Subject(s): Finance -- Mathematical models Computer programs Summary: "An introduction to the theory and practice of financial simulation and optimization In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the use of simulation and optimization methods in the financial industry. Applications include portfolio allocation, risk management

Subject(s): Thermodynamics | Entropy | Statistical mechanics Summary: "Thermodynamics has benefited from nearly 100 years of parallel development with quantum mechanics. As a result, thermal physics has been considerably enriched in concepts, technique and purpose, and now has a dominant role in the developments of physics, chemistry and bi

Subject(s): September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 | Terrorism -- Prevention -- United States | Terrorism -- Prevention -- Great Britain | Terrorism -- Prevention -- Canada | Terrorism -- Prevention -- Australia Summary: "This book examines the responses of the United Nations, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada respon

Subject(s): Employee motivation | Job satisfaction | Employee health promotion | Quality of work life | Leadership | Corporate culture | Organizational change Summary: The current global economic environment is defined by unprecedented uncertainty, a premium placed on knowledge, and the threat of future talent scarcity. Key to an organization&#

Subject(s): Information society Summary: "There is a clear need for a systematic, integrative, and rigorous normative theory of the information society. In this book, Duff offers a prescriptive theory to help to guide the academic and policy communities as they debate the future shape of emerging post-industrial, information-based societies

Subject(s): Knowledge management | Organizational learning | Organizational learning -- Management Summary: "One of the great management ideas of the last fifteen years has been to make use of the knowledge that an organization has already learned. This book's five-step process, which the author calls Knowledge Jam, shows how to set the

Subject(s): Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory | Psychotherapist and patient | Feedback (Psychology) Summary: "Positive Personality Assessment with the MMPI-2 provides the clinician empirically based, practical information about how to convey the abundance of information in the MMPI-2 profile in a way that is collaborative, empathi

Subject(s): Investments -- Psychological aspects | Investments -- Decision making Summary: "The book that applies behavioral finance to the real worldUnderstanding how to use behavioral finance theory in investing is a hot topic these days. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman has described financial advising as a prescriptive activity whose main

Subject(s): Infrared spectroscopy | Raman spectroscopy Summary: "Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy: Principles and Spectral Interpretation explains the background, core principles and tests the readers understanding of the important techniques of Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy. These techniques are used by chemists, environmental scientists,

Subject(s): Geology -- Fieldwork Summary: "The understanding of Earth processes and environments over geological time is highly dependent upon both the experience that can only be gained through doing fieldwork, and the collection of reliable data and appropriate samples in the field. This textbook explains the main data gathering technique