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The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge

2009-07-11T19:28:00.000-07:00

The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge
Author: Peter M. Senge
Paperback: 424 pages
Publisher: Doubleday Business; 1st edition (October 1, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385260954
ISBN-13: 978-0385260954
Format: PDF | 3.7MB

Peter Senge, founder of the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT's Sloan School of Management, experienced an epiphany while meditating one morning back in the fall of 1987. That was the day he first saw the possibilities of a "learning organization" that used "systems thinking" as the primary tenet of a revolutionary management philosophy. He advanced the concept into this primer, originally released in 1990, written for those interested in integrating his philosophy into their corporate culture.

The Fifth Discipline has turned many readers into true believers; it remains the ideal introduction to Senge's carefully integrated corporate framework, which is structured around "personal mastery," "mental models," "shared vision," and "team learning." Using ideas that originate in fields from science to spirituality, Senge explains why the learning organization matters, provides an unvarnished summary of his management principals, offers some basic tools for practicing it, and shows what it's like to operate under this system. The book's concepts remain stimulating and relevant as ever. --Howard Rothman

A director at MIT's Sloan School, Senge here proposes the "systems thinking" method to help a corporation to become a "learning organization," one that integrates at all personnel levels indifferently related company functions (sales, product design, etc.) to "expand the ability to produce." He describes requisite disciplines, of which systems-thinking is the fifth. Others include "personal mastery" of one's capacities and "team learning" through group discussion of individual objectives and problems. Employees and managers are also encouraged to examine together their often negative perceptions or "mental models" of company people and procedures. The text is esoteric and flavored with terms like "recontextualized rationality," but the book should help inventory-addled retailers whom the author cites as unaware of their customers' desire for quality. Macmillan Book Clubs selection.

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Chromatography in the Petroleum Industry

2009-07-11T19:20:00.000-07:00

Chromatography in the Petroleum Industry Elsevier Science Pub Co | 1994-11-01 | ISBN: 0444897763 | 452 pages | PDF | 16MB

Hardbound. Petroleum mixtures consist primarily of relatively unreactive complex hydrocarbons covering a wide boiling range. Such mixtures are difficult to separate by most analytical techniques. Therefore, the petroleum industry has for many years played a leading role in the development of chromatographic methods of analysis. Since the last book specifically concerned with chromatographic analysis of petroleum appeared 15 years ago, numerous advances have been made including developments in liquid and supercritical fluid chromatography, the advent of silica capillary columns with bonded stationary phases and the commercial availability of new selective detectors.

The current book contains chapters written by experts concerning the analysis of mixtures ranging from low boiling gases to waxes and crude oils. Silica capillary columns offer excellent resolution but they cannot separate all mixtures; therefore a chapter is devoted to the powerful complemen
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303 Tricky Tactics

2009-07-11T19:17:00.000-07:00

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Spread Trading: Low-Risk Strategies for Profiting from Market Relationships

2009-07-10T20:44:00.000-07:00

"Spread Trading" explains the opportunities afforded by this hedge technique for beating the market by capitalizing on recognized relationships in the commodity and financial markets. Abell analyzes historical spread relationships, then details time-proven strategies Pub: 6/97.

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The Evaluation and Optimization of Trading Strategies, 2nd Edition

2009-07-10T20:42:00.000-07:00

Wiley | ISBN-10: 0470128011 | 2008 | 367 pages | PDF | 6 MB

With all of the changes in communications, technology, and trading styles, a thorough and comprehensive working knowledge of how to properly design and test strategies has never been more important than it has become in today’s extremely competitive markets. That’s why Robert Pardo has created The Evaluation and Optimization of Trading Strategies, Second Edition. For anyone planning to employ algorithmic or mechanical strategies in their trading, this book offers the information you need to properly understand and execute them.

