Mining, Society, and a Sustainable World

Big Think Strategy: How to Leverage Bold Ideas and Leave Small Thinking Behind

Harvard Business School, 2007

Business leaders need bold strategies to stay relevant and win. In "Big Think Strategy", Schmitt shows how to bring bold thinking into your business by sourcing big ideas and executing them creatively. With the tools in this book, any leader can overcome institutionalized 'small think' - the inertia, the narrow-mindedness,...

Stigmergic Optimization (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2006

Biologists studied the behavior of social insects for a long time. It is interesting how these tiny insects can find the shortest path for instance between two locations without any knowledge about distance, linearity, etc. After millions of years of evolution all these species have developed incredible solutions for a wide range of problems. Some...

Verilog Designer's Library

Prentice Hall, 1999

Ready-to-use building blocks for integrated circuit design.

Why start coding from scratch when you can work from this library of pre-tested routines, created by an HDL expert? There are plenty of introductory texts to describe...

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SharePoint 2003 in 10 Minutes

Sams Publishing, 2004

Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint 2003 in 10 Minutes is the first quick reference book for users of SharePoint 2003. Easy-to-follow instructions for the most common tasks in SharePoint 2003 are the basis of this book, which also provides answers to the most commonly asked questions about using SharePoint 2003. As an...

Ransomware: Defending Against Digital Extortion

O'Reilly, 2016

The biggest online threat to businesses and consumers today is ransomware, a category of malware that can encrypt your computer files until you pay a ransom to unlock them. With this practical book, you’ll learn how easily ransomware infects your system and what steps you can take to stop the attack before it sets foot in the...

Bioinorganic Catalysis

CRC Press, 1999

Catalysis has been an extremely important area within chemistry and has been well described over the course of the last few decades. Biocatalysis is a more recent branch of catalysis in which the catalyst and the process originate from the biological sciences and deals with enzymes. In the previous decade, a monograph dealing...