Theo Theobald / Cary L Cooper, «Shut Up and Listen: The Truth about How to Communicate at Work»
Kogan Page | ISBN: 0749440244 | 2004-07-01 | 160 pages | PDF

Review
"provides an excellent honest approach to workplace communication, addressing the problems of trying to be heard in a busy business environment. From learning communication strategies through common ad techniques and translating them to workplace environments to understanding the basics of effective written and oral English, Shut Up and Listen comes packed with practical tips."--The Bookwatch

Book Description
* The first collaboration between two of the UK's top communicators

Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals by Brian Tracy (Author) Key Phrases: Focal;Point;Process, Peter;Drucker, Arnold;Schwarzenegger
Publisher: American Management Association (September 2001) | ISBN-10: 0814471293 | PDF | 222 pages

Focal Point is author and motivational speaker Brian Tracy's latest guide to professional and personal development. Combining the basic principles of career success and life balance he has advocated in the past with anecdotes for inspiration, the book proposes a unified approach to simultaneously achieving improvement at work and at home. The crux is finding the "focal point" in all pertinent areas--business, family, finances, health--and then launching a seven-step "personal strategic plan" that "helps you identify exactly what is most important to you ... identify what you need to do to achieve your most important goals (and) determine the steps you have to take to get from wherever you are to wherever you want to go." Tracy shows quite explicitly how to incorporate the specific phases of the process, including Values, Vision, Goals, Knowledge and Skills, Habits, Daily Activities, and Actions, into a drive for long-term growth and overall advancement. Not all who follow Tracy's program will find their incomes doubled and work hours pared while their personal relationships blossom, of course, but anyone who applies it diligently should see definite improvement.

F. M. Goodman, "Algebra: Abstract and Concrete"
Prentice Hall | ISBN 0130673420 | 2nd edition (August 2, 2002) | 464 pages | PDF

This introduction to modern or abstract algebra addresses the conventional topics of groups, rings, and fields with symmetry as a unifying theme, while it introduces readers to the active practice of mathematics. Its accessible presentation is designed to teach users to think things through for themselves and change their view of mathematics from a system of rules and procedures, to an arena of inquiry. The volume provides plentiful exercises that give users the opportunity to participate and investigate algebraic and geometric ideas which are interesting, important, and worth thinking about. The volume addresses algebraic themes, basic theory of groups and products of groups, symmetries of polyhedra, actions of groups, rings, field extensions, and solvability and isometry groups. For those interested in a concrete presentation of abstract algebra.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cashing in On Your Inventions by Richard Levy (Author), Richard C. Levy (Author)
Publisher: Alpha; 1st edition (September 28, 2001) | ISBN-10: 0028642201 | PDF 360 pages

Richard C. Levy, simply put, is a marketing genius with a flair for invention. In the past twenty years, he has licensed over 125 products including Furby(r), and the best-selling game "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus." Richard holds more than 30 patents. This is his twelfth book. He was profiled on Discovery Channel's Invention series, and in interviews with The New York Times, and The Washington Post. An MIT Inventor-of-the-Week, Richard has spoken at Wharton's Entrepreneurship Conference, IBM, and the USPTO's Independent Inventors Conference, among other engagements. His products have generated over $1 billion in combined retail sales.

A. M. Cohen , «Numerical Methods for Laplace Transform Inversion »
Springer | ISBN:0387282610 | (July 13, 2007) | 266 pages | PDF

?Operational methods have been used for over a century to solve problems such as ordinary and partial differential equations. When solving such problems, in many cases it is fairly easy to obtain the Laplace transform, while it is very demanding to determine the inverse Laplace transform that is the solution of a given problem. Sometimes, after some difficult contour integration, we may find that a series solution results, but this may be quite difficult to evaluate in order to get an answer at a particular time value.

The advent of computers has given an impetus to developing numerical methods for the determination of the inverse Laplace transform. This book gives background material on the theory of Laplace transforms, together with a fairly comprehensive list of methods that are available at the current time. Computer programs are included for those methods that perform consistently well on a wide range of Laplace transforms.