Robert Winter

A widowed lawyer encounters a young physical therapist determined to heal his body and his heart. For lovers of hurt-comfort and age gap romance.

September

Death threats drove him from his country. Can he ever find asylum from his past? Hernán had family, college, and a future in El Salvador. Until a vicious gang targeted him as gay. Threatened with murder, he braved a nightmare journey toward a new life. Now, haunted by his trek, he hides from immigration trouble as well as his enemies. He prays to pass in Provincetown unnoticed. But a handsome man with a secret like Hernán’s is vulnerable to predators. Colin is in town for a wedding when he falls into the harbor. The man who rescues him is dark-haired, dark eyed and gorgeous. He’s also a target because of his immigration status. Colin owes a debt, and wants to repay it by helping his savior escape the monsters who would exploit him. Hernán yearns to trust the kind man who offers him sanctuary. Will his demons destroy his chance at a future with Colin?

Asylum

Robert Martin

This collection offers Beethoven lovers detailed notes on the listening experience of each quartet and a range of more general perspectives.

The Beethoven Quartet Companion

In a city known for its eccentricities, here are a number of strange and/or charming sites that are mostly unknown even to local residents.

Hidden L.A.

Stephan Aier

J. Leon Zhao

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Global Perspectives on Design Science Research, DERIST 2010, held in St. Gallen, Switzerland, in June 2010. The 35 revised full papers presented together with 10 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on organising design research, reflecting design science research, design research techniques, design and context, design and organisation, design and information, design research exemplars, design and behaviour, designing collaboration, as well as design and requirements engineering.

5th International Conference, DESRIST 2010, St. Gallen, Switzerland, June 4-5, 2010. Proceedings

Global Perspectives on Design Science Research

David Gebhard

A Guide to Architecture in Los Angeles & Southern California

Henderik A. Proper

Sybren de Kinderen

Architectural coordination of enterprise transformation (ACET) integrates and aggregates local information and provides different viewpoints, such as financial, structural, or skill perspectives to the respective stakeholder groups, with the aim of creating a consensus and shared understanding of an enterprise transformation among the stakeholders. Its core purpose is to inform decision-makers with both local and enterprise-wide concerns so that the overall transformation goals can be successfully pursued, i.e. reducing inconsistencies and including local decisions in the overarching goals. This book consists of three major parts, framed by an introduction and a summary. To enable readers to gain a better understanding of the issues involved in real-world enterprise transformations as well as the possible role of architectural coordination and the associated challenges, Part I provides an analysis of status quo of corporate ACET practice. Part II then continues with an exploration of the challenges facing ACET from a theoretical perspective. Based on these challenges, Part III then presents a collection of components for a possible design theory for ACET. Instead of an integrated method, this collection of components constitutes method fragments that can be arranged in different ways depending on the perspective taken, the actual enterprise architecture management approach, the enterprise transformation type and the transformation’s context.

Architectural Coordination of Enterprise Transformation

0 d In diesem Buch wird versucht, die Erkenntnisse des Operations Research, der Künstlichen Intelligenz und computergestützter Produktionsplanungssysteme zur mehrstufigen (hierarchischen) Produktionsplanung zu integrieren und auf der Basis relationaler Datenbanksysteme zu implementieren. Dazu wird zunächst ein einheitliches Begriffssystem aufgebaut und ein konzeptuelles Modell mehrstufiger Produktionsplanung abgeleitet. Auf der Grundlage dieses Modells werden die wichtigsten Ansätze der genannten Bereiche klassifiziert und bewertet. Unter Berücksichtigung der mit der Benutzung relationaler Informationsstrukturen gegebenen Möglichkeiten zur Endbenutzerunterstützung wird ein Konzept zur interaktiven, inkrementellen Generierung zulässiger Produktionspläne in komplexen Umgebungen entwickelt und am Beispiel der Materialbedarfsplanung implementiert. Dabei wird besonderer Wert auf die Ausnutzung natürlicher Problemlösungshierarchien gelegt, die auf flexiblen Abstraktionshierarchien für die planungsrelevanten Objekte basieren.

Mehrstufige Produktionsplanung in Abstraktionshierarchien auf der Basis relationaler Informationsstrukturen

More than three hundred full-color photographs present a wide range of these turn-of-the-century architectural gems, offering a wealth of ideas and creative suggestions for restoring and decorating historic homes. 15,500 first printing.

