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41) Personal finance
Series
Publisher
Saylor Academy
Pub. Date
[2009]-
Language
English
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Description
"Personal Finance is a comprehensive Personal Finance text which includes a wide range of pedagogical aids to keep students engaged and instructors on track. This book is arranged by learning objectives. The headings, summaries, reviews, and problems all link together via the learning objectives. This helps instructors to teach what they want, and to assign the problems that correspond to the learning objectives covered in class. Personal Finance...
42) Pharo by example
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Publisher
Square Bracket Associates
Pub. Date
2009-
Language
English
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Description
"Pharo is a modern open-source development environment for the classic Smalltalk-80 programming language. Despite being the first purely object-oriented language and environment, Smalltalk is in many ways still far ahead of its successors in promoting a vision of an environment where everything is an object, and anything can change at run-time. Pharo by Example, intended for both students and developers, will guide you gently through the Pharo language...
Author
Series
Publisher
Charles Severance
Pub. Date
2009-
Language
English
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Description
"I never seemed to find the perfect data-oriented Python book for my course, so I set out to write just such a book. Luckily at a faculty meeting three weeks before I was about to start my new book from scratch over the holiday break, Dr. Atul Prakash showed me the Think Python book which he had used to teach his Python course that semester. It is a well-written Computer Science text with a focus on short, direct explanations and ease of learning....
Series
Publisher
Saylor Academy
Pub. Date
201?-
Language
English
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Description
"This book uses a balanced blend of frameworks and illustrations to teach you how to tackle the challenge of driving performance into the future. Kim Warren takes special care with this new textbook, Building Strategy and Performance, to ensure that it delivers instruction on how to deliver strategy powerfully over a sustained period of time. This book helps you to show your students where the levers are that they can control and how to choose what...
Series
Publisher
Saylor Academy
Pub. Date
2010-
Language
English
Formats
Description
"eMarketing: The Essential Guide to Online Marketing is a textbook intended for third and fourth year marketing students and draws on both academic theory and practical experience. The book offers students information that is applicable to the eMarket industry by providing examples that are easily relatable. The book covers all of the important aspects of online marketing, including the areas associated with search engine marketing, affiliate marketing,...
Series
Publisher
Saylor Academy
Pub. Date
2010-
Language
English
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Description
"International Finance Theory and Policy develops a unified model of the international macroeconomy. The text provides detailed descriptions of major macroeconomic variables, covers the interest rate parity and purchasing power parity theories of exchange rate determination, takes an exhaustive look at the pros and cons of trade imbalances and presents the well-known AA-DD model to explore the effects of fiscal and monetary policy under both fixed...
Series
Publisher
Saylor Academy
Pub. Date
2010-
Language
English
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Description
"The text also addresses current issues such as free trade area formation and administered protection policies. The models are developed, not by employing advanced mathematics, but rather by walking students through a detailed description of how a model’s assumptions influence its conclusions. But more importantly, each model and theory is connected to real world policy issues. The main purpose of the text is to provide a thorough grounding in the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas K. Tiemann
Pub. Date
2010-
Language
English
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Description
"The book "Introductory Business Statistics" by Thomas K. Tiemann explores the basic ideas behind statistics, such as populations, samples, the difference between data and information, and most importantly sampling distributions. The author covers topics including descriptive statistics and frequency distributions, normal and t-distributions, hypothesis testing, t-tests, f-tests, analysis of variance, non-parametric tests, and regression basics. Using...
Author
Series
Publisher
BCcampus, BC Open Textbook Project
Pub. Date
[2010]-
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Introductory Business Statistics with Interactive Spreadsheets - 1st Canadian Edition is an adaptation of Thomas K. Tiemann's book, Introductory Business Statistics. This new edition still contains the basic ideas behind statistics, such as populations, samples, the difference between data and information, and sampling distributions as well as information on descriptive statistics and frequency distributions, normal and t-distributions, hypothesis...
