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The Fundamentals of Hedge Fund Management, 2nd Edition
Author Daniel A. Strachman
Updated edition of the book that gives investors, advisors, and managers the tools they need to launch and maintain a hedge fund in today's economyThe hedge fund industry has gone through dramatic changes in recent years. Investors of all types continue to want to ....
Release Date 2012/07 -
The Future of Machine Intelligence
Author David Beyer
Advances in both theory and practice are throwing the promise of machine learning into sharp relief. The field has the potential to transform a range of industries, from self-driving cars to intelligent business applications. Yet machine learning is so complex and ....
Release Date 2016/03 -
The Garbage Collection Handbook
Author Eliot Moss , Antony Hosking , Richard Jones
Published in 1996, Richard Jones’s Garbage Collection was a milestone in the area of automatic memory management. The field has grown considerably since then, sparking a need for an updated look at the latest state-of-the-art developments. The Garbage Collection Ha....
Release Date 2016/09 -
Author Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
Better TogetherFDR and Eleanor. Mick and Keith. Jobs and Woz. There are countless examples of introvert-extrovert partnerships who make brilliant products, create great works of art, and even change history together. But these partnerships don't just happen. T....
Release Date 2015/08 -
The Global Impact of Open Data
Author Stefaan Verhulst , Andrew Young
Open data has spurred economic innovation, social transformation, and fresh forms of political and government accountability in recent years, but few people understand how open data works. This comprehensive report, developed with support from Omidyar Network, pres....
Release Date 2016/09 -
Author Michelle Dunn
Give your business a successful credit and collections plan with this easy and clear guideOver 100,000 businesses have slow or non-paying customers. Yet very few actually have a workable plan for claiming the missing revenue that results. This book gives you a compl....
Release Date 2011/05 -
The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL
Author Ken Henderson
Since its introduction over a decade ago, the Microsoft SQL Server query language, Transact-SQL, has become increasingly popular and more powerful. The current version sports such advanced features as OLE Automation support, cross-platform querying facilities, and f....
Release Date 2000/02 -
Author Courtney Webster
The wish lists of many data-driven organizations seem reasonable enough. They’d like to capitalize on real-time data analysis, move beyond batch processing for time-critical insights, allow multiple users to share cluster resources, and provide predictable service ....
Release Date 2016/04 -
The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition
Author Peter T. Coleman , Eric C. Marcus , Morton Deutsch
Praise for The Handbook of Conflict Resolution"This handbook is a classic. It helps connect the research of academia to the practical realities of peacemaking and peacebuilding like no other. It is both comprehensive and deeply informed on topics vital to the field ....
Release Date 2014/04 -
The Handbook of Marketing Strategy for Life Science Companies
Author Jean-Francois Denault
The proposed book is follows in the same steps as the first book in the series, The Handbook of Market Research for Life Sciences. While the first book focused on the techniques and methodologies to collect the market data you need to evaluate your market as well a....
Release Date 2018/06 -
Author Jonathan A Titus
Get the practical knowledge you need to set up and deploy XBee modules with this hands-on, step-by-step series of experiments.The Hands-on XBee Lab Manual takes the reader through a range of experiments, using a hands-on approach. Each section demonstrates module s....
Release Date 2012/07 -
The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement
Author Sandra Murray , Lloyd P Provost
The Health Care Data Guide is designed to help students and professionals build a skill set specific to using data for improvement of health care processes and systems. Even experienced data users will find valuable resources among the tools and cases that enrich Th....
Release Date 2011/10 -
The Hedge Fund Book: A Training Manual for Professionals and Capital-Raising Executives
Author RICHARD C. WILSON
An accessible guide to effectively operating in the hedge fund arenaHedge funds are now in the news more than a thousand times a day and yet it is hard to find clear, factual information about how they operate, raise capital, and invest. The Hedge Fund Book provides....
Release Date 2010/06 -
The Hidden Power of Your Customers: Four Keys to Growing Your Business Through Existing Customers
Author Becky Carroll
Winning strategies to keep your existing customers coming backA business's current customer base needs to be considered among the company's most valuable assets. Discover the practical tools to preserve and grow this asset—and boost your business—by tapping into T....
