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Classical Fortran

• ISBN:
• 0824708024
• Authors:
• Michael Kupferschmid

College text, self-study guide, and reference about programming computers to do calculating using FORTRAN, the original and still most widely-recognized language for engineering and scientific applications.

The Engineering Handbook on CD-ROM

• ISBN:
• 0849385768
• Authors:
• Richard C. Dorf

A resource for all engineers in all disciplines.The Engineering Handbook CRCnetBASE provides encyclopedic coverage of all areas of engineering. Designed for the professional engineer practicing in any of the disciplines comprising the field of engineering, The Engineering Handbook CRCnetBASE is comprehensive, practical, and fully searchable, allowing quick and easy access to information in areas within, and outside, the reader's area of...

Macroengineering: An Environmental Restoration Management Process

• ISBN:
• 0849392020
• Authors:
• John Darabaris

Environmental restoration has entered an era of faster, better, cheaper. Uniquely suited to meet all of those requirements, macroengineering has become one of the hottest concepts in the field. Macroengineering: An Environmental Restoration Management Process provides a comprehensive understanding of all the technical, cost, and regulatory issues that an environmental project manager would potentially face on a large scale environmental...

Advances in Mathematical Modeling for Reliability

• ISBN:
• 1586038656
• Authors:
• Lesley Walls, Babakalli Alkali

Advances in Mathematical Modeling for Reliability discusses fundamental issues on mathematical modeling in reliability theory and its applications. Beginning with an extensive discussion of graphical modeling and Bayesian networks, the focus shifts towards repairable systems: a discussion about how sensitive availability calculations parameter choices, and emulators provide the potential to perform such calculations on complicated systems to a...

Engineering GCSE

• ISBN:
• 0750656441
• Authors:
• Mike Tooley BA; Advanced Technological and Higher National Certificates Kingston University

Mike Tooley's accessible activity-based approach introduces students to engineering and the pivotal role it plays in the modern world, as well as providing opportunities to develop engineering GCSE schemes from Edexcel and OCR. The text, case studies, activities and review questions are designed to encourage students to explore engineering for themselves through a variety of different learning experiences. The practical process of designing and...

SGTE Casebook: Thermodynamics at Work

• ISBN:
• 1845692152

Computational Welding Mechanics

• ISBN:
• 1845692217
• Authors:
• L.-E. Lindgren

Adobe® Acrobat® and PDF for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction

• ISBN:
• 1846280206
• Authors:
• Tom Carson, Donna L. Baker

Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) is a $3.4 trillion industry in which documentation is the basis for the delivery of products and services. Such documentation is the currency of AEC projects and can be a complex mixture of drawings and specifications. Sharing and archiving documents requires a safe, small and smart format, a role for which Adobe’s portable document format (PDF) is ideally suited. PDF has become the de facto...

Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics

• ISBN:
• 1852338067

Engineers and practitioners contribute to society through their ability to apply basic scientific principles to real problems in an effective and efficient manner. They must collect data to test their products every day as part of the design and testing process and also after the product or process has been rolled out to monitor its effectiveness. Model building, data collection, data analysis and data interpretation form the core of sound...

Probability and Risk Analysis: An Introduction for Engineers

• ISBN:
• 3540242236
• Authors:
• Igor Rychlik, Jesper Rydén

This text presents notions and ideas at the foundations of a statistical treatment of risks. Such knowledge facilitates the understanding of the influence of random phenomena and gives a deeper understanding of the possibilities offered by and algorithms found in certain software packages. Since Bayesian methods are frequently used in this field, a reasonable proportion of the presentation is devoted to such techniques. The text is written with...

Foundation Analysis and Design

• ISBN:
• 0079122477
• Authors:
• Joseph E. Bowles

The revision of this best-selling text for a junior/senior course in Foundation Analysis and Design now includes an IBM computer disk containing 16 compiled programs together with the data sets used to produce the output sheets, as well as new material on sloping ground, pile and pile group analysis, and procedures for an improved anlysis of lateral piles. Bearing capacity analysis has been substantially revised for footings with horizontal as...

High Speed Signal Propagation: Advanced Black Magic

• ISBN:
• 013084408X
• Authors:
• Howard Johnson

Raves for Dr. Johnson's previous classic, High-Speed Digital Design! "...one of the finest efforts to come along in the field of applied high-speed digital design because of its focus on providing tools for the whole design team bringing a high-speed product to life. For all the PCB designers and circuit designers out there, buy it; read it; keep it." -- Dan Baumgartner, Printed Circuit Design Faster and farther: State-of-the-art signal...

Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart

• ISBN:
• 0195143817
• Authors:
• Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, ABC Research Group

Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart invites readers to embark on a new journey into a land of rationality that differs from the familiar territory of cognitive science and economics. Traditional views of rationality tend to see decision makers as possessing superhuman powers of reason, limitless knowledge, and all of eternity in which to ponder choices. To understand decisions in the real world, we need a different, more psychologically...

Radical Interpretation and Indeterminacy

• ISBN:
• 0195145062
• Authors:
• Timothy McCarthy

McCarthy develops a theory of radical interpretation--the project of characterizing from scratch the language and attitudes of an agent or population--and applies it to the problems of indeterminacy of interpretation first described by Quine. The major theme in McCarthy's study is that a relatively modest set of interpretive principles, properly applied, can serve to resolve the major indeterminacies of interpretation.

Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology

• ISBN:
• 0199546045

Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist? Metametaphysics asks questions about metaphysics: for example, do its questions have determinate answers? If so, are these answers deep and important, or are they merely a matter of how we use words? What is the proper methodology for their resolution? These questions have received a heightened degree of attention lately with new varieties of ontological...

Culture and Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

• ISBN:
• 0226785955
• Authors:
• David Swartz

Pierre Bourdieu is one of the world's most important social theorists and is also one of the great empirical researchers in contemporary sociology. However, reading Bourdieu can be difficult for those not familiar with the French cultural context, and until now a comprehensive introduction to Bourdieu's oeuvre has not been available. David Swartz focuses on a central theme in Bourdieu's work—the complex relationship between culture and...

Barbaros : Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment

• ISBN:
• 0300105010
• Authors:
• David J. Weber

Two centuries after Cortés and Pizarro seized the Aztec and Inca empires, Spain’s conquest of America remained unfinished. Indians retained control over most of the lands in Spain’s American empire. Mounted on horseback, savvy about European ways, and often possessing firearms, independent Indians continued to find new ways to resist subjugation by Spanish soldiers and conversion by Spanish missionaries.In this panoramic study, David J....

Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)

• ISBN:
• 0387360530
• Authors:
• Colin Burgess, Chris Dubbs

Many readers will doubtless be astonished to learn that animals were being fired aloft in U.S. and Soviet research rockets in the late 1940s. In fact most people not only believe that the Russian space dog Laika was the first canine to be launched into space, but also that the high-profile, precursory Mercury flights of chimps Ham and Enos were the only primate flights conducted by the United States. In fact, both countries had sent literally...

Advances in the Science and Technology of Ocean Management (Ocean Management and Policy)

• ISBN:
• 0415038170
• Authors:
• Hance D. Smith

Advances in the Science and Technology of Ocean Management reviews key developments in the field of marine science and technology, with a focus on long-term issues. The book discusses three major themes throughout: the key importance of technical developments in ocean management; the application of these developments to specific sea uses ranging from fish farming to the deep sea disposal of industrial waste; and the long-term issues raised and...

Enclosure Masonry Wall Systems Worldwide: Typical Masonry Wall Enclosures in Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Nordic Countries, Poland, Portugal, the Netherlands and USA

• ISBN:
• 0415425778

Enclosure walls have a key role in building construction, providing structural safety and protecting interiors from intrusion. The concept of an enclosure wall is a traditional one, common to the building history of many countries. There is a tremendous variety in types of enclosure walls, depending on such variables as climate and local technologies. Progress in these traditional practices has been stimulated by new national and international...

Engineering Noise Control: Theory and Practice

• ISBN:
• 0415487072
• Authors:
• David Bies, Colin Hansen

This book should be of interest to intermediate and advanced undergraduate mechanical engineering students; accoustical and noise-control consultants, practising engineers, architects and all other professionals concerned with noise abatement and control.

Private Equity: History, Governance, and Operations (Wiley Finance)

• ISBN:
• 0470178469
• Authors:
• Harry Cendrowski, James P. Martin, Louis W. Petro, Adam A. Wadecki

Praise for Private Equity "Private Equity: History, Governance, and Operations is an invaluable guide to understanding the world of private equity investing. Harry Cendrowski and his colleagues have drawn on their extensive experience and expertise to produce a book that is remarkably comprehensive and authoritative." -Robert Larson, Chairman, Lazard Real Estate Partners LLC and Larson Realty Group Managing Director, Lazard Alternative...

Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers

• ISBN:
• 0199278709
• Authors:
• Kit Fine

Since the 1970s Kit Fine has been one of the leading contributors to work at the intersection of logic and metaphysics. This is his eagerly-awaited first book in the area. It draws together a series of essays, three of them previously unpublished, on possibility, necessity, and tense. These puzzling aspects of the way the world is have been the focus of considerable philosophical attention in recent decades. A helpful introduction orients the...

The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey

• ISBN:
• 0470294191
• Authors:
• Emmanuel Goldstein

Since 1984, the quarterly magazine 2600 has provided fascinating articles for readers who are curious about technology. Find the best of the magazine’s writing in Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey , a collection of the strongest, most interesting, and often most controversial articles covering 24 years of changes in technology, all from a hacker’s perspective. Included are stories about the creation of the infamous tone dialer “red box”...

Introductory Circuits

• ISBN:
• 0470779713
• Authors:
• Robert Spence

Compact but comprehensive, this textbook presents the essential concepts of electronic circuit theory.  As well as covering classical linear theory involving resistance, capacitance and inductance it treats practical nonlinear circuits containing components such as operational amplifiers, Zener diodes and exponential diodes.  The book’s straightforward approach highlights the similarity between the equations describing direct current (DC),...

Essentials of Corporate Performance Measurement

• ISBN:
• 0471203750
• Authors:
• George T. Friedlob, Lydia L. F. Schleifer, Franklin J. Plewa Jr.

ESSENTIALS OF CORPORATE PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT Full of valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-world examples, exhibits, and best practices, this handy and concise paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies, developments, and technologies in corporate performance measurement. "Surprisingly, many important decisions (capex, operational performance evaluations, etc.) in the ‘real world’ are based on whims,...

Managing the Risks of Payments Systems

• ISBN:
• 0471328480
• Authors:
• Paul S. Turner, Diane B. Wunnicke

Identify and manage payment risk The risks of payment systems have dramatically evolved…new laws, new technologies, new threats combined with the chronic problems of error, fraud, and security. Treasury and banking executives and their counsel ignore these risks at their peril. "We didn’t know" is no excuse. Managing the Risks of Payment Systems is the up-to-date, practical, authoritatively complete guide to managing the risks of payment...

Valuation: Setting Sound Business Goals

• ISBN:
• 0471386545
• Authors:
• George M. Norton III

A professional’s guide to assessing value, developing strategy, and achieving goals "George Norton has made the complex subject of business valuation and value creation understandable. The book is a straightforward, ‘how-to’ guide for business owners, CEO’s and other senior executives that links strategy and tactics to long-term stakeholder satisfaction. For a business book it is not only a ‘good read,’ it is a ‘must read. ’ "...

The Audit Committee Handbook (IIA (Institute of Internal Auditors) Series)

• ISBN:
• 0471488844
• Authors:
• Louis Braiotta Jr.

"The Audit Committee Handbook, Fourth Edition serves as an excellent and functional road map for audit committee members, corporate board members, and practitioners operating within today's vastly changing regulatory environment . . . providing the tools for better adherence to the newly enacted, higher standards of corporate responsibility."—Jo Ann Golden, CPA, Past president, New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, Partner,...

Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Effective Enterprise Risk Management

• ISBN:
• 0471726265
• Authors:
• Anne M. Marchetti

Designed to lead financial managers from initial compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, through ongoing maintenance and monitoring, Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance helps readers seize this opportunity to revitalize their business practice, drive greater performance, and transform their finance organization into a key contributor to the business. Focusing on the present and future financial road ahead, Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance explores...

Presentations of Groups (London Mathematical Society Student Texts)

• ISBN:
• 0521585422
• Authors:
• D. L. Johnson

Emphasizing computational techniques, this book provides an accessible and lucid introduction to combinatorial group theory. Rigorous proofs of all theorems and a light, informal style make Presentations of Groups a self-contained combinatorics class. Numerous and diverse exercises provide readers with a thorough overview of the subject. While catering to combinatorics beginners, this book also includes the frontiers of research, and explains...

Elements of Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics

• ISBN:
• 0521866324
• Authors:
• Joanne L. Wegner, James B. Haddow

This text is intended to provide a modern and integrated treatment of the foundations and applications of continuum mechanics. There is a significant increase in interest in continuum mechanics because of its relevance to microscale phenomena. In addition to being tailored for advanced undergraduate students and including numerous examples and exercises, this text also features a chapter on continuum thermodynamics, including entropy production...

Aircraft Instruments

• ISBN:
• 0582018986
• Authors:
• Pallet, E. H. J. Pallett

NLP and Health: Practical Ways to Bring Mind and Body into Harmony

• ISBN:
• 0722532881
• Authors:
• Joseph O'Connor

Accessible introduction to using Neuro-Linguistic Programming for better health.

Security for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET

• ISBN:
• 0735619190
• Authors:
• Ed Robinson, Michael James Bond

This is the first book every Visual Basic .NET programmer should read on security. This is an end-to-end guide, with clear prescriptive guidance for best practices, application design, and coding techniques for Windows and Web-based applications. This book makes writing secure applications easier than ever before. It features plain-language explanations of security terms illustrated with step-by-step code walk-throughs and sample files for both...

Faster Smarter Network+ Certification

• ISBN:
• 0735619328
• Authors:
• Melissa Craft

Take the next step in your career by earning CompTIA Network+ Certification the faster, smarter way. This high-energy guide helps maximize your study time with concise content, expert guidance, and hundreds of practice questions on CD.

Migrating from Microsoft® Windows NT® Server 4.0 to Windows Server(TM) 2003 (Pro-One-Offs)

• ISBN:
• 0735619409
• Authors:
• Microsoft Corporation

The essential technical guidance that system administrators need to upgrade to the Windows .NET Server 2003 operating system, direct from those who know the technology best—the Microsoft Windows Server product team.

Extreme Programming Adventures in C# (DV-Microsoft Professional)

• ISBN:
• 0735619492
• Authors:
• Ron Jeffries

Apply what you know about extreme programming and object-oriented design to learning C# and the Microsoft® .NET Framework on the fly. Author Ron Jeffries, a leading voice and practitioner in the extreme programming movement, demonstrates how to apply its key concepts—including the use of customer stories, customer acceptance tests, and "Spikes"—and the fundamental techniques of Simple Design, Test-Driven Development, and Refactoring to...

MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-298): Designing Security for a Microsoft® Windows Server(TM) 2003 Network

• ISBN:
• 0735619697
• Authors:
• Roberta Bragg

Announcing an all-new MCSE TRAINING KIT designed to help maximize your performance on Exam 70-298, one of two core MCSE design exams. Written by well-known IT security consultant, columnist, and speaker Roberta Bragg, this kit packs the tools and features exam candidates want most—including in-depth, self-paced training based on exam content; exam tips from an expert, exam-certified author; and a robust testing suite. It also provides practice...

Industrial Control Wiring Guide

• ISBN:
• 0750609338
• Authors:
• R B MERCER

This manual provides a practical introduction to the standard methods and techniques of assembly and wiring of electrical and electromechanical control panels and equipment. Electricians and technicians will find this a useful reference during training and a helpful memory aid at work.

Cryptography for Dummies

• ISBN:
• 0764541889
• Authors:
• Chey Cobb

* Cryptography is the most effective way to achieve data security and is essential to e-commerce activities such as online shopping, stock trading, and banking * This invaluable introduction to the basics of encryption covers everything from the terminology used in the field to specific technologies to the pros and cons of different implementations * Discusses specific technologies that incorporate cryptography in their design, such as...

LPIC 1 Certification Bible

• ISBN:
• 0764547720
• Authors:
• Angie Nash, Jason Nash

As Linux continues its rapid expansion into Corporate America, the demand for qualified administrators has grown. As the Cisco, Microsoft, A+ and other certifications have shown, professional certifications are often a deciding factor when an individual is considered for a job. The Linux Professional Institute Certification 1 offers the validation of skill level beyond the power-user and helpdesk level, at an entry-level admin base. LPIC 1...

Fighting Spam for Dummies

• ISBN:
• 0764559656
• Authors:
• John R. Levine, Margaret Levine Young, Ray Everett-Church

Find out how to make your inbox off-limits to spammers! Reclaim your inbox with filters and helpful hints! Stop choking on spam —here's how to report it and how to can it Spam giving you indigestion? Help is on the way! Although there's no magic pill yet, this little book is packed with practical tips for keeping much of that trash from ever reaching your inbox. Find out how spam filters work, which ones work best, and how you can become a...

Java 2 Web Developer Certification Study Guide, 2nd Edition

• ISBN:
• 0782142028
• Authors:
• Natalie Levi

Java continues to grow in popularity and web programming skills on the J2EE platform are in high demand. If you already have the Java Certified Programmer or Developer certifications and are looking for a new challenge, prepare yourself for the Sun Certified Web Component Developer for J2EE Platform exam (310-080) with this updated edition of the Java 2 Web Developer Certification Study Guide. Organized for optimal learning and retention, this...

Fiber Optics Installer and Technician Guide

• ISBN:
• 0782143903
• Authors:
• Bill Woodward, Emile B. Husson

Developed in partnership with the Electronic Technician's Association, this book covers the two leading fiber optics certifications: ETA’s Fiber Optics Installer (FOI) and Fiber Optics Technician (FOT). In addition to a comprehensive self-study course, you’ll get a solid foundation in fiber optics directly from the chairman of the ETA, who also serves as the committee chairman for FOI and FOT certification programs. The CD includes advanced...

MCSE 70-293 Training Guide: Planning and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure

• ISBN:
• 0789730138
• Authors:
• Will Schmied, Robert Shimonski

The 70-293 exam is a core exam for the MCSE Windows 2003 certification, and tests professionals on their ability to plan and maintain a Windows 2003 network infrastructure. As of January 2003 there were over 200,000 Microsoft Certified Professionals. Not only will the majority of these be looking to upgrade to their 2003 MCSE, but the exam is expected to grow with new users. This Training Guide offers in-depth coverage of exam topics and offers...

Biology, Medicine, and Surgery of Elephants

• ISBN:
• 0813806763

Elephants are possibly the most well-known members of the animal kingdom. The enormous size, unusual anatomy, and longevity of elephants have fascinated humans for millenia. Biology, Medicine, and Surgery of Elephants serves as a comprehensive text on elephant medicine and surgery. Based on the expertise of 36 scientists and clinical veterinarians, this volume covers biology, husbandry, veterinary medicine and surgery of the elephant as known...

Linear Differential Equations and Group Theory from Riemann to Poincare

• ISBN:
• 0817638377
• Authors:
• Jeremy J. Gray

This book is a study of how a particular vision of the unity of mathematics, often called geometric function theory, was created in the 19th century. The central focus is on the convergence of three mathematical topics: the hypergeometric and related linear differential equations, group theory, and non-Euclidean geometry. The text for this new edition has been greatly expanded and revised, and the existing appendices enriched with historical...

Foundations of Time-Frequency Analysis (Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis)

• ISBN:
• 0817640223
• Authors:
• Karlheinz Gröchenig

Time-Frequency Analysis is a rich source of ideas and applications in modern harmonic analysis. The history of time-frequency analysis dates back to von Neumann, Wigner, and Gabor, who considered the problems in quantum mechanics and in information theory. For many years time-frequency analysis has been pursued only in engineering, but recently, and with the development of wavelet theory, it has emerged as a thriving field of applied...

Secure Internet Practices: Best Practices for Securing Systems in the Internet and e-Business Age

• ISBN:
• 0849312396
• Authors:
• Patrick McBride, Jody Patilla, Craig Robinson, Peter Thermos, Edward P. Moser

Touches all the bases you need to build a secure enterprise. Drawing on the experience of the world-class METASeS consulting team in building and advising on security programs, this guide shows you how to create a workable security program to protect your organization's internet risk. Softcover.

Engineering Analysis: Interactive Methods and Programs with FORTRAN, QuickBASIC, MATLAB, and Mathematica

• ISBN:
• 084932016X
• Authors:
• Yen-Ching Pao

This book provides a concise introduction to numerical concepts in engineering analysis, using FORTRAN, QuickBASIC, MATLAB, and Mathematica to illustrate the examples. Discussions include:omatrix algebra and analysisosolution of matrix equationsomethods of curve fitomethods for finding the roots of polynomials and transcendental equationsofinite differences and methods for interpolation and numerical differentiationonumerical computation of...

