2012 | ISBN: 1118343514 | English | 256 pages | MOBI | 1 MB

A comprehensive guide to how companies can drive sales growth

Finding growth today can be an enormous challenge for companies in a complex and fast-changing business environment. There are no simple solutions, but in Sales Growth, experts from McKinsey & Company provide a practical blue-print for achieving this goal by revealing what world-class sales executives are doing right now to find growth and capture it—as well as how they are creating the capabilities to keep growing in the future.

 English | Wiley | 2007 | ISBN: 0470082917 | Pages: 307 | PDF | 1.47 MB

Aimed squarely at aspiring Linux power users and professional administrators, the Fedora Linux Toolbox offers more than 1000 examples of useful Linux command lines.

This compact, handy reference is made to carry with you, whether you are maintaining hundreds of Linux systems or just want to dig beneath the surface of your Fedora desktop system.

English | 2013 | ISBN-10: 1849693064 | 326 pages | PDF + EPUB | 6 + 14 MB

Blackboard Learn is web application software that allows users around the world to participate in training and educational opportunities. This software is utilized in high schools, college campuses, corporations, and government entities.

"Blackboard Learn Administration" navigates both novice and experienced administrators through the simple and complex parts of the E-Learning portal.

Readers go step-by-step with the author from planning and installing a Blackboard Learn instance to supporting and administrating a system with courses and users.

The book starts with how to plan, install, and brand a Blackboard Learn instance. Readers then learn about the creation and management of courses and users. You then learn about the tools and controls that administrator’s possess within Blackboard Learn. Readers also review how to improve security and performance within their system. You then dip into complex topics such as integrating Blackboard Learn with other information systems and publisher websites.

Administrating Blackboard Learn educates the reader on the fundamental tools and tasks for basic administration, while explaining complex options that expert administrato

English | 2013 | ISBN-10: 1782160108 | 294 pages | PDF + EPUB | 9 + 14,5 MB

Cloud computing is changing the way IT is delivered in enterprises around the world. The world’s leading open source cloud computing platform, Cloudstack, helps you implement a cloud computing service in your enterprise or set up an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering for your customers.

With "Apache Cloudstack Cloud Computing", learn the leading open source cloud computing platform in an easy step-by-step approach, from understanding the basics of setting up an infrastructure as a service cloud to actual deployment scenarios and extensibility features of CloudStack.

"Apache Cloudstack Cloud Computing" will help you learn how to create, manage, and automate the provisioning, decommissioning, and other tasks of your IT infrastructure resources and manage your data centre(s). Add IT infrastructure resources like storage, network resources, and hosts to CloudStack to manage the entire data centre and logically segregate the resources to help better manage and provide policy-based user access to the cloud.

Then the book will show you how to deploy the CloudStack environment in a highly available fashion and deploy your own IT resources, such as VMs, in a highly available scenario to prevent downtime and non-interrupted service.

English | 2013 | ISBN-10: 184969544X | 204 pages | PDF | 5,8 MB

Learn the fundamental elements of writing responsive website code for all stages of the development lifecycle

Create the ultimate code writer’s resource using logical workflow layers

Full of usable code for immediate use in your website projects

Written in an easy-to-understand language giving knowledge without preaching

2013 | ISBN: 1935589857 | English | 307 pages | EPUB | 0.20 MB

PMI introduced its first question and answer guide in 1997 and, as the project management profession continues to mature, improvements to Q & As for the PMBOK® Guide have evolved naturally from student and instructor feedback on the previous editions. This newest edition contains questions that are to the point and stress the core essentials of project management. Those who want to learn more about the profession, as well as those who want to fine-tune their development skills, will find: •A straightforward question and answer format with multiple choice questions covering key project management themes and concepts of the project management framework and the ten project management knowledge areas in the PMBOK® Guide – Fifth Edition. •Questions and answers derived from and categorized by PMI’s best selling global standard, the PMBOK® Guide – Fifth Edition. •An answer section with reference page numbers and relevant quotations from the PMBOK® Guide – Fifth Edition to help you enhance your breadth and depth of knowledge in a specific area. Once you’ve read the PMBOK® Guide – Fifth Edition, you’ll want to test yourself with this useful complement. How much do you really know about project management? Do you have all the answers? Whether you are a seasoned professional, novice, student, or instructor of project management, you will appreciate Q & As for the PMBOK® Guide Fifth Edition for its rich content and ability to test your skill and knowledge.

2012 | ISBN: 1608322564, 061539924X | English | 200 pages | EPUB | 0.50 MB

Whether it's selling your company's product in the boardroom or selling yourself on eating healthy, everything in life can and should be treated as a sale. And as sales expert Grant Cardone explains, knowing the principles of selling is a prerequisite for success of any kind.

In Sell or Be Sold, Cardone breaks down the techniques and approaches necessary to master the art of selling in any avenue. You will learn how to handle rejection, turn around negative situations, shorten sales cycles, and guarantee yourself greatness. Cardone will also teach you the success essentials of 

Selling in a bad economy

2008 | ISBN: n/a, ASIN: B00CNQZQV2 | English | 162 pages | EPUB | 3 MB

This eBook applies highly efficient memory techniques to the learning of German grammar.

Besides learning the crucial German grammar rules you will be learning very efficient mnemonic techniques which will help you to REMEMBER these rules in a very powerful way. More than 50 colored mnemonic images and illustrations will simplify your memorization of grammar rules.

In sophisticated exercises you will EXPERIENCE the efficiency of these memory techniques. Work sheets can be downloaded for free after you have purchased the eBook.

