SINCE THE BEGINING OF HUMANITY, GODS AND WARRIORS fought in the wars driven by their ambitions and elaborated strategies, like a player does with the pieces of a chessboard. They departed from their dwellings in Godheim, which was the world in which all the gods inhabited and descended to the land of men - known as Midgard - to help the humans to war and to teach them to furiously cry their names between their teeth, while were preparing for a battle that would result in the victory or def...

Phenomenological approaches to sounds, noises, voices, and music traditionally privilege methods that center visual perception. This book aims not only to phenomenologically describe sonic environments, but also to develop an audition-centered phenomenological methodology to enable this task. "Sonic environment" is this book's term for the acoustic shape of human life-environment, which is multisensory and does not exclude visual, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory sensations connected with...

Leverage the power of Python to clean, scrape, analyze, and visualize your dataAbout This BookClean, format, and explore your data using the popular Python libraries and get valuable insights from itAnalyze big data sets; create attractive visualizations; manipulate and process various data types using NumPy, SciPy, and matplotlib; and morePacked with easy-to-follow examples to develop advanced computational skills for the analys...

The Only Complete Technical Primer for MDM Planners, Architects, and ImplementersCompanies moving toward flexible SOA architectures often face difficult information management and integration challenges. The master data they rely on is often stored and managed in ways that are redundant, inconsistent, inaccessible, non-standardized, and poorly governed. Using Master Data Management (MDM), organizations can regain control of their master data, improve corresponding ...

"Probably the Best Accounting Book Every Small Business Owners Should Read!"If you don't understand the basic financial statements, such as primarily the Balance Sheet and the Income Statement, in addition to the Cash Flows statement and Retained Earnings, this book may be your perfect choice.Check out what's inside:Basic accounting principles EVERY business owner...

Nowadays, demands on modern civil engineering structures require not only safe technical solutions, but also additional approaches, involving ecological, sociological and economical aspects. This book reacts on these new requirements with a focus on earth structures for transport engineering, mainly for motorways and railways. Technical demands have to be adequately related to the risk with which the design and execution are connected. Soil used for the construction, together with subsoil,...

This book introduces the main theoretical findings related to copulas and shows how statistical modeling of multivariate continuous distributions using copulas can be carried out in the R statistical environment with the package copula (among others).Copulas are multivariate distribution functions with standard uniform univariate margins. They are increasingly applied to modeling dependence among random variables in fields such as risk management, actuarial science, insurance, fina...

Attention Business Owner!Would You Like to Use IRS to Your Advantage and Secure Every Dollar of Profit You Can To Grow Your Business?You probably already heard that over 90% of small businesses fail during the first 5 years of their existence.Avoid penalties, know what advantages you can get from IRS, what expenses you can deduct, and how to keep the most amount of money in your bank account without violating th...

“This is the real secret to running and growing a profitable business for years and decades!”Keeping your business's finances right all the time is not as difficult as most entrepreneurs and small business owners think, but… you must have the right knowledge and expertise in place if you want to have one less thing to worry about.Bookkeeping is an essential aspect of any business, serving not only to facilitate g...

In the third i3-MARKET series book we focus on the best practices and simplest software methods and mechanisms that allow the i3-MARKET backplane reference implementation to be instantiated, tested and validated even before the technical expert and developer communities decide to integrate the i3-MARKET as a reference implementation or adopted open-source software tools. The purpose of this book is to offer a clear understanding of the technological components as well as the software infra...

Attention small business owners!Revealed the Secret to Save Money, Avoid Penalties, and Outsmart the IRS!With expert tips, loopholes, and strategies, you'll learn how to optimize your finances and safeguard your business from unnecessary expenses.Here's a sneak peek at what you'll discover:Clear explanations of small business tax regulations and filing requirements

This vivid, sensitive tale of adolescent love follows a 16-year-old boy who falls in love with a beautiful, older woman and experiences a whirlwind of changing emotions, from exaltation and jealousy to despair and devotion.