In college, when I was working my first consulting job, a professor
called with a problem with a slow computer. He had
tried everything he knew to fix the problem, to no avail. The computer
used to have good performance, but something had happened.
Upon arriving at his office, it didn’t take me long to spot
the problem....
To learn how to program a computer in a modern language with serious graphical capabilities,
is to take hold of a tool of remarkable flexibility that has the power to provide
profound insight. This text is primarily aimed at being a first course in programming, and
is oriented toward integration with science, mathematics, and...
This book includes contributions from top scholars who outline the best leadership practices for the benefit of the practicing leader. Each chapter focuses on a specific area of leadership practice and ends with a set of "take away" best practices in each area—an executive summary in reverse—that will serve as a...
Knowledge Mining Using Intelligent Agents explores the concept of knowledge discovery processes and enhances decision-making capability through the use of intelligent agents like ants, termites and honey bees. In order to provide readers with an integrated set of concepts and techniques for understanding knowledge discovery and its practical...
Statistics Essentials For Dummies not only provides students enrolled in Statistics I with an excellent high-level overview of key concepts, but it also serves as a reference or refresher for students in upper-level statistics courses. Free of review and ramp-up material, Statistics Essentials For Dummies sticks to the point,...
Kastner's Chinese Nutrition Therapy is an excellent introduction to Chinese dietetics for both, students and practitioners of Chinese medicine. - I wholeheartedly endorse his book. Nigel Wiseman For millennia, the Chinese have taught that a healthy, appropriate diet is an integral part of maintaining good health and healing myriad disorders,...
The bane of my existence has always been the management (or
in my case, the mismanagement) of time. I have struggled with
finding time to ‘‘do it all.’’ In high school and college, I was notorious
for pulling all-nighters to study or write papers (a habit I have
not outgrown). When I started my career, I...
Business schools have long enticed students into their MBA programs with the promise that, after a short stint spent studying the ins and outs of the business world, they will be able to step right into the upper echelons of management or launch a business that soon has them flitting about the world in a private jet. "Sounds great,"...
This is a no-nonsense principles book that emphasizes economic theory and applications. The book is a study tool for students and the pedagogical approach and in-text features were chosen to reinforce that theme. It provides students with a picture of economics as a unified discipline, a set of interrelated tools and ideas that can be used to...
From Adobe InDesign CS2 to InDesign CS6, the ability to work with XML content has
been built into every version of InDesign. Some of the useful applications are importing
database content into InDesign to create catalog pages, exporting XML that will be
useful for subsequent publishing processes, and building chunks of...
During the last 40 years, biogerontology – the study of the biological basis of
aging – has progressed tremendously, and it has now become an independent and
respectable field of study and research. Numerous universities, medical institutes
and research centers throughout the world now offer full-fledged courses on the...
Crimmins (2000) marveled at the greatness of the “three pound-blob” that is our
brain and control system. As seasoned clinicians in the field of neuro-rehabilitation,
we still marvel each day at the resilience of the brain and at the exciting recoveries
that we attempt to facilitate in survivors of acquired brain...
