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The Role of Credit Default Swaps in Leveraged Finance Analysis
Author Robert S. Kricheff
Credit Default Swaps (CDS) influence how bonds and loans trade and the relative value between bonds and loans. CDS can be the best way to hedge the risk of a corporate debt position and can also be a valuable investment tool in its own right. CDS has a multitude of ....
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How to Analyze and Use Leveraged Finance Bonds for Project Finance
Author Robert S. Kricheff
Much of leveraged finance credit analysis focuses on cash flows. But what happens when the credit you have to look at has no cash flow? What if it is a very early stage credit or a pure start-up project? Then you need to be able to combine the tools of project fina....
Release Date 2012/10 -
How to Measure Social Media: A Step-By-Step Guide to Developing and Assessing Social Media ROI
Author Nichole Kelly
Your 100% Actionable, Proven Framework for Delivering Rock-Solid Social Media Business Metrics—Painlessly Think social marketing is worth it? Prove it. If your boss hasn’t demanded that yet, he will. Then what? Hand him some jive about “return on conversation”? Thin....
Release Date 2012/10 -
High Availability and Disaster Recovery Options for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
Author Karol Zimnol , Marko Vrhovnik , Klaus Subtil , Mohamed Soliman , Jan Nelken , Anas Mo
As organizations strive to do more with less, IBM® DB2® for Linux, UNIX, and Windows provides various built-in high availability features. DB2 further provides high availability solutions by using enterprise system resources with broad support for clustering softwar....
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The Humongous Book of Trigonometry Problems
Author W. Michael Kelley
Most math and science study guides are a reflection of the college professors who write them-dry, difficult, and pretentious.The Humongous Book of Trigonometry Problems is the exception. Author Mike Kelley has taken what appears to be a typical trigonometry workbook....
Release Date 2012/09 -
Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go
Author Julie Winkle Giulioni , Beverly Kaye
Helping Employees Develop Themselves Study after study confirms that career development is the single most powerful tool managers have for driving retention, engagement, productivity, and results. Nevertheless, it’s frequently back-burnered. When asked why, m....
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Knowledge Management:The Death of Wisdom
Author Arnold Kransdorff
This book is about an unintended—and unnoticed—consequence that is needlessly costing commerce and industry an unimaginable amount of money. It was in the early 1980s that someone smart thought that the flexible labor market would allow employers to quickly adapt th....
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Author Doug Patterson , Kord Davis
This book contains a framework for productive discussion and thinking about ethics and Big Data in business environments.With the increasing size and scope of information that Big Data technologies can provide business, maintaining an ethical practice benefits from ....
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Author Mahesh Krishnan , William Tulloch , Alex Mackey
Microsoft has introduced a large number of changes to the way that the .NET Framework operates. Familiar technologies have being altered, best practices replaced, and developer methodologies adjusted. Many developers find it hard to keep up with the pace of change a....
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Loss Models: From Data to Decisions, 4th Edition
Author Gordon E. Willmot , Harry H. Panjer , Stuart A. Klugman
Praise for the Third Edition"This book provides in-depth coverage of modelling techniques used throughout many branches of actuarial science. . . . The exceptional high standard of this book has made it a pleasure to read." —Annals of Actuarial ScienceNewly organize....
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Statistical Methods in Customer Relationship Management
Author J. Andrew Petersen , V. Kumar
Statistical Methods in Customer Relationship Management focuses on the quantitative and modeling aspects of customer management strategies that lead to future firm profitability, with emphasis on developing an understanding of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) ....
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Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012
Author Martin Woodward , Brian Keller , Mickey Gousset
The authoritative and timely guide to ALM from Microsoft insiders and MVPsFocused on the latest release of Visual Studio, this edition shows you how to use the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) capabilities of Visual Studio 2012 to streamline software design, d....
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The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything
Author Jason Kelly
Inside the Trillion Dollar Industry That Owns EverythingWhat do Dunkin' Donuts, J. Crew, Toys "R" Us, and Burger King have in common? They are all currently or just recently were owned, operated, and controlled by private equity firms. The New Tycoons: Inside the T....
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Display Advertising: An Hour a Day
Author Corey Koberg , David Booth
A complete guide to developing, implementing, monitoring, and optimizing an online display ad campaignThe display business is online advertising's fastest growing field. Google and others are starting to provide easy tools to enable small- and medium-sized business....
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Functional Materials for Sustainable Energy Applications
Author P Edwards , S Irvine , S Skinner , J Kilner
Global demand for low cost, efficient and sustainable energy production is ever increasing. Driven by recent discoveries and innovation in the science and technology of materials, applications based on functional materials are becoming increasingly important. Functi....
