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Nov 2004 Metlakahtla and North Pacific Mission, E. Stock [metlaxxx.xxx]6976
[Full title: Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission]
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Nov 2004 Lays from the West, by M. A. Nicholl [?laysxxx.xxx]6972
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Nov 2004 History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V3 [?rfi3xxx.xxx]6968
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Nov 2004 History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V2 [?rfi2xxx.xxx]6967
[Author's Full Name: William H. Prescott]
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Nov 2004 Traite' General de la Cuisine Maigre,Auguste Helie[?tgcmxxx.xxx]6966
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Nov 2004 Alice Sit-By-The-Fire, by J. M. Barrie [Barrie#9][asbtfxxx.xxx]6965
Nov 2004 Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves, by Cicely Kent [tfbtlxxx.xxx]6964
[Subtitle: How to Read Your Fate in a Teacup]
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Nov 2004 Elson Grammar School Literature v4, by W. Elson [?egs4xxx.xxx]6963
[Author's Full Name: William H. Elson]
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Nov 2004 Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2, J. Cox[?mcw2xxx.xxx]6962
[Author's Full Name: Jacob Dolson Cox]
[Subtitle: November 1863-June 1865]
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Nov 2004 Canada and Other Poems, by T.F. Young [canpwxxx.xxx]6957
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Nov 2004 Aikenside, by Mary J. Holmes [aikenxxx.xxx]6954
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Nov 2004 By Pike and Dyke: A Tale of the Rise of the D[11][bpikexxx.xxx]6952
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Nov 2004 Audio: The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin [vbglexx3.xxx]6951C
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Nov 2004 The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore, by L. Hope [#9][tbtssxxx.xxx]6950
[Author's Full Name: Laura Lee Hope]
Nov 2004 Fiat Money Inflation in France, by A. White [fiatmxxx.xxx]6949
[Author's Full Name: Andrew Dickson White]
[Subtitle: How it Came, What it Brought, and How it Ended]
Nov 2004 The Secrets of the German War Office, A.K. Graves[sgewoxxx.xxx]6948
[Author's Full Name: Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves]
[Note: With the collaboration of Edward Lyell Fox]
Nov 2004 The Rangers, By D. P. Thompson [rangrxxx.xxx]6947
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Nov 2004 Marguerite Verne, by Agatha Armour [vernexxx.xxx]6945
[Subtitle: Scenes from Canadian Life]
Nov 2004 The Heart of Mid-Lothian, by W. Scott, Complete [mid3wxxx.xxx]6944
[Author: Sir Walter Scott]
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Nov 2004 The Heart of Mid-Lothian, by Walter Scott, Vol. 1 [mid1wxxx.xxx]6942
Nov 2004 Old Mortality, by Sir Walter Scott, Complete [mrt3wxxx.xxx]6941
Nov 2004 Old Mortality, by Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2 [mrt2wxxx.xxx]6940
Nov 2004 Old Mortality, by Sir Walter Scott, Volume 1 [mrt1wxxx.xxx]6939
Nov 2004 History of the Conflict Between Religion and Scien[hcbrsxxx.xxx]6938
[Full Title: History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science]
[Author's Full Name: John William Draper]
Nov 2004 A Biography of Edmund Spenser, by John W. Hales [esbioxxx.xxx]6937
Nov 2004 Robinson Crusoe/One Syllable, by Mary Godolphin [rbcosxxx.xxx]6936
[Full Title: Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable]
Nov 2004 The Radio Amateur's Hand Book,A. Frederick Collins[thrdmxxx.xxx]6935
[Subtitle: A Complete, Authentic and Informative Work on Wireless Telegraphy
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Nov 2004 The Radio Amateur's Hand Book,A. Frederick Collins[thrdmxxx.xxx]6934
[Subtitle: A Complete, Authentic and Informative Work on Wireless Telegraphy
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Nov 2004 Jesuits in North America, by Francis Parkman[FP#4][?tjnaxxx.xxx]6933
[Full title: The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century]
Nov 2004 Pictures Every Child Should Know, by Dolores Bacon[?picsxxx.xxx]6932
[Subtitle: A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People]
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Nov 2004 In Camp on the Big Sunflower,by Lawrence J. Leslie[cbgsfxxx.xxx]6915
Nov 2004 Boy Aviators in Africa, Captain Wilbur Lawton [#2][tbvfrxxx.xxx]6905
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FILM, MUSIC GROUPS TARGET WORKPLACE PIRATES
The Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture
Association of America have published a guide for employers, asking major
corporations to curb illicit file-swapping by workers on company time. The
guide, titled "A Corporate Policy Guide to Copyright Use and Security on
the Internet," requests that businesses advise employees against copyright
abuse using corporate computer systems and warns that such abuse is
illegal, damages corporate reputations, increases corporate network
security risks, and can put organizations at risk of legal liability. The
guide cites a case in which an Arizona company paid a $1 million settlement
in April 2002 to the RIAA after workers were found to be accessing and
distributing thousands of music files via the company server. (Reuters 13
Feb 2003)
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION PLANS CYBERSECURITY AGENCY
The European Commission proposed creating the European Network and
Information Security Agency to provide advice for the 15 EU members on
cybersecurity issues. The agency is scheduled to begin operating in
January 2004, at a site to be chosen by the governments of the 15
member states. The commission has set aside $26 million to fund the
agency over the next five years, with additional funds planned to
support the 10 new member states expected to join in 2004. The agency
will assist EU members' own cybercrime authorities, specifically
computer emergency response teams. The increased coordination among
member states is expected to benefit the EU as a whole in achieving a
high level of security for Internet use.
ITWorld, 10 February 2003
http://www.itworld.com/Sec/2199/030210eucybersecurity/
ADVISORY GROUPS TO OVERSEE TIA PROGRAM
The Pentagon formed an internal and an external committee to address
privacy concerns arising from the Total Information Awareness (TIA)
program in a move to prevent Congress from monitoring the program too
closely. Headed by John Poindexter, TIA aims to identify terrorists by
monitoring Internet usage and commercial and financial databases in the
U.S. and abroad. A Senate amendment last month banned deployment of the
program and curbed research for it. The Pentagon formed the advisory
panels to minimize the scope of the provision, now before a
House-Senate conference committee, by convincing Congress that the
committees will adequately address balancing security and privacy
concerns. Senator Ron Wyden, who sponsored the provision, noted that
the panels .did not get an election certificate. and that .Congress on
a bipartisan basis is going to continue to demand accountability,
oversight, and legally established safeguards..
New York Times, 8 February 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/08/national/08PRIV.html
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