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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Schaum's Outline of Principles of Computer Science


Carl Reynolds, Paul Tymann, "Schaum's Outline of Principles of Computer Science"
McGraw-Hill | 2008 | ISBN: 0071460519 | 221 pages | PDF | 1,8 MB

Learn the essentials of computer science
Schaum’s Outline of Principles of Computer Science provides a concise overview of the theoretical foundation of computer science. It also includes focused review of object-oriented programming using Java.

About the Author
Paul Tymann, M.S., is an associate professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. Carl Reynolds is a professor of computer science at Rochester Institute of Technology.








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Schaum's Outline of Principles of Computer Science


Carl Reynolds, Paul Tymann, "Schaum's Outline of Principles of Computer Science"
McGraw-Hill | 2008 | ISBN: 0071460519 | 221 pages | PDF | 1,8 MB

Learn the essentials of computer science
Schaum’s Outline of Principles of Computer Science provides a concise overview of the theoretical foundation of computer science. It also includes focused review of object-oriented programming using Java.

About the Author
Paul Tymann, M.S., is an associate professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. Carl Reynolds is a professor of computer science at Rochester Institute of Technology.








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Applications and Theory of Petri Nets 2003: 24th International Conference


Wil van der Aalst, Eike Best, "Applications and Theory of Petri Nets 2003: 24th International Conference, ICATPN 2003, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 23-27, 2003, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)"
Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 3540403345 | edition: 2003 | PDF | 508 Pages | 6,5 Mb

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets, ICATPN 2003, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands in June 2003.
The 25 revised full papers presented together with 6 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. All current issues on research and development in the area of Petri nets are addressed, in particular concurrent systems design and analysis, model checking, networking, business process modeling, formal methods in software engineering, agent systems, systems specification, systems validation, discrete event systems, protocols, and prototyping.



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Applications and Theory of Petri Nets 2003: 24th International Conference


Wil van der Aalst, Eike Best, "Applications and Theory of Petri Nets 2003: 24th International Conference, ICATPN 2003, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 23-27, 2003, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)"
Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 3540403345 | edition: 2003 | PDF | 508 Pages | 6,5 Mb

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets, ICATPN 2003, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands in June 2003.
The 25 revised full papers presented together with 6 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. All current issues on research and development in the area of Petri nets are addressed, in particular concurrent systems design and analysis, model checking, networking, business process modeling, formal methods in software engineering, agent systems, systems specification, systems validation, discrete event systems, protocols, and prototyping.



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PHP Design Patterns German


Stephan Schmidt "PHP Design Patterns"
O'Reilly | German | 2009-02-27 | ISBN: 389721864X | 496 pages | PDF | 68,5 MB


Summary:
Erst seit einem Jahr entwickle ich ausschliesslich objektorientiert, vornehmlich in PHP - wobei dies _nicht_ meine Hauptbetätigung ist. Über Design Patterns bin ich zwar schon gestolpert, wurde aber von der oft theoretischen bzw. Java-lastigen Behandlung abgehalten, obwohl ich - ohne es zu wissen - bereits das ein oder andere Pattern selbst angewendet habe.

Dieses Buch entpuppte sich für mich als Offenbarung (ich habe es verschlungen), denn der Autor hat es geschafft, alle vorgestellten Design Patterns nachvollziehbar anhand eines einzigen PHP-Projektes (Autovermietung) zu veranschaulichen - und zwar mit je Pattern gleicher, strukturierter Herangehensweise. Dies erlaubt mir die Nutzung dieses Werkes als späteres Nachschlagewerk für die PHP-Praxis.

Hervorheben möchte ich den bei vielen Patterns vom Autor benutzten Stil, ausgehend von einem Design-Problem eine Anfangslösung zu präsentieren, die er dann schrittweise zur optimalen Lösung anhand von PHP-Beispielen ausbaut. So lernte ich gleich mögliche Stolpersteine kennen, die mir beim Design begegnen könnten.

Auch die Erläuterung von OOP speziell in PHP sowie der Neuerungen in PHP 5.3 empfand ich als äusserst hilfreich. Das Buch leidet auch nicht unter irgendwelchen Übersetzungsproblemen inhaltlicher als auch sprachlicher Natur (da deutscher Autor), was bei technischer Einstiegsliteratur für mich eine Rolle spielt.

