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John Cleland's Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a woman of pleasure

Mayflower, 1970

I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your desires as indispensable orders. Ungracious then as the task may be, I shall recall to view those scandalous stages of my life, out of which I emerg'd, at length, to the enjoyment of every blessing in the power of love, health, and fortune to bestow; whilst yet in the flower of...

Angel Capital: How to Raise Early-Stage Private Equity Financing (Wiley Finance)

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

The number one concern of start-up entrepreneurs and growing small business
owners and managers is how to finance their venture. When the personal
financial resources of the entrepreneur are exhausted, when the
tradition of going to family and friends for “cradle equity” has been thoroughly
“worked,” and...

Semantic Web-Based Information Systems: State-of-the-Art Applications (Advances in Semantic Web and Information Systems, Vol. 1)

Cybertech Publishing, 2006

As a new generation of technologies, frameworks, concepts and practices for information systems emerge, practitioners, academicians, and researchers are in need of a source where they can go to educate themselves on the latest innovations in this area. Semantic Web Information Systems: State-of-the-Art Applications establishes value-added...

Leadership Without Excuses: How to Create Accountability and High-Performance (Instead of Just Talking About It)

McGraw-Hill, 2010

IT’S TIME FOR YOU TO INCREASE EMPLOYEE ACCOUNTABILITY—NO EXCUSES!

“Very engaging! Grimshaw and Baron provide practical coaching points on how to translate leadership intentions into results.”
DAVE HILFMAN, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, CONTINENTAL AIRLINES

“A timely collection...

Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid: New Approaches for Building Mutual Value

FT Press, 2010

During the last decade, first-generation "Base of the Pyramid" (BoP) ventures focused primarily on "finding a fortune at the BoP" by selling existing goods to and sourcing familiar products from the world's four billion poorest people. Many of these initiatives did not scale, and some failed outright. But through...

Simulation and Optimization in Finance: Modeling with MATLAB, @Risk, or VBA

John Wiley & Sons, 2010

An introduction to the theory and practice of financial simulation and optimization

In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the use of simulation and optimization methods in the financial industry. Applications include portfolio allocation, risk management, pricing, and capital budgeting under uncertainty.

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Environmental Regulations and Global Warming

Chelsea House Publications, 2009

When the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize went to former Vice President Al Gore and an international scientific body that warned of serious consequences if Earth's temperatures continue to rise, the award underscored the international concern about the Earth's changing climate. Most scientists agree that global warming is a serious threat, and...

Advances in Swarm Intelligence: First International Conference, ICSI 2010, Beijing

Springer, 2010

This book and its companion volume, LNCS vols. 6145 and 6146, constitute the proceedings of the International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2010) held in Beijing, the capital of China, during June 12-15, 2010. ICSI 2010 was the first gathering in the world for researchers working on all aspects of swarm intelligence, and...

Irresistible Apps: Motivational Design Patterns for Apps, Games, and Web-based Communities

Apress, 2014

When you create an app, a website, or a game, how do you attract users, and perhaps more importantly, how do you keep them? Irresistible Apps ...

Mastering R for Quantitative Finance

Packt Publishing, 2015

Use R to optimize your trading strategy and build up your own risk management system

About This Book

Learn to manipulate, visualize, and analyze a wide range of financial data with the help of built-in functions and programming in R

Understand the concepts of financial engineering and...

The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism

Duke University Press, 2019

In The Politics of Operations Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson investigate how capital reshapes its relation with politics through operations that enable the extraction and exploitation of mineral resources, labor, data, and cultures. They show how capital—which they theorize as a direct political actor—operates...

Venture Work: Employees in Thinly Capitalized Firms

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book contributes to the ongoing discussion around so-called precarious or venture work, as the proportion of those employed by start-ups and thinly-capitalized firms continues to grow. Filling a gap in literature, the author explores the relationship between venture co-workers and examines how they cope with economic...

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