Getting Started in CURRENCY TRADING

An accessible introduction to the exploding foreign exchange trading market Getting Started in Currency Trading is both an introduction and reference tool for beginning and intermediate foreign exchange (Forex) traders. This information-packed resource opens with a clear description of the Forex market and a section of Forex terms that are clearly defined with examples. Readers are then shown how to open their own trading account with step-by-step instructions-accompanied by numerous screen shots of what to expect inside a dealer's trading platform-that walk them through the physical process of placing and liquidating currency orders. Other chapters introduce various trading strategies and tactics in detail, along with some fundamental and technical analysis to assist the trader in their decision-making process.

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Managing Financial Risks: From Global to Local by Gordon L. Clark, Adam D. Dixon, and Ashby H. B. Monk

Managing Financial Risks: From Global to Local by Gordon L. Clark, Adam D. Dixon, and Ashby H. B. Monk
Publisher : Oxford University Press | 304 pages | File type: PDF | 7 mb

Recent market turmoil, bank runs, global equities sell-off, and the quot;credit crunchquot; have demonstrated the sophisticated and interconnected nature of financial markets today seemingly localized problems have quickly spread, putting at risk the solvency of both local and global financial institutions. As these markets are increasingly complex, interconnected, and embedded in the daily lives of individuals, there is a pressing need to unravel and understand the complexities and prospects of this new and transformative social, political, and geographical paradigm.
This book brings together a group of leading scholars from a range of disciplines to formulate a more holistic understanding of financial risk by rooting it in different environments, spatial scales, and disciplines. The result is an all-encompassing exposition of current and future financial risk management practices, possibilities, and problems.

Reconciling Environment and Trade, Second Revised Edition

Reconciling Environment and Trade, Second Revised Edition
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff | File type: PDF | 716 pages | 2,5 mb

This volume focuses on five cases, all of which remain cornerstone trade-environment cases of the WTO. The subject matter of these cases reflects five basic issues in the clash between trade and the environment: public health, air pollution/ozone depletion, food safety, destruction of endangered species, and biosafety. five issues surface dramatically in international disputes over tobacco, reformulated gasoline, beef growth hormones, commercial fishing methods, and genetically modified organisms. In the second edition of this book, Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder joins the original editors to update and contextualize the five case studies in new introductions to each section.These introductions provide an overview of developments since the first edition, including subsequent related cases. The second edition also includes updated bibliographic materials.In their penetrating analyses of these cases and their vast implications, the authors take into account the entire disciplines of both trade law and environmental law, noting especially the points of friction between the multilateral instruments in each field and the developing jurisprudence of the WTO Dispute Settlement with regard to the exceptions specified in Article XX of the GATT. The articulated standpoints of all parties-governments and NGOs on both sides of the controversy-are probed for 'agendas', whether stated or unstated. No one involved in international trade or environmental activism can afford to ignore this vital publication. The information it provides (on WTO jurisprudence, on current and pending environmental initiatives, on the science behind the disputes), no less than the fresh and convincing analysis it holds forth, make it an essential tool for understanding some of the most crucial issues in international law today.

WordPress 2.8 E-Commerce

WordPress 2.8 E-Commerce By Brian Bondari
Publisher: Packt Publishing 2010 | 284 Pages |File type: PDF | 6 mb


Build a proficient online store to sell products and services
Earn huge profits by transforming WordPress into an intuitive and capable platform for e-Commerce
Build and control a vast product catalog to sell physical items and digital downloads
Configure and integrate various payment gateways into your store for your customers' convenience
Promote and market your store online for increased profits
Follow a practical, step-by-step guide packed with screenshots to ensure your store is created and deployed successfully

In Detail
WordPress is easily one of the hottest platforms for building blogs and general web sites. With the addition of the WP e-Commerce plug-in, it's also a competent platform for easily creating and running an online store, capable of selling physical items as well as services and digital downloads. WordPress with e-Commerce offers every feature that a seller and a customer may need. You can build an online store that makes it easier for the customers to find and buy products.
WordPress 2.8 e-Commerce focuses on the integration of WordPress with the WordPress e-Commerce plug-in, covering all aspects of building and developing an online store from scratch.
This book provides a simple, step-by-step approach to developing an effective online store. It guides you through your initial planning and first steps, plug-in installation and configuration, building your catalog of products to sell, accepting payments for your orders, and dealing with taxes and shipping. You will also learn how to promote and market your new store, handle customer accounts and staff roles, and deal with essential store security.
As you work through each chapter, your online store will grow in scope and functionality. By the time you finish this book, you will have a complete and working store, ready to release your products to the world.

