Eloquent javascript is a guide to javascript that focuses on good programming techniques rather than offering a mish-mash of cut-and-paste effects. The author teaches you how to leverage javascript's grace and precision to write real browser-based applications. The book begins with the fundamentals of programming—variables, control structures, functions, and data structures—then moves on to more complex topics, like object-oriented programming, regular expressions, and browser events. With clear examples and a focus on elegance, Eloquent javascript will have you fluent in the language of the web in no time.

Different Like Me introduces children aged 8 to 12 years to famous, inspirational figures from the world of science, art, math, literature, philosophy and comedy.Eight-year-old Quinn, a young boy with Asperger's Syndrome, tells young readers about the achievements and characteristics of his autism heroes, from Albert Einstein, Dian Fossey and Wassily Kandinsky to Lewis Carroll, Benjamin Banneker and Julia Bowman Robinson, among others. All excel in different fields, but are united by the fact that they often found it difficult to fit in-just like Quinn.Fully illustrated in color and written in child-friendly language, this book will be a wonderful resource for children, particularly children with autism, their parents, teachers, carers and siblings.

Ideal for use in a software engineering lab or special topics setting, Developing Real World Software is a practical guide for developing useful, real world software applications that are high performing, secure, reliable, and configurable. It expands upon material presented in traditional software engineering texts and focuses on key principles from a practical application development perspective so that students can experience all aspects of the process first-hand. The theme of encapsulation is stressed throughout the book as it explains how it can be utilized to tremendously improve the understandability of large real world programs.

The book consists of Eight Chapters. Chapter 1 and 2 deal with Analysis and Design of Load Bearing Bricks Masonry Wall and Pillars and their foundations. Chapter 3 deals with Stability and Design of Bricks Masonry Retaining Walls subjected to different types of earth pressure including surcharge. Chapter 4 deals with requirements of Structural Timber and the Permissible Stresses in different grades of timber.

Most firms consider the lost customer a lost cause. But in this ground breaking book, Jill Griffin and Michael Lowenstein provide you with step-by-step solutions for winning back lost customers, saving customers on the brink of defection, and making your firm defection proof. Whether your business is small or large, product- or service-based, retail or wholesale, this book offers proven strategies for recognizing which lost customers have the highest win-back value and implementing a sure-fire plan to recover them.

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All in all, Hughes’s Critical Thinking is a text I recommend highly. -- Cleo Boyd, University of Toronto
The examples are useful, as are the self-test questions and questions for class discussion. -- David Detmer, Purdue University
[A] helpful text which is destined to make a noteworthy contribution to the critical thinking movement. -- David Naugle, Dallas Baptist University
[A] very good text. -- William Sweet, St. Francis Xavier University
it is more successful than anything I've tried—and when their thinking improves, their writing improves.... -- Cleo Boyd, University of Toronto

'Creating Value through Business Strategy' is the new edition of 'Creating Value: Shaping Tomorrow's Business', winner of the MCA price for best management in 1997.
This new edition provides constructive guidelines to readers to open their minds to the challenges of creating value. It extends and updates the reasons for the choice of the individual offering as the strategy unit and intensifies and extends the challenges to standard approaches and conventional thinking. Updates to all the material from the first edition are included and new examples have been added throughout.
Highly-acclaimed first edition, 'Creating Value: Shaping Tomorrow's Business', was winner of the MCA price for best management in 1997.
Innovative, customer-led view of strategy that includes new examples and updated material.
Controversially plays down the role of the international and global given the revolution in communications including the internet.

Recent advances in the fields of knowledge representation, reasoning and human-computer interaction have paved the way for a novel approach to treating and handling context. The field of research presented in this book addresses the problem of contextual computing in artificial intelligence based on the state of the art in knowledge representation and human-computer interaction. The author puts forward a knowledge-based approach for employing high-level context in order to solve some persistent and challenging problems in the chosen showcase domain of natural language understanding. Specifically, the problems addressed concern the handling of noise due to speech recognition errors, semantic ambiguities, and the notorious problem of underspecification. Consequently the book examines the individual contributions of contextual composing for different types of context. Therefore, contextual information stemming from the domain at hand, prior discourse, and the specific user and real world situation are considered and integrated in a formal model that is applied and evaluated employing different multimodal mobile dialog systems.

Examines the most common graphics file formats in detail and demonstrates how to encode and decode image files for each. Offers in-depth coverage of the elaborate JPEG and newer PNG formats, providing clear explanations of complex concepts, experience-based practical techniques, and code examples.
Compressed Image File Formats is an appealingly compact and useful guide to some of today's most popular file formats used for image data. For any programmer who needs to know how images are stored, this concise reference can serve as a really invaluable resource.

The third edition of Capital Market Instruments: Analysis and Valuation is a fully revised and updated guide to the most important products in use in the financial markets today, providing clear understanding of key concepts, mathematical techniques and market analysis. There is detailed coverage of debt and equity products and market conventions, illustrated with worked examples and case studies of events in the industry. The book is accompanied by web-based software for a yield curve construction model, enabling readers to set up an Excel application to calculate spot and forward interest rates. In this new edition, all chapters are updated to reflect the latest market developments. There is also a succinct analysis of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, with lessons learned and recommendations for market practitioners.
The authors have extensive experience in investment banking, quantitative analysis, bond trading and risk management, and provide valuable insight and understanding of the financial markets.