One of James's early novels, The American plunges right in to one of the writer's most enduring subjects, that of the innocent, or at least inexperienced, American abroad, seeking to come to terms with the social customs and conventions of an old European aristocracy (think of Daisy Miller, Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove and others). The aptly named Christopher Newman, having made a small fortune from business in California, has come to...

In the 1990s regulators and policy makers worried about the risk that financial institutions were carrying. Once the walls between investment and commercial banking came down with the repeal of Glass-Steagall, both trading and lending (and everything in between) were now housed under one roof with institutions freely accessing funds from one part of the institution to the other. But Glass-Steagall had just been repealed so how to fix the risk problem?...

A new generation of leader is emerging, the next generation business strategist: "Outhinkers." They are entrepreneurs and corporate managers with a new playbook. They see opportunities others ignore, challenge dogma others accept as truth, rally resources others cannot influence, and unleash new strategies that disrupt their markets. Outthink the Competition proves that business competition is undergoing a fundamental paradigm shift and that during...

The story can now be told. In 1999, an elite interdisciplinary team headed by Nobel laureate Andrew Danicek gathered in California to carry out a ground-breaking time-travel experiment. While the rest of the world remained unaware, Julius Caesar was successfully transported from the last day of his life to a specially-constructed covert facility. Four days of conversation with historians and Latin scholars were planned, followed by Caesar's return...

Well-known Christian moms and dads reveal the words that have mattered most for their family. Whether its a crying baby or a rebellious teenager, every parent has moments with their kids that they wish theyd been better prepared to handle if only theyd known. This audio book, published in conjunction with Focus on the Family, shares heartwarming and vulnerable experiences from well-known moms and dads. Their surprising, sometimes humorous, and always...

Learn how to turn the Herculean task of program managing into a highly rewarding time for both you and your organization. To see a program successfully through to completion, a program manager must break the work down into simpler, smaller pieces and organize it into interdependent tasks...and this book helps you do just that. Projects require managers, but programs warrant maestros. Tasked with overseeing multiple project teams and thousands of activities,...

When two cons doing several respective back-to-back life sentences for murder make a daring-if not Hollywood-style-escape from the Dannemora Maximum Security Prison in upstate New York, PI Jack Marconi receives a personal invitation from the governor of New York State to track the murderers down and deliver them personally to the front door of the governor's mansion. But what Marconi and his sidekick, Blood, don't yet realize is that something more...

7Twelve represents the 7 major asset classes and 12 subgroups that truly count in a well-diversified portfolio. Over the last 10 years, the numbers generated by 7Twelve are nothing less than stellar-and you can do similarly using major mutual fund companies and ETFs by spending a fraction of time each month or each quarter to rebalance. 7Twelve founder, Prof. Craig Israelsen, shows just how easy it is to manage a successful portfolio with a plan,...

Getting Started in Currency Trading, Second Edition will act as both an introduction and a reference manual for beginning and intermediate traders. A description of the Foregin Exchange (FOREX) market and a brief history are followed by a section of FOREX terms clearly defined with examples. The FOREX market has grown substantially and evolved dramatically in recent years, and this new edition helps you adapt to these changes. The reader is then taught...

In AbleTrend, Dr. Wang discloses, for the first time, the fundamental principles behind his bestselling trading system, AbleTrend signals. Sophisticated in scope, yet written in language that traders at all levels can understand, this book presents the theory behind an award-winning robust trading system developed by a recognized authority and expert trading system developer. AbleTrend presents the logic behind the system that reveals the direction...