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Tidal Power: Harnessing Energy from Water Currents

John Wiley & Sons, 2014

As the global supply of conventional energy sources, such as fossil fuels, dwindles and becomes more and more expensive, unconventional and renewable sources of energy, such as power generation from water sources, is becoming more and more important. Hydropower has been around for decades, but this book suggests new methods that are...

Catastrophe Modeling: A New Approach to Managing Risk (Huebner International Series on Risk, Insurance and Economic Security)

Springer, 2004

This book had its genesis in June 1996 when the Wharton Risk
Management and Decision Processes Center (Wharton Risk Center) co-hosted
a conference on “Information Technology and Its Impact on Catastrophic
Risks”. It was one of the events that year celebrating the Anniversary of
the first computer (ENIAC) at the...

Inside the Minds: Security Matters - Industry Leaders from eBay, Inc., Motorola, Internet Security Systems & More on Protecting Your Most Valuable Assets

Aspatore Books, 2003

Inside the Minds: Security Matters is an authoritative, insider's perspective on the ins and outs of the security industry and the future of the business, on a global scale. Featuring CEOs, Presidents, and Chief Information Security Officers, all representing some of the nation's top companies, this book provides a broad, yet comprehensive...

Advanced Social Media Marketing: How to Lead, Launch, and Manage a Successful Social Media Program

Apress, 2012

Hundreds of millions of Americans are using social media (SM), and already some 70% of businesses have joined them there, using Facebook and other SM platforms to connect with their customers, and attract new ones. So the real question isn’t whether to take your business onto social media platforms—but how to do it quickly,...

The New World of Wireless: How to Compete in the 4G Revolution

Wharton School Publishing, 2009

“The New World of Wireless is an impressive, thoughtful journey that helps business leaders see over the horizon to our unwired future, where we belong.”

–John Chen, Chairman, CEO, and President, Sybase, Inc.

...

Investment Risk Management (The Wiley Finance Series)

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Risk has two sides: underestimating it harms the investor, while overestimating it prevents the implementation of bold business projects. This book explains, from the point of view of the practitioner, the analysis of investment risk - a proper account of adequate risk management strategies - and offers an objective and readable account of the most...

CMMI® SCAMPI Distilled Appraisals for Process Improvement

Addison Wesley, 2005

The Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI) is an invaluable tool for organizations seeking to drive quantifiable improvements in systems and software engineering. SCAMPI appraisals can help those organizations identify the strengths and weaknesses of their current processes, reveal crucial development...

Chemical Bioavailability in Terrestrial Environments, Volume 32 (Developments in Soil Science)

Elsevier Limited, 2008

This book begins with an overview of current thinking on bioavailability, its definition, cutting edge research in speciation and advancement in tools for assessing chemical bioavailability in the terrestrial environment. The second section of the book focuses on the role of chemical speciation in bioavailability. Section three addresses...

Hedge Fund Modeling and Analysis Using Excel and VBA (The Wiley Finance Series)

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Co-authored by two respected authorities on hedge funds and asset management, this implementation-oriented guide shows you how to employ a range of the most commonly used analysis tools and techniques both in industry and academia, for understanding, identifying and managing risk as well as for quantifying return factors across several key...

Gastric Bypass Surgery: Everything You Need to Know to Make an Informed Decision

McGraw-Hill, 2004

Some 22 million Americans are morbidly obese. For many of them, gastric bypass surgery appears to offer the only hope of long-term weight loss. Once viewed as a radical weight-loss alternative, the surgery is becoming increasingly popular. In 2002, more than 100,000 Americans elected to have the procedure done.

Written by a medical...

Chemical Process Safety: Learning from Case Histories

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004

"Given his extensive background in an industrial setting as a team leader at the PPG Chlor-Alkali Plant in Louisiana and the safety course that he taught for AIChE with the well-known safety expert Trevor Kletz, the quantity of information of a practical nature contained in this book is not surprising."
- Gary Bennett,...

Hardening Linux

Apress, 2005

"Hardening" is the process of protecting a system and its applications against unknown threats. And Hardening Linux will explain the main steps that any Network or Systems Administrator needs to take, to protect his computers that run on Linux. This book discusses security of mail servers, web servers, and file servers, as well as...

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