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Operational Profitability: Systematic Approaches for Continuous Improvement
2007-08-20 06:56:00
Author: Robert M. Torok, Patrick J. CordonPaperback: 311 pagesPublisher: Wiley; 2 edition (March 2002)Language: EnglishISBN: 0471214736(R)Operation al Profitability, Second Edition explains in complete detail how to conduct a management audit that will give clients the essential information they need in today's fiercely competitive marketplace. At the same time, it enables CPA firms and CEOs to expand their range of services, strengthen business relationships, and increase profits. This newly updated and revised Second Edition walks you through all the steps of a management audit and explains: The basic techniques of the management audit, what it involves, how to set it up, and how to establish a clear set of organizational goals How to rethink and rebuild an organization from the bottom up How to use a full range of analytical tools for identifying problem areas throughout the company How to assess the way a firm manages inventory, purchasing, production planning, and operation...
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Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450
2007-08-20 05:57:00
Author: Thomas BenjaminPaperback: 1315 pagesPublisher: MacMillan Reference Books (October 2006)Language: EnglishISBN: 0028658434(R)The period from the Renaissance onward has seen several nations and their citizens explore areas beyond their own borders in attempts to discover and colonize new territory, thereby expanding their sphere of influence for economic reasons or, for some, to escape persecution in their own land. Whatever the reason, colonialism still has its effects on the modern world, whether it led to the birth of a new nation (as in the case of the U.S.) or helps to explain simmering tensions that remain in Africa and India. Editor Benjamin is a professor of Latin American history at Central Michigan University; according to his preface, this set "provides the most comprehensive, accessible, and international reference work about the entirety of Western Colonialism from the Portuguese voyages of Prince Henry the Navigator in the fifteenth century to the making of fe...
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MCITP Administrator: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Optimization and Maintenance
2007-08-19 22:05:00
Author: Victor Isakov, Marilyn Miller-WhitePaperback: 647 pagesPublisher: Sybex; (July 2007)Language: EnglishISBN: 0470127457(R)Covering MS's brand-new SQL 2005 administrator exam, this study guide walks readers through setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting database solutions Reviews key topics such as defining high-availability solutions, automating administrative tasks, defining security solutions, monitoring and troubleshooting the database server, and designing and executing deployments Candidates must first complete the requirements for the MCTS exam and have three or more years dedicated to database work; then they may earn their MCITP by passing two exams. Zip Password: T0sT@rN@
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Java Database Programming with JDBC: Discover the Essentials for Developing
2007-08-19 21:15:00
Author: Pratik Patel, Karl MossPaperback: 500 pagesPublisher: Coriolis Group Books;(September 1996)Language: EnglishISBN: 1576100561(R)Teaches you how to develop Java programs, from start to finish, for connecting to databases using Java's new database connectivity environment, JDBC. Tells how to easily install drivers for most databases. Features a section on programming ODBC Java programs, including a robust ODBC client template for developing your own applications. Features a handy, ready-to-use Interactive SQL query client, including fully-explained and annotated source code. Teaches how to write your own database drivers for the JDBC. Reveals how to optimize your Java database programs for maximum efficiency and minimum time. Zip Password: T0sT@rN@
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Best Practices in Software Measurement
2007-08-19 21:00:00
Author: Christof Ebert, Reiner DumkePaperback: 300 pagesPublisher: Springer; 1 edition (November 2004)Language: EnglishISBN: 3540208674(R)The software business is challenging enough without having to contend with recurring errors. One way repeating errors can be avoided is through effective software measurement. In this volume, Ebert and his co-authors offer practical guidance built upon insight and experience. They detail knowledge and experiences about software measurement in an easily understood, hands-on presentation and explain such current standards as: ISO 15939 (the general measurement standard), ISO 19761 (the COSMIC Full Function Points standard), and CMMI (the Capability Maturity Model). Coverage also includes several case studies, from Global 100 companies such as Alcatel, Deutsche Telekom, and Siemens.This combination of methodologies and applications makes the book ideally suited for professionals in the software industry. Besides the many practical hints and check...
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Aristotle and the Science of Nature: Unity without Uniformity
2007-08-19 20:49:00
Author: Andrea FalconPaperback: 158 pagesPublisher: Cambridge University Press (October 2005)Language: EnglishISBN: 0521854393(R)Aristotelian scholars have argued that he regarded the natural world, and its study, as possessing a unique structure. This book examines Aristotle 's philosophy of nature in this light. Claiming that the natural world exhibits unity without uniformity, it demonstrates that although he systematically investigated nature, Aristotle never forgot to recognize the limitations of natural science. Arguing that his claim led to the conviction that the heavens are made of a unique body, Andrea Falcon's book is essential reading for all students of Aristotle's philosophy of nature. Zip Password: T0sT@rN@
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The Future of Religion
2007-08-19 20:40:00
Author: Gianni Vattimo, Richard RortyPaperback: 91 pagesPublisher: Columbia University Press (February 2006)Language: EnglishISBN: 0231134940(R)"It is a truism that modernity understood itself as a liberation from religion: the Age of Faith was to be superseded by the Age of Reason. It is this self-assurance that postmodernism calls into question by heralding, for its part, the Age of Interpretation. Should modernity's verdict about the demise of religion also be revisited? In this book, two of the most preeminent figures of postmodernism engage in a conversation on the issue. The pragmatist Richard Rorty, who calls himself 'religiously unmusical,' grants -- somewhat grudgingly, given his anticlericalism -- that religion will probably not disappear, but contends that it should remain private and kept out of the public sphere, while Gianni Vattimo, returning to the belief of his roots, argues that Christianity, with its ethics of humility and pardon, represents the very presup...
