Business Process Change, Second Edition: A Guide for Business Managers and BPM and Six Sigma Professionals Every company wants to improve the way it does business, to produce goods and services more efficiently, and to increase profits. Nonprofit organizations are also concerned with efficiency, productivity, and with achieving the goals they set for them ...

Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKA VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARAN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIn the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's ...

Foundation Expression Blend 2: Building Applications in WPF and Silverlight (Foundation) In this book, you'll: Learn the Blend 2 and Visual Studio 2008 development environments Create designs using Blend 2's unique tools Use XAML and C# to add interactivity to your designs Publish your Rich Media Applications to the ...

Beginning XML, 4th Edition (Programmer to Programmer) When the first edition of this book was written, XML was a relatively new language but already gaining ground fast and becoming more and more widely used in a vast range of applications. By the time of the second edition, XML had already proven itsel ...

SQL Queries for Mere Mortals(R): A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL (2nd Edition) (For Mere Mortals) Unless you are working at a very advanced level, this is the only SQL book you will ever need. The authors have taken the mystery out of complex queries and explained principles and techniques with such clarity that a "Mere Mortal" will indeed be emp ...