A legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed career while illustrating the growing importance of America's intelligence officers and
Expanded Coverage: Highlights include deeper coverage of outdoor adventures like hiking and rafting in the National Parks of the American West. Illustrated Features: Rich full-color features help trav
Full-color guide ‧ Make your trip to New Zealand unforgettable with?maps, illustrated features, and color photos. Customize your trip with simple planning tools ‧ Top Experiences and Attractions ‧ F
Discusses how positive intelligence can be applied to enhance personal and professional success, identifying ten mindsets which sabotage a person from reaching his or her true potential, along with pr
The amount of publicly and often freely available information is staggering. Yet, the intelligence community still continues to collect and use information in the same manner as during WWII, when the
Full-color guide ‧ Make your trip to Toronto unforgettable with illustrated features, 25 maps, and 107 color photos.Customize your trip with simple planning tools ‧ Top experiences and attractions ‧ B
In Brilliant, award-winning author Jane Brox offers a sweeping history of our transformative relationship with light—from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future—a
One of the world’s leading scientists explains why—and how—the search for intelligent life beyond Earth should be expanded. Fifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake first pointed a radi
Our cities are “smart” and getting smarter as information processing capability is embedded throughout more and more of our urban infrastructure. Few of us object to traffic light control
Data Mining for Business Intelligence, Second Edition uses real data and actual cases to illustrate the applicability of data mining (DM) intelligence in the development of successful business models
The world of yoga is astonishingly rich in its array of schools and practices. Yet, as diverse as they seem, they share a common aim: the discovery of the essence of existence that can be found at the
PRACTICAL COMPUTER LITERACY, Third Edition, provides clear, comprehensive instruction on the basics of computer literacy. This convenient, reader-friendly text integrates computer concepts, Microsoft
Since its founding in 1951, the Epidemic Intelligence Service has waged war on every imaginable ailment. With suitcases kept packed, vaccinations at the ready, the EIS’s little-recognized medical prof
"Analyzes the impact of the opposition candidacies in the Mexican presidential elections of 1940, 1946, and 1952 on the internal discipline and electoral dominance of the ruling Partido de la Revoluci
Announcing an all-new Self-Paced Training Kit designed to help maximize your performance on 70-448, the required exam for the new MCTS: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Implementation a
Improve your life through emotional intelligence Teach Yourself Emotional Intelligence introduces you to this concept of perceiving, managing, and understanding your own emotions and those of others.
Traditionally, law enforcement agencies react to isolated crimes in insulated jurisdictions. With the rise of terrorism, law enforcement agencies can no longer afford to operate blindly. The only way
The former director of the Central Intelligence Agency looks back on the long and complicated relationship between the U.S. presidents and their CIA chiefs, from World War II to the present day, analy
Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than five million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Gol
This senior undergraduate textbook explains how computers share, protect, and use data in an environment where the location is not fixed. It discusses agents and service discovery for middleware, prot
Increasing concerns about the future of humankind that arise from threats of terrorism, nuclear war, and environmental destruction dramatize the fact that we must begin working collectively to change
Remoting offers developers many ways to customize the communications process, for efficiency, security, performance and power, and allows seamless integration of components running on several computer
National Bestseller Available in Paperback “Just as Goleman's first book redefined intelligence, his new treatise?reassesses what makes a great leader.”-Time magazine “Daniel Goleman has done it aga
Explores human intelligence and the structure and function of the brain, and discusses learning, intelligence testing, genius, multiple intelligence types, ways to cultivate intellectual abilities, and related topics.
Until now, the poetry of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been hidden, "embedded" within comments made at press briefings and in interviews. His preferred medium is the spoken word, and his au
Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is a new methodologyf rom OMG that uses modeling languages like UML along with programming languages like Java to build software architecturesPriceWatersCoopers' presti
Harness the power of events to build enterprise IT applications with unprecedented flexibility!-- Introducing Complex Event Processing: a breakthrough approach to extracting enterprise information --
This highly successful and scholarly book introduces students with diverse backgrounds to the various types of mathematical analysis that are commonly needed in scientific computing. The subject of nu
Lynn defines emotional intelligence (EQ) as "the dimension of intelligence responsible for our ability to manage ourselves and our relationships with others." She presents this guide for developing f
Until the mid-1980s, AI researchers assumed that an intelligent system doing high-level reasoning was necessary for the coupling of perception and action. In this traditional model, cognition mediate
Artificial neural networks are nonlinear mapping systems whose structure is looselybased on principles observed in the nervous systems of humans and animals. The basic idea is thatmassive systems of s
For decades, millions of parents have been told that they are primarily responsible for things gone wrong with their children. Mothers and fathers have internalized this message, producing an unrealis
This series is for people—adults and teenagers—who are interested in computer programming because it's fun. The three volumes use the Logo programming language as the vehicle for an explo
Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science of design, this new edition of Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence adds a chapter that sorts out the c
