Author: Jeff Hecht
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: sloan, technology, series, optics, fiber, light, story, city
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-04-08
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0195162552
ISBN-13: 9780195162554

Computers you notice. They sit on your desk and hum, ever smaller, ever faster, and always obsolete if bought longer ago than last week. But the equally impressive technology that turns millions of terminals into a global network is less obvious. The phone line that comes into your house probably still pushes electrons through metal. But not far away, the signal will join millions of others relayed down fiber optic cables by laser. Jeff Hecht’s fascinating account of this undersung technology goes back 150 years to find the origins of fiber optics. Then he chronicles the many ingenious a

Author: Jeff Talarigo
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: diver, pearl
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-04-12
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1400034914
ISBN-13: 9781400034918

A first novel of rare beauty and sensitivity, Jeff Talarigo’s The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological s

Author: Jeff Good
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: change, language, universals, linguistic
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2008-03-20
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 019922899X
ISBN-13: 9780199228997

This book looks at the relationship between linguistic universals and language change. Reflecting the resurgence of work in both fields over the last two decades, it addresses two related issues of central importance in linguistics: the balance between synchronic and diachronic factors in accounting for universals of linguistic structure, and the means of distinguishing genuine aspects of a universal human cognitive capacity for language from regularities that may be traced to extraneous origins. The volume brings together specially commissioned work by leading scholars, including prominent

Author: Jeff D. Opdyke
Publisher: Crown Busine
Keywords: investments, globe, finding, guide, oyster, world
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0307381048
ISBN-13: 9780307381040

How Jeff D. Opdyke became a successful international investor is an Everyman tale that began thirteen years ago when he discarded conventional wisdom. At the time, Wall Street’s pros insisted that average investors buy domestic mutual funds that invest overseas. But Jeff ignored their tepid advice. Instead, he opted for the intrepid, opening bank and brokerage accounts from New Zealand to Hong Kong in order to buy the local stocks he wanted to own, not those that some fund manager deemed worthy.Jeff did so with great insight: People are people no matter whether home is in Madrid, Memphis, or

Author: Jeff Yeager
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: guide, fun, enjoying, life, spending, practical, riches, cheapskate, road, map, true, ultimate
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-12-26
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0767926951
ISBN-13: 9780767926959

It used to be that “stuff” made you cool. That is so twentieth century. Jeff Yeager, the man dubbed The Ultimate Cheapskate by Matt Lauer on Today, offers a completely fresh take on personal finance, teaching us how to enjoy life more by spending less. He will show you how to buy less stuff, retire young, and live financially free, while you make a positive difference in people’s lives and save the planet along the way. The Ultimate Cheapskate’s Road Map to True Riches lays out the practices and principles that have made cheap the new cool. Live within your means at thirty and stay the

Author: Jeff Auge
Publisher: FT Pre
Keywords: winning, endgame, models, strategies, options, expiration, trading
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-03-22
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0135058724
ISBN-13: 9780135058725

"Learn and profit from Jeff Augen’s book: It clearly explains how to take advantage of market inefficiencies in collapsing implied volatility, effects of strike price, and time decay. A must-read for individuals who are options oriented." --Ralph J. Acampora, CMT, Director of Technical Analysis Studies, New York Institute of Finance "A fantastic, insightful book full of meticulously compiled statistics about anomalies that surround option expiration. Not only does Augen present a set of effective trading strategies to capitalize on these anomalies, he walks through the performance of eac

Author: Jeff Smith
Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc.
Keywords: toe, guide, head, photography, portrait, posing
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1584281340
ISBN-13: 9781584281344

Photographers learn how to gauge the needs of their clients before placing them into a stale, preconceived "women’s," "men’s," or "children’s" pose that hardly fits the client’s personality or preferences. Provided with a two-pronged approach to fail-safe posing, photographers learn first to determine what the mood of the portrait should be and how to use an appropriate posing genre-traditional, casual, glamour, or journalistic. Photographers are then shown how that genre can be used as a basis to produce a pose that best suits the client, allowing them to create dynami