The Executive Mystic: Intuitive Tools For Cultivating The Winning Edge In Business

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You're about the launch a major new product. Or present a hot idea to a large group including your boss, his boss, and her boss. Or meet the new CEO of a competing company about your dream job.

You've prepared. You're confident. You're also wishing there was something you could do to stack the deck in your favor.

There is.

The first completely accessible and practical guide to getting ahead in business using intuition and other alternative techniques, The Executive Mystic reveals how to gain the highly coveted edge you need to succeed in today's hypercompetitive marketplace, proving occasion-specific tips and tools for success in nearly every business situation, including:

Preparing for a difficult meeting or hard sell

Attracting new business and increasing profitability

Scoring a new job or promotion

Creating a more productive work environment

Protecting yourself from office politics

Deflecting negativity, maximizing quality, and getting results

For anyone looking to get ahead in business, The Executive Mystic takes personal empowerment to new insights.

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This book is intended as an introduction to optimal stochastic control for continuous time Markov processes and to the theory of viscosity solutions. The authors approach stochastic control problems by the method of dynamic programming. The text provides an introduction to dynamic programming for deterministic optimal control problems, as well as to the corresponding theory of viscosity solutions. A new Chapter X gives an introduction to the role of stochastic optimal control in portfolio optimization and in pricing derivatives in incomplete markets. Chapter VI of the First Edition has been completely rewritten, to emphasize the relationships between logarithmic transformations and risk sensitivity. A new Chapter XI gives a concise introduction to two-controller, zero-sum differential games. Also covered are controlled Markov diffusions and viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. The authors have tried, through illustrative examples and selective material, to connect stochastic control theory with other mathematical areas (e.g. large deviations theory) and with applications to engineering, physics, management, and finance. In this Second Edition, new material on applications to mathematical finance has been added. Concise introductions to risk-sensitive control theory, nonlinear H-infinity control and differential games are also included.

Controlled Markov processes and viscosity solutions of nonlinear evolution (Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore)

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Controlled Markov processes and viscosity solutions of nonlinear evolution (Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore)
Wendell H. Fleming
Manufacturer: Edizioni della Normale
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Binding: Paperback

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These notes are based on a series of lectures delivered at the Scuola Normale Superiore in March 1986. They are intended to explore some connections between the theory of control of Markov stochastic processes and certain classes of nonlinear evolution equations. These connections arise by considering the dynamic programming equation associated with a stochastic control problem. Particular attention is given to controlled Markov diffusion processes on finite dimensional Euclidean space. In that case, the dynamic programming equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation of second order elliptic or parabolic type. For deterministic control the dynamic programming equation reduces to first order. From the viewpoint of nonlinear evolution equations, the interest is in whether one can find some stochastic control problem for which the given evolution equation is the dynamic programming equation. Classical solutions to first order or degenerate second order elliptic/parabolic equations with given boundary Cauchy data do not usually exist. One must instead consider generalized solutions. Viscosity solutions methods have substantially extended the theory.

Controlled Markov processes and viscosity solutions of nonlinear evolution equations (Lezioni fermiane)

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Controlled Markov processes and viscosity solutions of nonlinear evolution equations (Lezioni fermiane)
Wendell Helms Fleming
Manufacturer: Scuola normale superiore
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007BVEIY

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Representing Rape is the first feminist analysis of the language of sexual assault trials from the perspective of linguists. Susan Ehrlich argues that language is central to all legal settings - specifically sexual harassment and acquaintance rape hearings where linguistic descriptions of the events are often the only type of evidence available. Language does not simply reflect but helps to construct the character of the people and events under investigation. The book is based around a case study of the trial of a male student accused of two instances of sexual assault in two different settings: a university tribunal and a criminal trial. This case is situated within international studies on rape trials and is relevant to the legal systems of the US, Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. She shows how culturally-dominant notions about rape percolate through the talk of sexual assault cases in a variety of settings and ultimately shape their outcome. Ehrlich hopes that to understand rape trials in this way is to recognize their capacity for change. By highlighting the underlying preconceptions and prejudices in the language of courtrooms today, this important book paves the way towards a fairer judicial system for the future.

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Provides a genetic analysis of pesticide resistance in weeds, insects, and plants. Examines which genes are involved in resistance, the molecular basis of resistance, and how resistance evolves in pest populations. Examines several strategies for managing resistance to new pesticides, including ALS-inhibiting herbicides, transgenic plant/pesticides that carry the gene for Bacillus thuringiensis, and sterol biosynthesis inhibiting fungicides.

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With more than 130 color photographs and 170 drawings, this book shows how to read geological history: plate movements, earthquakes, glaciers, rivers, seas, and other forces that have shaped the earth over millions of years. Each geological region of eastern North America is described vividly and illustrated with detailed maps and cross sections. Highway tours tell where to go to find the best examples of each kind of formation.

