Breakthroughs in Technical Analysis: New Thinking from the World's Top Minds
# Author: David Keller
# Hardcover: 256 pages
# Publisher: Bloomberg Press (August 30, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1576602427
# ISBN-13: 978-1576602423
# Format: PDF | 13MB
More than ever, traders, fund managers, analysts, and investors are using technical analysis to make trading decisions. Often these professionals struggle to identify the most effective technique to use and when and how to apply it. David Keller, Bloomberg L.P.'s liason to the top technical analysts around the world, invited ten top technicians to explain what really works and why. In "Breakthroughs in Technical Analysis", these widely respected practitioners describe their novel trading methods and how to use them for forecasting the future price direction of stocks, futures contacts, indexes, and many other financial instruments.
The techniques in this book have been the key to success for the experts who present them, and they can become just as valuable to any market professional who learns them. No matter what market you trade in, their use can help you broaden your approach as you incorporate them into your own investment style.
About the Author
David Keller, CMT, is a technical analysis application specialist with Bloomberg L.P. in New York and the chair of the New York region for the Market Technicians Association. Keller has conducted numerous seminars across North America on applying technical strategies to the equity, commodity, and foreign exchange markets. He has also presented sessions on combining fundamental and technical strategies for the CFA Institute, the Canadian Association of Technical Analysts, and the American Association of Individual Investors. He is the author and creator of The Bloomberg Weekly Strategy Report, an exclusive newsletter for Bloomberg customers.
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Saturday, May 31, 2008
Breakthroughs in Technical Analysis: New Thinking from the World's Top Minds
The Supernova Advisor: Crossing The Invisible Bridge to Exceptional Client Service and Consistent Growth
The Supernova Advisor: Crossing The Invisible Bridge to Exceptional Client Service and Consistent Growth
# Author: Rob Knapp
# Page Count: 127 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (December 5, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0470249277
# ISBN-13: 978-0470249277
# Format: PDF | 1.3MB
The 80/20 Rule is a fixture in American business—80 percent of the profit comes from 20 percent of the clients. For financial advisors, the 80/20 Rule is an unassailable law of physics; deny it at your own risk. Yet many advisors who grasp the intuitive reality of the 80/20 rule lack a proven model of professional practice that transforms their understanding into action.
The Supernova Model is a client service, client acquisition, and practice management model that drives an explosive acceleration in revenue and client satisfaction by capitalizing upon the 80/20 Rule. First implemented by financial advisors at Merrill Lynch—under the leadership of author Rob Knapp—it has grown increasingly popular within the financial services industry. MIT sent a team of graduate students to evaluate Supernova and complete a dissertation, while Harvard Business School prepared a case on it.
Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, The Supernova Advisor skillfully outlines this proven model and reveals how it can be used to create an exceptional experience for your clients while significantly growing your business. Chapter by chapter, you'll become familiar with each star of the Supernova model including:
Segmentation, Organization, Planning, Acquisition, Leadership
Along the way, you'll also discover an innovative client contact system called 12/4/2. To enhance your understanding of this comprehensive concept, each of the core chapters also features exercises that will help you step onto the Invisible Bridge that is now in front of you. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, this book is an essential read for financial advisors and other professionals who are seeking a smarter way to grow and a better way to serve.
100% of the author's proceeds for the sale of The Supernova Advisor will be used to fund scholarships for deserving students with financial need. These Knapp Scholars will learn the tenets of servant leadership as they prepare for careers in business and financial service.[Ziddu] Download Link
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The Economist, May 31 2008
The Economist, May 31 2008 《经济学人》杂志
PDF+MP3 | English | 152.3MB
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by "The Economist Newspaper Ltd" and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. As of 2006, its average circulation topped one million copies a week, about half of which are sold in North America.Consequently it is often seen as a transatlantic (as opposed to solely British) news source.
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Frommer's Portable Paris 2007
Frommer's Portable Paris 2007
# Author: Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince
# Paperback: 177 pages
# Publisher: Frommer's; Revised edition (November 29, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0470037415
# ISBN-13: 978-0470037416
# Format: PDF | 3.83MB
Put the Best of Paris inYour Pocket
* A compact guide on getting to and enjoying the best of the City of Light.
* Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and what's not.
* Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip no matter what your budget.
* Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions.
* The best hotels and restaurants in every price range, with candid reviews.
Frommer's. The best trips start here. Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer. And avoid tourist traps. At Frommer's, we use 150 outspoken travel experts around the world to help you make the right choices.
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Negotiate to Win - The 21 Rules for Successful Negotiating
Negotiate to Win - The 21 Rules for Successful Negotiating
# Author: Jim Thomas
# Hardcover: 320 pages
# Publisher: Collins (September 6, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0060781068
# ISBN-13: 978-0060781064
# Format: PDF | 2.78MB
Americans as a whole are really bad at negotiating. We find haggling to be beneath us and we're uncomfortable with it, yet we feel cheated when we don't get the best deal possible. World-class negotiator, author, and attorney Thomas takes his cues from cultures where negotiating is celebrated as an art. While India or the Middle East may come to mind, when it comes to masters of negotiation, Japan tops the list. Thomas explains that the American way of logic and reasoning is persuasion, not negotiation, and you can persuade until you're blue in the face and still get nowhere.
