Ben D: 59 books
Quantitative Credit Portfolio Management
Practical Innovations for Measuring and Controlling Liquidity, Spread, and Issuer Concentration Risk
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
An innovative approach to post-crash credit portfolio management
Credit portfolio managers traditionally rely on fundamental research for decisions on issuer selection and sector rotation. Quantitative researchers tend to use more mathematical techniques for pricing models and to quantify credit...
by Alison Davis, Jane Shannon, Wayne Cascio
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Quick and Dirty Tips for Life After College
Your Ultimate Guide to Career Success
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Graduating college is a momentous achievement.
But once the diploma is awarded and the parties are over...now what?
What's the next step?
How do we bridge the gap between our college days and the "real world"?
That's where the experts at Quick and Dirty Tips come in. Their wisdom...
by David A. Westcott, David D. Coleman, Ben Miller
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
The official study guide for the Certified Wireless Analysis Professional certification from CWNP
Four leading wireless experts thoroughly prepare you for the vendor-neutral CWAP exam administered by CWNP, the industry leader for enterprise Wi-Fi training and certification. This official study...
Civic Media
Technology, Design, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life.
Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation,...
by Morley D. Glicken, Ben Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
In the current economy, companies are expected to turn on a dime in response to changing market needs to stay vibrant. What that means is that companies are constantly reorganizing. Employees are living in a constant state of change. This dynamic in the workplace has affected worker satisfaction,...
Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 2
Safety, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Summarises current research on pathogenic risks affecting milk and ways they can be controlled on the farm;
Reviews ways of measuring and reducing the environmental impact of dairy farming such as better grassland management;
Assesses the wider role of dairy farming and how it can be improved in the developing world
Introduction to Maintenance Engineering
Modelling, Optimization and Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This introductory textbook links theory with practice using real illustrative cases involving products, plants and infrastructures and exposes the student to the evolutionary trends in maintenance.
Provides an interdisciplinary approach which links, engineering, science, technology, mathematical...
From the Yenisei to the Yukon
Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?
During the Pleistocene era, the people now...
Nature, Politics, and the Arts
Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American...
by Gilad Ben-Nun, Cristina D'Alessandro, Zack Levey
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Ordersheds light on theplace of "Africa Agency” in the competitive and changing global system. This book provides scholars, policymakers, and other stakeholders studying and working on African issues with innovative solutions, strategies, knowledge,...
The 2016 American Presidential Campaign and the News
Implications for American Democracy and the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This book examines perhaps the most contentious election in modern US history—the 2016 United States presidential election. It is unique in its discussion of a wide range of issues affecting the news media coverage of the election, coming from an equally diverse range of intellectual perspectives...
Writing for Engagement
Responsive Practice for Social Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Engagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community, diverse invocations of engagement have gained cache, capturing longstanding shifts toward new practices of knowledge making that both reflect and facilitate multiple ways of being an academic. Engagement functions as a gloss for these...
Mentoring Away the Glass Ceiling in Academia
A Cultured Critique
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Mentoring Away the Glass Ceiling in Academia: A Cultured Critique is different in that it calls attention to the role mentoring has played on the “glass ceiling” phenomenon in higher education. Narratives by and about the experiences of women of diverse backgrounds in the United States and beyond...