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Learn more about modern Econometrics with this comprehensive
introduction to the field, featuring engaging applications and
bringing contemporary theories to life. Introduction to
Econometrics, 4th Edition, Global Edition by Stock and Watson is
the ultimate introductory guide that connects modern theory with
motivating, engaging applications. The text ensures you get a solid
grasp of this challenging subject's theoretical background,
building on the philosophy that applications should drive the
theory, not the other way around. The latest edition maintains the
focus on currency, focusing on empirical analysis and incorporating
real-world questions and data by using results directly relevant to
the applications. The text contextualises the study of Econometrics
with a comprehensive introduction and review of economics, data,
and statistics before proceeding to an extensive regression
analysis studying the different variables and regression
parameters. With a large data set increasingly used in Economics
and related fields, a new chapter dedicated to Big Data will help
you learn more about this growing and exciting area. Sharing a
variety of resources and tools to help your understanding and
critical thinking of the topics introduced, such as General
Interest boxes, or end-of-chapter, and empirical exercises and
summaries, this industry-leading text will help you acquire a
sophisticated knowledge of this fascinating subject. Reach every
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Junior creative Tim Callaghan can hardly believe his luck when he's
flown out to Dubai to supervise the filming of an advert for an
international charity. He is immediately entranced by the city - a
futuristic environment unlike anywhere he's ever been before, with
an almost uncanny level of customer service. Shimmering and
seductive, it seems as though nothing bad could ever happen in
Dubai. But when a crew member is found dead in in mysterious
circumstances, Tim learns that if a place seems too good to be
true, it probably is . . .
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One man’s last journey. One hundred and fifty-eight chances to
save his life. The unforgettable new book from award-winning writer
and comedian Mark Watson! 'Mark Watson is one of my favourite
writers and Contacts is by far his best book yet' Adam Kay
‘Witty, emotional and beautifully written’ Jill Mansell ‘It
made me laugh, cry, reflect and want to check in on all my
friends’ Emma Gannon 'This is such a great book, funny and
serious and daring and humane' Richard Curtis ‘Funny,
heartwrenching, beautifully written’ Jane Fallon At five to
midnight in Euston station, James Chiltern sends one text to all
158 people in his contacts. A message saying goodbye. Five minutes
later, with two pork pies and a packet of chocolate digestives in
his pocket, he disappears. Across the world, 158 phones light up.
Phones belonging to James’s friends, his family, people he’s
lost touch with. All of them now wondering, where has James gone?
What happened to him? And more importantly, can they find him
before it’s too late? Funny and wise, tender and deeply moving,
Contacts is a beautiful story about the weight of loneliness, the
importance of kindness – and how it’s never too late to reach
out.
Women's careers have been a topic of research and discussion in
many disciplines including sociology, business, industrial,
organisational and vocational psychology, and career guidance.
Despite the introduction of equal employment legislation in many
countries, women's patterns of career development continue to
reflect structural labour market disadvantage. This unique book
brings together expert contributions from academic researchers, as
well as representing the voices of older women who participated in
an international research investigation. Grounded in
multidisciplinary empirical studies, the book provides: * a variety
of perspectives on women's careers in the 21st century * an
international exploration of the voice of the older woman * an
understanding of both the challenges and responses to women as they
construct their careers. Offering a comprehensive understanding of
women's career development throughout the lifespan, this book will
be of key interest to academics and researchers from the fields of
education, psychology, management, geography, labour market
economics and sociology, as well as career practitioners, managers,
trainers, researchers and policy developers.
