Subject(s): Bezos, Jeffrey | Amazon.com (Firm) -- History | Electronic commerce -- United States | Businessmen -- Biography -- United States | Booksellers and bookselling -- Biography -- United States | Internet bookstores Summary: This book is the definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its dri

Subject(s): Vocational interests | Career changes | Vocational guidance | Career development Summary: We all experience psychological impasse. This feeling of uncertainty about your next moves in life might come at predictable moments: the loss of a job, the end of a romance, or the death of someone who has long helped you feel recognized, love

Subject(s): Job hunting | Vocational guidance | Employment interviewing | Resumes (Employment) | Young adults -- Life skills guides -- United States Summary: It's tough landing your first job out of school and starting that climb up the ladder of success in such an uncertain world. Here are the tips and strategies you need to make sense of

Subject(s): Educational sociology -- Latin America | Liberty | Critical pedagogy -- Latin America Summary: "Famous for his advocacy of 'critical pedagogy', Paulo Freire was Latin America's foremost educationalist, a thinker and writer whose work and ideas continue to exert enormous influence in education throughout the world tod

Subject(s): Weight loss | Reducing diets -- Recipes | Health Summary: "Based on 35 years of clinical experience, Dr. Charles Moss presents an easy-to-implement approach to normalize cortisol (the main stress hormone), lose weight, and reduce your risk for diabetes, heart disease, and cancer"-- Provided by publisher. Holdings:&#

Subject(s): Water-supply -- Juvenile literature | Food supply -- Juvenile literature | Agriculture -- Juvenile literature | Water -- Juvenile literature | Food -- Juvenile literature | Food supply | Water supply | Agriculture Summary: Discusses the vital importance of having an adequate supply of food and water and the effects of pursuing this

Subject(s): Personal information management | Career development | Information technology -- Management Abstract: With its theme, "Our Information, Always and Forever," Part I of this book covers the basics of personal information management (PIM) including six essential activities of PIM and six (different) ways in which information ca

Subject(s): Engineering -- Data processing | Science -- Data processing | Parallel processing (Electronic computers) | Charm++ (Computer program language) Summary: "This volume highlights the use of Charm++ in a wide variety of scientific and engineering fields. It emphasizes the adaptivity, asynchrony, and message-driven execution and prop

Subject(s): Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects | Environmental engineering -- Environmental aspects | Ecological engineering | Global environmental change | Greenhouse gases -- Environmental aspects Summary: "PREFACE In June 1991, we convened the Workshop on the Engineering Response to Global Climate Change: Planning a Research and D

Subject(s): Wireless communication systems -- Security measures Summary: "Physical layer security has recently become an emerging technique to complement and significantly improve the communication security of wireless networks. Comparing to the cryptographic approaches, physical layer security is a fundamentally different paradigm, where s