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 | | By: Hadassa Ben-Itto ISBN: 0853035954 Publisher: Mitchell Vallentine & Company Release Date: April, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 483161
| I would just like to say that since the author is a Judge and not a historian the one thing that I didn't like about the book was the fact that no footnotes or endnotes were present. In case I wanted to look up something the author had written, I would be at a disadvantage as I wouldn't know where to begin to find that information.
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<br />Other than that, this is to date the most comprehensive book that I've read on the history of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." This is my fourth book on the subject and I must commend the author on her diligence. Although at times I thought the "emotions" ascribed to the characters in this book were a bit overboard, the story will draw you in like a modern mystery thriller.
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<br />The characters are well developed and we learn about each one as well as their motivations and what they planned to get out of either creating this forgery or propagating it. I personally never knew that so many people had taken part in this forgery, in terms of both its creation and distribution in Russia, not to speak of Europe, which followed closely after. It was also in Europe that this forgery made the biggest impact and not in Russia where it was initially supposed to have been used, it was mentioned and readily forgotten after investigations into its authenticity proved that it was a fake.
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<br />To describe all the layers of this story is beyond this review, suffice it to say that I would highly recommend this book. The book is well written with a few typos here and there easily overlooked. The author does a good job handling so much material and so many characters so that the reader is hardly ever confused about who is being discussed, during what time period, and in what location. What more is there to say? A proven forgery, over and over again, with nothing in its defense aside from the fact that it exists. Learn its tragic story here. I will only add that sadly there is no concrete evidence as to why this book was written, theories exist and there is circumstantial proof for a few of them, but nothing that will support a 'beyond a reasonable doubt' type reason. Even so, the fact that this is a forgery and easily proven to be just that is the truth of the matter, the exact reason for this forgery's creation will have to remain a mystery.
This book is highly readable and provides an absorbing accounting of some of the court cases involving the so called Protocols. I especially liked the way one layer after another of evidence. That can make it hard to keep your place in the story if you only do a few pages at a time. If you like details and legal considerations then this is quite interesting.
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<br />This book is a good complement to Warrant for Genocide by Cohn. The original literary source of the Protocols is also very interesting after reading Ben-Itto's book and it's available in a modern edition titled: : The Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu: Humanitarian Despotism and the Conditions of Modern Tyranny" (Paperback) by Maurice Joly.
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<br />How ironic that Joly's material actually inspired imitation by those who instead critized and tried to crush the Jewish people unjustly. I wonder if Stalin and Hitler had a copy of this or the protocols by their bed sides. Continuing spread of the protocols shows how contagious evil can be.
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<br />Now it's time for someone (maybe our author) to pickup from this with a more pointed focus on current middle eastern mis-use of the protocols. Those turn of the century Czarist agents generated a best seller that continues to provoke outrage. What a blight on the world. People need to realize how much ugly and nasty stuff like this exists and motivates so many in our troubled world and then tell others.
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<br />Great work Ms Ben-Itto !
The author, a judge, has researched and laid out all the evidence for the reader. Her opus transcends anything written on this subject before. The history of the Protocols and its many manifestations and clones reads like an unfolding mistery. The Lie That Would Not Die continues to resurface: in the crude threats and vituperations of Moslem jihadists and mullahs; in the speeches of so called ambassadors at the United Nations; in the fulminations of "elected" leaders such as the President of
<br />Iran; in schoolbooks throughout Arab and Moslem nations;in the broadcast and printed media; and most lamentably, in the halls of academe even in prestigious Ivy League schools. This is must reading and belongs on the shelves of all libraries and schools.
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![]() | | By: D. Morton, J. Ganeles, D. Wismeijer, D. Buser, U. Belser ISBN: 3938947128 Publisher: Not Avail Release Date: 31 January, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 695448
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 | | By: Zhili Sun ISBN: 0470870273 Publisher: Wiley Release Date: 21 October, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 805518
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 | | By: Patricia Martinez-Miller ISBN: 1578867363 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education Release Date: 28 December, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 850142
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 | | By: Mostafa Hashem Sherif ISBN: 0849315093 Publisher: CRC Release Date: 24 November, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 794936
| This title contains excellent explanation on protocols of various types of electronic payment systems. The contents are not limited to well-known protocols such as SSL and SET (even these are explained clearly)-- the authors succeeded in writing on almost all payment systems from today's systems of banks and EDI to cryptographic protocols including micropayment (NetBill, Millicent, Mondex, etc.) and some digital moneys. Also mechanisms of integrated circuit cards are included. Most protocols are clearly described with many charts. If you want to be familiar with electronic payment systems, this book is a must. |
 | | By: Peter D. Barnett ISBN: 0849308607 Publisher: CRC Release Date: 27 June, 2001 Bioscience book rank: 757019
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 | | By: Martin Welschof, Jürgen Krauss ISBN: 0896039188 Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 15 July, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 846594
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 | | By: Peter Rybaczyk ISBN: 1590594843 Publisher: Apress Release Date: 22 June, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 493985
| I wanted a book that explains how NTP works, so I gambled $4.00 on a used copy of this one.