American Bungalow Style

"1+1=3. That is the equation that summarizes the theme of this book. The book’s message is to integrate the developmental principles of Agile with the result-focused approaches integral to performance consulting. Your outcomes in shaping human performance will be significant--and greater than if you only used one of these models. This is a book for anyone who seeks to work collaboratively with leaders to bring about continuously improving and sustainable organizational change." --Dana Gaines Robinson, coauthor of Performance Consulting Agile Performance Improvement demonstrates the mutual benefits that accrue to the worlds of performance consulting and agile software development when the values and principles of both are blended synergistically under the guidance of practitioners skilled in both. The agile performance improvement model blends the principles of human performance technology with the frameworks and practices of Agile. The result is an approach that maximizes the value of interactions among the consultant, the work team, and the customer. Unlike traditional end-to-end waterfall processes, agile performance improvement delivers value continuously and in small increments, relentlessly focusing on outcomes of value to the customer. Building on structures of Agile that are used in software development, such as Scrum, the agile performance improvement model considers the human component of holistic solutions in establishing a continuous stream of value. Bob Winter, a performance consultant, was the product owner for the corporate education scrum supporting an agile transition initiative for hundreds of engineering teams. From this cross-disciplinary experience, he discovered that the two cultures, two languages, and two methodologies of performance consulting and agile software development are—far from being incongruent, incompatible, or irrelevant to each other—in fact ideally suited to complement and support each other. Being agile improves the effectiveness of the performance consultant, and applying the lessons of human performance technology improves the effectiveness of software development teams. In Agile Performance Improvement, Winter teaches performance consultants how to apply agile principles, values, and methods usefully to the tasks of optimizing human performance in areas of practice not only adjoining but also well beyond the realm of software and IT engineering, such as corporate learning solutions, human resources systems, and non-software products. Conversely, he shows engineering teams immersed in an agile environment how to boost their performance using the principles and techniques taught and cultivated by performance consultants. The author, who has worked extensively on both sides of the traditional divide, recounts entertainingly but informatively how both sparks and fur can fly when geeks encounter people people.

The New Synergy of Agile and Human Performance Technology

Agile Performance Improvement

Hubert Österle

Ulrike Baumöl

Erfolgreiche Veränderung hängt von der zielgerichteten Umsetzung pragmatischer Konzepte ab. Das Business Engineering liefert diese Konzepte. Das Buch zeigt, wie sie in der betrieblichen Realität zu erfolgreichen Projekten führen. Die Nutzung der Informationstechnologie ist dabei das verbindende Element. Die von erfahrenen Praktikern des Business Engineering verfassten Beiträge drehen sich zum einen um technologiegetriebene Wertschöpfungspotenziale und zum anderen um den methodischen Transformationsprozess zum Unternehmen des Informationszeitalters. Sie beschäftigen sich mit den zentralen Fragen des unternehmerischen Wandels: Wie ändert sich die Geschäftslogik z.B. von Finanzdienstleistern, Industrieunternehmen oder Immobilienmanagement-Gesellschaften unterstützt durch innovative Anwendungen? Welche Potenziale ergeben sich für Supply-Chain-Management-Prozesse oder für ein innovatives HR-Management? Welche Effekte ergeben sich in Netzwerken? Wie lassen sich die Erkenntnisse in KMU anwenden?

Business Engineering in der Praxis

Joachim Schelp

Das Buch Auf dem Weg zur Integration Factory fasst den State of the Art sowie die Zukunftsperspektiven im Bereich der integrierten Informationslogistik zusammen. Die Autoren untersuchen zum einen, inwieweit sich bisherige Ansätze zum Data Warehousing sowie zur Enterprise Application Integration mittelfristig technisch, organisatorisch und wirtschaftlich als geeignete Lösungen erwiesen haben. Die Kernthemen sind hierbei Architekturen, Vorgehensmodelle, Business Intelligence, Online-Analyse, Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management und Anwendungsintegration. Zum anderen werden neuere Ansätze vorgestellt, welche die Integration des Data Warehouse in die Gesamt-Informationslogistik zum Ziel haben und so die Realisierung neuer Applikationstypen und Geschäftsmodelle ermöglichen. Darüber hinaus wird insbesondere auf eine Verbesserung der Prozessunterstützung durch einen höheren Integrationsgrad der Applikationen eingegangen. Das Buch wendet sich vorwiegend an Praktiker aus den Bereichen Betriebswirtschaft und Wirtschaftsinformatik.

Proceedings der DW2004 - Data Warehousing und EAI

Auf dem Weg zur Integration Factory

The LNCS series reports state-of-the-art results in computer science research, development, and education, at a high level and in both printed and electronic form. Enjoying tight cooperation with the R&D community, with numerous individuals, as well as with prestigious organizations and societies, LNCS has grown into the most comprehensive computer science research forum available. The scope of LNCS, including its subseries LNAI and LNBI, spans the whole range of computer science and information technology including interdisciplinary topics in a variety of application fields. The type of material published traditionally includes -proceedings (published in time for the respective conference) -post-proceedings (consisting of thoroughly revised final full papers) -research monographs (which may be based on outstanding PhD work, research projects, technical reports, etc.) More recently, several color-cover sublines have been added featuring, beyond a collection of papers, various added-value components; these sublines include -tutorials (textbook-like monographs or collections of lectures given at advanced courses) -state-of-the-art surveys (offering complete and mediated coverage of a topic) -hot topics (introducing emergent topics to the broader community)

Alan Tyson

Douglas Porter Johnson

A comprehensive description of Beethoven's sketchbooks--bound books of music paper in which Beethoven made sketches for his compositions from about 1798--has been long felt by Beethoven scholars. Although almost all the sketchbooks have survived in one form or another, it became clear in the 1960s that they were in a state of disarray. A reconstruction of their original condition was essential to the proper study of their musical contents.

