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Attacking Network Protocols is a deep-dive into network vulnerability discovery from James Forshaw, Microsoft's top bug hunter. This comprehensive guide looks at networking from an attacker's perspective to help you find, exploit, and ultimately protect...

Begin your programming journey with C++ , starting with the basics and progressing through step-by-step examples that will help you become a proficient C++ programmer. This book includes new features from the C++23 standard. All you need are Beginning...

Sound Synthesis and Sampling' provides a comprehensive introduction to the underlying principles and practical techniques applied to both commercial and research sound synthesizers. This new edition has been updated throughout to reflect current needs...

A Sunday Times Best Book of the Year 2017 One day in November 1994, Lawrence Levy received a phone call out of the blue from Steve Jobs, whom he'd never met, offering him a job running Pixar, a little-known company that had already lost Jobs $50...

"AI expert Jerry Kaplan explains how generative AI will revolutionize virtually every human activity. Highly recommended." - Francis Fukuyama, Political scientist and author of The End of History and the Last Man Advances in Generative Artificial...

'Witty, rigorous, and as urgent as a fire alarm' Dorian Lynskey 'Cooly prosecutorial' Guardian Nobody meant for this to happen. Facebook didn't mean to facilitate a genocide. Twitter didn't want to be used to harass women. YouTube never...

Now in full color, the 10th anniversary edition of this classic book takes you deep into the influences that underlie modern video games, and examines the elements they share with traditional games such as checkers. At the heart of his exploration,...

Practical Lock Picking, Second Edition, is an instructional manual that covers everything from straightforward lockpicking to quick-entry techniques such as shimming, bumping, and bypassing. Written by Deviant Ollam, one of the security industry's...

Since the early Egyptians human beings have formalised the business of learning, setting up a designated environment of some form to pass knowledge and learning on to groups of students. In this second edition of his Very Short Introduction, Gary Thomas...

This is the first textbook on pattern recognition to present the Bayesian viewpoint. The book presents approximate inference algorithms that permit fast approximate answers in situations where exact answers are not feasible. It uses graphical models to...

Why is it difficult for so many companies to get digital identity right? If you're still wrestling with even simple identity problems like modern website authentication, this practical book has the answers you need. Author Phil Windley provides...

Having a great idea or design is not enough to make your software project succeed. If you want stakeholders to buy into your design and teams to collaborate and contribute to the vision, you also need to communicate effectively. In this practical book,...

The iPad is a tablet computer that is stylish, versatile and easy to use, and is one of the most popular tablets used by all ages. The range of models has been expanded over the years so that there are now different sizes to cover all mobile computing...

Foreword by Werner Vogels, Vice President and Corporate Technology Officer, AmazonThe AWS exam has been updated. Your study guide should be, too. The AWS Certified Developer Official Study Guide-Associate Exam is your ultimate preparation resource for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996128100Author Bret TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Effective BookshelfPublisher Effective BookshelfWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Don't let a fear of numbers hold you back.Today's business environment brings with it an onslaught of data. Now more than ever, managers must know how to tease insight from data--to understand where the numbers come from, make sense of them, and use them...

Games Workshop, Warhammer, White Dwarf, Citadel Miniatures and Fighting Fantasy are names which trigger powerful memories for millions of people around the world. The cultural impact of Games Workshop and Fighting Fantasy has been remarkable. But how did...

Become a digital-first organization—and avoid disruption.If you read nothing else on the principles and practices that lead to successful digital transformation, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review...

A hands-on roadmap to using Python for artificial intelligence programming In Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming with Python: From Zero to Hero, veteran educator and photophysicist Dr. Perry Xiao delivers a thorough introduction to one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943591077Author Mark DiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Resistance ManifestoPublisher Resistance ManifestoWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

This textbook analyses the origins and effects of insider risk, using multiple real-life case histories to illustrate the principles, and explains how to protect organisations against the risk.Some of the most problematic risks confronting businesses and...

Design for large-scale, high-performance queries using Snowflake's query processing engine to empower data consumers with timely, comprehensive, and secure access to data. This book also helps you protect your most valuable data assets using built-in...

for high voice and piano This beautiful collection of 14 songs for high voice offers secular pieces by some of Oxford's best-loved composers. Suitable for solo singers and unison choirs alike, each song is presented with piano accompaniment, and...

Haskell is a purely functional language that allows programmers to rapidly develop clear, concise, and correct software. The language has grown in popularity in recent years, both in teaching and in industry. This book is based on the author's experience...

Learn to Program by Solving Problems is a practical introduction to programming using Python, one of the world's most popular programming languages. The book emphasises problem-solving strategies that teach readers not only the mechanics of coding, but...

The iPad is a tablet computer that is stylish and versatile, and popular with all ages. iPad for Seniors in easy steps, 11th edition is updated to cover iPadOS 15. Written in larger type, it'll help senior folks learn and enjoy the myriad of iPad...

A start-to-finish guide for realistically measuring cybersecurity risk In the newly revised How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk, Second Edition, a pioneering information security professional and a leader in quantitative analysis methods...

Master the demand forecasting skills you need to decide what resources to acquire, products to produce, and where and how to distribute them. For demand planners, S&OP managers, supply chain leaders, and data scientists. Demand Forecasting Best Practices...

NOTE: The name of the exam has changed from IT Fundamentals to IT Fundamentals+ (ITF+). However, the FC0-U61 exam objectives are exactly the same. After the book was printed with IT Fundamentals in the title, CompTIA changed the name to IT Fundamentals+...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933820668Author Michael J MettsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Rosenfeld MediaPublisher Rosenfeld Media

Like the highly regarded first edition, this second edition of Understanding the Machine covers machine organisation and computer science topics like the CPU, machine architecture, memory and cache organisation, I/O and peripheral devices, and how the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047739Author Igor TulchinskyFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Book description: This book is the definitive guide to the 250 best beers in the world today, selected by a panel of eight renowned international beer writers and influencers. Following a lengthy process of discussion and debate, each of our eight...

This book will teach you how to test computer software under real-world conditions. The authors have all been test managers and software development managers at well-known Silicon Valley software companies. Successful consumer software companies have...

At last - the secrets of Bletchley Park's powerful codebreaking computers. This is a history of Colossus, the world's first fully-functioning electronic digital computer. Colossus was used during the Second World War at the Government Code and Cypher...

Over the next few decades, machine learning and data science will transform the finance industry. With this practical book, analysts, traders, researchers, and developers will learn how to build machine learning algorithms crucial to the industry. You'll...

Master the essentials of Adobe's InDesign, and then enjoy the full creative potential of this popular desktop publishing software - in easy steps. Written by an industry professional with over 30 years' experience of training in electronic publishing...

In the first edition of this critically acclaimed book, Andrew Hoffman defined the three pillars of application security: reconnaissance, offense, and defense. In this revised and updated second edition, he examines dozens of related topics, from the...

A revealing genealogy of image-recognition techniques and technologies Today's most advanced neural networks and sophisticated image-analysis methods come from 1950s and '60s Cold War culture-and many biases and ways of understanding the world from that...

Need help finding the right HTML5 element or attribute for your web page or application? HTML5 Pocket Reference is the classic reference that web designers and developers have been keeping close at hand for more than thirteen years. This fifth edition...