Beautiful and the Cyberspace Runaway

Beautiful and the Cyberspace Runaway
Author: Suniti Namjoshi
Publisher: Tulika Books
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2009
Genre: Folklore
ISBN: 9788181467812

Holiday plans for Aditi and the others go off track when a runaway computer programme, the irrepressible Mistress i, decides to take refuge with them. Hot on her heels is the scientist who created her, who threatens to put them in jail for kidnapping. And in the midst of all the commotion, Beautiful the elephant is determined to learn to be everything she thinks she isn't rational, sensible, logical and equable. From their peaceful home in Maharashtra, India, Aditi and her friends are catapulted into a strange encounter with cyberspace. In her astonishingly simple way, Suniti Namjoshi explores the connection between the two worlds cyber and real and throws up some interesting thoughts: Does a computer have a soul? And is 'getting updated' the equivalent of 'growing up'?

Monkeyji and the Word Eater

Monkeyji and the Word Eater
Author: Suniti Namjoshi
Publisher: Tulika Books
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2009
Genre: Folklore
ISBN: 9788181467799

Danger! That's what the digital butterflies seem to be spelling out. There is a Word eater at large who snatches words as soon as they are uttered and makes them disappear. The 'monster' turns out to be just a little boy. Otto, Grendel's cousin -but he has formidable mental powers that can be matched only by Monkeyji. Armed with an ammunition of words hoarded by Siril and Gardy, the adventurers roam Hong Kong the city of dragons in search of him. There is tension and taut excitement as they finally take on little Otto and his platoon of crows, in the midst of which the author throws up an interesting idea: does something exist only if it has a name?

Advaita the Writer

Advaita the Writer
Author: Ken Spillman
Publisher: Tulika Books
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2011
Genre: Authors
ISBN: 9788181469663

A story about the love of books, the power of the imagination, of literary heroes and of the birth of dreams.

Handbook of the Fundamentals of Financial Decision Making

Handbook of the Fundamentals of Financial Decision Making
Author: Leonard C. MacLean
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 941
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9814417351

This handbook in two parts covers key topics of the theory of financial decision making. Some of the papers discuss real applications or case studies as well. There are a number of new papers that have never been published before especially in Part II.Part I is concerned with Decision Making Under Uncertainty. This includes subsections on Arbitrage, Utility Theory, Risk Aversion and Static Portfolio Theory, and Stochastic Dominance. Part II is concerned with Dynamic Modeling that is the transition for static decision making to multiperiod decision making. The analysis starts with Risk Measures and then discusses Dynamic Portfolio Theory, Tactical Asset Allocation and Asset-Liability Management Using Utility and Goal Based Consumption-Investment Decision Models.A comprehensive set of problems both computational and review and mind expanding with many unsolved problems are in an accompanying problems book. The handbook plus the book of problems form a very strong set of materials for PhD and Masters courses both as the main or as supplementary text in finance theory, financial decision making and portfolio theory. For researchers, it is a valuable resource being an up to date treatment of topics in the classic books on these topics by Johnathan Ingersoll in 1988, and William Ziemba and Raymond Vickson in 1975 (updated 2 nd edition published in 2006).

Creating Value with Big Data Analytics

Creating Value with Big Data Analytics
Author: Peter C. Verhoef
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2016-01-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317561929

Our newly digital world is generating an almost unimaginable amount of data about all of us. Such a vast amount of data is useless without plans and strategies that are designed to cope with its size and complexity, and which enable organisations to leverage the information to create value. This book is a refreshingly practical, yet theoretically sound roadmap to leveraging big data and analytics. Creating Value with Big Data Analytics provides a nuanced view of big data development, arguing that big data in itself is not a revolution but an evolution of the increasing availability of data that has been observed in recent times. Building on the authors’ extensive academic and practical knowledge, this book aims to provide managers and analysts with strategic directions and practical analytical solutions on how to create value from existing and new big data. By tying data and analytics to specific goals and processes for implementation, this is a much-needed book that will be essential reading for students and specialists of data analytics, marketing research, and customer relationship management.

St Suniti and the Dragon

St Suniti and the Dragon
Author: Suniti Namjoshi
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781875559183

Annotation. An original imagination full of surprises from Beowulf to Bangladesh.

Ten

Ten
Author: Shefalee Jain
Publisher: Tulika Books
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2005
Genre: Counting
ISBN: 9788181460738

One Little Child Is Staring At Something. Another Joins Him, Then Another . . . Till Finally Ten Little Children Are Staring At Something. What Do They See? The Suspense Builds Up, Page After Page, Through Text And Picture, To An Amusing Climax. This Beginner Counting Book Has Illustrations As Innovative As The Concept, In Black And White Pen-And-Wash On Paper. The Children Are From Different Social Backgrounds, Communities And Abilities - A Quiet Comment Slipped Unobtrusively Into The Pictures.