The 1980's. The age of excess. Nick McCarthy is a conflicted and damaged young man with a aptitude for numbers. Warren Stellick is the persuasive, malevolent force that knew just how to exploit Nick's talents . Together they embark on a roller coaster ride of high finance, drugs, money laundering and greed. A dangerous world exposing the dark underbelly of Wall Street, organized crime and violent cartel commerce. As the water gets deeper and the stakes get higher, Nick starts to question t...

At first sight, finitely generated abelian groups and canonical forms of matrices appear to have little in common. However, reduction to Smith normal form, named after its originator H.J.S.Smith in 1861, is a matrix version of the Euclidean algorithm and is exactly what the theory requires in both cases. Starting with matrices over the integers, Part 1 of this book provides a measured introduction to such groups: two finitely generated abelian groups are isomorphic if and only if their inv...

Following the creation of the Duchy of Normandy, the Normans were soon introduced to the castle and they built them in large numbers.In the mid-11th century, other Norman adventurers began carving out dominions for themselves in Southern Italy: some crossed to Sicily in 1061 and by 1091 had conquered the whole island. As in Normandy, they were keen to assimilate new ideas, including architectural styles, resulting in some striking buildings.This title, a co...

Descended from the Viking raiders who settled in Northern France under the leadership of Rollo in around 911, the Normans were amongst the most feared warriors of their time.Their territorial ambitions culminated in Duke William I's conquest of England in 1066, but although victory at Hastings left the English crown in William's hands, Norman sovereignty remained far from established on the island. In order to consolidate his position, the new king built a series o...

Norman Rockwell's best-loved works, collected in a handsome clothbound volumeNorman Rockwell gave us a picture of America that was familiar—astonishingly so—and at the same time unique, because only he could bring it to life with such authority.Rockwell best expressed this vision of America in his justly famous cover illustrations for the Saturday Evening Post, painted between 1916 and 1963. All of his Post covers are reproduced in splendi...

Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare, views on the evolution of U.S. intelligence, and studies on the delicate balance between the need for information-gathering and the values of democratic societies. It also includes...

Quantum technologies (QT) are rapidly advancing from scientific propositions to commercial realities. QT leverage quantum mechanics, the physics of sub-atomic particles, to deliver functionalities and performance that are otherwise impossible to obtain. QT have already transformed our daily life but the next generation goes further by manipulating previously unexploited quantum phenomena to enable a wide range of new applications, which will have a transformative effect on production, busi...

From historys earliest days men have gone down to seaon logs, then boats, and, subsequently, ships. Norman Polmar and Christopher Cavas maneuver in Most Wanted™ style to find the best and worst of the admirals, ships, inventions, submarines, torpedoes, and aircraft that have fought on, over, and under the waves.The top-ten lists in Navys Most Wanted™ rank the worlds biggest battleships, the fastest aircraft, and most powerful submarines. Pop cultures take on naval affairs i...

Big Data beschreibt das Phänomen rasant wachsender Datenmengen: 90 Prozent aller heute zur Verfügung stehenden Daten wurden in den vergangenen beiden Jahren gesammelt und gespeichert. Die vielfach unstrukturierten Daten fließen in Data Lakes, Pools oder Warehouses und werden durch intelligente Verknüpfung zu Informationen veredelt. Schon heute wird Big Data zur Steuerung von Produktionsprozessen und Entwicklung neuer Geschäftsmodelle im produktionswirtschaftlichen Bereich angewandt. Big Da...

First Published in 2004. The market economy has changed profoundly over the past two centuries. In the nineteenth century, business enterprises were largely single-product ventures, managed directly by the owners and rooted within national economies. In the twentieth century, firms employed managers who were not owners. Firms also evolved into multiproduct, multiunit entities that could employ thousands of workers. In the twenty-first century, many firms operate on a global scale, taking a...

How did Norman Vincent Peale's blockbuster bestseller The Power of Positive Thinking capture the hearts and minds of millions of Americans, reshaping the nation's spiritual landscape?The dramatic untold story of how Peale and a handful of conservative allies fueled the massive rise of religiosity in the United States in the 1950s.Near the height of Cold War hysteria, when the threat of all-out nuclear war felt real and perilous, American minister Norman Vincent Peale publishe...

Tens of thousands of readers have relied on this leading text and practitioner reference--now revised and updated--to understand the issues the legal system most commonly asks mental health professionals to address. The volume demystifies the forensic psychological assessment process and provides guidelines for participating effectively and ethically in legal proceedings. Presented are clinical and legal concepts and evidence-based assessment procedures pertaining to criminal and civil com...