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The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition
Author Peter T. Coleman , Eric C. Marcus , Morton Deutsch
Praise for The Handbook of Conflict Resolution"This handbook is a classic. It helps connect the research of academia to the practical realities of peacemaking and peacebuilding like no other. It is both comprehensive and deeply informed on topics vital to the field ....
Release Date 2014/04 -
Author Courtney Webster
The wish lists of many data-driven organizations seem reasonable enough. They’d like to capitalize on real-time data analysis, move beyond batch processing for time-critical insights, allow multiple users to share cluster resources, and provide predictable service ....
Release Date 2016/04 -
The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Author Ken Henderson
Since its introduction over a decade ago, the Microsoft SQL Server query language, Transact-SQL, has become increasingly popular and more powerful. The current version sports such advanced features as OLE Automation support, cross-platform querying facilities, and f....
Release Date 2000/02 -
Author Michelle Dunn
Give your business a successful credit and collections plan with this easy and clear guideOver 100,000 businesses have slow or non-paying customers. Yet very few actually have a workable plan for claiming the missing revenue that results. This book gives you a compl....
Release Date 2011/05 -
The Global Impact of Open Data
Author Stefaan Verhulst , Andrew Young
Open data has spurred economic innovation, social transformation, and fresh forms of political and government accountability in recent years, but few people understand how open data works. This comprehensive report, developed with support from Omidyar Network, pres....
Release Date 2016/09 -
Author Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
Better TogetherFDR and Eleanor. Mick and Keith. Jobs and Woz. There are countless examples of introvert-extrovert partnerships who make brilliant products, create great works of art, and even change history together. But these partnerships don't just happen. T....
Release Date 2015/08 -
The Garbage Collection Handbook
Author Eliot Moss , Antony Hosking , Richard Jones
Published in 1996, Richard Jones’s Garbage Collection was a milestone in the area of automatic memory management. The field has grown considerably since then, sparking a need for an updated look at the latest state-of-the-art developments. The Garbage Collection Ha....
Release Date 2016/09 -
The Future of Machine Intelligence
Author David Beyer
Advances in both theory and practice are throwing the promise of machine learning into sharp relief. The field has the potential to transform a range of industries, from self-driving cars to intelligent business applications. Yet machine learning is so complex and ....
Release Date 2016/03 -
The Fundamentals of Hedge Fund Management, 2nd Edition
Author Daniel A. Strachman
Updated edition of the book that gives investors, advisors, and managers the tools they need to launch and maintain a hedge fund in today's economyThe hedge fund industry has gone through dramatic changes in recent years. Investors of all types continue to want to ....
Release Date 2012/07 -
The Framework for ML Governance
Most companies don't have problems building and deploying algorithmic models, but they do struggle to effectively manage them in production. Maximizing the value of machine learning projects in the enterprise requires a robust MLOps program. But there's one key challenge: The problem MLOps sets ou.... -
The Four Intelligences of the Business Mind: How to Rewire Your Brain and Your Business for Success
Author Valeh Nazemoff
I highly recommend that you look at your organization through the lens of The Four Intelligences of the Business Mind. If you do so, your business will improve in unexpected ways." —Mark Waldman, Executive MBA Faculty, Loyola Marymount University"The Four Intelligen....
Release Date 2014/11 -
The First Mile: A Launch Manual for Getting Great Ideas into the Market
Author Scott Anthony
You have a great idea, now what?That first mile—where an innovation moves from an idea on paper to the market—is often plagued by failure. In fact, less than one percent of ideas launched by big companies end up having real impact. The ideas aren’t the problem. It’s....
Release Date 2014/05 -
Author Julie Johnson , Sally Helgesen
The Female Vision shows why:• What women see matters to organizations• What women notice is what organizations need now• What women value Will Define Organizational Excellence in The FutureWomen often see the world from a different angle than men. B....
