Technology and it’s take up and use by individuals and business has transformed how we run our lives and our businesses over the past sixty years. That rate of change is accelerating as we find new uses for ever more capable technologies which can be applied to more areas of our lives than imagined even ten years ago. Today we are learning and being trained to be capable members of the workfo…
This is the purpose of Values Sell: Transforming Purpose into Profit Through Creative Sales and Distribution Strategies. Our goal is to share ideas and techniques that have proved successful for other small businesses and to provide you with strategies that will help you develop your own “creative game plan” for increasing sales and more efficiently distributing your product.
The goal of having computers automatically solve problems is central to artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the broad area encompassed by what Turing called “machine intelligence” (Turing, 1948). Machine learning pioneer Arthur Samuel, in his 1983 talk entitled “AI: Where It Has Been and Where It Is Going” (Samuel, 1983), stated that the main goal of the fields of machine l…
With an increasing number of technologies being added to the marketing toolkit, marketers are beginning to view technology as a key component of their overall strategy. Without question, marketers are at the apex of digital evolution. Functional marketing silos are going away, and data and applications are now being tightly connected for improved customer lifecycle management, omni-channel…
Computer networking is a fascinating field that has interested many for quite a few years. The purpose of this brief book is to give a general, non-mathematical, introduction to the technology of networks. This includes discussions of types of communication, many networking standards, popular protocols, venues where net- working is important such as data centers, cloud computing and grid comput…
Abstract For more than half a century the discipline of economics has been based on an inadequate and misleading description of human nature. Translated into what students remember, and what has increasingly risen to the top in Anglo-American culture, this description promotes the idea that only selfishness is rational. Many economists and others have noted that the working out of the “r…
THIS BOOK is an analysis of economic fallacies that are at last so prevalent that they have almost become a new orthodoxy. The one thing that has prevented this has been their own self-contradictions, which have scattered those who accept the same premises into a hundred different "schools/* for the simple reason that it is impossible in matters touching practical life to be consistently …
Elihu Burritt, well known on both sides of the Atlantic by his devoted labours for the good of mankind, especially in the promotion of peace and universal brotherhood, has recently paid a visit to some of the distressed parts of Ireland, principally with a view of sending a statement of facts, from his own observation, to his native country, together with an appeal on behalf of the sufferers un…
We can view the concept of type in many ways.Perhapstheeasiestisthattypeprovidesaguarantee of operations on data, so that the expression 42 + "life" is meaningless. Be warned, though, that the safety net is not always 100% secure. From a compiler’s perspective, a type also supplies important optimization clues, so that data can be best aligned in memory to reduce waste, and improve efficiency…
This book is intended for everyone who has a UNIX computer connected to a TCP/IP network. [2] This obviously includes the network managers and the system administrators who are responsible for setting up and running computers and networks, but it also includes any user who wants to understand how his or her computer communicates with other systems. The distinction between a "system administrato…
As if by magic, the street was now filled with women, arranging themselves in marching order, with the shout of command ringing clear upon the air, and down Fifth Avenue as far as he could see, other columns of women were forming to the strains of military music and to the stirring echoes of fife and drum. He grabbed his hat and stick, and joined the throng that packed the sidewalk. His six fe…
The instructor’s material that accompanies the five versions of Mankiw’s Principles of Economics, Fourth Edition textbooks address the needs of both novice and experienced instructors. To meet the needs of these two groups, this Instructor’s Manual with Solutions Manual comprises both chapter outlines and teaching tips as well as solutions to all of the questions and problems found in…
This handbook provides the growing number of people who are developing networks for social change with practical advice based on the experiences of network builders, case studies of networks small and large, local and international, and emerging scientific knowledge about “connectivity. ” It is intended to join, complement, and spur other efforts to capture and make widely available what i…