This well indexed book is a window to understand the relevance of the Right Wing Groups, The Right Wing "Extremist" Ideology, The Threat of the Right Wing on America; be it the threat on the Pillars of Liberty, Freedom or perhaps the apparent threat of the right wing on the constitution.

But most importantly (dangers of) disguising of the old Right as New Right. The most likable thing in this book is that it is based on well researched works and intellectually it is very consummable material ! . Althought this book does not contain any Rhetoric whatsoever, yet It will occur to the reader that the Right Wing Extremism is undiminishing threat (just like Virus strain that changes with environments) = As the old right wants to be perceived as New Right.

The Book is (to me) a reference of the Dangers of the Right Wing's Dogmatic, Anti-Democratic Ideology -- It doesn't take long to realize and accept that The Right Wing Extremist are The Domestic Enemy #1 that USA may have.

Some the chapters go to such details to quite eloborate that the core and the base of many right wing groups in USA is very much in contradiction to the traditions, principles of liberty and freedom that are the very basis of succes of this GREAT Nation.

Read it and read into the lines --- !

Eyes Right is an authoratative anthology of important research and writing about the growth of the right-wing in the United States. This work is epecially useful since it is well organized and well indexed. Contributors include such established progressive scholars as Russ Bellant, Frederick Clarkson, and Sara Diamond, who while not exactly household names, are well regarded among the politically literate. Each them have also published important books that ought to be on the reading list of anyone who starts out with this useful collection.

First off, the CD that comes with the book gives you all of the software that you will need to create and serve web pages/applications to a Palm OS device. This includes a web server, Metrowerks CodeWarrior and more.

The book is full of well explained examples that build up to a fairly sophisticated example by the end.

My favorite parts are the notes, warning and sidebars. The authors give lots of critical information that Palm left out. They'll tell you about things that Palm did wrong, and how to work around them.

Between the book and the CD, this should be everything you need to do Palm Web development.

The book is chock-full of information on Arpa and ArpaNet, but sort of slacks off around 1987.I guess that's only to be expected, the idea was to chronicle the beginnings of the Internet and by the late 80s it was too large for such a slim book to do that era justice.If you want to learn about how the original ArpaNet was put together, the people behind it, and how the Internet's technical foundations were laid, the book is excellent. If you're interested in how Usenet started, how the Web came to be what it is, this isn't the book you want. The book covers the older history, and skims over recent events. It's still quite a valuable addition to your bookshelf. I'm sure someone will come along one day and write a history of the web, usenet, irc and the evolution of MUSHes. The book reads very easily, I thought the balance between the technical and the dramatic story was perfect.

This book provides excellent documentation about the origins of the Internet. The authors conducted hundreds of interviews, which they combined with facts gleamed from thousands of pages of archived materials dating back to the very beginnings of the Net. I've been teaching courses about the Internet for several years, and so I was already familiar with the general timeline of who did what and when. What was fascinating to me about this book was that the authors made it possible to get to know the personalities behind the names and faces. They discussed the motivations of these leaders, the challenges they faced, and the tremendous amount of cooperation that they engaged in. The early part of the book was especially engaging, when the authors discuss the early motivations for setting up ARPANET through the construction of the first 2 nodes. As the Net begins to grow, adding more nodes monthly, Hafner and Lyon must cut back on the level of detail they provide about the main players because so much happens so fast. At that point, my eyes glazed over a little, but overall, I found the book incredibly exciting, and a very important contribution to the history of the Net.

"Wizardry" is an apt term to describe the work of the many who laid the foundation for what we now know as the Internet. Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon weave together the talents, personalities, idiosyncrasies, obstacles, and triumphs into a compelling and -- given the complexity of the Internet's development -- intelligible history. Hafner and Lyon tell of the work of engineers and researchers of Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), a Cambridge-based computer company backed by the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), which ultimately connected computers across the country.

