“…The 12th Edition offers significant new and revised content -- on the North Korean nuclear crisis, the 2016 U.S. election results, and more -- to give students an up-to-date view of international relations. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Representative Firm -- Macroeconomics in Action: Henry Ford and Total Factor Productivity -- Theory Confronts the Data: Total Factor Productivity and the U.S. Aggregate Production Function -- Chapter Summary -- Key Terms -- Questions for Review -- Problems -- Working with the Data -- Chapter 5 A Closed-Economy One-Period Macroeconomic Model -- Government -- Competitive Equilibrium -- Optimality -- Working with the Model: The Effects of a Change in Government Purchases -- Working with the Model: A Change in Total Factor Productivity -- Theory Confronts the Data: Government Spending in World War II -- Theory Confronts the Data: Total Factor Productivity and Real GDP -- Macroeconomics in Action: Government Expenditures and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 -- A Distorting Tax on Wage Income, Tax Rate Changes, and the Laffer Curve -- A Model of Public Goods: How Large Should the Government Be? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 18.2 Yes, you can -- 18.2.1 The toxic relationships that keep us from teaching -- 18.2.2 You are definitely worthy of teaching -- 18.3 How humans learn -- 18.4 The value of repetition -- 18.5 Getting in and doing it -- 18.6 Why analogies work . . . and how they can fail -- 18.7 Do it like Socrates -- 18.8 The importance of sequencing -- 18.9 Rest time is crucial -- 18.10 Further reading -- 18.11 Action items -- 19 Be prepared for anything -- 19.1 What can happen? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Nominal exchange rates (vis-à-vis the US dollar) -- Annex Table 42. Effective exchange rates -- Annex Table 43. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Smarter Finance USA's Educational Content Pays Off in a Big Way -- Chapter 17 Content Subject 3 Versus and Comparisons -- The Results -- Putting It Into Action -- Chapter 18 The Critical Need for Unbiased Content -- Disarmament: The Quickest Way to Build Trust -- Chapter 19 Content Subjects 4 and 5 Reviews and Best in Class -- Putting It Into Action -- Chapter 20 Using Reviews to Establish Yourself as an Expert -- Chapter 21 The Impact of Discussing the Competition -- Putting It Into Action -- Chapter 22 Case Study 3 Small Retail Appliance Store Dominates Online and Makes Millions -- About Yale Appliance -- A CEO Becomes the Head of Business Development -- Yale Appliance Tackles the Tougher Questions -- Yale Appliance's Success with Inbound Marketing -- Chapter 23 The Competition -- The Bad Fits -- The Customer -- Chapter 24 How They Ask, You Answer Saved River Pools and Spas -- PART II The Impact of They Ask, You Answer on Sales Teams -- Chapter 25 How Great Content Is a Total Game-Changer for Sales Teams -- Seven Major Benefits of Sales Teams Embracing They Ask, You Answer -- Chapter 26 A Dramatic Discovery -- Chapter 27 Assignment Selling -- An Example of Assignment Selling in Action -- The Special Rights of the Teacher -- What Homework Can Tell Us about the Prospect -- Chapter 28 How One Remarkable Couple Changed My Perspective on the Power of Content to Sell -- Chapter 29 Content Never Sleeps -- Chapter 30 Using Assignment Selling to Avoid Common Sales Pitfalls -- Chapter 31 Using Assignment Selling to Determine Compatibility -- Chapter 32 Case Study 4 How a Start-Up Company in the Health Care Space Became the Thought Leaders of an Entirely New Industry -- Phase 1: Uniting the Marketing and Sales Silos -- Phases 2 and 3: Live Webinars and Events -- Success and Plans for the Future -- PART III Implementation and Making It a Culture…”

“…Easy to make, easy to hold on to and easy to grow. The rest of us just find it easy to spend. Here’s a personal code for a life of prosperity and plenty…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Conventions Used in This Book -- Using Code Examples -- Safari® Books Online -- How to Contact Us -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Hadoop Fundamentals -- Chapter 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Why I Wrote This Book -- Who Should Read This Book -- Navigating This Book -- Conventions Used in This Book -- Online Resources -- Safari® Books Online -- How to Contact Us -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- A Note About Versions -- Ansible: What Is It Good For? …”

