Books - Q

• Quantifying Archaeology
  The second edition of this popular texbook introduces archaeology students to the use of statistics in their subject. Based on the author's long-running undergraduate course, it explains the relevant areas of statistics in terms that archaeology students can easily assimilate. This new edition incl...
• Queer London
  In August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, and the vibrant new life he had forged for himself in the big city. He wrote, "I have only been queer since I came to London about two years ago, before then I kne...
• Quantitative Measurements for Logistics
  Utilize the Latest Measurement Tools and Computations Needed to Achieve World-Class Logistics Operations in Any Organization "Quantitative Measurements for Logistics" offers you a wide variety of measurement tools and computations used in today's logistics operations, ranging from life cycl...
• Quality Beyond Six Sigma
  Six Sigma is a data-driven management system with near-perfect performance that is a statistical target of operating with no more that 3.4 defects per one million chances. Six sigma has both created avid interest and raised concerns among executives and its practioners. This is all very well for mu...
• Quality Control for Dummies
  So you've been asked to lead a quality control initiative? Or maybe you've been assigned to a quality team. Perhaps you're a CEO whose main concern is to make your company faster, more efficient, and less expensive. Whatever your role is, quality control is a critical concept in every industry and ...
• Quantitative Methods for Business
  Quantitative Methods for Business has been thoroughly revised and updated for this 4th edition, and continues to provide a simple and practical introduction to an area that students can find difficult. The book takes a non-threatening approach to the subject, avoiding excessive mathematics and abst...
• Quantitative Methods for Decision Makers
  Appealing both to students on introductory courses for quantitative methods and MBA and post-experience students, this respected text provides an accessible, practical introduction to an area that students often find difficult. Concentrating on helping students to understand the relevance of quanti...
• Quality Issues in Heritage Visitor Attractions
  * Quality as a tool for success *Covers a diverse range of quality issues and theories in the context of heritage attractions * Well-respected international contributor team of academics and practitioners Heritage Tourism is the fastest growing component of the tourism market. Tourists have mor...
• Quality Management Demystified
  BRING QUALITY MANAGEMENT TO YOUR COMPANY— AND IMPROVE ITS BOTTOM LINE! In "Quality Management Demystified," top consultant Sid Kemp gives you a practical, up-to-date guide to the basic terms, concepts, and tools for defining, measuring, and managing quality. He takes you from th...
• Quirky Qwerty
  The story of the keyboard begins with ancient hieroglyphs and reaches to the very recent, committee-designed Euro symbol. This text tells the story of each character on the computer keyboard, as well as the multitude of additional marks that cannot b...
• Quilt Alphabet
• Queensland Science 1 (Junior)
  Queensland Science 1 is the first of a 3-book series, which has been written specifically for the new Queensland Junior syllabus to be implemented in 2000. It is a homegrown Queensland series that has been written specifically for the Queensland syllabus by experienced Queensland teacher and author...
• Quantum Computer Science
  In the 1990's it was realized that quantum physics has some spectacular applications in computer science. This book is a concise introduction to quantum computation, developing the basic elements of this new branch of computational theory without assuming any background in physics. It begins with a...
• QuickBooks 2006 for Dummies
  Do a quick take on QuickBooks and you'll wonder where it's been all your life. If you're running a small business, you need an accounting system that monitors profits, losses, and expenses without costing an arm and a leg. And if you're running your own business - when you're trying to do everythin...
• QuickBooks 2008 Solutions Guide for Business Owners and Accountants
  QuickBooks 2008 Solutions Guide for Business Owners and Accountants contains a wealth of information useful to both the business owner and the accountant who services such businesses. To make finding the right information easier, the book is organized into chapters specific to each accounting modul...
• QuickBooks Simple Start for Dummies
  Get expert advice on daily, monthly, and yearly activities. Define your business, maintain records, manage sales tax, and produce reports. So you've pulled off the corporate highway and started your own business? Good for you! Now you need a small business accountant, and guess what? With QuickBook...
• Quickbooks 2006 Bible
  Get a better handle on profits, losses, and expenses in your business by setting up and maintaining your books properly in the first place. The help you need is in this comprehensive guide to the latest release of QuickBooks 2006 accounting software. Whether you do your own books or just want to st...
