Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece 

By: Anne Pearson

ThelandofGreeceis made up of mainlandGreeceand the numerous islands scattered throughout the Aegean andAdriatic Seas. It is a mountainous country with hot dry summers and rain only in winter. The early Greek settlements developed as small independent communities cut off from each other by the mountains and often competing for the best land, because the fertile arable soil is in short supply. Each of the citystates which developed out of these communities had a strong individual identity, and citizens were very loyal to their home state and to its patron deity. This miscellaneous collection of city-states sometimes joined together for mutual defence and did so most successfully against the Persians. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Brink of Eternity

Brink of Eternity 

By: Caris Roane

While standing in her office, preparing to leave for the night, a vision came to Elise Jordan, a sequence of events that threatened the life of someone she knew. She tried to shut the images down, to stop the flow, something she could normally do. But this vision would not be denied. She saw it through to the end, which was not an end at all, just that point at which the woman, if left on her own, would surely die. Now she had a decision to make and a vampire to contact, something she had promised herself she would never do. Elise thrived on order and routine. She enjoyed having a firm schedule. She was the only person she knew who had a genial relationship with her alarm clock.Everything about this vision, however, invited chaos, the very thing she strove to avoid every day of her existence. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

All Things Beautiful

All Things Beautiful 

By: Cathy Maxwell

She stood poised in the doorway, the late autumn sun streaming through Danescourt’s mullioned windows highlighting the curves of her silhouette and the shine of her glorious dark hair. Suddenly, in that very second, Peter Jamison realized how much he had been in love with her, might still be in love with her. The thought shocked him. Ethereal. Graceful. Even in a sadly threadbare dress, Lady Julia Markham had the bearing of a duchess. But she was different from his memories. In the depth of her dark blue eyes were shadows. Maturity. No longer the girl but a woman. A stunning woman. Peter rose from the sturdy but utilitarian chair, his ready smile plastered to his face. For the briefest of moments he allowed his eyes to search for the faint scars at her wrists. So! The rumors were true. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Asset and Liability Management

Asset and Liability Management 

By: Gautam Mitra and Katharina Schwaiger

Asset and liability management (ALM) is a financial (analytic) tool for decision making that sets out to maximize stakeholder value. Its overall objective is to make judicious investments that increase the value of capital, match liabilities and protect from disastrous financial events. An integrated asset and liability management model sets out to find the optimal investment strategy by considering assets and liabilities simultaneously. Simply stated, the purpose of such an approach is to reduce risk and increase returns; ALM models have been used successfully for banks, pension funds and insurance companies, university endowments, hedge funds, mutual funds and wealthy individuals. Risks that can be addressed are interest rate risk, market risk, credit risk, liquidity risk and financial risk. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Cataloque of The Collection of Coins and Medals

Cataloque of The Collection of Coins and Medals 

By: Charles Butler 

I. The highest bidder to be the buyer; and if any dispute arise between bidders, the lot so disputed shall be immediately put up again, provided the auctioneer cannot decide the said dispute. II. No person to advance less than Is.; above five pounds 2s. 6d., and so on in proportion. III. In the case of lots upon which there is a reserve, the auctioneer shall have the right to bid on behalf of the seller. IV. The purchasers to give in their names and places of abode, and to pay down 10s. in the pound, if required, in part payment of the purchase-money ; in default of which the lot or lots purchased will be immediately put up again and re-sold. V. The sale of any lot is not to be set aside on account of any error in the enumeration of the numbers stated, or errors of description. VI. The lots to be taken away, at the buyer’s expense, immediately after the conclusion of the sale. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

The History of The Jewish People in The Age of Jesus Christ

The History of The Jewish People in The Age of Jesus Christ 

By: Emil Schurer

In the Greek and Roman period, as in earlier centuries, the Jewish population ofPalestinefluctuated considerably both in numbers and extent. From the beginning of the Hellenistic epoch to the time of the MaccabaccUi uprising, the Jewish element was gradually receding whereas the Greek element was on the advance. A significant change, liowever, resulted from the Maccabaean revolt and its after-effects: Judaism gained ground intensively and extensively, consolidating itself internally and extending its boundaries in almost every direction. At the beginning of the Maccabaean period, a compact Jewish population existed only in Judaea proper, i.e. in the region south of Samarianamed in i Maccabees VouSa or yi  7ou8a or VouSata. The area occupied b y the Jews can be determined with tolerable accuracy for the years 175—135 B.C. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

