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61. |  Electricity Production from Renewables Energies By: Benoît Robyns; Arnaud Davigny; Bruno François; Antoine Henneton; Jonathan Sprooten Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 01-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Electricity Production from Renewables Energies
Energy and environmental issues have caused a marked increase in electricity production from renewable energy sources since the beginning of the 21st Century. The concept of sustainable development and concern for future generations challenge us every day to produce new technologies for energy production, and new patterns of use for these energies. Their rapid emergence can make the understanding and therefore the perception of these new technologies difficult. This book aims to contribute to a better understanding of the new electricity generation technologies by addressing a diverse...
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62. |  J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2013: For Preparing Your 2012 Tax Return Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 30-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2013: For Preparing Your 2012 Tax Return
America's number one bestselling tax guide offers the best balance of thoroughness, organization, and usability
For over half a century, more than 39 million Americans have turned to J.K. Lasser for easy-to-follow, expert advice and guidance on planning and filing their taxes. Written by a team of tax specialists, J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2013 includes all the outstanding features that have made this book the nation's all-time top-selling tax guide. It covers some of the most important topics associated with your taxes, from what must you report as income and strategies that will...
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63. |  Computational Statistics, 2nd Edition By: Geof H. Givens; Jennifer A. Hoeting Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 06-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Computational Statistics, 2nd Edition
This new edition continues to serve as a comprehensive guide to modern and classical methods of statistical computing. The book is comprised of four main parts spanning the field:
Optimization
Integration and Simulation
Bootstrapping
Density Estimation and Smoothing
Within these sections, each chapter includes a comprehensive introduction and step-by-step implementation summaries to accompany the explanations of key methods. The new edition includes updated coverage and existing topics as well as new topics such as adaptive MCMC and bootstrapping for correlated data. ...
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64. |  Nikon D3200 Digital Field Guide By: Alan Hess Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 25-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Nikon D3200 Digital Field Guide
A colorful, portable guide to all the features of Nikon's D3200 dSLR
The Nikon D3200 dSLR camera is packed with fabulous features like a 24-megapixel sensor, full HD video capability with fulltime autofocus, and 4 frames-per-second continuous shooting mode. This full-color guide provides instructions for all the buttons, dials, modes, and menus plus a refresher course in photography basics. It illustrates the essentials of lighting, composition, and exposure with plenty of examples, and author Alan Hess, veteran concert photographer, even includes professional tips on improving...
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65. |  By: Julie Adair King Publisher: For Dummies Publication Date: 04-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Nikon D600 For Dummies
A full-color beginner guide to the basics of the Nikon D600
The Nikon D600 is a professional-level full-frame sensor that is sure to attract an audience of DSLR newcomers and pros. This friendly-and-thorough full-color guide shows you how to get a firm grasp on this powerful camera and helps you to ultimately get better photos.
Helps you shoot in Auto mode and manage playback options, and walks you through basic troubleshooting
Teaches you to take creative control by adjusting manual settings to get better results from exposure, lighting, focus, and color, then apply those...
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66. |  By: Ken Fisher Brown; Lara Hoffmans Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 30-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Whether you're in retirement, just getting ready to retire, or 5, 10, or 40 years out, this book can help you invest smarter your whole life and yes, plan better for retirement.
Harmful mythology abounds about retirement investing. Many retirees or soon-to-be retirees have heard a plethora of advice. Take 100 (or 120) and subtract your age to get your equity allocation, put the rest in bonds or cash. Buy only bonds. Buy only high dividend stocks. Or some combination! Buy equity-indexed annuities or some "guaranteed" income product. All examples of a potentially harmful myth many folks...
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67. |  By: Galen Gruman Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 11-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: OS X Mountain Lion Bible
The complete guide to Mac OS X, fully updated for the newest release!
The Mac's solid, powerful operating system and the exploding popularity of iOS devices are fueling a strong increase in market share for Apple. Previous editions of this book have sold more than 75,000 copies, and this new edition is fully updated with all the exciting features of OS X Mountain Lion, including Game Center, Messages, and Notifications. Written by industry expert Galen Gruman, it covers all the basics and then delves deep into professional and higher-end topics, making it the one book you need to succeed...
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68. |  By: David M. Darst Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 06-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Protect assets during times of crisis with this new edition of the New York Times bestseller!
When the first edition of this book appeared it was before the economic crash. This new edition shows how David Darst's particular kind of asset allocation helped his investors during that volatile period. It also contains a discussion of downside and risk tolerance and new self-tests for determining your risk tolerance. And, finally, it reveals how the asset allocation model has changed since 2008. In all of these areas, the author will continue to include new insightful anecdotes like those...
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69. |  Trading Basics: Evolution of a Trader By: Thomas N. Bulkowski Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 15-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Trading Basics: Evolution of a Trader
Comprehensive coverage of the four major trading styles
Evolution of a Trader explores the four trading styles that people use when learning to trade or invest in the stock market. Often, beginners enter the stock market by:
Buying and holding onto a stock (value investing). That works well until the trend ends or a bear market begins. Then they try
Position trading. This is the same as buy-and-hold, except the technique sells positions before a significant trend change occurs.
Swing trading follows when traders increase their frequency of trading, trying to catch the...
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70. |  Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City By: Brad Feld Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 09-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
An essential guide to building supportive entrepreneurial communities
"Startup communities" are popping up everywhere, from cities like Boulder to Boston and even in countries such as Iceland. These types of entrepreneurial ecosystems are driving innovation and small business energy. Startup Communities documents the buzz, strategy, long-term perspective, and dynamics of building communities of entrepreneurs who can feed off of each other's talent, creativity, and support.
Based on more than twenty years of Boulder-based entrepreneur turned-venture capitalist Brad Feld's experience in...
