Author: Tina Hoski
Publisher: Human Kinetic
Keywords: book, drill, tennis
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-08-13
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0736049126
ISBN-13: 9780736049122

The Tennis Drill Book is the one complete collection of drills, games, and tips for improving stroke technique, match strategy, and everything in between. This extensive manual features 245 drills to improve performance: ·Progressive technique drills help you master every stroke and shot combination. ·Tactics drills help you develop winning strategies for every game situation?aggressive or defensive, doubles or singles?on any court surface, against any style of play. ·Mental training drills help you stay focused when the pressure is on. ·Warm-up, cool-down, and conditioning drills are desi

Authors:Tina Yu, Tina Yu, Lawrence Davis, Cem Baydar, Rajkumar
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: computational, intelligence, studies, practice, computation, evolutionary
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 2008-02-13
List price: $179.00
ISBN-10: 3540757708
ISBN-13: 9783540757702

This book is loaded with examples in which computer scientists and engineers have used evolutionary computation - programs that mimic natural evolution - to solve real problems. They aren t abstract, mathematically intensive papers, but accounts of solving important problems, including tips from the authors on how to avoid common pitfalls, maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of the search process, and many other practical suggestions. Some of the authors have already won Humies - Human Competitive Results Awards - for the work described in this book. I highly recommend it as a highly con

Author: Jim Hoski
Publisher: Maximum Pre
Keywords: world, demand, maxfacts, guidebook, series, iseries, eserver, investment, moving, forward, ibm, building
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1931644098
ISBN-13: 9781931644099

Leveraging IBM’s on demand initiative for users of the AS/400 and eServer iSeries lines of mid-range business servers, this book demonstrates for businesses how to use change to their competitive advantage. Businesses will see where they fall along the e-business on demand adoption path, learn about IBM’s on demand strategy, and reduce costs through server consolidation. The ways in which Linux can help achieve a more open infrastructure are considered, and information on the latest iSeries technologies such as dynamic LPAR, capacity on demand, and POWER 4 are provided.

Authors:Michael A. Hitt, R. Duane Ireland, Robert E. Hoski
Publisher: South-Western College Pu
Keywords: cases, globalization, competitiveness, management, strategic
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2008-01-22
List price: $113.95
ISBN-10: 0324581130
ISBN-13: 9780324581133

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: COMPETITIVENESS AND GLOBALIZATION, CASES, Eighth Edition, is a comprehensive Strategic Management case text that combines proven scholarship; cutting-edge research; a practical global focus; and the most thorough, up-to-date, and relevant business examples and cases available. Now, this trusted business text is enhanced by the addition of powerful new media and technology resources, including an updated video program, CengageNOW? online learning tools, and the Business and Company Resource Center (BCRC)--a complete electronic business library that makes in-depth research

Authors:Michael A. Hitt, R. Duane Ireland, Robert E. Hoski
Publisher: South-Western College Pu
Keywords: concepts, cases, globalization, competitiveness, management, strategic
Number of Pages: 848
Published: 2008-01-18
List price: $220.95
ISBN-10: 0324655592
ISBN-13: 9780324655599

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: COMPETITIVENESS AND GLOBALIZATION, CONCEPTS AND CASES Eighth Edition, is a comprehensive Strategic Management text that combines impeccable scholarship; cutting-edge research; a sophisticated and practical global focus; and the most thorough, up-to-date, and relevant business examples and cases available. Now, this seminal business text is enhanced by the addition of powerful new media and technology resources, including an updated video program, CengageNOW online teaching tools, and the Business and Company Resource Center (BCRC)--a complete electronic business library.

Authors:Michael A. Hitt, R. Duane Ireland, Robert E. Hoski
Publisher: South-Western College Pu
Keywords: concepts, globalization, competitiveness, management, strategic
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-01-18
List price: $139.95
ISBN-10: 0324581122
ISBN-13: 9780324581126

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: COMPETITIVENESS AND GLOBALIZATION, CONCEPTS, Eighth Edition, is a comprehensive Strategic Management text that combines proven scholarship; cutting-edge research; a practical global focus; and the most thorough, up-to-date, and relevant business examples available. Now, this trusted business text is enhanced by the addition of powerful new media and technology resources, including an updated video program, ThomsonNOW™ online learning tools, and the Business and Company Resource Center (BCRC)--a complete electronic business library that makes in-depth research simple. The

Author: Tina Lu
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: peach, blossom, fan, pavilion, peony, roles, minds, identity, persons
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2002-07-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0804742022
ISBN-13: 9780804742023

Focusing on two late-Ming or early-Qing plays central to the Chinese canon, this thought-provoking study explores crucial questions concerning personal identity. How is a person, as opposed to a ghost or animal, to be defined? How can any specific person (as distinguished, for example, from an impostor or twin) be identified? Both plays are chuanqi, representatives of a monumental genre that represents Chinese dramatic literature at its most complex: Tang Xianzu’s Peony Pavilion is a romantic comedy in 55 acts, and Kong Shangren’s Peach Blossom Fan narrates the fall of the Ming Dynasty in