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Handbook of Numerical Methods in Finance
George A. Anastassiou , S.T. Rachev , and Birkhauser Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Boston ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0817632190 |
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The subject of numerical methods in finance has recently emerged as a new discipline at the intersection of probability theory, finance, and numerical analysis. The methods employed bridge the gap between financial theory and computational practice, and provide solutions for complex problems that are difficult to solve by traditional analytical methods. Although numerical methods in finance have been studied intensively in recent years, many theoretical and practical financial aspects have yet to be explored. This volume presents current research and survey articles focusing on various numerical methods in finance.
Key topics: methodological issues, i.e., genetic algorithms, neural networks, Monte–Carlo methods, finite difference methods, stochastic portfolio optimization, as well as the application of other computational and numerical methods in finance and risk management. The book is designed for the academic community and will also serve professional investors.
Contributors: K. Amir-Atefi, Z. Atakhanova, A. Biglova, O.J. Blaskowitz, D. D’Souza, W.K. Härdle, I. Huber, I. Khindanova, A. Kohatsu-Higa, P. Kokoszka, M. Montero, S. Ortobelli, E. Özturkmen, G. Pagès, A. Parfionovas, H. Pham, J. Printems, S. Rachev, B. Racheva-Jotova, F. Schlottmann, P. Schmidt, D. Seese, S. Stoyanov, C.E. Testuri, S. Trück, S. Uryasev, and Z. Zheng.
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Breakthrough Partnering: Creating a Collective Enterprise Advantage (Executive Breakthrough)
Patricia E. Moody Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0471131997 |
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Using first-person narratives, powerful examples and penetrating insights, Moody demonstrates how dozens of top companies are blazing the way in supplier partnering to leverage their combined resources, innovative talent and market position to achieve remarkable results. She describes the entire process of developing new, long-term relationships with suppliers based on a proven blueprint that will enable organizations to benchmark the best enterprises, develop appropriate partnering systems, create and sustain communication with each partner and continually energize partnerships through committed company leadership.Customer Reviews:
An excellent book for all those who can listen and learn.......1999-08-23
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loaded with contemporary examples of supplier partnerships.......1999-01-24
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Research in Law and Sociology: An Annual Compilation of Research (Studies in Law, Politics & Society)
Manufacturer: JAI Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0892320249 |
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The Secret Life of Compost: A "How-To" & "Why" Guide to Composting-Lawn, Garden, Feedlot or Farm
Malcolm Beck , and Charles Walters Manufacturer: Acres U.S.A. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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We don't need to poison the earth in order to grow better food, and what is harmful to the environment when improperly disposed of often can be turned back to the soil in a beneficial way through composting if you know how. Here's how. Malcolm Beck's Garden-Ville is one of the largest commercial composting operations in the country. He shares his insight into the processes of decay that can transform everything from lawn trimmings to sewer sludge into life-giving earth. Coupled with Beck's insight into nature and practical advice are remarks from Charles Walters, author, founder of Acres U.S.A.
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Why Cows Learn Dutch: And Other Secrets Of The Amish Farm
Randy James Manufacturer: Kent State University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0873388232 |
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Catchy title, but disappointing.......2006-08-14
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Why Do Roosters Crow?: First Questions and Answers About the Farm (Time-Life Library of First Questions and Answers)
Time-Life Books Manufacturer: Time-Life Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0374483841 |
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Back from the Land: How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s, and Why They Came Back
Eleanor Agnew Agnew Manufacturer: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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When Eleanor Agnew, her husband, and two young children moved to the Maine woods in 1975, the back-to-the-land movement had already attracted untold numbers of converts who had grown increasingly estranged from mainstream American society. This is their story, in all its glories and agonies, its triumphs and disasters (many of them richly amusing), told by a woman who experienced the simple life firsthand but has also read widely and interviewed scores of people who went back to the land. Most of them, it turns out, came back from freedom and self-sufficiency, either by returning to urban life or by dressing up their primitive rural existence--but they held onto the values they gained during their back-to-the-land experience.Customer Reviews:
A blast from the past ..........2007-03-07
Honest.......2006-06-26
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back from the land and happy about it.......2005-01-02
A Real Wet Blanket for Wanna Be Homesteaders!.......2004-12-28
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Why Do Cows Moo?: And other farm animal questions (Questions and Answers Storybook)
Catherine Ripley Manufacturer: Maple Tree Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1895688787 |
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The American cropland crisis: Why U.S. farmland is being lost and how citizens and governments are trying to save what is left
Wendell Fletcher Manufacturer: American Land Forum ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0960789804 |
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The farming fiasco: Why New Zealand, our farmers, and the world's poor all lose out
David Yerex Manufacturer: GP Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 1869560566 |
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THE LEACOCK ROUNDABOUT - A Treasury of the Best Works: Humour as I See It; My Financial Career; The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias; How We Kept Mother's Day; Why I Am Leaving My Farm; With the Photographer; First Call for Spring; Buggam Grange
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Nook Farm
Joseph Van Why Manufacturer: UNSPECIFIED VENDOR ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000UCKGDO |
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Modern methods for the separation of rarer metal ions
Johann Korkisch Manufacturer: Pergamon Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0080129218 |
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Modern Methods for the Separation of Rarer Metal Ions
Johann Korkisch Manufacturer: Pergamon Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OGPLKE |
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Geology and Seismic Stratigraphy of the Antarctic Margin (Antarctic Research Series)
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Geology and Seismic Stratigraphy of the Antarctic Margin, 2.