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PHP Design Patterns German


Stephan Schmidt "PHP Design Patterns"
O'Reilly | German | 2009-02-27 | ISBN: 389721864X | 496 pages | PDF | 68,5 MB


Summary:
Erst seit einem Jahr entwickle ich ausschliesslich objektorientiert, vornehmlich in PHP - wobei dies _nicht_ meine Hauptbetätigung ist. Über Design Patterns bin ich zwar schon gestolpert, wurde aber von der oft theoretischen bzw. Java-lastigen Behandlung abgehalten, obwohl ich - ohne es zu wissen - bereits das ein oder andere Pattern selbst angewendet habe.

Dieses Buch entpuppte sich für mich als Offenbarung (ich habe es verschlungen), denn der Autor hat es geschafft, alle vorgestellten Design Patterns nachvollziehbar anhand eines einzigen PHP-Projektes (Autovermietung) zu veranschaulichen - und zwar mit je Pattern gleicher, strukturierter Herangehensweise. Dies erlaubt mir die Nutzung dieses Werkes als späteres Nachschlagewerk für die PHP-Praxis.

Hervorheben möchte ich den bei vielen Patterns vom Autor benutzten Stil, ausgehend von einem Design-Problem eine Anfangslösung zu präsentieren, die er dann schrittweise zur optimalen Lösung anhand von PHP-Beispielen ausbaut. So lernte ich gleich mögliche Stolpersteine kennen, die mir beim Design begegnen könnten.

Auch die Erläuterung von OOP speziell in PHP sowie der Neuerungen in PHP 5.3 empfand ich als äusserst hilfreich. Das Buch leidet auch nicht unter irgendwelchen Übersetzungsproblemen inhaltlicher als auch sprachlicher Natur (da deutscher Autor), was bei technischer Einstiegsliteratur für mich eine Rolle spielt.

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Monday, June 15, 2009

Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning


William R. King, "Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning"
Springer | 2009 | ISBN: 1441900071 | 488 pages | PDF | 2,3 MB

Knowledge management (KM) is a set of relatively-new organizational activities that are aimed at improving knowledge, knowledge-related practices, organizational behaviors and decisions and organizational performance. KM focuses on knowledge processes—knowledge creation, acquisition, refinement, storage, transfer, sharing and utilization. These processes support organizational processes involving innovation, individual learning, collective learning and collaborative decision-making. The "intermediate outcomes" of KM are improved organizational behaviors, decisions, products, services, processes and relationships that enable the organization to improve its overall performance.

Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning presents some 20 papers organized into five sections covering basic concepts of knowledge management; knowledge management issues; knowledge management applications; measurement and evaluation of knowledge management and organizational learning; and organizational learning. Volume editor William R. King is the University Professor of Business Administration at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration, University of Pittsburgh. He was the founding president of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and a past president of The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS) (1989–90), an international professional society with 8,000 members, which he guided to merge with the Operations Research Society of America to form INFORMS. He has twice served as chair of ICIS—the annual International Conference on Information Systems (1988; 2005), has served as editor-in-chief of the Management Information Systems Quarterly, the primary journal in the field of information systems, and was the key figure in the founding of a new journal, Information Systems Research.








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Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning


William R. King, "Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning"
Springer | 2009 | ISBN: 1441900071 | 488 pages | PDF | 2,3 MB

Knowledge management (KM) is a set of relatively-new organizational activities that are aimed at improving knowledge, knowledge-related practices, organizational behaviors and decisions and organizational performance. KM focuses on knowledge processes—knowledge creation, acquisition, refinement, storage, transfer, sharing and utilization. These processes support organizational processes involving innovation, individual learning, collective learning and collaborative decision-making. The "intermediate outcomes" of KM are improved organizational behaviors, decisions, products, services, processes and relationships that enable the organization to improve its overall performance.

Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning presents some 20 papers organized into five sections covering basic concepts of knowledge management; knowledge management issues; knowledge management applications; measurement and evaluation of knowledge management and organizational learning; and organizational learning. Volume editor William R. King is the University Professor of Business Administration at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration, University of Pittsburgh. He was the founding president of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and a past president of The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS) (1989–90), an international professional society with 8,000 members, which he guided to merge with the Operations Research Society of America to form INFORMS. He has twice served as chair of ICIS—the annual International Conference on Information Systems (1988; 2005), has served as editor-in-chief of the Management Information Systems Quarterly, the primary journal in the field of information systems, and was the key figure in the founding of a new journal, Information Systems Research.








