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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....
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Breaking the Proactive Paradox
Author Dr. Tim Baker
How do you get your team members to exercise appropriate independent judgment?How do you get employees to be more accountable for their actions?Leaders need team members to be empowered and proactive post COVID-19.What are the roadblocks? How are they overcome? Most books on employee empowerment byp....
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Author Nancy MacKay , Alan Weiss
The best and the brightest use advisors and experts. In fact, one could say that they are the best and the brightest because they utilized trusted advisors throughout their careers.Whether in business, sports, entertainment, academia, or politics, expert help is a fundamental enabler of success. Tha....
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Business and Emerging Technologies
Author George Baffour
The pace of innovation in modern times is staggering, and with the time demands of many careers, it is easy to lose touch with current trends.If business professionals do not actively stay up to date with new developments, they can quickly become outmoded in the workplace or unattractive in the job ....
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Author Roger Forsgren
Lean Knowledge Management Helped Change NASA’s Culture and It Can Do the Same for Your Organization.NASA suffered three human spaceflight tragedies and Lean Knowledge Management was a major tool that helped NASA management implement massive cultural changes.Traditional knowledge management is too of....
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A Guide to the New Language of Accounting and Finance
Author Roger Hussey , Audra Ong
The disciplines of accounting and finance have been rapidly changing in recent years. The methods and techniques being used have created a new language for managers, students, practitioners, academics. The Guide focuses specifically on the terms used in accounting and finance. Important terms and p....
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Navigating the Boom/Bust Cycle
Author Dr. Murray Sabrin
Will Your Business Be Prepared When the Bubble Bursts?Sabrin’s book is a must guide for corporate executives, managers, and business owners, for any size company; and for MBA students and executives in professional education programs and seminars to assist them better manage their companies during t....
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Author Andrew Freed
Conversational AI is a guide to creating AI-driven voice and text agents for customer support and other conversational tasks. This practical and entertaining book combines design theory with techniques for building and training AI systems. In it, you’ll learn how to find training data, assess perfor....
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Realistic Animals in Coloured Pencil
Author Bonny Snowdon
Learn to draw incredibly photorealistic pets, exotic animals, horses, and more with Realistic Animals in Colored Pencil in this follow-up to Realistic Portraits in Colored Pencil and Realistic Still Life in Colored Pencil.
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Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Study Guide
Author Benjamin Muschko
Developers with the ability to operate, troubleshoot, and monitor applications in Kubernetes are in high demand today. To meet this need, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation created a certification exam to establish a developer’s credibility and value in the job market ....
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Game Development with MonoGame: Build a 2D Game Using Your Own Reusable and Performant Game Engine
Author Louis Salin , Rami Morrar
Create a polished game that includes many levels and fights using MonoGame. This book will show you how to add AI agents and 2D physics into your game, while improving the performance of the game engine. By the end of Game Development with MonoGame, you will have created a game worthy of being publi....
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Statistical Analysis with Swift: Data Sets, Statistical Models, and Predictions on Apple Platforms
Author Jimmy Andersson
Work with large data sets, create statistical models, and make predictions with statistical methods using the Swift programming language. The variety of problems that can be solved using statistical methods range in fields from financial management to machine learning to quality control and much mor....
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Author Tshepo Chris Nokeri
Apply supervised and unsupervised learning to solve practical and real-world big data problems. This book teaches you how to engineer features, optimize hyperparameters, train and test models, develop pipelines, and automate the machine learning (ML) process. The book covers an in-memory, distr....
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RP2040 Assembly Language Programming: ARM Cortex-M0+ on the Raspberry Pi Pico
Author Stephen Smith
Learn to program the Raspberry Pi Pico’s dual ARM Cortex M0+ CPUs in Assembly Language. The Pico contains a customer System on a Chip (SoC) called the RP2040, making it the Foundation’s first entry into the low-cost microcontroller market. The RP2040 contains a wealth of coprocessors for....
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Author Tshepo Chris Nokeri
Get up to speed on the application of machine learning approaches in macroeconomic research. This book brings together economics and data science.Author Tshepo Chris Nokeri begins by introducing you to covariance analysis, correlation analysis, cross-validation, hyperparameter optimization, re....
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Beginning jOOQ: Learn to Write Efficient and Effective Java-Based SQL Database Operations
Author Tayo Koleoso
Learn to use the jOOQ library to manage SQL database operations in Java and JVM applications. This book walks you through what JOOQ is, how to install and get started with it, and then gets you working with it.Practical examples and case studies demonstrate how jOOQ offers a more efficient and versa....
