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...
I first had the idea of writing this book when I was in my senior year as an undergraduate at Williams College. I had just read Robert Heilbroner's book, The Worldly Philosophers (1972), for a class on the history of economic thought. In his book, Heilbroner brings the field of economics to life by showing how the theories of the major economists...
Get your finances in order quickly with this completely updated Quicken guide!
In this newest edition of his perennial favorite guide, financial expert and bestselling author Stephen Nelson shows how taking control of your finances can be quick and effortless with Quicken, the number one personal finance software on the...
This completely revised and updated edition of Applied Risk Analysis includes new case studies in modeling risk and uncertainty as well as a new risk analysis CD-ROM prepared by Dr. Mun. On the CD-ROM you'll find his Risk Simulator and Real Options Super Lattice Solver software as well as many useful spreadsheet models.
What principled business leaders can do to solve America's current financial crisis
Broke is a startling wake-up call for America and an honest accounting of what our future holds if we don't take charge and change our country for the better. If the business of America is business, then it's up to our business...
An Introduction to International Health crafts an intricate history of of overseas aid and an intense look at the determinants of population health, poverty, developing world debt and malnutrition. Solutions are examined via primary health care strategies, poverty alleviation, developing world relief, as well as human rights...
The economies of the European countries are still in recession, the development process is at a standstill, companies are facing financial difficulties, and the EU’s monetary policy is tight and focused on lowering inflation. The fiscal problems and high debt levels of the northern European countries are of great importance, and they...
The first three editions of this book had Michel Hersen and Samuel M. Turner as its
editors. After Sam’s untimely death, Michel invited me to join the team and we coedited the fourth edition together, which was published in 2010. Now that Michel
has retired, I remain as the sole editor for this new fifth edition. That...
When we wrote Introductory Microbiology some very hard decisions had to be
made concerning the contents of the book. We were constrained by the style
of the Studies in Biology series to write a book of no more than 200 pages. In
the end, we decided that students needed a description of what microorganisms
were and how they can...
As the United States struggled to survive the recent recession, China quietly acquired a vast amount of U.S. Treasury bills and bonds. With China now holding so much of America’s debt, currency valuation issues have already caused tensions between the two superpowers. Couple this with Iran’s efforts to develop into a nuclear power...
Stochastic Optimal Control (SOC)—a mathematical theory concerned with minimizing a cost (or maximizing a payout) pertaining to a controlled dynamic process under uncertainty—has proven incredibly helpful to understanding and predicting debt crises and evaluating proposed financial regulation and risk...
In 1982, the first release of the GenBank sequence database contained 601,438 residues. By 2005, this number had grown beyond and continues to increase exponentially. Far from regarding this as “information overload”, we believe the free availability of so much precise and fundamental data on the ultimate constituents of life to be the...
