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Touch of Class: Learning to Program Well with Objects and Contracts

Springer, 2009

From object technology pioneer and ETH Zurich professor Bertrand Meyer, winner of the Jolt award and the ACM Software System Award, a revolutionary textbook that makes learning programming fun and rewarding. Meyer builds his presentation on a rich object-oriented software system supporting graphics and multimedia, which students can use to produce...

Ubiquitous Cardiology: Emerging Wireless Telemedical Applications (Premier Reference Source)

Medical Information Science Reference, 2009

The Internet and other technological developments are now playing increasing roles in consumer health and the delivery of health services.

Ubiquitous Cardiology: Emerging Wireless Telemedical Applications provides developmental solutions and explanations for cardiovascular diagnostics. Useful to field researchers, academicians,...

Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New Century

National Academy Press, 2003

This report is the result of a study encompassing astrophysical phenomena that give insight into fundamental physics, as well as fundamental physics relevant to understanding astrophysical phenomena, and the structure and evolution of the universe. Includes color illustrations. Softcover.

The fall 1999 meeting of the National...

Strained Hydrocarbons: Beyond the van't Hoff and Le Bel Hypothesis

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

In clearly structured chapters, this book covers the fascinating world of hydrocarbons, providing an insight into the fundamental principles of chemistry. The monograph covers modern aspects of the topic, such as carbon nanotubes, molecular flask inclusion, and fullerenes, with new synthetic procedures for the build up of the structural lattice...

Open Source Leadership

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

'Why do we have so many theories of leadership? Because none of them work very well all of the time. For 70 years we have spewed out content leadership theories. In the new digital world of the twenty-first century we need a new leadership theory. This is it! Open Source Leadership is a process theory ruled by attention, awareness, intention!and,...

Oh. My. Gods.

Dutton Juvenile, 2008

The story is part "Harry Potter," part Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief and part shojo, and it will keep teens, particularly girls, reading. -- School Library Journal

The mythological concept elevates the usual high-school dramas...to new heights. Funny and light, this tale is a romance of Olympian proportions. --...

Entrepreneurship Three Volumes: The Engine of Growth (Praeger Perspectives) (v. 1-3)

Praeger Publishers, 2006

“This three-volume set brings together 32 essays exploring the topic of entrepreneurship. The first volume explores entrepreneurship as a form of human action, examining the influence of various factors on entrepreneurial behavior, including cognition, risk, social capital, institutions, immigration and ethnicity, and gender. The second...

Emerging Environmental Technologies

Springer, 2008

With increasing attention being paid to the changing environment and the underlining reasons from the change, scientists are working at a faster pace to invent technologies that could have a positive impact. This book exclusively focuses on the technologies that would be in the forefront in near to far future. Each and every article in the book is...

Cultural Mythology and Global Leadership

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009

`This fascinating collection of local mythology shows how widely leadership models differ across nations, and how deeply these differences are rooted. True global leadership is based on empathy with local variety.'
- Geert Hofstede, Maastricht University, The Netherlands, author of Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors,...

Image Processing of Edge and Surface Defects: Theoretical Basis of Adaptive Algorithms with Numerous Practical Applications

Springer, 2009

The edge and surface inspection is one of the most important and most challenging tasks in quality assessment in industrial production. Typical defects are cracks, inclusions, pores, surface flakings, partial or complete tears of material surface and s.o. These defects can occur through defective source material or through extreme strain during...

Computational Framework for Knowledge: Integrated Behavior of Machines

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

"Intriguing . . . [filled with] new ideas about overarching intellectual themes that govern our technologies and our society."
”Nikil Jayant, Eminent Scholar, Georgia Research Alliance

"Dr. Ahamed is correct in observing that 'silicon and glass have altered the rhythm of mind' and that...

Coherent Behavior in Neuronal Networks (Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience)

Springer, 2009

Recent experimental research advances have led to increasingly detailed descriptions of how networks of interacting neurons process information. With these developments, it has become clear that dynamic network behaviors underlie information processing, and that the observed activity patterns cannot be fully explained by simple concepts such as...

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