• QuickBooks 2007 for Dummies
  Keep your small business finances in tip-top form and manage your business accounting and financial management tasks - quickly and accurately. If you're like most small-business people, accounting is the last thing you want to spend lots of time on. That's where this handy guide comes in. Written b...
• Quicken 2006 for Starters
  Intuit's Quicken is one of today's most popular and convenient ways to keep track of personal finances, and Quicken 2006 For Starters: The Missing Manual is the indispensable guide to using the program to simplify your finances and make the most of your money. Whether you're new to electronic banki...
• Quicken 2008 for Dummies
  If you've considered using financial software to handle your personal finances, Quicken 2008 just might be the tool you've been looking for. Quicken is America's top-selling personal finance software. It can help you manage the money for both your household and your small business, while Quicken 20...
• QuickBooks 2007 All-in-one Desk Reference for Dummies
  This is a set of 8 books in 1, your key to QuickBooks 2007 success! It is your one-stop guide to managing your small business finances more efficiently. QuickBooks is the leading accounting program for small businesses, and this book gives you a handy reference to all its parts. Set up QuickBooks f...
• Quickbooks 2007 on Demand
  QuickBooks 2007 on Demand is the ultimate reference for people who really want to learn how to use the most popular accounting program. Using a friendly seeit/do-it technique, QuickBooks 2007 on Demand gives you illustrated, full color, step-by-step explanations that put you in charge of your finan...
• QuickBooks QuickSteps 2007
  Learn to use QuickBooks the QuickSteps way. This full-color, step-by-step guide explains how to use QuickBooks, the number-one small business management software. Nearly every page features screen shots with numbered callouts that show and explain how to use all of the program's powerful features t...
• Quicken 2006
  This is a full-color, step-by-step guide that helps you use Quicken, the number 1 selling personal finance software program, to manage personal and family finances. Nearly every page features of this invaluable guide screenshots with numbered callouts that show and explain how to use all of Quicken...
• Quicken 2007 on Demand
  Learn how to make the most of the latest version of one of the most popular personal finance software applications available with Quicken 2007 On Demand. This book uses step-by-step, visual instructions to show you how to get up and running quickly using this latest version of Quicken. You will lea...
• Quicken 2007 Personal Finance Software QuickSteps
  QuickSteps on Quicken-a full-color, step-by-step guide to the number-one-selling personal finance software program. With Quicken 2007 QuickSteps, you will find it easy to manage personal and family finances. Nearly every page of this user-friendly guide features screenshots with numbered callouts t...
• Quicken All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies
  Quicken is the number 1 personal finance software on the market, with greater than 70 percent retail market share and 16 million active users. This book features eight minibooks comprising nearly 750 pages - all the information people need to get the most out of the latest Quicken release, get thei...
• Quantum Computing Explained
  This book features a self-contained treatment of the fundamentals of quantum computing. The clear, practical book takes quantum computing out of the realm of theoretical physics and teaches the fundamentals of the field to students and professionals who have not had training in quantum computing or...
• Quark XPress Killer Tips
  The hottest collection of cool tips and hidden secrets for the QuarkXPress pro who needs results FAST! Packed with nothing but sidebar tips, QuarkXPress users will get what you want by learning productivity enhancing secrets that even a lot of pros don't know. When it comes to QuarkXPress, time is ...
• Quick Low Carb
  The low-carbohydrate approach to long-term weight loss, in combination with healthy eating and an active lifestyle, is known to have long-lasting benefits. This authoritative new book will enable you to produce tasty, healthy, low-carbohydrate meals, without having to spend hours in the kitchen - p...
• Quilting by Improvisation
  Quilters can let their imaginations run wild as they discover surprisingly stress-free techniques to add and tame curves and angles to their creation. Exploring 'no rules' improvisational methods, the guide teaches how to incorporate dimension and texture into quilts while transforming the ordinary...
• Quilting, Patchwork and Applique
  This is the first ever worldwide survey of the wonderfully decorative and allied techniques of: quilting, in which layers of fabric are stitched together, patchwork, in which old or new fabric pieces are cut and re-stitched to produce a new textile and applique, in which old or new fabric pieces ad...
