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101 Truths Designed to Help Change Your Mind, Change Your Attitude, Change Your Life, and Change the World

By: Christopher C. Dixon

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#Mindset

101 Truths Designed to Help Change Your Mind, Change Your Attitude, Change Your Life, and Change the World

By: Christopher C. Dixon

When asked about the value of motivation and the transient effect it has on people, world-renowned motivational speaker Zig Ziglar responded with a comment that the effects of bathing are also transient, but then quipped, “that’s why I take a bath every single day.” #MINDSET is designed to give you daily inspiration as you seek to give your all to your family, your church, your business, your organization, or to your friends.

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eLectio Publishing

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1632134853

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9781632134851

The Shock Absorber Handbook

By: John C. Dixon

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The Shock Absorber Handbook

By: John C. Dixon

Every one of the many millions of cars manufactured annually worldwide uses shock absorbers, otherwise known as dampers. These form a vital part of the suspension system of any vehicle, essential for optimizing road holding, performance and safety. This, the second edition of the Shock Absorber Handbook (first edition published in 1999), remains the only English language book devoted to the subject. Comprehensive coverage of design, testing, installation and use of the damper has led to the book's acceptance as the authoritative text on the automotive applications of shock absorbers. In this second edition, the author presents a thorough revision of his book to bring it completely up to date. There are numerous detail improvements, and extensive new material has been added particularly on the many varieties of valve design in the conventional hydraulic damper, and on modern developments such as electrorheological and magnetorheological dampers. "The Shock Absorber Handbook, 2nd Edition" provides a thorough treatment of the issues surrounding the design and selection of shock absorbers. It is an invaluable handbook for those working in industry, as well as a principal reference text for students of mechanical and automotive engineering.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470516429

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9780470516423

Tires, Suspension and Handling

By: John C Dixon

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Tires, Suspension and Handling

By: John C Dixon

This book provides detailed coverage of the theory and practice of vehicle cornering and handling. Much of the material in this book is not available elsewhere, including unique information on suspension analysis, understeer/oversteer, bump steer and roll steer, roll centers, limit handling, and aerodynamics. Each chapter ends with a wide selection of problems, providing an ideal review. This book is an excellent resource for vehicle designers and engineering students who want to better understand and analyze the numerous factors affecting vehicle handling.

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SAE International

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1560918314

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9781560918318

Suspension Geometry and Computation

By: John C. Dixon

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Suspension Geometry and Computation

By: John C. Dixon

Revealing suspension geometry design methods in unique detail, John Dixon shows how suspension properties such as bump steer, roll steer, bump camber, compliance steer and roll centres are analysed and controlled by the professional engineer. He emphasizes the physical understanding of suspension parameters in three dimensions and methods of their calculation, using examples, programs and discussion of computational problems. The analytical and design approach taken is a combination of qualitative explanation, for physical understanding, with algebraic analysis of linear and non-linear coefficients, and detailed discussion of computer simulations and related programming methods. Includes a detailed and comprehensive history of suspension and steering system design, fully illustrated with a wealth of diagrams Explains suspension characteristics and suspension geometry coefficients, providing a unique and in-depth understanding of suspension design not found elsewhere. Describes how to obtain desired coefficients and the limitations of particular suspension types, with essential information for suspension designers, chassis technicians and anyone else with an interest in suspension characteristics and vehicle dynamics. Discusses the use of computers in suspension geometry analysis, with programming techniques and examples of suspension solution, including advanced discussion of three-dimensional computational geometry applied to suspension design. Explains in detail the direct and iterative solutions of suspension geometry.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470682892

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9780470682890

Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse

By: Kevin McDonald,Andreas Wilmsmeier,David C. Dixon,W. H. Inmon

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Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse

By: Kevin McDonald,Andreas Wilmsmeier,David C. Dixon,W. H. Inmon

This book is insightful and thought-provoking for even the most seasoned SAP BW individual." —Richard M. Dunning, Chair, American SAP Users Group Written by the leading experts in the field, this comprehensive guide shows you how to implement the SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) and create useful applications for business analysis of company-wide data. You'll quickly learn how to design, build, analyze, and administer the data and information in the SAP BW component. The authors present the material in a way that reflects the process an organization goes through during a software implementation. They begin with an introduction to the fundamentals of data warehousing and business intelligence, helping you determine if SAP BW is right for your organization. The book then focuses on the business content and options available when trying to deliver value from the data stored in the SAP BW. And it includes a methodology for implementing the BW, such as data modeling and techniques for capturing and transforming data. With this book, you'll discover the options available in SAP BW 3.0 and explore a new way to drive business performance. It will show you how to: Tackle such challenges as eliminating poor data quality Develop an information model in order to properly deploy SAP BW Utilize ETL, data storage, information access, analysis, and presentation services Schedule, monitor, archive, and troubleshoot data loads Effectively plan and manage the performance of a data warehouse The companion Web site provides useful guides and templates for configuring your system, industry case studies, and additional updates.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471429341

