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A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of Malaysia and Singapore
A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of Malaysia and Singapore
Energy-Efficient Building Systems: Green Strategies for Operation and
Proven Strategies and Solutions for Reducing Energy Consumption in Commercial StructuresProperty and facility managers can turn to Energy-Efficient Building Systems as a one-stop guide to operating and maintaining commercial building systems at peak efficiency. Designed to help reduce energy costs and meet environmental standards, this state-of-the-art productivity tool contains fully illustrated, real-world examples of successful green building projects that have achieved significant, energy-saving results.This expert resource takes you step-by-step through procedures for getting optimal performance from every building system. For each system, the book presents the latest methods for improving efficiency... identifying promising new solutions... evaluating their feasibility... and estimating actual savings.Comprehensive and authoritative, Energy-Efficient Building Systems enables you to:Get an in-depth understanding of the principles of each building system Select the most efficient systems for any nonresidential building Maximize energy efficiency with practical strategies and solutions Review real-world examples of successful green building projectsInside This Cost-Saving Energy Guide:* Energy Management and Energy Auditing ??? Air-Conditioning and Central Chiller Systems ??? Boilers and Heating Systems ??? Pumping Systems ??? Cooling Towers ??? Air Handling and Distribution Systems ??? Lighting Systems ??? Building Electrical Systems ??? Building Automation Systems ??? Building EnvelopeLal Jayamahais a mechanical engineer and the director of the PREMAS Energy Centre, in Singapore. He has more than 15 years of industrial and academic experience in energy efficiency. He has been the team leader for energy audits and energy retrofit projects involving office buildings, retail malls, institution buildings, hotels, hospitals and industrial plant. He is a Professional Engineer (PE) and a Chartered Engineer (UK). He is also a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK and the American Society for Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). Dr. Jayamaha has published a number of research papers and has been a key speaker at energy efficiency seminars held throughout the world. He has been a guest lecturer at the National University of Singapore for the last seven years.
Hacker's Challenge 3: 20 Brand New Forensic Scenarios & Solutions
The stories about phishing attacks against banks are so true-to-life, it???s chilling.??? ???Joel Dubin, CISSP, Microsoft MVP in SecurityEvery day, hackers are devising new ways to break into your network. Do you have what it takes to stop them? Find out in Hacker???s Challenge 3. Inside, top-tier security experts offer 20 brand-new, real-world network security incidents to test your computer forensics and response skills. All the latest hot-button topics are covered, including phishing and pharming scams, internal corporate hacking, Cisco IOS, wireless, iSCSI storage, VoIP, Windows, Mac OS X, and UNIX/Linux hacks, and much more. Each challenge includes a detailed explanation of the incident???how the break-in was detected, evidence and clues, technical background such as log files and network maps, and a series of questions for you to solve. In Part II, you???ll get a detailed analysis of how the experts solved each incident.Exerpt from ???Big Bait, Big Phish???:The Challenge: ???Could you find out what???s going on with the gobi web server? Customer order e-mails aren???t being sent out, and the thing???s chugging under a big load?????? Rob e-mailed the development team reminding them not to send marketing e-mails from the gobi web server???. ???Customer service is worried about some issue with tons of disputed false orders???.??? Rob noticed a suspicious pattern with the ???false??? orders: they were all being delivered to the same P.O. box???He decided to investigate the access logs. An external JavaScript file being referenced seemed especially strange, so he tested to see if he could access it himself???. The attacker was manipulating the link parameter of the login.pl application. Rob needed to see the server side script that generated the login.pl page to determine the purpose???.The Solution: After reviewing the log files included in the challenge, propose your assessment: What is the significance of the attacker???s JavaScript file? What was an early clue that Rob missed that might have alerted him to something being amiss? What are some different ways the attacker could have delivered the payload? Who is this attack ultimately targeted against? Then, turn to the experts' answers to find out what really happened.David Pollino has a strong background in security, wireless, and networking. David is currently a security practitioner working in financial services. During his career, he has worked for an industry-leading security consulting company, a large financial services company, and a tier 1 ISP. David often speaks at security events and has frequently been quoted in online and printed journals regarding security issues. During his career as a consultant and network engineer, David has worked for clients across multiple industries, including financial services, service providers, high technology, manufacturing, and government. He co-authored Wireless Security (RSA Press, 2002) and