into new ports and where love of art and love of man mixes to create a heady and destructive combination of emotions.
This book is perfect for a day at the beach or an evening curled up at home - if only all history could be this fun!
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`The British say they have saved the Marbles. Well, thank you very much. Now give them back.' Melina Mercouri, actress and politician Ever since the sculptures from the Parthenon arrived in England at the beginning of the last century, they have caused controversy. Based on a detailed study of both original records and recent discoveries, Lord Elgin and the Marbles is the authoritative historical account of the extraordinary circumstances in which the Elgin Marbles were acquired, of the tremendous impact which they made on modern appreciation of Greek art, and of the bitter reaction of Napoleon, Byron, and many others to their appropriation. In the last chapters of this book, William St. Clair now adds further fuel to the controversy by revealing for the first time some disturbing details about the treatment of the Marbles while in the British Museum's care, and of the British Museum's response to public concerns about this important cultural artefact.
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Formerly printed in England under the titles of "A Book of Archaeology" and "A Second Book of Archaeology".
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The case for the prosecution from Christopher Hitchens. The Elgin Marbles, designed and executed by Phidias to adorn the Parthenon, are some of the most beautiful sculptures of ancient Greece. In 1801 Lord Elgin, then British ambassador to the Turkish government in Athens, had pieces of the frieze sawn off and removed to Britain, where they remain, igniting a storm of controversy which has continued to the present day. In this reissue of the first full-length work on this fiercely debated issue, Christopher Hitchens recounts the history of these precious sculptures and forcefully makes the case for their return to Greece. Drawing Out the artistic, moral, legal and political perspectives of the argument, Hitchens's eloquent prose makes The Elgin Marbles an invaluable contribution to one of the most important cultural controversies of our times.
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Megaliths: The Ancient Stone Monuments of England and Wales
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The best-selling Stealing the Network series reaches its climactic conclusion as law enforcement and organized crime form a high-tech web in an attempt to bring down the shadowy hacker-villain known as Knuth in the most technically sophisticated Stealing book yet.
Stealing the Network: How to Own a Shadow is the final book in Syngress ground breaking, best-selling, Stealing the Network series. As with previous title, How to Own a Shadow is a fictional story that demonstrates accurate, highly detailed scenarios of computer intrusions and counter-strikes. In How to Own a Thief, Knuth, the master-mind, shadowy figure from previous books, is tracked across the world and the Web by cyber adversaries with skill to match his own. Readers will be amazed at how Knuth, Law Enforcement, and Organized crime twist and torque everything from game stations, printers and fax machines to service provider class switches and routers steal, deceive, and obfuscate. From physical security to open source information gathering, Stealing the Network: How to Own a Shadow will entertain and educate the reader on every page. The books companion Web site will also provide special, behind-the-scenes details and hacks for the reader to join in the chase for Knuth.
· The final book in the Stealing the Network series will be a must read for the 50,000 readers worldwide of the first three titles
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The SQL Injection Adventures of Pawn.......2007-06-14
Did you enjoy the previous three Stealing the Network books? Are you looking for more? Then move along now, nothing to see here.
The prior books were interesting because they introduced the reader to new ideas or new angles on old ideas, then moved on without belaboring them. If you wanted more details, there were often URLs provided. The last two tied the stories together with the intriguing Knuth character. But the folks running the project chose to switch to a new format, with fewer characters and stories, not to mention fewer authors, and fewer ways to split the profits.
After three books with the same (proven) formula, it's understandable the authors would want to try something new. Alas, it's a disaster.
Welcome to "How to Own a Shadow," aka "The SQL Injection Adventures of Pawn." Pawn is one of the new characters in this volume, and is the first StN character I hoped would get shot to death by the cops in a mini-mall parking lot. Yes, he's that irritating. Particularly after reading 40 pages about his childhood as a high-functioning autistic (or something like that), and around 100 pages of him performing SQL injection attacks. Most of which is totally unrelated to Knuth. Note to the authors: SQL injection is interesting, but if you want to write a book about it, just write a book about it. I even gave you a title, what more do you want? You can even recycle much of this book, like you recycled part of the last one here.
Oh, you noticed the real subtitle of the book, "The Chase for Knuth." First, one chases _after_ fugitives, and hunts or searches _for_ them. Not that it matters, because there's not much chasing or hunting going on in this book. There isn't much Knuth, either. We see him in the first hundred pages, which is mostly about his son analyzing poker software. That's the last we see of either of them. Because, really, this is "The Biography of Pawn." We do get 50 pages of Knuth at the end of the book, but don't get excited: it's all from the last book, added as obvious filler.
Speaking of filler, there's a 17 page advertorial thrown in for BiDiBLAH, which is commercial software by SensePost. Oddly enough, they're listed as technical advisors for the book. I'm sure it's a fine app, but the authors have forgotten about Knuth again, since it has nothing to do with the story. If it had been relevant, it might have been a less obnoxious addition.
