A new book to help senior executives and boards get smart about risk management The ability of businesses to survive and thrive often requires unconventional thinking and calculated risk taking. The key is to make the right decisions-even under the most risky, uncertain, and turbulent conditions.[...]

Learn to use these powerful tools together and build Web sites that workIf you want to build Web pages that offer real value to your site's visitors, JavaScript and AJAX are top tools for the job. Even if you're new to Web programming, this book helps you create sites any designer will admire. With [...]

The book begins with an intro to iPhone and iPod touch web app development. It moves on, in logical order, to working with core technologies (such as XML) to building web app frameworks and designing, styling, programming the interface, handling Touch interactions, graphic programming, integrating w[...]

Creating Android and Blackberry Applications. First book to show developers how to use the latest version of Adobes FLSH to write applications for the iPhone.[...]

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This is the first literal, word-for-word translation of Wagners epic masterwork with the full German text. Stewart Spencer's version is at once reliable and readable, adhering closely to the original verse form and to Wagners poetic intentions. The German text is given in parallel, and Spencer also [...]

Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two greatest operatic composers of their time, had everything and nothing in common. Their achievements were comparable, but their personalities, their approaches to music and drama, and their complex legacies made them incompatible. Verdi thought of art as a c[...]