The art of negotiation is allowing your counterpart (don't think of them as your "opponent") to save face, which means always giving some concessions to get what you really want. "Beating" your colleague is not a way to create long-term relationships, but a "win-win" solution is. Thomas presents 21 powerful rules of negotiating, plus gives "Quickies," specific tips on how to negotiate with your boss, spouse, child, car dealer, contractor, and more. Inspiring. David Siegfried
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Frommer’s Portable London 2008
Frommer’s Portable London 2008
Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince | 2007-11-19 | ISBN-10: 047013481X | 203 pages | PDF | 3.8 Mb
Put the Best of London in Your Pocket. A compact guide on getting to and enjoying the best of London. Outspoken opinions on what’s worth your time and what’s not. Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip no matter what your budget. Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions. The best hotels and restaurants in every price range, with candid reviews.
Frommer’s. The best trips start here. Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer.
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CMOS Analog Circuit Design by Phillip E. Allen , Douglas R. Holberg, Allen (Text + Solutions)
CMOS Analog Circuit Design (Text + Solutions)
Phillip E. Allen , Douglas R. Holberg, Allen| Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition | ISBN-10: 0195116445 | 750 pages | PDF | 24,1 Mb +2,6 Mb
Presents a complete picture of design (including modeling, simulation, and testing) and enables readers to undertake the design of an analog circuit that can be implemented by CMOS technology.
After years of anticipation, respected authors Phil Allen and Doug Holberg bring you the second edition of their popular textbook, CMOS Analog Circuit Design. From the forefront of CMOS technology, Phil and Doug have combined their expertise as engineers and academics to present a cutting-edge
and effective overview of the principles and techniques for designing circuits. Their two main goals are:
DT to mix the academic and practical viewpoints in a treatment that is neither superficial nor overly detailed and
DT to teach analog integrated circuit design with a hierarchically organized approach.
Most of the techniques and principles presented in the second edition have been taught over the last ten years to industry members. Their needs and questions have greatly shaped the revision process, making this new edition a valuable resource for practicing engineers.
The trademark approach of Phil and Doug's textbook is its design recipes, which take readers step-by-step through the creation of real circuits, explaining complex design problems. The book provides detailed coverage of often-neglected areas and deliberately leaves out bipolar analog circuits, since CMOS is the dominant technology for analog integrated circuit design. Appropriate for advanced undergraduates and graduate students with background knowledge in basic electronics including biasing, modeling, circuit analysis, and frequency response, CMOS Analog Circuit Design, Second Edition, presents a complete picture of design (including modeling, simulation, and testing) and enables readers to design an analog circuit that can be implemented by CMOS technology.
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Kafka: A Very Short Introduction by Ritchie Robertson
Kafka: A Very Short Introduction
# Author: Ritchie Robertson
# Paperback: 136 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (September 1, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0192804553
# ISBN-13: 978-0192804556
# Format: PDF | 1MB
Franz Kafka is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the last century. During his lifetime he worked as a civil servant and published only a handful of short stories, the best known being The Transformation. His other three novels, published after his death, helped to foundhis reputation as a uniquely perceptive interpreter of the twentieth century.
Discussing both Kafka's crisis-ridden life and the subtleties of his art, Ritchie Robertson provides an intriguing and accessible look at the life of this fascinating author. Using Metamorphosis as a recurring example, Robertson shows how Kafka's work explores such characteristically modern themes
as the place of the body in culture, the power of institutions over people, and the possibility of religion after Nietzsche had proclaimed "the death of God."
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Low-Power CMOS Circuits by Christian Piguet
Low-Power CMOS Circuits
Christian Piguet | CRC | ISBN: 0849395372 | 2006. | 403 p. | PDF | 6.09 MB
The power consumption of microprocessors is one of the most important challenges of high-performance chips and portable devices. In chapters drawn from Piguet’s recently published Low-Power Electronics Design, Low-Power CMOS Circuits: Technology, Logic Design, and CAD Tools addresses the design of low-power circuitry in deep submicron technologies. It provides a focused reference for specialists involved in designing low-power circuitry, from transistors to logic gates. The book is organized into three broad sections for convenient access. The first examines the history of low-power electronics along with a look at emerging and possible future technologies. It also considers other technologies, such as nanotechnologies and optical chips, that may be useful in designing integrated circuits.
The second part explains the techniques used to reduce power consumption at low levels. These include clock gating, leakage reduction, interconnecting and communication on chips, and adiabatic circuits. The final section discusses various CAD tools for designing low-power circuits. This section includes three chapters that demonstrate the tools and low-power design issues at three major companies that produce logic synthesizers. Providing detailed examinations contributed by leading experts, Low-Power CMOS Circuits: Technology, Logic Design, and CAD Tools supplies authoritative information on how to design and model for high performance with low power consumption in modern integrated circuits. It is a must-read for anyone designing modern computers or embedded systems.
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Computer Architecture, Fourth Edition: A Quantitative Approach
John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson (Author) | Morgan Kaufmann | 4th edition | ISBN: 0123704901 | 704 pages | September 13, 2006 | PDF | 3 Mb
The best-selling computer architecture book redefines the field with each new edition.
If Neil Armstrong offers to give you a tour of the lunar module, or Tiger Woods asks you to go play golf with him, you should do it. When Hennessy and Patterson offer to lead you on a tour of where computer architecture is going, they call it Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 4th Edition. You need one. Tours leave on the hour.
