Customer Review: It's a textbook. As textbooks go, it's pretty good. Very few textbooks are really worth the prices that are demanded. As is typical with textbooks having to do with technology, there are many errors. Most glaring are the online audio files that do not match up with the text. Presumably, the... more info
Customer Review: For the typical busy security professional, reading a 900-page tome cover to cover represents an investment of time that may be difficult to justify. Frankly, security books that are worth the effort are few and far between. Security Engineering is one such book, for several reasons. First,... more info
Customer Review: I was hoping for a book that I could use as a reference guide for troubleshooting; this book is more of a how-to guide. Not a bad book for that; just not where I was going with it.
Customer Review: This book has a lot of useful design principles, but they can be hard to garner and retain because the writing is very dry. I almost wish the suggestions were of lower quality, so that I would have had an excuse to stop reading the book. In the end, it took 2 renewals from my library to get through... more info
Customer Review: This book is great for CMOs or marketing decision makers who are looking to incorporate web analytics into their business and have no idea where to start. It walks the reader through the entire process of finding and organizing the right team, how to define your metrics of success with your website,... more info
Customer Review: Good Book if you have to live in a multiple OS environment. If you don't get the solution at least you know what to do next. There is a confused creature by the name of "Old Book Worm" who has been throwing light into some of my reviews. I wonder whether he/she is a street-person? Seems to me... more info
Customer Review: If you don't yet know much about web usability, I would recommend this book (and it's predecessor) to you. If you are already keen on the idea of web usability, then you may want to skip the first book (it is a bit dated), and grab this one as a reference.
Customer Review: Professor Tsay is a student of the Wisconsin school of statisticians where he learned time series from Box and Tiao. He is an excellent lecturer and a good writer. I have attended one of the short courses he taught on time series. New models have been developed to deal with the special behavior of... more info
Customer Review: John Allspaw brings a great deal of his experience with Flickr to this book and that makes it a five-star read in my view. Whether you are just getting started with capacity planning or a seasoned veteran, this book provides a critical overview of the fundamentals to ensure you're on the right path.... more info
Customer Review: This book explains basic operating systems concepts and then describes how this concepts are implemented in Linux.
The text covers most of kernel architecture and there is a detailed description of the main Linux Kernel data structures and algorithms.
The book can be understood by any... more info