The original hardback edition of The New Workplace examined modern business terms such as total quality management, just-in-time production, e-business, lean manufacturing and teleworking. It explored what these terms really mean and what effect they have in practice - especially their impact on productivity and performance and their social and...
This powerful new edition provides developers with a comprehensive guide to the rapidly evolving XML space. Serious users of XML will find topics on just about everything they need, from fundamental syntax rules, to details of DTD and XML Schema creation, to XSLT transformations, to APIs used for processing XML documents. Simply put, this is...
"The authors supply countless examples of companies that have successfully implemented CRM, and show us the way to do the same." –Philip Kotler author of Marketing Insights from A to Z
"CRM is no silver bullet, but it is a golden opportunity for companies that...
Large-scale wall charts were fundamental tools of classroom instruction throughout Europe in the mid-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Collected here for the first time in one deluxe volume are over 100 of these vintage educational posters now important relics in the history of science, art, and design. From the anatomy of a tulip or an...
A fresh look at PHP as it applies to multi-tier application design, giving developers an alternative to more expensive and less manageable solutions.
Some of the benefits of using PHP is that it is easier to learn and cheaper than using Java J2EE Enterprise or .NET platforms. In concert with a database server and a...
Keith Kelsen does a masterful job in Unleashing the Power of Digital Signage of introducing this new technology to the business world. All marketers need to pay close attention to what is going on here, for as Kelsen points out, what we are witnessing is the birth of the 5th screen – beyond movies, TV, computers, and mobile phones...
Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Yosemite, the ultimate guide
to California’s most stunning park. The full-colour section introduces Yosemite’s highlights, from hiking the Mist Trail and rock-climbing in the Valley to insight into the...
Professional JMS lifts the lid on the collection of data communications technologies known collectively as the Java Message Service (JMS). Don't approach this book without a very solid grounding in Java network programming and familiarity with the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) environment, because the authors don't slow down for...
How Trump got to the Oval Office—and how both parties and the mainstream media are keeping him there
Donald Trump’s residency in the White House is not an accident of American history, and it can’t be blamed on a single cause. In American Breakdown, David Bromwich provides an essential analysis of...
Learn to solve the world's most puzzling interview questions
Company recruiters are asking tough, new brain teasers during interviews that test your skills, creativity, and ability to think on your feet. How would you respond to puzzlers such as "What weighs more on the moon than on the...
Where does that kernel of inspiration come from? Does it hit you
when you are in the shower or when you are driving on the turnpike?
Wherever it takes hold of you, it marks the beginning of the process of
making a piece of art. Some artists agonize step-by-step in the creation
process. For some people the work fl ows seamlessly from...
