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Capturing New Markets: How Smart Companies Create Opportunities Others Don't

McGraw-Hill, 2011

Hero of Alexandria had a great idea. In the first century ad, Hero’s design of the fi rst steam engine was ingenious and workable. Indeed, classical scholars have argued that it could have been combined with other inventions of the era to create a steam locomotive and railroad, transforming commerce and military affairs in the ancient...

Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt (Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras)

The Scarecrow Press, Inc, 2008

Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt was the first volume in the Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras series, and now it is the first to be expanded and updated. This is quite fitting because while the Egyptian civilization is not the oldest, it is certainly the grandest. It stands out for the vast area it covered,...

Network Simulation Experiments Manual (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2003

Networking technologies and concepts are often difficult to explain, even through careful description and well thought out examples. One method for making this information "stick" is done by creating an environment where networking professionals and students can visualize how networks work, utilizing a software tool that simulates the...

A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East

PublicAffairs, 2009

It is in the Middle East that the U.S. has been made to confront its attitudes on the use of force, the role of allies, and international law. The history of the U.S. in the Middle East, then, becomes an especially revealing mirror on America’s view of its role in the wider world.

In this wise, objective, and illuminating history,...

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

Anchor Canada, 2000

In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies...

The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa (Hellenistic Culture and Society)

University of California Press, 2006

This is the second of a three-volume study of the Hellenistic settlements. The first, The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor, dealt with foundations in those regions. The present volume focuses on the Hellenistic settlements of Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa. The third volume will deal with the...

Pottery and Economy in Old Kingdom Egypt (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East)

Brill Academic Publishers, 2013

This book began its life as my doctoral dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania. Many thanks to my mentors: the members of my committee, Josef Wegner, David P. Silverman, and Miroslav Bárta, who provided helpful feedback and support at the early stages of my research, and Salima

Ikram, who first...

Case Studies In Knowledge Management

Idea Group Publishing, 2005

Knowledge Management (KM) has been growing in importance and popularity
as a research topic since the mid 1990s. This is sufficient time for many organizations
to implement KM initiatives and KM systems (KMS). This book presents twenty cases
investigating the implementation of KM in a number of business and industry settings
and...

Electronic Business in Developing Countries: Opportunities and Challenges

Idea Group Publishing, 2005

Most of the literature covering electronic business focused on the developed world. Electronic Business in Developing Countries: Opportunities and Challenges provides a chance to get to know more electronic business applications, successes, failures, challenges and opportunities in the developing world. These studies are gaining importance for...

Urban Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries: Policies, Projects, and Scenarios

Springer, 2019

This book describes the risks, impacts, measures, actions and adaptation policies that have developed globally as a result of the severe impacts of global climate change. In-depth chapters focus on climate change assessment (CCA) in terms of vulnerabilities and reflection on the built environment and measures and actions for...

The Great Sand Sea in Egypt, Volume 59: Formation, Dynamics and Environmental Change - a Sediment-analytical Approach

Elsevier Limited, 2008

By analyzing bits of information, cummulative evidence can reveal history

The Great Sand Sea in Egypt presents the history of one of the large sand seas in the Sahara, beginning with the sand supply by fluvial transport from partly distant areas and also by local sandstone weathering. It also details sand as...

The Revelation of the Name YHWH to Moses: Perspectives from Judaism, the Pagan Graeco-Roman World, and Early Christianity (Themes in Biblical Narrative)

Brill Academic Publishers, 2006

The revelation of YHWH's name to Moses is a momentous event according to the Old Testament. The name `Yahweh' is of central importance in Judaism, and `Yahwism' became tantamount to Jewish monotheism. As such, this designation of God also attracted the attention of pagan writers in the Graeco-Roman period. And early Christians had to deal...

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