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BOOK REPORTS 125 III. The Brauer-Long group of a commutative ring. 12. Z-Z-Azumaya algebras. 13. The Brauer-Long group of a commutative ring. 14. The Brauer group of Yetter-Drinfel’d module algebras. Appendices. A. Abelian categories and homological algebra. B. Faithfully flat descent. C. Elementary algebraic K-theory. Bibliography. Index. Partial Differential Eouations throuah Examnles and Exercises. By Endre Pap, Arpad Takaci, and Djurdjica Takaci. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. (1997). 404 pages. $182.00, NLG 320.00, GBP 109.00. Contents: Preface. List of symbols. 1. Introduction. 2. First order PDEs. 3. Clsssfication of the second order PDEs. 4. Hyperbolic equations. 5. Elliptic equations. 6. Parabolic equations. 7. Numerical methods. 8. Lebesgue’s integral, Fourier transform. 9. Generalized derivative and Sobolev spaces. 10. Some elements from functional analysis. 11. Functional analysis methods in PDEs. 12. Distributions in the theory of PDEs. Bibliography. Index. Manaoina the Windows NT Reoistry. By Paul Robichaux. O’Heilly, Sebastopol, CA. (1998). 360 pages. $39.95. Contents: Preface. 1. A gentle introduction to the NT Registry. 2. NT Registry nuts and bolts. 3. In case of emergency. 4. Using HegEdit. 5. Using RegEdit32. 6. Using the System Policy Editor. 7. Programming with the Registry. 8. Administering the NT Registry. 9. Registry tweaks. 10. The Registry documented. Index. Manaoino Mailina Lists. By Alan Schwartz. O’Fleilly, Sebsstopol, CA. (1998). 282 pages. $29.95. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Designing a mailing list. 3. Maintaining lists with Listproc. 4. Maintaining lists with Majordomo. 5. Maintaining lists with SmartList. 6. Maintaining lists with LISTSERV Lite. 7. Maintaining lists with sendmail. 8. Troubleshooting your lists. 9. Administering Listproc. 10. Administering Majordomo. 11. Ad- ministering SmartList. 12. Administering LISTSERV Lite. Appendices. A. Listproc reference. B. Majordomo reference. C. SmartList reference. D. LISTSERV Lite reference. Index. Neutinas. Neatields. and K-LOODS: Proceedinos of the Conference on Neatinas and Nearfields. Hamburo. y. Edited by Gerhard Saad and Momme Johs Thomsen. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. (1997). 444 pages. NLG 340.00, $194.00, GBP 116.00. Contents: Foreword. Acknowledgement. Invited addresses. From nearrings and nearfields to K-loops (Helmut Kamel). On non-zerosymmetric near-rings with minimum condition (Kalle Kaarli). Near-rings of homogeneous functions, P3 (Carl J. Maxson). The structure of G-groups (Stuart D. Scott). Ordered nearfields (Heinz Wiihling). Contributed papers. Strongly idempotent seminearrings and their prime ideal spaces (Javed Ahsan and Liu Zhongkui). A note on simple composition rings (Erhard Aichinger). The cardinalities of the endomorphism near- rings Z(G), A(G), and E(G) for all groups G with IGI 5 31 (Erhard Aichinger and Christof Niibauer). Polynomial near-rings: Polynomials with coefficients from a near-ring (Scott W. Bagley). On derivations in near-rings, II (Howard E. Bell). Near-rings and rings generated by homomorphism on groups (Gary F. Birkenmeier, Henry E. Heatherly and Giinter F. Pilz). Special radicals of R-groups (Geoffrey L. Booth and Nice J. Groenewald). Quasi-ideals and bi-ideals in categories (Suzette G. Botha). Seminearrings of polynomials oversemifields: A note on Blackett’s Fredericton paper (Tim Boykett). Cirlces and their interior points from field generated Ferrer0 pairs (Roland A. Eggetsberger). On direct decompositions in group near-rings (Holand L. Fray). On involution sets induced by neardomains (Christian M. Gabriel). Superprime near-rings (Nice J. Groenewald). Involutions on universal algebras (Henry E. Heatherly, Enoch K.S. Lee, and Richard Wiegandt). Fibered incidence loops by neardomains (Herbert Hotje). The structure group of certain K-loops (Hubert Kiechle and Angel&a Konrad). Some examples of indecomposable modules (Jan Krempa). Central Bol loops (Alexander Kreuzer). Products on products on groups (Bob Lockhart). Topological N-groups where the nearrings are real nearrings (Kenneth D. Magill). Tensor product of near-ring modules (Suraiya J. Mahmood and Mona F. Mansouri). Nilpotence and endomorphism near-rings (John D.P. Meldrum). Distributively generated subrings of homogeneous maps (Dorota Niewieczerzal). Composition near-rings (Quentin N. Petersen and Stefan Veklsman). Categories of near-rings (Giinter F. Pilz). The inner automorphism nearring Z(G) on all nonabelian groups G of order IGI 5 100 (Gerhard Saad, Sergei A. Syskin and Momme Johs Thomsen). Special quasigroups and Steiner systems (J. Shiftar and Herbert Zeitler). On the non-simplicity of a subring of M(G) (Aletta Speegle). Near-rings in connection with non-abelian cohomology of groups (Mirela Stefgnescu). 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BOOK REPORTS 125

