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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - PRAISE FOR HEDGEHOGGING'Barton Biggs writes about markets with grater style, clarity, and insight than any other observer of the Wall Street scene. his new book, Hedgehogging, entertains immensely even as it provides countless valuable lessons regarding hedge funds and the investment world they inhabit.' - David F. Swensen, Chief Investment Officer, Yale University'Since the glory days of the tech bubble, investing has become a perilous enterprise. Not the least for those running money in the proliferating hedge fund business. In hedgehogging, Biggs offers a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes at the personalities and egos making decisions about the enormous sums being dumped en masse into these funds. This book is great, It's full of personal anecdotes and critical insights from an insider's insider. You should not even consider giving money to anyone on Wall Street ever again until you've read this book.' - Addison Wiggin, Agora Financial LLC, author of the New York Times bestseller The Demise of the Dollar, and coauthor of Empire of DebtRare is the Opportunity to chat with a legendary figure and hear the unvarnished truth about what really goes on behind the scenes. Hedgehogging represents just such an opportunity, allowing you to step inside the world of Wall Street with Barton Biggs as he discusses investing in general, hedge funds in particular, and how he has learned to find and profit from the best moneymaking opportunities in an eat-what-you-kill, cutthroat investment world.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - DO-IT-YOURSELFHere's the fun and easy way to start building circuits for your projectsHave you ever wanted to build your own electronic device Put together a thermostat or an in-line fuse, or repair a microphone cable This is the book for you! Inside you'll find the tools and techniques you need to build circuits, with illustrated, step-by-step directions to help accomplish tasks and complete projects.As you accomplish the tasks throughout the book, you'll construct many projects while learning the key circuitbuilding principles and techniques. Find out about measuring and testing, maintenance and troubleshooting, cables, connectors, how to test your stuff, and more.Stuff You Need to Know\*The tools you need and how to use them\*How to make sense of schematics and printed circuit boards\*Basic techniques for creating any circuit\*How to make and repair cables and connectors\*Testing and maintenance procedures.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise for Edison on Innovation'In Edison on Innovation, Alan Axelrod deconstructs the myth of the lone American inventor, Thomas A. Edison. Axelrod's insights into Edison's creative process offer many practical tips for anyone about to embark on the all-consuming creative process of starting a company or building a better mousetrap.'-Steve Hindy, founder and president of the Brooklyn Brewery and coauthor, Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery'Creativity can be practiced. Children do it all the time in free play. It can also be harnessed for adult invention and innovation. Edison did it successfully for sixty years, and Alan Axelrod shows how in practical, easy-to-read fashion. Adopting even some of Edison's principles can lead to greater success in almost any enterprise, for-profit and not-for-profit alike.'-G. Rollie Adams, president and CEO, Strong National Museum of Play'In Edison on Innovation, Alan Axelrod not only examines the means and methods by which the 'Wizard of Menlo Park' created over a thousand inventions-including some that built modern civilization-he invites you to try them for yourself. What's more, he shows you how. A fascinating, very stimulating, and eminently useful book.'-Charles Phillips, American Journal of Play.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the 2010 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology (Honors of the CAPE specialty group (Cultural and Political Ecology)).

