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The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System
Author John S. Quarterman - Texas Internet Consulting , Michael J. Karels - Berkeley Sof
This book describes the design and implementation of the BSD operating system--previously known as the Berkeley version of UNIX. Today, BSD is found in nearly every variant of UNIX, and is widely used for Internet services and firewalls, timesharing, and multiproces....
Release Date 1996/04 -
Author Nancy A. Lynch
In Distributed Algorithms, Nancy Lynch provides a blueprint for designing, implementing, and analyzing distributed algorithms. She directs her book at a wide audience, including students, programmers, system designers, and researchers.Distributed Algorithms contain....
Release Date 1996/04 -
Radio Programming: Tactics and Strategy
Author Eric Norberg
A practical handbook for programming directors, this guide focuses on achieving specific objectives in today's modern, competitive environment. Radio Programming is designed to convey underlying principles and to assist the programmer in accomplishing specif....
Release Date 1996/05 -
Forceful Leadership and Enabling Leadership: You Can Do Both
Author Robert Kaplan
Leaders need to be forceful--to assert themselves and their capabilities and to push others to perform. Leaders also need to be enabling--to tap into and bring out the capabilities of others. The problem is that many executives see forceful leadership and enabling ....
Release Date 1996/05 -
Perspectives on Dialogue: Making Talk Developmental for Individuals and Organizations
Author Nancy M. Dixon
There is a growing sense today that organizations and the people that make them up are, to repeat a figure of speech recently used by Robert Kegan, in over their heads. As diversity becomes the rule and change the sole constant, complexity is increasing. It is gene....
Release Date 1996/05 -
The SPIN Selling Fieldbook: Practical Tools, Methods, Exercises and Resources
Author Neil Rackham
Put into practice today's winning strategy for achieving success in high-end sales!The SPIN Selling Fieldbook is your guide to the method that has revolutionized big-ticket sales in the United States and globally. It's the method being used by one-half of all Fort....
Release Date 1996/06 -
Simplified Design of IC Amplifiers
Author John Lenk
Simplified Design of IC Amplifiers has something for everyone involved in electronics. No matter what skill level, this book shows how to design and experiment with IC amplifiers. For experimenters, students, and serious hobbyists, this book provides sufficient info....
Release Date 1996/06 -
The Adventures of Team Fantastic: A Practical Guide for Team Leaders and Members
Author Glenn L. Hallam
Using imaginative examples, this entertaining and informative book looks at the ways anyone who is part of a team can help improve its performance. The reader travels through time and space with Team Fantastic--in the Brazilian jungle looking for a cache of diamond....
Release Date 1996/06 -
Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
Author Steve McConnell
Corporate and commercial software-development teams all want solutions for one important problem—how to get their high-pressure development schedules under control. In RAPID DEVELOPMENT, author Steve McConnell addresses that concern head-on with overall strategies, ....
Release Date 1996/07 -
C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software
Author David R. Hanson - Princeton University
Every programmer and software project manager must master the art of creating reusable software modules; they are the building blocks of large, reliable applications. Unlike some modern object-oriented languages, C provides little linguistic support or motivation fo....
Release Date 1996/08 -
Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within
Author Robert E. Quinn
Don't let your company kill you!Open this book at your own risk. It contains ideas that may lead to a profound self-awakening. An introspective journey for those in the trenches of today's modern organizations, Deep Change is a survival manual for finding our own ....
Release Date 1996/08 -
The Abilene Paradox and Other Meditations on Management
Author Jerry B. Harvey
Faulty decision-making can have dire consequences, and when it comes to group decisions, the challenges are even greater. Join Dr. Jerry B. Harvey as he clearly illustrates why no organization wants to find themselves goin' to Abilene.See how group dynamics can kee....
Release Date 1996/08 -
Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Volume 1, A System of Patterns
Author Michael Stal , Peter Sommerlad , Hans Rohnert , Regine Meunier , Frank Buschmann
Pattern - Oriented Software Architecture A System of Patterns Frank Buschmann, Regine Meunier, Hans Rohnert, Peter Sommerlad, Michael Stal of Siemens AG, Germany Pattern-oriented software architecture is a new approach to software development. This book represents t....
Release Date 1996/08 -
Managerial Promotion: The Dynamics for Men and Women
Author Kathy E. Kram , Patricia J. Ohlott , Marian N. Ruderman
There are subtle but potent differences in the ways decisions are made to promote men and women. This publication looks at these differences through a study conducted at one Fortune 500 company. It discusses the several ways that the promotion decision process can ....
Release Date 1996/08 -
Learning GNU Emacs, Second Edition
Author Eric S. Raymond , Bill Rosenblatt , Debra Cameron
GNU Emacs is the most popular and widespread of the Emacs family of editors. It is also the most powerful and flexible. Unlike all other text editors, GNU Emacs is a complete working environment -- you can stay within Emacs all day without leaving. This book tells ....
