About the Book

Features

·         Aimed at anyone who is lacking confidence, feeling powerless, afraid of conflict or feels they could do with learning the secrets of persuading, influencing and getting their own way without any unpleasantness.

·         Contains 100 principles and strategies covering a range of situations both inside and outside of work.

·         With a double page spread dedicated to each of the 100 points, the book is easy to read in bite size chunks, enabling readers to dip in and out as they wish.

·         Lots of simple, easily achievable strategies, which readers can put into practice at whatever speed they chose.

·         No tedious theory, no elaborate, complicated techniques or faddy jargon, just insightful, practical, wise guidance – and lots of it with plenty of ideas from the start.

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• Wireless communications without routers, base stations, or Internet Service Providers.
• Key applications: conferencing, home networking, emergency services, Personal Area Networks, Bluetooth, and more.
• Addressing the key challenges of ad hoc networking: Power management, scalability, and more.

Features

• Gives an honest assessment of the Java programming language
• Highly enjoyable read that gives any programmer the power to be smarter than the programmer next to them
• Puzzles are challenging and fun, but VERY practical and effective for teaching how to avoid problematic program behavior

About the Authors

Joshua Bloch is a principal engineer at Google and a Jolt Award-winner. He was previously a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems and a senior systems designer at Transarc. Josh led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including JDK 5.0 language enhancements and the award-winning Java Collections Framework. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. Neal Gafter is a software engineer and Java evangelist at Google. He was previously a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he led the development of the Java compiler and implemented the Java language features in releases 1.4 through 5.0. Neal was a member of the C++ Standards Committee and led the development of C and C++ compilers at Sun Microsystems, Microtec Research, and Texas Instruments. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Rochester. Features

• ERP Systems — The first section presents the technical foundation of ERP systems, providing motivation to learn about the implementation process.
• ERP Implementation — Section two provides information on the ERP development life-cycle, the process of selecting software and vendors, how to manage an ERP implementation project, and understand the concept of metrics and evaluation in an organization.
• People and Organization — In section three, students learn the issues dealing with people and organizational change, business process reengineering, change management, operational and post-implementation activities and the role of ethics and globalization.
• ERP Extensions — The final section emphasizes the two other enterprise-level applications, Supply Chain Management and Customer Resource Management, which are often integrated with ERP systems.

Features

• Over 58K gross copies of first edition sold
• Presents the most practical, authoritative guidelines available for writing efficient, well-designed programs for the Java platform
• Completely updated for Java 6

Features

• Extensive coverage of all the objectives defined for the latest version of the exam
• Contains detailed coverage of all exam topics and objectives
• Includes helpful code examples, exercises, review questions, and several full practice exams

About the Authors
Khalid A. Mughal is an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen, Norway. Professor Mughal is responsible for designing and implementing various courses, which use Java, at the Department of Informatics. Over the years, he has taught Programming Languages (Java, C/C++, Pascal), Software Engineering (Object-Oriented System Development), Data bases (Data Modeling and Database Management Systems), and Compiler Techniques. He has also given numerous courses and seminars at various levels in object-oriented programming and system development, using Java and Javarelated technology, both at the University and for the IT industry. He is the principal author of the book, responsible for writing the material covering the Java topics. Rolf W. Rasmussen is the System Development Manager at vizrt, a company that develops solutions for the TV broadcast industry, including real-time 3D graphic renderers, and content and control systems. Rasmussen works mainly on control and automation systems, video processing, typography, and real-time visualization. He has worked on clean room implementations of the Java class libraries in the past, and is a contributor to the Free Software Foundation. Features

• Three new chapters—‘Financial Environment in India’, ‘Emerging Methods of Financing’, and ‘Corporate Governance and Sustainability’
• Several new case studies from companies like Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, Hindustan Unilever Limited, Hero Honda Motors, Apollo Tyres and Reliance Power
• Extensive coverage of relevant topics such as efficient markets, share repurchase, empirical evidence, annuity, electronic funds transfers and loan pricing.
• Expanded coverage of topics like time value of money, methods of capital budgeting, leverage-financial and operating, inventory management and receivables management

