This petroleum and natural gas engineering two-volume handbook is written in the spirit of the classic handbooks of other engineering disciplines. The two volumes reflect the importance of the industry its engineers serve (i.e., Standard and Poor's shows that the fuels sector is the largest single entity in the gross domestic...

What do you get when you combine an electronics hobbyist, hacker, garage mechanic, kitchen table inventor, tinkerer, and entrepreneur? A “maker,” of course. Playful and creative, makers are—through expertise and experimentation—creating art, products, and processes that change the way we think and interact with the...

Product and service innovations are the result of mutually interacting creative and coordination tasks within a system that has to balance technical decisions, marketplace taste, personnel management, and stakeholder commitment. The constituent elements of such systems are often scattered across multiple firms and across the globe and...

This collection of essays looks at over 200 major court cases, at both state and federal levels, from the colonial period to the present. Organized thematically, the articles range from 1,000 to 5,000 words and include recent topics such as the Microsoft antitrust case, the O.J. Simpson trials, and the Clinton impeachment. This new edition...

Moodle 2.0 for Business will show you how to set up Moodle in your corporation. Think of all the time you could save by putting your existing training material online. Think of the printing costs that you could reduce by putting HR documents on your staff site, and think of the team spirit that could be created by setting up staff...

For more than twenty years, serious C programmers have relied on one book for practical, in-depth knowledge of the programming interfaces that drive the UNIX and Linux kernels: W. Richard Stevens’ Advanced Programming in the UNIX® Environment . Now, once again, Rich’s colleague Steve...

I am are very happy to have taken part in the 12th Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference (FC 2008). Due to the recent growth in the number of security and cryptography venues, the competition for high-quality submissions has been on the rise. Despite that, the continued success of FC is attested by the research...

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