Information Systems

In the years following her role as the lead author of the international best seller, Limits to Growth - the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet - Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world....

Author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate the diverse data landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies for processing and storing data. Software keeps changing, but the fundamental principles remain the same. With this book, software engineers and architects will learn how to apply those ideas in practice, and how to make full use of data in modern applications.

For Mark Solms, one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience, discovering how consciousness comes about has been a lifetime's quest. Scientists consider it the "hard problem" because it seems an impossible task to understand why we feel a subjective sense of self and how it arises in the brain. Venturing into the elementary physics of life, Solms has now arrived at an astonishing answer. In The Hidden Spring, he brings forward his discovery in accessible language and graspable analogies.

Behind the familiar surfaces of the telephone, radio, and television lies a sophisticated and intriguing body of knowledge known as information theory. This is the theory that has permitted the rapid development of all sorts of communication, from color television to the clear transmission of photographs from the vicinity of Jupiter. Even more revolutionary progress is expected in the future.

Andrew J. Stewart convincingly shows that emergency software patches and new security products cannot provide the solution to threats such as computer hacking, viruses, software vulnerabilities, and electronic spying. Profound underlying structural problems must first be understood, confronted, and then addressed.

(ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Official Study Guide, 9th Edition has been completely updated based on the latest 2021 CISSP Exam Outline. This bestselling Sybex study guide covers 100% of the exam objectives. You'll prepare for the exam smarter and faster with Sybex thanks to expert content, knowledge from our real-world experience, advice on mastering this adaptive exam, access to the Sybex online interactive learning environment, and much more. Reinforce what you've learned with key topic exam essentials and chapter review questions.

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI—a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive? Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world.

A New Look! A Fundamental Approach! "System" is used for many objective or subjective things and carries a "concept" with itself than a device name like "computer". Based on the book, many evidences show that we are living in a world of "objects" and their related "events". Objects are the things that have their own "order" or properties in the "space". Events are the happenings in relation with the things that have their own "rule" or methods in the "time". "News" as daily "hot" subjects and language sentences as tool to explain the world, all are about the objects and their related events...

This book is aligned with ISACA's CRISC Review Manual (2021) and covers all the topics that a CRISC aspirant needs to understand in order to pass the CRISC exam successfully. The key aspect of this book is its use of simple language, which makes this book ideal for candidates with non-technical backgrounds. At the end of each topic, key pointers from the CRISC exam perspective are presented in table format. This is the unique feature of this book. It also contains 500 plus exam-oriented practice questions. The questions are designed in consideration of the language and testing methodology ...

In The Organized Mind, Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, uses the latest brain science to demonstrate how those people excel - and how readers can use their methods to regain a sense of mastery over the way they organize their homes, workplaces, and time. With lively, entertaining chapters on everything from the kitchen junk drawer to health care to executive office workflow, Levitin reveals how new research into the cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory can be applied to the challenges of our daily lives.

Lions and saber-tooth tigers and cave bears. Oh my! Bill Clark realizes he’s not on Earth anymore when his plane crash lands 10,000 miles from help on an unexplored, uninhabited planet. Uninhabited by homo sapiens, that is. It seems most of the inhabitants are hungry predators straight out of the Ice Age. With no hope of rescue, Bill and his fellow survivors have to rely on all their training, skills, and quick reactions to stay alive. And that's just the first week! Experience this hero's journey now by reading the latest installment in the Corps of Discovery Series. Goodreads Review: ...

Anthony Robbins has already unlocked the personal power inside millions of people worldwide. Now, in this revolutionary new audio production based on his enormously popular Date with Destiny seminars, Robbins unleashes the sleeping giant that lies within all of us, teaching us to harness our untapped abilities, talents and skills.

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other infamous strategists. The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any listener interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.

Are you ready to dive deep into the world of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)? Then "Mastering GIS" should be your go-to guide! This comprehensive eBook unravels the complexity of GIS, making it easy for beginners to understand while offering a solid refresher for those who are already knowledgeable about the subject. Spanning across a multitude of chapters, this book provides a wide exploration of GIS. The early chapters gently introduce you to GIS as a concept, its evolution, and its importance in today's world. It further identifies the distinction between GIS and related fields such...

Unlock the secrets to mastering the NIST 800 risk management process in record time with this powerful 2-in-1 bundle! Introducing Information Systems Security NIST 800 2-in-1, featuring both RMF ISSO Foundation Guide and RMF ISSO: NIST 800-53. This comprehensive series is your ultimate roadmap to success, designed to simplify the complexities of NIST 800-53 security controls and show you the actionable steps required throughout the RMF process.

Becoming a Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS) demonstrates your understanding of healthcare IT, data security, interoperability, and compliance. Conquer the HIMSS CPHIMS Exam is a concise summary designed to complement more detailed study material, helping you focus on key concepts without overwhelming technical detail. This guide provides high-level overviews of critical topics, including healthcare technology trends, electronic health records (EHRs), cybersecurity, regulatory compliance (HIPAA, GDPR), and healthcare IT project management. It ...

Our CLEP study guides are different! The Information Systems and Computer Applications CLEP Test Study Guide teaches you what you need to know to pass the CLEP test. This study guide is more than just sample test questions. Our easy-to-understand study guide will teach you the information. We've condensed what you need to know into a manageable book - one that will leave you completely prepared to tackle the test. This study guide includes sample test questions that will test your knowledge and teach you new material. What are you waiting for?

Does information create complex order in the Universe? Have we focused too strongly on the energy-mater paradigm that we miss the relevance of information? Is information so obvious we don't see it? Do information-fields exist? Can information explain complex non-linear causality? And finally, is this a conscious Universe? In this brief book we explore all these subjects with a fresh perspective. We come from experience. For many years we have worked with achieving radical change in social systems and more specifically, with crime-prevention models. Our lab are cities and states were crime ...

As information security professionals, risk evaluation and mitigation are the key parts of our job. Dealing with risk is the theme of our roles, be it as firewall engineers, auditors, penetration testers, management, etc. The key functions of the Security and Risk Management domain are risk analysis and mitigation as well as ensuring the best organizational structure for a robust information security system is in place. In this area of expertise, it’s the quality of the people that can make or break an organization. By “quality of the people”, we mean knowledgeable and experienced ...

The purpose of this study was to relate the strength of Chief Information Officer (CIO) transformational leadership behaviors to innovation in the form of the computing platforms selected for a firm’s critical business applications. At their inception, nearly all computing platforms are seen as innovative. Over time, though, innovative platforms naturally become outdated as they give way to a new crop of more contemporary, capable, and agile business-enabling platforms. Firms that embrace platform innovations may reap benefits related to business agility, but those same firms can also ...