At its core, the process of designing reports hasn’t changed substantially in the past 20 years. The report designer lays out report objects, which contain data from a known source of data, in a design application such as Reporting Services, Business Objects Reports, or Microsoft Access. He or she then tests report execution,...

This book deals with creating high-performance web sites. Its focus is large and high-volume sites. We met while working for a company whose web site has upwards of 50,000 pages and gets more than 80,000,000 visitors a month (many more during the holiday shopping season). The advice the book gives, however, applies equally to smaller sites,...

The fifth edition of Practical Financial Management is the latest milestone in a 35-year journey in education that began when I was a corporate executive teaching finance as an adjunct professor.

Not long after starting down that road I realized that I might be able to improve on the approach taken by most finance texts. It...

All managers, whether brand new to their positions or well established in the corporate heirarchy, can use a little "brushing up" now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books series is filled...

The cytological diagnosis of soft tissue tumours, based on fine needle aspirates, has been debated and at times dis couraged except in the diagnosis of lipoma. Soft tissue tumours are relatively rare in spite of the fact that more than 100 benign subtypes, over 50 variants of sarcoma and a number of 'border-line' entities have been...