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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 11:39pm CET
Nitrification and Denitrification in the Activated Sludge Process
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-01-09
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 0471065080
ISBN-13: 9780471065081
Nitrification and Denitrification in the Activated Sludge Process, the first in a series on the microbiology of wastewater treatment, comprises the critical topics of cost-effective operation, permit compliance, process control, and troubleshooting in wastewater treatment plants. Avoiding the technical jargon, chemical equations, and kinetics that typically accompany such texts, Nitrification and Denitrification in the Activated Sludge Process directly addresses plant operators and technicians, providing necessary information for understanding the microbiology and biological conditions that oc...
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 11:39pm CET
Java In A Nutshell, 5th Edition
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Number of Pages: 1254
Published: 2005-03-15
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0596007736
ISBN-13: 9780596007737
With more than 700,000 copies sold to date, "Java in a Nutshell" from O’Reilly is clearly the favorite resource amongst the legion of developers and programmers using Java technology. And now, with the release of the 5.0 version of Java, O’Reilly has given the book that defined the "in a Nutshell" category another impressive tune-up. In this latest revision, readers will find "Java in a Nutshell," 5th Edition, does more than just cover the extensive changes implicit in 5.0, the newest version of Java. It’s undergone a complete makeover--in scope, size, and type of coverage--i...
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 11:37pm CET
PSP Hacks: Tips & Tools for Your Mobile Gaming and Entertainment Handheld
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Number of Pages: 319
Published: 2006-01-20
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0596101430
ISBN-13: 9780596101435
Sure, it’s just what you’ve been clamoring for: an ultra slick, portable version of the most popular console gaming system in the world. But Sony’s new PlayStation Portable (PSP) isn’t just a handheld gaming device. Beyond its killer graphics and spectacular widescreen LCD for unparalleled game play, it also sports wireless connectivity and a variety of multimedia features, including video, music, and digital photography. Your wildly versatile, endlessly powerful PSP practically begs you to hack and repurpose it to your liking. To save you the trouble and show you ho...
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 11:24pm CET
Project Financing: Asset-Based Financial Engineering (Wiley Finance)
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 476
Published: 2007-05-04
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0470086246
ISBN-13: 9780470086247
Praise for Project Financing, First Edition "Owing to his teaching as a finance professor and as an experienced investment banker, John Finnerty brings to his book, Project Financing, an insightful perspective, blending the theoretical with the practical." —Zoltan Merszei, former chairman, president, and CEO, The Dow Chemical Company "Finnerty has managed to distill the complexities of project financing with its myriad components and variations. Clear, practical, and in-depth, Project Financing is a valuable user’s guide for project sponsors, regulators, host gover...
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 11:23pm CET
Valve Selection Handbook, Fifth Edition: Engineering Fundamentals for Selecting the Right Valve Design for Every Industrial Flow Application
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Number of Pages: 399
Published: 2003-12-26
List price: $96.95
ISBN-10: 0750677171
ISBN-13: 9780750677172
Valves are the components in a fluid flow or pressure system that regulate either the flow or the pressure of the fluid. They are used extensively in the process industries, especially petrochemical. Though there are only four basic types of valves, there is an enormous number of different kinds of valves within each category, each one used for a specific purpose. No other book on the market analyzes the use, construction, and selection of valves in such a comprehensive manner....
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 11:23pm CET
Pump Handbook
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Number of Pages: 1632
Published: 2007-11-27
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0071460446
ISBN-13: 9780071460446
Rely on the #1 Guide to Pump Design and Application--. Now Updated with the Latest Technological Breakthroughs. . Long-established as the leading guide to pump design and application, the Pump Handbook has been fully revised and updated with the latest developments in pump technology. Packed with 1,150 detailed illustrations and written by a team of over 100 internationally renowned pump experts, this vital tool shows you how to select, purchase, install, operate, maintain, and troubleshoot cutting-edge pumps for all types of uses. The Fourth Edition of the Pump Handbook features:. . ...
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 11:15pm CET
Hacking the PSP: Cool Hacks, Mods, and Customizations for the Sony PlayStation Portable (ExtremeTech)
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 378
Published: 2006-10-30
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0470104511
ISBN-13: 9780470104514
We’re not just playing games. You love your PSP. You loved the first edition of this book. If you’re ready for more fun, here it is. Check out: Networking hacks that let you IM and speed up multiplayer game action. Awesome audio, video, and image hacks. Game hacks that let you use a single UMD cartridge for multiplayer games. The ever-popular homebrew applications, with secrets for sneaking them past the firmware. We’re taking playtime to a whole new level. Let the fun begin with complete instructions on how to do all this and more with your PSP, including: ...
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 10:56pm CET
Valve Handbook (McGraw-Hill Handbooks)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Number of Pages: 447
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $131.00
ISBN-10: 0071437738
ISBN-13: 9780071437738
Offers complete coverage of the operation, application, and pros and cons of today’s newest smart valves with digital positioners and actuators. Also includes updates on HART and FieldBus valve technology. For mechanical engineers. Previous edition: c1998....
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 10:42pm CET
Hydraulics and Pneumatics: A Technicians and Engineers Guide
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1999-03-22
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 0750644192
ISBN-13: 9780750644198
Nearly all industrial processes require objects to be moved, manipulated or subjected to some sort of force. This is frequently accomplished by means of electrical equipment (such as motors or solenoids), or via devices driven by air (pneumatics) or liquids (hydraulics). This book has been written by a process control engineer as a guide to the operation of hydraulic and pneumatic systems for all engineers and technicians who wish to have an insight into the components and operation of such a system.This second edition has been fully updated to include all recent developments such as the incr...
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 9:10pm CET
Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever
Publisher: Plume
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2005-09-27
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0452286670
ISBN-13: 9780452286672
Tap today s technological breakthroughs to live longer and better. Startling discoveries in the areas of genomics, biotechnology, and nanotechnology occur practically every day. The rewards of this research, some of it as spectacular as science fiction, are practically in our grasp. Fantastic Voyage shows us how we can use these new technologies to live longer than previously imaginable. The authors take the reader on a journey to undreamed-of vitality with a comprehensive investigation into the cutting-edge science regarding diet, supplementation, genetics, detoxification, an...
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 9:07pm CET
The Aladdin Factor
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1995-10-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0425150755
ISBN-13: 9780425150757
The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Chicken Soup for the Soul introduce readers to the Aladdin Factor--the magical wellspring of confidence and desire that turns dreams into reality--and teach them how to put it into effect in their own lives....
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 9:06pm CET
The Power of Focus: What the Worlds Greatest Achievers Know about The Secret of Financial Freedom and Success
Publisher: HCI
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 2000-03-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1558747524
ISBN-13: 9781558747524
Whether they are corporate professionals, budding entrepreneurs, or they own a home business, most people are looking to achieve more in less time, while earning enough money to live comfortably. This book reveals the proven techniques thousands of people have used to attain all of the money they wanted while living healthy, happy and balanced lives. The Power of Focus, the new blockbuster from the coauthors of the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul, is a practical no-nonsense guide that shows readers how to reach their business, personal and financial goals without getting burned out in...
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 8:58pm CET
The Secrets of Selecting Stocks for Immediate and Substantial Gains
Publisher: Windsor Books
Number of Pages: 114
Published: 1986-10-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0930233050
ISBN-13: 9780930233051
You are shown William’s personal technique for picking stocks based on identifying what stocks are under professional buying or selling. In addition, you’ll learn how to successfully forecast the market’s short, intermediate and long term trend; and be shown how to combine stock selection with market timing to improve your results....
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 8:56pm CET
The Commitments of Traders Bible: How To Profit from Insider Market Intelligence (Wiley Trading)
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 279
Published: 2008-04-04
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0470178426
ISBN-13: 9780470178423
Regardless of your trading methods, and no matter what markets you’re involved in, there is a Commitments of Traders (COT) report that you should be reviewing every week. Nobody understands this better than Stephen Briese, an industry-leading expert on COT data. And now, with The Commitments of Traders Bible, Briese reveals how to use the predictive power of COT data—and accurately interpret it—in order to analyze market movements and achieve investment success....
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 8:03pm CET
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2007-09-17
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0195334760
ISBN-13: 9780195334760
How to Change the World provides vivid profiles of social entrepreneurs. The book is an In Search of Excellence for social initiatives, intertwining personal stories, anecdotes, and analysis. Readers will discover how one person can make an astonishing difference in the world. The case studies in the book include Jody Williams, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for the international campaign against landmines she ran by e-mail from her Vermont home; Roberto Baggio, a 31-year old Brazilian who has established eighty computer schools in the slums of Brazil; and Diana Propper, who has used inves...
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 6:44pm CET
Who Are We: The Challenges to America’s National Identity
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2005-11-29
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0684870541
ISBN-13: 9780684870540
In his seminal work The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel Huntington argued provocatively and presciently that with the end of the cold war, "civilizations" were replacing ideologies as the new fault lines in international politics.Now in his controversial new work, Who Are We?, Huntington focuses on an identity crisis closer to home as he examines the impact other civilizations and their values are having on our own country.America was founded by British settlers who brought with them a distinct culture, says Huntington, including the English language, Protestant ...
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 6:14pm CET
The Right Stock at the Right Time: Prospering in the Coming Good Years
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-05-02
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 047143051X
ISBN-13: 9780471430513
Praise for THE RIGHT STOCK AT THE RIGHT TIME "It is a fundamentally good time to consider the strategies in this book. Macro-market timing, stock-specific approaches, money management revelations, and intermarket analysis. Even better that it is written by someone who has actually done it himself." —Lindsay Glass Global Market Timing Specialist, Bloomberg LP "This book delivers a knock-out punch to investor pessimism, with an uppercut of bullishness and hard facts." —Ray Mercer Former World Heavyweight Champion "The stock market is a major stream of incom...
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 5:40pm CET
Inside Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2005: The Storage Engine (Solid Quality Learning)
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2006-11-08
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 0735621055
ISBN-13: 9780735621053
Understanding the internals of storage in SQL Server helps database developers and administrators to better create, maintain, and mine information from enterprise data. This practical, hands-on book focuses on the SQL Server 2005 Storage Engine and delves deep into the structures used for storing data, including files, tables, indexes, and data types. Topics also include security details, with coverage of the new SQL Server 2005 security model, and data protection through the backup and restore algorithms. With pragmatic advice, best practices, extensive code samples, and table examples, devel...
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 5:38pm CET
Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want
Publisher: Crown Business
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2006-08-08
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0307336697
ISBN-13: 9780307336699
Nothing is more important to business success than innovation . . . And here’s what you can do about it on Monday morning with the definitive how-to book from the world’s leading authority on innovationWhen it comes to innovation, Curt Carlson and Bill Wilmot of SRI International know what they are talking about—literally. SRI has pioneered innovations that day in and day out are part of the fabric of your life, such as:•The computer mouse and the personal computer interface you use at home and work•The high-definition television in your living room•The unus...
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 11:59pm CET
Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1999-03-11
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0471297224
ISBN-13: 9780471297222
"The public thinks speculation is a game of knowing the future, of knowing that which cannot be known. They are wrong. It is a game of developing strategies with winning advantages, of getting the odds on your side, and then working those odds. Here’s how I’ve done just that for the past 35 years.?Larry Williams. Short-term trading is how most traders and would-be traders play the markets. While it offers the greatest financial payoffs, it also presents the greatest challenge, requiring constant attention and vigilance, as well as a very strict plan. Written by Larry Williams,...
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 11:36pm CET
Everyday Technical English (English for Work)
Publisher: Longman
Number of Pages: 0
Published: 2003-02-20
List price: $18.35
ISBN-10: 0582539633
ISBN-13: 9780582539631
This practical series presents essential vocabulary and phrases in specialist areas. The language is introduced in a short dialogue or text which students can listen to on an audio CD. Key language points are analysed and practised....
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 10:55pm CET
Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-10-14
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0312367074
ISBN-13: 9780312367077
With a New AfterwordMust We Age?Nearly all scientists who study the biology of aging agree that we will someday be able to substantially slow down the aging process, extending our productive, youthful lives. Dr. Aubrey de Grey is perhaps the most bullish of all such researchers. As has been reported in media outlets ranging from 60 Minutes to The New York Times, Dr. de Grey believes that the key biomedical technology required to eliminate aging-derived debilitation and death entirely—technology that would not only slow but periodically reverse age-related physiological decay, leaving us ...
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 10:54pm CET
Max Weber: Selections in Translation
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1978-04-28
List price: $32.99
ISBN-10: 0521292689
ISBN-13: 9780521292689
In this volume, Mr Runciman has selected extracts, from Max Weber’s writings which reflect the full range of his major concerns: the nature of domination in human society, the role of ideas in history, the social determinants of religion, the origin and impact of industrial capitalism and the scope and limits of social science itself. He has also included some shorter extracts from Weber’s less familiar writings on such diverse topics as the stock exchange and the history of the piano.In this volume, Mr Runciman has selected extracts, from Max Weber’s writings which reflect t...
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 10:50pm CET
Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 1972-06-30
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0521097126
ISBN-13: 9780521097123
This is the only collection of Durkheim’s writings to draw upon the whole body of his work. Many of the texts in the book are here translated for the first time. Dr Giddens takes his selections from a wide variety of sources and includes a number of items from untranslated writings in the Revue Philosophique, Annee Sociologique and from L’evolution p’edagogue en France. Selections from previously translated writings have been checked against the originals and amended or re-translated where necessary. Dr Giddens arranges his selections thematically rather than chronologically....
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 10:49pm CET
Karl Marx: A Reader
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1986-08-29
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521338328
ISBN-13: 9780521338325
This volume contains a selection of Karl Marx’s most important writings, organized thematically under eight headings: methodology, alienation, economics, exploitation, historical materialism, classes, politics, and ideology. Jon Elster provides a brief introduction to each selection to explain its context and its place in Marx’s argument. The volume is designed as a companion to Elster’s An Introduction to Karl Marx and the thematic structure of each book is the same. But the Reader can also stand on its own and offers the student a substantial and revealingly organized selec...
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 10:45pm CET
Atkins’ Physical Chemistry
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Number of Pages: 1064
Published: 2006-01
List price: $0.00
ISBN-10: 0198700725
ISBN-13: 9780198700722
Atkins’ Physical Chemistry remains the benchmark of achievement for a chemistry degree throughout the world. The judicious choice of topics, the clear writing style of both authors, and the careful exposition of maths, reaffirm the book’s position as market leader. In the eighth edition the authors provide a more compact presentation through the careful restructuring and redistribution of material. The coverage of introductory topics has been streamlined, and later topics rationalized, bringing into sharper focus the scope of the text to mirror the needs of today’s students a...
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 10:37pm CET
International Economics: Theory and Policy plus MyEconLab plus eBook 1-semester Student Access Kit (7th Edition) (MyEconLab Series)
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Number of Pages: 680
Published: 2006-07-22
List price: $153.13
ISBN-10: 0321451341
ISBN-13: 9780321451347
This text comes packaged with an access kit for the new easy-to-use format of MyEconLab, which requires no set-up by the professor. With this, students can access practice problems for each chapter in the book, graphing questions, learning resources, and live tutoring. Professors who plan to use advanced course management online should order the book with MyEconLab in CourseCompass. View ’Alternate Versions’ of this book on the web catalog page, or contact your local representative for details. International Economics captures the vitality of modern international trade and finance....
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 10:35pm CET
The Federal Budget, Third Edition: Politics, Policy, Process
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Number of Pages: 345
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0815777353
ISBN-13: 9780815777359
The federal budget impacts American policies both at home and abroad, and recent concern over the exploding budgetary deficit has experts calling our nation’s policies "unsustainable" and "system-dooming." As the deficit continues to grow, will America be fully able to fund its priorities, such as an effective military and looking after its aging population? In this third edition of his classic book The Federal Budget, Allen Schick examines how surpluses projected during the final years of the Clinton presidency turned into oversized deficits under George W. Bush. In his detailed anal...
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 10:35pm CET
Political Philosophy: The Essential Texts
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2004-12-02
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0195177088
ISBN-13: 9780195177084
Ideal for survey courses in social and political philosophy, this volume is a substantially abridged and slightly altered version of Steven M. Cahn’s Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy (OUP, 2001). Offering coverage from antiquity to the present, Political Philosophy: The Essential Texts is a historically organized collection of the most significant works from nearly 2,500 years of political philosophy. It moves from classical thought (Plato, Aristotle) through the medieval period (Aquinas) to modern perspectives (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Adam Smith, Hamilton a...
