Springer International Publishing, 2015. — 264 p. — (Series: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 28). — ISBN13: 978-3-319-18344-2 This book will help readers gain a solid understanding of non-functional requirements inherent in systems design endeavors. It contains essential information for those who design, use and maintain complex engineered systems, including...
Profile Books, 2020. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 1788163311, ISBN13: 9781788163316 We all have unfair advantages in life, whether we happen to be quick, have a talent for maths, a great feel for people. An unfair advantage is simply the element that gives you an edge over your competition. This innovative book shows how to identify your own unfair advantages and apply them to any...
2nd edition. — ASQ Quality Press, 2006. — 237 p. This updated and expanded edition discusses many different tools for root cause analysis and presents them in an easy-to-follow structure: a general description of the tool, its purpose and typical applications, the procedure when using it, an example of its use, a checklist to help you make sure if is applied properly, and...
Auerbach Publications;CRC Press, 2018. — 181 p. The pace of technological change is accelerating, hyper competition is growing, opportunities for business model disruption are exploding, and comprehensive cloud delivery is readily available. These factors challenge every aspect of business technology strategy. The Innovator’s Imperative: Rapid Technology Adoption for Digital...
Springer International Publishing, 2017. — 338 p. — ISBN13: 978-3-319-44924-1 This book discusses how smart cities strive to deploy and interconnect infrastructures and services to guarantee that authorities and citizens have access to reliable and global customized services. The book addresses the wide range of topics present in the design, development and running of smart...
CRC Press, 2016. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 1498745830, ISBN13: 9781498745833. This book will provide a quick reference on Work Measurement. While the nature of the work may differ, measuring work is fundamental to any industrial or service activity. It’s needed to determine such things as the amount a person should be paid, how much time should it take to perform an activity, what is...
Icon Books, 2003. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1840468491, ISBN13: 9781840468496. What connects Marilyn Monroe, Disneyworld, "The Satanic Verses" and cyber space? Answer: Postmodernism. But what exactly is postmodernism? This graphic guide explains clearly the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to define the world's cultural condition over the last three decades....
Icon Books, 2014. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848316135, ISBN13: 9781848316133. This is Richard Appignanesi's erudite investigation of Existentialism, the philosophical and cultural movement that prioritizes individual experience. Richard Appignanesi is a novelist, editor, publisher, and research fellow at King's College London.
CRC Press/Productivity Press, 2014. — 136 p. — ISBN13: 9781482258790, ISBN: 148225879X. "This book covers root cause analysis, with an emphasis on using quality tools to empirically investigate issues. It starts with the theoretical background and then provides step-by-step instructions for performing root cause analysis using various quality tools. The book explains how to use...
3d edition, Icon Books, 2005. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848310579, ISBN13: 9781848310575. It is now more than a century since Einstein's theories of Special and General Relativity began to revolutionize our view of the universe. Beginning near the speed of light and proceeding to explorations of space-time and curved spaces, "Introducing Relativity" plots a visually accessible course...
4th edition. — Icon Books, 2012. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848313446, ISBN13: 9781848313446. What is psychotherapy? How can we choose wisely from so much on offer? This book provides a valuable summary of the main therapies: the "talking cures" of psychoanalysis, behavioral and cognitive techniques, somatic solutions, humanist gestalt and existential approaches, and individual and...
Berklee online, 2015. Online COurses in Guitar Study with the renowned faculty of Berklee College of Music from anywhere in the world, with online courses at Online.Berkleemusic.com Содержание Guitar Scale Basics Playing and Understanding Triads Guitar Gear Primer Strumming Techniques Basic Blues Forms Также смотрите Berklee online courses. Music business handbook Vol.2 Berklee...
Berklee Online, 2015. Online Courses in Music Business Study with the renowned faculty of Berklee College of Music from anywhere in the world, with online courses at Online.Berklee.edu Содержание Living in the Past Beats Dying in the Present Sponsorship: An Artist’s Answer to Financial Relief Copyright Law and Online Music Royalty Structures Releasing an Album in 2011 and...
