Students often find it difficult to grasp fundamental ecological and evolutionary concepts because of their inherently mathematical nature. Likewise, the application of ecological and evolutionary theory often requires a high degree of mathematical competence.
This book is a first step to addressing these difficulties, providing a broad...
I suppose for many it was just another unremarkable mid-May Wednesday; certainly I don’t recall the weather making any effort to surprise. What might have made the day slightly memorable for some, perhaps, was that Manchester United was playing Chelsea in the final of the ultra-prestigious soccer European Champions League. A couple of days...
"This book lays the foundation for understanding the value of long-term investing and the importance of knowing who is managing your money and what they are doing with it." –Mike Cacace, Senior Editor, Fortune magazine
Photographic Possibilities, Third Edition is a marvelously updated resource of innovative and traditional photographic processes that imagemakers have come to trust and depend on to enhance their technical knowledge, create astonishing pictures, and raise their visual consciousness.
What do you mean, you don’t have a passport? Why, it’s sitting right in your hands, even as you read! This book is your passport to a very special place.You’re about to begin a journey,my friend: a journey toward that magical place called certification! You don’t need a ticket, you don’t need a suitcase—just...
Oracle Performance Survival Guide offers a structured, systematic, start-to-finish methodology for optimizing Oracle performance as efficiently as possible. Leading Oracle expert Guy Harrison shows how to maximize your tuning investment by focusing on causes rather than symptoms, and by quickly identifying the areas...
‘Clothing that is not purchased or worn is not fashion’ (to paraphrase Armani)
Knowledge of marketing is essential to help ensure success and reduce the risk of failure in fashion. For the designer starting up in business, this book offers a guide to the major decisions that will enable you to fulfil...
“Performance Intelligence at Work is the wake-up call every business leader needs. Results come from actions but actions come from your thinking. To perform better you must change your thinking.” —Mike Davidson, Vice Chairman and Chief Agency...
A Practical Approach To Building Small To Medium Software Systems For Real Business Clients
Based on more than 100 actual commercial projects, this book clearly explains how to run an agile software development project that delivers high-quality, high-value solutions to business clients. It concentrates on the practical,...
Understanding materials, their properties and behavior is fundamental to engineering design, and a key application of materials science. Written for all students of engineering, materials science and design, this book describes the procedures for material selection in mechanical design in order to ensure that the most suitable materials for a given...
The Extensible Markup Language is changing the way that information is being stored and exchanged. It is also changing the very way that we think about data. XML Unleashed allows you to unlock this new power and get you well on your way towards developing XML applications and systems that enable your most important business processes, or your...
