About the Book

Features

• 230,000 words, phrases, and meanings
• 165,000 corpus-based examples
• Integrated Collocations Dictionary with over 65,000 collocations
• Integrated Thesaurus with over 18,000 synonyms, antonyms, and related words
• Register notes focus on the differences between spoken and written English
• 3000 most frequent words in spoken and written English highlighted
• Clear definitions using only 2000 common words

Free online access – www.longmandictionariesonline.com

• 300,000 words, phrases, and meanings
• Regular updates give access to the very latest language support

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• A complete revision of the best-selling first edition--widely considered a premier text on TCP/IP routing protocols
• A core textbook for CCIE preparation and a practical reference for network designers, administrators, and engineers
• Includes configuration and troubleshooting lessons that would cost thousands to learn in a classroom and numerous real-world examples and case studies

About the Authors
Jeff Doyle, CCIE No. 1919, is a professional services engineer and IPv6 solutions manager. Specializing in IP routing protocols, MPLS, and IPv6, Jeff has designed or assisted in the design of large-scale carrier and services provider networks in North America, Europe, and Asia. Jennifer Carroll, CCIE No. 1402, is an indepedent network consultant in Redmond, WA. She has designed and implemented many TCP/IP networks and has developed and taught a variety of courses on routing protocols and Cisco routers.Features

• covers all major neural networks.
• shows architectures in a similar format for all nets — illustrating the similarities and differences among them.
• clarifies the differences in the capabilities of the different networks by focusing on simple problems — in many cases variations of a theme.
• presents algorithms in enough detail to facilitate the writing of computer programs.
• gives detailed examples of simple applications.
• provides mathematical development when it provides a guide to proper implementation of a net.
• includes exercises and 25 computer projects.

Features

• Fully updated for UML 2.0, highlights the latest features of the IBM/Rational Unified Process
• Emphasizes tips and tricks that help the reader become an expert analyst and designer
• Includes a new section on the OMG's MDA initiative, coverage of RUP stereotypes, and a new appendix relating the book to UML certification

About the Authors
Jim Arlow has been programming and designing object-oriented software systems since 1990. He has created object models for blue chip companies such as British Airways and M&G. He is a respected OO consultant in Europe and has written and delivered many training courses on object technology and Java. Jim is a regular speaker at conferences such as Object World, and has been an invited speaker at University College London, City University, and the British Computer Society. Ila Neustadt has worked in IT for British Airways for more than twenty years and has experience of all parts within the IT development life cycle. She worked in the strategy department modeling the architecture process and developing architecture training, and acted as program head for the graduate business analyst program. Features

• Conceptual & Experiential Approach – Unlike most OD texts, this book provides both conceptual and experiential approaches to the study of OD.
• OD Skills Simulations (Exercises) - These self-learning, experiential exercises include both individual and team learning. The exercises take theories and principles covered in the text and bring them to life in team activities.
• Introductory OD Application - Each chapter begins with a brief description of how an organization, such as Disney and Harley-Davidson, is applying that chapter’s OD concepts.
• OD in Practice - Each chapter features in a boxed exhibit a current example of an OD concept or intervention.
• Case Studies - Cases for class discussion or written assignment are provided at the end of each chapter.
• Our Changing World - Each chapter discusses in a boxed exhibit how change is affecting organizations and countries throughout the world.
• Current examples of business practices - Interwoven throughout the text are current examples of both good and poor business practices.

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• New chapter on satellite positioning systems.
• New photographs and instrument profiles, highlighting the latest equipment.
• New revised material throughout, including coverage of the surveying of existing buildings.
• New improved style and presentation to increase the text's clarity and accessibility.

Features

• Fully revised and updated, current with UML 2.0.
• The best instruction for applying traditional software methods to the intricacies of real-time programming.
• Retains author's signature teaching style and incorporates feedback from the first two editions.

Features

• Content presented in a simple and concise manner
• Detailed, step-by-step presentation of derivations
• A rich repository of solved problems given at the chapter-ends
• Clear illustrations for enhanced understanding
• An exhaustive pedagogy that includes a large number exercises

About the Authors

Dharma Raj Cheruku is Director of Academic Affairs and Professor of Electronics and Communication Engineering, College of Engineering, GITAM University, Vishakapatinam, India. Battula Tirumala Krishna is Associate Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, College of Engineering, GITAM University, Vishakapatinam, India.About the Authors
The authors work for companies around the world that are participating in different aspects of the mobile Internet—including handsets, infrastructure, content, and services. The authors are all active WAP forum participants and leaders. In this book, they bring together their expert knowledge and experience along with a worldwide perspective. Features

• Clear, user friendly and structured text based on the development of the catering cycle.
• The text applies theory to current practice and is designed to support learning.
• Each chapter identifies the intended learning outcomes that may be achieved and a chapter summary is also provided.
• Fully up-to-date-coverage of the underpinning knowledge and skill requirements for NVQ(SVQ) levels 3 and 4.
• Full listing of the intended learning outcomes is provided for mapping against the requirements of various courses.
• Additional learning support provided on the companion web site

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• NEW - Fully updated for the Servlets 2.4 and JSP 2.0 standards.
• NEW - Online access to all source code, available free for unrestricted use.
• NEW - Practical, step-by-step guides for using three leading Servlet/JSP engines—Apache Tomcat, Macromedia JRun, and Caucho Resin.
• Extensive, robust code samples—Contains hundreds of completely portable, fully documented, industrial-strength examples.
• Step-by-step database integration guidance—Walks step-by-step through using servlets and JSPs with data stored in MySQL, Oracle 9i, Microsoft Access databases.
• Detailed architectural coverage—Covers a wide variety of architectural strategies and best practices, with detailed coverage of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture.
• By Marty Hall, the fields leading expert

Features

• The text is divided into 15 chapters and 30 modular topics, making it easier for students to grasp complex ideas. This organization also allows professors to tailor the book to fit an individualized syllabus.
• The extensive glossary and appendices for locating tests enable students to acquire additional information.
• “The History of Psychological Testing” (Ch. 1) and “Major Landmarks in the History of Psychological Testing” (Appendix A) give students a broad overview of the field.
• Because of its growing importance as a major application of psychological testing, neuropsychological assessment is discussed in detail.
• Real-world case studies bring concepts to life for students.
• Coverage of the new Stanford-Binet 5th edition intelligence test due out in September 2003 (Ch. 6).
• Significant new coverage on testing deaf and hard of hearing; also, updated coverage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (Ch. 7).
• Assessment and the Attitudes of Moral and Spiritual Concepts added (Ch. 12).
• Covers the GRE's new format (Ch. 8).
• New section on Ecological Momentary Assessment—real-time measurement of real-world experience (Ch. 14).
• Updated section on the Criterion-referenced testing (Ch. 2).
• Updated references throughout.

Features

• Covers all the techniques, applications and theory required up to degree level
• Incorporates new material on two port networks, reliability, intelligent transmitters, digital signal processing, electronic intrinsically safe systems and communication protocols
• Includes start-of-chapter objectives and end-of-chapter summaries
• Illustrated with over 250 line diagrams and tables
• Includes highlighted equations and over 100 problems to reinforce comprehension.

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• Concepts, analysis, design and measurements – all four aspects given equal emphasis
• Balanced presentation of theory and applications
• Unique Introduction that discuss the fundamental concepts, notations, representation and principles that govern the field of antennas
• Contains a chapter on Mathematical Preliminaries

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• explores design spaces for each architecture class and exposes evolution of concepts and design issues
• provides an up-to-date overview of significant architecture classes, including unique in-depth coverage of superscalar architectures as well as multithreaded, shared and distributed memory MIMDs, and associative and neural architectures
• identifies which concepts and design choices have been made use of in important processors and illustrates significant trends and surpasses and viable concepts
• case Studies and tables show micro architectural details of relevant processors, including the Pentium Pro, Power PC 604, Power PC 620 and R10000, allowing comparisons between them

About the Authors
Professor Dezos Sima is Director of the Department of Informatics at the Kando Polytechnic in Budapest where he has specialized in computer architecture since 1972. He has published two books and over thirty papers. Prof Peter Kacsuk is Head of the Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed System at the MTA SZTAKI research institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Terry Fountain is reader in Applied Physics at University College London. He has published four previous books on computer architecture.Features

• Realistic guidance on building “fit for application” cryptographic systems—Shows students why conventional cryptographic implementations are often inadequate, and how to build systems that are far more secure.
• Sophisticated formal methods—Introduces advanced formal methods for demonstrating the security of cryptographic systems and protocols.
• Assessments of key cryptographic standards—Compares and evaluates contemporary encryption protocols and standards, including IPSec, IKE, SSH, SSL, TLS, and Kerberos.
• Essential mathematics for advanced cryptography—Presents all the math students will need, including probability and information theory, computational complexity, and algebraic foundations.
• Extensive practical examples—Presents realistic implementation examples for a wide range of cryptographic systems.
• By one of the fields leading experts—By Wenbo Mao, leader of Hewlett-Packards contributions to the European Unions Secure Electronic Commerce Transactions (CASENET), a research project.

Features

• Several alternative implementations of data structures—along with advice on choosing the one most suited to your needs at hand.
• contains numerous debugged programing examples.
• Complete development of all programs.
• Graphic representation of material.
• Sorting and searching algorithms.
• Up-to-date research findings.
• follows data structure development from its theoretical conception to its concrete realization.
• emphasizes structured design and programming techniques.

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• NEW - Chapter on Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) programming—Describes techniques and tools for shared memory programming on clusters.
• NEW - Content revisions throughout.
• NEW - Required software (MPI, PVM, DSM) available FREE!
• Usage of MPI and PVM pseudocodes.
• Thorough coverage of shared memory programming and Pthreads.
• Exploration of such applications as numerical algorithms, image processing and searching and optimization.

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• State of the art book—Covers emerging topics in power electronics.
• Well-written and easy-to-follow.
• Numerous worked-out examples.
• State-of-the-art power conversion techniques and power semiconductor devices.
• Integration of design techniques and problems.
• Computer-aided design techniques and analysis using PC.
• Integration of industry-standard software tools SPICE and MathCad.
• Chapter-end review questions and problems.
• Numerous important design formulae.
• Review of Three-Phase Circuits, Magnetic Circuits, Switching Functions of Converters, Transient Analysis, and Fourier Analysis.
• An examination of the characteristics of semiconductor devices—Including SCRs, GTOs, BJTs, MOSFETs, SITs, SITHs, IGBTs, MTOs, ETOs, IGCTs, MCTs and Spice device models.

Features

• Integrated Operations & Supply Chain Management Approach.
• Unique Chapters. Features two chapters not found in other operations Management texts. Written to meet the needs of organizations that seek employees who have been exposed to traditional supply chain management areas such as purchasing and logistics.
• Thorough coverage of Analytic Tools and Techniques.
• Extends discussion of services’ role in the economy.

Features

• Focuses on core topics.
• Modern applications
• Problem solving.
• Covers modern research and new developments in the field
• A chapter on Computational Chemistry,

About the Authors
Thomas Engel has taught chemistry for more than 20 years at the University of Washington, where he is currently Professor of Chemistry and Associate Chair for the Undergraduate Program. Professor Engel received his bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry from the Johns Hopkins University, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Chicago. He then spent 11 years as a researcher in Germany and Switzerland, in which time he received the Dr. rer. nat. habil. degree from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1980, he left the IBM research laboratory in Zurich to become a faculty member at the University of Washington. Professor Engel's research interests are in the area of surface chemistry, and he has published more than 80 articles and book chapters in this field. He has received the Surface Chemistry or Colloids Award from the American Chemical Society and a Senior Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which has allowed him to establish collaborations with researchers in Germany. He is currently working together with European manufacturers of catalytic converters to improve their performance for diesel engines. Philip Reid has taught chemistry at the University of Washington since he joined the chemistry faculty in 1995. Professor Reid received his bachelor's degree from the University of Puget Sound in 1986, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992. He performed postdoctoral research at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, campus before moving to Washington. Professor Reid's research interests are in the areas of atmosphere chemistry, condensed-phase reaction dynamics, and nonlinear optical materials. He has published more than 70 articles in these fields. Professor Reid is the recipient of a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, is a Cottrell Scholar of the Research Corporation, and is a Sloan fellow. Features

• An application-oriented introduction to database concepts
• SQL updated to the latest standard
• Coverage of both Entity-Relationship modeling and the Unified Modeling Language
• Discussions of software-engineering issues related to implementing transaction-processing applications
• Detailed case studies providing hands-on experience in application design and programming
• In-depth coverage of XML, object-oriented databases, and database tuning

About the Authors
Michael Kifer is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His interests include database systems, knowledge representation, and Web information systems Arthur Bernstein is also a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His research focuses on transaction processing, Web services and concurrency, and he has published numerous articles in these areas. Philip Lewis is a leading professor in the Department of Computer Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. With interests in database systems, transaction processing, and concurrency. Prabin Panigrahi is a professor in the Department of Information Systems at the Indian Institute of Management at Indore, India. His interests include database systems, data mining, data warehousing, and management information systems. Features

• Presents concepts and methods for a disciplined software engineering process.
• Scales down industrial practices for planning, tracking, analysis, and defect management to fit the needs of small-scale program development .
• Shows how small project disciplines provide a solid base for larger projects.

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• Contains chapters on writing copy, designing advertisements, the advertising department and corporate identity
• Includes a greatly expanded directory of contacts in the advertising industry
• Covers, and is recommended for the LCCI Third Level Certificate and CAM Certificate in Communications, valuable also for CIM and HNC/D students
• Contains updated material on advertising departments, TV franchises, radio stations, codes of practice, sponsorship, corporate video and satellite broadcasting.

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• Reflects the latest developments in the C++ANSI standard including substantial detail on the new STL libraries.
• Explains how an object-oriented programming concept is supported by a language feature.
• Teaches by example, introducing you to full working programs right from the start.
• Incorporates interactive, proven exercises to help check your understanding of key OO concepts and put them into practice.

About the Authors
Ira Pohl is a professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has two decades of experience as a software methodologist and is an international authority on C++ and C programming. He has consulted with Digital Equipment Corporation, Apple, Stanford Linear Acclerator Center and various other companies.Features

• "In the News" chapter openings help students comprehend the relevance of social psychology principles to current events.
• Research Highlight boxes are featured in many chapters and help students to better understand the concepts as well as current "hot topics" and research. In addition, there is strong coverage of sociocultural issues which includes issue on race and ethnicity. Coverage of cultural psychology topics have been integrated into the text to encourage students to consider the diversity of human experiences and compare/contract cultures.
• More streamlined text–Deletes chapter on Politics, making for a shorter, more easily accessible text.
• Increased emphasis on social cognition, the self, personal relationships, and evolutionary psychology.
• Updated and revised chapter on law–Written by Jennifer Hunt and Eugene Borgida, two recognized experts in the field. New topics include the influence of pretrial publicity on jurors, how jurors use character evidence, and the use of amicus curiae briefs to convey social psychological research to the courts.

Features

• The testing chapter has been restructured and in parts rewritten, also an emphasis on early testing has been added.
• The discussion of robust object structures has been increased and also an example has been added.
• The notion of a development case has been introduced as a way to adapt a general process to the specific needs of an organization or a project.

About the Authors
Dr. Ivar Jacobson has over 20 years experience in the design of large-scale real-time systems iin the telecommunications industry. He developed and early object-based design technique, a major portion of which has evolved into the international standard CCITT/SDL. He has extensive industrial teaching experience and has served OOPSLA, ECOOP and TOOLS program committees. Magnus Christerton, Patrik Jonsson and Gunnar Overgaard are actively involved in the development and use of Objectory at Objective Systems.Features

• Provides extensive coverage of query processing, including major algorithms for execution of queries and techniques for optimizing queries.
• Covers information integration, including warehousing and mediators, OLAP, and data-cube systems.
• Explains error-correction in RAID disks and covers bitmap indexes, data mining, data statistics, and pointer swizzling.
• Supports additional teaching materials found on the book’s Web page at http://www-db.stanford.edu/-ullman/dbsi.html

About the Authors
Hector Garcia-Molina is the Leonard Bosack and Sandra Learner Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments at Stanford University. He has published extensively in the fields of database systems, distributed systems, and digital libraries. Jeffrey D. Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He is the author of co-author of 15 books and 170 technical publications, including A First Course in Database Systems (Prentice Hall 1997) and Elements of ML Programming (Prentice Hall 1998) His research interests include database theory, database integration, data mining, and education using the information infrastructure. He has received numerous awards such as the Guggenheim Fellowship and election to the National Academy of Engineering. He also received the 1996 Sigmod Contribution Award and the 1998 Karl V. Karstrom Outstanding Educator Award. Jennifer Widom is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments at Stanford University. She has served on numerous editorial boards and program committees, she has published widely in computer science conferences and journals, and is co-author of A First Course in Database Systems (Prentice Hall 1997).Features

• Relevant, up-to-date selections of interest to today’s students, living in a globalised world.
• Practically all the authors are from 20th century; half from the Indian subcontinent.
• Student-friendly selections: drawn from widely different background enabling students to compare their experience with that of people elsewhere.
• Texts chosen for readability and subject, impact and interest, which allow them to speak for themselves.
• • Intended to encourage students to develop their own insights and interpretations.
• Editorial material, headnotes, annotations and questions, to help situate the texts and serve as pointers for further study.

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• Presents the most up-to-date technological advances in accounting information technology that have occurred within the last ten years.
• Coverage includes conducting an information systems audit; frameworks for management and application controls; audit software; concurrent auditing techniques; and evaluating data integrity, system effectiveness, and system efficiency.
• Includes chapter summaries at the beginning of each chapter to provide students with an overview of the material contained in each chapter.
• Includes review questions at the end of each chapter to allow students to test their understanding of the concepts.
• Includes multiple choice questions at the end of each chapter with answers provided to allow students to test their understanding of the contents.
• Features mini cases at the end of each chapter that can be used to provide the basis for problem-solving practice and class discussion.

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Covers the history of discrete-time signal processing as well as contemporary developments in the field.

Discusses the wide range of present and future applications of the technology.

Focuses on the general and universal concepts in discrete-time signal processing.

Offers a wealth of problems and examples.

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• Modern digital networks
• Modern digital switching systems
• Packet switching
• Common-channel signaling
• Digital transmission, including Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
• Integrated service digital network (ISDN)
• Broadband networks including ATM

The book fills the gap between texts in telecommunications that only treat networks in a cursory manner and advanced texts that are too specialized for undergraduates. It will therefore become important reading for final year undergraduates and M.Sc. students in departments of electrical and electronic engineering.About the Authors
Professor John Flood, O.B.E., D.Sc., C.Eng., F.I.E.E. is Emeritus Professor at Aston University. He has worked both in academia and in industry and is a former chairman of both the British Standards Committee for Telecommunications and the IEE Professional Grou on Telecommunications Networks and Systems.Features

• Comprehensive and up-to-date coverage.
• Provides examples and exercises that are related to real world problems.
• Uses Fuzzy Logic Toolbox for MATLAB™ to demonstrate exemplar applications and to develop hands-on exercises.
• Provides design guidelines and design methods for developing fuzzy logic applications.
• Provides a modern perspective of the fuzzy logic technology.
• Introduces core concepts and techniques gently in two steps.
• Provides relevant background material so that students from a wide range of disciplines can easily understand the text.
• Introduces the connection between fuzzy logic and related ideas, methods, and theories developed in other disciplines (e.g., artificial intelligence, probability theory, control, model identification, etc.)
• Summarizes key concepts at the end of each chapter.
• Highlights motivations and benefits of employing fuzzy logic in control engineering and information systems.
• Discussion of open research issues and their implications.
• Advanced topics are separated from the basic material in the chapter that immediately follows.

Features

• The awards for this book keep piling up! They include Software Development Magazine Jolt Award for best book, 2003; Java Devloper's Journal Reader's Choice Award for Best Book, 2003, 2001, 1998; JavaWorld Editor's Choice Award for Best Book 2001; Software Development Magazine Productivity Award, 1999
• 12 new chapters including chapters on Generics and Arrays

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• In-depth coverage of both Web applications and Web services.
• Includes detailed chapters on ADO.NET data access and securing .NET applications.
• Contains a "crash course" on Visual Basic .NET for both new VB developers and those upgrading from VB6!

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• Presents the most complete and authoritative exploration of ISDN available in a text of this kind.
• Provides thorough coverage of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) including the new technology, standards, and other developments in this leading-edge area.
• Provides a discussion of frame relay that incorporates the most important advances in both technology and standards in this area crucial to ISDN and private networks.
• Provides a full treatment of standards, the key determining factor in ISDN and B-ISDN. Students will gain a valuable understanding of the various standards, including, among others:
• ITU-T recommendations.
• Frame Relay Forum specifications.
• ATM Forum specifications.
• Contains a wealth of pedagogical features (e.g. homework problems, glossary, list of acronyms, and chapter summaries) to facilitate learning, making this the only true textbook-style treatment of ISDN.

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• Emphasis on digital communications—Prepares students for state-of-the-art communication systems.
• Computer problems in each chapter that require MATLAB to solve—Gives students experience in simulating communication systems and comparing results with theory.
• A large number of problems in varying levels of difficulty—At the end of each chapter.
• Two separate chapters on Information Theory and Coding—Provides sufficient emphasis on these key topics.

Features

• Uses a student-oriented approach that is accessible, yet does not over simplify difficult concepts and issues.
• Features thinkers that represent most of the important theorists in the Western tradition.
• Organizes theorists historically — from pre-Socratic philosophers to those of the contemporary era — with general historical context provided for each.
• Explores an overarching theme throughout —the changing relationships of ethics and politics in Western political thought from Socrates to the present time.
• Adds a chapter on Cicero that includes a substantial introduction to the major Hellenistic political philosophies as well as an historical overview of the events surrounding the rise of the Roman Empire.
• Expands coverage of St. Augustine to include a discussion of some of the key political ideas of the Roman Empire as well as a more detailed analysis of St. Augustine's theocratic theory of the state
• Briefly describes John of Salisbury (in the St. Thomas chapter) important as a late medieval pre-Aristotelian thinker.
• Adds a section on patriarchy and the political exclusion of women in Locke's theory of contract.
• Concludes with an analysis of contemporary political ideologies — from Burke through Marx and the rise of modern nationalism.
• NEW—updates the chapter on Marx to reflect the demise of Soviet and East European communism and the current “death of communism” debate
• Cites classic, mainstream sources in footnotes and bibliography.