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Geology and Seismic Stratigraphy of the Antarctic Margin, 2.
Peter F. Barker Manufacturer: Barker, Peter F. and Alan K. Cooper (eds). Geology and Seismic Stratigraphy of the Antarctic Margin, 2. (Antarctic Research Series, Volume 71.) Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union, 1997. Hardcover. 8.25" X 10.75"] 187pp. As new condition. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000TADGL6 |
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Dynamics of Bubbles, Drops and Rigid Particles (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications)
Z. Zapryanov , and S. Tabakova Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0792353471 |
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This book considers the main hydrodynamic aspects of the dynamics of bubbles, drops and rigid particles with a special emphasis on the deformations and hydrodynamic interactions between fluid particles in uniform or shear flows and hydrodynamic interactions between rigid spherical particles in an oscillatory flow. There is no other published book to date which reveals these topics in the described manner.Customer Reviews:
Perfect!.......2001-03-06
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The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams (Bernie Rhodenbarr Mysteries)
Lawrence Block Manufacturer: HarperTorch ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0060731443 Release Date: 2005-10-25 |
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Bernie Rhodenbarr is actually trying to earn an honest living. It's been an entire year since he's entered anyone's abode illegally to help himself to their valuables. But now an unscrupulous landlord's threat to increase Bernie's rent by 1,000% is driving the bookseller and reformed burglar back to a life of crime -- though, in all fairness, it's a very short trip. And when the cops wrongly accuse him of stealing a priceless collection of baseball cards, Bernie's stuck with a worthless alibi since he was busy burgling a different apartment at the time . . . one that happened to contain a dead body locked inside a bathroom.
So Bernie has a dilemma. He can trade a burglary charge for a murder rap. Or he can shuffle all the cards himself and try to find the joker in the deck -- someone, perhaps, who believes that homicide is the real Great American Pastime.
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Bernie Rhodenbarr is actually trying to earn an honest living. It's been an entire year since he's entered anyone's abode illegally to help himself to their valuables. But now an unscrupulous landlord's threat to increase Bernie's rent by 1,000% is driving the bookseller and reformed burglar back to a life of crime -- though, in all fairness, it's a very short trip. And when the cops wrongly accuse him of stealing a priceless collection of baseball cards, Bernie's stuck with a worthless alibi since he was busy burgling a different apartment at the time . . . one that happened to contain a dead body locked inside a bathroom.
So Bernie has a dilemma. He can trade a burglary charge for a murder rap. Or he can shuffle all the cards himself and try to find the joker in the deck -- someone, perhaps, who believes that homicide is the real Great American Pastime.
"Customer Reviews:
Fast, fun, and breezy.......2006-09-13
Everyone knows everyone.......2005-01-30
The mystery is as addictive as Bernie's burgling.......2004-12-15
My favorite of the serise.......2004-04-08
in this particular edition of the serise berny Rosenbar is doing all he can to resist the temtation of breaking and entering. When a new landlord rasies the price of the rent he really doesn't have a chocie, he wants to remian honest but he also wants to keep his store.
