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Embodied Minds in Action

Oxford University Press, 2009

In Embodied Minds in Action, Robert Hanna and Michelle Maiese work out a unified treatment of three fundamental philosophical problems: the mind-body problem, the problem of mental causation, and the problem of action. This unified treatment rests on two basic claims. The first is that conscious, intentional minds like ours are essentially...

Embracing Uncertainty: The Essence of Leadership

M.E. Sharpe, 2001

This book offers a radically different approach from the clever, but overly simplistic and frequently misleading formulas for success offered by most self-help business literature. The authors believe that in today's turbulent competitive environment it is necessary to embrace uncertainty and set more realistic expectations, while creating greater...

Buying Trances: A New Psychology of Sales and Marketing

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Praise for Buying Trances

"The genius of Joe Vitale has never shone brighter. This thoroughly documented and easy-to-read book is the first of its kind. Vitale gives you the keys to their minds. All you have to do is turn the keys. They said 'yes' to you long before you said a word and they were begging to buy from you...

Photographic Possibilities, Third Edition: The Expressive Use of Equipment, Ideas, Materials, and Processes

Focal Press, 2008

Photographic Possibilities, Third Edition is a marvelously updated resource of innovative and traditional photographic processes that imagemakers have come to trust and depend on to enhance their technical knowledge, create astonishing pictures, and raise their visual consciousness.

This concise and reliable handbook provides...

Collider: The Search for the World's Smallest Particles

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

"Paul Halpern is a gifted writer who brings science and scientists alive. This is a wonderful introduction to the world of high-energy physics, where gigantic machines and tiny particles meet."
”Kenneth Ford, retired director of the American Institute of Physics and author of The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyone...

The Business of IT: How to Improve Service and Lower Costs

IBM Press, 2009

Drive More Business Value from IT…

and Bridge the Gap Between IT and Business Leadership

Apply business practices throughout IT to optimize budgets and improve ROI

Hegelian Metaphysics

Oxford University Press, 2009

The great German idealist philosopher G. W. F. Hegel has exerted an immense influence on the development of philosophy from the early 19th century to the present. But the metaphysical aspects of his thought are still under-appreciated. In a series of essays Robert Stern traces the development of a distinctively Hegelian approach to metaphysics and...

Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices

Chicago Review Press, 2001

Ordinary folks can construct 13 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials and this step-by-step guide. Clear instructions, diagrams, and photographs show how to build projects ranging from the simple-a match-powered rocket-to the more complex-a scale-model, table-top...

Beginning Silverlight 3

Apress, 2009

Silverlight design tools have important differences compared to those used to create Ajax and JavaScript functionality. Robert Lair takes you on a tour of all the tools, including Microsoft Expression Design, which plays an important part in creating Silverlight assets; Microsoft Expression Blend, which is used to build user...

Strategic Intelligence: Business Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence, and Knowledge Management

Auerbach Publications, 2006

Strategic intelligence (SI) has mostly been used in military settings, but its worth goes well beyond that limited role. It has become invaluable for improving any organization's strategic decision making process. The author of Strategic Intelligence: Business Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence, and Knowledge Management recognizes synergies...

Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R (Use R)

Springer, 2009

Computational techniques based on simulation have now become an essential part of the statistician's toolbox. It is thus crucial to provide statisticians with a practical understanding of those methods, and there is no better way to develop intuition and skills for simulation than to use simulation to solve statistical problems. Introducing...

Beginning Silverlight 2: From Novice to Professional (Books for Professionals by Professionals)

Apress, 2009

With the need for a richer user experience ever more in focus when creating web applications, Microsoft has released Silverlight, the new crossÐ²Ð“browser, crossÐ²Ð“platform plugÐ²Ð“in that allows developers to create rich interactive applications for the Web.

Silverlight poses exciting new opportunities...

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