Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles' Water Supply in the Owens Valley
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  • One of the best book about politics
 Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles' Water Supply in the Owens Valley
William L. Kahrl
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ASIN: 0520044312

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5 out of 5 stars One of the best book about politics.......2005-06-20

I stumbled on this book at a gas station in Death Valley, while looking for something to put me to sleep at the no TV motel I was staying at. It turned out that it was not only the most informative book about California water politics I had ever read but also one of the most insightful books about politics and the human nature.

We are all familiar with the premise of the movie "Chinatown." Scheming developers like giant puppeteers, plot to bring water to South California to sell real estate. "Water and Power" goes into so much more fascinating detail. Reality is never that simple. Intricate alliances and wars within and between various federal, state and local agencies, farmers, businessmen, newspapers, labor activists. And the end result of many battles is often the result of chance. In the process of reading all this one learns the history of 20th century California.Unlike Mike Davis' "City of Quartz" which is boring and predictable because all the facts are shoehorned to fit his point of view, "Water and Power" is fascinating because William Kahrl lets the facts tell their own story and reality becomes stranger than fiction.

The only other similar book that comes to mind is David Fromkin's "A Peace to end all Peace". Although it deals with the Middle East it's also a history of unintended consequences. But in a way "Water and Power" it's even more fascinating because it exposes the same machinations of politics through the seemingly innocuous subject of local water politics.

This book is a must for anyone interested in politics.
Lake and Pond Management Guidebook
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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  • Lake and Pond Management Guidebook
  • The Lake Detective... He Can't Be Stumped! A great GLer
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Steve McComas
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ASIN: 1566706300

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The Lake and Pond Management Guidebook is the successor to the Bestselling Lake Smarts: The First Lake Maintenance Handbook, published by the Terrene Institute in 1993. This guidebook is the "bible" for small-scale lake and pond improvements. It contains over 300 ideas and projects that provide step-by-step practical, low-cost solutions to a wide range of problems that lake management professionals face on a regular basis. This updated and expanded second edition includes new material on protecting and restoring the shoreland area, practical algae control techniques, enhancing native aquatic plants, historical lake management efforts, and pond management including storm water pond improvements.

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5 out of 5 stars Excellent general reference.......2006-12-18

Lake and Pond Management by Steve McComas is an excellent reference for cooperative extension advisors, soil and water conservation district staff, lake association representatives, and other watershed managers. Licensed commercial pesticide applicators who are considering broadening their credentials to the aquatic pest control category would also find this Guidebook a valuable addition to their reference libraries. As a retired university farm advisor and riverfront landowner, I found this book highly educational - and well worth the price.

Steve Sutter
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5 out of 5 stars Lake and Pond Management Guidebook.......2005-08-31

Absolutely the last word in pond or small lake creation and maintenance. For both the amateur and professional landscaper. Well worth the steep price.

5 out of 5 stars The Lake Detective... He Can't Be Stumped! A great GLer.......2004-02-16

This is that guy from AM1500 KSTP... Garage Logic, with Joe Soucheray. He goes by "The Lake Detective", and all he does is lakes, I guess. He's found a great niche in MN, land of 10,000 of 'em. Being a lakeshore owner, I've already used some of his techniques to keep my shore in great shape. The beauty of a lot of his approaches is that the solutions mostly seem pretty low-tech and inexpensive. But that's a good thing. I didn't have to rent expensive equipment to get my shore cleared, and the results have been great.

Color pictures would help, but the black-n-whites do the job, I guess. This $80 book saved me hundreds (maybe thousands) from what I was going to do to 'fix up' my shore... Money well spent!

