On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders

Description
On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders is an absorbing chronicle of the inventive, individualistic, and often cantankerous individuals who set the Internet free. Michael A. Banks describes how the online population created a new culture and turned a new frontier into their vision of the future.

This book will introduce you to the innovators who laid the foundation for the Internet and the World Wide Web, the man who invented online chat, and the people who invented the products all of us use online every day. Learn where, when, how and why the Internet came into being, and exactly what hundreds of thousands of people were doing online before the Web. See who was behind it all, and what inspired them.

You’ll also find these stories of people and events on the way to the Web:
* CIA agents in search of military hardware for sale online.
* The first online privacy scandal, three decades ago.
* The first instance of online censorship in 1979
* How in 1980 the FBI demanded the ID of a CompuServe user who tried to sell 3,000 M16 rifles online
* Early con artists
* Online romance scams
* Identify theft
* Who really created AOL. (Hint: it wasn’t Steve Case.)
* The wireless Internet that was built in 1978.
* Why the @ sign is used in email addresses.

Who is this book for?
On the Way to the Web is a book that will appeal to all readers, but one that computer enthusiasts will find especially interesting. Most readers will have played a part in the story it tells, and anyone who uses the Internet and Web on a day–to–day basis will find this book an absorbing read.

About the Author
Michael A. Banks is the author of more than 40 books, among them several titles that deal with Internet topics, including The eBay Survival Guide; Web Psychos, Stalkers, and Pranksters; The Modem Reference; PC Confidential; and Welcome to CompuServe.

He is coauthor of CROSLEY: The Story of Two Brothers and the Business Empire that Transformed the Nation (Clerisy, 2006), the biography of twentieth–century industrialist/entrepreneur and communications magnate Powel Crosley, Jr. (This book made the New York Times extended bestseller list, the Wall Street Journal hardcover business book bestseller list, and the Business Week bestseller list. Having sold 45,000 copies during its first three months of existence, it received a full–page writeup in the February 12, 2007, issue of Publishers Weekly.)





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Insider's Guide To Finding A Job: Expert Advice From America's Top Employers And Recruiters

Review
The advice from other professionals sets this book apart from many others. -- Angel Huffman-Labbe, Service Manager/Vocational Evaluator, Easter Seals New Jersey

The experts’ stories provide readers with a feel for what hiring authorities need from job seekers today. -- Patrice Waidner, career counselor

The job search strategies from top managers were most informative. The book gives the reader (and teacher) a different slant. -- Ellen Hinton, Director of Grants and External Funding, Bossier Parish Community College

This book provides job seekers with significant insight from professionals and managers that make hiring decisions every day. -- Doug Hardin, Senior Vice President, IntelliDyne LLC

What I like about this book is that it makes a panel of experts available to the reader. -- Daphne Moran, Information Technology Systems Specialist II, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA


Description
Straight talk from America’s top hiring managers and recruiters about how to succeed in any job market. The authors asked top HR, staffing, and recruitment professionals, along with the managers who make the hiring decisions at the most sought-after companies, to tell them what makes a job candidate stand out to them. Their responses are woven into seven "how-to" chapters that each focus on a different aspect of job search. This book compiles the diverse opinions of many people to "humanize and simplify the concept of job search."

Key Features:
* The only book on the market that focuses specifically on the advice of hiring managers and HR executives—the people whose opinions really count when it comes to getting hired!
* Quantified results from a uniform survey of interviewees give hard numbers to back up opinions about the best strategies for getting hired fast.
* Advice for planning your own job search strategy.
* Insider's Guide To Finding A Job: Expert Advice From America's Top Employers And Recruiters"In This Chapter" boxes at the beginning of each chapter summarize the main points of each expert’s advice.

