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Know and Grow the Value of Your Business: An Owner's Guide to Retiring Rich

Apress, 2013

A woman looking to retire said to author and valuation expert Tim McDaniel, “I need to sell my business for $2.5 million to support my country club lifestyle.” The reality was that her business was worth $750,000. How could she have been so wrong? As McDaniel—a veteran of over 2,000 valuation engagements and dozens of...

Building the Infrastructure for Cloud Security: A Solutions View (Expert's Voice in Internet Security)

Apress, 2014

For cloud users and providers alike, security is an everyday concern, yet there are very few books covering cloud security as a main subject. This book will help address this information gap from an Information Technology solution and usage-centric view of cloud infrastructure security. The book highlights the...

Temporal Information Systems in Medicine

Springer, 2010

Temporal Information Systems in Medicine introduces the engineering of information systems for medically-related problems and applications. The chapters are organized into four parts; fundamentals, temporal reasoning & maintenance in medicine, time in clinical tasks, and the display of time-oriented clinical information. The chapters are...

Digital Video Concepts, Methods, and Metrics: Quality, Compression, Performance, and Power Trade-off Analysis

Apress, 2014

Digital Video Concepts, Methods, and Metrics: Quality, Compression, Performance, and Power Trade-off Analysis is a concise reference for professionals in a wide range of applications and vocations. It focuses on giving the reader mastery over the concepts, methods and metrics of digital video coding, so that readers have sufficient...

Privacy and Big Data

O'Reilly, 2011

Much of what constitutes Big Data is information about us. Through our online activities, we leave an easy-to-follow trail of digital footprints that reveal who we are, what we buy, where we go, and much more. This eye-opening book explores the raging privacy debate over the use of personal data, with one undeniable conclusion: once...

Data Science for Business: What you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking

O'Reilly, 2013

Written by renowned data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business introduces the fundamental principles of data science, and walks you through the "data-analytic thinking" necessary for extracting useful knowledge and business value from the data you collect. This guide also helps you...

Being Right or Making Money

John Wiley & Sons, 2014

STAY A STEP AHEAD OF THE MARKETS BY REJECTING GUESSES ABOUT THE FUTURE AND TRUSTING TECHNIQUES THAT WORK

Today there are as many investment opinions as there are people. But as many a scorned investor can attest, predicting the future isn't easy. In fact, Being Right or Making Money, Third...

The Handbook of Commodity Investing (Frank J. Fabozzi Series)

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Filled with a comprehensive collection of information from experts in the commodity investment industry, this detailed guide shows readers how to successfully incorporate commodities into their portfolios. Created with both the professional and individual investor in mind, The Handbook of Commodity Investments covers a wide range of...

The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You'll Ever Need: The Way Smart Money Invests Today

St Martin Press, 2005

Investment professional Larry E. Swedroe describes the crucial difference between "active" and "passive" mutual funds, and tells you how you can win the investment game through long-term investments in such indexes as the S&P 500 instead of through the active buying and selling of stocks.

A revised...

International Investments (The Addison-Wesley Series in Finance)

Addison Wesley, 2003

Almost thirty years ago, Bruno Solnik published an article entitled "Why not diver. sify internationally rather than domestically?" in the Financial Analysts Journal Uuly/August 1974). At the time, US. pension funds had never invested outside of the United States. The situation was not very different in most other countries...

Rails Crash Course: A No-Nonsense Guide to Rails Development

No Starch Press, 2014

Rails is a robust, flexible development platform that lets you build complex websites quickly. Major websites like GitHub, Hulu, and Twitter have run Rails under the hood, and if you know just enough HTML and CSS to be dangerous, Rails Crash Course will teach you to harness Rails for your own projects and create web...

Valuing and Selling Your Business: A Quick Guide to Cashing In

Apress, 2014

In Valuing and Selling Your Business: A Quick Guide to Cashing In, author and valuation expert Tim McDaniel, a veteran of over 2,000 valuation engagements and dozens of M&A deals, covers the essentials in a short value-packed book of valuing and selling your business for an acceptable price. And if the valuation doesn't...

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