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A fully dramatized version of the practical guide to business in fictional form offers an ensemble cast, accompanied by sound effects and music, that reveals how businesses can enhance productivity and provide personal fulfillment. Book available.

Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World with CD-ROM

Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World with CD-ROM

by John Sterman

Today's leading authority on the subject of this text is the author, MIT Standish Professor of Management and Director of the System Dynamics Group, John D. Sterman. Sterman's objective is to explain, in a true textbook format, what system dynamics is, and how it can be successfully applied to solve business and organizational problems. System dynamics is both a currently utilized approach to organizational... (more)

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

by Peter M. Senge

Completely Updated and Revised This revised edition of Peter Senge’s bestselling classic, The Fifth Discipline , is based on fifteen years of experience in putting the book’s ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization’s ability to learn faster than the competition. The leadership stories in the book demonstrate the many ways that... (more)

Analysis and Design of Information Systems

Analysis and Design of Information Systems

by James A. Senn

The Nature of Economies (Vintage)

by Jane Jacobs

From the revered author of the classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities comes a new book that will revolutionize the way we think about the economy. Starting from the premise that human beings "exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect," Jane Jacobs has focused her singular eye on the natural world in order to discover the fundamental models for a vibrant economy. The... (more)

Probabilistic Methods of Signal and System Analysis (Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Probabilistic Methods of Signal and System Analysis (Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering)

by Clare D. McGillem, George R. Cooper

Probabilistic Methods of Signal and System Analysis, Third Edition, provides an introduction to the applications of probability theory to the solution of problems arising in the analysis of signals and systems. Since its original publication in 1971, this text has been a standard for signals and systems courses that emphasize probability. The new edition incorporates a much greater use of the computer in... (more)

Architecting Enterprise Solutions: Patterns for High-Capability Internet-based Systems

Architecting Enterprise Solutions: Patterns for High-Capability Internet-based Systems

by Paul Dyson

A practical, nuts-and-bolts guide to architectural solutions that describes step-by-step how to design robustness and flexibility into an Internet-based system Based on real-world problems and systems, and illustrated with a running case study Enables software architects and project managers to ensure that nonfunctional requirements are met so that the system won't fall over, that it can be maintained... (more)

The Master Swing Trader: Tools and Techniques to Profit from Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities

The Master Swing Trader: Tools and Techniques to Profit from Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities

by Alan S. Farley

Swing trading is gaining popularity as a powerful method to increase returns--and potentially lower risks--by profiting from short-term price moves. The Master Swing Trader explains how traders can use technical analysis, charting, and market sentiment to make trades that hold through price fluctuations and noise with wider stops. This complete, practical guide to making profitable short-term trades--based on... (more)

IT Systems Management: Designing, Implementing, and Managing World-Class Infrastructures

IT Systems Management: Designing, Implementing, and Managing World-Class Infrastructures

by Rich Schiesser

This is the definitive guide to systems management for every IT professional with responsibility for maintaining the stability and responsiveness of IT production environments. Rich Schiesser, one of the world's most experienced IT infrastructure managers, covers every systems management discipline, every type of IT environment, and all three elements of success: technology, processes, and people. Schiesser begins... (more)

Fundamentals of Signals and Systems Using the Web and Matlab (3rd Edition)

Fundamentals of Signals and Systems Using the Web and Matlab (3rd Edition)

by Edward W. Kamen

With a strong emphasis on solving problems and exploring concepts, this guidebook delivers an accessible yet comprehensive introduction to continuous-time and discrete-time signals and systems. Discusses how to download signals (time series) from the Web and analyze the data. Includes details on common types of digital filters, such as moving average and exponential moving average filters, with applications to... (more)

Signals, Systems, and Transforms (3rd Edition)

