John Arthur Ricketts, "Reaching The Goal: How Managers Improve a Services Business Using Goldratt's Theory of Constraints". Discover the powerful Theory of Constraints (TOC), and use it to drive continuous performance improvement in any services organizationIdentify the hidden constraints that are limiting your organization, and manage or eliminate themUse TOC to improve the way you manage resources, projects, processes, finance, marketing, and salesDetermine whether your organization faces an internal or external constraint, manage that constraint accordingly,

Jim Brown, Camille Soulier, "Tennis: Steps to Success, 4th Edition". Master the essential skills, take the court with confidence, and ace the competition! Tennis: Steps to Success provides in-depth, progressive instruction and accompanying full color photos for each stroke. From forehand to backhand, serve to volley, this popular guide has you covered.

Donna Finando, Steven Finando, "Trigger Point Therapy for Myofascial Pain: The Practice of Informed Touch". A clinical reference manual for the evaluation and treatment of muscle pain• Contains detailed illustrations of pain patterns and trigger-point locations• 15,000 copies sold in first hardcover editionMyofascial pain syndromes are among the fastest growing problems that physicians, osteopaths, acupuncturists, and physical, occupational, and massage therapists encounter in their patients.

Britain's Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt by Richard Gott. Magisterial history of the foundation of the British empire, and the forgotten story of resistance to its formation.This revelatory new history punctures the still widely held belief that the British Empire was an enlightened and civilizing enterprise of great benefit to its subject peoples. Instead, Britain’s Empire reveals a history of systemic repression and almost continual violence, showing how British rule was imposed as a military operation and maintained as a military dictatorship.

A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain /by Owen Hatherley. A darkly humorous architectural guide to the decrepit new Britain that neoliberalism built.Back in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, British cities became the laboratories of the new enterprise economy: glowing monuments to finance, property speculation, and the service industry until the crash.

Chris Bramall, "Chinese Economic Development". This book outlines and analyzes the economic development of China between 1949 and 2007. Rather than being narrowly economic, the book addresses many of the broader aspects of development, including literacy, morality, demographics and the environment.

Roland Bouman, Jos van Dongen "Pentaho Solutions: Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing with Pentaho and MySQL", Your all-in-one resource for using Pentaho with MySQL for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
Open-source Pentaho provides business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing solutions at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions.

Albert M. K. Cheng, "Real-Time Systems: Scheduling, Analysis, and Verification". A complete guide to testing, analyzing, verifying, and monitoring real-time systemsMore and more of our modern-day systems and devices-from toasters and climate-control systems to airplanes and space shuttles-contain embedded systems to control their functions and ensure that their responses are both timely and correct. With safety a requisite factor, performance validation is a critical aspect of real-time systems. Answering the needs of professionals and students alike, Real-Time Systems: Scheduling, Analysis, and Verification provides a substantial, up-to-date overview of the verification and validation process. It describes several approaches to the problem, and examines the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.Designed to be both an introductory text and a handy reference for the practitioner,