Toxic Plants and Other Natural Toxicants

• ISBN:
• 0851992633

Natural toxicants are important concerns for human health and are responsible for significant losses in animals and crops each year. This book collects research from botanists, chemists, biochemists, agricultural scientists, veterinarians, physicians, and regulatory bodies on all aspects of poisonous plants, mycotoxicoses, and herbal intoxications.

Magnetic Resonance in Food Science: Challenges in a Changing World (Special Publications)

• ISBN:
• 0854041176

This book is part of the continuing series of proceedings on applications of magnetic resonance to food science. The aim of the book is to bring the reader up-to-date with the state-of-the-art of the subject. The authors are from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia giving a global perspective to the subject. The range of the book is broad covering sensory science, authenticity, functionality, solid state methods and new methods.

Metal Speciation and Contamination of Soil

• ISBN:
• 0873716973
• Authors:
• Herbert E. Allen, Chin-Pao Huang, George W. Bailey, Alan R. Bowers

Metal Speciation and Contamination of Soil provides a thorough overview of the biogeochemical processes governing the behavior, transport, and bioavailability of heavy metals in contaminated soils and suggests alternative approaches for effective remediation. This important new book contains contributions from experts in various disciplines who explore the issues from theoretical, experimental, and pragmatic perspectives. Topics include redox...

Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897-1997

• ISBN:
• 1550022792

In 1897, Archibald Constable & Company published a novel by the unheralded Bram Stoker. That novel, Dracula , has gone on to become perhaps the most influential novel of all time. To commemorate the centennial of that great novel, Carol Margaret Davison has brought together this collection of essays by some of the world's leading scholars. The essays analyze Stoker's original novel and celebrate its legacy in popular culture. The continuing...

Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices, Part 2 (ICND2): (CCNA Exam 640-802 and ICND exam 640-816) (3rd Edition)

• ISBN:
• 1587054639
• Authors:
• Stephen McQuerry

Authorized Self-Study Guide Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices, Part 2 (ICND2) Third Edition   Foundation learning for CCNA ICND2 Exam 640-816   Steve McQuerry, CCIE® No. 6108   Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices, Part 2 (ICND2), is a Cisco®-authorized, self-paced learning tool for CCNA® foundation learning. This book provides you with the knowledge needed to install, operate, and troubleshoot a small to medium-size branch...

CCNP BSCI Exam Certification Guide (CCNP Self-Study, 642-801) (3rd Edition)

• ISBN:
• 1587200856
• Authors:
• Clare Gough

Prepare for the CCNP 642-801 BSCI exam with the only Cisco Systems authorized self-study preparation book. Master advanced routing techniques and practicesPrepare for the new exam with the 200-plus question testing engine on CD-ROM that includes simulation-based questionsLearn CCNP, CCDP, and CCIP routing topics with proven learning tools from the Exam Certification Guide series With updated technology and testing content, CCNP BSCI Exam...

CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide (4th Edition)

• ISBN:
• 158720147X
• Authors:
• Brent Stewart

CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide Fourth Edition   Master all 642-901 exam topics with the official study guide Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes Review key concepts with foundation summaries Practice with hundreds of exam questions on the CD-ROM   Brent D. Stewart Clare Gough, CCIE® No. 2893   CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide , Fourth Edition, is a best of breed Cisco® exam study guide that focuses...

CCDA Official Exam Certification Guide (Exam 640-863) (3rd Edition)

• ISBN:
• 1587201771
• Authors:
• Anthony Bruno, Steve Jordan

CCDA Official Exam Certification Guide Third Edition   Master all 640-863 exam topics with the official study guide Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes Review key concepts with foundation summaries Practice with hundreds of exam questions on the CD-ROM   Anthony Bruno, CCIE® No. 2738 Steve Jordan, CCIE No. 11293   CCDA Official Exam Certification Guide, Third Edition, is a best-of-breed Cisco® exam study guide that focuses...

Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP

• ISBN:
• 1590590961
• Authors:
• Matt Stephens, Doug Rosenberg

...from my experience, most teams that say they're doing XP don't actually do the practices. — Alistair Cockburn, Xp And The Cmm Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP (featuring Songs of the Extremos ) takes a satirical look at the increasingly hyped Extreme Programming methodology. It explores some quite astonishing Extremo quotes that have typified the XP approach&emdash; quotes such as, "XPers are not afraid of oral...

Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks

• ISBN:
• 1593270461
• Authors:
• Michal Zalewski

Author Michal Zalewski has long been known and respected in the hacking and security communities for his intelligence, curiosity and creativity, and this book is truly unlike anything else out there. In Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks, Zalewski shares his expertise and experience to explain how computers and networks work, how information is processed and delivered, and what security threats lurk...

I'm on LinkedIn, Now What??? A Guide to Getting the Most Out of LinkedIn

• ISBN:
• 1600050697
• Authors:
• Jason Alba

I'm on LinkedIn -- Now What??? is a book designed to help you get the most out this popular business networking site. With over 12 million members there is a lot of potential to find and develop relationships to help in your business and personal life, but many professionals find themselves wondering what to do once they signup. This book explains the different benefits of the system and recommends best practices so that you can get the most out...

Energy Policy (Point/Counterpoint)

• ISBN:
• 1604133333
• Authors:
• Paul Ruschmann

In recent years, increasing oil prices, combined with ongoing unrest in the Middle East, surging demand from energy-thirsty nations, and natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, have conspired to encourage Americans to rethink how they use energy resources. "Energy Policy" explores the many issues related to the supply of energy in the United States: the availability of oil and American dependence on foreign oil, drilling in the Arctic...

Quantum Dots: Research, Technology and Applications

• ISBN:
• 1604569301

Since first developed in the early sixties, silicon chip technology has made vast leaps forward. From a rudimentary circuit with a mere handful of transistors, the chip has evolved into a technological wonder, packing millions of bits of information on a surface no larger that a human thumbnail. And most experts predict that in the near future, we will see chips with over a billion bits. Quantum dots are small devices that contain a tiny droplet...

MCSE Designing a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory & Network Infrastructure: Exam 70-297 Study Guide and DVD Training System

• ISBN:
• 1932266542
• Authors:
• Neil Ruston, Laura E. Hunter

MCSE Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure (Exam 70-297) Study Guide and DVD Training System is a one-of-a-kind integration of text, DVD-quality instructor led training, and Web-based exam simulation and remediation. This system gives readers 100% coverage of the official Microsoft exam objectives plus test preparation software for the edge needed to pass the exam on your first try. * DVD Provides...

MEGAFLOW - Numerical Flow Simulation for Aircraft Design: Results of the second phase of the German CFD initiative MEGAFLOW, presented during its closing ... Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design)

• ISBN:
• 3540243836

The aerospace industry increasingly relies on advanced numerical simulation tools in the early design phase. This volume provides the results of a German initiative which combines many of the CFD development activities from the German Aerospace Center (DLR), universities, and aircraft industry. Numerical algorithms for structured and hybrid Navier-Stokes solvers are presented in detail. The capabilities of the software for complex industrial...

The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities

• ISBN:
• 0071440992
• Authors:
• Frank Fabozzi

The world’s #1 fixed income book, now with 21 all-new chapters The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities occupies the top spot as the most authoritative, widely read reference in the global fixed income marketplace. First published in 1983, this comprehensive survey of current knowledge features contributions from leading academics and practitioners and has carved out a niche that cannot and will not be equaled by any other single sourcebook....

Electrician's Exam Study Guide (McGraw-Hill's Electrician's Exam Study Guide)

• ISBN:
• 0071489304
• Authors:
• Brian Coffin, Kimberley Keller

Get 1,500 Exam-Style Questions and Answers to Help You Pass the Journeyman and Master Electrician Exams on the First Try! Turn to the Electrician's Exam Study Guide for the knowledge, practice, and confidence needed to pass the Journeyman and Master Electrician exams with flying colors. This practical resource contains 1,500 questions_presented in the same format used on the actual exam_plus accurate answers to all questions. The book also...

OCP Oracle Database 11g Administration II Exam Guide: Exam 1Z0-053 (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)

• ISBN:
• 0071597093
• Authors:
• Bob Bryla

A Fully Integrated Study System for OCP Exam 1Z0-053 Prepare for the Oracle Certified Professional Oracle Database 11 g : Administration II exam with help from this exclusive Oracle Press guide. In each chapter, you'll find challenging exercises, practice questions, a two-minute drill, and a chapter summary to highlight what you've learned. This authoritative guide will help you pass the test and serve as your essential on-the-job reference. Get...

CompTIA Network+ Certification Study Guide, Fourth Edition (Certification Press)

• ISBN:
• 0071615385
• Authors:
• Glen Clarke

The best fully integrated study system available With hundreds of practice questions and hands-on exercises, CompTIA Network+ Certification Study Guide, Fourth Edition covers what you need to know-and shows you how to prepare-for this challenging exam. 100% complete coverage of all official objectives for the CompTIA Network+ examCertCam video training by the author guides you through difficult topics and exercisesInside the Exam sections...

Vertex Operator Algebras and the Monster, Volume 134 (Pure and Applied Mathematics)

• ISBN:
• 0122670655
• Authors:
• Igor Frenkel, James Lepowsky, Arne Meurman

This work is motivated by and develops connections between several branches of mathematics and physics--the theories of Lie algebras, finite groups and modular functions in mathematics, and string theory in physics. The first part of the book presents a new mathematical theory of vertex operator algebras, the algebraic counterpart of two-dimensional holomorphic conformal quantum field theory. The remaining part constructs the Monster finite...

Handbook of Toxicology of Chemical Warfare Agents

• ISBN:
• 0123744849

This exciting book covers every aspect of deadly toxic chemicals used as weapons of mass destruction and employed in conflicts, warfare and terrorism. Including findings from experimental as well as clinical studies, this one-of-a-kind handbook is prepared in a very user- friendly format that can easily be followed by students, teachers and researchers, as well as lay people. Stand alone chapters on individual chemicals and major topics allow...

Group Theory and its Application to the Quantum Mechanics of Atomic Spectra

• ISBN:
• 0127505504
• Authors:
• Eugene P. Wigner

Global Engineering Economics: Financial Decision Making for Engineers (with Student CD-ROM)

• ISBN:
• 0132071614
• Authors:
• Niall M. Fraser, Elizabeth M. Jewkes, Irwin Bernhardt, May Tajima

Global Engineering Economics: Financial Decision Making for Engineers is designed for teaching a course on engineering economics to match engineering practice today. It recognizes the role of the engineer as a decision maker who has to make and defend sensible decisions. Such decisions must not only take into account a correct assessment of costs and benefits, they must also reflect an understanding of the environment in which the decisions are...

Introduction to Logic and to the Methodology of the Deductive Sciences (Oxford Logic Guides)

• ISBN:
• 019504472X
• Authors:
• Alfred Tarski

Now in its fourth edition, this classic work clearly and concisely introduces the subject of logic and its applications. The first part of the book explains the basic concepts and principles which make up the elements of logic. The author demonstrates that these ideas are found in all branches of mathematics, and that logical laws are constantly applied in mathematical reasoning. The second part of the book shows the applications of logic in...

Nomic Probability and the Foundations of Induction

• ISBN:
• 019506013X
• Authors:
• John L. Pollock

In this book Pollock deals with the subject of probabilistic reasoning, making general philosophical sense of objective probabilities and exploring their relationship to the problem of induction. He argues that probability is fundamental not only to physical science, but to induction, epistemology, the philosophy of science and much of the reasoning relevant to artificial intelligence. Pollock's main claim is that the fundamental notion of...

Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice in the Seventeenth Century

• ISBN:
• 0195084632
• Authors:
• Paolo Mancosu

The seventeenth century saw dramatic advances in mathematical theory and practice. With the recovery of many of the classical Greek mathematical texts, new techniques were introduced, and within 100 years, the rules of analytic geometry, geometry of indivisibles, arithmatic of infinites, and calculus were developed. Although many technical studies have been devoted to these innovations, Mancosu provides the first comprehensive account of the...

Introduction to 3+1 Numerical Relativity (International Series of Monographs on Physics)

• ISBN:
• 0199205671
• Authors:
• Miguel Alcubierre

This book introduces the modern field of 3+1 numerical relativity. The book has been written in a way as to be as self-contained as possible, and only assumes a basic knowledge of special relativity. Starting from a brief introduction to general relativity, it discusses the different concepts and tools necessary for the fully consistent numerical simulation of relativistic astrophysical systems, with strong and dynamical gravitational fields....

Introduction to Robotics: Mechanics and Control (2nd Edition)

• ISBN:
• 0201095289
• Authors:
• John J. Craig

This introduces the science and engineering of mechanical manipulation. New material on CAD-CAM and Controls include: Manipulator Mechanism Design, Linear Control of Manipulators, and Off-Line Programming Systems. A thorough treatment of the fundamental skills underlying the use and control of manipulators.

Automorphic Forms on Adele Groups. (AM-83) (Annals of Mathematics Studies)

• ISBN:
• 0691081565
• Authors:
• Stephen S. Gelbart

The subject matter of these Notes is the interplay between the theory of automorphic forms and group representations. One goal is to interpret some recent developments in this area, most significantly the theory of Jacquet-Langlands, working out, whenever possible, explicit consequences and connections with the classical theory. Another goal is to collect as much information as possible concerning the decomposition of L2(GL(E, Q) GL(2, A(Q).

Group Theory: Birdtracks, Lie's, and Exceptional Groups

• ISBN:
• 0691118361
• Authors:
• Predrag Cvitanovic

If classical Lie groups preserve bilinear vector norms, what Lie groups preserve trilinear, quadrilinear, and higher order invariants? Answering this question from a fresh and original perspective, Predrag Cvitanovic takes the reader on the amazing, four-thousand-diagram journey through the theory of Lie groups. This book is the first to systematically develop, explain, and apply diagrammatic projection operators to construct all semi-simple Lie...

Introduction To Immunotoxicology

• ISBN:
• 074840306X
• Authors:
• Jacques Descotes

Lyon-RTH Laennec Faculty of Medicine, France. Introduction to key immunotoxicological issues. Considers the health consequences of immunotoxicity and addresses the state-of-the-art methods used to detect and evaluate unexpected immunotoxic effects of xenobiotics, both preclinically and clinically. For undergraduate and graduate students. Hardcover, softcover also available.

Nlp: Neuro Linguistic Programming the New Art and Science of Getting What You Want

• ISBN:
• 0749914890
• Authors:
• Harry Alder

NLP is the new art and science of personal excellence. It shows you how, by following successful models of thought and behaviour, you too can achieve astounding results in the areas of:* Selling and negotiating* Personal and professional creativity* Public speaking* Long-term memory* Personal relationships* Spelling and mental arithmetic* Career advancement and personal finance* Listening and visual skills and many others. By employing the...

BTEC First ICT Practitioners: Core units and selected specialist units for the BTEC First Certificate and Diploma for ICT Practitioners

• ISBN:
• 0750683244
• Authors:
• Sharon Yull

BTEC First ICT Practitioners is a key new course book for the 2006 BTEC First ICT Practitioner schemes from Edexcel. Full coverage is given to the core units of the Certificate and Diploma (units 1 and 2) and to selected specialist units: * Using ICT to Present Information (Unit 1) * Introduction to Computer Systems (Unit 2) * Website Development (Unit 4) * Networking Essentials (Unit 6) * Database Software (Unit 9) * Spreadsheet Software (Unit...

Plumbing, Second Edition: For Level 2 Technical Certificate and NVQ

• ISBN:
• 0750684348
• Authors:
• Steve Muscroft

Students setting out for a career in plumbing need a clear, concise and comprehensive textbook to help them study for their Technical Certificate and Level 2 NVQ - and this book meets all those needs. Steve Muscroft expertly guides you through each of the key areas and processes in plumbing, from the basics through cold and hot water systems to health and safety and best practice on site. The best way to learn something is to do it for yourself...

Manual of Engineering Drawing, Third Edition: Technical Product Specification and Documentation to British and International Standards

• ISBN:
• 0750689854
• Authors:
• Colin Simmons, Dennis Maguire, Neil Phelps

The Manual of Engineering Drawing has long been the recognised as a guide for practicing and student engineers to producing engineering drawings and annotated 3D models that comply with the latest British and ISO Standards of Technical Product Specifications and Documentation. This new edition has been updated to include the requirements of BS8888 2008 and the relevant ISO Standards, and is ideal for International readership; it includes a guide...

Skinny Bitch Bun in the Oven: A Gutsy Guide to Becoming One Hot (and Healthy) Mother!

• ISBN:
• 0762431059
• Authors:
• Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin

Skinny Bitch created a movement when it exposed the horrors of the food industry, while inspiring people across the world to stop eating “crap.” Now the “Bitches” are back—this time with a book geared to pregnant women. And just because their audience is in a “delicate condition” doesn’t mean they’ll deliver a gentle message. As they did with Skinny Bitch , Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin expose the truth about the food we...

Kant and Contemporary Epistemology (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science)

• ISBN:
• 0792326814

From the mid-1960s, after the important works by J. Hintikka, S. Korner, W. Sellars and P.F. Strawson, there has been a marked revival of Kantian epistemological thought. Against this background, featuring fruitful exchange between historical research and theoretical prospects, the main point of the book is the discussion of Kantian theory of scientific knowledge from the perspective of present-day analytical philosophy and philosophy of...

What Kids Need: Today's Best Ideas for Nurturing, Teaching, and Protecting Young Children

• ISBN:
• 0807041289
• Authors:
• Rima Shore

A Carnegie Corporation Initiative: Summarizing a Decade of Progress in Early Education "As a mother of three, I am acutely aware of how much a baby learns during the earliest years and how much that affects his or her development. What Kids Need offers parents and policy makers alike insights into the research and discoveries of the past ten years. This book is not only readable; it is encouraging to anyone who cares about America's future: its...

Advances in Management Accounting, Volume 17

• ISBN:
• 1848552661
• Authors:
• Marc J. Epstein & John Y. Lee

"Advances in Management Accounting" ("AIMA") publishes well-developed articles on a variety of current topics in management accounting that are relevant to researchers in both practice and academe. As one of the premier management accounting research journals, "AIMA" is well poised to meet the needs of management accounting scholars.

Materials and the Environment: Eco-informed Material Choice

• ISBN:
• 1856176088
• Authors:
• Michael F. Ashby

As concern for the environment grows, there is a corresponding trend among colleges and universities worldwide to incorporate sustainability into engineering education. Addressing this growing trend "Materials and the Environment," by renowned materials authority Mike Ashby, is the first book devoted exclusively to the environmental aspects of materials, a core subject area for undergraduate students in several engineering disciplines, including...

Classical and Advanced Theories of Thin Structures: Mechanical and Mathematical Aspects (CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences)

• ISBN:
• 3211854290

The book presents an updated state-of-the-art overview of the general aspects and practical applications of the theories of thin structures, through the interaction of several topics, ranging from non-linear thin-films, shells, junctions, beams of different materials and in different contexts (elasticity, plasticity, etc.). Advanced problems like the optimal design and the modeling of thin films made of brittle or phase-transforming materials...

Modular Representation Theory: New Trends and Methods (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)

• ISBN:
• 3540133895
• Authors:
• D. Benson

The aim of this 1983 Yale graduate course was to make some recent results in modular representation theory accessible to an audience ranging from second-year graduate students to established mathematicians. After a short review of background material, three closely connected topics in modular representation theory of finite groups are treated: representations rings, almost split sequences and the Auslander-Reiten quiver, complexity and...

Schraubenverbindungen: Grundlagen, Berechnung, Eigenschaften, Handhabung (Konstruktionsb]cher) (German Edition)

• ISBN:
• 3540212825
• Authors:
• K.-H. Kloos, W. Thomala

Die Schraube ist das am häufigsten eingesetzte Maschinenelement. Schraubenverbindungen behandelt in ganzheitlicher Form alle Einflussfaktoren auf das funktionelle Verhalten von Schraubenverbindungen in den verschiedensten Anwendungsgebieten. Seit dem Erscheinen der 4. Auflage im Jahre 1988 hat sich das Gebiet auf vielfältige Weise weiterentwickelt. Diesen Veränderungen wird in der Neuauflage Rechnung getragen: dies betrifft vor allem das...

Information Technology Auditing: An Evolving Agenda

• ISBN:
• 3540221557
• Authors:
• Jagdish Pathak

An evolving agenda of Information Technology Auditing is subject of this book. The author presents various current and future issues in the domain of IT Auditing in both scholarly as well as highly practice-driven manner so as to make those issues clear in the mind of an IT auditor. The aim of the book is not to delve deep on the technologies but the impact of these technologies on practices and procedures of IT auditors. Among the topics are...

Unternehmensbewertung (Springer-Lehrbuch) (German Edition)

• ISBN:
• 3540284125
• Authors:
• Christoph Kuhner, Helmut Maltry

Das Lehrbuch führt ausführlich in alle relevanten Ansätze der Unternehmensbewertung ein, die in Theorie und Bewertungspraxis diskutiert werden. Ausgehend von den verschiedenen rechtlich bzw. wirtschaftlich motivierten Anlässen einer Unternehmensbewertung sowie der Darstellung der dogmengeschichtlichen Entwicklung in Deutschland wird die Unternehmensbewertung investitionstheoretisch fundiert. Das Prognoseproblem und das...

