wiley jun 2005 (81 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -\* For readers intrigued by 3D video games as a hobby or a potential career, this book offers an introduction to the world of 3D game animation and provides step-by-step instructions on creating storyboards, scenery, characters, and even software\* Cover topics such as working with 3D coordinates, keyframing, NURBS modeling, lighting, rigging, skinning, particle effects, and more\* Video game sales exceeded the movie industry's box office draw last year by $1 billion.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A wild ride through Canadian history, fully revised and updated!This new edition of Canadian History For Dummies takes readers on a thrilling ride through Canadian history, from indigenous native cultures and early French and British settlements through Paul Martin's shaky minority government. This timely update features all the latest, up-to-the-minute findings in historical and archeological research. In his trademark irreverent style, Will Ferguson celebrates Canada's double-gold in hockey at the 2002 Olympics, investigates Jean Chrétien's decision not to participate in the war in Iraq, and dissects the recent sponsorship scandal.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Over 100 recipes, plus time-saving planning tips and sanity-saving suggestionsServe terrific food confidently and calmly, and wow your crowd!Panicky about cooking for a casual church dinner, a posh graduation party, or a holiday feast for 50 With terrific recipes plus tips for everything from planning menus to preparation and presentation, you can serve a hungry crowd without getting all steamed up about it. You ll quickly grasp the basics you need to know to cook like an experienced pro.Discover how toServe great dishes, from appetizers through dessertsDetermine food quantities when cooking for groupsHandle food safelyAdd ambience with easy decorations.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Praise for Battling for Competitive Advantage'[Battling for Competitive Advantage] systematically unravels and explains the complexities of modern business and warfare. This excellent book will prove helpful to business leaders as well as the academic community charged with explaining successful leadership of large organizations.'-General Barry R. McCaffrey, U.S.A. (Ret.), Professor of International Security Studies at West Point and NBC News Commentator'Colonel Ken Allard doesn't just have supreme military intelligence, his operational brilliance extends to the business world as well. Battling for Competitive Advantage teaches you that business is war and that Ken is the perfect commander-in-chief to follow into your business battles.'-Ron Insana, Coanchor, CNBC's Business Center'In war, they don't give out medals for second place. In business, as in war, you can't win without first surviving. [This book] offers the hard-won wisdom from one warrior's world to another. Read, laugh, squirm, survive, and win!'-Scott A. Snook, Associate Professor, Organizational Behavior Harvard Business School'In the post-9/11, post-Enron environment, Ken Allard's Ten Commandments of Military Leadership are directly applicable to today's business CEOs.'-Tom Petrie, Chairman and CEO, Petrie Parkman & Co.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Genius demystified, the Dummies way!In 1905, Albert Einstein revolutionized modern physics with his theory of relativity. He went on to become a twentieth-century icon-a man whose name and face are synonymous with 'genius.' Now, at last, ordinary readers can explore Einstein's life and work in this new For Dummies guide. Physicist Carlos Calle chronicles Einstein's career and explains his work-including the theories of special and general relativity-in language that anyone can understand. He shows how Einstein's discoveries affected everything from the development of the atom bomb to the theory of quantum mechanics. He sheds light on Einstein's personal life and beliefs, including his views on religion and politics. And he shows how Einstein's work continues to affect our world today, from nuclear power to space travel to artificial intelligence.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An accessible introduction to GENERATING RENTAL INCOME FROM REAL ESTATEGETTING STARTED IN RENTAL INCOMEJust as location is a critical component to the value of real estate, knowledge is a critical component to investing success. As with any type of new endeavor, gaining knowledge and experience is essential as you move forward toward success.If you re interested in generating rental income through an investment in real estate, but unsure of how to go about doing this, Getting Started in Rental Income will show you the way. Written in a straightforward and accessible manner, this book discusses the two major ways of entering the rental income market--the traditional purchase of rental properties or buying and selling fixer-upper properties--and reveals what you need to do once you re in. This easy-to-read guide clearly explains how to:Invest in the right propertiesGenerate cash flow adequate to make insurance, tax, utility, and monthly mortgage payments as well as to allow for periodic vacanciesMake a profit from flipping propertiesTake advantage of the tax benefits of real estateImplement specific strategies--beyond diversification--to mitigate real estate riskAnd much moreFurthermore, Getting Started in Rental Income also identifies the pitfalls and market risks of this field, as well as the personal aspects of becoming involved in rental income. If you re interested in generating income through real estate and want to learn how, this book has all the answers.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This manifesto summarizes the disparate critical practices that constitute 'ecocriticism.' Lawrence Buell, one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism, traces the ecocritical movement back to its roots in the 1970s, through its coalescence into a recognizable entity in the early 1990s, to its diversification and proliferation today. He shows how, from an initial focus on such genres as nature writing and nature poetry, ecocriticism has come to take all of literary history and discourse as its arena; and he addresses questions currently facing the discipline, such as: Why has the interest in environmental literary and cultural studies so quickly increased Can the nature-preservation emphasis of first-wave ecocriticism be reconciled with second-wave concerns with issues of environmental justice What is the meaning of 'place' in a globalizing world And how do aesthetic, ethical, and political concerns interact and collide in ecocritical work Finally, Buell looks to the future of ecocriticism, predicting that discourses of the environment will become a permanent part of literary and cultural studies.