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• NEW - Glossary—Includes a glossary of terms. Each chapter concludes with a list of key terms.
• NEW - References—Includes a single reference section for the entire book.
• NEW - More photographs and drawings.
• A balanced approach—Discusses concepts, psychological thinkers, and institutions.
• Comprehensive treatment—Covers psychology from ancient times to the present.
• Thematic perspective—Emphasizes three basic themes that have guided the development of psychology: 1) psychology as a social construction; 2) struggles between the existence and nature of consciousness; and 3) psychology as an applied discipline.
• Evolution of leading psychological concepts—Considers the leading exponents of different psychological systems during each historical era.
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• Examples and exercises in a CAD tool independent fashion—Xilinx specific descriptions available in Appendices.
• Full set of viewgraphs and VHDL examples—Available on a Companion Website.
• Synthesis concepts.
• Language constructs are presented by association with familiar concepts from digital logic and computer architecture.
• Departure from conventional pedagogy in teaching hardware description languages.
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• Uses the basic commands/features of AutoCAD unchanged from release 2000 onwards, making the book version-independent
• Helps learn AutoCAD while drawing machine elements with no reference to any book/manual on AutoCAD
• Exposure to working in paper space and model space
• Drawings explained with 3-D solid models
• Simplifies the task of obtaining orthographic projections from Solid Models in 3-D environment
• Solved example problems and practice problems
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• Strictly in accordance with the latest code of practice issued by BIS, SP-46
• Chapters on Engineering Materials and Manufacturing Processes
• Discusses conventional representation of common machine components
• A chapter devoted on computer-aided approach to machine drawing
• Solved and 40 practice problems on assembly drawing with hints.
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The official Cisco Systems Coursebook for MPLS and VPN technology.
• Revised version of the best-selling first edition, also from Cisco Press.
• Provides a self-study complement to the Cisco CCIP training course, Implementing Cisco MPLS.
• Extensive case studies guide readers through the design and deployment of real-world MPLS/VPN networks.
About the Authors
Ivan Pepelnjak, CCIE, has more than 10 years experience in designing, installing, troubleshooting, and operating large corporate and service provider WANs and LANs. Ivan is one of the top Cisco routing authorities in Europe and is the author of EIGRP Network Design Solutions and co-author of MPLS and VPN Architectures, both published by Cisco Press. Jim Guichard, CCIE, is a Technical Leader for MPLS and IP backbone technologies at Cisco Systems, and is the co-author of the highly successful book MPLS and VPN Architectures published by Cisco Press. Features

• Real world applications—Every chapter has a chapter opening vignette, Marketing at Work vignettes, end of chapter activities, and video case that show how marketing concepts are applied in the real word. A balance of best-practice and up-and-coming companies are illustrated. All vignettes and cases have been updated or replaced to ensure currency. The result: nearly every real world vignette cites articles or research dated 2003.
• Companion website—www.prenhall.com/kotler is free for students and hosts helpful resources and learning aids such as study quizzes, chapter outlines, links, and additional exercises. Even more media-rich resources are available online via our new OneKey solution (See Supplements for a complete description).
Features

• Chapter-Opening Cases about how the economics about to be learned impact a real business (a) set a real context for learning (b) spark students' interest (c) provide a unifying theme for the chapter.
• Chapter Examples and Figures consistently revisit the business discussed in the opener and use that business (or industry) to motivate the economic principles.
• An Inside Look concludes chapters with a newspaper article illustrating how a key principle taught in the chapter was used by the chapter-opening case company to make a real business decision
About the Authors
R.Glenn Hubbard is the Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University and Professor of Economics in Columbia’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a director of Automatic Data Processing, Black Rock Closed-End Funds, Dex Media, Duke Realty, KKR Financial Corporation, and Ripplewood Holdings. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1983. From 2001–2003, he served as Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and from 1991–1993, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department. Glenn Hubbard’s fields of specialization are public economics, financial markets and institutions, corporate finance, macroeconomics, industrial organization, and public policy. He is the author of more than 90 articles in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, RAND Journal of Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and numerous private foundations. Anthony Patrick O’Brien is a professor of economics at Lehigh University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987. He has taught principles of economics for more than 15 years, in both large sections and small honors classes. He received the Lehigh University Award for Distinguished Teaching. He was formerly the director of the Diamond Center for Economic Education and was named a Dana Foundation Faculty Fellow and Lehigh Class of 1961 Professor of Economics. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. Anthony O’Brien’s research has dealt with such issues as the evolution of the U.S. automobile industry, the sources of U.S. economic competitiveness, the development of U.S. trade policy, the causes of the Great Depression, and the causes of black–white income differences. His research has been published in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Industrial Relations, and the Journal of Economic History. His research has been supported by grants from government agencies and private foundations. In addition to teaching and writing, Anthony O’Brien also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Socio-economics. Features

• Provides a basic foundation for the course.
• Text has been completely revised.
• Includes full range of exercises of varying difficulty.
• Incorporates new material on algorithms, tree-searches, and graph-theoretical puzzles.
• Full solutions are provided for many of the exercises.
• Includes a chapter on matroid theory, which is used to consolidate some of the material from earlier chapters.
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• Shows why operating systems are needed and what they do, in great detail.
• Written at a pace and level that is appropriate for introductory-level students, including numerous illustrations to visually reinforce concepts.
• Uses the most current versions of popular operating systems, such as WIndows XP, WIndows 2003, Linux, Macintosh OS X, and Novell.
• New chapter on Macintosh OS X internals.
• Less focus on mainframe operating systems to allow for more coverage on common PC operating systems.
• Material on IBM/OS JCL from previous editions has been condensed into a new appendix. These chapters are still available online at http://aw-bc.com/davis.
• Network operating system coverage has been revised to provide the state-of-the-art in this important area. It progresses from how the Internet infrastructure works, to client-server systems, to examples from common operating systems.
• All new thought provoking exercises added to the end of each chapter for multiple practice opportunities
Features

• Engine balancing chapter added.
• Environmental and Hazardous Materials chapter added.
• Expanded coverage on turbo charging and supercharging.
• Line drawings and photographs.
• Multimedia CD: Included with each book and contains animations, videos (most titles), slide show image bank, puzzles (crossword and word search); Spanish translation of the entire book.
• One book format: Both Theory and Diagnosis and Service are together in the one book format.
• Real World examples and Tech Tips:Help student’s associate theory and practical concepts into real everyday situations.
• Updated technical information on engine oils—Including oils plus seven types of coolant.
• Updated to include the latest vehicle specifications, testing procedures and materials
About the Authors
Pieter Adriaans is a director of Syllogic, where he is responsible for the development of tools for the management of client/server systems and databases. Dolf Zantinge has broad experience in setting up large client/server projects. He is also a director of SyllogiFeatures

• Integrates discussion of the science and practice of clinical psychology throughout the text.
• “Focus on Ethics” sections appear in every chapter and the “2002 Ethics Code” is reprinted in the appendix, giving this text a stronger emphasis on ethics than any other Clinical Psychology text available.
• Chapter 4, “Biological Models in Psychology,” is entirely devoted to discussing biological models and their influence on clinical psychology.
• Chapter 10, “Psychotherapy: Research Issues and Efficacy,” discusses research methods in psychotherapy, since an understanding on how evidence is gathered is crucial to understanding the workings of contemporary clinical psychology.
• Case examples throughout the text help students develop an appreciation of clinical psychology as an applied science.
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• Chapter organization based on the progression of the stages of the hydrologic cycle
• Inclusion of recent developments in the field of discharge measurement of high velocity fluids, and rainfall simulation to measure the infiltration rate
• Separate chapters devoted to evaporation and transpiration, precipitation, infiltration, discharge measurement, etc.
• An excellent selection of a wide range of solved problems, interspersed in the text as well as at the end of each chapter
• Review questions, objective-type questions and numerous practice problems to aid self-study
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• A firm understanding of the operation of the specific networks presented
• The ability to program simulations of those networks successfully
• The ability to apply neural networks to real engineering and scientific problems
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• NEW—Applications in audio, medical and telecommunications engineering.
• NEW—Coverage of DSP system design includes the use of MATLAB.
• NEW—More applications of multirate processing.
• NEW—More hardware included in later chapters which Cover TI and Motorola systems.
• Real-world application examples and end-of-chapter problems.
• C language implementation of many DSP algorithms and functions.
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• Comprehensive coverage of low-voltage, low-power digital VLSI design—Including process integration, device modeling and characterization, as well as techniques and concepts for digital circuits and subsystems design in a low-voltage, low-power environment.
• Latest developments in CMOS/BiCMOS VLSI design—With an in-depth analyses on the fabrication technologies for realization of low-voltage, low-power CMOS/BiCMOS structures.
• Latest BJT models—Such as HICUM, METRAM, and VBIC and MOS models such as EKV and BSIM4.
• Integration of SOI technology and the latest copper metallization scheme—With CMOS/BiCMOS technology ultra high-speed applications.
About the Authors
Kiat-Seng Yeo joined the school of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 1993. He holds six patents and has published more than 100 articles on BiCMOS/CMOS integrated circuit design and technology. Samir S. Rofail has been a teacher, researcher, and consultant in semiconductor and Icdesign for 20 years. From 1992 t0 1999, he coordinated NTU's IC-Design group, leading intensive research on low-voltage, low-power BiCMOS/CMOS circuits. He is now a technical consultant in Waterloo, Canada. Wang-Ling Goh joined NTU in 1996. Her research interests are in the areas of silicon processing technologies, particularly the SOI structures, CMP and copper. She holds one patent and has published more than 30 articles. Features

• Comprehensive coverage of core material in quantum mechanics.
• Full and detailed explanations to help students of average mathematical ability.
• Additional topics covered in this edition include: Feynman's path integrals; the Berry phase; quantum dots; quantum jumps; and Bose-Einstein condensation.
• New chapter on relativistic quantum mechanics.
• Problems set to help students monitor their progress and increase understanding.
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• Numerous algorithm traces throughout the book.
• Over 1,000 end-of-section exercises—With answers to 1/3 of them in the back of the book.
• More applications than other algorithms texts.
• Elaborate world wide web site—With up-to-date support for book. An icon occurs throughout the book to indicate more explanations and examples available on the web.
• Upper bounds for worst-case times proven sharp.
• Lower bounds integrated into sections that discuss problems—e.g. after presentation of several sorting algorithms, text discusses lower bound for comparison-based sorting.
• Methods used to solve NP-complete problems—Including approximation, brute force, parameterized complexity, and heuristics.
• Recent results—Such as Pearson's polynomial-time algorithm for the coin-changing problem and parameterized complexity.
• Figures and tables illustrate concepts—Figure captions provide additional explanations and insight.
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• Understand the ins and outs of data communications.
• Understanding Data Communications, Seventh Edition presents complex data communications concepts clearly and concisely within a tutorial format.
• All of the concepts are modern and up-to-date, in sync with the current and future data communication market ranging from wireless communications to communication security.
• The award-winning author is internationally recognized for his expertise in the field of communication.
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• The first look from IBM at a topic of great importance to Big Blue and its business partners
• Case studies demonstrate how organizations have succeeded with Grid Computing across a variety of industries
• Significant co-marketing opportunities with IBM
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• Gives a more strategic view of production and operations management with fully revised, amplified and updated account of changes and new developments in the field over recent years.
• Contains new chapters on such topics as manufacturing strategy and operations management in service environments.
• Includes balanced discussions of the newer `panaceas' - TQM, OPT, JIT, MRP, MRPII.
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• Forget the theory! Readers learn exactly what they want to learn to make Office work the way they work
• This book maximizes readers productivity by teaching them only what they need to know in a task-oriented approach
• Simple enough for newcomers but provides tons of extra advice for Office users who know they could use more of Office's features
About the Authors
Greg Perry has been a leader in computer education for twenty years, having taught at the college level and written enough books and articles to be called “the most proficient computer author on earth.” In addition to writing about computers, he speaks, consults, and writes about other topics, including real estate and the government. He and his wife Jayne now offer unique training and insights for new and advanced eBay users and run an eBay consignment business out of their rural, countryside home.Features

• A uniform framework based on feature-based context-free grammars and chart parsers that are used for syntactic and semantic processing.
• An enhanced discussion of basic algorithms within the single framework of chart parsing.
• An expanded discussion of unification-based approaches, scoping constructs, and semantically-driven parsing.
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• The differences between stateful and stateless beans
• The differences between bean-managed and container-managed Entity beans
• How to call a bean from a servlet, another bean, or an applet
• How to obtain and examine Enterprise JavaBeans metadata
• How to identify deployment descriptors and the values they contain
• How to use access control lists to set up permissions on an Enterprise JavaBeans server
• How a bean can retrieve and test a clients identity
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• Uses a single popular microprocessor — the 8085A — as the primary instructional example.
• Provides numerous examples of hardware interfaces — and the software to drive them.
• Emphasizes the hardware/software tradeoffs which exist for implementation of most functions in microprocessor-based systems.
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• NEW—An enhanced student-friendly design including full color throughout
• NEW—Chapter opening “Writing at Work” case studies introduce chapter topics with real-life applications
• NEW—“Before/After” examples visually demonstrate how revision improves communication
• NEW—“Tech Links” direct students to useful web sites or to online resources available at the book’s Companion Website
• NEW—“Technology Tips” provide students with helpful instruction on using common computer programs to communicate.
• NEW—“Web Workshops” give students opportunities to investigate real-world applications on the Internet.
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• unique vocabulary finder
• from key words and basic ideas to the word you need
• thousands of examples showing real usage
• spoken communication tips
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• An invaluable starting point for those embarking on research in kinetics and physical chemistry.
• Extensive chapter bibliographies point the way toward more detailed accounts or specialized aspects.
• Historical background included in both chapter introductions and biographical sketches of important researchers in chemical kinetics.
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• Embraces all of the main subject areas associated with multimedia communications in a single textbook;
• Extensive use of details diagrams and worked examples as an aid to understanding each major topic;
• End of chapter exercises associated with all topics covered.
About the Authors
Fred Halsall is a Professor of Communications Engineering at the University of Wales, Swansea. Professor Halsall has been involved in research and education in the field of computer networking for the past 30 years. He has published over 50 refereed journal and conference papers. His four textbooks include the successful Data Communications, Computer Networks and Open Systems. He is a Fellow of the IEE and a member of the IEEE.Features

• Newly written and updated chapter on sampling and reconstruction of signals
• New addition on the discrete cosine transform
• Updated chapter on multirate digital signal processing.
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• A new chapter on 8051 C programming.
• A new section on the 8051 C programming of timers.
• A new section on the second serial port of the DS89C4x0 chip.
• A new section on the 8051 C programming of the second serial port.
• A new section on the 8051 C programming of interrupts.
• Programming of the 1KB SRAM of the DS89C4x0 chip.
• A new section on the 8051 C programming of external memory.
• A new chapter on the DS12887 RTC (real-time clock) chip.
• A new chapter on motors, relays, and optoisolators
About the Authors
Muhammad Ali Mazidi went to Tabriz University and holds Master’s degrees from both Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Dallas. He is currently a.b.d. on his Ph.D. in the Electrical Engineering Department of Southern Methodist University. He is co-author of a widely used textbook, The 80x86 IBM PC and Compatible Computers, also available from Prentice Hall. He teaches microprocessor-based system design at DeVry University in Dallas, Texas. Janice Gillispie Mazidi has a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of North Texas. She has several years of experience as a software engineer in Dallas. She has been chief technical writer and production manager, and was responsible for software development and testing of a widely used textbook, The 80x86 IBM PC and Compatible Computers, also available from Prentice Hall. Rolin McKinlay has a BSEET from DeVry University. He is currently working on his Master’s degree and PE license in the state of Texas. He is currently self-employed as a programmer and circuit board designer, and is a partner in MicroDigitalEd.com. Features

• Compliant with Unified Modeling Language 2
• Substantially updated content
• More robust process
• Extensive exercises with solution
• Instructor's on-line solutions manual
About the Authors
Rumbaugh and Michael Blaha are two of the "founding fathers" of UML. They invented UML, the basis for UML, along with Booch notation. Their first edition was crucial to the development and adoption of Object-Oriented methods when they were in their infancy. Blaha is a worldwide consultant and is a partner with Modelsoft Consulting, and SentientPoint Corporation. He is active in the IEEE Computer Society. Rumbaugh is a Distinguished Engineer with the Rational brand of IBM and is one of the original co-designers of UML. He is a highly influential author.Features

• Introduces generic components, which offer breakthrough power for maximizing expressiveness, flexibility, and reuse of code.
• Readers will learn exciting, powerful new C++ idioms that will help them master the most modern library writing techniques.
• Forewords by Scott Meyers (Effective C++), one of the world's leading C++ experts, and by John Vlissides, of the IBM T.J. Watson Research center, one of the world's leading patterns experts.
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Foster takes the reader from a gentle introduction to the next step and explores the impact nanotechnology will have on our daily lives.
• Tells how the Nanotechnology industry will unfold and impact different industries throughout the world.
• Answers the question "What now?" and "What can we expect?"
• Shows how nanoscience may evolve into specific technologies.
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• Updates coverage of specialized machines to include stepper motors, linear motors, magnetic-levitation devices (MAGLEVS) and high-speed surface transport (HSST) vehicles.
• Uses figures with text to enhance understanding, places lenghy derivations of equations in an appendix to avoid interruption of the flow of material, ad adds a unique equivalent circuit diagram to develop motor constants from running-light and blocked rotor tests.
• Follows the format method of mesh analysis for induction of motor horse power and efficiency, using derived motor constants.
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• Combined approach to Prolog and AI allows flexibility for learning and teaching
• Provides a thorough representation of AI, emphasizing practical techniques and Prolog implementations
• Prolog programs for use in projects and research are available for download on the World Wide Web.
• Constraint Logic Programming
• Qualitative Reasoning
• Inductive Logic Programming
• The addition of belief networks for handling uncertainty
• A major update on machine learning
• Additional techniques for improving Program efficiency
• Meta-programming is updated to show how Prolog can be used to implement other languages (including object-oriented programming)
• A new Companion Web site will contain further teaching materials and updates
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• Infosys has been featured in Fortune Magazine, was recently ranked #10 on BusinessWeek's list of the top 100 IT companies, ranked #8 on Business 2.0's list of the fastest growing companies in 2005, and was recently positioned in the leader quadrant in Gartner's 2006 Magic Quadrant report
• Covers in-sourcing AND outsourcing
• Book is filled with practical stories based on experience
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• A comprehensive introduction that supplies the reader with the biographical details and historical significance of Maslow and his work
• A new conclusion that examines the effects in psycho- therapy, education, medicine and management created by Maslows theories of self-realization, values, choice and responsibility
• A combination of Maslows early thinking on being behavior into one chapter for added cohesion and easy accessibility
• A new chapter on self-actualization that presents material previously published in TOWARD A PSYCHOLOGY OF BEING
• An updated bibliography and citation study The presentation of Maslows original text in this revised and highly readable form highlights for the reader the contemporary relevance of Maslows pioneering theories.
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• Four-part organization—Part I presents materials and their applications; Part II presents specific manufacturing processes; Part III emphasizes tolerances, measurement, and calibration; and Part IV discusses the design, tooling, and production aspects of manufacturing.
• Case studies and case problems—Included where appropriate.
• Technical, non-analytical approach.
• Clear and straightforward writing style.
• Emphasis on processes rather than hardware.
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• New content, new theme, new subtitle! The use case approach is a cornerstone technique, and a more prescriptive approach is employed.
• Proven "team skills" exercises help the reader roll the requirements process out to the rest of the team.
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• Updated to cover changes in the industry since 2001
• Unlike typical academic or reference texts--instead, it tells stories, effectively and engagingly explaining the new culture evolving around telecommunications, with just the right amount of relevant technical details
• Based on the very successful worldwide LIDO Telecommunications Essentials seminar and e-Learning series
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• a new section on measurement math and statistics has been added to the third edition. Provides students a basis for handling, interpreting, and understanding the data collected by instruments.
• discusses technology from the late 19 century to the present to provide a context for the development of current and future technological innovations.
• presents the theories and process of measurement to provide students with an understanding of the practical uses of the instruments being studied.
• includes practical material that is oriented toward various fields of measurement: electronic communications, audio, components testing, medical electronics and servicing.
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• Modern applications drawn from biology, environmental science, and material science. Spectroscopy applications are introduced early in concert with theory.
• Problem solving. Numerous worked examples help students practice their math and problem-solving skills.
• Covers modern research and new developments in the field like scanning tunneling microscopy, bandgap engineering, quantum wells, teleportation, and quantum computing to capture students’ attention and show them that physical chemistry is a dynamic branch of science.
• A chapter on Computational Chemistry, written by Warren Hehre - who has a distinguished reputation as a developer of computational chemistry software and is credited with bringing these techniques to the educational environment.
About the Authors
Thomas Engel has taught chemistry for more than 20 years at the University of Washington, where he is currently Professor of Chemistry and Associate Chair for the Undergraduate Program. Professor Engel received his bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry from the Johns Hopkins University, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Chicago. He then spent 11 years as a researcher in Germany and Switzerland, in which time he received the Dr. rer. nat. habil. degree from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1980, he left the IBM research laboratory in Zurich to become a faculty member at the University of Washington. Professor Engel's research interests are in the area of surface chemistry, and he has published more than 80 articles and book chapters in this field. He has received the Surface Chemistry or Colloids Award from the American Chemical Society and a Senior Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which has allowed him to establish collaborations with researchers in Germany. He is currently working together with European manufacturers of catalytic converters to improve their performance for diesel engines. Philip Reid has taught chemistry at the University of Washington since he joined the chemistry faculty in 1995. Professor Reid received his bachelor's degree from the University of Puget Sound in 1986, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992. He performed postdoctoral research at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, campus before moving to Washington. Professor Reid's research interests are in the areas of atmosphere chemistry, condensed-phase reaction dynamics, and nonlinear optical materials. He has published more than 70 articles in these fields. Professor Reid is the recipient of a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, is a Cottrell Scholar of the Research Corporation, and is a Sloan fellow. Features

• Focuses on core topics. The authors believe it is better for students at this level to understand key topics more deeply, than to have a shallow understanding of a broad range of topics. Their premise is that with a firm foundation in the basics it will be easier for the student to understand the extension of the basic model to more complex cases. Supplemental sections expand on core concepts and are included as optional reading.
• Modern applications drawn from biology, environmental science, and material science. Spectroscopy applications are introduced early in concert with theory. For example, IR and rotational spectroscopy are discussed immediately after the harmonic oscillator and the rigid rotar.
• Problem solving. Numerous worked examples help students practice their math and problem-solving skills. EOC problems include concept questions, quantitative problems, and a set of problems related to the web-based simulations and animations. Key equations are highlighted in the text.Math supplements are included in the appendix.
• Covers modern research and new developments in the field like scanning tunneling microscopy, bandgap engineering, quantum wells, teleportation, and quantum computing to capture students’ attention and show them that physical chemistry is a dynamic branch of science.
• A chapter on Computational Chemistry, written by Warren Hehre - who has a distinguished reputation as a developer of computational chemistry software and is credited with bringing these techniques to the educational environment.
• Chemistry Place for Physical Chemistry Website features web-based problems and simulations that require students to generate graphs, answer questions, or write short essays to demonstrate their understanding of the material. Each online problem is an assignable exercise that the student can submit to the instructor.
About the Authors
Thomas Engel has taught chemistry for more than 20 years at the University of Washington, where he is currently Professor of Chemistry and Associate Chair for the Undergraduate Program. Professor Engel received his bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry from the Johns Hopkins University, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Chicago. He then spent 11 years as a researcher in Germany and Switzerland, in which time he received the Dr. rer. nat. habil. degree from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1980, he left the IBM research laboratory in Zurich to become a faculty member at the University of Washington. Professor Engel's research interests are in the area of surface chemistry, and he has published more than 80 articles and book chapters in this field. He has received the Surface Chemistry or Colloids Award from the American Chemical Society and a Senior Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which has allowed him to establish collaborations with researchers in Germany. He is currently working together with European manufacturers of catalytic converters to improve their performance for diesel engines. Philip Reid has taught chemistry at the University of Washington since he joined the chemistry faculty in 1995. Professor Reid received his bachelor's degree from the University of Puget Sound in 1986, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992. He performed postdoctoral research at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, campus before moving to Washington. Professor Reid's research interests are in the areas of atmosphere chemistry, condensed-phase reaction dynamics, and nonlinear optical materials. He has published more than 70 articles in these fields. Professor Reid is the recipient of a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, is a Cottrell Scholar of the Research Corporation, and is a Sloan fellow. Features

• Conforms to all core requirements and elective topics of the IEEE/ACM's CC2001 Operating Systems course (except for shell scripting).
• Approximately 300 charts, tables and illustrations and extensive Web resources in every chapter.
• Hundreds of self-review questions and answers (two after each section).
• End-of-chapter and end-of-book glossaries with approximately 1800 terms defined.
• Pseudocode in C/C++/Java-like syntax.
• Works Cited section at the end of every chapter.
• Multithreading treatments in pseudocode and Java.
• 100+ page case studies of Linux 2.6 and Windows XP 100+.
• Mini case studies on key operating systems.
• Biographic features on key operating systems people.
• "Operating Systems Thinking" features.
• Anecdotes.
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• Expanded coverage of arrays, linked lists, strings, trees and other basic data structures
• Greater emphasis on abstract data types (ADTs) than in previous editions
• Over 100 algorithms of sorting, selection, priority queue ADT implementations, and symbol table ADT (searching) implementations
• New implementations of binomial queues, multiway radix sorting, Bathcer’s sorting networks, randomized BSTs, spaly trees, skip lists, multiway tries, and much more
• Increased quantitative information about the algorithms, including extensive empirical studies and basic analytic studies
• Over 1000 new exercises to help you learn the properties of algorithms
About the Authors
Robert Sedgewick is the William O. Baker Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University (under Donald E. Knuth). He is a Director of Adobe Systems, and has served on the research staffs at Xerox PARC, the Institute for Defense Analyses, and INRIAFeatures

• Emphasizes four themes—“Thinking about Biopsychology,” “Clinical Implications,” “The Evolutionary Perspective,” and “Cognitive Neuroscience”—that are integral to each chapter and that are highlighted throughout by marginal icons. The themes are summarized at the end of each chapter in a “Themes Revisited” section that neatly provides some context for the topics discussed.
• Places a strong emphasis on behavior. Social issues are presented in a fashion that makes them relevant to the students; sex, hunger, sleep, and drug addiction are topics that are presented in a balanced, and often humorous, manner.
• Embraces diversity, stressing that the success of biopsychological research often results from the convergence of its diverse approaches.
• Explores both human and non-human research, as well as both pure and applied research.
• Provides self-test questions so that a student can assess his or her knowledge before proceeding. Fill-in-the-blank “Scan Your Brain” questions, located after major sections in each chapter, and “Think About It” critical thinking questions, located at the end of every chapter, allow students to test their knowledge of concepts learned.
• Effectively stimulates interest, illustrates key concepts, and emphasizes clinical applications with numerous case studies woven through the text.
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• Clear, well-researched writing continues to be applauded by both students and instructors.
• The illustrations are produced in collaboration with Neil Carlson and Jay Alexander. This author/artist collaboration results in clearer, more consistent, and more student-friendly illustrations than any other physiology textbook.
• Chapter 12, “Neurological Disorders,” continues to be a student and instructor favorite.
• Each chapter contains the following pedagogy: Learning objectives, prologue, epilogue, interim summaries, and thought questions.
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• The first half of the most important work on computer algorithms, completely revised, greatly expanded, and completely up-to-date.
• By blending theory and practice, this book appeals equally to both the academic and professional markets.
• Previously announced - lots of pent-up demand.
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• Metsker adapts the style and approach of his successful Design Patterns in C# providing Java programmers with both a reference and a learning tool
• Supplements GoF by giving a lucid and interesting way of understanding design patterns
• Provides "challenges" for each pattern, moving the programmer from theory to application
About the Authors
Steven John Metsker is a Managing Consultant with Dominion Digital, an information technology and business process reengineering company. Steve specializes in object-oriented techniques for creating clean, powerful software, and he is the author of Building Parsers with Java™, Design Patterns Java™ Workbook, and Design Patterns in C# (all from Addison-Wesley). William C. Wake, http://www.xp123.com, is an independent software consultant, coach, and trainer with more than twenty years of programming experience. Bill previously held positions with Capital One Financial, DMR Trecom, and VTLS, Inc. He is the author of the Refactoring Workbook and Extreme Programming Explored (both from Addison-Wesley).Features