The Little Stranger

The Little Stranger 

By: Sarah Waters

I first saw Hundreds Hall when I was ten years old. It was the summer after the war, and the Ayreses still had most of their money then, were still big people in the district. The event was an Empire Day fête: I stood with a line of other village children making a Boy Scout salute while Mrs Ayres and the Colonel went past us, handing out commemorative medals; afterwards we sat to tea with our parents at long tables on what I suppose was the south lawn. Mrs Ayres would have been twenty-four or -five, her husband a few years older; their little girl, Susan, would have been about six. They must have made a very handsome family, but my memory of them is vague. I recall most vividly the house itself, which struck me as an absolute mansion. I remember its lovely ageing details: the worn red brick, the cockled window glass, the weathered sandstone edgings. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

The Science of Personality

The Science of Personality 

By: Lawrence A. Pervin

How are we to study the complexity of human personality? Personality psychologists follow diverse paths in their research efforts. Sometimes these paths overlap, but often they diverge in terms of what is studied as well as in how it is studied. But whichever path researchers choose to pursue, and whichever aspects of personality are of particular interest to them, they must seek to ensure that their observations are reliable and accurate. In this chapter we consider the differing research strategies pursued by personality psychologists as they seek to unravel the mystery of human personality functioning. We also consider why some investigators prefer one strategy over another and the scientific goals held in common by all investigators. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

The New Empire of Debt

The New Empire of Debt

By: William Bonner and Addison Wiggin

One day in early spring 2005, we traveled by train fromPoitiers toParis and found ourselves seated next to Robert Hue, head of the French Communist Party and a senator representing Val d’Oise. He sat down and pulled out a travel magazine, just as any other traveler would. Aside from one Bolshevik manqué who stopped by to say hello, no one paid any attention. A friend reports that he was on the same train a few months ago with then Prime Minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, who was accompanied by only a single aide. Many years ago, when theUnited Stateswas still a modest republic, American presidents were likewise available to almost anyone who wanted to shoot them. Thomas Jefferson went for a walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, alone, and spoke to anyone who came up to him. John Adams used to swim naked in the Potomac. A woman reporter got him to talk to her by sitting on his clothes and refusing to budge. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

The Three Secrets of Green Business

The Three Secrets of Green Business

By: Gareth Kane

At the time of writing I have spent over a decade helping hundreds of businesses, public sector and not-for profit organizations to transform the environmental impact of their activities. It has taken me all those years to accumulate all this knowledge and experience: there is no book or other publication that will take the reader through the practical process of delivering sustainability in a ‘how to’ manner. There is plenty of advice out there on environmental management (Chapter 3) and the ‘small steps’ that a company can take (Chapter 4), but it takes a lot of time to pull it all together. There are many books that debate the theory and examples of some of the ‘huge leaps’ described in Chapter 5, but nothing that knits them all together. What this book does for the first time is give you a practical roadmap from here to sustainability. The examples and tips in this book have been drawn from practical experience they work. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

The Competitive Mind

The Competitive Mind 

By: Andrew Crouch

This book is about competition between businesses. Thinking about competition between businesses is what I call Strategy, the interaction between competitive minds. Skilful strategic thinking is mindfulness that provides a basis for succeeding in commercial competition. In this book I offer advice in the form of Principles, or guidelines, for outwitting commercial rivals and also, importantly, a mindset for discouraging rivals from doing the outwitting. The principles offered here apply equally well to large companies and small. Among the large, for instance, there is no doubt that the future of Nokia depends, on the understanding Nokia’s executives have of Sony Ericsson’s, Motorola’s and LG’s future intentions. The earlier and better these are known to Jorma Ollila, Nokia’s chairman and chief executive, and others charged with thinking about the fi rm’s competitive manoeuvring, the more fully these ideas can become plans factored into Nokia’s outlook for future business advantage. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Strategic Management

Strategic Management 

By: John McGee

A few years ago, Ed Freeman began a dialogue with Blackwell Publishers regarding the creation of a handbook on strategic management to complement Blackwell’s impressive Handbook series. These early discussions led to the formation of our editorial team. Shortly after signing a comma. we began soliciting original chapters from the top scholars in the field. Our primary criterion was “If we were creating the ultimate Ph.D. seminar on strategic management as a series of guest speakers, whom would we invite?” However, there are a number of outstanding candidates and thus we had to make difficult decisions regarding whom to invite to participate. Authors were invited to write chapters on their own particular specialties and encouraged to express their own opinions. We did not want to make the Handbook a “plain vanilla,” objective review of research. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Supply Chain Design and Management

