books about: incidents

books about: incidents

books:

Incidents

1635: The Dreeson Incident (The Ring of Fire)
Eric Flint, Virginia DeMarce

Baen, 2008

The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the Confederated Principalities of Europe, an alliance between Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident. ...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

Vintage, 2004

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
I read this because a Scottish lady recommended "A Spot of Bother" on a flight from Scotland. It is great. A very unique perspectiv that has helped me to have more empathetic insight and "feel" for the world of autism/aspergers. I offered to my daughter,a 4th grade ...

Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11

Lynn Spencer

Free Press, 2008

touching history
I wanted to know more of what happened, the goings on behind the scenes right after and beyond the day of 9\11. This book was very enlightening. It answered how the planes were grounded. Why the airspace over Washington was able to be invaded. Either the terrorists ...

The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl, Book 2)

Eoin Colfer

Miramax, 2004

Another Excellent Artemis Fowl
Purchased the Audio CDs for travel, and just like Book 1, Nathaniel Parker does an excellent job in narrating. If you enjoy Jim Dale (Harry Potter Series), you'll enjoy Nathaniel Park too. Book 1 picks right up with a ton of adventure and suspense. Like every ...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic

Harriet Jacobs

Prestwick House, Inc., 2006

Rare first hand account of slavery
Harriet Jacobs book Life of a Slave Girl is a unique piece of slave literature directly from the pen of an articulate slave. One gets a sense of the poignant way she can retell the story of her enslavement from a passage she writes in the preface of her book. ...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ...

Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs

Modern Library, 2004

A potent pairing of two essential autobiographies
"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" (first published in 1845) and Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (1861) are probably the two most powerful examples of the slave narrative. This literary form represents the first-person accounts of ...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions)

Harriet Jacobs

Dover Publications, 2001

Unexpected turn of events
It's obvious the difficulty slaves endured. Ironic, but she endures a great deal more than most. How her story ends is not predictable.

Human Resource Management Applications: Cases, Exercises, Incidents, and Skill Builders
Stella M. Nkomo, Myron D. Fottler, ...

South-Western College Pub, 2007

Now you can develop a solid, practical understanding of today's human resource management (HRM) concepts and principles with this single source for contemporary cases, exercises, incidents, and skill builders. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS: CASES, EXERCISES, INCIDENTS, AND SKILL BUILDERS offers a hands-on approach to learning HRM with ...

Beijing Coma: A Novel

Ma Jian

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

I want to read it again!
Ma Jian's Beijing Coma was a really enlightening novel. I learned so much about China- the good and the bad. This novel exposed me for the first time to the horrifying Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square massacre- really important events that no one bothered ...

Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the 60-Year Cover-Up

Thomas J. Carey, Donald R. Schmitt

New Page Books, 2007

Most Comprehensive!
The authors of Witness to Roswell have put together the most comprehensive telling of the Roswell story to date. Although their account of Mack Brazel's discovery of unusual debris and the subsequent well known events is rather general, they do summarize these events, ...

Real Digital Forensics: Computer Security and Incident Response

Keith J. Jones, Richard Bejtlich, ...

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005

Excellent Read
This book is written in such a style that is easy to understand, yet technical and detailed enough to maintain your interest and attention all the way through. The book presents several ways of accomplishing the same tasks in a non-biased, non-vendor-specific way. ...

Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition

Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, ...

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2003

A mile wide, several inches deep, great for filling in gaps
I hate to repeat the cliche, but if you can only buy one security book this year and you are a *nix geek, this should be it, hands down. As some point out, you can probably find everything in this book online, but then again you can find anything online, so why buy ...

Let's Roll!: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage

Lisa Beamer, Ken Abraham

Tyndale House Publishers, 2006

Amazing!
This is an amazing woman with an amazing story to tell. Very easy read. Very thought provoking!

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Mark Haddon

Vintage, 2004

Extremely Raw - and a Super read
In a murder, there is usually one mystery to solve, even though plots are far-fetched and convoluted. This murder (of the dog mentioned in the title) has the actual killing, the highly involved world of the detective, and the question of whether "they all live happily ...

Incident Response and Computer Forensics, Second Edition

Chris Prosise, Kevin Mandia, ...

McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2003

The Very Best Computer Forensics Primer Out There (1/04)
As an attorney and a formally-trained computer forensics examiner and instructor who has been tilling the fields of digital evidence for some time, I'm always on the prowl for the next great computer forensics tool or text that's going to help me find the next smoking ...