• Section on application of the inelastic design spectrum to structural design–For allowable ductility, seismic evaluation of existing structures, and displacement-based structural design.
• Examples on dynamics of bridges and their earthquake response.
• Incorporation of three building codes and inclusion of the Eurocode.
• Theory of dynamic response of structures–Presented in a manner that emphasizes physical insight into the analytical procedures.
• Structural dynamics theory–Applied to conduct parametric studies that bring out several fundamental issues in the earthquake response and design of multistory buildings.
• Analytical procedures–Illustrated by over 100 worked out examples.
• Over 400 figures carefully designed and executed to be pedagogically effective
• Photographs of structures and their responses recorded during earthquakes–Included to relate the presentation to the real world.
About the Authors
Donald A. Waterman is a senior computer scientist at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.Features


• Now covers all popular HDLs (hardware descrioption languages) Verilog as well as ABEL and VHDL.
• Multi-chip design examples are redone in terms of VHDL and Verilog programs, instead of interconnected MSI chips and glue logic.
• 50% new exercises
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• Financial plan-based organizational structure: Each part of the textbook presents balanced coverage of one of the key components of a financial plan—budgeting and tax planning, managing liquidity, financing large purchases, insurance planning, investing, and retirement and estate planning. As students progress through the text, they develop each of these stages of their own financial plans.
• Internet-immersed coverage: Over 100 full-color Financial Planning Online boxes illustrate key points in every chapter, and Financial Planning Online Exercises provide hands-on practice using the Internet for financial planning. Students are encouraged to take advantage of the limitless supply of Internet-based financial planning tools. Links are periodically checked and updates can be found on the book’s Companion Web site.
• Hands-on Focus: The text features several running examples to help students see concepts in action. The Stephanie Spratt examples help students develop solid financial decision skills, while the Brad Brooks case, at the end of each part, illustrates the effect of poor decisions. The Sampson case, the story of a family struggling to organize their finances found at the end of each chapter, ensures that students at different life stages have models to follow.
• Practice, Practice: A wealth of review questions, problems, Web exercises, cases, an online study guide, and an in-text financial planning workbook provide ample opportunity for students to practice applying financial planning concepts.
• Simplified Math: Madura simplifies the often-intimidating mathematics of personal finance. Clear explanations of the underlying logic are backed up with examples, references to Web sites with online calculators, Financial Planning Problems, and an online study guide. All this practice and support helps students become more comfortable with the requisite math.
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• Survey of computer control strategies and an overview of the hardware and software available for their implementation.
• An introduction to the practicalities of implementing control algorithms on a digital computer.
• Introduction to a range of methodologies for specifying and designing real-time systems : these include the Yourdon, MASCOT and PAISLey methodologies.
• Detailed consideration of concurrency problems and of multi-tasking features of real-time languages.
• Consideration of scheduling problems and real-time operating systems.
• An introduction to fault tolerance.
• In-text examples and end-of-chapter exercises.
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• A significant number of end-of-chapter problems have been updated
  
• The Verilog Hardware Description Language (HDL) has been updated and expanded to exploit key enhancements that were introduced in IEEE standards 1364-2001 and 1364-2005
  
• The text introduces more graphical material to better serve learners oriented to graphical mediums. Karnaugh maps are, likewise, presented with additional graphics to facilitate understanding of their use
  
• HDL material is presented at a level suitable for students learning digital circuits and a hardware description language at the same time
About the Authors

M. Morris Mano, California State University, Los Angeles. Micheal D. Ciletti, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.Features

• Reorganization–The self-contained chapters on correlation and regression have been moved after t-test and analysis of variance.
• Writing revisions–The authors have thoroughly reviewed every sentence, simplifying constructions and terminology wherever possible and sometimes rewriting from scratch entire paragraphs or sections.
• Interesting examples throughout—Often include studies of or by researchers of diverse ethnicities.
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• Presents a more balanced coverage of qualitative and quantitative methods than any other book on the market, and illustrates how the greatest benefit often comes from combining various approaches.
• Discusses the social and historical context of research, and teaches students to recognize ethnocentric perspectives and the assumptions, values, and beliefs of their own society.
• Contains many explanatory diagrams and interesting examples drawn from scholarly literature.
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• Provides both theoretical and practical coverage of all data mining topics.
• Includes extensive number of integrated examples and figures.
• Offers instructor resources including solutions for exercises and complete set of lecture slides.
• Assumes only a modest statistics or mathematics background, and no database knowledge is needed.
• Topics covered include; predictive modeling, association analysis, clustering, anomaly detection, visualization.
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• Discussion of algorithm and design techniques covers greedy algorithms, divide and conquer algorithms, dynamic programming, randomized algorithms, and backtracking.
  
• Covers topics and data structures such as Fibonacci heaps, skew heaps, binomial queue, skip lists and splay trees.
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• A how to build SOA book written in an easy-to-understand style
• More than 125 case study examples and more than 300 diagrams that illustrate key concepts and technologies and support the case study examples.
• Written by Thomas Erl, the author of the #1 Web services book of 2004 and the #1 SOA book of 2004
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For Courses in Wines, Beers and Spirits, Dining Room Services and Beverage Cost Control. This concise, yet comprehensive introduction to the history, science and varieties of alcoholic beverages includes an anecdotal history of alcoholic beverages and their cultural influences. The user-friendly approach offers a unique presentation of wines, beers and spirits: wines are taught by the grapes from which the wines are made; the study of beers is differentiated by the type of yeast used in fermentation; and the approach to studying spirits is broken into aged and non-aged and fruit or grain-based.
• Wine taught by the grape rather than region or country.
  • Shows students the importance of the grape and the flavors that it imparts to the wine.
• Beers presented by type of yeast rather than color and flavor.
  • Provides students with a simplified understanding of how and under what conditions beers can be made. Yeast makes the difference between ale and lager.
• Spirits broken into two categories—Aged or non-aged; fruit or grain-based.
  • Provides students with a presentation that simplifies the process and makes it easier to understand.
• Management and marketing of beverage operations.
  • Provides students with a clear explanation with an emphasis on beverage operations.
• History of alcohol from its beginnings to current day.
  • Gives students a better understanding of the development of alcohol which is essential to understanding consumer preferences and the demands of marketing and managing modern-day beverage operations.
• Extensive helpful pedagogical aids—Chapter objectives, study questions, worked examples of profit formulas and cost percent formulas and boxed materials.
  • Provides students with tools for reviewing and understanding the material.
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• Semiformal representation and procedure specifications bring the ideas to within a step or two implementation and highlight unifying themes.
• Application examples provide a glimpse of the ideas at work in real-world systems.
• Powerful ideas and principles are identified ad emphasized.
About the Authors
Patrick Henry Winston is Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a past resident of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. He is co-author of a related book, Lisp, which introduces the LISP programming language.Features

• Completely up-to-date with ANSI C.
• Acknowledges the human side of computer programming—too often overlooked by other writers.
• Applies ANSI standard C as found on PCs and Unix systems.
• Covers unique aspects of C relating to sophisticated hardware typically found on Unix platforms (virtual memory, etc.).
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• Provides a clear, cohesive theme throughout to help students see the ‘big picture’.
• Broad depth of coverage of multinational companies reflects the current major themes in this topic.
• Case studies throughout help students to see how the theory applies in practice, many from the authors’ own research.
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• This comprehensive guide features over 400 entries, covering a wide array of literary terms and concepts.
• Clear, concise, accessible definitions stimulate and motivate students to write better papers about the literature.
• Pronunciation guidance helps students use terms with confidence in class discussions. Contemporary and culturally diverse literary examples are used to illustrate and explain the concepts.
• All of the major schools of literary theory are presented to give students thorough background in the critical approaches.
About the Authors
X.J. Kennedy, after graduation from Seton Hall and Columbia, became a journalist second class in the Navy ("Actually, I was pretty eighth class"). His poems, some published in the New Yorker, were first collected in Nude Descending a Staircase (1961). Since then he has written five more collections, several widely adopted literature and writing textbooks, and seventeen books for children, including two novels. He has taught at Michigan, North Carolina (Greensboro), California (Irvine), Wellesley, Tufts, and Leeds. Cited in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and reprinted in some 200 anthologies, his verse has brought him a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lamont Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an award from the American Academy for Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English. He now lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he and his wife Dorothy have collaborated on four books and five children.
Dana Gioia is a poet, critic, and teacher. Born in Los Angeles, he attended Stanford and Harvard before taking a detour into business. ("Not many poets have a Stanford M.B.A., thank goodness!") After years of writing and reading late in the evenings after work, he quit a vice presidency to write and teach. He has published three collections of poetry: Daily Horoscope (1986); The Gods of Winter (1991); Interrogations at Noon (2001), winner of the 2001 American Book Award; an opera libretto, Nosferatu (2002); several anthologies; and an influential study of poetry’s place in contemporary America, Can Poetry Matter? (1992). Gioia has taught at Johns Hopkins, Sarah Lawrence, Wesleyan (Connecticut), Mercer, and Colorado College. He is also the co-founder of the summer poetry conference at West Chester University in Pennsylvania and a frequent commentator on literature for the British Broadcasting Corporation. He currently lives in Santa Rosa, California, with his wife, Mary, two sons, and an ever growing number of cats.
(The surname Gioia is pronounced JOY-A. As some of you may have already guessed, gioia is the Italian word for joy.) Features

• Written by well-known computer scientists, this accessible and succinct introduction to database systems focuses on database design and use.
• The authors provide in-depth coverage of databases from the point of view of the database designer, user, and application programmer, leaving implementation for later courses. It covers the latest database standards: SQL: 1999, SQL/PSM, SQL/CLI, JDBC, ODL, and XML, with broader coverage of SQL than most other texts.
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• A modular format–This structure allows instructors to easily design a course to meet their individual needs. For students, it breaks this massive subject into comprehensible parts.
• Unifying principles–The text repeatedly emphasizes such principles as multiplexing, flow control, and error control, and contrasts their application in specific areas of technology.
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• Offers a balance between theory and applications.
• Accurate, compelling exercise sets use significant real data from actual studies.
• The topical material in two-sample hypothesis testing, multiple linear regression, analysis of variance.
About the Authors
Raymond H Myers is currently Professor Emeritus of statistics at Virginia Tech. He received his Masters and Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in statistics and his BS in chemical engineering. His major areas of interest are linear models, design of experiments, and response surface methodology. He has authored or co-authored six statistics texts that were published in fifteen separate editions and in several foreign languages. He has received numerous teaching awards and in 1985 he was selected “Professor of the Year” in the state of Virginia by the Council on the Advancement and Support of Education. He was elected Fellow of ASA in 1974. In 1999 he was given the Shewhart Award for lifetime contributions in statistics and quality control by the American Society of Quality. Sharon L Myers is currently Professor Emeritus of mathematics and statistics at Radford University. She received her MS in statistics from Virginia Tech. Her areas of interest are statistical computing, regression analysis, and response surface methodology. She has co-authored three editions of “Probability & Statistics for Engineers & Scientists”. She was the assistant director of the statistical consulting center at Virginia Tech for 15 years and the director of the statistical consulting center at Radford University for 7 years.Features

• Researcher Profiles describe experimental case-studies in detail.
• Quantifying Ecology boxes clearly explain mathematical aspects of ecology and their relevance.
• Ecological Issues boxes describe how humans influence the study of ecology.
Features

• The best-selling UML book on the market, thoroughly revised and updated.
• Introduces the concept of modeling, stresses the importance of software process, and discusses the most essential parts of the UML.
Features

• Presents a very precise and simplified microeconomic model first, before introducing all the exceptions and subtleties of a more complex economic world.
• A detailed summary about simple demand and supply to aggregate demand & supply approach can be found in the preface.
• Updated and expanded end of chapter material.
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• Provides communication engineers with the signal processing techniques needed to develop efficient algorithms for the design of various systems.
• Written by an authority in the field with real world industry design experience.
• Includes MATLAB script files for the demonstrations as well as for the design routines that are included as software to accompany the text.
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• By providing increased security and convenience, biometrics have begun to see widespread deployment in network applications.
• Contains guidelines, applications, and procedures for implementing biometrics.
• Explains finger, voice, hand geometry, face, and eye biometrics--for each covers how a biometric is captured and stored, and how it can be spoofed/faked.
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• Throughout the text, UML is used as appropriate as a design notation and an idealized language similar to Java and C# is used as an illustrative programming language.
  
• Cases studies are used throughout to clarify the explanations. - examples are chosen from familiar applications, including a computer game, and the software for an ATM
• The approach enables the reader to use, understand its rationale, review, assess and compare each technique, and select an appropriate collection of techniques for a given project
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• Each chapter is built around one or more worked examples demonstrating the main idea of the chapter.
• Integration of speech and text processing—Merges speech processing and natural language processing fields.
• Covers all of the new statistical approaches, while still completely covering the earlier more structured and rule-based methods.
About the Authors
Daniel Jurafsky received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. His Research focusses on combining linguistic knowledge with probabilistic models of language and speech processing in humans and machines. James H. Martin receives his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include computational semantics, metaphor, machine learning, and information retrieval.Features

• Systematic coverage of the PIC18 family of microcontrollers.
• Coverage of C language programming of the PIC18-starting from Chapter 7.
• Chapters (9-17) on programming and interfacing the PIC with peripherals.
• An entire chapter (Chapter 8) dedicated to the design of the PIC Trainer.
About the Authors

Muhammad Ali Mazidi holds Master’s degrees from both Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Dallas. He is currently a.b.d. on his Ph.D. in the Electrical Engineering Department of Southern Methodist University. He teaches microprocessor-based system design at DeVry University in Dallas, Texas.

Rolin McKinlay has a BSEET from DeVry University. He is currently working on his Master’s degree and PE license in the state of Texas. He is currently self-employed as a programmer and circuit board designer, and is a partner in MicroDigitalEd.com

Danny Causey graduated from CET department of De Vry University.His areas of interest include networking, game development, microcontroller and embedded system design.Features

• Examines how the reflected or emitted energy in the visible, near-infrared, middle-infrared, thermal infrared, and microwave portions of the spectrum can be collected by a variety of sensor systems and analyzed.
• Emphasizes how to remotely sense fundamental biophysical characteristics of the terrain such as precise location (x,y), height-depth (z), temperature, moisture content, chlorophyll content, surface roughness, etc., for vegetation, soils, minerals, water, ice, and the urban environment.
• Enables readers from many disciplines such as geography, agriculture, forestry, marine science, and geology to adapt the remote sensing principles and technology to their own application. For example, the principles associated with remote sensing of vegetation can be applied to agriculture, wetland, and/or forests. Methods of extracting urban infrastructure and population characteristics are of value to geographers, urban planners, transportation engineers, etc.
• Takes the approach that the detailed digital image processing principles should be taught in a separate course, not in the introductory remote sensing or airphoto interpretation course.
• Examples include remote sensing of vegetation biomass, chlorophyll a mapping, pollution monitoring, digital elevation model creation, surface temperature measurement, and land-use mapping.
Features

• Based on the latest version of MATLAB® 7.5 (version R2007b)
• More than 30 graphs in color in the chapter "MATLAB® Graphics"
• List of commands at the end of the chapter for quick recapitulation
• Appendices on graphic user interface and control system analysis using the LTI viewer
• Approximately 250 figures and screenshots
• Programming tips to highlight good programming practices
• More than 250 solved examples and approximately 200 end-of-chapter exercises.
About the Authors
Dr Raj Kumar Bansal is presently Principal of Chitkara Institute of Engineering and Technology, Rajpura, Punjab. He received his Ph. D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and his teaching and research experience spans more than threeand-a-half decades. His research interests include power systems, control systems, optimization techniques, and fuzzy logic systems. Dr Ashok Kumar Goel is presently working as Principal, Indo Global College of Engineering, Abhipur. He holds a Ph. D. from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala. He has more than two decades of teaching and research experience. His research interests include neural networks, fuzzy logic systems, genetic algorithms, and particle swarm optimization. Manoj Kumar Sharma is presently working as Lecturer at the University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh. He holds an M. Tech. from Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana. He has almost a decade of teaching and research experience. His research interests include artificial neural networks, control systems, and energy management.Features

• New DSM-IV-TR boxes appear throughout, and summarize the essential criteria from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders for the disorders discussed. This helpful study tool reflects current diagnostic practice and helps students understand disorders in a clinical context.
• The most extensively researched and up-to-date textbook available — includes over 1800 references.
• Special feature boxes — “Developments in Research,” “Developments in Thinking,” “Developments in Practice,” and “The World Around Us” — focus on applications of research to everyday life, as well as current events, the latest research methodologies, technologies, and findings.
• Extensive case studies of individuals throughout the book bring material to life for students and offer a context in which to understand contemporary abnormal psychology.
Features

• An introduction to the basic concepts of modulation, switching and transmission
• Discussion of how the performance of a system can be simulated before construction
• Describes modern systems including satellite communications and cellular radio
• Includes network design, including information on access techniques and ISDN.
• A good balance of theory, practical examples and case-studies.
• SI units used throughout.
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• Flexible presentation – Fits several different course formats and accommodates a wide variety of skill levels.
• Separate areas of applied measurements – Help students see the relevance of mechanical measurement to their own field of interest and offer motivation by addressing real-world measurement problems.
Features

• Concepts progress in level of difficulty. Starting with the basics and incrementally progressing in level of difficulty to build student confidence.
• Business Environment context, showcases when and why certain techniques are used in business.
• Unique Inventory Management Chapter focuses on the traditional models and includes inventory functions and inventory control.
• Coverage of Lean Production and the Theory of Constraints is presented in a more conceptually oriented fashion versus a heavy tools approach thus simplifying the concepts for students.
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• Applied problems and applications emphasize real applications not detailed mathematical theorems
• Computer programs in either Fortran 90 or C are given at the conclusion of each chapter.
• Treats Linear systems before non-linear systems.
• The pace of topic presentation is appropriate for the audience.
• Excellent treatment of parallel processing.
Features

The text is written with the context that the Front Office Department's primary function is to "connect" the property and its employees with the guests.
• An emphasis on providing guest service.


• Facilitating the work of employees in other departments as they provide service.


• Using technology to meet the needs of guests and hotel employee peers.


• The Context of Front Office Operations.


• Technology Helps Front Office Operations.


• Front Office and the Guest Cycle


• Special Front Office Concerns.
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• New chapter on Animal Nutrition and the Consumers of Animal Products addressing contemporary concerns for safety in human diets.
• New chapter on Feed Additives.
• Major revisions of chapters on food analysis, lipids, metabolism, energy systems and protein evaluation.
• Now includes comments on the nutrition of the horse and feeding standards for this species.
• New chapter summaries and problems and solutions to aid student learning.
• Updated suggestions for further reading.
About the Authors
P McDonald was formerly Head of the Department of Agricultural Biochemistry at Edinburgh School of Agriculture. RA Edwards was formerly Head of the Department of Animal Nutrition at Edinburgh School of Agriculture. JFD Greenhalgh is Emeritus Professor of Animal Production and Health at the University of Aberdeen. CA Morgan is an animal nutritionist at the Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh.Features

• MATLAB and Simulink are introduced for design—For design, analysis, and implementation of DSP algorithms.
• Use of the code composer studio CCS—For the TMS320C54x and TMS320C55X for lab experiments, projects, and applications.
• Emphasis on the mixing of C and assembly programs.
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• Zeroth, first and second law of thermodynamics
• Non-reactive and reactive gas mixtures with their second law analysis
• Analysis of binary mixtures and psychrometry
• Chapter on working substances – discusses the behavior of a substance in its different phases and the role of the two-dimensional charts in a cycle
• First and second law analysis of combined cycle adopted at Anta Gas Plant
• Pedagogy includes solved numerical problems, review questions, practice problems, and multiple-choice questions, with answers
• Appendix containing 97 additional solved problems
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• A wealth of tried-and-tested Discussion Questions, Exercises, Problems, and the more rigorous Challenge Problems cover quantitative and qualitative aspects of all key concepts and integrate real-life situations.
• The ISEE (Identify, Set Up, Execute, Evaluate) problem-solving strategy is used consistently throughout the text to help students build their problem-solving skills.
• Problem-Solving Strategy Boxes coach the students in how to approach specific types of problems. All employ the ISEE strategy.
• The popular Caution Paragraphs focus on typical misconceptions and student problem areas.
About the Authors
Hugh D. Young is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. He attended Carnegie Mellon for both undergraduate and graduate study and earned his Ph.D. in fundamental particle theory under the direction of the late Richard Cutkosky. He joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon in 1956 and has also spent two years as a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Prof. Young is an enthusiastic skier, climber, and hiker. He also served for several years as Associate Organist at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Pittsburgh, and has played numerous organ recitals in the Pittsburgh area. Prof. Young and his wife Alice usually travel extensively in the summer, especially in Europe and in the desert canyon country of southern Utah. Roger A. Freedman is a Lecturer in Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Freedman was an undergraduate at the University of California campuses in San Diego and Los Angeles, and did his doctoral research in nuclear theory at Stanford University under the direction of Professor J. Dirk Walecka. He came to UCSB in 1981 after three years teaching and doing research at the University of Washington. At UCSB, Dr. Freedman has taught in both the Department of Physics and the College of Creative Studies, a branch of the university intended for highly gifted and motivated undergraduates. He has published research in nuclear physics, elementary particle physics, and laser physics. In recent years, he has helped to develop computer-based tools for learning introductory physics and astronomy. When not in the classroom or slaving over a computer, Dr. Freedman can be found either flying (he holds a commercial pilot’s license) or driving with his wife, Caroline, in their 1960 Nash Metropolitan convertible. A. Lewis Ford is Professor of Physics at Texas A&M University. He received a B.A. from Rice University in 1968 and a Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1972. After a one-year postdoc at Harvard University, he joined the Texas A&M physics faculty in 1973 and has been there ever since. Professor Ford’s research area is theoretical atomic physics, with a specialization in atomic collisions. At Texas A&M he has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses, but primarily introductory physics.Features

• NEW AND UPDATED! New illustrations and photos, as well as revised art, are included throughout enhancing the already outstanding visual pedagogy of this textbook.
• UPDATED! Chapter 3 Electromagnetic Theory, Photons, and Light has been fully revised and updated to reflect advances in the field.
• The text employs a careful balance of theory and instrumentation and provides students with the necessary classical background.
• Coherence is introduced early on in the text and leads immediately into a discussion of Young's Experiments. To underscore the quantum mechanical nature of interference, many optical interference photos are accompanied by equivalent material particle fringe patterns.
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• NEW - Chapter 1: Introduction has been enhanced to broaden the introductory presentation of the field of robotics—Previews what is covered in the book.
• Real-world practicality with underlying theory presented.
• Large set of homework problems with a “difficulty grade” assigned.
• The most cited textbook on robotics in the field.
• “Programming Assignments” at the end of each chapter.
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• Three entirely new chapters on Peer-to-Peer Systems, Web Services, and Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems.
• More than 25 detailed case studies of well-known systems, 8 of them new including studies of the Grid, Cooltown, Bluetooth andthe (in)security of the WiFi WEP protocol.
• Updated coverage of XML and its security extensions, the Advanced Encryption Standard and security design for ubiquitous systems.
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• Strong Examples and Exercise Sets encourage students to think clearly about the problems, reinforcing their mathematical intuition.
• Exceptional Art Captions and Multifigured Images provide insight for students and support quantitative and conceptual reasoning.
• Strong Multivariable Coverage helps students make the leap from single variable to multivariable calculus.
• Flexible Table of Contents that divides complex topics into smaller sections and provides instructors with unlimited flexibility in creating course outlines.
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• Takes a non-propriety view on design issues.
• Provides an overview of design representation forms with a strong architectural framework.
• Uses academic treatment that makes the book useful for courses that do more than just teach methods.
• Reviews design practices in a concise way based on the more widely used design methodologies.
• NEW—Covers components, Reuse and COTS (Commercial off-the-shelf Software).
• NEW—More design patterns, architectures, and use cases included in this edition.
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• A new chapter on Film. This chapter explores the ways in which literature helps us to think about film, and, correspondingly, how studying film helps us to think about literature.
• A new chapter on Creative Writing .
• A new chapter on the Mutant: exploring general issues of mutation and mutability, including environmental issues, genetic engineering and cloning.
• A new chapter on War: exploring the questions 'what is war?', 'what is war literature?' and 'in what ways is literary or cultural theory itself at war?'
• All existing chapters updated and revised in light of recent developments in the field.
• Updated and expanded further reading sections.
About the Authors

Andrew Bennett is currently Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He has also authored: 'Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity' (CUP) and 'Katherine Mansfield' (Northcote House, 2003). Nicholas Royle is currently Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He is the author of: 'The Uncanny: An Introduction' (MUP) and 'Jacques Derrida' in the Routledge Critical Thinkers Series.Features

