Everything but the Coffee casts a fresh eye on the world's most famous coffee company, looking beyond baristas, movie cameos, and Paul McCartney CDs to understand what Starbucks can tell us about America. Bryant Simon visited hundreds of Starbucks around the world to ask, Why did Starbucks take hold so quickly with consumers?...
This book has been designed for people who are in a hurry.
Perhaps you are a developer who has been asked to port some software, initially written for another operating system (such as may run on a desktop computer), to Symbian OS. Or perhaps you have to investigate whether Symbian OS could be suited to an idea from a designer friend of...
The first resource available presenting the unique SCOR (Supply Chain Operations Reference) model developed by the Supply-Chain Council, Supply Chain Excellence takes you step-by-step through every moment in the supply chain project lifecycle.
Based on the SCOR Project Roadmap, the book shows how a company can achieve core...
This work deals with a well-defined class of probabilistic models. The focus
is on polymers. More precisely I should say that the focus is on the
equilibrium statistical mechanics of a class of polymers: dynamical and
non-equilibrium phenomena are not treated, reflecting the fact that these
directions are at the moment...
Casino card games such as baccarat and blackjack
differ significantly from casino games such as craps,
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dent trial processes-that is, the cards that already have
been played do affect the odds on subsequent hands.
Consider for a moment the game of blackjack, where
the cards...
The absolute cutting edge for application development at the moment is using Macromedia's Flash MX (the premier software for designing fantastic looking interfaces) with Microsoft's .NET framework (tremendously powerful server-side technology).
Combining these technologies has been greatly aided by the release of...
For several years now, there has been a constant increase in the number of works
on UML and object modelling. However, my practical experience of training (more
than a thousand or so people trained in OMT, then UML since 1993…) convinced
me that there is still another need that is not tended to by the multitude of books...
Welcome to Wedding Videography: Start to Finish, a resource to help you step confidently
into the field of wedding videography. This book is designed to step the novice wedding
videographer through the process of starting a wedding-videography business, filming a
wedding, editing the wedding footage, and outputting the final product...
This book is based in large part on our own trials and tribulations (as well as the occasional “Eureka!” moment) that we’ve experienced working with ISA Server 2004. In this book, we are talking to people much like ourselves—experienced Windows network administrators who want to secure their networks and speed up Web...
Flash has upped the standard for web motion graphics and has been welcomed with open arms on account of its powerful new ActionScripting capabilities. Following the phenomenal success of New Masters of Flash, the Flash Annual will bring together a new collection of the hottest Flash design talents on the planet, all of whom have...
From the moment it was published almost ten years ago, Elements of User Experience became a vital reference for web and interaction designers the world over, and has come to define the core principles of the practice. Now, in this updated, expanded, and full-color new edition, Jesse James Garrett has refined his...
