Providing a systematic approach and simple introduction ot the finite element method, this self-contained book will enable the reader to obtain a clear understanding of the concepts involved in this traditionally complicated methodology.
Who are some of the key figures in the history of abstract art? Can video games be good for children? What are some ethical approaches to decision-making? You¿ll find the answers to these and other questions in Contemporary Topics 1, which features college lectures from several academic disciplines, including art history, media studies, and psychology. Contemporary Topics 1 prepares students for the challenge of college lectures with practice in a wide range of listening, speaking and note-taking skills and strategies. The lectures (available on CD and DVD) were filmed in realistic academic setting before live student audiences. DVD FeaturesRealistic college lectures from a range of academic disciplines (also on audio CDs) Student discussions of the lectures (also on audio CDs) Instructors¿ Presentation Points Coaching Tips that guide students as they take notes Subtitles for lectures and student discussionsCourse FeaturesCorpus-based vocabulary drawn from the Academic Word List Practical listening and note-taking strategies Note-review practice that allows students to analyze their note-taking skills and consolidate their understanding of the lecture Academic research and speaking tasks: presentation, discussions, and role plays A Teacher¿s Pack for busy instructors with: Suggested bonus activities Teaching notes Answer keys Audioscripts Simulated TOEFL¿ Listening Test for each unitSee also:Contemporary Topics Introductory (High Beginner)Contemporary Topics 2 (High Intermediate)Contemporary Topics 3 (Advanced)
From cloud computing to smartphones, today's highest-growth software environments depend on parallel programming. That's why parallel programming is increasingly viewed as a foundational job skill expected of every professional developer. However, parallel computing requires traditional application developers to think and work differently; that's why it's so often viewed as difficult. In Parallel Programming Patterns, three leading experts cut through the complexity, showing how to "think parallel," and offering practical solutions to many of the challenges you'll encounter. Drawing on immense experience programming parallel systems and teaching others to do so, the authors cover all this, and more: What you need to know about concurrency in parallel programs, parallel architecture, and the jargon of parallel computing How to find concurrency and decompose tasks and data How to select and work with algorithm and supporting structures How to work with implementation mechanisms for UE management, synchronization, and communication Getting started with OpenMP, MPI, and concurrent programming in Java
This cross-disciplinary anthology explores many contemporary global issues; looks at the different methodologies used to analyze and interpret those topics; and shows how all of us can make progress, through the acquisition of information, knowledge and understanding, toward the goal of responsible world citizenship.
Written for those who want to teach writing using a reader-based approach that emphasizes how language functions rather than how language is constructed, this book approaches the teaching of writing by putting to use important new insights concerning the interpretive patterns of readers.
"An Introduction to Islam," Fourth Edition, provides students with a thorough, unified and topical introduction to the global religious community of Islam. "In addition, the author's extensive field work, experience, and scholarship combined with his engaging writing style and passion for the subject also sets his text apart. " "An Introduction to Islam," places Islam within a cultural, political, social, and religious context, and examines its connections with Judeo-Christian morals. Its integration of the doctrinal and devotional elements of Islam enables readers to see how Muslims think and live - engendering understanding and breaking down stereotypes. "This text also reviews pre-Islamic history so readers can see how Islam developed historically."
The multiple economic crises of the past two years demonstrate more clearly than ever that the age of mercenary capitalism is over: we must finally embark on a new age of sustainable, stakeholder-based capitalism. While enlightened executives and policymakers understand the critical need for change, few have tangible plans for making it happen. Stuart L. Hart, one of the world's leading experts on sustainable capitalism, presents clear roadmaps and strategies for identifying sustainable products and technologies that can drive new growth while also helping to solve today's key social and environmental problems. This edition contains Thoroughly updated case studies and examples Extensive coverage of incubating clean, green technologies at the base of the pyramid and trickling them up to the top A new Preface demonstrating how recent economic crises stem from unsustainable policies and strategies and what can be done about it New analyses of oil price spikes and the sub-prime crisis through the lens of sustainable capitalism Updates on breakthrough bottom of the pyramid initiatives in the U.S. and beyondDrawing on his experience consulting with leading companies and NGOs worldwide, Hart shows how to overcome the pitfalls of traditional 'greening' and 'sustainability' strategies, and recharge innovation, growth, and profitability in your enterprise.
Crafting Truth introduces students to the craft of creative nonfiction by showing them models from the best nonfiction writers and offering plentiful exercises to help them more artfully tell true stories.
NorthStar, now in its third edition, motivates students to achieve in their academic as well as their personal language goals providing a fully-integrated approach in five levels with two complementary strands: Reading and Writing and Listening and Speaking.
Introducing the goals and techniques of marketing, this text looks at the business environment in which it takes place. It considers the role of market research in helping companies target and segment their markets, and position their products.
The third edition of this unique text remains accessible to students of engineering, physics and applied mathematics with varying mathematical backgrounds. Designed for a one or two-semester course in complex analysis, there is optional review material on elementary calculus.
In Exploratory Software Testing, leading software testing expert James A. Whittaker reveals the real causes of today's most serious, well-hidden software bugs - and introduces powerful new "exploratory" techniques for uncovering them. Drawing on nearly two decades of experience working at the cutting edge of testing with Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Florida Tech, Whittaker introduces powerful new processes for manual testing that are repeatable, prescriptive, teachable, and effective. Whittaker identifies various types of exploratory testing, then shows when to use each, how to use them all successfully, and how to integrate them with existing automated testing methods. Concise, entertaining, and actionable, this book guides software professionals on the tactical and strategic decisions that can make or break their testing processes. Whittaker shows how to make manual testing more effective and less boring; offers specific guidance on choosing test cases; and shows how to reflect feedback from the development process. Above all, Exploratory Software Testing shows how to uncover the hidden "show-stopper" bugs that so often evade conventional testing.