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How the Mind Works

Review
Why do fools fall in love? Why does a man's annual salary, on average, increase $600 with each inch of his height? When a crack dealer guns down a rival, how is he just like Alexander Hamilton, whose face is on the ten-dollar bill? How do optical illusions function as windows on the human soul? Cheerful, cheeky, occasionally outrageous MIT psychologist Steven Pinker answers all of the above and more in his marvelously fun, awesomely informative survey of modern brain science. Pinker argues that Darwin plus canny computer programs are the key to understanding ourselves--but he also throws in apt references to Star Trek, Star Wars, The Far Side, history, literature, W. C. Fields, Mozart, Marilyn Monroe, surrealism, experimental psychology, and Moulay Ismail the Bloodthirsty and his 888 children. If How the Mind Works were a rock show, tickets would be scalped for $100. This book deserved its spot as Number One on bestseller lists. It belongs on a short shelf alongside such classics as Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, by Daniel C. Dennett, and The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, by Robert Wright. Pinker's startling ideas pop out as dramatically as those hidden pictures in a Magic Eye 3D stereogram poster, which he also explains in brilliantly lucid prose. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal
MIT's Pinker, who received considerable acclaim for The Language Instinct (LJ 2/1/94), turns his attention to how the mind functions and how and why it evolved as it did. The author relies primarily on the computational theory of mind and the theory of the natural selection of replicators to explain how the mind perceives, reasons, interacts socially, experiences varied emotions, creates, and philosophizes. Drawing upon theory and research from a variety of disciplines (most notably cognitive science and evolutionary biology) and using the principle of "reverse-engineering," Pinker speculates on what the mind was designed to do and how it has evolved into a system of "psychological faculties or mental modules." His latest book is extraordinarily ambitious, often complex, occasionally tedious, frequently entertaining, and consistently challenging. Appropriate for academic and large public libraries.?Laurie Bartolini, MacMurray Coll. Lib., Jacksonville, Ill. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Discover Google''s Buried Treasure : Guide To Using Google

Google is one of the Web?s great success stories. According to Media Metrix data released in July, the company?s search engine handles 36.5% of all Web searches, and at press time Google Inc. boasted just over $82 billion in market capitalization. All this from two guys applying clever programming and some fairly novel ideas about business to solving what would become one of the great challenges of the Internet age: How can I get the information I?m looking for quickly online? But as compelling and popular as Google?s search technology is, it?s just the beginning of what this dynamic company has to offer. This issue is packed with information on Google services and tools you can use, mostly without charge, to do more online than you ever thought possible starting from a single site.

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Digital Photography Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks - 2010

 


Date : 2010 | Pages : 240 | Format : PDF | Language : English

Completely updated to cover the latest digital cameras and their functions

The field of digital photography is steadily becoming an increasingly popular and exciting hobby and profession. These days, just about anyone can take beautiful photographs after having learned the right techniques and gaining a solid editing know-how. This latest edition of the digital photography standard is completely updated with photos and coverage of the newest cameras and their features.

Packed with inspiring images and helpful tasks, you'll learn time-saving tips, surprising secrets, and invaluable instructions for creating stunning images with your digital camera. Indispensible techniques show you how to create better digital photos, prints, and photo projects.
Shares full-color screen shots and numbered, step-by-step instructions for creating gorgeous images with your digital cameras
Includes updated information on the latest image editing software and new cameras
Provides you with useful and surprising techniques that can be used to make better digital photos, prints, and photo-based projects
Features inspiring images and tasks that provide time-saving tips, cool secrets, and productivity tricks
Takes your knowledge of digital photography beyond the basics

Go beyond the basics with these tips and tricks and take your digital photo skills to the next level!

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Beef Up Your Brain: The Big Book of 301 Brain-Building Exercises, Puzzles and Games!

Size: 6.96 MB | Pages: 337 | PDF | English
Scientists all over the world agree that leading a mentally stimulating life can increase brain power and the authors of this popular series have come up with another brain-boosting title that is sure to get your mental wheels churning while you enjoy hours of fun.

Develop a six-pack brain with more than 301 games, puzzles, and exercises that provide the ultimate mind-blowing workout and keep your brain sharp and alert for life.

BENCHPRESS YOUR BRAIN INTO SHAPE AND:
- Stretch and warm up your concentration
- Perform brain curls for increased attention span and sharper focus
- Bulk up on memory power
- Increase your mental reps and ward off diseases like dementia and Alzheimers
- Every time you do some of the puzzles in this fun guide, it''s like taking your brain to the gym!

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How to Draw Great-looking Comic Book Women

Pages: 144 | PDF | English
Curvaceous women, a top subject sought by comic book publishers, are the focus of this eye-popping instructional that shows aspiring cartoonists exactly how to master drawing a bevy of fabulous females.

From basic anatomy, musculature, body positions, and action poses to facial expressions, hairstyles, and costumes, this truly invaluable and unique resource covers in great detail every aspect of depicting great-looking women for comic books.

The book also shows how to handle perspective and compose art specifically for comic book panels. In addition to chapters offering effective drawing lessons are sections on tricks of the trade, lists of comic book publishers and their submissions addresses, and interviews with industry professionals Bobby Chase of Marvel Comics and Renae Geerlings of Top Cow, who provide insiders' views of the business and give tips on how newcomers can land their first jobs in the field. Contributing illustrators have penciled and inked such famous characters as the X-Men, Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Catwoman, Supergirl, Green Lantern, Captain America, and many others.

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