Bodendynamik: Grundlagen, Kennziffern, Probleme und Lösungsansätze (German Edition)

• ISBN:
• 3540296247
• Authors:
• Jost A. Studer, Jan Laue, Martin Koller

Die Bedeutung der Bodendynamik hat in den letzten Jahren erheblich zugenommen. Anzahl und Intensität von Erschütterungsquellen in unmittelbarer Nachbarschaft von Bauwerken sind gestiegen. Moderne Bauwerke und Anlagen wurden schwingungsanfälliger auch für natürliche Erregungsarten wie Windbelastung und Erdbeben. Ein erhöhtes Sicherheitsbedürfnis erfordert bessere Berechnungsverfahren zur Belastbarkeit der Böden und zur Interaktion...

Polynomial Representations of GL_n: with an Appendix on Schensted Correspondence and Littelmann Paths (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)

• ISBN:
• 3540469443
• Authors:
• J.A. Green

The first half of this book contains the text of the first edition of LNM volume 830, Polynomial Representations of GL n . This classic account of matrix representations, the Schur algebra, the modular representations of GL n , and connections with symmetric groups, has been the basis of much research in representation theory. The second half is an Appendix, and can be read independently of the first. It is an account of the Littelmann path...

Machine Elements: Life and Design (Mechanical Engineering)

• ISBN:
• 0849395631
• Authors:
• Boris M. Klebanov, David M. Barlam, Frederic E. Nystrom

Focusing on how a machine feels and behaves while operating, Machine Elements: Life and Design seeks to impart both intellectual and emotional comprehension regarding the life of a machine. It presents a detailed description of how machines elements function, seeking to form a sympathetic attitude toward the machine and to ensure its wellbeing through more careful and proper design. The book is divided into three sections for accessibility and...

The Hell of Dante Alighieri: Edited with Translation and Notes by Arthur John Butler

• ISBN:
• 1402172818
• Authors:
• Dante Alighieri

This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1892 edition by Macmillan and Co., London and New York.

Feedback Control of Dynamic Bipedal Robot Locomotion (Control and Automation)

• ISBN:
• 1420053728
• Authors:
• Eric R. Westervelt, Jessy W. Grizzle, Christine Chevallereau, Jun Ho Choi, Benjamin Morris

Bipedal locomotion is among the most difficult challenges in control engineering. Most books treat the subject from a quasi-static perspective, overlooking the hybrid nature of bipedal mechanics. Feedback Control of Dynamic Bipedal Robot Locomotion is the first book to present a comprehensive and mathematically sound treatment of feedback design for achieving stable, agile, and efficient locomotion in bipedal robots. In this unique and...

Vehicular Networks: From Theory to Practice (Chapman & Hall/Crc Computer and Information Science Series)

• ISBN:
• 1420085883

In spite of their importance and potential societal impact, there is currently no comprehensive source of information about vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). Cohesively integrating the state of the art in this emerging field, Vehicular Networks: From Theory to Practice elucidates many issues involved in vehicular networking, including traffic engineering, human factors studies, and novel computer science research. Divided into six broad...

Forensic Art (Crime Scene Investigations)

• ISBN:
• 1420500694
• Authors:
• Jennifer Mackay

Abusing Over-the-Counter Drugs: Illicit Uses for Everyday Drugs (Illicit and Misused Drugs)

• ISBN:
• 1422201503
• Authors:
• Kim Etingoff

The government's approved them. You don't need a prescription. You can get them at practically any market. So, there's obviously no danger in over-the-counter medications, right?Wrong.The simple fact is that when taken in ways other than as directed, over-the-counter medications can be just as dangerous as many illegal drugs. And because there's a false sense of security about the medications - and because they are in almost everyone's home...

Practical Liferay: Java–based Portal Applications Development (Pro)

• ISBN:
• 1430218479
• Authors:
• Poornachandra Sarang

Liferay Portal is the leading open source enterprise portal framework that uses the latest Java and Web 2.0 technologies. Web portals often function as a point of access to information on the World Wide Web. Web portals, such as Yahoo!, present information from diverse sources in a unified way. Aside from the search engine standard, web portals offer other services such as e–mail, news, stock prices, infotainment, and various other features....

Groups, Rings and Group Rings (Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics)

• ISBN:
• 1584885815

This book is a collection of research papers and surveys on algebra that were presented at the Conference on Groups, Rings, and Group Rings held in Ubatuba, Brazil. This text familiarizes researchers with the latest topics, techniques, and methodologies in several branches of contemporary algebra. With extensive coverage, it examines broad themes from group theory and ring theory, exploring their relationship with other branches of algebra...

Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets: A practical guide to building a complete corporate intranet with Liferay

• ISBN:
• 1847192726
• Authors:
• Jonas X. Yuan

In Detail Liferay Portal is the world's leading open-source portal platform built on Java and Web 2.0 technologies. Corporations use it to provide a unified web interface to data and tools scattered across many sources. Liferay Portal uses the latest in Java, J2EE, and Web 2.0 technologies to deliver solutions for enterprises across both public and private sectors. Liferay Portal's flexibility allows it to be deployed in a number of different...

Standard Integral Table Algebras Generated by a Non-real Element of Small Degree (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)

• ISBN:
• 3540428518

Addressed to the researchers working in the theory of table algebras and association schemes. Summarizes the research which was done at Bar-Ilan University in the academic year 1998/99. Softcover.

The Algebraic Theory of Spinors and Clifford Algebras: Collected Works, Volume 2 (Collected Works of Claude Chevalley) (v. 2)

• ISBN:
• 3540570632
• Authors:
• Claude Chevalley

This volume is the first in a projected series devoted to the mathematical and philosophical works of the late Claude Chevalley. It covers the main contributions by the author to the theory of spinors. Since its appearance in 1954, "The Algebraic Theory of Spinors" has been a much sought after reference. It presents the whole story of one subject in a concise and especially clear manner. The reprint of the book is supplemented by a series of...

The Sense of Touch and Its Rendering: Progress in Haptics Research (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics)

• ISBN:
• 3540790349

"Sense of Touch and its Rendering" presents a unique and interdisciplinary approach highlighting the field of haptic research from a neuropsychological as well as a technological point of view. This edited book is the outcome of the TOUCH-HapSys European research project and provides an important contribution towards a new generation of high-fidelity haptic display technologies. The book is structured in two parts: A. Fundamental Psychophysical...

Mathematics Emerging: A Sourcebook 1540 - 1900

• ISBN:
• 0199226903
• Authors:
• Jacqueline Stedall

Aimed at students and researchers in Mathematics, History of Mathematics and Science, this book examines the development of mathematics from the late 16th Century to the end of the 20th Century. Mathematics has an amazingly long and rich history, it has been practised in every society and culture, with written records reaching back in some cases as far as four thousand years. This book will focus on just a small part of the story, in a sense the...

The Divine Lawmaker: Lectures on Induction, Laws of Nature, and the Existence of God

• ISBN:
• 0199250596
• Authors:
• John Foster

John Foster presents a clear and powerful discussion of a range of topics relating to our understanding of the universe: induction, laws of nature, and the existence of God. He begins by developing a solution to the problem of induction - a solution that involves the postulation of laws of nature, as forms of natural necessity. He then offers a radically new account of the nature of such laws and the distinctive kind of necessity they involve....

Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups (Graduate Texts in Mathematics) (v. 94)

• ISBN:
• 0387908943
• Authors:
• Frank W. Warner

Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups gives a clear, detailed, and careful development of the basic facts on manifold theory and Lie Groups. It includes differentiable manifolds, tensors and differentiable forms. Lie groups and homogenous spaces, integration on manifolds, and in addition provides a proof of the de Rham theorem via sheaf cohomology theory, and develops the local theory of elliptic operators culminating in a proof...

One-Parameter Semigroups for Linear Evolution Equations (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)

• ISBN:
• 0387984631
• Authors:
• Klaus-Jochen Engel, Rainer Nagel

This book gives an up-to-date account of the theory of strongly continuous one-parameter semigroups of linear operators. It includes a systematic discussion of the spectral theory and the long-term behavior of such semigroups. A special feature of the text is an unusually wide range of applications, e.g., to ordinary and partial differential operators, delay and Volterra equations and to control theory, and an emphasis on philosophical...

Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups

• ISBN:
• 0471405590
• Authors:
• Stuart C. Gilson

Praise for Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring "A helpful reference guide for managers facing the complex operational and financial issues raised in today’s competitive environment. Gilson’s case studies provide a real-world context against which corporate leaders can plan their restructuring strategies."–Arthur B. Newman, Senior Managing Director, The Blackstone Group "Stuart Gilson’s analytical case studies have demystified...

Principles of Conflict Economics: A Primer for Social Scientists

• ISBN:
• 0521875579
• Authors:
• Charles H. Anderton, John R. Carter

Conflict economics contributes to an understanding of violent conflict in two important ways. First, it applies economic analysis to diverse conflict activities such as war, arms races, and terrorism, showing how they can be understood as purposeful choices responsive to underlying incentives. Second, it treats appropriation as a fundamental economic activity, joining production and exchange as a means of wealth acquisition. Drawing on a...

MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-297): Designing a Microsoft® Windows Server(TM) 2003 Active Directory® and Network Infrastructure

• ISBN:
• 0735619700
• Authors:
• Walter Glenn, Michael T. Simpson

Get all new, in-depth exam prep for 70-297, a core MCSE design exam for Windows Server 2003—as you build real-world job skills. Features 300 practice questions, full review, case studies, troubleshooting labs, trial software, exam discount, and more.

MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-299): Implementing and Administering Security in a Microsoft® Windows Server(TM) 2003 Network (Pro-Certification)

• ISBN:
• 073562061X
• Authors:
• Anthony Northrup, Orin Thomas

Announcing an all-new MCSA/MCSE Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on Exam 70-299, one of two core exams for the MCSE: Security specialization and an elective for MCSA and MCSE. This kit packs the tools and features exam candidates want most—including in-depth, self-paced training based on exam content; exam tips from an expert, exam-certified author; and a robust testing suite. It also provides real-world scenarios, case...

SAP Workflow Interview Questions, Answers, And Explanations

• ISBN:
• 193380405X
• Authors:
• Jim Stewart

The Ultimate Reference & Learning Guide for Workflow Consultants SAP Workflow Interview Questions, Answers, and Explanations! It' s clear that Workflow is one of the most challenging areas in SAP -- and finding answers can be difficult. SAP WF Interview Questions, Answers, and Explanations guides you through your learning process. From helping you to assess your Workflow skills to evaluating candidates for a job, SAP Workflow Interview Questions...

Fundamentals of Electric Circuits (McGraw-Hill International Editions: Electrical Engineering Series)

• ISBN:
• 0071160426
• Authors:
• Charles Alexander, Matthew Sadiku

Schaum's Outline of Physics for Engineering and Science

• ISBN:
• 007008498X
• Authors:
• Michael Browne

This book will save you time as you master the basics taught in first-year, calculus-based college physics courses. You'll firmly grasp the all-important building blocks needed for every physical science and all branches of engineering. The many problems included with guided solutions make this potentially daunting subject much easier. Additional problems with answers give you a chance to reinforce what you've learned and gauge your progress as...

Bridge Engineering: Rehabilitation, and Maintenance of Modern Highway Bridges

• ISBN:
• 0071459030
• Authors:
• Demetrios Tonias, Jim Zhao

The very latest coverage of the enitre bridge engineering process Written for new and experienced highway engineers, this master resource offers the most complete and practical treatment available for every aspect of highway bridge design, rehabilitation, and maintenance. From initial concept all the way to final contract documentation preparation, Bridge Engineering presents a clear and detailed road map to the entire bridge engineering process.

Mastering Technical Mathematics, Third Edition

• ISBN:
• 0071494480
• Authors:
• Stan Gibilisco, Norman Crowhurst

A thorough revision of the classic tutorial of scientific and engineering mathematics For more than fifteen years, Mastering Technical Mathematics has been the definitive self-teaching guide for those wishing to boost their career by learning the principles of mathematics as they apply to science and engineering. Featuring the same user-friendly pedagogy, practical examples, and detailed illustrations that have made this resource a favorite of...

Boundary Elements: Theory and Applications

• ISBN:
• 0080441076
• Authors:
• J.T. Katsikadelis

The author's ambition for this publication was to make BEM accessible to the student as well as to the professional engineer. For this reason, his main task was to organize and present the material in such a way so that the book becomes "user-friendly" and easy to comprehend, taking into account only the mathematics and mechanics to which students have been exposed during their undergraduate studies. This effort led to an innovative, in many...

Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 0122386620
• Authors:
• John Enderle, Susan M. Blanchard, Joseph Bronzino

Under the direction of John Enderle, Susan Blanchard and Joe Bronzino, leaders in the field have contributed chapters on the most relevant subjects for biomedical engineering students. These chapters coincide with courses offered in all biomedical engineering programs so that it can be used at different levels for a variety of courses of this evolving field. Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, Second Edition provides a historical perspective...

Air and Gas Drilling Manual, Third Edition: Applications for Oil and Gas Recovery Wells and Geothermal Fluids Recovery Wells

• ISBN:
• 0123708958
• Authors:
• William C. Lyons PhD PE

The third edition of Air and Gas Drilling describes the basic simulation models for drilling deep wells with air or gas drilling fluids, gasified two-phase drilling fluids, and stable foam drilling fluids. The models are the basis for the development of a systematic method for planning under balanced deep well drilling operations and for monitoring the drilling operation as well as construction project advances. Air and Gas Drilling discusses...

Multigrid

• ISBN:
• 012701070X
• Authors:
• Ulrich Trottenberg, Cornelius W. Oosterlee, Anton Schuller

Multigrid presents both an elementary introduction to multigrid methods for solving partial differential equations and a contemporary survey of advanced multigrid techniques and real-life applications. Multigrid methods are invaluable to researchers in scientific disciplines including physics, chemistry, meteorology, fluid and continuum mechanics, geology, biology, and all engineering disciplines. They are also becoming increasingly important in...

Late Victorian Gothic Tales (Oxford World's Classics)

• ISBN:
• 0192804804

The Victorian fin de siecle has many associations: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on which the sun never set. This heady brew was caught nowhere better than in the revival of the Gothic tale in the late Victorian age, where the undead walked and evil curses, foul murder, doomed inheritance and sexual menace played on the stretched nerves of the new mass readerships. This anthology...

Reason's Neglect: Rationality and Organizing

• ISBN:
• 019929836X
• Authors:
• Barbara Townley

Reason, and the need to Be Rational, are essential dimensions of society and the organizations we live and work in. Yet the "rationalization" of working and administrative processes, or the "rationality" studied in social sciences, is all too often, used, understood, and interpreted in an extremely narrow sense. Reason's Neglect does three things. Firstly, it argues that rationality is a leitmotif of organization studies, but one that has often...

Santa Claus in Baghdad and Other Stories about Teens in the Arab World

• ISBN:
• 0253220041
• Authors:
• Elsa Marston

What is it like to be a young person in the Arab world today? This lively collection of eight short stories about Arab teenagers living in Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and a Palestinian refugee camp engagingly depicts young people's experiences growing up in the Middle East. The characters, drawn from urban and rural settings and from different classes as well as a mix of countries, confront situations involving...

Fire and Memory: On Architecture and Energy (Writing Architecture)

• ISBN:
• 0262561336
• Authors:
• Luis Fernández-Galiano

In Fire and Memory , Luis Fernández-Galiano reconstructs the movement from cold to warm architecture, from building fire to building a building with and for fire, through what he calls a "metaphorical plundering" of disciplines as diverse as anthropology and economics, and in particular of ecology and thermodynamics. Beginning with the mythical fire in the origins of architecture and moving to its symbolic representation in the twentieth...

Business Continuity Management: How To Protect Your Company From Danger (Management Briefings Executive Series)

• ISBN:
• 0273663518
• Authors:
• Michael Gallagher

Business continuity management (BCM) has become a hot topic in recent years and more significantly, in recent months (September 11, foot and mouth and flooding). However, BCM is not just about recovery from a disaster such one caused by fire or flood or the failure of IT systems. It can also be about the collapse of a key supplier or customer, about fraud, unethical operations and about reputation management. Recent surveys have shown that most...

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Managing Information Technology

• ISBN:
• 0275995453
• Authors:
• CJ Rhoads

Software. Hardware. Networks. Wireless. Entrepreneurs face a bewildering array of choices and decisions when it comes to incorporating technology into the fabric of their businesses. Yet nothing could be more important these days. Aligning information technology (IT) with business strategy is essential to meet and beat the competition. As business strategy and technology expert CJ Rhoads shows, managing information technology effectively is an...

Case Studies in Engineering Design

• ISBN:
• 0340691352
• Authors:
• Cliff Matthews

A multidisciplinary introduction to engineering design using real-life case studies. Case Studies in Engineering Design provides students and practising engineers with many practical and accessible case studies which are representative of situations engineers face in professional life, and which incorporate a range of engineering disciplines. Different methodologies of approaching engineering design are identified and explained prior to their...

Principles of Spread-Spectrum Communication Systems

• ISBN:
• 0387227822
• Authors:
• Don Torrieri

Originally adopted in military networks as a means of ensuring secure communication when confronted with the threats of jamming and interception, spread-spectrum systems are now the core of commercial applications such as mobile cellular and satellite communication. This book provides a concise but lucid explanation and derivation of the fundamentals of spread-spectrum communication systems. The level of presentation is suitable for graduate...

Structural Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization 1

• ISBN:
• 038723232X
• Authors:
• Kyung K. Choi, Nam-Ho Kim

Structural design sensitivity analysis concerns the relationship between design variables available to the design engineer and structural responses determined by the laws of mechanics. The dependence of response measures such as displacement, stress, strain, natural frequency, buckling load, acoustic response, frequency response, noise-vibration-harshness (NVH), thermo-elastic response, and fatigue life on the material property, sizing,...

Continuous System Simulation

• ISBN:
• 0387261028
• Authors:
• Francois E. Cellier, Ernesto Kofman

Continuous System Simulation describes systematically and methodically how mathematical models of dynamic systems, usually described by sets of either ordinary or partial differential equations possibly coupled with algebraic equations, can be simulated on a digital computer. Modern modeling and simulation environments relieve the occasional user from having to understand how simulation really works. Once a mathematical model of a process has...

Numerical Modelling of Water Waves: An introduction to engineers and scientists

• ISBN:
• 0415415780
• Authors:
• Pengzhi Lin

Modelling large-scale wave fields and their interaction with coastal and offshore structures has become much more feasible over the last two decades with increases in computer speeds. Wave modelling can be viewed as an extension of wave theory, a mature and widely published field, applied to practical engineering through the use of computer tools. Information about the various wave models which have been developed is often widely scattered in...

Hazards and the Built Environment: Adaptating and Attaining Built-in Resilience

• ISBN:
• 0415427290
• Authors:
• Lee Bosher

As a specialist in disaster preparation, you have huge responsibilities: A failure to prepare for natural and human-induced disasters costs lives and money. When a natural or human-induced disaster hits a built-up area the amount of damage it does will depend largely on the extent to which the built assets in the area were developed to withstand it. To fail in this respect is therefore both ethically and financially negligent. What kinds of...

International Business: Strategy and the Multinational Enterprise

• ISBN:
• 0415800579
• Authors:
• John B. Cullen, K. Praveen Parboteeah

This book covers the same material and more when compared with other international business texts, yet it is priced for the student’s pocketbook. A new international business text for a new and ever changing global environment. With a unique chapter covering International E-Commerce, Cullen is written in a unique way. Issues link the chapters. The logic is that to choose and implement strategies in international business, you need to...

Well Completion Design, Volume 56 (Developments in Petroleum Science)

• ISBN:
• 0444532102
• Authors:
• Jonathan Bellarby

Completions are the conduit between hydrocarbon reservoirs and surface facilities. They are a fundamental part of any hydrocarbon field development project. The have to be designed for safely maximising the hydrocarbon recovery from the well and may have to last for many years under ever changing conditions. Issues include: connection with the reservoir rock, avoiding sand production, selecting the correct interval, pumps and other forms of...

PVT and Phase Behaviour Of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids, Volume 47 (Developments in Petroleum Science)

• ISBN:
• 0444821961
• Authors:
• Ali Danesh

This book on PVT and Phase Behaviour Of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids is volume 47 in the Developments in Petroleum Science series. The chapters in the book are: Phase Behaviour Fundamentals, PVT Tests and Correlations, Phase Equilibria, Equations of State, Phase Behaviour Calculations, Fluid Characterisation, Gas Injection, Interfacial Tension, and Application in Reservoir Simulation.

