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Dead Reckoning

By: Richard Cibrano

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It is 1977, and the newly formed House Select Committee on Assassinations is making headlines. Tom Welles, a successful Pulitzer Prize winning syndicated columnist receives an anonymous letter from an individual alleging firsthand knowledge of the assassination of President Kennedy, with a time and place to meet. Welles is skeptical of the offer, and is prepared to dismiss it as exploitation, but there is a hook; the letter challenges him to follow the trail of a heretofore-unknown Intelligence organization. Out of his league, Welles reaches out to a colleague with the appropriate contacts in Washington. However, in tapping his sources, he unwittingly draws the attention of a renegade Intelligence group operating within the highest level of government. Abruptly drawn into the epicenter of a complex web extending beyond the Kennedy assassination, Welles soon learns of a daring CIA penetration operation into the Soviet Union, meets the agent charged with ousting the rogue element from the Agency hierarchy, and encounters the men desperate to keep hidden the Cold Wars darkest secret. Ultimately, Welles finds himself in a race against an unseen enemy to locate the one man with the first-hand knowledge capable of toppling this powerful cabal. Based on more than twenty years of research, and supported by thousands of declassified files, Dead Reckoning is an inventive thriller that dares the reader to consider the antagonisms of United States/Soviet Cold War diplomacy as a mutually beneficial play act between the architects of the military industrial complex on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

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1462801099

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Managing Risk and Uncertainty

A Strategic Approach

By: Richard Friberg

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Managing Risk and Uncertainty

A Strategic Approach

By: Richard Friberg

A comprehensive framework for assessing strategies for managing risk and uncertainty, integrating theory and practice and synthesizing insights from many fields. This book offers a framework for making decisions under risk and uncertainty. Synthesizing research from economics, finance, decision theory, management, and other fields, the book provides a set of tools and a way of thinking that determines the relative merits of different strategies. It takes as its premise that we make better decisions if we use the whole toolkit of economics and related fields to inform our decision making. The text explores the distinction between risk and uncertainty and covers standard models of decision making under risk as well as more recent work on decision making under uncertainty, with a particular focus on strategic interaction. It also examines the implications of incomplete markets for managing under uncertainty. It presents four core strategies: a benchmark strategy (proceeding as if risk and uncertainty were low), a financial hedging strategy (valuable if there is much risk), an operational hedging strategy (valuable for conditions of much uncertainty), and a flexible strategy (valuable if there is much risk and/or uncertainty). The book then examines various aspects of these strategies in greater depth, building on empirical work in several different fields. Topics include price-setting, real options and Monte Carlo techniques, organizational structure, and behavioral biases. Many chapters include exercises and appendixes with additional material. The book can be used in graduate or advanced undergraduate courses in risk management, as a guide for researchers, or as a reference for management practitioners.

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MIT Press

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0262528193

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Matrix for Assassination

The Jfk Conspiracy

By: Richard Gilbride

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Matrix for Assassination

The Jfk Conspiracy

By: Richard Gilbride

A phantom haunts Americathe ghost of Dealey Plaza where President John F. Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963. In Matrix for Assassination, author Richard Gilbride, a schoolboy in 1963 who became fascinated with the facts, condenses much of the research conducted in recent years after a mountain of new data became available from classified files with the passing of the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. Matrix for Assassination names the names. It offers simple and defensible solutions to many of the crimes lasting enigmas: Who were the shooters? Who forced Ruby to kill Oswald? Who orchestrated Kennedys autopsy cover-up? What actually happened in the book depository? Were the Dallas police in on the plot? The Pentagon? LBJ? The CIA? Thoroughly referenced with 300 accompanying photographs, Matrix for Assassination is bookended by two events which draw it through the tabloids and into the X-Files: Marilyn Monroe's strange death and JFKs clash with an above-top-secret UFO cabal. Her murder was a prelude to Dallas; at the heart of the military-industrial complex dwelt a sinister darkness that originated in Nazi Germany.

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Trafford Publishing

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1426991762

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Substance and Procedure in Private International Law

By: Richard Garnett

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Substance and Procedure in Private International Law

By: Richard Garnett

When the law of a foreign country is selected or pleaded by a claimant or defendant, a question arises as to whether the issue pertains to substance, in which case it may be resolved by foreign law, or procedure, in which case it will be governed by the law of forum. This book examines the distinction between substance and procedure questions in private international law, and analyses where and whether each is appropriate. To do so, it examines previous attempts to define the scope of procedure in private international law, considers alternative choice of law methods for referring matters to the law of forum, and examines the influence of the doctrine of characterization on procedure. Substance and Procedure in Private International Law also provides detailed analysis of the decisional law in which the substance-procedure distinction has been employed, creating a clear assessment of its application in various practical situations and providing valuable guidance for practitioners on how the distinction should be applied. The book also considers 'procedural' topics such as service of process and the taking of evidence abroad, in order to show how the application of forum law may further be limited by foreign laws. With a foreword by the Hon Sir Anthony Mason.

