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Garvin Alexander, Alexander Garvin

The American City

Editura: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2002

Since the release of the First Edition in 1995, this critically acclaimed resource has become THE standard reference work on urban planning and design, providing proven strategies for professionals and priceless "real world" insight for students. This new Second Edition offers detailed, expert coverage of all the latest trends, projects, and programs in the ever-changing world of urban design.@lt;p@gt;@lt;i@gt;..".a magnificent work. I was expecting the common sense approach to current conditions but I was surprised at the interpolation of historical lessons. There is no one that spans the two worlds better."@lt;/i@gt; -- Andres Duany (@lt;i@gt;architect and town planner@lt;/i@gt;)@lt;p@gt;@lt;i@gt;"I will read it again and again, sometimes from front to back, sometimes from back to front, sometimes to page through at random, sometimes to consult and help me with a particular problem. I guarantee dog-eared pages within a year."@lt;/i@gt; -- Paul Goldberger@lt;p@gt;@lt;i@gt;The American City: What Works, What Doesn't@lt;/i@gt; analyzes more than 300 key programs and projects initiated in 150 major cities, suburban areas, and towns--showing why some projects succeeded brilliantly in ...

Lee Miller, Jessica Miller, Miller Lee

A Woman's Guide to Successful Negotiating

Editura: Mcgraw Hill

Anul aparitiei: 2002

All day, every day, we negotiate: with our friends, spouses, children, boss, customers, and co-workers. A Woman's Guide to Successful Negotiating builds on women's innate skills in professional and personal situations. Drawing upon their considerable experience, as a top corporate negotiator and as an investment banker, Lee and Jessica Miller have developed proven strategies, tactics, and techniques that tap into women's abilities to convince, collaborate and create. The authors feature innovative strategies for negotiating with aggressive men and competitive women. The authors also explore the ten common mistakes women make during negotiations and how to avoid making them. In addition, the book will teach you 3 keys to successful negotiating. Whether negotiating for a raise or where to go to dinner with your boyfriend, this book shows you how to get what you want. What others are saying about A Woman's Guide to Successful Negotiating: "Breakthrough perspective. Every woman can benefit from this indispensable guide to getting what you want."--Cathleen Black, President, Hearst Magazines "No matter what the situation, this book provides you with the negotiating techniques and the ...

John J. Sheehan

Business and Corporate Aviation Management: On-Demand Air Travel

Editura: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2003

Offers executives, managers and flight department personnel a background and insights into establishing and running aviation operations. This book provides information on: how companies use aircraft to best advantage via: in-house flight departments; iointly owned aircraft; owner flown aircraft; charter aircraft; and fractional ownership. Page dim. 234 x 160 x 25 Weight: 625 grams

Sid Kemp

Quality Management Demystified

Editura: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2005

Get past the hype to discover what quality management programs really work Quality Management Demystified provides the basic terms, concepts, and tools for defining, measuring, and managing quality, from the earliest efforts at quality assurance and quality control, through Total Quality Management, to the rise and possible fall of Six Sigma.

Steven M. Kemp, Romero Anna, Anna Romero

Psychology Demystified

Editura: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2006

Geared to help students in their first course in psychology and to aid others who wish to enhance their knowledge of the concepts of psychology, Psychology Demystified presents both basic and advanced topics in psychology in clear, jargon-free, and easy to understand language. Page dim. 232 x 187 x 23 Series: Demystified Weight: 826 grams

Liz Lynch

Smart Networking: Attract a Following in Person and Online

Editura: Mcgraw Hill

Anul aparitiei: 2008

New Contacts, Greater Success, and Bigger Business The key to unlimited opportunities for your business starts with Smart Networking. This is the essential guidebook for building business relationships in a wired world. Business strategist Liz Lynch demystifies the process and puts strategic systems in place that build connections worldwide and attract opportunities 24/7. Packed with powerful strategies tested by years of experience, as well as real-life stories from the field, Smart Networking describes how to integrate face-to-face techniques with a strong online presence. You'll get low-cost marketing tools that are designed to expand your professional circle exponentially. Lynch will also help you to: Identify the gaps in your network and develop a plan to fill them Tap into existing contacts and master the art of the ask Increase visibility through speaking, e-zine publishing, and blogs Expand your reach with social networking tools Develop a winning mindset to guide all your networking activities