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Modularizing Legacy Projects Using TDD: Test-Driven Development with XCTest for iOS
Author Khaled El-Morabea , Hassaan El-Garem
Improve current or new projects with top notch testability and maintainability. Writing tests improves the design of your apps, as it pushes you to have a more modularized design. This in turn improves the maintainability and sustainability of your apps. This book is for iOS developers who alr....
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Spring Boot with React and AWS: Learn to Deploy a Full Stack Spring Boot React Application to AWS
Author Ravi Kant Soni , Namrata Soni
Create and deploy full-stack Spring Boot applications with React and AWS. This practical and authoritative guide teaches you the fundamentals of Amazon Web Services with no prior experience.You will start by learning the fundamentals of AWS, including EC2, S3, IAM, and load balancer. Next, you will ....
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Snowflake Security: Securing Your Snowflake Data Cloud
Author Ben Herzberg , Yoav Cohen
This book is your complete guide to Snowflake security, covering account security, authentication, data access control, logging and monitoring, and more. It will help you make sure that you are using the security controls in a right way, are on top of access control, and making the most of the....
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Author Hien Luu
Take a journey toward discovering, learning, and using Apache Spark 3.0. In this book, you will gain expertise on the powerful and efficient distributed data processing engine inside of Apache Spark; its user-friendly, comprehensive, and flexible programming model for processing data in batch and st....
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Practical Svelte: Create Performant Applications with the Svelte Component Framework
Author Alex Libby
Learn to leverage the power of Svelte to produce web applications that are efficient and fast. This project-oriented book simplifies creating sites using Svelte from start to finish, with little more than a text editor and familiar languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It equips you wit....
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Java 17 Quick Syntax Reference: A Pocket Guide to the Java SE Language, APIs, and Library
Author Mikael Olsson
Quickly gain the insight necessary to address a multitude of Java coding challenges using this succinct reference guide, Java 17 Quick Syntax Reference, Third Edition. Short, focused code examples will help you learn and master various existing and new Java source code elements. This edit....
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Artificial Neural Networks with Java: Tools for Building Neural Network Applications
Author Igor Livshin
Develop neural network applications using the Java environment. After learning the rules involved in neural network processing, this second edition shows you how to manually process your first neural network example. The book covers the internals of front and back propagation and helps you understan....
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Beginning Hibernate 6: Java Persistence from Beginner to Pro
Author Joseph B. Ottinger , Jeff Linwood , Dave Minter
Get started with Hibernate, an open source Java persistence layer and gain a clear introduction to the current standard for object-relational persistence in Java. This updated edition includes the new Hibernate 6.0 framework which covers new configuration, new object relational mapping changes, and ....
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jQuery Recipes: Find Ready-Made Solutions to All Your jQuery Problems
Author Bintu Harwani
Quickly discover solutions to common problems, best practices you can follow, and everything jQuery has to offer. Using a problem-solution approach, this book begins with small initial problems that developers typically face while working with jQuery, and gradually goes deeper to explore more c....
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macOS Daemonology: Communicate with Daemons, Agents, and Helpers Through XPC
Author Volodymyr Vashurkin
Take advantage of the full power of Swift through XPC. Development for macOS differs from iOS and web-based development because of multicomponent applications. Besides the usual GUI-based applications and app extensions, there are a wide range of daemons—processes that run in the background—to....
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Author Rishabh Jain
Build a versatile home automation system from scratch. There are many ways of controlling home appliances with your smartphones, voice, gestures, etc. This book dives into the many options for for communicating with appliances wirelessly and we’ll discuss and implement the leading protocols in....
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Beginning IoT Projects: Breadboard-less Electronic Projects
Author Charles Bell
Experiment with building IoT projects without the demanding time or patience required to learn about electronics. This book thoroughly introduces readers of all ages to the world of IoT devices and electronics without getting bogged down by the overly technical aspects or being tied to a specific pl....
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Pro Data Visualization Using R and JavaScript: Analyze and Visualize Key Data on the Web
Author Tom Barker , Jon Westfall
Use R 4, RStudio, Tidyverse, and Shiny to interrogate and analyze your data, and then use the D3 JavaScript library to format and display that data in an elegant, informative, and interactive way. You will learn how to gather data effectively, and also how to understand the philosophy and implementa....
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