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Guide to Computer Network Security
This timely textbook presents a comprehensive guide to the core topics in computing and information security and assurance realms, going beyond the security of networks to the ubiquitous mobile communications and online social networks that have become part of daily life. In the context of growing human dependence on a digital ecosystem, this book stresses the importance of security awareness -…
- Edition
- 4th ed. 2017.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031475498
- Collation
- 1 online resource (XXIV, 569 pages 111 illustratio
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 005.8 KIZ g
Digital evidence and computer crime: forensic science, computers and the Inte…
Digital Evidence and Computer Crime, Third Edition provides the knowledge necessary to uncover and use digital evidence effectively in any kind of investigation. The widely-adopted first and second editions introduced thousands of students to this field and helped them deal with digital evidence. This completely updated edition provides the introductory materials that new students require, and …
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780123742681
- Collation
- xxvii, 807 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 363.25968 CAS d
Life 3.0: being human in the age of artificial intelligence
What jobs should be automated? How should our legal systems handle autonomous systems? How likely is the emergence of suprahuman intelligence? A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business--and there is no person better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark. What has A.I. brought us? Where will it lead us? The story of A.I. is the story of intelligence--of life…
- Edition
- First edition.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781101946596
- Collation
- xii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.4834 TEG l
Superintelligence: paths, dangers, strategies
The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate …
- Edition
- First edition.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780199678112
- Collation
- xvi, 328 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.4834 BOS s
Research design: quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, arts-based, and co…
With a new chapter on the literature review, this accessible step-by-step guide to using the five major approaches to research design is now in a thoroughly revised second edition. The prior edition's user-friendly features are augmented by a new companion website with worksheets keyed to each chapter. For each approach, the text presents a template for a research proposal and explains how to c…
- Edition
- 2nd.ed
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781462550883
- Collation
- xx, 323 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 001.42 LEA r
Qualitative research methods: collecting evidence, crafting analysis, communi…
Qualitative Research Methods: Collecting Evidence, Crafting Analysis, Communicating Impact is a comprehensive guide on both the theoretical foundations and practical application of qualitative methodology. Adopting a phronetic-iterative approach, this foundational book leads readers through the chronological progression of a qualitative research project, from designing a study and collecting an…
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781119390787
- Collation
- xx, 412 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 001.42 TRA q
International Politics: Power and Purpose in Global Affairs
A highly engaging introduction to the study of world politics, D'anieri's International Politics: Power and Purpose In Global Affairs, 5th Edition, emphasizes that examining problems from multiple approaches can provide a better understanding. The text uses the theme of power and purpose to examine five paradigms of international relations theory and to connect the scholarly analysis of interna…
- Edition
- 5th ed
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780357136171
- Collation
- xviii, 476 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour),
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- -
- Call Number
- 327 DAN i
International Politics: Power and Purpose in Global Affairs
This is an introduction to the study of world politics. D'Anieri's cohesive pedagogical framework presents the study of international politics as a series of intellectual puzzles and policy problems that help students make the connection between power and purpose, continuity and change, emerging problems and traditional ones. INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: POWER AND PURPOSE IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS, 4th Edit…
- Edition
- 4th ed
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9798214157504
- Collation
- pages cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 327 DAN i
The foundations of social research: meaning and perspective in the research p…
The Foundations of Social Research details the major epistemological stances and theoretical perspectives that colour and shape current social research: positivism; constructionism; interpretivism; critical enquiry, feminism; and postmodernism
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0761961054
- Collation
- vii, 248 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 300.72 CRO f
Practical ethnography: a guide to doing ethnography in the private sector
Ethnography is an increasingly important research method in the private sector, yet ethnographic literature continues to focus on an academic audience. Sam Ladner fills the gap by advancing rigorous ethnographic practice that is tailored to corporate settings where colleagues are not steeped in social theory, research time lines may be days rather than months or years, and research sponsors exp…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781611323894
- Collation
- 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 301.072 LAD p
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