Issa Bass

Lean Six Sigma Using SigmaXL and Minitab

Editura: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Effectively Execute Lean Six Sigma Projects using SigmaXL and MinitabWritten by a Six Sigma Master Black Belt and a Ph.D., this practical guide to Lean Six Sigma project execution follows the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) roadmap. The many real-world examples used in the book offer in-depth theoretical analyses and are implemented using the two most popular statistical software suites--SigmaXL and Minitab. This expert resource covers Lean topics ranging from basic data analysis to complex design of experiments and statistical process control. Harness the power of SigmaXL and Minitab and enable sustained positive operational results throughout your organization with help from this authoritative guide.Lean Six Sigma Using SigmaXL and Minitab explains how to: Define the project goals, project manager, value statement, stakeholders, and riskSchedule tasks using the Gantt chart, critical path analysis, and program evaluation and review techniqueCapture the voice of internal and external customersAssess the cost of quality Gather data and measure process performancePerform process capabilities analysisApply Lean Six Sigma metrics to determine baseline ...

Paul A. Keller, Thomas Pyzdek

The Six Sigma Handbook: A Complete Guide for Green Belts, Black Belts, and Managers at All Levels

Editura: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Six Sigma has come a long way over the past two decades, both in its popularity and practice. Now, company leaders have a reliable guide to today's progressively stronger Six Sigma management strategies with The Six Sigma Handbook, Third Edition.This up-to-date resource reveals how to effectively integrate Six Sigma into the fabric of any company in order to improve the quality of processes and products, increase customer satisfaction, and save money. This new edition illuminates the latest advances in Six Sigma, such as how the strategy has: Evolved--especially when it's used to operationalize an organization's strategyExpanded--from merely improving existing processes to designing new products and processes at quality and performance levels near or above Six SigmaIncorporated Lean Manufacturing--Lean Six Sigma is the most prevalent trend in Six Sigma in recent yearsWhat sets this definitive work apart is its focus on real-world applications of covered material. By featuring screenshots of Minitab and Excel, the most widely used software programs for doing statistics with Six Sigma, this instructive book demonstrates how problem-solving and statistical techniques play out in ...

Theory of Constraints Handbook

Editura: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2010

The definitive guide to the theory of constraints In this authoritative volume, the world's top Theory of Constraints (TOC) experts reveal how to implement the ground-breaking management and improvement methodology developed by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt. Theory of Constraints Handbook offers an in-depth examination of this revolutionary concept of bringing about global organization performance improvement by focusing on a few leverage points of the system. Clear explanations supplemented by examples and case studies define how the theory works, why it works, what issues are resolved, and what benefits accrue, and demonstrate how TOC can be applied to different industries and situations. Theory of Constraints Handbook covers: Critical Chain Project Management for realizing major improvements in delivering projects on time, to specification, and within budget Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR), Buffer Management, and distribution for maximizing throughput and minimizing flow time Performance measures for applying Throughput Accounting to improve organizational performance Strategy, marketing, and sales techniques designed to increase sales closing rates and Throughput Thinking Processes for ...

Ronald D. Moen, Lloyd P. Provost, Thomas W. Nolan

Quality Improvement Through Planned Experimentation

Editura: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 1998

Updated to include the latest in experiment design, this breakthroughresource provides the methodology that engineers need to plan andconduct experiments to quantify cause-and-effect mechanisms in complexsystems and to test whether changes to products, processes, andsystems are improvements. The book offers a comprehensive frameworkfor the sequential building of knowledge--a Model forimprovement--that is key to making improvements. Step by step, themodel reveals the tools and properties of sound experiments, themethods of planned experiments, and their application to the design ofnew and improved products and services. Case studies of experiments inaction and forms and checklists for designing planned experimentsfacilitate the adoption of the methods into daily work of engineers, scientists, and managers. The Second Edition includes new and expandedcoverage of how to: test changes to products, processes, and systems;evaluate the measurement process; extend planned experiments to largesystems; apply experiments to new product design. Featuring animproved organization of material to underscore its unified approachto experiment design, this competitive tool enables firms to ...