Robert Colwell, Intel lead designer
The book has been updated so it covers the latest computer architectures like the 64-bit AMD Opteron as well as those from Sun, Intel and other major vendors ... I highly recommend this book for those learning about computer architecture or those wanting to understand architectures that differ from those they are currently using. It does an excellent job of
covering most of the major architectural approaches employed today.
William Wong, Electronic Design, November 2006
Computer hardware is entering into a new era, what with multicore processing, virtualization and other enhancements Computer Architecture covers these topics and updates the insightful work in the earlier editions that laid out the full range of metrics needed for evaluating processor performance.
Joab Jackson, GCN, November 20, 2006
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VLIW Microprocessor Hardware Design
VLIW Microprocessor Hardware Design
Lee Weng Fook | McGraw-Hill Professional | 2007-08-28 | ISBN: 0071497021 | 219 pages | PDF | 1.3 Mb
Acquire the Design Information, Methods, and Skills Needed to Master the New VLIW Architecture! VLIW Microprocessor Hardware Design offers you a complete guide to VLIW hardware design—providing state-of-the-art coverage of microarchitectures, RTL coding, ASIC flow, and FPGA flow of design. The book also contains a wide range of skills-building examples, all worked using Verilog, that equip you with a practical, hands-on tutorial for understanding each step in the VLIW microprocessor design process.
Written by Weng Fook Lee, an internationally renowned expert in the field of microprocessor design, this cutting-edge hardware design tool presents unsurpassed coverage of the latests in VLIW microprocessing.
Authoritative and comprehensive, VLIW Microprocessor Hardware Design features:
- Step-by-step information on the VLIW hardware design process
- A wealth of Verilog-based designs
- ASIC and FPGA implementations
- Expert guidance on the best-known methods for RTL coding
- Over 75 detailed illustrations that clarify each aspect of VLIW design
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Power Speaking: The Art of the Exceptional Public Speaker
Power Speaking: The Art of the Exceptional Public Speaker
# Author: Achim Nohawk
# Paperback: 256 pages
# Publisher: Allworth Press (August 1, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1581153619
# ISBN-13: 978-1581153613
# Format: PDF | 1.25MB
Fueled by the conviction that the best speaking techniques are ineffective without personal essence, public speaker extraordinaire Achim Nowak shows emerging speakers how to develop necessary skills and teaches them how to unleash their inner power. The book is divided into three proficiency levels: First readers will learn to master the vital skills of presenting-the use of voice, body movement, gestures, eye contact, and personal energy. Then they'll discover how to engage the audience through personal stories, intent listening, reframing a topic, and much more! And finally, master the hidden dimensions of your personal essence! Readers will be transformed into power speakers through rigorous self-evaluation. Here is the last word on effective speaking for managers, entrepreneurs, performers, or anyone seeking to galvanize an audience.
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How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers
How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers
# Author: William Poundstone
# Hardcover: 288 pages
# Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition (May 1, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0316919160
# ISBN-13: 978-0316919166
# Format: PDF | 1.41MB
Anyone who's interviewed for a job at Microsoft is intimately familiar with questions like the one in this book's title. They've probably also pondered such problems as why are manhole covers round? how do they make M&Ms? what does all the ice in a hockey rink weigh? how many piano tuners are there in the world? Questions like these, which test problem-solving abilities, not specific competencies, are de rigueur at job interviews at Microsoft, other tech firms and on Wall Street. In this hybrid book-it's at once a study of corporate hiring, an assessment of IQ testing's value, a history of interviewing and a puzzle book-science writer Poundstone (Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos) explains the thinking behind this kind of interviewing.
In straightforward prose, Poundstone describes the roots of logic questions in interviews (the approach appears to have had its modern beginnings at Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957), drawing on the history of IQ testing in hiring interviews, psychological studies and interviews with Microsoft ex-interviewers and interviewees, makes a strong case for eliminating standard questions like "What are your strengths and weaknesses?" and replacing them with logic puzzles. Almost half of the book is devoted to an "answer" section, where Poundstone gives possible solutions to the brainteasers. Although it lacks a specific focus, this is a fun, revealing take on an unusual subject. -- Publishers Weekly
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The Handbook of Pairs Trading : Strategies Using Equities, Options, & Futures
# Author: Douglas S. Ehrman
# Hardcover: 258 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (January 10, 2006)
# Language: English # Format: PDF | 3MB
# ISBN-10: 0471727075
# ISBN-13: 978-0471727071
Learn both the theory and practice of pairs trading, why it is consistently profitable, and how you can apply the strategies in your own trading with this valuable guide. Author Douglas Ehrman covers pairs trading involving stocks, options on stocks, and futures contracts, and explains how this type of trading allows you to profit from the changing price relationship of securities. In addition to a comprehensive discussion of the theories involved, he also includes practical examples that will to help you put what you've learned into practice.
Douglas S. Ehrman is a hedge fund manager and a leading authority on pairs trading. He is one of the founders and the Chief Executive Officer of AlphAmerica Asset Management LLC in Chicago. He also served as the chief executive officer of AlphAmerica Financial, Inc., the company that operated PairsTrading.com prior to its merger with PairTrader.com.
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
Slow Rarefied Flows: Theory and Application to Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems by Carlo Cercignani
Slow Rarefied Flows: Theory and Application to Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
# Author: Carlo Cercignani
# Hardcover: 166 pages
# Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel; 1 edition (May 12, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 3764375345
# ISBN-13: 978-3764375348
# Format: PDF | 1.71MB
The book presents the mathematical tools used to deal with problems related to slow rarefied flows, with particular attention to basic concepts and problems which arise in the study of micro- and nanomachines. The mathematical theory of slow flows is presented in a practically complete fashion and provides a rigorous justification for the use of the linearized Boltzmann equation, which avoids costly simulations based on Monte Carlo methods.