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Monday, June 8, 2009

The Glass Consumer: Life in a Surveillance Society


The Glass Consumer: Life in a Surveillance Society By Susanne Lace
Publisher: Policy Press 2005-06-14 | 259 Pages | ISBN: 1861347359 | PDF | 1.58 MB

We are all 'glass consumers'. Organisations know so much about us, they can almost see through us. Governments and businesses collect and process our personal information on a massive scale. Everything we do, and everywhere we go, leaves a trail. But is this in our interests? "The Glass Consumer" appraises this relentless scrutiny of consumers' lives. It reviews what is known about how personal information is used and examines the benefits and risks to consumers. The book takes the debate beyond privacy issues, arguing that we are living in a world in which - more than ever before - our personal information defines our opportunities in life. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of information use, data protection and privacy. It will also appeal more widely to those with an interest in technology and society, social policy, consumption, marketing and business studies.





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The Glass Consumer: Life in a Surveillance Society


The Glass Consumer: Life in a Surveillance Society By Susanne Lace
Publisher: Policy Press 2005-06-14 | 259 Pages | ISBN: 1861347359 | PDF | 1.58 MB

We are all 'glass consumers'. Organisations know so much about us, they can almost see through us. Governments and businesses collect and process our personal information on a massive scale. Everything we do, and everywhere we go, leaves a trail. But is this in our interests? "The Glass Consumer" appraises this relentless scrutiny of consumers' lives. It reviews what is known about how personal information is used and examines the benefits and risks to consumers. The book takes the debate beyond privacy issues, arguing that we are living in a world in which - more than ever before - our personal information defines our opportunities in life. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of information use, data protection and privacy. It will also appeal more widely to those with an interest in technology and society, social policy, consumption, marketing and business studies.





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War Summits: The Meetings That Shaped World War II and the Postwar World



War Summits: The Meetings That Shaped World War II and the Postwar World By David J Stone
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc. 2005-04-27 | 326 Pages | ISBN: 157488901X | PDF | 3.9 MB

Most of World War II’s key events have been exhaustively documented and analyzed during the past sixty years, together with virtually every aspect of the lives and actions of the political leaders, the generals, and the millions of military and civilian personnel involved. However, the vital process that provided the political and strategic framework to enable them to direct the war—the Allied war summits—has not been considered in recent times.

Comprehensive and authoritative, War Summits charts the problems and the compromises, the discussions and the negotiations, the successes and the failures of the U.S., British, and Soviet allies from 1941 to 1945. David Stone highlights the sometimes less than altruistic national agendas, the well-founded doubts and uncertainties, and the recurring suspicions of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin and their advisers. And Stone relates the strategic planning process directly to its impact upon events on the battlefield and, finally, to the way in which the whole post-1945 world—including the United Nations, the nuclear dimension, and the impending Cold War—was directly shaped by the war summits’ process. Political and military historians, political leaders involved with foreign affairs and strategic planning, professional military personnel, and general readers of modern history will find this work of compelling interest.





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War Summits: The Meetings That Shaped World War II and the Postwar World



War Summits: The Meetings That Shaped World War II and the Postwar World By David J Stone
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc. 2005-04-27 | 326 Pages | ISBN: 157488901X | PDF | 3.9 MB

Most of World War II’s key events have been exhaustively documented and analyzed during the past sixty years, together with virtually every aspect of the lives and actions of the political leaders, the generals, and the millions of military and civilian personnel involved. However, the vital process that provided the political and strategic framework to enable them to direct the war—the Allied war summits—has not been considered in recent times.

Comprehensive and authoritative, War Summits charts the problems and the compromises, the discussions and the negotiations, the successes and the failures of the U.S., British, and Soviet allies from 1941 to 1945. David Stone highlights the sometimes less than altruistic national agendas, the well-founded doubts and uncertainties, and the recurring suspicions of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin and their advisers. And Stone relates the strategic planning process directly to its impact upon events on the battlefield and, finally, to the way in which the whole post-1945 world—including the United Nations, the nuclear dimension, and the impending Cold War—was directly shaped by the war summits’ process. Political and military historians, political leaders involved with foreign affairs and strategic planning, professional military personnel, and general readers of modern history will find this work of compelling interest.





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The Feminization of Racism: Promoting World Peace in America


Irene I. Blea, "The Feminization of Racism: Promoting World Peace in America"
Publisher: Praeger Publishers | 2003-02-28 | ISBN 0275963756 | PDF | 256 pages | 1.0 MB


Blea provides a synthesis of the women's history of Native Americans, Asians, African Americans, and Latinas, and she examines the similarities and differences among these women. From each she extracts suggestions on ways to promote racial and ethnic tolerance. After examining the backgrounds and experiences of female radicals, Blea looks at indigenous or Native American women and the impact of European colonization and domination. Subsequent chapters examine African American women, Asian and Pacific Island women, and ways the experiences of these groups can help devise an approach to healing from intolerance. Of particular interest to students and other researchers involved with women and ethnic studies, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and social welfare issues.

