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The Human Factor in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Transformational Change
Author Dr. Muhammad Rafique
M&A failures is an established phenomenon. Human factors, such as acceptance of and readiness for change at the individual level, conflict of interest and cultural incompatibility are the key attributes of the success or failure of a merger or transformational change.Balancing theory with practi....
Release Date 2021/10 -
Author Colin O'Flynn
Embedded devices are chip-size microcomputers small enough to be included in the structure of the object they control, and they’re everywhere—in phones, cars, credit cards, laptops, medical equipment, even critical infrastructure. This means understanding their security is critical. The Hardware Hac....
Release Date 2021/12 -
The Grown-Up's Guide to Painting with Kids
Author Jennifer McCully
It’s time to get messy with your art! Featuring easy step-by-step painting projects, tips for how to have fun with the process, and lots of creative inspiration, The Grown-Up’s Guide to Painting with Kids is the must-have fluid art book for adults and children of all ages.
Release Date 2020/06 -
The Grown-Up's Guide to Making Art with Kids
Author Lee Foster-Wilson
The Grown-Up’s Guide to Making Art with Kids features drawing tutorials, interactive pages, and projects that will teach children and adults to draw and paint fun, simple subjects like unicorns, pets, flowers, and more. Adult and young artists can then use the artwork created to make fun and easy cr....
Release Date 2019/05 -
The Grown-Up's Guide to Crafting with Kids
Author Vicki Manning
The Grown-Up’s Guide to Crafting with Kids features fun, easy crafting projects made from affordable, accessible materials that crafters likely already have at home. The projects encourage togetherness for kids and caregivers and teach children of all ages about important topics, including art, scie....
Release Date 2020/06 -
The Elements of Voice First Style
Author Ahmed Bouzid , Weiye Ma
If you're a new or experienced designer of conversational voice-first experiences, this handy reference provides actionable answers to key aspects of eyes-busy, hands-busy, voice-only user interfaces. Designed as a companion to books about conversational voice design, this guide includes important ....
Release Date 2022/10 -
The Economics and Politics of European Integration
Author Ivan T. Berend
The Economics and Politics of European Integration offers a comprehensive history of European integration, from the conceptualization of a United States of Europe, to the present day. The special role of the United States in this process of integration, and the expansion and evolution ....
Release Date 2020/12 -
Author Stephen Chin , Johan Vos , James Weaver
Build enhanced visual experiences and design and deploy modern, easy-to-maintain, client applications across a variety of platforms. This book will show you how these applications can take advantage of JavaFX’s latest user interface components, 3D technology, and cloud services to create immersive v....
Release Date 2021/11 -
The Complete Guide to Cybersecurity Risks and Controls
Author Anne Kohnke , Dan Shoemaker , Ken E. Sigler
The Complete Guide to Cybersecurity Risks and Controls presents the fundamental concepts of information and communication technology (ICT) governance and control. In this book, you will learn how to create a working, practical control structure that will ensure the ongoing, day-to-day trustworthines....
Release Date 2016/03 -
The Complete Book of Textures for Artists
Author Denise J. Howard , Steven Pearce , Mia Tavonatti
The Complete Book of Textures for Artists features more than 275 step-by-step lessons, tips, and techniques to create realistic texture with graphite pencil, charcoal, colored pencil, oil, and acrylic.
Release Date 2020/03 -
The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens, Revised
Author Andy Schneider , Brigid McCrea PhD
Let the Chicken Whisperer (poultry personality Andy Schneider) teach you everything he knows—and everything you need to know—about raising a backyard flock in this newly revised and expanded edition of The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens!
Release Date 2017/07 -
The Capitalist and the Activist
Author Tom C.W. Lin
This is the first in-depth examination of the important ongoing fusion of activism, capitalism, and social change masterfully told through a compelling narrative filled with vivid stories and striking studies. Today, corporations and their executives are at the front lines of some of the most ....
Release Date 2022/01 -
The Cactus and Snowflake at Work
Author Devora Zack
This hilarious and profound workplace guide proves the rigorously rational and the supremely sympathetic can meet in the middle and merge their strengths. Readers will discover how blending with their opposite opens the pathway to being their truest selves.The famed Myers-Briggs personality sc....
Release Date 2021/11 -
The Business of Building a Better World
Author David Cooperrider , Audrey Selian , Jesper Brodin , Halla Tómasdóttir
Twenty-nine leading scholars and executives provide a visionary look at the future of business, propelling past damaging industrial-age values to uncover the key ingredients of humanistic, ecologically sustainable, and intergenerational prosperity.Through the exploration of robust cases and st....
Release Date 2021/11 -
Author Krystle Cobran
The Brave Educator equips you with accessible and refreshingly useful tools for real conversations about race that prepare students for the world beyond the school walls. More than a toolkit, this book is a personal conversation exploring the journey from being stuck in the belief that we should a....
Release Date 2019/07 -
The Art of Writing Efficient Programs
Author Fedor G. Pikus
Get to grips with various performance improvement techniques such as concurrency, lock-free programming, atomic operations, parallelism, and memory managementKey FeaturesUnderstand the limitations of modern CPUs and their performance impactFind out how you can avoid writing inefficient code and get ....
Release Date 2021/10 -
The Art of Watercolor Lettering
Author Kelly Klapstein
The Art of Watercolor Lettering offers detailed tutorials on hand lettering and calligraphy that gently guide readers through the process of lettering with a potentially challenging medium, teaching them to letter artfully and mindfully.
Release Date 2019/11 -
Author Jonathan Stephen Harris
Learn to draw spiral art! Following the success of The Art of Drawing Optical Illusions comes The Art of Spiral Drawing, an inspirational guide that teaches aspiring, beginning, and intermediate artists how to create their own spiral art using step-by-step projects and helpful hints and exercises.
Release Date 2020/04 -
The Art of Image Processing with Java
Author Kenny A. Hunt
While most other image processing texts approach this subject from an engineering perspective, The Art of Image Processing with Java places image processing within the realm of both engineering and computer science students by emphasizing software design. Ideal for students studying computer sc....
Release Date 2016/04 -
The Art of Drawing Dragons, Mythological Beasts, and Fantasy Creatures
Author Michael Dobrzycki
Packed with 50+ step-by-step projects, The Art of Drawing Dragons, Mythological Beasts, and Fantasy Creatures explores how to draw dragons, fairies, goblins, and more in graphite pencil.
Release Date 2020/11