Software for People

Software for People

The highly competitive and globalized software market is creating pressure on software companies. Given the current boundary conditions, it is critical to continuously increase time-to-market and reduce development costs. In parallel, driven by private life experiences with mobile computing devices, the World Wide Web and software-based services, peoples general expectations with regards to software are growing. They expect software that is simple and joyful to use. In the light of the changes that have taken place in recent years, software companies need to fundamentally reconsider the way they develop and deliver software to their customers. This book introduces fundamentals, trends and best practices in the software industry from a threefold perspective which equally takes into account design, management, and development of software. It demonstrates how cross-functional integration can be leveraged by software companies to successfully build software for people. Professionals from business and academia give an overview on state-of-the-art knowledge and report on key insights from their real-life experience. They provide guidance and hands-on recommendation on how to create winning products. This combined perspective fosters the transfer of knowledge between research and practice and offers a high practical value for both sides. The book targets both, practitioners and academics looking for successfully building software in the future. It is directed at Managing Directors of software companies, Software Project Managers, Product Managers and Designers, Software Developers as well as academics and students in the area of Software and Information Systems Engineering, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), and Innovation Management.

Software for People

Visual Heritage in the Digital Age

Visual Heritage in the Digital Age

Heritage is everywhere, and an understanding of our past is increasingly critical to the understanding of our contemporary cultural context and place in global society. Visual Heritage in the Digital Age presents the state-of-the-art in the application of digital technologies to heritage studies, with the chapters collectively demonstrating the ways in which current developments are liberating the study, conservation and management of the past. Digital approaches to heritage have developed significantly over recent decades in terms of both the quantity and range of applications. However, rather than merely improving and enriching the ways in which we understand and engage with the past, this technology is enabling us to do this in entirely new ways.

Visual Heritage in the Digital Age

Consumption

Consumption

This book analyzes the main post-war features of consumption. It traces the historical development of consumption and discusses the major contributions made by sociologists in discussing the subject. Robert Bocock is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University.

Consumption

The Global Crash

The Global Crash

The financial crisis hit the global economy unexpectedly from August 2007 producing consequences comparable to the ones experienced in the course of the 1930s. This book provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary account of the events leading to the financial crisis, its institutional causes and consequences, its economic characteristics and its socio-political implications.

The Global Crash

The CD-ROM Drive

The CD-ROM Drive

The CD-ROM Drive is the first to describe all the system aspects of CD-ROM drive design, discussing all the building blocks from optics to host interface. The various subsystems of CD-ROM drives and their functions are described separately and all relevant aspects are covered, from mechanical, optical and electrical to control and information processing. In addition, new aspects relating to high- and very high-speed drives are introduced and discussed. All these points, as well as those relating to drive benchmarking and performance, combine to make this book a unique contribution to the field. The CD-ROM Drive, although dedicated to the CD-ROM system, is also a valuable reference for other compact disc systems such as CD-Recordable or Digital Versatile Disc (DVD). Containing more than fifty figures and a comprehensive list of references, the book is an invaluable source for specialists in the field and designers of CD-ROM drives. It will also appeal to students interested in combined mechatronics subjects.

The CD-ROM Drive

Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control Strategies for Non-Linear Systems

Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control Strategies for Non-Linear Systems

This book presents selected fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control strategies for non-linear systems in a unified framework. In particular, starting from advanced state estimation strategies up to modern soft computing, the discrete-time description of the system is employed Part I of the book presents original research results regarding state estimation and neural networks for robust fault diagnosis. Part II is devoted to the presentation of integrated fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant systems. It starts with a general fault-tolerant control framework, which is then extended by introducing robustness with respect to various uncertainties. Finally, it is shown how to implement the proposed framework for fuzzy systems described by the well-known TakagiSugeno models.

Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control Strategies for Non-Linear Systems

Essential ASP.NET Fast

Essential ASP.NET Fast

How to create dynamic web environments using the ASP .NET framework! The ASP .NET framework enables the development of dynamic web pages, which can interface to various database systems. Using the Visual Basic .NET language you will be able to begin to create your own web systems with ease. This quick and practical introduction explains: how to setup an ASP.NET development environment, and where to find the various software components.- the syntax and features of the language.- web-based user interaction using ASP .NET forms.- pre-defined ASP .NET objects.- how ASP .NET can interface with databases. Clearly written, this book provides you with all the essential information you need to create your own dynamic web environments using ASP .NET. Additional material is available from the Essential series web site: http://www.essential-series.com

Essential ASP.NET Fast

Beginning Microsoft Word Business Documents

Beginning Microsoft Word Business Documents

Beginning Microsoft Word Business Documents is filled with practical applications of Words many features. It walks you through the creation of professional documents such as business plans, legal documents, newsletters, and grants. Youll also learn how to use surveys and forms to gather information.

Beginning Microsoft Word Business Documents

Capital Flows and Crises

Capital Flows and Crises

The implications of capital mobility for growth and stability are some of the most contentious and least understood contemporary issues in economics. In this book, Barry Eichengreen discusses historical, theoretical, empirical, and policy aspects of the effects, both positive and negative, of capital flows. He focuses on the connections between capital flows and crises as well as on those between capital flows and growth.Eichengreen argues that international financial liberalization, like other forms of economic liberalization, can positively affect the efficiency of resource allocation and the rate of economic growth. But analyses of both recent and historical experience also show an undeniable association between capital mobility and crises, especially when domestic institutions are weak and the harmonization of capital account liberalization and other policy reforms is inadequate. In his conclusion, Eichengreen makes suggestions for policy design to maximize the benefits of international financial liberalization while minimizing the risks of financial instability.

Capital Flows and Crises

The Portable MBA - Fifth Edition

The Portable MBA - Fifth Edition

A totally revised new edition of the bestselling guide to business school basics

The Portable MBA - Fifth Edition

Peer-to-Peer Computing

Peer-to-Peer Computing

Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, or peer computing, is a paradigm that is viewed as a potential technology for redesigning distributed architectures and, consequently, distributed processing. Yet the scale and dynamism that characterize P2P systems demand that we reexamine traditional distributed technologies. A paradigm shift that includes self-reorganization, adaptation and resilience is called for. On the other hand, the increased computational power of such networks opens up completely new applications, such as in digital content sharing, scientific computation, gaming, or collaborative work environments. In this book, Vu, Lupu and Ooi present the technical challenges offered by P2P systems, and the means that have been proposed to address them. They provide a thorough and comprehensive review of recent advances on routing and discovery methods; load balancing and replication techniques; security, accountability and anonymity, as well as trust and reputation schemes; programming models and P2P systems and projects. Besides surveying existing methods and systems, they also compare and evaluate some of the more promising schemes. The need for such a book is evident. It provides a single source for practitioners, researchers and students on the state of the art. For practitioners, this book explains best practice, guiding selection of appropriate techniques for each application. For researchers, this book provides a foundation for the development of new and more effective methods. For students, it is an overview of the wide range of advanced techniques for realizing effective P2P systems, and it can easily be used as a text for an advanced course on Peer-to-Peer Computing and Technologies, or as a companion text for courses on various subjects, such as distributed systems, and grid and cluster computing.

Peer-to-Peer Computing

Building Winning Trading Systems with TradeStation

Building Winning Trading Systems with TradeStation

Praise for BUILDING WINNING TRADING SYSTEMS with TradeStation (TM)

Building Winning Trading Systems with TradeStation

Manifesto of the New Economy

Manifesto of the New Economy

The book describes the main directions for the development of the digital society. The author angles its book to those who are interested to know what would replace search engines, and how social networks would evolve; what profit can be made of different forms of informational collaboration (crowdsourcing, collaborative filtering). And, the main thing, how it will influence the structure of the society and human pursuit for happiness. The author does not confine himself to a theory, he sets and solves practical questions: How talent, success and stardom are interconnected, how to make money in social networks, what is the business model for the development of entertainment and media, how to measure cultural values, and what is the subjective time of the individual and how to make it qualitative? There have been no answers to these questions before. Internet and social networks have provided tools and data that Alexander Dolgin was the first to use in economics.

