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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals (Pro - Developer)

Microsoft Press, 2009

Delve inside the core SQL Server engine—and put that knowledge to work—with guidance from a team of well-known internals experts. Whether database developer, architect, or administrator, you’ll gain the deep knowledge you need to exploit key architectural changes—and capture the product’s full potential.

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North Korea's Military-Diplomatic Campaigns, 1966-2008 (Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series)

Routledge, 2009

This book examines North Korea’s nuclear diplomacy over a long time period from the early 1960s, setting its dangerous brinkmanship in the wider context of North Korea’s military and diplomatic campaigns to achieve its political goals. It argues that the last four decades of military adventurism demonstrates Pyongyang’s...

Nanocomputers and Swarm Intelligence

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

“We need men who can dream of things that never were.” It is this sentence spoken by John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1963 which has undoubtedly influenced my industrial career. Whether it be everyday electronics for the general public, or the components industry or even the world of video and imagery, the technological innovations which...

MHD Flows in Compact Astrophysical Objects: Accretion, Winds and Jets (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library)

Springer, 2009

Accretion flows, winds and jets of compact astrophysical objects and stars are generally described within the framework of hydrodynamical and magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) flows. Analytical analysis of the problem provides profound physical insights, which are essential for interpreting and understanding the results of numerical simulations....

Managing Security Overseas: Protecting Employees and Assets in Volatile Regions

Auerbach Publications, 2009

Written by a Certified Protection Professional (CPP), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and FBI recognized subject matter expert, Managing Security Overseas: Protecting Employees and Assets in Volatile Regions details the dos and don’ts of protecting people and assets in hostile global settings. The author, Scott Alan Ast,...

New Directions in Project Management (Best Practices)

Auerbach Publications, 2001

Organizations that rely on computing technology for survival understand the critical importance of managing projects that meet strategic goals and objectives. The diversity of business globalization and electronic commerce combined with the unceasing pace of technical change continues to challenge efforts for more proficient project management...

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Viking Adult, 2005

Advance Praise For The Singularity is Near

"Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence. His intriguing new book envisions a future in which information technologies have advanced so far and fast that they enable humanity to transcend its biological...

Project Risk Management: Processes, Techniques and Insights

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

"When first published in 1997, Chris Chapman and Stephen Ward's Project Risk Management instantly became a classic in the field, bringing risk management in a systematic manner into the mainstream for the management of projects. Their second edition of this seminal work is a tour de force - a comprehensive, lucid, and highly...

Historical Dictionary of Terrorism (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies and Movements)

The Scarecrow Press, Inc, 2009

Terrorism has consistently dogged this supposedly modern and enlightened age. It has merely adopted new shapes and forms in keeping with the times. The causes have also evolved over the years, as old problems are solved and new ones created. Moreover, it has gone high-tech, like everything else. Thus, as this book convincingly shows, terrorism will...

The Encyclopedia of World Religions (Facts on File Library of Religion and Mythology)

Facts on File, 2007

Gratifi ed by the response to the initial publication of The Encyclopedia of World Religions, the editors have prepared a revised and much enhanced edition of this work. The new edition contains 100 new articles on as many fresh topics, from ACTS OF THE APOSTLES to VIETNAMESE RELIGIONS. Numerous suggestions for further reading have been added...

Terrorism's Unanswered Questions (Praeger Security International)

Praeger Publishers, 2008

Despite the growth of interest in the study of terrorism since 9/11, terrorism analysts rarely take a multidisciplinary approach to the subject. This leaves a number of terrorism's characteristics to be explored in new and unique ways. Terrorism's Unanswered Questions brings together scholars from the fields of criminology,...

The Least Worst Place - How Guantanamo Became the World’s Most Notorious Prison

Oxford University Press, 2009

The prisoner’s cry pierced through the hot Caribbean air. It was not the first time that such a shriek had roused the rest of the detainees from their daily lethargy. But this time it brought them to their feet and unleashed a flurry of noise, as they pounded the cement floors and rattled the wire mesh of their cells. An invisible force...

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