Book Review Digest


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Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, drawn from coverage of 109 publications. Book Review Digest provides citations to and excerpts of reviews of current juvenile and adult fiction and nonfiction in the English language. Reviews of the following types of books are excluded: government publications, textbooks, and technical books in the sciences and law. Reviews of books on science for the general reader, however, are included. The reviews originate in a group of selected periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and general science published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. - Publisher.




The Judge


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Maximum Effectiveness


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Develop a professional and personal life of Maximum Effectiveness! Tough times call for top talent, and there is always room at the top for the best! Maximum Effectiveness: Your Guide to Maximum Success in Sales, Management, Customer Service, Marketing and Personal Effectiveness, is a must own for anyone looking to radically increase critical business and life skills. Maximum Effectiveness is an easy to read, dynamic guide that outlines seventy-five powerful suggestions for better personal and professional living. Some of the topics this guide to success outlines include: · How to develop selling skills that will increase your income and professional achievements. · How to brand and position your company for maximum market growth and increased revenue. · How to practice true client satisfaction that will separate you from your competition by quantum leaps. · How to truly live and appreciate the great fortunes we have in our daily lives. Also included in Maximum Effectiveness are great methods on training employees, growing your business by watching what other great companies are doing, and even a method to save literally thousands of dollars over time by asking one simple question. A percentage of the profits generated from the sale of Maximum Effectiveness will be used for cancer research and to develop skills of underprivileged people. Learn more about Tony Johnson and Maximum Effectiveness at www.tonyjohnsononline.com




The Dark Side of Silicon


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This book presents the state-of-the art of one of the main concerns with microprocessors today, a phenomenon known as "dark silicon". Readers will learn how power constraints (both leakage and dynamic power) limit the extent to which large portions of a chip can be powered up at a given time, i.e. how much actual performance and functionality the microprocessor can provide. The authors describe their research toward the future of microprocessor development in the dark silicon era, covering a variety of important aspects of dark silicon-aware architectures including design, management, reliability, and test. Readers will benefit from specific recommendations for mitigating the dark silicon phenomenon, including energy-efficient, dedicated solutions and technologies to maximize the utilization and reliability of microprocessors.




The Publishers Weekly


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Resistive Gaseous Detectors


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This first book to critically summarize the latest achievements and emerging applications within this interdisciplinary topic focuses on one of the most important types of detectors for elementary particles and photons: resistive plate chambers (RPCs). In the first part, the outstanding, international team of authors comprehensively describes and presents the features and design of single and double-layer RPCs before covering more advanced multi-layer RPCs. The second part then focuses on the application of RPCs in high energy physics, materials science, medicine and security. Throughout, the experienced authors adopt a didactic approach, with each subject presented in a simple way, increasing in complexity step by step.




Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications


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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications, ARC 2011, held in Belfast, UK, in March 2011. The 40 revised papers presented, consisting of 24 full papers, 14 poster papers, and the abstracts of 2 plenary talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The topics covered are reconfigurable accelerators, design tools, reconfigurable processors, applications, device architecture, methodology and simulation, and system architecture.




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Hades & Persephone


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This book was phenomenal! Absolutely phenomenal! I love ruthless, heartless, sexy alpha male Hades. –Madeleine, Goodreads reviewer The first rule my mother taught me: never leave the farm. Because the world is a dangerous place, and the most dangerous man in it will hurt me. But I couldn’t stay forever, trapped and isolated. I made the choice to leave. I crept out under the cover of darkness. I broke the rules. And Hades was waiting for me, just like my mother said he would be. He caught me in his arms and claimed me for his own. He can keep me forever, but I’m going to take something, too: His heart. Hades & Persephone is the complete Hades trilogy in one volume, with exclusive content not found anywhere else!