Product Description: Fascinating history of the transportation means between the mainland and the island. Photos, drawings, diagrams etc.

Product Description: This text strives to make macroeconomics come alive for today's students planning to major in business or economics. The content reflects the news-stream from financial markets, Fed monetary policy, and budget debates. Key concepts are stressed and reinforced as the story of unfolds: the real vs...read more

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Explains how to interpret the effects of interest rates, inflation, corporate profits, the federal deficit, the foreign trade gap, and economic trends on investments (view table of contents)

Product Description: When the properties of solid coal are compared with those of other common substances, coal seems in many ways unusual and mysterious. For example, almost any set of measurements of coal properties will exhibit time-dependent variation...read more

Product Description: The ability to model and perform decision modeling and analysis is an essential feature of many real-world applications ranging from emergency medical treatment in intensive care units to military command and control systems. Existing formalisms and methods of inference have not been effective in real-time applications where tradeoffs between decision quality and computational tractability are essential...read more