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Standards Battles in Open Source Software: The Case of Firefox
Standards Battles in Open Source Software: The Case of Firefox

The browser war between Firefox and Internet Explorer presents an intriguing case: how did Firefox manage to achieve a relatively significant market share in a ‘winner-takes-all’ industry? Why did  Firefox manage to gain some market share while other competitors have failed? Is this because of the Open Source characteristics...

Offshore Outsourcing of IT Work: Client and Supplier Perspectives
Offshore Outsourcing of IT Work: Client and Supplier Perspectives

Based on over 200 interviews, this new book provides rich insights and practices on the toughest challenges facing offshore client/supplier relationships.  While many client organizations found benefits to be gained from the offshoring of IT work, others struggled to realize any cost savings or other improvements. How...

Global Energy Transformation: Four Necessary Steps to Make Clean Energy the Next Success Story
Global Energy Transformation: Four Necessary Steps to Make Clean Energy the Next Success Story
Over the next few years, political and financial power will move in the direction of individuals, companies and nations that are able to use energy in a more efficient way. This book describes this challenge and presents a way forward by which we may achieve the goal of increased energy efficiency in the different areas that need to...
Business Creativity: Breaking the Invisible Barriers
Business Creativity: Breaking the Invisible Barriers
Many companies and organizations have found it difficult to develop creative skills. The authors argue that while individuals have inherent creativity there are a number of assassins or barriers that block individual creative development. This bold new approach to creativity enhancement will focus upon how to remove barriers and create...
Interest Rate Modelling (Finance and Capital Markets)
Interest Rate Modelling (Finance and Capital Markets)
Growth in the derivatives markets has brought with it an ever-increasing volume and range of interest rate dependent derivative products. To allow profitable, efficient trading in these products, accurate and mathematically sound valuation techniques are required to make pricing, hedging and risk management of the resulting positions possible. ...
The Birth of Satan: Tracing the Devil's Biblical Roots
The Birth of Satan: Tracing the Devil's Biblical Roots
"An informative study of the biblical origins of Satan…With resourceful though never excessive citation, Mobley and Wray make a good job of pinning down the roots of a notoriously protean character."--The Times Literary Supplement

"Let's admit it. Even in a secular age we are all still
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Stop the Screaming: How to Turn Angry Conflict With Your Child into Positive Communication
Stop the Screaming: How to Turn Angry Conflict With Your Child into Positive Communication
I wrote Stop the Screaming in order to help parents better understand and resolve conflicts with their children and adolescents. Not abusive or violent, these are the conflicts that arise in the normal course of family life. They happen at any time or on any occasion—during play, at family meals, and even on vacations. They are typically...
Sherman (Great Generals)
Sherman (Great Generals)
"A fast-paced look at the military career of Grant’s most trusted, effective subordinate, the latest from the publisher’s handy Great Generals Series." -- Kirkus Reviews
 
"An excellent brief life of a major and controversial...
Learning, Working and Living: Mapping the Terrain of Working Life Learning
Learning, Working and Living: Mapping the Terrain of Working Life Learning
Debate about organization and workplace learning has now moved on from viewing learning as a way of fostering control. This book suggests that by focusing on learning as a way of living, the needs of production can be reconciled with the need for employees to have satisfying engagement with their work.

This book draws together two
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Growing Up Online: Young People and Digital Technologies
Growing Up Online: Young People and Digital Technologies
“From blogs to video games, from living rooms to internet café’s, from Africa to Canada, Growing up Online has it all.  Transcending the hype and moral panic that typically pervade adult discourses about youth and media, the essays in this collection deconstruct the complexities of young people’s relationship with a...
The Future of Mobile Communications: Awaiting the Third Generation
The Future of Mobile Communications: Awaiting the Third Generation
The aim of this book is to investigate the prospects for mobile communications in the new millennium. In effect, this boils down to a key issue: Will the so-called third generation of mobile (alternatively, wireless or cellular) technology turn out to be a success or a failure? This is no minor issue since telecommunications is one of the...
Philosophy of Religion in the 21st Century (Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion)
Philosophy of Religion in the 21st Century (Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion)

"Scholars who are interested in getting up-to-date in contemporary philosophy of religion will find this book quite valuable."--Daniel A. Dombrowski, Religious Studies Review

The symposia and discussions presented here represent the proceedings of the 1999 annual philosophy of religion conference which took place at
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