Why do consumers pay a premium for a Dell or Hewlett-Packard laptop, when they could get a generic machine with similar features for a lower price? The answer lies in the power of branding. A brand is
William L. Riordon's compiling and embroidering of Boss Plunkitt's boastful comments on machine politics constitutes a minor classic in American social history. in an introduction to this edition of t
The Fokker Eindecker (monoplane) can truly be said to have begun the age of fighter aviation. With the development of its revolutionary synchronised system that enabled the machine gun to fire through
Begun in 1997 as economic crises and changes in global business affected more people of the study area of Java, the research program which inspired these eight papers address the increasing breakdown
As soon as The Beatles became famous, the spin machine began to construct a myth--one that has continued to this day. But the truth is much more interesting, much more exciting, and much more moving.
Fudge (literary and cultural studies, Middlesex U., England) intended to study beliefs about the reasoning capacity of animals before Descartes' 1637 beast-machine hypothesis. She found that people th
By lifting the flaps, readers can help Dora when she goes to the North Pole to help Santa's elves fix their machine and Santa find his clothes and deliver toys, in a book that is shaped like a Christm
The field of human factors/ergonomics has changed markedly in the past decade. The widespread influence of computer technology has permeated every aspect of the human machine system. The systems are
Power up your iPod, fill it with tunes, and be your own digital DJ. With iPodR For DummiesR, any iPod owner can easily master all the great aspects of this music machine. This useful kit contains retr
In Western civilization, we have come to regard the body as an instrument or a machine that responds to external challenges but does not have a life or creativity of its own. Thanks to some of its inh
When Lady Mary Wortley Montagu visited the baths in Turkey in 1717 she was so tightly corseted that Turkish women were convinced her husband had locked her into some devious machine. Montagu’s
It's Not an All Night Fair tells the deeply affecting story of a son returning home to central Java to confront the dying and eventual death of his father. Struggling to understand his reticent father
Sweep, crunch, swoosh, scrape . . . All night long, snow falls silently, bringing forth a world blanketed in white—and a very noisy day.For at dawn’s light, machine, man, and child begin to dig out: f
The recently-released Enterprise Java Beans 3 improves upon the old EJB architecture by reducing its complexity from the developer's point of view. Aimed at beginning to intermediate programmers, this
In the field of machine learning, semi-supervised learning (SSL) occupies the middle ground, between supervised learning (in which all training examples are labeled) and unsupervised learning (in whi
Park Ridge portrays the uncommon history of a North Jersey town that is known far beyond its borders for the part it played in early finances. One of the early settlers invented the wampum machine, a
Expert guidance on theory and practice in condition-based intelligent machine fault diagnosis and failure prognosisIntelligent Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis for Engineering Systems gives a complete pr
Wicket is an open source web application framework featuring powerful, reusable components written with plain Java and HTML. This guide for developers uses simple examples to introduce the main ways o
After a bout with an over-generous gumball machine, Franklin must prove to his friends and to Mr. Mole that he is not a gumball thief! This Level 2 first reader contains longer stories, varied sentenc
Since its initial publication in Berlin in 1928, Jan Tschichold's The New Typography has been recognized as the definitive treatise on book and graphic design in the machine age. First published in En
A thermometer, a water-cycle model, a wave machine, a greenhouse—these are just a few things students can make out of a simple soda bottle. This book features learning-rich, hands-on activities
SEWING! NO ONE could hate it more than Dina Kirk. Endless tiny stitches, button holes, darts. Since she was tiny, she’s worked in her family’s dressmaking business, where the sewing machine is a crank
Suitable for babies and toddlers. Over 100 first machine words to learn. Fantastic photographs of all sorts of machines. Sturdy, large-format board book to withstand repeated learning f
Romania fielded the third-largest Axis army in the European war. A military contribution of such magnitude, coupled with the delivery of oil to the German war machine and the personal respect which I
Provides information on the features and functions of GCC, covering such topics as compiling Fortran applications, using GCC's Java compiler, optimizing code, using Autoconf and Automake, and using al
The machine-gun murders of seven men on the morning of February 14, 1929, by killers dressed as cops became the gangland crime of the century." Or so the story went. Since then it has been featured in
It's not that Casey Little is always late. It's just that everything starts a little too early. But when Casey discovers a weird little time machine, he figures he'll never be late again. Unfo
The machine-gun murders of seven men on the morning of February 14, 1929, by killers dressed as cops became the gangland crime of the century."" Or so the story went. Since then it has been featured i
With the award-winning book Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices, Robert C. Martin helped bring Agile principles to tens of thousands of Java and C++ programmers. Now .NET p
When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she un
Eek and Ack, two aliens from the Great Goo Galaxy, decide to conquer Earth one boring afternoon, but when their spaceship is mistaken for a washing machine at a laundromat, they encounter more resista
Brothers Sterling and Stephen Clark?heirs to the Singer sewing machine fortune?were among the twentieth century’s most influential art collectors. This volume examines their magnificent collections, t
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a very attractive means for human-machine interaction. The degree of maturity reached by speech recognition technologies during recent years allows the developmen
In a factory, on a hill, a huge machine made robot dogs. The robot dogs rolled out of the factory and were delivered to owners who played with them and cared for them. But one of these dogs dents his
Over recent years there has been a vast expansion in the variety of imaging techniques available, and developments in machine specifications continue apace. If radiologists and radiographers are to o
The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. But since its early twentieth-century peak this dream has come to seem
Used in injecting molding operations, hot runner technology establishes the linkage between the injection molding machine and the mold cavities, and acts as a melt flow system. Unger describes the var
A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery. An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel. A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream. A st
Transform an average car or truck into a turbocharged high performance street machine. A handbook on theory and application of turbocharging for street and high-performance use, this book covers hig
