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| | | | A Carrot a Day: A Daily Dose of Recognition for Your EmployeesFrom the bestselling authors of The 24-Carrot Manager comes a manager's handbook on motivating employees through praise and recognition. Employees fed a steady diet of carrots focus better on company goals. They spot new opportunities faster. They have longer employment life spans (translation: lower turnover). And they can lift companies higher... |
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Harnessing HibernateHarnessing Hibernate is an ideal introduction to the popular framework that lets Java developers work with information from a relational database easily and efficiently. Databases are a very different world than Java objects, and they often involve people with different skills and specializations. With Hibernate, bridging these two worlds is... | | Controlling Cholesterol For Dummies (Health & Fitness)
"the authors...know their stuff...the book is a fairly painless way to learn more about subjects you might rather avoid." -- Chicago Tribune, December 1, 2002
Need to get your cholesterol in check? You’ll find the latest information about cholesterol, including treatments, drug information, and... | | Understanding Complex Datasets: Data Mining with Matrix Decompositions
Many data-mining algorithms were developed for the world of business, for
example for customer relationship management. The datasets in this environment,
although large, are simple in the sense that a customer either did or
did not buy three widgets, or did or did not fly from Chicago to Albuquerque.
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Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, located in the western suburbs of Chicago, has stood at the frontier of high-energy physics for nearly forty years. Since 1972, when the laboratory’s original particle accelerator began producing the world’s highest-energy protons for research, the government-supported scientific ... | | The Edge of Infinity: Supermassive Black Holes in the Universe
This timely book is suitable for the general reader wishing to find answers to some of the intriguing questions now being asked about black holes. Although once recognized as the most destructive force in nature, following a cascade of astonishing discoveries, the opinion of supermassive black holes has undergone a dramatic shift. Astronomers... | | The Science of SupervillainsThe science behind the scoundrels we love to hate
From Spider-Man’s bionic archenemy, Dr. Octopus, to Superman’s nemesis, Lex Luthor, to the X-Men’s eternal rival, Magneto, comic book villains have kept us captivated for years---- not just by their diabolical talent for confounding our heroes, but also by their unrivaled... |
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