Get Results that Count


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Are you tired of reading through reams of statistics and listening to presentation after presentation just to find the essential nuggets about business performance that will put and keep your company ahead? Do you want colleagues and employees to buy in with cooperation and supportive engagement? Do you want to align your business actions with goals and ensure resources are allocated for optimal return? In this practical ‘put it in play today’ guide, management consultant Connie Siu cuts straight to the core elements of business performance measurement that will produce actionable results. Whether you’re an executive, manager, business owner, project leader or team leader, Get Results that Count will help you: · Get clarity on what is important and relevant to measure · Develop meaningful measures · Monitor and communicate the right results to the right audience · Manage challenges with data · Drive accountability for performance · Overcome common measurement problems www.cdcsynectics.com







The Fastest Diet


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One of the world's leading researchers on intermittent fasting, Dr Krista Varady, teams up with the world's largest online fasting network, SuperFastDiet, to show you how to supercharge your weight loss and dramatically improve your health. There are myriad ways to use fasting to improve health and lose weight. Victoria Black and Gen Davidson of SuperFastDiet having been working with clients for years, gathering insight into which versions work best in terms of ease and effectiveness. The result? An intermittent fasting formula that will supercharge your weight loss. Not content with anecdotal evidence, they have teamed up with Dr Varady, a professor at the University of Illinois, who provides the hard science to back it all up. The book contains 50 delicious recipes and clear-eyed advice on how to make this remarkable diet part of your everyday life. Fun, informative and effective, this is the go-to diet for fast and sustainable weight loss and a pathway to glowing good health. This is a specially formatted fixed-layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book.




Atomic Habits


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The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 20 million copies sold! Translated into 60+ languages! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field. Learn how to: make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy); overcome a lack of motivation and willpower; design your environment to make success easier; get back on track when you fall off course; ...and much more. Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.




The Complete Works of Count Rumford


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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.




Technical Bulletin


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Experiment Station Record


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Introduction to Data Systems


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Encompassing a broad range of forms and sources of data, this textbook introduces data systems through a progressive presentation. Introduction to Data Systems covers data acquisition starting with local files, then progresses to data acquired from relational databases, from REST APIs and through web scraping. It teaches data forms/formats from tidy data to relationally defined sets of tables to hierarchical structure like XML and JSON using data models to convey the structure, operations, and constraints of each data form. The starting point of the book is a foundation in Python programming found in introductory computer science classes or short courses on the language, and so does not require prerequisites of data structures, algorithms, or other courses. This makes the material accessible to students early in their educational career and equips them with understanding and skills that can be applied in computer science, data science/data analytics, and information technology programs as well as for internships and research experiences. This book is accessible to a wide variety of students. By drawing together content normally spread across upper level computer science courses, it offers a single source providing the essentials for data science practitioners. In our increasingly data-centric world, students from all domains will benefit from the “data-aptitude” built by the material in this book.