Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices is an anthology of high-end wisdom from a group of accomplished database administrators who are quietly but relentlessly pushing the performance and feature envelope of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. With an emphasis upon performance—but also branching into release...
Photography has a rich history, from the personal family snapshot to Earth
rising over the moon’s horizon. In its brief 170-year history, photography has
played many roles to a wide variety of people—from memory keeper to human
condition revealer to personal exploration companion. Photography reveals
how we perceive...
Creating video game environments similar to the best 3D games on the market is now within the capability of hobbyists for the first time, with the free availability of game development software such as Unity 3D, and the ease with which groups of enthusiasts can get together to pool their skills for a game project. The sheer number of these...
Discovering Geometry is designed so that you can be actively engaged as you
learn geometry. In this book you "learn by doing." You will leam to use the tools
of geometry and to perform geometry investigations with them. Many of the
investigations are carried out in small cooperative groups in which you jointly
plan...
Regular practice makes perfect - and this is equally true of organic synthesis. Only the numerous and constantly new little tricks and tips make for elegant synthesis. Knowledge of synthesis methods, reactivities, reagents, protective groups and much more is best acquired - and retained - by way of detailed analysis and processing of complex...
This book is the result of a series of lectures on linear algebra and the geometry of multidimensional spaces given in the 1950s through 1970s by Igor R. Shafarevich at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University.
Notes for some of these lectures were preserved in the faculty library, and these were used...
Whether an international corporation or a small business, developing and utilizing
a Business Continuity Management (BCM) Plan protects companies and
their personnel, facilities, materials, and activities from the broad spectrum of risks
that face businesses and government agencies on a daily basis, whether at home or...
Before Oracle Application Express (APEX) can be discussed in the light of Agile software development, the stage must be set by defining, for the purposes of this book, what is meant by Agile software development.
This chapter introduces you to the core principles of Agile software development. The core principles were...
Microsoft Excel 2010: Introductory offers a number of new features and approaches, which improve student understanding, retention, transference, and skill in using Excel 2010. The following enhancements will enrich the learning experience:
• Office 2010 and Windows 7: Essential Concepts and Skills chapter presents basic...
The purpose of this book is to collect and to present the results of theoretical and empirical research
into various aspects of Knowledge Management (KM), innovation and, especially, the conjunction of
KM and innovation. To this end, chapters are included from both academics and practitioners, and the
contributions represent...
Our objective in writing the sixth edition of Sales Management: Analysis and Decision
Making was to continue to present comprehensive and rigorous coverage of contemporary
sales management in a readable, interesting, and challenging manner. Findings
from recent sales management research are blended with examples of current sales...
This Handbook treats those parts of the theory of Boolean algebras of most interest to pure mathematicians: the set-theoretical abstract theory and applications and relationships to measure theory, topology, and logic. It is divided into two parts (published in three volumes). Part I (volume 1) is a comprehensive, self-contained introduction...
