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Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias

MIT Press, 2000

The jargon of economics and finance contains numerous colorful terms for market-asset prices at odds with any reasonable economic explanation. Examples include "bubble," "tulipmania," "chain letter," "Ponzi scheme," "panic," "crash," "herding," and "irrational...

Beautiful Teams: Inspiring and Cautionary Tales from Veteran Team Leaders

O'Reilly, 2009

What's it like to work on a great software development team facing an impossible problem? How do you build an effective team? Can a group of people who don't get along still build good software? How does a team leader keep everyone on track when the stakes are high and the schedule is tight? Beautiful Teams takes you behind the scenes with...

The Portable Machiavelli

Penguin Press, 1979

Edited and translated by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa, "The Portable Machiavelli" not only gives the casual reader a chance to read different personal and professional works of Machiavelli, but also strives to do away with many of the myths that have plagued the man's posthumous fame. For example, the famous 'the ends justifies the...

History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan

Oxford University Press, 2009

History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America examines the subjects, motives, and personal and intellectual origins of conservative historians who were also successful public intellectuals. In their search for a persuasive and wide appeal, conservatives depended until at least the 1960s upon history and historians to provide...

Principles of Network and System Administration

John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Burgess fine book … is a well-articulated introduction to a corpus of guiding principles for systems administrators … I consider this an important book … I think that Burgess will become part of the required reading for future (and current) systems administrators. Peter Salus, Usenix Association Features

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How Does One Cut a Triangle?

Springer, 2009

How Does One Cut a Triangle? is a work of art, and rarely, perhaps never, does one find the talents of an artist better suited to his intention than we find in Alexander Soifer and this book.

—Peter D. Johnson, Jr.

This delightful book considers and solves many problems in dividing...

The Concept of Capitalism

Springer, 2009

A single system of economic governance – capitalism – prevails in the world today, both in theory and in practice. Yet there is neither a standard definition of capitalism nor a theory of how it works. Moreover, the most common conception of capitalism is that of a one-level system governed by markets, i.e., supply and demand, where...

Global Energy Transformation: Four Necessary Steps to Make Clean Energy the Next Success Story

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Over the next few years, political and financial power will move in the direction of individuals, companies and nations that are able to use energy in a more efficient way. This book describes this challenge and presents a way forward by which we may achieve the goal of increased energy efficiency in the different areas that need to...

Control and Automation: International Conference, CA 2009, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference

Springer, 2010

As future generation information technology (FGIT) becomes specialized and fragmented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics in FGIT have common threads and, because of this, advances in one discipline may be transmitted to others. Presentation of recent results obtained in different disciplines encourages this interchange for the...

CISA Certified Information Systems Auditor All-in-One Exam Guide

McGraw-Hill, 2009

"All-in-One is All You Need."

CISA Certified Information Systems Auditor All in One Exam Guide

Get complete coverage of all the material included on the Certified Information Systems Auditor exam inside this comprehensive resource. Written by an IT security and audit expert, this...

Network Programming in Windows NT

Addison Wesley, 1995

Sinha explains the use of Windows and Windows NT inter-process communication methods to build applications which can communicate with their counterparts over the network. This book explores the challenges that developers face when they are developing network-aware or client/server programs within the Windows and Windows NT operating systems.

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Actor Training

Routledge, 2010

Actor Training expands on Alison Hodge’s highly-acclaimed and best-selling Twentieth Century Actor Training. This exciting second edition radically updates the original book making it even more valuable for any student of the history and practice of actor training. The bibliography is brought right up to date and many...

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