Pro Puppet is an in-depth guide to installing, using, and developing the popular configuration management tool Puppet. The book is a comprehensive follow-up to the previous title Pulling Strings with Puppet. Puppet provides a way to automate everything from user management to server configuration. Y[...]

An inspirational guide to personal and professional development for teachers.

Spring is the season when buds burst into blossom, hibernating animals awake from their winter's sleep and new life begins all around us. A variety of information about the spring months, including the types of weather we experience and what people and animals do during the springtime. A series of f[...]

Build beautiful interactive maps on your Drupal website, and tell engaging visual stories with your data. This concise guide shows you how to create custom geographical maps from top to bottom, using Drupal 7 tools and out-of-the-box modules. You'll learn how mapping works in Drupal, with examples o[...]

The author of the international bestseller Almost French sets sail to explore a new paradise: Tahiti. Sarah Turnbull turns her characteristically lush prose to this spectacular landscape as she describes adjusting to another new culture. In All Good Things, Fr?d?ric's work takes the couple to an isl[...]

Apress has already published leading hardening titles, and welcomes the newest addition: Hardening Linux. If you're responsible for protecting computers that run on Linux, then this highly valuable book will show you how. Crucial topics such as file security, enhanced email security, and IMAP, DNS a[...]

Competent system administrators know their success hinges upon being able to perform often tedious tasks with rigor and punctuality. Such metrics are often achieved only by instituting a considerable degree of automation, something that has become even more crucial as IT environments continue to sca[...]

Toyo Ito: Generative order is based on the Kenneth Kassler endowed lecture delivered by Ito at Princeton University School of Architecture in the spring of 2009. The book is delivered primarily in Ito's voice, through the lecture transcript, which is the focus of the book, and through extended inter[...]

One of the most popular and effective forms of psychotherapy available today, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (or CBT) has developed rapidly since its inception. In this book Dheeresh Turnbull explores - with wit, common sense and an inclusive spirituality - the latest developments in CBT, building on[...]

This volume is concerned with the machinery of mediaeval siegecraft as used by Chinese, Mongol, Japanese and Korean armies. Almost all the machinery was initially developed in China, but each country provided a different context into which the siege engines fitted, and distinctive differences reveal[...]