BOOKS

The Lead Dog Has The Best View: Leading Your Project Team To Success

Gordon Culp, et al

January 24, 2005

Does your project team see you as a leader or a manager? Project teams must be led rather than just managed in order to unleash their full potential, energy and enthusiasm. This book examines what it takes to make the crucial transition from project manager to project leader. All too often project managers rely on their technical skills and computer-generated information about project status in their attempts to achieve success, thus confusing management with leadership. Rarely does a project fail due to lack of technical skills. Instead, relationship and communication difficulties play a key role in poor project results.

Managing People (Including Yourself) for Project Success

Gordon Culp, et al

1991

Ever wonder why some project managers are consistently more successful than others? The best trained managers are not always the most effective--and this book explains why.

A Death at Camp David

Harry A. Milman, PhD

11/30/2015

A Death at Camp David is a novel of political intrigue and murder mystery set against the backdrop of the election of a woman for president of the United States. Dr. Bob Kramer, a forensic toxicologist with the air and suave of a James Bond, is recruited to identify the cause of a woman's death. The body was found on the grounds of Camp David the morning after a White House–sponsored Fourth of July celebration. The woman attended the event as an impostor, a result of political dirty tricks.

Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists (4th Edition)

Anthony Hayter, PhD

January 1, 2012

The Teacher's Guide to Student Mental Health

William R. Dikel, MD

July 21, 2014

From anxiety and depression to ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, behavior disorders, substance use disorders, and psychoses, this practical book provides essential information on how mental health disorders are diagnosed and treated, how they tend to manifest at school, and how they affect students’ emotions, behaviors, and ability to learn. It explains why traditional behavioral interventions are often unsuccessful, and describes effective classroom interventions that teachers can use to provide optimal educational experiences.

Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Design

Ioannis Kanellakopoulos, PhD, et al

1995

Using a pedagogical style along with detailed proofs and illustrative examples, this book opens a view to the largely unexplored area of nonlinear systems with uncertainties. The focus is on adaptive nonlinear control results introduced with the new recursive design methodology--adaptive backstepping. Describes basic tools for nonadaptive backstepping design with state and output feedbacks.

Systematic Design of Adaptive Controllers for Feedback Linearizable Systems

Ioannis Kanellakopoulos, PhD

1990

Abstract: A systematic procedure for the design of adaptive regulation and tracking schemes for a class of feedback linearizable nonlinear systems is developed. The coordinate-free geometric conditions, which characterize this class of systems, do not constrain the growth of the nonlinearities. Instead, they require that the nonlinear system be transformable into the so-called parametric-pure feedback form...

Dueling in Death's Backyard

Thomas J. Berger, MD

July 6, 2015

In addition to his credentials in cardiac surgery, Dr. Berger is a Faulkner Award winning author. His first novel, Dueling in Death's Backyard, is a medical murder mystery based on his experiences as a surgery resident in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1970s. Any medmal attorney will benefit greatly from the knowledge of cardiac surgery, hospital politics, VA scandals and related topics to be gained effortlessly by enjoying this great story. There is even specific commentary in the novel about the so-called "medmal crisis" and the shameful response of some medical organizations to the challenge of substandard care by their members.

Georgia's Crime Doctor

Jay Jarvis

May 2010

Georgia’s Crime Doctor is the story of Dr. Herman Jones, the Alabama native who is responsible for establishing the Georgia State Crime Laboratory. Tracing the steps of Jones and his wife June back to Auburn in the 1930’s, this book chronicles the people, places and events which shaped modern day forensic science in the state of Georgia.

Against Violence Against Women: The Case for Gender as a Protected Class

Rona M. Fields, PhD

February 2013

This book is a journey through time and across the globe to bring to light the roots of sanctioned violence against women. The author utilizes an interdisciplinary approach combining psychology, sociology, anthropology, and women’s studies to examine cases and causes of gender-based atrocities in Afghanistan, Sudan, China, India, Siberia, and Europe.