Thermophysical Properties of Materials

• ISBN:
• 0444827943
• Authors:
• G. Grimvall

This is a thoroughly revised version of the original book published in 1986. About half of the contents of the previous version remain essentially unchanged, and one quarter has been rewritten and updated. The rest consists of completely new and extended material. Recent research has focussed on new materials made through "molecular engineering", and computational materials science through ab initio electron structure calculations. Another trend...

Applied Geothermics for Petroleum Engineers (Developments in Petroleum Science)

• ISBN:
• 0444828877
• Authors:
• I.M. Kutasov

The purpose of Applied Geothermics for Petroleum Engineers is to present in a clear and concise form methods of utilizing the data of temperature surveys in deep boreholes as well as the results of field, laboratory and analytical investigations in geothermics to a wide audience. Although some aspects of the subject of this book have been discussed in several previous books and numerous papers, A pplied Geothermics for Petroleum Engineers is the...

Digital Electronics: Principles, Devices and Applications

• ISBN:
• 0470032146
• Authors:
• Mr Anil Kumar Maini

The fundamentals and implementation of digital electronics are essential to understanding the design and working of consumer/industrial electronics, communications, embedded systems, computers, security and military equipment. Devices used in applications such as these are constantly decreasing in size and employing more complex technology. It is therefore essential for engineers and students to understand the fundamentals, implementation and...

The Great War and the Language of Modernism

• ISBN:
• 0195101766
• Authors:
• Vincent Sherry

With the expressions ""Lost Generation"" and ""The Men of 1914,"" the major authors of modernism designated the overwhelming effect the First World War exerted on their era. Literary critics have long employed the same phrases in an attempt to place a radically experimental, specifically modernist writing in its formative, historical setting. What real basis did that Great War provide for the verbal inventiveness of modernist poetry and fiction?...

The Unity of Reason: Rereading Kant

• ISBN:
• 0195113888
• Authors:
• Susan Neiman

The Unity of Reason is the first major study of Kant's account of reason. It argues that Kant's wide-ranging interests and goals can only be understood by redirecting attention from epistemological questions of his work to those concerning the nature of reason.

Stroke Prevention

• ISBN:
• 019513382X

Univ. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A guide to the treatment of stroke, providing a comprehensive, critical review of the primary and secondary prevention of the disease, with translation into clinical practice. Offers clinicians outlines of risk factors, and coverage of the protective effects of lifestyle changes, diet, exercises, and other healthful practices.

Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilization, Modernity (Gender and Culture Series)

• ISBN:
• 0231134444
• Authors:
• Christine Froula

Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. Educated informally in her father's library and in Bloomsbury's London extension of Cambridge, Virginia Woolf came of age in the prewar decades, when progressive political and social movements gave hope that...

Theorists of the Modernist Novel: James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

• ISBN:
• 0415285429
• Authors:
• Debora Parsons

In the early twentieth century the Modernist novel tested literary conventions and expectations, challenging representations of reality, consciousness and identity. These novels were not simply creative masterpieces, however, but also crucial articulations of revolutionary developments in critical thought. Tracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, Deborah Parsons...

Academic Writing and Publishing: A Practical Handbook

• ISBN:
• 0415453224
• Authors:
• JAMES HARTLEY

Academic Writing and Publishing will show academics (mainly in the social sciences) how to write and publish research articles. Its aim is to supply examples and brief discussions of recent work in all aspects of the area in short, sharp chapters. It should serve as a handbook for postgraduates and lecturers new to publishing. The book is written in a readable and lively personal style. The advice given is direct and based on up-to-date research...

Who Said So The Questions Revolutionary Businesses Ask That Make Them Successful

• ISBN:
• 0470212802
• Authors:
• Michael E. Parker

In Who Said So?, Michael Parker introduces you to the unique leadership philosophy known as Value-Centered Management. Using the exciting, creative format of a business narrative, the book contrasts the familiar pains of traditional business management with Value-Centered Management by contrasting the opposing style of father and son managers. Following this enlightening business tale, you’ll learn how to focus your business on what your...

Global and Transnational Business: Strategy and Management

• ISBN:
• 0470851260
• Authors:
• George Stonehouse, David Campbell, Jim Hamill, Tony Purdie

In this new edition of a successful textbook the authors assess the turbulent environment in which international businesses operate and the approaches to strategy formulation and implementation which can be adopted. They also examine the functional and operational management of companies and fuse together the theoretical and empirical aspects of international management. New material includes coverage of leadership in transnational companies,...

The Strategy Gap: Leveraging Technology to Execute Winning Strategies

• ISBN:
• 0471214507
• Authors:
• Michael Coveney, Brian Hartlen, Dennis Ganster, Dave King

Praise for The Strategy Gap "With a better handle on the financial pulse of the business, enterprises will be better able to meet the Street’s expectations of financial transparency and corporate accountability. The writers do a masterful job of getting readers to this point of awareness, and further display their insight by explaining how corporate performance management (CPM) and finance are essentially ‘joined at the hip’ in concept and...

Neural and Adaptive Systems: Fundamentals through Simulations

• ISBN:
• 0471351679
• Authors:
• José C. Principe, Neil R. Euliano, W. Curt Lefebvre

Develop New Insight into the Behavior of Adaptive Systems This one-of-a-kind interactive book and CD-ROM will help you develop a better understanding of the behavior of adaptive systems. Developed as part of a project aimed at innovating the teaching of adaptive systems in science and engineering, it unifies the concepts of neural networks and adaptive filters into a common framework. It begins by explaining the fundamentals of adaptive linear...

Breakthrough: How Great Companies Set Outrageous Objectives and Achieve Them

• ISBN:
• 0471454400
• Authors:
• Bill Davidson

"Teams that embrace bold goals and breakthrough strategies can accomplish remarkable results. This book will be invaluable to anyone embarking on that path." – Bart Butzer Executive Vice President, Target Corporation "Yellow’s continued industry leadership will result in large part from embracing Bill Davidson’s philosophy and approach." – Bill Zollars CEO, Yellow Corporation "Strategic change is a high-risk, high-return proposition....

Finite Element Methods for Flow Problems

• ISBN:
• 0471496669
• Authors:
• Jean Donea, Antonio Huerta

Taking an engineering, rather than a mathematical, approach, Finite Element Methods for Flow Problems presents the fundamentals of stabilized finite element methods of the Petrov–Galerkin type developed as an alternative to the standard Galerkin method for the analysis of steady and time-dependent problems. The material presented here epitomizes the forefront of current research in several areas of computational fluid dynamics and combines...

Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Student Solutions Manual and Study Guide

• ISBN:
• 0471726443
• Authors:
• Erwin Kreyszig

This market leading text is known for its comprehensive coverage, careful and correct mathematics, outstanding exercises and self contained subject matter parts for maximum flexibility. Thoroughly updated and streamlined to reflect new developments in the field, the ninth edition of this bestselling text features modern engineering applications and the uses of technology. Kreyszig introduces engineers and computer scientists to advanced math...

Fundamentals of Grain and Interphase Boundary Diffusion

• ISBN:
• 047193819X
• Authors:
• Inderjeet Kaur, Yuri Mishin, Wolfgang Gust

This book is the first comprehensive treatise of one of the key physical processes occurring in various materials at elevated temperatures. The book provides essential background information for materials scientists, metallurgists, solid state physicists and semiconductor technologists carrying out research or development in this and related areas. The first and second editions of the book were published by the University of Stuttgart in 1988...

The Nature of Light and Colour in the Open Air (Dover Books on Earth Sciences)

• ISBN:
• 0486201961
• Authors:
• M. Minnaert

A highly engaging study of mirages, illusions of multiple moons, the fata morgana, colored shadows and scores of other phenomena in a book praised as "a great depository of projects, science fair ventures, experiments, and always pure pleasure" — Science and Math Weekly. 202 illustrations.

The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom

• ISBN:
• 0521516684
• Authors:
• Robert R. Clewis

In this book Robert R. Clewis shows how certain crucial concepts in Kant's aesthetics and practical philosophy - the sublime, enthusiasm, freedom, empirical and intellectual interests, the idea of a republic - fit together and deepen our understanding of Kant's philosophy. He examines the ways in which different kinds of sublimity reveal freedom and indirectly contribute to morality, and discusses how Kant's account of natural sublimity suggests...

Business Performance Measurement

• ISBN:
• 052180342X

The field of performance measurement has evolved rapidly in the last few years with the development of new measurement frameworks and methodologies, such as the balanced scorecard, the performance prism, economic value added, economic profit, activity based costing and self-assessment techniques. This multidisciplinary, international book draws together the key themes to provide an up-to-date summary of the leading ideas in business performance...

Rethinking Performance Measurement

• ISBN:
• 0521812437
• Authors:
• Marshall W. Meyer

Performance measurement remains a vexing problem for business firms and other kinds of organizations. The "balanced scorecard", widely touted as a solution to problems of performance measurement and strategic planning, has no strong basis in theory. Moreover, implementation of the "balanced scorecard" may create many more problems than it solves. This text returns to the fundamentals by asking what is the performance of the firm, can this...

Digital Image Processing for Medical Applications

• ISBN:
• 0521860857
• Authors:
• Geoff Dougherty

Image processing is a hands-on discipline, and the best way to learn is by doing. This text takes its motivation from medical applications and uses real medical images and situations to illustrate and clarify concepts and to build intuition, insight and understanding. Designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students who will become end-users of digital image processing, it covers the basics of the major clinical imaging modalities,...

Modern Digital Signal Processing

• ISBN:
• 0534400957
• Authors:
• Roberto Cristi

Roberto Cristi conveys the excitement of the Digital Signal Processing field in which students can experiment with sounds, images, and video. Using a wealth of applications, the book covers Digital Signal Processing material well suited to today's diverse student population. The author presents the material in a logical sequence so that students can appreciate how concepts develop. The book can be effectively used in a university classroom or as...

An Introduction to Geophysical Exploration

• ISBN:
• 0632049294
• Authors:
• Philip Kearey, Michael Brooks, Ian Hill

This new edition of the well-established Kearey and Brooks text is fully updated to reflect the important developments in geophysical methods since the production of the previous edition. The broad scope of previous editions is maintained, with even greater clarity of explanations from the revised text and extensively revised figures. Each of the major geophysical methods is treated systematically developing the theory behind the method and...

Cocoa Programming

• ISBN:
• 0672322307
• Authors:
• Scott Anguish, Erik Buck, Donald Yacktman

Cocoa Programming is a comprehensive work that starts as a fast-paced introduction to the OS architecture and the Cocoa language for programmers new to the environment. The more advanced sections of the book will show the reader how to create Cocoa applications using Objective-C, to modify the views, integrate multimedia, and access networks. The final sections explain how to extend system applications and development tools in order to create...

Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Management

• ISBN:
• 0684847434
• Authors:
• Henry Mintzberg, Joseph Lampel, Bruce Ahlstrand

Strategy making is considered the high point of managerial activity. But bombarded by fads and fixes, most managers have been groping blindly to get their arms around the proverbial elephant. Now Henry Mintzberg, author of the award-winning The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, has teamed up with Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel to create a powerful antidote: a comprehensive and illuminating -- as well as colorful -- tour through the fields...

Corporate Capitalism and Political Philosophy

• ISBN:
• 0745317553
• Authors:
• Suman Gupta

This book is a political philosophical critique of corporate capitalism. Corporate capitalism is usually examined from a sociological or economic viewpoint, and this book breaks new ground in providing a thorough account of the mechanisms which define it from a philosophical perspective, revealing how these processes determine the way we live today.Marxist and other left-oriented political philosophies had ideological roots that were based,...

Designing Organizations: The Foundation for Excellence

• ISBN:
• 0749434570
• Authors:
• Philip Sadler

This is virtually the only book on organizational theory and design that distills the essence of the latest research and analysis for the benefit of practicing managers. Previously titled Designing Organizations, this fourth edition is a valuable reference tool for anyone in a strategic or decision-making role. Includes information on: The customer-driven company, developing organizational competence, building the seamless organization,...

Project Disasters and How to Survive Them

• ISBN:
• 0749443081
• Authors:
• David Nickson Sir, Suzy Siddons

* Takes a real-world view of project management

Project Management Disasters & How to Survive Them

• ISBN:
• 074944780X
• Authors:
• David Nickson Sir

Examines the causes of project failures and what can be learned from them. Focuses on risk management--how to support and lead project teams when things go wrong; how to turn a disaster into something positive; and, importantly, guidance on what NOT to do. Uses a wide variety of real-world examples.

Strategic Alliances and Marketing Partnerships: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Collaboration and Partnering

• ISBN:
• 0749454849
• Authors:
• Richard Gibbs, Andrew Humphries

Strategic Alliances and Marketing Partnerships will help readers understand how partnerships function and how they can manage them more effectively and efficiently.  Dealing with key topics such as supply chain management, marketing channels and relationship management, it identifies the key factors that determine partnering excellence. Whatever the nature of the relationship - whether outsourcing, strategic alliances or co-manufacturing...

Creating Value, Second Edition: Successful Business Strategies

• ISBN:
• 0750653639
• Authors:
• Shiv S Mathur, Alfred Kenyon

'Creating Value through Business Strategy' is the new edition of 'Creating Value: Shaping Tomorrow's Business', winner of the MCA price for best management in 1997. This new edition provides constructive guidelines to readers to open their minds to the challenges of creating value. It extends and updates the reasons for the choice of the individual offering as the strategy unit and intensifies and extends the challenges to standard approaches...

Introduction to Naval Architecture, Fourth Edition: Formerly Muckle's Naval Architecture for Marine Engineers

• ISBN:
• 0750665548
• Authors:
• E. C. Tupper

The fundamental characteristics of a ship's design, and how they affect its behaviour at sea are of crucial importance to many people involved in the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of all marine vessels. Naval architects and those working in ship design need to understand these principles in depth. Marine engineers must likewise recognise the degree to which their activities are influenced and bounded by these principles....

Just-In-Time Math for Engineers

• ISBN:
• 0750675357
• Authors:
• Archibald Fripp Dr. Archibald Fripp is an electrical engineer and materials scientist. He was a senior scientist at NASA and managed many space shuttle experiments. He retired from NASA in 1998 but still consults for them on semiconductor and microgravity

Just-In-Time Math is a concise review and summary of the mathematical principles needed by all engineering professionals. Topics covered include differential calculus, integral calculus, complex numbers, differential equations, engineering statistics, and partial derivatives. Numerous example engineering problems are included to show readers how to apply mathematical techniques to a wide range of engineering situations. This is the perfect...

Automotive Science and Mathematics

• ISBN:
• 0750685220
• Authors:
• Allan Bonnick

Automotive technicians and students need a firm grasp of science and technology in order to fully appreciate and understand how mechanisms and systems of modern vehicles work. Automotive Science and Mathematics presents the necessary principles and applications with all the examples and exercises relating directly to motor vehicle technology and repair, making it easy for automotive students and apprentices to relate the theory back to their...

Arctic and Antarctic (Eyewitness Guides)

• ISBN:
• 0751360333
• Authors:
• Barbara Taylor

This title in the "Eyewitness Guides" series covers the Arctic and Antarctic. It explains how plants, animals and people survive in the cold, what they find to eat, and how they live. Discover how to build an igloo, how husky dogs pull a sled, and follow in the footsteps of the heroic explorers.

Description of the HDM-III Model (World Bank)

• ISBN:
• 0801835917
• Authors:
• Professor Thawat Watanatada

Women Writing Women: The Frontiers Reader

• ISBN:
• 0803273363

By merging scholarly writing with personal life stories, Women Writing Women creates a new setting for communicating the unique experiences of women. The interdisciplinary nature of this volume, incorporating authors' ideas on identity, gender, and social realities, illuminates a rich diversity of experiences. To give voice to the different realities women live in and write from, the editors have divided the anthology into four sections: writing...

The Discourse of the Syncope: Logodaedalus (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

• ISBN:
• 0804753547
• Authors:
• Jean-Luc Nancy

Why is it that the modern conception of literature begins with one of the worst writers of the philosophical tradition? Such is the paradoxical question that lies at the heart of Jean-Luc Nancy’s highly original and now-classic study of the role of language in the critical philosophy of Kant. While Kant did not turn his attention very often to the philosophy of language, Nancy demonstrates to what extent he was anything but oblivious to it. He...

Foundations for Research: Methods of Inquiry in Education and the Social Sciences (Inquiry and Pedagogy Across Diverse Contexts)

• ISBN:
• 0805836500

Designed for introductory research courses in the professional fields and social sciences, this text acquaints students and beginning researchers with a broad view of research methodologies and an understanding of the assumptions that inform each of these approaches. More experienced researchers will also find the book useful in acquainting them with methodologies and theoretical frameworks that are new to them. The text is distinguished by its...

Whistle-blowing in Organizations (Lea's Organization and Management Series)

• ISBN:
• 0805859896
• Authors:
• Marcia P. Miceli, Terry Morehead Dworkin, Janet Pollex Near

This is a research-based book on whistle-blowing in organizations. The three noted authors describe studies on this important topic and the implications of the research and theory for organizational behavior, managerial practice, and public policy. In the past few years there have been critical developments, including corporate scandals, which have called public attention to whistle-blowing and have led to the first comprehensive federal...

The Supply-Based Advantage: How to Link Suppliers to Your Organization's Corporate Strategy

• ISBN:
• 0814401554
• Authors:
• Stephen C. Rogers

It's not enough for companies to simply try to find ways to save money through suppliers. If suppliers aren't fully integrated into their corporate strategy, there's no way for companies to ensure that they will continue to save money...and that their supply decisions will fit with changing organizational goals. Blending theory, best practices, and relevant examples, "The Supply-Based Advantage" reveals how to design, build, maintain, and...

Fabrication & Design of Resonant Microdevices (Micro and Nano Technologies)

• ISBN:
• 0815515774
• Authors:
• Behraad Bahreyni

This book discusses the main issues on fabrication, design, and applications of micromachined resonant devices as well as techniques that are commonly used for processing the output signal of resonant micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). After a brief introduction to the concepts of resonance, an overview of the fabrication techniques for micromachined devices will be given. This section is a necessary part of the book as the options during...

Encyclopedia of Earth Science (Science Encyclopedia)

• ISBN:
• 0816049734
• Authors:
• Timothy M. Kusky

Encyclopedia of Earth Science provides a broad scope of important subjects in the field of Earth science - hydrology, structural geology, petrology, isotope geology, geochemistry, geomorphology, and oceanography. Containing approximately 700 entries, 19 prose essays, 110 line illustrations, and 100 black-and-white photographs, this comprehensive encyclopedia is perfect for high school and early college students. Hundreds of entries on concepts,...

TQM Engineering Handbook (Quality and Reliability , Vol 52)

• ISBN:
• 082470083X
• Authors:
• D.H. Stamatis

This practical resource establishes a sound rationale for the continuation of Total Quality Management (TQM) in all organizations, offering a model, an implementation strategy, as well as traditional and nontraditional methods for the successful enhancement and maintenance of quality. Considers leading quality-related topics, such as unusual charts, supplier-organization-customer relationships, customer needs and expectations, instructional...

Simulation Methods for Polymers

• ISBN:
• 0824702476

The only comprehensive source to delineate the technical steps and efficacy of contemporary polymer simulation methods using a highly instructive, easy-to-grasp format, Simulation Methods for Polymers offers a logical sequence of polymer physics background, methods, calculations, and application guidelines—including coverage of recently developed techniques and algorithms for modeling and simulation.

Handbook of Electric Motors

• ISBN:
• 0824741056

Details the various types of motors and their characteristics, as well as motor selection. Discusses induction-, synchronous-, and direct-current motor analysis and design; testing for performance; and motor insulation, control, and protection.

Chemical Process Engineering (Chemical Industries)

• ISBN:
• 0824742745
• Authors:
• Harry Silla

Chemical Process Engineering presents a systematic approach to solving design problems by listing the needed equations, calculating degrees-of-freedom, developing calculation procedures to generate process specifications—mostly pressures, temperatures, compositions, and flow rates—and sizing equipment. This illustrative reference/text tabulates numerous easy-to-follow calculation procedures as well as the relationships needed for sizing...

Alternate Energy: Assessment and Implementation Reference Book

• ISBN:
• 0824742893
• Authors:
• James J. Winebrake

This book considers the technical and non-technical dimensions of future energy technologies. In particular, the book focuses on alternate (I.e., non-conventional) energy technologies, their potential impacts, and the technical, economic and policy issues that will affect their successful interation into global energy markets. In many respects the book provides a thorough technology assessment of future energy technologies. Key attributes of the...

Dictionary of Energy Efficiency Technologies

• ISBN:
• 0824748107
• Authors:
• Michael Frank Hordeski

The comprehensive Dictionary of Energy Efficiency Technologies addresses the diverse topics that form the backbone of energy efficiency in a timesaving dictionary format. Entries include a broad range of important topics, covering such areas as advanced power system infrastructure, power options and configurations, systems of generator backup, redundancy, capacity, power quality problems, power protection, computer-controlled systems, auditing,...