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 7:17am CET
The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0471392642
ISBN-13: 9780471392644
Praise for THE WARREN BUFFETT PORTFOLIO THE EXTRAORDINARY FOLLOW-UP TO "THE MOST IMPORTANT STOCK BOOK OF THE 1990s."——KENNETH L. FISHER, Forbes "This is an outstanding investment book and an important one. In The Warren Buffett Way, Robert Hagstrom explained how Warren Buffett invests. In The Warren Buffett Portfolio, he explains how you can become a better investor. Studied carefully and taken to heart, the principles and methods covered in this book will profit the novice and professional alike. A rare achievement."——BILL MILLER, President, Legg Mason Fund Advi...
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 7:13am CET
The Superstock Investor: Profiting from Wall Street’s Best Undervalued Companies
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade
Number of Pages: 301
Published: 2001-03-05
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0071360832
ISBN-13: 9780071360838
Today’s active investors enjoy spotting, tracking, and paying bottom dollar on undiscovered gems. In The Superstock Investor, stock-picking icon Charles LaLoggia provides the tools and insights sharp investors need to uncover ready-to-perform stocks -- and walks the reader step-by-step through the process of identifying and selecting these stocks before they break out to become true Superstocks....
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 7:11am CET
The Sleuth Investor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-02-08
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0071481850
ISBN-13: 9780071481854
To make real money in the stock market you have to act like a sleuth. It’s not enough to rely on SEC files, annual reports, and press releases. To uncover the most lucrative investments, you must dig beneath the printed surface of public information and sleuth for physical evidence. This is the only way to reveal the actual truth about a company’s real value-and its future. Investing expert Avner Mandelman honed this highly effective, money-sleuthing approach at his investment firm, Giraffe Capital Corporation. Now, in The Sleuth Investor, he shares his proven intelligence-ga...
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 3:40am CET
On Metaphor
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Journals
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1979-09-15
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 0226733343
ISBN-13: 9780226733340
On Metaphor, a collection of fourteen essays by eminent philosophers, literary critics, theologians, art historians, and psychologists, illustrates and explores a striking phenomenon in modern intellectual history: the transformation of metaphor from a specialized concern of rhetoricians and literary critics to a central concept in the study of human understanding. These lively and provocative essays probe the nature, function, and meaning of metaphor and collectively demonstrate the multidisciplinary implications of the concept. Because of its comprehensive scope, the volume is useful both as...
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 3:37am CET
Metaphor: A Practical Introduction
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-01-24
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0195145119
ISBN-13: 9780195145113
This clear and lucid primer fills an important need by providing a comprehensive account of the many new developments in the study of metaphor over the last twenty years and their impact on our understanding of language, culture, and the mind. Beginning with Lakoff and Johnson’s seminal work in Metaphors We Live By, Kovecses outlines the development of "the cognitive linguistic theory of metaphor" by explaining key ideas on metaphor. He also explores primary metaphor, metaphor systems, the "invariance principle," mental-imagery experiments, the many-space blending theory, and the role of...
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 3:36am CET
Geometry (CliffsStudySolver)
Publisher: Cliffs Notes
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-06-25
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0764558250
ISBN-13: 9780764558252
The learn-by-doing way to master Geometry Why CliffsStudySolver? Guides? Go with the name you know and trust Get the information you need--fast! Written by teachers and educational specialists Inside you’ll get the practice you need to learn Geometry, including: Basic Geometric Concepts Points, lines, and planes Postulates and theorems Line segments, midpoints, and rays Angles and angle pairs Parallel lines Shapes and Measurement Measuring angle sums Triangles, polygons, and circles Determining perimeter and area Ratio and proportion Simi...
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 3:36am CET
MDA Explained: The Model Driven Architecture(TM): Practice and Promise (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-05-01
List price: $44.99
ISBN-10: 032119442X
ISBN-13: 9780321194428
"Jos Warmer’s work has contributed greatly to the semantics of the UML. From that perspective, and in this book, he offers insight on how one can and can’t use the UML to move to the next level of abstraction in building systems." -Grady Booch Experienced application developers often invest more time in building models than they do in actually writing code. Why? Well-constructed models make it easier to deliver large, complex enterprise systems on time and within budget. Now, a new framework advanced by the Object Management Group (OMG) allows developers to build systems according...
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 3:27am CET
Basic Math and Pre-Algebra (Cliffs Study Solver)
Publisher: Cliffs Notes
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2003-06-20
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0764537644
ISBN-13: 9780764537646
The learn-by-doing way to master Basic Math and Pre-Algebra Why CliffsStudySolver? Guides? Go with the name you know and trust Get the information you need-fast! Written by teachers and educational specialists Inside you’ll get the practice you need to learn basic math and pre-algebra, including: Working with Numbers Whole numbers Fractions Decimals Percents Integers and rationals Powers, exponents, and roots Notation and Measurement Scientific notation Measurements Graphs Probability and st...
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 3:19am CET
The Psychology of Achievement: Develop the Top Achiever’s Mindset
Publisher: Nightingale-Conant
Number of Pages: 0
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0743526589
ISBN-13: 9780743526586
Success can be yours with Brian Tracy’s The Psychology of AchievementDevelop the top achiever’s mindsetThe world’s foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs offers an inside look at the thinking that leads to great achievement. Drawing on the work of leading psychologists and behavioral researchers, Brian Tracy -- America’s "success mentor" -- demonstrates the attitude, deep self-knowledge and pin-pointed goals that are important factors in achieving great success. He’ll help you identify your own "area of excellence" and master the...
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Posted: December 30th, 2008, 3:17am CET
New World Coming: The 1920s And The Making Of Modern America
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2004-07-27
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0306813793
ISBN-13: 9780306813795
The images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination-from jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe Ruth, and Charles Lindbergh to the fight for women’s right to vote, racial injustice, and the birth of organized crime. Nathan Miller has penned the ultimate introduction to the era. Publishers Weekly calls it "an excellent chronicle of that turbulent, troubled, and tempestuous decade," and Jonathan Yardley’s Washington Post review proclaimed this the new classic history of the 1920s, replacing Frederick Lewis Allen’s celebrat...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 10:46pm CET
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The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 2006-04-18
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0374292795
ISBN-13: 9780374292799
The World Is Flat is Thomas L. Friedman’s account of the great changes taking place in our time, as lightning-swift advances in technology and communications put people all over the globe in touch as never before—creating an explosion of wealth in India and China, and challenging the rest of us to run even faster just to stay in place. This updated and expanded edition features more than a hundred pages of fresh reporting and commentary, drawn from Friedman’s travels around the world and across the American heartland—from anyplace where the flattening of the world is be...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 10:43pm CET
Chiron: Rainbow Bridge Between the Inner & Outer Planets (Llewellyn’s Modern Astrology Library)
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 087542094X
ISBN-13: 9780875420943
Discover the inner secrets of Chiron, the most recently discovered planet, and see how it is interpreted in astrological charts with Chiron by Barbara Hand Clow. Chiron is a peculiar planetoid that orbits the Sun from between Saturn and Uranus. Its discovery in 1977 was concurrent with the explosion of divination, alternative healing techniques, and a new hope for a spiritual regeneration. Chiron explores this planet’s mythological background and history as well as its effect on astrology. This comprehensive book includes: • The meaning of Chiron when it appears in each ho...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 10:37pm CET
Your Business Brickyard: Getting back to the basics to make your business more fun to run.
Publisher: Jackson Business Press
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2008-02-11
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0980154308
ISBN-13: 9780980154306
The basics. That is what you lost when you went from feeling like, I am going to make my mark, to It is too hard to keep up so let us just try to survive. It is time to admit you re not having fun anymore. Only then can you find your way back to the beginning when your business was all promise and no misery. Only then can you build (and keep building on) the basics that will never let you down. This small book contains the secret basics to unlock the true power and potential of your business. Strategist, speaker and consultant Howard Mann has collected twelve bricks essential to any business f...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 10:32pm CET
Digital Business Ecosystems
Publisher: European Commission
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-02-09
List price: $0.00
ISBN-10: 9279018175
ISBN-13: 9789279018176
It goes on to elaborate that….A natural life ecosystem is defined as a biological community of interacting organisms plus their physical environment. In the same way, a business ecosystem is "the network of buyers, suppliers and makers of related products or services” plus the socio-economic environment, including the institutional and regulatory framework.A digital ecosystem is a self-organising digital infrastructure aimed at creating a digital environment for networked organisations that supports the cooperation, the knowledge sharing, the development of open and adaptive technologies a...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 10:25pm CET
Marketing Out Of Control
Publisher: Marketing1by1, LLC
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 2007-09-05
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0615163165
ISBN-13: 9780615163161
The consumer has taken control of the marketing process. With over 2 billion searches per day and countless retail visits and telephone calls, customers are taking the initiative. They have access to more information than ever before and the ability to communicate instantly with friends, marketers and trusted sources. The combination of unlimited choice and the ability to find anything and everything quickly has shifted the power from manufacturers and retailers to their customers. Google, Yahoo, shopping comparison sites and peer reviews have all contributed to empowering consumers in the...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 10:24pm CET
Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2000-06-15
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0192853864
ISBN-13: 9780192853868
This accessible volume covers both the teachings of the Buddha and the integration of Buddhism into daily life. What are the distinctive features of Buddhism? What or who is the Buddha, and what are his teachings? How has Buddhist thought developed over the centuries, and how can contemporary dilemmas be faced from a Buddhist perspective? Words such as "karma" and "nirvana" have entered our vocabulary, but what do they really mean? Keown has taught Buddhism at an introductory level for many years, and in this book he provides a lively, challenging response to these frequently asked questions....
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 10:22pm CET
Access to Knowledge in Brazil: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development
Publisher: Information Society Project at Yale Law School
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2008-10-10
List price: $29.98
ISBN-10: 0615250386
ISBN-13: 9780615250380
This volume features four chapters on current issues facing intellectual property, innovation and development policy in Brazil. Each chapter is authored by legal scholars affiliated to the Fundacao Getulio Vargas law schools in Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro. The volume is edited by Lea Shaver of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Each chapter examines a policy area that significantly impacts access to knowledge in Brazil. These include: exceptions and limitations to copyright, free software and open business models, patent reform and access to medicines, and open innovation in ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 10:21pm CET
Chiron: Healing Body & Soul (Special Topics in Astrology)
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-10-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0738707171
ISBN-13: 9780738707174
Since Chiron’s discovery forty years ago, astrologers have posed countless theories on the irrefutable impact of the “dark horse” planet. Going a step further, Martin Lass presents a groundbreaking new interpretation of the Chiron paradigm, demonstrating the comet’s healing influence on present and past-life wounds. From its mythology, birth, and discovery to its astrological impact, Lass offers a comprehensive understanding of Chiron and its place in the New Age movement. Highlighting its essential role in the horoscope, the author details Chiron’s planetary c...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 10:17pm CET
Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons (Bk Currents)
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Number of Pages: 195
Published: 2006-11-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1576753611
ISBN-13: 9781576753613
From the cofounder of Working Assets comes a visionary plan to upgrade capitalism....
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 10:11pm CET
Digital Boudoir Photography: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Fabulous Images of Any Woman
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2006-05-30
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 1598632205
ISBN-13: 9781598632200
Boudoir photography does not require its subject to be a beautiful, physically flawless woman. It does not require the use of extravagantly expensive equipments, props, and studio space. In fact, the very essence of boudoir photography is the idea that its subject is not a professional model and is not even necessarily in the boudoir. No longer confined to the idea of heavy makeup, lingerie, and the bedroom, the new age of boudoir photography is casual, sensual, and sexy. That is the premise behind Digital Boudoir Photography. Firmly grasping the freedom that digital photography affords, this ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:42pm CET
The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities
Publisher: Basic Books
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2003-03
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0465087868
ISBN-13: 9780465087860
In its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as memory, learning, symbolic thought, and language acquisition --the functions in which the human mind most closely resembles a computer. But humans are more than computers, and the cutting-edge research in cognitive science is increasingly focused on the more mysterious, creative aspects of the mind. The Way We Think is a landmark synthesis that exemplifies this new direction. The theory of conceptual blending is already widely known in laboratories throughout the world; this book is its definitive statement...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:39pm CET
Territory: A Short Introduction (Short Introductions to Geography)
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2005-10-14
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 1405118318
ISBN-13: 9781405118316
This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine.A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term "territory". Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field. Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of territory; and the practical, social processes associated with territor...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:34pm CET
Using Technical Analysis: A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Applying Stock Market Charting Techniques, Revised Edition
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1994-03-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1557385270
ISBN-13: 9781557385277
In Using Technical Analysis author Clifford Pistolese shows average investors how they too can reap the benefits of technical analysis. Well-organized and easy-to-understand, this book explains a variety of approaches to analyzing and interpreting stock market charts. This edition includes chapters on moving averages and accumulation/distribution analysis. Topics include: Basic and complex chart patterns Analyzing trading volume Identifying long-term trends Market timing tactics Self-teaching exercises Glossary of terms...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:31pm CET
Modeling Risk: Applying Monte Carlo Simulation, Real Options Analysis, Forecasting, and Optimization Techniques (Wiley Finance)
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2006-05-19
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0471789003
ISBN-13: 9780471789000
This completely revised and updated edition of Applied Risk Analysis includes new case studies in modeling risk and uncertainty as well as a new risk analysis CD-ROM prepared by Dr. Mun. On the CD-ROM you’ll find his Risk Simulator and Real Options Super Lattice Solver software as well as many useful spreadsheet models. "Johnathan Mun’s book is a sparkling jewel in my finance library. Mun demonstrates a deep understanding of the underlying mathematical theory in his ability to reduce complex concepts to lucid explanations and applications. For this reason, he’s my favo...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:27pm CET
Christianity: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0192803220
ISBN-13: 9780192803221
At a time when Christianity is flourishing in the Southern Hempisphere but declining in much of the West, Linda Woodhead offers a bold new overview of the world’s largest religion. In a fascinating and engaging fashion, she explores the cultural and institutional dimensions of Christianity, and traces its course over two millennia. Christianity addresses topics that other books neglect, for example the competition for power between different forms of Christianity, the churches’ uses of power, and their struggles with modernity. Also considered is the recent charismatic explosion ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:25pm CET
Strategic Investment: Real Options and Games
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2004-07-06
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0691010390
ISBN-13: 9780691010397
Corporate finance and corporate strategy have long been seen as different sides of the same coin. Though both focus on the same broad problem, investment decision-making, the gap between the two sides--and between theory and practice--remains embarrassingly large. This book synthesizes cutting-edge developments in corporate finance and related fields--in particular, real options and game theory--to help bridge this gap. In clear, straightforward exposition and through numerous examples and applications from various industries, Han Smit and Lenos Trigeorgis set forth an extended valuation frame...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:21pm CET
English Law 2/e
Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
Number of Pages: 1009
Published: 2006-04-07
List price: $65.95
ISBN-10: 1859418988
ISBN-13: 9781859418987
Substantially updated, this new edition includes the changes made to the English legal system and to substantive parts of English law. Colourfully illustrated with case examples and supported by a free companion website, giving all readers access to regular legal updates on the areas covered in the book, it offers a clear, reliable and excellent encyclopaedic exposition of English law. Presented in an easy-to-read style, it provides readers with an accurate explanation of how the English legal system currently works and the content of English law in all it’s key areas of operation. With ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:21pm CET
An Introduction to Relativistic Quantum Field Theory
Publisher: Dover Publications
Number of Pages: 928
Published: 2005-06-17
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 0486442284
ISBN-13: 9780486442280
In a relatively simple presentation that remains close to familiar concepts, this text for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students introduces modern developments of quantum field theory. "Combines thorough knowledge with a high degree of didactic ability and a delightful style." — Mathematical Reviews. 1961 edition....