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9780471429340

Defeat and Disarmament

Allied Diplomacy and the Politics of Military Affairs in Austria, 1918-1922

By: Joe C. Dixon

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Defeat and Disarmament

Allied Diplomacy and the Politics of Military Affairs in Austria, 1918-1922

By: Joe C. Dixon

This book traces Austria's attempts in 1918-1922 to create and control a new army, and to do so under the limitations imposed by the Paris Peace Conference. The tragic tale that emerges is one in which optimism ironically feeds the currents of distrust and bitterness which finally cause the demise of the embryonic Austrian republic, and adds to our understanding of the failure of Europe as a whole to achieve a secure peace between the wars.

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University of Delaware Press

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0874132215

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9780874132212

The Process of Social Research

By: Jeffrey C. Dixon,Royce Singleton,Bruce C. Straits

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The Process of Social Research

By: Jeffrey C. Dixon,Royce Singleton,Bruce C. Straits

The Process of Social Research successfully meets two major challenges of teaching social science methods: to make the material interesting and accessible to students, and to provide them with the tools necessary to understand, evaluate, and conduct research. Authors Jeffrey C. Dixon, Royce A. Singleton, Jr., and Bruce C. Straits employ a conversational writing style that is engaging and student-friendly. Using everyday examples to introduce chapters and clarify complex concepts, they provide current research examples on such cutting-edge topics as immigration, family composition, prosecutorial misconduct, organized racism, homelessness, social inequality and education, and alcohol consumption and grades. Placing a unique emphasis on the research process, the book helps students understand the logic and mechanics of social research, giving them the tools and the power to evaluate the research of others and to conduct their own research. Beginning with the introduction, every chapter contains flowcharts of research processes. As each diagram is presented, the authors relate the specific method to the overall research process. Then, over the course of the chapter or section, they flesh out each step. This way, they convey information about the "nuts and bolts" of research while ensuring that students do not lose sight of the logic of inquiry. Comprehensive and up-to-date without attempting to be encyclopedic in its coverage, The Process of Social Research provides a balance between qualitative and quantitative research, taking a more integrated approach to describing the relationship between theory and research.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199946752

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9780199946754

Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse

Leveraging the Business Intelligence Capabilities of SAP NetWeaver

By: Kevin McDonald,Andreas Wilmsmeier,David C. Dixon,W. H. Inmon

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Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse

Leveraging the Business Intelligence Capabilities of SAP NetWeaver

By: Kevin McDonald,Andreas Wilmsmeier,David C. Dixon,W. H. Inmon

This book is the definitive guide for SAP NetWeaver BI professionals. Based on their extraordinary expertise with the product, the authors provide deep insights about key innovations in the areas of user experience, query performance, integrated planning, and enterprise-wide data warehousing." —Stefan Sigg, Vice President, SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence The long-anticipated publication of this second edition reflects the growing success of SAP NetWeaver as well as the various Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities that are embedded with SAP BW version 7.0. Written by SAP insiders, this comprehensive guide takes into account the ever-changing features, functionality, and toolsets of SAP NetWeaver to bring you the most updated information on how to use SAP BW to design, build, deploy, populate, access, analyze, present, and administer data. You'll discover the options that are available in SAP NetWeaver and uncover a new means to improve business performance. This book reflects the process an organization goes through during an implementation of the software. The authors begin with an introduction to BI and SAP NetWeaver and quickly progress to information modeling and enterprise data warehouse concepts. You'll learn how to access and deliver meaningful analytic information to the organization, as well as perform integrated planning functions. Finally, the authors share invaluable insight on warehouse administration, performance, and security. With more than 50 percent new or revised material, this second edition of Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse shows you how to: Extract data from online transaction processing systems Store transformed data in a way that best supports reporting and analysis Use the various Business Explorer tools such as BEx Report Designer, BEx Analyzer, BEx Broadcaster, and BEx Web Application Designer Schedule, monitor, troubleshoot, and archive data loads The companion Web site contains sample chapters in Wiki format and the authors' blog where readers may enter discussions about the book and SAP. Wiley Technology Publishing Timely. Practical. Reliable. Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/ Visit the companion Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/mcdonald The companion Web site contains the sample code presented in the text of the book, plus implementation templates.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119104351

