Beginning Boy Scouts is an introduction to the youth program of the Boy Scouts of America. It is an unofficial guide to Boy Scouting to help parents, new leaders, and even scouting youth to better understand scouting goals and participate in Boy Scouting. It quickly answers numerous common questions and provides instruction and advice for parents and leaders -- to help know "what is first?" and how to get started, preparing for outdoor activities and summer camp, uniforms, leadership and the Patrol Method, earning awards and badges, Eagle planning and Eagle paperwork, and how to participate. It introduces the terminology and defines the common scouting lingo.

Meet Jimmer Fredette, college basketball player of the year and young NBA athlete. This book follows his story from a small town in New York through AAU and high school sports to Brigham Young University where he electrified the college basketball world. This exciting biography highlights Jimmer's performances, his work ethic, and his journey to reaching his goal of playing in the NBA. Beyond the Arc is an inspiring story of how family, faith, and fortitude can lead to the top of the game.

In addition to covering a history of free and open source, The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin explores how free and open software is changing the world. It is authored by Peter H. Salus, a noted UNIX, open source, and Internet historian and author of A Quarter Century of UNIX and Casting The Net and other books. Salus has interviewed well over a hundred key figures to document the history and background of free and open source software. In his book, Salus reaches back into the early days of computing, showing that even in "pre-UNIX" days there was freely available software, and rapidly moves forward to the Free Software movement of today and what it means for the future, drawing analogies and linkages from various aspects of economics and life.

For over seven years, computer networking and security instructor and consultant, Dru Lavigne, meticulously documented her learning experiences with FreeBSD administration and open source software usage in a series of over 110 articles. Many readers praised and recommended the author's informative tutorials. The Best of FreeBSD Basics book contains most of these articles - many updated from FreeBSD 4 and 5 to reflect the usage on FreeBSD 6 and 7. The Best of FreeBSD Basics provides practical advice for completing common tasks on FreeBSD and is a great way to get to know FreeBSD - and Unix in general. Darwin, DragonFly, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, and OpenBSD fans will also find a lot of the book invaluable and useful. Covering a huge range of FreeBSD and open source topics, The Best of FreeBSD Basics includes step-by-step directions, things to watch out for, and hints for success. A sampling of the book's topics include installing an X11 server and setting up an desktop environment, comparing common tasks with Linux, playing audio and video files, user administration, system startup, finding and using documentation, managing backups, networking basics, IPsec, setting up several servers, filtering spam, improving security, enabling firewalls, and a lot more.

The OpenBSD PF Packet Filter Book covers PF on the NetBSD, FreeBSD, DragonFly and OpenBSD platforms. It is an expanded and improved version of the PF FAQ with sections covering Spamd and configuring and using PF on NetBSD, FreeBSD, DragonFly and OpenBSD. The cross-referenced and indexed book also covers quality of service and ALTQ, load balancing, FTP proxying, stateful packet filtering, network address translation (NAT), port forwarding, passive operating system fingerprinting, and redundant firewalls (using pfsync and CARP). The OpenBSD PF Packet Filter Book includes several examples and rulesets.