This sixth edition of Water Quality & Treatment: A Handbook on Drinking Water serves as a handbook for scientists, engineers, and other professionals who study and work in drinking water—particularly the quality of water supplies, the quality of treated drinking water, and water treatment processes. It is meant as a resource for...

The versatile capabilities and large set of add-on packages make R an excellent alternative to many existing and often expensive data mining tools. Exploring this area from the perspective of a practitioner, Data Mining with R: Learning with Case Studies uses practical examples to illustrate the power of R and data...

Doing business online is no longer an oddity, but the norm, and companies desiring to remain competitive have to maintain some form of online presence. Doing business online means a company has to be able to efficiently, reliably, and securely take payments from consumers and other merchants. This book is written to provide the...

The Power of FOCUS … Over the past several decades we all have been trying to use information through technology to optimize our businesses and make our lives easier. So why have so many businesses failed and why do most organizations continue to struggle to fi nd that “ competitive advantage ” that will take them to the...

Microsoft SharePoint is taking the world by storm. More and more, web designers are being blown along with it — whether they want to be or not. SharePoint is a large, complicated web application. There is a lot of confl icting, confusing (and sometimes just plain bad) advice fl oating around with regard to how to go about customizing...

Silverlight 4 is Microsoft's cross-browser technology for creating rich user experiences on the Web. Like its predecessor, Silverlight 3, it rides atop the .NET framework for maximum ease of use and coding efficiency. The new technology carries forward much of the work that has been done before and augments it in many important respects,...

Photoshop Elements offers professional-quality photo editing tools in a reasonably priced software package with user-friendly features. This book shows you how to use those features, with easy, step-by-step instructions illustrated with full-color screen...