This book explores fundamental principles for securing IT systems and illustrates them with hands-on experiments that may be carried out by the reader using accompanying software. The experiments highlight key information security problems that arise in modern operating systems, networks, and web applications. The authors explain how to identify and exploit such problems and they show different countermeasures and their implementation.

The reader thus gains a detailed understanding of how vul...

Now in its sixth edition, Vector Calculus helps students gain an intuitive and solid understanding of this important subject. The book's careful account is a contemporary balance between theory, application, and historical development, providing it's readers with an insight into how mathematics progresses and is in turn influenced by the natural world.

Veiligheidsdeskundigen zijn nooit populair. Ze vertragen de processen van hen die voor snelle oplossingen zijn. Maar ze voorkomen ook ongevallen en dus processtoringen. Dit doen ze door de toepassing van modellen. Om de snelle beslissers te overtuigen van hun dwalingen en om daarmee mensen te redden. Dit boek is bedoeld voor de beginnende veiligheidskundige. Het wijst u een weg in de chaos van modellen.

Modellen maken het mogelijk om een beetje dezelfde taal te spreken. Als op zo'n moment ver...

Intended as a companion to the Fundamentals of Forensic DNA Typing volume published in 2009, Advanced Topics in Forensic DNA Typing: Methodology contains 18 chapters with 4 appendices providing up-to-date coverage of essential topics in this important field and citation to more than 2800 articles and internet resources. The book builds upon the previous two editions of John Butler's internationally acclaimed Forensic DNA Typing textbook with forensic DNA analysts as its primary audience. This...

Keeping up with the latest developments in cyber security requires ongoing commitment, but without a firm foundation in the principles of computer security and digital forensics, those tasked with safeguarding private information can get lost in a turbulent and shifting sea. Providing such a foundation, Introduction to Security and Network Forensics covers the basic principles of intrusion detection systems, encryption, and authentication, as well as the key academic principles related to dig...

The dynamic systems approach is a rapidly expanding advancement in the study of developmental research, particularly in the domain of adolescent development. It provides a unique way of examining the subject, and this innovative study of developmental processes helps social scientists to translate dynamic systems conceptualizations into clear empirical research that readers will be able to implement themselves. The first part of this edited book discusses techniques that describe and assess s...

In dit boek wordt duidelijk hoe onlosmakelijk liefde en rouw met elkaar verweven zijn. Wie liefheeft, neemt het risico van verlies erbij. Want zonder rouw gaat het niet. Rouwen doen we niet alleen bij een verlies door de dood maar ook bij een verlies door echtscheiding, van werk, een ideaal of je thuisland. Aan de hand van stappen in de verliescirkel neemt Riet Fiddelaers-Jaspers de lezer mee op verkenning door het rouwlandschap. Haar rijke ervaring blijkt uit de voorbeelden uit de dagelijkse...

First published in 1974, Social Work Treatment remains the most popular and trusted compendium of theories available to social work students and practitioners. It explores the full range of theoretical approaches that drive social work treatment and knowledge development, from psychoanalysis to crisis intervention.

This treasure trove of practice knowledge equips professionals with a broad array of theoretical approaches, each of which shine a spotlight on a different aspect of the human cond...

Anyone who has been asked to read and understand a poem has probably wondered: What does this really mean? Have I understood this the way I was supposed to? Did I get it? As the least literal of all of forms of creative writing, poetry is for many readers also the most cryptic. Confronted by the mysteries of poetic interpretation, some people are intrigued, some become addicted, others are left frustrated. Shira Wolosky's accessibly written book, The Art of Poetry, provides a road map of the ...

Deze nieuwe, gebonden editie volgt de herziene Amerikaanse tekst uit 2010.

Geweldloze Communicatie helpt ons stevig in het leven te staan, te zeggen wat we willen én te horen waar het de ander om gaat. Het is een taal van mededogen waarmee we de machtsstrijd overstijgen en bewegen naar samenwerking en vertrouwen. Zo verloopt de communicatie ontwapenend, doeltreffend en verbindend. De belangstelling voor Rosenbergs benaderingswijze is groter dan ooit. In Nederland en België houden talrijke o...