21st Century Economics: A Reference Handbook

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Interest in economics is at an all-time high. Among the challenges facing the nation is an economy with rapidly rising unemployment, failures of major businesses and industries, and continued dependence on oil with its wildly fluctuating price. Economists have dealt with such questions for generations, but they have taken on new meaning and significance.

Tackling these questions and encompassing analysis of traditional economic theory and topics as well as those that economists have only more recently addressed, 21st Century Economics: A Reference Handbook is a must-have reference resource.

Key Features

• Provides highly readable summaries of theory and models in key areas of micro and macroeconomics, helpful for students trying to get a "big picture" sense of the field
• Includes introductions to relevant theory as well as empirical evidence, useful for readers interested in learning about economic analysis of an issue as well for students embarking on research projects
• Features chapters focused on cutting-edge topics with appeal for economists seeking to learn about extensions of analysis into new areas as well as new approaches
• Presents models in graphical format and summarizes empirical evidence in ways that do not require much background in statistics or econometrics, so as to maximize accessibility to students

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Baseball, Inc.: The National Pastime As Big Business

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During the second half of the twentieth century, Major League Baseball and its affiliated minor leagues evolved from local and regional entities governing the play of America’s favorite pastime to national business organizations. The relocation of teams, league expansion, the advent of free agency and an influx of international players has made baseball big business, on an increasingly global scale. Focusing on the last fifty years, this work examines the past and present commercial elements of organized baseball, emphasizing the dual roles—competitive sport and profitable business—which the sport must now fulfill. Twenty-five essays cover five areas integral to the economic side of baseball: business and finance, human resources, international relations, management and leadership and sports marketing. Detailed discussions of the redistribution of revenues, the history of player unionization, aggressive global marketing, strategies of franchise owners and an evaluation of fan costs, among other topics introduce the reader to the important issues and specific challenges professional baseball faces in an increasingly crowded—yet geographically expansive—sports marketplace. The work is also indexed.

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Data Mining: High-impact Strategies

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Data mining (the analysis step of the Knowledge Discovery in Databases process, or Kdd), a relatively young and interdisciplinary field of computer science, is the process of extracting patterns from large data sets by combining methods from statistics and artificial intelligence with database management.

With recent technical advances in processing power, storage capacity, and inter-connectivity of computer technology, data mining is seen as an increasingly important tool by modern business to transform unprecedented quantities of digital data into business intelligence giving an informational advantage. It is currently used in a wide range of profiling practices, such as marketing, surveillance, fraud detection, and scientific discovery. The growing consensus that data mining can bring real value has led to an explosion in demand for novel data mining technologies.

This book is your ultimate resource for Data Mining. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Data Mining right away, covering: Data mining, Able Danger, Accuracy paradox, Affinity analysis, Alpha algorithm, Anomaly detection, Apatar, Apriori algorithm, Association rule learning, Automatic distillation of structure, Ball tree, Biclustering, Big data, Biomedical text mining, Business analytics, Canape, Cluster analysis, Clustering high-dimensional data, Co-occurrence networks, Concept drift, Concept mining, Consensus clustering, Correlation clustering, Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining, Cyber spying, Data Applied, Data classification (business intelligence), Data dredging, Data fusion, Data mining agent, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery,

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Blogs: High-impact Strategies

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A blog (a blend of the term web log) is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

This book is your ultimate resource for Blogs. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Blogs right away, covering: Blog, Blog award, Corporate blog, List of blogs, Online diary, Spam blog, Tumblr, 1000 Awesome Things, 25 Magazine, 9rules, Adland, Afrosphere, Air Users Blog, All Things Digital, ArabCrunch, Areapal, The Art Life, Baseball Prospectus, Baseball Think Factory, Bestiario del balón, The Big Lead, Black Weblog Awards, Bliki, Blog fiction, BlogCn, Blogdex, BloggerCon, Blogging in Burma, BlogHer, Blogosphere, BlogScope, Blogswara, BlogTv, Blue Kaffee, Boing Boing, Bossip, Boy Genius Report, Brog, Business Insider, Buzzgrinder, Calculated Risk, Pete Cashmore, Yuen-Ying Chan, Character blogging, Chinadialogue.net, Classical music blog, Cnbloggercon, Colalife, Collaborative blog, Communities @ State, Couric & Co., Women in Crime Ink, The Critical Badger, Cute Overload, The Daily Man, The Daily Nightly, Daring Fireball, The Dark Visitor, Deadspin, Derivative Dribble, DesiPundit, Diabetes Mine, Digg, DigitalJournal.com, DistrictCut.com, Dlisted, Dont Party, Down By The Hipster, DrugWarRant, The Dugout, EastSouthWestNorth, Elastic Path, Emergent democracy, Engadget, Epic Fu, Equal Justice for Troops blog, Escribitionist, Esowatch, ExtremeTech,

