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  • THAILAND
    CHARLES F KEYES
    Thailand is exceptional among modern states in Asia in that it has built and retained a national culture around a traditional monarchical institution. Moreover, this culture has also been based on a dominant religious tradition, that of Theravada Buddhism. The process of creating the modern nation-state of Thailand out of the traditional Buddhist kingdom of Siam began in the ni...

    $1,099.00

  • RISK AND RESILIENCE IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
    COREY L. M. KEYES
    This special issue is devoted to the topic of "risk and resilience" in human development, a topic that epitomizes the complexity of human development as a process of constancy and change throughout life. The three empirical papers in this issue represent strong contributions to the growing corpus of research on risk and resilience in human development. The first one focuses on ...

    $1,099.00

  • THE CIO’S GUIDE TO RISK
    JESSICA KEYES
    In an age of globalization, widely distributed systems, and rapidly advancing technological change, IT professionals and their managers must understand that risk is ever present. The key to project success is to identify risk and subsequently deal with it. The CIO’s Guide to Risk addresses the many faces of risk, whether it be in systems development, adoption of bleeding edge t...

    $1,599.00

  • CODIFYING CONTRACT LAW
    MARY KEYES / THERESE WILSON
    Exploring the advantages and disadvantages of codifying contract law, this book considers the question from the perspectives of both civil and common law systems, referring in detail to issues of international and consumer law. With contributions from leading international scholars, the chapters present a range of opinions on the virtues of codification, encouraging further de...

    $1,059.00

  • SOCIAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
    JESSICA KEYES
    Although the precepts of software engineering have been around for decades, the field has failed to keep pace with rapid advancements in computer hardware and software. Modern systems that integrate multiple platforms and architectures, along with the collaborative nature of users who expect an instantaneous global reach via the Internet, require u ...

    $1,399.00

  • IMPLEMENTING THE IT BALANCED SCORECARD
    JESSICA KEYES
    The goals of an IT balanced scorecard include the alignment of IT plans with business objectives, the establishment of measures of IT effectiveness, the directing of employee efforts toward IT objectives, the improved performance of technology, and the achievement of balanced results across stakeholder groups. CIOs, CTOs, and other technical manage ...

    $3,000.00

  • BRING YOUR OWN DEVICES (BYOD) SURVIVAL GUIDE
    JESSICA KEYES
    Where end-users once queued up to ask the IT department for permission to buy a new computer or a new version of software, they are now bypassing IT altogether and buying it on their own. From laptops and smartphones to iPads and virtually unlimited software apps, end-users have tasted their freedom and love it. IT will simply never be the same.Bri ...

    $3,000.00

  • THE SHADOWS OF GOD
    GREG KEYES
    Angels and demons alike watch and wait as the last warriors of old Europe invade the New World in this magnificent conclusion to the Age of Unreason alternate history series The alchemical catastrophe that Sir Isaac Newton inadvertently unleashed late in the seventeenth century has transformed Europe into a cold, dead wasteland in the eighteenth—much to the delight of the other...

    $119.00

  • NEWTON'S CANNON
    GREG KEYES
    This novel of Ben Franklin, Isaac Newton, and a demonic Louis XIV is “eminently worthwhile reading for both fantasy and alternate-history lovers” (Booklist). In 1681, in an England somewhat like our England . . . the great alchemist Sir Isaac Newton makes the remarkable discovery of a substance he calls philosopher’s mercury, with which one can manipulate the four essential ele...

    $119.00

  • A CALCULUS OF ANGELS
    GREG KEYES
    In an alternate eighteenth-century Europe devastated by alchemical disaster, Sir Isaac Newton and his able assistant, Benjamin Franklin, confront enemies who seek humankind’s destruction Sir Isaac Newton’s discovery of philosopher’s mercury in 1681 gave rise to a remarkable new branch of alchemical science. Forty years later, the world stands poised on the brink of a new dark a...

    $119.00

  • THE CIO'S GUIDE TO ORACLE PRODUCTS AND SOLUTIONS
    JESSICA KEYES
    From operating systems to the cloud, Oracle's products and services are everywhere, and it has the market share to prove it. Given the share diversity of the Oracle product line, and the level of complexity of integration, management can be quite a daunting task.The CIO's Guide to Oracle Products and Solutions is the go-to guide for all things Orac ...

    $1,499.00

  • BYOD FOR HEALTHCARE
    JESSICA KEYES
    With 70 percent of organizations already adopting bring your own device (BYOD) and Gartner expecting this number to increase to 90 percent by the end of 2014, it is not a question of if, or when, it's a question of will you be ready.BYOD for Healthcare provides authoritative guidance to help you thrive during the healthcare BYOD (hBYOD) revolution. ...

    $1,399.00

  • CULTURAL CRISIS AND SOCIAL MEMORY
    CHARLES F. KEYES / SHIGEHARU TANABE
    This book explores social memory in the context of cultural crises of modernity in Thailand and Laos. It explicates the ways in which social memory constructed by the people enters modernity, and how this in turn causes fundamental ruptures with their past, as well as the various ways cultural crises are experienced in their lives. The essays in this book consider how in these ...

    $1,139.00

  • IMPLEMENTING THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT BALANCED SCORECARD
    JESSICA KEYES
    Business managers have long known the power of the Balanced Scorecard in executing corporate strategy. Implementing the Project Management Balanced Scorecard shows project managers how they too can use this framework to meet strategic objectives. It supplies valuable insight into the project management process as a whole and provides detailed explanations on how to effectively ...

    $1,599.00

  • IMPLEMENTING THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT BALANCED SCORECARD
    JESSICA KEYES
    Business managers have long known the power of the Balanced Scorecard in executing corporate strategy. Implementing the Project Management Balanced Scorecard shows project managers how they too can use this framework to meet strategic objectives. It supplies valuable insight into the project management process as a whole and provides detailed explanations on how to effectively ...

