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SCORE! A Better Way to Do Busine$$: Moving from Conflict to Collaboration
Author Thomas T. Stallkamp
To maximize long term profits, companies and their managers must focus more on win/win collaboration with business partners rather than using coercion and adversarial tactics to force compliance. Stallkamp pioneered new strategies for collaboration as President of C....
Release Date 2005/02 -
Java™ Application Development on Linux®
Author Michael Schwarz , Carl Albing
Linux is the fastest-growing Java development platform because it saves money and time by serving as a platform for both development and deployment. But developers face significant platform-specific challenges when managing and deploying Java applications in a contr....
Release Date 2004/11 -
In Your Face: How American Marketing Excess Fuels Anti-Americanism
Author Johny K. Johansson
Globalization, commercialization and Americanization are changing the lives of almost everybody on the planet. The uniqueness of this book is that it tackles these trends together, and head-on. The balance of knowledge and feeling makes it an important book in a fie....
Release Date 2004/04 -
Author Jeffrey D. Wager , J. Donald deBethizy , Michael D. Lord
Innovation is more urgently necessary than it's ever been. Now, three leading experts on commercializing innovation systematically sort through the wreckage of yesterday's strategies, learning lessons and identifying ideas worth preserving and adapting. To prepare....
Release Date 2005/02 -
Author Stuart L. Hart - Johnson Graduate School of Management Cornell University
Capitalism is indeed at a crossroads, facing international terrorism, worldwide environmental change, and an accelerating backlash against globalization. Companies are at crossroads, too: finding new strategies for profitable growth is now more challenging. Both set....
Release Date 2005/02 -
Author Roger W. Hoerl , Ronald D. Snee
Nonmanufacturing organizations are rapidly discovering Six Sigma's immense potential to reduce costs, improve performance, grow revenue, strengthen focus, and empower people. To achieve these results in your organization, start right here.Ronald D. Snee and Roger W....
Release Date 2004/10 -
Having It All... and Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First
Author D. Quinn Mills , Sasha K. Mattu , Kirstin R. Horn
Working 24x7? Delaying life until it's too late? You have the ability stop!Having it All ... and Making it Work is a fast-paced, easy-to-use book offering you a new pathway towards managing personal life and professional life--without sacrificing either one of them....
Release Date 2004/01 -
Author Richard Murch
Systems that install, heal, protect themselves and adapt to your needs —automaticallyUsing autonomic computing to reduce costs, improve services, and enhance agilityAutonomic components, architectures, standards, and development toolsPlanning for and implementing au....
Release Date 2004/03 -
Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations
Author Ken Blanchard
“Leading at a Higher Level translates decades of research and 25 years of global experience into simple, practical, and powerful strategies to equip leaders at every level to build organizations that produce bottom-line results. At Nissan, we have made these princip....
Release Date 2006/09 -
mySAP Toolbag for Performance Tuning and Stress Testing
Author George W. Anderson
“A good book for people who deal with SAP systems for a living. I haven’t read another book like this. It’s technical but it’s also an entertaining read. A pleasant departure from the norm.” —David C. Gilliland, Senior Consultant, SAP America, Inc. “Clearly, ....
Release Date 2004/06 -
Building Clustered Linux Systems
Author Robert W. Lucke
Praise for Building Clustered Linux Systems"The author does an outstanding job of presenting a very complicated subject. I very much commend this work. The author sets the pace and provides vital resources and tips along the way. He also has a very good sense of hum....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Big Winners and Big Losers: The 4 Secrets of Long-Term Business Success and Failure
Author Alfred A. Marcus
What keeps great companies winning, year after year, even as yesterday's most hyped businesses fall by the wayside? It's not what you think -- or what you've read. To find the real answers, strategic management expert Alfred Marcus systematically reviewed detaile....
Release Date 2005/10 -
Use Cases: Patterns and Blueprints
Author Karin Palmkvist , Gunnar Övergaard
"Gunnar and Karin have not only defined a large collection of use-case patterns and examples of how specific usages are to be modeled in a use-case model, they have also provided an accurate, complete, and comprehensible description of the constructs used in use-cas....
Release Date 2004/11 -
Nanotechnology and Homeland Security: New Weapons for New Wars
Author Mark A. Ratner , Daniel Ratner
How nanotechnology will transform the war against terror.Nanotechnology offers immense potential for fighting terrorism without sacrificing our open, free, and democratic society. This book covers the significant opportunity to use nanotechnology to prevent terroris....
Release Date 2003/10 -
Understanding the Linux® Virtual Memory Manager
Author Mel Gorman
Finally, a comprehensive guide to the Linux VM!VM's behavior affects every Linux kernel subsystem and dramatically impacts overall performance. But until now, there was only one way to understand VM: study the poorly documented source one line at a time. Now there....
