The Economics and Ethics of Private Property

In 1849, at a time when classical liberalism was still the dominant ideological force and “economist” and “socialist” were generally considered antonyms, Gustave de Molinari, a renowned Belgian economist, wrote, If there is one well-established truth in political economy, it is this: That in all cases, of all commodities that serve to provide for the tangible or intangible need of the c…

TCL/TK IN A NUTSHELL

This book is about Tcl, the scripting language developed by John Ousterhout. Tcl stands for tool command language and was originally designed as a simple scripting language interpreter that could be embedded inside applications written in the C language. With the addition of the Tk graphical toolkit and a host of other language extensions supporting such features as graphics, relational databas…

MANAGING THE RISKS OF EXTREME EVENTS AND DISASTERS TO ADVANCE CLIMATE CHANGE …

This volume, Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation, is a Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report is a collaborative effort of Working Group I (WGI) and Working Group II (WGII). The IPCC leadership team for this report also has responsibility for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), scheduled for c…

MANAGING THE RISKS OF EXTREME EVENTS AND DISASTERS TO ADVANCE CLIMATE CHANGE …

This volume, Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation, is a Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report is a collaborative effort of Working Group I (WGI) and Working Group II (WGII). The IPCC leadership team for this report also has responsibility for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), scheduled for c…

Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change …

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Modeling the Internet and the Web

Since its early ARPANET inception during the Cold War, the Internet has grown by a staggering nine orders of magnitude. Today, the Internet and the World Wide Web pervade our lives, having fundamentally altered the way we seek, exchange, distribute, and process information. The Internet has become a powerful social force, transforming communication, entertainment, commerce, politics, medicine, …

Children's Anxiety: A Contextual Approach

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Application Design

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 released many new features that makes it a true xRM Framework to develop custom applications. This book will help you to learn all the new features of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 and to use them to develop real-world business applications. You will learn all the technical aspects of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 that are related to customization, extension, and integra…

Technology and Global Industry

In the last decade it has become increasingly clear that the character of the world economy—and the role of the United States in the world economy—is changing. Two characteristics of global economic change are particularly important. First, over the last 35 years there has been substantial relative growth (in pan simply postwar reconstruction) of national economies in Europe and Asia. In th…

International Competition in Advanced Technology: Decisions for America

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Corporate Governance Principles

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The Internationalization of U.S. Manufacturing: Causes and Consequences

Internationalization is an increasingly pervasive force in U.S. manufacturing, creating new sources of competition and new standards for competitiveness. The growing importance of imports and exports in domestic manufacturing and the significant rise in foreign investment in the United States in recent years are the most obvious evidence of internationalization. Less obvious, but more important…

Treating Trauma and Traumatic Grief in Children and Adolescents

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Thinking in LINQ

This book won’t teach you the basics of LINQ. It will teach you how to use it appropriately. Having a jackhammer is great only if you know how to use it properly; otherwise, you are not much better off than someone with a hammer. LINQ is powerful. Powerful beyond measure. I hope you will see some of that power by following the examples in the book. Here is a brief walk-through of the chapter…

Designing for Behavior Change Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics

The Nike+ FuelBand, a wristband that automatically tracks your movement and helps you exercise more (one of a dozen new, wear- able computing devices on the market) • Nest, a thermostat that learns your home heating schedule, rein- forces good energy usage with a simple phone app, and automates saving money on electricity bills • GlowCap, a cap for prescription bottles that flashes when i…

Social Skills groups for Children and adolescents with Asperger Syndrome

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TouchDevelop Programming on the Go

The sales figures for smartphones continue to rise exponentially. Tablet computers are showing a similarly phenomenal adoption rate and are replacing laptop computers in many areas of life. We can imagine a time when nearly everyone is carrying around a powerful computer in the form of a smartphone or a tablet. The term mobile device is used to cover such devices. Typically, an app (an applicat…

Recreational Drug Consumption An Economic Perspective

The use of psychoactive drugs—licit and illicit—is associated with a range of adverse effects on both physical and mental health. Such health consequences range from short-term effects such as insomnia and abdominal pain to longterm effects such as seizures, strokes, paranoia, liver cirrhosis and heart disease (IHME 2013). Other than health effects, drug use is also associated with an …

VB & VBA in a Nutshell- The Language

To applications developers, end users, corporate buyer, and software vendors, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is becoming an increasingly important language. But VBA is more than just another software language, VBA is a unique conceptual method of creating professional business-oriented solutions.

VISUAL BASIC® 2012 PROGRAMMER’S REFERENCE

IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT SIR ISAAC NEWTON was the last person to know everything. He was an accomplished physicist (his three laws of motion were the basis of classical mechanics, which defi ned astrophysics for three centuries), mathematician (he was one of the inventors of calculus and developed Newton’s Method for fi nding roots of equations), astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist (o…

Socioeconomic Renovation in Viet Nam

Since 1986, Viet Nam has been involved in a renovation process (doi moi) in order to promote socioeconomic development and closer integration with the rest of the world. A wide range of theoretical and practical problems have cropped up relating to various aspects of national social life, as well as relationships with foreign countries. These have become urgent topics for research and have …

International Trade

In September 2008, the BBC launched an ambitious project to follow The Box. The Box in question was an ordinary shipping container, except it had been painted with the BBC logo and equipped with a GPS transmitter. The plan was to follow it as it moved around the world. (The project is named after a book by Marc Levinson that describes how the humble container changed the face of world trade.) W…

TRACKING GENDER EQUITY UNDER ECONOMIC REFORMS

It is unlikely that there will be much difference of opinion about the fact that along with class, gender continues to be a basic criterion that structures most societies around the globe. In South Asia, the region which provides the main context of the research presented in this book, caste divisions combine with class and gender to generate what must be among the most complex and highly struc…

Web Programming with Dart

Welcome to Web Programming with Dart. Early, in our careers we came to recognize how our world would change thanks to the Internet and especially to web applications. Every device we use in our daily lives uses the Internet intensively. If we consider the different sizes and characteristics of devices and the different operating systems available, we understand the complexity of software applic…

Accounting for Managers: Interpreting accounting information for decision-making

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Clinical Procedure Guidelines FOR CONNECTICUT SCHOOL NURSES

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WINDOWS® PHONE 7 PROGRAMMING FOR ANDROID™ AND iOS DEVELOPERS

ONE OF THE MAJOR DRIVING FORCES BEHIND the boom in smartphones and tablet devices is mobile applications. Since the Apple iPhone was launched in 2007, the mobile developer community has created a vast number of ubiquitous applications for iOS devices and Google Android devices. Mobile applications for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) are poised to grow in the next several years, driven by the software gia…

APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY FOR NURSES

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Writing Excel Macros with VBA

As the title suggests, this book is for those who want to learn how to program Microsoft Excel Version 8 (for Office 97) and Version 9 (for Office 2000). We should begin by addressing the question, "Why would anyone want to program Microsoft Excel?" The answer is simple: to get more power out of this formidable application. As you will see, there are many things that you can do at the progra…

Applied Psychology for Nurses

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