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OUP Oxford

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0191629367

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Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis

By: Richard E. Caves

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Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis

By: Richard E. Caves

The third edition of Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis surveys the contributions that economic analysis has made to our understanding of why multinational enterprises exist and what consequences they have for the workings of the national and international economies. It shows how economic analysis can explain multinationals' activity patterns and how economics can shed conceptual light on problems of business policies and managerial decisions arising in practice. It addresses the welfare problems arising from multinationals' activities and the logic of governments' preferences and choices in their dealings with multinationals. Suitable for researchers, graduates and upper-level undergraduates. The third edition of this highly accessible book incorporates the many additions to our knowledge of multinationals accumulated in research appearing in the past decade.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139465996

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Pershing's Crusaders

The American Soldier in World War I

By: Richard S. Faulkner

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Pershing's Crusaders

The American Soldier in World War I

By: Richard S. Faulkner

The Great War caught a generation of American soldiers at a turning point in the nation's history. At the moment of the Republic's emergence as a key player on the world stage, these were the first Americans to endure mass machine warfare, and the first to come into close contact with foreign peoples and cultures in large numbers. What was it like, Richard S. Faulkner asks, to be one of these foot soldiers at the dawn of the American century? How did the doughboy experience the rigors of training and military life, interact with different cultures, and endure the shock and chaos of combat? The answer can be found in Pershing's Crusaders, the most comprehensive, and intimate, account ever given of the day-to-day lives and attitudes of the nearly 4.2 million American soldiers mobilized for service in World War I. Pershing’s Crusaders offers a clear, close-up picture of the doughboys in all of their vibrant diversity, shared purpose, and unmistakably American character. It encompasses an array of subjects from the food they ate, the clothes they wore, their view of the Allied and German soldiers and civilians they encountered, their sexual and spiritual lives, their reasons for serving, and how they lived and fought, to what they thought about their service along every step of the way. Faulkner's vast yet finely detailed portrait draws upon a wealth of sources—thousands of soldiers' letters and diaries, surveys and memoirs, and a host of period documents and reports generated by various staff agencies of the American Expeditionary Forces. Animated by the voices of soldiers and civilians in the midst of unprecedented events, these primary sources afford an immediacy rarely found in historical records. Pershing's Crusaders is, finally, a work that uniquely and vividly captures the reality of the American soldier in WWI for all time.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700623736

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9780700623730

Physico-Chemical Properties of Nanomaterials

By: Richard C. Pleus,Vladimir Murashov

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Physico-Chemical Properties of Nanomaterials

By: Richard C. Pleus,Vladimir Murashov

Throughout human history, we have long encountered the combination of promise, risk, and uncertainty that accompanies emerging technologies. Nanotechnology is a recent example of an emerging technology that promises to drastically improve existing products as well as allow for creative development of new goods and services. This new technology also has its potential downsides. Industry, academia, and regulatory agencies are all working overtime to assess risks accurately while keeping up with the pace of development. Subtle changes in the physicochemical properties of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) can influence their toxicity and behavior in the environment and so can be used to help control potential ENM risks. This book attempts to encompass the state of the science regarding physicochemical characterization of ENMs. It illuminates the effort to understand these properties and how they may be used to ensure safe ENM deployment in existing or future materials and products.

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CRC Press

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1351168584

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9781351168588

Photoshop 6

Visual Jumpstart

By: Richard Schrand

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Photoshop 6

Visual Jumpstart

By: Richard Schrand

Based on the newest version of Photoshop, this guide is made easy with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. An informal tone and essential referencesection gets beginner or advanced readers up to speed.

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Sybex

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0782128661

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9780782128666

Fundamentals of Futures and options markets

By: John Hull,Sirimon Treepongkaruna,David Colwell,Richard Heaney,David Pitt

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Fundamentals of Futures and options markets

By: John Hull,Sirimon Treepongkaruna,David Colwell,Richard Heaney,David Pitt

This first Australasian edition of Hull’s bestselling Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets was adapted for the Australian market by a local team of respected academics. Important local content distinguishes the Australasian edition from the US edition, including the unique financial instruments commonly traded on the Australian securities and derivatives markets and their surrounding conventions. In addition, the inclusion of Australasian and international business examples makes this text the most relevant and useful resource available to Finance students today. Hull presents an accessible and student-friendly overview of the topic without the use of calculus and is ideal for those with a limited background in mathematics. Packed with numerical examples and accounts of real-life situations, this text effectively guides students through the material while helping them prepare for the working world. For undergraduate and post-graduate courses in derivatives, options and futures, financial engineering, financial mathematics, and risk management.

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1486013686

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Flash 5 Cartoons and Games F/x & Design

By: Bill Turner,James Robertson,Richard Bazley

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Flash 5 Cartoons and Games F/x & Design

By: Bill Turner,James Robertson,Richard Bazley

Covering Flash 5 from a cartoon and gaming aspect. Learn how to cohesively pull together and create all the necessary elements for an entertaining cartoon show. Create cartoon characters for television and music videos; then, discover how to use those cartoon elements when scripting and programming interactive games on the Internet. This book includes a CD-ROM with complete a full-length cartoon show and source codes for several games. With Flash 5 Cartoons and Games f/x and Design, you will go beyond the general description of the various Flash tools and discover what can be done with them!

