WHEN I FIRST started working as a nutritionist in elite sport
over a decade ago, the most common thing I would hear from
athletes was: ‘James, I’m here because Coach says I need to
lose weight.’
Fortunately things have moved on just a little since then.
Nutrition has become an integral part of...
One of the foremost financial writers of his generation, Peter Bernstein has the unique ability to synthesize intellectual history and economics with the theory and practice of investment management. Now, with classic titles such as Economist on Wall Street, A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold, and The Price of Prosperitywhich have...
Social media analytics, web-tracking, and other technologies help companies acquire and handle massive amounts of data to better understand their customers, products, competition, and markets. Armed with the insights from big data, companies can improve customer experience and...
At 70 terabytes and growing, Wal-Mart's data warehouse is still the world's largest, most ambitious, and arguably most successful commercial database. Written by one of the key figures in its design and construction, Data Warehousing: Using the Wal-Mart Model gives you an insider's view of this enormous project. Continuously drawing from...
A strategic guide to the revolutionary framework that will change the way you do business
Imagine if you could teach your computer to make decisions that lead to faster B2B trading implementations, more effective customer management, and seamless data warehousing. Now, your imagination can be turned into reality. This authoritative book...
Business intelligence solutions transform business data into conclusive, fact-based, and actionable information and enable businesses to spot customer trends, create customer loyalty, enhance supplier relationships, reduce financial risk, and uncover new sales opportunities. The goal of business intelligence is to make sense of change-to...
Advanced UNIX Programming goes beyond the fundamentals of UNIX programming and presents information and techniques the readers needs to expand their knowledge base. Designed for professional UNIX programmers, this book builds on the skills and knowledge the reader already possesses. It includes coverage of internet processes, interprocess control,...
Long term growth in productivity is critically important to improving the standard of living of our society. Over the past ten years (1996–2005), average annual productivity growth in the non-farm business sector has been twice as high as it was in the prior fi fteen years (1981–1995). In the manufacturing sector, it has been even more...
Worldwide, there are an estimated 232, 000 new cases of pancreatic cancer annually. In the United States, it is the fourth leading cause of cancer death, and approximately 30,000 people die of pancreatic cancer each year. The disease is difficult to diagnose in its early stages, and most patients have incurable disease by the time they present...
SUSE Linux is an increasingly popular Linux distribution that competes head-on with Red Hat’s Linux versions. SUSE Linux’s fortunes have been on the rise following Novell’s acquisition of Germany’s SUSE Linux AG for $210 million. SUSE is looking for more growth in the U.S. marketplace, helped in part by IBM’s $50...
