April 2013 | Assurance Wireless Program

CompTIA A+ Certification Practice Exams (Exams 220-701 & 220-702) (Certification Press) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)First off, if you're planning to use this as a primary reference for your A+ exam...DON'T. There are errors in the material. Second, if you're one of those who is able to memorize questions and answers and recall them at will, this book won't help you at all, because the CompTIA exam questions are NOT...

Security Administrator Street Smarts: A Real World Guide to CompTIA Security+ Skills Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Not an Exam Cram type of book, this book is aimed at giving newcomers to the security field a solid background and understanding of what the job entails. Only incidentally does this book follow the CompTIA Security+ certificate examination (Exam #SY0-101) recommendations and thus provide a dual purpose....

Flames in the Field: The Story of Four SOE Agents in Occupied France Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Flames in the Field is a searing account of the heroic efforts of British and French resistance fighters during World War II. Rita Kramer manages to combine both historical detail and subtle character studies in a story that has suspenseful and surprising twists. Although the book is meticulously researched,...

American Empire: The Victorious Opposition Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The echoes of war loom over a divided North American continent in Harry Turtledove's American Empire: The Victorious Opposition, the third book in the middle trilogy of books. Starting with The Great War saga, Turtledove has told a tale of alternate history, with the Confederacy having won the Civil...

Secrets of Question Based Selling: How the Most Powerful Tool in Business Can Double Your Sales Results Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is perhaps the best all-around sales book I have ever read. While other books point out much needed information, or say the same thing with a different perspective that is sometimes necessary to understand a point, this book should be THE starting point for any sales professional. This book has...

Applied Data Communications: A Business-Oriented Approach Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I just finished a course on data communications at a local college. Since I knew absolutely nothing about the topic. I had nowhere to go but up. Mr Goldman's book is very readable and is chock filled with charts, checkoff lists and such that I will use when I get into the IT field. His objective to get...

Managers, Can You Hear Me Now?: Hard-Hitting Lessons on How to Get Real Results Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Denny F. Strigl, former CEO and president of Verizon Wireless, is a no-holds-barred type of guy. Writing with performance consultant Frank Swiatek, Strigl offers straight-shooting advice for managers and those who aspire to the role. The authors lay out exactly what's required of you every day to become...

Very Truly Yours, Nikola Tesla Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Very informative as to the way Tesla expressed himself concerning his works, he was a very eloquent speaker as well as an electrical genius.Click Here to see more reviews about: Very Truly Yours, Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla was a man of letters. He wrote many letters to the editors of the magazines and...

CCNA Exam Prep (Exam 640-802) (2nd Edition) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I've been through ALL the CCNA books out there -- from Lammle's CCNA book to all the various CCNA study guides and so on -- and this one book by Jeremy Cioara is the absolute best available.The cover of this book looks generic and nondescript, but Cioara has an ability to not only communicate in an amazingly...

Black Ice: The Invisible Threat of Cyber-Terrorism Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Verton's book is full of hyperbole, repetition, unsupported statements, and contradictions. It is poorly written, poorly organized, and poorly edited. His "research" consists mostly of quoting his own magazine articles (29 times) and the magazine he writes for (16 times). By comparison, he quotes from...

Return Engagement (Settling Accounts Trilogy, Book 1) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)First of all, I really like the plot of this series of books by Harry Turtledove. He is very imaginative in fashioning the alternative history following a Confederate victory in the Civil War. I also like his plot device of showing all events through the eyes of a large and diverse cast of characters.But......

Discovering Computers 2009: Complete (Shelly Cashman) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is the first review I've written on Amazon, or anywhere else for that matter, but Discovering Computers 2009 Complete is so unbelievably bad that I had to say something, hopefully helping some poor soul from using this so-called text as a source of information. I am using this as a textbook in a...

iPad: The Missing Manual Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The extensive features in Apple's newest creation, the "magical" iPad, deserve this new book in The Missing Manual series. In addition to its paperback version, iPad: The Missing Manual is available from the publisher, O'Reilly, in four different electronic media versions including ePub. This reviewer...

The CEH Prep Guide: The Comprehensive Guide to Certified Ethical Hacking Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I bought Krutz's first book on CISSP prep and found it to be very readable and made difficult concepts more easily understood, at least enough for me to pass my CISSP certification. So far I'm 40% into this text and the same formula is holding true. A good aid for prepping for the CEH.Click Here to see...

Practical Packet Analysis: Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network Problems Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)To use "American Idol" lingo, you've already read reviews by Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul. It's time for the truth from Simon Cowell -- Practical Packet Analysis (PPA) is a disaster. I am not biased against books for beginners; see my five star review of Computer Networking by Jeanna Matthews. I am...

Securing the Smart Grid: Next Generation Power Grid Security Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I've read plenty of infosec related books in the past, but none that do exactly what this one sets out to do - to take information security and apply it solely to a specific industry. The book starts by introducing the two fields - electric grids and information security. It then slowly brings the two...

The Basics of Information Security: Understanding the Fundamentals of InfoSec in Theory and Practice Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Are you a beginning security professional; as well as, a network and system administrator? If you are, then this book is for you! Author Jason Andress, has done an outstanding job of writing a book that can be used to develop a better understanding of how to protect information assets and defend against...