The book surveys the theorems on validity and existence, with particular concern for flows close to equilibria, and discusses recent applications of rarefied lubrication theory to micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). It gives a general acquaintance of modern developments of rarefied gas dynamics in various regimes with particular attention to low speed microscale gas dynamics.
Senior students and graduates in applied mathematics, aerospace engineering, and mechanical mathematical physics will be provided with a basis for the study of molecular gas dynamics. The book will also be useful for scientific and technical researchers engaged in the research on gas flow in MEMS.
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Research & Writing Skills: Success in 20 Minutes a Day by Rachael Stark
What makes Research & Writing Skills Success so effective?
Research & Writing Skills: Success in 20 Minutes a Day
# Author: Rachael Stark
# Paperback: 160 pages
# Publisher: LearningExpress, LLC; 1st ed edition (August 25, 2002)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1576854426
# ISBN-13: 978-1576854426
# Format: PDF | 1.49MB
Research and Writing Skills Success will help you improve your research skills in just 20 short lessons of 20 minutes a day through basic research and writing tools that you can practice at home. Carefully designed to make researching any topic and writing a research paper manageable and easy, every lesson teaches different skills that will help you to put together a research paper from start to finish in just a few short weeks. The lessons in this book are designed to take you through the initial phases of writing a research paper such as finding a topic, locating your sources, evaluating them, framing your thesis question, and writing your paper. Plus, there's a pretest at the beginning of the book to see what areas you need to improve, and a post-test to see how far you have progressed!
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis
# Author: Franz Kafka
# Format: English | PDF | 1.09MB
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a "monstrous vermin".
"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections. From this height the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely, could hardly stay in place. His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes.
‘What’s happened to me,’ he thought. It was no dream. His room, a proper room for a human being, only somewhat too small, lay quietly between the four well-known walls. Above the table, on which an unpacked collection of sample cloth goods was spread out (Samsa was a traveling salesman) hung the picture which he had cut out of an illustrated magazine a little while ago and set in a pretty gilt frame. It was a picture of a woman with a fur hat and a fur boa. She sat erect there, lifting up in the direction of the viewer a solid fur muff into which her entire forearm disappeared...."
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Introduction to Applied Statistical Signal Analysis: Guide to Biomedical and Electrical Engineering Applications
Introduction to Applied Statistical Signal Analysis: Guide to Biomedical and Electrical Engineering Applications
# Author: Richard Shiavi
# Hardbound, 424 pages,
# Publication: ACADEMIC PRESS (DEC-2006)
# ISBN-13: 978-0-12-088581-7
# ISBN-10: 0-12-088581-6
# Format: PDF | 4.39MB
Introduction to Applied Statistical Signal Analysis is designed for the experienced individual with a basic background in mathematics, science, and computer. With this predisposed knowledge, the reader will coast through the practical introduction and move on to signal analysis techniques, commonly used in a broad range of engineering areas such as biomedical engineering, communications, geophysics, and speech. Introduction to Applied Statistical Signal Analysis intertwines theory and implementation with practical examples and exercises.
Topics presented in detail include: mathematical bases, requirements for estimation and detailed quantitative examples for implementing techniques for classical signal analysis. This book will help readers understand real-world applications of signal analysis as they relate to biomedical engineering. The presentation style is designed for the upper level undergraduate or graduate student who needs a theoretical introduction to the basic principles of statistical modeling and the knowledge to implement them practically.
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The Power Chess Program: Book 1: A Unique Training Course to Improve Your Chess
The Power Chess Program: Book 1: A Unique Training Course to Improve Your Chess
# Author: Nigel Davies
# Paperback: 256 pages
# Publisher: Batsford (June 30, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0713484152
# ISBN-13: 978-0713484151
# Format: PDF | 9.35MB
Begun as a correspondence course, The Power Chess Program is now available between covers! A series of 12 lessons guides the student through the essential elements of chess strategy. The key points are then reinforced with a set of thematic test positions for the reader to solve.
This book is suitable for Beginner.
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Bio-MEMS: Technologies and Applications by Wanjun Wang
Bio-MEMS: Technologies and Applications
# Author: Wanjun Wang (Editor), Steven A. Soper
# Hardcover: 488 pages
# Publisher: CRC (December 15, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0849335329
# ISBN-13: 978-0849335327
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are evolving into highly integrated technologies for a variety of application areas. Add the biological dimension to the mix and a host of new problems and issues arise that require a broad understanding of aspects from basic, materials, and medical sciences in addition to engineering. Collecting the efforts of renowned leaders in each of these fields, BioMEMS: Technologies and Applications presents the first wide-reaching survey of the design and application of MEMS technologies for use in biological and medical areas. This book considers both the unique characteristics of biological samples and the challenges of microscale engineering.