Transformer and Inductor Design Handbook (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

• ISBN:
• 0824753933
• Authors:
• Colonel Wm. T. McLyman

Extensively revised and expanded to present the state-of-the-art in the field, this Third Edition presents a practical approach to transformer and inductor design—extensively covering essential topics such as the area product, Ap, core geometry, and Kg while providing complete information on magnetic materials and core characteristics using step-by-step design examples.

Vehicle Stability (Mechanical Engineering (Marcell Dekker))

• ISBN:
• 0824757114
• Authors:
• Dean Karnopp

This reference offers a systematic approach to the dynamics and stability of vehicles such as cars, bicycles, trailers, motorcycles, airplanes, and trains—showing how mathematical models of varying degrees of complexity can be used to suggest design guidelines for assurance of vehicle stability and including a chapter on active stability enhancement.

Transformer and Inductor Design Handbook (Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Vol 49)

• ISBN:
• 0824778286
• Authors:
• Colonel Wm. T. McLyman

This useful Second Edition gives an in-depth look at how the core geometry Kg approach affects power transformation regulation capability, transformer design, inductor energy-handling capability, gapped inductor design, and toroidal inductor design.

Handbook of Electronic Package Design (Mechanical Engineering (Marcell Dekker))

• ISBN:
• 0824779215
• Authors:
• Michael Pecht

Both a handbook for practitioners and a text for use in teaching electronic packaging concepts, guidelines, and techniques. The treatment begins with an overview of the electronics design process and proceeds to examine the levels of electronic packaging and the fundamental issues in the development

Fluorine-carbon and Fluoride-carbon Materials

• ISBN:
• 0824792866

This outstanding reference presents the latest scientific findings concerning the synthesis, structure, thermodynamics, and physical and chemical properties of fluorine- and fluoride-carbon compounds;elucidating their practical applications in lithium batteries, superhydrophobic composites, and the electrolytic production of elemental fluorine.

Handbook of Metalforming Processes

• ISBN:
• 082479317X
• Authors:
• Henry Ericsson Theis

Reflecting hands-on experience of materials, equipment, tooling and processes used in the industry, this work provides up-to-date information on flat-rolled sheet metal products. It addresses the processing and forming of light-to-medium-gauge flat-rolled sheet metal, illustrating the versatility and myriad uses of this material.

Advanced Engineering Mathematics

• ISBN:
• 0831131691
• Authors:
• K. A. Stroud, Dexter J. Booth

Revised, expanded, and extremely comprehensive, this best-selling reference is almost like having your own personal tutor. You proceed at your own rate and any difficulties you may encounter are resolved before you move on to the next topic. With a step-by-step programmed approach that is complemented by hundreds of worked examples and exercises, Advanced Engineering Mathematics is ideal as an on-the-job reference for professionals or as a...

Finite Element Analysis: Thermomechanics of Solids

• ISBN:
• 084930749X
• Authors:
• David W. Nicholson

Finite element modeling has developed into one of the most important tools at an engineer's disposal, especially in applications involving nonlinearity. While engineers coping with such applications may have access to powerful computers and finite element codes, too often they lack the strong foundation in finite element analysis (FEA) that nonlinear problems require.Finite Element Analysis: Thermomechanics of Solids builds that foundation. It...

Propagation Handbook for Wireless Communication System Design

• ISBN:
• 0849308208
• Authors:
• Robert K. Crane

Data and models for better systems designAtmospheric gases, building materials, the weather … The propagation of wireless communications signals depends upon a whole range of factors, any or all of which can have a significant impact on the quality of a signal. Data generated by careful measurement of signals propagating under various environmental conditions are therefore fundamental to designing and building efficient, robust, and economical...

Traumatic Brain Injury: Rehabilitative Treatment and Case Management, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 0849313627

Traumatic Brain Injury: Rehabilitative Treatment and Case Management, Second Edition provides therapists, case managers and physicians with information about the longer-term issues faced by this population. Originally titled Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation, this new edition updates the clinical information and broadens the scope of the best-selling text with ten additional chapters designed to meet the needs of educators, discharge...

Industrial Burners Handbook (Industrial Combustion)

• ISBN:
• 0849313864

Rapid developments in the field precipitated by the increased demand for clean burner systems have rendered much of the published literature outdated. With the Industrial Burners Handbook, best-selling author, editor, and combustion expert Charles Baukal, Jr. fills this gap. This handbook is a comprehensive reference dedicated to the design and applications of industrial burners. In addition to a solid introduction to combustion and burner...

Microwave and RF Product Applications (Principles and Applications in Engineering, 17)

• ISBN:
• 0849317320

The field of microwave engineering has undergone a radical transformation in recent years, as commercial wireless endeavors overtook defense and government work. The modern microwave and RF engineer must be knowledgeable about customer expectations, market trends, manufacturing technologies, and factory models to a degree that is unprecedented. Unfortunately, most of the available literature does not reflect this fact, but remains focused on...

Value-Added Services for Next Generation Networks (Informa Telecoms & Media)

• ISBN:
• 0849373182
• Authors:
• Thierry Van de Velde

In the NGN world, no truer words are spoken than the future is now. And the competition in the information networking arena will only intensify in the next 5-10 years. Choosing the correct NGN-VAS strategy now will set your company apart. Value Added Services for Next Generation Networks examines the quest for the real added value in modern communication systems. The author covers more than just the technology itself, but also examines how it is...

Geophysics in Engineering Investigations (CIRIA)

• ISBN:
• 0860175626
• Authors:
• P. W. McDowell

The full potential of geophysics in engineering investigations is still to be realised. The many available techniques can provide important information about the ground, its mass properties, its small-scale variations, and its anomalies of structure or content. The advantage of a geophysical survey is that it enables information to be obtained for large volumes of ground that cannot be investigated by direct methods due to cost. The applications...

ASM Handbook: Volume 15: Casting

• ISBN:
• 0871700212
• Authors:
• D. M. Stefanescu, ASM

Casting, molding, and coremaking practices are discussed in a series of articles covering basic steps and equipment associated with each process, along with their advantages, limitations, and applications. Sand casting is covered in detail, as are investment casting, plaster and ceramic molding, permanent mold casting, die casting, centrifugal casting, and continuous casting. Includes 300 illustrations and 335 tables.

ASM Handbook: Volume 18: Friction, Lubrication, and Wear Technology

• ISBN:
• 0871703807
• Authors:
• ASM, American Society for Metals

This handbook is a comprehensive guide to basic concepts, methods of laboratory testing and analysis, materials selection, and field diagnosis of friction, lubrication, and wear problems. Emphasis is placed on practical information to provide engineers with the tools needed to understand the tribological behavior of materials and solve problems on the job.

ASM Handbook: Volume 6: Welding, Brazing, and Soldering (Asm Handbook)

• ISBN:
• 0871703823
• Authors:
• Kelly Ferjutz, Joseph R. Davis

Volume 6 is the most comprehensive reference book ever produced on the major joining technologies and their applications to engineered materials. With over 500 illustrations and 400 tables, this book includes practical advice on consumable selection and procedure development, as well as joining fundamentals, processes, assemblies and selection.

ASM Handbook: Volume 19: Fatigue and Fracture

• ISBN:
• 0871703858
• Authors:
• Steven R. Lampman

Providing a working knowledge of fatigue and fracture properties in actual engineering practice, this Handbook is especially valuable in evaluating test data and knowing the key variables that affect results. It will also give you a better understanding of fracture mechanics to aid you in life assessment and life extension of components. Sections include: Fatigue Mechanisms, Crack Growth, Testing, Engineering Aspects of Fatigue Life, Fracture...

ASM Handbook: Materials Selection and Design, Volume XX

• ISBN:
• 0871703866
• Authors:
• Asm

ASM Handbook, Vol. 20: Materials Selection and Design Materials Selection and Design is a comprehensive reference on the basic concepts, methodologies, and information sources dealing with materials selection and its integration with engineering design processes. It makes the connection between design and materials engineering.

ASM Handbook: Volume 7: Powder Metal Technologies and Applications (Asm Handbook) (Asm Handbook) (Asm Handbook)

• ISBN:
• 0871703874
• Authors:
• Asm International Handbook Committee

Covers all areas of powder production, sampling, characterization, shaping, consolidation, sintering, quality control, machining, heat treating, and PM applications. For practical engineering information on sintering practices, tool design, P/M metallography, dimensional control, part design, powders, binders, lubricants, and the processing, properties, and performance of P/M materials in different production technologies and applications.

Asm Speciality Handbook: Heat Resistant Materials (Asm Specialty Handbook) (Asm Specialty Handbook)

• ISBN:
• 0871705966
• Authors:
• Joseph R. Davis

Materials covered include carbon, alloy and stainless steels; alloy cast irons; high-alloy cast steels; superalloys; titanium and titanium alloys; refractory metals and alloys; nickel-chromium and nickel-thoria alloys; structural intermetallics; structural ceramics, cermets, and cemented carbides; and carbon-composites.

Metals Handbook Desk Edition 2nd Edition

• ISBN:
• 0871706547
• Authors:
• J.R. Davis

Metals Handbook Desk Edition, Second Edition The "best" of the ASM Handbook in a single volume. If you own only one book on metals and alloys, this is it!

ASM Handbook Composites Volume 21

• ISBN:
• 0871707039
• Authors:
• Steven L. Donaldson, Daniel B. Miracle

ASM Handbook, Volume 21: Composites provides a comprehensive, practical, and reliable source of technical knowledge, engineering data and supporting information for composite materials. This handbook is intended to be a resource volume for nonspecialists who are interested in gaining a practical working knowledge of the capabilities and applications of composite materials. Coverage emphasizes well-qualified and useful information for materials...

Hunting and Gathering in the Corporate Tribe: Archetypes of the Corporate Culture

• ISBN:
• 0875862500
• Authors:
• Keith Wilcock

"The theory that corporations are evolved tribes opens entirely new ways of thinking about and analyzing modern business organizations. Hunting and Gathering in the Corporate Tribe shows how to apply the new field of corporate anthropology to the every day challenges of operating a business. Watch out. This book will shift your paradigm." - Dr. Marvin Dunnette, past President and Fellow of SIOP (The Society of Industrial and Organizational...

The Professional Development of Teachers: Practice and Theory

• ISBN:
• 1402020058
• Authors:
• Philip Adey

This book integrates in a unique way all that is known about changing teachers' practice, the key to all educational development. All attempts to `raise standards' or to 'make schools relevant to the 21st century' rest on helping teachers to develop new skills. The Professional Development of Teachers: Practice and Theory draws on the author's 30 years of experience, on a series of new empirical studies, and on the extensive literature on staff...

The Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine An IOC Medical Commission Publication, The Endocrine System in Sports and Exercise (Volume 11)

• ISBN:
• 1405130172

The Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine is a multi-volume IOC Medical Commission publication, in collaboration with the International Federation of Sports Medicine. Each book is designed to present state-of-the-art information on current topics of specific clinical and scientific importance. The Endocrine System in Sports and Exercise addresses a vitally important area of physiological functioning that has become the focus of a great deal of...

Human Factors in Simulation and Training

• ISBN:
• 1420072838

Measure twice, cut once. Although applicable to all areas of human factors research, the old adage is especially relevant to simulation and training. As a tool, simulation is an aid to the imagination, however, if incorrectly or inadequately used, it can lead to inaccurate outcomes that not only limit the possibilities but potentially cause harm. A comprehensive overview of the topic from a human factor perspective, Human Factors in Simulation...

Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders: Clinical Lab Testing Manual, Fourth Edition

• ISBN:
• 1420079328

Bottom Line Information to Effectively Diagnose Disorders The diagnosis, management, and clinical testing associated with old, traditional, and new endocrine disorders have seen numerous advances during the past 10 years since the publication of the previous edition of this bestselling resource. Updating its classic predecessor in content and format, Endocrine and Metabolic Testing Manual, Fourth Edition provides an authoritative and...

Designing Complex Systems: Foundations of Design in the Functional Domain (Complex and Enterprise Systems Engineering)

• ISBN:
• 1420087533
• Authors:
• Erik W. Aslaksen

Without standardized construction elements such as nuts, bolts, bearings, beams, resistors and the like, the design of physical equipment is hopelessly inefficient, and engineers are continually bogged down with re-designing these elements over and over again. The same can be said for the domain of ideas and performance requirements. Only through a process of standardization of the corresponding functional elements will systems engineering truly...

A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge, 2nd Edition

• ISBN:
• 1556179847
• Authors:
• Vernon Trevathan

A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge provides you with comprehensive information about all major topics in the broad field of automation. Edited by Vernon Trevathan with contributions from over thirty leading experts from all aspects of automation, this book defines the most important automation concepts and processes, while also describing the technical skills professionals require to implement them in todayÂ’s industrial environment....

Secrets of Power Negotiating

• ISBN:
• 1564144984
• Authors:
• Roger Dawson

Secrets of Power Negotiating covers every aspect of the negotiating process with practical, proven advice: from beginning steps to critical final moves, how to recognize unethical tactics, key principles to the Power Negotiating strategy, why money is not as important as everyone thinks, negotiating pressure points, understanding the other party and gaining the upper hand, and analyses of different negotiating styles. And Power Negotiating can...

Invent Business Opportunities No One Else Can Imagine

• ISBN:
• 1564145786
• Authors:
• Art Turock

Designed for business strategists, top sales producers, small business entrepreneurs and dedicated professionals; here is a unique and practical book that brings together four key elements for achieving enduring success. * How to create a strategy that makes your competitors' jaws drop in envy. * How to systematically recognize your customers' needs before they even ask for something. * How to transcend conventional thinking and create something...

How to Win Any Negotiation: Without Raising Your Voice, Losing Your Cool, or Coming to Blows

• ISBN:
• 156414920X
• Authors:
• Robert Mayer

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK: "An important and most helpful book for everybody. It delivers more power to you!" -Larry King, host, LARRY KING LIVE "No magic elixirs or mumbo jumbo; just straight-talking, easy-to understand, easy-to-remember, and easy-to-use principles of persuasion and negotiation—secrets I’ve seen in action when Bob Mayer has successfully negotiated for me." -David Crosby, singer/songwriter (Crosby, Stills & Nash) "Bob Mayer is a...

Restoration of Contaminated Aquifers: Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Compounds, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 1566703204
• Authors:
• Stephen M. Testa, Duane L. Winegardner

The second edition of Restoration of Contaminated Aquifers: Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Compounds incorporates the latest advances in in-situ remediation and natural attenuation, and maintains the comprehensive, accessible structure that made the first edition a classic.The new edition broadens the scope of the first by examining all forms of hydrocarbon contamination. The authors emphasize the remediation of Non-aqueous Phase Liquids...

Strategic Planning for New & Emerging Businesses: A Consulting Approach

• ISBN:
• 1574101145
• Authors:
• Fred L. Fry, Charles Stoner, Laurence Weinzimmer

This book gives owners of new and/or emerging businesses extensive knowledge of the steps of strategic planning. They learn how to assess the external environment, how to address competitive forces, how to identify internal strengths and weaknesses, and how to and develop a strategic thrust for their emerging enterprises.

Leading Edge Business Planning for Entrepreneurs: Develop Your Vision, Utilize Technology, Obtain Venture Capital, Leverage Your Growth

• ISBN:
• 157410117X
• Authors:
• James B. Arkebauer, Jack Miller

Many new startups require a business plan approach that's not only meticulous and logical, but highly competitive as well. "Leading Edge Business Planning for Entrepreneurs" is directed specifically to the entrepreneur interested in aggressive growth. It incorporates the latest computer and Internet business operating techniques and technologies, and it shows you how to research your business's feasibility in the marketplace. Learn how to craft...

Future Search

• ISBN:
• 1576750817
• Authors:
• Marvin Ross Weisbord, Sandra Janoff

Explores a promising way for enabling diverse groups of people with a stake in an organization or community to plan their own future. Offers principles, techniques, and examples for running successful future search conferences. Softcover. DLC: Planning--Methodology.

Air Pollution Control Engineering (Handbook of Environmental Engineering) (v. 1)

• ISBN:
• 1588291618

A panel of respected air pollution control educators and practicing professionals critically survey the both principles and practices underlying control processes, and illustrate these with a host of detailed design examples for practicing engineers. The authors discuss the performance, potential, and limitations of the major control processes-including fabric filtration, cyclones, electrostatic precipitation, wet and dry scrubbing, and...

A Case-Based Guide to Clinical Endocrinology (Contemporary Endocrinology)

• ISBN:
• 1588298159

Written cases provide a thoughtful review of modern management and contemplation of the literature, much more so than even a case presentation without the patient. As a result, in recent years the written or prepared case has become the ideal forum for demonstrating how to manage a medical problem to the greatest benefit of the patient. In "A Case-Based Guide to Clinical Endocrinology", distinguished clinicians provide stimulating instruction...

What Is ArcGIS 9.1?

• ISBN:
• 1589481321

ESRI ArcGIS is a comprehensive, integrated, scalable framework for implementing GIS for a single user or for many users on desktops, in servers, over the Web, and in the field. What is ArcGIS 9.1? provides a valuable introduction to the full ESRI ArcGIS framework and an overview of many important GIS concepts. Whether you are new to or are familiar with ArcGIS software, this book will help you develop a more comprehenseive understanding of GIS...

Enhancing Learning Through Technology

• ISBN:
• 1591409713

Digital technology for learning enhancement has been accepted in all levels of education, incorporating the ambitions of challenging traditional educational paradigms for the purpose of stimulating change and bringing about an innovation in the design of curricula. Enhancing Learning Through Technology identifies and presents the latest research on theory, practice, and capturing learning designs and best-practices. It demonstrates significant...

Multiple Case Study Analysis

• ISBN:
• 1593852495
• Authors:
• Robert E. Stake PhD

Examining situational complexity is a vital part of social and behavioral science research. This engaging text provides an effective process for studying multiple cases--such as sets of teachers, staff development sessions, or clinics operating in different locations--within one complex program. The process also can be used to investigate broadly occurring phenomena without programmatic links, such as leadership or sibling rivalry. Readers learn...

Foundations of Behavioral Statistics: An Insight-Based Approach

• ISBN:
• 1593852851
• Authors:
• Bruce Thompson EdD

With humor, extraordinary clarity, and carefully paced explanations and examples, Bruce Thompson shows readers how to use the latest techniques for interpreting research outcomes as well as how to make statistical decisions that result in better research. Utilizing the general linear model to demonstrate how different statistical methods are related to each other, Thompson integrates a broad array of methods involving only a single dependent...

Multilevel Analysis for Applied Research: It's Just Regression! (Methodology In The Social Sciences)

• ISBN:
• 1593854293
• Authors:
• Robert Bickel PhD

This book provides a uniquely accessible introduction to multilevel modeling, a powerful tool for analyzing relationships between an individual-level dependent variable, such as student reading achievement, and individual-level and contextual explanatory factors, such as gender and neighborhood quality. Helping readers build on the statistical techniques they already know, Robert Bickel emphasizes the parallels with more familiar regression...

Fundamental Issues in Evaluation

• ISBN:
• 1593856040

Providing state-of-the-art perspectives on what evaluation is, its purpose, and how to ensure it is done well, this book brings together major evaluation researchers from a variety of social and behavioral science disciplines. Each chapter identifies a fundamental issue facing the field today; considers its implications for theory, method, practice, or the profession; and explores one or more approaches to dealing with the issue. Among the...

Transformative Research and Evaluation

• ISBN:
• 1593859856
• Authors:
• Donna M. Mertens PhD

From distinguished scholar Donna M. Mertens, this book provides a framework for making methodological decisions and conducting research and evaluations that promote social justice. The transformative paradigm has emerged from?and guides?a broad range of social and behavioral science research projects with communities that have been pushed to the margins, such as ethnic, racial, and sexual minority group members and children and adults with...

Assessing Performance: Designing, Scoring, and Validating Performance Tasks

• ISBN:
• 1593859899
• Authors:
• Robert L. Johnson PhD, James A. Penny PhD, Belita Gordon PhD

A comprehensive resource for assessment practitioners, this book provides step-by-step guidance for developing, administering, scoring, and validating a range of performance tasks, including literacy and other types of proficiency assessments. The authors explore how to establish the purpose of the assessment and how to develop scoring tools, train raters, reduce rater bias, review scores and report results, and use item-level and test-level...

CIO And Corporate Strategic Management: Changing Role of CIO to CEO

• ISBN:
• 1599044234
• Authors:
• Petter Gottschalk

The CIO position and importance depend on information technology maturity in the organization, value configuration, strategic IT resources, e-business approach, and IT governance structure. CIO and Corporate Strategic Management: Changing Role of CIO to CEO holds key information in improving a CIO's role, which would then advance his or her chances of moving up into a CEO role. CIO and Corporate Strategic Management: Changing Role of CIO to CEO...

