books about: recognition     books:       Pattern Recognition270 reviews William Gibson Berkley, 2005 Start of a decline I have always liked Gibson's work, but Pattern Recognition is the start of a gradual decline. His books were thought-prevoking and unique, but now seem cliched. My biggest gripe about the book is that all the characters feel like they grew up reading too many Gibson books: that is, they feel like you would never meet them in real life. Previous works by Gibson didn't have that. The ...             1001 Ways to Reward Employees39 reviews Bob Nelson Workman Publishing Company, 2005 Reward yourself- buy this book. This book is great and works under the premise that you get the best effort out of people, not by lighting a fire under them, but by building a fire within them. In short, its simply a collection of ways to reward employees for doing a good job. It is divided into 6 sections (day to day rewards, intangible rewards, tangible rewards..) so there's definitely a boatload of reward ideas to fit ...             Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation25 reviews Mike Robbins Jossey-Bass, 2007 Powerful. Must-have book. Buy this book, learn the methods and take action, and you will certainly bring more happiness and fulfillment to your life. I wrote pages of notes, and I use these methods everyday! Relationships are crucial for happiness and fulfillment. Learn to treat others and yourself better with "Focus on the Good Stuff."             The Fluent Reader: Oral Reading Strategies for Building Word Recognition, Fluency, and Comprehension9 reviews Timothy V. Rasinski Scholastic, Inc., 2003 The Fluent Reader - Excellent Resource Very practical for teachers but at the same time is research-based.             Trade What You See: How To Profit from Pattern Recognition (Wiley Trading)11 reviews Larry Pesavento, Leslie Jouflas Wiley, 2007 One of the Easiest Technical Trading Books This book is one of the easiest reading technical analysis books I've read. The book lays out a fairly simple mechanical system which can be implemented immediately to improve one's bottom line. I've been using the patterns and techniques in this book for a little over a month and it has helped me more than just about any other book out there. I now have a specific plan of action and rules to ...             Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data ...25 reviews Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank Morgan Kaufmann, 2005 Thorough, well-written, and crystal-clear explanations. Highly recommend this book for a practical introduction to the theory and applications of Machine Learning. Great book if you are looking to ACTUALLY implement some machine learning systems, prefer to learn via diagrams, a "how-stuff-works"-style explanation, and skip much of the equations and heavy math that fills similar books. Obviously, this book is a perfect companion to the Weka ...             Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)39 reviews Christopher M. Bishop Springer, 2007 Authorative text I am a PhD student who wanted to own a good book on pattern recognition. I asked my professor, who had recently attended an international conference on speech recognition, which book to buy. He said that several top academics in the field at the conference had agreed that this was THE book to have, and he agrees with them. After reading though the first few chapters I am impressed by the ...             Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction (4th Edition) (Words Their Way ...35 reviews Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, ... Prentice Hall, 2007 Very useful for homeschoolers too... My children attended a public school where this program was used. When I brought them home due to their various LDs/allergies, I balked at the $40 price tag of this book and opted for the less expensive Spectrum Spelling books for their grade level. I found those to be rather annoying because often my children already knew the words. And the ones they didn't know, they would spell correctly on ...             The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their Employees, Retain Talent, and ...26 reviews Adrian Gostick, Chester Elton Free Press, 2007 Should be required reading for ALL managers. Every manager in every organization (business, industry, education, government) should be required to read this book. Those who pass it off as lots of writing about one simple principle are missing the reality in most organizations and showing insensitivity to the massive improvement in engagement and satisfaction that full attention to the Carrot Principle could promote. The authors provide ...             Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (The Addison-Wesley ...31 reviews Gregor Hohpe, Bobby Woolf Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003 Excellent book for Software Architect and Software Engineer Many books have been written about SOA, but most of them are just about the theory of SOA. It's important for Software Architects and Software Engineers to understand the theory, but just knowing the theory is not enough to develop system utilizing SOA principles. This book fits nicely to bridge the gap between theory and practice. It contains not only the theory behind the patterns that can ...             