Divided into three main sections, it first examines fabrication technologies using non-silicon processes, which use materials that are appropriate for medical/biological analyses. These include UV lithography, LIGA, nanoimprinting, injection molding, and hot-embossing. Attention then shifts to microfluidic components and sensing technologies for sample preparation, delivery, and analysis. The final section outlines various applications and systems at the leading edge of BioMEMS technology in a variety of areas such as genomics, drug delivery, and proteomics. Laying a cross-disciplinary foundation for further development, BioMEMS: Technologies and Applications provides engineers with an understanding of the biological challenges and biological scientists with an understanding of the engineering challenges of this burgeoning technology.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Bionanotechnology: Lessons from Nature by David S. Goodsell
"…Goodsell's book is a good start." (Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, May 2005) "David S. Goodsell's new book is a useful introduction to bionanotechnology…" (NanoToday, May 2005) “This is a stimulating volume …borrow it from your library.” (Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, 2005; Vol. 80, 964-965) 
Bionanotechnology: Lessons from Nature
# Author: David S. Goodsell
# Hardcover: 352 pages
# Publisher: Wiley-Liss; 1 edition (January 29, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 047141719X
# ISBN-13: 978-0471417194
# Format: PDF | 7.24MB
Discussions of the basic structural, nanotechnology, and system engineering principles, as well as an introductory overview of essential concepts and methods in biotechnology, will be included. Text is presented side-by-side with extensive use of high-quality illustrations prepared using cutting edge computer graphics techniques. Includes numerous examples, such applications in genetic engineering. Represents the only available introduction and overview of this interdisciplinary field, merging the physical and biological sciences. Concludes with the authors' expert assessment of the future promise of nanotechnology, from molecular "tinkertoys" to nanomedicine. David Goodsell is author of two trade books, Machinery of Life and Our Molecular Nature, and Arthur Olson is the world's leader in molecular graphics and nano-scale representation.
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“…a stimulating volume…borrow it from your library…” (Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, Vol. 80 (8), August 2005)
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Hacking GMail (ExtremeTech) by Ben Hammersley
Hacking GMail (ExtremeTech)
# Author: Ben Hammersley
# Paperback: 284 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (December 19, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 076459611X
# ISBN-13: 978-0764596117
# Format: PDF | 5.29MB
The first book to unlock the true power behind Gmail, Hacking Gmail will immediately appeal to Google and Gmail fans This is serious, down-and-dirty, under-the-hood, code-level hacking that will have readers eliminating the default settings, customizing appearance, disabling advertising, and taking control over their Gmail accounts Covers turning Gmail into an online hard drive for backing up files, using it as a blogging tool, and even creating customized Gmail tools and hacks Shows readers how to check their Gmail without visiting the site; use Gmail APIs in Perl, Python, PHP, and other languages, or create their own; and maximize Gmail as a host for message boards, photo galleries, even a blog.
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Give Great Presentations: How to Speak Confidently and Make Your Point (Steps to Success)
Give Great Presentations: How to Speak Confidently and Make Your Point (Steps to Success)
# Publication date: 27 Mar 2006
# Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
# ISBN-13: 9780713678727
# ISBN-10: 0713678720
# Format: PDF | 843KB
Speaking in front of other people can be a real worry, if you've not had a lot of practice. Even if you know your stuff, it can be hard to get everything together in time, look confident, speak clearly, and get your message across well. "Give Great Presentations" contains a quiz to assess strengths and weaknesses, step-by-step guidance and action points, top tips to bear in mind for the future, common mistakes and advice on how to avoid them, summaries of key points, and lists the best sources of further help. It also contains a special section on how to cope with nerves and boost your message with your body language.
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Scientific American, May 2008
Scientific American, May 2008
English | PDF | 8.4MB
Scientific American is a popular-science magazine, published (first weekly and later monthly) since August 28, 1845, making it one of the oldest continuously published magazines in the United States. It brings articles about new and innovative research to the amateur and lay audience.
Scientific American (informally abbreviated to "SciAm") had a monthly circulation of roughly 555,000 US and 90,000 international as of December 2005. It is one of the most respected science magazines in the world despite not being a peer-reviewed scientific journal, such as Nature; rather, it is a forum where scientific theories and discoveries are explained to a broader audience.
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Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win
Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win
#Author: William C. Taylor, Polly G. Labarre
# Hardcover: 336 pages
# Publisher: William Morrow (October 2, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0060779616
# ISBN-13: 978-0060779610
# Format: PDF | 1.54MB
A collection of case studies featuring the same formulaic ebullience endemic to business books since blurber Tom Peters' seminal work In Search of Excellence, this reader from FastCompany magazine cofounder Taylor and influential business writer LaBarre profiles some of the more interesting companies doing business today: Cirque de Soleil, Commerce Bank, Pixar, Anthropologie, Southwest Airlines, Jones Soda, Apple Computer and Craigslist among them. Such companies may have disparate cultures, but what unites them is originality, self-knowledge and passion. Whether by remaining small, recruiting zealously, or functioning like a kind of cult, such businesses succeed by imbuing the corporate rank and file with an entrepreneur's vision, avoiding the twin vices of mediocrity and complacency. Conversational but rigorous, Taylor and Labarre's chipper exploration of imagination at work holds value for novice and journeyman business leaders.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
# Author: Christopher Hitchens
# Hardcover: 307 pages
# Publisher: Twelve Books, Hachette Book Group (May 1, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0446579807
# ISBN-13: 978-0446579803
# Format: PDF | 981KB
Hitchens, one of our great political pugilists, delivers the best of the recent rash of atheist manifestos. The same contrarian spirit that makes him delightful reading as a political commentator, even (or especially) when he's completely wrong, makes him an entertaining huckster prosecutor once he has God placed in the dock. And can he turn a phrase!: "monotheistic religion is a plagiarism of a plagiarism of a hearsay of a hearsay, of an illusion of an illusion, extending all the way back to a fabrication of a few nonevents."
