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The Definitive Guide to Ubuntu--Covers Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Maximize the powerful features of Ubuntu with expert guidance, tips, and techniques from bestselling Linux author Richard Petersen. Packed with clear explanations and detailed examples, this comprehensive volume shows you how to get off the ground with Ubuntu, set up hardware and Internet connections, and use the latest system and network administration utilities.
Ubuntu: The Complete Reference covers the desktops, shells, and administration tools for users, printers, services, and networks. Get full details on the latest Ubuntu-compatible office, mail, Web, and multimedia software, along with remote access (Vinagre), virtualization (KVM and Xen) and service managment (Upstart).You'll also learn how to interoperate with Windows networks and deploy reliable security using PolicyKit, Seahorse, AppArmor, SELinux, netfilter, and the Secure Shell.
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<li>Install Ubuntu using Live CDs, the Install DVD, or Wubi Windows virtual disk</li>
<li>Configure printers, devices, and network connections 
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<li>Access Linux using GNOME, KDE, KDE4, and XFce desktops 
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<li>Manage software with Synaptic Package Manager and APT 
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<li>Work with the BASH shell command, configuration, and file management capabilities 
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<li>Use office, Web (Firefox 3), mail, and multimedia applications (PulseAudio) 
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<li>Manage file systems including RAID and LVM 
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<li>Secure Ubuntu using PolicyKit authentication, Seahorse encryption, SSH and Kerberos security, AppArmor access controls, and Firestarter and UFW firewalls 
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<li>Use SAMBA and NFS to share network resources 
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Ubuntu: The Complete Reference

Computers & Technology

PETERSEN

Certification

McGraw=Hill

Dictionary of Demographies/Biographies A-L

PETERSEN, William

Petersen, Renee

Biographies & Memoirs

Greenwood Pub Group

Dictionary of Demographies/Biographies M-Z

The scope of this Dictionary is the past and present determinants and consequences of population trends throughout the world. With the collaboration of an international panel of fifty-seven experts, authors William Petersen and Renee Petersen have included not only the subject matter of demography and related disciplines but the institutional setting and results of research in countries around the world. The subject matter of formal demography is given its proper prominent place. Such terms as cohort are defined, such tools as the life table and the computer are described, and key topics like fertility, mortality, and migration are expounded in essays of some depth. Medical terms that one is likely to find in a work on demography are defined, and there are full discussions of major diseases of the past and of current causes of death. Notable demographic studies are described. Several dozen computer programs, usually labelled only with their acronyms, are identified and described. Other entries detail the effect on population trends of political movements, major religions, and membership in particular ethnic groups. Almost every entry is supplemented by a list of references to sources of additional information. A very full index notes every mention of persons, countries, and major topics of demographic analysis, organizing the Dictionary's great store of information for quick and easy reference.

Terms V1

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Dictionary of Demography: Concepts, and Institutions N-Z

Sickness and death are unavoidable facts of life. However, the likelihood of becoming ill or being disabled, and the experience and circumstances of dying, are not haphazard. Social relations shape health status, illness experience, responses to the sick and definitions of care. Health Matters presents contemporary perspectives and empirical evidence in the sociology of health, focusing on inequalities in health and illness, healthcare and prevention. Chapters cover ethnicity and health, perspectives on the body, the study of health and the emotions, postmodernism and health, psychiatric disability and community-based care, health and the discourse of weight control, the health consumer's perspective, health status in developing economies, healthcare and the popular media, medical practice and medical authority, and inequalities in healthcare in late modern societies. The collection offers a 'state of the art' overview of recent scholarship in the sociology of health, and includes contributions from the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. It will be of interest to undergraduates in sociology, particularly those in the sociology of health, students in social work, nursing and public health, as well as postgraduates and established researchers.

Health Matters

Sociology

Open University Press

Health Matters: A Sociology of Illness, Prevention and Care

Open University Pres

Health Risk and Vulnerability

The concept of risk is one of the most suggestive terms for evoking the cultural character of our times and for defining the purpose of social research. Risk attitudes and behaviours are understood to comprise the dominant experience of culture, politics and society in our times. Health, Risk and Vulnerability investigates the personal and political dimensions of health risk that structure everyday thought and action. In this innovative book, international contributors reflect upon the meaning and significance of risk across a broad range of social and institutional contexts, exploring current issues such as: <ul>
<li>the ‘escalation of the medicalization of life’, involving the pathologization of normality and blurring of the divide between clinical and preventive medicine</li> <li>the tendency for mental health service users to be regarded as representing a risk to others rather than being ‘at risk’ and vulnerable themselves</li> <li>the development of health care systems to identify risk and prevent harm</li> <li>women’s reactions to ‘high risk’ screening results during pregnancy and how they communicate with other women about risk</li> <li>men and the use the internet to reconstruct their social and sexual identities</li> </ul> Charting new terrain in the sociology of health and risk, and focusing on the connections between them, Health, Risk and Vulnerability offers new perspectives on an important field of contemporary debate and provides an invaluable resource for students, teachers, researchers, and policy makers.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

WILKINSON

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge

The concept of risk is one of the most suggestive terms for evoking the cultural character of our times and for defining the purpose of social research. Risk attitudes and behaviours are understood to comprise the dominant experience of culture, politics and society in our times.  Health, Risk and Vulnerability investigates the personal and political dimensions of health risk that structure everyday thought and action. In this innovative book, international contributors reflect upon the meaning and significance of risk across a broad range of social and institutional contexts, exploring current issues such as:    the ‘escalation of the medicalization of life’, involving the pathologization of normality and blurring of the divide between clinical and preventive medicine   the tendency for mental health service users to be regarded as representing a risk to others rather than being ‘at risk’ and vulnerable themselves   the development of health care systems to identify risk and prevent harm   women’s reactions to ‘high risk’ screening results during pregnancy and how they communicate with other women about risk   men and the use the internet to reconstruct their social and sexual identities   Charting new terrain in the sociology of health and risk, and focusing on the connections between them, Health, Risk and Vulnerability offers new perspectives on an important field of contemporary debate and provides an invaluable resource for students, teachers, researchers, and policy makers.  

Across The Bridge to China

Dutton Juvenile

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