Frank T : 101 books
Fossils
A Fully Illustrated, Authoritative and Easy-to-Use Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This eBook is best viewed on a color device.
This introduction to the life of the past as revealed through fossils includes:
-Descriptions of the typical plants and animals of major geological eras
-Maps showing where fossils can be found
-The history of the development of life on earth
Full-color...
by Patty Jo Watson, Janet Rafferty, Joseph M. Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States.
The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research...
Serving With Joy
Lessons From Pope Francis for Catholic Deacons Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Since the early days of his pontificate, Pope Francis has challenged us to reclaim the “good news” of the Gospel and to allow that good news to heal shattered lives. He is an evangelist of hope who models true servant leadership and whose witness to joy has changed the Church and the world. This...
A Professional's Guide to Decision Science and Problem Solving
An Integrated Approach for Assessing Issues, Finding Solutions, and Reaching Corporate Objectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
A Professional's Guide to Decision Science and Problem Solving provides an integrated, start-to-finish framework for more effective problem solving and decision making in corporations. Drawing on vast experience in the field, the authors show how to apply state-of-the-art decision science, statistical...
by Svetlozar T. Rachev, Markus Hoechstoetter, Sergio M. Focardi
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
A comprehensive look at how probability and statistics is applied to the investment process
Finance has become increasingly more quantitative, drawing on techniques in probability and statistics that many finance practitioners have not had exposure to before. In order to keep up, you need a...
by Svetlozar T. Rachev, Stoyan V. Stoyanov, Frank J. Fabozzi
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
A Probability Metrics Approach to Financial Risk Measures relates the field of probability metrics and risk measures to one another and applies them to finance for the first time.
Helps to answer the question: which risk measure is best for a given problem?
Finds new relations between existing...
by Svetlozar T. Rachev, Young Shin Kim, Michele L. Bianchi
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
An in-depth guide to understanding probability distributions and financial modeling for the purposes of investment management
In Financial Models with Lévy Processes and Volatility Clustering, the expert author team provides a framework to model the behavior of stock returns in both a univariate...
by Barbara Adam, Wendell Bell, Michael Burawoy
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Public sociology—an approach to sociology that aims to communicate with and actively engage wider audiences—has been one of the most widely discussed topics in the discipline in recent years. The Handbook of Public Sociology presents a comprehensive look at every facet of public sociology in theory...
The Basics of Financial Econometrics
Tools, Concepts, and Asset Management Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
An accessible guide to the growing field of financial econometrics
As finance and financial products have become more complex, financial econometrics has emerged as a fast-growing field and necessary foundation for anyone involved in quantitative finance. The techniques of financial econometrics...
Economic Development of Emerging East Asia
Catching Up of Taiwan and South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Economic Development of Emerging East Asia presents economic studies of Taiwan and South Korea, compares them chiefly with Japan and the United States and finds that these East Asian countries are still in the process of emerging in the world economy. A timely quantitative and econometric analysis...
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Guy de Maupassant, Louisa May Alcott
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Table of contents
A Cosmopolite in a Cafe
At Sea
Aunt Kipp
Little Bun Rabbit
The Ambitious Guest
The Story Of The Bad Little Boy
Vanka
The Body Snatcher
The Mark On The Wall
The Affair at Coulter's Notch
A Cosmopolite in a Cafe
by O. Henry
At midnight the cafe was crowded....
by T. Frank Muir
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
A detective looks into a skeleton in a Scottish cemetery—and, perhaps, into his own family’s past—in this “top-notch police-procedural” (Richmond Times-Dispatch).
When a woman’s bones are discovered in a grave in St. Andrews—with no coffin and no marker—DCI Andy Gilchrist is...
Meating Room
A DCI Gilchrist Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
When Thomas Magner's business partner is found dead in his car on the outskirts of St. Andrews, all evidence points to suicide. Meanwhile Magner, a wealthy property developer, is under investigation for a series of alleged rapes almost thirty years ago. In total, eleven women are prepared to go to...
by T. Frank Muir
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A St. Andrews golf course is the site of a grisly discovery in this Scottish crime thriller.
Murder. It’s the only word in a note clutched by the dismembered hand found on the lush green of a golf course in St. Andrews, Scotland. When DCI Andy Gilchrist learns the note is addressed to him,...