Supply Chain Design and Management

By: Manish Govil and Jean Marie Proth

Developments in the field of production management since World War II have been limited to the improvement of activities related to production control and design in individual functional areas such as inventory management, planning and scheduling of manufacturing activities, modeling and evaluation of manufacturing systems, layout problems, group technology, system design approaches, and design and control of information flows, to quote only a few. Despite competition among companies and an ever-changing market, the basic structure of manufacturing firms remained quite stable during this period. The most significant change was a tendency to increase automation, which affected neither the structure of the physical system (PS) nor the structure of the decision making system (DMS). [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Ptolemy’s Gate

Ptolemy’s Gate 

By: Jonathan Stroud

The assassins dropped into the palace grounds at midnight, four fleet shadows dark against the wall. The fall was high, the ground was hard; they made no more sound on impact than the pattering of rain. Three seconds they crouched there, low and motionless, sniffing at the air. Then away they stole, through the dark gardens, among the tamarisks and date palms, toward the quarters where the boy lay at rest. A cheetah on a chain stirred in its sleep; far away in the desert, jackals cried. They went on pointed toe-tips, leaving no trace in the long wet grass. Their robes flittered at their backs, fragmenting their shadows into wisps and traces. What could be seen? Nothing but leaves shifting in the breeze. What could be heard? Nothing but the wind sighing among the palm fronds. No sight, no noise. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

The Golem’s Eye

The Golem’s Eye 

By: Jonathan Stroud

At dusk, the enemy lit their campfires one by one, in greater profusion than on any night before. The lights sparkled like fiery jewels out in the grayness of the plains, so numerous it seemed an enchanted city had sprung up from the earth. By contrast, within our walls the houses had their shutters closed, their lights blacked out. A strange reversal had taken place Pragueitself was dark and dead, while the countryside around it flared with life. Soon afterward, the wind began to drop. It had been blowing strongly from the west for hours, carrying word of the invaders’ movements the rattling of the siege engines, the calling of the troops and animals, the sighing of the captive spirits, the odors of the incantations. Now, with unnatural speed, it died away and the air was steeped in silence. [download]  

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Sexopedia

Sexopedia

By: Anne Hooper 

SEX CAN BE THE GREATEST source of pleasure and happiness in our lives it can boost our personal sense of well-being and health, and it also fosters precious feelings of intimacy with a partner. While sexuality used to be viewed as a “private matter,” today it is featured in magazines, newspapers, movies, and now on the Internet; indeed, our exposure to the subject is greater than ever before. While this is generally a good thing, the information is not always correct or adequate, and it can give confused messages.With so much apparent interest in sex, I felt what was needed was a reliable source of detailed and accurate information. on the topic, so I went to work on compiling this sexual encyclopedia, incorporating all the exciting new developments and the latest facts and figures. Since I first started in sex therapy 30 years ago, there has been a great surge of scientific . and academic research. Drug companies have made. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Living Life with Diabetes

Living Life with Diabetes 

By: John Keller

Diabetes what’s that? It’s when my body does not produce insulin because my pancreas has packed up and will not work. I then have to inject insulin because I can no longer produce it. So, having diabetes is just a case of replacing the insulin that your body no longer produces via injections . . . that’s easy! It just means you have to take an injection every day. Simple. End of story . . . I wish. Diabetes not only has a physical effect on the lives of those of us who have the condition it also invokes many emotions which, in turn, also play a part in our well being. The first reaction of people who have just been told they have diabetes is usually shock, fear and anxiety all emotional responses, all strong and influential feelings. These feelings also have an effect on the way we begin to think about our future lives. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Politics in The Parish

Politics in The Parish

By: Gregory Allen Smith

Religion has always played an important role in American politics. Many ofth e earliest European settlers in the New World were motivated to cross the Atlanticby religious concerns, and the political institutions they established were influenced by their moral and religious convictions. The centrality ofr eligion in American life continued through the development ofth e colonies and the establishment ofth e United Statesas an independent nation. By the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville, by all accounts one ofth e most prescient observers of American society and culture, argued that for Americans religion should “be considered as the first ofth eir political institutions, for although it did not give them the taste for liberty, it singularly facilitates their use thereof” (1833, 292). [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

The Amulet of Samarkand

The Amulet of Samarkand 

By: Jonathan Stroud

The temperature of the room dropped fast. Ice formed on the curtains and crusted thickly around the lights in the ceiling. The glowing filaments in each bulb shrank and dimmed, while the candles that sprang from every available surface like a colony of toadstools had their wicks snuffed out. The darkened room filled with a yellow, choking cloud of brimstone, in which indistinct black shadows writhed and roiled. From far away came the sound of many voices screaming. Pressure was suddenly applied to the door that led to the landing. It bulged inward, the timbers groaning. Footsteps from invisible feet came pattering across the floorboards and invisible mouths whispered wicked things from behind the bed and under the desk. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Psychology

