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BDD in Action: Behavior-Driven Development for the whole software lifecycle
Author John Ferguson Smart
BDD in Action teaches you the Behavior-Driven Development model and shows you how to integrate it into your existing development process. First you'll learn how to apply BDD to requirements analysis to define features that focus your development efforts on underlyi....
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Advanced Economies and Emerging Markets
Author Rajabahadur V. Arcot , Harry Xia , Carlos Frota , José Alves , Marcus Goncalves
There is intense competition among emerging markets to capture their share of the global economy. This book addresses questions that are germane to accomplishing this goal. Most important to this end is the study and practice of international business and foreign tr....
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A Primer on Corporate Governance
Author Fernando A. Tejerina-Gaite , Felix J. Lopez-Iturriaga
Spain has a civil law-based legal system, and court decisions are not a source of law but are of interpretative value. The privatization of large state-owned firms, liberalization, integration with the European Union, and the launch of the euro have all contributed ....
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Author Tobias Friedrich
Underwater photography is a fascinating pursuit for those who aspire to capture the magical world found within our oceans and bring it to the surface. In this book, award-winning photographer Tobias Friedrich teaches us how to create stunning underwater images, cove....
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Big Data Bootcamp: What Managers Need to Know to Profit from the Big Data Revolution
Author David Feinleib
Investors and technology gurus have called big data one of the most important trends to come along in decades. Big Data Bootcamp explains what big data is and how you can use it in your company to become one of tomorrow's market leaders. Along the way, it explains ....
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SQL Server Query Performance Tuning,Fourth Edition
Author Grant Fritchey
Queries not running fast enough? Wondering about the in-memory database features in 2014? Tired of phone calls from frustrated users? Grant Fritchey's book SQL Server Query Performance Tuning is the answer to your SQL Server query performance problems. The book is ....
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Beginning Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3
Author Jonathan Fielding
Beginning Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3is your step-by-step guide to learning how to embrace responsive design for all devices. You will learn how to develop your existing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills to make your sites work for the modern world. Web....
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Financial Stability, + Website
Author R. Christopher Whalen , Frederick L. Feldkamp
Applying the Lessons of History to Understanding Fraud Today and TomorrowFinancial Stability provides a roadmap by which the world can anticipate and avoid future financial disruptions. This unique discussion of past and present financial events offers new insights....
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Actionable Intelligence: A Guide to Delivering Business Results with Big Data Fast!
Author Keith B. Carter , Donald Farmer , Clifford Siegel
Building an analysis ecosystem for a smarter approach to intelligenceKeith Carter's Actionable Intelligence: A Guide to Delivering Business Results with Big Data Fast! is the comprehensive guide to achieving the dream that business intelligence practitioners have b....
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Bayesian Networks for Probabilistic Inference and Decision Analysis in Forensic Science, 2nd Edition
Author Colin Aitken , Paolo Garbolino , Silvia Bozza , Alex Biedermann , Franco Taroni
"This book should have a place on the bookshelf of every forensic scientist who cares about the science of evidence interpretation"Dr. Ian Evett, Principal Forensic Services Ltd, London, UKContinuing developments in science and technology mean that the amounts of in....
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Author Bill Franks
Lead your organization into the industrial revolution of analytics with The Analytics RevolutionThe topics of big data and analytics continue to be among the most discussed and pursued in the business world today. While a decade ago many people still questioned whe....
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Accounting for the Numberphobic
Author Dawn Fotopulos
Why do so many business owners dread looking at the numbers? They make excuses…They don’t have time…That’s what the accountant is for....But the simple truth is that no one else will ever be as invested in their company as they are—and th....
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Introduction to AutoCAD® 2015: A Modern Perspective
Author Paul Richard , Jim Fitzgerald
This book addresses advances in technology and introduces students to 2-dimensional drawing skills and commands using the current release of AutoCAD. It continuously builds on concepts covered in previous chapters, contains exercises combined with in-text notes, and....
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Introduction to Light Trapping in Solar Cell and Photo-detector Devices
Author Stephen Fonash
New Approaches to Light Trapping in Solar Cell Devices discusses in detail the use of photonic and plasmonic effects for light trapping in solar cells. It compares and contrasts texturing, the current method of light-trapping design in solar cells, with emerging app....
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A Winner's Guide to Negotiating: How Conversation Gets Deals Done
Author Molly Fletcher
The strategic guide to getting the most out of every negotiation from "the female Jerry Maguire" (CNN)Effective negotiation is rooted in establishing trust and building relationships--one conversation at a time. In this practical guide, trailblazing sports agent Mol....
