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International Finance: New Players and Global Markets

Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

International finance is a branch of financial economics that deals with the monetary interactions that occur between two or more countries. International Finance is concerned with topics that include foreign direct investment and currency exchange rates. International finance is different from domestic finance in many aspects...

Ontologies with Python: Programming OWL 2.0 Ontologies with Python and Owlready2

Apress, 2020

For the past ten years, formal ontologies have become widely used in computer science to structure data and knowledge. In parallel, the Python programming language has become more and more widespread in teaching, business, and research. However, until recently, there were very few tools and resources dedicated to the use of...

Raspberry Pi IoT Projects: Prototyping Experiments for Makers

Apress, 2021

The IoT is a name for the vast collection of “things” that are being networked together in the home and workplace (up to 20 billion by 2022 according to Gardner, a technology consulting firm). That is a very vast collection. And they may be underestimating it.

We all have large numbers of computers in a...

The Job Closer: Time-Saving Techniques for Acing Resumes, Interviews, Negotiations, and More

Ten Speed Press, 2021

Prepare to be taken aback.

My students and career center colleagues at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business know to expect this from me by now, but others may find my approaches…jarring.

I happen to think that there’s a best way to do everything in the job search. Not a general best...

Concepts, Applications, Experimentation and Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks: Concepts, Applications, Experimentation and Analysis (Signals and Communication Technology)

Springer, 2020

Writing a book is tempting, many ideas and topics, idea after idea, topic upon topic, what to elaborate, which one to mention, the reader must find a satisfying answer, enough knowledge; and overlooking or going-by topics is a painful choice for the author, as space is limited, a hard decision is to be made without compromising...

Mindfulness and Traditional Chinese Zen Arts: The Way of Calligraphy, Painting, Kung Fu, and Tea

Daoscape, 2020

In my early twenties, I discovered a book titled Zen in the Art of Archery . It was written by a German academic, called Eugen Herrigel, who had studied the Japanese art of ky?d? (ritualised Shint? archery) between the years 1924 and 1929.

This exotic Zen-flavoured feat had been accomplished as a result of the...

Amazing Books

Programming Algorithms in Lisp: Writing Efficient Programs with Examples in ANSI Common Lisp

Apress, 2021

This book started after teaching an intensive course on algorithms to working programmers in Kyiv, in spring 2016. It took more than 3 years to complete, and, meanwhile, I also did three iterations of the course. Its aim is to systematically explain how to write efficient programs and, also, the approaches and tools for...

Practical Python Data Visualization: A Fast Track Approach To Learning Data Visualization With Python

Apress, 2020

I have been working with the Python programming language for more than 15 years now. I have used it for a variety of tasks like automation, graphics, Internet of Things (IoT), and data science. I have found that it is a very good tool for generating scientific and data-driven business visualizations. It takes fewer lines of code...

A Python Data Analyst’s Toolkit: Learn Python and Python-based Libraries with Applications in Data Analysis and Statistics

Apress, 2020

I had two main reasons for writing this book. When I first started learning data science, I could not find a centralized overview of all the important topics on this subject. A practitioner of data science needs to be proficient in at least one programming language, learn the various aspects of data preparation and visualization, and...

Hagiographer and the Avatar, The: The Life and Works of Narayan Kasturi (SUNY series in Religious Studies)

SUNY Press, 2021

This book explores the seminal roles played by a hagiographer in the making of a charismatic religious movement: the post-sectarian, cosmo- politan community of the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba (1926–2011), the center of which is the ashram of Prasanthi Nilayam in Puttaparthi, in the Anantapur district of the southern state...

After Democracy: Imagining Our Political Future

Yale University Press, 2021

Democracy has long been considered an ideal state of governance. What if it’s not? Perhaps it is not the end goal but, rather, the transition stage to something better. We have lent our cheer and support and sacrificed lives for revolutions meant to place democracy where it does not exist. But change is gradual. Revolutions...

The Non-Timing Trading System

Business Expert Press, 2021

The Non-Timing Trading System is a conservative process for investing in the stock market. This book is perfect for the investors that are dissatisfied with low interest rates and want high returns on their investment without high risk. The book will teach you a low-risk strategy that will give you consistent average yearly...