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How legendary traders made millions

profiting from the investment strategies of the greatest stock traders of all time

This work profiles 10 of the greatest traders of all time and the trades and strategies that made them successful and legendary. John Boik's previous book was chosen by Barron's as one of the best 25 books of 2004. This book contains exclusive ...

La máquina de la educación

preguntas y respuestas sobre el sistema educativo

Muchos españoles piensan que el sistema educativo que tenemos deja mucho que desear. Que son numerosos los alumnos que aprenden poco, llegan mal preparados a la universidad o al mundo del empleo, se desinteresan de la cultura y de los estudios, se expresan mal por ...

Amazonas con pincel

vida y obra de las grandes artistas del siglo XVI al siglo XXI

Este libro propone un recorrido fascinante por la vida y la obra de las grandes mujeres artistas desde el siglo XVI al siglo XXI. Vidas en muchos casos novelescas, apasionadas y apasionantes, de unas mujeres que como artistas fueron en demasiadas ocasiones marginadas, despreciadas u ...

Adolfo Suárez

España 1976-1977: el año milagroso

Desde el respeto, la admiración y el rigor histórico, el autor traza en estas páginas algunos de los duros acontecimientos que se produjeron en los primeros años del gobierno de Suárez: los terribles golpes del terrorismo de ETA y del GRAPO, las asechanzas de los ...

Social capital in the knowledge economy

theory and empirics

This book analyzes the social capital of the growing knowledge economy. The theoretical part discusses social capital as an economic concept, its relation to traditional capital theory and its role as a spatial externality. A theory of the social capital of the enterprise is developed ...

The impact of FDI on economic growth

an analysis for the transition countries of central and eastern Europe

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between FDI and economic growth with special attention to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Within a new semi-endogenous growth model, the book illustrates the impact of FDI on economic growth for every stage of ...

The economics and regulation of financial privacy

an international comparison of credit reporting systems

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the economics and regulation of financial privacy. It is an international comparison of credit reporting systems in the United States and in European countries. On the theoretical level the book explains competition in information markets, especially in ...

Ideas of landscape

"Ideas of Landscape" offers an engaging discussion of the theory and practice of landscape archaeology today. Drawing on his local experience, Matthew Johnson focuses on the so-called English landscape tradition and discusses why it is so distinctive: it stands at some distance from North American ...

EU competition Law and regulation in the converging telecommunications, media and IT sectors

Of the major industries formerly characterized by a high degree of state monopoly control, telecommunications is proving to be increasingly susceptible to market failure. This book presents the most thoroughgoing model yet offered to ensure the emergence of a genuinely competitive electronic communications industry in ...

New venture creation

entrepreneurship for the 21st century

CONTENTS: Part One: The Entrepreneurial Mind for an Entrepreneurial Society Chapter 1. The Entrepreneurial Mind: Crafting a Personal Entrepreneurial Strategy Chapter 2. America¿s Entrepreneurial Revolution Goes Global Part Two: The Opportunity Chapter 3. The Entrepreneurial Process Chapter 4. The Opportunity: Creating, Shaping, Recognizing, Seizing ...

The economics of organisations and strategy

To operate as a successful manager requires an economic way of thinking, in particular a clear focus on efficiency and the working of markets. The "Economics of Organizations and Strategy" integrates business strategy within an economics framework, to give an economic perspective on areas of ...

Business research methods

This book offers students and instructors thorough coverage of business research topics backed by solid theory. The authors are successful marketing research consultants and that is evident in the rich and realistic case studies found in the text. Managerial decision making is the underlying theme ...

The movie business book

Drawing on the knowledge of a full spectrum of industry experts including producers, independent filmmakers, managers and financiers, the third international edition of "The Movie Business Book" offers a comprehensive, authoritative overview of the film industry. It features a preface written especially for the international ...

The Long Tail

how endless choice is creating unlimited demand

What happens when there is almost unlimited choice? When everything becomes available to everyone? And when the combined value of the millions of items that only sell in small quantities equals or even exceeds the value of a handful of best-sellers? In this ground-breaking book ...

Cities in a world economy

This Third Edition of the international bestselling textbook "Cities in a World Economy" presents sociologists with a continuing new perspective on the study of urban sociology. The decentralization and privatization of the world's economies has radically altered such things as the organization of labour ...

B2B brand management

As products become increasingly similar, companies are turning to branding as a way to create a preference for their offerings. Branding has been the essential factor in the success of well-known consumer goods such as Coca Cola, McDonald's, Kodak, and Mercedes. Now it is ...

Economic dynamics and information

This book analyzes the existence of equilibria in economies having a measured space of agents and a continuum of agents and commodities. Excessive homogeneity with respect to agent productivity leads to instability and non-uniqueness of a given stationary state and the indeterminacy of the corresponding ...

The economics of open source software development

Open Source Software (OSS) development appears to present a stark contrast to traditional production and innovation methods and an unlikely contestant in the marketplace. Some of the most striking features are that OSS development is based on contributions of volunteer programmers, that these programmers only ...

The Oxford handbook of political economy

"The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science" is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual ...

International competitiveness and technological change

Technological change is central in explaining industrial leadership, but the relationships and interactions between scientific research, industrial innovation, and competitiveness are neither clear nor straightforward. Public research funding and business strategy dictate to a significant extent the manner in, and extent to which innovation occurs ...