Release Date 2011/07 -
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
Author David W. Anthony
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Author Bryan Jacquot , Dan Herington
Praise for The HP Virtual Server Environment"This book will educate professionals about the components of a virtual server environment and how to manage them in everyday tasks. It demonstrates how to manage resource utilization in real time and to its full capacity.....
Release Date 2005/09 -
The Humongous Book of Statistics Problems
Author W. Michael Kelley , Robert Donnelly
Following the successful, 'The Humongous Books', in calculus and algebra, bestselling author Mike Kelley takes a typical statistics workbook, full of solved problems, and writes notes in the margins, adding missing steps and simplifying concepts and solutions. By ....
Release Date 2009/12 -
Author Jamal Fattouh , Ara M. Djamboulian , Patrice Boizumault
A semantically well-defined programming language widely used in artificial intelligence, Prolog has greatly influenced other programming languages since its introduction in the late 1970s. A user may find Prolog deceptively easy, however, and there are a number of ....
Release Date 2014/07 -
The Insider's Guide to Grantmaking: How Foundations Find, Fund, and Manage Effective Programs
Author Joel J. Orosz
Unlike many formal professions, foundation grantmaking is a calling with no training programs and little definitive literature on the latest and best practices. Written for program officers and of considerable value to grantseekers, this volume is the first and only....
Release Date 2000/04 -
The Integrated Reporting Movement: Meaning, Momentum, Motives, and Materiality
Author Michael Krzus , Robert Eccles
An in-depth, enlightening look at the integrated reporting movementThe Integrated Reporting Movement explores the meaning of the concept, explains the forces that provide momentum to the associated movement, and examines the motives of the actors involved. The book ....
Release Date 2014/11 -
The Invisible Cryptologists: African-Americans, WWII to 1956
Author Jeannette Williams
The story of African-Americans employed by the National Security Agency and its predecessors. It tells of the movement of African-Americans from low-level jobs in segregated work units to their rise to key positions in NSA's structure.
Release Date 2001/01 -
Author Christian Wolmar
The Iron Road is full of wondrous curiosities. Did you know that early trains in Australia were pulled by convicts, or that elephants were until recently used to shunt freight wagons in India? The world's most magnificent railway station, the Chhatrapati Shivaji te....
Release Date 2014/05 -
The IT Support Handbook: A How-To Guide to Providing Effective Help and Support to IT Users
Author Mike Halsey
Become a more effective tech professional by learning how to provide the most useful IT support for your users. You'll learn how to efficiently and effectively deal with any type of problem, including operating systems, software, and hardware. IT support is o....
Release Date 2019/10 -
The Jobs That Artificial Intelligence Will Create
Author Nicola Bianzino , Paul Daugherty , H James Wilson
A new global study finds several new categories of human jobs emerging. These roles are not replacing old ones. They are brand-new positions that complement the tasks performed by AI machines and will require skills and training that have never before been needed. ....
Release Date 2017/07 -
Author Konrad Banachewicz , Luca Massaron , Anthony Goldbloom
Get a step ahead of your competitors with insights from over 30 Kaggle Masters and Grandmasters. Discover tips, tricks, and best practices for competing effectively on Kaggle and becoming a better data scientist. Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format.Key Fea....
Release Date 2022/04 -
Author Bob Becker , Joy Mundy , Warren Thornthwaite , Margy Ross , Ralph Kimball
The final edition of the incomparable data warehousing and business intelligence reference, updated and expandedThe Kimball Group Reader, Remastered Collection is the essential reference for data warehouse and business intelligence design, packed with best practice....
Release Date 2015/12 -
The Language of SQL, 3rd Edition
The Language of SQL, Second EditionMany SQL texts attempt to serve as an encyclopedic reference on SQL syntax -- an approach that is often counterproductive, because that information is readily available in online references published by the major database vendors.For SQL beginners, it’s more import.... -
The Language of SQL, Second Edition
Author Larry Rockoff
The Language of SQL, Second Edition Many SQL texts attempt to serve as an encyclopedic reference on SQL syntax -- an approach that is often counterproductive, because that information is readily available in online references published by the major database vendors....
Release Date 2016/07