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Stack Your Savings: How to Save More Money, Slash Your Spending, and Master Your Finances

Oldtown Publishing, 2019

Do you pull out your credit card when you know you shouldn’t? Do you watch others make a purchase and decide to make the same one, despite the fact that you have neither the money nor the need for it? Do you find yourself ignoring your bank statements because you’re afraid of what they might show?Many, if not most, Americans would...

Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America

Princeton Press, 2019

How Cold War America came to attribute human evolutionary success to our species' unique capacity for murder

After World War II, the question of how to define a universal human nature took on new urgency. Creatures of Cain charts the rise and precipitous fall in Cold War America of a theory that...

Web Engineering: Principles and Techniques

Idea Group Publishing, 2005

Since the advent of the Web, every aspect of our lives and organizational activities has changed dramatically. Organizations’ expectations and dependencies on the use of Web technologies have increased rapidly over the years. Most organizations have conceived these Web technologies as a critical instrument for enhancing their performance;...

Digital Image Processing (2nd Edition)

Prentice Hall, 2002

Interest in digital image processing methods stems from two principal application
areas: improvement of pictorial information for human interpretation; and
processing of image data for storage, transmission, and representation for autonomous
machine perception.This chapter has several objectives: (1) to define
the scope of the...

Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950

Harper Perennial, 2004

A sweeping cultural survey reminiscent of Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence.

"At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things. Human Accomplishment is about those great things, falling in the domains known as the arts and sciences, and the people who did them.'

So begins...

The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility (The Agile Software Development Series)

Addison Wesley, 2008

When software development teams move to agile methods, experienced project managers often struggle—doubtful about the new approach and uncertain about their new roles and responsibilities. In this book, two long-time certified Project Management Professionals (PMP^Rs) and Scrum trainers have built a bridge to this dynamic new...

Endocannabinoids: The Brain and Body's Marijuana and Beyond

CRC Press, 2005

Over the past decade, there have been major advances in understanding the mechanisms whereby marijuana interacts with the brain in producing psychoactive and potentially therapeutic effects. The discovery of specific gene coding for cannabinoid receptors activated by smoking marijuana, and the finding of endogenous cannabinoids, which...

Food Carbohydrate Chemistry

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Carbohydrates are major components of foods, accounting for more than 90% of the dry matter of fruits and vegetables and providing for 70-80% of human caloric intake worldwide (BeMiller and Huber 2008). Thus, from a quantitative perspective alone, carbohydrates warrant the attention of food chemists. From the standpoint of food...

Toxin: The Cunning of Bacterial Poisons

Oxford University Press, 2005

What do the following have in common: the promise of Botox as the key to everlasting youthful looks; E. coli O157 hamburger disease; a mysterious illness which killed 35 heroin users in 2000; and the assassination by poisoned umbrella-tip of a Bulgarian dissident in the 1970s? The answer is that all of these are caused by toxins, the powerful...

Designing Across Senses: A Multimodal Approach to Product Design

O'Reilly, 2018

Today we have the ability to connect speech, touch, haptic, and gestural interfaces into products that engage several human senses at once. This practical book explores examples from current designers and devices to describe how these products blend multiple interface modes together into a cohesive user experience.

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The Rational Homo Psychologicus: Creating Thoughtful Businesses

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This is a challenger book. It systematically modifies the assumptions of the homo economicus and homo sociologicus by constructing a deeper foundation of human and corporate personhood. The new theory of homo psychologicus probes into a long-forgotten common sense: humans are rationally irrational homo psychologicus, as are...

Microbiology For Dummies

For Dummies, 2019

Microbiology For Dummies (9781119544425) was previously published as Microbiology For Dummies (9781118871188). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product.

Microbiology is the study...

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