History, Reconstruction, Inventory

The Beethoven Sketchbooks

Walter Brenner

Andrea Back

Dieser Sammelband wird anlässlich des 15jährigen Bestehens des Instituts für Wirtschaftsinformatik der Universität St. Gallen (IWI-HSG) herausgegeben. Er vereinigt die wichtigsten Arbeiten der ehemaligen IWI-Professoren Bartmann, Nastansky und Schmid sowie der derzeitigen IWI-Professoren Back, Brenner, Österle und Winter aus ihrer jeweiligen Zeit am IWI-HSG. Damit dokumentiert er die Entwicklung des Business Engineering von seinen Anfängen bis 2001 anhand ausgewählter, besonders gelungener Beiträge.

Business Engineering — Die ersten 15 Jahre

Robert L. Martin

"Reading The Beethoven Quartet Companion made me want to listen to the quartets again from a new sociological as well as musical perspective. It is an invaluable guide not only for professional and amateur musicians but also for anyone who is curious about culture and wants to find out more."--Yo-Yo Ma "These essays are the most readable, useful, and well-informed commentary available today on these masterworks. Michael Steinberg's 'program notes' to each quartet, directed at once to the musical beginner and to the expert, are as eloquent and persuasive as popular writing about music can get. . . . His essays are followed by equally expert and accessible contributions by other masters on The Master, providing literate music lovers with the context and equipment for a richer enjoyment and clearer understanding of these sixteen unique conversations among two violins, a viola, and a cello."--David Littlejohn, author of The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera "A fine collection of essays to assist the music lover in the seemingly endless quest to illuminate the Beethoven string quartets."--Arnold Steinhardt, The Guarneri String Quartet "This book delivers on the implied promise of its title--it provides a lively, readable, and wide-ranging introduction to the quartets. Readers at many levels of experience will find it profitable."--Lewis Lockwood, author of Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process

Known as "the bible" to Los Angeles architecture scholars and enthusiasts, Robert Winter and David Gebhard's groundbreaking guide to architecture in the greater Los Angeles area is updated and revised once again. From Art Deco to Beaux-Arts, Spanish Colonial to Mission Revival, Winter discusses an impressive variety of architectural styles in this popular guide that he co-authored with the late David Gebhard. New buildings and sites have been added, along with all new photography. Considered the most thorough L.A. architecture guide ever written, this new edition features the best of the past and present, from Charles and Henry Greene's Gamble House to Frank Gehry's Disney Philharmonic Hall. This was, and is again, a must-have guide to a diverse and architecturally rich area. Robert Winter is a recognized architectural historian who lives in Los Angeles, and has led architectural tours through the Los Angeles area since 1965. He is a professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

An Arch Guidebook to Los Angeles

'Twas the night before Christmas, but what's stirring is a little more dangerous than a mouse. Taviano is nearly two hundred years old and never wakes in the same place twice. Weary and jaded, the vampire still indulges in memories of childhood Christmases in Naples. He lingers in shadow, spying on mortals as they enjoy the holiday. When Taviano spots a handsome young man in Boston loaded down with presents and about to be mugged, he can't help but intervene. Soon he's talking to joyous, naïve, strong-willed and funny Paul, a short-order cook who raised funds to buy Christmas presents for LGBTQ children. Before he knows what's happened, Taviano is wrapped up in Paul's arms and then in his schemes to get the presents delivered by Christmas morning. A vampire turned into a Christmas elf... What could go wrong? Vampire Claus is a 30,000-word standalone gay romance about a lonely vampire and a fearless mortal with no instinct for self-preservation. A heartwarming ending, no cliffhanger, and a young man who discovers he has a thing for fangs. Isn't that what Christmas is all about?

Vampire Claus

Paul Alpar

Heinz Lothar Grob

Peter Weimann

Zielorientiertheit und Anwendungsbezug sind Charakteristika dieses bewährten Lehrbuches. Es stellt im Unterschied zu anderen Lehrwerken zur Wirtschaftsinformatik die unternehmensstrategische Ausrichtung in den Vordergrund.

Robert Winter

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