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Software Fortresses: Modeling Enterprise Architectures

Addison Wesley, 2003

This book introduces a new approach for modeling large enterprise systems: the software fortress model. In the software fortress model, an enterprise architecture is viewed as a series of self-contained, mutually suspicious, marginally cooperating software fortresses interacting with each other through carefully crafted and meticulously managed...

Great People Decisions: Why They Matter So Much, Why They are So Hard, and How You Can Master Them

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Great organizations are made up of great people. And for leaders at all levels within those organizations, the ability to find, hire, integrate, and retain great people is an absolutely critical skill—critical to their organization's success, and critical to their own success.

But for most people, making great appointments is difficult,...

Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit, Volume 2

Syngress Publishing, 2007

Penetration testing a network requires a delicate balance of art and science. A penetration tester must be creative enough to think outside of the box to determine the best attack vector into his own network, and also be expert in using the literally hundreds of tools required to execute the plan. This second volume adds over 300 new pen testing...

Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison

Routledge, 1999

In the first expose of unjust medical experimentation since David Rothman's Willowbrook's Wars, Allen M. Hornblum releases devastating stories from within the walls of Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. For more than two decades, from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s, inmates were used, in exchange for a few dollars, as guinea pigs...

Buying & Selling Jewelry on eBay (Buying & Selling on Ebay)

Course Technology PTR, 2005

In recent years, U.S. jewelry sales on the Internet have grown to nearly $3 billion yearly, a figure attained in part because of the popularity of eBay. "Buying & Selling Jewelry on eBay" walks you through the process of using eBay to both purchase and purvey jewelry-from finding the perfect gem and the right style of jewelry to...

The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory

Oxford University Press, 2009

Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion, alternately reviled and venerated as the harbinger of colonial dominion and avatar of...

Philosophy of Mathematics (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science)

North Holland, 2009

One of the most striking features of mathematics is the fact that we are much more certain about the mathematical knowledge we have than about what mathematical knowledge is knowledge of. Are numbers, sets, functions and groups physical entities of some kind? Are they objectively existing objects in some non-physical, mathematical realm? Are...

Programming Entity Framework: Building Data Centric Apps with the ADO.NET Entity Framework

O'Reilly, 2010

Get a thorough introduction to ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 -- Microsoft's core framework for modeling and interacting with data in .NET applications. The second edition of this acclaimed guide provides a hands-on tour of the framework latest version in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. Not only will you learn how to use EF4...

Optical Scanning Holography with MATLAB®

Springer, 2007

Optical Scanning Holography is an exciting new field with many potential novel applications. This book contains tutorials, research materials, as well as new ideas and insights that will be useful for those working in the field of optics and holography. The book has been written by one of the leading researchers in the field. It covers the...

The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Extracting, Cleanin

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

The Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) system is the foundation of the data warehouse. A properly designed ETL system extracts data from the source systems, enforces data quality and consistency standards, conforms data so that separate sources can be used together, and finally delivers data in a presentation-ready format so that...

Computational Fluid Dynamics: Principles and Applications

Elsevier Limited, 2001

The history of Computational Fluid Dynamics, or CFD for short,, started in the early 1970’s. Around that time, it became an acronym for a combination of physics, numerical mathematics, and, to some extent, computer sciences employed to simulate fluid flows. The beginning of CFD was triggered by the availability of...

Generative Leadership: Shaping New Futures for Today's Schools

Corwin, 2008

A new concept of leadership for today's educational needs!

Generative leadership is an innovative approach that taps into an organization's collective intelligence. This accessible resource examines the fundamental elements of generative leadership and provides tools to catalyze organizational...

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