Series
Publisher
Saylor Academy
Pub. Date
[2010]-
Language
English
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Description
"Organizational Behavior bridges the gap between theory and practice with a distinct ”experiential“ approach. On average, a worker in the USA will change jobs 10 times in 20 years. In order to succeed in this type of career situation, individuals need to be armed with the tools necessary to be life-long learners. To that end, this book is not be about giving students all the answers to every situation they may encounter when they start their first...
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Publisher
University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
Pub. Date
[2010]-
Language
English
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Description
"Principles of Management teaches management principles to tomorrow’s business leaders by weaving three threads through every chapter: strategy, entrepreneurship and active leadership. Strategic — All business school teachings have some orientation toward performance and strategy and are concerned with making choices that lead to high performance. Principles of Management will frame performance using the notion of the triple bottom-line...
Author
Series
Publisher
Global Text
Pub. Date
[2011?]-
Language
English
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Description
"Accounting Principles: A Business Perspective uses annual reports of real companies to illustrate many of the accounting concepts in use in business today. Gaining an understanding of accounting terminology and concepts, however, is not enough to ensure your success. You also need to be able to find information on the Internet, analyze various business situations, work effectively as a member of a team, and communicate your ideas clearly. This text...
Series
Publisher
Saylor Academy
Pub. Date
[2011]-
Language
English
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Description
"This text is a comprehensive introduction to the vital subject of American government and politics. Governments decide who gets what, when, how (See Harold D. Lasswell, Politics: Who Gets What, When, How, [New York: McGraw-Hill, 1936]); they make policies and pass laws that are binding on all a society’s members; they decide about taxation and spending, benefits and costs, even life and death. Governments possess power—the ability to gain compliance...
Series
Publisher
Saylor Academy
Pub. Date
[2011]-
Language
English
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Description
"The Basics of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry is for the one-semester General, Organic and Biological Chemistry course. The authors designed this textbook from the ground up to meet the needs of a one-semester course. It is 20 chapters in length and approximately 350-400 pages; just the right breadth and depth for instructors to teach and students to grasp."--Open Textbook Library.
Series
Publisher
Saylor Academy
Pub. Date
2011-
Language
English
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Description
"Business English for Success is a creative solution to a common challenge across Business Communication courses: Business English or Business Presentations? Some classes place an equal emphasis on oral and written communication. If that’s the case for you check out our text Business Communication for Success. If, however, your class places the emphasis squarely on written communication and writing proficiency, then Business English for Success...
Series
Publisher
Saylor Academy
Pub. Date
2011-
Language
English
Formats
Description
"We set out to design an introductory course governed by four themes: Give students a good idea of what a career in MIS looks like by doing MIS; Enhance the professionalism of deliverables by teaching design and usability concepts; Promote creativity by assigning projects that demand it; Teach students about cloud computing by having them do cloud computing. Students in an introductory Management Information Systems (MIS) course often ask what a career...
Author
Series
Publisher
James L. Cornette and Ralph A. Ackerman
Pub. Date
2011-
Language
English
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Description
"Our writing is based on three premises. First, life sciences students are motivated by and respond well to actual data related to real life sciences problems. Second, the ultimate goal of calculus in the life sciences primarily involves modeling living systems with difference and differential equations. Understanding the concepts of derivative and integral are crucial, but the ability to compute a large array of derivatives and integrals is of secondary...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2011-
Language
English
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Description
"Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing by one of the world's greatest orators. This particular passage is from the second book of Cicero's Speeches against Verres, who was a former Roman magistrate on trial for serious misconduct. Cicero presents the lurid details of Verres' alleged crimes in exquisite and sophisticated prose. This volume provides a portion...
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Publisher
CALI® eLangdell® Press
Pub. Date
2011-
Language
English
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Description
"This chapter covers the Civil Procedure topic of Pleading: The Plaintiff's Complaint. The chapter takes approximately four class periods to cover in detail. The student is exposed to cases, presented with questions that are designed to both guide class discussion and to help the student focus his reading of the materials, pleadings from cases, and the applicable Federal Rules of Civil Procedure."--Open Textbook Libray.