The book deals with actual situations that resulted in investors losing multi-millions of dollars to financial tricksters. Emphasis is placed upon learning how to detect early warning signs. Financial exposure can be minimized prior to situations deteriorating into bankruptcies. However, individual investors have to take specific actions after doing some homework. Otherwise, the alternative is to lose money by listening to "hot tips," often involving publicly traded securities.Some...

Over the past twenty-five years, a series of actions, omissions, and failures by Canada's lawmakers and the purported gatekeepers of investors' rights have left Canadians' investments, pensions, and retirement savings at greater risk. Bodies such as provincial securities commissions have abandoned their obligations to safeguard investors and allowed published and audited financial statements in Canada to become unreliable. Yet these distorted financial statements are used by financial anal...

This first biography of four-time all-star Al Rosen covers the career of perhaps the best player on the fabulous Cleveland Indians' teams of the 1950s. From 1951 to 1956, the Tribe won one American League pennant (1954) and finished second to New York the other five seasons. Rosen was selected as the League's Most Valuable Player in 1953, the last Indians player to be so honored. He led the League in home runs (43) and RBI (145). Washington's Mickey Vernon edged Rosen by a single percentag...

Achter elk patroon gaat een geheim schuil Waarom lijkt het patroon van een bliksemschicht op dat van nerven van een blad, de takken aan een boom of de aderen in een hand? Is dat toeval? Niet volgens wiskundigen. Zij zien orde waar voor anderen chaos heerst. Ook niet volgens Interpolagent Henri Poincaré. Hij moet patronen bestuderen om een leven te redden, een dood te wreken en een gruwelijke moord op te lossen. In Poincarés wereld roepen evangelisten om de Apocalyps, koelen terroristen hun...

"Más Allá del Éxito: Un Viaje al Corazón de Tus Sueños" es una exploración, un viaje, una invitación a descubrir ese "algo más" que siempre hemos buscado. Este libro no te dará fórmulas mágicas, ni recetas rápidas, pero te ofrecerá herramientas para navegar en la brújula de tu vida, para entender que el éxito verdadero no es un destino, sino un viaje que se recorre con coraje, resiliencia y autenticidad. ¿Estás listo para emprender esta travesía? El primer capítulo, "El Éxito y Tú: Un Viaj...

"Más Allá del Éxito: Un Viaje al Corazón de Tus Sueños" es una invitación a descubrir ese "algo más" que siempre hemos buscado. Este libro no te dará fórmulas mágicas ni recetas rápidas, pero te ofrecerá herramientas para navegar en la brújula de tu vida y entender que el éxito verdadero no es un destino, sino un viaje que se recorre con coraje, resiliencia y autenticidad.En el primer capítulo, "El Éxito y Tú: Un Viaje Interior", explorarás tu prop...

New image-processing tools and data-processing network systems have considerably increased the volume of transmitted information such as 2D and 3D images with high resolution. Thus, more complex networks and long processing times become necessary, and high image quality and transmission speeds are requested for an increasing number of applications. To satisfy these two requests, several, either numerical or optical solutions, were offered separately. Advanced Secure Optical Image Proce...

One of the elite scholars in Baghdad’s prestigious House of Wisdom, al-Khwarizmi is best remembered for his famous work Al-Jabr wa al-Muqabala, the text that defined the branch of mathematics known as algebra. He was also an accomplished astronomer and geographer. This fascinating biography describes in vivid detail the Islamic world’s Golden Age, a period during the Middle Ages when learning and scientific advancement were revered and honored. Readers will learn what is known of al-Khwari...

Al-Biruni was an Islamic scholar who served on the courts of more than six caliphs. Like many of the great thinkers of the Islamic world’s Golden Age, his quest for truth motivated him to seek knowledge through research and innovation. He did this in the name of Allah. Al-Biruni set himself apart from his peers through his sheer range of expertise and drive for perfection. His considerable progress in astronomy, mathematics, geography, comparative religion, physical sciences, and history e...

Al-Kindi is believed by many scholars to be the first Islamic philosopher. At a time when Europe was plunged into the Dark Ages, the Islamic world was experiencing an important time of cultural growth and scientific advancement. While many considered Muslim students of ancient Greek philosophers to be infidels, al-Kindi was able to master the scholarship while interpreting it through his Muslim faith. His conclusions always supported the teachings of Islam, but the methods that he drew upo...

Mahmoud Darwish wurde 1941 im Dorf al Birwe bei Akko (Palästina) geboren. Nach mehreren Inhaftierungen verließ er Israel und ging 1970 ins Exil. Darwish gilt als einer der herausragenden Dichter der arabischen Welt und als die poetische Stimme des palästinensischen Volkes. Zuletzt lebte er in Amman und Ramallah. Er starb 2008 in Houston/Texas.Khalid Al-Maaly, geboren 1956, verließ 1979 aus politischen Gründen den Irak. Er lebt seit 1980 als Schriftsteller, Übersetzer und Verleger i...

Dribble, shoot, score. Playing basketball is a great way to have fun with friends. It's also the perfect way to stay active. Readers hit the court with an engaging narrator in this exciting narrative about a basketball game. A city park offers a familiar setting, and each scene is beautifully illustrated in vibrant color. Emergent readers will find the age-appropriate text easy to read. Children will be excited to get outside and play after finding out who wins the big game.