The e-business environment is a tangle of disconnected and often incompatible data sources and applications. Today's hottest business tools - corporate portals - make it easier to navigate that maze. Corporate Portals and e-Business Integration explains what portals are, and how you can seamlessly integrate them into your corporation's e-business infrastructure. You learn about integration techniques developed at companies such as Dell, Cisco, and Broderbund Software. Like these leading-edge firms, you can apply corporate portals to cut costs, improve business intelligence, enhance Internet access, increase security, provide better, faster customer service online, and more.

Valuing Nature? questions the dominant economic methods of evaluating the environment. It asks what role economics should play in setting our environmental objectives.

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2000 in 21 Days is a hands-on tutorial for users who want to learn Access by working through solid examples. This book shows you how to develop solid databases from start to finish. Focusing on Access databases on the desktop, the book also addresses implementing Access in a networked or client/server environment. Key topics included relational databases and the Access 2000 architecture, designing, building, and maintaining full feature database applications, implementing Data Access Pages, working with Visual Basic for Applications and the Visual Basic Editor, and publishing Access content to the WWW or intranet.

This book examines the behavioural environment model, as developed by William Kirk, which emphasises the importance of perception in human geography.

Exposing the myth that has grown up around Thatcherism, leading experts from a wide range of land-use policy areas examine the changes that were brought about in planning and the environment during the 1980s and 1990s.

This book examines from a multidisciplinary viewpoint the question of what we mean by setting sustainability as a goal for environmental management. The author explores ways to break down the disciplinary barriers to communication and deliberation about environment policy, and to integrate science and evaluations into a comprehensive environmental policy.

Linux is an operating system, based on Unix that has become a viable desktop system for many users, especially those involved with system and network administration. Red Hat Linux has remained a leading choice of Linux distributions for years, owning more than 80 percent of the U.S. Linux market. This book covers all the most important topics for the reader who wants to get Red Hat Linux up and running and to become productive with the operating system as quickly as possible. The books covers topics such as installing, setting up, and negotiating the new desktop environment, and also includes: An explanation of what is happening behind the scenes--the reader learns how the system works as well as what to do, in simple, layman's language. Special attention to new features of the latest Red Hat release, especially tools that make tasks that used to be difficult easier. Instruction on troubleshooting practices and debugging tools. A comprehensive list of all major places to get Linux support and answers.

In today's environment of tighter budgets and accountability, stakeholders increasingly want to know the end results of training in organizations. What did a training program add to the organization's performance and the bottom line? Did it work? If so, why? And if not, what should be done differently? How to Measure Training Results gives you the reproducible worksheets to answer these questions and many others.

Given the presence of a wide variety of contaminants in the environment, it is important to understand what drives a contaminant from one medium to another, as well as the manner and extent to which a contaminant associates with the different media or phases within a local environmental system. Partition and Adsorption of Organic Contaminants in Environmental Systems forms a comprehensive resource on the behavioral characteristics of contaminants so that appropriate strategies can be adopted to either prevent or minimize their adverse impacts on human welfare and natural resources.Cary Chiou's far-reaching text depicts the processes by which nonionic organic contaminants are sorbed to natural biotic and abiotic substances. This book focuses on physical principles and system parameters that affect the contaminant uptake by soil from water, air, and other media; by fish from water; and by plants from soil and water. As contaminant uptake by natural organic substances is often predominantly a partition interaction, the partition characteristics in several solvent-water model mixtures are treated in detail to elucidate the relevant physicochemical parameters. The account of contaminant sorption to soils, fish, and plants is strengthened by companion chapters on:-Fundamentals of solution theory-Interphase partition equations-Fundamentals of adsorption theory-Vapor adsorption on mineral and carbonaceous solidsNo other single source in the field delivers as compelling a combination of background understanding and "state-of-the-science" comprehension of current issues. Ideally suited for a graduate-level environmental course, Partition and Adsorption of Organic Contaminants in Environmental Systems also serves as a technical guide to current and future research in the field.

Over six decades ago, Edgar Cayce, the world's greatest psychic, looked forward to the millennium not with trepidation but with hope. What did this remarkable prophet see for the new age? This book draws on Cayce's actual Readings to reveal a blueprint for humanity's salvation in the next century. Documenting the late Edgar Cayce's psychic insights on nutrition, the environment, technology, religion, reincarnation, dreams, and ESP, this unique book is a guide for living in the year 2000--and beyond.

The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. What was responsible for its birth? Who is responsible for its demise? In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the Internet revolution has produced a counterrevolution of devastating power and effect. The explosion of innovation we have seen in the environment of the Internet was not conjured ...