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E-Commerce and Web Technologies
Springer 2010; US$ 72.00This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web) held in Bilbao, Spain, in September 2010. The 22 papers accepted for EC-Web, selected from 45 submissions, are organized in topical sessions on recommender systems; e-payment, security and trust; service-oriented... more...
Iqbal
Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2010; US$ 6.99When young Iqbal is sold into slavery at a carpet factory, his arrival changes everything for the other overworked and abused chidren there. It is Iqbal who explains to them that despite their master's promises, he plans on keeping them as his slaves indefinetely. But it is also Iqbal who inspires the other children to look to a future free from toil...and... more...
Recommender Systems Handbook
Springer 2010; US$ 159.99The explosive growth of e-commerce and online environments has made the issue of information search and selection increasingly serious; users are overloaded by options to consider and they may not have the time or knowledge to personally evaluate these options. Recommender systems have proven to be a valuable way for online users to cope with the information... more...
Institutions and the Economy
Wiley 2013; US$ 64.95Institutions are central to economic life. They have a major impact on consumer preferences, the actions and processes of firms, levels of wealth and poverty in countries, the growth of international trade, and much more. Indeed, none of the preconditions for economic activity - such as the existence of buyers and sellers, recognizable goods and services,... more...
The Story of My Purity
Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not AvailableThe Story of My Purity by Francesco Pacifico is an unmissable novel from an exciting young voice in European fiction. Thirty years old and already trapped in a sexless marriage, Piero Rosini has decided to dedicate his life to Jesus. Novels and music were filling his head with bullshit; his bourgeois life in a fancy neighborhood had taken... more...
Living on the Lake in Prehistoric Europe
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 44.95The chance discovery in 1854 of a prehistoric lake village on Lake Zurich triggered what we now call the 'lake-dwelling phenomenon'. One hundred and fifty years of research and animated academic disputes have transformed the phenomenon into one of the most reliable sources of information in wetland archaeology. This definitive volume provides an overview... more...
Insurance in Private International Law
Hart Publishing Limited 2003; US$ 126.00This volume provides an analysis of insurance in private international law for international business lawyers, including discussion of the jurisdictional and choice of laws issues arising from cross-border contracts of insurance and reinsurance concluded by electronic means. more...
Environment, Human Rights and International Trade
Hart Publishing Limited 2001; US$ 122.40After the completion of the Uruguay Round and the adoption of the 1994 agreement establishing the WTO,the place of international trade in the context of the international legal order has radically changed. International trade law has become a subject of wide-spread interest, cutting across traditional boundaries, and engaging diverse political and... more...
Electromagnetic Compatibility in Power Systems
Elsevier Science 2011; US$ 225.00A large amount of natural or artificially produced physical phenomena are exploited for practical applications, even though several of them give rise to unpleasant consequences. These ultimately manifest themselves under form of malfunction or definitive failure of components and systems, or environmental hazard. So far, manifold categories of inadvertent... more...
Value at Risk and Bank Capital Management
Elsevier Science 2010; US$ 93.95While the highly technical measurement techniques and methodologies of Value at Risk have attracted huge interest, much less attention has been focused on how Value at Risk and the risk-adjusted performance measures such as RAROC or economic profit/EVA?· can be effectively used to improve a bankˇ¦s decision making processes. Academic books are typically... more...