Accountants play an increasingly important and diverse role in
society today. Traditionally, in the UK, accountants are the first
port of call for businessmen seeking any form of professional
advice or assistance. They undertake a wide range of functions
which stretch far beyond their traditional roles of preparing
accounts, financial reporting, auditing, and tax planning. Today,
accountants also offer management consultancy, give corporate
finance advice, provide company secretarial services, undertake
financial management, give personal finance advice, advise on
computer software, and act as trustees in bankruptcy, liquidators,
administrative receivers, and administrators. This major work
provides UK legal practitioners and accountants with clear and
practical guidance from non-contentious but vital governance
issues, to the complex issues pertaining to professional
negligence. The book's 6 checklists and 32 precedents guide the
reader through the key topics: partnership creation, cl
While Web 2.0 was about data, Web 3.0 is about knowledge and
information. Scripting Intelligence: Web 3.0 Information Gathering
and Processing offers the reader Ruby scripts for intelligent
information management in a Web 3.0 environmentincluding
information extraction from text, using Semantic Web technologies,
information gathering (relational database metadata, web scraping,
Wikipedia, Freebase), combining information from multiple sources,
and strategies for publishing processed information. This book will
be a valuable tool for anyone needing to gather, process, and
publish web or database information across the modern web
environment.Text processing recipes, including speech tagging and
automatic summarization Gathering, visualizing, and publishing
information from the Semantic Web Information gathering from
traditional sources such as relational databases and web sites What
you'll learn Gather and process information within the Web 3.0
environment. See the flexibility of scripting with Ruby to gather
and process information. Extract text from various document
formats. Work with the Resource Description Framework(RDF) data
model and SPARQL query language, the foundations of the Semantic
Web. Use GraphViz for data visualization. Extract information from
relational databases and web sites. Who this book is for
Anyone needing to gather and display information available in
electronic formats Programmers needing to tag, summarize, or
publish information Ruby programmers and computer enthusiasts
interested in seeing what Ruby can do with information management
and Semantic Web tools Academic researchers needing to extract and
organize information in a more automated way Table of Contents
Parsing Common Document Types Cleaning, Segmenting, and
Spell-Checking Text Natural Language Processing Using RDF and RDFS
Data Formats Delving Into RDF Data Stores Performing SPARQL Queries
and Understanding Reasoning Implementing SPARQL Endpoint Web
Portals Working with Relational Databases Supporting Indexing and
Search Using Web Scraping to Create Semantic Relations Taking
Advantage of Linked Data Implementing Strategies for Large-Scale
Data Storage Creating Web Mashups Performing Large-Scale Data
Processing Building Information Web Portals
Scheme provides a flexible and powerful language for programming
embodying many of the best features of logical and functional
programming. This enjoyable book provides readers with an
introduction to programming in Scheme by constructing a series of
interesting and re-usable programs. The book includes two diskettes
containing MIT Scheme to run on Windows PCs.
While creativity plays an important role in the advancement of
computer science, great ideas are built on a foundation of
practical experience and knowledge. This book presents programming
techniques which will be useful in both AI projects and more
conventional software engineering endeavors. My primary goal is to
enter tain, to introduce new technologies and to provide reusable
software modules for the computer programmer who enjoys using
programs as models for solutions to hard and interesting problems.
If this book succeeds in entertaining, then it will certainly also
educate. I selected the example application areas covered here for
their difficulty and have provided both program examples for
specific applications and (I hope) the method ology and spirit
required to master problems for which there is no obvious solution.
I developed the example programs on a Macintosh (TM) using the
Macintosh Common LISP (TM) development system capturing screen
images while the example programs were executing. To ensure
portability to all Common LISP environments, I have provided a
portable graphics library in Chapter 2. All programs in this book
are copyrighted by Mark Watson. They can be freely used in any free
or commercial software systems if the following notice appears in
the fine print of the program's documentation: "This program
contains software written by Mark Watson." No royalties are
required. The program miniatures contained in this book may not be
distributed by posting in source code form on public information
networks, or in printed form without my written permission.
Women's careers have been a topic of research and discussion in
many disciplines including sociology, business, industrial,
organisational and vocational psychology, and career guidance.
