Getting your financial house in order is a big job. At first, you might even feel like you've bitten off more than you can chew. But don't give up! In How to Eat an Elephant, you'll gain vital understanding of important personal finance basics...

Risk control, capital allocation, and realistic derivative pricing and hedging are critical concerns for major financial institutions and individual traders alike. Events from the collapse of Lehman Brothers to the Greek sovereign debt crisis demonstrate the urgent and abiding need for statistical tools...

While three out of five Americans believe they are in control of their personal finances, the same number of people are not sure of such essential things as how much life, auto, or health care insurance they should carry. In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing world, making personal finance decisions is harder than ever–especially...

Financial Ratios for Executives is written specifically with today’s global executive in mind. It makes financial ratios easy to understand and use effectively. This short book will prove invaluable to both financial and non-financial executives looking for easy, intuitive methods to assess corporate health and assist in...

According to the U.S. Treasury Department's Annual...

Since the appearance in 1975 of this work, the field of combinatorial algorithms has continued its rapid evolution. We have substantially rewritten several of the chapters in order to take account of theoretical or algorithmic improvements, and to clarify the presentation.

The result has been that a number of speedups,...

From the Foreword by Mohamed A....