Hitchens's one-liners bear the marks of considerable sparring practice with believers. Yet few believers will recognize themselves as Hitchens associates all of them for all time with the worst of history's theocratic and inquisitional moments. All the same, this is salutary reading as a means of culling believers' weaker arguments: that faith offers comfort (false comfort is none at all), or has provided a historical hedge against fascism (it mostly hasn't), or that "Eastern" religions are better (nope). The book's real strength is Hitchens's on-the-ground glimpses of religion's worst face in various war zones and isolated despotic regimes. But its weakness is its almost fanatical insistence that religion poisons "everything," which tips over into barely disguised misanthropy.
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Google AdSense Secrets Or What Google Never Told You About Making Money With AdSense by Joel Comm (3rd Edition)
Google AdSense Secrets Or What Google Never Told You About Making Money With AdSense by Joel Comm (3rd Edition)
English | 199 Pages | 2006-2007 | 3rd Edition | 6.47 Mb
This eBook is VERY HOT, all the best webmaters on Internet use it! It is not available on Internet unless you buy it for $97 USD! The Definitive AdSense Resource From The Internet Revenue Expert!
“The fastest, Easiest way to get your slice of the Cash-Filled adSense pie and Pocket $500… $1,000… $5,000… Even As Much As $10,000 (Or more) Every Month — For Only A Few Minutes Of Work!”
It’s Been Called “Legalized Stealing”…And For Good Reason.
Every chapter of the ebook is overflowing with practical advice, screen-shots of actual web pages and a rare insight into the nuts-and-bolts that drive a successful AdSense business, including:
+ Discover how to optimize your web site for high-paying clicks, using legitimate response-tracking techniques and software.
+ Find out how to pull highly relevant ads on-demand, using Google Search
+ Discover the secrets to getting more legitimate traffic to your web site
+ Find out the scoop on Google’s new AdLinks and other new Ad Formats
+ Learn how to optimize your web pages so the search engines will LOVE your site
+ Understand how to format your ads so your visitors will want to click them
+ Discover which colors, sizes, text color and borders will generate the most clicks
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Currency Trader, May 2008
Currency Trader, May 2008
PDF | English | 17.6 MB
Currency Trader magazine covers the world of forex trading every month with trading strategies, analysis of trading systems, trading technology and operating your trading as a business.
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Popular Science, May 2008
Popular Science, May 2008
English | PDF | 24MB
Popular Science is an American monthly magazine founded in 1872 carrying articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects. Popular Science is a general interest magazine with a focus on science and technology. Popular Science won ASME awards for its journalistic excellence in both 2003 (for General Excellence) and 2004 (for Best Magazine Section).
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Computer Shopper, June 2008
Computer Shopper, June 2008
PDF | English | 18 MB
Computer Shopper is a monthly home computing magazine published in the United States. The magazine at one time held the record of being the heaviest magazine, totalling well over 800 pages per issue on a large 10″ x 15″ format. Most of these were advertisements for mail order computer & computer parts stores. Since the rise of the world wide web and online ordering the magazine has shrunk a great deal, although it still features reviews of over 300 products per issue.
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Smart Computing, June 2008
Smart Computing, June 2008
PDF | English | 24 MB
PC/Computing (later Ziff-Davis Smart Computing) was a monthly Ziff Davis publication that for most of its run focused on publishing reviews of IBM-compatible (or “Wintel”) hardware and software and tips and reference information for users of such software and hardware. Established under the guidance of founding publisher and columnist Michael Kolowich, the magazine was known for its irreverent style and annual “Windows Superguide” and “Notebook Torture Test” features. The latter feature involved baking, freezing, shaking, dropping, and splashing notebook computers from various manufacturers and then rating the machines based on which ones survived the “torture” and which ones failed. It also featured columns by editor-in-chief Paul Somerson (formerly of PC Magazine, another Ziff-Davis publication), John C. Dvorak, and, for a time in the 1990s, Penn Jillette. For some years, the magazine ran a regular column featuring an often-silly “debate” between Dvorak and Somerson.
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Happiness: The Science behind Your Smile by Daniel Nettle
Happiness: The Science behind Your Smile
#Author: Daniel Nettle
# Hardcover: 221 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (May 26, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0192805584
# ISBN-13: 978-0192805584
# Format: PDF | 1.78MB
What is happiness—is it an unpredictable emotion like joy? A rational construct like personal fulfillment? Or is it some subtle, elusive combination of both? In this enjoyable, thought-provoking book, Nettle digs into the subject with great insight and just a bit of cheeky irreverence. In clear, succinct prose, he argues "that what we are programmed for by evolution is not happiness itself, but a set of beliefs about the kinds of things that will bring happiness, and a disposition to pursue them." He cites survey after survey that report that people's sense of their own happiness outstrips their actual material well-being.
Nettle, a biological psychologist at Britain's Open University, describes the pursuit of happiness in stark binary terms—fear and attraction, fight and flight, need and desire. Hard-wired to survive in a world of immediate physical danger, human beings are left to muddle through in today's world of relative safety. Nettle traces the modern epidemic of anxiety and depression to these vestigial aspects of our brain and hormonal structure. Ending on an optimistic note, the author sees a population buoyed by advances in both psychotherapy and medication. With absolute clarity and admirable brevity, Nettle explores the pursuit of happiness and, happily, makes good sense of it all.
