A funeral celebrant's story about how celebrating death, and creating personalised space for grief, can enrich lives and give meaning to death.
After a close encounter with death, Tom Morton realised he needed a change of pace and perspective. He decided to become the only independent funeral celebrant on the...
This book is designed primarily for Microsoft Outlook application developers using Microsoft Exchange Server. Many of the examples assume that you’ll be deploying workgroup applications in an Exchange Server environment using both public and private folders. It’s also assumed that you’ll be using Outlook 2002 to run the...
The scope of the proposed book is to identify and emphasize the successful link between computational materials modeling as a simulation and design tool and its synergistic application to experimental research and alloy development. Compared to other areas in science where computational modeling has made substantial contributions to the development...
In April 2009, one of the authors of this book, Thomas Meinl, was attending the
World Wide Web conference in Madrid, Spain. There, he gave a talk, in which he
presented the idea of Web service reservation via derivative mechanisms. During
the following discussions, it became clear that for many researchers, practitioners
and managers...
Intelligent decision support relies on techniques from a variety of disciplines, including artificial intelligence and database management systems. Most of the existing literature neglects the relationship between these disciplines. By integrating AI and DBMS, Computational Intelligence for Decision Support produces what other texts...
“Conversations with some of the sharpest minds in advertising lead the reader gently into the heart of the business. A great read whether you’re starting out in advertising or simply want to pick up some tips from the greats.”
—Mark Tungate, author of Adland: A Global History of...
With Three.js you can create sophisticated 3D games that run in the web browser. This book is aimed at both the professional game designer and the enthusiast with a step by step approach including lots of tips and examples.
Overview
Develop immersive 3D games that anyone can play on the Internet
Nowadays embedded and real-time systems contain complex software. The complexity of embedded systems is increasing, and the amount and variety of software in the embedded products are growing. This creates a big challenge for embedded and real-time software development processes and there is a need to develop separate metrics and...
This edited collection analyses the unexplored concept of the family business group, evaluating the opportunities and advantages that it creates for entrepreneurs. Raising a number of important questions, the authors construct a new research agenda for the complex topic of the family business group, which will ultimately assess its...
This book investigates the socioeconomic factors that triggered Tunisia’s "revolution for dignity” and the current issues and challenges facing its economy while suggesting mechanisms and instruments for their resolution. The author begins by analyzing the roots of the revolution and the post-revolution situation from a...
Strategic Knowledge Management Technology is based on the premise that it is difficult, if not impossible, to manage a modern business or public organization without at least some understanding of the planning, use, control and benefits of information technology to support knowledge work in the organization. This book applies the knowledge-based...
"Today, databases house our 'information crown jewels', but database security is one of the weakest areas of most information security programs. With this excellent book, Ben-Natan empowers you to close this database security gap and raise your database security bar!" Bruce W. Moulton. CISO/VP, Fidelity Investments (1995 - 2001)...