• Quilting
  No need to hunt through a library of quilting books to find the exact technique it's all in this one book from top-selling author Darlene Zimmerman. Easy-to-understand instructions coupled with 350+ step-by-step colour photos and illustrations provide quilters with a complete view of the quiltmakin...
• Quick Costumes for Kids
  This is an imaginative collection of 30 easy-to-make costumes including classic favourites for Halloween and Christmas plus great ideas for party fun. This book uses simple step-by-step instructions for low-sew or no-sew techniques with a pattern section with full-size templates. The book also inco...
• Quiet-Time Busy Books
  Make a cloth activity book that's just right for a special baby or toddler * Interactive 3D pages for fun and play * Choose favorite activities--pockets, flaps, buttons, peek-a-boo, more Some babies just loooove peek-a-boo. They could play peek-a-boo for hours. Others love buttoning. So...
• Qualitative Research in Education
• Quick and Easy Container Gardening
• Quantum Touch
  Quantum Touch is the touch-based healing technique that uses the chi of both practitioner and client, bringing them into harmony to allow the body to heal itself. In this new edition of his best-selling guide, Richard Gordon leads the reader step by step, clearly explaining how to use breathing and...
• Quick Fit
  Provides a quick and easy exercise program for time-strapped readers that incorporates ten minutes of aerobic activity, along with four minutes of strength-training and toning exercises and one minute of stretches, in a regimen designed to promote flexibility, strength, weight control, and energy i...
• Quality Management in a Wellness Program
• Queer Sexualities in French and Francophone Literature and Film
  The steady development of queer theory over the last two decades has provided useful analytical tools and the will to dismiss the watchdog of heteronormativity. Modes of reading have evolved, as this volume of FLS amply attests. Following Bill Edmiston's introduction to the volume - a concise and i...
• Quantum Metrology and Fundamental Physical Constants
• Quick Medical Terminology
  This is the timeless, easy to use resource, now revised and expanded. Over the course of thirty years and 350,000 copies, Quick Medical Terminology has become the reference of choice for health practitioners who need to expand, improve, or refresh th...
• Quick Reference Dictionary for Occupational Therapy
• Queen Victoria's Gene
  Queen Victoria's son, Prince Leopold, died from haemophilia, but no member of the royal family before his generation had suffered from the condition. Medically, there are only two possibiities: either one of Victoria's parents had a 1 in 50,000 rando...
• Quiet Killers
  With bird flu a very present threat, this is a timely and important look at the impact of quiet killers through the ages. In 1658 Oliver Cromwell, having brought a king to execution, and risen to power, died from malaria when he refused to take the Devil?s Bark, the quinine compound produced in a C...
• QBase Anaesthesia: Volume 5, MCOs for the Final FRCA: MCOs for the Final FRCA v. 5
  Another title in GMM's highly successful QBase series, this time focusing on the Final FRCA (Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists) with sets of examination papers the candidate can use to revise and practise their MCQ technique. As always, the self-learning experience is greatly enhance...
• Qualitative Methods in Social Research
  This accessible, engaging introduction to qualitative research methods covers a wide range of qualitative methods, including ethnography, observation, interviewing, content analysis, and unobtrusive measures. The text also includes well-chosen research examples and exercises to help students unders...
• Q&A
  What would happen if you fell into a black hole? Which properties give you the best chance of winning at Monopoly? And why is it always so difficult to get ketchup to come out of a full bottle? For the past three years science writer Robert Matthews has provided answers to the most baffling, intrig...
• Quotations
  'Every age hath its book' -- The Koran. 'It's better to be quotable than honest' -- Tom Stoppard. Continuously in print since 1961, the Collins Gem Dictionary of Quotations is now more than ever the best value-for-money mini-dictionary of quotations available. The Gem is designed to make it easy to...
• Quranic Studies
  One of the most innovative thinkers in the field of Islamic Studies was John Wansbrough (1928-2002), affiliated throughout his career with London University's School of Oriental and African Studies. Critiquing the traditional accounts of the origins of the Quran (Koran) as historically unreliable a...
• Quilts Among the Plain People
  Discover for yourself why so many Amish and Mennonites, committed to a simple, austere life, make beautiful quilts. This book looks at quilting in plain communities and the possible origins of quilt patterns popular among the Amish and Mennonites...
