"The attraction of balanced scorecards is to help translate strategy into the stories, business logic and tasks that grab people's imaginations and so result in purposeful action. Yet, too often, it hasn't worked that way. In a refreshingly honest and pragmatic way, the authors analyse both the successes and failures of companies using...
"Applying the lively techniques in this book will make anyone’s digital camera a more productive tool." —Al Francekevich, acclaimed professional photographer
Make the most of your digital camera! Whether you’ve just pur-chased your first one or you’re an old hand at digital photography,...
Learn how to transform XP theory into concrete Java® development techniques!
Software developers live by the mantra "evolve or die." Adhering to that philosophy, Richard Hightower and Nicholas Lesiecki present you with an innovative book about Extreme Programming (XP)–– a development methodology that...
This handy, compact guide teaches you to use BSD UNIX systems as the experts do: from the command line. Try out more than 1,000 commands to find and get software, monitor system health and security, and access network resources. Apply the skills you learn from this book to use and...
"...excellent and interesting reading for digital signal processing engineers and designers and for postgraduate students in electrical and computer faculties." (Mathematical Reviews, 2002d)
Signal Analysis explores methods that offer an insight into the properties of signals and stochastic processes. This...
Restore, refresh, and fine-tune your favorite photos
Take years off your keepsake photos or enhance the current ones with Photoshop CS3's powerful tools and the expert techniques and tips you'll find in this comprehensive guide. Using step-by-step instructions and over 500 pages of full-color examples, this book shows you...
This book teaches you how to program your own applications easily on Nokia smartphones based on Symbian OS and the S60 platform. A wide range of smartphone functionalities re covered, including camera, sound and graphics, Bluetooth, Internet, Positioning, messaging and reading of incoming SMS. Over 100 inspiring and fully working application...
An eminent futures trader explores crucial factors in the markets that most experts overlook--time, volume and open interest--and describes little-known indicators to profitably track them. Covers all the popular technical approaches to futures, options and stock markets including Elliott Wave, oscillators, moving averages, Market Logic,...
Following on from the successful MPEG-2 standard, MPEG-4 Visual is enabling a new wave of multimedia applications from Internet video streaming to mobile video conferencing. The new H.264 ‘Advanced Video Coding’ standard promises impressive compression performance and is gaining support from developers and manufacturers. The first...
Risk has two sides: underestimating it harms the investor, while overestimating it prevents the implementation of bold business projects. This book explains, from the point of view of the practitioner, the analysis of investment risk - a proper account of adequate risk management strategies - and offers an objective and readable account of the most...
"As in the previous edition, this book is a good resource for practitioners and cross-disciplinary researchers who use data from complex survey designs." (Journal of the American Statistical Association, March 2006)
"The first edition of the book was one of the first books in the excellent Wiley U.K. series on...
Release the power of Mac’s newest OS and multimedia tools!
Work with files, set up a printer, use the iLife® suite, get online, and more
The Mac has become famous as the world’s friendliest computer, but this handy guide will smooth out any rough spots that might arise in your relationship. It takes you from the...
