Книги. Художественная литература. Учебники и пособия.

PhD, Jonathan G. Koomey

Book DescriptionMastering the art of problem solving takes more than proficiency with basic calculations; it requires understanding how people use information, recognizing the importance of ideology, learning the art of storytelling, and acknowledging the important distinction between facts and values. Intended for professors, managers, entrepreneurs, and students, this guide addresses these and other essential skills. With clear prose, quotations, and exercises for solving problems in the real world, this book serves as an ideal training manual for those who are new to or intimidated by quantitative analysis and an excellent refresher for those who have more experience but want to improve the quality of their data, the clarity of their graphics, and thecogency of their arguments.

Ibp Usa

Ireland Diplomatic Handbook (World Business, Investment and Government Library)

Philip M. Dine

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Pierre-laurent Chatain, Raul Hernandez-Coss, Kamil Borowik, Andrew Zerzan

Integrity in Mobil Phone Financial Services explores strategies to identify and manage potential money laundering and terrorist financing risks in mobile financial services. The paper provides guidance on the best means of assessing perceived versus actual risks and identifies specific measures to mitigate the actual risks.

`Most comparative research on public expenditure retrenchment has concentrated on the welfare state. This exciting and innovative volume takes a new approach. It focuses instead on non-social programmes such as education, defence and economic affairs, demonstrates that this is where the real cost-cutting has taken place and shows, paradoxically, that these cuts have made social spending more politically salient in the public expenditure calculus. This is a book which extends the reach of our understanding of modern public policy at the same time as it extends our knowledge of the reach of the modern state.'- Stephan Leibfried, University of Bremen, Germany`In this volume, Frank Castles and his team of experts continue the myth-busting process begun in Castles's 2004 analysis of welfare state crisis. Their combination of statistical sophistication and theoretical reflection on the political economy of public expenditure slices straight through the myriad...

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Aman Singh

The 2009 Engineering Diversity Guide showcases various training programs and entry-level opportunities offered at companies across the U.S. for minority engineering students and grads.

Michael O'Shaughnessy, Jane Stadler

Media and Society explores the media's influence in our world, providing a comprehensive introduction to the main concepts and theories used in media studies. It analyzes representations of the world found in advertisements, film, television, photographs, language, and music. The fourth edition of this book continues to provide an accessible and student-friendly analysis of the relationship between media and society and includes many examples, definitions, issues, questions, and explanations to aid students' understanding.

Nanomaterials is the study of how materials behave when their dimensions are reduced to the nanoscale. It can also refer to the materials themselves that are used in nanotechnology. Materials reduced to the nanoscale can suddenly show very different properties compared to what they exhibit on a macroscale, enabling unique applications. For instance, opaque substances become transparent (copper); inert materials become catalysts (platinum); stable materials turn combustible (aluminum); solids turn into liquids at room temperature (gold); insulators become conductors (silicon). Materials such as gold, which is chemically inert at normal scales, can serve as a potent chemical catalyst at nanoscales. Much of the fascination with nanotechnology stems from these unique quantum and surface phenomena that matter exhibits at the nanoscale. This book presents the latest research from around the globe.

Cathie Burton