The "cocktail-party effect" - the ability to focus on one voice in a sea of noises - is a highly sophisticated skill that is usually effortless to listeners but largely impossible for machines. Invest..

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After a hundred years of recording, the process of making records is still mysterious to most people who listen to them. Records hold a fundamental place in the dynamics of modern musical life, but wh..

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An inside look at two brands that made Scotland's national drink a global phenomenonA Double Scotch tells the intertwined success stories of Chivas Regal and The Glenlivet-two Scotch whisky brands rec..

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Former corporate speechwriter Hare presents an unvarnished look at the J.C. Penney Company, a truly American saga that parallels U.S. business history itself. Hare looks at the company from its beginn..

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Preface Preface Assessments have for many years been at the cutting edge of the theory and practice of process improvement, but not many people understand what process improvement assessments were des..

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Foreword Foreword At the turn of the nineteenth century, a wave of new technologies such as the steam engine, electricity, the loom, the railway, and the telephone emerged. Urbanization and the mass p..

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An inside look at one of the world's most successful real estate companies RE/MAX was founded over 30 years ago in Denver, Colorado, based upon a revolutionary idea for a new system of selling real es..

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Mathematical Models of Spoken Language presents the motivations for, intuitions behind, and basic mathematical models of natural spoken language communication. A comprehensive overview is given of all..

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