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A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile

Columbia University Press, 2019

The New School for Social Research opened in 1919 as an act of protest. Founded in the name of academic freedom, it quickly emerged as a pioneer in adult education?providing what its first president, Alvin Johnson, liked to call “the continuing education of the educated.” By the mid-1920s, the New School had become the place to...

The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)

Duke University Press, 2019

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...

Fundamentals of Algorithmics

Prentice Hall, 1995

This is an introductory-level algorithm book. It includes worked-out examples and detailed proofs. Presents Algorithms by type rather than application. KEY TOPICS: Includes structured material by techniques employed, not by the application area, so readers can progress from the underlying abstract concepts to the concrete application...

An Introduction to IMS(TM) : Your Complete Guide to IBM's Information Management System

IBM Press, 2004

The Only Up-to-the-Minute Guide to IMS Version 9--Straight from IBM IMS Experts

Introduces IMS, one of the world's premiere software products

Thoroughly covers key IMS functions, from security to Java support

For both new and experienced IMS...

Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process

Addison Wesley, 2012

A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process

The Single-Source, Comprehensive Guide to Scrum for All Team Members, Managers, and Executives

If you want to use...

Equidistribution in Number Theory, An Introduction

Springer, 2007

From July 11th to July 22nd, 2005, a NATO advanced study institute, as part of the series “S´eminaire de math´ematiques sup´erieures”, was held at the Universit ´e de Montr´eal, on the subject Equidistribution in the theory of numbers. There were about one hundred participants from sixteen...

The Neural Simulation Language: A System for Brain Modeling

MIT Press, 2002

The Neural Simulation Language (NSL), developed by Alfredo Weitzenfeld, Michael Arbib, and Amanda Alexander, provides a simulation environment for modular brain modeling. NSL is an object-oriented language offering object-oriented protocols applicable to all levels of neural simulation. One of NSL's main strengths is that it allows for realistic...

The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America's Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919

William Morrow, 2019

In the brutally cold winter of 1919, 5,000 Americans battled the Red Army 600 miles north of Moscow. We have forgotten. Russia has not.

"AN EXCELLENT BOOK." —Wall Street Journal • "INCREDIBLE." — John U. Bacon •...

The Driver: My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World

It Books, 2007

On his deathbed, Alex Roy's father dropped tantalizing hints about the notorious Cannonball Run of the 1970s, the utterly illegal high-speed nonstop race from New York to L.A. that was nothing at all like the one portrayed in the Burt Reynolds movie.

Inspired by his father's dying words, and against the advice of his loyal,...

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster (Lean Series)

O'Reilly, 2013

Marc Andreesen once said that "markets that don't exist don't care how smart you are." Whether you're a startup founder trying to disrupt an industry, or an intrapreneur trying to provoke change from within, your biggest risk is building something nobody wants.

Lean Analytics can help. By measuring and...

Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11

Princeton Press, 2007

In this pathbreaking book, Amy Zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11. Until now, those failures have been attributed largely to individual mistakes. But Zegart shows how and why the intelligence system itself left us vulnerable.

Zegart argues that after the Cold War...

Mechanical Trading Systems: Pairing Trader Psychology with Technical Analysis

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

In 1987 my father and I purchased a seat on the New York Futures Exchange
for $100 and established a trading account with $25,000. The goal, he explained,
was to make $2,500 a week. Although this seemed like an extraordinary
annualized return on investment, I had heard of legendary traders
who had taken meager sums and...

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