Thanks to D3 for reviewing Stephen Northcutt's Network Intrusion Detection: An Analysis Handbook. Recently published, this book is designed for those of you trying to keep people outside of your machines. Click below for more.

Dava Sobel's "Galileo's Daughter" is a brilliant, deeply moving account of the life of Galileo, a primal geek who altered the way humans look at the world, and of his tragic and mysterious relationship with his brilliant daughter, cloistered in a convent.

SEGV has returned and is continuing his excellent set of reviews. This time around, we're looking at Martin Fowler's (with Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, and Don Roberts) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code. Click below for more details.

In his new book, "Weaving the Web," Tim Berners-Lee describes how he created the WWW and his vision and hope for it. Any declarations from this brilliant and selfless man are important and worth paying attention to, but brace yourself: the writing style is somewhere between low-key and comatose, the vision noble but almost hopelessly naive.

Thanks to darrn chamberlain for an excellent review of the Lincoln Stein and Doug MacEachern book Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C. This is an excellent book for those considering working with Apache and mod_perl, and helpful for C programmers. Click below for more details.

Given the recent well deserved critical acclaim that surrounds Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon , we thought it would be good to also remember that he's written other great books as well. Clampe has graciously offered to review Stephenson's prior book. Click below for more details.

Probably a good number of you have read Ender's Game, an amazing science-fiction novel by Orson Scott Card ^[?] . That book was followed by a seris of books starring Ender, the main character from Ender's Game. Now Card is taking us back to the time of the first book and telling the story again through different eyes. Thanks to J. Patrick Narkinsky and boog3r for writing review of the new book Ender's Shadow

The return of Doc Technical is marked by his review of the upcoming O'Reilly book Mastering Algorithms with C. Click below if you wish to learn more about this Kyle Loudon book.

Scott McCartney's Eniac is a beautifully researched, immensely readable, and surprisingly poignant look at the two men who worked for three years in the frenzied atmosphere of World War II to successfully build Eniac, the world's first digital, electronic computer.

One of the most amazing things about their very overdue story is that most of us have never heard of either of them.

Thanks to our own Justin for the review of author Havoc Pennington (excellent name)'s GTK+/Gnome Application Development. Click below to learn more.

One of the pre-eminent reviewers on Slashdot, SEGV, has returned with a review of something a bit more esoteric than our normal book review fare. Melanie Mitchell's latest work, An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms, is the subject of today's review, and is well worth the reading for those interested in said subject. Click below to find out more.

Thanks to chromatic, who has returned with another book review. This time around it's O'Reilly's Programming Web Graphics with Perl & GNU Software. Excellent book for prospective Webmasters - give it a look.

I recently read Po Bronson's sophomore effort, The First 20 Million is Always the Hardest (TF20MIATH), and had a few gripes about it. Click below to read mine, and to share your own critiques - compliments - comments - ramblings about the book.

Thanks to both danimal and Doc Technical for reviews of the latest and greatest O'Reilly book, Randy Jay Yarger, George Reese, and Tim King's MySQL and mSQL. An excellent book for those who are looking to do database development (and MySQL powers Slashdot!), click below for more details.

It's a great read, but there's not much to celebrate in "The Celebration Chronicles." Andrew Ross takes us deep into the strange world of Disney's hi-tech, meticulously planned model community of the future, still under construction in murky swampland south of Walt Disney World.

Thanks to Cliff Lampe for his review of Ed Regis' book Nano: The Emerging Science of Nanotechnology. The author of Who Got Einstein's Office?, and similar books, Regis' takes a look at the personalities and social history behind nanotechnology. Click below to read more.

The return of SEGV brings with it a review of Michael J. Hammel's The Artists' Guide to the GIMP. This is an interesting book for those artists and wanna-be artists using the GIMP, and wanting to learn more what you/they can do-click below for more information.

Despite his long turnaround time, I still have not yet killed CowboyNeal for his long-delayed review of Jeff Tranter and Paul Raines' Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell. Part of the well known O'Reilly Nutshell series, this is a great book for those getting seriously into Tcl/Tk, or those who need a desktop reference. Click below for more information.

Kurt Gray sent a review of Beginning Linux Programming, by Neil Matthew & Richard Stones. Click here to learn how to contribute more code.

To understand Bill Gates, writes author Gary Rivlin in his new book, you have to first understand the people who have been laboring so ferociously -- and unsuccessfully -- to bring him down.