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:19pm CET
Charting Made Easy
Publisher: Marketplace Books
Number of Pages: 75
Published: 2000-06-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1883272599
ISBN-13: 9781883272593
John Murphy presents a treasure trove of easy-to-use tools for mapping your course through today’market. Whether you’re using online charts or a professional charting software program, these techniques from master technician John Murphy can increase your trading success. He presents basic principles of technical analysis in easy-to-understand terms. In addition, he covers: All types of chart analysis, "need-to-know" concepts, including trendlines, moving averages, price gaps, reversal patterns, volume & open interest spreads, and more!...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 9:18pm CET
Crime and Punishment: Level 6 (Penguin Longman Penguin Readers)
Publisher: Penguin
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2006-03-16
List price: $0.00
ISBN-10: 1405833483
ISBN-13: 9781405833486
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 8:28pm CET
Essential Management Accounting: How to Maximise Profit and Boost Financial Performance. Belinda Steffan (Sunday Times)
Publisher: Kogan Page
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2008-07
List price: $19.38
ISBN-10: 0749450673
ISBN-13: 9780749450670
"Essential Management Accounting" demystifies management accounting techniques and helps you to apply these techniques across all areas of your business. Unlike other books in this area, "Essential Management Accounting" is not only a crucial primer on basic accountancy but also an important exploration of how management accounting techniques can be built into other management areas to maximize business performance. Backed up with empirical data and real-world case studies drawn from the author’s twelve years of experience in the field, "Essential Management Accounting" will enable you t...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 8:19pm CET
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920’s (Wiley Investment Classics)
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1997-09-08
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0471189529
ISBN-13: 9780471189527
Only Yesterday Hailed as a classic even when it was first published in 1931, Only Yesterday remains one of the most vivid and precise accounts of the volatile stock market and the heady boom years of the 1920’s. A vibrant social history that is unparalleled in scope and accuracy, it artfully depicts the rise of post - World War I prosperity, the catalytic incidents that led to the Crash of 1929, and the devastating economic decline that ensued?all set before a colorful backdrop of flappers, Al Capone, the first radio, and the "scandalous" rise of skirt hemlines. Now, this mesmeriz...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 8:12pm CET
Strategic Supply Chain Management
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0071432175
ISBN-13: 9780071432177
Agile, strategic supply chain management is a key competitive necessity in today’s no-room-for-error business arena. And few organizations have acquired more knowledge--and demonstrated better results--than the team at global management consultancy Pittiglio, Rabin, Todd, and McGrath (PRTM). In the breakthrough reference Strategic Supply Chain Management, two of PRTM’s leading consultants in this practice explain everything that corporate decision-makers need to know to create value and competitive advantage from their supply chains....
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 8:09pm CET
Backfire: Carly Fiorina’s High-Stakes Battle for the Soul of Hewlett-Packard
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-02-15
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0471267651
ISBN-13: 9780471267652
An insider’s look at the internal turmoil at one of the world’s premier high-tech companies This is the inside story of Hewlett-Packard Company’s struggle to regain its former glory, and of the high-stakes battle between CEO Carly Fiorina and family scion Walter Hewlett over how best to achieve that goal. For decades, HP was admired not only for its innovative products and soaring stock price, but for its egalitarian corporate culture and father-knows-best integrity. Backfire explains how the company fell on hard times, recounts the historic decision that made Fiorina the ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 8:05pm CET
Internet Riches: The Simple Money-making Secrets of Online Millionaires
Publisher: AMACOM
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-06-20
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0814473563
ISBN-13: 9780814473566
Now anyone can be an online millionaire! These days it’s easier, cheaper, and safer than ever to start an Internet business using readily available technology and turnkey opportunities. In this strategy-packed guide, Scott Fox reveals the powerful but simple methods he and thousands of others have used to strike it rich on the Net. Exclusive interviews with "mom and pop" entrepreneurs prove how easy it is to get started and build a million-dollar enterprise. Readers get: * a guide to e-business opportunities, including "instant e-businesses" that require no start-up capital * strate...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 7:59pm CET
Sourcing Strategy: Principles, Policy and Designs
Publisher: Springer
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-04-07
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 0387251820
ISBN-13: 9780387251820
Sourcing Strategy is about sourcing as a long term strategic activity. Myopic purchasing management stops short with describing functional procedures and procedural innovations such as online order processing. The goal of this book is not merely to document sourcing strategy, but to provide the tools to determine it. Therefore, rather than merely describe common sourcing processes, the book takes a normative approach to sourcing strategy. It argues for a rational, complete and integrated process view. It supports its recommendations with logical arguments from an interdisciplinary and analyti...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 7:57pm CET
The Incredible Payback: Innovative Sourcing Solutions That Deliver Extraordinary Results (Korean Edition)
Publisher: AMACOM
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-11-19
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0814472079
ISBN-13: 9780814472071
The authors of the widely acclaimed The Purchasing Machine deliver an eye-opening look at the power of supply management with The Incredible Payback.This timely book presents amazing success stories from best-of-the-best procurement organizations like Honda, Delphi, John Deere, and others.Using the same cost-management strategies implemented at these leading organizations, The Incredible Payback shows how any company can reap benefits including:* saving up to 30 percent on material and service expenses* leveraging technology to accelerate savings* high-yield supplier development programs* exte...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 7:55pm CET
Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure (Cognitive Theory of Language and Culture Series)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Number of Pages: 271
Published: 1995-03-15
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0226300862
ISBN-13: 9780226300863
Drawing on work in linguistics, language acquisition, and computer science, Adele E. Goldberg proposes that grammatical constructions play a central role in the relation between the form and meaning of simple sentences. She demonstrates that the syntactic patterns associated with simple sentences are imbued with meaning--that the constructions themselves carry meaning independently of the words in a sentence. Goldberg provides a comprehensive account of the relation between verbs and constructions, offering ways to relate verb and constructional meaning, and to capture relations among cons...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:54pm CET
Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Third Edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2007-12-30
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226072835
ISBN-13: 9780226072838
In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, deconstructionism, African-American history, women’s history, microhistory, the Historikerstreit, cultural history, and more. The definitive look at the writing of history by a historian, Historiography provides key in...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:52pm CET
Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2007-10-08
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0393330729
ISBN-13: 9780393330724
"Contains unsettling insights into some of the most dangerous geopolitical crises of the time."—The EconomistThis acclaimed study from the authors of "One Hell of a Gamble" brings to life head-to-head confrontations between the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. Drawing on their unrivaled access to Politburo and KGB materials, Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali combine new insights into the Cuban missile crisis as well as startling narratives of the contests for Suez, Iraq, Berlin, and Southeast Asia, with vivid portraits of leaders who challenged ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:49pm CET
Microstructure of Steels and Cast Irons (Engineering Materials and Processes)
Publisher: Springer
Number of Pages: 404
Published: 2004-04-15
List price: $219.00
ISBN-10: 3540209638
ISBN-13: 9783540209638
The book comprises three parts. Part 1 gives a historical description of the development of ironworking techniques since the earliest times. Part 2 is the core of the book and deals with the metallurgical basis of microstructures, with four main themes: phase diagrams, solidification processes, diffusion, and solid state phase transformations. Part 3 begins by an introduction to steel design principles. It then goes on to consider the different categories of steels, placing emphasis on their specific microstructural features. Finally, a comprehensive reference list includes several hundred pe...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:44pm CET
Chinese Cuisine: Taiwanese Style
Publisher: Wei-Chuan Publishing
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 1991-08
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0941676250
ISBN-13: 9780941676250
Bilingual: English and Chinese....
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:37pm CET
Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right (Critical Issue Book)
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1996-01-31
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0809015846
ISBN-13: 9780809015849
The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. Stephanson explores the origins of Manifest Destiny--the American idea of providential and historical chosenness--and shows how and why it has been invoked over the past three hundred years. He traces the roots of Manifest Destiny from the British settlement of North America and the rise of Puritanism through Woodrow Wilson’s efforts to "make the world safe for democracy" and Ronald Reagan’s struggle against the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union. The re...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:33pm CET
The Feast of the Goat: A Novel
Publisher: Picador
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2002-11-09
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0312420277
ISBN-13: 9780312420277
Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, 49-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republicand finds herself reliving the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillos gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life. But Trujillos grasp is slipping. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution a...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:31pm CET
Windows Vista All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
Publisher: For Dummies
Number of Pages: 792
Published: 2006-12-15
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0471749419
ISBN-13: 9780471749417
With Vista, Windows has had an extreme makeover. Many of the features that were old friends in Windows XP now look and act differently. And if you’re thinking of upgrading to Vista but haven’t done it yet, wow — there are eight different versions! How do you know which one to choose? That’s easy — look in Book One of Windows Vista All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies. Windows expert Woody Leonhard starts off this everything-you-want-to-know-about -Vista guide by helping you choose the version that fits your needs. He follows that with minibooks Two through...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:28pm CET
Stock Trader’s Almanac 2008 (Almanac Investor Series)
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-10-05
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0470109858
ISBN-13: 9780470109854
The Stock Trader’s Almanac is a practical investment tool that has helped traders and investors forecast market trends with accuracy and confidence for over 40 years. Organized in an easy-to-access calendar format, the 2008 Edition contains historical price information on the stock market, provides monthly and daily reminders, and alerts users to seasonal opportunities and dangers. For its wealth of information and authority of its sources, the Stock Trader’s Almanac stands alone as the guide to intelligent investing. "Jeff Hirsch is following in the great tradition of his f...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:27pm CET
Incentives: Motivation and the Economics of Information
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages: 604
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0521539749
ISBN-13: 9780521539746
This book examines the incentives at work in a wide range of institutions to see how and how well coordination is achieved by informing and motivating individual decision makers. The book examines the performance of agents hired to carry out specific tasks, from taxi drivers to CEOs. It investigates the performance of institutions, from voting schemes to kidney transplants, to see if they enhance general well being. The book examines a broad range of market transactions, from auctions to labor markets, to the entire economy. The analysis is conducted using specific worked examples, lucid gener...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:25pm CET
Modern Dog: 20 Years of Poster Art
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2008-03-05
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0811861686
ISBN-13: 9780811861687
Seattle-based design studio Modern Dog’s heady mix of cheeky humor and punk rock aesthetics makes them unique among design firms and a hell of a lot of fun. Gathered here for the first time is their groundbreaking work in poster design over the past two decades. Posters for theater, events, music, social issues, and self-promotion run the gamut of approaches and attitudes, but always reflects founders Mike Strassbuger and Robynne Raye’s distinctive eye. What’s more and unusual in a design monograph their text is laugh-out-loud funny on nearly every page. Interviews with Mike ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:11pm CET
Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-08-05
List price: $64.20
ISBN-10: 0131534483
ISBN-13: 9780131534483
Presents the eleven basic schools of twentieth-century literary theory and criticism in their historical and philosophical contexts. Unlike other introductions to literary criticism, this text explores the philosophical assumptions of each school of criticism, provides a clear methodology for writing essays according to each school’s beliefs and tenets, and features accessible student-generated sample essays....
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:08pm CET
The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 (Cornell Paperbacks)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Number of Pages: 457
Published: 1998-10
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0801485959
ISBN-13: 9780801485954
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 6:05pm CET
Windows Vista For Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-12-13
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0471754218
ISBN-13: 9780471754213
Create music CDs and photo DVDs or even watch TV Move your files to a new computer, or get your old PC ready for Vista The thing that’s made Windows For Dummies so successful is that it’s packed with the basics you need to make Windows work. This book gets you through all the Windows Vista tasks and tripwires, including starting programs, finding files, navigating the new see-through interface, staying safe while you cruise the Internet, and much more. Discover how to Find files when they’re hiding Hook up with another computer Make V...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 5:58pm CET
Hand Job: A Catalog of Type
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1568986262
ISBN-13: 9781568986265
In this digital age of computer-generated graphics and typography, it’s refreshing to find typographers who still believe in working by hand. No longer relegated to designer’s sketchbooks, hand-drawn type has emerged from the underground as a dynamic vehicle for visual communication—from magazine, book, and album covers to movie credits and football advertisements. As the practice and appreciation of hand-drawn type grows, it’s time to celebrate the work of those typographers whose every letterform is a work of art. Hand Job collects groundbreaking work from fifty a...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 5:47pm CET
Teach Yourself VISUALLY Windows Vista (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech))
Publisher: Visual
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-11-29
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0470045736
ISBN-13: 9780470045732
This book puts visual learners at ease by showing them how to maximize the new Windows features and interface Concise explanations walk readers through more than 150 Windows Vista tasks, covering everything from customizing their desktop to maintaining Windows Vista and networking with another computer or printer Explores the new interface and folder organization system of Vista, both of which enable users to find documents and files more easily than ever Covers the latest release of MovieMaker, Media Player, Internet Explorer, and the new Media Center feature added to Vis...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 5:46pm CET
The Next Big Investment Boom: Learn the Secrets of Investing from a Master and How to Profit from Commodities
Publisher: Kogan Page
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-07-28
List price: $18.50
ISBN-10: 0749451041
ISBN-13: 9780749451042
Mark Shipman, who has made a fortune since leaving school at the age of 16, is now an investment advisor to a range of prestigious UK clients. Shipman argues that successful investing is not an intellectual challenge but an emotional one. Starting with the how and why of taking responsibility for your money, he describes specific investment strategies he has used with great success. In the second half of the book, he describes commodity markets in detail, an area he himself predicts as a major investment opportunity that could last well over a decade. Both those new to investing and those l...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 5:45pm CET
Singaporean, Malaysian & Indonesian Cuisine
Publisher: Wei-Chuan Publishing
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2002-09
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 094167682X
ISBN-13: 9780941676823
Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia are located in Southeast Asia. Because of the rich mix of cultures, ethnic groups, and religions, the cuisine of those three countries are greatly influenced by each other as well as such neighboring cultures as China and India. these distinctly diverse blends of culinary characteristics from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia represent the cultural interchange of the region V a true crossroads of Asia. The dishes of SINGAPORE combine spices and cuisine from all over Asia. Hainan Chicken and Rice (Nasi Ayam), Noodles in Spicy Coconut Milk Soup (Laksa Lemak), ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 5:43pm CET
Handwriting Analysis
Publisher: Newcastle Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1980-10
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 087877050X
ISBN-13: 9780878770502
Here is a fresh new approach to Handwriting Analysis to help you develop a view of the whole person, not just a piecemeal understanding. It offers exciting features not found in conventional books on Graphology: ( An unusually large number of actual size handwriting samples, many of famous people. ( Explanatory material with the samples not in another part of the book. ( New material about determining emotional disturbance and mental illness. ( New ideas on analyzing strokes and shapes. ( New material on understanding the meaning of the writing rhythm. ( Handwriting of children and adolescent...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 5:27pm CET
Cognitive Grammar: A Basic Introduction
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 2008-02-04
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0195331966
ISBN-13: 9780195331967
This book fills a long standing need for a basic introduction to Cognitive Grammar that is current, authoritative, comprehensive, and approachable. It presents a synthesis that draws together and refines the descriptive and theoretical notions developed in this framework over the course of three decades. In a unified manner, it accommodates both the conceptual and the social-interactive basis of linguistic structure, as well as the need for both functional explanation and explicit structural description. Starting with the fundamentals, essential aspects of the theory are systematically laid ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 5:27pm CET
Cognitive Linguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 2004-02-23
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0521667704
ISBN-13: 9780521667708
Clearly organized and written, this textbook provides a useful introduction to the relationship between language and cognitive processing in the human brain. It covers the topics likely to be encountered in a course or seminar, and provides a synthesis of study and research in a fast-growing field of linguistics. The much-needed introduction will be welcomed by undergraduates and graduates in linguistics and cognitive science.Clearly organized and written, this textbook provides a useful introduction to the relationship between language and cognitive processing in the human brain. It covers th...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 4:08pm CET
Excel as Your Database
Publisher: Apress
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2007-01-29
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 1590597516
ISBN-13: 9781590597514
Excel As Your Database guides those of you who need to manage facts and figuresyet have little experience, budget, or need for a full-scale relational database management system. Youll learn how to use Excel to enter, store, and analyze your data. This book is written and organized in a way that assumes you have some familiarity with Excel, but not with databases. The book features quick-start solutions, practice exercises, troubleshooting tips, and best practices. This book covers Excel 2007 and 2003. The author clarifies not just how to use a technique, but under what realistic scen...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:42pm CET
Belinda
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2001-04-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0425176657
ISBN-13: 9780425176658
"Who was she?" That was the first thought that came into my mind when I saw her in the bookstore.Who was she really?She’s Belinda. She’s sixteen years old. She’s the object of one man’s ultimate fantasy. And she’s one of the most "uniquely sensual and provocative" heroines to emerge from the "fearless" imagination of New York Times bestselling author Anne Rice."Call her the It Girl of contemporary fiction. Whatever the venue, she’s never too squeamish to reach out and touch it."-Rolling Stone"Her voluptuous prose draws readers into an erotic landsca...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:42pm CET
Exit to Eden
Publisher: Avon Red
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0061233498
ISBN-13: 9780061233494
They call her the Perfectionist. A stunning, mysterious, and fearless sexual adventurer, Lisa is founder and supreme mistress of The Club—an exclusive island resort where forbidden fantasy meets willing flesh. Here eager participants who can afford life’s most exquisite luxuries can experience the breathtaking pleasures of surrender and submission. Here nothing is taboo. A thrill-seeking photojournalist, Elliott risks his life daily in the most dangerous, war-torn regions on Earth. Now he has come to Paradise to explore his darkest sexual self, committed to the ultimate plunge i...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:37pm CET
Beauty’s Punishment (Sleeping Beauty)
Publisher: Plume
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0452281431
ISBN-13: 9780452281431
An erotic novel of discipline, love, and surrender for the enjoyment of men and women. This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of Anne Rice’s elegantly written volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Now Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away from the Satyricon-like world of the Castle. Sold at auction, she will soon experience the tantalizing punishments of "the village," as her education in love, cruelty, dominance, submission, and t...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:32pm CET
Language, Mind, and Culture: A Practical Introduction
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-10-12
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0195187202
ISBN-13: 9780195187205
How do we make sense of our experience? In order to understand how we construct meaning, the varied and complex relationships among language, mind, and culture need to be understood. While cognitive linguists typically study the cognitive aspects of language, and linguistic anthropologists typically study language and culture, Language, Mind, and Culture is the first book to combine all three and provide an account of meaning-making in language and culture by examining the many cognitive operations in this process. In addition to providing a comprehensive theory of how we can account for mean...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:28pm CET
Modern Operating Systems (2nd Edition) (GOAL Series)
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Number of Pages: 976
Published: 2001-03-03
List price: $118.00
ISBN-10: 0130313580
ISBN-13: 9780130313584
(Pearson Education) A reference offering practical and example-based information on constructing and understanding modern operating systems. Includes chapters on computer security, multimedia operating systems, multiple processor systems, single processor computer systems, and a score of other topics. Also features a companion Web site. DLC: Operating systems....