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Every entrepreneur needs a mentor.If you want to build your own business, there's no better way to improve your chance of success than by following the proven advice of someone who has already walked the same path. Some lessons you have to learn the hard way, but there's no reason you can't avoid the big miscalculations that can doom your business from the start.In Simply Success, Jack Miller, founder and former CEO of the Quill Corporation, shares his insights and advice on what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur and how you can avoid costly missteps along the way. Short of your own, full-time business mentor, this is as close as you can get to watching a real entrepreneur make growth and success a daily reality. There's no substitute for experience-Simply Success is the next best thing.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Many people believe that the key to success in the stock market is buying low and selling high. But how many investors have the time, talent, and luck to earn consistent returns this way In The Ultimate Dividend Playbook: Income, Insight, and Independence for Today s Investor , Josh Peters, editor of the monthly Morningstar DividendInvestor newsletter, shows you why you don t have to try to beat the market and how you can use dividends to capture the income and growth you seek.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Up-to-date information on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act legislationSarbanes-Oxley For Dummies, Second Edition includes 25 percent new content, with coverage of not only the new and revised laws, but also compliance strategies for changed and unchanged guidelines, including expanded coverage of the most challenging aspects of SOX, objective guidance for deciding if staying public or going private is right for a company, privatization guidelines for companies that choose to privatize, and tips on managing financial impacts and benefits in the initial compliance year and beyond. It also provides an implementation framework for firms struggling for compliance and explains key provisions in the legislation. In addition, this straight-to-the-point guide presents a summary of best practices, smart business policies, and invaluable compliance checklists. Jill Gilbert Welytok JD, CPA, (Milwaukee, WI) is an attorney and head of her firm's SOX division.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise for Team Players and Teamwork'In the new edition of Team Players and Teamwork Glenn Parker updates his landmark compendium on the essential effect of cross-functional teamwork to encompass the added complexities of globalization facing team leaders and team members in the twenty-first century. Anyone participating on or managing members of a cross-functional team will benefit from reading this essential guide to successful teamwork.'-Jeffrey W. Warmke, vice president, global project management and leadership, Daiichi Sankyo Pharma Development'Glenn Parker has the unique combination of sound thinking and clear writing. In his recent version of Team Players and Teamwork he succeeds in taking this combination of skills to a higher level.'-Sivasilam 'Thiagi' Thiagarajan, president, Workshops by Thiagi, Inc.'Glenn's book is a must-read for team leaders and team members who are looking for a comprehensive set of tools and ideas to help teams perform more effectively. Glenn offers practical wisdom-based on years of first-hand experience-that is unparalleled in the field of team dynamics.'-Robert Hoffman, executive director, organization development and talent management, oncology business unit, Norvartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Make the jump from residential investing to high-profit commercial properties.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe examines intra-European Union migration in the cities of Amsterdam, London and Brussels.Based on sixty in-depth interviews of free moving European citizens, and more than five years of ethnographic and documentary research, it uncovers the rarely studied human dimension of European integrationExamines the mobility, lifestyle and career opportunities created by the borderless society of the European Union, as well as the barriers that still persistAnalyses the new migration trends, challenges to the welfare state, and forms of urban cosmopolitanism linked to processes of European integration.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Since well before the Enlightenment theorists have been philosophizing about how best to educate children. Across the Western world intensified government involvement suggests that the arena of early childhood education has taken on greater social, political, and economic significance. Philosophy of Early Childhood Education: Transforming Narratives offers a sobering and insightful critical analysis of the many competing and conflicting theories of early childhood education.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Companion Web site has sample code and extra stuffCreate console apps, discover delegates and events, and explore interfacesC# is a powerful programming language that has become a favorite tool of Visual Studio programmers, and this friendly guide will get you up to speed on the newest version -- painlessly. Before you know it you'll be creating applications for Vista, using LINQ to simplify database code, knowing what to do with HashSets, and more.Discover how to:\*Create a console application template\*Work with loops and if statements\*Understand collection syntax\*Use interfaces and object-oriented concepts\*Apply delegates and events.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Everything You Need to Know to Enjoy the Benefits ofSwiss BankingTake action to secure your financial freedom and future now! Offshore financial specialist Hoyt Barber shows how to protect your hard-earned assets by safely and legally moving your money into trusted Swiss financial institutions.Along with timely banking advice and solid investment insights, Barber provides authoritative information on a variety of Swiss banking-related issues-from the basics of opening an account to the nuances of numerous Swiss banking and investment strategies. He includes guidance on foreign currency accounts, trust account deposits, securities trading, investment funds, futures and commodities trading, precious metal investments, margin accounts, custody service, a personal Swiss safe deposit box, and a myriad of Swiss investment alternatives that provide iron-clad asset protection-in addition to a few valuable but little-known Swiss banking strategies.His solid hands-on advice and investment ideas show how to quietly build your personal fortune and plan financially for retirement-out of the reach of the government, creditors, nasty bosses, vindictivespouses, or worse-through the Swiss banking system.