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The Great Deleveraging

Economic Growth and Investing Strategies for the Future

By: Chip Dickson,Oded Shenkar

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The Great Deleveraging

Economic Growth and Investing Strategies for the Future

By: Chip Dickson,Oded Shenkar

In the past decade, the United States experienced two periods of excessive growth periods followed by two massive collapses: the technology and housing bubbles. Both were caused by illusions of growth and wealth creation: They were built on thin air. As an investor, how can you distinguish between “fake” wealth and the real thing? Where can you earn solid returns without falling victim to bubbles? Read The Great Deleveraging and find out. Former Wall Street analyst, strategist and Associate Director of Equity Research Chip Dickson and leading global business scholar Oded Shenkar first identify the policies and characteristics of societies most likely to generate real economic growth and investor wealth. Next, they outline specific lessons learned about bubbles and growth from nearly a century of investment returns. Finally, they identify global markets and sectors poised for high levels of sustainable growth--and make specific investment recommendations for each of them. In the wake of massive debt creation, history’s greatest deleveraging is now underway. For many investors, the next decade will be brutal. This book’s messages are designed to achiever real profits and real wealth creation. They are meant to help you navigate a challenging environment--and, hopefully, thrive. As seen on TheStreet.com

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FT Press

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013248126X

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Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs and Pseudorandomness

By: Oded Goldreich

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Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs and Pseudorandomness

By: Oded Goldreich

Cryptography is one of the most active areas in current mathematics research and applications. This book focuses on cryptography along with two related areas: the study of probabilistic proof systems, and the theory of computational pseudorandomness. Following a common theme that explores the interplay between randomness and computation, the important notions in each field are covered, as well as novel ideas and insights.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3662125218

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Foundations of Cryptography: Volume 2, Basic Applications

By: Oded Goldreich

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Foundations of Cryptography: Volume 2, Basic Applications

By: Oded Goldreich

Cryptography is concerned with the conceptualization, definition and construction of computing systems that address security concerns. The design of cryptographic systems must be based on firm foundations. Foundations of Cryptography presents a rigorous and systematic treatment of foundational issues, defining cryptographic tasks and solving cryptographic problems. The emphasis is on the clarification of fundamental concepts and on demonstrating the feasibility of solving several central cryptographic problems, as opposed to describing ad-hoc approaches. This second volume contains a thorough treatment of three basic applications: Encryption, Signatures, and General Cryptographic Protocols. It builds on the previous volume, which provided a treatment of one-way functions, pseudorandomness, and zero-knowledge proofs. It is suitable for use in a graduate course on cryptography and as a reference book for experts. The author assumes basic familiarity with the design and analysis of algorithms; some knowledge of complexity theory and probability is also useful.

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390

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Cambridge University Press

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1107393973

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The Perraults

A Family of Letters in Early Modern France

By: Oded Rabinovitch

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The Perraults

A Family of Letters in Early Modern France

By: Oded Rabinovitch

In The Perraults, Oded Rabinovitch takes the fascinating eponymous literary and scientific family as an entry point into the complex and rapidly changing world of early modern France. Today, the Perraults are best remembered for their canonical fairy tales, such as "Cinderella" and "Puss in Boots," most often attributed to Charles Perrault, one of the brothers. While the writing of fairy tales may seem a frivolous enterprise, it was, in fact, linked to the cultural revolution of the seventeenth century, which paved the way for the scientific revolution, the rise of "national literatures," and the early Enlightenment. Rabinovitch argues that kinship networks played a crucial, yet unexamined, role in shaping the cultural and intellectual ferment of the day, which in turn shaped kinship and the social history of the family. Through skillful reconstruction of the Perraults’ careers and networks, Rabinovitch portrays the world of letters as a means of social mobility. He complicates our understanding of prominent institutions, such as the Academy of Sciences, Versailles, and the salons, as well as the very notions of authorship and court capitalism. The Perraults shows us that institutions were not simply rigid entities, embodying or defining intellectual or literary styles such as Cartesianism, empiricism, or the purity of the French language. Rather, they emerge as nodes that connect actors, intellectual projects, family strategies, and practices of writing.