Manifesto of the New Economy

The Art of Unit Testing - Second Edition

The Art of Unit Testing - Second Edition

Developers know they ‘should’ be unit testing, but it can be intimidating and tedious, and they don’t always see the payoff for the effort they put into it.

The Art of Unit Testing - Second Edition

Copper Electrodeposition for Nanofabrication of Electronics Devices

Copper Electrodeposition for Nanofabrication of Electronics Devices

This book discusses the scientific mechanism of copper electrodeposition and it’s wide range of applications. The book will cover everything from the basic fundamentals to practical applications. In addition, the book will also cover important topics such as: ULSI wiring material based upon copper nanowiring Printed circuit boards Stacked semiconductors Through Silicon Via Smooth copper foil for Lithium-Ion battery electrodes. This book is ideal for nanotechnologists, industry professionals, and practitioners.

Copper Electrodeposition for Nanofabrication of Electronics Devices

A Guidance Approach for the Encouraging Classroom, Fifth Edition

A Guidance Approach for the Encouraging Classroom, Fifth Edition

A GUIDANCE APPROACH FOR THE ENCOURAGING CLASSROOM, 5/E, easily functions as a primary reference for professionals or in classes that address group management, the learning environment, child guidance, child behavior, challenging behavior, conflict management, and peace education topics. The book addresses ages 3-8 years in three parts. Part 1 explores the foundation of guidance in early childhood education and covers key concepts such as conventional discipline versus guidance, mistaken behavior, the guidance tradition, and innovative theories about child development with guidance. Part 2 focuses on building and organizing an encouraging classroom, as well as providing key elements of an encouraging classroom, including daily schedule, routines, use of thematic instruction, importance of working with parents, and leadership communication. Part 3 addresses problem solving and challenging behavior in the encouraging classroom, including a practical illustration for how to use and teach conflict management and coverage of the ‘five-finger-formula.’ The book also covers nontraditional families as well as the effects of societal violence in the classroom. Throughout, this experience-based resource includes tips, techniques, and real-life anecdotes that help professionals make the shift from conventional classroom to developmentally appropriate guidance.

A Guidance Approach for the Encouraging Classroom, Fifth Edition

SonarQube in Action

SonarQube in Action

SonarQube in Action shows developers how to use the SonarQube platform to help them continuously improve their source code. The book presents SonarQube’s core Seven Axes of Quality: design/architecture, duplications, comments, unit tests, complexity, potential bugs, and coding rules. You’ll find simple, easy-to-follow discussion and examples as you learn to integrate SonarQube into your development process.

SonarQube in Action

Hello World! - Second Edition

Hello World! - Second Edition

Computer savvy kids and can be found surfing the web, chatting with friends, downloading music, and playing gamesall at the same time. Many, however, want to do more. Not only do they want to use computers to stay connected to the world, they want to understand what makes them work, and they want to make computers work for them; they want to learn programming. Warren and Carter Sande, a father and son team, created just the book to get them started.

Hello World! - Second Edition

Essential C Fast

Essential C Fast

C# is a new language from Microsoft and is a key part of their .NET framework. It is a modern well-engineered language in the same family of programming languages in terms of syntax, as C, C++ and Java. For readers with knowledge of one of these languages, it will look familiar.

Essential C Fast

What Every Student Should Know about Using a Handbook

What Every Student Should Know about Using a Handbook

What Every Student Should Know About Using a Handbook offers students concrete strategies for getting the most out of their handbook. It shows students that handbooks are all-in-one, easy to reference tools that can provide invaluable help when engaging in any type or writing or research assignment, whether in their introductory writing course or beyond. Teaching students to use all the sections of their handbook (writing process, research process, grammar, and style) with tips, exercises and scavenger hunts, this guide helps students use a critical reference tool to produce better papers and projects.

