“kurt windisch”

Covering everything from how to gather business requirements to logical data modeling and normalization, this reference shows how to implement design on SQL Server 2005. The authors then provide in-depth advice on optimal code distribution in SQL Server 2005 applications, in the wake of innovations ... More

According to Vonnegut`s alter ego, science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13 february 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to back up a decade to 1991, making eve... More

Before the Golden Age of magazines drew to a close half a century ago, a young PR man at General Electric sold his first short story to one of the doomed publications. By the time he'd sold his third, he decided to quit GE and join the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald and Faulkner, and try to make ... More

What makes a trip to a national park so wonderful? For starters, America's national park system is more diverse than any park system in the world. You can stroll the seashore at Olympic National Park in Washington or Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts, climb craggy mountains in Grand Teton ... More

The Informant is Mark Whitacre, a senior executive with America's most powerful food giant, who put his career and his family's safety at risk to become a confidential government witness. Using Whitacre's secret recordings and a team of agents, the FBI uncovered the corporation's sch... More

Covering everything from design logic that business users will understand all the way to the physical implementation of the design in an SQL Server database, this title teaches effective and scalable database design techniques in an SQL Server environment.Learn effective and scalable database design... More

Wilbur Sain and his twin sister, Eliza, are so immensely hideous, helpless and vile in their infancy that teir wealthy parents are forced to send them to live on a nearby asteroid. But behind their façade of idiocy, the monstrous pair possess a joint intelligence that could outstrip the most advanc... More

To be published on the first anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, "Armageddon in Retrospect" is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humor, the pieces range from a visceral nonfiction recollection of the destruction of Dresden... More

The first textbook to chart the development of the field of evolutionary economics, this book provides an integrated generic framework to define the rules of an economic system; how they are coordinated and the causes and consequences of their change.Packed with pedagogical features including essay ... More