Not everything is bad. There's a brief bit about RFID, which of course turns into how to use RFID for SQL attacks. We get to meet Knuth's supposedly dead wife, and a charming shrew she is. All in all, though, this book isn't worth reading unless you're a truly devoted fan of the series, or SQL. I'm still a fan of the previous books, and I hope the authors can recapture what made them so intriguing for their next book. I won't be buying that one until I'm sure it's not Book Two of the Pawn Saga, however.
Author "review".......2007-04-13
Let me first say that I am one of the authors on this book. I don't think authors can objectively review their own work in a forum such as this, so I won't. This won't stop me from rating it five stars to help reinforce the law of averages. ;-)
I will, however, address a few reviews posted here. First and foremost, I am a huge fan of the Stealing series, and the authors that worked on each of the three previous books. But based on customer reviews and our own feelings on the matter, the authors unanimously agreed that boosting the story value of the book was a priority. After all, even security geeks deserve a good plot and decent characters if they take the time to read technical fiction. Books of this genre should also teach. By all fair reviews, this book does both. If you're interested in straight fiction, or straight tech, you'll find this book to only be half-good. If you're willing to be entertained, and are looking to learn something cool about hackers and how they operate, this is the book for you. And there I go, drifting into a review.
So let me address one other complaint: the lack of a "real" ending. Well, that's our fault. There's more to the series, and we know how it's going to end, but we adamantly refused to slip another deadline, so the book went to print with a cliffhanger ending. Now we're not out to sell more books or make your life miserable by leaving you hanging, but this book had to either wrap up where it did, or it would have been scrapped by the publisher, who had no real choice in the matter. As authors, we missed our deadlines, but we did it in order to improve the final product. I'm personally proud of the end result, and the reviews show that we have good reason to be proud.
So to long-time Stealing readers, this book is different because we grew in our craft, and our EXTREMELY capable story editor (Scott Pinzon) held us to the standard of mainstream fiction. Will we make the New York Times best-seller list because of our efforts? No. But this book isn't for those readers. It's for those in and around technology that have read one to many straight technical books.
So we would love to hear what you think. Post a review if you'd like, or if you just want to chat about the book, head over to the "book talk" section of my web site's forums (you know where to find it- Google is your friend). I'd love to hear from you.
j0hnny
One of the better installments when it comes to plot and pacing..........2007-04-05
It's nice when recreational reading overlaps with technical material, and the Stealing The Network series qualifies for that designation. The latest installment is Stealing the Network: How to Own a Shadow - The Chase For Knuth by Johnny Long, Timothy Mullen, Ryan Russell, and Scott Pinzon, and it's an enjoyable read that is heavy on the technical how-to while maintaining a decent plotline.
There's basically two story-lines here... The first involves Robert Knoll Jr. and his father, and is a continuation from the last book. All the police surveillance and investigations are taking a toll on Junior's life, so he decides to act on his father's cryptic message to head down to Mexico with nothing much more than the clothes on his back (and a large amount of cash). He is contacted by people who work for his father, and is taken down to Costa Rica where Senior runs an on-line poker site. Everything that Junior wants is provided (top of the line, too), and he starts doing some programming and network intel for his father. But he really doesn't have a clue as to what Senior is really up to...
The second story-line involves an autistic kid by the name of Paul Wilson. As he grows up, he starts gaining an interest in computer hacking and solving puzzles involving gaining access to various network sites. He's befriended by an on-line entity known as Rafa who is amazed at how Paul can pick up concepts almost immediately. It helps that he has a photographic memory and is wired such that these types of problems engage him. Rafa starts paying him for "research assignments", and Paul is thinking that he's actually doing legit security work. That, coupled with his intense interest in the martial arts, pretty much absorbs all his time. But he starts to understand a bit of what's really going on when he starts to hack a mysterious local business in order to help out a woman in his dojo. She has an ulterior motive for wanting to use his phenomenal hacking skills, but it may get them both arrested or killed.
From a plot pacing standpoint, I was pleasantly surprised. The other books tended to be a bit more "vignette" in nature, so the overall story suffered. At least here, the plot and technology actually supported each other. Again, it's not New York Times best-seller action-adventure, but it works for this type of approach. Paul seemed to be a bit over-the-top in his skills, but that element was supported by his autism. It stretched credibility at times, but not so much that you started to laugh (or at least I didn't). My biggest disappointment is that there was no plot resolution to either story-line, so it's a given that you'll need to read the next one to see how it turns out. The plotlines are converging, and the next book *should* be pretty good. Still, I would have liked a bit more payoff at the end.
Regardless, this is an interesting book about hacking techniques (complete with code) all wrapped up in an action/adventure plot. I'll be interested to see how they merge the story and carry it on in the next installment...