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Time Out 1000 Books to Change Your Life (Time Out Guides)

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Who can talk more authoritatively about the importance of books than the people who create and critique them? In this thoughtful collection, major writers and critics discuss the books that changed their lives and offer informed suggestions for titles that might do the same for others. Organized around themes inspired by Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Man," the book covers a diverse array of subjects and includes classic to contemporary fiction and nonfiction, as well as graphic novels. Serious yet accessible survey essays are complemented by top ten lists chosen by Time Out's unrivalled team of critics. The book also includes fact boxes perfect for dipping, along with brief, autobiographical "Reading Experience" pieces by famous readers and writers. Designed as both a reference and an entertaining read, the book includes commissioned illustrations, photographs, and vintage book jacket images.

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Outsourcing: The Definitive View, Applications, and Implications

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THE DEFINITIVE RESOURCE ON OUTSOURCING

Outsourcing is the hottest topic in business, and it will likely stay that way. Managers, workers, executives, and almost anyone else involved in any large business will probably have to deal with it one day, in one way or another. Outsourcing is a business issue first and foremost, but it's also a political, personal, and cultural issue that many people, not least managers and executives, find difficult to fully understand.

Outsourcing documents the theory, facts, myths, benefits, and costs of outsourcing and gives managers the information they need to implement an outsourcing program that will help their business the most and hurt their employees the least. Bringing together noted academics, corporate leaders, and outsourcing practitioners, the book covers all the major topics in the outsourcing debate, but also presents expert guidance for business leaders dealing with the practical side of this global issue:

• What outsourcing is and is not
• Which companies can benefit from it
• Incentives and implications
• Notable successes and failures
• Outsourcing for small and large companies
• Communicating about outsourcing
• Outsourcing terminology
• And much more

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Modeling Chemical Systems Using Cellular Automata

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Molecular Modeling using Cellular Automata provides a practical introduction to an exciting modeling paradigm for complex systems. The book first discusses the nature of scientific inquiry using models and simulations, and then describes the nature of cellular automata models. It then gives detailed descriptions, with examples and exercises, of how cellular automata models can be used in the study of a wide variety chemical, physical, and biochemical phenomena. Topics covered include models of water itself, solution phenomena, solution interactions with stationary systems, first- and second-order kinetic phenomena, enzyme kinetics, vapor-liquid equilibrium, and atomic and molecular excited-state kinetics. The student experiences these systems through hands-on examples and guided studies, and there is room for further original experimentation using the accompanying computer program (on CD Rom).

This book is the first of its kind: a textbook and a laboratory manual about cellular automata modeling of common systems in chemistry. It is not only a text, but includes a CD Rom which allows readily-assimilated, real-time experience with the methodology and practice of cellular automata simulations. The book is designed to be used as a text in undergraduate courses dealing with complex systems and/or as a computational supplement to laboratory courses taught at the undergraduate level.

The book includes:

- Compact descriptions of a large variety of physical and chemical phenomena

- An accompanying program (CD) for the study of these phenomena

- Illustrative examples of simulations, with exercises for further study

- An instructor's manual for use of the program

The book will be of great value in undergraduate courses in chemistry, physics, biology, applied mathematics, and bioinformatics, and as a supplement for laboratory courses in introductory chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, medicinal chemistry, chemical engineering and other courses dealing with statistical and dynamic systems. It allows the exploration of a wide range of dynamic phenomena, many of which are not normally accessible within conventional laboratory settings due to limitations of time, cost, and experimental equipment.

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