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Foundations for Efficient Web Service Selection (Advances in Database Systems)

Springer, 2009

Foundations for Efficient Web Service Selection describes the foundational framework for efficient Web service selection. It lays out a theoretical underpinning for the design of models and algorithms for searching and optimizing access to Web services.

Excerpts from Prof. Fabio Casati’s foreword:

This excellent book looks at the...

Physics: Principles and Problems

McGraw-Hill, 2004

This is the number one physics program in the nation - and for good reason. "Physics: Principles and Problems" presents concisely developed concepts supported by an appropriate amount of math and every day applications to make the subject interesting and unintimidating.

Physics is a branch of science that involves the study of...

Design of Structural Steelwork

Routledge, 1998

This second edition of Design of Structural Steelwork presents the essential design aspects of steel as a structural material. It has been carefully revised and updated to provide a modern introduction to the subject, assuming only a basic knowledge of structural analysis and solid mechanics.

Instruction in structural design has...

The Complete Book of Spaceflight: From Apollo 1 to Zero Gravity

John Wiley & Sons, 2002

A commanding encyclopedia of the history and principles of spaceflightÐ²Ð“Ð²Ð“from its humble beginnings to its likely future

"Our reason for spaceflight is just this: we are human, and to be human is to be inquisitive. At heart, we are explorers with a universe of billions of new worlds before us." ...

Designing Interactions

MIT Press, 2007

Digital technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work. Designers of digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a physical objectÐ²Ð”beautiful or utilitarianÐ²Ð”but as designing our interactions with it. In Designing Interactions,...

Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Studies show that the reason why many people gain weight—and keep it on—is emotional eating, not physical eating. Now Dr. Roger Gould, a psychotherapist and a leading authority on emotional eating, shows how to overcome fear, anxiety, and other stresses and stop using food as an over-the-counter tranquilizer that can cause weight gain....

Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

An engaging look at what led to the financial turmoil we now find ourselves in

Bailout Nation offers one of the clearest looks at the financial lenders, regulators, and politicians responsible for the financial crisis of 2008. Written by Barry Ritholtz, one of today's most popular economic bloggers and a well-established...

Strategic Marketing: In the Customer Driven Organization

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Marketing is the function within an organization that focuses directly on the customer. Strategic Marketing in the Customer Driven Organization places a unique emphasis on the reason for the existence of the firm -- to provide, communicate and deliver value to the customer. Through the use of many international examples,...

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2009

I’ve always been mystified why so few books are available on debugging. You can buy any number on every other aspect of software engineering such as design, code construction, requirements capture, methodologies... the list is endless. And yet, for some reason, debugging has been almost (not quite but very nearly) ignored by authors and...

SEO Warrior

O'Reilly, 2009

I was compelled to write SEO Warrior for many reasons. Every day, thousands of sites are born in the hopes of making it big. Most of them will fail before achieving their goals. Many site owners create their sites blindly, without conducting proper research. Many site owners do not even know what search engine optimization (SEO) is and what its...

Ubuntu 8.10 Linux Bible

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

A Linux distribution is basically the sum of the things that you need to run Linux on your computer. There are many different Linux distributions, each with its own target audience, set of features, administrative tools, and fan club, the latter of which is more properly known as a user community. Putting aside the downright fanatics, most of the...

Dengue Virus (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology)

Springer, 2009

Scientific research on dengue has a long and rich history. The literature has been touched by famous names in medicine- Benjamin Rush, Walter Reed, and Albert Sabin, to name a very few- and has been fertile ground for medical historians . The advances made in those early investigations are all the more remarkable for the limited tools available...

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