Entertaining way to learn.......2007-04-05
This book was excellent for someone interested in technology but has a hard time reading dull technical books. I have been interested in digital security for a while, but until recently hadn't played around with SQL injections. I was interested in learning more about them and pleased to see that this book offered an excellent primer on SQL injections in the form of a story, which held my interest. In addition there was a cool primer on RFID hacking which I really enjoyed. The supporting story was intriguing and kept me reading to find out what happened next.
There was a cliffhanger ending, and now I'm really looking forward to the next one.
Best One Yet.......2007-03-14
You can definately see the influence of the infamous Johny Long in the writing of this one. The book is incredible i was 150 pgs into it before I could take a bathroom break. :D get it and the rest.
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GOOD 'NET' READ.......2007-06-23
With 146 other reviews listed here nothing I could say would probably be new, so I'll be brief. When I saw this series one thing that appealed to me was the books were not the normal Tom Clancy 'door prop' size. I enjoy the smaller size and the larger print, too.
Another reason I picked these NET FORCE books up was the hope that I might learn something more about computers, if they are supposed to take place in 2010, then at least cutting age tech will be present.
For me, the characters though very similiar to other Clancy characters are not cardboard and are interesting. My favorite in this book is the Selkie, bad gal that she is, she stands out. I know Tom Clancy did not write these shorter books, so either he has more ideas than he can cover himself, or he just wants extra cash. However, that may be, though the books were not written by him, I rather doubt much is in that he did not sanction.
Though I am not a die-hard fan, therefore not reading every book Mr. Clancy writes, I do enjoy his books. I'm ex-military, Vietnam era USN/USMC, have seen him on a couple book review programs, and though he never served, am impressed with his respect for things military and certainly his expertise. I respect both him and his writing.
Semper Fi.
The future Tom Clancy style........2006-08-08
Set in the year 2010, Tom Clancy spins a yarn worth tons! Imaginations run wild in a virtual world and someone's crashing the system. How to find him/her in a VR World? Great reading bet you can't put it down!
Net Force: The FBI of Computers, est. 2010.......2006-07-03
Before starting the review on this book I think one thing needs to made extremely clear, although Tom Clancy's name takes up nearly a quarter of the cover this book is not written by Mr. Clancy. The series of Net Force is an idea that Tom Clancy fabricated along with Steve Pieczenik while Steve Perry was commissioned to write the series. Although not written by Clancy I would like to believe that Clancy is one of the first to read the book and makes any corrections that he sees fit. Having said that, the book is absolutely readable and does have a little of a Clancy feel to it.
Now on to the book itself, I really think that the series is going to be successful for a variety of reasons, and Net Force itself is something not all that far fetched. Net Force is basically a crime fighting organization that deals directly with the internet. I think that the most interesting thing through out the book is the idea of Virtual Reality (VR). This book really focuses on the fact that VR is not only a part of the future but a very intricate part of the future. The one thing that can become confusing in this book is that it will move all over the place during chapters. Without reading the few bolded lines that break apart the chapters telling the location of the following scene you can become easily confused as to what is going on. Another thing about this book is that there are a wide variety of characters that are all introduced, some lasting a matter of pages and some, hopefully, lasting the entire series.
The series seems to focus around the newly appointed director of Net Force, Alex Michaels. The book goes into the past of Alex's life discussing his ex-wife as well as daughter but I think the thing that this book really sets up is a possible office romance between Alex and his co-worker Toni Fiorella. Toni is madly in love with Alex and is determined to make Alex feel the same way. I guess time will tell whether or not Alex ever comes around to the idea of becoming involved with someone other than his ex-wife Megan, someone that he is still in love with.
Overall I really did like the book and the characters that seem to sticking around. The book is a bit confusing at times with all of the different characters and settings and was a tad bit harder to read because you had to keep all the stories straight and remember where each character was at a given time. Other than that I would recommend this book to really anyone, no only those interested in computers.
Brian Bowen
still informative :).......2005-04-06
This series may not be written by Tom Clancy but you'll surely get a lot of info from it, from legal stuff to history to medical stuff to physics and oh yes...pentjak silat!
Not a Clancy.... Well DUH!.......2005-01-18
Everybody likes to cry over how this isn't writen by Tom Clancy and blah blah blah. Right at the bottom of the title it says:
"Created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieezenik, writen by Steve Perry"!
If you can read the book, at least read the credits before you whine so much. After that being said, this is an excellent series and I highly suggest. 4 stars, could have been 5 but a couple chapters were really really bad and kind of confusing. It's one of those rare books that even if you're dead tired you want to get to the next chapter to see what happened next.
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educates a general audience.......2005-09-11
This guide is written for a general, non-technical audience. It attempts to educate the reader in the common types of malware and cyber attacks that are now seen globally. The scope of the threats vary. Some are the equivalent of graffiti on billboards. Breakins to computers just for the heck of it. Hooliganism, as the book calls it.