Signals, Systems, and Transforms (3rd Edition)

by Charles L. Phillips

A clear, comprehensive presentation of both the theory and applications in signals, systems, and transforms, this book presents the mathematical background of signals and systems in relation to practical theory. Well-written and well-organized, it contains many examples and problems for reinforcement of the concepts presented. This book presents the mathematical background of signals and systems, including the... (more)

Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop: The Basics of ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo Updated for ArcGIS 9 (Getting to Know series)

Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop: The Basics of ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo Updated for ArcGIS 9 (Getting to Know series)

by Tim Ormsby

With revised material and new exercises based on ArcGIS version 9, this updated work acquaints geographers and GIS professionals with the principles of GIS as it teaches the mechanics of using ArcGIS software. Conceptual material is followed by scripted software exercises. Necessary GIS skills are presented in a variety of areas-map symbology, data overlay, map projection, and data conversion-as the making of maps... (more)

A failure of nerve: Leadership in the age of the quick fix : an edited manuscript

A failure of nerve: Leadership in the age of the quick fix : an edited manuscript

by Edwin H. Friedman

Ten years after his death, Edwin Friedman's insights into leadership are more urgently needed than ever. He was the first to tell us that all organizations have personalities, like families, and to apply the insights of family therapy to churches and synagogues, rectors and rabbis, politicians and teachers. Failure of Nerve is essential reading for all leaders, be they parents or presidents,... (more)

Building Intelligent .NET Applications: Agents, Data Mining, Rule-Based Systems, and Speech Processing (The Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series)

Building Intelligent .NET Applications: Agents, Data Mining, Rule-Based Systems, and Speech Processing (The Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series)

by Sara Morgan

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around almost as long as computers have been. It is only relatively recently, however, that some basic AI techniques have been brought to bear on common software problems. This is not a book about AI theory. It is a book about utilizing some AI technologies to enhance the value of both new and existing applications. The four AI areas covered in this book are Speech... (more)

Digital Library Use: Social Practice in Design and Evaluation (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing)

Digital Library Use: Social Practice in Design and Evaluation (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing)

The contributors to this volume view digital libraries (DLs) from a social as well as technological perspective. They see DLs as sociotechnical systems, networks of technology, information artifacts, and people and practices interacting with the larger world of work and society. As Bruce Schatz observes in his foreword, for a digital library to be useful, the users, the documents, and the information system must... (more)

Practice of System and Network Administration, The (2nd Edition)

Practice of System and Network Administration, The (2nd Edition)

by Tom Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup

The first edition of The Practice of System and Network Administration introduced a generation of system and network administrators to a modern IT methodology. Whether you use Linux, Unix, or Windows, this newly revised edition describes the essential practices previously handed down only from mentor to protégé. This wonderfully lucid, often funny cornucopia of information introduces beginners to advanced... (more)

B2B Application Integration: e-Business-Enable Your Enterprise

B2B Application Integration: e-Business-Enable Your Enterprise

by David S. Linthicum

(Pearson Education) A guide to the concepts, technologies, and techniques that make e-Business work, offering a thorough explanation of how middleware layers work. Includes in-depth coverage of the five types of B2B applications, and how to evaluate them for a particular organization. Softcover. DLC: Application software--Development.

Analog VLSI: Circuits and Principles

by Shih-Chii Liu, JÃ¶rg Kramer, Giacomo Indiveri, Tobias DelbrÃ¼ck, Rodney Douglas

Neuromorphic engineers work to improve the performance of artificial systems through the development of chips and systems that process information collectively using primarily analog circuits. This book presents the central concepts required for the creative and successful design of analog VLSI circuits. The discussion is weighted toward novel circuits that emulate natural signal processing. Unlike most circuits... (more)

Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination

Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination

by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

Winner, 2009 George A. and Jeanne S. DeLong Prize in Book History presented by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP). and Winner, 2009 Richard J. Finneran Award given by the Society for Textual Scholarship In Mechanisms, Matthew Kirschenbaum examines new media and electronic writing against the textual and technological primitives that govern writing, inscription, and... (more)

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