There is often more than meets the eye where politics, religion and money are concerned. This is certainly the case with the Faith-Based Initiative. Section 104, a small provision of the 1996 Welfare Reform bill called "Charitable Choice," was the beginning of what we now know as the Faith-Based Initiative. In its original form, the...

If you support an organization that wants to improve the performance of complex IT portfolios to achieve both immediate and strategic goals or are responsible for and oversee many projects that are contractually required to produce measurable results; you will be pleased to find that this book serves as both a roadmap and a checklist for...

The explosive growth of home-based businesses across America and throughout the world is one of the most...

Until recent times medical science could do little to prevent or cure life-threatening diseases that claimed young lives and made infant mortality commonplace. But today those 85 and over form the most rapidly growing percentage of the population. While death from infectious diseases has been widely controlled, only two of the current top 10...

Statistically Speaking is a book of quotations. It has, for the first time, brought together in one easily accessible form the best expressed thoughts that are especially illuminating and pertinent to the disciplines of probability and statistics. Some of the quotations are profound, others are wise, some are witty, but none are frivolous....

The traditional rationale for outsourcing of IT systems involves applying economies of scale to the operation of applications, such that a service provider can offer...

This book brings together all the information you need to design and deploy scalable, transparent application acceleration, WAN optimization, and branch...

Now available in a three-volume set, this updated and expanded edition of the bestselling The Digital Signal Processing Handbook continues to provide the engineering community with authoritative coverage of the fundamental and specialized aspects of information-bearing signals in digital form. Encompassing essential background...

T his text is an introduction to the wide range of topics which collectively form the basis of an information technology (IT) project. Central to the theme of the book is the significance...

"Basics Typography: Virtual Typography" addresses a fundamentally new form of typographical communication. The book explores the visual arrangement of words and letters in the context of multimedia. Here, this arrangement is not simply a spatial positioning of text information it is also bound by time. The increasing use of moving,...