The Delft Systems Approach: Analysis and Design of Industrial Systems

• ISBN:
• 1848001762
• Authors:
• Hans P. M. Veeke, Jaap A. Ottjes, Gabriël Lodewijks

The pace of development in knowledge and know-how in the Organisation Sciences, Logistics and Information Technology is rapid. However, the gap between those who practice these sciences and the practicing manager is becoming larger rather than smaller. "The Delft Systems Approach" sets out to close the gap between theory and practice, and to achieve the following goals: to improve the conception of a design in order to obtain a better match...

Reliability and Risk Issues in Large Scale Safety-critical Digital Control Systems (Springer Series in Reliability Engineering)

• ISBN:
• 1848003838
• Authors:
• Poong Hyun Seong

Reliability and Risk Issues in Large Scale Safety-critical Digital Control Systems provides some important coverage of reliability issues and their corresponding countermeasures in the field of large-scale digital control systems, from the hardware and software in digital systems to the human operators who supervise the overall process of large-scale systems. Unlike other books which examine theories and issues in individual fields, this book...

The Business Idea: The Early Stages of Entrepreneurship

• ISBN:
• 354022663X
• Authors:
• Søren Hougaard

Getting successful business ideas isnÆt so much about talent - it is about a systematic approach. The Business Idea encourages you to look at new ways of thinking when it comes to entrepreneurship and innovation. Too many ventures originate in the solutions the entrepreneur has to offer - and not in the problem the customer needs to have solved. So do business plans - and often this leads to disappointment. The Business Idea leaves behind this...

Generalized Plasticity

• ISBN:
• 3540251278
• Authors:
• Mao-Hong Yu

Generalized Plasticity deals with the plasticity of materials and structures. It is an expansion of the "Unified Strength Theory to Plasticity Theory", leading to a unified treatment of metal plasticity and plasticity of geomaterials, generally. It includes the metal plasticity for Tresca materials, Huber-von-Mises materials and twin-shear materials and the geomaterial plasticity for Mohr-Coulomb materials, generalized twin-shear materials and...

Trajectory Planning for Automatic Machines and Robots

• ISBN:
• 3540856285
• Authors:
• Luigi Biagiotti, Claudio Melchiorri

This book deals with the problems related to planning motion laws and trajectories for the actuation system of automatic machines, in particular for those based on electric drives, and robots. The problem of planning suitable trajectories is relevant not only for the proper use of these machines, in order to avoid undesired effects such as vibrations or even damages on the mechanical structure, but also in some phases of their design and in the...

Mathematics of Physics and Engineering

• ISBN:
• 981256621X
• Authors:
• Edward K. Blum, Sergey V. Lototsky

Aimed at scientists and engineers, this book is an exciting intellectual journey through the mathematical worlds of Euclid, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and Schrodinger-Dirac. While similar books present the required mathematics in a piecemeal manner with tangential references to the relevant physics and engineering, this textbook serves the interdisciplinary needs of engineers, scientists and applied mathematicians by unifying the mathematics and...

Digging Up Trouble: A Nina Quinn Mystery (Nina Quinn Mysteries)

• ISBN:
• 0060723491
• Authors:
• Heather Webber

Digging Her Own Grave Landscaper Nina Quinn makes her living from surprise garden makeovers. It's not her fault that someone duped her into digging up the wrong yard. And she certainly can't be blamed when her handiwork turns the unsuspecting real owner apoplectic and he drops dead from a heart attack . . . can she? Nina's got enough trouble already, with her divorce from faithless hubby Kevin nearing completion and her unruly stepson up to his...

The Land of Mango Sunsets: A Novel

• ISBN:
• 0060892382
• Authors:
• Dorothea Benton Frank

Her sleazy husband left her for a lingerie model who's barely more than a teenager, and her kids are busy with their own lives. But before Miriam Elizabeth Swanson can work herself up into a true snit about it all, her newest tenant, Liz, arrives from Birmingham with plenty of troubles of her own. And then Miriam meets a man named Harrison, who makes her laugh, makes her cry, and makes her feel like a brand-new woman. It's almost too much for...

Fatally Flaky: A Novel (Goldy Schulz Culinary Mysteries, No. 15)

• ISBN:
• 0061348139
• Authors:
• Diane Mott Davidson

Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz encounters bridezilla—and murder—in another delectable novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Sweet Revenge , Dark Tort , and Double Shot Cynics say getting married is a death wish. . . . It's been a long, rainy summer for Goldy Schulz, who is engaged in planning wedding receptions for what seems to be all of Aspen Meadow. It's bad enough that Billie Attenborough, the bride from hell, has changed her...

What Would Google Do?

• ISBN:
• 0061709719
• Authors:
• Jeff Jarvis

A bold and vital book that asks and answers the most urgent question of today: What Would Google Do? In a book that's one part prophecy, one part thought experiment, one part manifesto, and one part survival manual, internet impresario and blogging pioneer Jeff Jarvis reverse-engineers Google—the fastest-growing company in history—to discover forty clear and straightforward rules to manage and live by. At the same time, he illuminates the...

Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Research Papers (Quick Guides)

• ISBN:
• 0070123004
• Authors:
• Laurie Rozakis

The Fastest, Easiest Way to Learn: Schaum¿s Quick Guides These concise, quick reference guides are perfect for business people, writers, and students at all levels. Written by top experts, they offer readers the easiest, most efficient strategies to master or learn a new skill. All Schaum¿s Quick Guides include do¿s and don¿ts for avoiding common errors, handy checklists, and practice exercises for building skills quickly.

Mathematics of Physics and Modern Engineering

• ISBN:
• 0070596255
• Authors:
• Ivar Stephen Sokolnikoff, Raymond M. Redheffer

Relativity Demystified

• ISBN:
• 0071455450
• Authors:
• David McMahon, Paul M. Alsing

Finally, someone is going to explain Einstein’s theory of relativity in layman’s terms, without getting mired in overly heavy discussion or formal mathematics. In Relativity Demystified, key definitions, examples, and results join the trusted exercises that have made the Demystified series so successful in all subject areas.

Carbon Materials for Advanced Technologies

• ISBN:
• 0080426832

The inspiration for this book came from an American Carbon Society Workshop entitled "Carbon Materials for Advanced Technologies" which was hosted by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1994. Chapter 1 contains a review of carbon materials, and emphasizes the structure and chemical bonding in the various forms of carbon, including the four allotropes diamond, graphite, carbynes, and the fullerenes. In addition, amorphous carbon and diamond...

Advanced Mathematical Tools for Control Engineers: Volume 1: Deterministic Systems

• ISBN:
• 0080446744
• Authors:
• Alex Poznyak

This book provides a blend of Matrix and Linear Algebra Theory, Analysis, Differential Equations, Optimization, Optimal and Robust Control. It contains an advanced mathematical tool which serves as a fundamental basis for both instructors and students who study or actively work in Modern Automatic Control or in its applications. It is includes proofs of all theorems and contains many examples with solutions. It is written for researchers,...

A Guide to Microsoft Excel 2007 for Scientists and Engineers

• ISBN:
• 012374623X
• Authors:
• Bernard Liengme

Completely updated guide for scientists, engineers and students who want to use Microsoft Excel 2007 to its full potential. Electronic spreadsheet analysis has become part of the everyday work of researchers in all areas of engineering and science. Microsoft Excel, as the industry standard spreadsheet, has a range of scientific functions that can be utilized for the modeling, analysis and presentation of quantitative data. This text provides a...

Advanced Modern Engineering Mathematics (3rd Edition)

• ISBN:
• 0130454257
• Authors:
• Glyn James

Building on the foundations laid in the companion text Modern Engineering Mathematics 3e, this book gives an extensive treatment of some of the advanced areas of mathematics that have applications in various fields of engineering, particularly as tools for computer-based system modelling, analysis and design. Despite the advanced level of this text, the philosophy of learning by doing is retained, with continuing emphasis on the development of...

There's No Business That's Not Show Business: Marketing in an Experience Culture

• ISBN:
• 0130471194
• Authors:
• Bernd H. Schmitt, David L. Rogers, Karen Vrotsos

Say goodbye to "business as usual"--to succeed today you need show business! How do you market in today's "experience culture"--as conventional advertising grows increasingly ineffective, and customers grow increasingly independent? Companies and brands from Altoids to Volkswagen have discovered the answer: bring show business into your business! There's No Business That's Not Show Business demonstrates how to use "show biz" techniques to cut...

Fame and Fortune: How Successful Companies Build Winning Reputations

• ISBN:
• 0130937371
• Authors:
• Charles J. Fombrun, Cees B. M. Van Riel

Companies build reputations in the market place. Some do it well, others don't. Even well-managed, profitable, quality companies don't. The how and why of successful reputation building is what this book is about. What specific actions must companies take to build a positive reputation in the market place? How can a company measure the success of its attempts to build a positive reputation in the market place as well.

Who Stole My Customer?? Winning Strategies for Creating and Sustaining Customer Loyalty

• ISBN:
• 0131453564
• Authors:
• Harvey Thompson

Many businesses find themselves asking: "Who's stealing my customers? Why is it happening? How can I stop it?" Who Stole My Customer? has the answers. It's a complete guide to planning and implementing customer loyalty processes that really work--because they're built around what customers really want. Drawing on his unsurpassed experience redesigning customer-facing processes at IBM, Harvey Thompson shows readers their business through the...

Making Strategy Work: Leading Effective Execution and Change

• ISBN:
• 013146745X
• Authors:
• Lawrence G. Hrebiniak

Without effective execution, no business strategy can succeed. Unfortunately, most managers know far more about developing strategy than about executing it -- and overcoming the difficult political and organizational obstacles that stand in their way. In this book, leading consultant and Wharton professor Lawrence Hrebiniak offers the first comprehensive, disciplined process model for making strategy work in the real world. Drawing on his...

Strategy Bites Back: It Is Far More, and Less, than You Ever Imagined

• ISBN:
• 0131857770
• Authors:
• Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand, Joseph Lampel

SWOTed by strategy models? Crunched by analysis? Strategy doesn't have to be this way. Strategy is really all about being different. Thinking about it shouldn't make you reach for the snooze button, but in the world of strategy everybody has become so serious. If that gets us better strategies, fine. But it doesn't; we get worse ones--predictable, generic, uninspiring, dull. Strategy doesn't only have to position; it also has to inspire. So an...

Break From the Pack: How to Compete in a Copycat Economy

• ISBN:
• 0131888633
• Authors:
• Oren Harari

Everywhere, products are being commoditized, services are being imitated, and traditional barriers to market entry are collapsing. To sustain competitive advantage in today's Copycat Economy, companies must break from the pack. This book will show how. Oren Harari starts by touring "Commodity Hell," and identifying 10 common mistakes that keep companies trapped in the pack. Next, Harari introduces six strategies for propelling your organization...

Don't Just Relate - Advocate!: A Blueprint for Profit in the Era of Customer Power

• ISBN:
• 0131913611
• Authors:
• Glen Urban

In today's environment companies need to go beyond relationship marketing" to be true customer advocates -- faithfully representing their customers' interests. Customer advocacy means providing customers and prospects with open, honest and complete information. It means talking with customers, not at them. In most companies, customer advocacy requires a massive transformation in both culture and process. In this book, MIT's Glen Urban covers the...

Will Your Next Mistake Be Fatal?: Avoiding the Chain of Mistakes That Can Destroy Your Organization

• ISBN:
• 0131913646
• Authors:
• Robert Mittelstaedt

What catastrophes have in common -- and how to keep them from happening to you! Introducing M3: the first systematic approach to Managing mistakes so they don't lead to disaster Building systems that prevent 'failure chains' from spiraling out of control Avoiding failures in preparation, strategy, execution, and culture Reducing the impact and cost of the mistakes you do make Also includes coverage of the unique 'mistake chains' facing...

The Bay of Pigs (Pivotal Moments in American History)

• ISBN:
• 019517383X
• Authors:
• Howard Jones

In January 1959, as Fidel Castro entered Havana in triumph, Americans hailed the revolutionary as a hero. Then came Castro's increasingly anti-American talk, the rise in his regime of the openly Marxist Che Guevara and Raul Castro, and seizures of American-owned assets. In little more than a year, President Dwight D. Eisenhower concluded that Castro must go. In The Bay of Pigs, Howard Jones provides a concise, incisive, and dramatic account of...

Consuming Traditions: Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic

• ISBN:
• 0195372697
• Authors:
• Elizabeth Outka

In an unprecedented phenomenon that swept across Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century, writers, advertisers, and architects began to create and sell images of an authentic cultural realm paradoxically considered outside the marketplace. Such images were located in nostalgic pictures of an idyllic, pre-industrial past, in supposedly original objects not derived from previous traditions, and in the ideal of a purified aesthetic that might...

Foundations of Corporate Success: How Business Strategies Add Value

• ISBN:
• 019828781X
• Authors:
• John Kay

How did BMW recover from the verge of bankruptcy to become one of Europe's strongest companies? Why did Saatchi and Saatchi's global strategy bring the company to its knees? Why has Philips' outstanding record in innovation not been translated into success in the market? What can be learned from the marriage contract about the conduct of commercial negotiations? Drawing on his own business experience and concepts in economics, legal theory, and...

Applications of Combinatorial Mathematics (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications Conference Series New Series)

• ISBN:
• 0198511922

In the last thirty years, combinatorial mathematics has found itself at the heart of many technological applications. The aims of the conference on which this book is based were to stimulate combinatorial mathematicians to pursue new lines of research of potential and practical importance, and to uncover the breadth of applications to the subject. Topics covered include neural networks, cryptography, radio frequency assignment for mobile...

Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science

• ISBN:
• 0199258120

A unique collaboration between leading poets and scientists, Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science demonstrates through its form, and through practice as well as reflection, that poetry and science can meet with productive results. Crossing between disciplines, and between prose and verse, the book shows how modes of scientific knowledge and of poetic making continue to be intertwined. Often drawing on Scottish intellectual traditions,...

The Art of Public Strategy: Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good

• ISBN:
• 0199289646
• Authors:
• Dr Geoff Mulgan

The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples' lives. The best ones can transform economic laggards into trailblazers, eliminate diseases, or sharply cut crime. Strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters, like the shrinking of the Russian economy in the 1990s, or the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. This book is about how strategies take shape, and how money,...

Custom and Reason in Hume: A Kantian Reading of the First Book of the Treatise

• ISBN:
• 0199532885
• Authors:
• Henry E. Allison

Henry Allison examines the central tenets of Hume's epistemology and cognitive psychology, as contained in the Treatise of Human Nature. Allison takes a distinctive two-level approach. On the one hand, he considers Hume's thought in its own terms and historical context. So considered, Hume is viewed as a naturalist, whose project in the first three parts of the first book of the Treatise is to provide an account of the operation of the...

The End of Philosophy

• ISBN:
• 0226323838
• Authors:
• Martin Heidegger

Joan Stambaugh's translations of the works of Heidegger, accomplished with his guidance, have made key aspects of his thought and philosophy accessible to readers of English for many years. This collection, writes Stambaugh, contains Heidegger's attempt "to show the history of Being as metaphysics," combining three chapters from the philosopher's Nietzsche ("Metaphysics as a History of Being," "Sketches for a History of Being as Metaphysics,"...

William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s

• ISBN:
• 0226502597
• Authors:
• Saree Makdisi

Modern scholars often find it difficult to account for the profound eccentricities in the work of William Blake, dismissing them as either ahistorical or simply meaningless. But with this pioneering study, Saree Makdisi develops a reliable and comprehensive framework for understanding these peculiarities. According to Makdisi, Blake's poetry and drawings should compel us to reconsider the history of the 1790s. Tracing for the first time the many...

Same Sex, Different Politics: Success and Failure in the Struggles over Gay Rights (Chicago Studies in American Politics)

• ISBN:
• 0226544095
• Authors:
• Gary Mucciaroni

Why is it so much harder for American same-sex couples to get married than it is for them to adopt children? And why does our military prevent gays from serving openly even though jurisdictions nationwide continue to render such discrimination illegal? Illuminating the conditions that engender these contradictory policies, Same Sex, Different Politics explains why gay rights advocates have achieved dramatically different levels of success from...

Marking Enterprise: Business Success and Societal Embedding (INSEAD Business Press)

• ISBN:
• 0230001874
• Authors:
• Jean-Claude Thoenig, Charles Waldman

This new approach argues that many practices and postures in strategy, marketing and branding, and organisational management are neither appropriate nor efficient. Based upon their studies of extremely successful firms, the authors distinguish two main paths to success. One followed by "proactive markers" like Club Med, Ikea and Royal Canin consists of designing and creating new economic and societal "territories", not just market shares or...

American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World)

• ISBN:
• 069112261X
• Authors:
• Heather J. Sharkey

In 1854, American Presbyterian missionaries arrived in Egypt as part of a larger Anglo-American Protestant movement aiming for worldwide evangelization. Protected by British imperial power, and later by mounting American global influence, their enterprise flourished during the next century. American Evangelicals in Egypt follows the ongoing and often unexpected transformations initiated by missionary activities between the mid-nineteenth century...

How to Prepare a Business Plan: Planning for Successful Start-Up and Expansion

• ISBN:
• 0749437472
• Authors:
• Edward Blackwell

There are thousands of business start-ups in the U.S. per year, and a business plan provides for the future of such companies. It sets out a company’s aims and how it proposes to achieve them. Without such a plan no venture capital house or bank will consider a loan for start-up or expansion. This fully updated new edition describes the best way to prepare a business plan that will help get the financial backing needed. It includes practical...

How to Prepare a Business Plan (Sunday Times Business Enterprise)

• ISBN:
• 0749441917
• Authors:
• Edward Blackwell

* Fully revised and updated * Practical guidance given on all aspects of business plans * Includes case studies and examples "Ideal for entrepreneurs and decision-makers in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Highly recommended." -- George Cox, Director General, Institute of Directors "Still the best book available on the subject." -- The Bookseller's Review of Business Books A business plan provides a blueprint for the future of business...

Malcolm McDonald on Marketing Planning: Understanding Marketing Plans and Strategy

• ISBN:
• 0749451491
• Authors:
• Malcolm McDonald

Malcolm McDonald on Marketing Planning guides readers through the production of a marketing plan made to work in the real world. With the emphasis on practicality, this book covers the essentials of marketing planning and the strategic marketing process. Key content includes: defining markets and segments, setting marketing objectives and strategies, advertising and sales promotion strategies, and price and sales strategies. Test questions at...

Laser Aided Diagnostics of Gases and Plasmas (Series on Plasma Physics)

• ISBN:
• 0750306432
• Authors:
• K Muraoka, M Maeda

Laser-Aided Diagnostics of Gases and Plasmas is an updated and revised translation of the original Japanese edition. The authors have taken a unique approach in treating laser aided diagnostics as a unified subject instead of the usual and disjointed approach of describing each application as a totally separate system. In taking this approach, they highlight the relative strengths of each method and show how they can compliment each other in the...

Engineering Contracts

• ISBN:
• 0750624981
• Authors:
• ROBERT RIBEIRO

Engineering Contracts is intended for those who wish to acquire skills in drafting, negotiating and working with commercial and engineering contracts. It aims to bring a different approach to the subject; combining the traditional legal perspective of the law of contract with the needs of the commercial manager or engineer who is seeking solutions to technical and commercial problems. The context within which these matters are examined is as...

Newnes Engineering Mathematics Pocket Book, Third Edition (Newnes Pocket Books)

• ISBN:
• 0750649925
• Authors:
• John Bird BSc (Hons) CEng CMath CSci FIET MIEE FIIE FIMA FCollT

Newnes Engineering Mathematics Pocket Book is a uniquely versatile and practical tool for a wide range of engineers and students. All the essentials of engineering mathematics are covered, with clear explanations of key methods, and worked examples to illustrate them. Numerous tables and diagrams are provided, along with all the formulae you could need. The emphasis throughout the book is on providing the practical tools needed to solve...

Gas Well Deliquification: Solutions to Gas Well Liquid Loading Problems

• ISBN:
• 0750677244
• Authors:
• James F. Lea, Henry V. Nickens, Mike R. Wells, Michael Wells

No other book on the market offers such a turnkey solution to the problem of liquid interference in gas wells. Gas Well Deliquification contains not only descriptions of the various methods of de-watering gas wells, but also compares the various methods with a view toward explaining the suitability of each under particular circumstances. The material is presented as practical information that can be immediately applied, rather than a theoretical...

Structural Dynamics and Vibration in Practice: An Engineering Handbook

• ISBN:
• 0750680024
• Authors:
• Douglas Thorby

This straightforward text, primer and reference introduces the theoretical, testing and control aspects of structural dynamics and vibration, as practised in industry today. Written by an expert engineer of over 40 years experience, the book comprehensively opens up the dynamic behavior of structures and provides engineers and students with a comprehensive practice based understanding of the key aspects of this key engineering topic. Key...

Materials Enabled Designs: The Materials Engineering Perspective to Product Design and Manufacturing

• ISBN:
• 0750682876
• Authors:
• Michael Pfeifer

There are books aplenty on materials selection criteria for engineering design. Most cover the physical and mechanical properties of specific materials, but few offer much in the way of total product design criteria. This innovative new text/reference will give the "Big picture" view of how materials should be selected-not only for a desired function but also for their ultimate performance, durability, maintenance, replacement costs, and so on....

