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Traders

risks, decisions, and management in financial markets

This is a book about traders in financial markets: what they do, the kind of people they are, how they perceive the world they inhabit, how they make decisions and take risks. This is also a book about how traders are managed - the best and ...

The management of tourism

The Management of Tourism considers and applies management concepts, philosophies and practices to the business of tourism. The book goes beyond a conceptual discussion of tourism, to cover management perspectives both in operational and strategic terms. It has been written to provide students with an ...

The birth of modern Turkey

th ottoman military and the march to World War I

The guide and mentor to the Ottoman military was Imperial Germany as the military developed its version of the Prussian 'School of Empire' - a set of ideas and practices which in the eyes of the officer corps saw the military as the embodiment of the ...

E-Merging media

communication and the media economy of the future

After the very successful ECC-Book on "E-conomy" this new report of the European Communication Council (ECC) analyzes from various perspectives the profound societal and economical change of the media economy, initiated by digitalization and networking. Against the background of the current media history, it highlights ...

An introduction to Markov Processes

This book provides a rigorous but elementary introduction to the theory of Markov Processes on a countable state space. It should be accessible to students with a solid undergraduate background in mathematics, including students from engineering, economics, physics, and biology. Topics covered are: Doeblin's ...

Globalization and urban development

Most research on globalization has focused on macroeconomic and economy-wide consequences. This book explores an under-researched area, the impacts of globalization on cities and national urban hierarchies, especially but not solely in developing countries. Most of the globalization-urban research has concentrated on the "global cities ...

Handbook of new institutional economics

New Institutional Economics (NIE) has skyrocketed in scope and influence over the last three decades. This first Handbook of NIE provides a unique and timely overview of recent developments and broad orientations. Contributions analyse the domain and perspectives of NIE; sections on legal institutions, political ...

Rethinking regional innovation and change

path dependency or regional breakthrough

Beyond path dependency and competitive convergence: Institutional transfer from a discourse-analytical perspective.- Tacit knowledge, path dependency and local trajectories of growth.- Regional transformation and regional disequilibrium: New knowledge economies and their discontents.- Switching ties, recombining teams: Avoiding lock-in through project organization?- Knowledge- intensive services as ...

Using SPSS for Windows

data analysis and graphics

Random number generation and Monte Carlo Methods

Monte Carlo simulation has become one of the most important tools in all fields of science. Simulation methodology relies on a good source of numbers that appear to be random. These "pseudorandom" numbers must pass statistical tests just as random samples would. Methods for producing ...

Agustine

The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid

INDEX: Preface . I. 1. The Market at the Bottom of the Pyramid . 2. Products and Services for the BOP. 3. BOP: A Global Opportunity? 4. The Private Sector Eco System. 5. Transaction Governance Capacity andThe Evolution of Bottom of the Pyramid Markets. 6. Development as ...

A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Embracing the whole of ancient history and literature over more than two thousand years, the three volumes provide a wealth of information on every significant figure mentioned by the Greek and Roman writers in the areas of history, phylosophy , mathematics, the Arts, medicine, law, geography ...

A dictionary of Greek and Roman geography

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography was the first truly comprehensive and accurate guide to the geopraphy of the ancient world. Writen by a team of leading scholars of the day, under the editorship of William Smith, the dictionary provides detailed coverage of all ...

A dictionary of Greek and Roman culture

Sir William Smith' classic work trove of information on all aspects of Greek and Roman life: music, custroms, law, medicine, food, clothing, politics, religion, trade, etc.

Enlightenment and Reform in eigteenth-century Europe

Frontiers of Ottoman studies

state, province and the west

The second volume covers Ottoman-European International Relations; Ottoman manuscripts in Europe; Ottoman-European cultural exchange and Christian influence and the advent of the Europeans. The work makes a significant contribution to diplomatic history and international relations; Ottoman geographical knowledge; the nature of Ottoman artistic and cultural ...

Frontiers of Ottoman studies

state, province and the west

Frontiers of Ottoman Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the surge in research into Ottoman history and culture over the past two decades. The first volume reflects the growing interest in the provinces, communities and cultures outside the imperial capital of Istanbul and covers four ...

Ottoman reform and Muslim regeneration

The late Ottoman period was one of enormous change. This book focuses on the evolution of Ottoman reform as it was perceived, and negotiated, from the perspectives of the capital Istanbul and of the Arab provinces of Syria, including Palestine. It also examines the close ...

Shattering tradition

custom, law and the individual in the Muslim Mediterranean

Few deny that in the Muslim world religion and law are intimately linked. However, local legal realities mean that Islamic law is often pushed out of the picture by customary law, which is usually tribal, and by state law. Shattering Tradition concentrates on customary law ...