What you end up getting in the end is a great book with hilarious charecters. I recommend to all.
Bernie Burgles Again . . . and Again . . . and Again!.......2003-05-21
So much for explaining the concept of the series. The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams is the sixth book in the series. I strongly suggest that you begin the series by reading Burglars Can't Be Choosers and follow it up with The Burglar in the Closet, The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza, The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling, and The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian. Each story in the series adds information and characters in a way that will reduce your pleasure of the others if read out of order. Although, I originally read them out of order and liked them well enough. I'm rereading them now in order, and like it much better this way. The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart comes next in the series.
As this book opens, Bernie has been going straight . . . for almost a year. Barnegat Books, a used hard cover book store he owns and operates, has been providing his living rather than burglary. Then, he receives a double shock. His new landlord is Bordon Stoppelgard, and with his 30 year lease at an end, Mr. Stoppelgard announces that the new lease will be for $10,500 a month rather than $875. How can Bernie afford that? He can't. Then, Stoppelgard comes into Barnegat Books to buy a first edition of Sue Grafton's "B" Is for Burglar for $80 plus tax. Bernie tries to refuse him the sale, but Stoppelgard insists, slapping a hundred-dollar bill on the counter. Then he laughs at Bernie for selling a five-hundred-dollar book for so little.
But Bernie's sorely tempted to burgle again . . . both for the money and the thrills he gets from burglary. That temptation is particularly great just now because Bernie knows that the wealthy Martin Gilmartins will be out for the evening. Bernie does his best to avoid temptation . . . and succeeds. His only slip is to call Mr. Gilmartin from Carolyn Kaiser's apartment to ask him how he liked the show . . . a call that can be traced by the police when Mr. Gilmartin discovers a burglary has been committed and valuable baseball cards are missing. Bernie's alibi isn't very good because he decides to go out after leaving Carolyn. Someone might think he was visiting a fence to sell the baseball cards. What to do?
Most people will find The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams to be the very best book in the series. The plot is deliciously complicated and unusual. There are mysteries galore to solve, and it's not clear until near the end who did what to whom. The satirical references to mystery novels and novelists are priceless (these include wickedly twisted misstatements of Sue Grafton titles and stories, and a hilarious sequence about cats solving mysteries referring to the Lillian Jackson Braun books). The book also introduces Raffles, Bernie's new mouse-exterminating-assistant cat who is always on the paper chase, and Carolyn's offbeat theories about women and cats. The baseball card trivia about the Chalmers Mustard Ted Williams set will delight any collector or fan. The comic sequences had me laughing out loud as Bernie finds unexpected surprises as he employs his burglary talents. Bernie also discovers a new source of income which most readers would not have anticipated. Some of the new characters will also amuse or delight you, even though they are only in this book. In essence, there's enough good material in this book for four excellent novels. And it's all nicely pulled together.
How will Bernie save the store? Who took the baseball cards? How will Bernie solve the other puzzles in the book? You are making a big mistake if you don't read this book!
The theme of this book is whether honesty or dishonesty pays better . . . and why. Where do you see dishonest people doing better than honest ones now? Will that continue? Why or why not?
Donald Mitchell
Co-author of The 2,000 Percent Solution, The Irresistible Growth Enterprise and The Ultimate Competitive Advantage
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The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
Lawrence Block Manufacturer: Recorded Books, Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette ASIN: 0788772805 |
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Bernie's rent has gone up, way up. There is only one way to meet the rent, but the burglary goes wrong.Customer Reviews:
Extremely Involved Plot.......2007-03-25
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3 Titles By Lawrence Block Bernie Rhodenbarr Series : Burglars Can't Be Choosers The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart
Lawrence Block Manufacturer: Onyx ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000QIX4EA |
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The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
Lawrence Block Manufacturer: Dutton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NY53XM |
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THE BURGLAR WHO TRADED TED WILLIAMS - A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery
Lawrence Block Manufacturer: E. P. Dutton - Dutton Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000GW494K |
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Lawrence Block Manufacturer: PENGUIN PUTNAM * TRADE ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UDDO28 |
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The BURGLAR WHO TRADED TED WILLIAMS.
Lawrence. [Bibliomystery]. Block Manufacturer: Dutton, ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MYUVVW |
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