This is the right book for you if they liked the author's Beginning AutoCAD workbook, or they're looking for a clear, no nonsense, easy-to-follow text,... or they want to learn more about AutoCAD such as Xref, Attributes, and 3D solids. Totally updated for AutoCAD 2013 and 2013 LT, it includes Enhanced 3D Operations, Create Details, and Projected and Section Views from 3D Models. All exercises print easily on a standard 8.5'' x 11'' printer. For use with the PC version of AutoCAD 2013 only. FEATURES Shows you step-by-step HOW TO: Customize your workspace: Create new Ribbon tabs and panels, Customize the Quick Access Toolbar, Customize the Status Bar. Create master setup drawings for decimals or architecture. Create Isometric drawings and dimensions. Insert just about anything using the Design Center. Easily understand Blocks, Dynamic Blocks and Attributes. Use the time-saving External Reference commands. Learn the basics for 3-dimensional drawing. Work with the powerful Table maker. Create Parametric objects using Geometric and Dimensional constraints.

Providing aviators with comprehensive information on the advanced avionics equipment available in technically sophisticated aircraft, this FAA handbook... covers a wide range of subjects about the essentials of operating cockpit-computers, including data entry, primary flight display (PFD), multi-function display (MFD), moving maps, traffic data, fuel management systems, electronic charts and checklists, common pilot errors and instrument failures, and more. Each phase of flight is covered, ensuring readers will know how to execute departure, en route, and approach procedures using glass cockpit instrumentation. Essential skills checklists and summaries conclude each chapter for a complete review and quick-check reference.

Storage and conversion are critical components of important energy-related technologies. "Advanced Batteries: Materials Science Aspects" employs... materials science concepts and tools to describe the critical features that control the behavior of advanced electrochemical storage systems. This volume focuses on the basic phenomena that determine the properties of the components, i.e. electrodes and electrolytes, of advanced systems, as well as experimental methods used to study their critical parameters. This unique materials science approach utilizes concepts and methodologies different from those typical in electrochemical texts, offering a fresh, fundamental and tutorial perspective of advanced battery systems. Graduate students, scientists and engineers interested in electrochemical energy storage and conversion will find "Advanced Batteries: Materials Science Aspects" a valuable reference.

In order to effectively employ portfolio strategies that can control interest rate risk and/or enhance returns, you must understand the forces that... drive bond markets, as well as the valuation and risk management practices of these complex securities. In Advanced Bond Portfolio Management, Frank Fabozzi, Lionel Martellini, and Philippe Priaulet have brought together more than thirty experienced bond market professionals to help you do just that.Divided into six comprehensive parts, Advanced Bond Portfolio Management will guide you through the state-of-the-art techniques used in the analysis of bonds and bond portfolio management. Topics covered include:General background information on fixed-income markets and bond portfolio strategiesThe design of a strategy benchmarkVarious aspects of fixed-income modeling that will provide key ingredients in the implementation of an efficient portfolio and risk management processInterest rate risk and credit risk managementRisk factors involved in the management of an international bond portfolioFilled with in-depth insight and expert advice, Advanced Bond Portfolio Management is a valuable resource for anyone involved or interested in this important industry.

Paul Temporal has written a remarkably insightful book on how to build strong brands. he addresses every issue in brand management with sound theories... and marvelous examples. This is one of the best books on brand management to help any company build powerful brands. - Philip KotlerThose building and managing brand assets will find the issues facing them addressed in Advanced Brand Management with clarity, insight, and an easy-to-read style. Chock full of case studies, I especially found useful and stimulating, the author's willingness to offer critical judgments of brand decisions. - David AakerPaul Temporal's new book is interesting, entertaining, well-written, and loaded with everything you need to know to manage a brand. What more could you want? Read it! - Al RiesBrands in Asia are a paradox. Everyone believes in them, but the ability to create them often lags far behind. To those who imagine that branding is just a passing fashion, this book is a powerful corrective. Paul Temporal describes in magisterial detail the philosophy, but above all, the practice of branding. As such, it is a vital tool for all those who believe that Asia's future lies in strategic solutions. - Miles Young

Advanced Bread & Pastry has a unique approach to providing advanced level concepts, techniques and formulas to those aspiring to be professional... bakers and professional pastry chefs. It is the only available resource covering complex bread making, viennoiserie and pastry into one book. Exquisite photographs are throughout to further inspire learners and professionals of the unlimited potential of the craft. Advanced Bread and Pastry provides in depth information and troubleshooting strategies for addressing the complex techniques of the advanced level of bread and pastry arts.