III. The Brauer-Long group of a commutative ring. 12. Z-Z-Azumaya algebras. 13. The Brauer-Long group of a commutative ring. 14. The Brauer group of Yetter-Drinfel’d module algebras.

Appendices. A. Abelian categories and homological algebra. B. Faithfully flat descent. C. Elementary algebraic K-theory. Bibliography. Index.

Partial Differential Eouations throuah Examnles and Exercises. By Endre Pap, Arpad Takaci, and Djurdjica Takaci. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. (1997). 404 pages. $182.00, NLG 320.00, GBP 109.00. Contents:

Preface. List of symbols. 1. Introduction. 2. First order PDEs. 3. Clsssfication of the second order PDEs. 4. Hyperbolic equations. 5. Elliptic equations. 6. Parabolic equations. 7. Numerical methods. 8. Lebesgue’s integral, Fourier transform. 9. Generalized derivative and Sobolev spaces. 10. Some elements from functional analysis. 11. Functional analysis methods in PDEs. 12. Distributions in the theory of PDEs. Bibliography. Index.

Manaoina the Windows NT Reoistry. By Paul Robichaux. O’Heilly, Sebastopol, CA. (1998). 360 pages. $39.95. Contents:

Preface. 1. A gentle introduction to the NT Registry. 2. NT Registry nuts and bolts. 3. In case of emergency. 4. Using HegEdit. 5. Using RegEdit32. 6. Using the System Policy Editor. 7. Programming with the Registry. 8. Administering the NT Registry. 9. Registry tweaks. 10. The Registry documented. Index.

Manaoino Mailina Lists. By Alan Schwartz. O’Fleilly, Sebsstopol, CA. (1998). 282 pages. $29.95. Contents:

Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Designing a mailing list. 3. Maintaining lists with Listproc. 4. Maintaining lists with Majordomo. 5. Maintaining lists with SmartList. 6. Maintaining lists with LISTSERV Lite. 7. Maintaining lists with sendmail. 8. Troubleshooting your lists. 9. Administering Listproc. 10. Administering Majordomo. 11. Ad- ministering SmartList. 12. Administering LISTSERV Lite. Appendices. A. Listproc reference. B. Majordomo reference. C. SmartList reference. D. LISTSERV Lite reference. Index.

Neutinas. Neatields. and K-LOODS: Proceedinos of the Conference on Neatinas and Nearfields. Hamburo. y. Edited by Gerhard Saad and Momme Johs Thomsen. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. (1997). 444 pages. NLG 340.00, $194.00, GBP 116.00. Contents:

Foreword. Acknowledgement. Invited addresses. From nearrings and nearfields to K-loops (Helmut Kamel). On non-zerosymmetric near-rings with minimum condition (Kalle Kaarli). Near-rings of homogeneous functions, P3 (Carl J. Maxson). The structure of G-groups (Stuart D. Scott). Ordered nearfields (Heinz Wiihling).