Features

• A stronger focus on helping your master OOA/D through case studies that demonstrate key oo principles and patterns, while also applying UML
• New coverage of UML 2, agile modeling, test-driven development, and refactoring
• Many new tips on combining iterative and evolutionary development with OOA/D
• Updates for easier study, including new learning aids and graphics
• New college educator teaching resources
• Guidance on applying the UP in a light, agile spirit, complementary with other iterative methods such as XP and Scrum
• Techniques for applying the UML to documenting architectures
• A new chapter on evolutionary requirements

Features

• Balances applied and theoretical aspects of security presents applications and protocols where cryptographic primitives are used in practice, such as SET and SSL.
• Coverage of Rijndael and AES provides a detailed explanation of AES, which has replaced Feistel-based ciphers (DES) as the standard block cipher algorithm.
• Coverage of practical applications of cryptography to security protocols connects the cryptographic tools developed earlier in the book to the building of real security tools, demonstrating to students that there is more to security and cryptography than just math.
• Friendly, story-like discussion of security concepts uses historical examples to illustrate the concepts of security and cryptanalysis by relating theory to easier-to-grasp events.
• Modern methods such as elliptic curves, lattice methods, and quantum techniques provide thorough coverage of topics that are becoming increasingly prominent in the field.
• Major coverage of coding theory offers a discussion of coding theory, which is often covered in today’s cryptology courses.
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  • Substantial new material includes chapters on threads and multithreaded programming, using the socket interface to drive interprocess communication (IPC)
  • Extensive coverage of the interfaces added to the latest version of the POSIX.1 standard
  • Nearly all examples have been tested on four of today’s most widely used UNIX/LINUX platforms: FreeBSD 5.2.1; the Linux 2.4.22 kernel; Solaris 9; and Darwin 7.4.0, the FreeBSD/Mach hybrid underlying Apple’s Mac OS X 10.3
  About the Authors
  

  The late W. Richard Stevens was the acclaimed author of UNIX Network Programming, Volumes 1 and 2, widely recognized as the classic texts in UNIX networking; as well as TCP/IP illustrated, Volumes 1–3, and the first edition of this book.

   

  Stephen A. Rago is the author of UNIX System V Network Programming (1993). Rago was one of the Bell Laboratories developers who built UNIX System V, Release 4.

  Features
  
  • Comprehensive coverage of key CMOS design issues: circuits, interconnect, and clocking
  • Detailed treatment of low-power techniques
  • Tutorial chapters on Verilog, VHDL, and SPICE (circuit) simulation
  • Extensive exercises and worked-out examples for learning reinforcement
  Features
  
  • Provides exceptionally strong and expanded coverage of the relational model
  • Material on types or domains has been expanded
  • The chapters on integrity, type inheritance and temporal databases have been completely rewritten to reflect latest research developments.
  • Appendices include coverage of the TransRelational model, BNF grammar for SQL expressions, storage structures and access methods, and a glossary of important abbreviations, acronyms and symbols used in the text.
  About the Authors
  

  C.J. Date is an author, lecturer, researcher and independent consultant specializing in relational database systems. He has been an active member of the database community for nearly 35 years. He is based in Healdsburg, California.

   

  A. Kannan is Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Anna University, Chennai. He received his Ph.D. in temporal databases from Anna University. He has about 22 years of experience in teaching and research.

  S. Swamynathan is Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Anna University, Chennai. He has about 10 years of teaching and research experience.

  
  
  Table of Contents:
  Preface
  Acknowledgments
  
  1. An Overview of Database Management
  2. Database System Architecture
  3. An Introduction to Relational Databases
  4. An Introduction to SQL
  5. Types
  6. Relations
  7. Relational Algebra
  8. Relational Calculus
  9. Integrity
  10. Views
  11. Functional Dependencies
  12. Further Normalization I: 1NF, 2NF, 3NF, BCNF
  13. Further Normalization II: Higher Normal Forms
  14. Semantic Modeling
  15. Recovery
  16. Concurrency
  17. Security
  18. Optimization
  19. Missing Information
  20. Type Inheritance
  21. Distributed Databases
  22. Decision Support
  23. Temporal Databases
  24. Logic Based Databases
  25. Object Databases
  26. Object/Relational Databases
  27. The World Wide Web and XML
  
  Appendix A. The TransRelationTM Model
  Appendix B. SQL Expressions
  Appendix C. Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols
  Appendix D. Storage Structures and Access Methods
  Index
  Solved University Model Question Papers