The award-winning team of Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Galvin, and Greg Gagne gets system administrators right up to speed on all the key concepts of computer operating systems. This new edition gives them a thorough theoretical foundation that they can apply to a wide variety of systems as they prog[...]
Although many were skeptical of the green chemistry movement at first, it has become a multi million-dollar business. In preventing the creation of hazardous wastes, laboratories and corporations can save millions in clean up efforts and related health costs. This book presents an integrated discuss[...]
"This book will focus on biodegradable polymers that are already in clinical use or under clinical development"--[...]
Includes Original Essays & Letters "The more evolved and psychologically healthy people get, the more will enlightened management policy be necessary in order to survive in competition and the more handicapped will be an enterprise with an authoritarian policy."-Abraham Maslow In a world in which e[...]
Mandarin Chinese is the language of commerce in Taiwan, Singapore, and mainland China, and more and more businesses need Chinese-speakers. Complete with dialogues on audio CD, this complete introductory course will get people up to speed on Mandarin basics in no time.[...]
5 dolls, 32 detailed costumes recreate clothing worn by the President, Mary Todd Lincoln, and three sons. Frock coats, stovepipe hats, union suits, evening gowns, mourning suits, much more.
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Masterly orations, letters. "House Divided" speech (1858), First Inaugural Address (1861), Gettysburg Address (1863), Letter to Mrs. Bixby (1864), Second Inaugural Address (1865), 11 others.
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The leading 20th-century authority on Jewish music describes and analyzes its elements and characteristics, and chronicles its development from the earliest appearance of Semitic song 2000 years ago to the early 20th century. Idelsohn examines the music as a tonal expression of Judaism, Jewish life [...]
In 1943, while in charge of Columbia University's Statistical Research Group, Abraham Wald devised Sequential Design, an innovative statistical inference system. Because the decision to terminate an experiment is not predetermined, sequential analysis can arrive at a decision much sooner and with su[...]