Central to human life and civilization, soils are an integral part of the physical and cultural environment. Although we may take them for granted, the rise and fall of civilizations is closely linked with the use and abuse of soil and water resources. It is therefore important to evaluate soils for their quality and link them to appropriate uses and services. This book provides information on soil classification and shows how to key out taxa relevant to UAE soils. The latest soil inventor...

Get A Comprehensive Look At Agile Project Management And See What It Can Mean To YouAgile Project Management is a very flexible structure and method for the project and its processes. Although it takes a competent and capable person to be successful at the helm of things. It will ensure that a quality product is delivered on time through a constantly changing and iterative approach. Many ground-breaking and innovative goods have been developed over the yea...

"The greatest guide ever written—by our greatest living teacher of magick—to the greatest occult system on Earth." —from the forward by Jason Louv, author of John Dee and the Empire of AngelsHaving mastered the arts and sciences of his age, Elizabethan magus Dr. John Dee (1527–1608) resolved that worldly knowledge could no longer provide him the wisdom he desired, and as did so many other learned men of the day, he turned his attention to magick. In 1582 he...

Here's How You Should Run Your Business If You Want To Succeed!What if you could run your business like an experienced CEO - even if it's your very first business?If you're nodding with excitement, there's one thing you should know.No matter how good your business idea is, you will NOT succeed if you don't manage projects and processes in the best way possible.This is why you MUST know Si...

DO YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR COMPANY PROCESSES MORE EFFECTIVE AND OFFER HIGHER QUALITY PRODUCTS?Do you often look at how the company works and wish things could be better?Are you a boss who's sick of the waste in your systems, products and services?Do you want to find ways to change the behaviors and mentalities of the workers in your organization?Do you want to know the values, strategies, tools and techniques that can strengthen the organizati...

Here are sixteen chilling, never-before-published tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Halloween, coedited by Ellen Datlow, one of the most successful and respected genre editors, and Lisa Morton, a leading authority on Halloween.In addition to stories about scheming jack-o’-lanterns, vengeful ghosts, otherworldly changelings, disturbingly realistic haunted attractions, masks that cover terrifying faces, murderous urban legends, parties gone bad, cult Halloween m...

How well does the company adapt to changing market dynamics, customer needs and emerging technologies while designing software-based products?This practical guide presents Lean and Agile principles and patterns to help you move quickly on a scale — and shows why and how to apply these methodologies across your organization, rather than with a single department or team.Through case studies, you can explore how successful companies have changed every...

Danger. Evil. Death. Heroes can face it all, but they cannot do it alone.Throughout history, creatures both big and small have stood alongside heroes and helped them through trying times, whether on the battlefield or in their laps. In these brand-new stories, seventeen bestselling authors regale us with adventures of animal companions and how they often are the ones rescuing the rescuer.New stories by / in the world ofJim Butcher – from

Most of the startups crash. But many of these errors are preventable. Lean Startup is a new approach that is being implemented across the globe, changing the way businesses are being developed and new products are being introduced.Eric Ries describes a start-up as an entity committed to creating something new under conditions of intense uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in the garage or a group of experienced professionals in the Fortune 500 boardroo...

"99 Science Fiction Short Stories" brings together some of the finest sci fi short stories ever crafted. Featuring gems from masters of the genre, such as H.G Wells , Robert Barr , PKD, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Norton, and many, many more!

The Lean system is a great way to help you get rid of the waste in your company so that you can be more productive and increase profits.Lean Analytics is part of this process that can help you collect the right data and get the information you need to come up with a winning strategy for your team.The key idea behind Lean Analytics is to allow an organization to track and then optimize the metric that will matter most to its program, project or curr...

From a kill-or-be-killed gunfight with a vampire to an encounter in a steampunk bordello, the weird western is a dark, gritty tale where the protagonist might be playing poker with a sorcerous deck of cards, or facing an alien on the streets of a dusty frontier town. Here are twenty-three original tales—stories of the Old West infused with elements of the fantastic—produced specifically for this volume by many of today's finest writers. Included are Orson Scott Card's first "Alvin Maker" s...