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An Analog Electronics Companion: Basic Circuit Design for Engineers and Scientists

Cambridge University Press, 2003

This morning my newspaper contained the obituary of Sir Alan Hodgkin, Nobel Laureate together with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles, in physiology and medicine. What has this to do with our interest in electronics? Well, the prize was awarded for the elucidation of the mechanism of the propagation of electrical impulses along neural...

Data Scientists at Work

Apress, 2014

Data Scientists at Work is a collection of interviews with sixteen of the world's most influential and innovative data scientists from across the spectrum of this hot new profession. "Data scientist is the sexiest job in the 21st century," according to the Harvard Business Review. By 2018, the United States will...

Cloud Computing Bible

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

In the five months that I have been researching and writing Cloud Computing Bible, it has become clear to me that most people recognize that cloud computing is a big deal, even if they are not really clear why that is so. Every day newspaper and magazine articles and radio and TV stories report on cloud computing. The phrase “in the...

Understanding Search Engines: Mathematical Modeling and Text Retrieval (Software, Environments, Tools), Second Edition

SIAM, 2005

“There is no other information retrieval/search book where the heart is the mathematical foundations. This book is greatly needed to further establish information retrieval as a serious academic, as well as practical and industrial, area." ---Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University. “Berry and Browne describe most of what...

Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources

Thomson Gale, 2006

Crime, and the issues that relate to it, arouse compelling curiosity and fervent debate. In the human psyche, crimes and their underlying motives often capture equal measures of fascination and revulsion. In the media, criminals are both condemned and granted celebrity. Accordingly, the readings and resources offered in Crime and Punishment:...

The Social Media Marketing Book

O'Reilly, 2009

Something strange is happening. Your advertising doesn’t work anymore, at least not like it used to. You used to be able to buy some TV time or put an ad in a newspaper, but nowadays everyone has TiVo or a DVR and gets their news online. The conversations that took place under industrial broadcast media about your products happened in small...

MySpace Unraveled: What it is and how to use it safely

Peachpit Press, 2006

Do you know what your children are up to on MySpace? MySpace Unraveled: What it is and how to use it safely discusses the booming MySpace social-networking phenomenon and shows you exactly what you need know about MySpace and how to create a safe online experience for your kids. Written by Larry Magid and Anne Collier of Family Tech...

The 30 Day MBA: Learn the Essential Top Business School Concepts, Skills and Language Whilst Keeping Your Job and Your Cash

Kogan Page, 2009

I left the family business, in my case the Army, after a few short years. I hadn’t given much thought to a career before I ‘joined up’ and I followed a similar approach when I left. I found a job in sales and within a year or so was in a very junior management position. The company I worked for was in the vanguard of some new...

Reconstruction Era: Almanac Edition 1. (U X L Reconstruction Era Reference Library)

Gale, 2004

Doody Enterprises : "One insert box in this volume contains a "Letter from a Former Slave" that appeared in a Cincinnati newspaper on Aug. 7, 1865. It would be interesting to have students consider if this is a real letter dictated by a former slave or the creation of a journalist trying to sell newspapers who may have...

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language

Cambridge University Press, 1997

English is arguably the nearest thing we have to a world language, and yet it is a language with a wealth of varieties, dialects, and traditions, all developing in different ways and at different speeds. This book is a superbly written and illustrated exploration of the history, structure, and use of English throughout the world....

Adobe InDesign CS2 @work: Projects You Can Use on the Job

Sams Publishing, 2005

Adobe InDesign CS2 is a powerful, but complicated, page layout technology. Sure, learning how to use the various tools and techniques is important, but what you really need and want to know is how to put those tools and techniques to use to complete projects at work. That's where Adobe InDesign CS2 @...

Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon

Oxford University Press, 2003

Harkins, assistant professor of history at Western Kentucky University, means to examine the "cultural and ideological construct `the hillbilly'... rather than the actual people of the southern mountains." To this end, he examines some obscure early American printed material, Paul Webb's Esquire magazine cartoons from...

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