OSI solves many problems which cannot be satisfied by proprietary networks. This work focuses on technical aspects of the implementation of OSI, giving a technical overview of OSI followed by a discussion of cost factors. Coverage includes X400, X500 ODA and transaction processes.

Open Systems Interconnection/Computer Communications Standards and Gossip Explained (Prentice Hall Series in Computer and Digital Communications)

Dickson, Gary

LLOYD, Alan

Computers & Technology

PRENTICE/HALL

Collective religious enthusiasm was a surprisingly many-sided, influential and widespread phenomenon in medieval Europe. Amongst the forms it took were remarkable revivalist movements like the flagellants of 1260; popular crusades like the often mythologized ’children’s crusade’ of 1212 and the 'shepherds' crusade’ of 1251; as well as popular excitement involving living saints and their veneration (115 cults in Perugia). This book focuses upon particular thirteenth-century revivals and popular crusades, but does so in order to illuminate the nature of medieval western religious enthusiasm by exploring such topics as crowds, penitential self-laceration, charismatic leaders, prophecy, runaway youths, popular crusading fervour, dreams, and sanctity, male and female. A previously unpublished essay introduces the book, initiating a discussion of religious enthusiasm in the medieval West and the second conversion of Europe.

Religious Enthusiasm in the Medieval West: Revivals, Crusades, Saints (Variorum Collected Studies)

History

Europe

Routledge

After spending more than 20 years as a small town daily newspaper publisher, I retired early to assist my father, who was dealing with terminal cancer. The book chronicles the major events that took place while I managed more than 20 different newspapers in five different states. From replacing a murdered publisher at my first newspaper, until being sued three times in the first year at my last, the book proves that even being the publisher of small town newspapers can be a pretty exciting profession. Gary Dickson

Small Town News: Adventures of a small town newspaper publisher

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The unintended consequences of acing a test . . . or when all else fails, try blackmailIn July of 1964, after marrying in Paris, Desir e and Scott Stoddard are honeymooning in the South of France when their idyll is interrupted by a notice from Scott's draft board advising him that his status is being reviewed. Desir e, the former French countess who is already three months pregnant, doesn't understand why her new husband, an American, must traipse off to some military base in Germany to be tested. Scott's remarkable scores on the tests attract the attention of the CIA, and Scott, much to his dismay, becomes part of their world of intrigue and deceit. How can he get back to the life that he and Desir e had envisioned? When all else fails, blackmail is the answer.A Spy with Scruples plunges readers into the complicated political world of Cold War Europe. From neutral Switzerland to the aristocratic salons of Paris to bombed-out Berlin, Scott ingratiates some and offends more. But he has a plan.

A Spy with Scruples

Literature & Fiction

River Grove Books

He has always lived in mystery; will she be the one to discover his secret? Robert Valmer moves from Rome to Beverly Hills in 2015, where against his better judgment, he falls for Alexis Roth, PhD, psychologist to the stars. But Alexis wants to know everything. Start from the beginning, she says. The beginning? Can he really tell her about how he fled France during the French Revolution in 1789 or about Italy during World War II? If he tells her even a little, will she think of him as a liar or a freak rather than a lover?He tries to deflect her probes, pleading shyness, but she knows that reticence is often the veil behind which secrecy lurks. His practice of stonewalling only further ignites her burning curiosity. As the pressure for honesty mounts, he does what he's always done-flee. But Alexis is not a lover to be easily dismissed. She follows him to Europe, determined to track him down for an explanation. Where can she start when her quarry doesn't want to be found? Each clue she uncovers leads her deeper into intrigue. An Oddity of Some Consequence is a glamorous tale of mystery, romance, and the fountain of youth.

An Oddity of Some Consequence

Romance

Time Travel

Pairings, Ltd.

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