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Author Elizabeth Kuhnke
What does your body language say about you? From strangers on the street, to your closest friends and family – even if you're not speaking, you're saying a lot with your body. Body Language explores the way we use our bodies to communicate, the way we hold oursel....
Release Date 2016/07 -
Think Like a Futurist: Know What Changes, What Doesn't, and What's Next
Author Cecily Sommers
Push past resistance to discover and own new business territoriesThink Like a Futurist shows how to track changes, explore questions, and engage in new thinking that connects today's pressures with tomorrow's realities. Cecily Sommers shows how to apply long-term ....
Release Date 2012/10 -
Techniques for Noise Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition
Author Bhiksha Raj , Tuomas Virtanen , Rita Singh
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are finding increasing use in everyday life. Many of the commonplace environments where the systems are used are noisy, for example users calling up a voice search system from a busy cafeteria or a street. This can result i....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Author Clyde Smith , Chris Lennon
This edited collection brings together a team of top industry experts to provide a comprehensive look at the entire media workflow from start to finish. The Media Workflow Puzzle gives readers an in-depth overview of the workflow process, from production to distribution to archiving. Pulling from ....
Release Date 2021/03 -
Author James Manktelow
Learn how to manage stress effectively with this WorkLife guide
Release Date 2007/02 -
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Author Jessica Livingston
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with ....
Release Date 2007/01 -
Author Patricia Neal , Craig Neal
"Meetings are a waste of time," is a sentiment many of us share, which is tragic, because meetings bring us together as human beings. To achieve the kind of meaning or breakthrough results most of us really year for when we gather, the key quality needed is aut....
Release Date 2011/02 -
Creative Onboarding Programs: Tools for Energizing Your Orientation Program
Author Doris Sims
Revised, expanded, and up-to-the-minute—the leading guide to serving the modern organization’s onboarding needsIt’s a challenge overlooked by many: The need to bring recent hires into the fold, smoothly, effectively, and rapidly. And in this state-of-the-art multi-p....
Release Date 2010/09 -
Author Aoife Lawton
The Invisible Librarian: A Librarian's Guide to Increasing Visibility and Impact provides insights into what many librarians are feeling, including questions such as "do they feel invisible?" and "How many times have they heard somebody say ‘but everything is on t....
Release Date 2015/11 -
How to Identify and Weed Out Low Performers in Any Business
Author David Russo
This Element is an excerpt from 17 Rules Successful Companies Use to Attract and Keep Top Talent: Why Engaged Employees Are Your Greatest Sustainable Advantage (9780137146703) by David Russo. Available in print and digital formats.A better way to identify low perfor....
Release Date 2010/04 -
The Other Side of Wall Street: In Business It Pays to Be an Animal, In Life It Pays to Be Yourself
Author Todd A. Harrison
In The Other Side of Wall Street, Minyanville.com founder and former hedge fund honcho Todd Harrison shares never-before-told stories from the hidden side of Wall Street, including the adrenaline rush of trading at the highest levels, Wall Street’s super-indulgent l....
Release Date 2011/05 -
Have Investment Rules That Work for You
Author Saly A. Glassman
This Element is an excerpt from It's About More Than the Money: Investment Wisdom for Building a Better Life (9780137050321) by Saly A. Glassman. Available in print and digital formats.Adopt these simple investment rules, and dramatically reduce your chances of get....
Release Date 2010/11 -
Telling Stories: A Short Path to Writing Better Software Requirements
Author Ben Rinzler
From System Designers to Top Management, Everyone loves a good storyOnce upon a time, it was well understood that stories teach better than plain facts. Why then are most software requirements documents a baffling hodge-podge of diagrams, data dictionaries, and bull....
Release Date 2009/03 -
Author Nancy Johnson , Mariana Funes
New technology and organizational structures are transforming the workplace, but management skills have not yet caught up. Harnessing knowledge and using it as a competitive advantage is one of the key priorities of organizations today. Honing Your Knowledge S....
