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Comebacks: Powerful Lessons from Leaders Who Endured Setbacks and Recaptured Success on Their Terms

Jossey-Bass, 2010

Gold Medal Winner, Success and Motivation, 2011 Axiom Business Book Awards

Insight from leaders who experienced major setbacks and redefined success

In tough economic times, when careers are derailed and leaders are forced to rewrite their professional plans, this book enlightens and uplifts. Comebacks...

Cyber Threat!: How to Manage the Growing Risk of Cyber Attacks (Wiley Corporate F&A)

John Wiley & Sons, 2014

Conquering cyber attacks requires a multi-sector, multi-modalapproach

Cyber Threat! How to Manage the Growing Risk of CyberAttacks is an in-depth examination of the very real cybersecurity risks facing all facets of government and industry, andthe various factors that must align to maintain informationintegrity....

Technical, Commercial and Regulatory Challenges of QoS: An Internet Service Model Perspective

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

"I like the author's table of contents a lot. It flows very well. The way the author presents (what we have today, what is the problem. and what is the solution) gives a comprehensive treatment of the subject.... I would think there is a market for such a book." -- Zheng Wang, Principal Scientist, Broadcom (and author of 2001 MK book,...

Principles of Information Security

Course Technology PTR, 2011

As global networks expand the interconnection of the world’s information systems, the smooth operation of communication and computing solutions becomes vital. However, recurring events such as virus and worm attacks and the success of criminal attackers illustrate the weaknesses in current information technologies and the...

Political and Economic Transition in Russia: Predatory Raiding, Privatization Reforms, and Property Rights

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book analyzes privatization reforms, property rights, and raiders in post-Soviet Russia. The author surveys the existing literature in the context of predatory raiding in Russia and introduces the notion and concept of this phenomena; he suggests that the study may serve as an explanatory model for corporate, property, and land...

The Renewable Revolution: How We Can Fight Climate Change, Prevent Energy Wars, Revitalize the Economy and Transition to a Sustainable Future

Earthscan, 2010

Our world faces an unprecedented energy crisis. Fuel shortages, skyrocketing energy prices, climate change, nuclear contamination, catastrophic oil spills and energy wars define the global scenario. The nonrenewable energy path of oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear is headed for a dead-end at an accelerated speed. In our race for survival we...

Chemical Risk Assessment: A Manual for REACH

John Wiley & Sons, 2014

This book is an essential guide and support to understanding of the science and policy, procedure and practice that underpins the REACH risk assessments required for the use and placing on the market of chemicals in the European Union. A clear understanding of information provision and how this affects the assessment of chemical safety...

Mouse Models of Allergic Disease: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology)

Humana Press, 2013

Over the last half century, a dramatic increase in allergic diseases has been observed throughout industrialized nations, which has resulted in significant worldwide socio-economic challenges. In Mouse Models of Allergic Disease: Methods and Protocols, a wide range of expert contributors provide detailed protocols for the design and...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures: East and Southeast Asia

Macmillan Technical, 1993

This project began in 1987 with the goal of assembling a basic reference source that provides accurate, clear, and concise descriptions of the cultures of the world. We wanted to be as comprehensive and authoritative as possible: comprehensive, by providing descriptions of all the cultures of each region of the world or by describing a...

Wireless Receiver Design for Digital Communications

SciTech Publishing, 2012

There have been two paradigm shifts since we wrote the first edition of this book. The first major shift is that the world is now full of digital signals. Commercial television and radio have changed from analog to digital formats. Cellular telephone signals are digital, and even video baby monitors transmit digital signals....

War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars (Publications of the German Historical Institute)

Cambridge University Press, 2019

The histories of modern war and childhood were the result of competing urgencies. According to ideals of childhood widely accepted throughout the world by 1900, children should have been protected, even hidden, from conflict and danger. Yet at a time when modern ways of childhood became increasingly possible for economic, social, and political...

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008

A sweeping narrative history of world trade--from Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C. to the firestorm over globalization today--that brilliantly explores trade's colorful and contentious past and provides new insights into its future

Adam Smith wrote that man has an intrinsic "propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for...

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