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Modeling for Insight

A Master Class for Business Analysts

By: Stephen G. Powell,Robert J. Batt

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Modeling for Insight

A Master Class for Business Analysts

By: Stephen G. Powell,Robert J. Batt

Praise for Modeling for Insight "Most books on modeling are either too theoretical or too focused on the mechanics of programming. Powell and Batt's emphasis on using simple spreadsheet models to gain business insight (which is, after all, the name of the game) is what makes this book stand head and shoulders above the rest. This clear and practical book deserves a place on the shelf of every business analyst." —Jonathan Koomey, PhD, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Stanford University, author of Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving Most business analysts are familiar with using spreadsheets to organize data and build routine models. However, analysts often struggle when faced with examining new and ill-structured problems. Modeling for Insight is a one-of-a-kind guide to building effective spreadsheet models and using them to generate insights. With its hands-on approach, this book provides readers with an effective modeling process and specific modeling tools to become a master modeler. The authors provide a structured approach to problem-solving using four main steps: frame the problem, diagram the problem, build a model, and generate insights. Extensive examples, graduated in difficulty, help readers to internalize this modeling process, while also demonstrating the application of important modeling tools, including: Influence diagrams Spreadsheet engineering Parameterization Sensitivity analysis Strategy analysis Iterative modeling The real-world examples found in the book are drawn from a wide range of fields such as financial planning, insurance, pharmaceuticals, advertising, and manufacturing. Each chapter concludes with a discussion on how to use the insights drawn from these models to create an effective business presentation. Microsoft Office Excel and PowerPoint are used throughout the book, along with the add-ins Premium Solver, Crystal Ball, and Sensitivity Toolkit. Detailed appendices guide readers through the use of these software packages, and the spreadsheet models discussed in the book are available to download via the book's related Web site. Modeling for Insight is an ideal book for courses in engineering, operations research, and management science at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. It is also a valuable resource for consultants and business analysts who often use spreadsheets to better understand complex problems.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118210484

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Ostkrieg

Hitler's War of Extermination in the East

By: Stephen G. Fritz

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Ostkrieg

Hitler's War of Extermination in the East

By: Stephen G. Fritz

On June 22, 1941, Germany launched the greatest land assault in history on the Soviet Union, an attack that Adolf Hitler deemed crucial to ensure German economic and political survival. As the key theater of the war for the Germans, the eastern front consumed enormous levels of resources and accounted for 75 percent of all German casualties. Despite the significance of this campaign to Germany and to the war as a whole, few English-language publications of the last thirty-five years have addressed these pivotal events. In Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East, Stephen G. Fritz bridges the gap in scholarship by incorporating historical research from the last several decades into an accessible, comprehensive, and coherent narrative. His analysis of the Russo-German War from a German perspective covers all aspects of the eastern front, demonstrating the interrelation of military events, economic policy, resource exploitation, and racial policy that first motivated the invasion. This in-depth account challenges accepted notions about World War II and promotes greater understanding of a topic that has been neglected by historians.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813140501

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9780813140506

Patterns for College Writing

A Rhetorical Reader and Guide

By: Laurie G. Kirszner,Stephen R. Mandell

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Patterns for College Writing

A Rhetorical Reader and Guide

By: Laurie G. Kirszner,Stephen R. Mandell

Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell, authors with nearly thirty years of experience teaching college writing, know what works in the classroom and have a knack for picking just the right readings. In Patterns for College Writing, they provide students with exemplary rhetorical models and instructors with class-tested selections that balance classic and contemporary essays. Along with more examples of student writing than any other reader, Patterns has the most comprehensive coverage of active reading, research, and the writing process, with a five-chapter mini-rhetoric; the clearest explanations of the patterns of development; and the most thorough apparatus of any rhetorical reader, all reasons why Patterns for College Writing is the best-selling reader in the country. And the new edition includes exciting new readings and expanded coverage of critical reading, working with sources, and research. It is now available as an interactive Bedford e-book and in a variety of other e-book formats that can be downloaded to a computer, tablet, or e-reader. Read the preface.

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Macmillan

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0312676840

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9780312676841

Platinum, Gold, and Other Metal Chemotherapeutic Agents

Chemistry and Biochemistry

By: Stephen J. Lippard

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Platinum, Gold, and Other Metal Chemotherapeutic Agents

Chemistry and Biochemistry

By: Stephen J. Lippard

Good,No Highlights,No Markup,all pages are intact, Slight Shelfwear,may have the corners slightly dented, may have slight color changes/slightly damaged spine.

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0841207585

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9780841207585

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

By: Sir Michael J. Rutter,Dorothy Bishop,Daniel S. Pine,Stephen Scott,Jim S. Stevenson,Eric A. Taylor,Anita Thapar

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Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

By: Sir Michael J. Rutter,Dorothy Bishop,Daniel S. Pine,Stephen Scott,Jim S. Stevenson,Eric A. Taylor,Anita Thapar

Rutter’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has become an established and accepted textbook of child psychiatry. Now completely revised and updated, the fifth edition provides a coherent appraisal of the current state of the field to help trainee and practising clinicians in their daily work. It is distinctive in being both interdisciplinary and international, in its integration of science and clinical practice, and in its practical discussion of how researchers and practitioners need to think about conflicting or uncertain findings. This new edition now offers an entirely new section on conceptual approaches, and several new chapters, including: neurochemistry and basic pharmacology brain imaging health economics psychopathology in refugees and asylum seekers bipolar disorder attachment disorders statistical methods for clinicians This leading textbook provides an accurate and comprehensive account of current knowledge, through the integration of empirical findings with clinical experience and practice, and is essential reading for professionals working in the field of child and adolescent mental health, and clinicians working in general practice and community pediatric settings.

