Learn IT - Books tags rethink

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

Back Bay Books, 2012

The thrilling memoir of the world's most wanted computer hacker

"Mitnick manages to make breaking computer code sound as action-packed as robbing a bank." -- NPR

Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed...

Prefactoring

O'Reilly, 2005

More often than not, developers will stop a large project in the middle of the build stage to rethink and recode the software design so it's cleaner and more efficient. Known as "refactoring," this process eats up valuable time and money. To help offset refactoring, this book presents a new process called...

Digital Identity

O'Reilly, 2005

The rise of network-based, automated services in the past decade has definitely changed the way businesses operate, but not always for the better. Offering services, conducting transactions and moving data on the Web opens new opportunities, but many CTOs and CIOs are more concerned with the risks. Like the rulers of medieval...

The Power of Culture: Driving Today's Organisation

McGraw-Hill, 2004

Organisational culture is one of the most powerful performance levers available for managers. It can drive strategy and productivity, but if mishandled or ignored it will destroy gains and sabotage change.

Yet most managers are either unable or unwilling to harness the power of culture, thereby missing a critical opportunity to turn the...

Business Innovation and Disruptive Technology: Harnessing the Power of Breakthrough Technology

Prentice Hall, 2002

This book is designed to be a handbook for executives who want to gain the latest insights and strategies for identifying and leveraging emerging and disruptive technologies in the software arena for "back to basics" enterprise value creation, competitive advantage, and increased business agility...

Financial Engineering Principles : A Unified Theory for Financial Product Analysis and Valuation

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

"Quite simply, he’s done it again. Building upon his previous writings from the fixed income markets, Beaumont has successfully applied his practical hands-on style to bring us a fresh cross-market perspective of bonds, equities, and currencies. Financial Engineering Principles now occupies that portion of my bookshelf reserved for texts...

The Making of a Neuromorphic Visual System

Springer, 2004

This book presents an approach to the construction of a visual system, which is behaviorally, computationally and neurally motivated. The goal is to characterize the process of visual categorization and to find a suitable representation format that can successfully deal with the structural variability existent within visual categories. The book...

Leadership for the Common Good: Tackling Public Problems in a Shared-Power World

Jossey-Bass, 2005

Intuition and experience teach us that no one is really 'in charge' of anything complex or important. Barbara Crosby and John Bryson have developed this idea into a vividly positive image of the leader's role. 'Shared-power,' as they describe, dissect, and show how to work with it, transforms the very definition of leadership for the twenty-first...

Social Work, Health and Equality

Routledge, 2000

The authors use this volume to demonstrate how social work can make a significant contribution to creating greater equality in the experience of illness and health care as well as to describe the major adjustments in conceptualization, practice, and organization necessary to achieve this change. The book focuses on four key aspects, health...

Stream Data Management (Advances in Database Systems)

Springer, 2005

Researchers in data management have recently recognized the importance of a new class of data-intensive applications that requires managing data streams, i.e., data composed of continuous, real-time sequence of items. Streaming applications pose new and interesting challenges for data management systems. Such application domains require queries...

IPv6 in Practice: A Unixer's Guide to the Next Generation Internet

Springer, 2006

Handling IPv6 for the first time is a challenging task even for the experienced system administrator. New concepts and mechanisms make it necessary to rethink well-established methods of the IPv4 protocol.

This book is a practical guide to IPv6 addressing Unix and network administrators with experience in TCP/IP(v4) but not necessarily...

Retailization: Brand Survival in the Age of Retailer Power

Kogan Page, 2006

Presents an innovative and pragmatic step-by-step process to help businesses rethink their brand efforts around the retail strategies that best meet the needs of today's shoppers. Illustrates how brand power is inexorably being replaced by retailer power. Based on a two-year study conducted by AC Nielsen and BBDO Europe --the largest global study...

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