Author: David Stevenson
Publisher: FT Press
Keywords: funds, times, financial, investment, portfolio, series, tracker, index, traded, guide, exchange
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2010-02-26
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0273727834
ISBN-13: 9780273727835

A new way of trading is sweeping through the world of modern investing, cutting costs and forcing investors to really think about what they’re doing. The old style of investing using individual stocks or even active fund managers is dead. This new world is all about tracking the right index, working out the big sectors and mega-themes, increasing international diversification and making use of alternative assets. The benchmarking titles are mainly US imports (perhaps with a small adaptation for the UK market), but this will be the first UK originated book. It brings to us a roster of fantast

Author: David Stevenson
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: political, tragedy, war, world, first, cataclysm
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2005-05-10
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0465081851
ISBN-13: 9780465081851

David Stevenson’s widely acclaimed history of World War I changes forever our understanding of that pivotal conflict. Countering the commonplace assumption that politicians lost control of events, and that the war, once it began, quickly became an unstoppable machine, Stevenson contends that politicians deliberately took risks that led to war in July 1914. Far from being overwhelmed by the unprecedented scale and brutality of the bloodshed, political leaders on both sides remained very much in control of events throughout. According to Stevenson, the disturbing reality is that the course

Author: David Stevenson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: century, scotland, freemasonry, origins
Number of Pages: 263
Published: 1990-09-28
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0521396549
ISBN-13: 9780521396547

This book is a new edition of David Stevenson’s classic account of the origins of Freemasonry, a brotherhood of men bound together by secret initiatives, rituals and modes of identification with ideals of fraternity, equality, toleration and reason. Beginning in Britain, Freemasonry swept across Europe in the mid-eighteenth century in astonishing fashion--yet its origins are still hotly debated today. The prevailing assumption has been that it emerged in England around 1700, but David Stevenson demonstrates that the real origins of modern Freemasonry lie in Scotland around 1600, when t

Author: David W. Stevenson
Publisher: Stoecklein Publishing
Keywords: wisdom, cowboy
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1933192658
ISBN-13: 9781933192659

Light-hearted sayings and witty quotations about life as a cowboy, together with David Stoecklein’s striking photographs, make up this tribute to the simple code and genuine moral values of the many working cowgirls and cowboys of the West. This book imparts a valuable lesson to its readers—that of living honestly, giving back to the world, and getting the most out of what life has to offer.

Authors:David F. Cutler, Ted Botha, Dennis Wm. Stevenson,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: approach, applied, anatomy, plant
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2008-03-21
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1405126795
ISBN-13: 9781405126793

This indispensable textbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of all aspects of plant anatomy. Emphasizes the application of plant anatomy and its relevance to modern botanical research. Features expanded treatment on vegetative anatomy and additional material on functional anatomy. Includes a CD ROM of high quality photographs and scanning electron microscope images giving students access to the microscopic detail of plant structures essential to gaining a real understanding of the subject. Exercises for the laboratory are also included on the CD ROM maki

Authors:Mark Stevenson, Kim B. Stevens, David J. Rogers, Arch
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: epidemiology, analysis, spatial
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-07-25
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0198509898
ISBN-13: 9780198509899

This book provides a practical, comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the use of spatial statistics in epidemiology - the study of the incidence and distribution of diseases. Used appropriately, spatial analytical methods in conjunction with GIS and remotely sensed data can provide significant insights into the biological patterns and processes that underlie disease transmission. In turn, these can be used to understand and predict disease prevalence. This user-friendly text brings together the specialised and widely-dispersed literature on spatial analysis to make these methodological tool

Authors:Shyam S. Yadav, David McNeil, Philip C. Stevenson,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: times, modern, crop, ancient, lentil
Number of Pages: 462
Published: 2007-10-23
List price: $259.00
ISBN-10: 1402063121
ISBN-13: 9781402063121

The lentil is one of the first foods to have been cultivated and has maintained excellent socio-economic value for over 8,000 years. The ancient crop is now a crop for modern times in both developing and developed countries today. The international market in recent years has increased significantly and this crop is gaining an important place in cropping systems under different ecologies. It is grown in over 35 countries, has a broad range of uses around the world, and the different seed and plant types adapted to an increasingly wide range of ecologies makes this comprehensive volume even more