What Every Student Should Know about Using a Handbook

Systemic Aspects of Innovation and Design

Systemic Aspects of Innovation and Design

The book provides a snapshot of a hot topic the systemic nature of innovation and its relevance to design with a trifold perspective: the academic level the literature on innovation studies and design is often neglected and a clear connection between the two topics taken for granted; the research level collaborative models are currently considered great opportunities for transforming consumption, production and distribution of goods, but a clear scholarly discourse is still forming; the political level the European Commission and the OECD are devoting much effort to understanding and measuring the impact of design in innovation processes and firms and a clear contribution would greatly support this path. Thus the book provides an informed, historical and nuanced perspective to the relationship between design and innovation to contribute to all three levels and to propose a point of view that goes beyond aesthetics and meanings.

Systemic Aspects of Innovation and Design

Zune Game Development Using XNA 3.0

Zune Game Development Using XNA 3.0

Zune Game Development Using XNA 3.0 is a comprehensive book that will guide you through the many aspects of XNA game development and their specific implementations on the Zune platform. The book addresses Zune game development concepts in detail and shows you how to apply them in practical, stepbystep examples, building complete, working XNA 3.0 examples along the way that you can download and play.

Zune Game Development Using XNA 3.0

In My Hood 3

In My Hood 3

The streets of Newark have never been as cutthroat as in Endy’s third installment of her In My Hood epic.

In My Hood 3

Flowmeters in Water Supply - Second Edition

Flowmeters in Water Supply - Second Edition

This utility operations manual describes in detail the design and operation of commonly used flowmeters in water systems.

Flowmeters in Water Supply - Second Edition

The Advertising Handbook

The Advertising Handbook

The Advertising Handbook is a critical introduction to the practices and perspectives of the advertising industry. Sean Brierley explores the structures of the profession and examines the roles of all those involved in advertising including businesses, agencies, consultancies and media owners.

The Advertising Handbook

Configuring User-Designer Relations

Configuring User-Designer Relations

User-designer relations concerns the sorts of working relationships that arise between developers and end users of IT products – the different ways designers of IT products seek to engage with users, and the ways users seek to influence product design. It is through the shifting patterns of these relations that IT products are realised. Although it has generally been accepted that achieving better user-designer relations will improve the quality of IT products, there has been little consensus on how this might be achieved. This book aims to deepen our understanding of the relationships between users and designers both as they emerge in the wild and as a consequence of our attempts to intervene. Through a series of case studies the book juxtaposes in-depth explorations of different perspectives and approaches to thinking about – and doing – user-designer relations, considering important implications for design and computer science more generally.

Configuring User-Designer Relations

Crime Prevention - Eighth Edition

Crime Prevention - Eighth Edition

This timely revision of Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations provides an up-to-date collection of the research on crime prevention. The prevailing approaches and strategies are organized into categories of primary prevention (designed to prevent conditions that foster deviance), secondary prevention (directed toward persons or conditions with a high potential for deviance), and tertiary prevention (dealing with those who have already committed offenses). The effects of physical environments, the mass media, displacement and diffusion, electronic monitoring, and home confinement are also explored. In addition to presenting a discussion of the different prevention approaches, the author provides insight into the effectiveness of each approach.

Crime Prevention - Eighth Edition

The New Language of Business

The New Language of Business

There is now a direct, provable link between an organizations flexibility and business performance. To optimize flexibility, companies must achieve unprecedented levels of integration and automation of key processes and infrastructure, both internally and externally. At the same time, they must learn to manage their processes far more dynamically and responsively.

