Demonstrates a step-by-step process through which business professionals can create and execute a marketing strategy for a company regardless of size or industry, in a guide that includes coverage of a wide range of venues from print and blogs to newsletters and white papers. Original.[...]
Essential Skills--Made Easy! Written by a Microsoft MVP and Visual Studio expert, this hands-on guide gets you started with the latest release of Microsoft's flagship Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner's Guide shows you how to build applications from t[...]
Are You Prepared for Another Lost Decade? "[Pring] sees another 'lost decade,' but also ways to make it a winner". ("The New York Times"). Don't let the secular bear eat you. Prepare to earn steady profits in another decade of volatile and disappointing market returns. For more than four decades, Ma[...]
Perfectly intelligent programmers often struggle when forced to work with SQL. Why? Joe Celko believes the problem lies with their procedural programming mindset, which keeps them from taking full advantage of the power of declarative languages. The result is overly complex and inefficient code, not[...]
Over the decades, London has become a diverse landscape for all forms of graffiti and street art. Featuring glossy photos of graffiti, this is a companion for those excited by this most vibrant and changing of art form. It aims to give an insight into the creative output lost and found in and around[...]
A sequel to "Touching the Void", in which the author described a fall in the Himalayas which crippled and almost broke him. This memoir reveals the signposts that have directed him since childhood to measure fear and embrace the unknown.[...]
The author reveals the inner truth of climbing, exploring the frailties of the body and the power of the mind. He sees his attempt on the Eiger as the culmination of his climbing career, his narrative takes the reader through an avalanche in South America to ice-climbing in the Alps.[...]
As her hand slips from his grip, Patrick's life is shattered, forever changed... This novel of love, loss and redemption tells a harrowing, dramatic and powerful tale of how a haunting split-second memory can change the course of a lifetime.[...]
He spent his earliest years in post-World War Two refugee camps. He came to America and grew up in Cleveland - stealing cars, rolling drinks, battling priests, nearly going to jail. He became the screenwriter of the world-wide hits Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge and Flashdance. He also wrote the legend[...]
Presents an account of the author and Simon's (author's climbing partner) terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. This book shows how the pair dealt with the psychological traumas. It not only tells the story of their survival but is a compelling testament of their friendship.[...]
Received with enormous buzz and anticipation, Joe Schreiber's "Star Wars: Death Troopers" was the first time the "Star Wars" galaxy entered the realm of horror. Seth Grahame-Smith, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Pride and Prejudice" and "Zombies", called it "the "Star Wars" of every horror [...]
When the Imperial prison barge Purge-temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy's most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves-breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But wh[...]
From the mind of Joe Schreiber, New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Death Troopers, comes the delirious follow-up to last year's Darth Plagueis. In a tale of retribution and survival set before the events of The Phantom Menace, Darth Plagueis and Darth Sidious dispatch Sith apprentice Da[...]
This title is the winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize. "Funny, sad, bewildering and painfully honest, it's a must-read for all fans of Joe Dunthorne's Submarine". (Emerald Street). Jim Thorne. He wants to understand love. His mum. Her three sisters have epic perms. And they're famous. His dad. He i[...]
During the expedition to Cho Oyu in Tibet, Joe Simpson has an encounter with a party of political refugees fleeing across the Tibetan border. He becomes obsessed with stories of Chinese brutality in the old world Tibet. Oppression abroad makes him see mindless violence in his home town of Sheffield [...]
In 1992, a climber was left to die by other climbers on Mount Everest, which horrified Joe Simpson who was himself left for dead in Peru in 1985. In this book Simpson explores anecdotally and in heated debates with his climbing companions on Pumori, the moral climate of mountaineering in the 1990s.[...]
An account of the ascent of the 21,000ft Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes. Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had achieved the summit before the first disaster struck. What happened and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted is the subject of this book.[...]
Joe Gould was a member of one of the oldest families in Massachusetts and a graduate of Harvard. Instead of becoming a surgeon and civic leader, he moved to New York City, and spent the next 40 years living on the streets of Greenwich Village as a kind of outcast Bohemian hero. This is his story.[...]
Are you an SQL programmer that, like many, came to SQL after learning and writing procedural or object-oriented code? Or have switched jobs to where a different brand of SQL is being used, or maybe even been told to learn SQL yourself? If even one answer is yes, then you need this book. A "Manual of[...]
This indispensable guide gives concise yet comprehensive descriptions of the pulse sequences commonly used on modern MRI scanners. The book consists of a total of 65 self-contained sections, each focused on a single subject. Written primarily for scientists, engineers, radiologists, and graduate stu[...]
Discusses the basic physiological processes that determine the growth of plants, the way they are affected by environmental factors and how we can improve processes that are well-understood such as growth from leaf to stand level and productivity.[...]
Describes a methodology that aligns the critical but often 'silo-ed' software development process with the company goals. This book lets you build the teams, define the roles, acquire the tools, and deliver your software on time and on budget. It explains how to employ automation in your development[...]
The demand for SQL information and training continues to grow with the need for a database behind every website capable of offering web-based information queries. SQL is the de facto standard for database retrieval, and if you need to access, update, or utilize data in a modern database management s[...]
Complements the strong pedagogy in Giancoli's text with overviews, topic summaries and exercises, key phrases and terms, self-study exams, questions for review of each chapter, and solutions to selected EOC material.[...]