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Your First Business Plan: A Simple Question and Answer Format Designed to Help You

2009-07-10T20:38:00.000-07:00

Brian Hazelgren - Your First Business Plan: A Simple Question and Answer Format Designed to Help You Write Your Own Plan , 5th Edition Sourcebooks | 2005 | ISBN: 1402204124 | Pages: 256 | PDF | 6.35 MB

The first business plan is often the most difficult to write. A company may have little or no history, and often may not know lender requirements, what to stress and what to avoid. Your First Business Plan simplifies the process by outlining the different parts of a business plan and, in an uncomplicated question-and-answer style, helps the business owner create a winning plan for their business.

The easy-to-follow chapters show entrepreneurs how to:
• Think through strategies and balance enthusiasm with facts
• Capture and hold the interest of potential lenders and investors
• Understand and develop their financial statements
• Recognize the unique selling advantage of their products or services
• Avoid potentially disastrous errors like undercapitalization and negative cash flow

Also included in this book:
• A glossary of planning and financial terms
• A complete sample business plan

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Aircraft Systems: Mechanical, Electrical and Avionics Subsystems Integration

2009-07-10T20:34:00.000-07:00

Aircraft Systems: Mechanical, Electrical and Avionics Subsystems Integration (Aerospace Series (PEP)) by Ian Moir, Allan Seabridge Publisher: Wiley; 3 edition (June 3, 2008) | 546 pages | ISBN: 0470059966 | PDF | 7.1 MB

This third edition of Aircraft Systems represents a timely update of the Aerospace Series’ successful and widely acclaimed flagship title. Moir and Seabridge present an in-depth study of the general systems of an aircraft – electronics, hydraulics, pneumatics, emergency systems and flight control to name but a few - that transform an aircraft shell into a living, functioning and communicating flying machine. Advances in systems technology continue to alloy systems and avionics, with aircraft support and flight systems increasingly controlled and monitored by electronics; the authors handle the complexities of these overlaps and interactions in a straightforward and accessible manner that also enhances synergy with the book’s two sister volumes, Civil Avionics Systems and Military Avionics Systems.

Aircraft Systems, 3rd Edition is thoroughly revised and expanded from the last edition in 2001, reflecting the significant technological and procedural changes that have occurred in the interim – new aircraft types, increased electronic implementation, developing markets, increased environmental pressures and the emergence of UAVs. Every chapter is updated, and the latest technologies depicted. It offers an essential reference tool for aerospace industry researchers and practitioners such as aircraft designers, fuel specialists, engine specialists, and ground crew maintenance providers, as well as a textbook for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students in systems engineering, aerospace and engineering avionics.

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Advanced.Programming.In.The.UNIX.Environment.2nd.Edition.2005

2009-07-10T20:29:00.000-07:00

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Cabling: The Complete Guide to Network Wiring

2009-05-30T06:02:00.000-07:00

In this third edition of a widely acclaimed resource, three networking experts share their extensive experience, teaching you the cabling skills you need to build a reliable, efficient, and cost-effective network cabling infrastructure. As you master these techniques, you’ll learn to avoid common pitfalls and troubleshoot problems as quickly as they arise. Coverage includes:
* Choosing the right cables and components for your network architecture and topology
* Avoiding unnecessary and unexpected costs
* Understanding the current limitations of data communications and network cabling
* Understanding how laws and building codes constrain cabling
* Understanding the function and importance of universal cabling standards
* Determining when you have a cabling-related network problem
* Assembling a complete cabling toolkit
* Integrating voice and data on the same cable system
* Setting up an infrastructure in which desktops, printers, copiers, and other nodes share cabling
* Understanding issues of bandwidth, impedance, resistance, attenuation, crosstalk, capacitance, propagation, delay, and delay skew
* Working effectively with USB and Firewire
* Knowing when to discard legacy cabling and begin anew
* Documenting your cabling
* Creating an RFP and selecting a vendor