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How to Interview Like a Top MBA: Job-Winning Strategies From Headhunters, Fortune 100 Recruiters, and Career Counselors
How to Interview Like a Top MBA: Job-Winning Strategies From Headhunters, Fortune 100 Recruiters, and Career Counselors
# Author: Dr. Shel Leanne
# Paperback: 256 pages
# Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (December 26, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 007141827X
# ISBN-13: 978-0071418270
# Format: PDF | 1.95Mb
The interview strategies that help graduates of the nation's top business schools get the best jobs with the highest salaries. Interviewing for a job is more than answering questions. The most successful candidates are those who've done their homework, who come prepared with polished answers for every question, and who know how to steer the conversation where they want it to go. Now professional career coach Shelly Leanne--a Harvard graduate--teaches job seekers proven interview techniques taught at the nation's top business schools. How to Interview Like a Top MBA arms job seekers with:
* Insights and advice from top corporate executives, headhunters, and MBA program administrators
* Worksheets, charts, diagrams, and other valuable tools for creating a customized interview strategy and plan of action
* Valuable lessons on how to read interviewer signals, take control of an interview, turn weaknesses into strengths, ask the right questions, and much more
Book Info
Text presents today's best-of-the-best strategies and skills in an MBA-level interviewing how-to guide. Covers how to dress for an interview, what to say, what not to say, and more. Softcover. DLC: Employment interviewing.
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Analog VLSI Design Automation
Analog VLSI Design Automation
# Author: Sina Balkir, Günhan Dündar, A. Selçuk Ögrenci
# Hardcover: 240 pages
# Publisher: CRC; 1 edition (June 27, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0849310903
# ISBN-13: 978-0849310904
The explosive growth and development of the integrated circuit market over the last few years have been mostly limited to the digital VLSI domain. The difficulty of automating the design process in the analog domain, the fact that a general analog design methodology remained undefined, and the poor performance of earlier tools have left the analog world with few, if any, options for automated VLSI design. Analog VLSI Design Automation may well mark the dawn of a new era. It describes a fully integrated, top-down approach to analog VLSI design automation and presents a methodology for each level of the design hierarchy.
The authors define an analog VLSI design automation flow in which every tool has its predefined objectives and interfaces. They present working examples for each tool, and demonstrate the validity of their approach by running their design automation system from the top to the bottom levels in three different case studies. Technologies like systems-on-a-chip (SOCs) have created a pressing need for automated design tools capable of handling analog circuit blocks. The ideas presented in this book are fully adaptable to various design classes. Using these ideas, you will be able to develop new methodologies and algorithms that will significantly reduce design costs and time to market for many practical systems.
Book Info
Text describes a fully integrated, top-down approach to analog VLSI design automation; presenting a methodology for each level of the design hierarchy. For electrical engineers. DLC: Integrated circuits--Very large scale integration--Design and construction.
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Monday, May 26, 2008
Adam Smith - A Primer by Eamon Butler
Adam Smith - A Primer
#Author: Eamon Butler
# Paperback: 125 pages
# Publisher: Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) (11 Jul 2007)
# Language English
# ISBN-10: 0255366086
# ISBN-13: 978-0255366083
# Format: PDF | 267Kb
By EAMONN BUTLER, with a commentary by Craig Smith, IEA (The Institute of Economic Affairs), June 2007. An authoritative introduction to the life and work of the great economist and philosopher
Despite his fame, there is still widespread ignorance about the breadth of Adam Smith’s contributions to economics, politics and philosophy. In Adam Smith – A Primer, Eamonn Butler provides an authoritative introduction to the life and work of this ‘founder of economics’.
The author examines not only The Wealth of Nations, with its insights on trade and the division of labour, but also less well known works, such as The Theory of Moral Sentiments, the lectures, and the writings on the history of science. Butler therefore provides a comprehensive, but concise, overview of Adam Smith’s intellectual achievements.
Whilst earlier writers may have studied economic matters, it is clear that the scope of Smith’s enquiries was remarkable. In relating economic progress to human nature and institutional evolution he provided a completely new understanding of how human society works and was very much a precursor of writers such as Hayek and Popper. Indeed, with poor governance, protectionism and social engineering still commonplace, Smith’s arguments are still highly relevant to policymakers today.
Adam Smith – A Primer includes a foreword by Sir Alan Peacock, an introduction by Gavin Kennedy and a commentary by Craig Smith.
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Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers by Philip Stokes
Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers
#Author: Philip Stokes
# Hardcover: 224 pages
# Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books (October 1, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1592700160
# ISBN-13: 978-1592700165
# Format: PDF | 10.57Mb
This book takes a thematic and then chronological approach to its subject. The philosophers are first grouped by their school of thought, clearly outlined on the contents page. Within each division, Stokes includes several examples, showing the progression of that philosophy over time. For example, existentialism is traced from Kierkegaard through Heidegger and Sartre to de Beauvoir. Each entry is two pages long, and includes a black-and-white illustration or photo of the philosopher. No biographical information is included beyond a general comment about nationality or education. Instead, readers are given a summary of each individual's contribution to the "science" of philosophy. There are cross-references throughout, indicated by boldface type. The glossary seeks to clarify some of the more difficult terms and concepts. This is not a work for beginners; both the vocabulary and content make it appropriate for more mature readers. Overall, however, it is a valuable introduction to some of the world's great thinkers.--Elizabeth M. Reardon, McCallie School, Chattanooga, TN
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National Geographic, April 2008
National Geographic, April 2008
美国国家地理杂志
English | PDF | 24MB
[National Geographic: April'08 TOC]
The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to National Geographic, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society. It published its first issue in 1888, just nine months after the Society itself was founded. It has become one of the world's best-known magazines and is immediately identifiable by the characteristic yellow border running around the edge of its cover.
