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Product Description: Here is a new book that identifies and interprets the essential basics of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). It links in a unified presentation the Fourier transform, discrete Fourier transform, FFT, and fundamental applications of the FFT...read more

On Broadway: Performance Photographs, by Stott, William With Jane Stott

Product Description: While somewhat dated (as Osborn died in 1966), the text of Applied Imagination reads easily and transfers well to current issues needing creative solutions. Osborn's logical understanding of the precepts of organized creativity made his work seminal to other programs now getting much attention in America's public schools...read more

"Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world's most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched. His writing is as much art as it is science. He is the most viable system I know." Dr Russell L Ackoff, The Institute for Interactive Management, Pennsylvania, USA. "If . anyone can make it [Operations Research] understandably readable and positively interesting it is Stafford Beer . everyone in management . should be grateful to him for using clear and at times elegant English and . even elegant diagrams." The Economist This is the second edition of a book which has already become a management 'standard' both in universities and on the bookshelves of managers and their advisers. Brain of the Firm develops an account of the firm based upon insights derived from the study of the human nervous system, and is a basic text from the author's theory of viable systems. Despite the neurophysiology, the book is written for managers to understand. The companion volume to this book is The Heart of Enterprise, which is intended to support and complement this text. "Stafford Beer's works represent required reading for everyone who believes that a capacity for rigorous thinking is an essential attribute of today's successful managers and administrators. Brain of the Firm shows a first-rate intellect at work and provides concepts, models and inspiration for both practitioners and teachers." Sir Douglas Hague, CBE (view table of contents)

Product Description: The Process of Investigation was conceived, designed and written to serve the growing professional, educational and training needs of the security industry. Unlike most books on investigation and security, Mr. Sennewald's book is written for the private sector professional...read more

Discusses the most important social, cultural, and political developments in postwar America and isolates the beginnings of the civil rights and peace movements

Product Description: This book provides a general introduction to the philosophy of mind. The author says, my aim has been to give the reader something definite and stimulating to think about, rather than to present a cautious and disinterested survey of the state of the subject.'

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