Berklee Online, 2015. Содержание Ableton Live Audio mastering Pro tools Reason Cubase Finale Также смотрите Berklee online courses. Music business handbook Vol.2 Berklee online courses. Orchestration, songwriting & business for film, tv & video games handbook Vol.1 Berklee online courses. Piano handbook Vol. 1 Berklee online courses. Guitar handbook Vol. 1 Berklee online courses....
Berklee online, 2015. Online courses in music theory study with the renowned faculty of Berklee College of Music from anywhere in the world, with online courses at Online.Berklee.com Содержание Getting Started with Counterpoint Understanding Reharmonization Master the Basics of Rhythm Learn the Intricacies of the Seventh Chord Examining the Theory Behind the Blues Также смотрите...
Online Courses in Orchestration, Songwriting, and business for film, tv & Video games, 2015. Study with the renowned faculty of Berklee College of Music from anywhere in the world, with online courses at Online.Berkleemusic.com Содержание Master Orchestral Composition with Live Instruments and Samples How To Compose For Any Scene — On Both the Big and Small Screens Prepare Your...
Berklee Online, 2015. Online Courses in Piano Study with the renowned faculty of Berklee College of Music from anywhere in the world, with online courses at Online.Berklee.com Содержание The Fundamentals of Keyboard Instruction Hand Preparation and Independence Storytelling in 12-Bar Blues Scratching The Surface Of Jazz Piano Implementing Dominant, Major, Minor, and Suspended...
Berklee online, 2015. Содержание The 10-Step Process to Songwriting How to Write a Hit Song The Business of Song Placement and Song Licensing Making your Melody Work The Art of Setting your Words to Music Starting with the Foundation: How to Build Harmony How to Avoid Writers Block Writing Scores for the Big and Small Screens Смотрите также Berklee online courses. Music...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1997. — 515 p. — ISBN13: 978-3-642-97983-5 High reliability, maintanability, and safety are expected fro complex equipment and systems. This book presents state-of-the-art methods and procedures used for cost and time effective quality and reliability assurance during the design and production of equipment and systems. It is based on more than...
Wiley, 2013. — 261 p. — ISBN10: 1118721217, ISBN13: 9781118720974. "Systemic thinking" is the process of understanding how systems influence one another within a world of systems and has been defined as an approach to problem solving by viewing "problems" as parts of an overall system, rather than reacting to a specific part, outcome, or event. This book provides a complete...
3rd edition. — Wiley, 2016. — 592 p. — (Wiley series in systems engineering and management). — ISBN: 9781119027904, 111902790X. The Engineering Design of Systems compiles a wealth of information from diverse sources, providing a unique, one-stop reference of current methods and models for systems engineering. This updated edition features important new information on Systems...
D Editore, 2018. — 177 p. If we ask common people if we need conscious computers and robots, the answer would probably be mixed, with – I guess – a majority against the idea. Personally, I am not prejudicial against the idea, but I think we should also take into account the possibility that conscious Artificial Intelligence may emerge from a serendipitous discovery, in an...
Third Edition, Icon Books, 2014. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848316925, ISBN13: 9781848316928. This beautifully illustrated guide to Walter Benjamin—the genius behind the famous essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction—traces his influence on modern aesthetics and cultural history as well as his particular focus on the tension between Marxism and Zionism, and between...
Icon Books, 2013. — 176 p. — ISBN13: 9781848314061, ISBN: 184831406X A brand new graphic guide from Brian Clegg, author of the best-selling Inflight Science, Introducing Infinity will teach you all you need to know about this big idea, from mathematicians driven mad by transfinite numbers to the ancient Greeks who drowned the man that discovered an endless number. Big numbers...
4th edition. — Icon Books, 2011. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848312059, ISBN13: 9781848312050. Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late twentieth century. His philosophy is an array of rigorous tactics for destabilizing texts, meanings, and identities. Introducing Derrida introduces and explores his life and work and explains his influence within both philosophy and...
