Tackling Workplace Investigations

Tackling Workplace Investigations: If you carry out a poor investigation, the result of the discipline process will be equally poor. When problems arise, employers must investigate and determine, as far as possible, what really happened. This book shows you how to get it right.

An Episodic History of Mathematics

An Episodic History of Mathematics: A series of snapshots of the history of mathematics from ancient times to the twentieth century. The intent is to give the reader a sense of mathematical culture and history. The book abounds with stories, and personalities play a strong role.

Counselling Skills: Managing People Problems at Work

Counselling Skills: Managing People Problems at Work: This book introduces you to the 'counselling approach', which is a managerial way of counselling staff. It explains that treating people with dignity, respect, and valuing, is the only course that can succeed in the 21st century.

Advanced Graph Theory and Combinatorial Optimization

Advanced Graph Theory and Combinatorial Optimization: From the table of contents: Shortest trees and branchings; Matchings and covers; Edge-colouring; Multicommodity flows and disjoint paths; Matroids; Perfect matchings in regular bipartite graphs; Minimum circulation of railway stock.

Iterative Methods in Combinatorial Optimization

Iterative Methods in Combinatorial Optimization: This book describes a simple method that is iterative in essence, and useful in a variety of settings for exact and approximate optimization. The authors highlight the commonality and uses of this method to prove a variety of classical results.

Clay Minerals in Nature: Their Characterization, Modification and Application

Clay Minerals in Nature: Their Characterization, Modification and Application: Clay is an abundant raw material which has a variety of uses and properties. Clay minerals are inexpensive and environmentally friendly naturally occurring nanomaterials, thanks to their 1 nm thick silicate layers, in all types of sediments.

Clay Minerals in Nature: Their Characterization, Modification and Application

Clay Minerals in Nature: Their Characterization, Modification and Application: Clay is an abundant raw material which has a variety of uses and properties. Clay minerals are inexpensive and environmentally friendly naturally occurring nanomaterials, thanks to their 1 nm thick silicate layers, in all types of sediments.

IT Management: Projects, programs and business change

IT Management: Projects, programs and business change: A practical guide for senior managers who are looking to improve their success in delivering projects and realizing clear business benefits. The book is based on the experience of its author and the feedback from hundreds of IT Leaders.

18 Lectures on K-Theory

18 Lectures on K-Theory: We present introductory lectures on K-Theory covering its basic three branches, namely topological, analytic and Higher Algebraic K-Theory. The skeleton of these notes was provided by the author's notes from a graduate summer school on K-Theory.

Electric Drive Systems and Operation

Electric Drive Systems and Operation: If you have completed the basics of electricity, electronics, mechanics, and cs, the book will guide you in appreciation of applications built on the basis of electrical motors. Intended for the secondary-level and university-level learners.

Advancing Desalination

Advancing Desalination: The purpose of desalination is to make water drinkable, or pure enough for industrial applications. This volume touches on Membranes and Systems, Solar Desalination, Reverse Osmosis Process Chemistry and Control, Drinking Water Quality, etc.

Design, Evaluation and Analysis of Combinatorial Optimization Heuristic Algorithms

Design, Evaluation and Analysis of Combinatorial Optimization Heuristic Algorithms: Different aspects of heuristics design and evaluation are discussed. A broad spectrum of related subjects, covered in this research, includes test bed generation and analysis, implementation and performance issues, and more.

The World of Mathematics

The World of Mathematics: The book showcases how fascinating mathematics can be, by explaining some of the most interesting mathematical ideas to children and the general public. Diagrams, videos, slideshows, problems and interactive games let the content come to life.

Santiago Calatrava’s Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas

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Classical Mechanics

Classical Mechanics: Classical mechanics is the study of the motion of bodies based upon Isaac Newton's famous laws of mechanics. The reader should be comfortable with basic physics concepts. Familiarity with geometry, algebra, and calculus is a must.

Spherical Harmonics in p Dimensions

Spherical Harmonics in p Dimensions: The authors prepared this booklet in order to make several useful topics from the theory of special functions, in particular the spherical harmonics and Legendre polynomials for any dimension, available to physics or mathematics undergraduates.

Biomedical Engineering: Technical Applications in Medicine

Biomedical Engineering: Technical Applications in Medicine: Biomedical engineering is currently a relatively wide scientific area which has been constantly bringing innovations with an objective to support and improve all areas of medicine such as therapy, diagnostics and rehabilitation.

Advances on Analysis and Control of Vibrations: Theory and Applications

Advances on Analysis and Control of Vibrations: Theory and Applications: This book is a compendium of research works on vibration analysis and control. It goes through new methodologies that help us understand and mitigate this phenomenon. The applications include vehicle suspension systems, wind turbines, etc.

Engineering Fluid Mechanics

Engineering Fluid Mechanics: This book tackles the many laws and principles in a very clear and easy way describing the parameters that control the particular situation. The text is complemented by many worked examples, tutorial problems to help students get further practice.

Venice Architecture Biannela 2012

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Administration Skills

Administration Skills: This book provides a quick reference guide to various aspects of managerial behaviour, leadership styles, managerial functions, team-building etc., and will be of benefit not only to the practicing managers but also to the potential administrators.

Funny Little Calculus Text

Funny Little Calculus Text: This text is meant to be read and enjoyed. It assumes you've seen some Calculus before: you know what to do (differentiate / integrate) and how to do it, but you don't know what it really means -- like everything else in life ...