The Big Counting Book

Blackwell, David W.: Modern Financial Markets: Prices, Yields and Risk Analysis, Wiley, ISBN: 9780470000106
einige Lagerspuren Editorial Reviews\n\nProduct Description\nThroughout this concise, accessible book, readers will quickly learn the fundamental concepts of managerial finance while discovering how things really work. The material is explained using an intuitive theoretical context, providing them with a richer understanding of the material and better insights into solving problems. Finance concepts are covered in a common sense manner and the use of mathematical jargon is minimized. The unifying theme for the book is the concept of valuation since it is the most fundamental concept in finance. The authors define and discuss value in terms of net present value (NPV).\n\nAbout the Author\nDavid W. Blackwell is the James W. Aston/RepublicBank Professor of Finance and Head of the Department of Finance at Texas A&M University's Mays Business School. Prior to joining Texas A&M, Dr. Blackwell worked for several years as a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and KPMG LLP. Before his stint in the Big 4, he served on the faculties of the University of Georgia, the University of Houston, and Emory University. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Rochester. His publications have appeared in the leading scholarly journals of finance and accounting such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Financial Management, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Accounting Research, and Journal of Accounting and Economics. While in the Big 4, Dr. Blackwell consulted on a broad range of issues including intellectual property valuation, securities and business valuation, corporate governance, and executive compensation. Dr. Blackwell received a Ph.D. in Finance and a B.S. in Economics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is a past president of the Southern Finance Association and a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Research.\n\nMark D. Griffiths is the Jack Anderson Professor of Fiance at Miami University's Richard T. Farmer School of Business. His research focuses primarily on issues in market microstructure, money markets and short-term interest rates. Dr Griffiths' publications appear in leading academic journals including Journal of Business, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Financial Intermediation. He received undergraduate degrees in French and administrative studies from the University of Western Ontario and from York University, Canada, respectively. He completed an MBA in finance at York University before earning a master's degree in economics at the University of Waterloo and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Western Ontario.\n\nDrew B. Winters is the Jerry S. Rawls Professor of Finance and Area Coordinator of Finance at Texas Tech University's Rawls College of Business. His research focuses on the behavior of short-term interest rates and the determinants of interest rates on bank lines of credit. His publications appear in leading journals such as Journal of Business, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Research, and counting Research, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Research, and the Economic Review of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Before joining Texas Tech, Dr. Winters Served at the University of Central Florida, University of Southern Mississippi, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Western Illinois University. He has also served as a Visiting Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Before he entered academic life, Dr. Winters was a loan officer at First Union National Bank and a staff accountant for a public accounting firm. Dr. Winters received a Ph.D. in Finance and the MBA from the University of Georgia, and a B.S. in computer science and accounting from Duke University. , ISBN: 0470000104

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Bouton, Jim: I'm Glad You Didn't Take It Personally, NY William Morrow & Co 1971
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This is an exceptionally clean, fresh and nice first printing. An increasingly uncommon first edition in collector's condition. Unclipped. This relatively small but engaging book tells the story of Bouton's last half season (not counting his comeback in '78), his work in broadcasting, and all the aftermath of publishing "Ball Four." It reads exactly like a continuation of "Ball Four," and in fact I'm surprised that the two have never been amalgamated into a single edition. Here Bouton shares the ways in which his first book changed his life, making him both famous and (to some) notorious. A number of letters he received are included, as are some of the book's early reviews and reactions. In rereading it for this review, I not only laughed a lot, but I came away astonished once again at the conniption big league baseball had. If you like "BF," (I loved it) you've got to get this one. First Edition, First Printing Fine Hard Cover in Dust Jacket

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Guttmann, A. J. Polygons, Polyominoes and Polycubes Lecture Notes in Physics 775, SPRINGER NETHERLANDS, April 2009 ISBN: 1402099266
This unique book gives a comprehensive account of new mathematical tools used to solve polygon problems.In the 20th and 21st centuries, many problems in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical chemistry - and more recently in molecular biology and bio-informatics - can be expressed as counting problems, in which specified graphs, or shapes, are counted.One very special class of shapes is that of polygons. These are closed, connected paths in space. We usually sketch them in two-dimensions, but they can exist in any dimension. The typical questions asked include how many are there of a given perimeter, how big is the average polygon of given perimeter, and corresponding questions about the area or volume enclosed. That is to say how many enclosing a given area and how large is an average polygon of given area Simple though these questions are to pose, they are extraordinarily difficult to answer. They are important questions because of the application of polygon, and the related problems of polyomino and polycube counting, to phenomena occurring in the natural world, and also because the study of these problems has been responsible for the development of powerful new techniques in mathematics and mathematical physics, as well as in computer science. These new techniques then find application more broadly.The book brings together chapters from many of the major contributors in the field. An introductory chapter giving the history of the problem is followed by fourteen further chapters describing particular aspects of the problem, and applications to biology, to surface phenomena and to computer enumeration methods.

NEUBUCH! 2009. XXII, 496 S. 235 mm 242 mm x 155 mm x 27 mm; Lecture Notes in Physics 775

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Joseph Stiglitz: The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of War in Iraq, Penguin Books India

New The true cost of the Iraq War is3 trillion-and counting-rather than the50 billion projected by the White House. Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J. Bilmes casts a spotlight on expense items that have been hidden from the U.S. taxpayer, including not only big-ticket items like replacing military equipment (being used up at six times the peacetime rate) but also the cost of caring for thousands of wounded veterans-for the rest of their lives. Shifting to a global focus, the authors investigate the cost in lives and economic damage within Iraq and the region. Finally, with the chilling precision of an actuary, the authors measure what the U.S. taxpayer's money would have produced if instead it had been invested in the further growth of the U.S. economy. Written in language as simple as the details are disturbing, this book will forever change the way we think about the war.

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