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Ballantine Books 2005; US$ 7.99Executive producer Mark Burnett has revolutionized television. Phrases from his smash-hit reality shows–“The tribe has spoken” and “You’re fired”–have become part of our cultural lexicon. So how did a British immigrant with very little cash and absolutely no connections become his own entertainment empire?... more...
Perfect Password
Elsevier Science 2006; US$ 25.95User passwords are the keys to the network kingdom, yet most users choose overly simplistic passwords (like password) that anyone could guess, while system administrators demand impossible to remember passwords littered with obscure characters and random numerals. Every computer user must face the problems of password security. According to a recent... more...
Hacking the Code
Elsevier Science 2004; US$ 53.95Hacker Code will have over 400 pages of dedicated exploit, vulnerability, and tool code with corresponding instruction. Unlike other security and programming books that dedicate hundreds of pages to architecture and theory based flaws and exploits, HC1 will dive right into deep code analysis. Previously undisclosed security research in combination... more...
The Survivor Manual
St. Martin's Press 2011; US$ 7.99The Survivor Manual is the real deal--based on techniques taught to the U.S. Armed Forces and tested in actual survival situations over decades, the information in this book could help you beat any weather condition, any circumstance, any odds. This fully illustrated guide will show you how to: --find direction and orienteer --perform first... more...
Constructing Monsters in Shakespeare's Drama and Early Modern Culture
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 155.00Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture argues for the crucial place of the 'monster' in the early modern imagination. Burnett traces the metaphorical significance of 'monstrous' forms across a range of early modern exhibition spaces - fairground displays, 'cabinets of curiosity' and court entertainments - to contend... more...
Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 28.00This exciting new title investigates the explosion of Shakespeare films during the 1990s and beyond. Linking fluctuating 'Shakespeares' with the growth of a global marketplace, the dissolution of national borders and technological advances, this book produces a fresh awareness of our contemporary cultural moment. more...
Shakespeare and World Cinema
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00This book explores the significance of Shakespeare in contemporary world cinema for the first time. more...
Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture
Palgrave Macmillan 1997; US$ 160.00Drawing upon archival material as well as the drama, popular verse and pamphlets, this book reads representations of masters and servants in relation to key Renaissance preoccupations. Apprentices, journeymen, male domestic servants, maidservants and stewards, Burnett argues, were deployed in literary texts to address questions about the exercise of... more...
Microsoft Log Parser Toolkit
Elsevier Science 2005; US$ 41.95HIGHLIGHT Written by Microsoft's Log Parser developer, this is the first book available on Microsoft's popular yet undocumented log parser tool. The book and accompanying Web site contain hundreds of customized, working scripts and templates that system administrators will find invaluable for analyzing the log files from Windows Server, Snort IDS,... more...
Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 107.46This bold new collection offers an innovative discussion of Shakespeare on screen after the millennium. Cutting-edge, and fully up-to-date, it surveys the rich field of Bardic film representations, from Michael Almereyda?s Hamlet to the BBC ?Shakespea(Re)-Told? season, from Michael Radford?s The Merchant of Venice to Peter Babakitis? Henry V. In addition... more...









