With this unique guide, you can find the most current and comprehensive information on Check Point's FireWall-1 - all in a single volume. The authors clearly explain the underlying concepts of protection that all security professionals should know. Using a hands-on approach, the authors guide you through the complex process of designing, building, and maintaining firewalls using Check Point's FireWall-1. Throughout the book, extensive case studies discuss the many security threats to corporate Intranet and Internet sites - and show you how to avoid them using FireWall-1. You'll also find an invaluable CD-ROM that contains an evaluation copy of Check Point's FireWall-1 product, so you can see the benefits of this great product for yourself. Check Point FireWall-1 Administration Guide is ideal for administrators and professionals who need to install FireWall-1 for Windows and UNIX.

Check Point Firewall-1 Administration Guide

Computers & Technology

Brown, Steven

Goncalves, Marcus

Networking & Cloud Computing

McGraw=Hill

The first complete guide to the installation, operation, and management of Virtual Private Networks (VPN), a fast-growing technology framework that lets organizations use the Internet as their own private network. Shows how all the pieces of VPN architecture fit together: encryption, authentication, special network security considerations, and more. Takes readers step by step through VPN implementation, troubleshooting, maintenance, and ongoing security.

Implement Virtual Private Networks

Certification

Practical English Language Teaching offers a thorough yet practical overview of language teaching methodology for teachers and teachers in preparation. The principles outlined in each chapter are richly illustrated with vignettes and extracts from real classrooms so the reader can see what the principles "look like" when realized in classroom teaching. The book is divided into three sections: Exploring Skills, Exploring Language, and Supporting the Learning Process. FEATURES:Critical areas of language teaching are comprehensively addressed with a specific focus on practical techniques, strategies, and tips.World-class specialists like Neil Andersen, Kathleen M. Bailey, Mary Ann Christison, and David Nunan offer a variety of perspectives on language teaching and the learning process.Reflection questions invite readers to think about critical issues in language teaching while Action tasks outline strategies for putting new techniques into practice.Thoughtful suggestions for books, articles, and Web sites offer resources for additional, up-to-date information.Expansive glossary offers short and straightforward definitions of core language teaching terms.  This is the PELT Listening audio CD.

Practical English Language Teaching: PELT Listening - Audio CD

Reference

Nunan, David

Hegelson, Marc

Foreign Language Study & Reference

McGraw-Hill ESL/ELT

Practical English Language Teaching offers a thorough, yet practical overview of language-teaching strategies and methodology for newer teachers seeking background and guidance, and for experienced professionals looking for refreshing new ideas. The book provides an overall introduction to key aspects of language-teaching methodology in an accessible, non-trivial way.

Practical English Language Teaching, Listening

English as a Second Language

Mcgraw-Hill College

What are the arts? What functions do the arts serve in human life? There has been a surge of cognitive, biological, and evolutionary interest in the arts in recent years, most of it oriented towards individual artforms. However, there has been virtually no bridging work to integrate the arts under a single theoretical perspective. This book presents the first integrated cognitive account of the arts that unites visual art, theatre, literature, dance, and music into a single framework, with supporting discussions about creativity and aesthetics. Its comparative approach identifies both what is unique to each artform and what they share, shedding light on how the arts can combine with one another to form syntheses, such as choreographing dance movements to music, or setting lyrics to music to create a song. While studies in the psychology of the arts tend to focus on perceptual processes and aesthetic responses alone, this book offers a holistic sensorimotor account that examines the full gamut of processes from creation to perception. This allows for a broad discussion of the evolution of the arts, including the origins of rhythm, the co-evolution of music and language, the evolution of drawing, and cultural evolution of the arts. Finally, the book unifies a number of topics that have not previously been fully related to one another, including theatre and literature, music and language, creativity and aesthetics, dancing and acting, and visual art and music. A unique volume providing a bold new approach to the integration of the arts, for academics or general readers of the arts, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, anthropology, and evolutionary studies.

The Unification of the Arts: A Framework for Understanding What the Arts Share and Why

Arts & Photography

Oxford University Press

The images in the pages of this book-animal, human, and spirit faces-evoke the powerful cultural legacy of the inhabitants of the Northwest Coast. Spirits of the Water presents approximately 175 examples of the art produced by the Native peoples of a region of great linguistic, cultural, and geographical diversity. Accompanying essays establish a historical and cultural context for this remarkable assemblage of objects, and explore the traditions of art, social organization, and ceremony that inspired their makers. Early expeditions of exploration and trade to the northern Pacific coast were responsible for the acquisition of numerous objects, such as masks, tools, clothing, and baskets. Spirits of the Water examines the history of Russian, Spanish, English, and American expeditions in relation to the discovery and collection of these artifacts, many now considered to be extraordinary works of art. Gathered from international museums and private collections, these objects are among the oldest known works of Northwest Coast Indian art. This book also brings together many of the drawings and engravings made by the Spanish, English, and Russian artists who witnessed and recorded the first encounters with the lands of the Northwest Coast and their inhabitants. These works of functional art, with their expressive abstractions of animals and supernatural beings, reveal the religious and social motivations intertwined in their powerful aesthetic presence. Masks in particular express the imagination and creativity of the maker while conveying social hierarchies and spiritual motivations. The contributors to this volume invoke the pragmatic and ceremonial worlds in which these artifacts were used and examine how the material cultures of the Northwest Coast were understood by explorers and collectors as diverse as Captain James Cook and Max Ernst.