A GLer in St. Paul
Wetland Indicators: A Guide to Wetland Identification, Delineation, Classification, and Mapping
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Ralph W. Tiner
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ASIN: 0873718925

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Understand the current concept of wetland and methods for identifying, describing, classifying, and delineating wetlands in the United States with Wetland Indicators - capturing the current state of science's role in wetland recognition and mapping. Environmental scientists and others involved with wetland regulations can strengthen their knowledge about wetlands, and the use of various indicators, to support their decisions on difficult wetland determinations. Professor Tiner primarily focuses on plants, soils, and other signs of wetland hydrology in the soil, or on the surface of wetlands in his discussion of Wetland Indicators. Practicing - and aspiring - wetland delineators alike will appreciate Wetland Indicators' critical insight into the development and significance of hydrophytic vegetation, hydric soils, and other factors. Features · Shows 55 color plates, documenting wetland indicators throughout the nation - with more than 34 soil plates and aerial photos · Illustrates other wetland properties with more than 50 figures · Provides over 60 tables, including extensive tables of U.S. wetland plant communities and examples for determining hydrophytic vegetation Contents Wetland Definitions Wetland Concepts for Identification and Delineation Plant Indicators of Wetlands and Their Characteristics Vegetation Sampling and Analysis for Wetlands Soil Indicators of Wetlands Wetland Identification and Boundary Delineation Methods Problem Wetlands and Field Situations for Delineation Wetland Classification Wetlands of the United States: An Introduction, With Emphasis on Their Plant Communities Wetland Mapping and Photointerpretation

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Not helpful.......2007-04-18

I did not find this book very helpful when it came to identification. It did help with classification and mapping.

5 out of 5 stars Wetland Indicators by R.W. Tiner.......2006-03-05

This book is very well put together and provides a wealth of information on Wetland Indicators. If you are just learning about wetlands, what is in them, and how to identify different ones, then this book will be GREAT for you!

4 out of 5 stars Very Useful.......2000-04-12

This book is a good overview of Wetland Delineations. I bought it for the mapping information and found it useful when using GIS for Wetland Delineation Maps
Enemy at the Water Cooler: Real-Life Stories of Insider Threats and Enterprise Security Management Countermeasures
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Real Life Security Stories
  • "If the only tool you have is a hammer, then every problem is a nail."
  • Explores an important often neglected topic
  • Great information and case studies - great book
  • too relevant for today's security world
 Enemy at the Water Cooler: Real-Life Stories of Insider Threats and Enterprise Security Management Countermeasures
Brian Contos
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ASIN: 1597491292

Book Description

The book covers a decade of work with some of the largest commercial and government agencies around the world in addressing cyber security related to malicious insiders (trusted employees, contractors, and partners). It explores organized crime, terrorist threats, and hackers. It addresses the steps organizations must take to address insider threats at a people, process, and technology level.

Todays headlines are littered with news of identity thieves, organized cyber criminals, corporate espionage, nation-state threats, and terrorists. They represent the next wave of security threats but still possess nowhere near the devastating potential of the most insidious threat: the insider. This is not the bored 16-year-old hacker. We are talking about insiders like you and me, trusted employees with access to information - consultants, contractors, partners, visitors, vendors, and cleaning crews. Anyone in an organizations building or networks that possesses some level of trust.

* Full coverage of this hot topic for virtually every global 5000 organization, government agency, and individual interested in security.

* Brian Contos is the Chief Security Officer for one of the most well known, profitable and respected security software companies in the U.S.ArcSight.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Real Life Security Stories.......2007-04-13

'Enemy at the Water Cooler: Real-Life Stories of Insider Threats and Enterprise Security Management Countermeasures' by Brian Contos is an interesting look at some real-life situations that have occurred where nasties have gotten into systems and wrecked the havoc that they are looking to cause. While some reviewers have argued that this book is just a sales pitch to go out and buy anti-hacker software and hardware to combat these criminals, they are probably right!!! Security is always a matter of finding the right balance but certainly erring on the side of caution certainly is the safer way to go in most cases!!

Good book for IT people and specifically security whizzes to take a look at.

**** RECOMMENDED

2 out of 5 stars "If the only tool you have is a hammer, then every problem is a nail." .......2007-01-09

Ignore the main title - look at the subtitle. This book is little more than a sales pitch for Enterprise Security Management systems, or more specifically the ESM sold by the author's company, with a random assortment of largely unattributed and barely analyzed anecdotes on information security incidents mostly relating to ESM. The link to "insider threats' is tenuous at best and in the most part is merely used as an excuse to hype the wonders of ESM.

