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The Early History of Financial Economics, 1478-1776: From Commercial Arithmetic to Life Annuities and Joint Stocks
Geoffrey Poitras Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1840644559 |
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Despite being an integral part of modern economic science, the subject of financial economics has deep historical roots. Geoffrey Poitras provides an exhaustive account of the early development of the subject and, in so doing, provides a sound basis for the study of modern financial economics.By the time The Wealth of Nations had appeared, financial economics featured a well developed body of scientific knowledge, covering subjects such as fixed income evaluation, life insurance and derivative securities. From beginnings which are traced back to the commercial arithmetic of the Renaissance reckoning schools, by the latter part of the 18th century financial economics had witnessed contributions by the likes of Abraham de Moivre, Edmond Halley and Simon Stevin. This book chronicles the development of early financial economics, from the appearance of the first printed commercial arithmetic in 1478 to the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776.
This book will prove invaluable to scholars of financial economics and the history of economic thought.
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Improving business processes, whatever or wherever they are in the enterprise, is an acknowledged way of improving the bottom line. Whether it's re-engineering, Six Sigma, TQM, or any number of other techniques, the problem is that it's usually such a huge undertaking that it's more work than it's worth. Kelvin F. Cross proposes that results can be achieved much more easily by going in and performing "surgical strikes" on specific areas that need improvement, without turning the entire thing into a "science project." And now his method is available for anyone seeking to streamline process structures.Using case studies from companies including AT&T, GE, and Weight Watchers International to illustrate the remarkable results that can be achieved, Quick Hits sums up the ten key areas that are perfect targets for surgical strikes, demonstrating exactly how to handle each type of problem. By showing how to determine which approach to use for any given situation, the book gives readers an arsenal of tactical and judicious methods designed to be low risk, low cost, and very effective.
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One of the best books in the BPM space.......2006-02-28
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Novel Aspects of Insect-Plant Interactions
Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0471832766 |
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Presents the first efforts to explore ecological interactions between insects and plants across several trophic levels, with special focus on mediation of complex interactions by plant allelochemicals. First section looks at effects of plant allelochemicals on predator-prey and host-parasitoid interactions. Second section reveals the role of microorganisms as mediators of interactions between insects and plants. Third section unifies and extends current theory to examine the effects of allelochemicals on the second and third trophic levels. Final section traces the physiological effects of plant allelochemicals in animal behavior, population regulation, maintenance of mimicry systems, and evolution of host range.
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Flexible Pattern Matching in Strings: Practical On-Line Search Algorithms for Texts and Biological Sequences
Gonzalo Navarro , and Mathieu Raffinot Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0521039932 |
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Recent years have witnessed a dramatic increase of interest in sophisticated string matching problems, especially in information retrieval and computational biology. This book presents a practical approach to string matching problems, focusing on the algorithms and implementations that perform best in practice. It covers searching for simple, multiple and extended strings, as well as regular expressions, and exact and approximate searching. It includes all the most significant new developments in complex pattern searching. The clear explanations, step-by-step examples, algorithm pseudocode, and implementation efficiency maps will enable researchers, professionals and students in bioinformatics, computer science, and software engineering to choose the most appropriate algorithms for their applications.Customer Reviews:
Thin but useful.......2004-10-31
Solid Theory.......2003-06-04
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America's Neighborhood Bats: Understanding and Learning to Live in Harmony with Them
Merlin D. Tuttle Manufacturer: University of Texas Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0292712804 |
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"An excellent primer about these fascinating animals. Highly recommended."
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"Something very good in a small package: a natural history and practical ecology of the flying mammals that, next to wolves, must be the most unjustly persecuted creatures on earth.... The color photos and line drawings that profusely illustrate are top quality."
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"These breathtaking photographs depict bats as startlingly beautiful creatures. The combination of excellent photography and enlightening text in America's Neighborhood Bats is sure to stimulate an appreciation of the winged mammals in mostif not allreaders."
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Since its first publication in 1988, America's Neighborhood Bats has changed the way we look at bats by underscoring their harmless and beneficial nature. In this second revised edition, Merlin Tuttle offers bat aficionados the most up-to-date bat facts, including a wealth of new information on bat house design and current threats to bat survival.
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Informative book, goo read........2007-01-03
Wonderful book!.......2003-07-31
Merlin Tuttle: America's Neighborhood Bats.......2002-10-05
A great, informative book.......1998-10-09
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America's Neighborhood Bats - Understanding And Learning To Live In Harmony With Them
Merlin D. Tuttle Manufacturer: Univ. Of Texas Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000RIR2YC |
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America's Neighborhood Bats, Understanding and Learning to Live in Harmony with Them
Merlin D. Tuttle Manufacturer: University of Texas Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000I3FE32 |
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America's Neighborhood Bats: Understanding and Learning to Live in Harmony with Them
Merlin D Tuttle Manufacturer: Univ of Texas Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000ORH41M |
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America's Neighborhood Bats: Understanding and Learning to Live in Harmony With Them
Manufacturer: Univ. of Texas ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000HYSS9E |
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Self-Defense Nerve Centers and Pressure Points for Karate, Jujitsu and Atemi-Waza
Bruce Tegner Manufacturer: Thor Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 087407519X |
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Not worth the cost or time.......2004-06-20
Grate tips on self-defense........2003-07-26
EVERYONE MUST HAVE THIS BOOK!.......2001-08-20
The reason why this book is so great is that it is meant and written for the average person like you and me to understand. It talks about all the major weaknesses of the body and all the physical effects that will occur when hit with strikes of differing force. ITS GREAT.