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1576109585

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9781576109588

Practical Poser 8

The Official Guide

By: Richard Schrand

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Practical Poser 8

The Official Guide

By: Richard Schrand

An updated edition of a best-selling reference for intermediate to advanced Poser users teaches the tasks one needs to know to get the most out of Poser X for achieving professional, commercial-quality work. Original.

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Course Technology

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1584506970

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9781584506973

Vue 7

Beyond the Basics

By: Richard Schrand

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Vue 7

Beyond the Basics

By: Richard Schrand

Welcome to Vue 7: Beyond the Basics, your in-depth guide to getting the most out of this powerful program. Written for the professional 3D artist and animator, this book will show you how to use all the new and updated features of any version of Vue 7 or Vue 7.5 to take your art into new creative realms. Organized as a series of tutorials and projects, this book contains the tips and tricks you need to expand your knowledge of Vue, teaching you how to create everything from photorealistic images to those that look like they were drawn for a comic book. Each chapter builds upon the previous one as you work your way through each feature, from the simpler to the more advanced, with screen captures to show you the result of the techniques taught. You'll find coverage of land development, from texturing a volcano to creating a realistic underwater environment; architecture and city-planning techniques, including how to build a more organized city or a more beautiful neighborhood; illustration and design methods for cartoon-like effects: adding animated figures from other programs to Vue; and much more. Get ready to master the amazing capabilities of Vue!

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Cengage Learning

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159863884X

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9781598638844

Poser 4 Pro Pack F/x & Design

By: Richard Schrand

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Poser 4 Pro Pack F/x & Design

By: Richard Schrand

Poser 4 Pro Pack f/x and Design takes you deep inside one of the hottest programs for humanoid figure animation. The insider tips and tricks are revealed! This book shows you how to use the cutting-edge features of this program such as writing Python Scripts, realistic positioning of body elements, creating realistic lighting and shadows, and much more. You will learn how to put your models to work by importing them into popular 3D programs such as 3D Studio Max, LightWave [6], and the Shockwave Web format. CD-ROM is also included containing original models, animation files, special Python Scripts, and trial versions of Poser and other programs which work in conjunction with this must have character animation program.

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Coriolis Group

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1588800997

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9781588800992

GoLive 5

By: Richard Schrand

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GoLive 5

By: Richard Schrand

Covering such topics as cascading style sheets, forms, and tables, this hands-on tutorial provides a host of real-world projects and examples to provide users with hands-on practice, explains the diverse features and tools of GoLive and how they can be used with other popular programs, and offers tips on editing audio and video directly into GoLive

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1576107868

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3D Creature Workshop

By: Bill Fleming,Richard Schrand

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3D Creature Workshop

By: Bill Fleming,Richard Schrand

Covers general overview of 3D creature design as well as specific programs and it is recommended that the user have at least one of the following: LightWave, 3D Studio Max (version 2.0 or higher); Hash Animation: Master 2000; Pixels: 3D (v3.6x or later); Amapi 3D; Organica; Lifeforms; Photoshop; DarkTree Textures; Vue d'Esprit (v.3.x); World Construction Set (v. 4 or 5); Bryce (3D or v4).

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1584500212

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9781584500216

The Macromedia Web Design Handbook

By: Richard Schrand

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The Macromedia Web Design Handbook

By: Richard Schrand

When a maid at the Roarke Palace Hotel is murdered by a hitman for the elite, Lieutenant Eve Dallas suspects that someone who wants her husband dead may be connected to the crime.

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1584500476

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Canoma Visual Insight

By: Richard Schrand

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Canoma Visual Insight

By: Richard Schrand

Billed as the only book to provide an illustrative, simple approach to this ground-breaking 3D technology, "Canoma Visual Insight" teaches the fundamentals of the product and provides practice projects that reveal the full range of its capabilities for the retail, realty and architectural markets. Advice includes how to take useful photographs and mask out unwanted elements.

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1576106268

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9781576106266

Enhancing Graphics With Plug-Ins F/X and Design

By: Ron Rockwell,Alwyn Joy,Richard Schrand

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Enhancing Graphics With Plug-Ins F/X and Design

By: Ron Rockwell,Alwyn Joy,Richard Schrand

Featuring a CD-ROM that contains demo versions of Photoshop, Fireworks, and Illustrator, as well as a wealth of filters highlighted in the book, an authoritative guide details the power and flexibility of various plug-ins for Photoshop and shows how these plug-ins can intensify other design applications including 3D modeling and animation programs. Original. (Intermediate)

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158880190X

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9781588801906

Photoshop 6

Visual Jumpstart

By: Richard Schrand

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Photoshop 6

Visual Jumpstart

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Sybex

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0782128661

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9780782128666

Final Cut Pro 3

The Complete Reference

By: Richard Schrand

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Final Cut Pro 3

The Complete Reference

By: Richard Schrand

Get total coverage of the most powerful digital video-editing tool on the market with this complete resource. Clearly written and logically organized, this guide follows the production workflow from pre- to post-production, making it easy to visualize the process. Discover best practices for file saving, adding special effects, preparing for broadcasting, and much more.

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0072195177

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