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For me--as I'm certain it will be for every reader of the wonderful Norwegian By Night--Derek B. Miller's new novel is a genuine literary event (Sheldon Horowitz is back!). Miller has long deserved to be a household name. How to Find Your Way in the Dark should finally make him one.--Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and Chances Are... With the wit and scope of Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Derek B. Miller t...

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Now this classic in goal setting s back, reissued with a new introduction, a new cover, and a fresh new interior design!

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Take a journey back in time with this collection of fifteen mysterious tales of historical fiction.Experience a Native American mystic solving a murder, a foiled presidential assassination attempt, a violent case of mistaken identity, the evils of racial discrimination, strife on the Indiana frontier, a killing during the heyday of the jazz era, and nine other compelling short stories. Decades of Dirt: Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem from the Cros...

Earth's biodiversity is in crisis. Forests are shrinking, fisheries are collapsing, and species are disappearing around the globe. Drawing upon the biological sciences, the conservation community has responded to this crisis by investing billions of dollars in programs designed to protect endangered species and ecosystems. While conservation efforts sometimes fail because of biological ignorance, conservationists more often get the biology "ri...

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Our modern economy depends on financial markets, yet financial markets continue to grow in size and complexity. As a result, the management of financial risk has never been more important. Quantitative Financial Risk Management is a textbook designed to teach students about financial risk management with an emphasis on financial models and mathematical techniques. Each chapter provides numerous sample problems and end-of-chapter questions. Th...

This book explores the development of the global economy in the twentieth century through the lens of the European maritime infrastructure.

This book, What a Woman Wants is coming from my view as a man who has lived around women all my life. It is coming from my perspective as a male. None of what I am saying is the gospel truth according to all women. Even if you do not agree with everything I write in in this book, we all can agree that a woman want many things in this nation we live in, whether it's love, respect, money, etc. I just wanted to write a book based on how some wome...

This collection contains some of the best new work being done on the subject of character in philosophy, theology, and psychology. From a virtual reality simulation of the Milgram shock experiments to an understanding of the virtue of modesty in Muslim societies, these 31 chapters significantly advance our understanding of character.

Mathematics and Statistics for Financial Risk Management is a practical guide to modern financial risk management for both practitioners and academics. Now in its second edition with more topics, more sample problems and more real world examples, this popular guide to financial risk management introduces readers to practical quantitative techniques for analyzing and managing financial risk. In a concise and easy-to-read style, each chapter i...

The easy-to-read bible for developing, financing, marketing, and selling consumer products--from gadgets to kitsch, from high-touch to high-end--for America's rising entrepreneurial nation. Launch It! is written by a team of trend and product consultants with over 60 years of collective experience advising thousands of entrepeneurs, designers, and companies. As they realized not one trade book was available on the market that would provide sou...

The 2011 volume of The Year in Cognitive Neuroscience presents leading scientists current thinking on topics including: challenges and opportunities in social neuroscience, the neurobiological basis of seeing words, bayesian models of uncertainty, behavior, and the brain, behavioral and neural evidence for the porous boundaries between explicit and implicit memory, perception of auditory signals, human category learning 2.0, animal emotion, an...

They had it all until they realized they didn't... They searched near and far to find their missing piece. Returning empty-handed, they find even more than what they searched for, in a place they never even thought to look.

In this comprehensive social history of the Bon Marché, the Parisian department store that was the largest in the world before 1914, Michael Miller explores the bourgeois identities, ambitions, and anxieties that the new emporia so vividly dramatized. Through an original interpretation of paternalism, public images, and family-firm relationships, he shows how this new business enterprise succeeded in reconciling traditional values with the com...

This book explores the development of the global economy in the twentieth century through the lens of the European maritime infrastructure.

And if I had no reward in Heaven When I bow my knee before His throne. I'd say with a smile, "Serving Him was still worthwhile, He brought me the greatest joy I've ever known." Author Unknown See Haiti through the eyes of a young Midwestern boy as he recounts the experiences which caused him to fall in love with the country and its people. Wanting to be a blessing to others without asking for anything in return, as a missionary, Michael though...