Real Options Theory, Volume 24 (Advances in Strategic Management)

• ISBN:
• 0762314273

Real options theory has attracted significant interest in the field of strategic management. Advocates of the approach emphasize that importing concepts from financial economics holds out the potential of yielding new insights on strategic decision-making under uncertainty as well as boundary-of-the-firm issues that are the focus of competitive and corporate strategy. While considerable progress has been made in conceptualizing different types...

Visio 2003 Bible

• ISBN:
• 0764557246
• Authors:
• Bonnie Biafore

* Providing comprehensive coverage of Visio's large feature set for technical and engineering professionals, the book begins with a quick introduction to the intuitive interface * This book quickly moves into the specialized stencils, shapes, and templates used in software and network design and documentation, engineering disciplines, and project management * Features strong coverage of Visio's tight integration with other Microsoft Office...

Staying with Conflict: A Strategic Approach to Ongoing Disputes

• ISBN:
• 0787997293
• Authors:
• Bernard Mayer

In this groundbreaking book, Bernard Mayer, a pioneer in the field of conflict resolution, offers a new paradigm for dealing with long-term disputes. Mayer explains that when dealing with enduring conflict, mediators and other conflict resolution specialists need to move past the idea of how quickly they can resolve the conflict. Instead, they should focus on how they can help people prepare to engage with an issue over time. Once their...

The Black Death (Great Historic Disasters)

• ISBN:
• 0791096491
• Authors:
• Louise Chipley Slavicek

In 1347, Europe was hit by the worst natural disaster in its recorded history: the Black Death. Now believed to be a combination of bubonic plague and two other rarer plague strains, the Black Death ravaged the continent for several terrible years before finally fading away in 1352. Most historians believe that the pandemic, which also swept across parts of Western Asia and North Africa, annihilated 33 to 60 percent of Europe's population -...

The Chemistry of Metal Alkoxides

• ISBN:
• 0792375211
• Authors:
• Nataliya Ya Turova, Vadim G. Kessler

The study of the chemistry of metal alkoxides, which began more than 100 years ago, is now experiencing a renaissance due to the broad application of these compounds as molecular precursors in the synthesis of advanced technological materials based on simple and complex oxides. The solution of this problem is occupying a wide circle of inorganic chemists, technologists specializing in fine synthesis in nonaqueous media, and those working on the...

Leadership Secrets of the World's Most Successful CEOs: 100 Top Executives Reveal the Management Strategies That Made Their Companies Great

• ISBN:
• 0793180619
• Authors:
• Eric Yaverbaum

Who knows what it really takes to be an effective leader in today's business world? The most successful CEOs do. They are the men and women who run the #1 or #2 corporation in their industry or market niche. Leadership is such a vital skill that four out of ten U.S. corporations now have some sort of formal leadership training program in place, says public relations executive Eric Yaverbaum. His new book, Leadership Secrets of the World's Most...

Kant's Intuitionism: A Commentary on the Transcendental Aesthetic (Toronto Studies in Philosophy)

• ISBN:
• 0802029736
• Authors:
• Lorne Falkenstein

Ever since the publication of his Critique of Pure Reason in 1781, Immanuel Kant has occupied a central position in the philosophical world. In Kant's Intuitionism ? the most detailed study of Kant's views on the opening sections of the Critique since Hans Vaihinger's Commentar zur Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft more than a century ago ? Lorne Falkenstein focuses on one aspect of Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic, namely, his position on how we...

Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'

• ISBN:
• 0804744262
• Authors:
• Theodor Adorno

Although he wrote monographs on Hegel, Husserl, and Kierkegaard, the closest Adorno came to an extended discussion of Kant are two lecture courses, one concentrating on the Critique of Pure Reason and the other on the Critique of Practical Reason . This new volume by Adorno comprises his lectures on the former.

Strategic Planning for Public Relations

• ISBN:
• 0805852395
• Authors:
• Ronald D. Smith

This innovative text offers a new way of understanding public relations and other types of strategic communication. Following the pragmatic, in-depth approach of the first edition, this text presents a step-by-step unfolding of the planning process most often used in public relations practice. Drawing from his experience in professional practice and in the classroom, author Ronald D. Smith walks readers through the critical steps for the...

Strategic Management: Awareness and Change

• ISBN:
• 1844800830
• Authors:
• John L. Thompson, Frank Martin

Strategic management 5e is essential reading for all students of strategy at undergraduate, diploma and MBA level. Structured around a traditional analysis, formulation and implementation framework, based on a mini-case approach, and supported by unrivalled supplementary resources, John Thompson's accessible text encourages students to think about strategy through the successes and failures of real companies. In addition, the unrivalled subject...

How to Turn Your Business into the Next Global Brand: Creating and Managing a Franchised Network

• ISBN:
• 1845282086
• Authors:
• Brian Duckett, Paul Monaghan

No matter how big a franchised network is now, it started with one outlet and the owner's unique vision. Even McDonalds and Burger King each had one restaurant, and Holiday Inn and Hilton each had one hotel. If you have a successful business format, and your own unique vision, you could be the next big brand - provided you follow the rules of ethical franchising. If you already own, or are helping to manage, a sole business or a franchised...

Designing with Video: Focusing the user-centred design process

• ISBN:
• 1846289602
• Authors:
• Salu Ylirisku, Jacob Buur

Digital video for user-centred co-design is an emerging field of design, gaining increasing interest in both industry and academia. It merges the traditions of design ethnography, participatory design, interaction analysis, scenario-based design, and usability studies into an integrated approach, which values the designer’s capacity to study and change the world creatively. Designing with Video: Focusing the User-centred Design Process...

Complex Systems Concurrent Engineering: Collaboration, Technology Innovation and Sustainability

• ISBN:
• 1846289750
• Authors:
• Geilson Loureiro

Concurrent engineering is well-established as an approach to engineer product parts. However, the concept has much broader application. Complex Systems Concurrent Engineering: Collaboration, Technology Innovation and Sustainability demonstrates how concurrent engineering can be used to benefit the development of complex systems, to produce results that sustain balanced stakeholder satisfaction over time. Gathered from the 14th ISPE International...

III-Nitride Devices and Nanoengineering

• ISBN:
• 1848162235
• Authors:
• Zhe Chuan Feng

Devices, nanoscale science and technologies based on GaN and related materials, have achieved great developments in recent years. New GaN-based devices such as UV detectors, fast p-HEMT and microwave devices are developed far more superior than other semiconductor materials-based devices. Written by renowned experts, the review chapters in this book cover the most important topics and achievements in recent years, discuss progress made by...

Predictive Functional Control: Principles and Industrial Applications (Advances in Industrial Control)

• ISBN:
• 1848824920
• Authors:
• Jacques Richalet, Donal O'Donovan

The demands of the modern economic climate have led to a dramatic increase in the industrial application of model-based predictive control techniques. In fact, apart from PID, predictive control is probably the most popular control approach in use today. The predictive functional control (PFC) technique was first used to develop a model-based predictive controller that was easy to understand, implement and tune from an instrumentation...

The Sacred Neuron: The Extraordinary New Discoveries Linking Science and Religion

• ISBN:
• 1850434816
• Authors:
• John W. Bowker

A new way of understanding our emotionsand faith W hy do we think that things happen in the way that they do? Or, that some things are beautiful, and other things ugly, some good, and others evil? In the past these questions have been answered by separating our emotional from our rational responses, but recent work in the neurosciences suggests that the questions now deserve very different answers. In his new book, John Bowker shows that reason...

Robust Control Design Using H Methods (Communications and Control Engineering Series)

• ISBN:
• 1852331712
• Authors:
• Ian R. Petersen, Valery A. Ugrinovskii, Andrey V. Savkin

This book provides a unified collection of important, recent results for the design of robust controllers for uncertain systems. Most of the results presented are based on H¿ control theory, or its stochastic counterpart, risk sensitive control theory. Central to the philosophy of the book is the notion of an uncertain system. Uncertain systems are considered using several different uncertainty modeling schemes. These include norm bounded...

From Knowledge Management to Strategic Competence: Measuring Technological, Market And Organisational Innovation (Series on Technology Management)

• ISBN:
• 1860946380

The business and academic communities continue to have an interest in the concepts of knowledge management and strategic competencies or core capabilities. This book attempts to establish the links between strategic competencies, knowledge management, organisational learning and innovation - specifically, how an organisation identifies, assesses and exploits its competencies, and translates these into new processes, products and services. The...

Successful Strategy Execution: How to Keep Your Business Goals on Target (Economist Books)

• ISBN:
• 1861978944
• Authors:
• Michel Syrett

This title in "The Economist" series illustrates how businesses can implement goals and strategies effectively. Syrett shows managers how to close the strategy-to-performance gap by improving communications, managing resources and information, and instilling accountability.

Geodynamic Evolution of East Antarctica - Special Publication no 308 (Geological Society Special Publication) (No.308)

• ISBN:
• 1862392684
• Authors:
• M. Satish-Kumar, Y. Motoyoshi, Y. Osanai, Y. Hiroi, K. Shiraishi

Geological correlations of East Antarctica with adjoining continents have been puzzling geologists ever since the concept of a Gondwana supercontinent surfaced. Despite the paucity of outcrops because of ice cover, difficulty of access and extreme weather, the past 50 years of Japanese Antarctic Research Expeditions (JARE) has successfully revealed vital elements of the geology of East Antarctica. This volume presents reviews and new research...

Forrest Mims Engineer's Notebook

• ISBN:
• 1878707035
• Authors:
• Forrest Mims

The book features: carefully hand-drawn circuit illustrations hundreds of fully tested circuits tutorial on electronics basics tips on part substitutions, design modifications, and circuit operation All covering the following areas: Review of the Basics Digital Integrated Circuits MOS/CMOS Integrated Circuits TTL/LS Integrated Circuits Linear Integrated Circuits Index of Integrated Circuits Index of Circuit Applications

Meet Me in the Parking Lot

• ISBN:
• 1894663616
• Authors:
• Alexandra Leggat

Meet Me in the Parking Lot—Alexandra Leggat’s stylish successor to her acclaimed collection of short fiction Pull Gently, Tear Here (Insomniac, 2001)—is a foray into the rocky terrain of the troubled mind. In more than fulfilling the promise of her first collection, Leggat ups the ante to explore all aspects of the ambulatory: the vehicle that brings us into the world, the vehicle we get around in while here, and the vehicle that often...

Happy Pilgrims

• ISBN:
• 1895837596
• Authors:
• Stephen Finucan

A remarkable debut from a truly promising young writer. In twelve rich short stories that move from small-town life to old-time Hollywood, from devotion in a tiny Irish parish to the three-ring piety of Lourdes, Stephen Finucan makes a startling appearance in American literature. His vibrant characters face poignant battles with religion, courage and daily life. In these worlds, subtle gestures and minor events can suddenly turn lives in exactly...

Pink Icing and Other Stories

• ISBN:
• 1897178328
• Authors:
• Pamela Mordecai

Pamela Mordecai draws delicately detailed portraits of life in Jamaica and other islands, with occasional trips to Canada. Her characters speak with the cadences of the Caribbean and cope with the universal experiences of birth and death, joy and betrayal. Mordecai turns a sharp ear to the nuances of everyday speech, exposing the currents beneath the calm exterior and producing complex tales that will challenge and entertain her readers. Pamela...

Sexy Shorts for the Beach (S.S. Charity)

• ISBN:
• 1905170246
• Authors:
• Loosmore

Short stories for your vacation

The Art of Negotiating: How to Become a Skilled Negotiator

• ISBN:
• 1931056412
• Authors:
• Gerard I. Nierenberg

Gerard I. Nierenberg calls negotiating an art. And as a world-renowned negotiator, he should know. The Financial Times of Canada referred to him as the "American Negotiation Guru," the Wall Street Journal observed that he makes a profession of convincing adversaries that nobody has to lose, and the editors of Fortune wrote that he "discovered the depth of interest in negotiating some years ago." "Whenever people exchange ideas with the intention...

Equations of State And Pvt Analysis

• ISBN:
• 1933762039
• Authors:
• Tarek Ahmed

This title covers a wide range of topics related to the Pressure Volume Temperature (PVT) behavior of complex hydrocarbon systems and documents the ability of Equations of State (EOS) in modeling their behavior. The main objective of this book is to provide the practicing engineer and engineering student with tools needed to solve problems that require a description of the PVT of hydrocarbon systems from their compositions. Because of the...

Control Valve Primer, 4th Edition: A User's Guide

• ISBN:
• 1934394505
• Authors:
• Hans D. Baumann

Includes insights on valve sizing, smart (digital) valve positioners, field-based architecture, network system technology, and control loop performance evaluation. The author, a holder of more than 150 patents and author of over a hundred publications in control valve technology, shares his expertise on designing control loops and selecting final control elements. The easy-to-read text provides shortcuts through complex sizing and noise...

Introduction to Simulink with Engineering Applications, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 1934404098
• Authors:
• Steven Karris

An introductory text on Simulink to provide a complete reference on the subject. Contains a plethora of examples with step-by-step solutions. Includes background information for students and working professionals who may not be familiar with certain topics. For additional information. please visit the Orchard Publications site.

Sport Aerodynamics (CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences)

• ISBN:
• 3211892966

In sport disciplines such as running, ice skating, bicycling and cross-country skiing the aerodynamic drag force constitutes the major obstacle to overcome. Furthermore, in ski jumping and in various activities involving a ball the aerodynamic lift force comes in addition into action. This book describes the various sport disciplines on the basis of aerodynamic analysis and also cover the biomechanics part by illustrative performance examples....

Electronic Materials: The Oligomer Approach

• ISBN:
• 3527294384

This is the first book written on this important and rapidly expanding field. It offers researchers a primary resource in which to critically assess the value, and put to use oligomers in their own research and development. The approach of this book is interdisciplinary.

Handbook of Oligo- and Polythiophenes

• ISBN:
• 3527294457

This first concise handbook on this important new class of organic conducting materials gives a broad survey over this emerging field of research. The physical background is covered as well as the synthesis, electronic and nonlinear optical properties and applications of these advanced materials. This information will be of high value for graduate students, researchers and practitioners working in the interdisciplinary field of materials...

Handbook of Cellular Metals: Production, Processing, Applications

• ISBN:
• 3527303391

The past few years have seen an increasing interest in porous metallic materials, especially in foams made of aluminum or aluminum alloys. The stimulus for this lies in recent process developments which promise materials with better quality and lower cost. Moreover, the environment for the application of new materials has greatly changed. Nowadays higher demands for passenger safety in automobiles or for easy materials recycling make metal foams...

Value Creation: Strategies for the Chemical Industry

• ISBN:
• 3527312668

Written by a global team of top managers and senior McKinsey experts, this expanded and completely revised second edition provides a wide-ranging manual on the subject of value creation in the chemical industry. Drawing on extensive first-hand management experience, several hundred consulting engagements, and in-depth research projects, the authors outline the key ingredients for managing chemical companies successfully. The book addresses in...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Ischemic Stroke (Medical Radiology / Diagnostic Imaging)

• ISBN:
• 3540008616

The imaging of stroke has undergone significant changes owing to the rapid progress in imaging technology. This volume, comprising three parts, is designed to provide a comprehensive summary of the current role of MR imaging in patients with ischemic stroke. The first part outlines the clinical presentations of stroke and discusses the diagnostic efficacy and therapeutic impact of MR imaging. The second and third parts form the core of the...

Advanced Microsystems Automotive Applications 2004

• ISBN:
• 3540205861
• Authors:
• Jnrgen Valldorf

Microsystems applications (MST) in automobiles have become commonplace: they enable the introduction of a series of new functions and at the same time the replacement of existing technologies offering improved performance and better value for money. Microsystems are indispensable for fulfilling a complete transition from the mechanically driven automobile system to a mechanically based but ICT-driven system as part of a likewise complex...

Shape and Functional Elements of the Bulk Silicon Microtechnique: A Manual of Wet-Etched Silicon Structures

• ISBN:
• 3540221093
• Authors:
• Joachim Frühauf

This manual presents a survey of the form-related and functional elements of the bulk silicon microtechnique. A systematic description of simple shape elements and of elements for mechanical, fluidic and optical applications is given. It includes practical instructions for the use of the relevant techniques and an extensive collection of examples for the support of the search for applications via photographs, drawings and references. Especially...

Basics of Aerothermodynamics (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics)

• ISBN:
• 3540221328
• Authors:
• Ernst H. Hirschel

The basics of aerothermodynamics are treated in this book with special regard to the fact that outer surfaces of hypersonic vehicles primarily are radiation cooled. The implications of this fact are different for different vehicle classes. In any case the properties of both attached viscous and separated flows are of importance in this regard. After a discussion of flight environment and transport phenomena in general, the most important...

Energy Dissipation in Molecular Systems

• ISBN:
• 3540250506
• Authors:
• André Tramer, Christian Jungen, Françoise Lahmani

Energy Dissipation in Molecular Systems analyzes experimental data on the redistribution and dissipation of energy injected into molecular systems by radiation or charged particles. These processes, competing with such practically important relaxation channels as chemical reaction or stimulated emission (laser action), are the primary focus in this monograph. Among other topics, the book treats vibrational redistribution and electronic...

Immobilienmanagement im Lebenszyklus: Projektentwicklung, Projektmanagement, Facility Management, Immobilienbewertung (German Edition)

• ISBN:
• 3540255095
• Authors:
• Claus Jürgen Diederichs

Immobilienmanagement im Lebenszyklus ist für Immobilien und die öffentliche Infrastruktur in Deutschland und international das Gebot der Stunde. Die Immobilienwirtschaft hat maßgeblichen Anteil an der Bruttowertschöpfung. Fast jeder zehnte Beschäftigte ist in dieser Branche tätig. Sie erfordert jedoch eine kompetenz- und phasenübergreifende Professionalisierung durch das Zusammenwirken von Technik, Wirtschaft, Recht und Öffentlicher...

Fringe 2005: The 5th International Workshop on Automatic Processing of Finge Patterns

• ISBN:
• 3540260374

The purpose of the Fringe Proceedings is to present to engineers, scientists and industrial experts the state-of-the-art and the impact of Computer aided Evaluation in Structured Light Techniques, Holographic Interferometry, Classic Interferometry, Speckle Metrology, Moiré and Grid Techniques for Stress Analysis, Nondestructive Testing, Shape Measurement, Fault Detection, Quality Control and related fields. Topics of particular interest are: ...

Heat and Mass Transfer

• ISBN:
• 3540295267
• Authors:
• Hans Dieter Baehr, Karl Stephan

This comprehensive presentation of the whole field of heat and mass transfer makes the reader familar with the fundamentals and enables him to solve practical problems. The basic theory is developed systematically, and the solution methods to all important problems are covered in detail. Therefore, this book will be useful not only to students, but likewise to scientists and practising engineers. All areas of heat and mass transfer are dealt...

Intelligent Organizations: Powerful Models for Systemic Management

• ISBN:
• 3540298762
• Authors:
• Markus Schwaninger

This book offers an innovative approach to overcome the crisis of management in the face of complexity. The systems approach to management will help to develop the new kind of intelligent organizations so urgently needed. This approach is a powerful tool, grounded in organizational cybernetics and systems dynamics. The approach will allow managers and advanced students of management cope with organizational complexity in an effective way. The...

Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2006 (VDI-Buch)

• ISBN:
• 3540334092

Looking back 10 years when the International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Application (AMAA) started, enormous progress has been made in reducing casualties, emissions and in increasing comfort and performance. Microsystems in many cases provided the key functions for this progress. Although the issues the event concentrated on didn’t change significantly (safety, powertrain, comfort, etc.), considerable shifts of...

CAx für Ingenieure: Eine praxisbezogene Einführung (German Edition)

• ISBN:
• 3540360387
• Authors:
• Sandor Vajna, Christian Weber, Helmut Bley, Klaus Zeman

Dieses gut eingeführte Buch vermittelt die Grundlagen von CAx-Systemen und bietet einem breiten Leserkreis in knapper und übersichtlicher Form das Rüstzeug für die erfolgreiche Anwendung von CAx-Systemen. Die beschriebenen Vorgehensweisen und Beispiele basieren auf Erfahrungen in Industrie und Hochschulpraxis und haben dort ihre Effizienz bewiesen. Das Buch eignet sich für Bachelorstudenten der Ingenieurwissenschaften sowie für...

Quality Measures in Data Mining (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

• ISBN:
• 3540449116
• Authors:
• Fabrice Guillet

Data mining analyzes large amounts of data to discover knowledge relevant to decision making. Typically, numerous pieces of knowledge are extracted by a data mining system and presented to a human user, who may be a decision-maker or a data-analyst. The user is confronted with the task of selecting the pieces of knowledge that are of the highest quality or interest according to his or her preferences. Since this selection is sometimes a daunting...

