The captivating first novel by the best-selling, National Book Award nominee George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War On February 22, 1862, two days after his death, Willie Lincoln was laid to rest in a marble crypt in a Georgetown cemetery. That very night, shattered by grief, Abraham Lincoln arrives at the cemetery under cover of darkness and visits the crypt, alone, to spend time with his son’s body. Set over the course of that one night and populated by ghosts of the recently passed and the long dead, Lincoln in the Bardo is a thrilling exploration of death, grief, the powers of good and evil, a novel — in its form and voice — completely unlike anything you have read before. It is also, in the end, an exploration of the deeper meaning and possibilities of life, written as only George Saunders can: with humor, pathos, and grace

The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Doomsday Book presents the story of a young historical researcher who is being pulled deeper and deeper into the time of the Civil War

She was born with the morality gene missing. As beautiful, as inviting, as treacherous as the sea around her, Linda is one of the most compelling women yet created by John D. MacDonald

In the middle of an unusually hot Swedish summer, a young woman studying at the Vaxjo Police Academy is brutally murdered. Police Inspector Evert Bäckström is unwillingly drafted in from Stockholm to head up the investigation. Egotistical, vain and utterly prejudiced against everything, Bäckström is a man who has no sense of duty or responsibilty, thinks everyone with the exception of himself is an imbecile and is only really capable of warm feelings towards his pet goldfish and the nearest bottle of liquor. If they are to solve the case, his long suffering team must work around him, following the scant few leads which remain after Bäckström’s intransigence has let the trail go cold. Blackly comic, thrillingly compelling and utterly real, Linda, As in the Linda Murder is the novel which introduces the reader to the modern masterpiece that is Evert Bäckström, a man described by his creator as ‘short, fat and primitive’. He is, without doubt, the real deal when it comes to modern policing

“THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED!” It all happened so fast: the terrorist bombings of Congress which killed nearly a hundred senators and congressmen; the incredible kidnapping of the President-Elect, Clifford Fairlie.　 Tough, veteran agent David Lime was summoned to track down the kidnappers, who threatened to kill Fairlie if the captured terrorists were not set free. And behind the scenes, ruthless men battled for the glory of the highest office in the land. The rescue efforts swung into high gear. It became a vast, global manhunt. The entire world watched in frozen horror. But only two men had the power to shape the end of this chilling, savage drama — agent Lime and the terrorist leader for whom hate had become a holy mission

The Polity is under attack from a melded AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebuss wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate, though he is secretly struggling to control a new ability no human being possess…and beginning to question the motives of his AI masters. Further attacks and seemingly indiscriminate slaughter ensue, but only serve to bring some of the most dangerous individuals in the Polity into the war. Mr Crane, the indefatigable brass killing machine sets out for vengeance, while Orlandine, a vastly-augmented haiman who herself controls Jain technology, seeks a weapon of appalling power and finds allies from an ancient war. Meanwhile Mika, scientist and Dragon expert, is again kidnapped by that unfathomable alien entity and dragged into the heart of things: to wake the makers of Jain technology from their five-million-year slumber. But Erebuss attacks are not so indiscriminate, after all, and could very well herald the end of the Polity itself…

Рассказ, написанный специально для конкурса «Мастера пера» и посвященный миру виртуальной реальности «LineAge II»

Vicious interstellar conflict with an indestructible alien species. Bloody civil war over the last habitable zones of the cosmos. Political unrest, militaristic police forces, dire threats to the Solar System… Humanity is on the ropes, and after years of fighting a two-front war with losing odds, so is North American Defense Corps officer Andrew Grayson. He dreams of dropping out of the service one day, alongside his pilot girlfriend, but as warfare consumes entire planets and conditions on Earth deteriorate, he wonders if there will be anywhere left for them to go. After surviving a disastrous space-borne assault, Grayson is reassigned to a ship bound for a distant colony—and packed with malcontents and troublemakers. His most dangerous battle has just begun. In this sequel to the bestselling Terms of Enlistment, a weary soldier must fight to prevent the downfall of his species… or bear witness to humanity’s last, fleeting breaths

In Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other. Now, in Linger, they must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping a very dangerous secret about her own well-being. For Sam, this means grappling with his werewolf past . . . and figuring out a way to survive into the future. Add into the mix a new wolf named Cole, whose own past has the potential to destroy the whole pack. And Isabel, who already lost her brother to the wolves . . . and is nonetheless drawn to Cole. At turns harrowing and euphoric, Linger is a spellbinding love story that explores both sides of love—the light and the dark, the warm and the cold—in a way you will never forget

A novel about a bloodthirsty cowgirl with hallucinogenic toadsucking properties, this is the story of Justine Trimble — a 1950s movie star — who is brought back to life in modern-day Soho. Problem is, she has a lust for blood, and when people start to drop dead the curiosity of the police is soon aroused

This textbook is a self-contained introduction to linguistics for beginning students. It offers a unified approach to language from several perspectives. A language is a complex structure represented in the minds of its speakers, and this book introduces the tools necessary for understanding this structure. In addition, it focuses on how small children acquire their native language; the psychological processes which are involved in mature speakers producing and understanding language; linguistic difficulties which arise as a consequence of brain damage or genetic disorders; and additional issues which arise when we consider individual speakers as part of a social community.Written by a team based at one of the world's leading centres for linguistic teaching and research, the second edition of this highly successful textbook offers a unified approach to language, viewed from a range of perspectives essential for students' understanding of the subject. Using clear explanations throughout, the book is divided into three main sections: sounds, words, and sentences. In each, the foundational concepts are introduced, along with their application to the fields of child language acquisition, psycholinguistics, language disorders, and sociolinguistics, giving the book a unique yet simple structure that helps students to engage with the subject more easily than other textbooks on the market. This edition includes a completely new section on sentence use, including an introduction and discussion of core areas of pragmatics and conversational analysis; coverage of sociolinguistic topics, introducing communities of practice; a wealth of new exercise material and updated further reading

Gripping, provocative, and revelatory, Links is a novel that will stand as a classic of modern world literature. Jeebleh is returning to Mogadiscio, Somalia, for the first time in twenty years. But this is not a nostalgia trip — his last residence there was a jail cell. And who could feel nostalgic for a city like this? U.S. troops have come and gone, and the decimated city is ruled by clan warlords and patrolled by qaat-chewing gangs who shoot civilians to relieve their adolescent boredom. Diverted in his pilgrimage to visit his mother’s grave, Jeebleh is asked to investigate the abduction of the young daughter of one of his closest friend’s family. But he learns quickly that any act in this city, particularly an act of justice, is much more complicated than he might have imagined

Книга посвящена операционной системе Linux. Приводятся подробные сведения о ее особенностях и возможностях, идеологии файловой системы, инсталляции и основных командах, вопросах компиляции ядра, настройках и сервисах. Большое внимание уделяется организации на базе Linux различных серверов и служб: электронной почты, WWW, FTP, INN, Proxy, NTP, а также проблемам администрирования сети, обеспечения безопасной работы и другим вопросам. Описаны способы настройки под Linux рабочих станций, в т. ч. и бездисковых, установки и эксплуатации на них графических сред типа X Window, а также конфигурирование модемных соединений, принтеров и сканеров, отладка взаимодействия с Linux-машинами такой «экзотической» периферии, как карманные компьютеры, мобильные телефоны, TV-тюнеры и т. п. Рассматриваемые в книге конфигурационные файлы и структура каталогов соответствуют дистрибутиву Red Hat Linux 7.x, тем не менее, при минимальной адаптации все упоминаемые в книге пакеты устанавливаются в любом дистрибутиве Linux. Для начинающих администраторов или пользователей Linux

Оригинальную версию документа вы найдете по адресу http://lartc.org/. Практическое руководство по применению iproute2 (и в меньшей степени netfilter) для управления трафиком

Gerard Beekmans Copyright © 1999-2002 by Gerard Beekmans Перевод: Денис Каледин, Ник Фролов, Алекс Казанков. Версия 4.0 Эта книга описывает процесс создания Linux системы с нуля, используя лишь исходные коды необходимого программного обеспечения

This book was written to provide a single reference for network administration in a Linux environment. Beginners and experienced users alike should find the information they need to cover nearly all important administration activities required to manage a Linux network configuration. The possible range of topics to cover is nearly limitless, so of course it has been impossible to include everything there is to say on all subjects. We've tried to cover the most important and common ones. We've found that beginners to Linux networking, even those with no prior exposure to Unix-like operating systems, have found this book good enough to help them successfully get their Linux network configurations up and running and get them ready to learn more. There are many books and other sources of information from which you can learn any of the topics covered in this book (with the possible exception of some of the truly Linux-specific features, such as the new Linux firewall interface, which is not well documented elsewhere) in greater depth. We've provided a bibliography for you to use when you are ready to explore more

