MyLanguageLeaderLab provides an online learning environment where teachers can assign tasks for students to complete outside of class. Grades from these activities are automatically placed in the student gradebook for the teacher to view. This enables the teacher to review homework before the next c[...]
Walter Irving Scott may have been the greatest card shark ever. In 1930, Scott bamboozled a room full of New York's finest card manipulators by dealing himself winning poker hands from a shuffled deck, one of his many tricks. He liked to say that he "cheated the cheats." His skill with cards was ext[...]
"Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, 1st European Edition", brings to life the modern-day core principles of corporate finance using a problem solving approach. The book is an adaptation of the highly successful "Fundamentals of Corporate Finance" text by Ross, Westerfield and Jordan and is aimed spe[...]
A magnet for bullies at school, Jon Finkel grew up heckled and hazed until he discovered the trading-card game Magic: The Gathering. As Magic exploded from nerdy obsession into the mainstream, the teenage Finkel emerged as its first world champion. The young shark - now known to his friends and riva[...]
"The Penguin Book of Card Games" is the authoritative up-to-date compendium, describing an abundance of games to be played both for fun and by serious players. Auctions, trumpless hands, cross-ruffing and lurching: card players have a language all of their own. From games of high skill (Bridge) to g[...]
Authoritative and substantiveâ yet accessibleâArt Past, Art Present, 6th edition looks at the historical and cultural contexts of art works and architecture around the world from prehistoric times to the 20th century. The authors recognized the need for an easy-to-use format that is accessible[...]
Buchanan and Huczynski bring their well-known and successful brand of critical thinking, social science underpinning, and visual appraisal to bear in this comprehensive introduction to organizational behaviour. Now in its 7th edition, this highly successful textbook has been substantially updated to[...]
This package consists of the textbook plus an access kit for MyMathLab/MyStatLab. Stats: Data and Models, Third Edition, will intrigue and challenge students by encouraging them to think statistically and by emphasizing how statistics helps us understand the world. Praised by students and instructor[...]
Filled with hundreds of stunning examples of successful two dimensional design, this how-to book explains design theory and gives you the tools necessary so you can create successful designs yourself. DESIGN BASICS presents art fundamentals concepts in full two- to four-page spreads, making the text[...]
Large IT organizations increasingly face the challenge of integrating various web services, applications, and other technologies into a single network. The solution to finding a meaningful large-scale architecture that is capable of spanning a global enterprise appears to have been met in ESB, or En[...]
David Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with their pathbreaking research on the minimum wage. Here they present a powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce jobs for low-wage workers. In a work that has important implications for public po[...]
Describes how a group of young "nerds," led by underdog hero Jon Finkel, a.k.a. Jonny Magic, used the techniques they learned from fantasy games to conquer underground poker clubs, online casinos, card counting, blackjack, and the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Reprint.[...]
Writing specifically for the intermediate level magician, David Ritchey presents 26 Card Tricks in clear, precise, easy-to-follow detail. He also provides refreshers for the techniques required to perform all of those tricks, and offers suggestions for creating routines by combining some of the tric[...]