What you will learn from this book
Tweak WordPress to build an adept, business-friendly online store
Install and configure WP e-Commerce and add products to your online catalog
Manage and sort your products with groups, categories, tags, and variations
making it easier for your customers to find any product
Automate the delivery of digital downloads after purchase ensuring the convenience of your customers
Create and manage user account roles and permissions for customers and staff
Brand your site by customizing WordPress themes
Accept payments using a variety of payment processors and automatically apply sales tax and shipping
Create your own customizable shipping rates and connect to shippers such as USPS and UPS
Secure your online store against attacks and data loss
Explore alternative e-Commerce plug-ins for WordPress

Approach
This book provides an easy to understand, step-by-step approach to installing, configuring, and using WP e-Commerce to run your online store. We will construct an example store in the book with enough information and flexibility to adapt the store to your specific needs.

Who this book is written for
This book is for you, if you are interested in using WordPress as the basis for a store that can sell physical items, downloads, or services.
It is ideal for a sole proprietor or small business owner with only basic, in-house technical skills. Some prior knowledge of WordPress will help, but is not required. No knowledge of PHP is expected, but it will also be helpful.

About the Author
Brian Bondari is a musician, composer, and teacher with equal loves for both music and technology. His hobbies include reading, hiking, composing music, and playing with his pet rabbit. He also spends an exorbitant amount of time lying on the floor grading papers.
Brian earned his doctorate from the University of Kansas in 2009 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the University of Texas at Tyler. When he is not writing music or grading papers, he serves as Senior Editor for the multi-author technology blog, TipsFor.us.

Principles of Inventory Management: When You Are Down to Four, Order More

Principles of Inventory Management: When You Are Down to Four, Order More By John Muckstadt A. Sapra
Publisher: Springer; 1st Edition 2009| 339 pages | File type: PDF | 9 mb

Inventories are prevalent everywhere in the commercial world, whether it be in retail stores, manufacturing facilities, government stockpile material, Federal Reserve banks, or even your own household. This textbook examines basic mathematical techniques used to sufficiently manage inventories by using various computational methods and mathematical models. Such models discussed include: EOQ model and extensions, power-of-two models, single and multi-period models, probabilistic lot sizing models, multi-echelon stochastic models, Laplace and Normal demand models, exact Poisson model, and many more.

Principles of Inventory Management begins with an introductory chapter in which the basics of inventory systems and mathematical assumptions for all models are grouped together. The text is presented in a way such that each section can be read independently, and so the order in which the reader approaches the book can be inconsequential. It contains both deterministic and stochastic models along with algorithms that can be employed to find solutions to a variety of inventory control problems.

Key topics include:
* Economic order quantity (EOQ) model
* Power-of-two policies
* Dynamic lot sizing
* Single and multi-period stochastic models
* Echelon-based approaches
* Multi-echelon systems
* Single and multi-item models..

Exam Prep for Principles of Managerial Finance by Gitman, 10th Ed. Created MznLnx

Exam Prep for Principles of Managerial Finance by Gitman, 10th Ed.
Publisher: MznLnx | 222 pages | File type: PDF | 8 mb

The MznLnx Exam Prep series is designed to help you pass your exams. Editors at MznLnx review your textbooks and then prepare these practice exams to help you master the textbook material. Unlike study guides, workbooks, and practice tests provided by the texbook publisher and textbook authors, MznLnx gives you all of the material in each chapter in exam form, not just samples, so you can be sure to nail your exam.

Family Time: The Social Organization of Care

Family Time: The Social Organization of Care
Publisher: Routledge | File type: CHM | 256 pages | 11,9 mb

Conventional economics fails to properly measure the benefits to society of looking after a household and caring for our families. In this impressive new study Nancy Folbre and Michael Bitman recruit an excellent contributors to explore the issue of..