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Mastering Investment Banking Securities
Author Natasha Kozul
Securities are the fundamental tools and products of investment banking. They can be broadly categorized into debt - including banknotes, bonds and debentures, equity and derivative financial instruments that range from options and swaps to very complex and risky tr....
Release Date 2012/09 -
The Science of Sound Recording
Author Jay Kadis
The Science of Sound Recording will provide you with more than just an introduction to sound and recording, it will allow you to dive right into some of the technical areas that often appear overwhelming to anyone without an electrical engineering or physics backgro....
Release Date 2012/09 -
Interactive Storytelling for Video Games
Author Chris Klug , Josiah Lebowitz
What really makes a video game story interactive? What's the best way to create an interactive story?How much control should players be given? Do they really want that control in the first place?Do they even know what they want-or are their stated desires at odds w....
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Author Lloyd Kaufman
This is the 3rd volume in Mr. Kaufman's hilarious, how-to series for hard-working self-starters and hard-laughing, cheeky filmmakers. "Sell Your Own Damn Movie!" covers everything you need to do to get your finished film seen by festival-goers, movie-goers, DVD-buy....
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Producing for TV and New Media, 2nd Edition
Author Cathrine Kellison
Producing for TV and New Media provides a comprehensive look at the role of the "Producer? in television and new media. At the core of every media project there is a Producer who provides a wide array of creative, technical, financial, and interpersonal skills. Writ....
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Author Lloyd Kaufman
Often low-budget filmmakers get thrown into the position of being not only the director, but their own producer. Using tips from the finest washed-up has-been producers in the business, this book will give the low-budget filmmaker practical tools for getting a movi....
Release Date 2012/09 -
Introduction to Media Production, 3rd Edition
Author Gorham Kindem , Robert B. Musburger PhD
Introduction to Media Production, Third Edition, provides students with a practical framework for all aspects of media production by addressing the technological and aesthetic changes that have shaped the industry. Offering both hands-on instruction and theore....
Release Date 2012/09 -
Author Nik Rawlinson , Ken McMahon
Aperture is a dedicated end-to-end workflow tool for photographers and this book guides the reader through the complete process from capture to output.The beauty of Aperture is that - unlike Adobe's rival workflow software, Lightroom - it doesn't force a par....
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Author Julie R. Dahlquist , Ph.D. , CMT , Charles D. Kirkpatrick II , CMT
Now any trader (stock market, commodity, option, etc.) or prospective trader can master the skills of technical analysis with this up-to-date, hands-on study guide to accompany the popular text selected by the Market Technicians Association as the principal text for....
Release Date 2012/09 -
Software Architecture in Practice, Third Edition
Author Rick Kazman , Paul Clements , Len Bass
The award-winning and highly influential Software Architecture in Practice, Third Edition, has been substantially revised to reflect the latest developments in the field. In a real-world setting, the book once again introduces the concepts and best practices of soft....
Release Date 2012/09 -
Observing the User Experience, 2nd Edition
Author Andrea Moed , Mike Kuniavsky , Elizabeth Goodman
Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research aims to bridge the gap between what digital companies think they know about their users and the actual user experience. Individuals engaged in digital product and service development often fail t....
Release Date 2012/09 -
Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management
Author Daniel L. Williams PhD , Elaine Britt Krazer
For project managers and consultants, this book will help you master the main elements of Primavera P6, together with the new features in Version 8. Lots of screenshots and clear explanations make for an easy ride.Get a detailed overview of Oracle Primavera P6 Enter....
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The Definitive Guide to IT Service Metrics
Author Ted Gaughan , Kurt McWhirter
The ultimate reference guide to IT Service MetricsCo-published by IT Governance Ltd and itSMF USAIT service metrics: Manage them. Measure them. Make them work for you.Measuring success is crucial, but how do we do it? How can we be sure that the IT services we offer....
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Author J. Holton Wilson , Barry P. Keating
The technique of regression analysis is used so often in business and economics today that an understanding of its use is necessary for almost everyone engaged in the field. This book will teach you the essential elements of building and understanding regression mod....
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Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV
Author Katherine Scott , Nathan Oostendorp , Anthony Oliver , Kurt Demaagd
Learn how to build your own computer vision (CV) applications quickly and easily with SimpleCV, an open source framework written in Python. Through examples of real-world applications, this hands-on guide introduces you to basic CV techniques for collecting, process....
Release Date 2012/08