2013 | ISBN: 0142196770 | English | 272 pages | EPUB | 3 MB

The author of the national bestsellers Why God Won’t Go Away and How God Changes Your Brain reveals groundbreaking research that will make difficult conversations a thing of the past

Sometimes it feels as if the more we talk, the less we are heard. But Andrew Newberg, M.D., and Mark Robert Waldman have discovered a powerful strategy called Compassionate Communication that allows two brains to work together as one.

In twelve clear steps, Compassionate Communication actually changes the brain structure of both participants in a way that helps establish a mutual bond. Free from conflict and distrust, we can communicate more effectively, listen more deeply, and collaborate without effort. Outlining the science, the strategies, and the practical application of Compassionate Communication in a range of personal and professional settings, Newberg and Waldman prove that words can change your brain.

2013 | ISBN: 0062206338 | English | 272 pages | EPUB | 0.60 MB

In Boundaries for Leaders, clinical psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Henry Cloud leverages his expertise of human behavior, neuroscience, and business leadership to explain how the best leaders set boundaries within their organizations--with their teams and with themselves--to improve performance and increase employee and customer satisfaction.

In a voice that is motivating and inspiring, Dr. Cloud offers practical advice on how to manage teams, coach direct reports, and instill an organization with strong values and culture.

Boundaries for Leaders: Take Charge of Your Business, Your Team, and Your Life is essential reading for executives and aspiring leaders who want to create successful companies with satisfied employees and customers, while becoming more resilient leaders themselves.

2014 | ISBN: 0062282395 | English | 272 pages | EPUB | 0.40 MB

Part Tony Robbins, part Mehmet Oz, here is fitness guru and creator of P90X Tony Horton’s wake-up call for readers—a motivational and practical guide to creating a better life and a healthier body.

One of America’s best-known and most-loved fitness gurus, "master of motivation" Tony Horton shares his philosophy that will help you live your best life. In his first non-workout book, he offers 11 Rules that provide a clear path and purpose for achieving life goals and obtaining optimal health.

Written with his trademark irreverence, candor, and take-no-prisoners approach, The Big Picture shows you how your physical health is intricately linked to your mental, financial, and family health, and overall happiness and contentment—and how the same skills and principles that work in the gym work in every area of life. Tony shares stories of the hard-won battles he’s faced—many of the same life challenges experienced by his fans—from childhood bullies and problems at school, to financial troubles and being overweight.

Enlightening and practical, The Big Picture can help you how to slim down, feel good, and live better.

2013 | ISBN: 1118307984 | English | 316 pages | PDF | 4 MB

Aerospace propulsion devices embody some of the most advanced technologies, ranging from materials, fluid control, and heat transfer and combustion. In order to maximize the performance, sophisticated testing and computer simulation tools are developed and used. 

Aerospace Propulsion comprehensively covers the mechanics and thermal-fluid aspects of aerospace propulsion, starting from the fundamental principles, and covering applications to gas-turbine and space propulsion (rocket) systems. It presents modern analytical methods using MATLAB and other advanced software and includes essential elements of both gas-turbine and rocket propulsion systems. Gas turbine coverage includes thermodynamic analysis, turbine components, diffusers, compressors, turbines, nozzles, compressor-turbine matching, combustors and afterburners. Rocket coverage includes chemical rockets, electrical rockets, nuclear and solar sail.

2014 | ISBN: 1118456068 | English | 592 pages | PDF | 11 MB

Fully revised and updated, this book combines a theoretical background with examples and references to R, MINITAB and JMP, enabling practitioners to find state-of-the-art material on both foundation and implementation tools to support their work. Topics addressed include computer-intensive data analysis, acceptance sampling, univariate and multivariate statistical process control, design of experiments, quality by design, and reliability using classical and Bayesian methods. The book can be used for workshops or courses on acceptance sampling, statistical process control, design of experiments, and reliability.

Graduate and post-graduate students in the areas of statistical quality and engineering, as well as industrial statisticians, researchers and practitioners in these fields will all benefit from the comprehensive combination of theoretical and practical information provided in this single volume.

2013 | ISBN: 1118758617 | English | 272 pages | PDF | 9 MB

A New York Times bestseller and one of the Ten Best Business Books of 2013 by WealthManagement.com, this book brings a new vision of the value of debt in the management of individual and family wealth

In this groundbreaking book, author Tom Anderson argues that, despite the reflex aversion most people have to debt—an aversion that is vociferously preached by most personal finance authors—wealthy individuals and families, as well as their financial advisors, have everything to gain and nothing to lose by learning to think holistically about debt.

2013 | ISBN: 1118440056 | English | 212 pages | PDF | 3 MB

The euro area remains in a state of flux and appears to be unsustainable in its present form. The outcome of the crisis may be unknown for years and a judgement on the project’s success or failure may be out of reach for decades.

In the meantime, analysts, portfolio managers and traders will still have daily, weekly, quarterly and annual benchmarks. They will have to analyze economic developments in the euro area and their impacts on financial assets. The objective of this book is to provide a framework for that analysis that is comprehensible to most financial market participants.

2013 | ISBN: 1118584562 | English | 256 pages | PDF | 22 MB

Use demand driven optimized inventory and replenishment to overcome your supply chain weaknesses, and deliver business-maximizing results

Reviewing the fundamentals of inventory optimization so that you can attain a demand-driven supply, Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment provides a business look at why present inventory systems sub-optimize the supply chain and faulty replenishment processes lead to wasted time and effort. Straightforward and clearly written, this book allowsreaders to come away with a good understanding of why optimized inventory and replenishment helps overcome in-system weaknesses and deliver results.