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What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know: An Insider Reveals How to Get Smart Funding for Your Billion Dollar Idea

What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know: An Insider Reveals How to Get Smart Funding for Your Billion Dollar Idea

By: Brian Cohen; John Kador

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Publication Date: 26-MAR-2013

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WHAT IF YOU HAD AN ANGEL ON YOUR SIDE?“Terrific advice from a master of the angel investing game. Brian Cohen reveals the art and craft of raising angel money. An investment in this book will payoff a thousandfold.” ...

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All About Hedge Funds, Fully Revised Second Edition

All About Hedge Funds, Fully Revised Second Edition

By: Ezra Zask

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Publication Date: 24-JAN-2013

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“Every investor stands to benefit from Zask’s long experience and winning narrative.” -- Donald H. Putnam, Managing Partner, Grail Partners LLC“An easy-to-understand history lesson and guide to the often misunderstood world of hedge funds . . . a no-nonsense explanation of the industry written so that just about anyone can understand it. I highly recommend it.” ...

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Anonymizing Health Data

Anonymizing Health Data

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 15-OCT-2013

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Clinical and research organizations increasingly want to share patient data, and robust de-identification is crucial to meet legal obligations and or ethical reasons. This book, written by two leading experts in de-identification, explains how to adhere to regulations in a defensible way to protect sensitive patient data. Numerous case studies are included from settings that range from typical clinical treatment to disease registries....

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What Keeps Leaders Up at Night

What Keeps Leaders Up at Night

By: Nicole Lipkin

Publisher: AMACOM

Publication Date: 05-JUN-2013

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The book examines engagement, motivation, expectation, emotions, interpersonal and group dynamics—all the psychological principles that play pivotal roles in the workplace. Featuring illuminating examples and exercises, What Keeps Leaders Up at Night shines a bright light into the dark corners where all leaders struggle with their own shortcomings....

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Aktualisieren Ihrer Zertifizierung für MCSA Windows Server 2012 - Original Microsoft Prüfungstraining 70-417

Aktualisieren Ihrer Zertifizierung für MCSA Windows Server 2012 - Original Microsoft Prüfungstraining 70-417

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Publisher: Microsoft Press Deutschland

Publication Date: 22-MAY-2013

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Mit diesem Original Microsoft Prüfungstraining bereiten Sie sich effizient auf die Microsoft-Zertifizierungsprüfung 70-417 vor – Upgrading Your Skills to MCSA Windows Server 2012....

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Design for Care

Design for Care

By: Peter Jones

Publisher: Rosenfeld Media

Publication Date: 21-MAY-2013

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The world of healthcare is constantly evolving, ever increasing in complexity, costs, and stakeholders, and presenting huge challenges to policy making, decision making and system design. In Design for Care, we'll show how service and information designers can work with practice professionals and patients/advocates to make a positive difference in healthcare....

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Office 2013: The Missing Manual

Office 2013: The Missing Manual

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 04-JUN-2013

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Microsoft Office is the most widely used productivity software in the world, but most people just know the basics. This helpful guide gets you started with the programs in Office 2013, and provides lots of power-user tips and tricks when you’re ready for more. You’ll learn about Office’s new templates and themes, touchscreen features, and other advances, including Excel’s Quick Analysis tool....

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Enterprise Web Development

Enterprise Web Development

By: ; ; ; Viktor Gamov

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 15-FEB-2014

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How do you make your enterprise applications or sites available on an assortment of mobile devices as well as the desktop? This hands-on guide shows you how to build HTML5 applications that will satisfy both requirements....

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Understanding Computation

Understanding Computation

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 31-MAY-2013

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Finally, you can learn computation theory and programming language design in an engaging, practical way. Understanding Computation explains theoretical computer science in a context you’ll recognize, helping you appreciate why these ideas matter and how they can inform your day-to-day programming....

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Start Here! Build Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript

Start Here! Build Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript

By: ; Francesco Esposito

Publisher: Microsoft Press

Publication Date: 24-MAY-2013

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Learn the fundamentals of Windows 8 programming—and begin creating apps for desktops, laptops, tablets, and other devices. If you have previous experience with HTML5 and JavaScript—simply start here! This book introduces must-know concepts and getting-started techniques through easy-to-follow explanations, examples, and exercises....

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Positive Definite Matrices

Positive Definite Matrices

By: Rajendra Bhatia

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Publication Date: 10-JAN-2009

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This book represents the first synthesis of the considerable body of new research into positive definite matrices. These matrices play the same role in noncommutative analysis as positive real numbers do in classical analysis. They have theoretical and computational uses across a broad spectrum of disciplines, including calculus, electrical engineering, statistics, physics, numerical analysis, quantum information theory, and geometry. Through detailed explanations and an authoritative and inspiring writing style, Rajendra Bhatia carefully develops general techniques that have wide...