The New Language of Business

International Financial Management, Ninth Edition

International Financial Management, Ninth Edition

Discover how practical international finance can be with the unique blend of international finance theory and current applications found in INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, ABRIDGED EDITION, 9E. Using familiar companies such as Nike, author Jeff Madura clearly explains international finance in understandable terms with the support of hands-on applications. The book focuses on management decisions that maximize a firm’s value. Readers examine some of the latest developments in international finance with the text’s timely examples and extensive links to related Internet content. New Excel exercises and a variety of multinational corporation projects help readers refine their international finance skills. This Abridged Edition provides flexibility and an economical text choice by offering all chapters from the Full Edition but makes several of the chapters that are less frequently used available online at http://academic.cengage.com/finance/madura. Readers develop the international finance management skills needed to succeed in today’s ever-changing market with the balance of solid theory and practical applications found in Madura’s INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, ABRIDGED EDITION, 9E.

International Financial Management, Ninth Edition

Well-being

Well-being

High levels of psychological well-being amongst employees translate into good news for the organization including lower sickness-absence levels, attraction and retention of talented people and more satisfied customers, clients or service users. People with higher levels of psychological well-being work better, live longer and have happier lives. Engagement and well-being can sustain each other and lead to a healthier and more productive organization a win-win for employees and employer.

Well-being

Federal Tax Research, 8th Edition

Federal Tax Research, 8th Edition

With FEDERAL TAX RESEARCH, 8e, you will come to understand the latest techniques in tax research and the way this relates to the CPA exam. The eighth edition offers a new chapter on international tax research, an expanded review of tax ethics, and real-life cases to help you see the big picture of federal tax law. No other text can better prepare you on tax research procedures and multiple hands-on applications!

Federal Tax Research, 8th Edition

Slowing Down to the Speed of Love

Slowing Down to the Speed of Love

‘I believe this book has the capacity to touch something inside you–deep enough to help you make significant, positive changes in your life.’

Slowing Down to the Speed of Love

The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge

The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge

A deft reconstruction of what Georges Bataille envisioned as a continuation of his work La Somme Athologique, this volume brings together the writings of one of the foremost French thinkers of the twentieth century on the central topic of his oeuvre. Gathering Batailles most intimate writings, these essays, aphorisms, notes, and lectures on nonknowledge, sovereignty, and sacrifice clarify and extend Batailles radical theology, his philosophy of history, and his ecstatic method of meditation. Following Batailles lead, as laid out in his notebooks, editor Stuart Kendall assembles the fragments that Bataille anticipated collecting for his summa. Kendalls introduction offers a clear picture of the authors overall project, its historical and biographical context, and the place of these works within it. The ‘system’ that emerges from these articles, notes, and lectures is ‘atheology,’ understood as a study of the effects of nonknowledge. At the other side of realism, Batailles writing in La Somme pushes language to its silent end. And yet, writing toward the ruin of language, in search of words that slip from their meanings, Bataille uses languageand the discourses of theology, philosophy, and literatureagainst itself to return us to ourselves, endlessly. The system against systems is in fact systematic, using systems and depending on discourses to achieve its own endsthe end of systematic thought.A medievalist librarian by training, Georges Bataille (18971962) was active in the French intellectual scene from the 1920s through the 1950s. He founded the journal Critique and was a member of the Acphale group and the Collge de Sociologie. Among his works available in English are Visions of Excess (Minnesota, 1985), Tears of Eros (1989), and Erotism (1990).

The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge

Working Together

Working Together

The typical workplace is a hotbed of human relationships–of friendships, conflicts, feuds, alliances, partnerships, coexistence and cooperation. Here, problems are solved, progress is made, and rifts are mended because they need to be – because the work has to get done. And it has to get done among increasingly diverse groups of co-workers. At a time when communal ties in American society are increasingly frayed and segregation persists, the workplace is more than ever the site where Americans from different ethnic, religious, and racial backgrounds meet and forge serviceable and sometimes lasting bonds. What do these highly structured workplace relationships mean for a society still divided by gender and race? Structure and rules are, in fact, central to the answer. Workplace interactions are constrained by economic power and necessity, and often by legal regulation. They exist far from the civic ideal of free and equal citizens voluntarily associating for shared ends. Yet it is the very involuntariness of these interactions that helps to make the often-troubled project of racial integration comparatively successful at work. People can be forced to get along-not without friction, but often with surprising success. This highly original exploration of the paradoxical nature–and the paramount importance–of workplace bonds concludes with concrete suggestions for how law can further realize the democratic possibilities of working together. In linking workplace integration and connectedness beyond work, Estlund suggests a novel and promising strategy for addressing the most profound challenges facing American society.