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:25pm CET
Improving Your Study Skills
Publisher: Cliffs Notes
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2005-06-17
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0764578030
ISBN-13: 9780764578038
Study Smart. Study Less. Sports, extracurricular activities, your job, hangin’ with friends—you have a life! You simply don’t have time to spend hours studying every day! Improving Your Study Skills helps you really get cracking when you do crack the books. It helps you cram a lot of learning into a little time with tips on: Using technology to study and work more efficiently Organizing your time and space Note-taking and organization Strengthening your reading skills Choosing classes strategically Getting the typical "10% of your gr...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:22pm CET
Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation
Publisher: Sybex
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2007-04-02
List price: $59.99
ISBN-10: 0470097620
ISBN-13: 9780470097625
This comprehensive guide provides you with the training you need to arm yourself against phishing, bank fraud, unlawful hacking, and other computer crimes. Two seasoned law enforcement professionals discuss everything from recognizing high-tech criminal activity and collecting evidence to presenting it in a way that judges and juries can understand. They cover the range of skills, standards, and step-by-step procedures you’ll need to conduct a criminal investigation in a Windows environment and make your evidence stand up in court....
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:19pm CET
Language, Culture, and Mind (Stanfords monographs in linguistics)
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Number of Pages: 622
Published: 2004-10-15
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 1575864649
ISBN-13: 9781575864648
Language, Culture, and Mind is a stimulating collection exploring the ways that cognitive, social, and cultural categories are revealed through language. Contributors use methods such as psycholinguistic experiments and observations of natural discourse to probe how such categories are organized, with grammatical and semantic analyses—in modern cognitive frameworks—augmenting these approaches. Some of the phenomena studied include the linguistic expression of space and causality; aspect, classifiers, negation, and complement constructions; and metaphor, metonymy, and conceptual ble...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 3:16pm CET
Snort Intrusion Detection and Prevention Toolkit (Jay Beale’s Open Source Security)
Publisher: Syngress Publishing
Number of Pages: 750
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1597490997
ISBN-13: 9781597490993
This fully integrated book, CD, and Web toolkit covers everything from packet inspection to optimizing Snort for speed to using the most advanced features of Snort to defend even the largest and most congested enterprise networks. Leading Snort experts Brian Caswell, Andrew Baker, and Jay Beale analyze traffic from real attacks to demonstrate the best practices for implementing the most powerful Snort features. The accompanying CD contains examples from real attacks allowing readers test their new skills. The book begins with a discussion of packet inspection and the progression from intru...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 2:26pm CET
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (Oxford Handbooks)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number of Pages: 1364
Published: 2007-11-16
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0195143787
ISBN-13: 9780195143782
In the past decade, Cognitive Linguistics has developed into one of the most dynamic and attractive frameworks within theoretical and descriptive linguistics The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is a major new reference that presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. The first twenty chapters give readers the opportunity to acquire a thorough knowledge of the fundamental analytic concepts and descriptive models of Cognitive Linguistics...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 2:22pm CET
Hidden Agendas (Tempting SEALs)
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-06-26
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0312939930
ISBN-13: 9780312939939
SAVING LIVES IS HIS MISSION.Tough-as-nails Navy SEAL Kell Kreiger is the best there is at searching, rescuing, and taking no prisoners…yet even the rush of ever-more dangerous missions isn’t enough to satisfy him. Haunted by a tortured past, Kell seeks distraction in a secret world of dark intimacies. But when Emily Stanton, the one ray of light in Kell’s shadowy existence, is pursued by a ruthless drug lord, the rules of the game suddenly change—and Kell will have to go deeper undercover than he ever imagined... SAVING HER IS HIS PASSION.Emily has loved Kell ever since...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 2:19pm CET
Power, State and Society: An Introduction to Political Sociology
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2004-11-29
List price: $0.00
ISBN-10: 0072853808
ISBN-13: 9780072853803
This comprehensive theoretically-grounded text provides advanced undergraduates with a highly accessible introduction to political sociology. Students are introduced to major theories of political sociology early in the book, and see them applied to various topic areas in subsequent chapters. Numerous specific examples, from current issues in the United States as well as various historical and comparative settings, illustrate the major political sociological theories. In addition to covering the traditional core of political sociology, the text consciously links major ideas in political soc...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 2:18pm CET
When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People
Publisher: Career Press
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-04
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1564147223
ISBN-13: 9781564147226
Are you worried that how you speak or write is holding you back at work? Do you fear you’re making frequent conversational errors, but just aren’t sure what’s correct? Ever stumble when choosing between "who" and "whom," "affect" and "effect," "lay" and "lie"? If so, then When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People should be at the top of your reading list. This comprehensive, easy-to-use reference is a program designed to help you identify and correct the most common errors in written and spoken English. After a short and simple review of some basic principles, this book is or...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 2:17pm CET
Introduction to Airborne Radar, Second Edition (Aerospace & Radar Systems)
Publisher: SciTech Publishing
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 1891121014
ISBN-13: 9781891121012
The completely rewritten and revised Second Edition updates a famous work originally published by the Hughes Aircraft Company. Much more than a simple introduction, the book is actually a history, reference, tech manual, and textbook rolled into one beautiful illustrated volume, packed with full color photos, drawings, tables and charts, plus knowledgeable, informative text. Twelve new chapters cover all the sophisticated stealth radar techniques. Over 90% of the illustrations are in color as the book describes over a dozen airborne radar systems currently in service, from long-range survei...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 2:15pm CET
The Answer: Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom, and Live an Extraordinary Life
Publisher: Atria
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-05-20
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1416561994
ISBN-13: 9781416561996
A key team member behind The Secret and his business partner offer the specific tools and mental strategies to help readers leap ahead in any career or business venture and achieve major financial success. In this visionary work, New York Times bestselling author John Assaraf and business guru Murray Smith reinvent the business book for the twenty-first century. Two of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world, they combine forces to bring their special insights and techniques together in a revolutionary guide for success in the modern business environment. Assaraf and Smith know how to m...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 2:11pm CET
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Publisher: North Point Press
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-04-22
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0865475873
ISBN-13: 9780865475878
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world, ...
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 2:09pm CET
Double Standard: Social Policy in Europe and the United States
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2006-10-28
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0742546934
ISBN-13: 9780742546936
Double Standard presents a historical and comparative examination of comprehensive Western European versus minimalist American welfare states. In this book, Russell analyzes how and why social policy and welfare states evolved differently in the two areas. He explores a series of common social problems-from poverty to family support to ethnic and racial conflict-to show how they are handled differently with different consequences. He argues that the European and American social models are in contention for the future of western societies....
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 2:09pm CET
Power: A Critical Reader
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2004-10-03
List price: $63.60
ISBN-10: 013183438X
ISBN-13: 9780131834385
For courses in political sociology. Successfully bringing together accessible readings that cover the broad range of issues of importance to political sociologists. Readings address both classic issues in political sociology, as well as more recent developments such as globalization. The reader offers a coherent analysis of power that reflects the contributions of a variety of critical perspectives including Marxism, feminism, critical race theory, postmodernism and power structure theory....
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Posted: December 29th, 2008, 2:01pm CET
Psychology
Publisher: Worth Publishers
Number of Pages: 768
Published: 2006-04-14
List price: $0.00
ISBN-10: 0716706172
ISBN-13: 9780716706175
Peter Gray’s Psychology has become a favorite of instructors with its exploration of psychology’s major theories, and the evidence that supports and refutes these theories. Each edition incorporates an exceptional amount of contemporary research, encouraging students to probe for the purposes and biological origins of behavior—the "whys" and "hows" of human psychology. Peter Gray’s engaging, readable writing style makes the science of psychology, and its interactions with biology, accessible and meaningful. With the new edition, Gray has taken care to ensure that his...
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 9:27pm CET
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number of Pages: 600
Published: 1994-01-10
List price: $79.99
ISBN-10: 0201633469
ISBN-13: 9780201633467
Finally, programmers that need to truly understand the TCP/IP protocol suite have a resource to turn to, TCP/IP Illustrated. Instead of merely describing the RFC’s, bestselling author Rich Stevens takes an innovative "visual" approach which, combined with his writing style, results in an accessible "understandable" guide to TCP/IP....
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 9:24pm CET
Barron’s TOEFL iBT Internet-Based Test, 12th Edition
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series
Number of Pages: 832
Published: 2006-07-01
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0764179055
ISBN-13: 9780764179051
The TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) is now being offered as an internet-based test, or iBT, and the new edition of Barron s TOEFL manual and accompanying software have been completely revised and updated to reflect the new format. The manual presents seven full-length model TOEFL iBT tests with explanations or examples for all questions, including sample essays and speaking responses. The author also offers general orientation to the new TOEFL iBT, as well as a review of academic skills, which include note taking, paraphrasing, summarizing, and synthesizing. There is also a revie...
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 9:17pm CET
The Executive’s Guide to Information Technology
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2007-03-23
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0470095210
ISBN-13: 9780470095218
Praise for the The Executive’s Guide to Information Technology "This book is important reading. It offers practical, real-world insight and pragmatic no-nonsense approaches for people who have a stake in corporate IT. " --Lynda Applegate, Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School "Information systems and processes are very important parts of our due diligence assessment of a company--yet the jargon is often more difficult to understand than many foreign languages. Baschab and Piot effectively translate IT into words and concepts that bu...
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 9:08pm CET
Elements of Financial Risk Management
Publisher: Academic Press
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2003-07-22
List price: $93.95
ISBN-10: 0121742326
ISBN-13: 9780121742324
Value-at-Risk has emerged as the standard tool for measuring and reporting financial market risk. Currently, more than eighty commercial vendors offer enterprise or trading risk management systems that provide VAR-like measures. Risk managers are therefore often left with the daunting task of having to choose from this plethora of risk measures. While basic VAR textbooks describe average VAR situations, the vast majority of these situations are abnormal. Elements of Financial Risk Management focuses on implementation, especially recent techniques which facilitate "bridging the gap" between ...
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 9:06pm CET
IT Services: Costs, Metrics, Benchmarking and Marketing (Harris Kern’s Enterprise Computing Institute Series)
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2000-03-20
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 0130191957
ISBN-13: 9780130191953
This is the first 100% customer-focused guide to satisfying the consumers of your company’s IT services -- and building the loyalty your IT organization desperately needs. IT Services presents every element of a comprehensive approach to service delivery in global, distributed environments. Learn how to establish a vision, processes, service and cost models, performance measurements and "stretch" goals that achieve real business benefits. Applicable to both in-house and outsourced operations, IT Services serves as a roadmap for executives building enterprise-wide operations centers; a pr...
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 9:03pm CET
Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Publisher: Thieme Medical Publishers
Number of Pages: 910
Published: 2002-05-15
List price: $189.95
ISBN-10: 086577918X
ISBN-13: 9780865779181
Thieme proudly announces the eagerly anticipated second edition of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Highlighted by more than 1,800 crystal-clear illustrations and nearly 1,300 pages of text, this encyclopedic book has long been considered the definitive reference in facial plastics and aesthetic facial surgery. It is ideal for residents and fellows studying for in-service examinations, boards, and fellowship programs-and a valued clinical reference for professionals. The only book today to offer a comprehensive, single-volume overview of the field, Facial Plastic and Reconstruc...
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 9:03pm CET
2007 Microsoft Office System Inside Out
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Number of Pages: 1312
Published: 2007-04-18
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 0735623244
ISBN-13: 9780735623248
Learn everything you need to know for working with the 2007 Microsoft Office system--from the inside out! This book packs hundreds of time-saving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds for using the 2007 release of Microsoft Office--all in concise, fast-answer format. Whether you are upgrading from Office 97 or Office 2003, you’ll be able to dig in to the work-ready resources that help you take your Microsoft Office experience to the next level. This comprehensive guide to the 2007 Microsoft Office suites helps you navigate new features and capabilities in the O...
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 9:01pm CET
The Circuit Designer’s Companion, Second Edition (EDN Series for Design Engineers)
Publisher: Newnes
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2005-01-04
List price: $63.95
ISBN-10: 0750663707
ISBN-13: 9780750663700
Tim Williams’ Circuit Designer’s Companion provides a unique masterclass in practical electronic design that draws on his considerable experience as a consultant and design engineer. As well as introducing key areas of design with insider’s knowledge, Tim focuses on the art of designing circuits so that every production model will perform its specified function - and no other unwanted function - reliably over its lifetime. The combination of design alchemy and awareness of commercial and manufacturing factors makes this an essential companion for the professional electronics ...
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 8:58pm CET
High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Concepts, Design, Implementation
Publisher: Springer
Number of Pages: 410
Published: 2006-07-11
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 3540244603
ISBN-13: 9783540244608
Companies and other organizations depend more than ever on the availability of their Information Technology, and most mission critical business processes are IT-based processes. Business continuity is the ability to do business under any circumstances and is an essential requirement modern companies are facing. High availability and disaster recovery are contributions of the IT to fulfill this requirement. And companies will be confronted with such demands to an even greater extent in the future, since their credit ratings will be lower without such precautions. Both, high availability and ...
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 8:56pm CET
iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual
Publisher: Pogue Press
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2006-03-28
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 059652725X
ISBN-13: 9780596527259
If you used iPhoto when it first came out, you’ll remember the way it slowed to a crawl once you loaded it with about 2,000 photos. Compare that to this year’s model: iPhoto 6 can handle as many as 250,000 images and still have the power to run a host of suped-up features. Its new software engine lets you make changes with a drag & drop editing tool, find photos with a robust search feature, and manipulate images without affecting the originals in your master library. You can also: View and work on full-screen images Make quick edits with one click Work with RAW images ...
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 3:15am CET
Carrier Ethernet: Providing the Need for Speed
Publisher: Auerbach Publications
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-03-11
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 1420060392
ISBN-13: 9781420060393
Facilitating high data transfers over long distances at a reasonable cost, Carrier Ethernet is solidifying its fundamental position as the core of next-generation networks. Since it first dazzled the IT world 40 years ago with its ability to move data over local networks, Ethernet has dramatically evolved in both form and function. And now, Carrier Ethernet, flexing its multi-gigabit muscle, is rapidly emerging as the undisputed technology of choice. As engaging as it is comprehensive, this volume— Examines the differences between the so-called flavors of Ethernet Provides...
