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A must-have guide for all companies undertaking service-oriented architecture (SOA) and IT governance Service-Oriented Architecture Governance for the Services Driven Enterprise expertly covers the business, organizational, process, compliance, security, and technology facets of SOA and IT governance.

SAVE MONEY BY HANDLING YOUR OWN SMALL GAS ENGINE MAINTENANCE OR REPAIR JOBSThe Third Edition of Small Gas Engine Repair shows you how to troubleshoot and repair virtually any type of small gas engine used in garden equipment, chain saws, pumps, and standby generators.

The study of dusty plasmas is now in a vigorous state of development.

This book examines four theses regarding Asian higher education and development: interplay between cultural traditions, economic development, globalization, and the evolution of the 'hybrid' university.

This book explores the political construction of imperial frontiers during the reigns of Ferdinand the Catholic and Charles V in the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean.

Threats to the Arctic discusses all the current threats to this fragile region, emphasizing the interconnections between many environmental impacts, as well as the teleconnections between events already emerging in the Arctic (ocean circulation changes, melting of sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets) and other parts of the world.

A clear view of the reality of life!

There's a sandwich thief in Mr.

Rescue Robotics presents the most significant findings of the DDT Project on robots and systems for urban search and rescue.

This book presents reference architecture as a key blueprint to develop and evolve critical software-intensive systems, emphasizing both the state of the art in research and successful industrial cases.

This book explores the intimate marital relationships of Indonesian Muslim married women.

Louis Brownlow, one of public administration's historical thinkers, once argued, "e;[T]he principal requirement of a good administrator is an insatiable curiosity.

Der Band lotet die Bedingungen des Erinnerns und Erzählens und damit einer Re-Inszenierung der Vergangenheit im Feld der Kinder- und Jugendmedien aus.

A history of the cross-border Central African copperbelt, integrating the region''s social history with knowledge production about it.

The only book to cover the evolution of one of the most important areas of philosophyThe birth of the Enlightenment heralded a new reverence for the power of reason.

On February 11, 1780, a British army led by General Sir Henry Clinton came ashore on Johns Island, South Carolina.

Set in locales and time periods as varied as nineteenth century England, contemporary Spain, and postwar Alberta, these five stories and two novellas introduce us to characters whose obsessions occupy the borderlands between fantasy and reality.

First published in 1987, this volume makes available key documents, giving the contemporary reader a valuble record of women's struggle for eduacation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

What follows is a sampler of work in knowledge acquisition.

Is it just me?

Volume 17- Television Technology to Wire Antennas.

Though certainly not a new idea, citizenship education manifests in unique and often unpredictable ways in our contemporary neoliberal era.

It is widely known that - at least in current societies - culture depends on money.

Ernst L.

The history of the execution of women in the United States has largely been ignored and scholars have given scant attention to gender issues in capital punishment.

Software components and component-based software development (CBSD) are acknowledged as the best approach for constructing quality software at reasonable cost.

As bone marrow transplant treatments and chemotherapy develop, the population of neutropenic cancer patients is on the rise.

Examines four texts of the Imperial period in order to elucidate how each author formulates very different conceptions of Homer.

When 17 year old Isabella Swan moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father she expects that her new life will be as dull as the town.

Examining the dynamics between subject, photographer and viewer, Fashioning Brazil analyses how Brazilians have appropriated and reinterpreted clothing influences from local and global cultures.

How do you get away with the murder of 11 million people?

The following papers were presented at an international workshop on benzo- diazepine receptor ligands, memory and information processing, held during the 15th CINP meeting in Puerto Rico in December 1986 and organised by the editors and T.

Im Lehrgang Technische Hilfeleistung (nach FwDV 2) sind für das Erlernen des korrekten Umgangs mit Trennschleifer, Plasmaschneider und Brennschneidegerät nur wenige Unterrichtseinheiten vorgesehen.

A comprehensive critical account of Margaret Atwood''s novels, short stories, poetry, and essays.

An Introduction to Machine Learning in Finance, With Mathematical Background, Data Visualization, and R Nonparametric function estimation is an important part of machine learning, which is becoming increasingly important in quantitative finance.

In this book, readers will take a fascinating journey with local prosecutors as they seek to obtain reasonable and appropriate case dispositions while preventing abuse and misuse of the law and protecting the civil rights of their jurisdictions.

This research monograph delves into the pressing issue of employee-centered social sustainability in the hospitality industry.

Ping Chong's four-part masterwork.