Hacker's Challenge and Hacker's Challenge 2 (McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2001 and 2002, respectively).Bill Pennington, CISSP, has six years of professional experience in information security and eleven years in information technology. His duties at WhiteHat include managing research and development, guiding product and technology direction, managing web application assessment teams, and developing and delivering WhiteHat Security training. Bill has performed web application assessments for more than four years in a variety of industry verticals including financial services, e-commerce, and biotechnology. He is familiar with Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, Windows, and OpenBSD, and he is a Certified Information Security Systems Practitioner (CISSP) and Certified Cisco Network Administrator (CCNA). He has broad experience in web application security, penetration testing, computer forensics, and intrusion detection systems. Prior to joining WhiteHat, Bill was a principal consultant and technical lead for assessment services at Guardent, a nationwide security services provider.Tony Bradley, CISSP-ISSAP, MCSE2k, has eight years of computer networking and administration experience, focusing the last four on network security and malware protection. Tony is a network security architect providing design, implementation, and management of network security solutions for a variety of Fortune 500 customers. He is also the editor and writer for the About.com Internet/Network Security website and frequently contributes to a variety of technical and security publications, both in print and on the Web. You can view his writing portfolio at http://www.s3kur3.com.Himanshu Dwivedi is a founding partner of iSEC Partners, an independent provider of information security services and tools. He has 12 years of experience in security and IT. Before forming iSEC, he was Technical Director for @stake's Bay Area security practice. Himanshu's professional focus includes strategic security services, which leverages his experience with software development, infrastructure security, application security, tool development, and secure product design. He is considered an industry expert in storage security, specifically Fibre Channel/iSCSI SANs and CIFS/NFS NAS systems. Himanshu has presented at major security conferences throughout the world, including Black Hat, Storage Networking World, Syscan Singapore, and Bellua Indonesia. Himanshu also has a patent pending for a storage security design architecture that can be implemented on enterprise storage products for Fibre Channel networks. Himanshu has also authored two additional security books, including Securing Storage: A Practical Guide to SAN and NAS Security (Addison-Wesley, 2005) and Implementing SSH: Strategies for Optimizing the Secure Shell (Wiley, 2003).
How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology
In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci, and qu poems. A comprehensive introduction and extensive thematic table of contents highlight the thematic, formal, and prosodic features of Chinese poetry, and each chapter is written by a scholar who specializes in a particular period or genre. Poems are presented in Chinese and English and are accompanied by a tone-marked romanized version, an explanation of Chinese linguistic and poetic conventions, and recommended reading strategies. Sound recordings of the poems are available online free of charge. These unique features facilitate an intense engagement with Chinese poetical texts and help the reader derive aesthetic pleasure and insight from these works as one could from the original. Contributors: Robert Ashmore (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Zong-qi Cai; Charles Egan (San Francisco State); Ronald Egan (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara); Grace Fong (McGill); David R. Knechtges (Univ. of Washington); Xinda Lian (Denison); Shuen-fu Lin (Univ. of Michigan); William H. Nienhauser Jr. (Univ. of Wisconsin); Maija Bell Samei; Jui-lung Su (National Univ. of Singapore); Wendy Swartz (Columbia); Xiaofei Tian (Harvard); Paula Varsano (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Fusheng Wu (Univ. of Utah)
Squeamish about Sushi: And Other Food Adventures in Japan
While eating out in Japan can be an exotically delicious dining experience, it is not without its potential pitfalls. How do you tell a poisonous piece of puffer-fish from an innocuous piece of sushi? Squeamish About Sushi is a tantalizing, tongue-in-cheek guide to Japanese food-an indispensable reference for ex-pats, visitors, and Japanophiles everywhere! Squeamish About Sushi will help confused eaters to: * Decipher the menu * Avoid unwise dining decisions * Stay within their budget * And much, much more Author Bio: Betty Reynolds was an art director at an advertising agency for twenty-two years before she moved to Singapore, and her current residence, Tokyo. She is the author of Clueless in Tokyo and Tokyo Friends.
Utopia Guide to Singapore (2nd Edition: The Gay and Lesbian Scene in the Lion City
Utopia Guide to Singapore (2nd Edition: The Gay and Lesbian Scene in the Lion City
Utopia Guide to Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia: The Gay and Lesbian Scene in 60+ Cities Including Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Johor Bahru and the Islands
Utopia Guide to Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia: The Gay and Lesbian Scene in 60+ Cities Including Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Johor Bahru and the Islands