Readers of this book are spared excessive technical jargon and are instead are kept amused by the many lighthearted moments in the midst of perfectionism and high pressure to produce. This book gave me the context for understanding the hard work behind and rationale for distributed networks, packet-switching, and TCP/IP. I was intrigued by the "accidental" start of E-mail, which is one networking function I cannot do without. I was also inspired by the teamwork, passion and work ethic displayed by those involved, particularly because their intense focus often flew in the face of many detractors and disinterested parties who failed to appreciate the possibilities and usefulness of a distributed network.

The authors also describe the open culture that resulted from the collaborative work, which we see today. In contrast, the reluctance of BBN to release the source codes of the Interface Message Processors (IMP) was a harbinger of the intellectual property issues that would emerge in decades to follow.

So many players were involved in the creation of the Internet, that I found myself needing to back track to keep each person and his (all were men) contribution straight. Not a problem, though. The information in this book was fascinating. I found myself wanting to take my time to absorb as many of the details as possible.

This book covers some topics such as code access security really well but others like ASP.NET security really badly.

The ASP.NET section is almost useless - so few pages and so little information.

It would have been better if the book had been called .NET code access security and didn't bother with the other stuff.

This book is an excellent starting point for understanding the .NET framework security mechanisms. Especially code access security.

Its only real failings are the lack of depth in a few obscure areas (details around simulating permissions that might be granted to an app deployed via the Internet and hosted in IE).

You could glean most of this information from the internet and spend a month doing it, like I did. Or spend $$$ and few hours reading this well written book.

Make no mistake,as you will get your hands wet programming Micrsosoft's "managed code" (C#, VB or ASP.NET apps), you will eventually encounter the all pervasive and extensive security system that is integrated in .Net.
This book is the definite security reference and guide to the new programming platform that Micrsosoft has shipped - and the only book of its kind on the market as far as I can see. It has been written by the people who have designed and implemented the security features and infrastructure in the .NET Framework that ASP.NET, C#, VB or Managed C++ applications run on.
Its stuffed with sample code and hands-on tips, and comes with extensive sections geared specifically towards developers and admins. Chapters are well contained and you get the kind of insider information only the people who have actually build and designed the system would be able to give you.
800 plus pages of security information for the Amazon price is quite a good bang for the buck,so I highly recommend this book as I think it will be a good learning aid in trying to understand .NEt security and remain valuable as a reference work afterwards.

Chip Berlet thinks that anyone who isn't a left-liberal Democrat is part of the Ku Klux Klan. He spends some time attacking actual subversive groups - like the KKK, Aryan Nations, etc. - but he spends just as much time attacking the Republican Party and culturally conservative groups whose agendas have absolutely nothing to do with racism or subversion of the government. I appreciate the attacks on the KKK, but Chip's forays into attacks on the "religious right" just show he's paranoid.

Chip Berlet sees the country awash with racists who want to take over the government, impose Old Testament-based laws on society, and ban the teaching of evolution in schools. Apparently, this neo-nazi juggernaut of a movement is so powerful, crafty, and cunning that it has taken over the largest churches in America, and people who resemble Ned Flanders of the Simpsons are really evil secret agents working on behalf of Bob Jones University.

According to Chip, America has to mobilize to stop the "evangelical menance," by force if necessary, before it's too late and we can't get our daily dose of porn.

There are some genuinely scary right-wing groups (Christian Identity, Aryan Nations, etc. - none of whom are "evangelical" in any sense of the word) and some televangelists whose sociopolitical theory raises eyebrows (Pat Robertson, D. James Kennedy), but there is no anti-democratic, right-wing juggernaut like Chip alleges. Many of the groups and individuals that Chip alleges are part of this "vast right-wing conspiracy" have spent most of their careers working for the rights of prisoners, Sudanese slaves, racial and religious minorities, and other oppressed peoples. The only reason people like Chuck Colson and denominations like the Southern Baptists are labeled "right-wing" in Chip's mind is because they oppose abortion and believe in fairly conservative sexual mores (although their sexual views are nowhere near as conservative as those of Catholics, Muslims, and other groups - which ban contraception, divorce under any circumstances, and non-reproductive sex - that Chip rarely if ever attacks).

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This is a sober, well-reasoned book that deserves a good look. One need only to glance at all the one-star reviews below to see how necessary it is. Scary folks.