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A concise and authoritative survey of the political and economic debate around Tony Blair's 'Big Idea' of stakeholding by leading exponents and their critics on both Left and Right. The book summarises and criticises the key stakeholder arguments as these have been applied to the economy and to society. The book seeks to identify what is new in the concept of stakeholding, and whether it can provide the organising idea and strategic direction for a reformist government to regain the initiative i...

With questions on every aspect of the world's most-famous club from their lowly beginnings in 1876 as Newton Heath (as a collection of railway workers from Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways) to their first taste of championship success in 1908, from Bank Street to Old Trafford, from Munich to Barcelona, from Busby's Babes to Fergie's Fledglings there will be questions to enough diverse questions in this book to challenge the football savy of even the most die-hard Reds fan. The book will be spli...

This volume explores top-down structured problem solving, the process of data abstraction and structuring, and the comparative study of algorithms as fundamental tools of program design. The new edition uses a concrete and practical approach to cover the process of data specification and abstraction. Turbo Pascal is used throughout, developing several large sample programs in the text.

This series considers the different ways information reaches us. It looks at how information is accessed, presented and communicated by us and others.

For one- and two-semester Operating Systems courses (in the most recent ACM/IEEE curriculum) that universities offer to juniors, seniors and graduate Computer Science students.The text goes beyond the standard coverage in operating systems courses with key chapters on multiprocessing, networking, distributed systems, performance, and security. The text features extensive, up-to-the-minute case studies on the latest versions of Linux (2.6) and Microsoft Windows XP. An abundance of charts, diagram...

Grab your magical sword and take the place of your favorite fantasy character with this fun and historically accurate how-to guide to solving epic quests. What should you ask a magic mirror? How do you outwit a genie? Where should you dig for buried treasure? Fantasy media's favorite cliches get new life from How to Slay a Dragon: A Fantasy Hero's Guide to the Real Middle Ages, a historically accurate romp through the medieval world. Each entry presents a trope from video games, books, movies,...

Your fitness, health, and well-being depend on food and proper nutrition. Yet, knowing what is in the foods we eat, understanding the differences between good and bad fat, learning which foods are good sources of vitamins, keeping up on the latest scientific discoveries, or discerning the effectiveness of different diets can be challenging. To help answer these questions there's The Handy Nutrition Answer Book. Additionally, the book scrutinises the pros, cons and effectiveness of the biggest, m...

A reference manual for all immigrants looking to become citizens This pocket study guide will help you prepare for the naturalization test. If you were not born in the United States, naturalization is the way that you can voluntarily become a US citizen. To become a naturalized U.S. citizen, you must pass the naturalization test. This pocket study guide provides you with the civics test questions and answers, and the reading and writing vocabulary to help you study. Additionally, this guide co...

The aim of the USA-Japan Conference was to bring together research workers and practitioners to exchange information, ideas, theory, and experience in applying human factors, computer science concepts and methodologies to the design, planning, control and operation of human-computer interactive systems. This book contains 72 of the papers presented, providing much of interest to engineers, psychologists, computer scientists and human factors specialists concerned with effective, productive and s...