1000 things you never learned in business school : how to get ahead of the pack & stay there

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Definitely a book to read and reread!.......1999-08-27

I picked up this book in a bookstore, started reading it, went back to work and shut my door to continue reading it throughout the afternoon! It's full of good advice for anyone who works for someone else - lots of motivating, common sense tactics to get along in the business world. Perpaps business schools should offer a course on "Real Business 101" and use this book as a text!

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Authoritative, up-to-date research and analysis that provides a dramatic new understanding of the rewards-and risks-of investing in CTAs
Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) are an increasingly popular and potentially profitable investment alternative for institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals. Commodity Trading Advisors is one of the first books to study their performance in detail and analyze the "survivorship bias" present in CTA performance data. This book investigates the many benefits and risks associated with CTAs, examining the risk/return characteristics of a number of different strategies deployed by CTAs from a sophisticated investor's perspective. A contributed work, its editors and contributing authors are among today's leading voices on the topic of commodity trading advisors and a veritable "Who's Who" in hedge fund and CTA research.
Greg N. Gregoriou (Plattsburgh, NY) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance and Research Coordinator in the School of Business and Economics at the State University of New York. Vassilios N. Karavas (Amherst, MA) is Director of Research at Schneeweis Partners. Francois-Serge Lhabitant (Coppet, Switzerland) is a FAME Research Fellow, and a Professor of Finance at EDHEC (France) and at HEC University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Fabrice Rouah (Montreal, Quebec) is Institut de Finance Mathématique de Montréal Scholar in the finance program at McGill University.

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Commodity Trading Advisors: Risk, Performance Analysis, and Selection (Wiley Finance)

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Commodity Trading Advisors: Risk, Performance Analysis, and Selection (Wiley Finance)
Greg N. Gregoriou
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N6CUI6

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A system plan is the design of a total reserve system covering the full range of ecosystems and communities found in a particular country, identifying the range of purposes of protected areas and the relationships among the system components (i.e., individual areas, protected areas and other land uses), and different sectors and levels of society. Highlighting key linkages with other aspects of economic development, it shows how various stakeholders can interact and cooperate to support effective and sustainable management of protected areas, and help to establish priorities. A valuable resource for all those involved with national system planning.

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A guide to the study of fresh-water biology with special reference to aquatic insects and other invertebrate animals and phyto-plancton
James G Needham
Manufacturer: Comstock
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006QQN4U

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A guide to the study of fresh-water biology,: With special reference to aquatic insects and other invertebrate animals and phyto-plankton,
James G Needham
Manufacturer: New York, Comstock Pub. Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007DWTPO

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A guide to the study of fresh-water biology,: With special reference to aquatic insects and other invertebrate animals,
James G Needham
Manufacturer: The American Viewpoint Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0008BXYM2

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A Guide to the Study of Fresh-Water Biology: With Special Reference to Aquatic Insects and Other Invertebrate Animals
James G. & Paul R. Needham
Manufacturer: Charles C. Thomas
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Pamphlet
ASIN: B000O7Z7A2

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This book is intended for graduate students in middle atmosphere dynamics courses and will be useful to all research workers in meteorology, aeronomy, and atmospheric chemistry. Furthermore, many of the basic dynamical and physical processes discussed also have broad applicability in other branches of atmospheric dynamics, and will be of interest to those studying such areas as climate dynamics and planetary atmospheres.

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Good in condition.......2006-08-28

The book seemed new when it arrived, which was quite satisfying. However, the paper itself is not in high quality. It arrives very quickly, so I believe the seller is very promising.

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This book introduces new theoretical techniques in materials research. With the computer power now available, it is possible to use numerical techniques to study various physical and chemical properties of complex materials from first principles. Some typical examples are presented and all the necessary equations and plots are included so that readers can fully understand the details. This book offers the materials scientist access to, and an understanding of the modern development of molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation. It will also be of interest to physicists and chemists engaged in materials research.

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Up to date but not much better than other texts.......2004-06-27

I read this book to learn more about my field of study; computational materials science. I found it thorough; it covered all the major aspects for modelling of condensed phases at the atomic scale: Monte Carlo, Moleculary Dynamics, statistical thermo, and ab initio methods.

The strong point of this book compared to others on the same subject is that the amount of space devoted to the various subjects closely corresponds to the amount of work done in those subjects. Therefore, a lot of space is spent on empirical and semi-empirical methods.

Density functional theory, which is the workhorse of today's high-end simulations, gets shorted here. Only a couple of pages are spent on it. This contrasts strongly with other books on the same subject, like the books by Raabe, or Catlow, or Finnis, where DFT gets at least a whole chapter to itself.

Likewise, there is not much on electronic structure. There are a fair number of examples in this book, but few are simple enough for the first-timer to follow. The examples tend to show of the abilities of simulations; and not the nuts and bolts of how to do them.

As such, this book is great for an introductory course on computer simulations of materials; assuming the reader has a background in materials science. It is not a good book for a course on DFT, computational quantum mechanics, or solid state calculations.

The Best MODERN treatment: Concise, yet Thorough.......2004-04-01

With an exponentially growing computational power, more precise and exact treatments of problems of condensed matter physics become affordable, and the dark corners of material science become clearly understandable. At the same time, new methods are becoming developed, that allow for better treatments of various kinds of problems in this field.

This book is a gem, written by three active frontiers on this subject and can be of great value to anyone doing computations in material science. An almost complete and up to date review of the methods used in this field with great lists of references for further studies.

In addition to the workers in this field, I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know what happens in the Material Science today.

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Turkey at the Crossroads examines the country’s attempts at modernization, from the Ottomans in the 19th century to the Kemalist Republic and the current day. The book argues that in order to fully achieve the level of modernization and democratization that will enable itto become a regional power, Turkey must first confront its authoritarian legacy of Ottoman imperial and political culture. Examining current ideological and political conflicts, the authors discuss a range of obstacles posed to future opportunities—especially that of the Kemalist ruling elite and its politically influential military.

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This study examines the role of the courts in the public policy process by analyzing the federal-state conflicts over offshore energy development--known as the Seaweed Rebellion--from the Roosevelt through Clinton administrations. Dr. Edward A. Fitzgerald posits that the courts play an important role interpreting statutes and overseeing administrative actions to ensure "that important legislative purposes, heralded in the halls of Congress, are not lost or misdirected in the vast hallways of the federal bureaucracy." He concludes that the court's interpretations and deference towards executive decisions undermined the important statutory role of the coastal states, decreased environment protection, and has caused a breakdown in the program of outer continental shelf energy development.

The seaweed rebellion: the marine grassroots movement to protect coastal and ocean ecosystems.(Oceans Of Trouble): An article from: Multinational Monitor

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The seaweed rebellion: the marine grassroots movement to protect coastal and ocean ecosystems.(Oceans Of Trouble): An article from: Multinational Monitor
David Helvarg
Manufacturer: Essential Information, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008E5MSI
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Multinational Monitor, published by Essential Information, Inc. on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 2986 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The seaweed rebellion: the marine grassroots movement to protect coastal and ocean ecosystems.(Oceans Of Trouble)
Author: David Helvarg
Publication: Multinational Monitor (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: Essential Information, Inc.
Volume: 24 Issue: 9 Page: 22(4)

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