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Social Capital, Social Identities
Author Hans Bernhard Schmid , Christoph Henning , Dieter Thomä
Current research on social capital tends to focus on an economic reading of social relations. Whereas economists pride themselves on reaching out to social theory at-large, sociologists criticize the economization of the social fabric. The concept of social capital....
Release Date 2014/08 -
Author Tali Mendelberg , Christopher F. Karpowitz
Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? The Silent Sex shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group intera....
Release Date 2014/08 -
Corporate Plasticity: How to Change, Adapt, and Excel
Author Alenka Triplat , Wayne Brown , Christian Schuh , Wim Plaizier , Laurent Chevreux
What do The Beatles, Apollo 13, the Roman military, a pack of wolves, and the very best companies in the world all have in common? Answer: Plasticity. They can change, adapt, and excel as the situation requires.In most organizations, strategy and functional excellen....
Release Date 2014/07 -
IBM System Storage N series Software Guide
Author Danny Yang , Tom Provost , Steven Pemberton , Michael Klimes , Christian Fey , Roland
Corporate workgroups, distributed enterprises, and small to medium-sized companies are increasingly seeking to network and consolidate storage to improve availability, share information, reduce costs, and protect and secure information. These organizations require e....
Release Date 2014/07 -
Game Development Tool Essentials
Author Robert Walter , Rita Turkowski , Gustavo Samour , Christian Ronchi , Fabrice Robinet
Game Development Tool Essentials provides must-have tips and tricks from industry professionals for strengthening and streamlining your game tools pipeline. Everyone knows the game tools pipeline is important, but in the current environment of shrinking budgets and ....
Release Date 2014/06 -
SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
Author Michael F. Strohmer , Christian Schuh , Michael D. Hales , Stephen Easton
"There's a new buzz phrase in the air: Supplier Relationship Management (SRM). Corporate executives know it's necessary, but there's only one problem. Nobody yet knows how to do it. Or they think it's all about bashing your vendors over the head until they redu....
Release Date 2014/06 -
Intelligent M & A: Navigating the Mergers and Acquisitions Minefield, 2nd Edition
Author Scott Moeller , Chris Brady
Almost 70% of mergers fail, yet deals are essential for growing world-class companies. Therefore they must use all the tools and techniques at their disposal to improve their chances of success. Applying the techniques advocated in this book can help managers beat t....
Release Date 2014/06 -
ERM - Enterprise Risk Management: Issues and Cases
Author Jean-Paul Louisot , Christopher Ketcham
A wealth of international case studies illustrating current issues and emerging best practices in enterprise risk managementDespite enterprise risk management's relative newness as a recognized business discipline, the marketplace is replete with guides and referen....
Release Date 2014/06 -
IBM System Storage N series Clustered Data ONTAP
Author Youn-Ho Yang , Tom Provost , Steven Pemberton , Michal Klimes , Christian Fey , Rolan
IBM® System Storage® N series storage systems offer an excellent solution for a broad range of deployment scenarios. IBM System Storage N series storage systems function as a multiprotocol storage device that is designed to allow you to simultaneously serve both fil....
Release Date 2014/06 -
The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition
Author Michael Fogus and Chris Houser
SummaryThe Joy of Clojure, Second Edition is a deep look at the Clojure language. Fully updated for Clojure 1.6, this new edition goes beyond just syntax to show you the "why" of Clojure and how to write fluent Clojure code. You'll learn functional and declarative ....
Release Date 2014/05 -
Connected by Design: Seven Principles for Business Transformation Through Functional Integration
Author Barry Wacksman , Chris Stutzman
In a world of fierce global competition and rapid technological change, traditional strategies for gaining market share and achieving efficiencies no longer yield the returns they once did. How can companies drive consumer preference and secure sustainable growth in....
Release Date 2014/05 -
Radio Propagation and Adaptive Antennas for Wireless Communication Networks, 2nd Edition
Author Christos G. Christodoulou , Nathan Blaunstein
Radio Propagation and Adaptive Antennas for Wireless Communication Networks, 2nd Edition, presents a comprehensive overview of wireless communication system design, including the latest updates to considerations of over-the-terrain, atmospheric, and ionospheric comm....
Release Date 2014/05 -
Author Dan Keston , ChRiS Gomersall
Right now on Facebook there are over 100 million people interested in topics directly related to the Advertising industry–and that’s just in the United States alone. We know this because they’ve actively listed one or more of these things as interests under their re....
Release Date 2014/05 -
Author Daniel J. Flint , Nancy Swift , Chris Hoyt
The shopper marketing methodology is a powerful, complete approach for satisfying target consumer demand at the point of maximum influence, and thereby driving consumers to purchase. It gives companies a far deeper understanding how consumers behave as shoppers, and....
Release Date 2014/05 -
IBM Information Governance Solutions
Author Sandeep Shah , Erik A O'neill , Marc Haber , Christopher Giardina , Gary Brunell
Managing information within the enterprise has always been a vital and important task to support the day-to-day business operations and to enable analysis of that data for decision making to better manage and grow the business for improved profitability. To do all t....
