Subject(s): Buffett, Warren | Capitalists and financiers -- Biography | Investments Summary: From the Publisher: Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented

Subject(s): Sustainable development -- Australia | City planning -- Australia | Sociology, urban -- Australia | Cities and towns -- Growth Summary: "Formidable challenges confront Australia and its human settlements: the mega-metro regions, major and provincial cities, coastal, rural and remote towns. The key drivers of change and major urb

Subject(s): Social influence | Social change | United States -- Population Social aspects Summary: Pollster Mark Penn argues that the biggest trends in America are microtrends, the smaller trends that go unnoticed or ignored. One million people can create new market for a business, spark a social movement, or effect political change. In 1996, a

Subject(s): Multimedia systems | Information storage and retrieval systems | Information resources management Summary: "This book offers solutions to the challenges of storage and manipulation of a variety of media types providing data placement techniques, scheduling methods, caching techniques and emerging characteristics of multimedia in

Subject(s): Data mining | Web databases Summary: "This book provides the most recent technical information related to the computational models of the text mining process, discussing techniques within the realms of classification, association analysis, information extraction, and clustering. Offering an innovative approach to the utilization

Subject(s): Architectural design Summary: "A handbook and users' guide on architectural design pedagogy, pursuing the strategy of the Trojan horse, infiltrating a given system's practices in order to transform them from within... Following the framework of an academic year, the book is divided into a series of sections devoted to th

Subject(s): Leadership | Self-realization Summary: Two leadership consultants identify three keys to being a more effective leader: knowing your strengths and investing in others' strengths, getting people with the right strengths on your team, and understanding and meeting the four basic needs of those who look to you for leadership. &

Subject(s): Islamic universities and colleges -- Indonesia | Education, Higher -- Indonesia Summary: Influences of Western Orientalist ideas in Islamic studies taught at the State Institutes for Islamic Studies in Indonesia. Holdings: ,Book - General,Gombak Campus Library,General Collection,Open Shelf,LC910I5H968H 2006,Available,00

Subject(s): Information retrieval Summary: "This book is an essential reference to cutting-edge issues and future directions in information retrieval Information retrieval (IR) can be defined as the process of representing, managing, searching, retrieving, and presenting information. Good IR involves understanding information needs and i

Subject(s): European Union -- Foreign relations -- Former Yugoslav republics | European Union -- Foreign relations -- Albania | European Union countries -- Foreign relations -- Former Yugoslav republics | European Union countries -- Foreign relations -- Albania | Former Yugoslav republics -- Foreign relations -- European Union countries | Albania -