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 3:00am CET
Contest Problem Book No 1: Annual High School Mathematics Examinations 1950-1960 (New Mathematical Library)
Publisher: Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1975-12
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0883856050
ISBN-13: 9780883856055
A great many students have participated annually in the Annual High School Mathematics Examination (AHSME) sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and four other national organizations in the mathematical sciences.* In 1960, 150,000 students participated from about 5,200 high schools. In 1980, 416,000 students participated from over 6,800 high schools. Since 1950, when the first of these examinations was given., American high school students have tested their skills and ingenuity on such problem as: The rails on a railroad are 30 feet long. As the train passes over the...
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 2:54am CET
Personal Notes: How to Write from the Heart for Any Occasion
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-05-22
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0312304188
ISBN-13: 9780312304188
Do you dread writing notes to say ’Thank you,’ ’I’m sorry,’ or ’Congratulations’? When’s the last time you mailed a note to a far-away friend, just to catch up? What should you write to a grieving friend, or a colleague upon hearing of his or her divorce? As our lives get more and more hectic, the old-fashioned art of personal correspondence is vanishing. In this upbeat, wise, and witty guide, journalist and lifestyle expert Sandra Lamb offers a wealth of advice, inspiration, and examples for anyone who wants to add flair, voice, and plain old fu...
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 2:26am CET
Practical Methods of Optimization
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 2000-05
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0471494631
ISBN-13: 9780471494638
Fully describes optimization methods that are currently most valuable in solving real-life problems. Since optimization has applications in almost every branch of science and technology, the text emphasizes their practical aspects in conjunction with the heuristics useful in making them perform more reliably and efficiently. To this end, it presents comparative numerical studies to give readers a feel for possibile applications and to illustrate the problems in assessing evidence. Also provides theoretical background which provides insights into how methods are derived. This edition offers rev...
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 1:47am CET
Bulletproof Ajax
Publisher: New Riders
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2007-02-19
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0321472667
ISBN-13: 9780321472663
Step-by-step guide reveals best practices for enhancing Web sites with Ajax A step-by-step guide to enhancing Web sites with Ajax. Uses progressive enhancement techniques to ensure graceful degradation (which makes sites usable in all browsers).Shows readers how to write their own Ajax scripts instead of relying on third-party libraries. Web site designers love the idea of Ajax--of creating Web pages in which information can be updated without refreshing the entire page. But for those who aren’t hard-core programmers, enhancing pages using Ajax can be a challenge. Even more of a cha...
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 1:09am CET
Perfect Phrases for Executive Presentations: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases to Use to Communicate Your Strategy and Vision When the Stakes Are High (Perfect Phrases Series)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2006-01-18
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0071467637
ISBN-13: 9780071467636
THE RIGHT PHRASE FOR EVERY SITUATION . . . EVERY TIME. . Any successful leader will tell you: Giving a strong presentation is the most immediate and powerful way to set goals, form strategies, and sell your vision-to both internal and external audiences. Perfect Phrases for Executive Presentations not only tells you how to plan and deliver your address, but also provides phrases for every part of the speech or presentation. Organized by speech type and audience, you’ll be walked through the beginning, middle, and end of a speech, giving you effective phrases to use. This invaluable boo...
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 1:02am CET
2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews: Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases That Really Get Results
Publisher: AMACOM
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-06-10
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0814472826
ISBN-13: 9780814472828
No managerial or administrative task is as universally dreaded as the performance review. Supervisors may know the points they need to get across, but putting them on paper is another matter. This book puts the the right words at their fingertips, with ready-to-use phrases and words, action items, and descriptions that managers, supervisors, and HR professionals can use to evaluate performance, prepare development plans, and address performance problems. 2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Appraisals covers the 25 most commonly rated factors, including productivity, time management, deci...
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 12:48am CET
100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2001-06-14
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0195143663
ISBN-13: 9780195143669
From the ancient Egyptian battle at Megiddo in 1469 BC to the recent military actions in Iraq, great battles have had an enormous impact on the shaping of history. Now, in this fully illustrated book, one hundred of the world’s most important military confrontations are described in detail. 100 Decisive Battles gives us the facts about the battle and also explains where it fits in to the scope of world history. In each entry we are given the name and date of the battle, the commanders, the size of the opposing forces, and casualties. An account of the battle plan and the military action...
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 12:48am CET
Market Leader: In Financial Services: Business English with the "Financial Times" (LWFT)
Publisher: Longman
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2000-06-26
List price: $28.20
ISBN-10: 0582328438
ISBN-13: 9780582328433
"Banking and Finance"is one of a number of specialist books within the Market Leader series that compliments the course. Each book consists of 18 units, 2 tests, and a multilingual glossary...
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 12:45am CET
Frommer’s Barcelona Day by Day (Frommer’s Day by Day)
Publisher: Frommers
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-11-19
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0470165405
ISBN-13: 9780470165409
These attractively priced, four-color guides offer dozens of neighborhood and thematic tours, complete with hundreds of photos and bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Day by Days are the only guides that help travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip. Full-color package at an affordable price Star ratings for all hotels, restaurants, and attractions Foldout front covers with maps and quick-reference information Tear-resistant map in a handy, reclosable plastic wallet Handy pocket-sized trim ...
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 12:20am CET
Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2008-05-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0470073942
ISBN-13: 9780470073940
Fooling Some of the People All of the Time is the gripping chronicle of the ongoing saga between author David Einhorn’s hedg fund, Greenlight Capital, and Allied Capital, a leader in the private finance industry. Page by page, it delves deep inside Wall Street, showing why the $6 billion hedge fund decided to short shares of Allied Capital and how Allied responded with a Washington, D.C.-style spin-job—attacking Einhorn and disseminating half-truths and outright lies....
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Posted: December 26th, 2008, 12:03am CET
Boys of Few Words: Raising Our Sons to Communicate and Connect
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Number of Pages: 337
Published: 2005-12-13
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1593852185
ISBN-13: 9781593852184
When parents feel separated from their sons by a curtain of silence or a wall of resistance, they’re right to be concerned. Boys of few words--the ones who limit their expression to a timid shrug or an indifferent grunt--need our help. Whether the problem is rooted in "nature" or "nurture," boys who grow up unable to talk about their thoughts and feelings find it hard to connect with others at school, home, and eventually in business and personal relationships. Psychologist Adam Cox helps parents understand all the factors that may be limiting their son’s ability or willingness to ...
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 11:59pm CET
Say You’re One of Them
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-06-09
List price: $23.99
ISBN-10: 0316113786
ISBN-13: 9780316113786
Uwem Akpan’s stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they’ve ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can’t be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord. In the second...
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 11:53pm CET
How to Use Power Phrases to Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say, & Get What You Want
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-12-10
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0071424857
ISBN-13: 9780071424851
Easy-to-master techniques for more effective communications in all areas of life In this breakthrough guide, communication guru Meryl Runion explains why effective communication is more than just a business tool. It is also the key to happier, healthier relationships, and greater personal fulfillment and business success. In How to Use Power Phrases to Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say, & Get What You Want she introduces readers to the concept of power phrases--short, focused expressions that let people be direct and to the point without seeming brusque or nasty. In clear, down-to-earth la...
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 3:58pm CET
Analysis for Financial Management
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 0
Published:
List price: $0.00
ISBN-10: 0071254226
ISBN-13: 9780071254229
"Analysis for Financial Management 8e" is a paperback text and has been written to present standard techniques and modern developments in a practical and intuitive manner. It is intended for non-financial managers and business students interested in the practice of financial management. The emphasis is on the managerial applications of financial analysis....
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 3:51pm CET
Wastewater Treatment and Technology
Publisher: Thomas Telford, Ltd
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2003-10
List price: $142.00
ISBN-10: 0727732293
ISBN-13: 9780727732293
This book examines the processes available for the various stages of treatment of wastewater, begining with the preliminary processes of screening, grit removal and storm water separation and ending with tertiary treatment and sludge disposal. Key coverage: considers emphasis on the biological processes that are used for the oxidation of BOD and the removal of nitrogen and phosphorous; presents options for the treatment of industrial wastewater, including anaerobic digestion, physico-chemical processes and enhanced oxidation are also discussed; and examines what the future may bring and how th...
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 3:35pm CET
Pacific Northwest (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
Publisher: DK Travel
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-11
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0789496801
ISBN-13: 9780789496805
Highlights include: Astoria, Cannon Beach, Tillamook, Cape Mears, and other destinations in British Coulmia, Washington, and Oregon....
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 3:34pm CET
Southwest USA & Las Vegas (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
Publisher: DK Travel
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-09
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0789495651
ISBN-13: 9780789495655
Covers: the Grand Canyon, Northern Arizona, Phoenix, Southern Arizona, Las Vegas, Southern Utah, the Four Corners, Santa Fe, Northern New Mexico, Albuquerque, and Southern New Mexico....
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:57pm CET
New York (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE)
Publisher: DK Travel
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2006-03-20
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 075661533X
ISBN-13: 9780756615338
At first glance New York City might seem overwhelming, but the Eyewitness Travel to New York will make the city feel uncomplicated. Take a bite out of the Big Apple as you discover New York’s shopping, museums, restaurants, hotels, parks, nightlife, and theaters. This lavishly illustrated guide will enlighten your experience and make it easy to manage. Everyday in New York offers its visitors something new to see and experience....
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:29pm CET
The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them)
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0060843837
ISBN-13: 9780060843830
Somewhere, somebody is having more fun than you are. Orso everyone believes. Peter Sagal, a mild-mannered, Harvard-educated radio host—the man who puts the second "l" in "vanilla"—decided to find out if it’s true. From strip clubs to gambling halls to swingers clubs to porn sets and back to the strip clubs (but only because he left his glasses there), Sagal explores what the sinful folk do, how much they pay for the privilege, and how exactly they got those funny red marks. ...
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:27pm CET
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-05
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0393324826
ISBN-13: 9780393324822
"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."—Entertainment Weekly Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been involved in science’s boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They’ve tested France’s first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the...
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:27pm CET
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-10-02
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0393329127
ISBN-13: 9780393329124
"Equal parts Groucho Marx and Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening and entertaining."—Sunday Denver Post & Rocky Mountain NewsThe best-selling author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers now trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul. What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that’s that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an ar...
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:15pm CET
Modern Macroeconomics: Its Origins, Development And Current State
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Number of Pages: 807
Published: 2005-04-05
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 1845422082
ISBN-13: 9781845422080
More than a decade after the publication of the critically acclaimed A Modern Guide to Macroeconomics, Brian Snowdon and Howard Vane have produced a worthy successor in the form of Modern Macroeconomics. Thoroughly extended, revised and updated, it will become the indispensable text for students and teachers of macroeconomics in the new millennium. The authors skillfully trace the origins, development and current state of modern macroeconomics from an historical perspective. They do so by thoroughly appraising the central tenets underlying the main competing schools of macroeconomic thought ...
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:14pm CET
Die Happy: 499 Things Every Guy’s Gotta Do While He Still Can
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-05-02
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 031235620X
ISBN-13: 9780312356200
Attention, guys of America: It’s time to get off the couch, turn off the PlayStation, and set down your beer (just kidding—never set down your beer). Your days of freedom are numbered. Every guy owes it to himself to do something audacious, ostentatious, hilarious, or just plain fun before it’s too late. The time is now for the kinds of things that will be decidedly against the rules after you “settle down.” Die Happy is here to help you create the kind of stories you’ll be telling for the rest of your life. Stories about things like: How you spent your gr...
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:11pm CET
Life with My Sister Madonna
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-07-14
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1416587624
ISBN-13: 9781416587620
Ciccone’s extraordinary memoir is based on his life and forty-seven years of growing up with and working with his sister - the most famous woman in the world....
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:07pm CET
Look at My Striped Shirt!: Confessions of the People You Love to Hate
Publisher: Broadway
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-12-26
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0767924185
ISBN-13: 9780767924184
Target. Observe. Ridicule.You run into them every day—the striped-shirt guy, the karaoke master, the dude with a pencil-thin beard, the guy who won’t shut up about his fantasy football team—characters who annoy, irritate, and incense us all. Based on the wildly popular essay on ThePhatPhree.com by Mike Polk, this book is a look inside the heads of the most infuriating douchebags on Earth. It’s the best of ThePhatPhree.com plus more than fifty all-new, hilarious pieces written by some of your favorite writers from this site.Everyone’s (Least) Favorite, The Stripe...
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:07pm CET
The Alphabet Of Manliness
Publisher: Citadel Press
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2006-05-30
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 080652720X
ISBN-13: 9780806527208
From the publisher: This is the only sentence in the entire book that will give you a chance to adjust your face; take your time, because it s about to be rocked off permanently. Finally, a book that guarantees your balls will be stomped; a book so manly that it will make even the burliest of men (and in some cases, the burliest of women) feel inadequate. So manly, it needs to be shaved: The Alphabet of Manliness. This collection of sacred writings may very well be the greatest compilation of all things manly throughout history. Here s a small sample of the ass-kickery found within these ...
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:06pm CET
sTORI Telling
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-03-11
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1416950737
ISBN-13: 9781416950738
Tori Spelling Reads Her Fabulous #1 New York Times BestsellerShe was television’s most famous virgin -- and, as Aaron Spelling’s daughter, arguably its most famous case of nepotism. Portraying Donna Martin of Beverly Hills 90210, Tori Spelling became one of the most recognizable young actresses of her generation, with a not-so-private personal life every bit as fascinating as her character’s exploits. Yet years later the name Tori Spelling too often closed -- and sometimes slammed -- the same doors it had opened.sTORI telling is Tori’s chance to finally tell her side of...
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 3:47am CET
Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Publisher: Pearson ESL
Number of Pages: 487
Published: 2002-12-10
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0582237262
ISBN-13: 9780582237261
*Examines patterns of use in the news, fiction and academic English *Takes grammar and vocabulary together and looks at how they interact *Is based on the analysis of 40-million words of British and American, written and spoken corpus text *Uses over 3000 examples of real, corpus English to illustrate the points *Uses frequency tables and graphs to make the new findings of this grammar clear...
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 3:13am CET
Essentials of Economics
Publisher: South-Western College Pub
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 2008-09-27
List price: $179.95
ISBN-10: 0324590024
ISBN-13: 9780324590029
With its clear and engaging writing style, ESSENTIALS OF ECONOMICS, 5E, continues to be one of the most popular books on economics available today. Mankiw emphasizes material that you re likely to find interesting about the economy (particularly if you re studying economics for the first time), including real-life scenarios, useful facts, and the many ways economic concepts play a role in the decisions you make every day....
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:17am CET
Better Together: Restoring the American Community
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-08-24
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0743235479
ISBN-13: 9780743235471
In his acclaimed Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam describes the United States as a nation in which we have become increasingly disconnected from one another and in which our social structures have disintegrated. But in the final chapter of that book he detects hopeful signs of civic renewal. In Better Together Putnam and coauthor Lewis Feldstein tell the inspiring stories of people who are reweaving the social fabric by bringing their own communities together or building bridges to others. Better Together examines how people across the country are inventing new forms of social activism and commu...
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:15am CET
Japan Rising
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-01-29
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1586484176
ISBN-13: 9781586484170
Japan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and isolation including the "lost decade" of the 1990s, Japan is quietly, stealthily awakening. As Japan prepares to become a major player in the strategic struggles of the 21st century, critical questions arise about its motivations. What are the driving forces that influence how Japan will act in the international system? Are there recurrent patterns that will help explain how Japan will respond to the emerging environment of world politics? American understanding of Japanese character and...
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 2:14am CET
Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships
Publisher: Basic Books
Number of Pages: 233
Published: 2000-11
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0465051960
ISBN-13: 9780465051960
This final work by a world-renowned economist will take its place among the classics of political economy Why do some economies do better than others? How does society encourage the kind of market economy that generates continually increasing incomes? How do particular styles of government affect economic performance? World-renowned economist Mancur Olson tackles these questions and others in what will surely be regarded as his magnum opus. Olson contends that governments can play an essential role in the development of markets. Reliable enforcement of private contracts and protection of indi...
