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You Must Be Very Intelligent
The PhD Delusion
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
You Must be Very Intelligent is the author’s account of studying for a PhD in a modern, successful university. Part-memoir and part-exposé, this book is highly entertaining and unusually revealing about the dubious morality and desperate behaviour which underpins competition in twenty-first century...
Budget Astrophotography
Imaging with Your DSLR or Webcam
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2014
Here are clear explanations of how to make superb astronomical deep-sky images using only a DSLR or webcam and an astronomical telescope – no expensive dedicated CCD cameras needed!
The book is written for amateur astronomers interested in budget astrophotography – the deep sky, not just...
by Yue Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
This book introduces Python programming language and fundamental concepts in algorithms and computing. Its target audience includes students and engineers with little or no background in programming, who need to master a practical programming language and learn the basic thinking in computer science/programming....
ggplot2
Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
This new edition to the classic book by ggplot2 creator Hadley Wickham highlights compatibility with knitr and RStudio. ggplot2 is a data visualization package for R that helps users create data graphics, including those that are multi-layered, with ease. With ggplot2, it's easy to:
produce...
by Margarete Sandelowski, PhD, RN
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
Designated a Doody's Core Title!
Written for graduate-level students and faculty in health care science disciplines, this handbook will help you integrate the findings in reports of primary qualitative studies as well as extrapolate the methods and techniques used to create a qualitative research...
Fast Facts for the Travel Nurse
Travel Nursing in a Nutshell
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
This book provides a broad base of information intended to guide professional nurses in pursuing a travel nursing career. Written by a seasoned practitioner, the book includes tips on how to enter the field of travel nursing, negotiate assignment contracts, increase pay, improve benefits and enhance...
Ankle Arthroscopy
Techniques Developed by the Amsterdam Foot and Ankle School
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Ankle injuries are often sport related and pose a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Over the past 25 years, Niek van Dijk, founder of the Amsterdam Foot and Ankle School and author of this book, has developed a new philosophy of ankle arthroscopy. It entails a comprehensive approach which includes...
by Denis Diderot
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Chance ordained that Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was not only a philosopher, playwright and writer, but also a salonnier. In other words, an art critic. In 1759, his friend Grimm entrusted him with a project that forced him to acquire "thoughtful notions concerning painting and sculpture"...
Inclusive Leadership
A Framework for the Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This insightful management book introduces an inspirational new ethics-oriented approach to business and leadership for current and future leaders. It argues that the challenges of today's global era require a new, more holistic and ethical leadership approach than conventional concepts suggest. A...
The Sustainable Provision of Environmental Services
From Regulation to Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
This book addresses the ability of market-based instruments to improve the sustainable provision of environmental services. The author combines field research and insights from the multi-stakeholder dialogue at the FAO to analyze the gap between the predictions provided by theory and the corresponding...
Modern Oriental Corporate Culture
A Case Collection
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
The book covers Oriental management theories as well as their applications; research on positivism; long-term focus; exclusive interviews and accumulating first-hand data, etc. It also addresses the following topics: Chinese family businesses that have survived for more than one hundred years(e.g....
Modernizing Democracy
Associations and Associating in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Modernizing Democracy brings together scholars focusing the role of associations and associating in contemporary societies. Organizations and associations have been identified as the “meso level of society” and as the “basic elements of democracy”. They are important providers of welfare services...
Facing Public Interest
The Ethical Challenge to Business Policy and Corporate Communications
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as private business since business activities have widespread and sometimes far-reaching impacts on the community. The side-effects of entrepreneurial decision making - increasing unemployment, for instance, or pollution - increasingly expose corporations...
by John E. Prussing, James M Longuski, José J. Guzmán
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Want to know not just what makes rockets go up but how to do it optimally? Optimal control theory has become such an important field in aerospace engineering that no graduate student or practicing engineer can afford to be without a working knowledge of it. This is the first book that begins...