You have a router or routers installed and you are the network manager. You understand how important the security is to the business yet you need a reference manual to help make sure you are taking the right steps to ensure maximum security. This book may be just what you need.

Pike covers the security risks and threats showing you what weaknesses usually occur and how to avoid them. He also goes into detail about what the threats are and the protection you'll need.

Pike shows how important the architecture is and what router services and protocols need to be implemented and setup in order to maintain a high level of security. The design of the firewall and the use of Cisco PIX firewall including the features and configuration is taken apart in the book.

Finally there is excellent coverage of the all important access lists, encryption both symmetric and asymmetric, IPSec management and configuration and coverage of the VPN with PPTP L2TP and IPSec. Overall this is helping me make the network safer and more reliable.

This book is an excellent guide for those who want a complete listing of known published works by most detective fiction writers. Each authors section discusses when the books were printed and textually describes many of the dust jackets. There is also a section in colour showing many of the rare dust jackets as well as the covers of rare books usually found without dust jackets. I have found this book to be a frequently used resource. In addition, many book sellers now cite this as "Cooper and Pike" in their listings to confirm first edition points.

For the first two-thirds of the book, "The Party" follows a dozen or so Mesa and Tabb high school students as they get acquainted with one another, develop mad crushes on each other, and consequently get their hearts broken. All this drama finally cumulates on the night of Polly and Alice McCoy's party, when one of their peers commits suicide--or, at least, it appears to have been self-inflicted. The unsolved homicide/suicide mystery continues with the following two books: "The Dance" (#2) and "The Graduation" (#3).

"The Party" does stretch for quite a bit without any major action, just character development and backstories. In fact, the suicidal party scene doesn't even occur until the last 60 pages of the book, and then quickly speeds by. I'm aware this is a trilogy, so the pace will be a bit slower, but it was a tad boring. Well, maybe not entirely boring, but I just expected more to happen than first dates and football games.

On a good note, though, Pike's writing style is just as great as ever--funny and dramatic at parts (Bubba is definitely the comedy relief here. He's a bit crude, but still very amusing.)--, but this book is not as scary or suspenseful as some of his other books ("Fall into Darkness" is one that comes to mind). I still intend to read the other two books in this trilogy, though. Recommended to Pike fans, as well as teen mystery readers.

Wonder what Canadians do during long, dark winter nights? Plot murders, of course. In yet another entertaining anthology, the Ladies' Killing Circle links rage and revenge with recreation and games. FIT TO DIE features twenty-five selections of fiction spiced with a few tasty poems from a stellar writing stable. Every story engages from paragraph one, Spandexed teens, middle-aged-spread battlers, and galloping grannies at the bridge table, in the exercise room, on the tai chi field or golf course. Try not to read on after these openings: "All the time I was washing pots in the kitchen at Kingston Pen, I was playing golf in my head" or "On our last Tuesday Scrabble night, Mrs. D handed me a sealed lavender envelope and asked me to keep it, 'in case.' Two days later she was dead."
Crime doyenne Mary Jane Maffini weighs in with "Sign of the Times," a gentrification tale which pits neighbour against neighbour, with graffiti artists lurking in the bushes and an ancient dog named Silent Sam. Her consummate talent for the right voice tucks the reader inside the head of a retired art teacher who finds a deadly canvas. Barbara Fradkin, child psychologist, in "Double Trouble" creates a young male persona with aplomb and travels to the hiking hills of Wales, using a darkly-adapted eye reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith's. A coincidence that both leads are named Patrick? H. Mel Malton plants tongue in cheek in a laugh-out-loud romp called "Love Handles." Her likable chubby heroine digs in her heels and her spoon as her obnoxious boyfriend drags her into his fitness craze, choosing "grey hued bean soups and drab green salads like mouldy lace, no dressing" over her "Dijon Chicken with Apricot-Basil Sauce." It's hard not to flag every entry in this collection, but if any story chills to the bone and back, it is R.J. Harlick's "Seigneur Poisson," set in the Quebec wilderness in the middle of a blizzard. Leaving the cozy farmhouse, the "red blur of the barn" behind, stung by driving snow, icy mitts covering his nose, Jacques marches stiffened boots toward a frozen lake in search of his grandfather, ice fishing with the family skeleton, the sinister Hippolyte. The pulse rises with each step as a foregone conclusion bites the heart. The best part of FIT TO DIE is the three other criminous anthologies which precede it.

Garden of the Gods: A Photographic Masterpiece of the Garden of the Gods Park and Pikes Peak by Rich Buzzelli is currently in print and is available in book and gift stores throughout Colorado Springs. Rich Buzzelli was in love with the Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peak. He dedicated his life to photographing the beautiful rock formations and mountains of central Colorado. He specialized in capturing the flow of color and texture of nature's activities, specifically the interplay between the sky, the clouds, the trees. and the rocks. Buzzelli was one of the few artists who have paid the ultimate price for his craft. He was killed by lighting while photographing the scenery of Pikes Peak. All those who share Buzzelli's appreciation for the Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peak would be fascinated by this special photo collection.

The Great Pikes Peak Gold Rush by author and western history buff Robert L. Brown is a solid, historical, thoroughly researched presentation and analysis of the historical events leading up to the mass dash for gold in Colorado territory, and the gold rush's legacy on Colorado and American society and culture, past and present. Black-and-white photographs and sketches illustrate this engrossing and highly recommended factual account of a key American experience whose impact on the culture, history, legends, and settlement of the West still that lingers on to this very day.

The story is engaging enough for children, and lighthearted adults will find themselves following along willingly. The characters are easily distinguished by the different voices, and are vivid enough to picture as you listen. This is good, old-fashioned, pure family entertainment! Highly recommended!

This is a truly magnificent book from a time so much superior to our own! Few other writings contain the depth of wisdom and knowledge exhibited on these pages! The beautiful language of J. G. Pike could also be the sole reason for aquiring this pious volume, however the solid instructions contained in this book,properly followed, will most assuredly lead one to that happy realm where our Reedemer dwells!

Yes, this book is out of print and I found it secondhand. Don't hesitate to buy it should you see it. Written in 1968 but especialy timely 30 years on. There are many "Bishop Pikes" in the world today, fiercely clinging to their title of bishop while vehemently denying Christ Jesus at every turn. The case of Bishop Pike is a sad one certainly but not one to be sympathized with. Unger gives a thorough overview of the Bishop's beliefs (or rather, lack thereof) and his rapid decline into the occult. The Word of God regarding the occult is made extremely clear in the closing chapters of this book.

Most books, whether about religion or anything else, can be summarized
in a few paragraphs or a few pages.

But not Here Lies the Bible.

Here Lies the Bible is so densely packed with information that the only
possible summary is the book itself.

In just 365 pages Mr. Pike explores and exposes just about
every story in the bible.

He challenges both the Old and New testaments.

Every atheist and agnostic will find enough material in this book
to win a lifetime of arguments with religious believers.

But not exclusively because rational religious believers enjoy learning
the difference between what is symbolic and what is factual in their religions .