Jon David: 106 books

Here is a chapter from Portfolio Performance Measurement and Benchmarking which will help you create a system you can use to accurately measure your performance. The authors highlight common mechanical problems involved in building benchmarks and clearly illustrate the resulting fallouts. The failure...

How do you like your weirdness? A subtle nudge towards the untoward? A quick zap of zany? Or a full-on assault of aberration? Whatever your taste, you'll find it here, and many more strains of strange that you didn't suspect existed. From magic rain to a talking (severed) head, extraordinary eggs...

INSIGNIA Vol.2 includes 7 Chinese fantasy stories with a mix of urban, literary, contemporary, myth-based, and historical fantasy pieces.

Since the 1960s, the field of victimology has developed into a variegated discipline with its own theoretical and methodological traditions. In the early 1990s two texts were published—Towards a Critical Victimology (Fattah, 1992) and Critical Victimology (Mawby and Walklate, 1994)—that concretized...

Comprehensive coverage of improvements in cultivation techniques across the potato value chain, from yield modelling to post-harvest storage Detailed review of the main fungal, bacterial and viral diseases affecting potatoes Assesses the environmental impact of potato cultivation

This is a beginner's practical guide that doesn't involve any code or programming concepts. You will learn by pointing and clicking on the options available in front of you. It includes easy-to-follow instructions and screenshots that will guide you through creating a powerful website. Each chapter stands...

If necessity is the mother of invention then Kiwi ingenuity is its father. No. 8 Re-wired is a comprehensive, colourful treasury of New Zealand inventions - jam-packed with the stories behind 202 home-grown creations and the crafty people who dreamt them up.�From well-known innovations (human flight,...

Series Editors: Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown and Thomas R Freeman Half of all prescribed medicines are used in a sub-optimal manner and clinicians struggle to find ways of improving the situation. There is a move towards greater partnership with patients, but concordance (shared decision making...