Joseph De Chiara, Julius Panero, Martin Zelnik

Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning

Editura: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2001

The "Silver Bible" -- thoroughly revised, updated and redesigned Interior designers, architects, and other design professionals can still turn to the field's beloved "Silver Bible" for a wealth of information related to the design and planning of residential and commercial interiors. But now, Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning, Second Edition goes even further to truly make the classic interior design reference the standard in its field. From standard furniture dimensions to architectural woodwork details, you'll find a vast array of time-saving data and details. Editors Joseph DeChiara, Julius Panero, and Martin Zelnik have brought together contributions from well-known architectural and interior design firms to give you details derived from actual designs and working drawings, showing various solutions for typical design problems encountered in interior architecture. You get a wide range of typical layouts and residential spaces, offices, conference rooms, and reception areas, in addition to details of bars, restaurants, and public toilets. This exciting new edition includes new international examples and metrification - and provides you with full ...

Andres Duany, Jeff Speck

The Smart Growth Manual

Editura: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Everyone is calling for smart growth...but what exactly is it? In The Smart Growth Manual, two leading city planners provide a thorough answer. From the expanse of the metropolis to the detail of the window box, they address the pressing challenges of urban development with easy-to-follow advice and broad array of best practices. With their landmark book Suburban Nation, Andres Duany and Jeff Speck "set forth more clearly than anyone has done in our time the elements of good town planning" (The New Yorker). With this long-awaited companion volume, the authors have organized the latest contributions of new urbanism, green design, and healthy communities into a comprehensive handbook, fully illustrated with the built work of the nation's leading practitioners. "The Smart Growth Manual is an indispensable guide to city planning. This kind of progressive development is the only way to fully restore our economic strength and create new jobs, new industries, and a renewed ability to compete in the first rank of world economies." -- Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco "Authors Andres Duany, Jeff Speck, and Mike Lydon have created The Smart Growth Manual, a resource which not only ...

Perry Douglas, Douglas Perry

VHDL [With CDROM]

Editura: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2002

@lt;b@gt;THE HANDS-DOWN FAVORITE USER'S GUIDE TO VHDLCOMPLETELY UPDATED TO REFLECT THE VERY LATEST DESIGN METHODS@lt;/b@gt;@lt;p@gt;@lt;b@gt;CD-ROM WITH WORKING CODE EXAMPLES, VERIFICATION TOOLS AND MORE@lt;/b@gt;@lt;p@gt;No matter what your current level of expertise, nothing will have you writing and verifying concise, efficient VHDL descriptions of hardware designs as fast - or as painlessly - as this classic tutorial from master teacher Doug Perry. Beginners will find it an invaluable learning tool and experienced pros will keep it on their desk as a trusted reference. @lt;p@gt;Perry teaches VHDL through a series of hundreds of practical, detailed examples, gradually increasing in complexity until you're capable of designing a fully functional CPU. The new Fourth Edition has been completely updated with all of the VDHL codes used in the examples changed to reflect today's faster and more efficient design methods. You'll also find: @lt;br@gt;* A CD-ROM containing working code of all of the VDHL examples, with their matching designs along with VITAL verification tools and a working copy of ModelSIM@lt;br@gt;* All the tools you need for simulation and synthesis@lt;br@gt;* A ...

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Geology & Minerology

Editura: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2003

Derived from the content of the respected McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, Sixth Edition, each title provides thousands of definitions of words and phrases encountered in a specific discipline. All include: * Pronunciation guide for every term * Acronyms, cross-references, and abbreviations * Appendices with conversion tables; listings of scientific, technical, and mathematical notation; tables of relevant data; and more * A convenient, quick-find format

Stan Gibilisco

Everyday Math Demystified

Editura: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2004

Rhonda Huettenmueller

Pre-Calculus Demystified

Editura: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2005

@lt;b@gt;HERE'S AN ABSOLUTE VALUE FOR ANYONE WISHING TO MASTER PRE-CALCULUS!@lt;/b@gt;@lt;p@gt;Calculus is a cinch with pre-calculus under your belt -- and calculus is a must for any science, math, or computer science major. Pre-calculus by itself deepens your understanding of mathematics and improves your performance on standardized pre-college and college tests. Now anyone can master pre-calculus -- without formal training, unlimited time, or a genius IQ. In @lt;i@gt;Pre-Calculus Demystified, @lt;/i@gt; best-selling author and teacher Rhonda Huettenmueller breaks pre-calculus down into manageable bites with practical examples, solutions, graphs, practice questions, and a fresh approach that removes the mystery from pre-calc concepts.@lt;p@gt;Unlike most books on pre-calculus, general concepts are presented first -- and the details follow. In order to make the process as clear and simple as possible, long computations are presented in a logical, layered progression with just one execution per step.@lt;p@gt;This entertaining self-teaching course makes it fun and easy to learn precalculus fast. Get ready to: @lt;ul@gt;@lt;li@gt;Perform better on placement exams@lt;li@gt;Avoid ...

