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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Object-Oriented Design Heuristics
Author Arthur J. Riel
Upon completion of an object-oriented design, you are faced with a troubling question: "Is it good, bad, or somewhere in between?" Seasoned experts often answer this question by subjecting the design to a subconscious list of guidelines based on their years of exper....
Release Date 1996/04 -
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 -
Op Amps: Design, Application, and Troubleshooting, 2nd Edition
Author David Terrell
OP Amps deliberately straddles that imaginary line between the technician and engineering worlds. Topics are carefully addressed on three levels: operational overview, numerical analysis, and design procedures. Troubleshooting techniques are presented that rely on t....
Release Date 1996/03 -
Author C. K. Prahalad , Gary Hamel
New competitive realities have ruptured industry boundaries, overthrown much of standard management practice, and rendered conventional models of strategy and growth obsolete. In their stead have come the powerful ideas and methodologies of Gary Hamel and C.K. Praha....
Release Date 1996/03 -
CGI Programming on the World Wide Web
Author Shishir Gundavaram
The World Wide Web is more than a place to put up clever documents and pretty pictures. With a little study and practice, you can offer interactive queries and serve instant information from databases, worked up into colorful graphics. That is what the Common Gatewa....
Release Date 1996/03 -
Power & Politics in Project Management
Author Jeffrey K. Pinto
Power and Politics in Project Management offers you something that is immediately useful in your day-to-day business dealings-a better and more sensitive set of warning signals for spotting and reacting appropriately to unseemly political ploys. Pinto presents a co....
Release Date 1996/01 -
Author Scott Meyers
More than 150,000 copies in print! Praise for Scott Meyers’ first book, Effective C++: “I heartily recommend Effective C++ to anyone who aspires to mastery of C++ at the intermediate level or above.” – The C/C++ User’s Journal From the author of the indispensable....
Release Date 1995/12 -
Survival Analysis Using SAS®: A Practical Guide
Author Paul D. Allison
Biomedical and social science researchers who want to analyze survival data with SAS will find just what they need with this easy-to-read and comprehensive guide. Written for the reader with a modest statistical background and minimal knowledge of SAS software, this....
Release Date 1995/11 -
Author Stephen L. Talbott
Many pundits tell you that the computer is ushering us toward a new Golden Age of Information. A few tell you that the computer is destroying everything worthwhile in our culture. But almost no one tells you what Stephen L. Talbott shows in this surprising book: the....
Release Date 1995/11 -
Using an Art Technique to Facilitate Leadership Development
Author Cheryl De De Ciantis
As a part of the effort to find new ways to promote the development of leadership, trainers have begun to make use of artistic activities. One such activity is the touchstone exercise, in which people create sculptures that represent their vision and purpose as lea....
Release Date 1995/10 -
Evolving Leaders: A Model for Promoting Leadership Development in Programs
Author Wilfred H. Drath , Charles J. Palus
Although leadership development is widely acknowledged as important, our understanding of it is largely implicit. This has made programs that seek to promote it difficult to design and implement, and challenging to evaluate effectively. The model presented in this ....
Release Date 1995/10 -
Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition
Author Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers insight for anyone managing complex projects. These essays draw fr....
Release Date 1995/08 -
Better Grammar in 30 Minutes a Day
Author Florence Sacks , Constance Immel
Here’s help for anyone who has something to say or write but has difficulty doing so. Better Grammar in 30 Minutes features thorough coverage of key grammar skills, clear explanations with a minimum of grammatical terms and an abundance of exercises and activities t....
Release Date 1995/08 -
Author Paul DuBois
If you use UNIX, you probably use csh to type commands even if you've never heard of it. It's the standard shell (command line) on most UNIX systems. tcsh is an enhanced version that's freely available and highly recommended.Using csh & tcsh describes from....
Release Date 1995/07 -
Conducting a Mini Needs Assessment—Instructional Systems Development
Author Kavita Gupta Consultant
This issue defines a mini needs assessment as a process for identifying problems and solutions in a condensed period of time. It outlines a process model and guidelines for implementing the model and offers a mini need assessment stakeholders interview guide and sam....
Release Date 1995/06