Successful Catering
Author: Bernard Splaver
With coverage of the management of a catering business and 201 expert recipes from The Culinary Institute of America, the new edition of this well-established book is an ideal basic text for students of catering.
Interesting book: The Definitive Guide to Windows Installer or The Value Factor
Computer-Related Risks
Author: Peter G Neumann
"This sobering description of many computer-related failures throughout our world deflates the hype and hubris of the industry. Peter Neumann analyzes the failure modes, recommends sequences for prevention and ends his unique book with some broadening reflections on the future."
--Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate
This book is much more than a collection of computer mishaps; it is a serious, technically oriented book written by one of the world's leading experts on computer risks. The book summarizes many real events involving computer technologies and the people who depend on those technologies, with widely ranging causes and effects. It considers problems attributable to hardware, software, people, and natural causes. Examples include disasters (such as the Black Hawk helicopter and Iranian Airbus shootdowns, the Exxon Valdez, and various transportation accidents); malicious hacker attacks; outages of telephone systems and computer networks; financial losses; and many other strange happenstances (squirrels downing power grids, and April Fool's Day pranks).
Computer-Related Risks addresses problems involving reliability, safety, security, privacy, and human well-being. It includes analyses of why these cases happened and discussions of what might be done to avoid recurrences of similar events. It is readable by technologists as well as by people merely interested in the uses and limits of technology. It is must reading for anyone with even a remote involvement with computers and communications--which today means almost everyone.
Computer-Related Risks:
- Presents comprehensive coverage of many different types ofrisks
- Provides an essential system-oriented perspective
- Shows how technology can affect your life--whether you like it or not!
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Summarizes many real events involving computer technologies and the people who depend on those technologies, including disasters such as the Black Hawk helicopter shootdown and the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Considers problems caused by hardware, software, hackers, and natural causes, and addresses issues of reliability, safety, security, and privacy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Table of Contents:
| Preface | ||
| Ch. 1 | The Nature of Risks | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Reliability and Safety Problems | 12 |
| Ch. 3 | Security Vulnerabilities | 96 |
| Ch. 4 | Causes and Effects | 120 |
| Ch. 5 | Security and Integrity Problems | 132 |
| Ch. 6 | Threats to Privacy and Well-Being | 181 |
| Ch. 7 | A System-Oriented Perspective | 203 |
| Ch. 8 | A Human-Oriented Perspective | 261 |
| Ch. 9 | Implications and Conclusions | 285 |
| Epilogue | 312 | |
| Appendix A Background Materials | 313 | |
| Notes | 317 | |
| References | 333 | |
| Glossary | 345 | |
| Index | 352 |
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