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 1:59am CET
Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0140296271
ISBN-13: 9780140296273
Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, has long been the subject of controversy over his failure to speak out against Hitler’s Final Solution. In Hitler’s Pope, award-winning journalist and Roman Catholic John Cornwell shows that, even well before the Holocaust, Pope Pius XII was instrumental in negotiating an accord that helped the Nazis rise to unhindered power--and sealed the fate of the Jews in Europe.Drawing upon secret Vatican and Jesuit archives to which he had exclusive access, Cornwell tells the full, tragic story of how narcissism, longstanding personal antipathy for the Jews, a...
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 1:59am CET
Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Vol. 3
Publisher: AK Peters
Number of Pages: 275
Published: 2003-09
List price: $59.00
ISBN-10: 1568811438
ISBN-13: 9781568811437
In the quarter of a century since three mathematicians and game theorists collaborated to create Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, the book has become the definitive work on the subject of mathematical games. Now carefully revised and broken down into four volumes to accommodate new developments, the second edition retains the original’s wealth of wit and wisdom. The authors’ insightful strategies, blended with their witty and irreverent style, make reading a profitable pleasure. In Volume 3, the authors examine Games played in Clubs, giving case studies for coing and pa...
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 1:45am CET
The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Number of Pages: 1024
Published: 2006-12-24
List price: $59.99
ISBN-10: 0131345559
ISBN-13: 9780131345553
Praise for the second edition of The Design of Sites "In my worldwide IBM marketing role, I have the benefit of working with some of the finest international interactive agencies and internal Web teams. As I read The Design of Sites, [I see] the insight from years of professional advice has been put to paper. Nowhere have I seen such a practical, effective, and easy-to-use book to solve and avoid Internet design issues. I keep a copy of the book handy to remind me of the things I forgot and to gain fresh perspectives. It never fails to deliver."-John Cilio, marketing manager, IBM System x & ...
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 1:44am CET
The Idea of Design
Publisher: The MIT Press
Number of Pages: 315
Published: 1996-02-21
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0262631660
ISBN-13: 9780262631662
The Idea of Design is an anthology of essays that addresses the nature and practice of product design and graphic design in the contemporary world. The essays, selected from volumes 4-9 of the international journal Design Issues, focus on three themes: reflection on the nature of design, the meaning of products, and the place of design in world culture. The authors are distinguished scholars, historians, designers, and design educators. The diversity of their work illustrates the pluralistic and interdisciplinary dimensions of the idea of design in contemporary culture. Contributors: Rudolf...
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Posted: December 25th, 2008, 1:43am CET
Design Methods (Architecture)
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 407
Published: 1992-09-15
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0471284963
ISBN-13: 9780471284963
Since its initial publication in 1970, Design Methods has been considered the seminal work on design methodology. Written by one of the founders of the design methods movement, it has been highly praised in international journals and has been translated into Japanese, Romanian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. As Jones states in the preface: "Alongside the old idea of design as the drawing of objects that are then to be built or manufactured there are many new ideas of what it is, all very different:designing as the process of devising not individual products but whole systems or environments suc...
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Posted: December 24th, 2008, 8:23pm CET
UMTS Performance Measurement: A Practical Guide to KPIs for the UTRAN Environment
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 226
Published: 2006-10-06
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0470032499
ISBN-13: 9780470032497
UMTS Performance Measurement is a practical guide that explains how to identify and measure the main problems seen in today’s UMTS live networks and will make performance measurement results gathered in the UTRAN environment understandable for the reader. It provides a fundamental background for daily work in the field or lab, covering a wide range of performance measurements that help to troubleshoot and optimize the UTRAN environment. The content goes far beyond what has been defined by international standard bodies like 3GPP and closes the gap between international standards a...
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Posted: December 24th, 2008, 6:36pm CET
8051 Microcontrollers: An Applications Based Introduction
Publisher: Newnes
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-04-16
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 0750657596
ISBN-13: 9780750657594
The 8051 architecture developed by Intel has proved to be the most popular and enduring type of microcontroller, available from many manufacturers and widely used for industrial applications and embedded systems as well as being a versatile and economical option for design prototyping, educational use and other project work.In this book the authors introduce the fundamentals and capabilities of the 8051, then put them to use through practical exercises and project work. The result is a highly practical learning experience that will help a wide range of engineers and students to get through the...
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Posted: December 24th, 2008, 6:35pm CET
I Am America (And So Can You!)
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-10-09
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0446580503
ISBN-13: 9780446580502
Congratulations--just by looking at this webpage, you became 25% more patriotic.From Stephen Colbert, the host of television’s highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23 hours of your day. I Am America (And So Can You!) contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn’t have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast.Dictated directly into a microcassette recorder over a three-day weekend, this book contains Stephen’s most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and many more topics, convenie...
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Posted: December 24th, 2008, 6:32pm CET
Programming Microcontrollers in C (Embedded Technology Series)
Publisher: Newnes
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2000-12-15
List price: $82.95
ISBN-10: 1878707574
ISBN-13: 9781878707574
Ted Van Sickle spent over fifteen years at Motorola as a microcontroller specialist. He now consults and teaches classes on software design and programming for microcontroller systems. He holds a MSEE from the University of Michigan.Introduces microcontrollers and describes their programming environment, offering tips on coding for microcontrollersDescribes techniques to get maximum performance from your codeDiscusses the differences between 8-bit and larger microcontrollers, giving application examples and providing details on using different compilers...
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Posted: December 24th, 2008, 6:21pm CET
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
Publisher: Doubleday
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-03-11
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0385520697
ISBN-13: 9780385520690
A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible—from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks—revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future.One hundred years ago, scientists would have said that lasers, televisions, and the atomic bomb were beyond the realm of physical possibility. In Physics of the Impossible, the renowned physicist Michio Kaku explores to what extent the technologies and devices of science fiction that are deemed equally impossible today might well become commonplace in the future. From te...
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Posted: December 24th, 2008, 6:20pm CET
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-09
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0446532681
ISBN-13: 9780446532686
Jon Stewart, host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show, and his coterie of patriots, deliver a hilarious look at American government. American-style democracy is the world’s most beloved form of government, which explains why so many other nations are eager for us to impose it on them. But what is American democracy? In AMERICA (THE BOOK), Jon Stewart and The Daily Show writing staff offer their insights into our unique system of government, dissecting its institutions, explaining its history and processes, and exploring the reasons why concepts like one man, one vote...
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Posted: December 24th, 2008, 6:17pm CET
Market Segmentation: How to do it, how to profit from it
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2004-10-15
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 0750659815
ISBN-13: 9780750659819
* McDonald and Dunbar are the leading author team in this area* Segmentation and marketing mapping are core areas of the marketing syllabus, and there is much that is new as a result of the new segmentation possibilities from e-marketing and e-business* The book has a textbook feel, which highlights the diagrams and market maps (key elements of the book)This is a key book, in a vital area. The Butterworth-Heinemann edition of what was previously published by MacMillian, is a thoroughly revised and updated version.* Highly developed and well illustrated treatment of a key marketing technique* U...
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Posted: December 24th, 2008, 6:15pm CET
C Traps and Pitfalls
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1989-01-11
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0201179288
ISBN-13: 9780201179286
Even C experts come across problems that require days ofdebugging to fix. This book helps to prevent such problems byshowing how C programmers get themselves into trouble. Each ofthe book’s many examples has trapped a professional programmer. In addition to its examples, C Traps and Pitfalls offers adviceon: *avoiding off-by-one errors *understanding and constructing function declarations *understanding the subtle relationship between pointers andarrays Distilled from the author’s experience over a decade ofprogramming in C, this book is an ideal resource for anyone,novice or expe...
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Posted: December 24th, 2008, 6:13pm CET
Patterns for Parallel Programming (Software Patterns Series)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2004-09-25
List price: $54.99
ISBN-10: 0321228111
ISBN-13: 9780321228116
The Parallel Programming Guide for Every Software Developer From grids and clusters to next-generation game consoles, parallel computing is going mainstream. Innovations such as Hyper-Threading Technology, HyperTransport Technology, and multicore microprocessors from IBM, Intel, and Sun are accelerating the movement’s growth. Only one thing is missing: programmers with the skills to meet the soaring demand for parallel software. That’s where Patterns for Parallel Programming comes in. It’s the first parallel programming guide written specifically to serve working software de...
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Posted: December 24th, 2008, 6:13pm CET
Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2007-06-03
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 0321398203
ISBN-13: 9780321398208
Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs)--languages geared to specific vertical or horizontal areas of interest--are generating growing excitement from software engineers and architects. DSLs bring new agility to the creation and evolution of software, allowing selected design aspects to be expressed in terms much closer to the system requirements than standard program code, significantly reducing development costs in large-scale projects and product lines. In this breakthrough book, four leading experts reveal exactly how DSLs work, and how you can make the most of them in your environment. W...
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Posted: December 24th, 2008, 6:10pm CET
Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2004-08-16
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0471202843
ISBN-13: 9780471202844
The architects of the Software Factories method provide a detailed look at this faster, less expensive, and more reliable approach to application development. Software Factories significantly increase the level of automation in application development at medium to large companies, applying the time tested pattern of using visual languages to enable rapid assembly and configuration of framework based components.Unlike other approaches to Model Driven Development (MDD), such as Model Driven Architecture (MDA) from the Object Management Group (OMG), Software Factories do not use the Unified ...
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Posted: December 20th, 2008, 8:23am CET
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2007-09-17
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1594201315
ISBN-13: 9781594201318
The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable life s journey through his more than eighteen-year tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board to the present, in the second half of The Age of Turbulence Dr. Greenspan embarks on a magnificent tour d horizon of the global economy. The distillation of a life s worth of wisdom and insight into an ele...
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Posted: December 20th, 2008, 8:11am CET
Food Styling for Photographers: A Guide to Creating Your Own Appetizing Art
Publisher: Focal Press
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-04-09
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0240810066
ISBN-13: 9780240810065
You eat with your eyes first, and no one turns a photograph of food into a culinary masterpiece like a food stylist. Food Styling for Photographers is the next best thing to having renowned food stylist Linda Bellingham by your side. Linda has worked with clients Baskin Robbins Ice Cream, McDonalds, Tyson Foods, FritoLay, and many, many more. Professional photographer Jean Ann Bybee has worked with Harry & David, Dominos, Sara Lee, Seven-Up Company, and more. Jean Ann provides a seasoned photographers point of view with helpful tips throughout.If you are hungry for unique photo assignments and...
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Posted: December 20th, 2008, 8:07am CET
The Midas Touch (Harriman House Classics)
Publisher: Harriman House
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-07
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1897597290
ISBN-13: 9781897597293
If you had put $10,000 in Buffett’s original investing partnership at its inception in 1956, you would have collected about $293,738 by the time he dissolved it at the end of 1969. He had never suffered a down year, even in the severe bear markets of 1957, 1962, 1966, and 1969. When the partnership was wound up, you could have elected to stay with Buffett as a shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., which was spun off from the partnership and became Buffett’s investing vehicle. In that event, your $10,000 would by the end of 1986 have turned into well over $5 million.So, John Trai...
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Posted: December 20th, 2008, 8:01am CET
Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered: Wall Street Truisms that Stand the Test of Time
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-01-15
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0735201455
ISBN-13: 9780735201453
Presenting the collective wisdom of the last 100 years, this witty and wise book provides an instant introduction into the "real" world of investing for the beginner and a reminder for those more experienced investors who may need a refresher course in the fundamentals. A serious investment book with a light touch, this handy volume is organized by topic and includes bite-sized nuggets of solid financial advice covering dozens of different subjects -- from equities, risk management, and options to bonds, asset allocation, and short- and long-term trading techniques. Whether reminding investors...
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Posted: December 20th, 2008, 7:58am CET
Genesis: Translation and Commentary
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 1997-09
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 039331670X
ISBN-13: 9780393316704
Robert Alter’s rare combination of fluent translation and insightful commentary makes this the perfect edition of Genesis for anyone drawn to this formative work in our culture. Alter’s translation attends to the usages, rhythms, and narrative patterns of Biblical Hebrew and renders them with clarity and literary appeal. His commentary deepens the reader’s understanding of Genesis as a cohesive book without being intrusive. The result is "the Genesis for our generation and beyond" (Robert Fagles)....
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Posted: December 20th, 2008, 7:45am CET
Digital Food Photography
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 1592008208
ISBN-13: 9781592008209
Great food always elicits strong reactions-the smell of freshly baked bread, the taste of a perfectly prepared steak. The job of a food photographer is to elicit that same mouth-watering reaction, but without the benefit of scent or taste. A well-shot photograph can send crowds flocking to a new restaurant or boost the sales of a culinary magazine. Capturing the perfect image requires a trained eye, finesse, and photographic skill. Digital Food Photography gives you the ingredients to cook up your own recipe for success-with professional lighting techniques, composition, food and prop styling,...
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Posted: December 20th, 2008, 7:44am CET
The Great Gatsby
Publisher: Scribner
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1995-06-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0684801523
ISBN-13: 9780684801520
This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. But the first edition contained a number of errors resulting from Fitzgerald’s extensive revisions and a rushed production schedule. Subsequent printings introduced further departures from the author’s words. This edition, based on the Cambridge critical text, restores all the language of Fitzgerald’s masterpiece. Drawing on ...
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Posted: December 20th, 2008, 7:41am CET
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Number of Pages: 973
Published: 1983-05-30
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0316545031
ISBN-13: 9780316545037
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Posted: December 20th, 2008, 6:49am CET
Understanding Options
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-09-22
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0071476369
ISBN-13: 9780071476362
Written by Michael Sincere, the best-selling author of Understanding Stocks and other popular investing books, this down-to-earth guide employs short, concise chapters to explain what options are, the various types of options, how to trade options, how to avoid investing mistakes, beginning and advanced options strategies, and much more. Understanding Options tells you in jargon-free language how options are income-producing tools; how options can be part of an overall investing plan; the relationship between options and stocks; the pros and cons of options, how personal computers have mad...
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Posted: December 20th, 2008, 6:46am CET
Words with Power: Being a Second Study of "The Bible and Literature"
Publisher: Harvest Books
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 1992-04-15
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0156983656
ISBN-13: 9780156983655
Frye continues his exploration, begun in The Great Code, of the influence of Biblical themes and forms of expression on Western literature, with discussions of authors ranging from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Yeats and Eliot. Frye identifies four key elements found in the Bible-the mountain, the garden, the cave, and the furnace-and describes how they recur in later secular writings. Indices....
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Posted: December 20th, 2008, 6:35am CET
Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law
Publisher: NOLO
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 1413306934
ISBN-13: 9781413306934
And suddenly, legal reseach was made simple! Excellent for anyone searching for information in a real or virtual law library (including paralegals, law students, legal assistants and journalists), Legal Research outlines a systematic method to find answers and get results. In plain, readable English, Attorneys Elias and Levinkind explain, with plenty of examples and instructions, how to: read and understand statues, regulations and cases evaluate cases for their value as precedent use all the basic tools of legal research practice what you’ve learned with "hands-on, feet-in" ...
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Posted: December 20th, 2008, 5:48am CET
The Little SAS Book: A Primer, Third Edition
Publisher: SAS Publishing
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2003-10-15
List price: $46.95
ISBN-10: 1590473337
ISBN-13: 9781590473337
Getting started with SAS is easy with The Little SAS Book. This friendly, easy-to-read guide gently introduces you to the most commonly used features of SAS software plus a whole lot more! The book has been revised to include concepts of the Output Delivery System; the STYLE= option in the PRINT, REPORT, and TABULATE procedures; ODS HTML, RTF, PRINTER, and OUTPUT destinations; PROC REPORT; more on PROC TABULATE; exporting data; and the colon modifier for informats. You’ll find clear and concise explanations of basic SAS concepts (such as DATA and PROC steps), inputting data, modifying an...
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Posted: December 20th, 2008, 5:11am CET
Principles of Macroeconomics
Publisher: South-Western College Pub
Number of Pages: 583
Published: 2006-02-17
List price: $152.95
ISBN-10: 0324236956
ISBN-13: 9780324236958
Mankiw’s Principles of Economics textbooks continue to be the most popular and widely used text in the economics classroom. PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS, 4th Edition features a strong revision of content in all 23 chapters while maintaining the clear and accessible writing style that is the hallmark of the highly respected author. The 4th edition also features an expanded instructor’s resource package designed to assist instructors in course planning and classroom presentation and full integration of content with Aplia, the leading online Economics education program. In the 4th edi...