Release Date 2004/04 -
Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide, The
Author Jelmer R. Vernooij , John H. Terpstra
"The breadth of technical information provided in this book ensures that even the most demanding of administrators will find something they need." --Andrew Tridgell, President of the Samba Team and the original author of SambaThe practical, authoritative, step-by-st....
Release Date 2003/10 -
Who Stole My Customer??: Winning Strategies for Creating and Sustaining Customer Loyalty
Author Harvey Thompson
Who's stealing your customers? Why is it happening? How can you stop it? These are the toughest questions facing virtually every enterprise. Who Stole My Customer?? is your complete guide to planning and implementing customer loyalty processes that really work-beca....
Release Date 2004/02 -
Winning Habits: 4 Secrets that Will Change the Rest of Your Life
Author Dick Lyles
4 Simple Secrets of Success...Make Them Work for You!“In Winning Ways, Dick Lyles showed us how to work well with people. Now, in Winning Habits, he gives us the secrets to a lifetime of fulfillment.”—SPENCER JOHNSON Author of the worldwide best seller Who Moved My ....
Release Date 2004/01 -
Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus
Author Michael A. Roberto
Harvard Business School's Michael Roberto draws on powerful decision-making case studies from every walk of life, showing how to promote honest, constructive dissent and skepticism; use it to improve decisions; and align organizations behind those decisions. Learn....
Release Date 2005/06 -
Sun™ ONE Messaging Server: Practices and Techniques for Enterprise Customers
Author Dave Pickens
Selecting the best architectureAdding functionalityMonitoring the Sun ONE Messaging ServerAvailability considerations and issuesAs messaging or email increases in volume and size, the need for a scalable enterprise messaging system becomes more apparent to many orga....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Author Bernard Baumohl
Every day, stocks, bonds, and currencies bounce wildly in response to new economic indicators. Money managers obsess over those statistics, because they provide crucial clues about the future of the economy and the financial markets.Now you can use these indicators ....
Release Date 2004/09 -
LDAP in the Solaris™ Operating Environment: Deploying Secure Directory Services
Author Tom Bialaski , Michael Haines
LDAP in the Solaris Operating EnvironmentDeploying Secure Directory ServicesProvides an in-depth discussion of Solaris Operating Environment security methods and how they relate to LDAP as a naming serviceCovers migration planning tips from NIS/NIS+ to an LDAP-based....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Author Bloomy Controls Peter A. Blume - President Inc.
Drawing on the experiences of a world-class LabVIEW development organization, The LabVIEW Style Book is the definitive guide to best practices in LabVIEW development.Leading LabVIEW development manager Peter A. Blume presents practical guidelines or “rules” for opti....
Release Date 2007/02 -
Author Chris Crawford
Chris Crawford on Game Design is all about the foundational skills behind the design and architecture of a game. Without these skills, designers and developers lack the understanding to work with the tools and techniques used in the industry today. Chris Crawford, t....
Release Date 2003/06 -
Author Ray Lai , Ramesh Nagappan , Christopher Steel
Praise for Core Security PatternsJava provides the application developer with essential security mechanisms and support in avoiding critical security bugs common in other languages. A language, however, can only go so far. The developer must understand the security ....
Release Date 2005/10 -
Author Jack B. Rochester , John Gantz
Digital piracy. It's a global war -- and it's just begun. Pirates of the Digital Millennium chronicles that war. All of it: media conglomerates vs. teenagers, tech companies vs. content providers, artists battling artists, nations vs. nations, law enforcement vs. ....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Ultra-Wideband Communications: Fundamentals and Applications
Author Faranak Nekoogar
The Easy-to-Understand, Up-to-the-Minute Guide to UWB Technologies, Applications, and MarketsUltra-wideband's exceptional capacity and power characteristics make it one of this generation's most exciting technologies. From wireless communications to entertainment,....
Release Date 2005/08 -
Inventor's Guide to Trademarks and Patents, The
Author Rachel Ralston , Jaclyn Vassallo , Craig Fellenstein
This is the complete guide to intellectual property: thinking concepts for discovering it, creating it, protecting it, and profiting from it.Whether you're an individual inventor or an innovator inside a small-medium business or large enterprise, you need a deep, b....
Release Date 2004/10 -
HP-UX CSE Official Study Guide and Desk Reference
Author Charles Keenan
HP-UX CSE: Official Study Guide and Desk ReferenceThe definitive HP-UX CSE exam preparation guide and referenceHP-approved coverage of all three CSE exams: CSE HP-UX Advanced System Administration, CSE High Availability Using HP-UX Serviceguard, and CSE HP-UX Networ....
Release Date 2004/09 -
BUILT FOR GROWTH Expanding Your Business Around the Corner or Across the Globe
Author Collins Hemingway , Arthur Rubinfeld
If there's one thing that's consistent in today's business world, it's rapid change. So how do you not only stay steady but actually grow'and quickly enough to stay safely ahead of your competitors? Built for Growth delivers specific solutions to create a brand....
Release Date 2005/03