The Complete Idiot's Mini Guide to Demystifying the Foreign Exchange Market

The Complete Idiot's Mini Guide to Demystifying the Foreign Exchange Market
Author: Gregory Rehmke
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 13
Release: 2010-11-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101463058

When Wall Street stubs a toe, markets around the world say "ouch!" But exactly how the foreign exchange market works is a mystery that can give you a migraine. Come out from the covers! This book provides the grounding you need to grasp this confusing aspect of the global economy.

The Complete Idiot's Mini Guide to Demystifying the Foreignexchange Market

The Complete Idiot's Mini Guide to Demystifying the Foreignexchange Market
Author: Gregory Rehmke
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 17
Release: 2010-11-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101463236

When Wall Street stubs a toe, markets around the world say "ouch!" But exactly how the foreign exchange market works is a mystery that can give you a migraine.Come out from the covers! The Complete Idiot's Mini Guide to Demystfying the Foreign Exchange Market provides the grounding you need to grasp this confusing aspect of the global economy. In it you get: *The foreign exchange market explained. *How market forces and exchange rates are determined. *Supply, demand, and equilibrium. *Speculating on exchange.

Opera For Dummies

Opera For Dummies
Author: David Pogue
Publisher: For Dummies
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1997-09-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780764550102

“Pogue is a wonderful teacher… He can teach anybody.” — Gay Talese, bestselling author of Honor Thy Father “Scott Speck is a great communicator of classical music…. Concert audiences and readers alike can’t help getting caught up in the joy of his subject.” — David Styers, American Symphony Orchestra League Opera is weird. Everybody wears makeup and sings all the time. Even when they’re singing your language, which is rare, you still can’t understand the words. Women play men, men play women, and 45-year-olds play teenagers. All the main characters seem to get killed off. And when somebody dies, he takes ten minutes to sing about it. Yet, for all its weirdness, an operatic experience is an experience in breathtaking beauty. When you hear a soprano float a soft high C, or a tenor singing a love song, or a full-throated chorus in the climax of a scene’s dramatic finale, you can’t help getting goosebumps. Want to experience all that beauty for yourself, but don’t know where to begin? Opera For Dummies is an excellent place to start. Written by an acclaimed conductor and a musical director, this friendly guide tells you what you need to know to: Understand opera from the Baroque and Roman periods through today Interpret characters, orchestra, chorus, and other players Understand what’s happening, both on stage and off Choose the best seats Identify famous operas Build a great collection of opera recordings Locate opera sites and chat groups online Whether you’re interested in attending a live opera, want to build a collection of recordings, or just want to be able to talk about opera intelligently, Opera For Dummies is for you. Among other things, you’ll explore: The words, the music, and the people who sing it The history of opera and the lives of the great composers Going to the opera — including tips for getting tickets, preparing for the opera, dressing for the opera, and more Musical and theatrical conventions used in opera In-depth synopses of the world’s most beloved operas On the bonus CD you’ll find: More than 60 minutes of music compiled especially for the book A multimedia piece for PC or MAC Wonder what it is about opera that can make a grown person cry like a baby? Find out in Opera For Dummies.

Demystifying the Brain

Demystifying the Brain
Author: V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2018-12-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9811333203

This book presents an emerging new vision of the brain, which is essentially expressed in computational terms, for non-experts. As such, it presents the fundamental concepts of neuroscience in simple language, without overwhelming non-biologists with excessive biological jargon. In addition, the book presents a novel computational perspective on the brain for biologists, without resorting to complex mathematical equations. It addresses a comprehensive range of topics, starting with the history of neuroscience, the function of the individual neuron, the various kinds of neural network models that can explain diverse neural phenomena, sensory-motor function, language, emotions, and concluding with the latest theories on consciousness. The book offers readers a panoramic introduction to the “new brain” and a valuable resource for interdisciplinary researchers looking to gatecrash the world of neuroscience.

Happiness Is All We Want

Happiness Is All We Want
Author: Ashutosh Mishra
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9386250098

Happiness Is All We Want! suggests that the source of peace and happiness rests within us, provided we know the secret. It helps us unlock that secret and attain a high level of overall well-being in order to lead a happy and fulfilling life and be the healthiest we can be-mentally and physically. Supplemented by the latest scientific research and supported by real-life experiences of the author as well as many other people, a wide variety of tools and techniques are explained in simple language. Demystifying the spiritual aspect of well-being, the author integrates it with your life objectives. Further to attaining peace and happiness, you can immensely improve your beauty and appearance as well. A delightful read, Happiness Is All We Want! will take us on a journey of self-betterment and eventual happiness.

