Comprehensive and extensive in its scope, the CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses compiles the most up-to-date information available from a wide range of literature sources (including regional publications) to provide a ready reference on body masses of most of the world’s species of birds. This second edition includes an accompanying CD-ROM with a searchable electronic database. This new edition also features more complete coverage of the world’s avifauna as well as expanded coverage of birds of South America, Japan, China, Africa, and the Pacific Islands. In addition, the order of species and families has been revised in the text to fit with the latest publications in avian taxonomy and systematics.
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La vida diaria de muchas familias se desenvuelve en contacto directo con más de una lengua y sus respectivas culturas.
"Crecer con dos idiomas" está dirigido a padres y profesionales que desean ayudar a los niños a sacar el máximo partido de esa situación. Las circunstancias de cada familia son distintas, y padres y educadores son en gran medida responsables de facilitar el desarrollo de sus hijos en un ambiente bilingüe.
Esta excelente guía incluye casos reales a modo de fragmentos de entrevistas con 50 familias de todo el mundo. Así, los retos y las satisfacciones de vivir con dos idiomas y dos culturas son objeto de un pormenorizado estudio. Tampoco faltan los consejos prácticos para colaborar en el desarrollo lingüístico de los niños.
Con información actualizada sobre recursos en la red, "Crecer con dos idiomas" es una guía que pone al alcance del lector los datos necesarios para educar a un hijo en un entorno de enriquecimiento cultural.

New Cutting Edge is the best-selling adult course known worldwide for its practical approach to task based learning combined with a comprehensive grammar and skills syllabus. The course has a strong emphasis on vocabulary and pronunciation.

To enhance and sustain its lean journey, a company must implement information systems that fully support and enhance the lean initiative. In this book, Jean Cunningham and Duane Jones introduce a case study of an actual lean implementation involving an IT system of a mid-size manufacturer, highlighting the IT issues faced during lean transformation. The book suggests changes that will be required in an information system to make it a partner with, rather than a barrier to, a company becoming a lean manufacturer and ultimately a lean enterprise. It showcases opportunities that will arise for the information systems team to eliminate waste and apply lean principles in its own operations.
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New Cutting Edge is the best-selling adult course known worldwide for its practical approach to task based learning combined with a comprehensive grammar and skills syllabus. The course has a strong emphasis on vocabulary and pronunciation.

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El Diccionario de Términos de la Piedra Natural (inglés-español, español-inglés) es el primero de la serie de DICCIONARIOS TERMINOLOGÍA INDUSTRIAL de Editorial Ariel. Esta nueva serie intenta contribuir a la normalización, con criterios de rigor y de claridad, del léxico de este mundo industrial. La gran mayoría de las entradas léxicas consta de cuatro componentes, como se aprecia en este ejemplo: foliation n: PETRO foliación; disposición en hojas ?sheets? que muestran algunas rocas por la orientación de los minerales ?mineral orientation?; suele denominarse esquistosidad ?schistosity? cuando se trata de esquistos, pizarrosidad ?slaty cleavage? en las pizarras y gneisicidad ?gneissic banding? en gneis à The concentration of minerals along bands causes a gneissic structure or foliation; V. cleavage; stratification; bedding; schistosity. [Exp: foliated rock (PETRO roca foliada), foliation parallel to bedding (GEOL foliación paralela a la estratificación)]. (a) La traducción de los términos, desde la lengua de partida a la de llegada; (b) la explicación, consistente en un pequeño comentario aclaratorio del significado del término, sus límites, sus usos, etc.; (c) la ilustración o breve ejemplo precedido por el símbolo à, que sirve de orientación contextual del significado; (d) las remisiones o referencias complementarias, cruzadas o recíprocas, precedidas de V. (véase) en la primera parte o S. (see) en la segunda, cuyo objetivo es ofrecer palabras relacionadas, que ayudan a fijar el significado del término y orientan hacia otras vinculadas con éste. La meta que se marcan estos cuatro parámetros es fijar lo mejor posible el significado de cada término. La metodología empleada ha sido variada, destacándose por su importancia los tres momentos siguientes: (a) investigación lexicográfica de los trabajos realizados hasta el momento; (b) análisis textual con metodología de corpus para los estudios de las selecciones léxicas y la ilustración de los términos por medio de oraciones auténticas; (c) consulta técnica a destacados especialistas del mundo de la piedra natural (Departamento de Petrología Aplicada de la Universidad de Alicante, Mármol de Alicante, Asociación de la Comunidad Valenciana, Centro Tecnológico del Mármol de Ceheguin, etc.). Editorial Ariel desea que su Diccionario de Términos de la Piedra Natural facilite la labor de los estudiantes y profesores de las facultades de ciencia y de tecnología, los de la economía y traducción, así como la de todos los profesionales de este sector tan innovador de la industria.

"The unique thing about Fit for Developing Software is the way it addresses the interface between customers/testers/analysts and programmers. All will find something in the book about how others wish to be effectively communicated with. A Fit book for programmers wouldn't make sense because the goal is to create a language for business-oriented team members. A Fit book just for businesspeople wouldn't make sense because the programmers have to be involved in creating that language. The result is a book that should appeal to a wide range of people whose shared goal is improving team communications."

--Kent Beck, Three Rivers Institute

"Even with the best approaches, there always seemed to be a gap between the software that was written and the software the user wanted. With Fit we can finally close the loop. This is an important piece in the agile development puzzle."

--Dave Thomas, coauthor of The Pragmatic Programmer

"Ward and Rick do a great job in eschewing the typical, overly complicated technology trap by presenting a simple, user-oriented, and very usable technology that holds fast to the agile principles needed for success in this new millennium."