Psychology

By: G. Neil Martin, Neil R. Carlson and William Buskist

If you asked this question of several people, you would probably receive several, very different answers. In fact, if you asked this question of several psychologists, you would still not receive complete agreement on the answer. Psychologists engage in research, teaching, counselling and psychotherapy; they advise industry and government about personnel matters, the design of products, advertising, marketing and legislation; they devise and administer tests of personality, achievement and ability. And yet psychology is a relatively new discipline; the first modern scientific psychology laboratory was established in 1878 and the first person ever to call himself a psychologist was still alive in 1920. In some European universities the discipline of psychology was known as ‘mental philosophy’ not psychology even as late as the beginning of the twentieth century. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Making Sense of Business 

By: Alison Branagan

There is a multitude of business start-up books on the market today; very few approach the important subject of acquiring enterprise skills. This book is directed towards enterprising individuals and business managers who understand what they have to accomplish, but need to acquire new skills. It could be the case that you are a student, or have recently set up a business. You may be curious about what enterprise skills are and wish to learn more about them. Equally, you may be a recent graduate applying for a managerial post in a small firm or perhaps already struggling in the deep end. Whatever the premise, the realization may have struck that the business or action plan now calls for application. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Men in Relationships

Men in Relationships 

By: Victoria Hilkevitzh Bedford

Why do men and women look disbelieving when we tell them the title of the book we are editing? What is it about the juxtaposition of “men” and “relationships” that elicits an expression of bewilderment and such comments (from men as often as women) as “isn’t that an oxymoron?” But the other side of surprise and confusion is fascination followed by a flood of stories, the same motivation that launched us into delving into this topic in the first place. In this brief introduction, we will address the dissonance that ensues from the expression “men and relationships” and the life course perspective in which we chose to frame the topic. Finally, we will say a few words about the chapters themselves. Such reactions to the title of the book may lie in assumptions about the definition of what constitutes men’s relationships, assumptions that not only differ from those of the chapter authors but also reflect a controversy in the field of men and masculinities. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Political Economy

Political Economy 

By: Barry R. Weingast and Donald A Wittman

Over its long lifetime, the phrase “political economy” has had many different meanings. For Adam Smith, political economy was the science of managing a nation’s resources so as to generate wealth. For Marx, it was how the ownership of the means of production influenced historical processes. For much of the twentieth century, the phrase political economy has had contradictory meanings. Sometimes it was viewed as an area of study (the interrelationship between economics and politics) while at other times it was viewed as a methodological approach. Even the methodological approach was divided into two parts the economic approach (often called public choice) emphasizing individual rationality and the sociological approach where the level of analysis tended to be institutional. In this Handbook, we view political economy as a grand (if imperfect) synthesis of these various strands. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

My Secret Sex Life

My Secret Sex Life 

By: Fletchina Archer 

We were all a little tipsy. His wife went upstairs and I went into the kitchen. I felt his hand on my shoulder, and looked up. I was twenty four, but I didn’t know what to do when he kissed me. I mean that in the most basic sense. I’d never been kissed. I’d never dated, made out, done any of those things. I know that’s hard to believe these days when kids start having sex before they have their periods and everyone seems to be doing it by the time they’re twelve. For me, it was a combination of strict Catholic schools and upbringing for total ignorance of anything at all having to do with dating, sex, or anything on the subject of any of those things. I didn’t know what to do. He smiled and stroked my arm and said it was okay. That’s how it all started. The next Sunday morning when I answered the doorbell, he stood there smiling, a book in his hand. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Make Over Your Sex Life

Make Over Your Sex Life 

By: Susan Crain Bakos

Makeovers! They are every woman’s (and man’s) version of the fairy godmother’s wand. We all want a piece of the magic. You could transform your life today in many ways: by cutting off your long brown hair, coloring it blond, and trading those basic midheel black pumps for a pair of hot pink stilettos; by turning your cluttered office into a true workspace where creativity can flourish; by painting the living room a soft, glowing orange and adding exotic pillows, art baskets, and a huge palm tree or two. Makeovers are so appealing because they promise to change us within as well as without. We will become the Chic Blonde, the Writer, the Worldly Sophisticate that our new exteriors boast that we are. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

How to Juggle Women

How to Juggle Women

By: Stefan Feller

Iam a fickle person who loves women. I have, therefore, never been satisfied seeing one female at a time. I have always tried to juggle women. My first experience as a novice juggler was when I attempted to date two girls in high school. One was a sophomore at my high school while the other lived in a nearby town. Dating two girls from different towns is usually pretty safe when you are in high school, especially if they are not old enough to drive. They might as well live on opposite coasts. My initial success was short lived, however, because of an innocent phone call from the girl at my school to her cousin, who happened to be with her next-door neighbor. The conversation revealed that her cousin’s neighbor was also dating someone named Stefan. Coincidence? Unfortunately, it was not. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Investments

