Graham Clark Livres

Intrusion Prevention and Active Response provides an introduction to the field of Intrusion Prevention and provides detailed information on various IPS methods and technologies. Specific methods are covered in depth, including both network and host IPS and response technologies such as port deactivation, firewall/router network layer ACL modification, session sniping, outright application layer data modification, system call interception, and application shims.

This major new text offers a comprehensive and balanced introduction to Service Operations Management, building on fundamental operations management principles. It explores the decisions managers face in resource management and service delivery, emphasizing the critical issue of service delivery while acknowledging the influence of other management functions. Designed for both undergraduates and practicing managers, it requires only a basic understanding of operations management theory, making it accessible and practical. Key features include a valuable operations management perspective on a growing, often overlooked area, with international examples from diverse organizations such as public sector, voluntary services, mass transport, professional services, retail, internet services, and tourism. The book combines practical approaches with solid theoretical foundations, structured around five key tasks to facilitate learning. Each chapter includes definitions of key terms, identifies significant operations management issues, and presents questions, frameworks, and techniques for performance improvement. Additional pedagogical elements such as real-world illustrations, chapter summaries, case exercises, and further reading questions enhance the learning experience. An Instructors' Manual is also provided, making it an invaluable resource for students and managers tackling operational challenges in service management.

A woman meets a man and falls in love. She is sixty, a writer and lifelong New Yorker raised by garmentos. She thought this kind of thing wouldn’t happen again. He is English, so who knows what he thinks. He is fifty-six, a professor now living in Arizona, the son of a bespoke tailor. As the first of Laurie Stone’s linked stories begins, the writer contemplates what life would be like in the desert with the professor. As we learn how she became the person she is, we also come to know the artists and politics of the downtown scene of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, a cultural milieu that remains alive in her. In sharply etched prose, Stone presents a woman constantly seduced by strangers, language, the streets— even a wildlife trail. Her characters realize that they feel at home in dislocation—in always living in two places at the same time: east and west, past and present, the bed and the grave (or copper urn). Love may not last, the writer knows. Then again, when has anything you thought about the future turned out right?