Lasting Leadership - What You Can Learn from the Top 25 Business People of our Times

In this book, two of the world's most respected sources of business insight come together to select and profile the 25 most influential businesspeople of the past quarter century. These incisive profiles teach specific lessons you can use to discover, refine, and nurture your own leadership style... achieve breakthrough results... and accelerate your career progress.

Insiders Guide to AdWords

Have you ever read one of those books that let you pick different ways to get to the ending? Well, think of  this “Insider’s Guide to AdWords” the same way. You can take the traditional route and read it straight through. Or you can skip between sections, using the section headings, the table of contents, and the glossary as your guide.

Introducing Silverlight 1.1

In this Short Cut, we'll take a close look at Silverlight 1.1 and bring clarity to this bleeding-edge technology.

First we'll take a broad look at the new concept of Rich Internet Applications and how Silverlight fits into that picture. Then we'll examine how you work with Silverlight 1.1, highlighting tools, concepts, and code that you will need to build these interactive applications. Finally, we'll take a practical look at using Silverlight 1.1 to build a custom control, pulling all of the concepts and tools together.

Join ASP.NET Master and Telerik Chief Technical Evangelist Todd Anglin and the Telerik Team as they guide you to understanding Silverlight 1.1.

How To Cheat At Windows System Administration Using Command Line Scripts

This book is designed to help you learn the power of Windows command shell.There was a time in the history of computers when there was no graphical user interface (GUI), and every small and big task was performed using the commands and batch files.With every new version of Windows, Microsoft is trying to ease administrators’ jobs by adding more and more layers of GUI or configuration wizards (dialog boxes).

Although these “wizards” are interactive and make the administrator’s job easier, they are not always the most convenient and efficient way to accomplish the everyday administration tasks.These wizards are time-consuming and, at times, may seem a bit confusing.There is certainly a way to avoid these wizards and still accomplish a given task using the command-line utilities included with the operating system.

Handbook of Electric Power Calculations

The Handbook of Electric Power Calculations provides detailed step-by-step calculation procedures commonly encountered in electrical engineering. The Handbook contains a wide array of topics and each topic is written by an authority on the subject. The treatment throughout the Handbook is practical with very little emphasis on theory.