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The Variability of Current World Englishes
Author Charles F. Meyer , Eugene Green
Faces of English explores the phenomenon of increasing dialects, varieties, and creoles, even as the spread of globalization supports an apparently growing uniformity among nations. The book's chapters supply descriptions of Jamaican English in Toronto, English as....
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Proactive Marketing for the New and Experienced Library Director
Author Anthony J. Fonseca , Melissa U.D. Goldsmith
Academic libraries have continually looked for technological solutions to low circulation statistics, under-usage by students and faculty, and what is perceived as a crisis in relevance, seeing themselves in competition with Google and Wikipedia. Academic libr....
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Cocos2d-x Game Development Essentials
Author Gareth Jones , Arutosh Gurung , Frahaan Hussain
Create iOS and Android games from scratch using Cocos2d-xIn DetailCocos2d-x is the C++ port of the most popular open source 2D framework in the world. Cocos2d-x is an amazing open source game engine that allows developers to exploit their existing C++, Lua, and Java....
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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Author Gordon Fisher
A quick and easy-to-use guide to create 3D modeling and animation using Blender 2.7In DetailThis book teaches you how to model a nautical scene, complete with boats and water, and then add materials, lighting, and animation. It demystifies the Blender interface and ....
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Author Steven F. Lott
Analyze, encrypt, and uncover intelligence data using Python, the essential tool for all aspiring secret agentsIn DetailPython is an easy-to-learn and extensible programming language that allows secret agents to work with a wide variety of data in a number of ways. ....
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Java 8 in Action: Lambdas, streams, and functional-style programming
Author Raoul-Gabriel Urma , Mario Fusco , and Alan Mycroft
Java 8 in Action is a clearly written guide to to the new features of Java 8. The book covers lambdas, streams, and functional-style programming. With Java 8’s functional features you can now write more concise code in less time, and also automatically benefit from ....
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Practical Machine Learning: A New Look at Anomaly Detection
Author Ellen Friedman , Ted Dunning
Anomaly detection is the detective work of machine learning: finding the unusual, catching the fraud, discovering strange activity in large and complex datasets. But, unlike Sherlock Holmes, you may not know what the puzzle is, much less what "suspects" you’re looki....
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Expert ASP.NET Web API 2 for MVC Developers
Author Adam Freeman
Web API 2 is the latest evolution of Microsoft's web services toolkit, which allows the creation of RESTful applications built on the ASP.NET platform. It provides a standards-based approach and a high-productivity development model that makes it easy to deliver se....
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Author Steve Fenton
JavaScript is everywhere, both as a pure language and in popular libraries like Angular, jQuery and Knockout, but users of modern object-oriented languages like Java and C# often find JavaScript frustrating to use and hard to extend to large-scale applications. Type....
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Author Tali Mendelberg , Christopher F. Karpowitz
Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? The Silent Sex shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group intera....
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Governing Cross-Sector Collaboration
Author Eric Boyer , James Edwin Kee , John J. Forrer
A comprehensive guide to public sector collaboration with private and nonprofit organizations for better service deliveryGoverning Cross-Sector Collaboration tackles the issues inherent in partnerships with nongovernmental actors for public service delivery, highlig....
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Radio over Fiber for Wireless Communications: From Fundamentals to Advanced Topics
Author Xavier N Fernando
A comprehensive evaluation of Fi-Wi, enabling readers to design links using channel estimation and equalization algorithmsThis book provides a detailed study of radio over fiber (ROF) based wireless communication systems, otherwise called fiber wireless (Fi-Wi) sys....
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Collaborative Learning Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty, 2nd Edition
Author K. Patricia Cross , Claire Howell Major , Elizabeth F. Barkley
A guide to thirty-five creative assignments for pairs and groupsCollaborative Learning Techniques is the bestseller that college and university faculty around the world have used to help them make the most of small group learning.A mountain of evidence shows that st....
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Rare Earth-Based Corrosion Inhibitors
Author Bruce Hinton , Maria Forsyth
Corrosion inhibitors are an important method for minimizing corrosion; however traditional inhibitors such as chromates pose environmental problems. Rare earth metals provide an important, environmentally-friendly alternative. This book provides a comprehensive revi....
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Author Colleen Francis
Do your company's sales results lurch between highs and lows--with the end of each quarter reduced to a mad scramble to meet quota? For many sales organizations, the pattern is commonplace and unshakeable. Nonstop Sales Boom explains how to break this unhealthy cyc....
Release Date 2014/08