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Death March: The Complete Software Developer’s Guide to Surviving

Death March: The Complete Software Developer’s Guide to Surviving
Publisher:Prentice Hall PTR (1997-04-02) | ISBN-10: 0137483104 | PDF | 6.3 Mb | 218 pages

Death march projects are becoming increasingly common in the software industry. The symptoms are obvious: The project schedule, budget, and staff are about half of what is necessary for completion. The planned feature set is unrealistic. People are working 14 hours a day, six or seven days a week, and stress is taking its toll. The project has a high risk of failure, yet management is either blind to the situation or has no alternative. Why do these irrational projects happen, and what, other th …

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Jim Cramer’s Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World

James J. Cramer, «Jim Cramer’s Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World»
Simon & Schuster | ISBN: 0743224892 | 2005-03-29 | 320 pages | PDF | 9.5 Mb

How do we find hot stocks without getting burned? How do we fatten our portfolios and stay financially healthy? Former hedge-fund manager and longtime Wall Street commentator Jim Cramer explains how to invest wisely in chaotic times, and he does so in plain English in a style that is as much fun as investing is — or should be, when it’s done right.

For starters, Cramer recommends devoting a portion of your assets to speculation. Everyone wants to find the big winners that can bring outsized gains, and Cramer explains how to allocate your portfolio so that you can afford to take this kind of risk wisely. He explains why “buy and hold” is a losing philosophy: For Cramer, it’s “buy and homework.” If you can’t spend an hour a week researching each of your stocks, then you should hand off your portfolio to a mutual fund — and Cramer identifies the very few mutual funds that he’d recommend.
Cramer reveals his Ten Commandments of Trading (Commandment #5: Tips are for waiters). He explains why he’s not afraid to compare investing to gambling (and tells you which book on gambling you should read to become a better investor). He discloses his Twenty-Five Rules of Investing (Rule #4: Look for broken stocks, not broken companies).

Cramer shows how to compare stock prices in a way that you can understand, how to spot market tops and bottoms, how to know when to sell, how to rotate among cyclical stocks to catch the big moves, and much more. Jim Cramer’s Real Money is filled with insider advice that really works, information that Cramer himself used to make millions during his fourteen-year career on Wall Street.
Written in Cramer’s distinctive turbocharged style, this is every investor’s guide to what you really must know to make big money in the stock market.

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The Demand for Money: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches, Second Edition

Apostolos Serletis, «The Demand for Money: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches, Second Edition»
Springer | ISBN: 0387717269 | 2 edition (June 2007) | 387 pages | PDF | 2 Mb

The most comprehensive textbook available on the money demand function and its role in modern macroeconomics, this book takes a microeconomic- and aggregation-theoretic approach to the topic and presents empirical evidence using state-of-the-art econometric methodology, while recognizing the existence of unsolved problems and the need for further developments. The new edition is fully revised, expanded, and updated, including new chapters on cross-country evidence and rational expectations.

Investment Philosophies

Investment Philosophies: Successful Investment Philosophies and the Greatest Investors Who Made Them Work by Aswath Damodaran (Author)
Publisher: Wiley (January 20, 2003) | ISBN-10: 0471345032 | PDF | 4 Mb | 512 pages

Investment philosophies are as unique as the individuals who practice them. In his latest endeavor, investment expert and NYU Stern School of Business professor Aswath Damodaran goes beyond investment strategies and looks at the individual underlying philosophies that support these techniques. He explores all of the time-tested investment philosophies that have worked over the long run, and discusses the greatest investors who made these philosophies so famous. Investment Philosophies will expose readers to a wide range of investment philosophies so as to give them a sense of what drives investors in each philosophy, how they attempt to put these philosophies into practice, and what determines ultimate success. In doing this, Damodaran provides an unbiased forum for the presentation of different investment philosophies, while supplying the tools-the definition and measurement of risk, the notion of market efficiency and how to test for inefficiencies, and the components and determinants of trading costs-and the empirical evidence for readers to make their own judgments on the investment philosophy that fits their specific investment goals and views of how markets work. Filled with valuable insights and expert advice, this book reveals various investment philosophies to a general audience of investors, not purely to professional investors.

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Investment Manager Analysis

Investment Manager Analysis: A Comprehensive Guide to Portfolio Selection, Monitoring and Optimization (Wiley Finance) by Frank J. Travers (Author)
Publisher: Wiley (July 23, 2004) | ISBN-10: 0471478865 | PDF | 1,2 Mb | 384 pages

“This is a book that should have been written years ago. It provides a practical, thorough, and completely objective method to analyze and select an investment manager. It takes the mystery (and the consultants) out of the equation. Without question, this book belongs on every Plan Sponsor’s desk.”
-Dave Davenport, Assistant Treasurer, Lord Corporation, author of The Equity Manager Search
“An insightful compendium of the issues that challenge those responsible for hiring and firing investment managers. Frank Travers does a good job of taking complicated analytical tools and methodologies and explaining them in a simple, yet practical manner. Anyone responsible for conducting investment manager due diligence should have a copy on their bookshelf.”
-Leon G. Cooperman, Chairman and CEO, Omega Advisors, Inc.
“Investment Manager Analysis provides a good overview of the important areas that purchasers of institutional investment management services need to consider. It is a good instructional guide, from which search policies and procedures can be developed, as well as a handy reference guide.”
-David Spaulding, President, The Spaulding Group, Inc.
“This book is the definitive work on the investment manager selection process. It is comprehensive in scope and well organized for both the layman and the professional. It should be required reading for any organization or individual seeking talent to manage their assets.”
-Scott Johnston, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, Sterling Johnston Capital Management, LP
“Investment Manager Analysis is a much-needed, comprehensive review of the manager selection process. While the industry is riddled with information about selecting individual stocks, comparatively little has been written on the important subject of manager selection for fund sponsors. This is a particularly useful guide for the less experienced practitioner and offers considerable value to the veteran decisionmaker as well.”
-Dennis J. Trittin, CFA, Portfolio Manager, Russell Investment Group