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Romantic Atheism: Poetry and Freethought, 1780-1830
2007-08-19 20:27:00
Author: Martin PriestmanPaperback: 324 pagesPublisher: Cambridge University Press (February 2000)Language: EnglishISBN: 0521621240(R)Romantic Atheism explores the links between English Romantic poetry and the first burst of outspoken atheism in Britain, from the 1780s onward. Martin Priestman examines the work of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron and Keats in their most intellectually radical periods, as well as a host of less canonical poet-intellectuals and controversialists of the time. Above all, the book conveys the excitement of Romantic atheism, whose dramatic appeals to new developments in politics, science and comparative mythology lent it a protean energy belied by the more recent conception of "loss of faith." Zip Password: T0sT@rN@
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Matrices
2007-08-19 20:14:00
Author: Denis SerrePaperback: 224 pagesPublisher: Springer; 1 edition (August 2002)Language: EnglishISBN: 0387954600(R)In this book, Denis Serre begins by providing a clean and concise introduction to the basic theory of matrices. He then goes on to give many interesting applications of matrices to different aspects of mathematics and also other areas of science and engineering. The book mixes together algebra, analysis, complexity theory and numerical analysis. As such, this book will provide many scientists, not just mathematicians, with a useful and reliable reference. It is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students with either applied or theoretical goals. This book is based on a course given by the author at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Denis Serre is Professor of Mathematics at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and a former member of the Institut Universaire de France. He is a member of numerous editorial boards and the author of Systems of Conser...
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The Medieval City
2007-08-19 20:02:00
Author: Norman PoundsPaperback: 264 pagesPublisher: Greenwood Press (April 2005)Language: EnglishISBN: 0313324980(R)After a long decline in urban life following the fall of the Roman Empire, towns became centers of trade and of liberty during the medieval period. Here, the author describes how, as Europe stabilized after centuries of strife, commerce and the commercial class grew, and urban areas became an important source of revenue into royal coffers. Towns enjoyed various levels of autonomy, and always provided goods and services unavailable in rural areas. Hazards abounded in towns, though. Disease, fire, crime and other hazards raised mortality rates in urban environs. Designed as an introduction to life of towns and cities in the medieval period, eminent historian Norman Pounds brings to life the many pleasures, rewards, and dangers city-dwellers sought and avoided. Beginning with a look at the Roman Empire's urban legacy, Pounds delves into Urban Planning or lack thereof...
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Is There a Sabbath for Thought?: Between Religion and Philosophy
2007-08-19 19:51:00
Author: William DesmondPaperback: 368 pagesPublisher: Fordham University Press (June 2005)Language: EnglishISBN: 0823223736(R)Seeking to renew an ancient companionship between the philosophical and the religious, this book’s meditative chapters dwell on certain elemental experiences or happenings that keep the soul alive to the enigma of the divine. William Desmond engages the philosophical work of Pascal, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Shestov, and Soloviev, among others, and pursues with a philosophical mindfulness what is most intimate in us, yet most universal: sleep, poverty, imagination, courage and witness, reverence, hatred and love, peace and war. Being religious has to do with that intimate universal, beyond arbitrary subjectivism and reductionist objectivism. In this book, he attempts to look at religion with a fresh and open mind, asking how philosophy might itself stand up to some of the questions posed to it by religion, not just how religion might stand up to the quest...
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Antiphon the Athenian: Oratory, Law, and Justice in the Age of the Sophists
2007-08-19 18:59:00
Author: Michael GagarinPaperback: 236 pagesPublisher: University of Texas Press; 1st edition (July 2002)Language: EnglishISBN: 0292728417(R)Antiphon was a fifth-century Athenian intellectual (ca. 480-411 BCE) who created the profession of speechwriting while serving as an influential and highly sought-out adviser to litigants in the Athenian courts. Three of his speeches are preserved, together with three sets of Tetralogies (four hypothetical paired speeches), whose authenticity is sometimes doubted. Fragments also survive of intellectual treatises on subjects including justice, law, and nature (physis), which are often attributed to a separate Antiphon the Sophist. Were these two Antiphons really one and the same individual, endowed with a wide-ranging mind ready to tackle most of the diverse intellectual interests of his day? Through an analysis of all these writings, this book convincingly argues that they were composed by a single individual, Antiphon the Athenian. Michael ...
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Surfing on the ocean of numbers: A few Smarandanche notions and similar top
2007-08-19 18:47:00
Author: Henry Ibstedt Paperback: 75 pagesPublisher: Erhus University Press (1997)Language: EnglishISBN: 187958557X(R) Zip Password: T0sT@rN@
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The Establishment of the Han Empire and Imperial China
2007-08-18 18:18:00
Author: Grant Hardy, Anne Behnke KinneyPaperback: 220 pagesPublisher: Greenwood Press (March 2005)Language: EnglishISBN: 031332588X(R)The establishment of the Han Empire , solidifying the Qin unification of the warring states, is of paramount importance in the history of China , and arguably, in world history. This excellent introduction to that dynastic period devotes separate chapters to the political, institutional, technological, and social ramifications of the era. The final chapter is one of the most interesting and important: in an interpretive essay the writers consider the cultural and political consequences of the Han Empire in East Asia, make comparisons (especially to Rome and Persia), and look ahead to post-Han China. A few pages suggest a reevaluation of the First Emperor, arguing that he might have been unfairly vilified by Han apologists. There are 20 biographies, 14 primary-source documents, several time lines, a brief glossary, a bibliography (including film, Int...
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