This book can be used in teaching courses in advanced econometrics, financial engineering, quantitative investments and portfolio managefprefment, as the main course book, as supplemental reading on advanced topics, and/or for student projects. The material in Chapters 2 through 11 of the book is appropriate for undergraduate advanced electives on investment management, and all topics […]
This book may be too dangerous for you. But you won’t know for sure until you read the first three and a half pages of Chapter 1 and all of Chapter 6. Marketing is changing. The in-your-face, bludgeon-you-intosubmission, hard-sell style of marketing is dead. The Internet killed it. Rising media costs killed it. Media fragmentation […]
Microbiology is one of the core subjects for veterinary students,and since its first publication in 2002, Veterinary Microbiologyand Microbial Disease has become an essential text for students ofveterinary medicine. Fully revised and expanded, this new editionupdates the subject for pre-clinical and clinical veterinarystudents in a comprehensive manner. Individual sections deal withbacteriology, mycology and virology. Written […]
Whether you’re new to iOS and need a primer to the platform, or are a veteran iOS user and want to explore new iOS 8 features, this book will fill you in. iOS 7 was a shocking overhaul of an iconic interface. Gone were superfluous trimmings like stitched leather and black canvas, replaced by white […]
This is a book about thinking. It’s a book about how to think. In a broad sense, the word “thinking†refers to anything that goes on in our minds. When I say “a penny for your thoughts,†I want to know what’s on your mind—whether it’s a feeling, a memory, a question, an anxiety, a […]
Heart of the Dragon #1: Searching for her missing brother, Grace Carlyle never dreamed she would discover a secret world populated by mythological monsters—or find herself facing a sword-wielding being whose looks put mortal men to shame. But there he was, Darius en Kragin, one of a race of shape-shifting warriors bound to guard the […]
In these dynamic and challenging times, there is a need to look for inspiration in how managers and organisations can change the way they operate to meet their economic, environmental and social responsibilities. No successful organisation, or its managers, can operate without understanding and dealing with the dynamic environment that surrounds them. One of the […]
The body doesn’t lie and neither do voice or speech patterns. If you know how to read others, you truly have an added advantage over others. All relationships ebb and flow—if you can read what is really going on, you can help thwart potential problems. For instance, you may hear your wife swallow her words […]
Developing code in the kernel does not require genius, magic, or a bushy Unix-hacker beard.The kernel, although having some interesting rules of its own, is not much different from any other large software endeavor.You need to master many details—as with any big project—but the differences are quantitative, not qualitative. It is imperative that you utilize […]
Advanced Google AdWords is written for people who have a solid understanding of AdWords and have opened and managed their own account. What you will not find is information on how to open an account or navigate through the interface, or introductory material on keywords. These basics can be found in the AdWords Learning Center […]
In a few hundred years, the Algol system becomes humanity’s new home. The question is: Is it a better one? Contract of Defiance, Contract of Betrayal, and Contract of War follow former Corpsmember Aly Erikson and her crew of anti-Admin smugglers through ever-escalating life-and-death adventures and the trials of a living on the side of […]
The stories are set between 1915 and the late 1920s, mainly in England but extending to Scotland, Wales, Palestine, northern India and California. They begin with fifteen year-old Mary Russell (she was born on 2 January 1900), who runs into a middle-aged individual she realizes is, in fact, Sherlock Holmes – the former consulting detective […]