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Author Al Switzler , David Maxfield , Ron McMillan , Kerry Patterson , Joseph Grenny
Hold anyone accountable. Master performance discussions. Get RESULTS.Broken promises, missed deadlines, poor behavior--they don’t just make others’ lives miserable; they can sap up to 50 percent of organizational performance and account for the vast majority of divo....
Release Date 2013/04 -
Indispensable! Becoming the Obvious Choice in Business and in Life
Author Robert Nix , David Cottrell
Isn't it time you got the job you deserve? Your workplace transformation is about to begin!FACT: When opportunity knocks in the workplace, most people don't know how to seize it.This book will show you exactly how to spot--and master--your next great job opportun....
Release Date 2013/11 -
AARP The Other Talk: A Guide to Talking with Your Adult Children about the Rest of Your Life
Author Tim Prosch
A one-of-a-kind practical guide to making the tough decisions parents and their adult children inevitably face It was a rite of passage for you to have the Talk with your kids about the beginning of life (as in the birds and the bees).
Release Date 2013/09 -
Author Ryan Avery , Jeremey Donovan
The secrets of superb public speaking—based on the best of the best of ToastmastersToastmasters, a name synonymous with public speaking, is dedicated to developing its members’ communication and leadership skills.Now Distinguished Toastmaster Jeremey Donovan and Pub....
Release Date 2014/04 -
Author John A. Allison
The highly anticipated follow up to The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure—the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestsellerThe Leadership Crisis and the Free Market Cure reveals the integrated principles he sees as critical to the succe....
Release Date 2014/10 -
Nothing Is Impossible: 7 Steps to Realize Your True Power and Maximize Your Results
Author Tom Oliver
Tom Oliver has shared his extraordinary secrets with Bono, Richard Branson, the Dalai Lama, and Deepak Chopra. Now he shares them with you.Are you ready to lose your self-doubt and use the tools you already have to turn your wildest dreams into tangible reality? Th....
Release Date 2013/10 -
Author Jeremey Donovan
DELIVER THE PRESENTATION OF YOUR LIFE--AND LAUNCH YOUR CAREERA nonprofit dedicated to ideas worth spreading, TED challenges the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers to give "the speech of their lives" in 18 minutes or less. The more than 14,000 talks on TED.....
Release Date 2013/09 -
Author Dan Sherman
The updated edition of the guide to harnessing the power of the world's largest professional network for total business successMaximum Success with LinkedIn revolutionizes the way busy professionals use LinkedIn. It isn't just about professional networking and job....
Release Date 2014/07 -
Organizing and Delegating, 5th Edition
Author Institute of Leadership & Institute of Leadership & Management
Super series are a set of workbooks to accompany the flexible learning programme specifically designed and developed by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) to support their Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management. The learning content is also cl....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Shape Memory Alloy Engineering
Author Antonio Concilio , Leonardo Lecce
Shape Memory Alloy Engineering introduces materials, mechanical, and aerospace engineers to shape memory alloys (SMAs), providing a unique perspective that combines fundamental theory with new approaches to design and modeling of actual SMAs as compact and inexpensi....
Release Date 2014/09 -
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 -
Competitive Intelligence for Information Professionals
Author Margareta Nelke , Charlotte Håkansson
Information professionals should be able to take a proactive role as a strategic partner in their organization's competitive intelligence. Their role needs to focus on the "outside-in" approach, based on their organization's strategic needs and objectives. Competi....
Release Date 2015/01 -
Widening Higher Education Participation
Author Erica Southgate , Anna Bennett , Mahsood Shah
Governments have introduced policies to widen the participation of disadvantaged students in higher education. Widening participation policies are also introduced to ensure that higher education contributes to social and economic outcomes. This book includes import....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Bridges, Pathways and Transitions
Author Gail Whiteford , Mahsood Shah
Bridges, Pathways and Transitions: International Innovations in Widening Participation shows that widening participation initiatives and policies have had a profound impact on improving access to higher education to historically marginalized groups of students from....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Author Erik T. Mueller
To endow computers with common sense is one of the major long-term goals of Artificial Intelligence research. One approach to this problem is to formalize commonsense reasoning using mathematical logic. Commonsense Reasoning is a detailed, high-level reference....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Architecture Design for Soft Errors
Author Shubu Mukherjee
Architecture Design for Soft Errors provides a comprehensive description of the architectural techniques to tackle the soft error problem. It covers the new methodologies for quantitative analysis of soft errors as well as novel, cost-effective architectural techniq....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author David Wang , Spencer Ng , Bruce Jacob
Is your memory hierarchy stopping your microprocessor from performing at the high level it should be? Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk shows you how to resolve this problem. The book tells you everything you need to know about the logical design and operation....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Writing Effective Business Rules
Author Graham Witt
Writing Effective Business Rules moves beyond the fundamental dilemma of system design: defining business rules either in natural language, intelligible but often ambiguous, or program code (or rule engine instructions), unambiguous but unintelligible to stakeholder....
