Authors:Jeffrey A. Hirsch, Yale Hirsch, Hirsch Organization,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: almanac, trader, stock
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-10-28
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0471649368
ISBN-13: 9780471649366

J.P. Morgan’s classic retort "Stocks will fluctuate" is often quoted with a wink-of-the-eye implication that the only predication one can make about the stock market is that it will go up, down, or sideways. Many investors agree that no one ever really knows which way the market will move.  Nothing could be farther from the truth. We discovered that while stocks do indeed fluctuate, the do so in well-defined, often predictable, patterns. These patterns recur too frequently to be the result of chance or coincidence. How else do we explain that since 1950 practically all the gains in the

Author: Robert Hirsch
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Keywords: photography, history, social, light, seizing
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2008-12-09
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0073379212
ISBN-13: 9780073379210

Seizing the Light: A Social History of Photography provides a thought-provoking, accurate, and accessible introduction to the photographic arts for all readers. With stunning images and commentary by hundreds of international artists, the text clearly and concisely provides the building blocks necessary to critically explore photographic history from the photographers’ eye, an aesthetic point of view.

Author: Robert Hirsch
Publisher: Focal Press
Keywords: light, lens, digital, photography, bundle, westwood
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-09-14
List price: $51.95
ISBN-10: 024080855X
ISBN-13: 9780240808550

Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age is a groundbreaking introductory book that clearly and concisely provides the instruction and building blocks necessary to create thought-provoking digitally based photographs. It is an adventurous idea book that features numerous classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators to encourage you to critically explore and make images from the photographers’ eye, an aesthetic point of view. Acquire a basic foundation for digital photography. Light and Lens covers the fundamental concepts of image-making; how

Author: Robert Hirsch
Publisher: Focal Press
Keywords: ideas, materials, processes, equipment, expressive, possibilities, third, photographic
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-12-17
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0240810139
ISBN-13: 9780240810133

Photographic Possibilities, Third Edition is a marvelously updated resource of innovative and traditional photographic processes that imagemakers have come to trust and depend on to enhance their technical knowledge, create astonishing pictures, and raise their visual consciousness. This concise and reliable handbook provides professional and advanced photography students with practical pathways of utilizing diverse photographic methods to produce engaging, expressive pictures from an informed aesthetic and conceptual position. This update, in full color for this first time, offers new links b

Authors:Robert Hirsch, John Valentino,
Publisher: Focal Press
Keywords: materials, processes, ideas, expressive, possibilities, second, photographic
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-05-24
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 0240803620
ISBN-13: 9780240803623

Photographic Possibilities, Second Edition continues to provide a reliable source of techniques and ideas for the use of alternative and contemporary photographic processes that photographers have come to depend on. Professional photographers and advanced students seeking to increase their skills will discover modern and classic methods of creating and manipulating images. This practical guide integrates technical methods with the aesthetic outcome. It offers readers clear, step-by-step instructions on historic and on contemporary processes that integrate both the technical information and t

Authors:Robert Devaney, Morris W. Hirsch,
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: applied, mathematics, academic, press, second, chaos, equations, dynamical, systems, introduction, differential
Number of Pages: 425
Published: 2003-11-05
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0123497035
ISBN-13: 9780123497031

Thirty years in the making, this revised text by three of the world’s leading mathematicians covers the dynamical aspects of ordinary differential equations. it explores the relations between dynamical systems and certain fields outside pure mathematics, and has become the standard textbook for graduate courses in this area. The Second Edition now brings students to the brink of contemporary research, starting from a background that includes only calculus and elementary linear algebra.The authors are tops in the field of advanced mathematics, including Steve Smale who is a recipient of t

Authors:Robert Ferber, Werner Z. Hirsch,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: economic, surveys, literature, cambridge, policy, experimentation, social
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1981-12-31
List price: $35.99
ISBN-10: 0521285070
ISBN-13: 9780521285070

Social experimentation is a tool that enables economists and policy makers to test proposed economic policies in the real world. Instead of testing policies by analytical methods or by laboratory simulation, the policies are tested on people who would be affected were these policies implemented. The authors describe how such social experiments are set up and carried out, and consider the advantages and disadvantages of social experimentation relative to other means of evaluating economic and social policies. The main part of the book is a review and a critical evaluation of the principal socia