Every Friday afternoon, as her father comes home with a bouquet of flowers and two loaves of fresh-baked challah bread, a young girl knows it's time for Shabbat, the most important Jewish holiday. Shabbat celebrates the day God rested after creating the heavens, the Earth, and everything on it. On S[...]
Posing a major challenge to economic orthodoxy, "Imperfect Knowledge Economics" asserts that exact models of purposeful human behavior are beyond the reach of economic analysis. Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg argue that the longstanding empirical failures of conventional economic models stem fro[...]
Portfolio risk forecasting has been and continues to be an active research field for both academics and practitioners. Almost all institutional investment management firms use quantitative models for their portfolio forecasting, and researchers have explored models' econometric foundations, relative[...]
In the wake of the global financial crisis that began in 2007, faith in the rationality of markets has lost ground to a new faith in their irrationality. The problem, Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg argue, is that both the rational and behavioral theories of the market rest on the same fatal assu[...]
Zhang Huan has emerged as one of the most important artists of the past decade, a fearless explorer of the limits of the human body and a key figure in the flourishing Chinese art scene. His earliest performances, including 12 Square Meters, 65 Kilograms, and To Raise the Water-Level in a Fishpond, [...]
You know how it is...you're at a party, you've had a drink or two, and then someone introduces you to a friend. He's a doctor. And it seems like the perfect time to ask all those strange questions you've always wondered about, but never had the courage to ask: Can poppy seeds make you test positive [...]
Here are hundreds of questions you didn't get answered the first time around - questions you'd only ask a doctor after a few drinks! An easy-to-read blend of humour and medicine, WHY DO MEN FALL ASLEEP AFTER SEX? has plenty to amuse and inform both men and women. Find the answers to these questions [...]
In 2011, Markus Persson was a bored IT-developer in Stockholm. In the evenings, he toiled away on a labour of love: a game with a tiny but dedicated online following. It was called Minecraft and Markus released it to the world in early 2009. The game itself looks deceptively simple.[...]
In 2011, Markus Persson was a bored IT-developer in Stockholm. In the evenings, he toiled away on a labour of love: a game with a tiny but dedicated online following. It was called Minecraft and Markus released it to the world in early 2009. The game itself looks deceptively simple. It resembles a d[...]
A step by step handbook, a ready reference, and a source of practical advice. This second edition is fully illustrated with 120 full-color illustrations and 210 photographs. Contains the latest immunization schedules, cord blood banking and emergency procedures, including infant CPR. Larger format a[...]
A detailed review of all test topics, which include: biochemistry, the cell, cell respiration, photosynthesis, and more. Includes multiple choice and free response questions with answers at the end of each chapter. Can be purchased with an optional CD-ROM.[...]
Revised and updated to reflect the most recent AP Biology test, this set of 500 flash cards covers 20 general categories: Biochemistry, the Cell, Cell Respiration, Photosynthesis, Cell Division, Heredity, Molecular Genetics, Classification, Evolution, Plants, Nutrition, Transport, Excretion, Hormone[...]
Trees come in many forms and are shaped by a huge variety of climatic and human forces. This makes them iconic vehicles for expressing human conditions and allows for commentary on deep ecology. Artists have always been arboreal fans; some artists look at trees and see them as canvases for their par[...]
The Musical Offering dates from a visit of Bach to the court of Frederick II in Berlin, where his son Carl Philip Emmanuel was Court-Kapellmeister. The King (himself a composer maily for flute) gave Bach a theme suitable for a fugue. This was at once elaborated by him into a 3 part fugue. Later on B[...]