Titles starting with S from Gulls Nest Books

Fairleigh Dickinson U.P., 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Since Central American literature began to be noticed by the world in the 1970s and 1980s, Costa Rico has been left out, says González (Spanish, U. of North Carolina-Charlotte), because the country has no lurid tales of repression and revolution to titillate Western readers. But injustice and accounts of it, do exist there, she says, and among the most outspoken critics of political and economic abuses by the metropolis is award winning... more information

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John Wiley & Sons, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Laitinen, who works for the Finnish branch of an international phone manufacturer, explains to software engineers and developers how to write programs that create mobile phones on top of the S60, the world's leading smartphone platform. She explains the platform itself, programs for devices based on it, and quality assurance factors for such programs. (©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Sage Publications, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. For graduate students, evaluation scholars and researchers, and professional evaluation practitioners, this handbook brings together 31 articles on the evaluation of educational programs, policies, organizations, and systems, and methods and applications, issues and challenges, and how they relate to policy and decision making in the era of globalization. Ryan (educational psychology, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Cousins (educational adminis... more information

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Sams, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. In this resource, 10 expert SAP project managers, functional consultants, and technologists guide readers through the entire journey of SAP implementation. Unlike many technical books on SAP, the book addresses leadership and team issues integral to SAP implementation. The authors introduce a framework of business, technical, and project management 'roadmaps' for successful SAP implementation, then give advice on implementation. The first section focuses ... more information

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Sams, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. In this resource, 10 expert SAP project managers, functional consultants, and technologists guide readers through the entire journey of SAP implementation. Unlike many technical books on SAP, the book addresses leadership and team issues integral to SAP implementation. The authors introduce a framework of business, technical, and project management 'roadmaps' for successful SAP implementation, then give advice on implementation. The first section focuses ... more information

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Humana Press Inc., 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. In 1993, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) spread around the world from its epicenter in China through international air traffic. Here scientists in various biological and medical disciplines set out procedures for investigating the viruses. They cover detecting and discovering coronaviruses; isolating, growing, titrating, and purifying them; their structure as revealed by electron microscopy; the expression of coronavirus prot... more information

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CRC / Taylor & Francis, 2010. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. The primary goal of this book is to provide users of SAS and R, two statistical software packages used in many fields of research, with an easy way to learn how to perform an analytic task in both systems, without having to navigate through unwieldy software documentation. The dictionary-like approach includes SAS and R indexes and cross-references between the two systems. Coverage embraces many common tasks, such as data management, descrip... more information

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Barron's Educational Ser., 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This study guide offers advice and practice for the SAT Subject Test in Literature. The first part of the book helps students understand what to expect on the test, and gives strategies for improving test performance. In the second part the author reviews literary terms and concepts found on the test, with sample questions illustrating how and when the concepts are used. The third part contains seven full- length practice tests with answe... more information

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Indy-Tech Publishing, 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. ... more information

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American Institute of Physics, 1998. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Comprises the proceedings of the November 1997 international conference on scintillating fiber detectors which reviews new research, development, and experimental experience in detector development using scintillator and fiber techniques for particle detection, tracking, and calorimetry. Information covered in depth includes fiber tracking, photosensor development, the operation and performance of VLPCs and new versions with high-speed an... more information

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Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This volume covers recent legislative and regulatory developments in simplified employee pension (SEP) plans and savings incentive match plans for employees (SIMPLEs). It provides guidance on complex design, administration and compliance issues. The 10th edition reviews the changes made to the IRS employee plan examination guidelines and includes listings of required modifications and a review of the tax credits available to individuals for IRA ... more information

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Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. This edition presents updated, in-depth coverage of recent developments relating to savings incentive match plans for employees (SIMPLEs), simplified employee pension (SEP) plans, and salary reduction SEPs (SARSEP). Consultants who are well- published authors in the financial/pension planning field discuss technical changes and clarifications produced by legislation including the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, W... more information

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Astronomical Soc./Pacific, 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. These proceedings from the May 2006 meeting include papers include research on structures observed at scales from astronomical units to kilometers. One intriguing feature is that despite a wealth of data, no single theory satisfactorily explains the phenomenon. The structure may consist of discrete objects rather than being part of a spectrum, indicating these objects are over-pressurized in comparison to their medium. It is not even clear as... more information

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McGraw-Hill, 2009. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Roshen, a senior architect for IBM, has written this guide to service- oriented architecture (SOA) implementation for IT professionals and managers who need to provide connectivity solutions for their organizations. The author provides both step-by-step instructions and sample codes for connection applications of common databases, sockets and RPCs in software packages from such companies as IBM, SAP and Oracle. Tips are also included for developing web ser... more information

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World Scientific, 2005. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. CD-ROM included. For the third time, the symposium was held during the joint meeting of the International Conference of Polarization Phenomena in Nuclear Physics and the International Symposia on High Energy Spin Physics. The nearly 200 papers, plenary talks, and workshop summaries discuss topics of relevance to spin physics in medium-low energy reactions and polarization phenomena in nuclear physics as well as in high-energy physics. Among the sessio... more information

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Charles River Media, 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. CD-ROM included. Intended for intermediate developers, this guide introduces features of the SQL Server 2005 database platform, the basic elements of the Transact-SQL language and ADO.NET, XML support in SQL Server 2005, the service broker, integration services, reporting services, and analysis services (SSAS 2005). The CD-ROM contains Transact-SQL scripts, C# code, XML files, and Excel spreadsheets. (© Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Addison-Wesley, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Writing at the high-end level, Brown works to provide decision-makers with clear and objective data about Microsoft's latest enterprise database. He introduces the basics behind the software, including general data availability and very large database maintenance, what everyone should know about security, including managed code, end-point security and securing the server, enterprise data management, including replication enhancements and operations ... more information

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Apress, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Intended for SQL Server developers and administrators, this desk reference provides Transact-SQL solutions for modifying data, creating tables and indexes, performing calculations, executing stored procedures, enabling DML triggers, tuning performance, handling errors, grating permissions to principals, and queuing messages in the service broker. Each chapter begins with basic tasks and progressively works toward more advanced topics. (©2008 Book News, Inc... more information

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IOS Press, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Cesta (Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology, Italy) and Fakotakis (electrical and computer engineering, U. of Patras, Greece) present 18 peer-reviewed papers from the July 2008 European Starting Artificial Intelligence Researcher Symposium, which is a forum for doctoral students and young post-doctoral artificial intelligence fellows. Topics discussed include representing case variations for learning general and specific adaptation rules, a theorem... more information

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John Wiley & Sons, 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Intended for experienced administrators, this guide recommends the best ways of working with SUSE's configuration tools, walks through the process of configuring the system with the YaST installation and administration program, and offers advice on using the command line and setting up the major network services on a SUSE system. The DVD contains the SUSE Linux 9.1 professional distribution. (©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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