"Fundamentals of Engineering Economics, 1st Edition provides streamlined topical coverage with a modern and pedagogically-rich presentation. This text features a tight integration of Excel along with a wealth of real world vignettes to reinforce how students will use economics in their future career[...]
In July 1962, in an effort to preserve an accurate record of Presidential decision-making in a highly charged atmosphere of conflicting viewpoints, strategies and tactics, John F. Kennedy installed hidden recording systems in the Oval Office and in the Cabinet Room. The result is a priceless histori[...]
A fresh look at the numbers of daily living, particularly in light of current economic troubles, where modern economic practices, mathematical concepts, and everyday moral dilemmas are discussed.[...]
The American Dream has long been a dominant theme in U.S. culture, one with enduring significance, but these are difficult times for dreamers. The editors of and contributors to The American Dream in the 21st Century examine the American Dream historically, socially, and economically and consider it[...]
A Revision Guide from the team that bought you OCR GCSE Mathematics A Foundation Student's Book.
A Revision Guide from the team that brought you OCR GCSE Mathematics A Higher Student's Book.
If you're an experienced programmer interested in crunching data, this book will get you started with machine learning--a toolkit of algorithms that enables computers to train themselves to automate useful tasks. Authors Drew Conway and John Myles White help you understand machine learning and stati[...]
When looking for ways to improve your website, how do you decide which changes to make? And which changes to keep? This concise book shows you how to use Multiarmed Bandit algorithms to measure the real-world value of any modifications you make to your site. Author John Myles White shows you how thi[...]
When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for "a new Bretton Woods" to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of 44 nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of t[...]
Gazala was Rommel's greatest victory in World War II (1939-1945). After a period of stalemate in the desert war, during which both the British Eighth Army and the Afrika Korps had rested and regrouped, he carried out a daring flanking movement around the strong Allied defensive position. The British[...]
The only book to tackle both Darwin's theories and his extraordinary life, in complementary chapters which reveal how the science is inseparable from the man[...]
Article and talks, many of them from the White Eagle Lodge magazine Stella Polaris, where they carried the title 'The White Eagle Cathar'. Colum suggests that although the title Cathar meant little to the followers of the mediaeval heresy, it offers a suggestion of a collection of beliefs and ideals[...]
Boka forteller om livet til vitenskapsmannen Stephen Hawking. Boka gir ett innblikk i både privatlivet til Hawking, og i hans karriere som forsker innenfor teoretisk fysikk og astrofysikk. Den setter vitenskapen inn i en menneskelig sammenheng, og viser hvordan vitenskap og liv er uløselig knytta [...]
Nu finns åtta titlar med längre och litet svårare läsning i Vingböckerna! Vingböckerna steg 13 och 14 är i första hand avsedda för undervisning om läsförståelsestrategier. Vingböckerna steg 13 och steg 14 omfattar: 4 olika böcker på varje steg Steg 13: 48 sidor och o[...]
This edited volume is a compilation of the analyses written by East Asian Institute experts on Hong Kong since the handover. It covers most, if not all the important events that have taken place in Hong Kong since 1997, including its economic integration and relations with China, its governance conu[...]