Business & Culture

Since the dawn of creation, man has designed maps to help identify the space that we occupy. From Lewis and Clark's pencil-sketched maps of mountain trails to Jacques Cousteau's sophisticated charts of the ocean floor, creating maps of the utmost precision has been a constant pursuit. So why should ... More

Programmers love its flexibility and speed; designers love its accessibility and convenience. When it comes to creating web sites, the PHP scripting language is truly a red-hot property. In fact, PHP is currently used on more than 19 million web sites, surpassing Microsoft's ASP .NET technology in p... More

This book will introduce you to techniques that are familiar, and many that are new. All of them are designed for the uncertainties of today's business environment. The key idea, positive uncertainty, is a concept that assumes change as an element of every decision we make. It calls for us to accept... More

Decision Support System (DSS)/Business Intelligence (BI) is quickly becoming a shared commodity across the organization. It helps decision-makers take better decisions because the decision-makers have more accurate information at their fingertips.The purpose of this book is to introduce the readers ... More

Through considerable research, creative minds have invented clever new ways to fight spam in all its nefarious forms. This landmark title describes, in depth, how statistical filtering is being used by next generation spam filters to identify and filter spam. Zdziarski explains how spam filtering wo... More

Containing the latest revisions to BS7799 and ISO17799, this book guides business managers through the issues involved in achieving ISO certification in Information Security Management and covers all aspects of data security. ... More

Larry Ellison started the high-flying tech company Oracle with $1,200 in 1977 and turned it into a billion-dollar Silicon Valley giant. If Bill Gates is the tech world's nerd king, Ellison is its Warren Beatty: racing yachts, buying jets, and romancing beautiful women. His rise to fame and fortune i... More

In times of rapid, pervasive change organization need to redefine what they are about constantly and challenge the ways they do business in order to proper. It is no longer possible either for a company to retain the kind of vital, creative people it needs unless it manages to keep its values in lin... More

As a network administrator, information security auditor, or network architect, you know the importance of securing your network and finding security solutions you can implement quickly. This succinct book departs from other security literature by focusing exclusively on ways to secure Cisco routers... More

Discover the value of conducting a needs analysis in responseto performance issues. This systematic, information-gathering process will helpyou evaluate current issues and reveal whether a well-targeted training programis needed. Learn how to pre-plan your needs analysis, how to investigateproblems,... More

Developing assertiveness is more that just learning to talk differently. Being assertive requires thinking assertively, feeling confident, and behaving positively. The benefits of positive assertiveness are endless. Your professional and personal relationships will thrive under your new understandin... More

The concise, well written guide is ideal for our new supervisor. I consider it required reading for all of my foremen training candidates. Production Superintendent Shell Oil 'This is an excellent book! Concise, logical, practical and easy to follow and apply. Vice President and Manager First nation... More