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PC World - June 2009

2009-05-30T05:58:00.000-07:00

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Design Patterns in Ruby

2009-05-30T05:57:00.000-07:00

If you’re already a programmer, this book an excellent way to learn Ruby. It shows how to apply a variety of common and largely language-independent programming structures (”design patterns”) in “the Ruby way”. Along the way, you get a great introduction to what makes Ruby unique, and the idioms commonly used in the Ruby community. I especially liked that the author often showed multiple implementations of each pattern, each implementation being more elegant and Ruby-esque than the last, and included a discussion of when each might (and might not!) be appropriate. I also appreciated the helpful discussion of the ways you might shoot yourself in the foot with each pattern in Ruby, as well as the pointers to where you could find the pattern used in Ruby “in the wild” (in various software freely available on the Internet)

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Hacking The Art of Exploitation

2009-05-30T05:55:00.000-07:00

This is an excellent book about hacking. Includes a very well written introduction to the C programming language. The book contains very useful chapters on Networking and on Cryptology with lots of hand-on examples. I highly recommend it if you want to learn hacking techniques presented in a systematic way

This book teaches hacking in the old sense of the word and contains the explanation that most others books don’t - and at the same time it introduces all the basic skills for performing various types of overflow attacks. Then the book also digress into some wireless security and even WEP cracking, but this part is pretty slim, not bad, just only a few pages. This is OK, since I think of this more as an example of extending the hacking into new areas and hopefully inspires more people to look into wireless security.
The best part about this book is that it is not just a book with a random Live-CD. It is an inspiration and your fingers will itch to get started trying the examples explained and experiment with the programs. This alone is the single feature that makes this book worth it, you will do the exercises and learn from them. Learn a lot.
To sum it up this books contains clever tricks and easy to follow exercises, so you can learn to apply them.
Target audience
This book is for anyone interested in hacking and developing exploits. While the primary target audience is newcomers to this field I benefitted from the thorough walkthrough of the basics once again. This book kept reminding me about things I have forgotten and also some new things and tricks I hadn’t thought of myself
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WordPress Theme Design

2009-05-30T05:53:00.000-07:00

This title will take you through the ins and outs of creating sophisticated professional themes for the WordPress personal publishing platform. It will walk you through clear, step-by-step instructions to build a custom WordPress theme. From development tools and setting up your WordPress sandbox, through design tips and suggestions, to setting up your theme’s template structure, coding markup, testing and debugging, to taking it live it reviews the best practices. The last three chapters are dedicated to additional tips, tricks and various cookbook recipes for adding popular site enhancements to your WordPress theme designs using third-party plugins

Whether you’re working with a pre-existing theme or creating a new one from the ground up, WordPress Theme Design will give you the know-how to understand how themes work within the WordPress blog system, enabling you to take full control over your site’s design and branding

What you will learn from this book

Set up a basic workflow and development environment for WordPress theme design
Create detailed designs and code them up
Enhance your sites by choosing the right color schemes and graphics
Debug and validate your theme using W3C’s XHTML and CSS validation tools
Customize and tweak your theme’s layout
Set up dynamic drop-down menus, AJAX/dynamic and interactive forms
Download and install useful plug-ins and widgetize your theme
Improve post and page content using jQuery and ThickBox
Add interactivity to your themes using Flash
Includes a reference guide to WordPress 2.0’s template hierarchy, markup, styles and template tags, as well as include and loop functions

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Breaking Through BIOS Barrier - Definitive BIOS Optimization PC

2009-05-30T05:50:00.000-07:00

The first authoritative guide to optimizing your PC’s BIOS
Your PC’s BIOS enables your software and hardware to work together. But they can work together better—way better. If you want the best possible PC performance and stability, this book shows you exactly what to tweak, and how to tweak it

Until now, most BIOS information was terse, incomprehensible…practically useless. Not anymore! Breaking Through the BIOS Barrier: The Definitive BIOS Optimization Guide for PCs reveals the secrets behind 200 of today’s most important BIOS settings. You won’t just learn what they’re for: You’ll learn exactly how to use them in both optimization and troubleshooting
Author Adrian Wong created the Web’s #1 BIOS resource: the BIOS Optimization Guide at Adrian’s Rojak Pot. Nobody knows more about your PC’s BIOS… and no other book delivers this much accurate, usable information!