If you are seriously interested in ESM, you probably wrote the gushing "review notes" on the cover or the foreword (written by Hugh Njemanze, CTO of - you guessed it - the same ESM company). I'm far from convinced that anyone else (except perhaps from the ESM company and its customers who may be happy with an extremely biased view of the value of ESM) would benefit from this book, even if it is "vendor neutral" (page xxii). If you are looking for some meaningful insight into and analysis of the "insider threat", and perhaps some practical and worthwhile countermeasures apart from ESM, look elsewhere.

4 out of 5 stars Explores an important often neglected topic.......2006-12-01

Even though hacker Kevin Mitnick's notorious exploits are more than a decade old, the media, and even some security professionals, continue to be obsessed with him. In early October 2006 alone, his name came up a few dozen times in a search of the prior month of Google News. Those obsessed with hackers are missing the far greater threat: trusted insiders.

The insider threat shouldn't be a surprise: employee theft takes a bigger bite out of retailers than does shoplifting, and company personnel give away more secrets than are stolen by spies.

On average, authorized network users gain access to 10 to 20 times more resources than they need to perform their jobs, and this extra access leads to most network security breaches. With that as its starting point, Enemy at the Water Cooler looks at the problem of the trusted insider and how to reduce both the threat and the vulnerability. Author Brian Contos astutely notes that insider attacks are the hardest ones to defend against, detect, and manage.

The first part of the book sketches the risks that insiders pose to an organization. It also details mechanisms that can be used to control these risks.

One such solution is ESM (Enterprise Security Management) software. (Full disclosure: the author is the CSO for a leading ESM vendor and some of the illustrations in the book are screenshots from this vendor's product.) ESM software centrally collects and analyzes log data from various entities within a network. When correctly deployed, ESM can be used to discover internal risks, in addition to correlating security information and performing other valuable tasks.

The final chapters of the book run through real-life case studies in which Contos shows how ESM mitigated, or could have mitigated, the risk.

Although the book has a lot of information, at $49.95 for fewer than 250 pages, the book is overpriced. Even though it can come across as self-serving, the book should be commended for tackling a vital and often neglected topic.

5 out of 5 stars Great information and case studies - great book.......2006-11-15

This book was extremely easy to read and enjoyable. The case studies made complex concepts such as collaborative attacks and advanced intruder discovery/remediation techniques understandable. I've even shared the case studies with my management as examples of risk to help push our insider threat program forward. I found that sharing key case studies that are relevant to our business helped to make my point about why we need to pay more attention to threats from the inside. And the way the book is written, I don't need to translate tech talk to business talk.

In addition to the insider threat information, the initial chapter that gives an overview of computer-based threats from organized crime, nation-states and terrorist was an eyeopener. The author does an excellent job explaining how these groups use insiders (employees mostly) to help carryout their agendas.

Since reading the book I've also listened to several webcasts and podcasts from the author. I found these to be informative and in several instances, the case studies from the book are explored in even more detail as the author discusses subtitle points that aren't necessarily covered in the book.

I've read a few books on insider threat now, and this is by far one of my favorites, and more so, it has shown great utility at work. Engineers like it, and so does my senior management.

4 out of 5 stars too relevant for today's security world.......2006-11-15

great problem statement and introduction to the overall issues and background surrounding insider threat. Insider threat is one of the hardest problems to understand and address in today's fast moving technology rich organizations. The author seems to have real world experience in dealing with these types of issues and I really enjoyed the insights especially in the use case examples. A nice read.

thanks
Water Quality Characteristics: Modeling and Modification (Water Quality Management)
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    		Water Quality Characteristics: Modeling and Modification (Water Quality Management)
    George Tchobanoglous , and Edward D. Schoeder
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    Constructed Wetlands in the Sustainable Landscape
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    		 Constructed Wetlands in the Sustainable Landscape
    Craig S. Campbell , and Michael Ogden
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    LandscapeConstructed wetlands are gaining worldwide acceptance as effective, low-cost, and low-impact alternatives to unsightly, high-impact wastewater treatment facilities. The creative involvement of today's planners, landscape architects, developers, environmental engineers, and public officials is helping to maximize the potential of these wetland habitats—from their aesthetics to their multiple uses as water treatment plants, wildlife refuges, and recreational or educational facilities. Yet, to date, the literature has paid no attention to these aspects, focusing instead on the technical side of wetlands construction and function.

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