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9781119104353

Responses to Governance

Governing Corporations, Societies and the World

By: John C. Dixon

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Responses to Governance

Governing Corporations, Societies and the World

By: John C. Dixon

Dixon and his colleagues provide a behaviorist perspective on governance. Their concern is with the governed's responses to those who seek to govern them-their governors-and the counter responses that they induce from the governors. They take as axiomatic that the governed are not a homogenized and amorphus them in the them-us dichotomy, reduced to what Carlyle called a dead logic formula, thereby, for the purpose of this analysis, leave begging all the relevant questions. The governed are not a disembodied abstraction; they are an aggregate of men and women of flesh and blood. In a corporation, they are corporate directors (whose governors are those who own or, perhaps, have a stake in that corporation), corporate managers (whose governors are the corporate directors), corporate employees (whose governors are the corporate managers). In a society, they are individuals or groups of individuals, perhaps in corporations, located within its jurisdiction (whose governors are the members of societal politial and administrative elites). At the global level, they are individuals or groups of individuals in countries and corporations within the jurisdiction of international governmental organizations and international regimes (whose governors are those who seek to control those global governance mechanisms). Whether the governed's response to their governors' processs is one of compliance or antagonism, and how the governors response to any antagoism, has implications for governance capacity, good governance, and governability. A provocative study that will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, international relations, and management and organizational theory as well as those who are concerned with issues of goverance at all levels, corporate, societal,and global.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031307206X

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9780313072062

The Maintenance Costs of Aging Aircraft

Insights from Commercial Aviation

By: Matthew C. Dixon

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The Maintenance Costs of Aging Aircraft

Insights from Commercial Aviation

By: Matthew C. Dixon

The U.S. Air Force is grappling with the challenge of aging fleets and the optimal time to replace them. This monograph examines commercial aviation data to draw inferences about aging aircraft that may be relevant to the Air Force. It focuses on "aging effects"-i.e., how aircraft maintenance costs change as aircraft grow older. Although commercial aircraft clearly differ from military aircraft, the aging-effect estimates might help the Air Force to project changing maintenance costs over time.

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Rand Corporation

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0833039415

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9780833039415

Hollywood’s South Seas and the Pacific War

Searching for Dorothy Lamour

By: S. Brawley,C. Dixon

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Hollywood’s South Seas and the Pacific War

Searching for Dorothy Lamour

By: S. Brawley,C. Dixon

This book explores the expectations, experiences, and reactions of Allied servicemen and women who served in the wartime Pacific and viewed the South Pacific through the lens of Hollywood's South Seas. Based on extensive archival research, it explores the intersections between military experiences and cultural history.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1349297224

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9781349297221

A Guide to Intra-state Wars

An Examination of Civil, Regional, and Intercommunal Wars, 1816-2014

By: Jeffrey S. Dixon,Meredith Reid Sarkees

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A Guide to Intra-state Wars

An Examination of Civil, Regional, and Intercommunal Wars, 1816-2014

By: Jeffrey S. Dixon,Meredith Reid Sarkees

Sourcing data and analyses from the rigorous Correlates of War Project, A Guide to Intra-state Wars describes how civil war is defined and categorized and presents data and descriptions for nearly 300 civil wars waged from 1816 to 2014. Analyzing trends over time and regions, this work is the definitive source for understanding the phenomenon of civil war, bringing together an explanation of the theoretical premises driving the Correlates of War Project, along with revisions to categories of, and actors in, civil wars that have been made over the years, and data from the Nations, States and En.

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1785396323

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9781785396328

Investigating Optimal Replacement of Aging Air Force Systems

By: Edward Geoffrey Keating,Matthew C. Dixon

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Investigating Optimal Replacement of Aging Air Force Systems

By: Edward Geoffrey Keating,Matthew C. Dixon

As part of a continuing project on aging aircraft and the replacement-or-repair decision, the authors develop a parsimonious model of the decision and apply it to the U.S. Air Force's C-21A transport and KC-135 tanker aircraft. They find that, for the C-21A, it probably would be appropriate to undertake a 20,000 flight hour system and component replacement schedule-prescribed renovation in the 2012 timeframe, but the aircraft should be retired around 2020. For the KC-135 tanker, it would be optimal to replace the KC-135 before the end of the decade

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Minnesota Historical Society

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0833034839

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9780833034830

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#Mindset

#Mindset

The Shock Absorber Handbook

The Shock Absorber Handbook

Tires, Suspension and Handling

Tires, Suspension and Handling

Suspension Geometry and Computation

Suspension Geometry and Computation

Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse

Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse

Defeat and Disarmament

Defeat and Disarmament

The Process of Social Research

The Process of Social Research

Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse

Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse

Responses to Governance

Responses to Governance

The Maintenance Costs of Aging Aircraft

The Maintenance Costs of Aging Aircraft

Hollywood’s South Seas and the Pacific War

Hollywood’s South Seas and the Pacific War

A Guide to Intra-state Wars

A Guide to Intra-state Wars

Investigating Optimal Replacement of Aging Air Force Systems

Investigating Optimal Replacement of Aging Air Force Systems

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