Authors:Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Isak Taksa, Bernard
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Keywords: handbook, research, analysis, log, web
Number of Pages: 628
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $265.00
ISBN-10: 1599049740
ISBN-13: 9781599049748

Whether searching, shopping, or socializing, Web users leave behind a great deal of data revealing their information needs, mindset, and approaches used, creating vast opportunities for Web service providers as well as a host of security and privacy concerns for consumers. The Handbook of Research on Web Log Analysis reflects on the multifaceted themes of Web use and presents various approaches to log analysis. This expansive collection reviews the history of Web log analysis and examines new trends including the issues of privacy, social interaction and community building. Over 20 resea

Author: Isak Dinesen
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: tales, winter
Number of Pages: 313
Published: 1993-06-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0679743340
ISBN-13: 9780679743347

In Isak Dinesen’s universe, the magical enchantment of the fairy tale and the moral resonance of myth coexist with an unflinching grasp of the most obscure human strengths and weaknesses. A despairing author abandons his wife, but in the course of a long night’s wandering, he learns love’s true value and returns to her, only to find her a different woman than the one he left. A landowner, seeking to prove a principle, inadvertently exposes the ferocity of mother love. A wealthy young traveler melts the hauteur of a lovely woman by masquerading as her aged and loyal servant. S

Author: Isak Dinesen
Publisher:
Keywords: library, modern, africa
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1992-09-05
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0679600213
ISBN-13: 9780679600213

In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors--lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes--and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.The Random House colophon made its debut in February