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 English | 2021 | ISBN: 1473774918 | 418 pages | True PDF | 8.37 MB The third edition of Gerard Egan's bestselling text has been thoroughly updated with the latest research to support today's students in becoming effective helpers. Using a practical three stage process, it engages with helpers to build their confidence and teach them how to tackle the variety of complex situations which they might encounter throughout their work. The Skilled Helper integrates the most relevant aspects of different theoretical orientations (humanistic, cognitive, behavioural and solution-focused) into a pragmatic approach to helping.  English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032265795 | 419 pages | True PDF EPUB | 80.73 MB Concern for the environment and for the impacts of environmental pollution has brought about the need to shift from the reliance on hydrocarbons to energy sources that are nearly pollution neutral and renewable. The Science of Wind Power is designed to provide a fundamental understanding for wind technicians and students alike, essentially examining how to harness the wind to produce energy for transmission and use, while keeping environmental impacts in mind. Wind power is one of the fastest-growing energy sources, as it offers many advantages such as being sustainable and a renewable energy source that has a much smaller impact on the global environment compared to fossil fuels. It is important to point out, however, that like wind itself, wind power has a good and bad side, advantages, and disadvantages (challenges), and these different aspects are discussed in detail herein.  English | 2022 | ISBN: 1685073662, 978-1685073664 | 252 pages | True PDF | 12.32 MB Increasingly, we are finding that the web of communication between different species of animals and plants is quite complex, and can be described as spheres having much broader influences than we had previously supposed. For generations, people looked at forests and saw individual trees. But what they didn't see was that the trees were connected below the ground by fungal mycelia that allowed nutrients to flow from one tree to another, as well as other chemical messages. In effect, the fungal mycelia are like the internet connecting trees within a forest, allowing the trees to "talk" to one another. Ecological communities, or biosemiospheres, are made up of many different species of plants and animals that depend on each other for the flow of energy. There are herbivores, carnivores, detritivores, predators and prey, primary producers such as plants and trees, and the interactions of all of the members of an ecological community can be modeled by the flow of energy within that community. While we look at all of the component species of an ecological community and see solid objects in the form of plants and animals, quantum theory tells us that these are really bundles of energy within a broader energetic field, currently hypothesized as the Higgs Field that connects everything. From the perspective of quantum theory, we can look at all of the species as bundles of energy that they exchange as they communicate, eat each other, die, and decompose. In that sense, a biosemiosphere is really a quantum biosemiosphere. This book will provide you with a lot of delights. First, there is the genius of taking such a breathtaking large view of the biotic world and placing it into semiotic and quantum terms. Then there is a rigorous philosophic discussion of why this is important and why we must take it seriously. Finally, there is a sprinkling of allusions throughout, that are a delight to chase down and savor, the way that you would savor a fine wine over an intellectual conversation with friends who think outside the box.
 English | 2022 | ISBN: 0367766833, 978-0367766832 | 275 pages | True PDF EPUB | 8.59 MB This book is the very first one in the English language entirely dedicated to the Lambert W function, its generalizations, and its applications. One goal is to promote future research on the topic. The book contains all the information one needs when trying to find a result. The most important formulas and results are framed. The Lambert W function is a multi-valued inverse function with plenty of applications in areas like molecular physics, relativity theory, fuel consumption models, plasma physics, analysis of epidemics, bacterial growth models, delay differential equations, fluid mechanics, game theory, statistics, study of magnetic materials, and so on. The first part of the book gives a full treatise of the W function from theoretical point of view. The second part presents generalizations of this function which have been introduced by the need of applications where the classical W function is insufficient. The third part presents a large number of applications from physics, biology, game theory, bacterial cell growth models, and so on. The second part presents the generalized Lambert functions based on the tools we had developed in the first part. In the third part familiarity with Newtonian physics will be useful. The text is written to be accessible for everyone with only basic knowledge on calculus and complex numbers. Additional features include the Further Notes sections offering interesting research problems and information for further studies. Mathematica codes are included. The Lambert function is arguably the simplest non-elementary transcendental function out of the standard set of sin, cos, log, etc., therefore students who would like to deepen their understanding of real and complex analysis can see a new "almost elementary" function on which they can practice their knowledge.  English | 2021 | ISBN: 0241507502 | 325 pages | True EPUB | 3.59 MB The official British Army book on what makes its leadership so successful, and how to become a better leader yourself - whatever your field.  English | 2022 | ISBN: 1685072798, 978-1685072797 | 336 pages | True PDF | 5.68 MB Today, one of the most valuable assets of companies is their workforce. Primarily, the importance of information is increased and the human factor that absorbs and uses it by creating value has become much more essential. One of the most critical steps that managers need to take to be successful is to enhance human power in the most efficient way possible. Companies that want to be long-lasting need to make HR the main item on their agenda. Human resource practices are critical for companies to survive. In addition to firms in general, family firms are also a special and the most common type of business in the economy. Hence, family firm HR practices are also an important part of this book. Among the most famous features of a family firm, complex HR management practices are on top of it all. Owners and family members are all aware that non-family employees are needed, and non-family managers are required for the success and sustainability of the family firm. Hence, family firms cannot have biased, bifurcated, or different HR practices towards non-family employees. Readers will find this book comprehensive and inclusive of new issues of HR management literature. The book is comprised of chapters, each describing current and important practices and problems of HR management. Along with the family firm-specific problems like nonfamily managers, women entrepreneurship, and nepotism, chapters cover the state-of-the-art topics and findings in the HR management literature. This includes organizational development and HR management relationship, discrimination and nepotism, women in family firms and tourism, HR accounting and digital age, quality and management, behavior, and change management. Students and scholars of human resource management, along with the leaders of modern management teams, will benefit from this book from the first page to the last page. Each chapter will carry its reader to the next level of understanding of issues and findings of human resource management.  English | 2022 | ISBN: 1501385569 | 321 pages | True PDF | 66.48 MB Revit is rapidly replacing AutoCAD as the digital drawing tool of choice for architects and interior designers. This book aims to help design students master Revit as a tool in the design studio and in practice.  English | 2021 | ISBN: 1473774039 | 570 pages | True PDF | 15.74 MB Research Methods for the Behavioural Sciences guides students through the research process from beginning to end, using an accessible step-by-step approach. With an emphasis on the decisions researchers must make along the way, it provides tips and strategies for all elements of the research process to ensure relevance and validity. In this first adaptation of the textbook for Europe, South Africa and the Middle East, all the core elements which have contributed to its success are complemented by recent and relevant developments in the field pertinent to these regions, helping students to fully relate to the content.  English | 2022 | ISBN: 1801074488 | 364 Pages | EPUB Create scalable and reliable data pipelines easily with Pachyderm
 English | 2022 | ISBN: 1119625394, 978-1119625391 | 482 pages | True PDF | 26.21 MB Rank-Based Methods for Shrinkage and SelectionA practical and hands-on guide to the theory and methodology of statistical estimation based on rank |
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