Authors:J. Michael Scott, Patricia Heglund, Michael L. Morri
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: accuracy, scale, issues, occurrences, species, predicting
Number of Pages: 840
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 1559637870
ISBN-13: 9781559637879

Predictions about where different species are, where they are not, and how they move across a landscape or respond to human activities - if timber is harvested, for instance, or stream flow altered - are important aspects of the work of wildlife biologists, land managers, and the agencies and policymakers that govern natural resources. Despite the increased use and importance of model predictions, these predictions are seldom tested and have unknown levels of accuracy.Predicting Species Occurrences addresses those concerns, highlighting for managers and researchers the strengths and weaknesses

Authors:Michael Wade, Michael Parent, Scott L. Schneberger, P
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Keywords: commerce, electronic, cases
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1999-11-19
List price: $85.60
ISBN-10: 0072375167
ISBN-13: 9780072375169

Cases in electronic commerce is comprised of a collection of 25 full-length case studies written by professors at the renowned Richard Ivey School of Business. Each case study is centered around a real-world company and provides sufficient detail on the implications associated with e-commerce initiatives. This managerial-oriented approach allows students to fully understand and appreciate the strategic, tactical, and operational challenges faced when launching an e-commerce-based business.

Authors:Wendy E. Hudson, J. Michael Scott, Michael E. Soule,
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: biodiversity, linkages, landscape
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 1991-10-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1559631082
ISBN-13: 9781559631082

Experts explain biological diversity conservation, focusing on the need for protecting large areas of the most diverse ecosystems, and connecting these ecosystems with land corridors to allow species to move among them more easily.

Author: Michael L. Scott
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Keywords: pragmatics, language, programming
Number of Pages: 856
Published: 2000-01-15
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 1558604421
ISBN-13: 9781558604421

Programming Language Pragmatics addresses the fundamental principles at work in the most important contemporary languages, highlights the critical relationship between language design and language implementation, and devotes special attention to issues of importance to the expert programmer. Thanks to its rigorous but accessible teaching style, you’ll emerge better prepared to choose the best language for particular projects, to make more effective use of languages you already know, and to learn new languages quickly and completely.* Addresses the most recent developments in programming

Author: Michael L. Scott
Publisher: Morgan Kaufma
Keywords: second, pragmatics, language, programming
Number of Pages: 912
Published: 2005-11-21
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 0126339511
ISBN-13: 9780126339512

As a textbook suitable for the classroom or self-study, Michael Scott’s Programming Language Pragmatics provides a worthy tour of the theory and practice of how programming languages are run on today’s computers. Clearly organized and filled with a wide-ranging perspective on over 40 different languages, this book will be appreciated for its depth and breadth of coverage on an essential topic in computer science. With references to dozens of programming languages, from Ada to Turing and everything in between (including C, C++, Java, and Perl), this book is a truly in-depth guide to

Author: Michael L. Scott
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Keywords: third, pragmatics, language, programming
Number of Pages: 944
Published: 2009-04-06
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 0123745144
ISBN-13: 9780123745149

Programming Language Pragmatics is the most comprehensive programming language textbook available today. Taking the perspective that language design and language implementation are tightly interconnected, and that neither can be fully understood in isolation, this critically acclaimed and bestselling book has been thoroughly updated to cover the most recent developments in programming language design. With a new chapter on run-time program management and expanded coverage of concurrency, this new edition provides both students and professionals alike with a solid understanding of the most impo

Author: Michael Scott
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Keywords: flamel, nicholas, immortal, secrets, magician
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2008-06-24
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0385733585
ISBN-13: 9780385733588

After fleeing Ojai, Nicholas, Sophie, Josh, and Scatty emerge in Paris, the City of Lights. Home for Nicholas Flamel. Only this homecoming is anything but sweet. Perenell is still locked up back in Alcatraz and Paris is teeming with enemies. Nicollo Machiavelli, immortal author and celebrated art collector, is working for Dee. He’s after them, and time is running out for Nicholas and Perenell. For every day spent without the Book of Abraham the Mage, they age one year—their magic becoming weaker and their bodies more frail. For Flamel, the Prophesy is becoming more and more clear.It’s ti