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slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations

O'Reilly, 2008

Presentations have become the de facto business communication tool. Companies are started, products are launched, climate systems are saved—possibly based on the quality of presentations. Likewise, ideas, endeavors, and even careers can be cut short due to ineffective communication. Out of the millions of presentations...

Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change (3 Volume Set)

Sage Publications, 2008

2008 Best Reference, Library Journal

“The impact of global warming is rapidly evolving. This valuable resource provides an excellent historical overview and framework of this topic and serves as a general resource for geography, oceanography, biology, climatology, history, and many other...

Frontiers of Statistical Decision Making and Bayesian Analysis: In Honor of James O. Berger

Springer, 2010

Research in Bayesian analysis and statistical decision theory is rapidly expanding and diversifying, making it increasingly more difficult for any single researcher to stay up to date on all current research frontiers. This book provides a review of current research challenges and opportunities. While the book can not exhaustively cover all...

Metrology in Industry: The Key for Quality

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

Metrology is an integral part of the structure of today’s world: navigation and telecommunications require highly accurate time and frequency standards; human health and safety relies on authoritative measurements in diagnosis and treatment, as does food production and trade; global climate studies also depend on reliable and consistent...

Visions of the Future: Chemistry and Life Science

Cambridge University Press, 2001

‘… you can’t deny the excitement the writers felt for what they are doing; and in these secular times such excitement must serve to replace the fear of the Lord as the beginning of wisdom.’?Sir Brian Pippard, Times Higher Education Supplement

‘I enjoyed these glimpses of what is going on and (always a good...

Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux, Second Edition (Scientific and Engineering Computation)

MIT Press, 2003

This how-to guide provides step-by-step instructions for building a Beowulf-type computer, including the physical elements that make up a clustered PC, the software required, and insights on how to organize the code to exploit parallelism.

Use of Beowulf clusters (collections of off-the-shelf commodity computers programmed to act in...

Innovation X: Why a Company's Toughest Problems Are Its Greatest Advantage

Jossey-Bass, 2010

A fresh approach to succeeding with innovation, grounded in insights about rapidly changing customers, competitors and technologies Written by a director at the award-winning global innovation firm frog design, this vital book shows business leaders and managers how to accomplish truly effective innovation in today's disruptive climate....

Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications (Chapman & Hall/Crc Computational Science Series)

CRC Press, 2007

Although the highly anticipated petascale computers of the near future will perform at an order of magnitude faster than today’s quickest supercomputer, the scaling up of algorithms and applications for this class of computers remains a tough challenge. From scalable algorithm design for massive concurrency toperformance analyses and...

PowerPoint 2013 Bible

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Master PowerPoint and improve your presentation skills withone book!

In today's business climate, you need to know PowerPoint insideand out, and that's not all. You also need to be able to make apresentation that makes an impact. From using sophisticatedtransitions and animation in your PowerPoint presentations...

Global Warming: The Complete Briefing

Cambridge University Press, 2009

John Houghton's market-leading textbook is now in full color and includes the latest IPCC findings, making it the definitive guide to climate change. Written for students across a wide range of disciplines, its simple, logical flow of ideas gives an invaluable grounding in the science and impacts of climate change and highlights the need for action...

The Galapagos Marine Reserve: A Dynamic Social-Ecological System (Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands)

Springer, 2014

This book focuses on how marine systems respond to natural and anthropogenic perturbations (ENSO, overfishing, pollution, tourism, invasive species, climate-change). Authors explain in their chapters how this information can guide management and conservation actions to help orient and better manage, restore and sustain the ecosystems services...

Developing International Software, Second Edition

Microsoft Press, 2002

I completed work on the first edition of Developing International Software in December of 1994. Eight years later, I still receive scattered e-mail with questions about running or developing world-ready software, which I usually forward to the very capable World-Ready Guides (WRG) team (who are also responsible for the Dr....

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