Revised, Penguin Books / Icon Books, 2010. — 175 p. — ISBN10: 1848311745, ISBN13: 978-184831-174-9. Heidegger announced the end of philosophy and was vocal supporter of Nazism. Was he offering a deeply conservative mythology or a crucial deconstruction of philosophy as we have known it? Introducing Heidegger provides an accessible introduction to his notoriously abstruse...
Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-1-137-51233-8. Through an engaging and humorous narrative, Peter Coughter presents the tools he designed to help advertising and marketing professionals develop persuasive presentations that deliver business. Readers will learn how to develop skills to create the perfect presentation.
Fourth Edition, Icon Books, 2012. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848311753, ISBN13: 9781848311756. Nicolò Machiavelli's The Prince remains controversial in its electrifying frankness as a practical guide to power. Is it a how-to manual for dictators, or a subtle analysis of successful government? Introducing Machiavelli traces the colorful life of this paradoxical realist whose...
Springer, 2013. — 560 p. — ISBN10: 3642258492, ISBN13: 9783642258497. This book presents concepts, methods and techniques to examine symptoms of faults and failures of structures, systems and components and to monitor functional performance and structural integrity. The book is organized in five parts. Part A introduces the scope and application of technical diagnostics and...
For a lot of people, dither is like transmission fluid: you've been told you need it, you've accepted that, and that's as much as you want to know. But for those who dream of demystifying dither, we've made this guide for you. Для многих людей понятие "дизеринг", как понятие жидкости для трансмиссии: Вам сказали, что она нужна и это все, что Вы должны знать. Но для тех, кто желает...
Springer, 2002. — 466 p. — ISBN13: 978-3-642-56209-9. Object-Process Methodology (OPM) is a comprehensive novel approach to systems engineering. Integrating function, structure and behavior in a single, unifying model, OPM significantly extends the system modeling capabilities of current object-oriented methods. OPM system specification consists of a set of interrelated...
Indiana University Press, 1991. — 292 p. — ISBN10: 0253208696, ISBN13: 9780585182667. "Eco's essays read like letters from a friend, trying to share something he loves with someone he likes... Read this brilliant, enjoyable, and possibly revolutionary book." -- George J. Leonard, San Francisco Review of Books"... a wealth of insight and instruction." -- J. O. Tate, National...
Icon Books, 2017. — 177 p. — ISBN10: 1848318626, ISBN13: 9781848319035. Epigenetics is the most exciting field in biology today, developing our understanding of how and why we inherit certain traits, develop diseases and age, and evolve as a species. This non-fiction comic book introduces us to genetics, cell biology and the fascinating science of epigenetics, which is rapidly...
2019. — 52 p. Mental models can be traced back to the work of Kenneth Craik in 1943 when he suggested that the human mind constructs small-scale models of reality that it uses to anticipate events. He went on to suggest that mental model can be constructed from perception, our imagination, or the norms of the lives we lead in the times we live. The interesting point here is...
Springer Vieweg, 2016. — 65 p. — ISBN13: 978-3-658-11017-8. — Essentials series. The concept of a livable smart city presented in this book highlights the relevance of the functionality and integrated resilience of viable cities of the future. It critically examines the progressive digitalization that is taking place and identifies the revolutionized energy sector as the basis...
Amazon Services LLC, 2016 — 70 p. This slender volume provides the foundational knowledge to start creating and publishing great software documentation. Written by the lead technical writer at one of Silicon Valley's most exciting companies, Modern Technical Writing is a set of guiding principles and thoughtful recommendations for new and experienced technical writers alike....
Revised edition. — Icon Books, 2010. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848311869, ISBN13: 9781848311862. Introducing Evolution explores evolutionary theory from its origins to its reception across history and how it has been developed and refined. Drawing on the latest findings from genetics, ecology, and animal behavior, it unravels the central and often misunderstood concepts, notably...
