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Practical financial modelling

a guide to current practice

"Practical Financial Modelling" is for all finance and management professionals whose work involves the development or use of complex spreadsheets and financial models. The second edition now covers Excel 2007. Chapter 1: Model structure now includes a review of non-spreadsheet modelling tools. Chapter 2: Quality ...

Business development for the biotechology and pharmaceutical industry

Business Development in the Biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries accounts for over $5 billion in licensing deal value per year and much more than that in the value of mergers and acquisitions. Transactions range from licences to patented academic research, to product developments as licences, joint ...

Innovation leaders

Innovation leaders either understand their customer requirements better and exploit new market opportunities faster or they access new technologies to deliver successful new products and services. They are today's corporate heroes. Innovation leaders are the companies that CEOs want to head up and other ...

Technical analysis tools

creating profitable trading system

In Technical Analysis Tools, professional trader Mark Tinghino cuts through the clutter. First, he demystifies the essential technical approaches such as chart patterns, indicators, Market Profile, and Elliott Wave. He also introduces a new instrument of his own: the cyclical model, which helps identify trend ...

Poema del Mio Cid

The three faces of chinese power

might, money, and minds

Clear, comprehensive, and well-balanced, this unique assessment takes the measure of what is arguably the most important geopolitical change in today's world: the growth of China's power. In the only book on the subject to be based on extensive interviews with elite political ...

Contra la felicidad

en defensa de la melancolía

Todos somos adictos a la felicidad. Cuando no nos atiborramos de píldoras, nos sumergimos en libros de autoayuda #de todo tipo de autores, que van de filósofos aficionados a psicólogos clínicos, pasando por el mismísimo Dalai Lama# sobre cómo alcanzar una vida sin problemas. Más ...

Obras completas

Tomo IV: Sociología y ciencias sociales

Ayala, conocido principalmente por su labor literaria, es además, en palabras de Giner, «uno de los sociólogos españoles más descollantes del siglo XX». Así lo demuestra el cuarto volumen de sus Obras completas, que contiene el Tratado de sociología (1947), el clásico incontestable de la ...

Vida nueva, raíces viejas

la aventura de emigrar

Las migraciones siempre han despertado inquietud y temor allá donde se han asentado. La actual no es diferente a las pasadas y, de seguir las cosas así, las venideras no habrán experimentado cambios substanciales al respecto. Se habla sólo de los tópicos respecto a los ...

Granada de leyenda

«Harta osadía es querer encerrar el aire y el espíritu de Granada dentro de trece capítulos más o menos densos y espaciosos, en los que la historia y la leyenda se entrelazan hasta confundirse #sin saberse nunca dónde empieza una y termina la otra# formando ...

¿Qué imperio?

un ensayo polémico sobre Carlos V y la España imperial

La idea de la España imperial no fue española, como sostiene sin crítica la tesis nacionalista española con honrosas pero escasas excepciones. ¿Qué imperio? demuestra que la única aportación de los españoles a las ideas de Carlos V y su corte fue la reserva al ...

Los mineros del Azogue

Como el título indica, el tema principal no es propiamente las minas, sino los hombres que trabajaron en ellas a lo largo de veinte siglos. Los doce capítulos del libro desarrollan las vicisitudes por las que han pasado las minas y los mineros de Almadén ...

A commentary on Demosthene's Philippic I

with rhetorical analyses of Philippics II and III

Philippic I, delivered between 351 B.C. - 350 B.C., was the first speech by a prominent politician against the growing power of Philip II of Macedon. Along with the other Philippics of Demosthenes, it is arguably one of the finest deliberative speeches from antiquity ...

Exploring ethics

an introductory anthology

Exploring Ethics: An Introductory Anthology is a brief collection of readings in moral philosophy intended to provide a clear and definite understanding of ethics. Carefully chosen and edited by Steven Cahn for maximum accessibility, the forty selections that comprise the text are organized into three ...

Ignorance of language

The Chomskian revolution in linguistics gave rise to a new orthodoxy about mind and language. Michael Devitt throws down a provocative challenge to that orthodoxy. What is linguistics about? What role should linguistic intuitions play in constructing grammars? What is innate about language? Is there ...

Imperial Germany 1871-1918

The German Empire was founded in January 1871 not only on the basis of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's 'blood and iron' policy but also with the support of liberal nationalists. Under Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany became the dynamo of Europe. Its economic ...

Nazi Germany

The history of National Socialism as movement and regime remains one of the most compelling and intensively studied aspects of twentieth-century history, and one whose significance extends far beyond Germany or even Europe alone. This volume presents an up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the history ...

The Oxford Handbook of religion and science

The field of 'religion and science' is exploding in popularity among academics as well as the general reading public. Spawning an increasing number of conferences and courses, this field has shown an unprecedented rate of growth in recent years. Here for the first time is ...

Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene

the followers of Jesus in history and legend

Bart Ehrman, author of the highly popular books Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code, Lost Christianities, and the New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus, here takes readers on another engaging tour of the early Christian church, illuminating the lives of Jesus' most intriguing ...

The problem of Evil

It is generally supposed that the fact that the world contains a vast amount of suffering, much of it truly horrible suffering, confronts those who believe in an all-powerful and benevolent Creator with a serious problem: to explain why such a Creator would permit this ...