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Posted: December 20th, 2008, 4:48am CET
Longman Pronunciation Dictionary
Publisher: Pearson ESL
Number of Pages: 896
Published: 2000-09-06
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0582364671
ISBN-13: 9780582364677
Based on Professor Wells’ Pronunciation Preference Internet Poll, this authoritative reference shows over 135,000 different pronunciations from British and American English, including technical vocabulary and proper names....
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Posted: December 20th, 2008, 4:38am CET
Economic Analysis of Law
Publisher: Foundation Press
Number of Pages: 121
Published: 2004-08
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 1587788152
ISBN-13: 9781587788154
"Economic Analysis of Law" is a spin-off title from the legal casebook "Analytical Methods for Lawyers." This book offers an overview of economic analysis, and how it applies to various areas of the law, including property law, torts, contracts, civil litigation and more....
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Posted: December 20th, 2008, 4:33am CET
The Gregg Reference Manual
Publisher: Career Education
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2004-06-14
List price: $0.00
ISBN-10: 0072936533
ISBN-13: 9780072936537
The Gregg Reference Manual, 10/e by Sabin is intended for anyone who writes, edits, or prepares material for distribution or publication. For nearly fifty years, this manual has been recognized as the best style manual for business professionals and for students who want to master the on-the-job standards of business professionals. GRM provides answers that can t be found in comparable manuals. That probably explains why GRM has received so many unsolicited 5-star reviews on the Amazon Web site. Those 5-star reviews offer a clear indication of the reputation GRM enjoys in the marketplace....
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Posted: December 20th, 2008, 4:25am CET
Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, Second Edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number of Pages: 1588
Published: 2005-04-25
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 0521843782
ISBN-13: 9780521843782
A fully updated edition with frequency information, collocation boxes, and, on the CD-ROM, exam-practice exercises for FCE, CAE, CPE, IELTS and BEC. A fully updated paperback edition of the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary with new, up-to-date vocabulary (e.g. sex-up, speed-dating, whiteboard), new ’mini-collocation’ boxes, and new frequency information to highlight the most important words to learn. A version of the dictionary with CD-ROM is also available.A fully updated edition with frequency information, collocation boxes, and, on the CD-ROM, exam-practice exercis...
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Posted: December 20th, 2008, 4:25am CET
Understanding Wall Street
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-01-28
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0071433732
ISBN-13: 9780071433730
One of history’s top-selling investment guides--800,000 copies sold!--is now updated for a new generation of investors. Praise for previous editions of Understanding Wall Street:. "One of those rare publications that delivers exactly what it promises . . .consistently good.". --Barron’s. "Among the best for the novice investor.". --Los Angeles Times. "A good practical education on the stock market.". --Business Opportunities Digest. Over the past quarter century, Understanding Wall Street has helped investors at every level understand exactly how the stock market works, and...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:50pm CET
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2001-02-08
List price: $19.50
ISBN-10: 0816638772
ISBN-13: 9780816638772
Geography On the 25th anniversary of its publication, a new edition of this foundational work on human geography. In the twenty years since its original publication, Space and Place has not only established the discipline of human geography, but it has proven influential in such diverse fields as theatre, literature, anthropology, psychology, and theology. Eminent geographer Yi-Fu Tuan considers the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, neighborhood, and nation, and how feelings about space and place are affected by the sense of time. He sugg...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:45pm CET
Understanding Human Anatomy and Physiology
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Number of Pages: 0
Published: 2004-01-16
List price: $0.00
ISBN-10: 0072935154
ISBN-13: 9780072935158
Renowned for her effective learning systems, respected author Sylvia Mader has helped thousands of entry-level students understand and enjoy the principles of human anatomy and physiology. Mader expertly weaves up-to-date informative content with effective learning systems, piecing together the facts and fascination of human anatomy and physiology. With the fifth edition of Understanding Human Anatomy and Physiology, your introductory, one-semester students have the opportunity to experience an effective blend of up-to-date, informational content with several new features and an extensively en...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:42pm CET
Threesomes: For Couples Who Want to Know More
Publisher: Quiver
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1592332714
ISBN-13: 9781592332717
Exploring the Erotic World of Threesomes!Threesomes offers the reader the tools and knowledge to have a thrilling, safe, and unforgettable sexual adventure. You’ll get engaging and energentic answers to questions such as:What kinds of people participate and why? What are the different types of threesomes?How do you initiate the talk of a threesome?and What are the advantages and disadvantages of having one?Along the way, titillating 4-color photographs of a threesome in action show various positions and techniques. The book also discusses the issue of oWhere to Find a Third?,oe the possi...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:41pm CET
Eclipses: Predicting World Events & Personal Transformation (Special Topics in Astrology)
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0738707716
ISBN-13: 9780738707716
Eclipses play a crucial role in the fates of nations and the lives of individuals. Nationally known astrologer Celeste Teal draws on nearly thirty years of astrological experience to explain and illustrate how eclipses act as cosmic telegrams about the current state of our world, our personal lives, and our relationships with others. Eclipses illustrates how recent and historical events can be linked directly to eclipses, and provides predictions for their effects on world events in the next decade and beyond. Readers will explore the effects of prenatal eclipses on the natal chart, as we...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:36pm CET
Principles of Finance with Excel: Includes CD
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number of Pages: 928
Published: 2006-01-05
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 0195301501
ISBN-13: 9780195301502
Principles of Finance with Excel is the first textbook that comprehensively integrates Excel into the teaching and practice of finance. This book provides exceptional resources to the instructor and student, combining classroom-tested pedagogy with the full potential of excel’s powerful functions. In today’s business world, that computation is done almost wholly in Excel. Excel’s ability to combine graphics with computation and perform complex sensitivity analysis with ease provides potent insights into financial problems. Despite this, most finance texts rely heavily on...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:36pm CET
Introducing Chaos, New Edition
Publisher: Totem Books
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2005-01-25
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1840465816
ISBN-13: 9781840465815
This book explains how chaos makes its presence felt in many varieties of event, from the fluctuation of animal populations to the ups and downs of the stock market....
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:35pm CET
Introducing Fractal Geometry, 3rd Edition
Publisher: Totem Books
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-04-25
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1840467134
ISBN-13: 9781840467130
Fractal geometry is the geometry of the natural world. It mirrors the uneven but real shapes of nature, the world as we actually experience it. Introducing Fractal Geometry traces the development of this revolutionary new discipline....
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:31pm CET
Civilization and Its Discontents
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Number of Pages: 127
Published: 1989-07
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0393301583
ISBN-13: 9780393301588
In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We all know that living in civilised groups means sacrificing a degree of personal interest, but couldn’t you argue that it in fact creates the conditions for our happiness? Freud explores the arguments and counter-arguments surrounding this proposition, focusing on what he perceives to be one of society’s greatest dangers; ’civilised’ sexual morality. After all, doesn’t rep...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:31pm CET
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140296476
ISBN-13: 9780140296471
A concise and appealing look at the strangest number in the universe and its continuing role as one of the great paradoxes of human thoughtThe Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now, as Y2K fever rages, it threatens a technological apocalypse. For centuries the power of zero savored of the demonic; once harnessed, it became the most important tool in mathematics. For zero, infinity’s twin, is not like other numbers. It is both nothing and everything.In Zero science journalist Charles Seife follows this inno...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:25pm CET
Financial Modeling, 3rd Edition
Publisher: The MIT Press
Number of Pages: 1168
Published: 2008-02-29
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0262026287
ISBN-13: 9780262026284
Too often, finance courses stop short of making a connection between textbook finance and the problems of real-world business. Financial Modeling bridges this gap between theory and practice by providing a nuts-and-bolts guide to solving common financial models with spreadsheets. Simon Benninga takes the reader step by step through each model, showing how it can be solved using Microsoft Excel. The long-awaited third edition of this standard text maintains the "cookbook" features and Excel dependence that have made the first and second editions so popular. It also offers significant new mat...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:25pm CET
Financial Econometrics: From Basics to Advanced Modeling Techniques (Frank J. Fabozzi Series)
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2006-12-11
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0471784508
ISBN-13: 9780471784500
A comprehensive guide to financial econometrics Financial econometrics is a quest for models that describe financial time series such as prices, returns, interest rates, and exchange rates. In Financial Econometrics, readers will be introduced to this growing discipline and the concepts and theories associated with it, including background material on probability theory and statistics. The experienced author team uses real-world data where possible and brings in the results of published research provided by investment banking firms and journals. Financial Econometrics clearly explains t...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:50am CET
Eclipse Of Reason (Continuum Impacts)
Publisher: Continuum
Number of Pages: 129
Published: 2005-02-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0826477933
ISBN-13: 9780826477934
In this book, Horkheimer surveys and demonstrates the gradual ascendancy of Reason in Western philosophy, its eventual total application to all spheres of life, and what he considers its present reified domination....
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:50am CET
Counterrevolution and Revolt
Publisher: Beacon Press
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1989-01-25
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0807015334
ISBN-13: 9780807015339
Dialectal stories and poems by New York City black and Spanish-speaking children edited from tape recordings taken in the classroom....
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:49am CET
Portrait Photographer’s Handbook
Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc.
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 158428207X
ISBN-13: 9781584282075
Combining time-tested practices with contemporary methods, this guidebook details the fine art of capturing formal and casual posed images. With advice and guidance from the finest and most decorated portrait and wedding photographers in the country, this instructional discusses subjects such as lighting in the studio and on location, improving improvisational shooting techniques, and how to retouch images in the post-production process to create truly flawless looks. A chapter addressing the common problems in taking portraitures—from working with subjects with glasses to subjects that ...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:48am CET
The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0060841958
ISBN-13: 9780060841959
In this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening, and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan Kundera suggests that "the curtain" represents a ready-made perception of the world that each of us has—a pre-interpreted world. The job of the novelist, he argues, is to rip through the curtain and reveal what it hides. Here an incomparable literary artist cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. In doing so, he celebrates a prose form that possesses the unique ability to transcend national and language bo...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:48am CET
Guide to Management Ideas, Second Edition (The Economist Series)
Publisher: Bloomberg Press
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-04
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 186197423X
ISBN-13: 9781861974235
The definitive guide to the most influential 100 management ideas of the past 100 years. A lot has changed in the way businesses have been managed in the last hundred years. This lively and authoritative guide explores the hundred ideas that have most influenced approaches to business management during the past 100 years—and which are likely to continue to do so long into this century. From the balanced scorecard and benchmarking through matrix management and mentoring all the way to vision and zero-base budgeting, each idea is covered in a standard comprehensive way, with an explanati...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:47am CET
Maestro : Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-11-06
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0743205626
ISBN-13: 9780743205627
Perhaps the last Washington secret is how the Federal Reserve and its enigmatic chairman, Alan Greenspan, operate. In Maestro, Bob Woodward uses his proven interviewing and research techniques to take you inside the Fed and Greenspan’s thinking. Woodward presents the Greenspan years as a gripping narrative, a remarkable portrait of a man who has become the symbol of American economic preeminence....
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:47am CET
The Essential Kama Sutra
Publisher: Erotic Print Society
Number of Pages: 145
Published: 2004-06
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 1898998671
ISBN-13: 9781898998679
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:46am CET
The Winter King (The Arthur Books #1)
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Number of Pages: 433
Published: 1997-04-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0312156960
ISBN-13: 9780312156961
It takes a remarkable writer to make an old story as fresh and compelling as the first time we heard it. With The Winter King, the first volume of his magnificent Warlord Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell finally turns to the story he was born to write: the mythic saga of King Arthur.The tale begins in Dark Age Britain, a land where Arthur has been banished and Merlin has disappeared, where a child-king sits unprotected on the throne, where religion vies with magic for the souls of the people. It is to this desperate land that Arthur returns, a man at once utterly human and truly heroic: a man of h...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:45am CET
Alan Shrugged: Alan Greenspan, the World’s Most Powerful Banker
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2002-08-16
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 047139906X
ISBN-13: 9780471399063
Power . . . Personality . . . Paradox When Alan Greenspan talks, Wall Street listens-as do bankers, investors, politicians, and economists throughout the world. He is the number one arbiter of U.S. monetary policy-credited, as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, with having simultaneously held inflation down and kept the economy growing throughout the longest and largest economic expansion in U.S. history. Yet, this Atlas of number crunchers, who owned and operated a highly successful Wall Street consulting firm, never amassed a personal fortune, was a member of the cultlike inner c...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:41am CET
Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques, Second Edition
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0735201811
ISBN-13: 9780735201811
Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques, 2nd Edition, provides an in-depth explanation of candlestick plotting and analysis, conveying to the reader, in easy-to-understand language, the author s years of practical experience in this increasingly popular and dynamic approach to market analysis. It includes hundreds of examples that span the equity, futures, fixed-income, and foreign exchange markets and shows how candlestick charting techniques can be used in almost any market. It has been thoroughly updated to include: * New techniques and strategies * The author s concept of the Converg...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 11:40am CET
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-01-11
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0316172324
ISBN-13: 9780316172325
How do we make decisions--good and bad--and why are some people so much better at it than others? Thats the question Malcolm Gladwell asks and answers in the follow-up to his huge bestseller, The Tipping Point. Utilizing case studies as diverse as speed dating, pop music, and the shooting of Amadou Diallo, Gladwell reveals that what we think of as decisions made in the blink of an eye are much more complicated than assumed. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology, he shows how the difference between good decision-making and bad has nothing to do with how much information we can pro...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 1:04am CET
Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles: 18 Three-dimensional Games for the Hands and Mind
Publisher: Creative Publishing international
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-06-12
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 158923247X
ISBN-13: 9781589232471
For centuries, logic puzzles have entertained, inspired and educated kids of all ages. Studies show these engaging "brain teasers" provide unsurpassed benefits to the body and mind, increasing manual dexterity, mathematical abilities and overall intellectual agility. Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles provides plans and instructions for crafting 18 of the most popular manual puzzles. Projects range from traditional "put together/take apart" games like pentominoes and soma cubes to more sophisticated "unlocking" head-scratchers, such as the Burr and Heart Box puzzles. Readers will also learn specializ...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 1:03am CET
Handbook of Alternative Assets (Frank J. Fabozzi Series)
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 047198020X
ISBN-13: 9780471980209
Since the first edition of the Handbook of Alternative Assets was published, significant events-from the popping of the technology bubble and massive accounting scandals to recessions and bear markets-have shifted the financial landscape. These changes have provided author Mark J. P. Anson with an excellent opportunity to examine alternative assets during a different part of the economic cycle than previously observed in the first edition. Fully revised and updated to reflect today’s financial realities, the Handbook of Alternative Assets, Second Edition covers the five major clas...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 1:02am CET
The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2007-05-21
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0691125260
ISBN-13: 9780691125268
By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics, one remembered from high school geometry class by even the most math-phobic students. Well over four hundred proofs are known to exist, including ones by a twelve-year-old Einstein, a young blind girl, Leonardo da Vinci, and a future president of the United States. Here--perhaps for the first time in English--is the full story of this famous theorem.Although attributed to Pythagoras, the theorem was known to the Babylonians more than a thousand years before him. He may have been the first to prove it, b...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 1:01am CET
Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires
Publisher: Hay House
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1401904599
ISBN-13: 9781401904593
Ask and It Is Given, by Esther and Jerry Hicks, which presents the teachings of the nonphysical entity Abraham, will help you learn how to manifest your desires so that you re living the joyous and fulfilling life you deserve. As you read, you ll come to understand how your relationships, health issues, finances, career concerns, and more are influenced by the Universal laws that govern your time/space reality - and you ll discover powerful processes that will help you go with the positive flow of life.It s your birthright to live a life filled with everything that is good and this book will ...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:59am CET
The Contest Problem: Book VIII (MAA Problem Book Series)
Publisher: Mathematical Assn of Amer
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2008-05-13
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0883858258
ISBN-13: 9780883858257
For more than 50 years, the Mathematical Association of America has been engaged in the construction and administration of challenging contests for students in American and Canadian high schools. The problems on these contests are constructed in the hope that all high school students interested in mathematics will have the opportunity to participate in the contests and will find the experience mathematically enriching. These contests are intended for students at all levels, from the average student at a typical school who enjoys mathematics to the very best students at the most special school....
