No Starch Press is an American publishing company, specializing in technical literature often geared towards the

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, and

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subcultures. Popular titles include '' Hacking: The Art of Exploitation'', Andrew Huang's ''Hacking the Xbox'', and ''

How Wikipedia Works ''How Wikipedia Works'' is a 2008 book by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates. Published by No Starch Press, it is a how-to reference book for using and contributing to the Wikipedia encyclopedia, targeted at "students, professors, and ...

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Topics

No Starch Press publishes books with a focus on networking,

computer security Computer security, cybersecurity (cyber security), or information technology security (IT security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from attack by malicious actors that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, the ...

, hacking,

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...

, programming, technology for kids,

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, and

science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

. The publisher also releases educational comics like ''Super Scratch Programming Adventure'' and ''The Manga Guide to Science'' series.

History

San Francisco-based No Starch Press was founded in 1994 by Bill Pollock, who brings more than 30 years of publishing industry experience to the company. Several titles have been included in the prestigious ''Communication Arts'' Design Annual and STEP inside 100 competition, and have won the Independent Publisher Book Award (the IPPYs) from ''Independent Publisher'' magazine.

Availability

No Starch Press titles are available online and in bookstores in all major English language markets worldwide. No Starch Press titles have been translated into over thirty languages.

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Publisher Services distributes No Starch Press titles in the U.S. and worldwide.

Popular books

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Absolute OpenBSD ''Absolute OpenBSD: Unix for the Practical Paranoid'' is a comprehensive guide to the OpenBSD operating system by Michael W. Lucas, author of ''Absolute FreeBSD'' and ''Cisco Routers for the Desperate''. The book assumes basic knowledge of the desi ...

'' * '' Cult of Mac'' * ''

Debian System Debian (), also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software, developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. The first version of Deb ...

'' * '' Hacking: The Art of Exploitation'' * ''

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Programming Linux Games Loki Software, Inc. (Loki Entertainment) was an American video game developer based in Tustin, California, that ported several video games from Microsoft Windows to Linux. It took its name from the Norse deity Loki. Although successful in its ...

'' * English-language editions of several of ''

The Manga Guides is a series of educational Japanese manga books. Each volume explains a particular subject in science or mathematics. The series is published in Japan by Ohmsha, in America by No Starch Press, in France by H&K, in Italy by L'Espresso, in Mal ...

'' books: ** '' The Manga Guide to Biochemistry'' ** '' The Manga Guide to Calculus'' ** '' The Manga Guide to Cryptography'' ** '' The Manga Guide to Databases'' ** '' The Manga Guide to Electricity'' ** '' The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra'' ** '' The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology'' ** '' The Manga Guide to Physics'' ** ''The Manga Guide to Regression Analysis'' ** ''The Manga Guide to Relativity'' ** ''The Manga Guide to Statistics'' ** ''The Manga Guide to the Universe'' * '' The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook''

References

External links

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