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Cornell University Press

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1501730088

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Studies in Complexity and Cryptography

Miscellanea on the Interplay between Randomness and Computation

By: Oded Goldreich

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Studies in Complexity and Cryptography

Miscellanea on the Interplay between Randomness and Computation

By: Oded Goldreich

This book presents a collection of 36 pieces of scientific work in the areas of complexity theory and foundations of cryptography: 20 research contributions, 13 survey articles, and 3 programmatic and reflective viewpoint statements. These so far formally unpublished pieces were written by Oded Goldreich, some in collaboration with other scientists. The articles included in this book essentially reflect the topical scope of the scientific career of Oded Goldreich now spanning three decades. In particular the topics dealt with include average-case complexity, complexity of approximation, derandomization, expander graphs, hashing functions, locally testable codes, machines that take advice, NP-completeness, one-way functions, probabilistically checkable proofs, proofs of knowledge, property testing, pseudorandomness, randomness extractors, sampling, trapdoor permutations, zero-knowledge, and non-iterative zero-knowledge. All in all, this potpourri of studies in complexity and cryptography constitutes a most valuable contribution to the field of theoretical computer science centered around the personal achievements and views of one of its outstanding representatives.

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Springer

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3642226701

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The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem

Judah under Babylonian Rule

By: Oded Lipschits

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The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem

Judah under Babylonian Rule

By: Oded Lipschits

The period of the demise of the kingdom of Judah at the end of the 6th century B.C.E., the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians, the exile of the elite to Babylon, and the reshaping of the territory of the new province of Judah, culminating at the end of the century with the first return of exiles—all have been subjects of intense scrutiny during the last decade. Lipschits takes into account the biblical textual evidence, the results of archaeological research, and the reports of Babylonian and Egyptian sources and provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of the evidence for the history of this 100-year-long era. He provides a lucid historical survey that will, no doubt, become the baseline for all future studies of this era.

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Penn State Press

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1575065533

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International Business

By: Oded Shenkar,Yadong Luo

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International Business

By: Oded Shenkar,Yadong Luo

Written by two leading international business scholars, the Second Edition of International Business takes a truly global perspective that goes beyond the United States, presents the latest concepts, tools and events and adopts integrated and problem-solving approaches for all chapters. The book highlights the role of culture, politics and legal issues in international business and illustrates how they influence institutions, structures and processes that permeate all functions of business. This is the only international business textbook that offers dedicated discussion of small and mid-size international firms (where many students are likely to be employed) in addition to large multinational enterprises. It is also the only text to offer chapters on corruption, e-commerce, and international entrepreneurship. The book offers a highly integrated and action-focused approach to the field that helps the reader make explicit connections across concepts and functions, develops the skill to address various IB issues and problems, and most importantly, broadens understanding of the global business environment and its repercussions for executives. In addition to superior internal integration of the various issues discussed in the book (for example this may be the only IB text where the chapter on finance and accounting has specific references to culture and how it affects those functions), the book provides easy to understand links to functional business areas, thus enabling better integration within the BA or MBA business curriculum. This book is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate business students taking such courses as international business, international Management, Global Business, Global Business Strategy, Multinational Management, Foreign Direct Investment.

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SAGE

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1412949068

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A Primer on Pseudorandom Generators

By: Oded Goldreich

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A Primer on Pseudorandom Generators

By: Oded Goldreich

The primer assumes basic familiarity with the notion of efficient algorithms and with elementary probability theory, but provides a basic introduction to all notions that are actually used. as a result, the primer is essentially self-contained, although the interested reader is at times referred to other sources for more detail. --Book Jacket.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821851926

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9780821851920

Judah in the Biblical Period

Historical, Archaeological, and Biblical Studies Selected Essays

By: Oded Lipschits

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Judah in the Biblical Period

Historical, Archaeological, and Biblical Studies Selected Essays

By: Oded Lipschits

The collection of essays in this book represents more than twenty years of research on the history and archeology of Judah, as well as the study of the Biblical literature written in and about the period that might be called the “Age of Empires”. This 600-year-long period, when Judah was a vassal Assyrian, Egyptian and Babylonian kingdom and then a province under the consecutive rule of the Babylonian, Persian, Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires, was the longest and the most influential in Judean history and historiography. The administration that was shaped and developed during this period, the rural economy, the settlement pattern and the place of Jerusalem as a small temple, surrounded by a small settlement of (mainly) priests, Levites and other temple servants, characterize Judah during most of its history. This is the formative period when most of the Hebrew Bible was written and edited, when the main features of Judaism were shaped and when Judean cult and theology were created and developed. The 36 papers contained in this book present a broad picture of the Hebrew Bible against the background of the Biblical history and the archeology of Judah throughout the six centuries of the “Age of Empires”.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110486520

