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The visual investor

how to spot market trends

"The Visual Investor, Second Edition" breaks down technical analysis into terms that are accessible to even individual investors. Aimed at the typical investor - such as the average CNBC viewer - this book shows investors how to follow the ups and downs of stock prices by visually ...

Day trade online

Day trading can be quite lucrative, but only if you know what you are doing. As Farrell points out: 'Trading for a living is hard. Trading for a living over the Internet is even harder. There are many challenges and obstacles that confront you. Venturing ...

The Oxford handbook of economic inequality

Eds. Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan, Timothy M. Smeeding. The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality presents a new and challenging analysis of economic inequality, focusing primarily on economic inequality in highly developed countries. Bringing together the world's top scholars this comprehensive and authoritative volume contains ...

Derivatives

the key principles

This book is a practical guide to derivatives, setting out a straightforward and easily understood explanation of the basic concepts, the different types of derivative product, who uses derivatives, and why and how derivatives are used. The book explains both more established products (such as ...

Life without lawyers

liberating Americans from too much law

Americans are losing the freedom to make sense of daily choices - schools ban the game of tag, doctors waste billions in unnecessary "defensive medicine," managers are trained to avoid candor, and companies plaster inane warnings on everything: "Remove Baby Before Folding Stroller." Philip K. Howard ...

Accountability for human rights atrocities in international law

beyond the Nuremberg legacy

This book explores the promises and limitations of holding individuals accountable for violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. It analyses the principal crimes under international law, such as genocide, crimes against humanity,and war crimes, and appraises both prosecutorial and other key mechanisms ...

Practical reason in law and morality

The concept of practical reason is central to contemporary thought on ethics and the philosophy of law - acting well means acting for good reasons. Explaining this requires several stages. How do reasons relate to actions at all, as incentives and in explanations? What are values ...

The UK banking system and its regulatory and supervisory framework

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the UK banking system and its regulation in a globally integrated environment.The UK banking and financial sectors are considered through a multidisciplinary approach, where historical, institutional, economic and regulatory factors are considered in a simple yet rigorous ...

Guide to business planning

A comprehensive guide to every aspect of preparing and using a business plan. To get any new business idea off the ground or develop and better manage an existing business you must have a plan - and if you need to raise finance to fund the ...

Aid for trade

global and regional perspectives

Eds. Philippe De Lombaerde, Lakshmi Puri. Aid for Trade (AfT) has become a major item in the international trade and development discourse. This is in response to concerns expressed by developing countries in the aftermath of the formation of the WTO over their capacities to ...

The speculation economy

how finance triumphed over industry

American businesses today are obsessed with the price of their stock, and no wonder. The consequences of even a modest decrease can be so dire that some executives would rather damage their corporation's long-term health than allow quarterly returns to fall below projections. But ...

The kings and queens of Britain

This authoritative and accessible guide to the British monarchy spans the Romano-British rulers of 55 BC to the present day House of Windsor. Generously illustrated with maps, photos, paintings, and genealogies, it contains a wealth of information on the rulers of Britain, including their policies ...

Enlargement of the European Union

The development of EU enlargement has raised many thorny issues unanticipated by the framers of the EC Treaty. A significant upshot of these issues is that the concept of European identity - defined in terms of such factors as culture, history and economics - has supplanted the ...

EU dumping determinations and WTO law

The application of the antidumping instrument by WTO members is often controversial because of the protectionist character of these measures where inefficient industries are protected from foreign competition. The legal framework within the WTO has loopholes that leave wide discretion to the investigating authorities to ...

Law and justice in the Courts of Classical Athens

Adriaan Lanni draws on contemporary legal thinking to present a new model of the legal system of classical Athens. She analyses the Athenians' preference in most cases for ad hoc, discretionary decision- making, as opposed to what moderns would call the rule of law. Lanni ...

Mill's on liberty

a critical guide

Ed. C.L. Ten. John Stuart Mill's essay On Liberty, published in 1859, has had a powerful impact on philosophical and political debates ever since its first appearance. This volume of newly-commissioned essays covers the whole range of problems raised in and by the ...

Networks for learning and knowledge creation in biotechnology

Scientists in the biotechnology sector have developed a vast array of products and procedures, including drugs, diagnostics, agricultural products and veterinary procedures. This is made possible through various intra- and inter-organizational collaborations between the academic and private sectors, and through the establishment of networks for ...

Excel basics to Blackbelt

an accelerated guide to decision support designs

Excel Basics to Blackbelt is intended to serve as an accelerated guide to decision support designs. Its structure is designed to enhance the skills in Excel of those who have never used it for anything but possibly storing phone numbers, enabling them to reach a ...

Lengthening the arm of the Law

enhancing police resources in the Twenty-First Century

Relentless fiscal pressures faced by the public police over the last few decades have meant that police organisations have had to find new ways to obtain and harness the resources needed to achieve their goals. Through entering into relationships of coercion, commercial exchange, and gift ...

Where have all the liberals gone?

race, class, and ideals in America

Professor James R. Flynn is renowned for his belief that the IQ gap between black and white Americans is not genetic, but environmental in origin. Flynn's controversial new book offers an alternative to the vision of American society popularized by Herrnstein and Murray in ...