Despite the introduction of equal employment legislation in many
countries, women's patterns of career development continue to
reflect structural labour market disadvantage. This unique book
brings together expert contributions from academic researchers, as
well as representing the voices of older women who participated in
an international research investigation. Grounded in
multidisciplinary empirical studies, the book provides: * a variety
of perspectives on women's careers in the 21st century * an
international exploration of the voice of the older woman * an
understanding of both the challenges and responses to women as they
construct their careers. Offering a comprehensive understanding of
women's career development throughout the lifespan, this book will
be of key interest to academics and researchers from the fields of
education, psychology, management, geography, labour market
economics and sociology, as well as career practitioners, managers,
trainers, researchers and policy developers.
'Mark Watson is a national treasure' Richard Osman Mark Watson is
generally accepted to be alive. And yet he's died many times. Not
just on stage - though he'll tell you about that - but in other
ways, too. There's been the death of a childhood dream. The death
of his panel-show career. And then there was the time he died
inside and nearly lost it all . . . Eye-opening, revealing and
painfully funny, this is a book about mortification, failure and
all the times life doesn't work out as planned. But it also wisely
questions whether the things we strive for - recognition, success,
the approval of others - are really the things that matter. It's a
book about death that reminds us how to live. 'Life is full of
hurdles, but this hilarious book brilliantly demonstrates that we
learn more by hitting them than clearing them' Richard Herring
'Mark Watson makes the base metal of failure into comedy gold' Adam
Kay
Career Exploration and Development in Childhood presents chapters
from leading figures in the field of childhood career exploration
and development. The first substantive edited collection of its
kind, this book makes an important contribution to our
understanding of children's career development. It provides
cutting-edge theory, research and practice for understanding and
fostering career exploration and development during childhood,
across a wide spectrum of international settings. Divided into five
sections that reflect the authors' perspectives on critical aspects
of children's career development, chapters include relevant
research, as well as the practical application of concepts, issues
and strategies for career interventions with children. The book
includes sequential sections on theory, research, contextual
influences, assessment, and the facilitation of career exploration
and development. Perspectives from both developed and developing
world contexts consider traditional approaches to career education,
as well as career development learning in childhood. The
collaborations evident in the chapter authorship reflect the
significant internationalisation of the field of child career
development. The book synthesises key issues and presents
innovative recommendations that will not only enhance our
understanding of children's career development, but will set the
agenda for the future of the field. It will be of key interest to
researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of
career development, career guidance, education, childhood, child
development and counselling.
Career Exploration and Development in Childhood presents chapters
from leading figures in the field of childhood career exploration
and development. The first substantive edited collection of its
kind, this book makes an important contribution to our
understanding of children's career development. It provides
cutting-edge theory, research and practice for understanding and
fostering career exploration and development during childhood,
across a wide spectrum of international settings. Divided into five
sections that reflect the authors' perspectives on critical aspects
of children's career development, chapters include relevant
research, as well as the practical application of concepts, issues
and strategies for career interventions with children. The book
includes sequential sections on theory, research, contextual
influences, assessment, and the facilitation of career exploration
and development. Perspectives from both developed and developing
world contexts consider traditional approaches to career education,
as well as career development learning in childhood. The
collaborations evident in the chapter authorship reflect the
significant internationalisation of the field of child career
development. The book synthesises key issues and presents
innovative recommendations that will not only enhance our
understanding of children's career development, but will set the
agenda for the future of the field. It will be of key interest to
researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of
career development, career guidance, education, childhood, child
development and counselling.
For courses in introductory econometrics. This package includes
Pearson MyLab Economics. Engaging applications bring the theory and
practice of modern econometrics to life Ensure students grasp the
relevance of econometrics with Introduction to Econometrics -- the
text that connects modern theory and practice with motivating,
engaging applications. The 4th Edition, Global Edition, maintains a
focus on currency, while building on the philosophy that
applications should drive the theory, not the other way around. The
text incorporates real-world questions and data, and methods that
are immediately relevant to the applications. With very large data
sets increasingly being used in economics and related fields, a new
chapter dedicated to Big Data helps students learn about this
growing and exciting area. This coverage and approach make the
subject come alive for students and helps them to become
sophisticated consumers of econometrics. Reach every student by
pairing this text with Pearson MyLab Economics MyLab (TM) is the
teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every
student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools and
a flexible platform, MyLab personalizes the learning experience and
improves results for each student. Pearson MyLab Economics should
only be purchased when required by an instructor. Please be sure
you have the correct ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your
Pearson representative for more information.
The Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 introduced extensive
changes to insolvency practice, precedents and procedures - the
biggest change to insolvency for over 20 years. Fully updated to
take account of these new rules, which came into effect on 6 April
2017, Corporate Insolvency Practice is the only comprehensive 'how
to do it' guide for solicitors and barristers to all the most
common court applications in corporate insolvency. Covering areas
as diverse as winding up petitions to administrations to the reuse
of company names, this practical and accessible book seeks to give
the inside track on what the court will expect both in terms of
practice and evidence. It also provides the busy practitioner with
a range of useful precedents and checklists, and sets out key
statutory and practice material for each application. Packed with
precedents, forms, checklists and statutory extracts, Corporate
Insolvency Practice ensures you have readily to hand everything you
need to prepare and present the most common insolvency
applications. The new edition of this title will be an invaluable
reference for all practitioners making insolvency applications in
the Companies Court.
Xavier Ireland is a radio DJ who by night listens to the hopes,
fears and regrets of sleepless Londoners and by day keeps himself
very much to himself - until he is brought into the light by a
one-of-a-kind cleaning lady and forced to confront his own biggest
regret. This is a tale of love, loss, Scrabble and six degrees of
separation, asking big questions about life and death, strangers
and friends, heartache and comfort, and whether the choices we
don't make affect us just as powerfully as those we do.
Howard York - self-made man and founder of London's extraordinary
Hotel Alpha - is one of those people who makes you feel that
anything is possible. He is idolized by his blind adopted son,
Chas, and Graham, the inimitable concierge, whose lives revolve
around the Alpha. But when two mysterious disappearances raise
questions that no one seems willing to answer, Chas and Graham must
ask themselves whether Howard's vision of the perfect hotel has
been built on secrets as well as dreams . . . Captivating,
brilliant and full of surprises, Hotel Alpha is an ingenious novel
about the incidental and life-changing ways in which we connect
with one another. You can discover more about the hotel and its
inhabitants in 100 extra stories at www.hotelalphastories.com.
Robert Engle received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2003 for his
work in time series econometrics. This book contains 16 original
research contributions by some the leading academic researchers in
the fields of time series econometrics, forecasting, volatility
modelling, financial econometrics and urban economics, along with
historical perspectives related to field of time series
econometrics more generally.
Engle's Nobel Prize citation focuses on his path-breaking work on
autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH) and the
profound effect that this work has had on the field of financial
econometrics. Several of the chapters focus on conditional
heteroskedasticity, and develop the ideas of Engle's Nobel Prize
winning work. Engle's work has had its most profound effect on the
modelling of financial variables and several of the chapters use
newly developed time series methods to study the behavior of
financial variables. Each of the 16 chapters may be read in
isolation, but they all importantly build on and relate to the
seminal work by Nobel Laureate Robert F. Engle.
About the Series
Advanced Texts in Econometrics is a distinguished and rapidly
expanding series in which leading econometricians assess recent
developments in such areas as stochastic probability, panel and
time series data analysis, modeling, and cointegration. In both
hardback and affordable paperback, each volume explains the nature
and applicability of a topic in greater depth than possible in
introductory textbooks or single journal articles. Each definitive
work is formatted to be as accessible and convenient for those who
are not familiar with the detailed primary literature.
Nepal is a country of rich biodiversity, with habitats ranging from
tropical jungles to the icy peaks of the world's highest mountains.
Centred in a global biodiversity hotspot, and hope to a third of
all Himalayan species, Nepal's ecosystems are crucial to life
across Asia. The Flora of Nepal is the first comprehensive record
of this diversity.
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