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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Science of Everything

Alpha, 2008

Did you ever wonder how somebody ever figured out all the details of making a cellphone system work? What about those giant MRI machines that can take a picture of your insides without a single incision? Then there is the universe. We think we know at least something about how it started billions of years ago and where it’s going billions of...

Game Theory at Work: How to Use Game Theory to Outthink and Outmaneuver Your Competition

McGraw-Hill, 2003

Game theory—the study of how competitors act, react, and interact in the strategic pursuit of their own self-interest—has become an essential competitive tool in today’s business arena. Game Theory at Work provides examples of how businesspeople can use this time-proven approach to successfully meet competitive...

Foundations of Computing

Thomson Delmar Learning, 1997

It may sound surprising that in computing, a field which develops so fast that the future often becomes the past without having been the present, there is nothing more stable and worthwhile learning than its foundations.

It may sound less surprising that in a field with such a revolutionary methodological impact on all sciences and...

Big Think Strategy: How to Leverage Bold Ideas and Leave Small Thinking Behind

Harvard Business School, 2007

Business leaders need bold strategies to stay relevant and win. In "Big Think Strategy", Schmitt shows how to bring bold thinking into your business by sourcing big ideas and executing them creatively. With the tools in this book, any leader can overcome institutionalized 'small think' - the inertia, the narrow-mindedness,...

Submarine Mass Movements and their Consequences: 7th International Symposium

Springer, 2015

This book is a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art studies of seafloor slope instability and their societal implications. The volume captures the most recent and exciting scientific progress made in this research field.

As the world’s climate and energy needs change, the conditions under which slope instability...

Computational Aesthetics (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)

Springer, 2018

The essence of natural computing is aesthetics; for example, in cooking, one of the most common forms of natural computation, the decision to add salt, and how much, is based on the aesthetics of taste. Because touch perception is instinctively related to a sense of beauty, the aesthetics of tactile sense are considered as algorithms by using...

Smashing WordPress Themes: Making WordPress Beautiful (Smashing Magazine Book Series)

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Smashing WordPress Themes is all about making your WordPress site look beautiful. But, the beautiful part is a very personal thing, because we all have different preferences. So in essence, my book isn’t on Web design, but rather about giving you, dear reader, the tools to build the kind of site that you want to create, using WordPress...

Voice Over IPv6: Architectures for Next Generation VoIP Networks

Newnes, 2006

IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is the future of Internet telephony. And this book is your guide to that future.

IPv6 is the replacement for the currently used IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4). IPv6 will offer increased IP addresses (full 128-bit addresses, compared to the 32-bit addresses of IPv4), enhanced security, and greater...

20 Minutes to a Top Performer: Three Fast and Effective Conversations to Motivate, Develop, and Engage Your Employees (Business Books)

McGraw-Hill, 2009

Transform Average Employees into Powerhouse Performers

“I cannot think of a more important message and timely book. 20 Minutes to a Top Performer offers quick, simple techniques for managers to improve their effectiveness in communicating with their teams.”
Steven Fine, vice president for...

jQuery and JavaScript Phrasebook (Developer's Library)

Addison Wesley, 2013

Get more done faster with jQuery and JavaScript! Brad Dayley’s jQuery and JavaScript Phrasebook brings together 100+ instantly useful code snippets and idioms for performing a wide spectrum of common web application tasks. This hands-on guide gets straight to the essence of what’s new and important in...

Practical Insight into Cmmi (Artech House Computing Library)

Artech House Publishers, 2004

This book provides the reader with an insight into which an activities an
organization would be engaged and what the role of each level of management
and the practitioners would be if their systems and software engineering
processes were based onCMM®IntegrationSM. It captures the essence
of each of the process areas by...

Textbook Finance: Leading Financial Professors From the World's Top Business Schools on the Fundamentals All Business Professionals Should Know About Finance

Aspatore Books, 2003

Inside the Minds: Textbook Finance is the most authoritative book ever written on the essentials of finance for the business professional. Featuring Chairmen of Finance Departments from some of the nation's leading Business Schools, these pages brim with insights from those at the height of their profession, who have each contributed chapters...

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