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An in-depth look at strategies and techniques of five of the country's best money managersIn How the Top Money Managers Profit, Scott Kays taps into the investment knowledge of five of the nation's foremost money managers-Bill Nygren, Andy Stephens, Christopher Davis, Bill Fries, and John Calamos. Through extensive interviews with these investment experts, Kays found five principles that are common to all of them. This book discusses each of these five principles in detail-and gives readers specific tools to implement what they've learned by developing a step-by-step process that incorporates all five principles. Kays even teaches readers how to screen for companies that meet the criteria for quality businesses and then analyze three of the qualifying firms to determine if they sell above or below their fair market value.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Start and Grow Your Faith-Based Nonprofit.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this updated, second edition of the highly acclaimed international best seller, The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures, Richard Duncan describes the flaws in the international monetary system that have destabilized the global economy and that may soon culminate in a deflation-induced worldwide economic slump.The Dollar Crisis is divided into five parts:Part One describes how the US trade deficits, which now exceed US$1 million a minute, have destabilized the global economy by creating a worldwide credit bubble.Part Two explains why these giant deficits cannot persist and why a US recession and a collapse in the value of the Dollar are unavoidable.Part Three analyzes the extraordinarily harmful impact that the US recession and the collapse of the Dollar will have on the rest of the world.Part Four offers original recommendations that, if implemented, would help mitigate the damage of the coming worldwide downturn and put in place the foundations for balanced and sustainable economic growth in the decades ahead.Part Five, which has been newly added to the second edition, describes the extraordinary evolution of this crisis since the first edition was completed in September 2002. It also considers how the Dollar Crisis is likely to unfold over the years immediately ahead, the likely policy response to the crisis, and why that response cannot succeed.The Dollar Standard is inherently flawed and increasingly unstable. Its collapse will be the most important economic event of the 21st Century.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'A gem of a contribution to the field of psychopathy' Professor Joseph Newman, University of Wisconsin.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This searching orientation to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason presents the central theme, the development of his Transcendental Idealism, as a response to perceived weaknesses in his predecessors' accounts of experiential knowledge. Anthony Savile offers lucid new readings of the central arguments in both the Transcendental Aesthetic and the Transcendental Analytic, making clear the fundamental systematic components of Kant's vision.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the development, content, and impact of world culture. Combining two of the most fruitful theoretical perspectives on world culture - the world polity approach and globalization theory - the book traces the development of world culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. It includes extensive illustrations of key issues and empirical research, gives a historical treatment of the development of world culture, and assesses the complex impact of world culture on people, organizations, and societies.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - It is now possible to enter a chemistry degree course at many UK universities without any formal maths training beyond age 16. Addressing this deficiency requires students to take additional mathematics training when entering university, yet the relevance of maths to chemistry is often poorly appreciated by chemistry students. In addition, many service courses are either too abstract, or aimed at physicists and engineers, for students of chemistry, who are not inclined to study mathematical techniques per se and do not make the connection between the maths they are taught and the chemistry they want to study.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Warehouses are often seen as a necessary evil: places that stop the flow of goods and thus increase costs without adding value. But the truth is that they have a critical part to play in supply chain management, and warehouse managers should be centrally involved in the strategic aspects of any business. Excellence in Warehouse Management covers everything you need to know to manage warehouse operations as part of a streamlined and holistic system, fine tuned to serve the customer and drive the bottom line. With thinking points, self assessment exercises and case studies Stuart Emmett challenges you to consider your own operations in a new way, and plot a course into the future.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book records the story of how one professor at a research university used a form of active learning to change the way he taught-- from traditional lecture and examinations to cooperative learning and student projects. Drawn from teaching notes, conversations with students, student evaluations, and annual reports, readers will learn the kinds of risks, assumptions, and decisions they will face as they change their teaching to emphasize student learning, particularly during the critical first days of change. Engagingly written, Leaving the Lectern offers an honest and insightful look at the challenges and rewards of achieving change in the classroom.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The conditions that shaped the rise and expansion of American social science are rapidly changing, and with them, the terms of its relationship with power and policy. As globalization has diminished the role of the state as the locus of public policy in favor of NGOs, multinational corporations and other private entities, it has raised important questions about the future of the social sciences and their universalist pretensions.