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Business Dictionaries

The AMA Dictionary of Business and Management by George Thomas Kurian More than 6,000 key business terms, covering a vast range of terminology from all areas of business including management, strategy, finance, human resources, economics, marketing, sales, insurance, and international business.
ISBN: 9780814420287
Publication Date: 2013
Dictionary of Accounting by S. M. H. Collin; Jane Russell; A-and-C Black UK Staff Dictionary of Accounting covers a wide range of topics related to accountancy, including personal finance, investments and company accounts. Ideal for students of accountancy, users without a background in accounting and those working in company accounts departments.
ISBN: 9780713682861
Publication Date: 2007
Dictionary of Economics by C. L. Pass, Leslie Davies , Bryan Lowes Summarizes the theoretical principles behind the science of economics and their application in such areas as competition policy, agricultural policy, fiscal policy and monetary policy.
ISBN: 9780007198108
Publication Date: 2005
Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary by Barbara Etzel Clear, accessible, and cross-referenced explanations of today's most essential financial terms, including vocabulary related to accounting, finance, banks and banking, economics, investing, markets, real estate, and securities.
ISBN: 9781438001401
Publication Date: 2003
Wall Street Words by David L. Scott; Louis Rukeyser (Foreword by) Has 4,500 entries; more than 700 of them newly added to reflect key developments in national and world markets.
ISBN: 9780618176519
Publication Date: 2003
Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary by Barbara J. Etzel This resource gives you cross-referenced explanations of financial terms, including vocabulary related to: Accounting; Finance; Banks and banking; Economics; Investing; and Markets.
ISBN: 9780764526350
Publication Date: 2003

Selected E-Books

Advanced Research on Cloud Computing Design and Applications by Shadi Aljawarneh (Editor)
ISBN: 9781466686779
Publication Date: 2015-06-30
Modern society requires a specialized, persistent approach to IT service delivery. Cloud computing offers the most logical answer through a highly dynamic and virtualized resource made available by an increasing number of service providers. Advanced Research on Cloud Computing Design and Applications shares the latest high quality research results on cloud computing and explores the broad applicability and scope of these trends on an international scale, venturing into the hot-button issue of IT services evolution and what we need to do to be prepared for future developments in cloud computing. This book is an essential reference source for researchers and practitioners in the field of cloud computing, as well as a guide for students, academics, or anyone seeking to learn more about advancement in IT services. This publication features chapters covering a broad range of relevant topics, including cloud computing for e-government, cloud computing in the public sector, security in the cloud, hybrid clouds and outsourced data, IT service personalization, and supply chain in the cloud.
Cloud Computing Design Patterns by Thomas Erl; Robert Cope; Amin Naserpour
ISBN: 0133858561
Publication Date: 2015-06-04
The authors address topics covering scalability, elasticity, reliability, resiliency, recovery, data management, storage, virtualization, monitoring, provisioning, administration, and much more. Readers will further find detailed coverage of cloud security, from networking and storage safeguards to identity systems, trust assurance, and auditing.
Cloud Computing by Thomas Erl; Eric Monroy
ISBN: 0138052255
Publication Date: 2023-08-12
In Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology, Security & Architecture, Thomas Erl, one of the worlds top-selling IT authors, teams up with cloud computing expert Eric Barceló Monroy and researchers to break down proven and mature cloud computing technologies and practices into a series of well-defined concepts, technology mechanisms, and technology architectures. Comprehensive coverage of containerization and cybersecurity topics is also included.
Mobile Cloud Computing by Dijiang Huang; Huijun Wu
ISBN: 9780128096413
Publication Date: 2017-09-12
Mobile Cloud Computing: Foundations and Service Models combines cloud computing, mobile computing and wireless networking to bring new computational resources for mobile users, network operators and cloud computing providers. The book provides the latest research and development insights on mobile cloud computing, beginning with an exploration of the foundations of cloud computing, existing cloud infrastructures classifications, virtualization techniques and service models. It then examines the approaches to building cloud services using a bottom-up approach, describing data center design, cloud networking and software orchestration solutions, showing how these solutions support mobile devices and services. The book describes mobile cloud clouding concepts with a particular focus on a user-centric approach, presenting a distributed mobile cloud service model called POEM to manage mobile cloud resource and compose mobile cloud applications. It concludes with a close examination of the security and privacy issues of mobile clouds.
Cloud Computing Technology by Ltd. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
ISBN: 9789811930256
Publication Date: 2022-10-06
This open access book introduces cloud computing and related technologies from the concept, technology, and architecture of cloud computing, combined with typical application cases of cloud; provides students with a more complete knowledge framework in the field of cloud computing; and lays the foundation for future research, development, and further study in cloud computing, big data, and other related fields. As the world's leading provider of ICT (information and communication technology) infrastructure and intelligence terminals, Huawei's products are already available in a number of areas, including connectivity, security, wireless, storage, cloud computing, intelligent computing, and artificial intelligence.

Accessing E-Books

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O'Reilly for Higher Education This link opens in a new window
Content: Instructional material on programming, IT networking, project management, graphic design and business strategy.
Purpose: Teaches users via how to guides, courses, books, and videos
Special Features: Users may arrange information topically and can build skills via recommended resources
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Content: Ebooks with coverage across all academic disciplines. The collection offers a critical mass of more than 150,000 foundational scholarly ebooks with balanced quantity and quality to improve teaching, learning and research workflow and outcomes.
Purpose: Provides access to multidisciplinary ebooks for download or to be read online.
Special Features: Browse by subject option; highlight and take notes in text.
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Taylor & Francis eBooks This link opens in a new window
Content: E-books covering science, technology, engineering, medical, humanities, and social science.
Special Features: Browse by topic or keyword search. Includes forthcoming titles.
ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Content: The Association of Computing Machinery database is a research, discovery and network platform. The database provides journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books.
Purpose: An essential database computing and technology research topics.
Special Features: Provides a list of authors after an initial topic search, includes a dataset search filter, and the ability to sort results by most cited.