The book is also loaded with a plethora of pictures and maps showing all the body's natural vulnerable areas.
Bruce Tegner is an excellent author. Mr. Tegner explains in detail the legal definition of what self-defense is and what it is not. He did a ton of reseach to make this book. For example, he debunks all the mythical "deadly blows" and he talks about how television shows and Hollywood have heavily distorted what actual self-defense is. This will seriously educate anyone about what real self-defense is.
If you desire to protect yourself adequately and realistically,
THEN YOU NEED TO GET THIS BOOK!
Wonderful Treatment on Nerve centers and Pressure points.......2001-08-02
A mix of the obvious and the incorrect........2001-07-11
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Building a Writing Community: A Practical Guide
Marcia S. Freeman Manufacturer: Maupin House Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0929895134 |
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New and experienced teachers appreciate this easy-to-use, comprehensive approach to teaching young writers style, genre characteristics, composition skills, conventions, and the writing process itself. The classroom-tested techniques satisfy young writers' need for structure and content, while offering them freedom to develop their style, repetoire, and voice. The book includes more than 350 classrooms-tested models, lessons, procedures, and activities and 37 reproducibles. If you want to create a community of writers who love to write and speak the language of writers, this book is the key.Customer Reviews:
Best book for teaching writing to kids ever!.......2003-06-08
This is a wonderful book!.......2002-04-04
Valuable source of information that is easy to implement........2001-05-31
Well worth it!.......2000-07-02
This book is easy to read and will be a great resource for years to come!
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Sigmar Polke: History of Everything, Paintings and Drawings 1998-2003
Dave Hickey Manufacturer: Dallas Museum of Art ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0300099096 |
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No artist has come up with anything to match History of Everything, Sigmar Polke's profound response to the age of Osama bin Laden, and this book does a flawless job of illuminating his headspinningly bold associative leaps. Solid reproductions and remarkably lucid essays by art star Dave Hickey and cocurator Chalres Wylie guide us through what obviously was a knockout show at the Dallas and Tate museums. Known as Richter's rival, Germany's abominable shaman spinning variations on Rosenquist, Rauschenberg, and benday-dot painter Lichtenstein, Polke makes more than mischief and "Polke dots" here: it adds up to a masterpiece.The central image comes from a newspaper diagram of a spy satellite relaying the image of Al Qaida fleeing on horseback to CIA and RAF HQ and the US Army in Afghanistan. The picture rhymes with two 19th-century engravings, one showing a uniformed Frenchman astride a deer on a platform attached to a balloon, the other a German whose balloon is guided by eagles hitched up like horses. Today, machinery has displaced flesh: the steeds are earthbound, the balloons and eagles replaced by Predator drones, the balloonist's eyes with cameras and mechanical imagemaking. The halftone reduces the Al Qaida horsemen to a cartoon, then a still tinier inkblot. In his huge abstract painting I Live in My Own World, But It's Ok, They Knew Me Here, Polke further simplifies them into a blotch that resembles a flaw in a halftone, a mechanical artifact. It's all about patterns: in a painting of a halftone of a cowboy checking out a target, says Dickey, "the circular shape of the buckshot p! ellet, the pattern of circular holes the pellets make in the target, and the benday dots that constitute their photo representation flash back and forth in our perception in such a way that shooting guns, shooting pictures, and looking at pictures are proposed as analogous activities." This book teaches you a new way to see. -Tim Appelo
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Sigmar Polke is one of the world's most revered and influential contemporary artists. This handsome book documents Polke's recent work, which continues and deepens the artist's famed explorations of how images are made, used, and thought about in our media-dominated culture. The works also pose intriguing questions about how the eye and mind become crucial players in the perceptual game we undertake daily. Using topical subject matter-such as the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan and the Middle East and the everyday presence of guns in American life-both for its inherent content and metaphoric possibilities, Polke has created a cohesively thematic yet ingeniously diverse group of monumental paintings and large-scale drawings. The source materials for these images are often drawn from American and European newspapers, magazines, and books. All of this work by Polke reflects a fiercely intelligent yet remarkably accessible interpretation of how we perceive and misperceive the social, political, and aesthetic worlds that we live in. In the text, Charles Wylie discusses how Polke's recent work presents a coherent visual essay on the literal and symbolic construction of images. Noted art critic Dave Hickey provides an interpretive essay on the artist and these new works. Both essays are interspersed with a valuable compendium of Polke's source materials.
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Sigmar Polke: History of Everything, Paintings and Drawings 1998-2003
John R.; Wylie, Charles; Hickey, Dave Lane Manufacturer: Dallas Museum of Art ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OSJEZ0 |
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Sigmar Polke: History of Everything, Paintings and Drawings, 1998-2003
Sigmar Polke Manufacturer: Dallas Museum of Art ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000N678V0 |
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