• Quimby Manuscripts (1921)
  Many attempts had been made to gain access to the Quimby manuscripts, but never before had it been accomplished. Dr. P.P. Quimby wrote many documents relative to his views regarding mental and spiritual healing. Many critics of Mary Baker Eddy believe that her later teachings came from theories of ...
• Quaker Singer's Recollections
  In this book, Bispham refrained from going into many particulars of his artistic career, preferring to give a general survey of its principal points, for his object is not only to interest music lovers by giving them a glimpse into an artist's life, but to provide a stimulus for amateurs who contem...
• Quakers as Pioneers in Social Work (1931)
  Contents: brief outline of the Quaker movement poor relief education battle against alcoholism public health, care of the insane prison reform abolition of the slave trade and of slavery conclusion bibliography....
• Quantum Signatures of Chaos
  This textbook provides an excellent introduction to a new and rapidly developing field of research. The topics treated include a detailed exploration of the quantum aspects of nonlinear dynamics, quantum criteria to distinguish regular and irregular motion, antiunitary symmetries (generalized time ...
• Quantitative Analysis of Marine Biological Communities
  Quantitative methods are specifically tailored for the marine biologist. While there are countless texts published on quantitative methods and many texts that cover quantitative terrestrial ecology, this text fills the need for the special quantitative problems confronting marine biologists and bio...
• Quantum Electronics
  This Third Edition of the popular text, while retaining nearly all the material of the previous edition, incorporates material on important new developments in lasers and quantum electronics. Covers phase-conjugate optics and its myriad applications, the long wavelength quaternary semiconductor las...
• Quantum Optics and Fundamentals of Physics
  This book deals with the contemporary development of quantum theory from the point of view of quantum optics. The fundamentals of quantum theory are presented, with particular attention being given to the quantum theory of measurement. General coherent states are adopted as the most important theor...
• Quantum Optics and the Spectroscopy of Solids
  Remarkable recent progress in quantum optics has given rise to extremely precise quantum measurements that are used in the research into the fundamentals of quantum physics, and in different branches of physics such as optical spectroscopy. This progress stimulates new technologies in the field of ...
• Quasi-optical Control of Intense Microwave Transmission
  This volume assembles the texts of presentations given at the NATO-sponsored Advanced Research Workshop on Quasi-Optical Transmission of High-Power Microwaves, held in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia in February 2004. The presentations bridge a wide range of technical areas, but share common tools of analy...
• Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei and Particles
  A revision of a successful junior/senior level text, this introduction to elementary quantum mechanics clearly explains the properties of the most important quantum systems. Emphasizes the applications of theory, and contains new material on particle physics, electron-positron annihilation in solid...
• Quantum State Diffusion
  This is the first book devoted to quantum state diffusion (QSD) and its applications to open quantum systems and to the foundations of quantum mechanics. Recent experiments with detailed control over individual quantum systems have changed the face of quantum physics. These systems include atoms at...
• Quantum Mechanics Demystified
  Fun FORMAT makes this complex subject EASY to GRASP SOLUTIONS to typical problems are EXPLAINED in full DETAIL Perfect for SELF-STUDY or CLASS supplement Great for quick REVIEW or help PREPARE for the Physics Qualifying EXAM LEARN QUANTUM MECHANICS AT WARP SPEED! Now anyone can master the basi...
• Quantum Physics
  Quantum physics allows us to understand the nature of the physical phenomena which govern the behavior of solids, semi-conductors, lasers, atoms, nuclei, subnuclear particles and light. In Quantum Physics, Le Bellac provides a thoroughly modern approach to this fundamental theory. Throughout the bo...
• Quantitative Applications of Mass Spectrometry
  This text presents the information needed to design a successful quantitative analysis using mass spectrometric techniques currently available and widely employed. It is devoted to the researchers of different areas, who use mass spectrometry as a detector suitable for the measurements of their int...
• Quitting Smoking for Dummies
  The decision to quit smoking is far from a casual one. Quitting smoking involves your complete commitment it must become your number-one priority. Mustering all the support you can get, you need to decide to turn up the flame on your survival instincts, your belief in a healthy future, and your wil...