Investments 

By: Haim Levy and Thierry Post

Bulls were out in force on world markets yesterday as investors recovered their recent enthusiasm for global equities. Investors’ confidence over the outlook for the world economy was backed up by the release of US inflation data and a positive indicator of German business confidence. The US Federal Reserve’s decision to hold interest rates at 1 per cent was widely expected and the UScentral bank indicated it would keep rates on hold for a ‘considerable period.’ The UScentral bank said that low inflation remained a concern. The high level of optimism in the markets was reflected in Merrill Lynch’s September fund managers’ survey, which painted a picture of a ‘cloudless sky’, according to David Bowers, chief investment strategist. All leading indices rose yesterday, with Tokyotouching a 15-month high. Wall Street increased although trading was muted before the Fed’s decision at midday in New York. By mid-session, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 50 points stronger at 9499. [download]  

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Innovation Strategies for a Global Economy

Innovation Strategies for a Global Economy

By: Fred Gault

In 2009 when this book was written, the economy was in recession and people were asking what went wrong. Part of what went wrong was innovation in fi nancial services which resulted in the release of attractive new products to the market. They diff used rapidly and widely and then lost value. The rest is history, a painful history for those who lost homes, savings and businesses. As the fi rst signs of recovery appear, the question being asked is whether this can happen again. This book looks at innovation, what it is, how it is measured, and how policies are developed and implemented to support it. In doing this, the framework conditions are examined, like market regulation, and the costs of doing business, to see how the present situation could be avoided. However, framework conditions are not just the work of government, as culture and history contribute. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

HTML and Javascipt for Visual Learners

HTML and Javascipt for Visual Learners

Published By: Visibooks, LLC,Richmond,VA

Welcome to HTML and Java Script for visual Learners, if you’ve never used a Visibook before, you’ll find that it contains several hundred illustrations, with comparatively little text. It present essential tasks. Breaks them down into steps, then walks you through them with illustrations. You’ll learn how to use HTML to create a solid, attractive Web site that’s easy to navigate. You’ll also learn how to upload it to a Web server. You won’t become an expert  in web publishing that takes practice and real world experience. But you will learn the fundamentals of site building, and get a good foundation on which to build professional level skill. Additional resources for acquiring expert level HTML and JavaScript skill are found the end of this book. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

HTML and XML for Beginners

HTML and XML for Beginners 

By: Michael Morrison

A 1999 study of 25,500 words from a standard English-language dictionary found that 93 percent of them have been registered as dot-com addresses. Even if you’re not dreaming of creating the next big dot-com, you’ve more than likely realized that Web pages are in your future. Along with this insight, you’ve probably come to understand that HTML is an acronym that has much to do with Web pages. As you may already know, HTML is one of a long string of acronyms that litter the landscape of the Web. If it’s one thing techies love, it’s a good acronym and the more letters, the better. Although many people would like to believe that HTML really stands for Help Transmit My Love, it doesn’t. The real meaning of those magical letters is HyperText Markup Language, which is more accurate but has considerably less sizzle than the love version. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Getting Your Kids Active

Getting Your Kids Active 

By: Claire Gillman

The good news is that you are well placed to get your children active and eating healthily, albeit that it will take some dedication and probably a change in the way that your family approaches eating and exercise. The bad news is that there is no time to lose. The statistics make pretty scary reading. Childhood obesity is at an all-time high and today’s youth are playing less sport and are involved in less activity than ever before. According to the National Audit Office, nearly one-third of children between the ages of 2 and 15 are overweight or obese. With today’s sedentary lifestyles, more children than ever before are at risk of becoming overweight and suffering from the inherent health and emotional ramifications that entails. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Female Nudes

Female Nudes 

By: Alina Reyes and Bernard Matussiere

Am I a woman? At least I have the form and lines of a woman and the indination to enjoy it. I don’t know what is to be a women, unless from the desire I have of men and the peasure I myself enjoy of being a man like any other….me, the spouse of this woman, this other me, the one whose image appears in the mirror: this woman who, every morning, I dress in underwear and clothes that make me want to undress again and whom, every night. I lay down, naked in a bed of love. Eyes closed, lying naked in the black of  night. I see myself, bright and qurvening, in the core of my shell. My flesh is an oyster shell soft pearly, tightly closed yet knowing how to open up with the slowness of a rose to allow the salt of the world to enter me eyes closed, alone in my bed at night. [download] 

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Having An Addictive Personality