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Ankit Fadia Ebook collection all in one

2009-04-09T19:59:00.001-07:00

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How to Do Everything with Windows XP Home Networking

2009-01-09T16:38:00.000-08:00

How to Do Everything with Windows XP Home Networking (How to Do Everything) 394 pages | McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (October 27, 2004) | ISBN-10: 0072258098 | PDF | 14649 KB

Network the computers and peripheral devices in your home or small office easily with help from this hands-on guide. How to Do Everything with Windows XP Home Networking explains, step-by-step, how to select the best components for your needs, set up a wired or wireless network, share an Internet connection, printer, and other resources, secure your network, and fight spam, viruses, and other potential threats. Get the book that makes it easy to design your own home network.

-Plan your network and determine the hardware and software requirements
-Install and configure a wired or wireless network
-Connect your network to the Internet
-Secure your network and prevent hacking, identity theft, and other attacks
-Share printers, drives, files, and other resources
-Set up an effective anti-virus solution
-Combat annoying spam, spyware, adware, and phishing scams
-Chat and send instant messages safely
-Purchase items online securely

About the authors: Dave Field is a systems engineer who manages all information systems at Camp Snoopy in the Mall of America in Minneapolis, MN. He is the author of several computer books, including MCSA Managing a Windows 2000 Network Environment Instructor’s Manual from McGraw-Hill/Osborne. Andrew Brandt is an editor for PC World magazine where he writes the Privacy Watch column as well as various articles on networking, security, and gaming.

Size: 13.9 MB

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Java in 60 Minutes A Day

2009-01-09T16:36:00.000-08:00

Java in 60 Minutes A Day
Wiley | 800 Pages | 2003 | ISBN: 0471423149 | PDF | 6.6 MB

The goal of this book, Java in 60 Minutes a Day is for you to be able to study each chapter in one hour, like a student sitting through a one-hour lecture. After you finish a chapter, there are labs that solidify what you learned by having you write code. You will also find review questions and answers at the end of each chapter to help you review the key points of the chapter. Also throughout the book are Classroom Q&A sections where I answer questions that I have frequently been asked by students in the classroom.

The book contains 19 chapters. The first eight chapters discuss the fundamentals of the Java language, and should be read in order. The order of the last 11 chapters isn’t quite as important, although you will find that many of the labs build on the ones from previous chapters. The following sections describe what you will learn in this book’s chapters.

Shows readers how to use Java to harness the power of object-oriented programming
Includes thirty one-hour lessons that recreate a typical week-long introductory seminar
Focuses on the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Helps readers to develop skills that are critical to many Web services scenarios The author was one of the first Sun Certified Instructors and has since taught Java to thousands of developers
Companion Web site features an online presentation by the author that follows along with each chapter and includes an audio-only option for readers with dial-up Internet connection.

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DirectX 9 Graphics: The Definitive Guide to Direct 3D

2009-01-09T16:34:00.000-08:00

Alan Thorn, "DirectX 9 Graphics: The Definitive Guide to Direct 3D"

DirectX 9 Graphics: The Definitive Guide to Direct3D provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to getting started with DirectX, with a specific focus on Direct3D, a technology designed to create interactive multimedia products. This book demystifies DirectX, starting with the basics of setting up a DirectX application and finishing with the intricacies of real-time 3D animation.

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Windows Vista Inside Out

2009-01-09T16:33:00.001-08:00

Written by the authors of the immensely popular Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out, this book packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds for using the latest version of the Microsoft Windows operating systemall in concise, fast-answer format. Dig into the work-ready tools and resources that help you take your Windows Vista experience to the next level. Get the answers you need to use the new features of Windows Vista, including the sidebar and gadgets, and the Windows slideshow. Youll also discover how to use new features in Microsoft Windows Media Player and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7. Get up-to-date information on how to configure and customize your desktop, how to use new security-enhanced features, and more.