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China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia by David C. Kang
China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia
# Author: David C. Kang
# Hardcover: 296 pages
# Publisher: Columbia University Press (October 26, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0231141882
# ISBN-13: 978-0231141888
# Format: PDF | 5.33Mb
An alternative perspective on why China's impressive growth has gone unchallenged by its neighbors. (Amazon.com)
Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nine percent economic growth per year since the introduction of its market reforms in 1978. Foreign businesses have flocked to invest in China, and Chinese exports have begun to flood the world.
China is modernizing its military, has joined numerous regional and international institutions, and plays an increasingly visible role in international politics. In response to this growth, other states in East Asia have moved to strengthen their military, economic, and diplomatic relations with China. But why have these countries accommodated rather than balanced China's rise?
David Kang believes certain preferences and beliefs are responsible for maintaining stability in East Asia. Kang's research shows how East Asian states have grown closer to China, with little evidence that the region is rupturing. Rising powers present opportunities as well as threats, and the economic benefits and military threat China poses for its regional neighbors are both potentially huge; however, East Asian states see substantially more advantage than danger in China's rise, making the region more stable, not less.
Many scholars downplay the role of ideas and suggest that a rising China will be a destabilizing force in the region, but Kang's provocative argument reveals the flaws in contemporary views of China and the international relations of East Asia and offers a new understanding of the importance of sound U.S. policy in the region.
About the Author:
David C. Kang is a professor in the department of government and an adjunct professor at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. He is the author of Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines and, with Victor Cha, Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies. He is a regular media commentator, and has published opinion pieces in the New York Times and the Washington Post. Kang is also a frequent consultant to both multinational corporations and U.S. government agencies, including the CIA, National Intelligence Council, and State Department.
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Guide to Analysing Companies (The Economist Series) 公司分析指南
Guide to Analysing Companies (The Economist Series) 公司分析指南
# Author: Bob Vause
# Publisher: Profile Books
# Number Of Pages: 288
# Publication Date: 2005-10-01
# ISBN-10: 1861979851
# ISBN-13: 9781861979858
# Format: PDF | 1.4Mb
In this completely revised fourth edition, noted academic and consultang, Bob Vause, helps managers, investors, analysts, and students understand and uncover a business's true worth and performance.
Rather than giving a bunch of formulas to use in Excel, this book actually tries to impart you some knowledge of real world.
While the knowledge maybe old hat for experienced stock analysts, it is NOT for new comers to the field.
And for the Excel script MBAs who try to reduce everything to an equation, sorry dudes.
This book attempts to make u first understand the purpose, goal, and results you would get in a analysis, and then goes about teaching you that analysis.
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Sunday, May 25, 2008
Pocket World in Figures 2007 (The Economist Series)
Pocket World in Figures 2007 (The Economist Series)
# Author:"Economist"
# Publisher: Economist Books
# Number Of Pages: 240
# Publication Date: 2006-09-07
# ISBN-10: 1861978251
# ISBN-13: 9781861978257
This small book is packed full with vital economic statistics, which came from all the corners of the world. From standard of living to birth and death rates, it covered close to two hundred countries; and provided the economic profiles of all the major economies in the world. It also came with updated information on the Euro-zone countries.
However, its economic value harbour some sour taste. It is easy to discover that most of the books that rank alongside this one offered cheaper prices, while at the same time providing more extensive details. Also, there is just a marginal update between this year's edition and that of last year.
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Business Strategy: A Guide to Effective Decision-Making (The Economist Series)
Business Strategy: A Guide to Effective Decision-Making (The Economist Series)
# Author:Jeremy Kourdi
# Page Count: 288 pages
# Publisher: Bloomberg Press (October 29, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1861974590
# ISBN-13: 978-1861974594
# Format: PDF | 1.3MB
Powerful new forces are reshaping the business world and the role of the manager in making effective strategic choices is increasingly demanding. This book shows today's manager how to create and sustain a dynamic, profitable business with techniques to support effective decisions. It evaluates the tools, tactics, and techniques for making profit-boosting decisions. Moreover, it contains insights into effective strategic decisions--what worked and why, what failed and why.
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Super Stocks by Kenneth L. Fisher
Super Stocks by Kenneth L. Fisher
# Author: Kenneth L. Fisher
# Paperback: 256 pages
# Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (September 21, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0071499814
# ISBN-13: 978-0071499811
# Format: PDF | 1.76Mb
One of the most successful investing books ever published, Super Stocks showed investors how to use innovative techniques and fundamental analysis for valuing stocks and predicting future profit margins.
You'll gain valuable insight into Fisher's original thinkin for valuing stocks and predicting future profit margins. A pioneer in the use of the Price Sales Ratio-a powerful analytical tool-Fisher regales readers with instructive tales of the businesses he invested in and profited from.
Super Stocks gives a historical perspective on how Fisher successfully researched companies and stocks—who he saw and what he asked—to get a better read on profitable returns.
“As rich in investment war stories as it is in knowledge.”-The Motley Fool
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