Category: Textbooks

Illustrates how R may be used successfully to solve problems in quantitative finance Applied Probabilistic Calculus for Financial Engineering: An Introduction Using R (PDF) provides R recipes for asset allocation and portfolio optimization problems. It begins by introducing all the necessary probabilistic and statistical foundations, before moving on to topics

Every year, several businesses file for bankruptcy protection because managers fail to efficiently organize the company’s operations, pay inadequate attention to product quality, misread market trends or misinterpret the activities and intentions of rival companies. Maybe they fail to formulate optimal advertising or financing strategies, obtain raw materials and components

This ebook, Progress in Materials Science and Engineering (PDF) presents recent advances made in materials science and engineering within Russian academia, particularly groups working in the Ural Federal University District. Topics explored in this volume include structure formation analysis of complicated alloys, non-ferrous metals metallurgy, composite composed materials science, and

Talaro’s Foundations in Microbiology 10th edition (PDF) is an allied health microbiology textbook with a taxonomic approach to the disease chapters. It offers an accessible and engaging writing style through the use of analogies and case studies to thoroughly explain very difficult microbiology concepts and makes it very easy. We

Abnormal Psychology: A Scientist-Practitioner Approach 4th edtion (PDF) portrays the human face of various psychological conditions, helping college students to understand that abnormal behavior is very complex and subject to many different forces. Best-selling authors Deborah Beidel, Melinda Stanley and  Cynthia Bulik — all active clinicians, researchers, and educators —