Working Together

Heartwood

Heartwood

Deaf Smith, Texas, a small town with small town problems until the local boy made good Earl Deitrich decides that he isn’t prepared to share his kind of good fortune with anybody else.

Heartwood

Armenian Apocrypha Relating to Abraham

Armenian Apocrypha Relating to Abraham

This volume introduces a cycle of stories about Abraham as preserved in fifteen unpublished, late medieval manuscripts in Armenian, published here in English for the first time with commentaries, annotations, and critical apparatus. The texts present embroidered Abraham stories dealing with his youth, his life in Egypt, the binding of Isaac, the story of Melchizedek, and other tales. Embedding Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and other ancient traditions, these texts demonstrate mutual borrowing and influence over centuries.

Armenian Apocrypha Relating to Abraham

Critical Infrastructure Protection in Homeland Security

Critical Infrastructure Protection in Homeland Security

A scientific approach to the new field of critical infrastructure protection

Critical Infrastructure Protection in Homeland Security

Emerging Trends in Drug Use and Distribution

Emerging Trends in Drug Use and Distribution

This Brief explores emerging trends in drug use and distribution. This timely Brief examines recent examples of emerging drugs including salvia (from the plant Salvia divinorum), bath salts (and other synthetic stimulants) and so-called research chemicals (primarily substituted phenethylamines, synthetic cousins of ecstasy), which have tended to receive brief levels of high intensity media coverage that may or may not reflect an actual increase in their usage. Over the past decade in particular, new substances being used recreationally seem to come out of obscurity and gain rapid popularity, particularly spurred on by discussion and distribution over the internet. While changing trends in the drug market have always presented a challenge for law enforcement and public health officials, online forums, media coverage and other recent trends discussed in this Brief allow them to gain popularity more quickly and change more frequently. These rapid shifts allow less time for researchers to understand the potential health consequences of these substances and for law enforcement to stay abreast of abuses of legal substances. This work includes: 1) review of relevant research and literature, 2) review the Internet sources in which many deem important in influencing the emerging drug market, 3) discussion of national and international trends in use, abuse and distribution of these substances and 4) examination of current drug policy and recommendations for the future. This brief will be useful for criminology and criminal justice, sociology and public health. It will also be useful for those that deal with youth and the problems that may develop during adolescence and early adulthood.

Emerging Trends in Drug Use and Distribution

Bitterroot

Bitterroot

Following his acclaimed bestseller Purple Cane Road, James Lee Burke returns with a triumphant tour de force.

Bitterroot

Computer Modeling of Water Distribution Systems - Second Edition

Computer Modeling of Water Distribution Systems - Second Edition

Updated from the 2004 edition, modeling lets designers predict the performance of water distribution systems to solve a wide variety of design, operational, and water quality problems. This basic primer manual provides distribution engineers and operators with information on developing and using computer hydraulic models of water distribution systems. Chapters take the reader from basics through data collection, model design, calibration, and applications. The fourth edition provides new, expanded information on key topics and recent changes. (Replaces ISBN 9781583213452)

Computer Modeling of Water Distribution Systems - Second Edition

Glastonbury and the Grail

Glastonbury and the Grail

Glastonbury, a small town in Somerset, England, stands at the epicenter of a longstanding tradition placing the Holy Grail in Britain. Legend holds that Joseph of Arimathea traveled to Britain, bringing with him both a gathering of followers and the cup that Jesus used at the last supper. He is said to have buried the Grail at Glastonbury, where some claim he founded the first church in England. This volume chronicles one man’s personal quest to find historical evidence supporting the traditional beliefs surrounding Joseph of Arimathea and the Holy Grail in southern England. Bolstered by an ab.

