Subject(s): Building information modeling | Real estate developers Summary: "This is the first book written for building owners and developers about Building Information Modeling. Making the business case for owners' use of BIM, the book helps owners align the use of BIM to their real business objectives through strategic planning, SWOT

Subject(s): Fluid power technology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Hydraulic fluids -- Handbooks, manuals, etc Summary: "The Handbook of Hydraulic Fluid Technology serves as the foremost resource for designing hydraulic systems and for selecting hydraulic fluids used in engineering applications. Featuring new illustrations, data tables, as wel

Subject(s): Mechanical drawing | Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery Summary: "In the second edition of Designer Drafting and Visualization for the Entertainment World, art director Patricia Woodbridge teams up with scenic designer and SCAD professor Hal Tiné to give you a dynamic glimpse into the world of designing for mainstream entert

Subject(s): Machine learning Summary: "Machine Learning is rapidly becoming one of the most important areas of general practice, research and development activity within Computing Sci- ence. This is re ected in the scale of the academic research area devoted to the subject and the active recruitment of Machine Learning specialists by major

Subject(s): Radio frequency identification systems Summary: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems are emerging as one of the most pervasive computing technologies due to their broad applicability. RFID systems consist of tiny integrated circuits equipped with antennas (RFID tags) that communicate with their reading devices (RFID readers

Subject(s): Wealth -- Moral and ethical aspects | Recessions | Capitalism | Bank failures | Financial crises -- Prevention | Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 Summary: "This book directly confronts uncomfortable questions that many prefer to brush aside: if economists and other scholars, politicians, and business professionals understand t

Subject(s): Foreign correspondents | Foreign news | Communication, International | Journalism Summary: "What is the future of the foreign correspondent -- is there one? Tracing the historical development of international reporting, Kevin Williams examines the organizational structures, occupational culture, and information environment in wh

Subject(s): Urban poor -- China | China -- Social conditions -- 2000- Review: "Urban poverty is an emerging problem. This book explores the household and neighbourhood factors that lead to both the generation and continuance of urban poverty in China. It is argued that the urban Chinese are not a homogenous social group, but combine laid-of

Subject(s): Foster mothers -- Great Britain | Abused children -- Biography -- Great Britain | Foster home care -- Great Britain Summary: The author had fostered fifty children over twenty years but none of them had been as disturbed as Jodie, a troubled eight-year-old whose violence and aggression had seen off five foster carers in just four mo

Subject(s): Computer storage devices | Electronic data processing departments -- Management Summary: "This work provides a storage industry insiders insight on how to properly scope, plan, evaluate, and implement storage technologies to maximize performance, capacity, reliability, and power savings. It covers all types of storage technology