• NEW - New problems in each chapter-Many more challenging problem sets have been added.
• Presents an excellent treatment of Polya's Counting Theoremthat doesn't assume students have seen group theory.
• Many worked examples.
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• NEW - Coverage of oxidation-reduction reactions.
• NEW - Updated and reorganized material throughout—Includes recent literature references.
• NEW - Web-based problems.
• NEW - Problems using software for molecular orbital calculations.
• Excellent, balanced coverage of core principles and theory.
• Integration of symmetry arguments throughout—Emphasizes symmetry more than other inorganic texts.
• Many problems at the end of each chapter—Including some from the recent literature.
• Worked examples in most chapters.
• Exercises in most chapters.
• Strong molecular symmetry/group theory coverage.
• Strong molecular-orbital approach.
• Special topic coverage—e.g., organometallic, solid-state chemistry, bioinorganic, and environmental inorganic.
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• Provides a basic non-mathematical approach to the subject.
• Emphasizes the effective and efficient use of energy.
• Illustrations have all been updated and some new diagrams and photographs added.
• Includes numerous worked examples.
• Includes increased number of revision questions at the end of each chapter.
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• NEW - Revised organization-Chapters are now completely self-contained.
• NEW - Up-to-date coverage of science and social issues-Such as terrorism and its effects, the present and future of technology, and cultural diversity.
• NEW - Thoroughly Revised Scientific References-Contains over 350 new references and many new passages.
• Pedagogical aids-Include chapter outlines, objectives, bold-faced terms, summaries, self-tests, exercises, and questions.
About the Authors
Karen Duffy is a Distinguished Service Professor at the State University of New York, College at Geneseo. She received her Ph.D. in social and personality psychology from Michigan State University and is a family mediator for the New York Unified Court System. Dr. Duffy has authored several other books, including Community Mediation: A Handbook for Practitioners and Researchers and Community Psychology. Eastwood Atwater was a psychology professor at Montgomery County Community College and lectured at Gwynedd-Mercy College. He also conducted a private practice in psychology. His Ph.D. was from the University of Chicago, where he studied with Carl Rogers. Prior to his death in 1996, he authored books including Adolescence, Fourth Edition, and Human Relations.Features

• Provides numerous examples. Each statistical example and solution is presented in the context of a real world business problem.
• Provides Detailed step-by-step examples, figures and graphs, and interpretation of data.
• Provides applications of statistics to functional areas such as marketing, finance, accounting, management, and economics
About the Authors
Bill Carlson is Professor of Economics and Department Chair of the Economics Department at St Olaf College, where he has taught for 29 years. His education includes engineering degrees from Michigan Technological University (BS) and Illinois Institute of Technology (MS) and a Ph.D. in Quantitative Management from the University of Michigan. His research includes numerous studies related to highway safety, management problems, and statistical education. He has previously published two statistics textbooks. He has led numerous student groups to study in various countries. He enjoys grandchildren, woodworking, travel, reading, and being on assignment in northern Wisconsin. Betty Thorne Author, researcher and award-winning teacher, Betty Thorne is Professor and Chair of the Department of Decision and Information Sciences in the School of Business Administration at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. Winner of Stetson University's McEniry Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest honor given to a Stetson University faculty member, Dr. Thorne also is the recipient of the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award and Professor of the Year Award in the School of Business Administration at Stetson. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Geneva College and the Master of Arts and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University. She co-authored Applied Statistical Methods for Business, Economics and the Social Sciences (Prentice Hall, 1997) with Bill Carlson. Dr. Thorne is a member of the planning committee and serves as Secretary/Treasurer of the Making Statistics More Effective in Schools and Business conferences where she meets annually with fellow statisticians to discuss research and teaching issues. She also is a member of Decision Sciences Institute, the American Society for Quality, and the American Statistical Association.Features

• A critical guide focusing on Exterior Routing Protocols that compliments Vol. I's focus on interior Routing Protocols.
• A core textbook for CCIE preparation endorsed by Cisco Systems.
• Valued tool packed with lessons on configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco routers-Normally would cost thousands of dollars to learn in industry training centers.
• Same clear and straightforward writing style as in Doyle's Routing TCP/IP, Volume I.
About the Authors
Jeff Doyle, CCIE No. 1919, is a professional services consultant with Juniper Networks, Inc., in Denver, Colorado. Specializing in IP routing protocols and MPLS traffic engineering, Jeff has helped design and implement large-scale Internet service provider networks throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Jennifer DeHaven Carroll, CCIE No. 1402, is a principal consultant with Lucent Technologies. She has planned, designed, and implemented many large networks over the past 13 years as well as developed and taught classes on theory and Cisco implementation of all IP routing protocols.Features

• Rewritten material on satellites—Includes their history; orbits; elevation categories; orbital patterns; and antenna look angles.
• Materials in the Fundamentals chapters on AM envelopes—Produced by complex nonsinusoidal signals, Quadrature Amplitude Modulation, noise limiters and blankers, alternate signal-to-noise measurements, single-sideband suppressed carrier, frequency division multiplexing, double-sideband suppressed carrier, quadrature multiplexing, microstrip, and stripline.
• Material in the Advanced chapters—On trellis encoding, CCITT modem recommendations, PCM line speed, extended superframe format, wavelength division multiplexing, Kepler's laws, Clark orbits, limits of visibility, Satellite Radio Navigation and Navstar GPS.
• Optical fiber communications has been moved from Chapter 20 to Chapter 11—Includes new sections on light sources, optical power, optical sources and link budget.
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• Essential guide to financial modeling with more accurate information to support decision making
• Gives managers the tools to build better financial models - now a core skill, this
• will improve organizational learning through improved assessment of collective knowledge
• Enables managers to create better targeting when building a financial model
• from forecasting and planning, to valuation and risk assessment, this is the definitive guide to building and manipulating financial models with confidence
• It will help executive and finance managers to turn business data into intelligent decisions
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• Treatment of smart cards and data security.
• It covers timer operation, serial port operation, interrupt operation, assembly language programming, 8051 C programming, program structure and design, and tools and techniques for program development.
• Concise treatment of all features of the 8051 microcontroller.
• Comprehensive coding and design examples.
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• Uses UML notation for ER diagrams.


• Database design methodology is explicitly divided into three phases: conceptual, logical, and physical. Each phase is described in a separate chapter with an example of the methodology working in practice.


• Extensive treatment of SQL in three tutorial style chapters.


• Comprehensive introduction to data warehousing, OLAP, and data mining.


• Extensive treatment of the Web as an emerging platform for database applications with many code samples for accessing databases from the Web including JDBC, SQLJ, ASP, ISP, and Oracle's PSP.
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• NEW – Significant coverage of the Standards Movement and the No Child Left Behind legislation– including its implications for day-to-day classroom assessment and the students and teachers involved in the classroom assessment process.
• NEW – Materials on selecting and using published tests were updated –reflecting new editions of tests and new approaches to assessment.
• Detailed, straightforward guidelines for how to construct test items with lots of concrete examples –the clearest of any text on the market.
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• Provides an entire chapter on spread spectrum, which is pervasive in wireless technology today.
• Also provides an entire chapter on satellite communications. This topic remains an important area within wireless communications.
• Thorough coverage of cordless systems.
• Extensive coverage of fixed wireless access, also known as wireless local loop, and IEEE 802.16 standards.
• Devotes a whole chapter on Mobile IP Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).
• Complete coverage of Wireless LANs, including IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth.
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• Introduces the theory and practice of compiler design.


• Covers topics like context-free grammars, fine state machines, and syntax-directed translation.
About the Authors

Alfred V. Aho is Lawrence Gussman Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Professor Aho has won several awards including the Great Teacher Award for 2003 from the Society of Columbia Graduates and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the ACM and IEEE. Monica S. Lam is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, was the Chief Scientist at Tensilica and the founding CEO of moka5. She led the SUIF project which produced one of the most popular research compilers, and pioneered numerous compiler techniques used in industry. Ravi Sethi launched the research organization in Avaya and is president of Avaya Labs. Previously, he was a senior vice president at Bell Labs in Murray Hill and chief technical officer for communications software at Lucent Technologies. He has held teaching positions at the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Arizona, and has taught at Princeton University and Rutgers. He is a fellow of the ACM. Jeffrey Ullman is CEO of Gradiance and a Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His research interests include database theory, database integration, data mining, and education using the information infrastructure. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the ACM, and winner of the Karlstrom Award and Knuth Prize.Features

• This book completely follows the UGC model curriculum.
• Discusses current topics in the global environment scenario such as ecological footprint, carbon trading, and emission trading
• Equipped with a complete list of ISO standards for environment management systems
• Entire unit devoted to field work with more than 10 experiments for quantitative evaluation of ecosystems
• Has more than 30 case studies to illustrate environmental issues
• An updated list of international conventions and protocols
• Comprehensive glossary for quick recapitulation of technical terms
• Updated statistical information on air quality standards, permissible exhaust limit, and so on.
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• Math applications specific to retailing-makes this text an excellent resource for students, buyers and small store owners.
• Workbook format-includes workspace to complete practice problems right in the text.
• Realistic problems, worked-out examples and clear explanations-are presented throughout the text.
• Cumulative summary exercises-are found at the end of each chapter.
• A review of basic mathematics, decimals, percents, and fractions-gives students a refresher on basic arithmetic.
• Suggestions for working select problems on a computer spreadsheet-includes examples of spreadsheets used for problems having to do with retail method of inventory and six-month merchandise plans.
• Highlighted formulas-are set in boxes throughout and listed at the end of each chapter.
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• McMurry/Fay presents chemical concepts with quantitative discussions to bring in to sharp focus the connection between chemical reasoning and math.
• Topic Connections that begin with “Remember…” explain how individual topics are related, and give sufficient information so students either don’t have to “flip back”, or know when they should.
• McMurry/Fay’s design uniquely integrates explanatory narrative with key principles by connecting the various modes of information, words, numbers, and graphics.
About the Authors
JOHN MCMURRY, educated at Harvard and Columbia, has taught approximately 17,000 students in general and organic chemistry over a 30-year period. A Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University since 1980, Dr. McMurry previously spent 13 years on the faculty at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He as received numerous awards, including the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (1969-71), the National Institute of Health Career Development Award (1975-80), the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (1986-87), and the Max Planck Research Award (1991). ROBERT C. FAY, Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University, has been teaching general and inorganic chemistry at Cornell since 1962. Known for his clear, well-organized lectures, Dr. Fay was the 1980 recipient of the Clark Distinguished Teaching Award. He has also taught as a visiting professor at Harvard University and at the University of Bologna (Italy). A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Oberlin College, Fay received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He has been an NSF Science Faculty Fellow at the University of East Anglia and the University of Sussex (England) and a NATO/Heineman Senior Fellow at Oxford University.Features

• The most comprehensive student text available on the market.
• Suitable for all years of an undergraduate course in mechanical or civil engineering.
• Worked examples throughout.
• Start of chapter objectives and end of chapter summaries.
• Highlighted key equations - for easy reference.
• References to other books.
• List of symbols - for clarity and ease of use.
• Written entirely in SI (metric) units.
Features

• NEW - Improved art program following the lead of Hibbeler's Engineering Mechanics series-three dimensional, realistic art helps students better visualize and connect with the situation.
• NEW - Improved coverage of loading-especially with new coverage of snow loads.
• NEW - Approximately 50% new or revised problems
• NEW - Instructor's Resources and course management on the OneKey website.
• Over 100 photographs dispersed throughout the book-Presents the solution of realistic applications and explanations of the theory. Some of these photos are used in the problem sets.
• Expanded coverage of the matrix stiffness method.
• Procedures for Analysis included in most sections of the text, along with example problems illustrating the procedures.
• Provides a logical, method for students to follow when applying the theory presented in each section.
• Realistic engineering situations-Clearly illustrated to show the necessary geometric relations and loads. Provides situations that students are likely to encounter in practice.
Features

• Outcomes that focus students’ attention on the major issues within each chapter
• Real-life cases to enhance clarity and understanding of the topics discussed
• Chapter summaries to help students revise the content of the chapter
• Three modules—the History Module, Quantitative Module, and Career Module—that describe the evolution of management practices, the use of quantitative techniques to improve decision making, and methods to build successful management careers
• Review and discussion questions to foster high-order thinking skills that require students to apply, integrate, synthesize, and evaluate management concepts
• Integrative Chapter Skills includes group-based cases intended to thematically apply concepts
• Crossword Comprehension helps students determine their comprehension of the key concepts through self-evaluation
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• Coverage of advanced object-oriented topics and languages like C#, Java™, JavaScript™, Perl™, PHP, XHTML, XSLT, and JSP™ is integrated throughout.


• Historical boxes and interviews with James Gosling, Larry Wall, Alan Cooper, Bjarne Stroustrup, and others set the material into context.


• Valuable historical foundations are presented in Chapter 2, outlining the origins, purposes, and contributions of the most important languages discussed in the rest of the text.


• In-depth discussions of the design issues for the primary constructs of the imperative languages are presented in Chapters 5-14. Design choices for several example languages are presented and evaluated, including variables (Chapter 5), data types (Chapter 6), expressions and assignment statements (Chapter 7), control statements (Chapter 8), subprograms (Chapters 9 and 10), data abstraction facilities (Chapter 11), object-oriented programming (Chapter 12), concurrent program units (Chapter 13), and exception and event handling (Chapter 14).


• Two alternative programming paradigms concludes coverage, functional programming in Chapter 15 and logical programming in Chapter 16.


• Each new student copy includes an access card for the Companion Website, which includes lab projects, self-assessment quizzes, and a language reference library.
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• Flexible, convenient presentation - The JVM is not a physical chip but a piece of software found on every computer in the world, so students can write and run their exercises on any computer without worrying about compatibility; ideal for commuter or distance education, or schools with limited resources.
• Focus on the JVM Language - Explains how the Java language actually causes things to happen.
• Presentation of alternate architectures - Compares the JVM to the original IBM-PC chip, the Pentium, the Power PC, and an embedded controller chip to explore how other computers express the same principles.
• Principle-based approach - Allows transfer between machines.
• Multi-Language Examples - Integrate several computer operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BeOS and Solaris; students do not need a prior understanding of Java.
• Tested code examples - Eliminates errors that could confuse students.
• Optional chapters that are tunable to individual equipment.
Features

• Real-World Applications: Practicing Business Communication boxes examine communication practices in a wide range of businesses.
• Strategic Skills give students tools they will need as they transition from the classroom to a business setting.
• Ethical Issues boxes challenge students to think critically about the role ethics takes in business communication.
About the Authors
Dan O'Hair is a Presidential Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Oklahoma. He has published more than seventy research articles in communication, business, management, and psychology journals and volumes. In addition, he has authored and edited twelve books on the topic of communication. O'Hair has been the principle investigator for several grants from business, non-profit, and government institutions totaling more than $4 million. He has served on the faculties of Texas Christian University, New Mexico State University, and Texas Tech University. He served as editor of the Journal of Applied Communication Research, one of NCA's research journals and as associate editor of ten journals in the social sciences. His teaching interests are business and organizational communication, risk communication, and health communication. In 2006, Dr. O’Hair served as President of the National Communication Association, the world’s largest scholarly organization devoted to the study and advancement of communication. Gustav W. Friedrich is Professor II and Dean in the School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies at Rutgers University. His publications appear in such journals as Communication Education, Communication Monographs, Journal of Communication, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He is author/editor of 13 books. Professor Friedrich's honors and awards include: Presidential Professor; Kenneth E. Crook Faculty Award; Josh Lee Service Award; Henry Daniel Rinsland Memorial Award for Excellence in Educational Research; Regents' Award for Superior Teaching; and Golden Anniversary Award. His research interests are in communication theory and in instructional and applied communication. Lynda Dee Dixon is Associate Professor in the Department of Interpersonal Communication at Bowling Green State University. She has served as Graduate Coordinator in the School of Communication Studies and as Faculty Associate in the Graduate College. Previously, she has been on the faculty at the University of Oklahoma, University of New Mexico, and Indiana University-South Bend. A Cherokee from Oklahoma, she began her research by studying the health communication of Oklahoma American Indian women. Her research has focused on diversity issues in health, education, and professional organizations. Dixon's publications include a co-edited book on women in prison, book chapters, and journal articles. Her three most recent journal articles have focused on the effects of architecture and posted signs in federal health care facilities for American Indians, and the phenomenon of rap music. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in health communication, intercultural communication, and organizational communication.Features

• NEW - Internet link identifiers–Take the student (via the companion website) to supplemental on-line materials located in the margins in each chapter.
• NEW–The entire coverage of small-signal BJT analysis—for single and multistage transistor networks is reduced from 3+ chapters to one chapter.
• NEW–The organization of chapters—provides coverage of DC analysis of BJT networks and FET networks in the chapter preceding the AC analysis of each.
Features

• An extensive introduction to UML 2.0 from the notation’s most fundamental and advanced elements, with an emphasis on key changes.
• A greatly enhanced focus on modeling—eagerly requested by readers—with five chapters that each emphasize a particular phase in the overall development lifecycle.
• Fresh approaches to reasoning about complex systems, including a new treatment of system architecture using OOAD and UML.
• An examination of the conceptual foundation of the widely misunderstood fundamental elements of the object model such as abstraction, encapsulation, modularity, and hierarchy
• Advice on how to allocate the resources of a team of developers and manage the risks associated with developing complex software systems
• An appendix on key object-oriented programming languages such as Java and C++
About the Authors
Grady Booch is an IBM fellow and author of six best-selling books on object-oriented programming. He is world-renowned as an originator of OO and the founder of UML. Robert A. Maksimchuk is a Director of Research in the Unisys Chief Technology Office, focusing on emerging modeling technologies. He is coauthor of the books UML for Database Design and UML of Mere Mortals. Michael W. Engle is a principal member of the engineering staff with the Lockheed Martin Corporation. He has extensive technical and management experience across the complete system development lifecycle, from project initiation through deployment and support, in a variety of application domains. Bobbi J. Young is a Director of Research for the Unisys Chief Technology Office. She has many years of experience in the IT Industry, working with commercial companies and Department of Defense contractors. Jim Conallen is a software engineer in IBM Rational’s Model Driven Development Strategy team, where he is actively involved in applying the Object Management Group’s (OMG) Model Driven Architecture (MDA) initiative to IBM Rational’s model tooling. Kelli A. Houston is a consulting IT Specialist at IBM Rational. She is the method architect for IBM’s internal method and is part of the team responsible for integrating IBM’s methods.Features

• According to the Abderdeen group 90% of companies are adopting SOA or plan to by the end of 2006
• Explains how to use the new Java Web Services standards to create enterprise-class SOA solutions
• Introduces SOA-J, a comprehensive SOA framework for Java for creating and deploying SOA components on the Java EE 5 platform
Features

• A valuable single source reference for any network professionals interested in learning about cutting edge network security technologies
• Learn from the comprehensive, end-to-end approach to securing network infrastructures
• Use the design and deployment guidelines to optimize network security performance
• Full coverage of the latest CCIE Security exam objectives
Features

• Integrates theory and practice through the use of numerous worked examples
• Includes case studies in different areas where soft-computing techniques are applied in real-world situations
• Extensive coverage of control applications
• Extensive student and lecturer support available via the Web (including Matlab files)
About the Authors
Fakhreddine Karray is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He was Program Chair of the 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, is Associate Editor of four related journals and writes extensively in the area. Clarence de Silva is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Control and Intelligent Systems, writes extensively in the area and has served as a consultant for IBM and Westinghouse in the US. Features

• Comprehensive coverage of methods with detailed easy-to-follow practical experiments.
• Basic analytical theory which is essential for understanding the subject.
• Greatly expanded sections on instrumental analysis including aspects of miniaturisation.
• Increased emphasis on minor/trace component analysis and revised statistical handling of data.
• New chapters on sampling, mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance.
Features

• Numerous worked-out examples and problems to facilitate easier recapitulation of the concepts learnt
• Exhaustive coverage of computability and decidability through Turing machines
• Advanced topics on formal languages and new models of computation for the benefit of the students contemplating an in-depth research
• Multiple-choice questions designed in a way to help students understand the basics.
About the Authors
Kamala Krithivasan received her Ph.D. from the University of Madras,and she joined the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) in 1975. With more than 30 years of teaching and research experience at IITM, she is currently Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering,in which she served as Chairperson during 1992–1995. Her research interests include formal language theory and unconventional models of computing like DNA computing, membrane computing and discrete tomography. A recipient of the Fulbright fellowship in 1986, Professor Kamala is also a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.

Rama R. was awarded a doctoral degree by Anna University in 1989. She taught in the College of Engineering, Anna University, before joining the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), as Assistant Professor in 1996. She was subsequently elevated as Professor in 2006 and has been in that position ever since. Professor Rama has 20 years of teaching and research experience, and has guided four research students in their PhD theses. Her domain of interest is in the area of formal languages and automata, and natural computing. She is also a life member of the Indian Society for Technical Education.Features

• Uses the most common operating systems, including Linux, UNIX, and Windows
• Contains overall design enhancements to facilitate students¡¦ understanding. This includes a further focus on principles and an expanded art program.
• Contains more Labs! More exercises than in the previous edition are included to give students substantial hands-on experience with Linux, UNIX, and Windows
• Is updated and enhanced with the latest information on:
Features

• Organization is from whole to part. After an opening chapter that touches on the history of classroom grammar and other language issues, Chapter 2 presents ten basic sentence patterns with their various slots described according to both form and function.
• Words and Phrases: An Overview. This useful overview opens Chapter 2 and provides a quick review of (or introduction to) nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases and introduces the concepts of noun phrase and verb phrase in clear, jargon-free language, including helpful ways for students to make use of their internal language expertise.
• Instruction is clear and accessible. Sentence expansions in Chapters 3-9 provide readers with a structure, a framework, on which to organize the new concepts learned.
• Traditional diagrams illustrate the patterns and their expansions. The diagram is used as a tool to help students recognize the structural relationship of the various sentence structures and provide a visual framework for the sentence patterns and their expansions.
• The word classes, described in detail in Part IV, are based on the structural linguists’ division of form and structure classes, rather than the Latin-based eight parts of speech.
Features

• Emphasizes state-of-the-art topics such as computerized tools for software testing and for managing SQA activities.
• Emphasises the application aspects of SQA systems, discussing how to overcome difficulties in the implementation and operation of SQA systems.
• Integrates real-life examples into the text.
• Numerous pedagogical features (summary boxes, faqs, problems, case studies and discussion topics).
• Professional appendices (a collection of useful document templates and review checklists).
Features

• Concepts supported by about 400 solved programs and exercises.
• Step-by-step programming procedures.
• Real-time solved examples and problems.
• Programs explained with outputs.
• Multiple-choice questions at the end of each chapter enable the understanding of concepts.
Features

• Contains over 150 questions, over 250 illustrations, and a comprehensive glossary.
• Explains the most current developments in mobile communications in both research and industry in a well-structured context with detailed technical background.
• Conclude chapters with a set of exercises for self-study and references to standards, organizations, and research work related to the topic.
• Provides an up-to-date idea of the mobile/wireless communications field.
• Significant changes to be on top of this fast-developing topic.
Features

• New and updated programming examples and dissections—the authors’ trademark technique for illustrating and teaching language concepts.
• Recursion is emphasized with revised coverage in both text and exercises.
• Multifile programming is given greater attention, as are the issues of correctness and type safety. Function prototypes are now used throughout the text.
• Abstract Data Types, the key concept necessary to understanding objects are carefully covered.
• Updated material on transitioning to C++, including coverage of the important concepts of object-oriented programming.
• New coverage is provided on transitioning from C to Java
• References to key programming functions and C features are provided in convenient files.
About the Authors
A.L. Kelley & Ira Pohl are professors of computer science at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Features

• FPGA-based logic design, in depth.
• Essential VLSI guidance for FPGA designers.
• HDL-based logic design—Makes use of modern HDL design techniques with both Verilog and VHDL.
• Advanced FPGA coverage—Detailed introduction to platform-based and multi-FPGA systems.
• Detailed DSP case study—Includes a start-to-finish case study that touches on a wide range of design problems.
Features

• A well-defined four-part structure—Special relativity; quantum mechanics; “applications” of quantum mechanics; and “frontier” subjects.
• Presentation of the historical origin of topics
• Original presentations of topics—e.g., the application of the Bohr rules to non-Coulombic forces; “towards the Schrödinger equation;” the physical description of NMR; the demonstration of exchange forces; the radius of a neutron star; as well as a unique appendix.
• Practical applications of the topics covered—e.g., the Global Positioning System, lasers, quantum engineering, nuclear magnetic resonance.
• Presentation of “hot topics” and current issues—e.g., the standard model of elementary interactions, the immediate relevance of quantum mechanics to today's technology, the development of the early universe.
About the Authors
Jeremy Bernstein has had a dual career in physics and writing. He was on the staff of the New Yorker from 1963 to 1993 and was a Professor of Physics at the Stevens Institute of Technology from 1968 until his retirement in 1993, when he became Professor emeritus. Paul Fishbane has been teaching undergraduate courses at the University of Virginia, where he is Professor of Physics, for some 25 years. Stephen Gasiorowicz received his Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1952. After spending 8 years at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, he joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota, where his field of research is theoretical high energy physics.Features