But there are more serious attacks. Phishing-style, for example. Where financial fraud is being tried on an unwary user. No adequate technical answer is given to this by the book.
Further along the scale of severity is cyber terrorism, or even cyber war. These are disguished by the former being done by groups unaffiliated with any government. While the latter is, or might be, performed by one government on another. Thus far, few real and damaging examples of cyber terrorism have surfaced. Nuisance value events that might be construed as cyber terrorism have occasionally surfaced in recent years. But nothing more dire.
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This incredibly comprehensive superset of four CD-ROMs provides an up-to-date and vastly expanded collection of reference sources on selling products and services to the military: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Army Corps of Engineers, DARPA, and more. There are over 60 files with full information on virtually every branch of the Department of Defense (DoD) that buys products and services, with vendor, contracting, and procurement data. If you plan to do business with the Pentagon, this thoroughly researched information is critical, with explanations of the arcane rules of government acquisition. This extraordinary, encyclopedic collection of detailed material has 116,805 pages reproduced with Adobe Acrobat PDF software. Contents include: Air Force Alternative Dispute Resolution, Research Labs AFOSR, USAF Procurement, AL&T acronyms, Army Contracting Agency Handbook, Contractors with the Force Regulation, Army Corps of Engineers CEPR, Hurricane Recovery Contracting, Selling to the Army, Army Women Business, Central Contractor Registration Handbook, Coast Guard Acquisition Regulations, MLCPAC Business, Vendor Fincen, DARPA doing business, DOD AT&L policy, contracting opportunities guide, DoD Decision Support Systems, Federal Business Opportunities Fedbizopps, DoD Acquisition Directive, DoD Acquisition Resources and Analysis, Guidebooks and Handbooks, Defense Contract Audit Agency Manuals, DLA, Columbus, Philadelphia, Richmond, DPAP, PGI, Energy Support, Information Technology DITCO DISA, Joint Forces Command Industry Partners, Maritime Administration Acquisition, Procurement Technical Assistance Centers, Recent Major Contracts, Special Operations Acquisitions, Technology Readiness Assessment Handbook, Energy Department DOE Business, Laboratories, Management Office Acquisition, Marine Corps Main Acquisition, SADBU MARCORSYSCOM, Missile Defense Acquisition, Navy Military Sealift Command Procurement, MWR Programs Acquisition, NAVAIR, NECO, Defense Acquisition Universit
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This up-to-date electronic book on CD-ROM has coverage of the Seabees, the Naval Construction Force, including mission, history, regiments, mobile construction battalions, and amphibious construction battalions. This encyclopedic collection on the Navy contains more than 54,000 pages reproduced in Adobe Acrobat PDF files. Naval Mobile Construction Battalions (NMCBs) provide responsive military construction support to Navy, Marine Corps and other forces in military operations, construct base facilities and conduct defensive operations. In addition to standard wood, steel, masonry and concrete construction, NMCBs also perform specialized construction such as water well drilling and battle damage repair. They are able to work and defend themselves at construction sites outside of their base camp and convoy through unsecured areas. In times of emergency or disaster, NMCBs conduct disaster control and recovery operations. There are eight active duty and twelve reserve NMCBs. Units of the Seabees include the First Naval Construction Division (1NCD), Seabee Readiness Group (SRG), Naval Construction Regiments (NCR), Naval Mobile Construction Battalions (NMCB), Naval Amphibious Construction Battalions (ACB), Underwater Construction Teams (UCT), Construction Battalion Units (CBU), Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit (CBMU), Naval Construction Force Support Units (NCFSU). Complementing the Seabee Naval Construction Force coverage is an extensive collection of Navy material on the current fleet, weapons, ships overview, ships Program Executive Office, surface warfare, Navy budget documents, the DDG-100 Zumwalt destroyer program, historic data on American battleships, and a full Navy ship inventory, directory and dictionary. Naval Vessel Register, with information on ships and service craft, comprises the official inventory from the time of vessel authorization through its service life and disposal. Data includes fleet size, ship hull classification symbols, names, homepo
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- POF - Polymer Optical Fibers for Data Communication
- Polymer Surfaces: From Physics to Technology
- Prefab Prototypes: Site-specific Design for Offsite Construction
- Process Control: A First Course with MATLAB (Cambridge Series in Chemical Engineering)
- Proton and Carbon NMR Spectra of Polymers
- Quantum Chemical Methods in Main-Group Chemistry
- Small Lofts
- Solid State Chemistry: Selected Papers of C. N. R. Rao (World Scientific Series in 20th Century Chemistry, Vol 4)
- Solids and Surfaces: A Chemist's View of Bonding in Extended Structures
- Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds
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