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A good book for amateur geologists..........1999-08-11

This book is a good introduction to the overall principals of geology as well as to the specific geology of the eastern US. There's lots of diagrams, maps, photos and an easy to read text. Sections include background information about geology, the major geological features of an area and what you would see along the major highways of that area.

FIELD GUIDE TO GEOLOGY, EASTERN NORTH AMERICA, Roger Tory Peterson Field Guides, Collectors Lifetime Edition Bound in Genuine Leather

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FIELD GUIDE TO GEOLOGY, EASTERN NORTH AMERICA, Roger Tory Peterson Field Guides, Collectors Lifetime Edition Bound in Genuine Leather
David C. Roberts
Manufacturer: Easton Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000WQ4PMG

Roger Tory Peterson Field Guides: Geology Eastern North America (Lifetime Collector's Edition)

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Roger Tory Peterson Field Guides: Geology Eastern North America (Lifetime Collector's Edition)
Roger Tory Peterson
Manufacturer: The Easton Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000VBGEIU

A Field Guide to Geology: Eastern North America

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A Field Guide to Geology: Eastern North America
David C. Roberts
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HKL1O2

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Concepts, methods and techniques of statistical physics in the study of correlated, as well as uncorrelated, phenomena are being applied ever increasingly in the natural sciences, biology and economics in an attempt to understand and model the large variability and risks of phenomena. The emphasis of the book is on a clear understanding of concepts and methods, while it also provides the tools that can be of immediate use in applications. The second edition is a significant expansion over the first one which meanwhile has become a standard reference in complex system research and teaching: Probability concepts are presented more in-depth and the sections on Lévy laws and the mechanisms for power laws have been greatly enlarged. Much material has been added to the chapter on renormalisation group ideas. Further improvements can be found in the applications to earthquake or rupture models.

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very complete.......2005-08-11

As I am teaching the statistical mechanics part of a graduate class in mathematics,I was looking for a textbook on complex systems & statistical physics with derivations, intuitions, and some physical examples. I did not realize that I was looking too far --Sornette, with hom I correspond regularly, is well known for his contributions and his prolific output (actually some physicists make fun of the quantity of papers he writes). So his book did not come to mind. I once stumbled on a problem with the derivation of preferential attachments;he recommended his book, which I took with a grain a salt. After spending some time working the derivations on scalable laws, extreme value theory, renormalization groups in this book, I elected to use it as my textbook. There is no equivalent. I have a dozen such yellow manuals; this one is complete and ultimately clearest.
I do not know of a better textbook.

One of the best textbooks ever written for graduate students.......2004-04-09

Didier Sornette who is potentialy nobelisable realises with this book a great present for everybody interested to the recent progresses toward the physics of critical phenomena.
Particularly, it shows the way that some seismologists follow toward the ultimate goal to predict the event of large earthquakes. If this task was impossible yesterday,Didier Sornette shows that it is now became realisable.

A must for understanding complexity.......2001-09-06

Sornette's book is quite an achievement both in quantity and
quality. The presentation remains informal and quite readable; it reads like a physics textbook, not a math textbook. The references are very extensive (a total of 832! altogether) and they are a very valuable component of the book. In fact much of the book is about the reference material. You might choose to read the book instead of the 832 references... I think this is
the point...

There's probably nothing wrong with this book besides the fact that it throws it all at you at a high degree of sophistication and in as terse a way as possible, it seems. It's a unique and beautiful achievement but because it is so dense with information and insight, it seems every word counts for ten and you'll want to read several chapters again and again. Also, even though there is a clear unifying theme from chapter to chapter, the book simply ends almost like in the middle of a sentence. After machinegunning out 392 pages of material at research level spanning quite a few scientific fields, there is absolutely no attempt to put it all together. It's up to you to do it and it almost seems like the author is indirectly suggesting you start reading it all over again to "get it"... So, for the second edition, perhaps the author will be bold and add ten pages of wrap up material at the end so that this will read less like an atlas. Apart from that, it's the best!

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For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays.

Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los géneros literarios, desde teatro, narrativa, poesía y el ensayo.

Novelas Ejemplares I (Clasicos Castellanos)

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Novelas Ejemplares I (Clasicos Castellanos)

Manufacturer: Epasa-Calpe
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GPYARS

Novelas Ejemplares I - Rinconete y Cortadillo (Castalia didactica)

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Novelas Ejemplares I - Rinconete y Cortadillo (Castalia didactica)
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Manufacturer: Castalia Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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NOVELAS EJEMPLARES, VOLUMES I & II
Cervantes [Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]
Manufacturer: Publisher Unknown
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WR0SD0

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