Peter C: 385 books
A Short History of Early Modern England
British Literature in Context
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
A Short History of Early Modern England presents the historical and cultural information necessary for a richer understanding of English Renaissance literature.
Written in a clear and accessible style for an undergraduate level audience
Gives an overview of the period’s history as well as an...
Universal Truth
Thinking Outside the Box: Book Ii
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
This book unlocks many of the mysteries held throughout ancient times by introducing the reader to concepts and beliefs predating organized religion. Universal Truth is an expose of hidden knowledge and truths practiced by adepts and spiritual masters since the beginning of time as we know it. In...
Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics and the Discourse of Mark 13
Appropriating the Apocalyptic
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
The apocalyptic discourse of Mark 13 predicts that cataclysmic events will occur within the generation of Jesus’ contemporaries, but readers today know these events have not taken place. Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics enables a reader to understand this text as a presentation of truth rather than...
Son of (Entropy)2
Personal Memories of a Son of a Chemist, Joseph E. Mayer, and a Nobel Prize Winning Physicist, Maria Goeppert Mayer
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Their son, mostly for fun, writes this collection of vignettes about two prominent scientists. The forward includes a description of the two, summarizing their character and their careers. The summary contains an explanation of the title, Entropy Squared. The forward ends with remarks about the accuracy...
by Peter C. Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
The The Dead Presidents Club story continues with the ghosts of Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge trying to end a 160 year old curse before an assassin kills the president and his family by blowing up the White House. The ghosts have little time to discover the assassin and to...
The New York Mets Encyclopedia
3rd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The New York Mets Encyclopedia provides the full and exciting story of modern-era baseball’s most popular expansion-age franchise. From those lovable losers of 1962 and 1963, to the Miracle Mets of 1969 and 1973, and on to year-in and year-out contenders of the 1980s and 1990s, New York’s National...
Introductory Statistics and Analytics
A Resampling Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Concise, thoroughly class-tested primer that features basic statistical concepts in the concepts in the context of analytics, resampling, and the bootstrap
A uniquely developed presentation of key statistical topics, Introductory Statistics and Analytics: A Resampling Perspective provides an...
Data Mining for Business Analytics
Concepts, Techniques, and Applications with JMP Pro
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Data Mining for Business Analytics: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications with JMP Pro® presents an applied and interactive approach to data mining.
Featuring hands-on applications with JMP Pro®, a statistical package from the SAS Institute, the book
uses engaging, real-world examples to...
Measuring Efficiency in Health Care
Analytic Techniques and Health Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
With the healthcare sector accounting for a sizeable proportion of national expenditures, the pursuit of efficiency has become a central objective of policymakers within most health systems. However, the analysis and measurement of efficiency is a complex undertaking, not least due to the multiple...
Check Lists for Success
The Ultimate Handbook for World Operations Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
This book contains a number of check lists which I have written, used, and collected over many years. Some of the check lists included are ones that I have used in conjunction with consultants and other 3rd parties employed by the companies where I have worked. My thanks are due, not only to my own...
Understanding Customer Needs (Digital Short Cut)
Software QFD and the Voice of the Customer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
This is the eBook version of the printed book. Leading companies around the world, including Toyota and General Electric, have practiced Quality Function Deployment (QFD) for decades. Developed in Japan by Dr. Yoji Akao and Dr. Shigeru Mizuno, QFD has two aims: to ensure that true customer needs are...
Creating Value with Big Data Analytics
Making Smarter Marketing Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Our newly digital world is generating an almost unimaginable amount of data about all of us. Such a vast amount of data is useless without plans and strategies that are designed to cope with its size and complexity, and which enable organisations to leverage the information to create value. This book...
Alternative Solutions to Higher Education's Challenges
An Appreciative Approach to Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Moving beyond critique, Alternative Solutions to Higher Education’s Challenges uses an appreciative approach to highlight what is working in colleges and universities and offers an examination of how institutions can improve practice. Drawing on examples and cases from real higher education institutions,...
Launching a Design for Trustworthy Software (DFTS) Initiative (Digital Short Cut)
LAUNCHING DES TRUSTWORTH_1
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
This is the eBook version of the printed book.
This short cut is a reproduction of Chapter 21 of the book Design for Trustworthy Software (DFTS) and is a sequel to Chapters 2, 5, and 20. The Plan, Implement, Control, and Secure (PICS) implementation framework is revisited and its four phases...