With Mathematica Code By Alan L. Lewis

Option Valuation Under Stochastic Volatility: With Mathematica Code By Alan L. Lewis
Publisher: Finance Press | 350 pages | djvu | 9 mb

This book provides an advanced treatment of option pricing for traders, money managers, and researchers. Providing largely original research not available elsewhere, it covers the latest generation of option models where both the stock price and its volatility follow diffusion processes. These new models help explain important features of real-world option pricing, including the quot;volatility smilequot; pattern. The book includes Mathematica code and 37 illustrations.

Glynis D Morris, Sonia McKay, Andrea Oates - Finance Director's Handbook, Fifth Edition

Glynis D Morris, Sonia McKay, Andrea Oates - Finance Director's Handbook, Fifth Edition
Publisher: CIMA Publishing | File type: PDF | 500 pages | 5.11 mb

Financial reporting is becoming more onerous and complex, particularly for listed companies. Accounting scandals have led to a greater regulatory focus on the role of audit committees, non-executive directors, risk management and internal control which put the Finance Director under new and more stringent pressures.
This quick reference manual provides extensive information on recent changes and authoritative coverage of all the financial operations a busy Finance Director has now to undertake. All the key business critical information is here in one book - everything a busy Finance Director needs access to. Written by professionals for professionals so that key information is easily accessed, assimilated and used. Detailed sections are devoted to audit, cash flow management, corporate transactions, financial reporting, management accounting, taxation and treasury and risk management.
* the vast range of business critical issues is constantly changing - to help you stay up to date, included in the price of the book are free regular on-line downloads of updates to legislation/standards
* packed with over 1000 pages, on key areas such as audit, company law, corporate governance, financial reporting, investor relations - you'll never be stuck for an answer again
* stay on top of the waves of legislation and standards as they roll in with the help of specialists in the field..

Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions

Ben Mezrich, "Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions"
Harper Perennial | 288 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB

Ben Mezrich, author of the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House, returns with an astonishing story of Ivy League hedge-fund cowboys, high stakes, and the Asian underworld.

John Malcolm was the ultimate gunslinger in the Wild East, prepared to take on any level of risk in making mind-boggling sums of money. He and his friends were hedge-fund cowboys, living life on the adrenaline-, sex-, and drugs-fueled edge—kids running billion-dollar portfolios, trading information in the back rooms of high-class brothels and at VIP tables in nightclubs across the Far East.

Malcolm and his Ivy League-schooled twenty-something colleagues, with their warped sense of morality, created their own economic theory that would culminate in a single deal the likes of which had never been seen before—or since.

Ugly Americans is a story of extremes, charged with wealth, nerve, excess, and glamour. A real-life mixture of Liar's Poker and Wall Street, brimming with intense action, romance, underground sex, vivid locales, and exotic characters, Ugly Americans is the untold true story that rocked the financial community.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Personal Finance in Your 20s And 30s

Alpha | 352 pages | PDF | 25,5 MB

This guide, intended for readers in their 20s and 30s, shows how to take control of finances and features tips on reducing bank fees and finding affordable health, car, personal property and homeowners insurance. It also explains how to pay off old loans.

Better Parties, Better Government: A Realistic Program for Campaign Finance Reform

Peter J. Wallison, Joel M. Gora, "Better Parties, Better Government: A Realistic Program for Campaign Finance Reform"
AEI Press | 200 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

Campaign finance laws essentially prohibit political parties from fundraising on behalf of individual candidates, forcing candidates to finance campaigns independently. This system favors wealthy candidates and protects incumbents while discouraging challengers. In Better Candidates, Better Parties, Better Government, Peter J. Wallison and Joel Gora argue that allowing parties a greater role in campaign fundraising would strengthen the parties, attract more qualified candidates, and free officeholders to govern without undue financial influence.

Summary: A must read for those looking to better understand modern American democracy
Rating: 5

Could restrictions on political spending actually be undermining America's democracy? "Better Parties, Better Government: A Realistic Program for Campaign Finance Reform" offers Peter Wallison and Joel Gora's opinion that major problems in American democracy stem from limits on campaign spending; the restrictions in place which all too often seem to protect incumbents, often giving them the election despite low approval ratings. "Better Parties, Better Government" is a must read for those looking to better understand modern American democracy.

Getting a Poor Return: Courts, Justice, and Taxes

Robert M. Howard, "Getting a Poor Return: Courts, Justice, and Taxes"
State University of New York Press | 126 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB

Examines competing claims and beliefs about the American legal system in the area of tax policy and tax enforcement.