The 1001 Rewards & Recognition Fieldbook: The Complete Guide2 reviews Bob Nelson, Dean R. Spitzer Workman Publishing Company, 2002 What a treasure! Motivation of employees through rewards and recognition is critically important for organizational success. This topic is vital for supervisors, managers, executives, human resource professionals, business owners...the list goes on. Your power in this essential part of business is based on how much you know about what works, what doesn't work, and why. The more examples you can glean about what ...             Tree Identification Book : A New Method for the Practical Identification and Recognition of Trees23 reviews George W. Symonds Collins Living, 1973 The Tree Identification Book by George W. D. Symonds Excellent resource book for anyone seeking to identify trees by their leaves, bark, flowers, fruit, twigs, buds or thorns. Even though the photos are in black and white, their 3-dimensional appearance helps very much in identifying a tree.             Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Letter Name Alphabetic Spellers5 reviews Francine Johnston, Marcia Invernizzi, ... Prentice Hall, 2003 Letter Name Spellers This is a great resource for first and second grade teachers. Many of the skills addressed are those encountered in your classroom daily. Great companion to Words Their Way, and to offer a hands on opportunity for phonics, spelling and decoding words.             Words Their Way: Letter and Picture Sorts for Emergent Spellers3 reviews Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, ... Prentice Hall, 2005 A MUST for K-2 teachers. Like the other Words their Way materials, this volume continues the wonderful tradition of combining excellent teaching ideas with the black line masters so you can use the strategies immediately. This level is especially appropriate for students learning letter/sound relationships. It gives dozens of poems and stories which have sorts to support teaching them. There are old faithfuls such as ...             Speech and Language Processing (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence) Daniel Jurafsky, James H. Martin Prentice Hall, 2008 An explosion of Web-based language techniques, merging of distinct fields, availability of phone-based dialogue systems, and much more make this an exciting time in speech and language processing. The first of its kind to thoroughly cover language technology – at all levels and with all modern technologies – this book takes an empirical approach to the subject, based on applying statistical and other machine-learning algorithms to ...             100 Write-And-Learn Sight Word Practice Pages: Engaging Reproducible Activity Pages That Help Kids Recognize, ...7 reviews Instructor Books, 2002 My daughter loves it I was amazed to see the bad reviews. Is this workbook more fun than Nintendo? UMMM, no, it is a workbook. I use it to reinforce what we have been learning in other more visually stimulating books. Do look at the pages and notice that the student gets to cut out the letters of the word and paste them for one of the activities. She LOVES that and it gives her practice with her motor skills. ...             3-Minute Reading Assessments: Word Recognition, Fluency, and Comprehension: Grades 5-8 (3-minute Reading ...3 reviews Nancy Padak, Timothy V. Rasinski Scholastic, 2005 Very Helpful! I found this book very useful to use in the classroom. I was able to conduct the assessments fairly quickly and provide both myself and the parents with an abbreviated list of areas in which the student needed to work. Really great for the classroom teacher!             Make Their Day! Employee Recognition That Works9 reviews Cindy Ventrice Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003 Useful Guide for Making Recognition a Success This book is right on - a great guide to preventing the pitfalls that can hamper a recognition program, exploring common myths and practical tips about the roles of HR and managers and recognition methods. During my own experience of leading a team recognition program several years for a $5B company, I developed an appreciation for the useful advice in "Make Their Day!" in making meaningful ...             Pattern Classification (2nd Edition)26 reviews Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart, ... Wiley-Interscience, 2000 excellent revision of a classical text on statistical pattern recognition The 1973 book by Duda and Hart was a classic. It surveyed the literature on pattern classification and scene analysis and provided the practitioner with wonderful insight and exposition of the subject. In the intervening 28 years the field has exploded and there has been an enormous increase in technical approaches and applications. With this in mind the authors and their new coauthor David ...             3-Minute Reading Assessments: Word Recognition, Fluency, and Comprehension: Grades 1-4 (Three-minute Reading ...1 review Timothy V. Rasinski, Nancy Padak Teaching Resources, 2005 Great Assessments I have used this and the higher level version of this book. They are great, short assesments for reading fluency. A passage with a word count is provided for the instructor, as well as a student page. 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