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<br />I lost.
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<br />If you want some lightweight handholding in setting up an NTP configuration, especially on Unix/Linux systems, this book would be OK. It's no substitute for the reference documentation that comes with NTP software, but it does give a reasonable overview--the sort of thing that could be easily conveyed in a ten-page white paper, not a whole book.
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<br />However, if you want a robust explanation of what NTP does to handle errors, clock drift, and communication problems, this isn't it. There are a few packet dumps, but the explanation doesn't say much about what the packets mean, and doesn't begin to touch on how the protocol actually works.
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<br />I fund no outright errors in the book, just an extraordinary percentage of fluff. I should have bought [[ASIN:0849358051 Computer Network Time Synchronization: The Network Time Protocol]] in the first place.
This is not /really/ a book on how to impliment NTP. Over half the book is devoted to the history of NTP. There's even one chapter on the science of time, the history of the gregorian calendar and other trivial information. There's even a poem thrown in there for good measure.
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<br />Chapter five has a big commercial for Symmetricom's NTP appliance.
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<br />I was looking for was a exhaustive guide for implimenting *ntpd. I wanted to know how to understand the output of all the different commands on the ntpd console. I wanted to know how to troubleshoot the clock skew on my Dell servers running Linux and ntpd.
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<br />Instead, I got a book with pages devoted to "The Networking Aspects of the Trojan War" ... ???
<br />I once heard a Buddhist master, speaking of the nature of maya declare, "Time is not; space is not." But when I have to catch a bus, I find myself much less interesrted in philosophy than in being at the bus stop at the same illusory time as the bus.
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<br />Now, if you think that concept is a bit too commonplace to be worth mentioning, consider the consequences when said bus is carrying "passengers" traveling at the speed of light, such as the electronic denizens of our computers.
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<br />As Elvis would put it, "There's a whole lot a shakin' goin' on in there." And for a guy like me, whose tolerance for complexity doesn't extend beyond rebuilding a 1960 Chevy standard tranny, I think stuff like Network Time Protocol is a Godsend. Keeping track of differences in clock precision, different operation modes--server, client, host and peer, symmetric active, symmetric passive, broadcast, multicast, manycast/anycast, and a veritable multitude of variables determining the success or failure of the transmission and reception of a simple message could definitely affect your ability to get a good night's sleep. Praise NTP.
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<br />But that's just the beginning. As Rybaczyk points out, there is more to this univese than us poor Horatios ever dreamt of in our philosophy. If we are ever to succeed in deep space travel, for instance, we will have a lot more than wristwatch consulting to keep us busy as we attempt to coordinate extraterrestrial events. Rybaczyk even joins forces with Pandora as he forces us to peer into the black box of life at the quantum level. "Different strokes for different folks," they say. Well, how does one know when the stroke of, say 9 pm, occurs when the operational time frame is in billionths of a second and even the concept of a "second" is relative conjecture?
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<br />Personally, I am content with "Que sera sera" and enjoying the modulating frequencies of a setting sun. But some of our species seems bent on other schemes. They would do well to study Rybaczyk's very first chapter, "Multiple Views of Time," before burying themselves in untimely assumptions. Sam, Rybaczyk's protagonist, adroitly navigates the temporal stream, punctuating the story liberally with asides--humorous, informative, dramatic, zealous, some even a bit caustic--only to finally arrive at the conclusion that NTP lies at the heart of a possible future (silly concept) in which memory is shorn of its mystery, time is transcended, and the past, present and future are found to be mere figments of minds mired in mythical maya, mostly oblivious to Shakespeare's observation, "we are such stuff as dreams are made on."
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<br />Get Rybaczyk's book. Even if you have no professional interest in computing, read the first three chapters. Partake of the author's fantastic ability to draw analogies between everyday and historical events and the inner workings of the computers we have become so dependent upon. Share his amusement at time's seemingly innocent and subtle, yet fantastically determinative influence upon the experience of our unique down-to-earth version of the timeless beyond.
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![]() | | By: Kenneth D. Reed ISBN: 1586761145 Publisher: WestNet Learning Release Date: 25 September, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 417401
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 | | By: Shulin Li ISBN: 1588298779 Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 01 February, 2008 Bioscience book rank: 904900
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