• Modern coverage on new electro-optic devices—e.g., intensity modulators and opto-isolators.
• Undergraduate mathematical level—Describes principles and gives results with their significance, rather than elaborate derivations.
• Many worked examples and chapter-end problems—With solved problems in each chapter.
• Numerous clear diagrams and photographs.
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• Describes career opportunities and career paths that exist in all facets of the hospitality industry.
• Includes self-assessment activities, as well as guidance on important topics such as resume writing and interviewing skills.
• Expands the previous chapter on motivation to include a discussion of human resources.
• Addresses one of the greatest challenges facing industry leaders: recruiting and motivating employees.
• Discusses newer areas of the hospitality industry such as meetings, conventions, expositions and event management.
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• Clear and Direct Style — A style that will communicate with readers.
• Key Features — A chapter outline, key points, discussion questions, and important terms are highlighted throughout each chapter.
• Excel — All of the exercises, examples, and charts that are based on data shown in the book also come in the form of downloadable Excel spreadsheets to minimize the time that students need to spend reproducing information.
• Getting Down To Business! — Sections have been provided, offering detailed examples of the practical implications of key theoretical issues.
• Putting Ideas Into Practice — Exercises that help students translate the concepts learned in the chapter into real-world activities have been included.
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• Features a comprehensive understanding of the unique economies of India, China, Brazil Mexico and Turkey.
• Addresses market liberalization, privatization and modernization, the increasingly youthful populations and the growing middle-class in these countries. There is also thorough coverage of the dominance of family conglomerates, and a discussion of the difference between marketing to governments vs. public enterprises and appropriate strategies.
• Addresses the growing participation of small- and medium-sized firms in international business, including those in the service sector. In addition, CKR offers balanced coverage of small, medium and large firms, and is global in its examples and cases.
• Includes examples providing balanced coverage of international business, allowing students to see IB from numerous perspectives, as 75% of the cases and opening vignettes deal countries other than the United States.
Features

• Web-based animations illustrate important and complex OS mechanisms.
• A new chapter on embedded Operating Systems has been added
• Additional text and figures have been added to enhance clarity
• Now focuses on Windows Vista rather than Windows XP
Features

• Includes completely new chapter on scripting
• Re-organized to allow for more thorough coverage of streams and files (previously in Vol. I)
• Completely revised and updated to cover new Java SE 6 features and all code examples have been rewritten to take advantage of SE 6 enhancements
About the Authors
Cay S. Horstmann is also coauthor of Core JavaServer Faces, Second Edition (Prentice Hall, 2007). Cay is a professor of computer science at San Jose State University, a Java Champion, and a frequent speaker at computer industry conferences. Gary Cornell has been writing and teaching programming professionals for more than twenty years and is the cofounder of Apress. He has written numerous best-selling books for programming professionals, was a cofinalist for a Jolt Award, and won the Readers' Choice award from Visual Basic Magazine.Features

• Performance Management is a continuous process of identifying, measuring, and developing the performance of individuals and teams and aligning performance with the strategic goals of the organization.
• Focuses on research-based findings and up-to-date applications that help increase an organization’s human capital.
• Performance observation, evaluation, and improvement are ongoing processes, some concepts and practices may be introduced early on in a cursory manner first but receive more detailed treatment in later sections.
• Emphasis on best practices and describes the necessary steps to create a top-notch performance management system.
• Incorporation of International Issues - In contrast to many other books, which include a separate chapter on international issues, this textbook’s approach integrates international issues throughout the book because in this age of globalization it is often difficult to distinguish domestic from international operations.
Features

• Comprehensive and accessible with authoritative authorship and an excellent blend of theory and practice, European context
• Engaging case studies
• This new edition has been focused to concentrate on the most significant topics in the subject, with 10 chapters replacing the previous 15. New material has been added and coverage of some older topics has been revised (see new table of contents).
• End of chapter cases exercises have been replaced by major end-of book 'Harvard-type' cases.
• New coverage of hot topics, such as the implications of E-Business on ops strategy, agility & it's inter-relationship with lean, complexity, supply management issues, operations strategy for competitive advantage and SCM, and implementation.
Features

• A focus on both project and enterprise valuation shows students that the same principles apply to both internal and external growth, better illustrating the realities of today’s corporate world.
• Valuation is considered within a broad framework that includes behavioral finance, agency considerations, and strategic options.
• Discounted cash flow analysis coverage goes beyond the basics to include other tools, such as an entire chapter on comparables and in-depth discussions of simulation and real options.
• Project-specific risk attributes are covered in, showing students how to evaluate the cost of capital for the firm as a whole as well as for individual investment projects using WACC.
• Coverage of private equity markets illustrates how students can evaluate privately held companies, including the venture capital valuation method and the LBO valuation model.
• Coverage of real options takes a contemporary approach, showing how real options can become a powerful tool in building on intuition within a disciplined analytical framework.
About the Authors

Sheridan Titman holds the McCallister Centennial Chair in Financial Services at the University of Texas, Austin. Before his present post, he taught for a number of years at UCLA. Among his prolific research projects are studies in optimal capital structure, irrational investors, tangible and intangible information and market reactions, and Asian stock markets. He is coauthor of the textbook, Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy, with Mark Grinblatt. John Martin holds the Carr P. Collins Chair in Finance at Baylor University, where he teaches corporate finance and financial modeling. He has published widely in the academic literature and in addition to Valuation, is the coauthor of four other textbooks: Financial Management, Foundations of Finance, Financial Analysis, and The Theory of Finance. He is especially interested in research in the areas of corporate governance, evaluation of firm performance, and the design of incentive compensation programs.Features

• Learning Objectives concisely outline the goals of each chapter, giving students a brief introduction to the main concepts in the chapter.
• Chapter-opening examples provide hypothetical situations to familiarize students to the topics to be addressed in the chapter.
• Updated Insight boxes demonstrate key chapter concepts through real-world applications.
• Case Application boxes conclude each chapter with an illustrative example and ask students to apply the key principles through a set of questions.
• Topics in corporate risk management, including enterprise risk management, loss forecasting, financial analysis in decision making, and the application of new technology to risk management programs are included in chapters 3 and 4.
• Commercial lines information, chapters 25 through 27, provides important material such as workers’ compensation, which is suitable for an advanced courseFeatures
  
  • How to integrate various remote access technologies into the backbone providing VPN service to many different types of customers
  • The new PE-CE routing options as well as other advanced features, including per-VPN Network Address Translation (PE-NAT)
  • How VRFs can be extended into a customer site to provide separation inside the customer network
  • The latest MPLS VPN security features and designs aimed at protecting the MPLS VPN backbone
  • How to carry customer multicast traffic inside a VPN
  • The latest inter-carrier enhancements to allow for easier and more scalable deployment of inter-carrier MPLS VPN services
  • Advanced troubleshooting techniques including router outputs to ensure high availability
  About the Authors
  
  Ivan Pepelnjak, CCIE No. 1354, is a 25-year veteran of the networking industry. He has more than 10 years of experience in designing, installing, troubleshooting, and operating large service provider and enterprise WAN and LAN networks and is currently chief technology advisor at NIL Data Communications, focusing on advanced IP-based networks and web technologies. Jim Guichard, CCIE No. 2069, is a system architect at Cisco Systems, with a primary focus on MPLS/IP Layer-2 and Layer-3 VPN technologies. During the last eight years at Cisco, and previously at IBM, Jim has been involved in the design, implementation, and planning of many large-scale WAN and LAN networks. Jeff Apcar is a senior consulting engineer in the Advanced Services group at Cisco Systems and has been working with MPLS technologies for more than three years. Jeff's focus is the Asia-Pacific theatre where he has provided detailed designs and design consulting for nearly every major service provider MPLS rollout in the region.Features
  
  • Relies exclusively on open source Java software, and will be tied closely to the online material.
  • Contains a finely tuned progression of ideas, examples and details.
  • Shows how to use XML in modern web applications.
  • Backs up a thorough treatment of its key points with clear, practical examples.
  • Offers insight and understanding of the concepts, their importance and their application.
  • Offers a rigorous look at existing standards.
  Features
  
  • Unique and accessible overview of networking.
  • Includes modern networking issues - management, security and encryption.
  • Enhanced treatment of core network technologies including ATM and SDH/SONET.
  • New chapter on TCP/IP.
  • SI units used throughout.
  Features
  
  • Covers essential information on kernel concepts, driver concepts, wireless Linux concepts, and embedded Linux concepts -- information never before available in one book.
  • Includes several types of drivers not covered elsewhere: WiFi, USB Serial Drivers, Sound drivers...
  • Describes the driver development lifecycle, including detailed debugging techniques
  Features
  
  
  • Illustrated concepts for students with relevant programming examples, many written in Visual C++ with embedded assembly language code.
  • Coverage of how to develop software to control application interfaces to the microprocessor.
  • Coverage of how to program the microprocessor using the popular Microsoft Visual C programming environment with embedded assembly language to control personal computers.
  • Descriptions of how to use real mode (DOS) and protected mode (Windows) of the microprocessor.
  • Explanation of the operation of a real-time operating system (RTOS) in an embedded environment.
  Features
  
  • Completely updated throughout, with significant new coverage of databases, XML, and Qtopia embedded programming
  • Covers all Qt 4.2/4.3 changes, including Windows Vista support, native CSS support for widget styling, and SVG file generation
  • Contains separate 2D and 3D chapters, coverage of Qt 4.3's new graphics view classes, and an introduction to QPainter's OpenGL back-end
  • Includes new chapters on look-and-feel customization and application scripting
  • Illustrates Qt 4's model/view architecture, plugin support, layout management, event processing, container classes, and much more
  • Presents advanced techniques covered in no other book—from creating plugins to interfacing with native APIs
  About the Authors
  Jasmin Blanchette is a Trolltech senior software engineer and is writing his M.Sc. thesis in computer science at the University of Oslo. Mark Summerfield works as an independent trainer and consultant specializing in C++, Qt, Python, and PyQt, and is the author of Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt. Blanchette and Summerfield coauthored C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 and the first edition of C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4.Features
  
  • In-depth coverage of economical load dispatch problems and load frequency control of power systems
  • Exclusive chapters on reactive-power compensation with modern control techniques
  • A comprehensive chapter on voltage control
  • In-depth coverage of modelling of LFC components
  • Precise explanations supported by various examples
  • A large number of examples such as multiple-choice questions, short questions and answers, review questions, and practice problems
  About the Authors
  S. Sivanagaraju is Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University College of Engineering, JNTU Kakinada, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh G. Sreenivasan is Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, INTELL Engineering College, Anantapur, Andhra PradeshFeatures
  
  • Three-part organization
  • Many experimental results from the literature support the physical concepts described in the text.
  • A considerable number of end-of-chapter problems enable students to practice problem-solving.
  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
  
  • Thoroughly updated and fully compliant with Rational Rose 2002, the latest release of the industry's most popular software modeling tool.
  • Simplified, useful case study helps the reader understand the core concepts of modeling and how to use UML effectively.
  • Foreword by Grady Booch.
  About the Authors
  Terry Quatrani, IBM Rational’s UML Evangelist, is responsible for training and transitioning Fortune 500 companies to object technology and for preaching the visual modeling gospel of Grady Booch, Jim Rumbaugh, and Ivar Jacobson. She has spent twenty-one years developing and deploying large software systems. Formerly at GE, she was founding consultant for the Lockheed Martin Advanced Concepts Center. Jim Palistrant, IBM Rational’s J2EE and SOA Evangelist, educates customers and the IBM field force about J2EE and SOA concepts and tools. A frequent speaker at technical conferences worldwide, he has worked with Java, J2EE, and Web technology since 1995.Features
  
  • Powerhouse author team -- IBM's brightest!
  • Goes far beyond any other book today -- covering the realms of policy-based management, enterprise application integration, multi-protocol support, and technical implementation of business processes and workflow
  • Excellent end-to-end deployment guide -- thorough, detailed, with examples to guide reader through difficult concepts
  Features
  Accessible mathematical complexity
  • Ensures understanding by students who have introductory preparation in mathematical analysis, vectors, matrices, probability, statistics, and rudimentary computer programming.
  Heavily illustrated.
  • Ensures easy comprehension of material, especially for today's visual learners.
  Chapter-end Problem sets.
  • Provides students with more opportunities for hands-on practice.
  About the Authors
  
  Rafael C. Gonzalez received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Miami in 1965 and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, in 1967 and 1970, respectively. He joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) in 1970, where he became Associate Professor in 1973, Professor in 1978, and Distinguished Service Professor in 1984. He served as Chairman of the department from 1994 through 1997. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at UTK. Gonzalez is the founder of the Image & Pattern Analysis Laboratory and the Robotics & Computer Vision Laboratory at the University of Tennessee. He also founded Perceptics Corporation in 1982 and was its president until 1992. The last three years of this period were spent under a full-time employment contract with Westinghouse Corporation, who acquired the company in 1989. Under his direction, Perceptics became highly successful in image processing, computer vision, and laser disk storage technology. In its initial ten years, Perceptics introduced a series of innovative products, including: The world's first commercially-available computer vision system for automatically reading the license plate on moving vehicles; a series of large-scale image processing and archiving systems used by the U.S. Navy at six different manufacturing sites throughout the country to inspect the rocket motors of missiles in the Trident II Submarine Program; the market leading family of imaging boards for advanced Macintosh computers; and a line of trillion-byte laser disk products. He is a frequent consultant to industry and government in the areas of pattern recognition, image processing, and machine learning. His academic honors for work in these fields include the 1977 UTK College of Engineering Faculty Achievement Award; the 1978 UTK Chancellor's Research Scholar Award; the 1980 Magnavox Engineering Professor Award; and the 1980 M.E. Brooks Distinguished Professor Award. In 1981 he became an IBM Professor at the University of Tennessee and in 1984 he was named a Distinguished Service Professor there. He was awarded a Distinguished Alumnus Award by the University of Miami in 1985, the Phi Kappa Phi Scholar Award in 1986, and the University of Tennessee's Nathan W. Dougherty Award for Excellence in Engineering in 1992. Honors for industrial accomplishment include the 1987 IEEE Outstanding Engineer Award for Commercial Development in Tennessee; the 1988 Albert Rose Nat'l Award for Excellence in Commercial Image Processing; the 1989 B. Otto Wheeley Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer; the 1989 Coopers and Lybrand Entrepreneur of the Year Award; the 1992 IEEE Region 3 Outstanding Engineer Award; and the 1993 Automated Imaging Association National Award for Technology Development. Gonzalez is author or co-author of over 100 technical articles, two edited books, and four textbooks in the fields of pattern recognition, image processing and robotics. His books are used in over 500 universities and research institutions throughout the world. He is listed in the prestigious Marquis Who's Who in America, Marquis Who's Who in Engineering, Marquis Who's Who in the World, and in 10 other national and international biographical citations. He ii the co-holder of two U.S. Patents, and has been an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, and the International Journal of Computer and Information Sciences. He is a member of numerous professional and honorary societies, including Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Eta Kapp Nu, and Sigma Xi. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Richard E. Woods earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His professional experiences range from entrepreneurial to the more traditional academic, consulting; governmental, and industrial pursuits.Features
  
  • Intended Audience- This book is designed to serve as a primary text for an undergraduate college course in Positive Psychology.
  • Topical Organization and Themes- Twelve chapters cover what we believe to be positive psychology’s core subject matter.
  • With Students in Mind- This book was written with students foremost in mind.
  • Focus Sections- Throughout each chapter; students are given close up looks at the research, methods and theories that have shaped the development of positive psychology.
  • Chapter Summary Questions- Summary questions at the end of each chapter lead students through a review of chapter material.
  • Key Terms and Concepts- Important terms and concepts are boldfaced in the body of the text and are listed at the end of each chapter for review.
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  • Systems approach.
  • Visual presentation.
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  • Enhanced discussion on the “perfect fill”
  • Five hundred plus glossary entries
  • Importance of brands and branding
  • Incidents (small case studies) at chapter ends
  • Entirely new technology chapter with updates in telephones, safes, biometrics, and HTNG (Hotel Technology Next Generation) and its role in hotel automation
  • Carefully outlined chapters to speed reading and locate references
  • Greening of the Industry: LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
  • Rates (elastic, fenced, hurdle, premium, run-of-the-house, spread)
  • Real estate role in the lodging industry
  • Renewed look at the bedroom: cleanliness, electronics, furnishing, linens, and more
  • Reservation forecasting and its role in yield management
  • Revised chapter sequence to recognize the natural flow of guests and records
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  • Use of professional vocabulary
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  • Covers relational DBMS and current networking technologies
  • Comprehensive coverage of parallel databases, distributed DBMS architectures, mobile, object-oriented and object-relational databases.
  • Discussion of advanced transaction models and workflows, and random strategies for query optimization
  • A chapter devoted to data warehousing and data mining.
  • Case studies on the latest distributed database systems
  • Pedagogy includes chapter objectives and summaries, key definitions, examples, multiple choices and review questions.
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  • Real-World Focus: Management theories and concepts come to life via a real-world focus and application-heavy approach.
  • A Manager’s Dilemma: Every chapter opens with a Manager’s Dilemma. Students are asked to put themselves into the shoes of that manager and think about what they would do in that situation.
  • Meet the Managers: Chapter openers introduce the managers being featured throughout the text as they discuss their management styles and philosophies.
  • Your Turn to Be a Manager: This feature provides several activities that give students the chance to experience the challenges of management. Activities range from creating a code of ethics to designing an employee attitude survey.
  • Streamlined Chapter Material: The edition is written more succinctly to support the tight one-semester timeframe in which this course is taught, but preserves the quality that made the book a bestseller.
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  • Improved analysis of combinational circuits
  • Expanded coverage of the 555 timer in Chapter 5
  • Improved coverage of signed number in Chapter 6
  • Greater emphasis on the synchronous counters in Chapter 7
  • More thorough coverage of state machines, with a practical example of a functional system
  • Description of recent IC technology in Chapter 8
  • Revised and improved VHDL coverage
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  • Programming mistakes that compromise security: man-in-the-middle, timing, and privilege escalation attacks
  • Web application threats and vulnerabilities
  • Networks of compromised systems: bots, botnets, and drones
  • Rootkits--including the notorious Sony XCP
  • Wi-Fi network security challenges, standards, and techniques
  • New malicious code attacks, including false interfaces and keystroke loggers
  • Improving code quality: software engineering, testing, and liability approaches
  • Biometric authentication: capabilities and limitations
  • Using the Advanced Encryption System (AES) more effectively
  • Balancing dissemination with piracy control in music and other digital content
  • Countering new cryptanalytic attacks against RSA, DES, and SHA
  • Responding to the emergence of organized attacker groups pursuing profit
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  • Important concepts highlighted in boxes
  • Occasional point-wise organization to facilitate readability and easy comprehension
  • Examples from Indian culture that students can connect with
  • A short list for further reading at the end of every chapter
  • Recent developments in critical theory, namely, Ecocriticism and Critical Race Studies, included
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  • Topical articles from the Financial Times illustrate how the subject is being discussed in the context of the wider business world.
  • NEW! A new chapter on service development offers up-to-date coverage of this popular subject.
  • NEW!Pause for thought questions integrated within the text, designed to help you reflect on what you have just read and to check your understanding.
  • NEW! Five major new case studies have been introduced - including eBay, Viagra, Innocent and Apple.
  • NEW! A colourful new design enlivens the text and makes the structure easy to follow.
  • A comprehensive set of web references at the end of each chapter guides the reader to further resources.
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  • Full-page overview for each chapter – Includes two applications to introduce each chapter (except the first introductory chapter)
  • End-of-chapter “Beyond the Basics” or “Further Topics” – Introduce more advanced methods, often including those used by MATLAB and other professionally developed software packages.
  • Chapter Wrap-Up – Includes a summary of the formulas for the basic methods presented in the chapter, suggestions for further reading, and several types of exercises.
  • Practice the Techniques problems – Present fairly straightforward problems that encourage “practice by hand” or verification of simple MATLAB programs.
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  • Comprehensive and up-to-date coverage includes the most recent research developments in the field.
  • Detailed worked examples and step-by-step calculations break down complex problems to help students master the concepts and required math.
  • A wide selection of homework problems allows students to develop their understanding and quantitative skills.
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  • New chapter on protein structure including more bioinformatics.
  • Extended chapter on drug design including more on chemoinformatics.
  • Expanded coverage of materials chemistry giving more examples.
  • Updated chapter on DFT.
  • Problems and answers specifically for graduate teaching
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  • Describes the field of parameter estimation based on time series data.
  • Provides a summary of principal approaches as well as a “roadmap” to use in the selection of an estimator.
  • Extends many of the results for real data/real parameters to complex data/complex parameters.
  • Summarizes as examples many of the important estimators used in practice.
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  • Extensive coverage of practical applications, including speech, communications and radar/sonar.
  • Comprehensive coverage of statistical decision theory, including deterministic and random signals.
  • Detailed specifications for building detectors.
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  • Techniques for diagnosis of mechanism not previously compiled from research literature.
  • An important bridge between fundamental studies and mechanisms in solution.
  • Key references from classic papers to the latest research literature.
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  • SI system of units used throughout the text
  • Over 200 worked-out examples, and questions and answers
  • Over 600 unsolved problems and exercises
  • Key words, chapter summaries and suggestions for further reading in each chapter to aid learning
  • Appendices on physical constants, conversion factors, SI units, and Coulomb’s Law
  • Answers to select problems at the end of the book
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  • Adds a new chapter on Ajax, and new projects on creating social bookmarking applications
  • Includes a new focus on security issues throughout the book, in addition to a new chapter on Web security
  • New coverage of features introduced in MySQL 5.1 and PHP 5.3, including namespaces and closure
  • Readers have consistently praised the book's clear, practical approach
  About the Authors
  Luke Welling is a lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He chooses to use Open Source software whenever practical and evangelizes the advantages of this approach as widely as possible. He has spoken to audiences in Australia, North America, and Europe about MySQL, PHP, and other Open Source topics. He has taught a wide variety of technical topics to university students and professionals, but he specializes in Internet-related topics. Laura Thomson is a lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. She has taught a wide variety of courses with a Web and Internet focus and is currently completing a Ph.D. in Web Mining. She speaks at conferences around the globe and has delivered training at organizations as diverse as Ericsson and Lonely Planet. Previously, Laura has worked for Telstra and the Boston Consulting Group. She holds a first-class honors degree in Computer Systems Engineering and a degree (with distinction) in Computer Science.Features
  
  • Mapped 100 per cent to the first year engineering curriculum of Kurukshetra University, Maharishi Dayanand University, Guru Jambeshwar University and Maharishi Markandeshwar University
  • Semiconductor devices included in this edition of the book make it extremely useful for 3rd semester students of Electronics and Communications Engineering from Kurukshetra University as well as Maharishi Markandeshwar University (MMU, Mullana)
  • A rich repository of solved problems given at the end of chapter
  • Detailed, step-by-step presentation of derivations
  • Clear illustrations for enhanced understanding
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  • For everyone concerned with agile testing: developers, testers, managers, customers, and other stakeholders
  • Covers every key issue: Values, practices, organizational and cultural challenges, collaboration, metrics, infrastructure, documentation, tools, and more
  • By two of the world's most experienced agile testing practitioners and consultants
  About the Authors
  Lisa Crispin is dedicated to helping agile teams and testers discover good ways to deliver the best possible product. She specializes in showing testers and agile teams how testers can add value and how to guide development with business-facing tests. Since 2003, she’s been a tester on a Scrum/XP team at ePlan Services, Inc., and frequently leads tutorials and workshops on agile testing at conferences. Lisa regularly contributes articles about agile testing to publications such as Better Software magazine, IEEE Software, and Methods and Tools. Lisa also coauthored Testing Extreme Programming (Addison-Wesley, 2002) with Tip House. Janet Gregory is the founder of DragonFire, Inc., an agile quality process consultancy and training firm. Her passion is helping teams build quality systems. Since 1998, she has worked as a coach and tester introducing agile practices into both large and small companies. Her focus is working with business users and testers to understand their role in agile projects. Janet is a frequent speaker at agile and testing software conferences, and she is a major contributor to the North American agile testing community.Features
  

  · More than 2,000 practice questions

  · Includes new topics of Marketing, Psychometrics and Computers

  · Strictly based on the syllabus and recent trends

  · Latest Solved question papers included

  · Practical tips on how to prepare for the exam

  · Comprehensive coverage of all topics

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  • Examines all of the key aspects of the banking and financial services industry, highlighting both global and Indian applications
  • Includes three new chapters to address contemporary issues, and provides revised and updated material in all the other chapters
  • Explains concepts through case studies on organisations such as Barclays Bank, Corporation Bank, South Indian Bank, and the State Bank of India
  • Includes pedagogical features such as chapter objectives, chapter-end summaries, chapter-end questions, solved problems, illustrations, additional topics for further research, and boxes that present examples and cases
  • Provides numerous Indian examples from companies such as HSBC, ICICI, LIC and GIC
  About the Authors
  Padmalatha Suresh is an alumnus of the IIM Ahmedabad. She is Adjunct Faculty at IIM Kozhikode and visiting faculty at IIM Indore. She also holds an LLB and CAIIB. She has more than two decades of industry experience at senior levels, primarily in banking, and briefly in the IT sector. Her long exposure to the banking sector has enabled her to evaluate banking and financing strategies, risk entailments and options for redressing them as also commentate on banking, in general, and infrastructure finance, in particular. She is an independent finance consultant and Director, DMS Financial Services Pvt. Ltd, a firm specializing in strategic financial consultancy, outsourcing of financial services, corporate training and recruitment in the finance area. She is a visiting/ adjunct professor of finance at the IIMs and other reputed B-Schools, where she teaches the courses on Bank Management and Infrastructure financing. She also teaches at Executive and Management Development Programs. She has edited a popular professional reference book titled Project Finance - Concepts and Applications. Her several articles on banking and infrastructure financing have been published in popular business dailies, magazines, and refereed journals in India and abroad. Her views / interviews on banking and infrastructure financing issues have been published in leading business magazines. Prof Justin Paul is with Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan and Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi (under the Ministry of Commerce). He has served as Department chairperson at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) and has also taught full courses at Grenoble Eco le De Management- France, ISM University-Lithuania (Europe). He has been a visiting professor at University of Washington M.Foster Business School, University of Puget Sound-Seattle, St.Martin`s University-USA, Meiji University-Tokyo, Goethe University-Germany and SP Jain Institute of Management, Dubai. He has been a speaker, trainer and consultant to many organizations including the governments and conducted corporate training programs in Oman, Mauritious, India, China and Japan. He has been as a Ph D examiner and director on the board of studies of institutes In addition to this book, he is known as author/co-author of books – Business Environment & International Marketing, Export-Import Management and International Business published by McGraw-Hill, Oxford University Press and PHI respectively. A consistent rank holder, he holds two masters degrees, two Post Graduate diplomas, an FDP-SS (Germany) and a doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. He has also received international awards for research papers and case studies instituted by American Society for Competitiveness, Emerald Publishers, Indian Banks Association and Association of Indian Management Scholars. He has hands-on experience of working with two commercial banks before joining academic world and has been recognised as role model and achiever by The Hindu, Manorama TV and Careers & Campuses magazine. He has published over 20 papers in international journals and presented papers at the conferences organized/hosted by University of San Francisco, Fudan University-Shanghai, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, University of Stirling-UK, Asian Academy of Management, Waseda University-Tokyo in the recent past. He has also undergone a case writing training program organized by London Business school. He has also served as Reviewer of research papers for Academy of International Business- USA, International Journal of Commerce and Business, International Journal of Bank Marketing and Management Review. He has widely traveled in over 50 countries. His website is www.drjustinpaul.com and contact email is profjust@gmail.comFeatures
  
  • Real Research features are real company vignettes that profile a wide range of businesses, big and small
  • Decision Research scenarios present a real-life marketing situation and ask the student to assume the role of a consultant and to recommend appropriate marketing research and management decisions.
  • Active Research features are short, integrated, and manager-oriented exercises in which students have the opportunity to do research on the Internet and play the role of a marketing researcher and a marketing manager
  • Experiential Research exercises allow students to act out the research concepts discussed in the chapter
  • Project Research uses a real-life project that covers all aspects of marketing research and is used as a running example throughout the book
  About the Authors
  Naresh K. Malhotra is Regents’ Professor, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology Satyabhushan Dash is Assistant Professor, Marketing Area, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow. Features
  
  • Complete information on all of the world's most important standards—For cellular, cordless telephone, and personal communications systems, including AMPS, ETACS, U.S. Digital Cellular, GSM, CDMA, DECT, WACS, CT-2, PDC, and CDPD.
  • All new end of chapter solved example problems—On topics ranging from cellular system design to networking.
  • Hundreds of figures, tables, and diagrams—With clear explanations of all major concepts.
  About the Authors
  

  Robert A. Baron is Wellington Professor of Management and Psychology at Rensselaer RPI. He received his PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Iowa (1968). Prof. Baron has held faculty appointments at Purdue, the Universities of Minnesota, Texas, South Carolina, Washington, Princeton University, and Oxford University. From 1979-1981 he served as Program Director for Social and Developmental Psychology at NSF. In 2001he was appointed as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow by the French Ministry of Research (Universite de Toulouse). Baron is a Fellow of APA and a Charter Fellow of APS. He has published more than one hundred articles and forty chapters, and is the author of 48 books in management and psychology. He holds three U.S. patents and was founder and CEO of IEP, Inc. (1993-2000). His current research interests focus on social and cognitive factors in entrepreneurship.