Having An Addictive Personality

By: Jay Bridgers

Addiction is a relationship you have with an object (such as a drug or alcohol) or action (such as gambling or having sex). In an addictive relationship, you come to depend on that object or action to meet your emotional needs. For example, a person may eat compulsively to feel comfort, or gamble compulsively to ease loneliness. Often, you and the people around you don’t even realize that an addiction has been formed. But as addiction progresses, it becomes hard to ignore. All kinds of people suffer from addictionsyoung and old, from all walks of life. There are many ideas about why people become addicted. Some theories focus on biological causes, others on emotional causes, and still others on social causes. It isn’t possible to explain addiction simply. But addicts do seem to have some common traits and go through a similar process in their. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Et si Vous en Saviez Assez Pour

Et si Vous en Saviez Assez Pour  

By: Peter Lynch

C’est là où l’auteur, un investisseur professionnel, promet au lecteur que dans les prochaines pages, il partagera les secrets de son succès. Règle numéro un : n’écoutez plus les professionnels ! Vingt ans de métier m’ont convaincu que toute personne normale utilisant les trois pour cent des capacités de son cerveau pouvait choisir des actions aussi bien, si ce n’est mieux qu’un expert de Wall Street. Je sais bien que vous n’attendez pas de votre chirurgien esthétique qu’il vous conseille de faire vous même votre lifting, ou de votre plombier qu’il vous dise d’installer votre propre chauffe-eau, et encore moins de votre coiffeur qu’il vous recommande d’égaliser vos mèches, mais il ne s’agit ni de chirurgie, ni de plomberie, ni de coiffure. Il s’agit d’investissement, où l’argent intelligent n’est pas si intelligent, et l’argent bête n’est bête que s’il écoute l’argent intelligent. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Heroic Defeats

Heroic Defeats 

By: Miriam A. Golden

Threatened with the bankruptcy of their employer in 1979, a majority of workers in Chrysler plants in the United Statesvoted for major concessions in wages and benefits in an attempt to reduce the company’s need for workforce reductions. Nonetheless, by so doing, employees tacitly endorsed the subsequent firings of thousands of their fellows. Faced with a similar situation a year later, autoworkers in Turin, rather than negotiating concessions, held out for 35 days in a strike against Italy’s largest private employer, Fiat, a strike that paradoxically only intensified after the firm retracted its threat to effect forced dismissals and proposed temporary layoffs in their place. At the same time, neighboring Olivetti plants were laying off thousands of employees with the active cooperation of the very same union that was making national headlines with its dramatic industrial action at Fiat. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Erotic Massage

Erotic Massage

By: Kenneth Ray Stubbs, Ph.D. with Louise Andree Saulnier

Basically all you need is oil fragranced ones entice the mind but may sting the skin especially membranous tissue Some prefer vegetable oils (unfragranced coconut oil is a good choice) others prefer mineral oils Visit your local lotions-and-potions store, try a health food store On membranous tissues, such as the female genitals, some consider water-based lubricants to be healthier Purchase them at a pharmacy perhaps at a sensuous boutique You can apply the oil or lubricant to your hands either from a plastic squeeze bottle a bottle with a push pump or a bowl Massage tables are great for your back and sturdy tabletops padded with foam or blankets are fine Otherwise, a padded floor a bed or the ground covered with cloth is quite suitable If you select a large bed have the recipient’s head at a corner of the foot of the bed. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Credit Risk Management

Credit Risk Management 

By: Tony Van Gestel and Bart Baesen

Credit risk, or the risk that money owed is not repaid, has been prevalent in banking history. It is a principal and perhaps the most important risk type that has been present in finance, commerce and trade transactions from ancient cultures till today. Numerous small and large failures, combined with the corresponding economic and social impact, further accelerated the importance of credit risk management throughout history. Credit risk management is a process that involves the identification of potential risks, the measurement of these risks, the appropriate treatment, and the actual implementation of risk models. Efficient credit risk management tools have been vital in allowing the phenomenal growth in consumer credit during the last 50 years.Without accurate automated decision tools, credit lending would not have allowed banks to expand the loan book with the speed they have. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

English Drama Since 1940

English Drama Since 1940 

By: David Ian Rabey

The creation and management of public order through shared meaning is in itself profoundly dramatic. Clarke notes how Churchill’s wartime speeches (like those of Shakespeare’s Henry V) appeal to a sense of performance which constitutes history in the making: ‘Rather than minimising the threat of invasion, he dramatised it’, projecting himself into the future and flattering by association his fellow members of ‘the British Empireand its commonwealth’ that this would stand as ‘their finest hour’. British history has often dealt with challenges to homogeneous national identity by ‘ignoring’ them and marginalising dissenting voices into ultimately supportive foils for the dramatic advancement of self-styled protagonists: ‘Churchill and Orwell slipped into a well-established convention of illicitly, implicitly conscripting all Britons into a pageant of English history, with a few tartan-clad spear-carriers and Celtic by standers, presumed to be muttering the Welsh for “rhubarb”’. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Dangerous Lover