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Through a series of case studies this book brings to the fore the voices, lives, and capacities of people with mental health problems as well as the difficulties they face. It effectively demonstrates the ways people with mental health problems are active in re-scripting versions of social recovery through their use of very different community spaces.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This concise book will help you to interpret the statistical evidence provided by quantitative studies and to plan how to work with data in your own clinical research. Following the successful format of the Toolkit series, Statistics Toolkit guides the reader through statistical concepts using flowcharts, diagrams and real life examples to reflect concepts in a simple and practical manner. Sections include: - - Clear explanation of basic concepts in the context of clinical research - Demonstration of how data are described, displayed and interpreted in different formats - Practical glossary and key to the symbols used in statistics and a discussion of the software tools The book offers a handy, quick reference that has an easy-to-follow structure throughout, making it ideal for health care professionals and students.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - New and thoroughly updated, Epistemology: An Anthology continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in the theory of knowledge.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A History of the Hellenistic World provides an engaging look at the Macedonian monarchies in the period following the reign of Alexander the Great, and examines their impact on the Greek world.\* Offers a clearly organized narrative with particular emphasis on state and governmental structures\* Makes extensive use of inscriptions in translation to illustrate the continuing vitality of the Greek city states prior to the Roman conquest\* Emphasizes the specific Macedonian origins of all active participants in the creation of the Hellenistic world\* Highlights the relationships between Greek city-states and Macedonian monarchies.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A practical guide to leveraging open source in businessThe law of open source is complex and constantly changing. Some legal issues related to it are thorny and undecided. Those called upon to make decisions about open source have found little information to guide them in traditional legal materials . . . until now. Author Heather Meeker-voted one of the top thirty intellectual property lawyers in California-brings her ten years of extensive involvement in open source legal issues to bear in The Open Source Alternative-a practical resource to help you implement open source intelligently, without compromising the value of your intellectual property or stepping into a potential lawsuit.Written in plain English for both lawyers and professionals, The Open Source Alternative provides an accessible discussion of the different licensing strategies to consider with open source. This invaluable reference tool for CIOs, CFOs, IT managers, auditors, and attorneys, as well as all interested professionals, provides you with the background and tools you need to understand this area of law and develop your own conclusions and best practices. Divided into two parts-leveraging opportunities and understanding risks-the book explores: the rules of the road for use of open source in proprietary products, assessing legal risk of using open source, how to understand and leverage patents and trademarks in the open source landscape, and developing policies for use of open source in your business.Formulating best practices in open source development requires familiarity with a complex set of facts and industry practices, as well as the political, business, and legal principles behind them. The Open Source Alternative is a must-read for any professional who needs to stay on top of this rapidly changing field.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Original and comprehensive, Magic in the Ancient Greek World takes the reader inside both the social imagination and the ritual reality that made magic possible in ancient Greece. - - Explores the widespread use of spells, drugs, curse tablets, and figurines, and the practitioners of magic in the ancient world - Uncovers how magic worked. Was it down to mere superstition Did the subject need to believe in order for it to have an effect - Focuses on detailed case studies of individual types of magic - Examines the central role of magic in Greek life.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written by leading experts in the field, Social Theories of Risk and Uncertainty is an introduction to mainstream theorizing on risk and uncertainty in sociology. - - Provides an overview of the historical developments and conceptual aspects of risk - Identifies why theorizing on risk is necessary and highlights specific sociological contributions to this field of research - Explores key topics including risk society and reflexive modernization, culture and risk, governmentality and risk, systems theory and risk, and edgework and voluntary risk taking - Offers a comprehensive look at the promises, pitfalls, and perspectives of risk theorizing.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is an engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, its history, and its reception in the contemporary world. Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political, and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this major contribution to debates about English identity, leading theorist Robert J.C. Young argues that Englishness was never really about England at all. In the nineteenth century, it was rather developed as a form of long-distance identity for the English diaspora around the world. Young shows how the effects of this continue to reverberate today, nationally and globally.Written by an internationally established theorist, whose work has been translated into 20 languagesShows how potent the idea of Englishness isHelps to explain why the UK continues to act as if it has a 'special relationship' to the USHelps to explain why the UK is so successfully multiculturalPart of the prestigious Blackwell Manifestos series.