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Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: This comprehensive new resource is written to cover the revised Cambridge IGCSE ICT syllabus (0417). Cambridge IGCSE ICT provides comprehensive syllabus coverage and valuable practical support for students. The coursebook features practical examples and activities throughout along with self-assessment questions and tasks to reinforce learning. It includes content that is accessible and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: Written by experienced teachers and examiners of CIE syllabuses in Cambridge IGCSE Computer Studies, this Coursebook includes questions and tasks throughout to reinforce learning. A Teacher's Resource CD-ROM is also available, providing guidelines for assessment, worksheets, remedial and extension activities, and a suggested year plan for teaching.

Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: An introduction to the fundamentals of accounting and how it is used that will help students apply accounting as a usable, everyday business tool. It adopts an intuitive, informal approach to describe basic principles — what they are, why they exist and how they are used — to help students see the connections between different parts of accounting and the rest of the business world. Written by an…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This intermediate-level undergraduate textbook in environmental economics builds on the microeconomics courses students take in their first year. It intentionally does not survey the whole field or present every possible topic. Instead, there is a clear focus on the theory of environmental policy and its practical applications. Most of the applied parts of the book deal with the economics of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 921 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 378) Аннотация: General Equilibrium Theory: An Introduction presents the mathematical economic theory of price determination and resource allocation from elementary to advanced levels, suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of economics. This Arrow-Debreu model (known for two of its most prominent founders, both Nobel Laureates) is the basis of modern price theory and of a wide range of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 636 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 322) Аннотация: This textbook on the basics of option pricing is accessible to readers with limited mathematical training. It is for both professional traders and undergraduates studying the basics of finance. Assuming no prior knowledge of probability, Sheldon M. Ross offers clear, simple explanations of arbitrage, the Black-Scholes option pricing formula, and other topics such as utility functions, optimal…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 253 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 443) Аннотация: As a practising barrister, the Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Sedley wrote widely on legal and non-legal matters, and continued to do so after becoming a judge in 1992. This anthology contains classic articles, previously unpublished essays and lecture transcripts. To each, he has added reflections on what has transpired since or an explanation of the British legal and political context that originally…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: This book is the first in-depth study of the actual role that the Russian Constitutional Court played in protecting fundamental rights and resolving legislative-executive struggles and federalism disputes in both Yeltsin's and Putin's Russia. Trochev argues that judicial empowerment is a non-linear process with unintended consequences and that courts that depend on their reputation flourish only…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 306) Аннотация: Language attrition describes the loss of, or changes to, grammatical and other features of a language as a result of declining use by speakers who have changed their linguistic environment and language habits. In such a situation there may, for example, be simplification in the tense system or in certain properties of subordinate clauses; some vocabulary items might fall into disuse and phonetic…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 236) Аннотация: Robert Schumann had a difficult start as a composer. Denied any significant musical upbringing, he took a long time through indirect routes to establish himself as a major composer. Persistent illness also dogged his work. His final catastrophic mental collapse has combined with the autobiographical and secretive aspects of his music to cast for posterity a veil of ominous mystery over his entire…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: Much of international law, like much of contract, is enforced not by independent sanctions but rather through cooperative interaction among the parties, with repeat dealings, reputation, and a preference for reciprocity doing most of the enforcement work. Originally published in 2006, The Limits of Leviathan identifies areas in international law where formal enforcement provides the most…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This collection of ten essays, originally published in 1989, by leading scholars of the time from five countries brings together some of the most important economic contributions to the Third World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies. First published at a time when the eastern bloc in general was confronting major economic problems, the essays in this volume combine both topicality and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 187 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 234) Аннотация: This book investigates the relationship between the character of political regimes in Russia's subnational regions and the structure of earnings and income. Based on extensive data from Russian official sources and surveys conducted by the World Bank, the book shows that income inequality is higher in more pluralistic regions. It argues that the relationship between firms and government differs…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 727 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 536) Аннотация: First published in 1954, this volume presents a description and analysis of trends in the structure, organisation and technique of the distributive trades in the United Kingdom from 1850 to 1950. Special attention in the work was given to the growth of large-scale retailing and changes in the character of consumer-demand and shopping habits in the shops themselves and in retailing techniques. The…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Science as Psychology reveals the complexity and richness of rationality by demonstrating how social relationships, emotion, culture and identity, are implicated in the problem-solving practices of laboratory scientists. The authors gather and analyze interview and observational data from innovation-focused laboratories in the engineering sciences to show how the complex practices of laboratory…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: What terms would early Christians have used to address one another? In the first book-length study on this topic, Paul Trebilco investigates the origin, use and function of seven key self-designations: 'brothers and sisters', 'believers', 'saints', 'the assembly', 'disciples', 'the Way', and 'Christian'. In doing so, he discovers what they reveal about the identity, self-understanding and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 324) Аннотация: The fall of the Ottoman and Russian empires were watershed events in modern history. The unraveling of these empires was both cause and consequence of World War I and resulted in the deaths of millions. It irrevocably changed the landscape of the Middle East and Eurasia and reverberates to this day in conflicts throughout the Caucasus and Middle East. Shattering Empires draws on extensive…

Скачать книгу (размер 922 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 182) Аннотация: A pious woman, Richelde of Fervaques built a chapel at Walsingham about AD 1130; her son William converted it into a priory about twenty years later. The original chapel may have been meant to reproduce the Holy House at Nazetheth where the Annunciation took place. The abbey is now a ruin, but Walsingham with its nearby shrine and Slipper Chapel has now again become an important place of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 207 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 238) Аннотация: All students taking laboratory courses within the physical sciences and engineering will benefit from this book, whilst researchers will find it an invaluable reference. This concise, practical guide brings the reader up-to-speed on the proper handling and presentation of scientific data and its inaccuracies. It covers all the vital topics with practical guidelines, computer programs (in Python),…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 284 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 253) Аннотация: In this wide-ranging work, Caspar Hirschi offers new perspectives on the origins of nationalism and the formation of European nations. Based on extensive study of written and visual sources dating from the ancient to the early modern period, the author re-integrates the history of pre-modern Europe into the study of nationalism, describing it as an unintended and unavoidable consequence of the…