The first step in building financial security is to get a handle on your personal finances--from credit card balances and car payments to savings and investment plans. The Personal Finance Calculator is...

This is the book you will want everyone in your company to read before you start your Lean Six Sigma deployment. Written by professionals who have successfully rolled out Lean Six Sigma in numerous organizations, Leaning Into...

Issues of survey quality have become increasingly more prominent in recent years. As more and more professionals who are not necessarily trained as survey researchers take on tasks associated with surveys, the need arises for a grounded, basic introduction to current survey methods and...

This is the first book of its kind on seismic amplitude inversion in the context of reflection tomography. The aim of the monograph is to advocate the use of ray-amplitude data, separately or jointly with traveltime data, in reflection seismic tomography.

The emphasis of seismic exploration is on imaging techniques, so that...

Welcome to the Microsoft Windows Security Resource Kit. This book provides detailed information about security features in Microsoft Windows 2000 and Microsoft Windows XP and explains how to better secure computers running these operating systems. This book also provides information on managing security and privacy on...

You get huge development advantages with Microsoft visual Studio .NET 2003—but you need a new bag of debugging tricks to take full advantage of them in today’s .NET and Win32 development worlds. Learn lethally effective, real-world application debugging techniques for .NET Framework 1.1 and windows with this fully updated...

The past few years have seen a dramatic increase in the popularity and adoption of XML, the eXtensible Markup Language. This explosive growth is driven by its ability to provide a standardized, extensible means of including semantic information within documents describing semi-structured data. This makes it possible to...

The product of many years of practical experience and research in the software measurement business, Software Engineering Measurement lays the basis for measurement standards so that software engineers and system developers can begin to share experimental results in a more meaningful way. This technical reference helps you select what...

With The Ultimate Competitive Advantage, the authors have drawn on their proprietary experiences with and knowledge of top-performing small to large companies and nonprofits to raise CEO and company standards again. They show how all organizations can continually reinvent themselves to build increasing competitive advantages while...

With advances driven by pressure from governments, environmental activists, and its associated industries, the subject of electric and hybrid vehicles is becoming increasingly important. Trends clearly suggest that we must educate the engineers of today and tomorrow in the technical details of these vehicles. While there are many books that...