  Nyla R. Branscombe is Professor of Psychology at University of Kansas. She received her B.A. from York University in Toronto in 1980, a M.A. from the University of Western Ontario in 1982, and her Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1986. Professor Branscombe held a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign in 1987. In 1993 she was a Visiting Fellow at Free University of Amsterdam. She served as Associate Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin for three years, and presently serves as Associate Editor of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. Professor Branscombe has published more than one hundred articles and chapters in professional journals and edited volumes. In 1999, she was a recipient of the Otto Klienberg prize for research on Intercultural and International Relations from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. In 2004, she co-edited the volume, Collective Guilt: International Perspectives published by Cambridge University Press., and the 2007 volume Commemorating Brown: The Social Psychology of Racism and Discrimination, published by the American Psychological Association.

  Donn Byrne holds the rank of Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1958 from Stanford University and has held academic positions at the San Francisco State University, the University of Texas, and Purdue University as well as visiting professorships at the University of Hawaii and Stanford University. He was elected president of the Midwestern Psychological Association and of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. He headed the personality program at Texas, the social-personality programs at Purdue and Albany, and was chair of the psychology department at Albany. Professor Byrne is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and a Charter Fellow of the American Psychological Society. During his career, Professor Byrne has published over 150 articles in psychological journals, and twenty-nine of them have been republished in books of readings. He has authored or co-authored thirty-seven chapters in edited volumes, and fourteen books, including Psychology: An Introduction to a Behavioral Science, An Introduction to Personality, The Attraction Paradigm, and Exploring Human Sexuality.

  Gopa Bhardwaj is professor of Psychology at the University of Delhi. She received an M.A. (as gold medalist) from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in 1969, an M.Sc. in applied psychology from Aston University, UK in 1974, a Ph.D. in industrial psychology from BHU (1973). Professor Bhardwaj has also been a Commonwealth Fellow. She has held faculty appointments at BHU and the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, and guest faculty appointments at the School of Social Work, University of Delhi; Indian Institute of Technology Delhi; and Police Training Academy, Delhi among others. She has also been dFeatures
  Agile guru Mike Cohn delivers the most practical guide to starting fast with Agile, and succeeding for the long haul

  • Presents detailed, step-by-step guidance for 60+ tasks that can help software organizations become more agile
  • Thoroughly covers people, process, and product: everything from scaling Agile and using it in outsourced/offshored environments to overcoming resistance
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  • Many case studies, including Indian cases and examples, have been added.
  • Pedagogical tools like multiple choice questions, chapter objectives, and summaries have been added.
  • Information about Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) is covered in the chapter on quality by design.
  • Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is revised as per the fourth revision of FMEA manual by Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG).
  • Measurement Systems Analysis is added in the chapter on statistical process control.
  • Revised updates on quality standards like the ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 series, and other sector specific standards like TL 9000, have been included.
  • New concepts in performance measures like revised criteria for the Malcolm Baldrige Award, Balance Scorecard, etc. have been added.
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  • Every chapter begins with an introduction outlining the contents and objectives.
  • Conceptual understanding and problem-solving approaches are related beautifully.
  • Examples to follow fortify each concept and strengthened by reinforcement problems.
  • Problems in abundance are selected to reflect the real-time engineering applications.
  • Notations and interpretations are highly consistent so that understanding of
  • concepts is not tough.
  • Exercise problems with answers are provided for a self test.
  • New techniques have been introduced in Two-port networks so as to reduce the time consumption.
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  • A physical and intuitive approach has been used so that this engineering text book can be read by students with enthusiasm and interest.
  • A lot of emphasis is given to physical understanding of the various concepts so that a student can understand, formulate, and interpret the results of practical problems.
  • Each chapter is supported by reinforcement problems to allow the students to tighten further their grasp on understanding the subject.
  • Each chapter ends with a variety of homework problems to allow the students to test their understanding of the material covered in the text.
  • Examples, reinforcement problems and exercise problems are time tested. These problems have been used in class competitions as well as in class tests.
  • Text emphasizes on clarity of various concepts without sacrificing rigor and completeness. Systematically prepares a student to face competitive examinations like GATE, IES etc.
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  • Problem-solving techniques throughout each chapter to assist the reader in analyzing the circuits
  • Over 250 worked examples
  • A large number of exercise problems at the end of each chapter for self-review
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  • Simplified derivations of theorems.
  • Completeness in the explanations.
  • Emphasis on clarity without diluting the rigor.
  • Concepts are fortified with examples and illustrations.
  • Variety of exercise problems with answers.
  • Super-drill problems to showcase the real time concepts.
  • Chapter summary for quick review.
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  • The conventional writing style in the book conveys our objective of getting the reader involved with the material as a participant in the development, rather than a mute observer.
  • A self-contained presentation of DSP techniques that requires that only a minimum amount of calculus and advanced level topics involving complex numbers as prerequisites.
  • Each chapter begins with a brief introduction and ends with the summary of points. The actual concepts are sandwiched between them. This brings us to the memory a good old adage: tell them what you are going to tell them; tell them; tell them what you have told them.
  • A large number of worked examples and reinforcing problems are provided to learn, strengthens and master the abstract concepts.
  • Figures are drawn in abundance with clarity to illustrate the important concepts. Consistent notation is an indispensable part of accuracy; ambiguous notation leads to confusion. We have invested effort in developing a consistent notation throughout the book.
  • While explaining theoretical concepts, accuracy is of utmost importance. We therefore have avoided cutting corners but spent the necessary time and effort to provide accurate and detailed derivations.
  • Organized procedures for digital filter design. Designs are verified by checking the given frequency-domain specifications.
  • Answers are provided to all the exercise problems at the end of the chapter.
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  • Multiple Perspectives: Systems are viewed from both the architectural (attributes of a system visible to a machine language programmer) and organizational (operational units and their interconnections that realize the architecture) perspectives to give students context.
  • Unified Treatment of I/O: Provides full understanding of I/O functions and structures, including two important external interface examples: FireWire and InfiniBand.
  • Focus on RISC: Students gain a broad understanding of this technology, found in virtually all contemporary machines.
  • Parallel Processors: Exceptionally clear, well-organized treatment of symmetric multiprocessors (SMP), clusters, and NUMA systems.
  • Running Case Studies: Case studies of Intel x86 and embedded ARM architectures supplement and explain material.
  • Microprogrammed Implementation: This technology is given a full treatment, so students gain a complete understanding of processor organization.
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  • Computer applications (Primavera and MS Project) used to explain planning, scheduling, resource leveling, monitoring and reporting.
  • Highly illustrated with line diagrams, cash-flow diagrams, bar diagrams, line graphs to make the book interactive and easy to understand.
  • Pedagogy includes solved examples, and chapter-end exercises comprising both descriptive and non-descriptive questions.
  • Real life examples from sites of Delhi Metro construction, Delhi International Airport construction and many more.
  • Case studies on preparation of documents for ISO 9001:2000, construction disputes, accidents in the construction industry, and preparation of estimates for live projects.
  Features
  
  • Comprehensive coverage
  • Practical and applied approach
  • End of chapter exercises help test understanding
  • Numerous case-studies provide a ‘real-world’ context
  • New chapter introduces Artificial Intelligence
  • New four-part structure groups key themes with a consolidating and integrating final chapter
  • Even more case studies to put the theory into context and boost your understanding
  • Even more use of models for mechatronic systems
  • End of chapter exercises to help test your learning
  Features
  
  • Provides a broad survey of designing, implementing, managing, maintaining, training, and refining the user interface of interactive systems.
  • Describes practical techniques and research-supported design guidelines for effective interface designs
  • Covers both professional applications (e.g. CAD/CAM, air traffic control) and consumer examples (e.g. web services, e-government, mobile devices, cell phones, digital cameras, games, MP3 players).
  • Delivers informative introductions to development methodologies, evaluation techniques, and user-interface building tools.
  • Supported by an extensive array of current examples and figures illustrating good design principles and practices.
  • Includes dynamic, full-color presentation throughout.
  • Guides students who might be starting their first HCI design project
  • Accompanied by a Companion Website with additional practice opportunities and informational resources for both students and professors.
  • Written by Ben Shneiderman, a leader in the field of HCI and Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) at the University of Maryland at College Park. Co-authored by Catherine Plaisant, Associate Research Scientist and Associate Director of HCIL. Two new collaborators, Maxine Cohen and Steve Jacobs, bring unparalleled industry and academic experience, enhancing the book's usefulness in informing readers, clarifying opportunities, and inspiring excellence.
  About the Authors
  Ben Shneiderman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding Director (1983—2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil), and Member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and the Institute for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland at College Park. He is a Fellow of the ACM and AAAS and received the ACM CHI (Computer Human Interaction) Lifetime Achievement Award. His books, research papers, and frequent lectures have made him an international leader in this emerging discipline. For relaxation he likes biking, hiking, skiing, and travel. Catherine Plaisant is Associate Research Scientist at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. She earned a Doctorat d’Ingénieur degree in France in 1982 and has been conducting research in the field of human-computer interaction since then. In 1987, she joined Professor Shneiderman at the University of Maryland, where she has worked with students and members of the lab, throughout the growth of the field of human-computer interaction. Her research contributions range from focused interaction techniques to innovative visualizations validated with user studies to practical applications developed with industrial partners. Maxine S. Cohen is a Professor in the Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where she teaches graduate courses in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Before joining NSU, she worked at IBM in the User Centered Design department. Prior to IBM, she was a faculty member in the Computer Science department, in the Watson School of Engineering at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She has been teaching and working in the HCI field for over 20 years. She received a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Vermont, a M.S. (specialization Computer Science) and a Ph.D. (specialization Systems Science) from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Steven M. Jacobs recently retired from the aerospace industry and is now a lecturer at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona. He was formerly with Northrop Grumman Mission Systems in Carson, California. Mr. Jacobs managed engineers developing user interface and web applications software for various government and commercial applications. He was also Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California for 17 years, where he developed and taught their graduate computer science courses in user interface design and human performance engineering. He has also taught short courses in similar topics for UCLA Extension and ACM. He received his M.S.C.S. from UCLA, B.A. in Mathematics from Monmouth University (N.J.).Features
  
  • Eleven new chapters: The second edition comprises 18 chapters with revised and expanded coverage on the latest techniques and practices followed in total quality management.
  • Balanced coverage of the manufacturing and service sectors: The manufacturing and service sectors have been covered in greater detail by showcasing real-world practices from the Indian scenario.
  • New chapters on Six Sigma and TPM: Completely new chapters on Six Sigma and TPM discuss the most recent trends and practices in total quality management.
  • Eighteen new case studies: Eighteen end-of-chapter case studies drawn from diverse sectors reflect current thinking and practice.
  • Comprehensive supplement package: A complete supplement package comprising an instructors’ manual, PowerPoint lecture slides and multiple-choice questions support interactive teaching and learning.
  Features
  
  • SI units used throughout
  • Includes all major developments in single-mode fibers
  • Contains a wealth of worked examples, problems and exercises
  • Has broadest coverage of optical amplifiers and optic devices
  • Coverage of advanced systems and techniques
  • Extensive references throughout the text
  • Worked examples illustrate applications
  • Coverage of op amps and soliton systems
  • Updated and expanded coverage of optical networks
  Features
  
  • Excellent pedagogy – multiple-choice questions, true/false questions, review questions and practice problems
  • Exclusive chapters on databases, multimedia, internet services and computer security
  • Includes topics on sixth generation computers, USB, zip disk, notebook computers etc
  • New terminology checklist at the end of each chapter
  • Introductory coverage in Windows 7
  • Detailed discussion on MS Office 2007 tools like Word, Excel, PowerPoint
  Features
  
  • Concepts explained through a easy and step-by-step approach
  • Innumerable examples from both the IT and non-IT sectors
  • More than 500 practical questions following the PMP® exam pattern
  • Tips and tricks on the PMP® Certification exam
  • PowerPoint presentation for each chapter
  • PMP® Watch—snippets of information throughout the book—highlight important points
  Features
  
  • This textbook offers broad coverage of the subject of power electronics.
  • Each topic is developed in sufficient depth to expose the fundamental principles, concepts, techniques, methods, and circuits necessary to understand power electronic systems.
  Features
  
  • Uses Limit State Design principles
  • Latest BIS Codes: IS: 800: 2007
  • Detailed coverage of Design of structures for fatigue, Light Gauge Steel Sections and Composite Construction.
  • Right blend of theory with relevant applications wherever appropriate
  • Good pedagogical Features – includes a wide variety of solved and unsolved problems
  Features
  
  • Comprehensive treatment of user authentication and access control.
  • Unified approach to intrusion detection and firewalls – Gives students a solid understanding of the threats and countermeasures.
  • More detailed coverage of software security than other texts – Provides sufficient material on an issue vital to a complete computer security strategy.
  • Exploration of management issues – Asserts that "soft" issues are just as important as technical defenses in computer security.
  • Systematic, comprehensive discussion of malicious software and denial of service attacks (the major threats to computer systems).
  • Coverage of Linux and Windows Vista – Addresses the most widely used operating systems.
  Features
  
  • A completely new chapter on macroeconomics and business cycles has been included
  • An Indian perspective has been presented through examples and case studies. The merger and acquisition concept has been highlighted through recent cases such as the ArcelorMittal and the Sahara–Jet Airways mergers, and Tata Motors’ acquisition of JLR
  • Exercises have been designed to give students a hands-on experience in managerial economic
  • An additional section on productivity in the services sector has been included in addition to a new topic on the Loss Leadership Model
  About the Authors
  Paul G. Keat is an Associate Professor Emeritus and has been a member of the Global Business Faculty at Thunderbird School of Global Management. Philip K. Y. Young is the founder and president of Nth Degree Systems, Inc., and is also a member of the global faculty network of Duke Corporate Education. Sreejata Banerjee is an associate professor for the Union Bank Chair for Excellence in Banking at the Madras School of Economics, Chennai.Features
  
  • Brand new chapter on Electrical Energy Systems including a detailed examination of renewable energy sources
  • Updated and extended coverage in key areas such as Op-Amps; Induction Motors; and Fibreoptics
  • Even more exercises and examples added to enhance problem solving skills
  Features
  
  • Adorable Characters Aladini, Anjali and Aryan introduce the topics that will be learnt in each chapter
  • Quick Questions and Check Your Progress questions interspersed with the text for quick self-testing help in the formative assessment
  • Quick Fact provides interesting tidbits of information related to the topic at hand
  • Quick Tip presents useful alternative options/shortcuts for performing operations
  • Recap Time at the end of each chapter for quick and easy recapitulation
  • Assessment Time contains carefully graded exercises to test the knowledge of concepts learnt. Besides, these can also be used for summative assessment.
  • Activity Time for practical hands-on exercises to strengthen the understanding and to hone computer skills
  • Notes for the Teacher contain suggestions on how to introduce the various topics
  • Project Work, sample Olympiad Questions and Tech Terms have been included
  • Free Poster for classes 1 and 2
  Features
  
  • Exposition of the basic concepts in each of the three areas
  • Methods and strategies to develop critical thinking, writing and presentation skills
  • Discussion of the standards and benefits of critical thinking, and barriers to it
  • Examination of various research resources for academic writing and ways to use them
  • Strategies for active and alert reading
  • Methods for connecting reading and writing
  • Techniques of developing good essays
  • Guidelines on writing mechanics and punctuation problems
  • Basic language skills for accuracy in writing
  • Numerous practice exercises, and guidelines for writing formal letters, CVs, seminar papers and project reports
  • Techniques and soft skills for making effective presentations
  About the Authors
  Marilyn Anderson teaches at the El Camino College in the United States Pramod K. Nayar teaches English at the University of Hyderabad. Madhucchanda Sen teaches philosophy at Rabindra Bharati University at Kolkata.Features
  
  • Core Fundamentals are presented without being intermingled with advanced or peripheral topics
  • Chapter 12 provides optional coverage of IC technology (inside-the-chip circuitry)
  • Introduction and objectives are at the beginning of each section within a chapter
  • Check up exercises conclude each section of a chapter
  • Each worked example has a Related Problem
  • Summaries at the end of each chapter aid in recapitulation.
  • Multiple-choice self-test at the end of each chapter
  • Coverage of CMOS and bipolar IC technologies
  • The System Application Activities (formerly Digital System Applications) have been thoroughly revised.
  • More end-of-chapter problems
  • A true/false quiz at the end of every chapter
  • Boolean simplification coverage now includes the Quine-McClusky method in an appendix
  • Coverage of the cyclic redundancy code (CRC)
  • Introduction to multi-core processors
  Features
  
  • Authored top Java architect Mark Cade, the lead developer and assessor for Sun's new SCEA exam - the exam covered in this book
  • Covers every exam objective in detail, with challenging sample questions designed to fully prepare candidates for the actual exam
  • Doesn't just tell readers why the right answer is right: tells them why the wrong answers are wrong, too
  About the Authors
  Mark Cade is a lead developer and assessor of the SCEA exam covered in this book. He worked at the Sun Microsystems Java Center as a Senior Java Architect, where he has extensive experience creating architectures for Java EE solutions for Fortune 500 companies. He has more than 20 years of experience as a software engineer. Humphrey Sheil is a lead developer and assessor for the SCEA exam covered in this book. With a background specializing in enterprise architecture and integration in the United States and Europe, he holds a M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science from University College Dublin. He is currently the CTO at Comtec Group.Features
  
  • Shows how to write better Object Oriented code and how to use Mock Objects and TDD to guide Object-Oriented design
  • Directs the programmer to think about the design of code from its intended use, rather than from its implementation
  • Mock Objects can be used with Java, C#, Ruby, Python, and Javascript applications
  About the Authors
  Steve Freeman is an independent consultant specializing in Agile software development. A founder member of the London Extreme Tuesday Club, he was chair of the first XPDay and is a frequent organizer and presenter at international conferences. Steve has worked in a variety of organizations, from writing shrink-wrap software for IBM, to prototyping for major research laboratories. Steve has a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, and degrees in statistics and music. Steve is based in London, UK. Nat Pryce has worked as a programmer, architect, trainer, and consultant in a variety of industries, including sports reportage, marketing communications, retail, telecoms, and finance. With a Ph.D. from Imperial College London, he has also worked on research projects and does occasional university teaching. An early adopter of Extreme Programming, he has written or contributed to several open source libraries that support Test Driven Development. He was one of the founding organizers of the London XPDay and regularly presents at international conferences. Nat is based in London, UK.Features
  
  • Fully reflects the major changes in the new 2009 CISSP exam
  • Designed to help candidates rapidly assess where they stand - and quickly master what they need to learn
  • Includes test-taking strategies, time-saving tips, Exam Notes, and two sample exams delivered by the state-of-the-art MeasureUp test engine
  Features
  
  • Updated classic adds topics such as Web accessibility, Web standards, search engine optimization, and Web applications.
  • Author Steve Krug is a respected usability consultant whose client list includes Apple, Netscape, AOL, Lexus, and more.
  • Common-sense advice, wry sense of humor, and profuse illustrations make for a highly readable introduction to the principles of good Web design.
  Features
  
  • NEW – The Evidence-Based HR feature presents examples of how managers work on the basis of facts and evidence
  • NEW – The Managing HR in Challenging Times feature illustrates the skills managers need to manage human resources in challenging times
  • NEW – Chapter 18, “Managing Human Resources in Entrepreneurial Firms”, contains special topics that will be useful while managing human resources in smaller firms
  • NEW – The HR Apps 4 U feature illustrates how managers use mobile devices to support their HR activities
  • NEW – Vignettes, examples, and cases from India—such as DMRC, NIIT, HPCL, Aravind Eye Care System, SBI, and Thomas Cook (India) Ltd.—that discuss various aspects of human resource management
  • Practical applications that can be used to understand and apply strategic human resource management
  Features
  
  • A CD-ROM containing MS Excel and Minitab data file for all the problems presented in the book.
  • Research in Action confers the readers with the ability to link concepts in the chapter with the real time practices of the industry.
  • The inclusion of Indian case studies provides a relatable and comprehendible platform for the students to apply in actual industrial situations.
  • Multivariate analysis computation difficulties are minimized by implementing solutions through software’s.
  • Extensive use of explanatory dialog boxes reinforces critical concepts providing simple descriptions for complex theories.
  Features
  
  • All chapter begin by highlighting dynamic companies and their leaders who make the strategic decisions
  • Nineteen cases of top Indian companies included at the end of the book
  • Indian examples in chapter inserts provide students with the strategic approach adopted by these companies
  • With the interactive feature How Would You Do That, students have a chance to place themselves into role of a strategic decision maker at a well-known company
  About the Authors
  Mason A. Carpenter is from University of Wisconsin–Madison
  
  Wm. Gerard Sanders is from Brigham Young University
  
  Prashant Salwan is from Indian Institute of Management, Indore.Features
  
  • Bill Wagner presents 50 high-performance C# 4.0 shortcuts and tricks developers can't find in any class or any other C# publication
  • Leading-edge techniques leveraging everything from LINQ and generics to C# 4.0's new dynamic features
  • Targeted to publish at or near the release date of Microsoft's eagerly anticipated C# 4.0 - completely revamps a book originally written for C# 1.x
  About the Authors
  Abhijit Kundu teaches Sociology at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi.
  