Release Date 2012/03 -
Matlab: A Practical Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving, 2nd Edition
Author Stormy Attaway
Assuming no knowledge of programming, this book presents both programming concepts and MATLAB’s built-in functions, providing a perfect platform for exploiting MATLAB’s extensive capabilities for tackling engineering problems. It starts with programming concepts suc....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Jamshid Gharajedaghi
Systems Thinking, Third Edition combines systems theory and interactive design to provide an operational methodology for defining problems and designing solutions in an environment increasingly characterized by chaos and complexity. This new edition has been updated....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Edie Adams , Trevor van Gorp
Design for Emotion introduces you to the why, what, when, where and how of designing for emotion. Improve user connection, satisfaction and loyalty by incorporating emotion and personality into your design process. The conscious and unconscious origins of emotions a....
Release Date 2012/06 -
Chi-Squared Goodness of Fit Tests with Applications
Author M.S Nikulin , Vassilly Voinov , N. Balakrishnan
Chi-Squared Goodness of Fit Tests with Applications provides a thorough and complete context for the theoretical basis and implementation of Pearson’s monumental contribution and its wide applicability for chi-squared goodness of fit tests. The book is ideal for res....
Release Date 2013/01 -
Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition
Author Robert P. Goldman , David Pynadath , Hung Hai Bui , Christopher Geib , Gita Sukthank
Plan recognition, activity recognition, and intent recognition together combine and unify techniques from user modeling, machine vision, intelligent user interfaces, human/computer interaction, autonomous and multi-agent systems, natural language understanding, and ....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Author Brett Shavers
Cybercrime Case Presentation is a "first look" excerpt from Brett Shavers' new Syngress book, Placing the Suspect Behind the Keyboard. Case presentation requires the skills of a good forensic examiner and great public speaker in order to convey enough information t....
Release Date 2013/01 -
Quotient Space Based Problem Solving
Author Bo Zhang , Ling Zhang
Quotient Space Based Problem Solving provides an in-depth treatment of hierarchical problem solving, computational complexity, and the principles and applications of multi-granular computing, including inference, information fusing, planning, and heuristic search. E....
Release Date 2014/01 -
The Art of Investigative Interviewing, 3rd Edition
Author Inge Sean Black
The Art of Investigative Interviewing, Third Edition can be used by anyone who is involved in investigative interviewing. It is a perfect combination of real, practical, and effective techniques, procedures, and actual cases. Learn key elements of investigative inte....
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Public Debt Dynamics of Europe and the U.S.
Author Dimitris N. Chorafas
Public Debt Dynamics of Europe and the U.S., provides the evidence and implications of current policies by sovereigns and central banks, in dealing with the debt abyss. It brings in perspective the diversity of opinion reigning in modern economics and finance and o....
Release Date 2013/10 -
Studying and Designing Technology for Domestic Life
Author Carman Neustaedter , Tejinder K. Judge
Conducting research and technology design for domestic life is by no means easy. Methods commonly used in the field of Human-Computer Interaction in settings like the workplace may not easily translate to the richness and complexity of domestic life. This bo....
Release Date 2014/09 -
Emerging Technologies and Management of Crop Stress Tolerance
Author Saiema Rasool , Parvaiz Ahmad
Emerging Technologies and Management of Crop Stress Tolerance: Volume II - A Sustainable Approach helps readers take technological measures to alleviate plant stress and improve crop production in various environmental conditions. This resource provides a comprehens....
Release Date 2014/05 -
Emerging Technologies and Management of Crop Stress Tolerance
Author Saiema Rasool , Parvaiz Ahmad
Emerging Technologies and Management of Crop Stress Tolerance: Volume 1 - Biological Techniques presents the latest technologies used by scientists for improvement the crop production and explores the various roles of these technologies for the enhancement of crop p....
Release Date 2014/04