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The Yehud Stamp Impressions

A Corpus of Inscribed Impressions from the Persian and Hellenistic Periods in Judah

By: Oded Lipschits,David S. Vanderhooft

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The Yehud Stamp Impressions

A Corpus of Inscribed Impressions from the Persian and Hellenistic Periods in Judah

By: Oded Lipschits,David S. Vanderhooft

The study of the yehud stamp impressions, which appear on the handles or bodies of store jars, has persisted for over a century, beginning with the discovery of the first of these impressions at Gezer in 1904. Nevertheless, until the pioneering work of Stern in 1973, who cataloged, classified, and discussed the stamp impressions known up to 1970, discovery and publication of new stamp impressions were scattered, and analysis was cursory at best. Furthermore, a gap in research has persisted since then. Now, Oded Lipschits and David Vanderhooft are pleased to present a comprehensive catalog (through the winter of 2008–9) of published and unpublished yehud stamp impressions, with digital photographs and complete archaeological and publication data for each impression. This long-overdue resource provides a secure foundation for general reflection on the whole corpus and illuminates more-narrow fields such as stratigraphy, paleography, administration, historical geography, and Persian-period economic developments within Yehud. The catalog clarifies what is nebulous apart from a complete corpus, matters such as distribution, petrographic analysis of the clay, new readings of the seal legends, use of the toponym yehud, and significance of the title phwa. The scope of this catalog renders it a worthwhile tool for all future study of these invaluable artifacts and the period of history that produced them.

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Penn State Press

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157506653X

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Catholicism, Political Culture, and the Countryside

A Social History of the Nazi Party in South Germany

By: Oded Heilbronner

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Catholicism, Political Culture, and the Countryside

A Social History of the Nazi Party in South Germany

By: Oded Heilbronner

Challenges received wisdom about the relationship between Catholics and Nazis

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University of Michigan Press

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0472109103

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Growth, Maturation, and Physical Activity

By: Robert M. Malina,Claude Bouchard,Oded Bar-Or

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Growth, Maturation, and Physical Activity

By: Robert M. Malina,Claude Bouchard,Oded Bar-Or

This updated edition features three new chapters and current research findings. Topics include prenatal growth and functional development, motor development, thermoregulation, obesity in childhood and adolescence and more.

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Human Kinetics

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0880118822

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9780880118828

Communicating Personal Genomic Information to Non-Experts

A New Frontier for Human-Computer Interaction

By: Orit Shaer,Oded Nov,Madeleine Ball,Lauren Westendorf

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Communicating Personal Genomic Information to Non-Experts

A New Frontier for Human-Computer Interaction

By: Orit Shaer,Oded Nov,Madeleine Ball,Lauren Westendorf

Explores the roles human-computer interaction (HCI) can play in helping non-experts contribute, understand, engage with, and share their personal genomic information. Explores the intersection of personal informatics and HCI, and, more broadly, in facilitating non-expert interaction with large amounts of complex, personal and uncertain information.

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Book's by Oded Nov

The Great Deleveraging

The Great Deleveraging

Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs and Pseudorandomness

Modern Cryptography, Probabilistic Proofs and Pseudorandomness

Foundations of Cryptography: Volume 2, Basic Applications

Foundations of Cryptography: Volume 2, Basic Applications

The Perraults

The Perraults

Studies in Complexity and Cryptography

Studies in Complexity and Cryptography

The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem

The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem

International Business

International Business

A Primer on Pseudorandom Generators

A Primer on Pseudorandom Generators

Judah in the Biblical Period

Judah in the Biblical Period

The Yehud Stamp Impressions

The Yehud Stamp Impressions

Catholicism, Political Culture, and the Countryside

Catholicism, Political Culture, and the Countryside

Growth, Maturation, and Physical Activity

Growth, Maturation, and Physical Activity

Communicating Personal Genomic Information to Non-Experts

Communicating Personal Genomic Information to Non-Experts

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