In this how-to companion to Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Steve Krug spells out an approach to usability testing that anyone can easily apply to their own web site, application, or other product. In this new book, Steve explains how to: Test any design, from a sketch on a napkin to a fully-functioning web site or application Keep your focus on finding the most important problems (because no one has the time or resources to fix them all) Fix the problems that you find, using his The least you can do approachBy paring the process of testing and fixing products down to its essentials (A morning a month, that's all we ask ), Rocket Surgery makes it realistic for teams to test early and often, catching problems while it's still easy to fix them. Rocket Surgery Made Easy adds demonstration videos to the proven mix of clear writing, before-and-after examples, witty illustrations, and practical advice that made Don't Make Me Think so popular.
Lean and Agile Development for Large-Scale Products: Key Practices for Sustainable Competitive Success Increasingly, large product-development organizations are turning to lean thinking, agile principles and practices, and large-scale Scrum to sustainably and quickly deliver value and innovation. Drawing on their long experience leading and guiding lean and agile adoptions for large, multisite, and offshore product development, internationally recognized consultant and best-selling author Craig Larman and former leader of the agile transformation at Nokia Networks Bas Vodde share the key action tools needed for success.Coverage includes Frameworks for large-scale Scrum for multihundred-person product groups Testing and building quality in Product management and the end of the "contract game" between business and R&D Envisioning a large release, and planning for multiteam development Low-quality legacy code: why it's created, and how to stop it Continuous integration in a large multisite context Agile architecting Multisite or offshore development Contracts and outsourced developmentIn a competitive environment that demands ever-faster cycle times and greater innovation, the practices inspired by lean thinking and agile principles are ever-more relevant. Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development will help people realize a lean enterprise-and deliver on the significant benefits of agility.In addition to the action tools in this text, see the companion book Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum for complementary foundation tools.
The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms introduces the basic data structures and programming techniques often used in efficient algorithms. It covers the use of lists, push-down stacks, queues, trees, and graphs.
This rhetoric/anthology instructs college students in how to read academic texts with understanding and how to use them as sources for papers in a variety of disciplines. In Writing in the Disciplines, Mary Kennedy and William Kennedy emphasize academic writing as ongoing conversations in multiple genres, and do so in the context of WPA Outcomes. The rhetoric chapters teach critical reading, paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, writing process, synthesizing, analyzing, researching, and developing arguments. The anthology balances journal articles with works by public intellectuals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
Enhance your Mathematics content instruction with the SIOP Model and transform the academic English and mathematics skills of your English learners. Based on the best-selling resource, Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model by acclaimed authors Jana Echevarria, MaryEllen Vogt, and Deborah Short; teachers, coaches, and intervention teachers have access to research-based, SIOP-tested techniques for lessons specifically for the mathematics classroom. This highly anticipated book, The SIOP Model for Teaching Mathematics to English Learners addresses the issues faced in teaching math to English learners (ELs) at each grade-level. SIOP techniques and activities organized around the eight SIOP components guide educators in promoting academic language development along with comprehensible mathematics content. Written for SIOP teachers and those who have learned the SIOP Model, this book includes proven, effective math lessons and comprehensive units designed by SIOP math educators Araceli Avila and Melissa Castillo. In addition, this book provides ideas to adapt the techniques for students at different levels of English proficiency. This book is sure to become an indispensable resource for math educators of English learners.
Harmonic Trading is today's most powerful, well-proven new approach to technical analysis. Now, in the second volume of an indispensable two volume set, Harmonic Trading creator Scott Carney presents even more new and advanced techniques for unlocking valid market signals as if they were the combination to a safe. Harmonic Trading of the Financial Markets, Volume 2 begins with a brand-new review of today's markets from a harmonic trading perspective. Next, it introduces a series of new and advanced concepts presented in no other book, including the 5-0 pattern and Alternate Bat pattern. Carney also introduces the RSI BAMM Advanced Execution Model, a breakthrough approach to applying Harmonic Trading in real trades. The natural harmonic patterns in this book are designed to consistently identify critical price levels and market turning points: patterns analogous to the predictable behavior of natural systems. Carney supports them with examples from widely diverse markets, including 2008's extraordinarily bearish environment. As in Volume 1, Carney guides traders gently up the learning curve, sharing personal experiences and presenting many clear illustrations. These books don't just introduce valuable new technical analysis techniques: they provide the tools and help traders need to succeed with them.
First book to explain in detail how some events can cause large price moves in markets and how traders can profit from these events. Focuses on the lessons traders can learn from past market reactions to internal and external market catalysts so as to improve their future trading. Every chapter begins with a detailed example of how a particular trading catalyst impacted market prices. Examples include comments by policymakers, key economic reports, political events, and factors internal to the market itself.
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Shows how to create reusable APIs using interface-based design, a language-independent methodology that separates interfaces from their implementations. This book describes in detail 24 interfaces and their implementations, providing the reader with an understanding of this design approach.
The Student Solutions Manual provides completely worked-out solutions to all odd-numbered problems in the text.
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