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Energy (Greenwood Guides to Business and Economics)

Greenwood Press, 2008

Energy: We want it affordable, we want it available in ample quantities and from reliable sources, and we want it to be produced and used in ways that are safe and environmentally benign. In other words, we want plenty of energy too cheap to meter and with no impact on the environment. Ha! With a refreshing lack of bias, this book dissects...

Practical Risk Management

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

In early 1995 people were glued to their television sets watching the aftermath of a very large earthquake in the city of Kobe in western Japan. Little did they suspect the deep-seated implications of this event on the financial markets in general, and on the Bank of England in particular. The earthquake caused a major sell-off in the already...

Corporate Aftershock: The Public Policy Lessons from the Collapse of Enron and Other Major Corporations

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

"In the near future, someone will build a better Enron–a legitimate company with the means and integrity to revolutionize markets. That person will want to use Corporate Aftershock as his business manual and had better hope that government regulators are reading it as well."

–Ross M. Miller, author, Paving Wall...

PsychNotes: Clinical Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition

F. A. Davis Company, 2007

"The author should be commended for covering key mental health clinical features in this small easy to carry pocket guide. This will be valuable and extremely useful.as a quick reference guide in the clinical setting."-Jayalakshmi Jambunathan, PhD, MSN, MA, BSN, BSc, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh, for Doody Enterprises,...

Digital Character Animation 2, Volume II: Advanced Techniques (Digital Character Animation)

Waite Group Press, 2001

At last, George Maestri’s advanced-techniques volume of his groundbreaking [digital] Character Animation book. Completely new: No updated material from the first volume (covering Essential Techniques) or from the first edition (published in 1996 and now out of print). If you are into 3D animation at all—learning, practicing (or managing...

Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach (Eighth Edition)

W W Norton, 2009

The #1 best-selling intermediate microeconomics text in the world is still the most modern and contemporary.

Varian is “the Adam Smith of the new discipline of Googlenomics.”âStephen Levy, Wired

For over 20 years Hal Varian’s Intermediate Microeconomics has...

Knowledge Retention: Strategies and Solutions

Auerbach Publications, 2008

‘‘Knowledge Retention: Strategies and Solutions will become paramount toward achieving success in an increasingly competitive environment.’’

—Jay Liebowitz

As the baby boomer generation approaches retirement age, many organizations are facing the potential...

Modeling and Reasoning with Bayesian Networks

Cambridge University Press, 2009

Bayesian networks have received a lot of attention over the last few decades from both scientists and engineers, and across a number of fields, including artificial intelligence (AI), statistics, cognitive science, and philosophy.

Perhaps the largest impact that Bayesian networks have had is on the field of AI, where they were...

AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis

John Wiley & Sons, 2001

"The AntiPatterns authors have clearly been there and done that when it comes to managing software development efforts. I resonated with one insight after another, having witnessed too many wayward projects myself. The experience in this book is palpable." —John Vlissides, IBM Research "This book allows managers, architects,...

Rethink: A Business Manifesto for Cutting Costs and Boosting Innovation

FT Press, 2009

It's the trap that ensnares virtually every business. We focus on process: "how" we're doing the job. And we forget about the bigger issue: "what" we're doing and "why" we're doing it. That's why we're leaving so much value on the table. In Rethink, business architect Ric Merrifield...

The Secure Online Business: E-Commerce, It Functionality & Business Continuity

Kogan Page, 2003

The effective management of risks online is likely to be the greatest business enabler / destroyer of the next decade. Clearly, organizations that do not move to full e-commerce functionality are unlikely to flourish; whereas those that ignore cyber crime and the "dark side" of the Internet are likely to get badly burnt.

This...

Credit and Community: Working-Class Debt in the UK since 1880

Oxford University Press, 2009

Credit's centrality to the current economic crisis makes the publication of Sean O'Connell's social history of working-class credit consumption particularly timely. Although the credit crunch came too late to be included in this book, the portrait of a complex relationship between lenders and borrowers over the past 120 years should be required...

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