--Andy Hunt, coauthor of The Pragmatic Programmer

"Florida Tech requires software engineering students to take a course in programmer testing, which I teach. Mugridge and Cunningham have written a useful and instructive book, which will become one of our course texts."

--Cem Kaner, Professor of Software Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology

"Rick and Ward continue to amaze me. Testing business rules is a fundamentally hard thing that has confounded many, and yet these two have devised a mechanism that cuts to the essence of the problem. In this work they offer a simple, thorough, approachable, and automatable means of specifying and testing such rules."

--Grady Booch, IBM Fellow

"By providing a simple, effective method for creating and automating tabular examples of requirements, Fit has dramatically improved how domain experts, analysts, testers, and programmers collaborate to produce quality software."

--Joshua Kerievsky, founder, Industrial Logic, Inc., and author of Refactoring to Patterns

"Agile software development relies on collaborating teams, teams of customers, analysts, designers, developers, testers, and technical writers. But, how do they work together? Fit is one answer, an answer that has been thoroughly thought through, implemented, and tested in a number of situations. Primavera has significantly stabilized its product lineusing Fit, and I'm so impressed by the results that I'm suggesting it to everyone I know. Rick and Ward, in their everlasting low-key approach, have again put the keystone in the arch of software development. Congratulations and thanks from the software development community."

--Ken Schwaber, Scrum Alliance, Agile Alliance, and codeveloper of Scrum

"Fit is the most important new technique for understanding and communicating requirements. It's a revolutionary approach to bringing experts and programmers together. This book describes Fit comprehensively and authoritatively. If you want to produce great software, you need to read this book."

--James Shore, Principal, Titanium I.T. LLC

"There are both noisy and quiet aspects of the agile movement and it is often the quieter ones that have great strategic importance. This book by Ward and Rick describes one of these absolutely vital, but often quieter, practices--testing business requirements. A renewed focus on testing, from test-driven development for developers to story testing for customers, is one of the agile community's great contributions to our industry, and this book will become one of the cornerstones of that contribution. Stories are done-done (ready for release) when they have been tested by both developers (done) and customers (done-done). The concepts and practices involved in customer story testing are critical to project success and wonderfully portrayed in this book. Buy it. Read it. Keep it handy in your day-to-day work."

--Jim Highsmith, Director of Agile Software Development & Project Management Practice, Cutter Consortium

"I have been influenced by many books, but very few have fundamentally changed how I think and work. This is one of those books. The ideas in this book describe not just how to use a specific framework in order to test our software, but also how we should communicate about and document that software. This book is an excellent guide to a tool and approach that will fundamentally improve how you think about and build software--as it has done for me."

--Mike Cohn, Mountain Goat Software, author of User Stories Applied

"Fit is a tool to help whole teams grow a common language for describing and testing the behavior of software. This books fills a critical gap--helping both product owners and programmers learn what Fit is and how to use it well."

--Bill Wake, independent consultant

"Over the past several years, I've been using Fit and FitNesse with development teams. They are not only free and powerful testing tools, they transform development by making the behavior of applications concrete, verifiable, and easily observable. The only thing that has been missing is a good tutorial and reference. Rick Mugridge and Ward Cunningham's Fit For Developing Software fits the bill. Essentially, two books in one, it is a very readable guide that approaches Fit from technical and nontechnical perspectives. This book is a significant milestone and it will make higher software quality achievable for many teams."

--Michael C. Feathers, author of Working Effectively with Legacy Code, and consultant, Object Mentor, Inc.

"Wow! This is the book I wish I had on my desk when I did my first story test-driven development project. It explains the philosophy behind the Fit framework and a process for using it to interact with the customers to help define the requirements of the project. It makes Fit so easy and approachable that I wrote my first FitNesse tests before I even I finished the book.

"For the price of one book, you get two, written by the acknowledged thought leaders of Fit testing. The first is written for the nonprogramming customer. It lays out how you can define the functionality of the system you are building (or modifying) using tabular data. It introduces a range of different kinds of 'test fixtures' that interpret the data and exercise the system under test. While it is aimed at a nontechnical audience, even programmers will find it useful because it also describes the process for interacting with the customers, using the Fit tests as the focal point of the interaction.

"The second 'book' is targeted to programmers. It describes how to build each kind of fixture described in the first book. It also describes many other things that need to be considered to have robust automated tests--things like testing without a database to make tests run faster. A lot of the principles will be familiar to programmers who have used any member of the xUnit family of unit testing frameworks. Rick and Ward show you how to put it into practice in a very easy-to-read narrative style that uses a fictitious case study to lead you through all the practices and decisions you are likely to encounter."

--Gerard Meszaros, ClearStream Consulting

The Fit open source testing framework brings unprecedented agility to the entire development process. Fit for Developing Software shows you how to use Fit to clarify business rules, express them with concrete examples, and organize the examples into test tables that drive testing throughout the software lifecycle. Using a realistic case study, Rick Mugridge and Ward Cunningham--the creator of Fit--introduce each of Fit's underlying concepts and techniques, and explain how you can put Fit to work incrementally, with the lowest possible risk. Highlights include

• Integrating Fit into your development processes
• Using Fit to promote effective communication between businesspeople, testers, and developers
• Expressing business rules that define calculations, decisions, and business processes
• Connecting Fit tables to the system with "fixtures" that check whether tests are actually satisfied
• Constructing tests for code evolution, restructuring, and other changes to legacy systems
• Managing the quality and evolution of tests
• A companion Web site (http://fit.c2.com/) that offers additional resources and source code