Go to your local bookstore and pick up any CISSP study guide or any good security book. You'll find that protecting copyrights is indeed considered security.
I used to be a huge fan of Wrox books.. my bookshelf is filled with many of their older "big red books". One of my favorite technical books ever is their Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming book.. but it was written by ONE author -- Robert Vieira. The books chapters flow smoothly, the author is well-informed, has a great way of presenting the information (much like a conversation) and the book overall is a pleasure to read.
Wrox's newer books, including the one reviewed above, have too many authors. They are often disjointed as each chapter is written by one author. "Too many cooks spoil the broth" applies here so well.
I've moved on to a new favorite publisher -- Addison-Wesley. Their books are often more advanced and although they are often used at Universities, their books are written very well and aren't too "textbookish". I find that Dietel Press and O'reilly are too textbook-like. I used to love Wrox's conversational style of writing that most of the authors had..but its just not the same.
Some of Wrox's reference books are well written and have many authors that created the book, but they are just a reference. You don't need flow.
In conclusion (;) if I need anything other than a reference, I'll consider a Wrox book if there are one or two authors..but anything more than that, and I'm looking more closely at Addison-Wesley, Apress and Morgan Kaufmann.
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than a 10/10 for an Addison Wesley book? AW is simply the best technical book publisher out there.
Go to your local bookstore and pick up any CISSP study guide or any good security book. You'll find that protecting copyrights is indeed considered security.
I used to be a huge fan of Wrox books.. my bookshelf is filled with many of their older "big red books". One of my favorite technical books ever is their Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming book.. but it was written by ONE author -- Robert Vieira. The books chapters flow smoothly, the author is well-informed, has a great way of presenting the information (much like a conversation) and the book overall is a pleasure to read. Wrox's newer books, including the one reviewed above, have too many authors. They are often disjointed as each chapter is written by one author. "Too many cooks spoil the broth" applies here so well. I've moved on to a new favorite publisher -- Addison-Wesley. Their books are often more advanced and although they are often used at Universities, their books are written very well and aren't too "textbookish". I find that Dietel Press and O'reilly are too textbook-like. I used to love Wrox's conversational style of writing that most of the authors had..but its just not the same. Some of Wrox's reference books are well written and have many authors that created the book, but they are just a reference. You don't need flow. In conclusion (;) if I need anything other than a reference, I'll consider a Wrox book if there are one or two authors..but anything more than that, and I'm looking more closely at Addison-Wesley, Apress and Morgan Kaufmann.