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71. |  Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 30-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Expert guidance for building an information communication and technology infrastructure that provides best in business intelligence
Enterprise performance management (EPM) technology has been rapidly advancing, especially in the areas of predictive analysis and cloud-based solutions. Business intelligence caught on as a concept in the business world as the business strategy application of data warehousing in the early 2000s. With the recent surge in interest in data analytics and big data, it has seen a renewed level of interest as the ability of a business to find the valuable data in a...
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72. |  Maximizing Return on Investment Using ERP Applications By: Arthur J. Worster; Thomas R. Weirich; Frank J. C. Andera Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 02-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Maximizing Return on Investment Using ERP Applications
Step-by-step guidance to achieving maximum return on investment for your company
Written by Arthur Worster, Thomas Weirich, and Frank Andera, industry experts at the forefront of the business processes arena, Maximizing Return on Investment Using ERP Applications provides accountants, IT executives, and finance professionals with a new way of looking at enterprise resource planning (ERP)-driven business improvement programs. This timely book explores how leadership can view its organization as an integrated enterprise and what this change in perception might suggest. It considers various...
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73. |  By: Jeff Wignall Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 07-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Digital Photography FAQz
Straightforward, clear answers to the most commonly asked digital photography questions
What's the difference between optical zoom and digital zoom? Do more megapixels equate to better photo quality? Why is there a delay after I push the shutter release button before I can take another picture? If you ve ever asked a question concerning digital photography and wished you had a helpful resource to provide you with clear, reliable answers, then look no further.
With nearly four decades of photo experience under his belt, author Jeff Wignall responds to 365 of the most common digital...
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74. |  Investments: Analysis and Management, 12th Edition By: Charles P. Jones Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 17-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Investments: Analysis and Management, 12th Edition
In today's economy, it's critical for investors to have a strong understanding of the strategies needed to make the best decisions. Jones arms them with the most up-to-date information in the field while offering a proper balance between investment opportunities, techniques and analytics. He includes new discussions on the rapid rise and interest in exchange-traded funds, the new NYSE-Euronext market, the merger of the NYSE and Amex, and more. Expanded coverage is also presented in behavioral finance and the bond markets. In addition, investors will benefit from the updated problems and...
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75. |  Accounting Information Systems: The Processes and Controls, 2nd Edition By: Leslie Turner; Andrea Weickgenannt Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 04-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Accounting Information Systems: The Processes and Controls, 2nd Edition
This new edition continues to organize key AIS course content (e.g. ERP and relational databases, REA, controls) around four major themes: simplicity of writing and presentation (lower level), business processes, accounting and IT controls, and ethics as it relates to accounting systems. This text offers real-world focus that impacts the chapter exposition, discussion questions, and end-of-chapter exercises and cases. It includes an emphasis on readability that extends beyond the narrative to the flowcharts and illustrations.
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76. |  Metamodelling for Software Engineering By: Cesar Gonzalez-Perez; Brian Henderson-Sellers Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 13-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Metamodelling for Software Engineering
This book focuses on metamodelling as a discipline, exploring its foundations, techniques and results. It presents a comprehensive metamodel that covers process, product and quality issues under a common framework.
Issues covered include:
An explanation of what metamodelling is and why it is necessary in the context of software engineering.
Basic concepts and principles of traditional metamodelling, and some existing results of this approach.
Problems associated with traditional approaches to Metamodelling are discussed, alongside an exploration of possible solutions and...
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77. |  By: Brian Tracy Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 19-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Praise for The Power of Self-Confidence
"Brian Tracy is the master in understanding and teaching self-enrichment. In this priceless book, he unlocks the key to your door of success and fulfillment—belief in your own potential. Internalize his wisdom and you will surely realize your goals."
—DENIS WAITLEY, author of Psychology of Success
"Brian continues to impact the lives of everyone he touches. This book provides a logical road map that everyone can use to maximize their true potential."
—JOSEPH SHERREN, CSP, HoF, author of iLead: Five Insights for Building Sustainable...
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78. |  OS X Mountain Lion Portable Genius By: Dwight Spivey Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 11-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: OS X Mountain Lion Portable Genius
Essential tips and techniques on the Mac OS X features you use most!
If you want the kind of hip, friendly help you'd get from friends on how to get the most of out of Mac OS X Mountain Lion, this is the guide you need. Jump right into the coolest new Mac OS X features like Game Center, Messages, and Notification, or get a better handle on the basic tools and shortcuts that will help keep your mountain cat purring. From customizing to using multimedia to syncing your Mac to other devices, this book saves you time and hassle, avoids fluff, and covers what you want to know most.
New...
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79. |  Windows 8 Five Minutes at a Time By: Lance Whitney Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 28-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Windows 8 Five Minutes at a Time
The perfect Windows 8 guide for today's busy learners
Get more out of Windows 8 at your own pace with this great new guide that's perfect for busy learners. Helpful information is presented in quick, easy-to-digest, individual tasks that you can read and learn in five minutes or less, per task. Boost your productivity with hundreds of smart techniques, which include step-by-step instructions, full-color screenshots, and plenty of practical tips and sidebars sprinkled throughout the book. The attractive design brings everything in clear focus and helps you quickly locate the information...
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80. |  iOS App Development Portable Genius By: Richard Wentk Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 07-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: iOS App Development Portable Genius
The essential skills and technologies needed for iOS development in one handy guide!
The unprecedented popularity of iOS devices, such as the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, has led to a development boom. If you're eager to become part of the action, then this is the book for you! Packed with must-have information on iOS development, this handy guide covers Objective-C, Xcode, Frameworks, and sound design principles and explains how to upload an app to the app store and integrate apps with the latest advances that Apple offers developers. The featured tips and tricks will get you up and...
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