Contributed papers. Strongly idempotent seminearrings and their prime ideal spaces (Javed Ahsan and Liu Zhongkui). A note on simple composition rings (Erhard Aichinger). The cardinalities of the endomorphism near- rings Z(G), A(G), and E(G) for all groups G with IGI 5 31 (Erhard Aichinger and Christof Niibauer). Polynomial near-rings: Polynomials with coefficients from a near-ring (Scott W. Bagley). On derivations in near-rings, II (Howard E. Bell). Near-rings and rings generated by homomorphism on groups (Gary F. Birkenmeier, Henry E. Heatherly and Giinter F. Pilz). Special radicals of R-groups (Geoffrey L. Booth and Nice J. Groenewald). Quasi-ideals and bi-ideals in categories (Suzette G. Botha). Seminearrings of polynomials oversemifields: A note on Blackett’s Fredericton paper (Tim Boykett). Cirlces and their interior points from field generated Ferrer0 pairs (Roland A. Eggetsberger). On direct decompositions in group near-rings (Holand L. Fray). On involution sets induced by neardomains (Christian M. Gabriel). Superprime near-rings (Nice J. Groenewald). Involutions on universal algebras (Henry E. Heatherly, Enoch K.S. Lee, and Richard Wiegandt). Fibered incidence loops by neardomains (Herbert Hotje). The structure group of certain K-loops (Hubert Kiechle and Angel&a Konrad). Some examples of indecomposable modules (Jan Krempa). Central Bol loops (Alexander Kreuzer). Products on products on groups (Bob Lockhart). Topological N-groups where the nearrings are real nearrings (Kenneth D. Magill). Tensor product of near-ring modules (Suraiya J. Mahmood and Mona F. Mansouri). Nilpotence and endomorphism near-rings (John D.P. Meldrum). Distributively generated subrings of homogeneous maps (Dorota Niewieczerzal). Composition near-rings (Quentin N. Petersen and Stefan Veklsman). Categories of near-rings (Giinter F. Pilz). The inner automorphism nearring Z(G) on all nonabelian groups G of order IGI 5 100 (Gerhard Saad, Sergei A. Syskin and Momme Johs Thomsen). Special quasigroups and Steiner systems (J. Shiftar and Herbert Zeitler). On the non-simplicity of a subring of M(G) (Aletta Speegle). Near-rings in connection with non-abelian cohomology of groups (Mirela Stefgnescu). On the salient properties of near-ring radicals (Stefan Veldsman)

Internet in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference. By Valerie Quercia. O’Heilly, Sebsstopol, CA. (1997). 431 pages. $19.95. Contents:

Foreword. Preface. Part I. Getting oriented. 1. A living glossary of the Internet. Part II. 2. Netscape Navigator. 3. Microsoft Internet Explorer. Part III. Finding stuff. 4. Internet addressing. 5. Landmark sites and

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other resources. 6. Internet directories and search engines. 7. Finding people and places. 8. Accessing libraries and other resources with T&et. Part IV. Email and news. 9. Why email and news. 10. Email strategies and survival tips. 11. Mailing lists. 12. Getting along in Usenet. 13. Netscape messenger and collabre discussions. 14. MSIE Internet mail. 15. MSIE Internet news. Part V. File handling. 16. File types and extensions, 17. FPT and file transfer. 18. FTP command reference. 19. File compression and archiving. Part VI. Helpers and plug-ins. 20. Helper applications. 21. Plug-ins and ActivX controls. Part VII. Web authoring. 22. Authoring for the web. 23. HTML tags and attributes. 24. Color names and values. 25. Character entities. 26. GIFs, applets, and other enhancements. Part VIII. Internet relay chat. 27. It’s about chat. 28. IFlC command reference. Glossary. Index.