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Think Like an Option Trader: How to Profit by Moving from Stocks to Options

Think Like an Option Trader: How to Profit by Moving from Stocks to Options

By: Michael Benklifa

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 31-MAY-2013

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THE SECRET TO PROFITING FROM OPTIONS: THINK LIKE A PROFESSIONAL OPTION TRADER, NOT A STOCK TRADER! Understand the unique dynamics of options trades and markets Practical, concise insights based on actual option trading scenarios Master trade selection, risk management, and more By professional options trader Michael Benklifa, best-selling author of Profiting with Iron Condor Options Want to win in options? You must think like a professional option trader. Step #1: Get rid of the habits you learned in stock trading: they’re killing you! Step #2: Understand the...

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Relational Theory for Computer Professionals

Relational Theory for Computer Professionals

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 22-MAY-2013

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This book shows you what a real relational product would be like, and how and why it would be so much better than what’s currently available. Most books try to use SQL as a vehicle for teaching relational theory, but this book deliberately takes the opposite approach. Its primary aim is to teach relational theory as such. Then it uses that theory as a vehicle for teaching SQL, showing in particular how that theory can help with the practical problem of using SQL correctly and productively....

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Microsoft Access 2013 - Das Handbuch

Microsoft Access 2013 - Das Handbuch

By: Lorenz Hölscher

Publisher: Microsoft Press Deutschland

Publication Date: 17-MAY-2013

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In diesem umfassenden Nachschlagewerk finden Sie alles, was Sie für die Arbeit mit Microsoft Access 2013 benötigen: vom Schnelleinstieg bis hin zur Erstellung kompletter Anwendunge ...

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Abfragen von Microsoft SQL Server 2012 - Original Microsoft Training für Examen 70-461

Abfragen von Microsoft SQL Server 2012 - Original Microsoft Training für Examen 70-461

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Publisher: Microsoft Press Deutschland

Publication Date: 21-MAY-2013

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Erlernen Sie das Administrieren von Microsoft SQL Server 2012-Datenbanken und bereiten Sie sich gleichzeitig effizient auf das Examen 70-461 vor. ...

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SQL Server Transaction Log Management

SQL Server Transaction Log Management

By: Tony Davis; Gail Shaw

Publisher: Red Gate Books

Publication Date: 21-DEC-2012

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When a SQL Server database is operating smoothly and performing well, there is no need to be particularly aware of the transaction log, beyond ensuring that every database has an appropriate backup regime and restore plan in place. When things go wrong, however, a DBA's reputation depends on a deeper understanding of the transaction log, both what it does, and how it works. An effective response to a crisis requires rapid decisions based on understanding its role in ensuring data integrity. ...

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Under the Hood of .NET Memory Management

Under the Hood of .NET Memory Management

By: Chris Farrell; Nick Harrison

Publisher: Red Gate Books

Publication Date: 19-DEC-2011

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This book starts with an introduction to the core concepts of .NET memory management and garbage collection, and then quickly layers on additional details and intricacies. Once you're up to speed, you can dive into the guided troubleshooting tour, and tips for engineering your application to maximise performance. And to finish off, take a look at some more sophisticated considerations, and even a peek inside the Windows memory model. ...

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Practical Time Series Analysis Using SAS

Practical Time Series Analysis Using SAS

By: Anders Milhøj

Publisher: SAS Institute

Publication Date: 15-APR-2013

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Anders Milhøj's Practical Time Series Analysis Using SAS explains and demonstrates through examples how you can use SAS for time series analysis. It offers modern procedures for forecasting, seasonal adjustments, and decomposition of time series that can be used without involved statistical reasoning. The book teaches, with numerous examples, how to apply these procedures with very simple coding. In addition, it also gives the statistical background for interested readers. Beginning with an introductory chapter that covers the practical handling of time series data in SAS using the...

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The Design Method: A Philosophy and Process for Functional Visual Communication

The Design Method: A Philosophy and Process for Functional Visual Communication

By: Eric Karjaluoto

Publisher: New Riders

Publication Date: 16-AUG-2013

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This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. The design section of any bookstore offers a variety of beautiful graphic anthologies, heady academic tomes, and monographs of “celebrity” designers. These books often lead us astray by focusing on visuals and theory, instead of how and why designers arrive at outcomes. The Design Method is a short, functional, relatable book that will help designers clarify their understanding of the nature of design; learn methods for—consistently—creating good design; and find ways to persuade clients to trust in their counsel. It’s not a lofty book....

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Rethinking Valuation and Pricing Models

Rethinking Valuation and Pricing Models

By: Carsten Wehn; Christian Hoppe; Greg N. Gregoriou

Publisher: Academic Press

Publication Date: 17-DEC-2012

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It is widely acknowledged that many financial modelling techniques failed during the financial crisis, and in our post-crisis environment many techniques are being reconsidered.  This single volume provides a guide to lessons learned for practitioners and a reference for academics.  Including reviews of traditional approaches, real examples, and case studies, contributors consider portfolio theory; methods for valuing equities and equity derivatives, interest rate derivatives, and hybrid products; and techniques for calculating risks and implementing investment strategies.  Describing new...