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A brand new edition of Essential Neurology brings the textfully up-to-date. This book is a core text for medical students andjunior doctors, who want a comprehensive yet concise practicalguide to clinical neurology.To make the book more readable and digestible, we haveintroduced colour into the text. This text provides clearexplanations of the most common neurological and neurosurgicaldisorders. The most up-to-date clinical methods are covered toensure students are learning the newest techniques. To enhance thereaders' understanding of this subject more illustrations,line drawings and scans are incorporated into the text.Another new addition is the inclusion of clinical cases withself-assessment questions at the end of every chapter. These helpto clearly illustrate the clinical presentations of keyneurological disorders.Essential Neurology is ideal for medical students onneurology attachments and an excellent review text for the MRCPexamination.Reviews of previous edition'This is an excellent introductory text for medical students whowant their neurology without frills.' -British Medical Journal 'A well-presented manual of practical clinical neurologyrecommended as easy and enjoyable fundamental reading.' -Brain 'This is an excellent book with a very good all round approachto an understanding of neurology at student level' -Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery andPsychiatry.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Stoma Care is a beginner's guide to stoma care, which will enable students and newly qualified staff in hospitals and in the community to provide effective care of patients with stomas and ensure continuity of care. It explores the rationale for stoma formation, immediate post-operative care, the choice of the most appropriate appliance, and long term management, exploring lifestyle changes including diet, the effects of chemotherapy on stoma care and the psychological impact of stoma formation.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Drawing on the research of more than 50 influential international scholars, this extensive interdisciplinary survey consolidates and evaluates what is known and not known about organizations, and critically examines how we learn about and study them.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An ideal resource for courses on Hinduism or world religions, this accessible volume spans the entire field of Hindu studies. It provides a forum for the best scholars in the world to make their views and research available to a wider audience.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Revolution, foreign occupation, and political, cultural, and economic upheavals defined mid-twentieth-century Chinese society. This new anthology, a sequel to the acclaimed first volume, compiled by Dooling and Kristina Torgeson and covering the early twentieth century, includes an impressive range of literary, personal, and journalistic responses to these tumultuous events. From succinct reportage of contemporary historical circumstances to comic accounts of twentieth-century urban living to carefully stylized modernist works of fiction, the selections in this anthology reflect the diversity, liveliness, humor, and surprising cosmopolitanism of women's writing from the period. This collection also reveals the ways in which women writers imagined and inscribed new meanings to Chinese feminism.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book is about redefining the health values of creativity. Schmid evidences that creativity is more than the capacity to be inventive or innovative. It is more than the capacity to create great works of art or music or dance. It derives from biological changes during human evolution as a tool that is needed for survival. Everybody has the capacity, and its successful use generates feelings of pleasure and self-esteem that are beneficial to health. Denial of creativity is a serious issue and is imbedded in modern values.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - TheHandbook of Second Language Acquisition presents an integrated discussion of key, and sometimes controversial, issues in second language acquisition research.Discusses the biological and cognitive underpinnings of SLA, mechanisms, processes, and constraints on SLA, the level of ultimate attainment, research methods, and the status of SLA as a cognitive science.Includes contributions from twenty-seven of the world s leading scholars.Provides an invaluable resource for all students and scholars of human cognition, including those in linguistics, psychology, applied linguistics, ESL, foreign languages, and cognitive science.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - There are many books covering Fibonacci from an artistic and historical point of view and almost as many suggesting that Fibonacci retracements and numbers can be successfully applied to financial market time series. What is missing is a book that addresses the common errors in using screen based Fibonacci (and Gann and other tools).The book is a critical exploration of Fibonacci numbers, retracements, projections, timeframes and fanlines and their current usage within the financial markets by technical analysts. Although they can be extremely effective analytical tools when used appropriately, mistakes in usage can be extremely costly from a financial and credibility viewpoint. George MacLean takes a brief look at the history of Fibonacci and Gann, before providing a full account of their applications in financial markets, including fixed income, equity, foreign exchange, commodities and indexes. In particular, he draws attention to the overuse and misuse of easily applied computer packages available to professional and amateur traders.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Praise for Recruiting and Training Fundraising Volunteers'Linda Lysakowski brings into focus the realities of enlisting volunteers to ensure success in a campaign. She clearly outlines logical steps that lead to inspiring passion in the volunteer, who is so essential to reaching a goal. I wish such a comprehensive treatise had been available to me forty years ago!'Milton Murray, Director Emeritus Philanthropic Service for Institutions Adventist World Headquarters (Silver Spring, Maryland)'It was a pleasure to read Ms. Lysakowski s book, which outlines the roles of volunteers in the art of fundraising. Linda has woven the guidance of the great masters of philanthropy and volunteer management partnered with her extensive life experience. This is a must-have resource for development officers and nonprofit leadership essential for both volunteers and management. I especially liked the In the Real World examples of concepts in action that could be implemented locally.'Ann H. Moffitt, CFRE, Vice President of Community Development Keystone Human Services, and CEO, Keystone Partnership (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)'Research and practice tell us that organizations that engage volunteers in fundraising have more sustained success, even in tough times. This book is a substantive contribution to the literature of volunteer fundraisers, and it reminds us of the honorable role of volunteers in fundraising, even in this time of the growing professionalization of staff fundraising.'Timothy L. Seiler, PhD, CFRE, Director Public Service and The Fund Raising School, Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University (Indianapolis, Indiana).

