This book presents new concepts, techniques and promising programming models for designing software for chips with 'many' (hundreds to thousands) processor cores. Given the scale of parallelism inherent to these chips, software designers face new challenges in terms of operating systems, middleware [...]
The authors develop a methodology for identifying and challenging assumptions underlying existing theories and generating research questions, using examples from across the social sciences.[...]
Break out your pens and markers, and help the whale spout and the chameleon change colour; draw a dog for the doghouse, or horses for the grassy field with this really giant coloring and doodling pad of 52 BIG place mats! Picky eaters and fidgety diners of all ages will love Taro Gomi's signature hu[...]
Break out your pens and markers, and and help characters get dressed up, tell jokes, choose a pet, go on vacation, and more with this really giant coloring and doodling pad of 52 BIG place mats! Picky eaters and fidgety diners of all ages will love Taro Gomi's signature humor and invitation to imagi[...]
On a night after the apparent suicide of high school student Elias Malmgren, a blood-red moon fills the night sky. Minoo wakes up outside her house, still in her pajamas, and is drawn by an invisible force to an abandoned theme park on the outskirts of town. Soon five of her classmates--Vanessa, Lin[...]
Praised by Lev Grossman as "stunning...raw, real, smart, very thrilling and very, very wicked," "The Circle," the first book in the internationally bestselling Engelsfors Trilogy, introduced a group of high school girls with special powers who became the Chosen Ones. As book two, "Fire," begins, Min[...]
On a night after the apparent suicide of high school student Elias Malmgren, a blood-red moon fills the night sky. Minoo wakes up outside her house, still in her pajamas, and is drawn by an invisible force to an abandoned theme park on the outskirts of town. Soon five of her classmates--Vanessa, Lin[...]
This wonderful collection of Des Pawson's personal ropecraft recipes combines an expanded and now full-colour collection of projects from Des's popular Des Pawson's Knot Craft, together with 20 new and brilliant mat designs. Readers can learn how to make 60 different ropework projects, including mat[...]
Written by Mats Holm and Ulf Roosvald, Bj rn Borg and the Super-Swedes explains how a small country with eight million inhabitants like Sweden could become the leading nation in tennis and an example to imitate worldwide. It starts with the legend of Bj rn Borg, the taciturn and mysterious Swede who[...]
These 12 designs are worked in easy-to-care-for cotton yarn in a wide spectrum of luscious colors. The lacy-looking hot mats will add beauty to your kitchen as well as being thick and durable enough to protect tabletops and fingertips! All are made using Premier Home Cotton yarn. Skill Level: Easy.[...]
Enjoy apples pears, grapes, and peaches adapted from the artwork of Frankie Buckley. It includes designer framing mats which duplicate the foliage borders of the original art and extends the completed stitched pieces to fit a standard 8" x10."[...]
"Hey Princess" is a story of moving to the big city, and being young, insecure, and desperate to be at least as hip as everyone else. "The 2010 Top Shelf Swedish Invasion" features Mats Jonsson's amazing autobiographical epic about one-night stands, beer, and Britpop.[...]
From sunflowers in North Dakota to the first circus in Rhode Island, "Brainfood Doodle Mats: U.S.A." is packed full of fascinating facts about the 50 states. Each colorful doodle mat showcases one state, coupled with lively illustrations and a unique doodle prompt. Great for kids ages six and up, a [...]
This expanded and updated edition of a successful textbook will be required reading for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of international business, international management and international economy courses. The current debate about the multinational firm as an actor in the global econo[...]
Covering the approximately 6,500 years from the beginning of the Late Mesolithic to the transition to the Bronze Age, Mats Larsson takes the reader on a journey through the development of Swedish prehistoric society and culture set against the backdrop of climatic and landscape change. Using example[...]
This timely textbook presents the assumptions and theories behind contemporary views on the multinational firm as an organization and as an actor in the global economy. Mats Forsgren analyzes and compares six different theories of the multinational firm from the 'dominating multinational' to the 'po[...]
"An unusually comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of how organizations and the men and women who work within them are affected by gendered processes and relations. Alvesson and Billing's contribution is unique in its sensitivity to the wide range of processes affected by gender paired with its [...]