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Author Adam Fraser
Stop chasing happiness and seek fulfillment insteadStrive shakes up everything you know about happiness, turns you around, and sets you on the track to true fulfillment. It's not what you think—happiness is not found in achievement and luxury and having all the free time in the world. Humans are mo....
Release Date 2020/02 -
Author Jian Gong , Wei Xu
"A systematic review of the structure and context of the blockchain-derived economic model... (the book) describes cryptoeconomics in connection with the game theory, behavioral economics and others in simple understandable language."—Wang Feng, founder of Linekong Interactive Group and Mars Finance....
Release Date 2020/04 -
Author G.P. Manish , Stephen C. Miller
Capitalism and Inequality rejects the popular view that attributes the recent surge in inequality to a failure of market institutions. Bringing together new and original research from established scholars, it analyzes the inequality inherent in a free market from an economic and historical perspec....
Release Date 2020/12 -
Public Budgeting in Search for an Identity
Author Maria Francesca Sicilia , Ileana Steccolini
Public Budgeting in Search for an Identity: State of the Art and Future Challenges provides a state-of-the-art reflection on current trends in international public budgeting, representing an important pillar in the accumulation of knowledge on public sector budgeting processes, contents, evolutions ....
Release Date 2020/12 -
Teaching AI the Language of Your Business
Author Kinga Parrott
Organizations in all industries are increasingly finding ways to leverage the information hidden in natural language to solve customer service issues, get insights from product reviews and medical records, and so much more. These insights depend on the ability of machines to understand and generate ....
Release Date 2021/10 -
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Web-Based Business
Author Steve Slaunwhite
The web-based basics! Aspiring web entrepreneurs will find here everything they need to know about starting and running their own small-scale online business. Whether they intend to sell goods, services, subscriptions, or advertising, this book provides them with t....
Release Date 2009/09 -
Introduction to the Variational Formulation in Mechanics
Author Edgardo O. Taroco , Pablo J. Blanco , Raúl A. Feijóo
Introduces readers to the fundamentals and applications of variational formulations in mechanicsNearly 40 years in the making, this book provides students with the foundation material of mechanics using a variational tapestry. It is centered around the variational structure underlying the Method of ....
Release Date 2020/02 -
Author Marta Dapena-Baron
Develop winning brand strategies by focusing your team on the key strategic choices that drive organizational growth and learning. This book presents a system of six practical choices that articulate exactly how to launch and grow brands.Big Picture Strategy shows readers how limiting and focusing t....
Release Date 2021/08 -
Quantitative Portfolio Management
Author Michael Isichenko
Discover foundational and advanced techniques in quantitative equity trading from a veteran insider In Quantitative Portfolio Management: The Art and Science of Statistical Arbitrage, distinguished physicist-turned-quant Dr. Michael Isichenko delivers a system....
Release Date 2021/08 -
Value Creation and the Internet of Things
Author Alexander Manu
We live in a behavior economy, an environment in which people no longer engage with companies just by purchasing things, but they seek engagement with services that allow them to behave, to leave a mark, and to participate in the community of others. The economic model promoted by the behavior econo....
Release Date 2016/03 -
The Routledge Companion to Accounting Information Systems
Author Martin Quinn , Erik Strauss
Information technology has permeated all walks of life in the past two decades. Accounting is no exception. Be it financial accounting, management accounting, or audit, information technology and systems have simplified daily tasks and routine work, simplified reporting, and changed how accounting i....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Spark in Action, Second Edition
Author Jean-Georges Perrin
Spark in Action, Second Edition, teaches you to create end-to-end analytics applications. In this entirely new book, you’ll learn from interesting Java-based examples, including a complete data pipeline for processing NASA satellite data. And you’ll discover Java, Python, and Scala code samples host....
Release Date 2020/06 -
Author Boris Paskhaver
Pandas in Action introduces Python-based data analysis using the amazing pandas library. You’ll learn to automate repetitive operations and gain deeper insights into your data that would be impractical—or impossible—in Excel. Each chapter is a self-contained tutorial. Realistic downloadable datasets....
Release Date 2021/09 -
Little Learning Labs: Kitchen Science for Kids, abridged paperback edition
Author Liz Lee Heinecke
Little Learning Labs: Kitchen Science for Kids offers 26 fun science activities for families to do together. The experiments can be used as individual projects, for parties, or as educational activities for groups.
Release Date 2018/10 -
Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials
Author Elizabeth T. Gilbert , Steven Pearce , Alain Picard , Paul Pigram , Marcio Ramos , Na
With Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials, learn the what, when, why, and how of every drawing tool and material—including graphite and colored pencils, pastels, crayons, drawing surfaces, and more—then create your own drawn artwork using the featured tips and techniques.
Release Date 2019/03 -
Author Jonathan Stephen Harris
Learn to draw spiral art! Following the success of The Art of Drawing Optical Illusions comes The Art of Spiral Drawing, an inspirational guide that teaches aspiring, beginning, and intermediate artists how to create their own spiral art using step-by-step projects and helpful hints and exercises.
Release Date 2020/04 -
Author Dan Bonner
Project management processes have been intertwined within every fabric of human evolution including advances in communication, farming, construction, medicine, law, architecture, physics, and economics to name a few. At each evolutionary stage, there was a project manager who was studying the how a....
Release Date 2021/09 -
Author Miki Tebeka
This book contains 25 short programs that will challenge your understanding of Pandas. Like any big project, the Pandas developers had to make some design decisions that at times seem surprising. This book uses those quirks as a teaching opportunity. By understanding the gaps in your knowledge, you....
Release Date 2021/08 -
Maximizing Electronic Resources Management in Libraries
Author Lenore England , Stephen D. Miller
Maximizing Electronic Resources Management in Libraries: Applying Business Process Management examines the use of Business Process Management (BPM) and the ways it can be beneficially applied to electronic resources management (ERM) to help organize processes in libraries. The book offers librarians....
Release Date 2015/11 -
Azure Networking Cookbook - Second Edition
Find out how you can leverage virtual machines and load balancers to facilitate secure and efficient networkingKey FeaturesDiscover the latest networking features and additions in Microsoft Azure with this updated guideUpgrade your cloud networking skills by learning how to plan, implement, configur.... -
Scalable Data Streaming with Amazon Kinesis
Explore Kinesis managed services such as Kinesis Data Streams, Kinesis Data Analytics, Kinesis Data Firehose, and Kinesis Video Streams with the help of practical use casesKey FeaturesGet well versed with the capabilities of Amazon KinesisExplore the monitoring, scaling, security, and deployment pat....