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Chemical Weapons Destruction and Explosive Waste: Unexploded Ordinance Remediations

William Andrew Publishing, 1997

"The book examines each program, offers various solutions and case studies for each disposal problem, and provides additional sources of information for each program for further reading or consultation."- The Hazardous Waste Consultant.

This book discusses the current and potential treatment technologies involved in...

Risk Analysis of Complex and Uncertain Systems (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science)

Springer, 2009

This book is motivated by the following convictions:

1) Quantitative risk assessment (QRA) can be a powerful discipline for improving risk management decisions and policies.
2) Poorly conducted QRAs can produce results and recommendations that are worse than useless.
3) Sound risk assessment methods provide the benefits of QRA...

Contemporary Iran: Economy, Society, Politics

Oxford University Press, 2009

In recent decades Iran has experienced a wide range of changes. These include shifts in the relationship between urban and rural economies, the nationwide growth of the middle class and ensuing social mobility, a higher literacy rate along with the expansion of educational institutions, and new complexities and expectations in gender...

Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil (Focus on World Music)

Routledge, 2009

"Anyone with more than a casual interest in Brazilian music history simply must look at this top ethnomusicological study." --Midwest Book Review

"Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil" examines the historical and contemporary manifestations of the music of Brazil, a country with a musical landscape that is...

Unix Unleashed (4th Edition)

Sams Publishing, 2001

Using Solaris 8 and Linux 7.1 as their reference flavors, Robin Anderson and Andy Johnston (as well as a slew of contributors) show how to be a system administrator--and get all sorts of other work done--in the fourth edition of Unix Unleashed. Significantly different from its predecessors, this book stays generally clear of very basic...

Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think: Reflections by Scientists, Writers, and Philosophers

Oxford University Press, 2006

"A vivid picture of how one man, by force of rigorous analysis and clear writing, taught a generation of biologists how to think about evolution."--New York Times

ith the publication of the international bestseller The Selfish Gene some thirty years ago, Richard Dawkins powerfully captured a newly emerging way of...

Cyber Security and Global Information Assurance: Threat Analysis and Response Solutions

Information Science Publishing, 2009

The increasing societal dependence on information technology has pushed cyber-security to the forefront as one of the most urgent challenges facing the global community.

Cyber-Security and Global Information Assurance: Threat Analysis and Response Solutions provides a valuable resource for academicians and practitioners by...

Computer Viruses and Other Malicious Software: A Threat to the Internet Economy

OECD, 2009

Malware attacks are increasing both in frequency and sophistication, thus posing a serious threat to the Internet economy and to national security. This book is a first step toward addressing the threat of malware in a comprehensive, global manner. It informs readers about malware -- its growth, evolution and countermeasures to combat it; presents...

Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Programming and Software Engineering)

Springer, 2009

Although the self-adaptability of systems has been studied in a wide range of disciplines, from biology to robotics, only recently has the software engineering community recognized its key role in enabling the development of future software systems that are able to self-adapt to changes that may occur in the system, its requirements, or the...

The Art of Unit Testing: with Examples in .NET

Manning Publications, 2009

Unit testing, done right, can mean the diff erence between a failed project and a successful one, between a maintainable code base and a code base that no one dares touch, and between getting home at 2 AM or getting home in time for dinner, even before a release deadline.

The Art of Unit Testing builds on top of what's already been...

Pro SQL Server 2008 Analytics: Delivering Sales and Marketing Dashboards

Apress, 2009

Pro SQL Server 2008 Analytics provides everything you need to know to develop sophisticated and visually appealing sales and marketing dashboards using SQL Server 2008 and to integrate those dashboards with SharePoint, PerformancePoint, and other key Microsoft technologies.

The book begins by addressing the many misconceptions that...

Ion Chromatography

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

The first edition of this book in 1982 described the emergence of ion-exchange chromatography as a practical and rapid method of separation and analysis. The initial and somewhat restrictive definition of the subject was broadened to 'ion chromatography' in order to describe the efficient chromatographic separation of anions or cations using any...

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