Darling of high society, creator of the "New Look", Dior shot to international fame almost overnight at the age of 47. At first his creations provoked angry accusations of unpatriotic extravagance, but women everywhere soon warmed to his hour-glass lines and long, rustling skirts. In this work, Dior's most characteristic designs...
“I like risk. I embrace risk.” -Turtle trader Curtis Faith
Risk is scary, to be sure, but it's a fundamental aspect of the investing world. Without it, profit would not exist. The trick is to accept, anticipate, manage, and mitigate risk. In other words, master it.
Contrary to popular belief, print is not dead! With all the interest in online publishing here in the 21st century, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that information is still widely disseminated through the good old medium of print.
The advent of desktop publishing granted new levels of power and control to the...
What’s the definition of a reference book? Well, I like to think of this
book as a snapshot. Sure, it’s a very heavy photograph, weighing in
at over 700 pages — but nevertheless, it captures the current state of
today’s PCs, including hardware, the most popular applications, and of
course, the latest and...
The Microsoft 70-483 exam focuses on a broad range of topics that you can use in your work
as a C# developer. This book helps you understand both the basic and the more advanced
areas of the C# language. It shows you how to use the C# language to create powerful software
applications. This book also shows you how to...
Welcome to the Microsoft Official Academic Course (MOAC) program for Gaming
Development Fundamentals. MOAC represents the collaboration between Microsoft
Learning and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Microsoft and Wiley teamed up to produce a series
of textbooks that deliver compelling and innovative teaching solutions to instructors and...
Beginning R: An Introduction to Statistical Programming is a hands-on book showing how to use the R language, write and save R scripts, build and import data files, and write your own custom statistical functions. R is a powerful open-source implementation of the statistical language S, which was developed by AT&T. R has eclipsed...
There have been two paradigm shifts since we wrote the first edition of this book. The
first major shift is that the world is now full of digital signals. Commercial television
and radio have changed from analog to digital formats. Cellular telephone signals are
digital, and even video baby monitors transmit digital signals....
Decision support systems comprise a core subject area of the information systems
(IS) discipline, being one of several major expansions that have occurred in the IS
field. The decision support system (DSS) area, as a subject of research and
practice, continues to grow along ever-widening horizons – often blending with
other...
Quality is not a fixed or universal property of software; it depends on the context and goals of its stakeholders. Hence, when you want to develop a high-quality software system, the first step must be a clear and precise specification of quality. Yet even if you get it right and complete, you can be sure that it will become invalid over...
I started using R several years ago to analyze data I had collected for my research in
graduate school. My motivation at first was to escape from the restrictive environments
and canned analyses offered by statistical programs like SPSS. And even better, because
it’s freely available, I didn’t need to...