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:55am CET
Modern Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Fuel Cell Vehicles: Fundamentals, Theory, and Design (Power Electronics and Applications Series)
Publisher: CRC
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2004-12-20
List price: $149.95
ISBN-10: 0849331544
ISBN-13: 9780849331541
Air quality is deteriorating, the globe is warming, and petroleum resources are decreasing. The most promising solutions for the future involve the development of effective and efficient drive train technologies. This comprehensive volume meets this challenge and opportunity by integrating the wealth of disparate information found in scattered papers and research. Modern Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Fuel Cell Vehicles focuses on the fundamentals, theory, and design of conventional cars with internal combustion engines (ICE), electric vehicles (EV), hybrid electric vehicles (HEV), and fuel...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:51am CET
The Ten-Day MBA 3rd Ed.: A Step-By-Step Guide To Mastering The Skills Taught In America’s Top Business Schools
Publisher: Collins Business
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0060799072
ISBN-13: 9780060799076
Now totally revised -- the 3rd edition of The Ten-Day MBA includes the latest topics taught at America’s top business schools, including leadership, corporate ethics and compliance, financial planning, and real estate. This internationally acclaimed guide (more than 200,000 copies sold in the United States and around the world) distills the material of the most popular business-school courses taught at Harvard, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, Northwestern, and the University of Virginia. Silbiger’s research comes straight from the notes of real ...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:50am CET
What the Best MBAs Know
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-02-24
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0071422757
ISBN-13: 9780071422758
Easy access to the essential knowledge and skills of a top-level M.B.A. program--without having to attend a lecture What the Best MBAs Know provides professionals who don’t have the coveted M.B.A. designation with the skills and knowledge taught in today’s finest programs. Professors from Stanford, MIT, Northwestern, and other influential programs contribute detailed chapters on broad-scope topics such as strategy, functional areas including accounting, and key disciplines from managerial economics to decision analysis. The resulting application-based book gives readers compl...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:50am CET
CSS Pocket Reference: Visual Presentation for the Web
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2007-10-05
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0596515057
ISBN-13: 9780596515058
They say that good things come in small packages, and it’s certainly true for this edition of CSS Pocket Reference. Completely revised and updated to reflect the latest Cascading Style Sheet specifications in CSS 2.1, this indispensable little book covers the most essential information that web designers and developers need to implement CSS effectively across all browsers. Inside, you’ll find: A short introduction to the key concepts of CSS A complete alphabetical reference to all CSS 2.1 selectors and properties A chart displaying detailed information about CSS support for every s...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:50am CET
If It’s Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-01-23
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0071433198
ISBN-13: 9780071433198
IF IT’S RAINING IN BRAZIL, BUY STARBUCKS The hardcover edition of If It’s Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks first introduced investors to "macrotrading." Instead of just theorizing, the breakthrough investing strategy actually quantifies the impact of global economic forces on specific sectors of the stock market. This paperback edition delivers macrotrading to a new and wider audience, identifying which economic indicators are essential to follow, how to trade profitably in times of recession or inflation, subtle signals that indicate imminent turning points in the market, and muc...
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Posted: December 18th, 2008, 12:49am CET
Anatomy & Physiology (ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY (THIBODEAU))
Publisher: Mosby
Number of Pages: 1272
Published: 2006-03-31
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0323037186
ISBN-13: 9780323037181
A thorough introductory text on human form and function, this text presents a large, complex body of scientific knowledge in an easily understood, conversational writing style. Focusing on concepts rather than descriptions, the text uses a "big picture" theme of body function and also explains the body s homeostatic regulation. For the first time, the textbook includes a downloadable e-book, which is a fully searchable, electronic version of the text plus learning resources from Anatomy & Physiology Online with animations by body system, images, an electronic coloring book, interactive exerc...
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 6:42am CET
Quantitative Trading Strategies: Harnessing the Power of Quantitative Techniques to Create a Winning Trading Program (McGraw-Hill Traders Edge Series)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-07-16
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0071412395
ISBN-13: 9780071412391
Harnessing the Power of Quantitative Techniques to Create a Winning Trading ProgramLars Kestner Quantitative Trading Strategies takes readers through the development and evaluation stages of today’s most popular and market-proven technical trading strategies. Quantifying every subjective decision in the trading process, this analytical book evaluates the work of well-known "quants" from John Henry to Monroe Trout and introduces 12 all-new trading strategies. It debunks numerous popular misconceptions, and is certain to make waves--and change minds--in the world of technical analysis and ...
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 6:42am CET
CSS Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O’Reilly))
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Number of Pages: 134
Published: 2004-07-27
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0596007779
ISBN-13: 9780596007775
More proof that good things come in small--and sometimes even inexpensive--packages: the CSS Pocket Reference has been completely revised and updated to reflect the latest Cascading Style Sheet specifications, CSS2 and CSS2.1. An indispensable reference for web designers and developers, this slim little book covers the essential information needed to effectively implement CSS, with an introduction to the key concepts of CSS and a complete alphabetical reference to the CSS2 and CSS 2.1 properties. And since browser incompatibility is the biggest CSS headache for most developers, it also inc...
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 6:40am CET
Volatility Trading, + CD-ROM (Wiley Trading)
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-06-23
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0470181990
ISBN-13: 9780470181997
In Volatility Trading, Sinclair offers you a quantitative model for measuring volatility in order to gain an edge in your everyday option trading endeavors. With an accessible, straightforward approach. He guides traders through the basics of option pricing, volatility measurement, hedging, money management, and trade evaluation. In addition, Sinclair explains the often-overlooked psychological aspects of trading, revealing both how behavioral psychology can create market conditions traders can take advantage of-and how it can lead them astray. Psychological biases, he asserts, are probably th...
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 6:40am CET
Vietnamese Fusion: Vegetarian Cuisine
Publisher: Book Publishing Company (TN)
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-10
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1570672075
ISBN-13: 9781570672071
Fresh Spring Rolls - Glass Noodle Soup - Papaya Salad - Clay Pot Vegetables - Lemongrass Dry Noodles. Enjoy many of your favorite Vietnamese dishes now with a vegetarian twist. Renown Asian culinary expert Chat Mingkwan presents time-honored favorites using completely plant-based ingredients. You’re offered a bevy of delicious choices, whether you’re making an ensemble for a multi-course meal or an extravagant dish with a host of accompaniments. Typical Vietnamese cooking is already characterized by the use of a vast array of fresh herbs and vegetables. Introducing soy-based alter...
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 6:39am CET
MySQL Pocket Reference: SQL Functions and Utilities (Pocket Reference (O’Reilly))
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 2007-07-17
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0596514263
ISBN-13: 9780596514266
To help you be more efficient in your work, this handy pocket reference gives you instant reminders on how to use important MySQL functions, especially in conjunction with key parts of the LAMP open source infrastructure. This powerful database system is so rich in features that no administrator or programmer can stay familiar with all of them. MySQL Pocket Reference is an ideal on-the-job companion, well organized to help you find and adapt the statements you need -- quickly. Updated for the latest versions of this popular database, this edition covers many complex features that have been ...
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 6:38am CET
The Fundamentals of Risk Measurement
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number of Pages: 415
Published: 2002-06-27
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0071386270
ISBN-13: 9780071386272
TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: The Basics of Risk Management This chapter introduces how banks work. It describes how they make money, how they often lose money, and how they try to manage their losses. It includes thirteen short case studies showing how banks have lost money. Chapter 2: Risk Measurement at the Corporate Level: Economic Capital and RAROC Chapter Two discusses the meaning of capital and how the risks that a bank faces are related to the amount of capital that the bank should hold. It then describes the two fundamental building blocks of integrated risk measurement: Econ...
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 6:35am CET
Radiation Detection and Measurement
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 816
Published: 2000-01-05
List price: $0.00
ISBN-10: 0471073385
ISBN-13: 9780471073383
A Classic Text on Radiation Detection and Measurement Now Updated and Expanded Building on the proven success of this widely-used text, the Third Edition will provide you with a clear understanding of the methods and instrumentation used in the detection and measurement of ionizing radiation. It provides in-depth coverage of the basic principles of radiation detection as well as illustrating their application in a full set of modern instruments. In addition to a complete description of well-established detection and spectroscopic methods, many recently developed approaches are also explored. T...
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 6:35am CET
Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-04-21
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0471794473
ISBN-13: 9780471794479
Inside the House of Money lifts the veil on the typically opaque world of hedge funds, offering a rare glimpse at how today’s highest paid money managers approach their craft. Author Steven Drobny demystifies how these star traders make billions for well-heeled investors, revealing their theories, strategies and approaches to markets. Drobny, cofounder of Drobny Global Advisors, an international macroeconomic research and advisory firm, has tapped into his network and beyond in order assemble this collection of thirteen interviews with the industry’s best minds. Along the way, you&...
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 6:34am CET
Macro Trading & Investment Strategies : Macroeconomic Arbitrage in Global Markets (Wiley Trading Advantage Series)
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 1999-02-08
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0471315869
ISBN-13: 9780471315865
Some of the most successful and well-known hedge funds have long profited from a trading strategy that applies macroeconomic views to global markets: global macro. Pioneered by hedge fund managers such as George Soros and Julian Robertson, this strategy has led to enormous profits. By placing directional bets on liquid assets, it is particularly suited for trending markets. In Macro Trading and Investment Strategies: Macroeconomic Arbitrage in Global Markets, Gabriel Burstein defines and rigorously analyzes this investment style. He then proposes macro arbitrage as an original alternative...
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 6:33am CET
Quantitative Strategies for Achieving Alpha (McGraw-Hill Finance & Investing)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2008-11-21
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0071549846
ISBN-13: 9780071549844
Alpha, higher-than-expected returns generated by an investment strategy, is the holy grail of the investment world. Achieve alpha, and you’ve beaten the market on a risk-adjusted basis. Quantitative Strategies for Achieving Alpha was borne from equity analyst Richard Tortoriello’s efforts to create a series of quantitative stock selection models for his company, Standard & Poor’s, and produce a road map of the market from a quantitative point of view. With this practical guide, you will gain an effective instrument that can be used to improve your investment process, whether ...
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 6:31am CET
Into the Wild
Publisher: Pan Books
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-03-12
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 0330351699
ISBN-13: 9780330351690
Using the true story of a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limits of self, leave civilization behind and seek enlightenment through solitude and contact with nature....
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 5:40am CET
The Big Book of Team Building Games: Trust-Building Activities, Team Spirit Exercises, and Other Fun Things to Do
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 1997-12-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0070465134
ISBN-13: 9780070465138
Did you know that games can be a terrifically effective way to build team spirit, communication, and trust among people who work together day in and day out? Now you can spark morale in any work group by choosing from 70 stimulating games and activities specifically designed for the manager who’s looking to raise sagging morale in a department, liven up boring staff meetings, enable team members to collaborate smoothly and effectively, and much more!...
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 5:40am CET
Financial Risk Management: A Practitioner’s Guide to Managing Market and Credit Risk (with CD-ROM)
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-02-14
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0471219770
ISBN-13: 9780471219774
Praise for Financial Risk Management "Key material on how risks can be isolated, quantified, and managed from a top risk management practitioner." -John Hull, Maple Financial Chair in Derivatives and Risk Management, and Director, Bonham Centre for Finance, University of Toronto "Steve Allen’s book is an excellent read for both seasoned risk professionals and students. He has done a wonderful job of making a complex topic understandable and provided the necessary tools to help others develop and sharpen their own intuition about risk exposure and how to manage it. Theory ...
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 5:40am CET
The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition)
Publisher: Collins Business
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0060555661
ISBN-13: 9780060555665
More than one million hardcovers soldNow available for the first time in paperback!The Classic Text Annotated to Update Graham’s Timeless Wisdom for Today’s Market ConditionsThe greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham’s philosophy of "value investing" -- which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies -- has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949.Over the years, market developments have proven the ...
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 5:31am CET
Google Apps Hacks
Publisher: Make Books
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 2008-04-16
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 059651588X
ISBN-13: 9780596515881
Can Google applications really become an alternative to the venerable Microsoft Office suite? Conventional wisdom may say no, but practical wisdom says otherwise. Right now, 100,000 small businesses are currently running trials of Google office applications. So are large corporations such as General Electric and Proctor & Gamble. Google Apps Hacks gets you in on the action with several ingenious ways to push Google’s web, mobile, and desktop apps to the limit. The scores of clever hacks and workarounds in this book help you get more than the obvious out of a whole host of Google’...
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 5:23am CET
Money: A History
Publisher: Firefly Books
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-09-14
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1554072824
ISBN-13: 9781554072828
A colorful history of coins and currency from their very beginnings. Money tells the story of coins and paper money from ancient to modern times. The book is an exciting collaboration by curators at the British Museum, home to one of the world’s finest numismatic collections. Profusely illustrated with 545 color and archival images, Money traces the use of monetary exchange from a primitive barter system to the online, cashless systems operating today. Money examines its subject with authority and imagination, covering its history through the ages and across the world: Ancient M...
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 5:03am CET
Business Valuation Discounts and Premiums
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2001-10-15
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0471394483
ISBN-13: 9780471394488
Business Valuation Discounts and Premiums There is often more money in dispute in determining the discounts and premiums in a business valuation than in arriving at the pre-discount valuation itself. Discounts and premiums affect not only the value of the company but also play a crucial role in determining the risk involved, control issues, marketability, contingent liability, and a host of other factors that can make or break a deal. It is essential that every appraiser know when discounts and premiums apply and how to quantify them. Shannon Pratt’s Business Valuation Disc...
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 4:59am CET
Team-Building Activities for Every Group
Publisher: Rec Room Publishing
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2000-01-10
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0966234162
ISBN-13: 9780966234169
107 interactive games and activities can be found in the pages of this easy-to-use book. Each game is fun, experiential, easy to lead, unique, and requires minimal resources. With 65 team challenges and 42 activities that help any team get to know one another, become comfortable with each other, and open up, there is something for every group. If you work with youth, corporate groups, therapy groups, church groups, scouts, families, school groups, sports teams, at camp, or with any other group who must work together you will find helpful games and activities in this fun, energetic, and purp...
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 4:54am CET
Digital Image Processing (3rd Edition)
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Number of Pages: 976
Published: 2007-08-31
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 013168728X
ISBN-13: 9780131687288
THE leader in the field for more than twenty years, this introduction to basic concepts and methodologies for digital image processing continues its cutting-edge focus on contemporary developments in all mainstream areas of image processing. Completely self-contained, heavily illustrated, and mathematically accessible, it has a scope of application that is not limited to the solution of specialized problems. Digital Image Fundamentals. Image Enhancement in the Spatial Domain. Image Enhancement in the Frequency Domain. Image Restoration. Color Image Processing. Wavelets and Multiresolution Pr...
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 4:53am CET
Medical Imaging Signals and Systems
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2005-04-25
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 0130653535
ISBN-13: 9780130653536
For courses in medical imaging systems. With signal processing as its foundation, this text covers the most important imaging modalities in radiology: projection radiography, x-ray computed tomography, nuclear medicine, ultrasound imaging, and magnetic resonance imaging. Organized into parts to emphasize key overall conceptual divisions, Medical Imaging is most appropriate for engineering students who have taken the prerequisite signals and systems courses as well as elementary probability....
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 4:38am CET
The Selected Poems of D. H. Lawrence (Poetry Library, Penguin)
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1989-07-05
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140585400
ISBN-13: 9780140585407
Lawrence wrote nearly 1,000 poems during a short lifetime in which he was also astonishingly prolific in other spheres - fiction, travel writing, essays, criticism, letters and plays. Lawrence was not simply a novelist who dabbled in other forms. His characteristic vision informed everything he wrote, especially his poetry. At three important phases of his life, it became the primary channel of his experience and creative energy - the first year of his relationship with Frieda, the two years in Sicily, and the last year of his life. Bringing together the best of his poetry, this volume demonst...
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 4:26am CET
Cooking the Vietnamese Way: Revised and Expanded to Include New Low-Fat and Vegetarian Recipes (Easy Menu Ethnic Cookbooks)
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2002-03
List price: $25.26
ISBN-10: 0822541254
ISBN-13: 9780822541257
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