Dangerous Lover 

By: Lisa Marie Rice 

He needed Caroline like he needed light and air. More. The tall, emaciated boy dressed in rags rose from his father’s lifeless body sprawled bonelessly on the icy, concrete floor of the shelter. His father had been dying for a long time most of his life, in fact. There had always been something in him that didn’t want to live. The boy couldn’t remember the last time he’d seen his father clean and sober. He had no mother. All his life, it had been just the two of them, father and son, drifting from shelter to shelter, staying until they were kicked out. The boy stood for a moment, looking down at his only blood relation in this world, dead in a pool of vomit and shit. Nobody had noticed his father’s dead body yet. Nobody ever noticed them or even looked their way if they could help it. Even the other lost, hopeless souls in the shelter recognized someone worse off than they were and shunned them. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Dead Girls are Easy

Dead Girls are Easy

By: Terri Garey 

“She’s coding. Give me another round of epi, stat.” “Doctor-”. “Keep bagging her, nurse. I’m not letting her go yet. Charge it to 360.” Had I left the TV on? I’d never cared much for medical dramas. Too much intensity, too much crying, too many doctors undergoing personal crises of faith-I’d rather believe they were professionals who knew what they were doing and leave it at that. The body on the table jerked at least a foot in the air when the paddles touched its chest. A hand flopped to the side, revealing red fingernails and a silver thumb ring. A woman. A high-pitched whining from one of the machines was getting on my nerves, but I had to give the director credit. The urgency on the faces of the people clustered around the gurney looked pretty real. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Beginning Joomla 

By: Dan Rahmel 

I’m more excited about Joomla than any other web product I’ve seen in years. Joomla exploded onto the web scene in 2005 and drastically simplified web design, development deployment, and maintenance. It’s also done its fair share to beautify the web world. By using Joomla, you can instantly banish ugly, poorly structured interfaces from your web sites even the default installation shown in Figure 1-1 shows how pleasing a Joomla web site can look. Adding content or updating the design of your entire web site is a snap . . . and that’s just for openers! This book will guide you through nearly every aspect of the Joomla system, from basic deployment to writing your own extensions. By the time you’ve reached the last page, you’ll be able to make Joomla do almost anything that a manually designed web site can do and in a fraction of the time.  [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Comprehensive Stress Management

Comprehensive Stress Management

By: Jerrold S. Greenberg

It was a pleasant spring day about seventy degrees, with the sun shining and a slight breeze. It was the kind of day I would have enjoyed celebrating by playing tennis, jogging, and helping my son learn how to ride his bicycle (an aggravating but necessary task). Instead, I was on the shoulder of a country road in upstate New Yorkwith my hands on my knees, vomiting. The story of how I wound up on such a glorious day in such an inglorious position serves as an important lesson. At the time, I was an assistant professor, imposing my know-it-all attitude upon unsuspecting and innocent college students at the State University of New York at Buffalo. I had become quite successful in each of the three areas the university established as criteria for promotion and tenure: teaching, research and other publications, and university and community service. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Brilliant Project Management

Brilliant Project Management 

By: Stephen Barker and Rob Cole

Do you have a burning desire to be a brilliant project manager? Are you relatively new to project management and keen to develop your skills quickly? Or are you an experienced professional looking for a refresher? If your head is nodding then you’re just the kind of  erson this practical guide is for. In this book we’ve distilled down what we think it takes to be a brilliant project manager. We’ve drawn on the good, the bad and the ugly and the eccentric. But above all, we’ve thought long and hard about what we’ve learned from rolling up our sleeves and getting our hands dirty. Between us we’ve got over 30 years of hands-on project management experience. That’s plenty of time to learn lessons at the school of hard knocks!. Experience alone is unlikely to make you a brilliant project manager. You’ll also need to do your own research and get good advice along the way. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Chinesische Fusionskontrolle

Chinesische Fusionskontrolle

By: Markus Maselli

Seit Ende der 1970er Jahre hält sich die sonst von weißen Katzen bevölkerte Volksrepublik China in zunehmendem Umfang schwarze Katzen und heißt auch schwarze Katzen aus der Ferne willkommen. Diese fangen seither mit großem Erfolg Mäuse in China und man bekommt den Eindruck, dass die schwarzen Katzen bereits in der Mehrheit sind. Seit 2008 jedoch gibt es in China einige neue Wachhunde, die unter den heimischen und fremden, schwarzen und weißen Katzen in China für Ordnung sorgen sollen. Vor allem einer dieser Wachhunde hat bereits über die Grenzen Chinas hinaus für Aufsehen gesorgt. Die fremden schwarzen Katzen haben nämlich schon seine Zähne zu spüren bekommen. Sie haben keinen Zweifel daran, dass sie Rücksicht auf diesen Wachhund nehmen müssen, wenn sie weiter in China Mäuse fangen wollen. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Baby Facts

Baby Facts 

By: Andrew Adesman, MD.