Release Date 1996/09 -
Author Richard C. Green , Doug Gray , Edward J. Powers , Vito Roberto , Virginio Cantoni , S
Artificial Vision is a rapidly growing discipline, aiming to build computational models of the visual functionalities in humans, as well as machines that emulate them. Visual communication in itself involves a numberof challenging topics with a dramatic impact on co....
Release Date 1996/09 -
Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
Author Kent Beck
This classic book is the definitive real-world style guide for better Smalltalk programming. This author presents a set of patterns that organize all the informal experience successful Smalltalk programmers have learned the hard way. When programmers understand thes....
Release Date 1996/10 -
Panaflex User's Manual, 2nd Edition
Author David Samuelson
The Panaflex User's Manual, Second Edition, provides detailed instructions and illustrations on how to use Panaflex motion picture camera equipment. Developed in conjunction with Panavision, this easy-to follow manual provides current, up-to-date information on all....
Release Date 1996/10 -
OpenGL Programming for Windows 95 and Windows NT
Author Ron Fosner
The licensing of OpenGL to many leading computer companies, including Microsoft, has made it possible for graphics programmers to learn to write stunning 3D graphics programs using the industry graphics standard on the world's most popular operating system. And Ope....
Release Date 1996/10 -
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Second Edition
Author Bruce Schneier
". . .the best introduction to cryptography I've ever seen. . . . The book the National Security Agency wanted never to be published. . . ." -Wired Magazine". . .monumental . . . fascinating . . . comprehensive . . . the definitive work on cryptography for computer....
Release Date 1996/10 -
Newnes Digital Logic IC Pocket Book
Author R MARSTON
This handy reference guide to modern '74'- series and '4000'- series digital ICs presents 620 useful and carefully selected circuits, diagrams, graphs and tables, supported by informative text and captions. Detailed descriptions of and practical applicatio....
Release Date 1996/10 -
Generation to Generation: Life Cycles of the Family Business
Author Ivan Lansberg , Marion McCollom Hampton , John A. Davis , Kelin E. Gersick
Generation to Generation presents one of the first comprehensive overviews of family business as a specific organizational form. Focusing on the inevitable maturing of families and their firms over time, the authors reveal the dynamics and challenges family business....
Release Date 1996/10 -
How to Design an Effective System for Developing Managers and Executives
Author George Hollenbeck , Maxine Dalton
Managers and executives do not typically become more effective as the result of a single training program or other intervention. Rather, development requires a range of ongoing and integrated activities. Drawn from CCL's "Tools for Developing Successful Executives"....
Release Date 1996/10 -
Creating Special Effects for TV and Video, 3rd Edition
Author Bernard Wilkie
Creating Special Effects for TV and Video is a concise and practical introduction to the techniques used in television production. Now completely updated, this third edition covers a wide range of special effects in a simple and practical form, with clear ill....
Release Date 1996/11 -
Managing Across Cultures: A Learning Framework
Author Leonard R. Sayles , Michael H. Hoppe , Meena S. Wilson
Managing in a multicultural setting can be very challenging. Culture strongly influences how people behave and how they understand the behavior of others, and cultures vary in the behaviors they find proper and acceptable. This report--which integrates work done by....
Release Date 1996/11 -
Database Design for Mere Mortals
Author Michael J. Hernandez
Sound design can save you hours of development time before you write a single line of code. Based on the author's years of experience teaching this material, Database Design for Mere Mortals is a straightforward, platform-independent tutorial on the basic principle....
Release Date 1996/12 -
Author Jennifer Fulton
The 10 Minute Guide to Excel 97 offers simple, practical help for busy people who need fast results. Through goal-oriented, 10-minute lessons, you'll learn all the essential tasks for creating powerful worksheets. 10 minutes is all you'll need to create and custom....
Release Date 1996/12 -
Author Faithe Wempen
The 10 Minute Guide to Access 97 offers simple, practical help for busy people who need fast results. Through goal-oriented, 10-minute lessons, you'll learn all the essential tasks for setting up and maintaining your own database. 10 minutes is all you'll need to ....
Release Date 1996/12 -
Cellular Telephones and Pagers
Author Stephen Gibson
Cellular Telephones and Pagers is an overview of the basics of mobile telephone and paging technology and related issues. It is written for the interested layman as well as the professional looking for basic information. The first half of the book deals mainl....
Release Date 1996/12 -
Author Rudolf F. Graf
This series of circuits provides designers with a quick source for measuring circuits. Why waste time paging through huge encyclopedias when you can choose the topic you need and select any of the specialized circuits sorted by application? This book in the s....
Release Date 1996/12