• Quicksand: AND Passing
  Nella Larsen's Quicksand, first published in 1928, was the first novel to give voice to the sexual desires of a black woman. Helga Crane, the book's main protagonist, is frapped in the conflict between sexual fulfilment and middle-class respectability and a conflict of race and sex which even a rel...
• Qualitative Research in Health
  Qualitative Research in Healthoffers a comprehensive and practical introduction to the main theories and methods of qualitative research in health sciences.It covers the full range of conventional and new qualitative methods including ethnography, phenomenology, grounded theory, biography, memory w...
• Qualitative Analysis
  At the heart of insightful qualitative research is a dialogue between tradition and innovation, ideas and observations, theory and data, and interpretation and action. Ezzy explains how to engage in this dialogue by choosing methods of data analysis to suit the research project, adapting these meth...
• Qualitative Research in Practice
  Qualitative research (QR) is the method of inquiry that seeks to understand social phenomena within the context of the participants' perspectives and experiences. The research methods of QR are more flexible, responsive, and open to contextual interpretation than in quantitative research, which use...
• Quantitative Data Analysis with SPSS
  'This is an ideal introductory book for budding researchers who are embarking on the development and then analysis of data, and in this case, more specifically questionnaires using partly or exclusively closed questions amenable to statistical analysis' - "Primary Health Care Research and Developme...
• Qigong for Health and Martial Arts
  Increase your strength, improve your health, and develop greater martial power with Qigong. Qigong means Qi training or energy training and has been applied to health and the martial arts for centuries. With ten separate sets of exercises, this book is the complete guide to Qigong training for mart...
• Quick Selection Guide to Chemical Protective Clothing
  The premier reference on chemical protective clothing, now revised and updated This Fifth Edition of the Quick Selection Guide to Chemical Protective Clothing has been revised significantly to include many new chemicals and three additional suit materials, compared to previous editions. The col...
• Quantum Measurements and Decoherence
  This book is devoted to the theory of quantum measurements, an area that recently has attracted much attention because of its new applications for quantum information technology. The phenomenon of decoherence of a measured system is investigated and simple techniques for the description of a wide c...
• Quantum Computing and Quantum Bits in Mesoscopic Systems
  Quantum information science is a new field of science and technology which requires the collaboration of researchers coming from different fields of physics, mathematics, and engineering: both theoretical and applied. "Quantum Computing and Quantum Bits in Mesoscopic Systems" addresses fundamental ...
• Quilts of the Ohio Western Reserve
  Quilts of the Ohio Western Reserve includes early quilts brought from Connecticut to the Western Reserve in northeastern Ohio and contemporary quilts, including one by a conservative Amish woman and another inspired by Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Ricky Clark, one of Ohio's foremost quil...
• Quilts in America
• Queens' Jewels
  The history of royal jewels told through the destiny of the queens who wore them. Serving as a resplendent symbol of regal power and grandeur, royal jewels have been treasured assets of monarchies for centuries. Whether hidden or flaunted, sold or stolen, the stories behind crown jewels mirror the ...
• Quilts Sold!
  Quilts Sold! A Guide to Heirloom and Antique Quilts is a complete guide to buying, selling, creating and preserving antique quilts. This highly illustrated handbook features descriptions and actual selling prices for historic quilts sold, reflecting the authors' fifteen years of research at auction...
• Queen
  The first biography of the legendary British band to focus on their formative years. it highlights the desperately urgent days of pre-stardom, when the Queen quartet played with bands like The Reaction, The Opposition, 1984 and Sour Milk Sea. Author Mark Hodkinson has interviewed over 60 friends an...
• Queer Lives
  Eight gay men wrote their autobiographies in French between 1845 and 1905: some of them reflected on their childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, while others provided brief impressions of their loves and desires. A few of them dramatized their lives following contemporary theatrical and fictional ...
• Quest for Illumination
  You can't find enlightenment by leaving this world. You will find it through everyday living. -Author Mara Fonseca A resourceful guide that belongs in every home, Quest for Illumination: Finding Enlightenment in Everyday Living shows you how to do just that. As author Mara Fonseca reveals, finding ...
