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 Super Searchers Cover the World (Super Searchers series) By Mary Ellen Bates, Reva Basch, Clare Hart CEO Factiva 2001 | 297 Pages | ISBN: 0910965544 | PDF | 4 MB As the ubiquity of the Internet has fostered more interest in business outside the United States, the need for companies to see their market and competitive environment in a global perspective has forced more businesses to think internationally. This book asks the experts to reveal their strategies for finding international business information on the Web. Through a collection of 15 interviews with expert online researchers, exploration of the specific challenges of reaching outside a researcher's geographic area and expertise is detailed. In-country experts from around the world such as librarians and researchers from government organizations, multinational companies, universities, and small businesses discuss issues such as non-native language sources, cultural bias, and judging reliability of unfamiliar sources. Interviewees are from countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, China, Italy, Argentina, Mexico, and The Netherlands.  Struggle Over Land in Africa: Conflicts, Politics & Change By Ward Anseeuw, Chris Alden 2010 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0796923221 | PDF | 6 MB Highlighting the urgent problem of land disputes in Africa, this collection of essays also draws attention to the complex root causes of these conflicts andthe challenges they present for the governance of both states and markets. Written by authors from academic, diplomatic, and political backgrounds, the book is an essential reference on the debate about land issues in Africa. The studyprovides acontinental perspective in chapters that describe internal crisesin Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, northern Cameroon,Rwanda,South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.  Street Portrait Playbook: Presented by Street Photography University by Daniel Arnauld English | October 15, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08L9J4PSN | 69 pages | EPUB | 10 Mb Take better street portrait by learning to evaluate light, placing the subject against interesting backgrounds, and encouraging the subject to interact with what is there.  Strange Attractors (Chaos Chronicles, Book 2) By Jeffrey A. Carver 1995 | 319 Pages | ISBN: 0312856415 | PDF | 2 MB Background: I came to the book because I was interested in reading Sunborn, the fourth installment in the series, and wanted to get the backstory first. Crossing Neptune was interesting enough to get me to pick up Strange Attractors, but unfortunately I couldn't make heads or tails of the book. I gave up after about 100 pages.The characters just aren't that interesting, and their motivation, to keep moving so as not to be eaten by the mysterious boojum -- no joke -- just couldn't persuade me to stick with the story. There are too many good books in the world to read.  Still a Family: A Guide to Good Parenting Through Divorce By Lisa Rene Reynolds M.D. 2009 | 289 Pages | ISBN: 0814412963 | PDF | 2 MB This book is a "must read" for every parent going through separation, divorce or realtionship issues as well as for every professional who works helping parents through these rough times.Dr. Reynolds uses brief chapters and plain language to help give direct, professional guidance that anyone can follow. The entire book is fabulous. However,the layout of the book allows you to find the answers you seek without having to plow through the entire book.The lives of many children will be dramatically improved as more and more parents read Still A Family.  Sticking Points: How to Get 5 Generations Working Together in the 12 Places They Come Apart by Haydn Shaw English | October 6th, 2020 | ISBN: 1496447840 | 384 pages | EPUB | 3.80 MB Updated with new findings on Gen Z!  Stencil Graffiti By Tristan Manco 2002 | 116 Pages | ISBN: 0500283427 | PDF | 126 MB book showcases over 400 examples of contemporary stencilled works from across the globe,their innovation and vitality achieved with new materials, methods and approaches. "Street art is both an expression of our culture and a counterculture in itself. Heroturko???CommunicationHeroturko??™ has become a modern mantra: the city streets shout with billboards, fly posters and corporate advertising, all vying for our attention. They almost invite a subversive response. As high-tech communications have increased, a low-tech reaction has been the recent explosion in street art.".  Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails: Real World Preasymptotics, Epistemology, and Applications (Technical Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb English | June 30, 2020 | ISBN: 1544508050 | 446 pages | EPUB | 11 Mb The book investigates the misapplication of conventional statistical techniques to fat tailed distributions and looks for remedies, when possible. Switching from thin tailed to fat tailed distributions requires more than "changing the color of the dress." Traditional asymptotics deal mainly with either n=1 or n=∞, and the real world is in between, under the "laws of the medium numbers"-which vary widely across specific distributions. Both the law of large numbers and the generalized central limit mechanisms operate in highly idiosyncratic ways outside the standard Gaussian or Levy-Stable basins of convergence. A few examples: - The sample mean is rarely in line with the population mean, with effect on "naïve empiricism," but can be sometimes be estimated via parametric methods. - The "empirical distribution" is rarely empirical. - Parameter uncertainty has compounding effects on statistical metrics. - Dimension reduction (principal components) fails. - Inequality estimators (Gini or quantile contributions) are not additive and produce wrong results. - Many "biases" found in psychology become entirely rational under more sophisticated probability distributions. - Most of the failures of financial economics, econometrics, and behavioral economics can be attributed to using the wrong distributions.  Starting Out: The Caro-Kann (Starting Out - Everyman Chess) By Joe Gallagher 2002 | 193 Pages | ISBN: 1857443039 | PDF | 11 MB If you're looking for a good introduction to the Caro-Kann, this is the book for you. It's not a repertoire book for either side. Gallagher presents the main lines and gives ideas for both sides. As with other books in the Starting Out series, this book avoids deep theory as much as possible. The idea is to give the reader a good foundation off of which to build. This book serves its purpose well, but if you want to be a C-K expert, your reading can't end here.As good as the book is, I must give it one criticism. The author's bias for the White side of the Fantasy variation is quite obvious. He gives Black's basic ideas in the theory sections, but the example games could have been chosen better. A repeated theme seems to be Black does something stupid in the opening and then gets crushed. I understand that no chess game is perfect and that mistakes are made in every game, but I do think that it would have been more useful to include games with more accurate play by Black.So, while you may want something else for the Fantasy Variation, and you will want something else if you intend to go far into the Caro-Kann, this book serves its purpose quite well. It will give you a good introduction to the Caro-Kann.  Starting Out: Sicilian Grand Prix Attack By Gawain Jones 2008 | 178 Pages | ISBN: 1857445473 | PDF | 13 MB Even in an age of video and computer games, chess still continues to be one of the most popular and challenging of the gaming pastimes and enjoys a world wide enthusiasm as evidenced by a proliferation of chess clubs, organizations, and tournaments. "Starting Out: Sicilian Grand Prix Attack" by British Grandmaster Gawain Jones focuses specifically on the Grand Prix Attack as one of White's most aggressive options with respect to traditional Sicilian opening move. Illustrative, step-by-step examples provide the aspiring chess student with everything necessary to employ this opening, complete with key moves for both players, along with discussion of the underlying rationales of the moves themselves. "Starting Out: Sicilian Grand Prix Attack" covers all the main lines after 2 Nc3 and 3 f4; as well as featuring informed and informative chapters on the currently fashionable 2 Nc3 Nc6 3 Bb5 moves. One of the newest titles in the extensive and prestigious Everyman Chess series, "Starting Out: Sicilian Grand Prix Attack" is especially recommended reading for novice chess students, as well as players seeking to improve their tournament game performance. |
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