Marketing Fear in America's Public Schools: The Real War on Literacy

Marketing Fear in America's Public Schools: The Real War on Literacy

Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates | PDF | 224 pages | 15.53 MB

We begin and end this book with chapters on resistance to the agendas of the corporate and political right. In chapter two, Carole Edelsky provocatively outlines both the problem of and the resistance to the marketing of fear being perpetuated by the corporate and political right. She uncovers how teachers known for their critical, holistic practice are dealing with the current context—a context that she characterizes as the "new McCarthyism." She illuminates how as with the original McCarthyism, this new version too includes witch hunts, blacklists, secrecy, spying, strong curbs on dissent, the loss of constitutionally designed checks and balances, and the key roles played by and favoring corporate interests.

Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin

Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin

Harvard University Press | 464 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

Redefining the way we view business success, Pamela Laird demolishes the popular American self-made story as she exposes the social dynamics that navigate some people toward opportunity and steer others away. Who gets invited into the networks of business opportunity? What does an unacceptable candidate lack? The answer is social capital--all those social assets that attract respect, generate confidence, evoke affection, and invite loyalty.

Money for Graduate Students in the Social & Behavioral Sciences 2001 2003

Money for Graduate Students in the Social & Behavioral Sciences 2001 2003 (Money for Graduate Students in the Social Sciences)

Publisher: Reference Service Press - edition 2001 | PDF | 332 pages | 1,13 mb

Have you decided to get a graduate degree in the social or behavioral sciences? Congratulations. You have made a wise decision. According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the average salary for a college graduate is around $40,000. But, this figure rises to more than $50,000 for master’s degree recipients and to $75,000 or more for those with doctoral or professional degrees. Getting a graduate education, however, is expensive. It can cost more than $20,000 to complete a master’s degree and $100,000 or more to finish some doctoral or professional degrees. That’s more than most students can afford to pay on their own. Fortunately, there are millions of dollars available to support graduate study, training, research, and creative activities (writing, projects, etc.)

Income, Wealth, and the Maximum Principle

Income, Wealth, and the Maximum Principle

Harvard University Press | 358 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB

This compact and original exposition of optimal control theory and applications is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in economics. It presents a new elementary yet rigorous proof of the maximum principle and a new way of applying the principle that will enable students to solve any one-dimensional problem routinely. Its unified framework illuminates many famous economic examples and models.

Business Practices in Emerging and Re-Emerging Markets

Business Practices in Emerging and Re-Emerging Markets

Palgrave Macmillan | 284 pages | PDF | 1 MB

This book highlights the current business practices in the emerging markets of China, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nigeria and UAE, and explains how forces of global competition have set the culture of competitiveness and an era of consumerism. The region-specific issues, tested theories and empirical evidence make the book an asset to both researchers and managers.

Managing It Outsourcing Performance

Managing It Outsourcing Performance By Hans Solli-Saether, Petter Gottschalk


Publisher: Business Science Reference | 256 Pages PDF | 4.3 MB

The expectations of IT outsourcing in the delivery of strategic, economic, and technological benefits have drastically increased over the last decade. Although private companies and governments across the globe are involved in outsourcing arrangements, managing relationships and measuring performance still remains an issue. Managing IT Outsourcing Performance provides a unique collection of methodologies and tools useful in managing relationships and task execution to help in developing successful IT outsourcing interactions. A valuable compilation for a wide audience of managers and developers, this leading reference collection enables researchers to examine current issues and allows managers to improve outsourcing relationships.

The Essential Bennis

The Essential Bennis

Publisher: Jossey-Bass | Pages: 480 |PDF | 2 MB

"Looking over a lifetime of work, I see that certain themes have always fascinated me. Early on, I felt that bureaucracy was doomed and that something flatter and more collegial would triumph. The need for candor and transparency has been a frequent cry, because I saw how warped organizations become without them. I've long known that organizational decisions inevitably have a moral dimension. The vital role that great followers play in successful leadership has grown ever more obvious. I am increasingly aware how crucial rhetoric and other performing arts are in making a compelling leader—good or bad. That leaders are inevitably shaped by personal crucibles has been confirmed by hundreds of interviews. And it is clear to me now that the process of becoming a leader and the process of becoming a fully integrated human being are one and the same, both grounded in self-discovery..