Spirits of the Water: Native Art Collected on Expeditions to Alaska and British Columbia, 1774-1910

History & Criticism

University of Washington Press

Vital Memory and Affect: Living with a difficult past

Vital Memory and Affect takes as its subject the autobiographical memories of ‘vulnerable’ groups, including survivors of child sexual abuse, adopted children and their families, forensic mental health service users, and elderly persons in care home settings. In particular the focus is on a particular class of memory within this group: recollected episodes that are difficult and painful, sometimes contested, but always with enormous significance for a current and past sense of self. These ‘vital memories’, integral and irreversible, can come to appear as a defining feature of a person’s life.  In Vital Memory and Affect, authors Steve Brown and Paula Reavey explore the highly productive way in which individuals make sense of a difficult past, situated as they are within a highly specific cultural and social landscape. Via an exploration of their vital memories, the book combines insights from social and cognitive psychology to open up the possibility of a new approach to memory, one that pays full attention to the contextual conditions of all acts of remembering.  This path-breaking study brings together a unique set of empirical material and maps out an agenda for research into memory and affect that will be important reading for students and scholars of social psychology, memory studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and other related fields.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Reavey, Paula

Mental Health

Routledge

Vital Memory and Affect takes as its subject the autobiographical memories of ‘vulnerable’ groups, including survivors of child sexual abuse, adopted children and their families, forensic mental health service users, and elderly persons in care home settings. In particular the focus is on a particular class of memory within this group: recollected episodes that are difficult and painful, sometimes contested, but always with enormous significance for a current and past sense of self. These ‘vital memories’, integral and irreversible, can come to appear as a defining feature of a person’s life. In Vital Memory and Affect, authors Steve Brown and Paula Reavey explore the highly productive way in which individuals make sense of a difficult past, situated as they are within a highly specific cultural and social landscape. Via an exploration of their vital memories, the book combines insights from social and cognitive psychology to open up the possibility of a new approach to memory, one that pays full attention to the contextual conditions of all acts of remembering. This path-breaking study brings together a unique set of empirical material and maps out an agenda for research into memory and affect that will be important reading for students and scholars of social psychology, memory studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and other related fields.

Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation, Second Edition, provides an introduction to the study of language and applied linguistics for students who have had a minimum of exposure to the discipline of linguistics. Using clear, easy-to-understand explanations and examples, this text avoids the in-depth theoretical coverage found in texts written for those who specialize in linguistics or SLA. As a result, this book is perfect for students whose chosen fields require them to be acquainted with the ways language works, such as future teachers, psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists, but who do not intend to become linguists. The text is also suitable for English or ESL/EFL teachers who need a reference volume about various aspects of language, particularly as it applies to teaching. Each chapter includes educational implications of each topic, plus research projects and further readings. The text also appeals to those obtaining additional certification for public school teaching. The second edition of Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation is enhanced and updated with an expanded treatment of English grammar, new topics like computer-mediated communication, current figures and data, and an up-to-date bibliography. This text purposely covers more than enough material for a one-term course so that it may be used in a wide range of courses and classroom settings. A separate workbook providing extra practice is also available.

Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation, Second Edition: An Introduction to Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics for Nonspecialists

Attardo, Salvatore

University of Michigan Press/ELT

The Workbook for Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation, Second Edition, contains 50 exercises and activities that teachers can draw on to help their students familiarize themselves with the contents of Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation, Second Edition, textbook.The workbook is particularly helpful for students who want or need more practice in the areas of phonetics, morphology, syntax, and semantics.

Workbook for Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation, Second Edition

Vigliotti, Cynthia

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Check Point Firewall-1 Administration Guide

Implement Virtual Private Networks

Practical English Language Teaching: PELT Listening - Audio CD

Practical English Language Teaching, Listening

The Unification of the Arts: A Framework for Understanding What the Arts Share and Why

Spirits of the Water: Native Art Collected on Expeditions to Alaska and British Columbia, 1774-1910

Vital Memory and Affect: Living with a difficult past

Vital Memory and Affect: Living with a difficult past

Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation, Second Edition: An Introduction to Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics for Nonspecialists

Workbook for Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation, Second Edition