Reliability Engineering: Theory and Practice

• ISBN:
• 3540493883
• Authors:
• Alessandro Birolini

This book shows how to build in, evaluate, and demonstrate reliability & availability of components, equipment, systems. It presents the state-of-the-art of reliability engineering, both in theory and practice, and is based on the author's 30 years experience in this field, half in industry and half as Professor of Reliability Engineering at the ETH, Zurich. The structure of the book allows rapid access to practical results. Besides extensions...

Akustische Grundlagen sprachlicher Kommunikation (German Edition)

• ISBN:
• 3540499849
• Authors:
• Hans Lazarus, Charlotte A. Sust, Rita Steckel, Marko Kulka, Patrick Kurtz

Ziel dieses Buches ist es über die Akustik hinaus einen Leserkreis unterschiedlicher Interessen und Berufsgruppen wie Ergonomen, Psychologen, Mediziner, Architekten, Medienexperten in die Diskussion über die Sprachkommunikation aus wissenschaftlicher und angewandter Sicht einzuführen und Hinweise für eine optimale Gestaltung zu geben. Viele akustische Aspekte der sprachlichen Kommunikation, insbesondere wenn sie durch Geräusche, Nachhall...

Intelligent Freight Transportation (Automation and Control Engineering)

• ISBN:
• 0849307708
• Authors:
• Petros A. Ioannou

With contributions from experts, this book presents techniques and technologies to boost capacity, reduce cost, and improve efficiency transportation systems. It discusses ports and container terminals, how they interact with surface transportation, and related security issues. It covers fully automated containers, explains cost and performance analysis, and examines new strategies for empty container reuse, truck routing, and dispatching to...

Traumatic Brain Injury: Methods for Clinical and Forensic Neuropsychiatric Assessment

• ISBN:
• 0849314291
• Authors:
• Robert P. Granacher Jr.

Numerous books exist on traumatic brain injury, yet none comprehensively cover evaluation from both clinical and forensic standpoints. Traumatic Brain Injury: Methods for Clinical and Forensic Neuropsychiatric Assessment is the first medical book to guide treatment practitioners not only in methods for evaluating traumatic brain injury in adults and children, but also in the important elements of forensic brain injury assessment.From the...

25 Role Plays to Teach Negotiation, Vol. 2

• ISBN:
• 0874257638
• Authors:
• Ira Asherman, Sandy Asherman

Includes FREE CD with 25 role plays from the popular first volume—50 total role plays! Updated with 25 new role plays not covered in the first volume, the latest edition of the popular 25 Role Plays to Teach Negotiation will inspire you to think and act like a negotiation expert. If you’re a management training and development specialist who needs one or two role-plays to use in a negotiation program, this book’s a must. The book provides...

Vibration Monitoring, Testing, and Instrumentation (Mechanical Engineering Series)

• ISBN:
• 1420053191

Controlling a system's vibrational behavior, whether for reducing harmful vibrations or for enhancing useful types, is critical to ensure safe and economical operation as well as longer structural and equipment lifetimes. A related issue is the effect of vibration on humans and their environment. Achieving control of vibration requires thorough understanding of system behavior, and Vibration Monitoring, Testing, and Instrumentation provides a...

Getting to Scale: Growing Your Business Without Selling Out

• ISBN:
• 1576754162
• Authors:
• Jill Bamburg

Renowned academic and businesswoman Jill Bamburg shows how mission-driven entrepreneurs can preserve the values of their company while maintaining their growth and competitiveness in the marketplace. Through lessons and stories readers learn how to build growth businesses that can be successful and economically significant in the competitive marketplace. They will learn how their businesses can be strong global competitors without becoming bad...

The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die

• ISBN:
• 1576754758
• Authors:
• John B. Izzo

What are the secrets to finding happiness? Why do some people live well and die happy? John Izzo asked thousands of people to identify the 'wisest' person they knew. The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die shares what he learned from over 200 people aged 60-106 whom others said had found the meaning in life. From town barbers to Holocaust survivors, from aboriginal chiefs to CEO's, these people had over 18,000 years of life experience....

The Assessment Book: Applied Strategic Thinking and Performance Improvement Through Self-Assessments

• ISBN:
• 1599961288
• Authors:
• Roger Kaufman, Ph.D & Ingrid Guerra-Lopez, Ph. D.

Individuals, teams and organizations make decisions everyday intended to improve performance. But, too often, they rush into finding the solution before defining the problem. This book contains seven self-assessments designed to help you define the issue of what to accomplish before deciding how to accomplish it. With these seven assessments, you can collect, analyze and interpret the data necessary to confirm your suspicions before making...

Robot Motion and Control: Recent Developments (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences)

• ISBN:
• 184628404X

Robot Motion and Control presents very recent results in robot motion and control. Twenty papers have been chosen and expanded from fifty-three presented at the Fourth International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control held in Poland in June 2004. The authors of these papers have been carefully selected and represent leading institutions in this field. The following recent developments are discussed: Design of trajectory planning schemes for...

Process Planning and Scheduling for Distributed Manufacturing (Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing)

• ISBN:
• 1846287510

The process planning and scheduling issues of intelligent and distributed manufacturing are crucial nowadays due to the need for enterprises to be adaptive, re-configurable, collaborative and flexible enough to support the emergence of worldwide competition and dynamic and mass-customized markets. With this increasing dynamism of decentralized manufacturing systems and processes, more effective and efficient decision-making techniques are...

3D Manufacturing Innovation: Revolutionary Change in Japanese Manufacturing with Digital Data

• ISBN:
• 1848000375
• Authors:
• Hiroshi Toriya

3D design is now a key technology for effective collaboration between manufacturing companies. Since the introduction of light-weight 3D data technology, "post-3D CAD/CAM/CAE data" is now compatible for use across manufacturing, sales and marketing processes. The successful use of 3D data throughout such processes has become indispensable for the competitive strength of companies in the manufacturing industry. For a company to survive and win...

Identification of Continuous-time Models from Sampled Data (Advances in Industrial Control)

• ISBN:
• 1848001606

System identification is an established field in the area of system analysis and control. It aims to determine particular models for dynamical systems based on observed inputs and outputs. Although dynamical systems in the physical world are naturally described in the continuous-time domain, most system identification schemes have been based on discrete-time models without concern for the merits of natural continuous-time model descriptions. The...

Advanced Methods in Material Forming

• ISBN:
• 3540698442
• Authors:
• Dorel Banabic

The book contains the most relevant papers presented in the International Conference on Materials Forming, ESAFORM 2005. The list below presents some of the most successful minisymposia of the conference: -New and advanced numerical strategies in forming process simulation; -Sheet metal forming technologies and modeling; -Anisotropy and formability of materials; -Polymer processing and modeling; -Composite forming technologies and modeling;...

Synchronization: From Simple to Complex (Springer Series in Synergetics)

• ISBN:
• 3540721274
• Authors:
• Alexander Balanov, Natalia Janson, Dmitry Postnov, Olga Sosnovtseva

Synchronization: From Simple to Complex  is devoted to the fundamental phenomenon in physics – synchronization that occurs in coupled non-linear dissipative oscillators. Examples of such systems range from mechanical clocks to population dynamics, from human heart to neural networks. The authors study this phenomenon as applied to oscillations of different nature such as those with periodic, chaotic, noisy and noise-induced nature, reveal the...

Structural Complexity Management: An Approach for the Field of Product Design

• ISBN:
• 3540878882
• Authors:
• Udo Lindemann, Maik Maurer, Thomas Braun

Product design is characterized by a steady increase in complexity. The main focus of this book is a structural approach on complexity management. This means, system structures are considered in order to address the challenge of complexity in all aspects of product design. Structures arise from the complex dependencies of system elements. Thus, the identification of system structures provides access to the understanding of system behavior in...

Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development: Third International Conference, SEAFOOD 2009, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2-3, 2009, ... Notes in Business Information Processing)

• ISBN:
• 3642029868

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development, SEAFOOD 2009, held in Zurich, Switzerland, July 2-3, 2009. The 13 papers presented together with two keynote speeches were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The areas covered include industry challenges and best practices in offshore software development, measurement and...

The Man Who Ran Away And Other Stories of Trinidad in the 1920s And 1930s

• ISBN:
• 976640173X
• Authors:
• Alfred Hubert Mendes

Alfred H. Mendes was a member of the Beacon group of writers in Trinidad in the 1930s and friend and colleague of C.L.R. James and Ralph de Boissiere. He was a prolific writer, with a distinctive and engaging voice, and he wrote a significant number of short stories, many of which have never been published and most of which were written between 1920 and 1940. "The Man Who Ran Away" is a collection of twelve stories with an introduction and short...

The Care and Feeding of Unmarried Men

• ISBN:
• 0060763507
• Authors:
• Christie Ridgway

Page Four asks: Which Palm Springs party girl has been caught canoodling with an out-of-town "Adam"? Eve Caruso keeps her finger on the pulse of Palm Springs and reports every spicy celebrity tidbit to her loyal readers. She knows everyone in this town— except that mysterious hunk who just strolled into the exclusive spa where she's conferring with hot new starlet Jemima Cargill. Nash Cargill—nicknamed "The Preacher" by all his rowdy...

Mathematical and Physical Simulation of the Properties of Hot Rolled Products

• ISBN:
• 0080427014
• Authors:
• M. Pietrzyk, L. Cser, J.G. Lenard

The objective of this publication is to comprehensively discuss the possibilities of producing steels with pre-determined attributes, demanded by the customer to fit exacting specifications. The information presented in the book has been designed to indicate the reasons for the expenses and to aid in the process of overcoming the difficulties and reducing the costs. In nine detailed chapters, the authors cover topics including: • steel as a...

Tourism Demand Modelling and Forecasting: Modern Econometric Approaches (Advances in Tourism Research)

• ISBN:
• 0080436730

The phenomenal growth of both the world-wide tourism industry and academic interest in tourism over the last thirty years has generated great interest in tourism demand modelling and forecasting from both sectors. However, the tendency for researchers and practitioners engaged in quantitative causal tourism modelling and forecasting to run many regression equations and try to choose the 'best' model based on various parametric and non-parametric...

Advanced Fluid Mechanics

• ISBN:
• 0123708850
• Authors:
• William Graebel

Fluid mechanics is the study of how fluids behave and interact under various forces and in various applied situations, whether in liquid or gas state or both. The author compiles pertinent information that are introduced in the more advanced classes at the senior level and at the graduate level. "Advanced Fluid Mechanics" courses typically cover a variety of topics involving fluids in various multiple states (phases), with both elastic and...

Micro Fuel Cells: Principles and Applications

• ISBN:
• 0123747139

Today's consumers of portable electronics consumers are demanding devices not only deliver more power but also work healthy for the environment. This fact alone has lead major corporations like Intel, BIC, Duracell and Microsoft to believe that Microfuel Cells could be the next-generation power source for electronic products. Compact and readable, Microfuels Principles and Applications, offers engineers and product designers a reference...

Modeling for All Scales: An Introduction to System Simulation

• ISBN:
• 0125241704
• Authors:
• Howard T. Odum, Elisabeth C. Odum

All manner of models are used to describe, simulate, extrapolate, and ultimately understand the function of dynamic systems. These sorts of models are usually based upon a mathematical foundation that can be difficult to manipulate especially for students. Modeling for All Scales uses object-oriented programming to erect and evaluate the efficacy of models of small, intermediate and large scale systems. Such models allow users to employ...

The Paradox of Subjectivity: The Self in the Transcendental Tradition

• ISBN:
• 0195126904
• Authors:
• David Carr

Challenging prevailing interpretations of the development of modern philosophy, this book proposes a reinterpretation of the transcendental tradition, as represented primarily by Kant and Husserl, and counters Heidegger's influential reading of these philosophers. Author David Carr defends their subtle and complex transcendental investigations of the self and the life of subjectivity, and seeks to revive an understanding of what Husserl calls...

Kant and the Empiricists: Understanding Understanding

• ISBN:
• 0195177398
• Authors:
• Wayne Waxman

Wayne Waxman here presents an ambitious and comprehensive attempt to link the philosophers of what are known as the British Empiricists--Locke, Berkeley, and Hume--to the philosophy of German philosopher Immanuel Kant. Much has been written about all these thinkers, who are among the most influential figures in the Western tradition. Waxman argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, Kant is actually the culmination of the British empiricist...

Kant and the Historical Turn: Philosophy As Critical Interpretation

• ISBN:
• 0199205337
• Authors:
• Karl Ameriks

Immanuel Kant's work changed the course of modern philosophy; Karl Ameriks examines how. He compares the philosophical system set out in Kant's Critiques with the work of the major philosophers before and after Kant. Individual essays provide case studies in support of Ameriks's thesis that late 18th-century reactions to Kant initiated an "historical turn," after which historical and systematic considerations became joined in a way that...

Agency and Autonomy in Kant's Moral Theory: Selected Essays

• ISBN:
• 0199288828
• Authors:
• Andrews Reath

Andrews Reath presents a selection of his best essays on various features of Kant's moral psychology and moral theory, with particular emphasis on his conception of rational agency and his conception of autonomy. Together the essays articulate Reath's original approach to Kant's views about human autonomy, which explains Kant's belief that objective moral requirements are based on principles we choose for ourselves. With two new papers, and...

Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management: Organizing for Innovation and Growth

• ISBN:
• 019954512X
• Authors:
• David J. Teece

How do firms compete? How do firms earn above normal returns? What's needed to sustain superior performance long term? An increasingly powerful answer to these fundamental questions of business strategy lies in the concept of dynamic capabilities. These are the skills, processes, routines, organizational structures, and disciplines that enable firms to build, employ, and orchestrate intangible assets relevant to satisfying customer needs, and...

Imagination in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (Studies in Continental Thought)

• ISBN:
• 025334641X
• Authors:
• Bernard Freydberg

With particular focus on imagination, Bernard Freydberg presents a close reading of Kant’s second critique, The Critique of Practical Reason. In an interpretation that is daring as well as rigorous, Freydberg reveals imagination as both its central force and the bridge that links Kant’s three critiques. Freydberg’s reading offers a powerful challenge to the widespread view that Kant’s ethics calls for rigid, self-denying obedience. Here,...

The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

• ISBN:
• 0262062542

The contributions of Kantian thought to modern mathematics, mathematical logic, and the foundations of mathematics are now widely acknowledged by scholars. As the essays in this volume show, the general development of modern scientific thought—including the physical sciences, the life sciences, and mathematics—can be viewed as an evolution from Kant through Poincaré to Einstein and the logical positivists and beyond. Focusing on...

Unshrink: Yourself, Other People, Business, the World

• ISBN:
• 0273656147
• Authors:
• Max McKeown, Philip Whiteley

"Interdependence is ten times more challenging than independence, but it is the only viable long-term solution for effectiveness in our relationships at work and at home. This is brilliantly illustrated in Unshrink." Dr Stephen Covey, author, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Unshrink is the book that exposes the deep-seated myths that keep people and businesses from fulfilling their potential and replaces them with a set of principles...

Marketing Judo: Building Your Business Using Brains Not Budget

• ISBN:
• 027366316X
• Authors:
• John Barnes, Richard Richardson

"I strongly advise anybody wanting to start up their own business to read Marketing Judo" Sir John Harvey-Jones Marketing Judo aims to inspire people who want to build a brand or business but don't have the budgets for conventional marketing. That's the position the authors found themselves in when they bought the one Harry Ramsden's fish and chip restaurant in Yorkshire over ten years ago. They fell into a way of thinking, which they now call...

Giovanna's 86 Circles: And Other Stories (Library of American Fiction)

• ISBN:
• 0299212807
• Authors:
• Paola Corso

    These ten magical stories are primarily set in Pittsburgh-area river towns, where Italian American women and girls draw from their culture and folklore to bring life and a sense of wonder to a seemingly barren region of the Rust Belt. Each story catapults the ordinary into something original and unpredictable.     A skeptical journalist scopes out the bar where the town mayor, in seemingly perfect health, is drinking with his buddies...

The Flight of the Condor: Stories of Violence and War from Colombia (THE AMERICAS)

• ISBN:
• 0299223647

After decades of violence of all kinds, what remains are the stories. History is revised and debated, its protagonists bear witness, its writers ensure that all the suffering has not been in vain. These stories from Colombia contain pain and love, and sometimes even humor, allowing us to see an utterly vibrant and pulsating country amidst so much death and loss. We encounter townspeople overcome by fear, a man begging unsuccessfully for his...

Environmental Noise Barriers 2E: A Guide To Their Acoustic and Visual Design

• ISBN:
• 0415437083
• Authors:
• Benz Kotzen, Colin English

Environmental Noise Barriers is a unique one-stop reference for practitioners, whether acoustical engineers, landscape architects or manufacturers, and for highways departments in local and central authorities. This extensively revised new edition is updated in line with UK and EU legislation and international provision of barriers.

DNA Interactions with Polymers and Surfactants

• ISBN:
• 0470258187

Due to the potential benefits of biotechnology, interest in the interaction between DNA and surfactants and polymers has become increasingly significant. Now, DNA Interactions with Polymers and Surfactants provides an extensive, up-to-date overview of the subject, giving readers a basis for understanding the factors leading to complexation between DNA and different cosolutes, including metal ions, polyelectrolytes, spermine, spermidine,...

SolidWorks 2009 Bible

• ISBN:
• 047025825X

SolidWorks Bible is a comprehensive reference-tutorial that covers the basics, but then quickly ramps up to more advanced level topics. Every feature is thoroughly covered yet written in a way that makes learning this robust program seem non-threatening and uncomplicated. In a market full of books for beginners this is the one book that goes into extensive detail, not just on "how" the software works, but in many cases "why" it works the way it...

Outpacing the Competition: Patent-Based Business Strategy

• ISBN:
• 0470390859
• Authors:
• Robert L. Cantrell

Praise for Outpacing the Competition Patent-Based Business Strategy "Outpacing the Competition provides a useful IP management framework for rapidly evolving and inherently unpredictable R&D environments where companies are partners, customers, and competitors at the same time." –Marshall Phelps, Corporate Vice President for IP Policy & Strategy, Microsoft "Robert Cantrell's book Outpacing the Competition: Patent-Based Business Strategy?should...

The Impossible Advantage: Winning the Competitive Game by Changing the Rules

• ISBN:
• 0470717122
• Authors:
• Wolfram Wördemann, Andreas Buchholz, Ned Wiley

Conventional business strategies tell you that differentiation, the right positioning, and defining your superior edge will turn you into the ‘best player’ in your market – but this is wrong. The Impossible Advantage reveals that success can be achieved by changing the market in which you operate, rather than trying to beat the competition.  The authors illustrate that the biggest, most spectacular and groundbreaking business success...

Global IT Management: A Practical Approach

• ISBN:
• 0470854332
• Authors:
• Robert Barton

Global IT Management presents a practical approach for initiating and reinforcing global IT, focusing on the mechanisms that need to be put in place to effectively manage IT architecture, strategy, standards, and control across sites in a multinational firm. Key considerations are explained for each domain together with concrete recommendations for core organisation, processes and deliverables. The approach fits cleanly into established best...

Theories and Applications of Plate Analysis: Classical Numerical and Engineering Methods

• ISBN:
• 0471429899
• Authors:
• Rudolph Szilard

This book by a renowned structural engineer offers comprehensive coverage of both static and dynamic analysis of plate behavior, including classical, numerical, and engineering solutions. It contains more than 100 worked examples showing step by step how the various types of analysis are performed.

Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy

• ISBN:
• 0521862019

This volume explores the relationship between Kant's aesthetic theory and his critical epistemology as articulated in the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of the Power of Judgment. The essays, written specially for this volume, revise our understanding of core elements of Kant's epistemology, such as his notions of discursive understanding, experience, and objective judgment. They also demonstrate a rich grasp of Kant's critical...

Introduction to Structural Dynamics (Cambridge Aerospace Series)

• ISBN:
• 0521865743
• Authors:
• Bruce K. Donaldson

This textbook provides the student of aerospace, civil, and mechanical engineering with all the fundamentals of linear structural dynamics analysis. It is designed for an advanced undergraduate or first year graduate course. This textbook is a departure from the usual presentation in two important respects. First, descriptions of system dynamics are based on the simpler to use Lagrange equations. Second, no organizational distinctions are made...

Innovating at the Edge

• ISBN:
• 0750655194
• Authors:
• Tim Jones

All organizations who are looking to improve performance through embracing new ideas, work in new ways, create new products and services, challenge the status quo or redefine their existing business environment have much to gain from this book. 'Innovating at the Edge' not only provides readers with an informed understanding of the latest developments in innovation practice but also presents them with the bigger picture. This enables them to...

Complete PCB Design Using OrCAD Capture and PCB Editor

• ISBN:
• 0750689714
• Authors:
• Kraig Mitzner

This book provides instruction on how to use the OrCAD design suite to design and manufacture printed circuit boards. The primary goal is to show the reader how to design a PCB using OrCAD Capture and OrCAD Editor. Capture is used to build the schematic diagram of the circuit, and Editor is used to design the circuit board so that it can be manufactured. The book is written for both students and practicing engineers who need in-depth instruction...