    $1,599.00

  • MARKETING IT PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
    JESSICA KEYES
    Characterized by lightning quick innovation, abrupt shifts in technology, and shorter lifecycles, the marketing of IT products and services presents a unique set of challenges and often requires IT managers and developers to get involved in the marketing process. Marketing IT Products and Services is written to help busy IT managers and marketing managers get up to speed quickl...

    $1,599.00

  • X INTERNET
    JESSICA KEYES
    The executable Internet (X Internet) brings new power and sophistication in delivering services and capabilities to users. The X Internet, both the executable Internet and the extended Internet, fundamentally alters the desktop and Internet landscapes by blurring their distinction both online and off-resulting in a new era of information technology ...

    $1,179.00

  • KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, AND CONTENT MANAGEMENT
    JESSICA KEYES
    Knowledge management (KM) is the identification and analysis of available and required knowledge, and the subsequent planning and control of actions, to develop "knowledge assets" that enable businesses to generate profits and improve their competitive positions. This volume provides the framework for the strategic use of the information intelligen ...

    $1,499.00

  • ALGERNON, CHARLIE, AND I
    DANIEL KEYES
    In Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes created an unlikely duo-a laboratory mouse and a man-who captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world. Now, in Algernon, Charlie, and I, Keyes reveals his methods of creating fiction as well as the heartbreaks and joys of being published. With admirable insight he shares with readers, writers, teachers, and students the creat...

    $273.49

  • WELL-BEING
    BORNSTEIN, MARC H. / DAVIDSON, LUCY / KEYES, COREY L.M. / MOORE, KRISTIN A.
    This volume derived from original presentations given at a conference in Atlanta, Georgia, under the auspices of the Center for Child Well-Being. Scholars, practitioners, public health professionals, and principals in the child development community convened to address a science-based framework for elements of well-being and how the elements might be developed across the life c...

    $1,379.00

  • SOFTWARE ENGINEERING HANDBOOK
    JESSICA KEYES
    Unfortunately, much of what has been written about software engineering comes from an academic perspective which does not always address the everyday concerns that software developers and managers face. With decreasing software budgets and increasing demands from users and senior management, technology directors need a complete guide to the subject ...

    $5,400.00

  • HANDBOOK OF TECHNOLOGY IN FINANCIAL SERVICES
    JESSICA KEYES
    The calculus of IT support for the banking, securities and insurance industries has changed dramatically and rapidly over the past few years. Unheard of just a few years ago, corporate intranets are now used for everything from job postings to enhanced team communications. Whole new departments are being created to support e-commerce. And the Internet/Intranet/Extranet triple-w...

    $5,000.00

  • CHANGING LAW
    MARY KEYES
    Originally published in 2005. Law has a complex relationship to the phenomenon of change; it is an instrument, a cause and an inhibitor of change. Law has both effected and been affected by extraordinary changes, particularly in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This interdisciplinary collection addresses, from a range of perspectives, the theme of 'changing ...

    $999.00

  • THE AGE OF UNREASON
    GREG KEYES
    Ben Franklin must save the world when Isaac Newton unleashes dark magic in this “ambitious” alternate history series by a New York Times–bestselling author (Library Journal). Greg Keyes reimagines the eighteenth-century as an era of apocalyptic sorcery in which a young printer’s apprentice named Benjamin Franklin joins forces with a host of historical personages to prevent huma...

    $329.00

  • SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
    JESSICA KEYES
    An effective systems development and design process is far easier to explain than it is to implement. A framework is needed that organizes the life cycle activities that form the process. This framework is Configuration Management (CM). Software Configuration Management discusses the framework from a standards viewpoint, using the original ...

    $1,499.00

  • ENTERPRISE 2.0
    JESSICA KEYES
    Enterprise 2.0 (E 2.0) has caught the collective imagination of executives who are innovating to radically change the face of business. Examining the advancement of business enterprise through social networking, this book offers a hands-on, practical assessment of not only what to do, but how to do it to master the social networking paradigm and achieve a competitive advantage....

    $1,499.00

  • BRAIN MYSTERY LIGHT AND DARK
    CHARLES DON KEYES
    Brain Mystery Light and Dark examines scientific models of how the brain becomes conscious and argues that the spiritual dimension of life is compatible with the main scientific theories. Keyes shows us that the belief in the unity of mind and brain does not necessarily undermine aesthetic, religious, and ethical beliefs. ...

    $539.00

  • PARALLEL COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS '99
    D. KEYES
    Contributed presentations were given by over 50 researchers representing the state of parallel CFD art and architecture from Asia, Europe, and North America. Major developments at the 1999 meeting were: (1) the effective use of as many as 2048 processors in implicit computations in CFD, (2) the acceptance that parallelism is now the 'easy part' of large-scale CFD compared to ...

    $2,592.00

  • INSURANCE TECHNOLOGY HANDBOOK
    JESSICA KEYES
    This desk reference for IT professionals in the insurance industry provides information about the latest technologies to improve efficiency and prediction. Topics include: imaging modeling management systems customer systems Internet commerce Issues affecting all financial service sectors, such as the year 2000 problem The Insurance Technology Handbook is geared toward all leve...

    $4,200.00

  • POLICY AND PRAGMATISM IN THE CONFLICT OF LAWS
    MICHAEL J. WHINCOP / MARY KEYES / RICHARD A. POSNER
    This title was first published in 2001. After languishing for decades in the domains of rigid doctrinalism and confusing theory, the conflict of laws is increasingly being recognized as an important area of law to a global community. To demonstrate its importance, Michael Whincop and Mary Keyes transcend the divide between the English pragmatic tradition and the circularity of ...

    $859.00


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