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The Feminization of Racism: Promoting World Peace in America


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Publisher: Praeger Publishers | 2003-02-28 | ISBN 0275963756 | PDF | 256 pages | 1.0 MB


Blea provides a synthesis of the women's history of Native Americans, Asians, African Americans, and Latinas, and she examines the similarities and differences among these women. From each she extracts suggestions on ways to promote racial and ethnic tolerance. After examining the backgrounds and experiences of female radicals, Blea looks at indigenous or Native American women and the impact of European colonization and domination. Subsequent chapters examine African American women, Asian and Pacific Island women, and ways the experiences of these groups can help devise an approach to healing from intolerance. Of particular interest to students and other researchers involved with women and ethnic studies, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and social welfare issues.

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The Price We Pay: Economic and Social Consequences of Inadequate Education


The Price We Pay: Economic and Social Consequences of Inadequate Education By Clive R. Belfield, Henry M. Levin
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press 2007-11-30 | 273 Pages | ISBN: 0815708645 | PDF | 1.9 MB

While the high cost of education draws headlines, the cost of not educating America's children goes largely ignored. This book highlights the private and public costs of inadequate education.








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The Price We Pay: Economic and Social Consequences of Inadequate Education


The Price We Pay: Economic and Social Consequences of Inadequate Education By Clive R. Belfield, Henry M. Levin
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press 2007-11-30 | 273 Pages | ISBN: 0815708645 | PDF | 1.9 MB

While the high cost of education draws headlines, the cost of not educating America's children goes largely ignored. This book highlights the private and public costs of inadequate education.








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Ideas into Words: Mastering the Craft of Science Writing


Elise Hancock, Robert Kanigel, "Ideas into Words: Mastering the Craft of Science Writing"
The Johns Hopkins University Press | 2003 | ISBN: 0801873304 | 176 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB

This is a slim book, but it contains a wealth of information. The author, a veteran science writer, tells us pretty much everything we need to know about her demanding field. She discusses finding the story you want to tell, conducting the research, and developing the story structure, and she breaks each down into its component parts. In the chapter titled "Research and Interview," for example, she discusses the proper use of press releases; how to choose your interview subjects (and even what time of day is best to conduct an interview); and the importance of being able to spot when information from one source conflicts with information from another source. Smartly written and constructed, the book is absolutely essential to someone looking to enter this very tough, competitive field. David Pitt








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Ideas into Words: Mastering the Craft of Science Writing


Elise Hancock, Robert Kanigel, "Ideas into Words: Mastering the Craft of Science Writing"
The Johns Hopkins University Press | 2003 | ISBN: 0801873304 | 176 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB

This is a slim book, but it contains a wealth of information. The author, a veteran science writer, tells us pretty much everything we need to know about her demanding field. She discusses finding the story you want to tell, conducting the research, and developing the story structure, and she breaks each down into its component parts. In the chapter titled "Research and Interview," for example, she discusses the proper use of press releases; how to choose your interview subjects (and even what time of day is best to conduct an interview); and the importance of being able to spot when information from one source conflicts with information from another source. Smartly written and constructed, the book is absolutely essential to someone looking to enter this very tough, competitive field. David Pitt








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War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power


Jeffery A. Smith, "War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 1999-02-25 | ISBN 0195099451 | PDF | 336 pages | 24.0 MB


In the two centuries from the ratification of the First Amendment in 1791 through the Gulf War in 1991, the American press lacked an adequate right to analyze and report on the nation's armed conflicts. When restrictions were challenged as violations of the Constitution, military regulations and federal laws were justified as necessary under the "higher law" of survival. Is there law more important than the Constitution which allows prerogative powers to be used in a time of war or national crisis? This groundbreaking and provocative study, examining law and history over these two hundred years, argues that press freedom cannot and should not be suspended during armed conflict. The military and the media must work together because neither has authority over the other.

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War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power


Jeffery A. Smith, "War and Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power"
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 1999-02-25 | ISBN 0195099451 | PDF | 336 pages | 24.0 MB


In the two centuries from the ratification of the First Amendment in 1791 through the Gulf War in 1991, the American press lacked an adequate right to analyze and report on the nation's armed conflicts. When restrictions were challenged as violations of the Constitution, military regulations and federal laws were justified as necessary under the "higher law" of survival. Is there law more important than the Constitution which allows prerogative powers to be used in a time of war or national crisis? This groundbreaking and provocative study, examining law and history over these two hundred years, argues that press freedom cannot and should not be suspended during armed conflict. The military and the media must work together because neither has authority over the other.

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