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Home Handyman : Electrics and Lighting

2009-01-09T16:31:00.000-08:00

Mary Lambert (ed.) "Home Handyman : Electrics and Lighting"

Aura Book Distribution Limited | 1980 | ISBN: 0863072585 | 84 pages | PDF | 12.1 MB

Electrics and Lighting takes you through all the most popular electrical jobs around the house, from installing sockets and switches to wiring up cookers and electric showers. For the security-conscious, there's a section on how to install your own burglar alarm. There is also advice on lighting indoors and outside.

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Designing Web Animation

2009-01-09T16:29:00.000-08:00

Peter Chen, David Miller, Paul Van Eyk, William E. Weinman and Nicola Brown, "Designing Web Animation" New Riders Publishing | ISBN 1562056476 | August 1996 | 324 Pages | 3.7 MB Includes step-by-step examples of animation techniques that require little or no programming!

This is a thorough, fact-filled guide to creating Web animations. The beginning chapters serve as a primer for animation concepts such as cell and flip-book animation and techniques such as onion-skinning. But throughout the rest of the book, animators get advice on creating animated GIFs as well as Java, QuickTime, Shockwave, and server-push (CGI-based) animations. The authors discuss the pros and cons of each type of animation, and provide tips on using animation-creation software. You also get a solid discussion of Web-production issues such as file size and cross-platform compatibility, and of sound and special effects. This is a truly well-rounded approach, and beginning and experienced animators alike can learn much from the book. An included (hybrid) CD has trial versions of Macromedia Director 5 and Authorware, animation-creation utilities, and Shockwave plug-ins.

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PC World Magazine Power Guides ... All-In-One

2009-01-04T22:47:00.000-08:00

PC World Magazine Power Guides ... All-In-One
Application Includes: 01- Advanced Web Tricks 02- Digital Cameras 03- Free Software 04- Hardware Tweaks 05- Home Electronics 06- PC Fixes 07- PC Upgrades 08- Reliable Hardware 09- Software Add-Ons 10- Stopping Spyware 11- Storage Options 12- Trouble-Free PC 13- Using Windows 14- Windows 15- Wireless Networking

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Motor Trend January 2009

2009-01-04T22:45:00.000-08:00

Motor Trend

is one of the oldest automobile magazines still publishing. It first appeared in September 1949, issued by Petersen

Publishing Company
in Los Angeles, and bearing the tag line The Magazine for a Motoring World. Today it is published by Source Interlink and boasts a paid monthly circulation of over one million readers. One of the earliest and most enduring of the magazine's creations was its Car of the Year award, given almost continuously since its inception, although the phrase itself would not become entrenched until well into the 50s. (The first winner was the 1949 Cadillac.) The award has gone through several splits and permutations over the years, being called the Golden Wheels Award for a while in the 70s and having given rise to Truck of the Year and Import Car of the Year as well as SUV of the Year. Nevertheless, it is still coveted by manufacturers and is usually covered by the mainstream press as the most important distinction awarded in the American auto industry.

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Macworld January 2009

2009-01-04T22:43:00.000-08:00

Macworld is a web site and monthly computer magazine dedicated to Apple Macintosh products. It is published by Mac Publishing, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Published since 1984, the magazine has the largest audited circulation (both total and newsstand) of Macintosh-focused magazines in North America, more than double its nearest competitor, Mac|Life (formerly MacAddict). Macworld was founded by David Bunnell (publisher) and Andrew Fluegelman (editor).

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PC World January 2009

2009-01-04T22:41:00.000-08:00

PC World January 2009 | PDF | English | 124 pages | 20 MB

PC World is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG. It offers advice on various aspects of PCs and related items, the Internet, and other personal-technology products and services. In each publication, PC world reviews and tests hardware and software products from a variety of manufacturers, as well as other technology related devices such as still and video cameras, audio devices and televisions.

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