Resource economy, cost-cutting, environmental conservation and the use renewable energies - ""integral planning"" is a complex challenge requiring the... interaction of various disciplines to create modern buildings with optimum efficiency whilst saving material and running costs. Active factors such as construction techniques, building skins, room layout and exterior space should reduce the need for the internal technical facilities and all passive measures exploited to the maximum. Daniel´s Advanced Building Systems provides an up-to-date overview of the latest technology in building installations, complete with a wide range of detailed technical plans. It is more than merely a systematic handbook focusing on building technology for students of architecture, civil engineering and mechanical engineering, it is also a reference work enabling the practitioner to draw up initial plans and dimensions.

Business Mandarin Chinese is designed for business people who are in its beginning level and intend to develop their ability to use Chinese language... when conducting business with Chinese. Printed texts and multimedia materials are combined in this textbook. Business Mandarin Chinese series are appointed textbooks by Chinese Hanban. The series is with a wide range of useful topics in business activities, and focuses on communicational function.

This is a business Chinese textbook for advanced learners of Chinese in which contemporary economic issues in China are addressed in depth. The goal of... each lesson is to help students develop their language skills in a dynamic and communicative context, understand economic trends and situations in modern China, and expand their critical-thinking abilities. "Advanced Business Chinese" is organized into five thematic units: international trade, management and marketing, finance, the stock market and economic law. Each unit presents authentic reading materials, including case studies, along with pre-reading questions, glossaries with pinyin transliterations and English explanations, and varieties of exercises and activities. For the serious student with an interest in business and other professional spheres, the book offers diverse perspectives on economic issues in China, ranging from how China fits into the global economy to how economic matters affect the businesses and citizens of the nation.

New publisher! Corrected version! Demonstrating analytical and numerical techniques for attacking problems in the application of mathematics, this... well-organized, clearly written text presents the logical relationship and fundamental notations of analysis. Buck discusses analysis not solely as a tool, but as a subject in its own right. This skill-building volume familiarizes students with the language, concepts, and standard theorems of analysis, preparing them to read the mathematical literature on their own. The text revisits certain portions of elementary calculus and gives a systematic, modern approach to the differential and integral calculus of functions and transformations in several variables, including an introduction to the theory of differential forms. The material is structured to benefit those students whose interests lean toward either research in mathematics or its applications.

Outlines theory and techniques of calculus, emphasizing strong understanding of concepts, and the basic principles of analysis. Reviews elementary and... intermediate calculus and features discussions of elementary-point set theory, and properties of continuous functions.

Easily master the fundamental concepts of mathematical analysis with ADVANCED CALCULUS. Presented in a clear and simple way, this advanced caluclus text... leads you to a precise understanding of the subject by providing you with the tools you need to succeed. A wide variety of exercises helps you gain a genuine understanding of the material and examples demonstrate the significance of what you learn. Emphasizing the unity of the subject, the text shows that mathematical analysis is not a collection of isolated facts and techniques, but rather a coherent body of knowledge.

This book presents a unified view of calculus in which theory and practice reinforces each other. It is about the theory and applications of... derivatives (mostly partial), integrals, (mostly multiple or improper), and infinite series (mostly of functions rather than of numbers), at a deeper level than is found in the standard calculus books. Chapter topics cover: Setting the Stage, Differential Calculus, The Implicit Function Theorem and Its Applications, Integral Calculus, Line and Surface Integrals—Vector Analysis, Infinite Series, Functions Defined by Series and Integrals, and Fourier Series. For individuals with a sound knowledge of the mechanics of one-variable calculus and an acquaintance with linear algebra.