Risk professionals looking to earn the Financial Risk Manager (FRM™) certification, corporate training programs, professors, and graduate students all rely on one book for the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on financial risk management–the...

This book seeks to clarify factors that play an important role in securing the effectiveness of legal regimes that aim at protecting public interests of the international community. In Part 1, the authors focus on theoretical problems arising in the implementation process of those legal regimes from both a constitutional and functional...

Psychologists, Fourth Edition covers a...

The growing but still evolving success of the Android platform has ushered in a second mobile technology “gold rush” for app developers.  Google Play and Amazon Appstore for Android apps has become the second go-to apps eco for today's app developers.  While not yet as large in terms of number of apps as iTunes,...

Does your iPod go wherever you do? This book will take the two of you on your most exciting adventure–deep into iPod’s awesome potential. You already know it’s a musical prodigy, but wait 'til you teach your iPod to take notes, give you the weather and stock quotes, keep your...

Data mining has developed rapidly and has become very popular in the past two decades, but actually has its origin in the early stages of IT, then being mostly limited to one-dimensional searching in databases. The statistical basis of what is now also referred to as data mining has often been laid centuries ago. In corporate...

This book explains strategies, techniques, legal issues and the relationships between digital resistance activities, information warfare actions, liberation technology and human rights. It studies the concept of authority in the digital era and focuses in particular on the actions of so-called digital dissidents. Moving from the difference...

Digital communications technology has immeasurably enhanced our capacity to store, retrieve, and exchange information. But who controls our access to information, and who decides what others have a right to know about us? In Controlling Knowledge, author Lorna Stefanick offers a thought-provoking and eminently user-friendly overview of...

'Ototoxicity' is a compendium of information on the ototoxic potential of clinically useful drugs. Each section of this thorough text is written by a leading authority in the field. The book reviews the important classes of medications known to cause ototoxicity and their mechanisms. Clinical manifestations, what is known about...