Learn IT - Books tags human

Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day

Henry Holt and Co, 2019

A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown and unheralded members of the Allied – and Axis – forces.

An epic battle that involved 156,000 men, 7,000 ships and 20,000 armoured vehicles, D-Day was, above all, a tale of...

Oracle Distributed Systems

O'Reilly, 1999

Any organization that uses the Oracle relational database management system (RDBMS) these days needs to use multiple databases. There are many reasons to use more than a single database in a distributed database system:

Different databases may be associated with particular business functions, such as manufacturing or...

Human Reliability and Error in Transportation Systems (Springer Series in Reliability Engineering)

Springer, 2007

Each year billions of dollars are being spent to develop, manufacture, and operate transportation systems such as aircraft, ships, trains, and motor vehicles throughout the world. During their operation thousands of lives are lost annually due to various types accidents. Needless to say, approximately 70 to 90 percent of transportation crashes are...

Semantic Web for Business: Cases and Applications

Information Science Publishing, 2008

"This title provides real-life cases illustrating the benefits of Semantic Web technologies as applied to e-business and e-commerce scenarios." --Book News Inc. (February 2009)

The Semantic Web has been around for some years with recent advances in mature technologies and applications. Lately, its development has been...

Terrorism and Torture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Cambridge University Press, 2009

Terrorism and torture are twin evils that have dominated news headlines - particularly since the horrifying events of 9/11. In this thought-provoking volume, scholars from a diverse range of disciplines examine the complex motivational and situational factors contributing to terrorist acts and state-sponsored torture, and the potential linkage...

Apoptosome: An up-and-coming therapeutical tool

Springer, 2009

"Apoptosome" is the first book that presents a concise synthesis of recent developments in the understanding of how the activation of the cell death cascade is handled by a cytosolic signalling platform known as the apoptosome.

The book also discusses how insights into the regulation of apoptosome may be exploited for designing...

Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, United Nations

Gale, 2007

Th e swift course of domestic and world events, part of a hastened process of change, requires an enormous increase of basic understanding by peoples of the multiple factors infl uencing the tempo and direction of national developments. Th e pattern of intercultural penetration and cross-fertilizing exchanges of scientifi c and technological...

Intersection: How Enterprise Design Bridges the Gap between Business, Technology, and People

Morgan Kaufmann, 2012

Many organizations struggle with the dynamics and the complexity of today's social ecosystems that connect everyone and everything, everywhere and all the time. Facing challenges at the intersection of business models, technical developments, and human needs, modern enterprises must overcome the siloed thinking and isolated efforts of the...

Platelets and Megakaryocytes: Volume 1: Functional Assays (Methods in Molecular Biology)

Humana Press, 2004

12 The average human body has in the order of 10 circulating platelets. They are crucial for hemostasis, and yet excessive platelet activation is a major cause of m- bidity and mortality in western societies. It is therefore not surprising that platelets have become one of the most extensively investigated biological cell types. We are,...

Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up

Hanover Square Press, 2019

*NOW AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*

A Toronto Star Bestselling Book of the Year

“Witty and entertaining.”—Sarah Knight

“Laugh-out-loud.”—Steve Brusatte

AN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE...

Adventure Diffusion: From Meandering Molecules to the Spreading of Plants, Humans, and Ideas

Springer, 2019

This easy-to read book looks at the many ways in which diffusion bears on processes that involve dispersion, starting from the Brownian motion of molecules, covering the invasion of exotic plants, migration of populations, epidemics, and extending to the spreading of languages and ideas.

Recently, there has been a growing...

New Directions in Human Information Behavior (Information Science and Knowledge Management)

Springer, 2006

From the reviews:

"Human information Behaviour (HIB) is one of the most popular and yet most complex research areas in the field of library and information science (LIS). … This book is a valuable addition to the other books recently published in this area … . the editors have done a good job organising them in a logical way...

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