Release Date 2014/04 -
Author Brian Mitchell , Christopher Price , Dan Clark , John Welch , James Rowland-Jones , A
Tap the power of Big Data with Microsoft technologiesBig Data is here, and Microsoft's new Big Data platform is a valuable tool to help your company get the very most out of it. This timely book shows you how to use HDInsight along with HortonWorks Data Platform fo....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Author Michele Orru , Christian Frichot , Wade Alcorn
Hackers exploit browser vulnerabilities to attack deep within networksThe Browser Hacker's Handbook gives a practical understanding of hacking the everyday web browser and using it as a beachhead to launch further attacks deep into corporate networks. Written by a ....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition
Author Robert P. Goldman , David Pynadath , Hung Hai Bui , Christopher Geib , Gita Sukthank
Plan recognition, activity recognition, and intent recognition together combine and unify techniques from user modeling, machine vision, intelligent user interfaces, human/computer interaction, autonomous and multi-agent systems, natural language understanding, and ....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Expert Cube Development with SSAS Multidimensional Models
Author Marco Russo , Alberto Ferrari , Chris Webb
For Analysis Service cube designers this is the hands-on tutorial that will take your expertise to a whole new level. Written by a team of Microsoft SSAS experts, it digs deep to optimize your Business Intelligence capabilities.In DetailMicrosoft's SQL Server Analy....
Release Date 2014/02 -
The Moment of Clarity: Using the Human Sciences to Solve Your Toughest Business Problems
Author Mikkel Rasmussen , Christian Madsbjerg
Businesses need a new type of problem solving. Why? Because they are getting people wrong.Traditional problem-solving methods taught in business schools serve us well for some of the everyday challenges of business, but they tend to be ineffective with problems invo....
Release Date 2014/02 -
Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security
Author Paul Ekman , Paul Kelly F. , Christopher Hadnagy
Learn to identify the social engineer by non-verbal behaviorUnmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security focuses on combining the science of understanding non-verbal communications with the knowledge of how social engineers, scam artists and con men ....
Release Date 2014/02 -
Professional C# 5.0 and .NET 4.5.1
Author Morgan Skinner , Jay Glynn , Christian Nagel
Comprehensive, advanced coverage of C# 5.0 and .NET 4.5.1Whether you're a C# guru or transitioning from C/C++, staying up to date is critical to your success. Professional C# 5.0 and .NET 4.5.1 is your go-to guide for navigating the programming environment for the ....
Release Date 2014/02 -
iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
Author Joe Conway , Aaron Hillegass , Christian Keur
Updated and expanded to cover iOS 7 and Xcode 5, iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide leads you through the essential concepts, tools, and techniques for developing iOS applications. After completing this book, you will have the know-how and the confidence you ....
Release Date 2014/02 -
Author Laurie-Ann O'Connor , Harold Shinitzky , Chris Cortman
Do you know what really triggers panic attacks? Are you aware of what thinking patterns create anxiety? Are you a chronic worrier? Have you ever self-medicated with alcohol or tranquilizers? According to mental health professionals, anxiety disorders have emerged as....
Release Date 2014/01 -
Marketing Management: The Big Picture
Author Marta Dapena-Baron , Christie L. Nordhielm
Marketing Management: The Big Picture offers a complete overview of an integrated strategy-through-execution process. The framework allows students to understand strategic marketing as a system where changes in one aspect of the plan affect other aspects, and where ....
Release Date 2014/01 -
Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Administration Inside Out
Author CA Callahan Randy Williams Chris Givens , Milan Gross , Brian Alderman , and Javier
Conquer Microsoft SharePoint 2013 administration—from the inside out!Dive into SharePoint 2013 administration—and really put your systems expertise to work! This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarou....
Release Date 2014/01 -
Author Jingdong Chen , Mads Graesboll Christensen , Jesper Rindom Jensen , Jacob Benesty
Speech enhancement is a classical problem in signal processing, yet still largely unsolved. Two of the conventional approaches for solving this problem are linear filtering, like the classical Wiener filter, and subspace methods. These approaches have traditionally ....
Release Date 2014/01 -
Author Jamie White , Matthew Beale , Christopher Sansone , Wesley Workman , Bradley Priest
Ember.js is a framework for building ambitious web applications. In more specific terms, it is a collection of libraries, abstractions and conventions for dealing with the common challenges of building web applications.This book will take the reader from a casual in....
Release Date 2013/12 -
Mastering Windows Server 2012 R2
Author Stefan Roth , Michael Rice , Robert Panek , John McCabe , Robert Butler , Christian B
Check out the new Hyper-V, find new and easier ways to remotely connect back into the office, or learn all about Storage Spaces—these are just a few of the features in Windows Server 2012 R2 that are explained in this updated edition from Windows authority Mark Mina....
Release Date 2013/12 -
Beginning Android Programming: Develop and Design
Author Kevin Grant , Chris Haseman
In this straightforward guide, Android programming experts Chris Haseman and Kevin Grant show you how to use the powerful set of Android tools to begin writing the next generation of Android applications. After a tour of how to install and configure the Android Stu....
Release Date 2013/12