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Examines a variety of applications and their modeling processes, showing how to develop matrix models and solve algebraic systems. incorporates exercises and MATLAB to help with more complex calculations. This book introduces 2- and 3-D vectors and their products, connecting them to multivariate calculus using geometric and algebraic approaches.

Based upon the author's 30 years of marketing and teaching experience, this book aims to explain the process of market segmentation and its applications. This text goes beyond the demographic and/or geographic categories to get at the whys of customer behaviour, carefully reviewing every facet, from theory to the exploration of applications.

Taking a standards-based approach to converged services, Architecting the Telecommunications Evolution lays a foundation for a service-oriented architecture in telecommunications. The authors begin by outlining the development of Internet telephony, focusing on how to use the respective benefits of the traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN) and the Internet to create and implement more value-added services. These two eminent spec...

A D Winans has been around the blocks of San Francisco streets for over a generation as a witness to the changes that mark a society of consumerism gone amok with wars and the many desolations resulting from the contradictions, hypocrisies and downright injustices of a society living at the height of both compassion and decadence. There is a celebration in these poems of the figures of San Francisco streets, the 'characters' that have been sac...

A sprawling novel about the sparkling grit of post-war urban life, them (please note that the title is not capitalized) is the story of Maureen Wendall, daughter of working class parents, and her struggle to survive the economic and social straits into which she is born. Written with the passion and psychological insight for which Oates is known, them ranks as one of her greatest novels, as well as one of the great works of fiction of the seco...

Ilhéus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendonça discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot...No one imagines that a bedraggled migrant worker who turns up in town-least of all Gabriela herself-will be the agent of change. Nacib Saad has just lost the cook at his popular c...

This text provides insights into current trends and controversial issues regarding state-of-the-art techniques in neurosurgery, interventional neuroradiology, and endovascular surgery. The authors confront such questions as: Are unruptured aneurysms managed most effectively by neurosurgical clipping or endovascular coiling? Is surgery or endovascular coiling the best treatment for ruptured cerebral aneurysms of the anterior or posterior cerebr...

Die Biografie eines großen Theologen des 20. Jahrhunderts- Ein bewegendes Leben in einer bewegenden Zeit- Ein eindringliches und unterhaltsames BuchEr hat die Geschichte der Theologie nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in Deutschland geprägt wie kaum ein anderer. Das Werk keines lebenden deutschsprachigen Theologen ist international häufiger übersetzt als seines. Am 8. April feierte Jürgen Moltmann seinen 80. Geburtstag. Ein Anlass für ihn zurückzubli...

Alchemy: the mystical power to alter the natural world, something between magic, art and science. When two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, dabbled in this power to grant their dearest wish, one of them lost an arm and a leg...and the other became nothing but a soul locked into a body of living steel. Now Edward is an agent of the government, a slave of the military-alchemical complex, using his unique powers to obey orders...even to kill....

The renowned Zen monk and bestselling author explains what real love is and how it can be experienced in daily life.

Es geht das Gerücht um, die Geiger bezeichneten die Noten der Bratscher als "Streichliste". Begründung: Die Komponisten trauen den Bratschern nichts zu und nehmen in den Bratschenstimmen im Vergleich zum Violinpart gravierende Kürzungen vor. Aber die Bratscher lassen das nicht auf sich sitzen - und schlagen zurück! Genießen Sie diese köstliche Sammlung der besten Witze und Karikaturen über Geiger, Bratscher, Cellisten und Bassisten, die das Me...

Durch das Buch "Hamid und Kinza" werden wir nach Marokko versetzt. Das ereignisreiche Schicksal eines Mohammedanerjungen, der seine blinde Schwester einem grausamen Stiefvater zu entziehen sucht, die Entfaltung dieses Kindes, als es mit christlicher Nächstenliebe in Berührung kommt, die Selbstsucht eines in Wohlstand und Luxus aufgewachsenen englischen Mädchens, die durch die Kraft derselben Liebe überwunden wird - all das wird den jungen Lese...

The book is a sequel to the best-selling "A Practical Guide for Translators" and considers the issues encountered when making the transition from working as a sole freelance translator to developing and managing a translation company.

In what circumstances is it legitimate to use force? How should force be used? These are two of the most crucial questions confronting world politics today. The Just War tradition provides a set of criteria which political leaders and soldiers use to defend and rationalize war. This book explores the evolution of thinking about just wars and examines its role in shaping contemporary judgements about the use of force, from grand strategic issue...

This detailed report describes archaeological fieldwork conducted between 1995 and 1997 in rural northeast Crete. Excavations were made in two locations: a metallurgy workshop (abandoned in EM III) and a nearby rural habitation site, perhaps a farmhouse (used until LM III). An intensive survey of the vicinity revealed other activities in the area from the Early Neolithic onwards, and placed the sites in a micro-regional context. A publication ...

A true story sharing the faith and salvation of one woman.

Punctuated by the five Muslim prayers and set to a disco and glam-rock soundtrack, "Girl in the Tangerine Scarf" evokes female adolescence in the vein of Cisnero's House on Mango Street and like Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls looks at orthodox religion against an American backdrop.

Der Markt für öffentliche Aufträge in Frankreich hat ein Handelsvolumen von ca. 130 Milliarden Euro erreicht. Die Tendenz ist steigend. Ein für deutsche Unternehmen mit wenig Aufwand verbundenes Vorgehen, um in Frankreich unternehmerisch tätig zu werden, ist die Beteiligung an einer französischen Ausschreibung. Der deutsche Unternehmer kann »vom Schreibtisch aus«, ohne französische Geschäftskontakte zu haben, via Internet die für ihn interessa...

Published with the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

The Essential Talmud is a masterful introduction to the beliefs, attitudes, and methods of the sacred text by which the Jewish people have lived and survived through the ages-by the renowned Israeli rabbi, scholar, and teacher. Rabbi Steinsaltz is the first to capture the flavor and spirit of the Talmud as a human document and to summarize its main principles as an expression of divine law. This expanded edition features a new preface by the r...