Management Information Systems
Management Information Systems

Author: Kenneth C. Laudon

Publisher: Pearson Educación

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13: 9789702605287

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Management Information Systems provides comprehensive and integrative coverage of essential new technologies, information system applications, and their impact on business models and managerial decision-making in an exciting and interactive manner. The twelfth edition focuses on the major changes that have been made in information technology over the past two years, and includes new opening, closing, and Interactive Session cases.

Introduction to Information Systems
Introduction to Information Systems

Author: R. Kelly Rainer

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-01-09

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 0470169001

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WHATS IN IT FOR ME? Information technology lives all around us-in how we communicate, how we do business, how we shop, and how we learn. Smart phones, iPods, PDAs, and wireless devices dominate our lives, and yet it's all too easy for students to take information technology for granted. Rainer and Turban's Introduction to Information Systems, 2nd edition helps make Information Technology come alive in the classroom. This text takes students where IT lives-in today's businesses and in our daily lives while helping students understand how valuable information technology is to their future careers. The new edition provides concise and accessible coverage of core IT topics while connecting these topics to Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Management, Human resources, and Operations, so students can discover how critical IT is to each functional area and every business. Also available with this edition is WileyPLUS - a powerful online tool that provides instructors and students with an integrated suite of teaching and learning resources in one easy-to-use website. The WileyPLUS course for Introduction to Information Systems, 2nd edition includes animated tutorials in Microsoft Office 2007, with iPod content and podcasts of chapter summaries provided by author Kelly Rainer.

Writing Spaces 1
Writing Spaces 1

Author: Charles Lowe

Publisher: Parlor Press LLC

Published: 2010-06-18

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1602358311

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Volumes in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing offer multiple perspectives on a wide-range of topics about writing, much like the model made famous by Wendy Bishop’s “The Subject Is . . .” series. In each chapter, authors present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by addressing the undergraduate reader directly. Drawing on their own experiences, these teachers-as-writers invite students to join in the larger conversation about developing nearly every aspect of craft of writing. Consequently, each essay functions as a standalone text that can easily complement other selected readings in writing or writing-intensive courses across the disciplines at any level. Topics in Volume 1 of the series include academic writing, how to interpret writing assignments, motives for writing, rhetorical analysis, revision, invention, writing centers, argumentation, narrative, reflective writing, Wikipedia, patchwriting, collaboration, and genres.

Introduction to Management Science with Spreadsheets
Introduction to Management Science with Spreadsheets

Author: William J. Stevenson

Publisher: Irwin/McGraw-Hill

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780073252902

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This text combines the market leading writing and presentation skills of Bill Stevenson with integrated, thorough, Excel modeling from Ceyhun Ozgur. Professor Ozgur teaches Management Science, Operations, and Statistics using Excel, at the undergrad and MBA levels at Valparaiso University --and Ozgur developed and tested all examples, problems and cases with his students. The authors have written this text for students who have no significant mathematics training and only the most elementary experience with Excel.

The Quest for Artificial Intelligence
The Quest for Artificial Intelligence

Author: Nils J. Nilsson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-10-30

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 1139642820

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field within computer science that is attempting to build enhanced intelligence into computer systems. This book traces the history of the subject, from the early dreams of eighteenth-century (and earlier) pioneers to the more successful work of today's AI engineers. AI is becoming more and more a part of everyone's life. The technology is already embedded in face-recognizing cameras, speech-recognition software, Internet search engines, and health-care robots, among other applications. The book's many diagrams and easy-to-understand descriptions of AI programs will help the casual reader gain an understanding of how these and other AI systems actually work. Its thorough (but unobtrusive) end-of-chapter notes containing citations to important source materials will be of great use to AI scholars and researchers. This book promises to be the definitive history of a field that has captivated the imaginations of scientists, philosophers, and writers for centuries.

Pentagon 9/11
Pentagon 9/11

Author: Alfred Goldberg

Publisher: Office of the Secretary, Historical Offi

Published: 2007-09-05

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13:

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The most comprehensive account to date of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and aftermath, this volume includes unprecedented details on the impact on the Pentagon building and personnel and the scope of the rescue, recovery, and caregiving effort. It features 32 pages of photographs and more than a dozen diagrams and illustrations not previously available.

Writing Spaces: Readings on Writings, Vol. 2
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writings, Vol. 2

Author: Charles Lowe

Publisher: The Saylor Foundation

Published:

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13:

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Volumes in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing offer multiple perspec- tives on a wide-range of topics about writing. In each chapter, authors present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by ad- dressing the undergraduate reader directly. Drawing on their own ex- periences, these teachers-as-writers invite students to join in the larger conversation about the craft of writing. Consequently, each essay func- tions as a standalone text that can easily complement other selected readings in writing or writing-intensive courses across the disciplines at any level.

International Business
International Business

Author: Ricky W. Griffin

Publisher: Pearson College Division

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 9780130329073

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For undergraduate courses in International Business. In the third edition of their internationally popular text, Ricky W. Griffin and Michael W. Pustay illustrate how successful managers must understand global issues and adapt to change in order to succeed in a competitive international marketplace. This edition is updated with current issues and events, and includes a wealth of new content features aimed to help future managers interpret business information with a global perspective. Now published by Prentice Hall, with our commitment to instructor resources and service. *A managerial perspective. Addresses all the functional areas of business and how managers work in a global marketplace. *A focus on technology. Addresses how business activities are increasingly driven by technology, and how those changes are affecting companies. *'Wiring the World' boxes showcase specific coverage of technological issues and events. *A teaching and learning tool. With 40 brief cases, 8 comprehensive cases, 42 maps, and hundreds of real world examples. *Updated photographs and interpretive tables and charts help students put information into context. *NEW- Enhanced coverage of cultural and polit

Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand
Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand

Author: Simon Unwin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-02-25

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1136955054

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Have you ever wondered how the ideas behind the world’s greatest architectural designs came about? What process does an architect go through to design buildings which become world-renowned for their excellence? This book reveals the secrets behind these buildings. He asks you to ‘read’ the building and understand its starting point by analyzing its final form. Through the gradual revelations made by an understanding of the thinking behind the form, you learn a unique methodology which can be used every time you look at any building.

Introduction to Information Retrieval
Introduction to Information Retrieval

Author: Christopher D. Manning

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-07-07

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139472100

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Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. It gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents; methods for evaluating systems; and an introduction to the use of machine learning methods on text collections. All the important ideas are explained using examples and figures, making it perfect for introductory courses in information retrieval for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in computer science. Based on feedback from extensive classroom experience, the book has been carefully structured in order to make teaching more natural and effective. Slides and additional exercises (with solutions for lecturers) are also available through the book's supporting website to help course instructors prepare their lectures.