  Pramod K. Nayar teaches English at the University of Hyderabad.Features
  
  • In-depth coverage of single area and two-area load frequency control
  • Exclusive chapter modelling of turbine, generators and automatic controllers
  • Precise explanation supported by suitable examples
  • The book is replete with objective questions and review questions
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  • In-depth coverage of
  • Symmetrical fault analysis and unbalanced fault analysis
  • Exclusive chapters on power flow studies
  • A comprehensive chapter on transient stability
  • Precise explanation supported by suitable examples
  • The book is replete with objective questions and review questions
  Features
  
  • Guide to Managerial Communication is a clear, concise, practical text for effective written and oral communication in a managerial, business, government, or professional context. The Eighth Edition adds contemporary content throughout.
  • Brief—The author summarizes key ideas from thousands of pages of text and research. Bulky examples, cases, footnotes, and exercises have been omitted.
  • Professional—Information is provided that professionals will find useful; unlike other books, it is not aimed at first-year college students.
  • Readable—The author’s tone is direct, matter-of-fact, and nontheoretical. Material is presented in a clear and practical manner, in a format that is easy to read and to skim.
  Features
  
  • Getting straight to the point: The brevity of this text is designed to help the reader take in only necessary information, and to quickly ready themselves for crystal-clear, powerful presentations.
  • Presenting the essentials—this book is separated into two parts, in which the first half is dedicated to establishing the concepts, and the second half explains how students can put their knowledge into practice. Making it easy for you to combine this text with additional guides: Prentice Hall/Pearson offers “value packs” which would allow you to combine Guide to Presentations with any other book in the “Guide To” series. So, if you would like to teach any of the following topics in more detail, consider adding any of the following books:Features
    All the CCNP® ROUTE commands network professionals need to master, in one compact, portable, easy-to-use quick reference
    • Fast, authoritative Cisco IP routing command review that maps directly to the newest (2009) CCNP ROUTE exam
    • Includes realistic configuration examples, network diagrams, and command outputs: all readers need to understand the "how" and "why" of essential ROUTE commands
    • Convenient, lightweight, and friendly: lets readers study without a huge textbook or a live Internet connection
    About the Authors
    Scott Empson is the associate chair of the Bachelor of Applied Information Systems Technology degree program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where he teaches Cisco routing, switching, and network design courses in a variety of different programs—certificate, diploma, and applied degree—at the postsecondary level. Scott also is the program coordinator of the Cisco Networking Academy Program at NAIT, a Regional Academy covering central and northern Alberta. He has earned three undergraduate degrees: a bachelor of arts, with a major in English; a bachelor of education, again with a major in English/language arts; and a bachelor of applied information systems technology, with a major in network management. Scott currently is completing his master of education from the University of Portland. He holds several industry certifications, including CCNP, CCAI, Network+, and C|EH. Prior to instructing at NAIT, he was a junior/senior high school English/language arts/computer science teacher at different schools throughout Northern Alberta. Scott lives in Edmonton, Alberta, with his wife, Trina, and two children, Zachariah and Shaelyn.
    
    Hans Roth is an instructor in the Electrical Engineering Technology department at Red River College in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Hans has been with the college for 13 years and teaches in both the engineering technology and IT areas. He has been with the Cisco Networking Academy since 2000, teaching CCNP curricula. Previous to teaching, Hans spent 15 years in R&D/product development designing microcontroller-based control systems for consumer products as well as for the automotive and agricultural industries.Features
    All the CCNP® SWITCH commands network professionals need to master, in one compact, portable, easy-to-use quick reference
    • Fast, authoritative Cisco switching command review that maps directly to the newest (2009) CCNP SWITCH exam
    • Includes realistic configuration examples, network diagrams, and command outputs: all readers need to understand the "how" and "why" of essential SWITCH commands
    • Convenient, lightweight, and friendly: lets readers study without a huge textbook or a live Internet connection
    About the Authors
    Scott Empson is the associate chair of the Bachelor of Applied Information Systems Technology degree program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where he teaches Cisco routing, switching, and network design courses in a variety of different programs—certificate, diploma, and applied degree—at the postsecondary level. Scott is also the program coordinator of the Cisco Networking Academy Program at NAIT, a Regional Academy covering central and northern Alberta. He has earned three undergraduate degrees: a Bachelor of Arts, with a major in English; a Bachelor of Education, again with a major in English/Language Arts; and a Bachelor of Applied Information Systems Technology, with a major in Network Management. Scott is currently completing his Master of Education from the University of Portland. He holds several industry certifications, including CCNP, CCAI, Network+, and C|EH. Prior to instructing at NAIT, he was a junior/senior high school English/Language Arts/Computer Science teacher at different schools throughout Northern Alberta. Scott lives in Edmonton, Alberta, with his wife, Trina, and two children, Zachariah and Shaelyn.
    
    Hans Roth is an instructor in the electrical engineering technology department at Red River College in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Hans has been with the college for 13 years and teaches in both the engineering technology and IT areas. He has been with the Cisco Networking Academy since 2000, teaching CCNP curricula. Previous to teaching, Hans spent 15 years in R&D/product development designing microcontroller-based control systems for consumer products as well as for the automotive and agricultural industries.Features
    
    • Adorable Characters Aladini, Anjali and Aryan introduce the topics that will be learnt in each chapter
    • Quick Questions and Check Your Progress questions interspersed with the text for quick self-testing help in the formative assessment
    • Quick Fact provides interesting tidbits of information related to the topic at hand
    • Quick Tip presents useful alternative options/shortcuts for performing operations
    • Recap Time at the end of each chapter for quick and easy recapitulation
    • Assessment Time contains carefully graded exercises to test the knowledge of concepts learnt. Besides, these can also be used for summative assessment.
    • Activity Time for practical hands-on exercises to strengthen the understanding and to hone computer skills
    • Notes for the Teacher contain suggestions on how to introduce the various topics
    • Project Work, sample Olympiad Questions and Tech Terms have been included
    • Free Poster for classes 1 and 2
    Features
    The first comprehensive guide to deploying, customizing, securing, and extending Google Apps in any organization
    • Say goodbye to old-fashioned "shrinkwrapped" software: use Google Apps, and save a fortune!
    • Covers gmail, IM, Calendar, Chat, Contacts, Google Docs office productivity software, and much more
    • Brings together brand-new information on successfully implementing Google Apps - as well as information currently scattered across the Internet in hundreds of locations
    Features
    Everything telecom engineers need to know to successfully plan, design, and architect IP-based mobile networks
    • Offers essential technical knowledge about IP's current and evolving roles in mobile networking
    • Guides engineers in applying IP design theory to the unique challenges of mobile networking
    • Previews emerging trends and standards in IP-based mobility, offering indispensable guidance for preparing network evolution plans
    • For engineers at all levels, from junior to CTO
    About the Authors
    Mark Grayson is a Distinguished Consulting Engineer at Cisco with responsibility for leading its mobile architecture strategy. He has more than 15 years of experience in the wireless industry. He holds a first-class honors degree in electronics and communications engineering from the University of Birmingham (England) together with a Ph.D in radio communications and has been granted more than 50 patents in the area of mobile communications.
    
    Kevin Shatzkamer is a Customer Solutions Architect at Cisco with responsibility for long-term strategy and architectural evolution of mobile wireless networks. He has worked at Cisco and in the mobile wireless industry for nine years, focusing on various technologies ranging from GSM/UMTS to CDMA networks, packet gateway, networkbased services and security, video distribution, Quality of Service, and end-to-end design theory. Kevin has 16 pending patents related to all areas of work. Kevin holds a bachelor’s in engineering from the University of Florida and a master’s of business administration from Indiana University.
    
    Scott Wainner is a Distinguished Systems Engineer at Cisco, providing design and consulting support for the major U.S. service providers and enterprises. He joined Cisco in 1999 and has led the architectural development of next-generation IP/MPLS services while applying his innovative efforts toward the development VPN technologies and virtualized services. Scott consults with providers in the development of managed services while guiding Cisco in the development of critical IP technologies, such as session-border controllers, virtual private networks, and multimedia distribution systems. His latest development efforts have focused on group-encrypted security architectures for broadcast/multicast content and network virtualization for the enterprise VPN. Scott has most recently started architectural development of integrated services using IP Multimedia Systems. Prior to joining Cisco, Scott was the Director of Product Development at Qwest and Engineering Manager of Global IP Services at Sprint/GlobalOne. He has been active in the networking industry for more than 23 years, including participation in the IETF and IEEE.Features
    
    • The book's Web site (www.jmhartsoftware.com) contains downloadable Examples file with complete code and projects for all the book’s examples a number of exercise solutions, alternative implemeaitons, instructions, and performance evaluation tests.
    • Website will contain book errata, along with additional examples, reader contributions, additional explanations and much more
    • Website will contain PowerPoint slides for professional training and college courses
    • Includes extensive new coverage of Win64, parallelism, multicore system performance, source code portability, .NET coexistence, security, benchmarking, and much more
    • Updated, streamlined code examples reflect today's most effective Windows programming techniquesFeatures
      
    • Authored by a well-known member of the Linux kernel development team with a reputation for a highly readable and focused writing style
    • Updated and improved coverage of all the major subsystems and features of the latest version of the Linux 2.6.xx kernel, with new coverage of kernel data structures
    • Allows developers to learn how to modify and enhance kernel code by providing examples based on real kernel code
    • Details on interrupt handlers and bottom halves
    • Extended coverage of virtual memory and memory allocation
    • Information on debugging kernel code
    • Examples of kernel synchronization and timers
    • Useful insight into submitting kernel patches and working with the Linux kernel communityFeatures
      A practical reference to building applications with MVC (Model View Controller), a dramatic new model for building web apps in ASP.NET
      • Build enterprise-scale web applications far more rapidly and effectively
      • Develop web applications that are easier to maintain and extend over time
      • Gain unprecedented control over the appearance of your website or application
      • Expose intuitive URLs that are friendlier to search engines and users alike
      • Create ASP.NET MVC models that contain all your application’s business, validation, and data access logic
      • Make the most of HTML helpers, model binders, action filters, routing, and authentication
      • Efficiently deploy your ASP.NET MVC applications
      • Use the lightweight JQuery JavaScript library to easily find and manipulate HTML elements
      • Create ASP.NET MVC applications using unit test and mock object framework
      Features
      
      • Well balanced with right mix of mathematical validity and practical applicability
      • Illustrative approach to demonstrate test designing by applying the mathematical concepts in a systematic manner
      • Step-by-Step approach to illustrate real world applications
      Features
      
      • An integrative approach–explains the role of marketing in the hospitality operation—focusing on the how and why of everyone's role in marketing.
      • Coverage of more key topics–such as internal marketing, destination marketing and public relations.
      • Chapter-opening mini-cases–describe how an actual hospitality and travel company has successfully applied marketing.
      • An international focus–reflects the global nature of the industry.
      Features
      

      • This compendium describes the next generation IT architecture addresses the needs of Building Tomorrow's enterprise.

      • This also describes that forms the backbone of the enterprise to protect the future from changes.

      About the Authors
      

      Subrahmanya S.V. is VP and Research Fellow at, E&R. He has authored three books and published several papers at international conferences. He has a granted patent from USPTO. He has 23 + years of experience in the Industry and academia.

      Lakshmanan G. is an educator and mentor in IT architecture with the Education and Research group. With more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry, he nurtures a vibrant community of architects at Infosys. Prior to this, he was Head of Engineering, SaaS Practice and Head of Infosys EMEA Architecture Practice.

      Features
      
      • Presented in a question and answer format following the examination pattern
      • Covers all key topics in the syllabus
      • Designed to make learning fast and effective
      • Precise and up-to-date
      • Helps students excel in their examinations
      Features
      
      • Presented in a question and answer format following the examination pattern
      • Covers all key topics in the syllabus
      • Designed to make learning fast and effective
      • Precise and up-to-date
      • Helps students excel in their examinations
      Features
      

      • Analysis of the theory and practice of politics

      • Methods and models of political study

      • Illustration of how concepts apply to political systems across the world

      • Plenty of examples and cases from across the world

      • Questions at the end of each chapter

      About the Authors
      

      Hoveyda Abbas has studied Political Science in Jawaharlal Nehru University and written books on Indian Government and Politics (2010) and Political Theory (for Gauhati and Dibrugarh universities) (2011). He joined the Civil Services in 1997 and is currently Joint Advisor, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

      Ranjay Kumar is freelance consultant for Political Science.

      Features
      
      • This edition comes with powerful teaching and learning support:
        • Self-Assessment Library (S.A.L.), a hallmark of the Robbins series, is now part of mymanagementlab.
        • mymanagementlab, an easy-to-use online tool that personalizes course content and provides robust assessment and reporting to measure student and class performance, provided free with this edition!
      • Each chapter has a new opening vignette, reflecting current business and economic situations. HCL’s Employees First initiative; pay cuts during the economic downturn; and Unilever’s conflict with workers in Doom Dooma, Assam, are just a few examples.
      • A new addition to each chapter—Ethical Choice—provides advice for ethical situations that occur in organizations.
      • A new chapter—“Diversity in Organizations”—presents cutting-edge research on the topic.
      • The new Comprehensive Cases at the end of the book provide a more holistic, integrative, and evidence-based perspective.
      • Many of the end-of-chapter cases, Point/Counterpoint boxes, International OB boxes, and examples have been updated and/or changed in this edition to reflect current trends.
      About the Authors
      

      Stephen P. Robbins (Ph.D., University of Arizona) is professor emeritus of management at San Diego State University and the world's best-selling textbook author in the areas of management and organizational behavior. His books have sold more than five million copies, have been translated into 19 languages, and have adapted editions for Canada, Europe, Australia, South Africa, the Arab world, and India. Dr. Robbins is also the author of the best-selling The Truth About Managing People, 2nd ed. (Financial Times Press) and Decide and Conquer (Financial Times Press). Dr. Robbins' research interests have focused on conflict, power, and politics in organizations; behavioral decision making; and the development of interpersonal skills. In his "other life," Dr. Robbins actively participates in masters' track competition. Since turning 50 in 1993, he's won 21 national championships, 12 world titles, and set numerous U.S. and world age-group records at 60, 100, 200, and 400 meters. He was inducted into the U.S. Masters' Track and Field Hall of Fame in 2005.
      
      Dr. Timothy Judge received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also holds a master's degree from Illinois and an undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa. Previously, Dr. Judge was associate professor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, and the Stanley M. Howe Professor in Leadership in the College of Business Administration, University of Iowa. Dr. Judge's research interests are in the areas of personality and individual differences, leadership and influence behaviors, internal and external staffing, and job attitudes. Dr. Judge is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. In 1995, Judge received the Ernest J. McCormick Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and in 2001, he received the Larry L. Cummings Award for mid-career contributions from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management.
      
      Neharika Vohra received her Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She is Professor, OB Group, at IIM Ahmedabad, and has taught at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, and Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar. Dr. Vohra is associated with Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, Indian Psychological Abstracts and Reviews, and International Journal of Cross Cultural Management in various editorial capacities.
      
      Dr. Vohra’s research interests are in the areas of cross-cultural behavior, discipline development issues, gender issues in the workplace, change management, educational leadership, quality education for remote and rural populations, and performance improvement through people. She has published over 25 articles and research papers in several journals. She has been involved in the training of executives at various national and multinational corporations. Dr. Vohra has coordinated various training programs for small-scale industries located in Orissa in collaboration with Small Industries Development Bank of India.

      Features
      
      • NEW! Provide an insider’s perspective: Compensation in Action. The sixth edition contains a new feature, Compensation in Action, which appears at the end of every chapter. This feature provides clear and functional information that illustrates how line managers, employees, and compensation professionals interact to put compensation concepts into practice.
      • NEW! Spark discussion: Short end-of-chapter cases. Real-world compensation issues are highlighted in this text’s short end-of-chapter cases. These cases are accompanied by questions to facilitate class discussion, and can be used as homework assignments.
      • Supplemental short cases are also available to students on the text’s website. These cases also correspond with chapter material.
      • Even practitioners starting to work in compensation or current professionals will find Strategic Compensation a useful reference.
      • Updated! Keep cases current: The Building Strategic Compensation Systems casebook. Thoroughly revised to reflect current economic realities, the casebook also features new illustrations and screen captures from the accompanying software to help make concepts more accessible to students.
      Features
      
      • Introduction of management support systems (MSS) technologies.
      • BI and analytics for enterprise decision support.
      • Extensive supply chain and ERP coverage.
      • Comprehensive coverage of data warehousing.
      • Comprehensive coverage of knowledge-based decision support.
      • Organizational and societal impacts.
      • Detailed coverage of implementation and integration.
      Features
      
      • Presented in a question and answer format following the examination pattern
      • Covers all key topics in the syllabus
      • Designed to make learning fast and effective
      • Precise and up-to-date
      • Helps students excel in their examinations
      Features
      
      • Presented in a question and answer format following the examination pattern
      • Covers all key topics in the syllabus
      • Designed to make learning fast and effective
      • Precise and up-to-date
      • Helps students excel in their examinations
      Features
      
      • The last unit, "Emerging Issues in International Business", explores emerging aspects of international business, environmental issues in international business, global outsourcing and international entrepreneurship.
      • Two chapters, "Technology and Innovation" and "Alliances and Acquisitions", focus on the impact of technology on the global business environment, and the importance of alliances and acquisitions in international business, respectively.
      • 23 International Business in Action boxes, 20 Region Focus boxes, and 18 Industry Focus boxes in addition to learning objectives, margin notes, chapter summaries, and end-of-chapter review and application-oriented questions help students to thoroughly grasp the concepts discussed.
      • Updated data and tables from the WTO, UNCTAD, the IMF, and the RBI capture facts, figures and trends in international business in India and the world.
      • 23 end-of-chapter cases present real-world situations and problems that international firms face
      Features
      
      • Use of Sage to illustrate cryptographic algorithms.
      • Comprehensive up-to-date survey of cryptographic algorithms.
      • Complete coverage of authentication and digital signatures.
      • Unified, comprehensive treatment of mutual trust topics.
      • Excellent collection of homework problems
      Features
      
      • Covers the latest, key developments in software engineering. The core structure of the text is built around the key software engineering activities of specification, design, development, verification, validation, and management.
      • Two integrated, contrasting case studies flow through the text, continuously giving practical context and examples for topics discussed.
      • Management issues such as project planning are introduced early, allowing them to be used in a project-based course.
      • Significant coverage of requirements and architectural design emphasizes their importance in the overall SE process.
      • Graphical system models in standard UML.
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      • Presents straightforward “step by step” instructions in each analysis chapter to clarify procedures.
      • Hundreds of screen shots and “Step by Step” boxes guide the student through the program.
      • Exercises at the end of each chapter and selected answers on the website give students an opportunity to practice using SPSS.
      About the Authors
      Darren’s George academic background includes a B.A. from Pacific Union College (triple major of math, history, religion), an M.A. from California State University, Fullerton (Experimental Psychology) and a Ph.D. from UCLA (Personality and Social Psychology with a minor of Measurement and Psychometrics). He is a tenured professor of Psychology at Canadian University College in Lacombe, Alberta, Canada. His specialties include data analysis using SPSS software and marital compatibility. In the latter category Darren has co-authored a bestselling book with his wife Elizabeth on marital compatibility called The Compatibility Code. He is father of three adult children, Marcus an aerospace engineer; Melody, a film producer; and Robin, an animator with Rhythm and Hues. He was a nationally ranked runner in the ’70s (2:20:10 marathon) and is an avid trombonist and pianist.
      
      Dr. Paul Mallery joined the LSU faculty in 1993, and completed his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1994 in Social Psychology, with a minor in Political Psychology. His research focuses on intergroup relations, primarily social comparisons in intergroup settings, and prejudice. In addition to numerous conference presentations, he has co-authored two textbooks (published by Wadsworth and Allyn & Bacon) on the SPSS statistical package.
      
      Dr. Mallery is extremely engrossed with work and research. He has published an article in the Journal of Social Psychology entitled, "Controllability, Anger, Judgements and Valence of Attributions for Civil Unrest."Features
      
      • Includes a chapter on algorithm and design techniques that cover greedy algorithms, divide and conquer algorithms, dynamic programming, randomized algorithms and backtracking.
      • Presents current topics and newer data structures such as Fibonacci heaps, skew heaps binomial queues, skip lists and splay trees.
      • Contains a chapter on amortized analysis that examines the advanced data structures presented earlier in the book.
      • Provides a new chapter on advanced data structures and their implementation covering red black trees, top down splay trees, treaps, k-d tress, pairing heaps, and more.
      • Incorporates new results on the average case analysis of heap sort.
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      • It is expanded to include updated information on:
      • High election mobility transistor (HEMT)
      • Heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT)
      • n-Channel MOSFET (nMOS)
      • p-Channel MOSFET (pMOS)
      • Complementary-channel MOSFET (CMOS)
      • Logic Memories
      • Multicavity Klystrons
      • Infrared tubes
      • Striplines
      • MMICS
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      • Well-written and easy-to-follow.
      • Numerous worked-out examples.
      • Computer-aided design techniques and analysis using PC.
      • Chapter-end review questions and problems.
      • An examination of the characteristics of semiconductor devices
      Features
      
      • One of the best-selling Java books of all time, over 280,000 shipped in the US! (editions 3-7 combined)
      • Great code examples, comprehensive coverage, and clear explanations -- the book that MADE The Core Series
      • Java is now open source. This will bring many new programmers to Java
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      • Discussion of hardware and software components of graphics systems, as well as various applications.
      • Exploration of algorithms for creating and manipulating graphics displays, and techniques for implementing the algorithms.
      • Use of programming examples written in C to demonstrate the implementation and application of graphic algorithms.
      • Exploration of GL, PHIGS, PHIGS+, GKS and other graphics libraries.
      • In addition, this book Includes appendix containing detailed discussions on a variety of mathematical methods used in graphic algorithms such as analytic geomentry,linear algebra, vector and tensor manipulations, complex numbers, and numerical analysis.
      • The C version of this best seller can serve as a basic or supplemental text for undergraduate and graduate level courses. It is also used widely for professional self-study geared to the specific interests of the reader.
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      • Detailed step-by-step processes for service-oriented analysis and service-oriented design
      • An in-depth exploration of service-oriented as a distinct design paradigm, including a comparison to object-orientation
      • A comprehensive study of SOA support in .NET and J2EE development and run time platforms.
      • Descriptions of over a dozen key web services technologies and WS-* specifications, including a explanations of how they interrelate and how they are positioned within SOA.
      • The use of “In plain English” sections, which describe complex concepts through non-technical analogies.
      • Guidelines for service-oriented business modeling and the creation of specialized service abstraction layers.
      • A study contrasting past architectures with SOA and reviewing current industry influences.
      • Project planning and the comparison of different SOA delivery strategies.
      
      The goal of this book is to help you attain a solid understanding of what constitutes contemporary SOA along with step-by-step guidance for realizing its successful implementation.Features
      
      • Comprehensive coverage
      • Practical and applied approach
      • End of chapter exercises help test understanding
      • Numerous case-studies provide a ‘real-world’ context
      Features
      
      • Integration of higher data rates for GSM (HSCSD, GPRS)
      • New material on 3rd generation (3G) systems with in-depth discussion of UMTS/W-CDMA
      • Addition of the new WLAN standards for higher data rates: 802. 11a, b, g and HiperLAN2
      • Extension of Bluetooth coverage to include IEEE 802. 15, profiles and applications
      • Increased coverage of ad-hoc networking and wireless profiled TCP
      • Migration of WAP 1.x and i-mode towards WAP 2.0
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      • A significant number of end-of-chapter problems have been updated
      • The Verilog Hardware Description Language (HDL) has been updated and expanded to exploit key enhancements that were introduced in IEEE standards 1364-2001 and 1364-2005
      • The text introduces more graphical material to better serve learners oriented to graphical mediums. Karnaugh maps are, likewise, presented with additional graphics to facilitate understanding of their use
      • HDL material is presented at a level suitable for students learning digital circuits and a hardware description language at the same time
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      Accounting fundamentals with a hospitality management focus. • Emphasizes how accounting concepts and processes can be used as a hospitality, hotel or restaurant manager. An emphasis on learning core job responsibilities such as how to: • Analyze the P&L Statement • Prepare weekly forecasts • Develop budgets • Use actual management and financial reports • Understand the language of accounting and finance Use of hospitality examples, photographs, and reports–from actual hotels, restaurants and golf clubs. • Provides a meaningful context for students and applies questions to a specific propertyFeatures
      
      • Helps programmers rapidly climb the learning curve, maximize productivity, and handle today's most important development challenges
      • Contains new chapters on PCI Subsystem, Hotplug and UDEV, USB, and reducing boot time
      • Offers practical coverage of Flash-resident filesystem images, the Memory Technology Devices subsystem, and today's hot new multicore processors
      Features
      
      • Readable, intuitive, example-rich, and accurate: helps readers fully grasp the basics and quickly move on to sophisticated techniques
      • Includes extensive new coverage of FIR and IIR filter analysis, multirate processing, digital differentiators, integrators, matched filters, and much more
      • Now contains end-of-chapter problems to support college instruction and professional self-study
      Features
      
      • Presented in a question and answer format following the examination pattern
      • Covers all key topics in the syllabus
      • Designed to make learning fast and effective
      • Precise and up-to-date
      • Helps students excel in their examinations
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      • Concepts illustrated with a number of examples showing their practical implementation

      • The design of a compiler for mini C (a language like C) explained up to the code-generation stage, with the help of a project

      • Implementation issues for several modern popular programming languages such as Java, Perl, PROLOG and FORTH included

      • Compiler development tools such as YACC, Bison, LEX and Flex explained

      • GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), which is widely used by embedded system developers, discussed in detail Chapter-end glossary, suggestions for further reading and web resources provided to enhance students' learning experience

      About the Authors
      

      Parag H. Dave is Associate Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, at Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology (DDIT) at Nadiad, in Gujarat. He is also a recipient of Aryabhatt awards in Mathematics and Science.

      Himanshu B. Dave is Senior Consultant in charge of Training at e-Infochips Ltd, Ahmedabad. He has served as Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science, at DDIT, Nadiad. Earlier, he has taught computer engineering at IIT-Kharagpur, where he was also a Burmah-Shell Research Fellow.