Rhonda Huettenmueller

College Algebra Demystified

Editura: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2004

Allan G. Bluman

Math Word Problems Demystified

Editura: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2004

@lt;b@gt;Word Problems? NO PROBLEM!@lt;/b@gt;@lt;p@gt;Now anyone, even those whose palms begin to sweat at the first sight of math problems that begin "A train left the station going 65 mph..." can overcome anxiety and learn to solve word problems. In @lt;b@gt;@lt;i@gt;Math Word Problems Demystified@lt;/i@gt;@lt;/b@gt;, experienced math instructor Allan G. Bluman provides an effective, tension-free, approach to conquering the word problems on the SATs and many other standardized tests, in algebra, and in other mathematics and science classes.@lt;p@gt;With @lt;b@gt;@lt;i@gt;Math Word Problems Demystified@lt;/i@gt;@lt;/b@gt;, you master the subject one simple step at a time -- at your own speed. This unique self-teaching guide offers practice problems, a quiz at the end of each chapter to pinpoint weaknesses, and a 40 question final exam to reinforce the methods and material presented in the book.@lt;p@gt;If you want to master math word problems, here's the self-teaching course that will get it done. Get ready to --@lt;ul@gt;@lt;li@gt;Transform word problems into solvable equations@lt;li@gt;Master a 4-step strategy that empowers you to understand and solve the most common word ...

Betsy Tom, James Edward Keogh, Tom Betsy

Microbiology Demystified

Editura: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2005

@lt;b@gt;PUT MICROBIOLOGY UNDER THE MICROSCOPE@lt;/b@gt;@lt;p@gt;You don't need to be intimidated by microbiology, stumbling block to many a health sciences student. Now anyone can master the world of tiny little critters -- without expensive tutors, unlimited time, or a genius IQ. In @lt;i@gt;Microbiology Demystified, @lt;/i@gt; health sciences professor Tom Betsy and Demystifed series veteran Jim Keogh provide an effective and painless way to learn and review microbiology. You'll cover the core material of a standard textbook -- without the confusion and frustration. @lt;p@gt;With @lt;i@gt;Microbiology Demystified, @lt;/i@gt; you master the subject one step at a time -- at your own speed. Unlike most books on microbiology, general concepts are presented first -- and the details follow. This unique self-teaching guide gives you a quiz at the end of each chapter to reinforce learning and pinpoint weaknesses -- and a 100-question "final exam" to review the entire book.@lt;p@gt;This heavily illustrated and entertaining self-teaching tool gives you everything you need to: @lt;ul@gt;@lt;li@gt;Painlessly master all major microbiology concepts, in the order they are taught by standard ...

Terry Eddy, Alberto Herrera

Learning Construction Spanglish: Beginner's Guide to Spanish On-The-Job

Editura: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2005

@lt;b@gt;EXACTLY THE RIGHT TOOL FOR ENGLISH-SPEAKING CONSTRUCTION MANAGERS@lt;/b@gt;@lt;p@gt;Designed specifically for those who direct Spanish-speaking construction crews, this on-the-mark guide speeds the process of improving communication and ensuring understanding, and helps you find exactly the phrase you need for specific tasks.@lt;p@gt;When construction managers need to talk about the specifics of a construction job with Spanish-speaking crew members -- such as where the electrical outlets need to go, when the framing will be completed, how a plumbing problem will be solved -- they need @lt;i@gt;Learning Construction Spanglish.@lt;/i@gt; This book is a tool you'll be thankful to have beside you every day on the job.@lt;p@gt;@lt;ul@gt;@lt;li@gt;A fast and easy method for understanding the basics of Spanish@lt;li@gt;Focused terms and phrases for questions, issues, schedules, and tasks in construction@lt;li@gt;Dialogue for every on-the-job situation@lt;li@gt;Logical organization that makes it quick and simple to find what you need@lt;li@gt;English/Spanish and Spanglish/English glossaries@lt;/ul@gt;@lt;p@gt;@lt;b@gt;GO RIGHT TO THE PHRASES YOU NEED FOR: ...