“…The market is full of how-to books for programming apps, but no works examine what is required for success in the mobile era. Until now…”

“…How have basic concepts about wealth and poverty evolved from biblical through rabbinic and medieval sources until the modern period? What are some specific historical events that demonstrate either marked success or bitter failure? …”

“…Because the gas market is so new, the European Directive permits Lisbon to delay making it a competitive market until 2008. The report recommends a clear schedule for the implementation of competition. …”

“…You will learn how to Scope and develop an improvement plan Identify and prioritize risks and mitigate anticipated difficulties Derive metrics that accurately measure progress toward business goals Sell your improvement program in house Initially target practitioners and teams most open to new approaches and techniques Stay focused on goals and problems Align the actions of managers and practitioners Delay major policy documents and edicts until solutions have been practiced and tested Use existing resources to speed deployment Incorporate improvement models, such as SEI CMMI SM for Services, into your improvement program For those managers who are tired of chronic problems during service creation and delivery, constant new improvement schemes, and a lack of real progress, this easily digestible volume provides the real-world wisdom you need to realize positive change in your organization…”

“…Learn how evolution became obsolete—and why it’s time to start hacking yourself Save your life with whirring “jet engine” hearts, printed organs, and other medical miracles Rewire and turbo-boost your ape brain Become a mega-mind by connecting your brain directly to the Internet to use Google’s synthetic neocortex Become superhuman with cyborg technology Design and mold your looks Genetically engineer your baby to be a tennis star (and other true stories) Prepare for the political and religious backlash against the future Discover how scientists will make death obsolete by treating it like a curable disease— and how to live until they do…”

“…After this, the site was occupied by a village until 1948. The account of the excavation is preceded by a historical introduction and a discussion of the castles archaeological setting. …”

“…Beginning with the mystery of paired murders during East Timor's failed decolonization in 1975 and the final flurry of state-sponsored violence in 1999, Kammen combines an archival trail and rich oral interviews to reconstruct the history of the leading families of Maubara from 1712 until 2012. Kammen illuminates how recurrent episodes of mass violence shaped alliances and enmities within Maubara as well as with supra-local actors, and how those legacies have influenced efforts to address human rights violations, post-conflict reconstruction, and the relationship between local experience and the identification with the East Timorese nation. …”

“…Many organizations appear willing to spend huge amounts on fixing and altering poorly specified software, but seem unwilling to invest a much smaller amount to get the requirements right in the first place. …”

“…A companion Web site provides audio clips for each example: www.VUIDesign.org The cover photograph depicts the first ASR system, Radio Rex: a toy dog who sits in his house until the sound of his name calls him out. Produced in 1911, Rex was among the few commercial successes in earlier days of speech recognition. …”

“…You will: Perform operations on scalar values Use scalar, array, and associative array variables Work with flow control statements such as if, unless, while, until, for, and foreach Read and write directly to files with file handles Use conditional expressions such as numeric and string comparison, regular expressions, file testing, and Perl statements Format output with format statements Search for and replace sub-strings within a string using regular expressions Master Perl utilities such as split, join, index and more Control the file system and processes from within a Perl script Build functions for tasks including handling the scope of variables Import existing modules into your Perl script…”

“…From the epochs of the 2nd and 1st millennium BC as well as the 1st and 2nd millennium AD, which followed the Early Bronze Age, there are extremely few findings in Al-Khashbah. It was not until the 18th-20th centuries AD that the site experienced an intensive revival, as evidenced in particular by the old mud-brick settlement in the north of the palm oasis, a small settlement in the east of the study area, a number of irrigation systems, several cemeteries, petroglyphs and numerous Late Islamic pottery sherds found on the surface…”

“…In the Social Age, companies unwilling to change will play the role of the dinosaurs: destined for extinction. …”

“…Features: Analyses of the usage of the latest evidence collection and analysis tools Covers everything from what to do upon arrival at the scene until the investigation is complete, including chain of evidence"--…”

“…For institutional investors, these developments have created a collective action problem, with many historically unwilling or unable to intervene to curtail excessive corporate pay. …”

“…The book brings into dialogue two neighbouring research traditions that research autonomous learning from a sociological perspective and which have largely ignored each other until now. In so doing, the contributions engage a critical perspective for a careful empirical analysis in order to better understand what is being done in the name of autonomy. …”

“…Joan and Brian forged a formidable 60-year partnership, in politics and the Communist Party as well as in life, that lasted until Brian's death in January 2002. <strong>Praise for Brian Simon and the Struggle for Education </strong> 'a very interesting book for historians of education and the best overall work about the thought and work of Brian Simon.' …”

“…Slezkine tells the chilling story of how the building's residents lived in their apartments and ruled the Soviet state until some eight hundred of them were evicted from the House and led, one by one, to prison or their deaths. …”

“…The night-time landing was just the beginning.The Commandos were engaged in a series of fast-moving and hard-fought battles against tanks, Ba'ath party Fedayeen and Republican Guards as they moved rapidly north up the Faw peninsula until they reached the outskirts of Basra, the second-largest city in Iraq.Finally, after a two-day battle that broke the back of the Iraqi resistance, and eighteen days after their first contact with the enemy, Royal Marine Commandos entered the presidential palace in Basra. …”

“…Once seen as a natural adaptation, the method soon became a symbol of science's power over nature, a power that, until recently, has rarely been called into question"…”

“…Starting with the principles of reactive programming and unveiling the power of the pull-programming world, this book is your one-stop solution to get a deep practical understanding of reactive programming techniques. …”