Author: Marion A. Brach
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: practice, options, real
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-11-08
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0471263087
ISBN-13: 9780471263081

How much should a pharmaceutical company invest in R&D for a new drug? At what point do the costs outweigh the benefits of a new technology? When should you abandon that oil-drilling project? "Real options is an exciting but very challenging subject for many strategy and corporate finance practitioners. Real Options in Practice is an excellent book to get a structured and accurate overview of real options, their use and computation. Marion Brach has succeeded in striking a difficult balance between theoretical firmness and practical actionability: her book is easy to read without sacrificing t

Author: Raymond M. Brach
Publisher: SAE International
Keywords: methods, reconstruction, analysis, accident, vehicle
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $119.95
ISBN-10: 0768007763
ISBN-13: 9780768007763

A number of books already exist on the topic of accident reconstruction. With some notable exceptions, many of them are tomes devoted to how the authors and perhaps a few colleagues used intuition and insight to decide how they thought an accident happened. In a few cases, these books are collections of "war stories" or case histories, usually presentations of one view of the events. In contrast, this book is one of methods. The perspective taken here is that accident reconstruction is a field of applied science, namely, an application of the principles of science, mathematics, and engineering

Author: Tara Brach
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: heart, buddha, life, embracing, acceptance, radical
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-11-23
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0553380990
ISBN-13: 9780553380996

For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become ensnared in this trance of unworthiness is our first step toward reconnecting with who we really are and what it means to live fully. --from Radical AcceptanceRadical Acceptance“Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious suffering,” says Tara Brach at the start of this ill

Authors:Raymond M. Brach, Patrick F. Dunn,
Publisher: Lawyers and Judges Publishing
Keywords: science, forensic, analysis, uncertainty
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2004-03-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1930056206
ISBN-13: 9781930056206

We live in an increasingly complex society in which we are constantly overwhelmed by numbers and units. However, units and measurements are not meant to confuse people but to help them. They were developed and designed to allow for effective communication on commercial and technical levels. Simply put, they are the structure behind all technical accomplishments. The purpose of this text is to introduce the reader to these elements of Uncertainty Analysis so that they can be applied to forensics. This challenging book covers the fundamentals of Uncertainty Analysis-a tool used by enginee

Authors:James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy Steele, Gilad Brach
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Keywords: specification, language, java
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 2005-06-24
List price: $54.99
ISBN-10: 0321246780
ISBN-13: 9780321246783

Written by the inventors of the technology, The Java Language Specification, Third Edition, is the definitive technical reference for the Java programming language. If you want to know the precise meaning of the language’s constructs, this is the source for you. The book provides complete, accurate, and detailed coverage of the Java programming language. It provides full coverage of all new features added since the previous edition, including generics, annotations, asserts, autoboxing, enums, for-each loops, variable arity methods, and static import clauses.

Authors:Cecilia S. Gal, Cecilia S. Gal, Paul B. Kantor, Brach
Publisher: IOS Press
Keywords: security, web, peace, terrorists, world, wide, nato, controlling, science, problems, terrorism, informatics, patrolling, social, technical, detecting
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $161.00
ISBN-10: 1586038486
ISBN-13: 9781586038489

This work is intended to be of interest to counter-terrorism experts and professionals, to academic researchers in information systems, computer science, political science and public policy, and to graduate students in these areas.The goal of this book is to highlight several aspects of patrolling the Web that were raised and discussed by experts from different disciplines. The book includes academic studies from related technical fields, namely, computer science and information technology, the strategic point of view as presented by intelligence experts, and finally the practical point of vie