The Only Official RUP(R) Certification Prep Guide and Compact RUP Reference The IBM(R) Rational Unified Process(R) has become the de facto industry-standard process for large-scale enterprise software development. The IBM Certified Solution Designer - IBM Rational Unified Process V7.0 certification [...]

Bela Bartok (1881-1945) was one of the most important composers and musical thinkers of the 20th century. His contributions as a composer, as a performer and as the father of ethnomusicology changed the course of music history and of our contemporary perception of music itself. At the center of Bart[...]

This coherent text translates the methods of statisticians into "ecological English" so that students may readily apply these methods to the real world. Ecological Methodology, Second Edition provides a balance of material on animal and plant populations. It teaches students of ecology how to design[...]

Charles Krebs' best-selling majors-level text approaches ecology as a series of problemsthat are best understood by evaluating empirical evidence through data analysis and application of quantitative reasoning. No other text presents analytical, quantitative, and statistical ecological information i[...]

This, the riveting story of the Germania, tells of its incarnations and exploitations through the ages. The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an [...]

This volume contains new examples throughout and sections on developments such as: techniques of comparative analysis; the theory and application of DNA fingerprinting; and the latest ideas on sexual selection. It also has a new selection of colour plates.[...]

Agile development processes foster better collaboration, innovation, and results. So why limit their use to software projects--when you can transform your entire business?Written by agile-mentoring expert Jochen Krebs, this book illuminates the opportunities--and rewards--of applying agile processes[...]

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