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Selection bias can, and does, occur, even in randomized clinical trials. Steps need to be taken in order to ensure that this does not compromise the integrity of clinical trials; hence 'Selection Bias and Covariate Imbalances in Randomized Clinical Trials' offers a comprehensive treatment of the subject and the methodology involved. This book:\* Provides an overview of the hierarchy of study designs, and justifies the position of randomised trials at the top of this hierarchy.\* Discusses the strengths and defects of randomisation, and provides real evidence to justify concern regarding its defects.\* Outlays the damaging consequences that selection bias causes when it does occur.\* Considers courses of action that can be taken to manage/ contain the problem.\* Presents methods that can be used to detect selection bias in randomised trials, and methods to correct for selection bias.\* Concludes by providing a comprehensive plan for managing baseline imbalances and selection bias in randomised trials, and proposing open problems for future research.Illustrated with case studies, this book introduces groundbreaking ideas and research that will be invaluable to researchers and practitioners who design and analyse clinical trials. It will also be of interest to graduate students within the field of biostatistics.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Following on from the successful format of the previous editions, Fertility and Obstetrics in the Horse 3e is a practical and user-friendly guide to equine reproduction. From explaining the anatomy of the mare's reproductive tract to detailing problems encountered during pregnancy, it covers all the major areas of concern as well as including the latest developments in diagnostic procedures and treatment techniques. \* Fully updated to take into account new developments and research; \* An ideal rapid reference for veterinary practitioners and veterinary students, as well as a crucial source of information and advice for those in the breeding business; \* New material includes expanded sections on the stallion endometritis and embryo transfer technologies, alternative methods of fertilization and insemination techniques.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Breaking with the traditional treatment of random processes in engineeringOn the surface, Introduction to Random Processes in Engineering is simply a first-rate textbook for senior or first-year graduate engineering courses in stochastic processes. A closer look, however, reveals an innovative book-rich with examples and commonsense explanations-that demystifies theories, eliminates ambiguities, and provides a solid, up-to-date introduction to this important subject.Departing from the classical texts of the sixties and seventies in its coverage of random signals and data processing, Introduction to Random Processes in Engineering addresses the latest advances in communication, control engineering, and signal processing by allowing all processes to be multidimensional with an emphasis on discrete-time processes and systems.Unlike current texts, this volume provides a strong mathematical perspective for its engineering topics without getting bogged down in technicalities. It employs mathematics to achieve clarity and precision, and at times even uses the theorem/proof style to emphasize mathematical fine points. This approach is particularly advantageous when dealing with random data, and when building an understanding of the many computer programs routinely used, its theoretical principles, and the results it generates.Assuming a senior-level background in probability theory and some acquaintance with linear systems and signals, the book provides:\* A review chapter of the formulas used later in the book\* Illustrative examples\* Emphasis in simulation techniques\* Problems accompanying each chapter that often introduce the student to other relevant material\* Notes and comments following each chapter that encourage additional reading as well as historical explorations in the field\* Tips for using the material at various levels of instructionWith its logical and systematically ordered presentation of the material, as well as its fresh approach, Introduction to Random Processes in Engineering is both a superior textbook and a valuable reference for practicing engineers and researchers in the field.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - More now than ever before, auditing is in the spotlight; legislators, regulators, and top executives in all types of businesses realize the importance of auditors in the governance and performance equation. Previously routine and formulaic, internal auditing is now high-profile and high-pressure! Being an auditor in today's complex, highly regulated business environment involves more than crunching the numbers and balancing the books-it requires ensuring that appropriate checks and balances are in place to manage risk throughout the organization.Designed to help auditors in any type of business develop the essential understanding, capabilities, and tools needed to prepare credible, defensible audit plans, Audit Planning: A Risk-Based Approach helps auditors plan the audit process so that it makes a dynamic contribution to better governance, robust risk management, and more reliable controls.Invaluable to internal auditors facing new demands in the workplace, this book is also a 'hands-on' reference for external auditors, compliance teams, financial controllers, consultants, executives, small business owners, and others charged with reviewing and validating corporate governance, risk management, and controls.The second book in the new Practical Auditor Series, which helps auditors get down to business, Audit Planning: A Risk-Based Approach gives new auditors principles and methodologies they can apply effectively and helps experienced auditors enhance their skills for success in the rapidly changing business world.