Author: Alex Preda
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: modern, capitalism, markets, boundaries, finance, framing
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2009-07-15
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0226679314
ISBN-13: 9780226679310

As the banking crisis and its effects on the world economy have made plain, the stock market is of colossal importance to our livelihoods. In Framing Finance, Alex Preda looks at the history of the market to figure out how we arrived at a point where investing is not only commonplace, but critical, as market fluctuations threaten our plans to send our children to college or retire comfortably. As Preda discovers through extensive research, the public was once much more skeptical. For investing to become accepted, a deep-seated prejudice against speculation had to be overcome, and Preda reve

Author: Alex Preda
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: modern, capitalism, markets, boundaries, finance, framing
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2009-07-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226679322
ISBN-13: 9780226679327

As the banking crisis and its effects on the world economy have made plain, the stock market is of colossal importance to our livelihoods. In Framing Finance, Alex Preda looks at the history of the market to figure out how we arrived at a point where investing is not only commonplace, but critical, as market fluctuations threaten our plans to send our children to college or retire comfortably. As Preda discovers through extensive research, the public was once much more skeptical. For investing to become accepted, a deep-seated prejudice against speculation had to be overcome, and Preda revea

Authors:Karin Knorr Cetina, Alex Preda,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: markets, financial, sociology
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-06-29
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0199296928
ISBN-13: 9780199296927

Financial markets have often been seen by economists as efficient mechanisms that fulfill vital functions within economies. But do financial markets really operate in such a straightforward manner? The Sociology of Financial Markets explores this question by approaching financial markets from a sociological perspective.

Authors:Karin Knorr Cetina, Alex Preda,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: markets, financial, sociology
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2004-12-16
List price: $136.95
ISBN-10: 0199275599
ISBN-13: 9780199275595

Financial markets have often been seen by economists as efficient mechanisms that fulfill vital functions within economies. But do financial markets really operate in such a straightforward manner? The Sociology of Financial Markets approaches financial markets from a sociological perspective. It seeks to provide an adequate sociological conceptualization of financial markets, and examine who the actors within them are, how they operate within which networks, and under which cognitive and cultural assumptions. Patterns of trading, trading room coordination, cognition and emotions, and globa

Authors:Wulf Alex,  A. Alex, B. Alex,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: werkzeuge, systems, press, german, konzepte, anwendungen, gnu, linux, der, praxis, debian
Number of Pages: 551
Published: 2005-10-11
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 3540237860
ISBN-13: 9783540237860

Das vorliegende Handbuch wendet sich an Debian-User, die über ein vollständig installiertes und konfiguriertes System verfügen, und nun das breite Spektrum der Anwendungen nutzen möchten. Im einzelnen werden folgende Themen behandelt: Datenorganisation (Benutzer- und Terminverwaltung, Groupware), Datenhaltung in Datenbanken (PostgreSQL, MySQL), Gestaltung von Grafiken (xfig, gnuplot, freie CAD-Programme), Bildverarbeitung (Gimp), wichtige Anwendungen zur Netzwerkkommunikation (ftp, E-Mail, write, talk, IRC, Instant Messaging, Voice over IP). Ferner werden freie Programme zur Tabellenkalk

Authors:K. Alex Muller, K. Alex Muller, Tom W. Kool,
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: oxides, perovskites, properties
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 2010-05-07
List price: $69.00
ISBN-10: 9814317691
ISBN-13: 9789814317696

In this book some 50 papers published by K A Müller as author or co-author over several decades, amplified by more recent work mainly by T W Kool with collaborators, are reproduced. The main subject is Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) applied to the study of perovskites and other oxides with related subjects. This wealth of papers is organized into eleven chapters, each with an introductory text written in the light of current understanding. The contributions of the first editor on structural phase transitions have been immense, and because K A Müller and J C Fayet have published a

Authors:Alex Habel MB ChB MRCP(UK), Alex Habel,
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Keywords: undergraduates, paediatrics, aids
Number of Pages: 113
Published: 1995-01-15
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0443052069
ISBN-13: 9780443052064

Not to be confused with Aids to Paediatrics, the popular postgraduate text by the same author, this book has been written with the undergraduate medical student in mind. Well-liked in its first edition, Aids to Paediatrics for Undergraduates provides allthe information a medical student requires to pass their clinical and written undergraduate Paediatrics exams. Key information is provided in a summarised, list-based style which students find easy to learn from and remember, this presentation has been further enhanced in this edition by emphasising the most common conditions and points.The per