True to its title, this book itself is an excellent financial investment. For the price of one volume it teaches two Nobel Prize winning theories, with plenty more included for good measure. How many undergraduate mathematics textbooks can boast such a claim? Building on mathematical models of bond and stock prices, these two theories lead in different directions: Black–Scholes arbitrage…
In the five years since the first edition of this classic book was published, Internet use has exploded. The commercial world has rushed headlong into doing business on the Web, often without integrating sound security technologies and policies into their products and methods. The security risks - and the need to protect both business and personal data - have never been greater. We've updated B…
About 40 per cent of the world’s population lives in river basins that are shared by countries. These transboundary basins cover almost half of the Earth’s land surface and provide over 60 per cent of global freshwater flow. Transboundary river basin management is something that concerns many of us. Water, energy and food security are central elements for society. Having access to suffic…
At this writing, Marketing Mistakes has passed its thirtieth anniversary. Who would have thought? The fi rst edition, back in 1976, was 147 pages and included such long-forgotten cases as Korvette, W. T. Grant, Edsel, Corfam, Gilbert, and the Midi. In this eleventh edition, seven cases from the tenth edition have been dropped, and seven added, several of these being modifi ed from earlier editi…
When the author of this book’s first edition, Karim Yaghmour, first suggested using Linux in an embedded system back in 1997 while working for a hardware manufacturer, his suggestion was met with a certain degree of skepticism and surprise. Today, Linux is either in use already or is being actively considered for most embedded systems. Indeed, many industry giants and government agencies are …
Cocos2d-x is the most used open source game framework. It has official support from Microsoft for their mobile and desktop platform, and its small core runs faster than other frameworks, allowing it to run on low-end Android devices with outstanding performance. It is currently maintained by an active open source development community led by the author of the original Cocos2d for iPhone and…
Airports are vital national resources. They serve a key role in trans- portation of people and goods and in regional, national, and inter- national commerce. They are where the nation’s aviation system connects with other modes of transportation and where federal respon- sibility for managing and regulating air traffic operations intersects with the role of state and local governments that ow…
When I set out to write this book, I was often surprised by the comments I received from friends and colleagues. Many asked me if some other platform, such as Android or the iPhone, would render Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) obsolete (and non- existent, some posited) by the time the book is published. Still others pointed to the growing convergence between different lines of Java as re…
Hibernate is an amazing piece of software. With a little experience and the power of annotations, you can build a complex, database-backed system with disturbing ease. Once you have built a system using Hibernate, you will never want to go back to the traditional approaches. While Hibernate is incredibly powerful, it presents a steep learning curve when you first encounter it—steep learning c…
Airport personnel must have a clear, consistent understanding of the term hazard. Many air- ports in the early stages of SRM implementation use hazard synonymously with the term risk; however, these are different although related terms. A hazard must exist for the airport to be at risk. A hazard is defined as any existing or potential condition that can lead to injury, illness, or death to peop…