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The Tao of Chemistry and Life: A Scientific Journey

Oxford University Press, 2009

As most writers will testify, writing a book entails a fair amount of hard work. It follows that one needs a reason for undertaking the task in the first place. The easiest motivation to understand for writing a book, and perhaps the most common one, is the desire for monetary reward. I do not know what inspired J. K. Rowling to write her...

Encyclopedia of Cybercrime

Greenwood Press, 2008

The first comprehensive encyclopedia to examine all aspects of the mysterious world of cybercrime

There are today no more compelling sets of crime and security threats facing nations, communities, organizations, groups, families and individuals than those encompassed by cybercrime. For over fifty years crime enabled by computing and...

Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss

AK Peter, 2006

The author narrates the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss, the 18th century mathematician, from his prodigious childhood to his extraordinary achievements that earned him the title "Prince of Mathematics". Along the way, the author introduces her readers to a different culture, the era of small states in Germany where advancement on merits,...

Starting an Online Business All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

For Dummies, 2009

For two decades, the Internet has continued to prove itself a viable tool for building, managing, and growing a business. Little doubt remains that you can make money online and find success in doing so. In fact, since beginning our own online endeavors, we have had the privilege of meeting and working with a variety of entrepreneurs — people...

Genetics and Genomics of Cotton (Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models)

Springer, 2009

A few members of the Gossypium (cotton) genus are cultivated for the production of elongated single-celled fibers valued worldwide at about $20 billion annually at the farm gate, and which sustain one of the world’s largest industries (textiles) with an annual worldwide economic impact of about $500 billion. In a number of ways, cotton...

Currency Strategy: A Practitioner's Guide to Currency Trading, Hedging and Forecasting

John Wiley & Sons, 2002

John Maynard Keynes reference to the animal spirits , that elemental force which drives financial markets in herd-like fashion, was applied to the stock market. However, he might as well have been referring to the currency market, for the term sums up no other more perfectly. A market that is volatile and unpredictable, a market that...

Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys (Wiley Series in Survey Methodology)

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Longitudinal surveys are surveys that involve collecting data from multiple subjects on multiple occasions. They are typically used for collecting data relating to social, economic, educational and health-related issues and they serve as an important tool for economists, sociologists, and other researchers.

Focusing on the design,...

Challenging Problems in Geometry

Dover Publications, 1996

Stimulating collection of unusual problems dealing with congruence and parallelism, the Pythagorean theorem, circles, area relationships, Ptolemy and the cyclic quadrilateral, collinearity and concurrency and many other topics. Arranged in order of difficulty. Detailed solutions.

The challenge of well-posed problems transcends national...

Chips, Clones, and Living Beyond 100: How Far Will the Biosciences Take Us?

FT Press, 2009

"A stimulating and exciting look at how we got to the present state of health care and where we can potentially go. A unique perspective and a great read." David Lester, Ph.D., President, ITHW Inc.; formerly Director, Human Health Technologies, Pfizer Inc. "The explosion of new knowledge in the biosciences will raise important...

Mathletics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics in Baseball, Basketball, and Football

Princeton Press, 2009

If you have picked up this book you surely love sports and you probably like math. You may have read Michael Lewis’s great book Moneyball, which describes how the Oakland A’s used mathematical analysis to help them compete successfully with the New York Yankees even though the average annual payroll for the A’s is less than 40...

Citrix Access Suite 4 Advanced Concepts: The Official Guide, Second Edition

McGraw-Hill, 2006

What is access? Access is a means to an end—the means of closing the gap that separates ideas, understanding, knowledge, insight, and action. Access facilitates, access informs, access empowers, and access has the ability to transform the way we work, live, play and learn. From the telegraph to radio to television and the Internet,...

The Web Startup Success Guide (Books for Professionals by Professionals)

Apress, 2009

If there’s a software startup company in your developer heart, this is the book that will make it happen.

The Web Startup Success Guide is your one-stop shop for all of the answers you need today to build a successful web startup in these challenging economic times. It covers everything from making the strategic platform decisions...

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