The infinity cage

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Ray Duncan

Discusses programming tools, communication, file management, directories, multitasking, and customizing with the OS/2 operating system.

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Ted Dekker

Seventeen-year-old Nyah Parks is a genius hacker who makes a living by cracking the firewalls of the world's largest corporations. But when the biggest job of her life goes wrong, she's plunged into a desperate situation with only one way out: one last hack that will either save her or kill her.

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Blake Watson

If you're a programmer, don't limit yourself to Windows, Mac OS, and UNIX. On thousands of PCs -- especially those in large corporations -- IBM's OS/2 Warp is running happily. Now, in OS/2 Warp Programming For Dummies, you can discover how to create applications to run on all those OS/2 Warp platforms -- and how to port existing applications to OS/2 Warp. With programmer and best-selling author Blake Watson to guide you, you'll quickly get up to speed on everything from OS/2 Warp's object-oriented graphical user interface to preemptive multitasking. Plus, you'll find how-to information on the WorkPlace Shell (WPS), as well as multithreading, windows, messages, and controls.

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James Fairhead and Melissa Leach

Islands of dense forest in the savanna of 'forest' Guinea have long been regarded by both scientists and policy-makers as the last relics of a once more extensive forest cover, degraded and degrading fast due to its inhabitants' land use. Through meticulous use of historical sources, and an investigation of inhabitants' technical knowledge and practices, James Fairhead and Melissa Leach question these entrenched assumptions. They show, on the contrary, how people have created forest islands around their villages, and how they have turned fallow vegetation more woody, so that population growth has implied more forest, not less. They also consider the origins, persistence and consequences of a century of erroneous policy. . Interweaving historical, social anthropological and ecological data, this unique study advances a novel theoretical framework for ecological anthropology, forcing a radical re-examination of some central tenets in each of these disciplines.