Algebra Demystified

Algebra Demystified
Author: Rhonda Huettenmueller
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2002-08-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780071389938

Whether you want to learn more about algebra, refresh your skills, or improve your classroom performance, Algebra Demystified is the perfect shortcut. Knowing algebra gives you a better choice of jobs, helps you perform better in science, computing, and math courses, ups your score on competitive exams, and improves your ability to do daily computations. And there's no faster or more painless way to master the subject than Algebra Demystified! Entertaining author and experienced teacher Rhonda Huettenmueller provides all the math background you need and uses practical examples, real data, and a totally different approach to life the "myst" from algebra. With Algebra Demystified, you master algebra one simple step at a time--at your own speed. Unlike most books on the subject, general concepts are presented first --and the details follow. In order to make the process as clear and simple as possible, long computations are presented in a logical, layered progression with just one execution per step. THIS ONE-OF-A-KIND SELF-TEACHING TEXT OFFERS: Questions at the end of every chapter and section to reinforce learning and pinpoint weaknesses A 100-questions final exam for self-assessment An intensive focus on word problems and fractions--help where it's most often needed Detailed examples and solutions

There's No Such Thing as "The Economy"

There's No Such Thing as
Author: Samuel A. Chambers
Publisher: punctum books
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2018
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1947447890

Every Economics textbook today teaches that questions of values and morality lie outside of, are in fact excluded from, the field of Economics and its proper domain of study, "the economy." Yet the dominant cultural and media narrative in response to major economic crisis is almost always one of moral outrage. How do we reconcile this tension or explain this paradox by which Economics seems to have both everything and nothing to do with values? The discipline of modern economics hypostatizes and continually reifies a domain it calls "the economy"; only this epistemic practice makes it possible to falsely separate the question of value from the broader inquiry into the economic. And only if we have first eliminated value from the domain of economics can we then transform stories of financial crisis or massive corporate corruption into simple tales of ethics. But if economic forces establish, transform, and maintain relations of value then it proves impossible to separate economics from questions of value, because value relations only come to be in the world by way of economic logics. This means that the "positive economics" spoken of so fondly in the textbooks is nothing more than a contradiction in terms, and as this book demonstrates, there's no such thing as "the economy." To grasp the basic logic of capital is to bring into view the unbreakable link between economics and value.

Listen to This

Listen to This
Author: Alex Ross
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2010-09-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1429977612

One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, showcases the best of his writing from more than a decade at The New Yorker. These pieces, dedicated to classical and popular artists alike, are at once erudite and lively. In a previously unpublished essay, Ross brilliantly retells hundreds of years of music history—from Renaissance dances to Led Zeppelin—through a few iconic bass lines of celebration and lament. He vibrantly sketches canonical composers such as Schubert, Verdi, and Brahms; gives us in-depth interviews with modern pop masters such as Björk and Radiohead; and introduces us to music students at a Newark high school and indie-rock hipsters in Beijing. Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Ross shows how music expresses the full complexity of the human condition. Witty, passionate, and brimming with insight, Listen to This teaches us how to listen more closely.

Talent Chooses You

Talent Chooses You
Author: James Ellis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2020-06-03
Genre:
ISBN:

If you want your business to grow, you need to be able to rely on your ability to hire talent reliably and consistently. No talent pipeline? No growth, and no business. But your recruiting team is drowning (I asked them). They need help. Now, if you ask recruiters, they will ask for headcount. Or more technology. But more bodies and more tools won't solve the issue (though it will eat up your budget). What you need a is a better strategy. And that strategy is called employer branding.Employer branding is about understanding, distilling and communicating what your company is all about in order to attract all the talent you need. That will differentiate your company as a place where people will want to work, rather than a place they land because they didn't know better.If you've heard about employer branding in business magazines, it might seem like something only "big companies" can do. Something that requires a dedicated team, expensive platforms, or a bunch of consultants. That isn't true. If you understand where your brand comes from, and how to apply it, any company (especially yours) can hire better with it.And this book will teach you how to do all of that, and then some.In this book, you'll learn what employer branding really is, how to make a compelling argument internally to leadership that creates commitment, how to work with other teams and be creative in finding solutions. As a special bonus, we are including a handbook on how to work with recruiting teams. This hands-on workbook is chock full of examples, checklists, step-by-step instructions and even emails you can copy and paste to make things happen immediately.