I’m a parent, like you. I ’ m also a pediatrician. My young patients are cared for by mothers, fathers, and other loving caregivers who are deeply invested in the physical and emotional well being of their babies and young children and who like you, and like me try hard to make the best decisions when it comes to the health and safety of their sons and daughters. We are luckier than previous generations of parents because we have such a vast wealth of. specifi c parenting information at our fi ngertips: books and magazines, Web sites and Internet chat rooms, community groups, experts galore, and the hard earned wisdom of those parents, grandparents, and friends who were parents before we took the plunge. But after twenty  four years of practicing pediatrics, and seventeen years of helping my wife raise our three children. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

101 Boardroom Problems

101 Boardroom Problems

By: Eli Mina 

Before becoming a consultant on meetings and effective decision making, I was employed as an engineer. My motto then was: Silence is golden. Keeping quiet in meetings was safe and risk-free, and rarely did anyone solicit my ideas anyway. Had I shared my input, however, it might have improved the quality of my team’s decisions and reduced its mistakes. Silence is a common and highly damaging Boardroom problem, one that increases risk and diminishes opportunities. In 1984, I launched my consulting practice on meetings and rules of order. I had fun advising Boards on demystifying the rules of order and using them sensibly and intelligently to facilitate progress while protecting basic rights. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

250 HTML and Web Design Secrets

250 HTML and Web Design Secrets 

By: Molly E. Holzschlag

Web design has come a long way in just over a decade. The concerns facing anyone working on Web sites are so complex and changing so rapidly that it’s downright overwhelming. From a consumer perspective, Web designs and redesigns can be very expensive. The goal of this book is to provide you with all the top flight information you need to know to get up to speed with the best practices and standards being used by today’s practical but progressive Web sites such as ESPN and Wired News. We all need help to improve workflow, develop rich designs that can be accessed by numerous browsers and alternative devices such as cell phones and PDAs, create sites that meet legal concerns regarding content and accessibility, managing sites for the long term, and improve the financial bottom line by significantly reducing bandwidth and increasing revenue. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

Agile Web Development with Rails

Agile Web Development with Rails 

By: Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson

Ruby on Rails is a framework that makes it easier to develop, deploy, and maintain web applications. During the months that followed its initial release, Rails went from being an unknown toy to being a worldwide phenomenon. It has won awards, and, more important, it has become the framework of choice for the implementation of a wide range of so-called Web 2.0 applications. It isn’t just trendy among hard-core hackers: many multinational companies are using Rails to create their web applications. Why is that? There seem to be many reasons. First, there seemed to be a large number of developers who were frustrated with the technologies they were using to create web applications. It didn’t seem to matter whether they were using Java, PHP, or NET there was a growing sense that their job was just too damn hard. And then, suddenly, along came Rails, and Rails is easier. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

All for One

All for One 

By: Andrew Sobel

Avariety of powerful forces are now creating unprecedented opportunities to partner with clients and add value in new ways. This book presents a road map for capturing these opportunities and building trusted client partnerships marked by depth, breadth, and longevity. It is organized around 10 fundamental strategies that combine to help you create a powerful, all-for-one, client-centered organization. These strategies have been identified and codified through an extensive, multiyear study of large scale client relationships built by a wide range of highly successful services firms. Why is this important? For your clients, these enduring, institutional relationships can increase value, reduce risk, and accelerate change. For you and your firm, they are the bedrock of your success. In good times they will fill your sails with wind, and in a difficult economy they provide essential ballast that will keep you on an even keel. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf

A Drinking Life

A Drinking Life 

By: Pete Hamill

THIS IS A BOOK about my time in the drinking life. It tells the story of the way one human being became aware of alcohol, embraced it, struggled with it, was hurt by it, and finally left it behind. The tale has no hero. The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the wounded and lonely, and above all, the elusive promises of friendship and love. From almost the beginning of awareness, drinking was a part of my life; there is no way that I could tell the story of the drinking without telling the story of the life. Much of that story was wonderful. In the snug darkness of saloons, I learned much about being human and about mastering a craft. [download]

Format : Ebook.Pdf