A songbook bursting with stimulating play-based activities designed to support science teaching and enrich young children's experience of science in a fun and engaging way.
A tutorial guide that shows programmers how to apply features of Fortran 2008 in a modular, concise, object-oriented and resource-efficient manner, using multiple processors.
Demand Supply Governance is a skill in high demand because of the following: Ever faster technology advances, pressures on costs and service levels causes pressure on the IT departments to deliver.Outsourcing has made the market more competitiveIT departments are poor at demonstrating and publicizing their added value. The Demand Supply Governance discipline addresses these issues by focusing on:Encouraging services, as required by and agreed ...
This book establishes and communicates a scientific approach to the analysis, design and management of complex information systems enabled services. Case studies illustrate how the techniques described can be employed in large scale, real world examples that are developed to match the theoretical and practical presentation.
The authors reframe the problem of analyzing a complex service system from an `understand the system' view to an `unders...
Meet Polly Price, owner of the world's most embarrassing mother: actress and all-round airhead Arabella Diamonte. Who has just been cast in a touring production of a new play, meaning Polly is heading to San Francisco for what may well turn out to be the craziest summer holiday of her life... Read Polly's wonderfully funny diary as she records the mishaps and mayhem backstage, before all of a sudden the spotlight is on her!
The state of the art in ontology building, and modeling in general, widely disregards the fact that the behavior of rational actors in the modeling process will be driven by individual economic incentives. Creating an ontology requires resources (e.g. labor) from the contributing individuals. If there is a remote possibility the overall benefit of an ontology might exceed the costs for creating the ontology over its lifetime, it may not be cre...
A priest with a dark secret. A gifted young woman with a load of grief. A dangerous mission into enemy territory. A fitting climax to Linda Windsor's brilliant saga of sixth-century Scotland.
Supporting the user with the decision-making and buying process, recommender systems have proven to be a valuable means for online users to cope with the virtual information overload. It is one of the most powerful and popular tools in electronic commerce available today.
Development of recommender systems is a multi-disciplinary effort, involving experts from various fields such as data mining, artificial intelligence, statistics, human comp...
Jeder Mensch, der mehr über sich, seinen unbewussten Charakter erfahren möchte, kann von diesem Buch nur profitieren. Der Leser findet Informationen aus allen Kultur-Epochen und spirituellen Disziplinen über die Lebensenergie, die Chakras und deren herausragende Bedeutung für Gesundheit, Lebensfreude und Sinnfindung im Leben. Der Autor verbindet das naturwissenschaftliche Weltbild mit Erkenntnissen der modernen Energiemedizin und uralter spiri...
Renowned economist Jeff Faux explains why neither party's leaders have a plan to remedy America's unemployment, inequality, or long economic slide
America's political and economic elite spent so long making such terrible decisions that they caused the collapse of 2008. So how can they continue down the same road? The simple answer, that no in charge one wants to publicly acknowledge: because things are still pretty great for the people who ru...
Praise for The Fig Tree Murder... "A droll view of clashing cultures and nubile daughters, with some helpful advice on why you might want to think twice before taking possession of an ostrich." -Kirkus Reviews As the tide of Nationalism sweeps the British Protectorate of toward the realities of the dawning 20th century, New Egypt is eroding the ways of the Old. But Gareth Owen, head of Cairo's Secret Police, well knows, "The Old Egypt had a ha...
This is the first book dedicated to packaging and integration of MEMS and related Microsystems. While packaging was once considered secondary, it has now developed its own standards throughout the world. The book discusses the three key features for next generation application specific systems-on-a-chip (SOC): Mixed Signals, Mixed Environmental Domains, and Varying Scales of Devices and Packaging Components.
A presentation of the central and basic concepts, techniques, and tools of computer science, with the emphasis on presenting a problem-solving approach and on providing a survey of all of the most important topics covered in degree programmes. Scheme is used throughout as the programming language and the author stresses a functional programming approach to create simple functions so as to obtain the desired programming goal. Such simple functi...
Our Earth is part of a fascinating planetary family - eight planets and an odd bunch of solar system "cousins" - that spin, roll, tilt, blow and whirl around the Sun. Here, to the tune of "Over in the Meadow, " young ones can get a glimpse of our remarkable neighborhood, and our place in a very big universe.
Showcases 50 of the best artists in the field of magic realism, showing the nature and diversity of the style with some 200 images. This title features 16 pages of art from Gil Bruvel of USA. It also features other artists with a few paintings (or sculpture) each, such as Claus Brusen, David Bowers, Steven Kenny, Kinuko Craft, and Wolfgang Harms.
I was fourteen when my Mother said that she needed to speak to me... And then she told me - just like that. I was adopted. And what I felt was not shock or grief but the most enormous sense of relief.'Growing up as the only child of strict, God-fearing parents, Lucilla has always felt her difference. But it is not till adulthood that she discovers the real reasons behind her adopted mother's oft times violent indifference.As for Harriet, she w...