      Features
      
      • In addition to important object-oriented features such as classes, objects, inheritance and polymorphism, covers interfaces, properties, indexers, delegates and events that are required for object-oriented component based software development.
      • Discusses the traditional OOP concepts through special concepts of C# in a graded manner.
      • Includes a number of end-of-chapter exercises to test your understanding.
      • Contains unsolved programs under Case Study for the reader to develop projects.
      About the Authors
      S. Thamarai Selvi is currently Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Government College of Engineering, Tirunelveli. She was awarded the Ph.D. degree (Computer Science and Engineering) for her thesis “BIONET: Development and Application of an Artificial Neural Network in the Diagnosis of Neck and Arm Pain” in April 2000. She has over 20 years teaching experience. She was Reader, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli for more than eight years. R. Murugesan is currently Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Thiruvalluvar College, Papanasam, Tamil Nadu. He has completed M.Sc., M.Phil. (Mathematics), MBA, M.Ed., PGDCA and PGDOR. He is currently doing research in Open Shop Scheduling.Features
      
      • 20 Most common laboratory experiments
      • 350 Review questions
      • 125 Solved problems
      • 280 MCQs
      • 152 Line Diagrams
      • 35 Tables
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      • Extensive real-life cases to substantiate the concepts.

      • Entrepreneurial check-lists to keep a tab on your progress.

      • Profiles of successful business people and their mantras for success.

      • Exercises and a series of questions to test your knowledge, analytical, thinking and application abilities.

      • Edition provides powerful teaching and learning insights.

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      • A comprehensive review of the work of all major school of thought
      • Lucid explanation of all the key terms to aid understanding
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      • Chapter objectives and an introduction at the beginning of all chapters allow students to clearly understand their learning goals.

      • Summary, review questions and critical appraisal at the end of every chapter, for the purpose of reinforcing what is learnt in the chapter.

      Features
      

      • Chapter objectives and an introduction at the beginning of all chapters allow students to clearly understand their learning goals.

      • Summary, review questions and critical appraisal at the end of every chapter, for the purpose of reinforcing what is learnt in the chapter.

      • An extensive list of recommended readings given at the end of the book.

      • A glossary of difficult words to aid students’ understanding.

      Features
      

      • Chapter objectives and an introduction at the beginning of all chapters allow students to clearly understand their learning goals.

      • Summary, review questions and critical appraisal at the end of every chapter, for the purpose of reinforcing what is learnt in the chapter.

      • An extensive list of recommended readings given at the end of the book.

      About the Authors
      

      Samir Dasgupta is Professor, Department of Sociology, Kalyani University.

      Paulomi Saha is visiting professor at Rabindra Bharati and Kalyani Mahavidyalaya.

      Features
      

      ·         The complex topic of reading Gandhi has been approached in a simple, student-friendly manner

      ·         Diagrams and photographs have been included to enrich the content

      • Several useful appendices on Gandhi’s life have been included for quick and easy reference
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      1. Reading Comprehension: Objective and Subjective Questions

      2. Vocabulary and glossary

      3. Grammar exercises that are graded

      4. Functional grammar based on practical situations that a nurse faces.

      5. Common problems of pronunciation and speaking skills have been addressed

      6. Writing skills based on the needs of the nurses have been addressed

      Features
      
      The official, comprehensive assessment, review, and practice guide for Cisco's latest CCDA DESGN exam -- direct from Cisco
       
      • Covers every new Cisco CCDA DESGN exam topic, including enterprise data center design, collaboration, WebEx, auditing, borderless networks, Enterprise Campus 3.0, CAPWAP, 802.11n, scalability, enterprise route redistribution, risk calculation, Ironport, and more
      • CD contains realistic practice tests
      • Extensive, proven features help students review efficiently and remember key details
      Features
      

      • Chapter objectives to give an overview of the chapter

      • Flowcharts and tables to aid learning

      • Chapter end review

      • Sample questions to test a students' understanding of the subject

      Features
      

      • Chapter objectives and an introduction at the beginning of all chapters allow students to clearly understand their learning goals.

      • Summary, review questions and critical appraisal at the end of every chapter, for the purpose of reinforcing what is learnt in the chapter.

      • An extensive list of recommended readings given at the end of the book.

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      • Excellent pedagogy

      o 312 subjective-type questions

      o 192 objective-type questions

      o Over 200 fully tested programs with outputs

      • Summary at the end of every chapter to strengthen the learning process

      • Wide variety of real-life problems to spur the learner's imagination and creativity

      • A complete simulation program on the game of Snakes and Ladders using object-oriented techniques

      • Programs discussed in the book are tested and compiled using g++ compiler

      New to the 2nd edition:

      • New chapters added to thoroughly explain templates and exception handling

      • More programs added to enhance user experience and understanding

      • New sections to detail the concepts of data abstraction, proxy classes and concrete classes

      • Understanding of input/output streams has been enhanced by addition of new topics such as manipulators, format states and error states

      About the Authors
      

      Dr. Mahesh Bhave has total 24 years teaching experience at at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI ) Mumbai. Retired voluntarily as Professor and Head Department of Computer Technology VJTI. Also acted as Vice Principal for more than a year. Has authored three text books on Computer Programming viz. Programming in Turbo Pascal, Computer Programming - Unix and C, Object Oriented Programming with C++. He has many publications to his credit. He is member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) and Computer Society of India (CSI).

      S. A. Patekar is currently Dean at the Vidyalankar Institute of Technology (VIT), Mumbai and formerly Professor and Head, Department of Computer Technology, Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), Mumbai. He is a Chartered Engineer, I.E. (I), and has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. He is the recipient of the Lord Reay Gold Medal and Sir Phirozeshah Silver Medal of VJTI. He was honored with the Indian Society for Technical Education National Award in 1992 and the Best Teacher Award by the Government of Maharashtra in 2007.

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      • Chapter objectives and an introduction at the beginning of all chapters allow students to clearly understand their learning goals.

      • Summary, review questions and critical appraisal at the end of every chapter, for the purpose of reinforcing what is learnt in the chapter.

      • An extensive list of recommended readings given at the end of the book.

      • A glossary of difficult words to aid students’ understanding.

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      • Chapter outlines to give an overview of the chapter

      • Modular questions to test a students’ understanding

      Features
      
      • Chapter outlines to give an overview of the chapter
      • Modular questions to test a students’ understanding
      Features
      
      • Chapter objectives and an introduction at the beginning of all chapters allow students to clearly understand their learning goals.
      • Summary, review questions and critical appraisal at the end of every chapter, for the purpose of reinforcing what is learnt in the chapter.  
      • An extensive list of recommended readings given at the end of the book.
      • A glossary of difficult words to aid students’ understanding.
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      • Extensive and exhaustive treatment of every fundamental topic

      • Questions at the end of each chapter for additional practice Reading list at the end of the book for further studies

      About the Authors
      

      Vidya Bhushan is the former Joint Director, Higher Education, Government of Haryana

      D.R. Sachdeva is a retired professor of public administration in Punjabi University, Patiala.

      Features
      
      • Written according to the latest pattern prescribed by UGC
      • Multiple choice questions, Long answer questions , short answer questions and Fill in the blanks
      • Simple and clear language used
      Features
      
      • Written according to the latest pattern prescribed by UGC
      • Multiple choice questions, Long answer questions , short answer questions, fill in the blanks
      • Student-friendly language
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      • Marginal notes, index and tables in the chapters of the book will aid comprehension

      • Fresh study is given in table format for every topic

      • Summary after every chapter for the purpose of reinforcement

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      1. Cover the entire Syllabus

      2. Follows the question-and-answer format

      3. Makes learning fast & effective

      4. Provide Precise and up-to-date information

      5. Helps students excel in their examinations

      Features
      

      1. Cover the entire Syllabus

      2. Follows the question-and-answer format

      3. Makes learning fast & effective

      4. Provide Precise and up-to-date information

      5. Helps students excel in their examinations

      Features
      

      • Chapter objectives and an introduction at the beginning of all chapters allow students to clearly understand their learning goals.

      • Summary, review questions and critical appraisal at the end of every chapter, for the purpose of reinforcing what is learnt in the chapter.

      • An extensive list of recommended readings given at the end of the book.

      • A glossary of difficult words to aid students’ understanding.

      Features
      

      • Chapter objectives and an introduction at the beginning of all chapters allow students to clearly understand their learning goals.

      • Summary, review questions and critical appraisal at the end of every chapter, for the purpose of reinforcing what is learnt in the chapter.

      • An extensive list of recommended readings given at the end of the book.

      About the Authors
      

      ITL Education Solutions Limited (ITL ESL) is a part of the ITL group, which has operations all over the world with a significant presence in education and IT-enabled services. It specializes in handling educational projects in IT domains with a dedicated R&D wing of industry experts that helps in designing and developing content.

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      • Over 150 illustrations to help the reader visualize complex relationships

      • 180 solved problems and 729 unsolved problems for practice

      • Answers to unsolved problems included

      Features
      
      • Chapter outlines to give an overview of the chapter
      • Modular questions to test a students’ understanding
      Features
      

      • Chapter outlines to give an overview of the chapter

      • Modular questions to test a students' understanding

      Features
      

      • A reader’s guide in the beginning serves the reader with an understanding of the scope of the chapter

      • Learning outcomes at the beginning of each chapter

      • Summary at the end of every chapter, for the purpose of reinforcing what is learnt in the chapter.

      • Several tables and examples to make each topic more comprehensible

      • An extensive list of suggested readings given at the end of the book.

      • A glossary of difficult words to aid students’ understanding.

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      • Pictorial representation for conceptual clarification
      • More than 1000 practical questions following the PMI-ACP exam pattern
      • 4 fully solved question papers following the PMI-ACP exam pattern
      • Tips and tricks on the PMI-ACP certification exam
      • PMI-ACPSM watch snippets highlighting important information
      • 400 important points for revision before taking the PMI-ACP exam
      About the Authors
      

      S. Chandramouli is a project management professional certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI), USA. He was an active member in PMI’s OPM3 and PMCDF project works. He is the recipient of the Most Valuable Player of the Year 2004 award from Birla Soft Management for his initiatives in the area of project management.

      Saikat Dutt is a project management professional certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI), USA, and a Certified Scrum Master. He has 14 years of IT industry experience, managing large-scale multi-location and mission-critical projects.

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      1. Following the revised pattern of Question Pattern of University of Mumbai.

      2. Multiple choice questions after each chapter to assist students in appearing for examinations

      3. Solved and un-solved case studies supporting concepts in every chapter

      4. Chapter-end review questions to help students test their knowledge of concepts

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      • News anchoring jargon explained under Important Terms

      • Examples from contemporary news items

      • Tips at the end of chapters giving additional practical advice for anchors Views and experiences of seasoned anchors

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      • Easy to understand language.

      • Covers the syllabus of important Indian universities.

      • Detailed coverage of important topics.

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      1. Cover the entire Syllabus

      2. Follows the question-and-answer format

      3. Makes learning fast & effective

      4. Provide Precise and up-to-date information

      5. Helps students excel in their examinations

      Features
      

      1. Cover the entire Syllabus

      2. Follows the question-and-answer format

      3. Makes learning fast & effective

      4. Provide Precise and up-to-date information

      5. Helps students excel in their examinations

      Features
      

      • Individual focus on the three key areas of algebra, arithmetic, geometry and higher mathematics

      • Ample practice questions

      • Solved examples provided

      • Wide range of questions and answers that have appeared in the past in various competitive exams.

      Features
      

      • Individual focus on the three key areas of algebra, arithmetic, geometry and higher mathematics

      • Ample practice questions

      • Solved examples provided

      • Wide range of questions and answers that have appeared in the past in various competitive exams.

      Features
      
      • Individual focus on the three key areas of algebra, arithmetic, geometry and higher mathematics
      • Ample practice questions
      • Solved examples provided
      • Wide range of questions and answers that have appeared in the past in various competitive exams.

       

      Features
      

      • Individual focus on the three key areas of algebra, arithmetic, geometry and higher mathematics

      • Ample practice questions

      • Solved examples provided

      • Wide range of questions and answers that have appeared in the past in various competitive exams.

      Features
      

      1. Cover the entire Syllabus

      2. Follows the question-and-answer format

      3. Makes learning fast & effective

      4. Provide Precise and up-to-date information

      5. Helps students excel in their examinations

      Features
      

      • Chapter objectives and an introduction at the beginning of all chapters allow students to clearly understand their learning goals.

      • Summary, review questions and critical appraisal at the end of every chapter, for the purpose of reinforcing what is learnt in the chapter.

      • An extensive list of recommended readings given at the end of the book.

      • A glossary of difficult words to aid students’ understanding.

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      • High on content - Special emphasis on areas where CAT asks most of the question from

      • Sequential learning strategy - Building the fundamentals practising upon quality questions Testing against the benchmark

      • Specially designed keeping in mind the requirements of Working Professionals - Crisp, Compact and Comprehensive.

      • Balanced emphasis among the sections and within the sections

      • More than 2000 fully solved quality questions

      • Last 7 years solved CAT papers

      • 3 Full Length Test Papers with indicative percentile list + 4 Section Tests

      • CD containing Review tests, Full Length Tests and Practice Exercises across the sections

      About the Authors
      

      Nishit Sinha is a post-graduate from IIM Lucknow. For the last 10 years, he has been training students for the CAT. Many of his students are now pass-out from premier B-Schools across the globe. He is also the author of widely praised books Pearson Guide to QADI for CAT, Pearson Guide to Verbal LR for CAT and Demystifying Number System. He is currently running Test prep organization dueNorth Academics, based at Dehradun.

      Features
      

      • High on content - Special emphasis on areas where CAT asks most of the question from

      • Sequential learning strategy - Building the fundamentals → practising upon quality questions → Testing against the benchmark

      • Specially designed keeping in mind the requirements of Working Professionals - Crisp, Compact and Comprehensive.

      • Balanced emphasis among the sections and within the sections

      • Last 7 years solved CAT papers

      • 3 Full Length Test Papers with indicative percentile list + 4 Section Tests

      • CD containing Review tests, Full Length Tests and Practice Exercises across the sections

      About the Authors
      

      Nishit Sinha is a post-graduate from IIM Lucknow. For the last 10 years, he has been training students for the CAT. Many of his students are now pass-out from premier B-Schools across the globe. He is also the author of widely praised books Pearson Guide to QADI for CAT, Pearson Guide to Verbal LR for CAT and Demystifying Number System. He is currently running Test prep organization dueNorth Academics, based at Dehradun.

      Features
      

      • High on content - Special emphasis on areas where CAT asks most of the question from

      • Sequential learning strategy - Building the fundamentals practising upon quality questions Testing against the benchmark

      • Specially designed keeping in mind the requirements of Working Professionals - Crisp, Compact and Comprehensive.

      • Balanced emphasis among the sections and within the sections

      • Last 7 years solved CAT papers

      • 3 Full Length Test Papers with indicative percentile list + 4 Section Tests

      • CD containing Review tests, Full Length Tests and Practice Exercises across the sections

      Features
      

      • Prepared by the experienced and highly qualified professionals (including graduates of IIT and IIM) of Triumphant Institute of Management Education, the leader in training students for CAT and other MBA entrance examinations

      • Comprehensive coverage of topics with a large number of illustrative examples

      • Three practice exercises, arranged in increasing order of difficulty level—easy, medium and difficult—to help students learn and progress in a gradual manner

      • Over 300 solved examples and 3400 questions for practice

      • Ten highly-quality practice test papers reflecting recent CAT papers

      • Link to two online AIMCATs by T.I.ME.

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      • Prepared by the experienced and highly qualified professionals (including graduates of IIT and IIM) of Triumphant Institute of Management Education, the leader in training students for CAT and other MBA entrance examinations

      • Comprehensive coverage of topics with a large number of illustrative examples

      • Ten highly-quality practice test papers reflecting recent CAT papers

      • Link to online AIMCATs by T.I.ME.

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      Introduction: Effective Leadership—An Overview.

      1. Leadership and Emotional Intelligence.

      2. Develop a Vision and Commit to Achieving It. 

      3. Project Unquestionable Integrity and Selflessness.

       4. Establish Credibility and Good Stewardship.

      5. Develop a Can-Do Attitude and Seek Responsibility.

      6. Develop Self-Discipline, Time Management, and Execution Skills.

      7. Be a Creative Problem Solver and Decision Maker.

      8. Be a Positive Change Agent. 

      9. Be an Effective Team Builder.

      10. Empower Followers to Lead Themselves.

      11. Be an Effective Conflict Manager and Consensus Builder.

      About the Authors
      

      David L. Goetsch CEO, Institute for Continental Improvement

      Daisy Chauhan Associate Professor, Management Development Institute

      S.P. Chauhan Professor, FORE school of Management

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      • For the first time in this book, the new Section 3.7 provides a comprehensive (math-free) framework of how the different LP algorithms (simplex, dual simplex, revised simplex, and interior point) are implemented in commercial codes (e.g., CPLEX and XPRESS) to provide the computational speed and accuracy needed to solve very large problems
      • The new Chapter 10 covers efficient heuristics/metaheristics designed to find good approximate solution for integer and combinatorial programming problems.
      • The new Chapter 11 is dedicated to the important traveling salesperson problem
      • All the algorithms in the new Chapters 10 and 11 are coded in Excel in a manner that permits convenient interactive experimentation with the models
      • Numerous new problems have been added throughout the book
      • The TORA software has been updated
      About the Authors
      

      Marvin Karlins, University of South Florida,

      Ashok Kapoor, MDI, Gurgaon

      About the Authors
      

      JUAN R. ABASCAL, PH.D. Associate Dean

      School of Natural and Social Sciences

      Miami-Dade Community College

      MindWorks, Int., Inc.

      DOMINIC BRUCATO, PH.D.

      Assistant Professor

      Psychology Department Miami-Dade Community College

      MindWorks, Int., Inc.

      LAUREL BRUCATO, PH.D.

      Adjunct Professor

      Miami-Date Community College

      MindWorks, Int., Inc.

      DAISY CHAUHAN

      Assistant Professor

      Management Development Institute

      Gurgaon

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      • The language used is lucid and can be easily understood by the students.

      • Maps have been provided wherever required.

      • Answers to the questions are to the point covering all the major arguments.

      • The book strictly adheres to the syllabus of semester II of B.A. Programme course.

      • Sources have been mentioned in details including the recent archaeological findings.

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      How to become an authentic, effective "social business" - and stay that way!

      •Proven solutions for the real people, process, and technology obstacles businesses face in using social media

      •How to have the successful internal conversations that lead to successful external conversations

      •Actionable intelligence for improving organizational dynamics, collaboration, governance, training, engagement, policies, technology integration,workflows, CRM, and metrics

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      The complete, practical guide to Silverlight 4, Microsoft's increasingly popular tool for developing rich Internet applications

      • Microsoft has committed to Silverlight as its main User Interface technology for web apps

      • The feature set of Silverlight is growing fast, and developers are looking for guidance

      • Covers programming for the exciting new Windows Phone 7

      • The author is a noted authority on Silverlight, is a Microsoft MVP, and has a popular blog on Silverlight

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      The official, comprehensive assessment, review, and practice guide for Cisco's latest CCNP Security IPS exam -- direct from Cisco

      • Covers every new Cisco IPS exam topic, including Cisco IPS software, supporting devices, sensor installation and maintenance, policies, anomaly-based operation, events, virtualization, high availability, high performance, and hardware configuration

      • CD contains realistic practice tests

      • Includes extensive, proven features to help students review efficiently and remember key details

      About the Authors
      

      David Burns has in-depth knowledge of routing and switching technologies, network security, and mobility. He is currently a systems engineering manager for Cisco, covering various U.S. Service Provider accounts.

      Odunayo Adesina, CCIE No. 26695 (Routing and Switching), is a systems engineer with Cisco in the U.S. commercial segment.

      Keith Barker, CCIE No. 6783 R/S & Security, is a 27-year veteran of the networking industry.

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      The best-selling Java tutorial, now updated and expanded to cover Java 7 and Android app development

      • Includes a new chapter on writing Android apps, as well as additional material on Android and Java 7 throughout the book

      • This edition's examples have been extensively refreshed and updated, with more visual examples and diagrams

      • Java 7 is a significant new release that offers several new features or improvements

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      How to bring new agility to data warehousing, deliver valuable BI features earlier, and dramatically reduce project risk

      • Agile techniques for meeting customer needs, deadlines, budgets, quality expectations, and ROI goals

      • How to continuously deliver production-ready BI capabilities that deliver real value to users

      • By Dr. Kenneth Collier, one of the world's most experienced data warehousing consultants

      • For every technical and business professional involved in data warehousing projects

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      Everything developers need to start developing and selling XNA-based games for Microsoft's hot new Windows Phone 7 platform

      • Covers the entire XNA 2D and 3D mobile game development process, including submitting games to Microsoft's Marketplace

      • By one of the world's leading game development authors, Jonathan S. Harbour

      • For programmers at all levels of experience - especially the 1,000,000+ developers who already use Microsoft programming tools and platforms for other types of development projects

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      Go beyond the massive HTML5 specification: get real solutions, with detailed, tested, easy-to-use, easy-to-adapt code examples!

      • Gives web developers all they need to start experimenting with HTML5, start converting existing sites to HTML5/CSS3, and start building apps with the new HTML5 APIs

      • Flexible and easy to use: just look up a task, and find a modular solution that works

      • Includes best practices, gotchas, browser support notes, site examples, migration tips, and much more

      About the Authors
      

      Chuck Hudson has developed mobile web and mobile solutions since the 1990s. A successful “techpreneur” and long-time geek-in-training, he is a certified PHP programmer and PayPal developer. He teaches web programming, mobile technology, and entrepreneurship throughout the Boston and Atlanta regions. In 2008, he received the eBay Star Developer award for the first iPhone mobile web and native apps.

      Tom Leadbetter is a web designer and developer based in Liverpool, England. He has been working with HTML5 since early 2009 and blogs about it at HTML5Doctor.com.

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      Statistics for students, not dummies: why and how to perform statistical analysis with the newest version of the tool everyone has -- Excel!

      •Not just a stats reference: a hands-on tutorial explaining the rationale for each technique, and showing how to use it with Excel

      •Covers Excel 2010's consistency functions for statistical analysis

      •Fully covers descriptive and inferential statistics, reference distributions, experimental design, and more

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      The easy, hands-on guide to building and running TCP/IP networks - now fully updated for the latest protocols, standards, and techniques

      •Thorough, practical, and approachable: packed with step-by-step instructions, examples, quizzes, exercises, and tips

      •Covers TCP/IP architecture, subnetting, CIDR, routing, security, encryption, utilities, services, streaming, remote access, monitoring, troubleshooting, and much more •Extensive new coverage includes IPv6, cloud environments, HTML5, and TCP/IP over wireless

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      • New section on septic tank drain fields

      • Expanded and totally revised section on irrigation management

      • Updated section on engineering properties of soils which includes consistence, consistency, soil strength and sudden failure in cohesive and non-cohesive soils

      • Text is organized with several cross referencing chapters

      • Special topics are treated in boxes

      • Study questions have been added to the end of each chapter to help students think and review the topics and their interactions

      About the Authors
      

      Dr. Nyle Brady

      Dr. Raymond Weil, Professor, University of Maryland College Park

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      • Provides enhanced coverage of the Internet, search engines, Web servers, load balancing, Web storage, chat, instant messaging, browsing, Web backup, streaming media, and access technologies

      • Describes the latest corporate and home LAN environments, including Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and Ten Gigabit Ethernet

      • Covers the latest IEEE 802.11 a/b/g Wi-Fi wireless LAN standards

      • Includes expanded coverage of protocols: TCP/IP, SMTP, MIME, HTTP, Telnet, FTP UDP, SNMP SLIP, PPP, ARP ICMP, DNS, DHCP, MPLS, POP3, IMAP4, Mobile IP SSL, IPSec, PPTP, SIP, and many others

      • Offers an in-depth security discussion of relevant threats, defense mechanisms, and encryption technology

      • Explains changes in the telecommunications industry and Voice over IP

      • Describes the latest high-speed interface and transmission technologies

      • Provides enhanced coverage of cellular 1G/2G/2.5G/3G technologies

      • Expanded glossary includes more than 1,350 terms and acronyms

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      • New examples of Fourier series and exercises

      • Complete proof of the Fourier Series Representation Theorem

      • New section on the application of Fourier series to the solution of forced vibrations of electrical and mechanical systems

      • New and expanded coverage of Partial Differential Equations in Polar and Cylindrical Coordinates

      • New coverage of Sturm-Liouville Theory with Engineering Applications

      • New material on the Fourier Transform and Its Applications

      • New chapter that deals with Green's functions and Conformal Mappings

      
      
      Table of Contents:
      

      1. A Preview of Applications and Techniques

      2. Fourier Series

      3. Partial Differential Equations in Rectangular Coordinates

      4. Partial Differential Equations in Polar and Cylindrical Coordinates

      5. Partial Differential Equations in Spherical Coordinates

      6. Sturm-Liouville Theory with Engineering Applications

      7. The Fourier Transform and Its Applications

      8. The Laplace and Hankel Transforms with Applications

      9. Finite Difference Numerical Methods

      10. Sampling and Discrete Fourier Analysis with Applications to Partial Differential Equations

      11. An Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

      12. Green's Functions and Conformal Mappings

      13. Appendix A: Ordinary Differential Equations: Review of Concepts and Methods 1

      4. Appendix B: Tables of Transforms