'This book is suitable for courses at the MBA core level, PGDIBO students who are pursuing International Business at PG level, MS in supply chain management level, upper undergraduate level, and also suitable for executive education. The book is very constructive for managers involved in creating, optimizing or redesigning a supply chain. Readers after reading would unquestionably have say to, the supply chain decision-making process and build academic orientation in logistics.'Glo...

Young, old, or in between, The Hacker's Bible will teach you the game of Golf. To become a good golfer, certain techniques must be studied, learned, and performed. Sit first and relax. Take the time to read what this book says about playing golf. Then go out and do it: End up satisfied and playing the real Game of Golf!

This SpringerBrief presents research in the application of Stochastic Petri Nets (SPN) to the performance evaluation of wireless networks under bursty traffic. It covers typical Quality-of-Service performance metrics such as mean throughput, average delay and packet dropping probability. Along with an introduction of SPN basics, the authors introduce the key motivation and challenges of using SPN to analyze the resource sharing performance in wireless networks. The authors explain two powe...

This Element provides a basic introduction to sentiment analysis, aimed at helping students and professionals in corpus linguistics to understand what sentiment analysis is, how it is conducted, and where it can be applied. It begins with a definition of sentiment analysis and a discussion of the domains where sentiment analysis is conducted and used the most. Then, it introduces two main methods that are commonly used in sentiment analysis known as supervised machine-learning and unsuperv...

This series will take you through the streets of Houston, Texas, firsthand through the eyes of Bobby Langston. Good Guy Gone Bad is the intro into the fourteen-volume Demands Foe da Streets series. The story is based on actual events, but names have been changed to protect the guilty. This book is in honor of the great Robert Beck and Langston Hughes, who inspired me to write.

Having entered into a relationship with the Roman Catholic Church as a priest, while not owning my own truth and keeping it a secret, I was feeling alone, fearing for my security and acceptance; I became co-dependent.Yearning for a significant other who would also be my soul mateand realizing this would never be allowed as a Catholic priestcreated my experience of loneliness as one of sorrow and pain. When I went into the priesthood, I checked my own truth at the door. Well locked ...

A terrific action adventure ... a fallen war hero and a little girl searching for peace and family, find far more than they needed ... or wanted ...Norstalos stands on the brink of destruction. But the three invading armies are probably the least of Queen Merren's problems.Her people despise their would-be saviours, the army of goblins she has won to her side, while the dragons want Martil and the fabled Dragon Sword for themselves.Now Merren must make the most painful choice of her...

Wonderful action adventure ... the second book in a terrific new series ...Martil and his Rallorans are trying to gain control of the north for Queen Merren but winning the hearts of the people is proving impossible when the bards have painted them as murderous barbarians.King Gello the usurper is planning to lead a massive army to crush the budding rebellion but, even if a way can be found to defeat him, the Fearpriests stand ready to come to his aid ...Karia is trying to persuade ...

A beautiful action adventure ... a fallen war hero fights the demons of his past, and in the process finds that family is not all about blood ...A debut novel from a brilliant new fantasy authorMartil is a haunted man - a war hero, now derided as the 'Butcher of Bellic'. Leaving his beloved homeland he is set upon by bandits and tricked into taking a small child, Karia, to her uncle. But they only find one ex-bandit in the town, along with the Dragon Sword, a magical relic belonging...

'A compelling and wry narrative of one of the most intellectually thrilling eras of British history' Guardian.*****************SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020England, 1651. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart king Charles I, laid waste to Ireland, and crushed the late king's son and his Scottish allies. He is master of Britain and Ireland.But Parli...

This marvelous collection of travel stories from the South Pacific reveals Paul Gauguin's shocking Tahitian secrets, retraces the last tragic days of Robert Louis Stevenson, and recounts the author's own haunting by Herman Melville, as well as his attempts to seduce the Slovenian Olympic ski team in the Cook Islands.

Action and adventure, tyrants and rebels, humour and depth of purpose.Sendatsu is a hunted man. His people, even his own father, want him dead. Cast out of his home, he finds himself in a strange new land, desperate to find a way to return to his children. Alone in the land of Vales, Sendatsu is forced to rely on his talents as a fighter to survive. His skills are welcomed by two fugitives - Huw and Rhiannon - who are desperate to alert the peaceful people of the Vales of an impendi...