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In The Chasm Companion, The Chasm Group's Paul Wiefels presents readers with a new analysis of the ideas introduced in bestselling author Geoffrey Moore's classic books, Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado, and focuses on how to translate these ideas into actionable strategy and implementation[...]

Focuses on the 'nuts and bolts' of finance with clear treatment of concepts and applications.

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This book presents the Proceedings from the First International Conference on Ibogaines, held in November of 1999 at New York University's School of Medicine. In essence, it presents significant new data on neurobiological, clinical, sociocultural, and policy aspects of ibogaine.Ibogaine is a natur[...]

Cloud-based distributed systems such as Facebook, Gmail, Amazon, Salesforce.com and others play an increasingly important role in society. Starting with an overview of modern distributed models, this title exposes the design principles, systems architecture, and innovative applications of parallel, [...]