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Heat Transfer: A Practical Approach with Solutions Manual

Yunus A. Cengel,& Yunus Cengel, «Heat Transfer: A Practical Approach»
McGraw-Hill Science | ISBN:0072826207 | 2 edition (August 17, 2002) | 896 pages | PDF | 8.81 MB

With complete coverage of the basic principles of heat transfer along with a broad range of applications in a flexible format, Heat Transfer: A Practical Approach, provides the perfect blend of fundamentals and applications. The text provides a highly intuitive and practical understanding of the material by emphasizing the physics and the underlying physical phenomena involved. Using a reader-friendly approach and a conversational writing style, the book is self-instructive and entertains while it teaches. It shows that highly technical matter can be communicated effectively in a simple yet precise language.

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European Fixed Income Markets

European Fixed Income Markets: Money, Bond, and Interest Rate Derivatives (The Wiley Finance Series) by Jonathan A. Batten (Editor), Thomas A. Fetherston (Editor), Peter G. Szilagyi (Editor)
Publisher: Wiley (March 19, 2004) | ISBN-10: 0470850531 | PDF | 2,2 Mb | 504 pages

The introduction of the euro in 1999 cast a new focus on the financial markets of constituent euro-zone countries, which have subsequently emerged with the second largest bond market in the world. This new book offers in depth insights and advice for any practitioner in the European fixed-income and ancillary derivative markets, and includes in-depth analysis of euro and non-euro markets as well as emerging countries.

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Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes: Book + SM

Athanasios Papoulis, «Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes: Book + SM»
McGraw-Hill | ISBN:0070484775 | 3 edition (February 1, 1991) | 666 pages | PDF | 10.69 Mb

The Third Edition emphasizes a concentrated revision of Parts II & III (leaving Part I virtually intact). The later sections show greater elaboration of the basic concepts of stochastic processes, typical sequences of random variables, and a greater emphasis on realistic methods of spectral estimation and analysis. There are problems, exercises, and applications throughout. Aimed at senior/graduate students in electrical engineering, math, and physics departments.

This text is a classic in probability, statistics, and estimation and in the application of these fields to modern engineering problems. Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes assumes a strong college mathematics background. The first half of the text develops the basic machinery of probability and statistics from first principles while the second half develops applications of the basic theory. Topics in the first section include probability distributions and densities, random variables and vectors, expectations, covariance, correlations, functions of random variables and vectors, and conditional distributions and densities. In this third edition of the text, the second half of the book has been substantially updated and expanded to include new or revised discussions of the following topics: mean square estimation, likelihood tests, maximum entropy methods, Monte Carlo techniques, spectral representations and estimation, sampling theory, bispectra and system identification, cyclostationary processes, deterministic signals in noise, and the Wiener and Kalman filters. Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes covers a remarkable density of material and the clarity of both presentation and notation make this book invaluable as a text and a reference.

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Advanced Engineering Mathematics, 8ed. Student Solutions Manual and Study Guide

Erwin Kreyszig, «Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Student Solutions Manual and Study Guide»
Wiley| ISBN: 0471726443 | 8 edition (October 6, 2006) | 260 pages | PDF | 18.7 MB

This is a comprehensive compendium on engineering mathematics which I found fascinating and enjoyable to read. This is not a book for the novice but for those with a strong background in high school Mathematics. I used an earlier edition of this book as a graduate student and it is still among the texts I use as a reference book. Among the extensive topics covered include linear algebra, ordinary and partial differential equations, Fourier series, differential forms, graph theory, oscillation matrices, quantum symmetries, complex variables, probability and statistics, vector calculus, numerical and computer methods.

The book is a useful, helpful and handy reference for the engineering mathematics and applied mathematics student. The book is well written and the material is well organised with similar related concepts grouped together allowing a fluidity that facilitates its use. The author also presents various problems which when worked out will ensure a complete grasp of the subject

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Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring

Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups by Stuart C. Gilson (Author)
Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (July 20, 2001) | ISBN-10: 0471405590 | PDF | 20 Mb | 528 pages

“With the number of corporate bond defaults up sharply over the lows of the middle-to-late 1990s, Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) is reaching the market at an apt moment. The book, which is written by Harvard Business School Professor Stuart Gilson, employs the case study method to examine the restructuring of the claims of creditors, shareholders, and employees. Of greatest interest to high yield and distressed investors is the section on financial distress, which studies such familiar companies as Continental Airlines, Flagstar Companies, The Loewen Group, and National Convenience Stores. Gilson also provides a market survey of distressed investing, exploring such nuances as prepackaged bankruptcy, “bondmail” (gaining control of a class of debt to block approval of a reorganization plan), exit strategies, tax issues, and disqualification of votes on a bankruptcy reorganization plan. Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring also addresses company overhauls that occur outside the context of potential or actual bankruptcy. Techniques include issuance of tracking stock, spin-offs, layoffs, plant closings, revisions of employee retirement benefits, and mergers. Gilson maintains a global perspective, incorporating cases not only from the United States, but also from Germany and Thailand.”– High Yield, a Merrill publication by Marty Fridson

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