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Work (The Art of Living Series)

Acumen Publishing, 2008

Work is one of the most universal features of human life; virtually everybody spends some part of their life at work. It is often associated with tedium and boredom; in conflict with the things we would otherwise love to do. Thinking of work primarily as a burden - an activity we would rather be without - is a thought that was shared by the...

Animal Visions: Posthumanist Dream Writing (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Animal Visions considers how literature responds to the harms of anthropocentricism, working with Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) and various adaptations of this canonistic novel to show how posthumanist dream writing unsettles the privileging of the human species over other species. Two feminist...

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 20th Anniversary Edition

Addison Wesley, 1995

The classic book on the human elements of software engineering. Software tools and development environments may have changed in the 21 years since the first edition of this book, but the peculiarly nonlinear economies of scale in collaborative work and the nature of individuals and groups has not changed an epsilon. If you write code or...

Information Retrieval for Music and Motion

Springer, 2007

A general scenario that has attracted a lot of attention for multimedia information retrieval is based on the query-by-example paradigm: retrieve all documents from a database containing parts or aspects similar to a given data fragment. However, multimedia objects, even though they are similar from a structural or semantic viewpoint, often reveal...

The People CMM: A Framework for Human Capital Management (2nd Edition)

Addison Wesley, 2009

Organizations are now competing in two markets, one for their products and services and one for the talent required to produce or perform them. Success in the former is determined by success in the latter. The ability to compete is directly related to the ability to attract, develop, motivate, organize, and retain the...

Bioinformatics: The Machine Learning Approach, Second Edition (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)

MIT Press, 2001

We have been very pleased, beyond our expectations, with the reception of the first edition of this book. Bioinformatics, however, continues to evolve very rapidly, hence the need for a new edition. In the past three years, fullgenome sequencing has blossomed with the completion of the sequence of the fly and the first draft of the...

Everyday Leadership: Getting Results in Business, Politics, and Life

University of Michigan Press, 2007

?A book that truly speaks to everyone. . . . Always practical, often inspiring, this is more a reference book than a self-improvement text, and a great read for any would-be leader.”
?Roger Penske, owner of Penske Corporation and Penske Racing

?Sound, practical advice driven home with real-world examples. . . . This...

Data Mining: A Knowledge Discovery Approach

Springer, 2007

“If you torture the data long enough, Nature will confess,” said 1991 Nobel-winning economist Ronald Coase. The statement is still true. However, achieving this lofty goal is not easy. First, “long enough” may, in practice, be “too long” in many applications and thus unacceptable. Second,...

Science Of Storytelling

Collins, 2020

If you want to write a novel or a script, read this book Sunday TimesThe best book on the craft of storytelling Ive ever read Matt HaigRarely has a book engrossed me more, and forced me to question everything Ive ever read, seen or written. A masterpiece Adam RutherfordWho would we be without storiesStories mould who we are, from our character...

Management Consulting In Practice: Award-Winning International Case Studies

Kogan Page, 2004

This important new book explores the relationship between top management consultant teams and their clients. Through a series of case studies, from both the private and public sectors, it presents best practice in consulting at the sharp end of contemporary management across all disciplines including change management, business strategy,...

Coaching For Change: Practical Strategies For Transforming Performance

Kogan Page, 2004

An essential tool for anyone who wants to transform performance through the development of a coaching environment, this book looks at how to create, develop and manage change whether in one-to-one situations, team based or within organizations.

Placing coaching right at the heart of the broader Human Resources (HR) and training arena,...

New Developments In Parsing Technology (Text, Speech and Language Techology)

Springer, 2004

Parsing can be defined as the decomposition of complex structures into their constituent parts, and parsing technology as the methods, the tools and the software to parse automatically. Parsing is a central area of research in the automatic processing of human language. Parsers are being used in many application areas, for example question...

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