Glastonbury and the Grail

Organization Theory and Design, Tenth Edition

Organization Theory and Design, Tenth Edition

Discover to the most progressive thinking about organizations today as acclaimed author Richard Daft balances recent, innovative ideas with proven classic theories and effective business practices. Daft’s best-selling ORGANIZATION THEORY AND DESIGN, 10E presents a captivating, compelling snapshot of contemporary organizations and the concepts driving their success that will immediately engage any reader. Recognized as one of the most systematic, well organized texts in the market, ORGANIZATION THEORY AND DESIGN helps both future and current managers thoroughly prepare for the challenges of today’s business world. This thorough revision showcases some of today’s most current examples and research alongside time-tested principles. Readers see how many of today’s well-known organizations thrive amidst a rapidly changing, highly competitive, international environment. Proven and new learning features provide opportunities for readers to apply concepts and refine personal business skills and insights.

Organization Theory and Design, Tenth Edition

Criminalistics Laboratory Manual

Criminalistics Laboratory Manual

Criminalistics Laboratory Manual provides students who have little to no prior knowledge of forensic science with a practical crime scene processing experience. The manual starts with an original crime scene narrative, setting up the crime students are to solve. This narrative is picked up in each of the 17 forensic science lab activities, tying all forensic disciplines together to show the integrated workings of a real crime lab. The lab activities cover fingerprints, blood typing and spatter analysis, hair and fiber, digital forensics and more.

Criminalistics Laboratory Manual

The Source

The Source

‘Why do I feel so tired and drained?’ You’re not alone if you’re constantly asking yourself this question. Exhaustion is epidemic in America and ‘lack of energy’ one of the top five complaints to doctors nationwide. This is because vast numbers of people have lost their connection with the inner energy that is the source of healing and radiant vitality.

The Source

Marketing Research - Third Edition

Marketing Research - Third Edition

This 3rd edition of Marketing Research: An Applied Approach forms a comprehensive, authoritative and thoroughly European introduction to applied marketing research and covers both quantitative and qualitative techniques in depth.

Marketing Research - Third Edition

Jane Carver of Waar

Jane Carver of Waar

Jane Carver is nobody’s idea of a space princess.

Jane Carver of Waar

Business Ratios and Formulas

Business Ratios and Formulas

Required reading for anyone starting, running, or growing a business, Business Ratios and Formulas, Second Edition puts answers at the fingertips of business managers, with nearly 250 operational criteria and clear, easy-to-understand explanations that can be used right away. The Second Edition includes approximately fifty new ratios and formulas, as well as new chapters covering ratios and formulas for e-commerce and human resources.

Business Ratios and Formulas

Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity

Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity

Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity shows how today’s environmental and ecological concerns can help illuminate our study of the ancient world. The contributors consider how the Greeks and Romans perceived their natural world, and how their perceptions affected society. The effects of human settlement and cultivation on the landscape are considered, as well as the representation of landscape in Attic drama. Various aspects of farming, such as the use of terraces and the significance of olive growing are examined. The uncultivated landscape was also important: hunting was a key social ritual for Greek and hellenistic elites, and ‘wild’ places were not wastelands but played an essential economic role. The Romans’ attempts to control their environment are analyzed.

Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity

Introduction to Stochastic Integration - Second Edition

Introduction to Stochastic Integration - Second Edition

A highly readable introduction to stochastic integration and stochastic differential equations, this book combines developments of the basic theory with applications. It is written in a style suitable for the text of a graduate course in stochastic calculus, following a course in probability.

Introduction to Stochastic Integration - Second Edition

Early Mathematics Learning

Early Mathematics Learning

This book will gather current research in early childhood mathematics education. A special focus will be the tension between instruction and construction of knowledge. The book includes research on the design of learning opportunities, the development of mathematical thinking, the impact of the social setting and the professionalization of nursery teachers.

Early Mathematics Learning