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Nobel laureate and scientific luminary Enrico Fermi (1901-54) was a pioneering nuclear physicist whose contributions to the field were numerous, profound, and lasting. Best known for his involvement with the Manhattan Project and his work at Los Alamos that led to the first self-sustained nuclear reaction and ultimately to the production of electric power and plutonium for atomic weapons, Fermi's legacy continues to color the character of the ...

Moving Forward is a compilation of poems inspired and based on everyday occurrences and experiences. It is a depiction of advancing from a negative frame of mind into a more positive outlook of life over a prolonged period of time. Learning to breathe the air with ease, watching a bird take flight, contemplating the beauty of a rose and From Time to Time admiring the blue of the sky. Having to fight with the ghosts of the past and living like ...

The Insight Toolkit (ITK) is an open source library of object- oriented software components for image processing, data segmentation, and registration, it provides advanced algorithms for filtering, segmentation, and registration of volumetric data. This book provides detailed information on the theory underlying the methods in ITK.

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In this book, the author takes you down roads less traveled. From demeaning factory jobs, drug addiction, alcoholism and day-to-day frustrations that plague the working class, to stories of simple triumphs that are often overlooked in the pother of the workaday world. An original collection of poetry, short-shorts, and stories from the wrong side of the tracks. This book is short-and the writing gets straight to the point.

The reader will enjoy and appreciate the author's account of his rise from relative obscurity in one small Calabrian town to being a major factor in the Italian olive oil industry. His career spanned a period of much change in Italian society which began at a time when nineteen century customs and values were still dominant to the present day at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Throughout he maintained a strong commitment to family i...

This is volume four of the sixteen-volume series on the Army and the Navy in the Civil War

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Seit Jahren wird die Privatisierung öffentlich-rechtlicher Unternehmen durchgeführt und gefordert. Auch der Bankenmarkt befindet sich im Umbruch. Erst kürzlich war die Privatisierung der Sparkasse Stralsund ein heiß diskutiertes Thema. Es besteht die Annahme, dass private Unternehmen effizienter sind als öffentliche Unternehmen. Somit erhofft man sich mit Hilfe der Privatisierung Effizienzgewinne. Die Effizienz von U...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Moderne Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IuK) verändern seit einigen Jahren die Gesellschaft. Sie führen zu einem Wandel der Organisation bei Betrieben aller Wirtschaftszweige. Auch öffentliche Verwaltungen versuchen durch den Einsatz von IuK neue Organisationsabläufe und somit neue Dienstleistungen zu bilden. Im Mittelpunkt der informationstechnischen Modernisierung im öffentlichen Sektor stehen die Ko...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die Budgetierung kann als das zentrale Rückgrat der Unternehmenssteuerung in plankoordinierten Unternehmen angesehen werden. Die Budgetsteuerung ist nun etwa einhundert Jahre alt geworden. Kritik an der Budgetierung gibt es schon seit langem. Bereits in den fünfziger Jahren des vergangenen Jahrhunderts wurden dysfunktionale Effekte und kontraproduktive Verhaltenswirkungen beschrieben. Es zeigte sich, dass die Budgeti...

If a parent is overwhelmed by the teen years, this book can help save the day with its humorous, comforting, and wryly funny look at life with teenagers." --Dr. John Platt, Author, Life in the Family Zoo "If you have--or know--a teenager, then Tim Herrera's humorously written reflections and sensitive insight on braving those spirited years is for you." --Pat Cuellar, Author, Your Life in Print Story by Story "Tim vividly nails the craziness t...

This is volume thirteen of the sixteen-volume series about the Army and the Navy in the Civil War.

This book is written with the words from a young heart. It has Humor as well as romance. It describes feelings as well as Imagination. It has words one might want to share with another. When the words are hard to say personally. It has phrases to make that special some one smile.

This is volume three of the sixteen volume series about the Army and the Navy in the Civil War

For an outsider, the prospect of blending into the fabric of an urban African American ghetto might be an intimidating one. But for a Scandinavian scholar, the idea of getting to know one of Washington DC's toughest neighborhoods from the inside during the racially tense, late 1960s, could well have seemed impossible. Conducting fieldwork in and around Winston Street, Ulf Hannerz did just that. "Soulside details the everyday lives of the ghett...

This is volume eight of the sixteen-volume series about the Army and the Navy in the Civil War.

This is volume five of the sixteen-volume series about the Army and the Navy in the Civil War.

Birding is the fastest-growing outdoor pursuit in America. This landmark volume, Oklahoma's first breeding bird atlas, offers both amateurs and ornithologists a wealth of information about Oklahoma bird species and their distributions. Lavishly illustrated with over 200 color photographs and 200 color maps, the Oklahoma Breeding Bird Atlas is as attractive as it is informative. During the years 1997-2001, more than 100 volunteer birders and pr...

Danny Weeks is a disillusioned IT consultant with one of the most prestigious consulting firms in the world. On the surface he has everything going for him: a great job, a loving wife, and a solid future with the firm. His distant dreams of one day becoming a partner with the firm, however, are quickly sidetracked when he meets the notorious, but 'reformed' computer hacker, Grady Bartow. What starts as a casual friendship turns into a reluctan...

Mark Weber, after retiring for the night, was transported in time to Jerusalem at the time of the final days of Christ. He experienced the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, on what is now known as Palm Sunday. In a very brief stay, he was given the ability to read and speak all languages. Returning to his own bed, he was in shock when he awoke and realized that it had not been a dream. He met and joined forces with two others who had a parallel e...