Icon Books, 2010. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848311826, ISBN13: 9781848311824. Drawing on the insights of evolutionary biology and cognitive psychology, as well as data from anthropology, primatology, and archaeology, evolutionary psychologists are beginning to piece together the first truly scientific account of human nature. Introducing Evolutionary Psychology is the perfect...
3d edition, JIST Works, 2006. — 385 p. — ISBN10: 1593573200, ISBN13: 9781593574086. Explore descriptions of 100 top computer and technical careers, match them to your skills, and get a good job quickly.
Springer International Publishing, 2020. — 217 p. — (Internet of Things). — ISBN: 978-3-030-18731-6;978-3-030-18732-3. This book provides a holistic perspective on Digital Twin (DT) technologies, and presents cutting-edge research in the field. It assesses the opportunities that DT can offer for smart cities, and covers the requirements for ensuring secure, safe and sustainable...
Argos Press, 2014. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1921138072, 1921138076. This book provides a basic but complete coverage of the management of complex technical projects and, in particular, of the discipline known as Systems Engineering . The framework offered encapsulates the entire systems engineering discipline, clearly showing where the multitude of activities fits within the...
Springer International Publishing, 2017. — 351 p. — ISBN13: 978-3-319-44606-6. This undergraduate text explores a variety of large-scale phenomena - global warming, ice ages, water, poverty - and uses these case studies as a motivation to explore nonlinear dynamics, power-law statistics, and complex systems. Although the detailed mathematical descriptions of these topics can be...
Pegasus Communications, 1968 (reprinted in 1990). — 197 p. — ISBN10: 1883823412, ISBN13: 9781883823412. This key text on system dynamics shows by example how structure determines behavior. This book is ideal not just for managers but for anyone interested in the dynamics of urban, ecological, and other systems. It covers feedback dynamics, models and simulation, equations and...
4th edition. — Icon Books, 2005. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848310099, ISBN13: 9781848310094. Why must we believe that God is dead? Can we accept that traditional morality is just a 'useful mistake'? Did the principle of 'the will to power' lead to the Holocaust? What are the limitations of scientific knowledge? Is human evolution complete or only beginning? It is difficult to...
MIT Press, 2020. — ISBN13: 978-0-262-36279-5. Содержание непрофессионально переведено на русский. A guide to the pandemic economy: essential reading about the long-term implications of our current crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a firehose of information (much of it wrong) and an avalanche of opinions (many of them ill-founded). Most of us are so distracted by the...
Springer International Publishing, 2014. — 413 p. — (Series: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 24). — ISBN13: 978-3-319-02493-6. This book provides a rough entry into the interdisciplinary field of Infranomics. It enables better decision making in an increasing ambiguous, complex, emergent, interdependent, and uncertain world where we attempt to anticipate modern...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 238 p. — ISBN: 9789811301933, 981130193X. This open access collection examines how higher education responds to the demands of the automation economy and the fourth industrial revolution. Considering significant trends in how people are learning, coupled with the ways in which different higher education institutions and education stakeholders are...
CRC Press, 2014. — 808 p. — (Series: Complex and Enterprise Systems Engineering). — ISBN13: 978-1-4665-0239-0. Suitable as a reference for industry practitioners and as a textbook for classroom use, Case Studies in System of Systems, Enterprise Systems, and Complex Systems Engineering provides a clear understanding of the principles and practice of system of systems engineering...
2d edition, Academic Press, 2016. — 397 p. — ISBN10: 0128042222, ISBN13: 9780128042229 System Verification: Proving the Design Solution Satisfies the Requirements, Second Edition explains how to determine what verification work must be done, how the total task can be broken down into verification tasks involving six straightforward methods, how to prepare a plan, procedure, and...
Academic Press, 2006. — 481 p. — ISBN13: 9780080457857, ISBN: 012088514X Systems Requirement Analysis gives the professional systems engineer the tools to set up a proper and effective analysis of the resources, schedules and parts that will be needed in order to successfully undertake and complete any large, complex project. The text offers the reader the methodology for...