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Shelf Mark Ballora, assistant professor of integrative arts and music. Essentials of Music Technology, published by Prentice Hall. The book is a concise introduction to the principal topics of music technology, including acoustics, computers, digital audio and tools of music production. It teaches the underlying theories of music technology concepts that will remain the foundation of any future developments in music products. Peng Liu, assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences and Technology. Trusted Recovery and Defensive Information Warfare, published by Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. This book addresses information security and proposes a set of innovative algorithms to enable database recovery after an attack that compromises, impairs or disrupts a data object. Unlike traditional information security research that has emphasized prevention, the research of Liu and co-author Sushil Jajodia, BDM professor and chairman of the Department of Information and Software Engineering and director of the Center for Secure Information Systems at George Mason University, focuses on a new model of recovery that can handle single, multiple or simultaneous attacks and that can be done on-the-fly while new transactions are occurring. D.B. Litvin, professor of physics. International Tables for Crystallography, Volume E: Subperiodic Groups, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London. This book, co-authored by V. Kopsky of the Institute of Physics in the Czech Academy of Sciences, tabulates the seven frieze groups, the 75 rod groups and the 80 layer groups and the classification and mathematical properties of atomic arrangements invariant under these groups. This includes the diagrams of the symmetry elements and of the general position, list of symmetry operations; general and special positions with multiplicities, site symmetries, coordinates and reflection conditions, symmetries of special projections and extensive subgroup and supergroup data. Philip Winsor, executive editor, University Press until his retirement in 1998. Restoration, published by Xlibris The novel tells the story of Michael Theodore, the second son of the late King Justin of Marania, 60 years after being hastily sent to America to save him from a revolution that had broken out in that country. Theodore, who was 10 at the time he fled Marania, wonders what it would be like to see his homeland again. |