Release Date 2010/06 -
The Fatal Flaw of AI Implementation
Author Jeanne W. Ross
Many managers are excited about smart machines but are struggling to apply machines' limited intelligence. Indeed, computers can process data just fine, but to generate competitive advantage from machine learning applications, organizations must upgrade their empl....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Author Alison Zarrella , Dan Zarrella
How can Facebook help you promote your brand, products, and services? This book provides proven tactics that you can use right away to build your brand and engage prospective customers. With 500 million active users worldwide, Facebook offers a much larger audience ....
Release Date 2011/01 -
The Evolving Role of the Data Engineer
Author Andy Oram
Companies working to become data driven often view data scientists as heroes, but that overlooks the vital role that data engineers play in the process. While data scientists focus on finding new insights from datasets, data engineers deal with preparation—obtaining, clea....
Release Date 2020/04 -
Author Katie Whitson , Wen Phan , Patrick Hall
Machine learning is a hot topic in business. Even data-driven organizations that have spent years developing successful data analysis platforms, with many accurate statistical models in place, are now looking into this decades-old discipline. But how can companies ....
Release Date 2016/05 -
Author C. Otto Scharmer
Creating a Better FutureThis book offers a concise, accessible guide to the key concepts and applications in Otto Scharmer's classic Theory U. Scharmer argues that our capacity to pay attention coshapes the world. What prevents us from attending to situations....
Release Date 2018/03 -
Author Mark Gardener
An essential library of basic commands you can copy and paste into RThe powerful and open-source statistical programming language R is rapidly growing in popularity, but it requires that you type in commands at the keyboard rather than use a mouse, so you have to le....
Release Date 2012/11 -
The Essential Guide to Grief and Grieving
Author MS. Debra Holland
Debra Holland, a psychotherapist and specialist in grief counseling, shares her indispensable knowledge in The Essential Guide to Grief and Grieving, tackling the difficult questions about how men and women, young and old, cope with loss. This accessible, inspiring....
Release Date 2014/11 -
Author Stephanie K. Ashenden
The Era of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science in the Pharmaceutical Industry examines the drug discovery process, assessing how new technologies have improved effectiveness. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are considered the future for a wide range of discip....
Release Date 2021/04 -
Author Dimitri Uzunidis , Sophie Boutillier
This book presents the economic theories with regards to the entrepreneur of yesterday and those of more recent years, on which issue research has been developing exponentially since the last third of the 20th Century. Much of this book will be devoted to contempor....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Author Alex Gorelik
The data lake is a daring new approach for harnessing the power of big data technology and providing convenient self-service capabilities. But is it right for your company? This book is based on discussions with practitioners and executives from more than a hundred....
Release Date 2019/03 -
Author Terry R. BACON
What do a person’s knowledge, expressiveness, history, character, and attraction have in common? Or his or her role resources, information, network, and reputation? Each is a key to either personal or organizational power, and together they open the complex co....
Release Date 2011/01 -
The Efficiency of China's Stock Market
Author Shiguang Ma
By investigating the efficiency of China's stock market in accordance with the theoretical framework of the Efficient Market Hypothesis, this book focuses on weak form and semi-strong form market efficiency. Empirical tests have been intensively conducted on the r....
Release Date 2017/11 -
The DS2 Procedure: SAS Programming Methods at Work
Author Peter Eberhardt
The issue facing most SAS programmers today is not that data space has become bigger ("Big Data"), but that our programming problem space has become bigger. Through the power of DS2, this book shows programmers how easily they can manage complex problems using mod....
Release Date 2016/03 -
The Driver in the Driverless Car, 2nd Edition
Author Alex Salkever , Vivek Wadhwa
Tech experts Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever describe dozens of astonishing technological advances in this fascinating and thought-provoking book, which asks what kind of future lies ahead—Star Trek or Mad Max? Breakthroughs such as personalized genomics, drone....
Release Date 2019/06 -
Author Susan E. REED
Are we better off today than we were 50 years ago? Nearly 50 years after the Civil Rights Movement, there is a new crisis of opportunity in corporate America. Based on the author’s groundbreaking study of Fortune 100 companies, The Diversity Index identifies a....
Release Date 2011/08