-- Teaches readers to get agreement on what users want before attempting to create solutions.-- Instruction on how to organize requirements into a single message that developers can understand.-- Supported with practical exercises that facilitate the learning process.Writing Better Requirements spec[...]

"For an engineer determined to refine and secure Internet operation or to explore alternative solutions to persistent problems, the insights provided by this book will be invaluable." --Vint Cerf, Internet pioneer TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1, Second Edition, is a detailed and visual guide to today[...]

For more than twenty years, serious C programmers have relied on one book for practical, in-depth knowledge of the programming interfaces that drive the UNIX and Linux kernels: W. Richard Stevens' Advanced Programming in the UNIX(r) Environment. Now, once again, Rich's colleague Steve Rago has thoro[...]

Easy to read, well organized, and focused on high-yield content, Human Histology, 5th Edition, features concise, up-to-date coverage of the core knowledge in this complex field. Ideal for students in all areas of health care, this revised edition is aligned with recent developments in integrated and[...]

Wallace Stevens, one of this century's foremost American poets, has been both praised and blamed for the 'difficulty' of his poems, and has bemused those seeking to reconcile the sobriety of his career as an insurance lawyer with the extravagance of his poetry. Tony Sharpe explores the symbiotic and[...]

Stevens' poetry undermines the safeguarded classifications people use to contain knowledge. Political labels were prominent in 1930s America, when Marxism led many writers to prioritize politics over aesthetics. Stevens' poetry employs rhetoric to show that art and state function through similar app[...]

"It's ...an excellent piece of work which will help anyone who is prepared to learnabout the most effective manner of organising and presenting information". Roy Johnson 2009Mantex Information Design "...this is one of the best handbooks on how to manage continuously the handling of informationthrou[...]

"Two classic Matchmakers Underground stories in one "
"UNAUTHORIZED PASSION "
Jack Fury has been watching Celeste Fortune, waiting for the right moment to coincidentally meet her...and save her. But he doesn't know the sexy Celeste is an impostor Cassie Boudreaux has been impersonating her[...]

"Intelligent writing, masterful pacing, and tense and fluid action scenes that feel ready-made for the cinema." --"Associated Press"
Vanessa Michael Munroe, chameleon and information hunter, has a reputation for getting things done--often dangerous and not quite legal things.
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Munroe is a sensational character and Stevens is a sensational writer. Lee Child, "New York Times" bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series
For fans of Lee Child, Terry Hayes, and Laura Lippman comes a blistering thriller in which Vanessa Michael Munroe faces the fight of her life
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Provides simple explanations of the important concepts in population and community ecology. Provides R code throughout, to illustrate model development and analysis, as well as appendix introducing the R language. Interweaves ecological content and code so that either stands alone. Supplemental web [...]