“…The Islamic finance industry is the world's fastest growing sector, valued at over U.S. $1.3 trillion by the UK Islamic Finance secretariat, with an annual growth of 24% for the past five years. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2.12 Model Comparison and Averaging -- 2.12.1 In-sample Comparison -- 2.12.2 Out-of-sample Comparison -- 2.12.3 Model Averaging -- Exercises -- References -- 3: Case Studies of Linear Time Series -- 3.1 Weekly Regular Gasoline Price -- 3.1.1 Pure Time Series Model -- 3.1.2 Use of Crude Oil Prices -- 3.1.3 Use of Lagged Crude Oil Prices -- 3.1.4 Out-of-sample Predictions -- 3.2 Global Temperature Anomalies -- 3.2.1 Unit-root Stationarity -- 3.2.2 Trend-nonstationarity -- 3.2.3 Model Comparison -- 3.2.4 Long-term Prediction -- 3.2.5 Discussion -- 3.3 Us Monthly Unemployment Rates -- 3.3.1 Univariate Time Series Models -- 3.3.2 An Alternative Model -- 3.3.3 Model Comparison -- 3.3.4 Use of Initial Jobless Claims -- 3.3.5 Comparison -- Exercises -- References -- 4: Asset Volatility and Volatility Models -- 4.1 Characteristics of Volatility -- 4.2 Structure of a Model -- 4.3 Model Building -- 4.4 Testing for ARCH Effect -- 4.5 The Arch Model -- 4.5.1 Properties of ARCH Models -- 4.5.2 Advantages and Weaknesses of ARCH Models -- 4.5.3 Building an ARCH Model -- 4.5.4 Some Examples -- 4.6 the Garch Model -- 4.6.1 An Illustrative Example -- 4.6.2 Forecasting Evaluation -- 4.6.3 A Two-pass Estimation Method -- 4.7 The Integrated Garch Model -- 4.8 The Garch-M Model -- 4.9 The Exponential Garch Model -- 4.9.1 An Illustrative Example -- 4.9.2 An Alternative Model Form -- 4.9.3 Second Example -- 4.9.4 Forecasting Using an EGARCH Model -- 4.10 The Threshold Garch Model -- 4.11 Asymmetric Power Arch Models -- 4.12 Nonsymmetric Garch Model -- 4.13 The Stochastic Volatility Model -- 4.14 Long-memory Stochastic Volatility Models -- 4.15 Alternative Approaches -- 4.15.1 Use of High Frequency Data -- 4.15.2 Use of Daily Open, High, Low, and Close Prices -- Exercises -- References -- 5: Applications of Volatility Models -- 5.1 Garch Volatility Term Structure…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Who Should Read This Book -- Why We Wrote This Book -- Elasticsearch Version -- How to Read This Book -- Navigating This Book -- Online Resources -- Conventions Used in This Book -- Using Code Examples -- Safari® Books Online -- How to Contact Us -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Getting Started -- Chapter 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Trash Fires as Toxic Heritage in Palestine -- How can the term "toxic heritage" help us understand trash fires on occupied territory? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Understanding IoT Fundamentals -- Chapter 1: IoT Essentials, All You Should Know -- The evolving definition of IoT -- Deployed from fixed to mobility -- Mobility from a local area to a wide area -- Presence from city to barren fields -- Throughput from Mb/s to Gb/s -- Battery life from days to years -- Networking from point-to-point and point-to-multipoint to mesh and star topologies -- Intelligence at edge node -- AI and ML -- Addressable markets -- Residential -- Commercial and business -- Neighborhood and campus -- Cities -- Rural areas -- Industries -- How IoT impacts us -- Living comfort and safety improvement -- Operational efficiency improvement -- Environmental protection improvement -- Industrial productivity improvement -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 2: IoT Network, the Neural System of Things -- IoT networks at home -- Home Wi-Fi -- BLE -- Thread -- IoT networks on campuses and in buildings -- Enterprise Wi-Fi -- Thread mesh -- Private LoRaWAN network -- No one-size-fits-all approach -- IoT networks in cities -- Cellular network -- Public LoRaWAN network -- IoT networks in rural areas -- Private LoRaWAN network -- LEO network -- Summary -- Chapter 3: IoT End Devices, the Neuron Cells of an IoT System -- Device types -- Installing indoors versus outdoors -- Powering via external supply versus batteries -- Connected by wire versus wireless -- The need for edge computing -- Hardware architecture -- MCUs -- Roles -- Key features -- Critical components -- Off-the-shelf MCU -- DIY-friendly MCU -- Peripherals and interfaces -- GPIO -- SPI -- I2C -- UART -- USB -- SDIO -- ADCs -- DACs -- PWM outputs -- JTAG -- Timers -- Real-time clock -- Sensors and actuators -- Sensors -- Actuators -- Common pins on sensors -- Understanding sensor specifications…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Novelty -- Power -- Enjoyment -- What to Expect from This Book -- A Little Bit About You -- What to Expect from Haskell -- Compared to Traditional Static Languages -- Compared to Modern Dynamic Languages -- Haskell in Industry and Open Source -- Compilation, Debugging, and Performance Analysis -- Bundled and Third-Party Libraries -- A Brief Sketch of Haskell's History -- Prehistory -- Early Antiquity -- The Modern Era -- Helpful Resources -- Reference Material -- Applications and Libraries -- The Haskell Community -- Conventions Used in This Book -- Using Code Examples -- Safari® Books Online -- How to Contact Us -- Acknowledgments -- Bryan -- John -- Don -- Thank You to Our Reviewers -- Chapter 1. …”