Рассмотрены вопросы настройки ОС Linux на максимальную производительность и безопасность. Описаны потенциальные уязвимости и рекомендации по предотвращению возможных атак. Дается подробное описание настройки прав доступа и конфигурирования сетевого экрана. Показано, как действовать при атаке или взломе системы, чтобы максимально быстро восстановить ее работоспособность и предотвратить потерю данных. Для пользователей, администраторов и специалистов по безопасности

Колонки и статьи Алексея Федорчука, печатавшиеся в журнале LinuxFormat на протяжении 2006-2013 годов, собранные в хронологическом порядке. Они посвящёны UNIX, Linux и другим UNIX-подобным системам, их приложениям, а также идеологическим вопросам Свободного и Открытого Программного Обеспечения (FOSS). Публикуются в авторской редакции

В книге рассмотрены вопросы, связанные с программированием под Linux: файловый ввод/вывод, метаданные файлов, основы управления памятью, процессы и сигналы, пользователи и группы, вопросы интернационализации и локализации, сортировка, поиск и многие другие. Много внимания уделено средствам отладки, доступным под GNU Linux. Все темы иллюстрируются примерами кода, взятого из V7 UNIX и GNU. Эта книга может быть полезна любому, кто интересуется программированием под Linux

В книге подробно рассмотрены настройки сетевых сервисов, позволяющих создать сервер требуемой конфигурации и функциональности на основе ОС Linux. Вы сможете настроить сервер любого типа: от сервера локальной сети до Интернет-сервера и сервера удаленного доступа. Детальна описано администрирование Linux. Изложение материала построено на основе дистрибутивов Red Hat и Mandrake. Много уникальной информации: запуск Windows-игр под Linux и создание Linux-сервера для игрового зала, настройка антивирусов Dr. Web и AVP под Linux, программа учета трафика MRTG, система защиты и обнаружения атак LIDS, а также многое другое. Особое внимание уделено безопасности Linux-серверов. Достаточно подробно описана сама ОС Linux и приведен справочник ее команд. Прочитав книгу, вы станете обладателями знаний по настройке и компилированию ядра, созданию собственных rpm-пакетов, командному интерпретатору bash, использованию массивов RAID. Вы узнаете внутренний мир Linux. Книга подойдет как для профессиональных, так и для начинающих администраторов, поскольку изложение материала начинается с установки ОС Linux, а в первой главе дано описание основных сетевых технологий и протоколов (Курс Молодого Администратора). Все приведенные в книге листинги проверены на практике и размещены на прилагаемом CD. Помимо этого на нем содержится много справочной информации (HOWTO, RFC), a также статей, посвященных Linux. Размещен богатый набор вспомогательных утилит и программного обеспечения для сервера (Apache, MySQL, MRTG и др.)

Данная книга представляет собой великолепное руководство по Linux, позволяющее получить наиболее полное представление об этой операционной системе. Книга состоит из трех частей, каждая из которых раскрывает один из трех основных аспектов работы с Linux: Linux для пользователя, сетевые технологии Linux (и методика настройки Linux-сервера), программирование Linux. В книге охвачен очень широкий круг вопросов, начиная с установки и использования Linux «в обычной жизни» (офисные пакеты, игры, видео, Интернет), и заканчивая описанием внутренних процессов Linux, секретами и трюками настройки, особенностями программирования под Linux, созданием сетевых приложений, оптимизацией ядра и др. Изложение материала ведется в основном на базе дистрибутивов Fedora Cora (Red Hat) и Mandriva (Mandrake). Однако не оставлены без внимания и другие дистрибутивы SuSe, Slackware, Gentoo, Alt Linux, Knоppix. Дается их сравнительное описание, a по ходу изложения всего материала указываются их особенности. Книга написана известными специалистами и консультантами по использованию Linux, авторами многих статей и книг по Linux, заслуживших свое признание в самых широких Linux-кругах. Если вы желаете разобраться в особенностях Linux и познать ее внутренний мир, эта книга — ваш лучший выбор