“stephen d huston”

As networks, devices, and systems continue to evolve, software engineers face the unique challenge of creating reliable distributed applications within frequently changing environments. "C++ Network Programming, Volume 1," provides practical solutions for developing and optimizing complex distribute... More

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the study of politics, political concepts and ideas, the varieties of political systems, the main political movements and the core issues which will dominate politics in the twenty-first century. The third edition has been fully updated to include the mos... More

"If you're designing software and systems that must be portable, flexible, extensible, predictable, reliable, and affordable, this book and the ACE toolkit will enable you to be more effective in all of these areas. Even after spending over a decade developing ACE and using it to build networked sof... More

Foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational corporations (MNCs)--for better and worse--play a large and growing role in shaping our world. The integrating thesis of this book is the inevitability of heterogeneity in FDI and MNCs and, accordingly, the imperative of disaggregation. Large compani... More

Advanced scientific research coupled with the study of many long-lived people of the East has shown that the effects of ageing can be modified so that most of us could arrive at old age skipping rather than crawling. Dr. Fulder's approach to longevity seeks to increase the body's ability to deal wit... More

Updated and revised, this book presents the application of engineering design and analysis based on the approach of understanding the physical characteristics of a given problem and then modeling the important aspects of the physical system. This third edition provides coverage of new topics includi... More

This is an accessible and practical introduction to research that addresses the broadest spectrum of research methodologies of interest to the student or new research, from experimental and survey approaches to program evaluation and ethnography. "Research Essentials" includes key interpretive and q... More