• Quantitative Methods in Derivatives Pricing
  This book presents a cogent description of the main methodologies used in derivatives pricing. Starting with a summary of the elements of Stochastic Calculus, Quantitative Methods in Derivatives Pricing develops the fundamental tools of financial engineering, such as scenario generation, simulation...
• Quantile Regression
  Quantile regression is gradually emerging as a unified statistical methodology for estimating models of conditional quantile functions. By complementing the exclusive focus of classical least squares regression on the conditional mean, quantile regression offers a systematic strategy for examining ...
• Quantitative Financial Economics
  This new edition of the hugely successful Quantitative Financial Economics has been revised and updated to reflect the most recent theoretical and econometric/empirical advances in the financial markets. It provides an introduction to models of economic behaviour in financial markets, focusing on d...
• Quest for the Perfect Strawberry
  'Baum's book provides a wealth of heretofore unavailable information on marketing in the strawberry industry. It contains invaluable insights by an insider gleaned from many years of experience. It is required reading for anyone with an interest in the industry. -Dr. George Tolley, professor emerit...
• Questions and Answers on Life Insurance
  During your life, you're likely to make important choices that will affect you for years to come: determining the best community, buying the perfect house, and starting a new family. Purchasing life insurance falls into the same category. But selecting the right policy isn't easy, especially when y...
• Quantative Financial Review: v. 1
  November 11th 2003 saw a landmark event take place in London. As the first conference designed for quants by quants the Quantitative Finance Review 2003, moved away from the anonymous bazaars that have become the norm, and instead delivered valuable information to market practitioners with the grea...
• Quantitative Pareto Analysis by Cone Separation Technique
  This monograph presents interactive mathematics within a self-contained framework, the cone separation technique. This framework affords a unified approach to multiple objective decision problems and their most common model, the vector optimization problem, regardless of their linear, discrete, con...
• Queuing Theory and Telecommunications
  Queuing Theory and Telecommunications: Networks and Applications provides some fundamental knowledge in queuing theory, as well as essential analytical methods and approaches to be employed to evaluate and design telecommunication networks. This work provides methods for teletraffic analysis as wel...
• Quality Control
  For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Quality Control, Statistical Process Control, Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance. Practical and state-of-the-art in approach, Quality Control, Eighth Edition provides fundamental--yet comprehensive--coverage of quality control concepts. Sufficient ...
• Quality Management
  Appropriate for Business, Engineering, and Engineering Technology, and for courses in Quality Management, Management of Organizations, Quality Improvement, and Quality Assurance. Quality Management: Creating and Sustaining Organizational Effectiveness, Second Edition explores how quality management...
• Quality Assurance and the Law
  Over the last 25 years there has been a considerable increase in the awareness of quality related issues. In the world of business and commerce, this awareness has manifested itself in the development of what was the British Quality Standard BS 5750 into what is now the international standard BS EN...
• Quality Wars
  The quality revolution in American industry, now more than a decade old, has produced an avalanche of books, but this is the first in-depth study reporting the struggles from inside the companies that have attempted large-scale improvement efforts. Jeremy Main has interviewed more than a dozen chie...
• Quality and Performance Excellence
  This book has three objectives: To familiarize students with the basic principles and methods associated with total quality and performance excellence To show students how these principles and methods have been put into effect in a variety of organizations and To illustrate the relationship between...
• Quality without Tears
  Find out why this book has sold more than 400,000 copies, and why its author, Philip B. Crosby, is widely regarded as the elder statesman of the Quality Revolution....
• Quest for the Best
  Who better to know what is the best than the man who made Neiman Marcus synonymous with excellence for more than fifty years? The sequel to Minding the Store, Quest for the Best outlines Marcus's philosophy of what constitutes the best in goods and services and how to receive it. Marcus describes h...
• Quantifying the Agri-food Supply Chain
  Due to globalization and internationalization of agri-food production, the arena of competition and competitive advantage is moving from individual firms operating on spot markets towards supply chains and networks. Therefore, coordination between firms within the chain becomes more important. Topi...
• Quantitative Methods for Electricity Trading and Risk Management
  This book presents practical Risk Management and Trading applications for the Electricity Markets. Various methodologies developed over the last few years are considered and current literature is reviewed. The book emphasizes the relationship between trading, hedging and generation asset management...