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1444358715

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Shadow on the Mountain

Nancy Pfister, Dr. William Styler, and the Murder of Aspen's Golden Girl

By: Stephen Singular,Joyce Singular

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Shadow on the Mountain

Nancy Pfister, Dr. William Styler, and the Murder of Aspen's Golden Girl

By: Stephen Singular,Joyce Singular

Chronicles the life and subsequent murder of Nancy Pfister, Aspen royalty and heir to Buttermilk Mountain. When Nancy was found beaten to death in her own home, the her assistant and another couple close to her fell under suspicion for the gruesome murder. In the close-knit, wealthy town set on keeping its reputation and secrets safe from the public eye, the police struggled to solve the mystery of what really happened.

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Macmillan

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1250069416

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9781250069412

Pd Palladium

Palladium Compounds

By: William P. Griffith,Stephen D. Robinson,Kurt Swars

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Pd Palladium

Palladium Compounds

By: William P. Griffith,Stephen D. Robinson,Kurt Swars

With platinum and rhodium, palladium is one of the most important members of the platinum metal group. The last Gmelin treatment of it was in 1942, and knowledge of its properties and chemistry has made enormous strides since then. This volume is primarily concerned with binary compounds and with the coordination complexes derived from them. Although it is a member of the nickel-palladium-platinum triad, it more closely resernblas platinum in its binary and coordination chemistry, though being a second-row transition element it displays less tendency than does platinum to assume higher oxidation states. ln heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis, referred to at appropriate points, palladium and its complexes are of great importance in bulk and fine chemieals production, effecting a wide variety of organic transformations. The arrangement of material in this volume follows the traditional Gmelin arrangement. Within each category of compounds or complexes the material is arranged, as usual, in order of ascending metal oxidation states (e. g., palladium(ll) precedes palladium(IV)). The chemistry of the palladium-hydrogen system is so large that it merits a separate volume, so this book starts with the binary oxides and oxopalladates followed by hydroxides, hydroxo complexes and aquo complexes. Then nitrides and nitrates are treated. They are followed by the large chapters on halides and their complexes (172 pages). The largest single chapter in this volume (11 0 pages) deals with chlorides, chloropalladates and other chloro complexes.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3662091887

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Teacher Time

By: Marty Shollenberger Swaim,Stephen C. Swaim

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Teacher Time

By: Marty Shollenberger Swaim,Stephen C. Swaim

Based on the author's experiences as parents, teacher, economist, and school board member, this book is for teachers, parents, and administrators about the most fundamental, basic element in any good school, the time of a good teacher. Teacher Time's message is simple. American students need more of each teacher's time. Teachers need more time to spend on each student, time to plan, grade papers and make decisions about resources. America must adopt and pay for the model used for public schools in the rest of the developed world, where teachers teach many less class hours. In Teacher Time, classroom stories reveal the nature of the American School, the teacher's job, how little time a teacher has for each child, and how school management affects the quality of the teacher's time with students. A "homework" section helps readers take the book into their school and school district, to take steps toward providing more quality teacher time for each child in America. (The book's) cogent argument and evidence for the centrality of teachers and the time they must have should give readers pause as they listen to the current debate over high-stakes testing, social promotion, and accountability. Larry Cuban, Stanford University.

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0967303109

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Hartlepool in the Great War

By: Stephen Wynn

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Hartlepool in the Great War

By: Stephen Wynn

With the outbreak of the First World War, it was not surprising that a number of individuals who were of German decent, and who lived in Hartlepool and its surrounding areas, were rounded up and detained by the British military authorities, in the interests of both national security and for their own personal safety. They were held at the towns Stranton Ice Rink. Their numbers included the ex-German Consul for the Hartlepool's district as well as others who had been local residents of many years standing.The first soldier with connections to Hartlepool to be killed on foreign soil during the war, was Corporal 57561 John Robert Richardson, who was serving with the 54th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, when he was killed in action on 4 October 1914. He is buried at the Bergen Communal Cemetery at Mons.The war came to Hartlepool on the morning of Wednesday, 16 December 1914 in the shape of three vessels of the Imperial German Navy. By the time their attack was over, more than 1,100 artillery shells had landed on the town, killing 9 soldiers, 86 civilians and wounding a further 438. Amongst the dead was 29 year old Private 18/295 Theophilus Jones of the 18th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, making him the first British serviceman to be killed on British soil as a result of enemy action during the course of the First World War. Before the war was over, his brother Alfred, would also be killed, during fighting at the Battle of Arras, on 3 May 1917.By the time the war had ended, some 1700 men and women from Hartlepool and its surrounding areas had paid the ultimate price of having served their King and country.

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Pen and Sword

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147386514X

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9781473865143

Catalogue of the New York State Library: Subject-Index of the Law library, From Its Foundation to Dec. 31, 1882

By: Stephen Benham Griswold

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Catalogue of the New York State Library: Subject-Index of the Law library, From Its Foundation to Dec. 31, 1882

By: Stephen Benham Griswold

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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3385309670

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Modeling for Insight

Modeling for Insight

Ostkrieg

Ostkrieg

Patterns for College Writing

Patterns for College Writing

Platinum, Gold, and Other Metal Chemotherapeutic Agents

Platinum, Gold, and Other Metal Chemotherapeutic Agents

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Shadow on the Mountain

Shadow on the Mountain

Pd Palladium

Pd Palladium

Teacher Time

Teacher Time

Hartlepool in the Great War

Hartlepool in the Great War

Catalogue of the New York State Library: Subject-Index of the Law library, From Its Foundation to Dec. 31, 1882

Catalogue of the New York State Library: Subject-Index of the Law library, From Its Foundation to Dec. 31, 1882

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