Authors:Richard T. Vacca, Jo Anne L. Vacca,
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Keywords: across, curriculum, learning, literacy, area, reading, content
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $132.67
ISBN-10: 0205532152
ISBN-13: 9780205532155

Content Area Reading remains the market-leading text in content literacy and maintains the authors’ original objective—to offer an ambitious, coherent, and workable exploration of content literacy. The Ninth Edition comes at a perfect time when there is an increased focus on adolescent literacy. With the point of view that students learn with texts, not necessarily from them, respected authors Rich and Jo Anne Vacca have written this book to be an active learning tool, complete with real-world examples and research-based practices. Thoroughly updated and revised to incorporate topics t

Authors:Lee Odell, Richard Vacca, Renee Hobbs,
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Keywords: course, fifth, language, elements
Number of Pages: 1110
Published: 2000-03
List price: $127.53
ISBN-10: 003052668X
ISBN-13: 9780030526688

Authors:Renee Hobbs, Irwin, Lee Odell, Richard Vacca, John E.
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Keywords: course, fourth, language, elements
Published: 2002-12
List price: $92.25
ISBN-10: 0030686687
ISBN-13: 9780030686689

Authors:Lee Odell, Richard Vacca, Renee Hobbs, Judith L. Irvi
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Keywords: course, first, language, elements
Number of Pages: 888
Published: 2006-08
List price: $85.15
ISBN-10: 0030796784
ISBN-13: 9780030796784

Author: John R. Vacca
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: security, internet, practical
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 2006-10-18
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 038740533X
ISBN-13: 9780387405339

As organizations today are linking their systems across enterprise-wide networks and VPNs as well as increasing their exposure to customers, competitors, browsers and hackers on the Internet, it becomes increasingly imperative for Web professionals to be trained in techniques for effectively protecting their sites from internal and external threats. Each connection magnifies the vulnerability to attack. With the increased connectivity to the Internet and the wide availability of automated cracking tools, organizations can no longer simply rely on operating system security to protect their valu

Author: John R. Vacca
Publisher: Morgan Kaufma
Keywords: computer, security, series, kaufmann, handbook, information, morgan
Number of Pages: 928
Published: 2009-06-05
List price: $119.99
ISBN-10: 0123743540
ISBN-13: 9780123743541

This book presents information on how to analyze risks to your networks and the steps needed to select and deploy the appropriate countermeasures to reduce your exposure to physical and network threats. It also imparts the skills and knowledge needed to identify and counter some fundamental security risks and requirements, inlcuding Internet security threats and measures (audit trails IP sniffing/spoofing etc.) and how to implement security policies and procedures.In addition, this book also covers security and network design with respect to particular vulnerabilities and threats. It also cove

Author: John R. Vacca
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: systems, verification, technologies, biometric
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2007-03-30
List price: $71.95
ISBN-10: 0750679670
ISBN-13: 9780750679671

Biometric Technologies and Verification Systems is organized into nine parts composed of 30 chapters, including an extensive glossary of biometric terms and acronyms. It discusses the current state-of-the-art in biometric verification/authentication, identification and system design principles. It also provides a step-by-step discussion of how biometrics works; how biometric data in human beings can be collected and analyzed in a number of ways; how biometrics are currently being used as a method of personal identification in which people are recognized by their own unique corporal or behavio