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Invest in the future! Everything you need to capitalize on the tech revolution
Our lives are on the verge of being reshaped by advanced technology. Fast Forward Investing provides the knowledge and insight you need to build and maintain your portfolio...
From the first encounters between the Portuguese and indigenous peoples in 1500 to the current political turmoil, the history of Brazil is much more complex and dynamic than the usual representations of it as the home of Carnival, soccer, the Amazon, and samba would suggest. This extensively revised and expanded second edition of...
An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order
The ancient Greeks hard?wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a...
Up until a few years ago there were over 150 different modelling languages available to software developers. This vast array of choice however, only served to severely hinder effective communication. Therefore, to combat this, every methodologist and many companies agreed to speak the same language, hence the birth of the unified modelling...
It is widely accepted that the Viking Age (c. 800–1050) stimulated the development of long-distance, regional and local trade and exchange networks. The clearest archaeological evidence for these contacts is mainly in the form of silver artefacts predominantly found in hoards in Northern and Central Europe – the Baltic...
An introduction to the complex relationship between African Americans and the African continent
What is an “African American” and how does this identity relate to the African continent? Rising immigration levels, globalization, and the United States’ first African American president...
This collection brings together new articles by leading scholars who reappraise George Eliot in her bicentenary year as an interdisciplinary thinker and writer for our times. Here, researchers, students, teachers and the general public gain access to new perspectives on Eliot’s vast interests and knowledge, informed by the...
This book is generally about software intellectual property and specifically
about the field of software forensics. While you may never testify in a courtroom,
attempt to deduce the true owner of a valuable program, or measure the
intellectual property (IP) value of software source code, if you are at all involved
with software you...
Rich client development remains one of the most popular forms of application
development, both from a user and a developer point of view. While nobody denies
the importance of thin-client interface technologies such as HTML(5), it is clear
that consumers and enterprises alike enjoy using applications that provide a rich,...
A behind-the-scenes look at the mutual fund industry
With more than 8,000 funds, more than $8 trillion in assets, and more than 87 million individual investors at the end of 2004, mutual funds—professionally managed pooled investment vehicles that give people the opportunity to participate in the securities market without...
The First Book for People Who Want to Make Serious Money In the Stock Market Without Becoming an Expert
History has proven that the surest road to long-term wealth is through investing in the stock market. And while you don't have to be a financial genius to invest well, you do have to care enough about your money to...
