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Agile Technologies in Open Source Development by Barbara Russo, Marco Scotto, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi
Language: English | 2009 | ISBN: 1599046814 | 388 pages | PDF | 4,1 MB
The analysis of commonalities and differences between agile technology and open source software development is needed to understand how advancement approaches have evolved and whether they produce concrete benefits in terms of software quality and customer satisfaction.

Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship by Leela Gandhi
Language: English | 2006 | ISBN: 0822337150 | 264 pages | PDF | 40,7 MB
"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy.

Advancing Desalination by Robert Y. Ning
Language: English | 2012 | ISBN-13: 9789535107040 | 224 pages | PDF | 21.6 MB
This volume touches on Membranes and Systems, Solar Desalination, Reverse Osmosis Process Chemistry and Control, Drinking Water Quality, and Selective Waste Product Removal. The value of these volumes on the vast topic of desalination is to present the landscape to students, teachers and practitioners, with key concepts and keywords useful in gathering publications through internet search engines.

Advances in Wind Power by Rupp Carriveau
Language: English | 2012 | ISBN-10: 9535108638, ISBN-13: 9789535108634 | 374 pages | PDF | 18,8 MB
This book details topics fundamental to the efficient operation of modern commercial farms and highlights advanced research that will enable next-generation wind energy technologies. In addition to fundamental concepts, the reader will be exposed to comprehensive treatments of topics like wake dynamics, analysis of complex turbine blades, and power electronics in small-scale wind turbine systems.

Advances in Materials Science for Environmental and Nuclear Technology II by S. K. Sundaram, Tatsuki Ohji, Kevin M. Fox, Elizabeth Hoffman
Language: English | 2011 | ISBN: 1118060008 | 348 pages | PDF | 18,7 MB
This book contains 29 papers from the Clean Energy: Fuel Cells, Batteries, Renewables; Green Technologies for Materials Manufacturing and Processing II; and Materials Solutions for the Nuclear Renaissance symposia held during the 2010 Materials Science and Technology (MS&T'10) meeting, October 17-21, 2010, Houston, Texas. Topics include Batteries; Corrosion and Materials Degradation; Fuel Cells & Electrochemistry; Fossil Energy Materials; Solar Energy; Waste Minimization; Green Manufacturing and Materials Processing; Immobilization of Nuclear Wastes; Irradiation and Corrosion Effects; and Materials Performance in Extreme Environments.

Advances in Ceramic Armor VIII by Jeffrey J. Swab, Michael Halbig
Language: English | 2012 | ISBN: 1118205952 | 246 pages | PDF | 6,8 MB
The manuscripts contained in this issue of Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings were selected from among the more ...

Advanced modelling in finance using Excel and VBA by Mary Jackson, Mike Staunton
Language: English | 2001 | ISBN: 0471499226 | 276 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB
This new and unique book demonstrates that Excel and VBA can play an important role in the explanation and implementation of numerical methods across finance.

Accounting and Auditing Research and Databases: Practitioner's Desk Reference by Thomas R. Weirich, Natalie Tatiana Churyk, Thomas C. Pearson
Language: English | 2012 | ISBN: 1118334426 | 272 pages | EPUB | 6,4 MB
The easy-to-use, do-it-yourself desk accounting and auditing research database

Access 2002 Bible by Cary N. Prague, Michael R. Irwin
Language: English | 2001 | ISBN: 076453596X | 1392 pages | PDF | 16 MB
If Access can do it, you can do it too! Client lists. Sales figures. Web research. Take charge of your data to better run your business or organization. With expert advice from Cary Prague and Michael Irwin, you'll quickly master Access 2002's top database management capabilities and its hot new Web features. Using step-by-step instructions and practical examples and advice, the authors demonstrate everything you need to know to organize, present, analyze, and share data on a network or over the Web.

Accepted! 50 Successful College Admission Essays by Gen Tanabe, Kelly Tanabe
Language: English | 2008 | ISBN: 1932662243 | 224 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB
Students will prepare powerful and successful admission essays with the tools provided in this invaluable, newly-updated resource for the college-bound. Examples of 50 real essays are included, discussing such topics as leadership, personal obstacles, athletics, public service, special talents, and future goals. The strengths and successes of each example are analyzed, as well as the inspirations of each writer. A comprehensive writing workshop provides tips toward selecting topics, developing stories, editing drafts, and applying finishing touches. Further examples of 12 unsuccessful essays, a list of 25 easy mistakes to avoid, and new interviews with admissions officers are presented to help would-be entrants avoid costly blunders.