Develooina Business Svstems with CORBA. By Waqar Sadiq and Fred Cummins. Cambridge University Press, NY. (1998). 261 pages. $44.95 (Includes CD-ROM). Contents:

Legal Notice. About the Authors. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part 1. Concepts and methods. Chapter 1. Introduction to distributed-objects technology. Chapter 2. Distributed-objects strat- egy. Chapter 3. CORBA-An overview. Chapter 4. Planning and Managing Development Projects. Part 2. Architecture, design, and programming. Chapter 5. The business objects facility. Chapter 6. Design issues. Chapter 7. Programming CORBA objects. Part 3. Tools and vendor components. Chapter 8. The Orbiv object request broker. Chapter 9. Application component libraries. Appendix A. Running the business objects facility. Appendix B. Reliable financial services business application. Appendix C. License. Index.

Hard Real-Time Comvutina Svstems: Predictable Schedulina Alaorithms and Aovlications. By Giorgio C. But- tazzo. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA. (1997). 379 pages. 887.50, NLG 190.00, GBP 57.75. Contents:

Preface. 1. A general view. 2. Basic concepts. 3. Aperiodic task scheduling. 4. Periodic task scheduling. 5. Fixed-priority servers. 6. Dynamic priority servers. 7. Resource access protocols. 8. Handling overload con- ditions. 9. Kernel design issues. 10. Application design issues. 11. Examples of real-time systems. Glossary. References. Index.

JavaTM Security. By Scott Oaks. O’Reilly, Sebsstopol, CA. (1998). 456 pages. $32.95. Contents:

Preface. 1. Java application security. 2. Java language security. 3. Java class loaders. 4. The security manager class. 5. The accezs controller. 6. Implementing security policies. 7. Introduction to cryptography. 8. Security providers. 9. Message digests. 10. Keys and certificates. 11. Key management. 12. Digital signatures. 13. En- cryption. Appendices. A. Security tools. B. Identity-based key management. C. Security resources. D. Quick reference. Index.

RbD and Productivitu: The Econometric Evidence. By Zvi Griliches. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. (1998). 382 pages. $56.00, GBP 44.75. Contents:

Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction. I. The conceptual framework. 2. Issue in assessing the contribution of research and development to productivity growth. II. R&D and productivity at the firm level: The evidence. 3. Returns to research and development expenditures in the private sector. 4. Productivity, R&D, and basic research at the firm level in the 1970s. 5. Productivity and R&D at the firm level. 6. Productivity growth and R&D at the business level: Results from the PIMS data base. 7. Comparing productivity growth: An exploration of French and US. industrial and firm data. 8. R&D and productivity growth: Comparing Japanese and U.S. manufacturing firms. III. R&D and productivity growth at the industry level. 9. R&D and productivity growth at the industry level: Is there still a relationship? 10. Interindustry technology flows and productivity growth: A reexamination. 11. The search for F&D spillovers. 12. R&D and productivity: The unfinished business. IV. Patent statistics. 13. Patent statistics az economic indicators: A survey. V. Interim conclusions. 14. Productivity, R&D, and the data constraint. Author index. Subject index.

Jotian. Real and Lie Structures in Ovemtor Alaebms. By Shavkat Ayupov, Abdugafur Rakhimov, and Shukhrat Usmanov. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. (1997). 225 pages. NLG 195.00, $115.00, GBP 70.00. Contents:

Introduction. Preliminaries. Chapter 1: Jordan operator algebras. Chapter 2. Real structure in W*-algebras Chapter 3: Lie structure in operator algebras. References. Index.

~~~~ TM terns: Jewels from “ Java Rewrt ‘I. Edited by Dwight Deugo. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. (1998). 230 pages. $29.95. Contents:

Introduction: Java Report in Review. Section one. Introduction to Java. Believing the hype (Arthur van Hoff). Assessing the Java security layers (Joel Scotkin). Section two. Language features. Multitasking in Java