Release Date 2009/11 -
Generic Inference: A Unifying Theory for Automated Reasoning
Author Juerg Kohlas , Marc Pouly
This book provides a rigorous algebraic study of the most popular inference formalisms with a special focus on their wide application area, showing that all these tasks can be performed by a single generic inference algorithm. Written by the leading international au....
Release Date 2011/05 -
Nikon® Creative Lighting System Digital Field Guide, Third Edition
Author Benjamin Edwards
Detailed coverage of the three high-end speedlights built exclusively for new Nikon SLRsNikon speedlights put creative control of flash at the photographer's command, and with Nikon's Creative Lighting System, flash control is practically intuitive and possibiliti....
Release Date 2012/03 -
Engage: The Trainer's Guide to Learning Styles
Author Jeanine O'Neill Blackwell
Discover Your Training Style Strengths and Build Your Skills with Online Tools, Videos, and More"A superb book that gives learning and development professionals in every industry an automatic must-read. This book is filled with wisdom and insight as well as clear an....
Release Date 2012/05 -
The Business of Being the Best: Inside The World of Go-Getters and Game Changers
Author Molly Fletcher
How the very best get to—and stay at—the topFrom the arenas of professional sports to the boardrooms of major businesses, a thin slice of peak performers dominates every field. What is their secret to success? Few people know what drives these world-leaders like spo....
Release Date 2011/12 -
Author David Topus
Connect to the world around you and realize the enormous potential in talking to strangersEveryday, random encounters really can change lives, when you make them happen the right way and leverage the connection at the other end. Talk to Strangers explains how to sta....
Release Date 2012/04 -
Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership
Author Susan MacKenty Brady , Janet Foutty , Lynn Perry Wooten
From three of today’s top women leaders in business and academia—seven essential practices for thriving professionally. Women who arrive at the top should be able to thrive at the top. Instead they’re judged lucky to survive—even more so with pandemic-era pressures overwhelming their already busy f....
Release Date 2022/04 -
Author Marilyn Beker
Write to Shoot teaches budding screenwriters and screenwriting filmmakers how to write a short script with production in mind. Beker instructs them how to showcase their strengths, tailor projects to shoestring budgets, resources, and practical production parameters witho....
Release Date 2017/03 -
Author Dar Checketts
Conflict is a central theme of our lives. We see the negative consequences of war and violence all around us. Even in the workplace, disputes and arguments cause problems and stifle productivity. But opposition can also be positive. For instance, our muscles become ....
Release Date 2007/10 -
Effective Interviewing and Information Gathering
Author Thomas Diamante
This book is an invaluable, instructional field manual for you or any professional who needs to obtain and interpret information gathered directly by and from people, without recourse to a technological intermediary, such as online search. In the role of interviewer....
Release Date 2013/05 -
Author Rita R. Owens
From the moment of their first client engagement, consultants in all fields face communication opportunities and challenges. No matter what their focus may be—professional services, accounting, technology, operations, human resources, manufacturing, or marketi....
Release Date 2016/05 -
Author Claire McGuinness
Becoming Confident Teachers examines the teaching role of information professionals at a time of transition and change in higher education. While instruction is now generally accepted as a core library function in the 21st century, librarians often lack sufficient t....
Release Date 2011/07 -
Public Libraries and their National Policies
Author John Helling
Public Libraries and their National Policies is aimed at practicing librarians and scholars with an interest in public libraries. It examines the various models for providing public library services around the world and discusses differences in such areas as funding....
Release Date 2012/03 -
Cinder Creative Coding Cookbook
Author Dawid Gorny , Rui Madeira
If you know C++ this book takes your creative potential to a whole other level. The practical recipes show you how to create interactive and visually dynamic applications using Cinder which will excite and delight your audience.Learn powerful techniques for building....
Release Date 2013/05