When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management By Roger Lowenstein
2001 | 122 Pages | ISBN: 0375758259 | PDF | 13 MB
John Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street trader, spent the 1980s as a partner at Salomon Brothers, establishing the best--and the brainiest--bond arbitrage group in the world. A mysterious and shy midwesterner, he knitted together a group of Ph.D.-certified arbitrageurs who rewarded him with filial devotion and fabulous profits. Then, in 1991, in the wake of a scandal involving one of his traders, Meriwether abruptly resigned. For two years, his fiercely loyal team--convinced that the chief had been unfairly victimized--Descriptionted their boss's return. Then, in 1993, Meriwether made a historic offer. He gathered together his former disciples and a handful of supereconomists from academia and proposed that they become partners in a new hedge fund different from any Wall Street had ever seen. And so Long-Term Capital Management was born. ВВВВВВВВIn a decade that had seen the longest and most rewarding bull market in history, hedge funds were the ne plus ultra of investments: discreet, private clubs limited to those rich enough to pony up millions. They promised that the investors' money would be placed in a variety of trades simultaneously--a ''hedging'' strategy designed to minimize the possibility of loss. At Long-Term, Meriwether & Co. truly believed that their finely tuned computer models had tamed the genie of risk, and would allow them to bet on the future with near mathematical certainty. And thanks to their cast--which included a pair of future Nobel Prize winners--investors believed them. ВВВВВВВВFrom the moment Long-Term opened their offices in posh Greenwich, Connecticut, miles from the pandemonium of Wall Street, it was clear that this would be a hedge fund apart from all others. Though they viewed the big Wall Street investment banks with disdain, so great was Long-Term's aura that these very banks lined up to provide the firm with financing, and on the very sweetest of terms. So self-certain were Long-Term's traders that they borrowed with little concern about the leverage. At first, Long-Term's models stayed on script, and this new gold standard in hedge funds boasted such incredible returns that private investors and even central banks clamored to invest more money. It seemed the geniuses in Greenwich couldn't lose. ВВВВВВВВFour years later, when a default in Russia set off a global storm that Long-Term's models hadn't anticipated, its supposedly safe portfolios imploded. In five weeks, the professors went from mega-rich geniuses to discredited failures. With the firm about to go under, its staggering $100 billion balance sheet threatened to drag down markets around the world. At the eleventh hour, fearing that the financial system of the world was in peril, the Federal Reserve Bank hastily summoned Wall Street's leading banks to underwrite a bailout. ВВВВВВВВRoger Lowenstein, the bestselling author of Buffett, captures Long-Term's roller-coaster ride in gripping detail. Drawing on confidential internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein crafts a story that reads like a first-rate thriller from beginning to end. He explains not just how the fund made and lost its money, but what it was about the personalities of Long-Term's partners, the arrogance of their mathematical certainties, and the late-nineties culture of Wall Street that made it all possible. ВВВВВВВВWhen Genius Failed is the cautionary financial tale of our time, the gripping saga of what happened when an elite group of investors believed they could actually deconstruct risk and use virtually limitless leverage to create limitless wealth. In Roger Lowenstein's hands, it is a brilliant tale peppered with fast money, vivid characters, and high drama.

Virginia Evans - Successful Writing (Intermediate)
PDF | 152 pages | ISBN: 1903128501 | 66.7 MB
The book consist of well-structured units which develop the skills necessary for effective writing at intermediate level.

Verilog HDL: a guide to digital design and synthesis By Samir Palnitkar
2003 | 261 Pages | ISBN: 0130449113 | PDF | 8 MB
Verilog HDL is a language for digital design, just as C is a language for programming. This complete Verilog HDL reference progresses from the basic Verilog concepts to the most advanced concepts in digital design. Palnitkar covers the gamut of Verilog HDL fundamentals, such as gate, RTL, and behavioral modeling, all the way to advanced concepts, such as timing simulation, switch level modeling, PLI, and logic synthesis. Verilog HDL is a hardware description language (with a user community of more than 50,000 active designers) used to design and document electronic systems. This completely updated reference progresses from basic to advanced concepts in digital design, including timing simulation, switch level modeling, PLI, and logic synthesis.

Benson Hoggard, "Understanding your digital multimeter: Guide on how to understand and effectively use all the function on your digital multimet"
English | 2020 | ASIN: B08QCNTKYR | 56 pages | EPUB / PDF | 22.81 MB
Understanding your digital multimeter

Susan Bassnett, "Translation"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415435633 | PDF | pages: 225 | 4.6 mb
In a time when millions travel around the planet; some by choice, some driven by economic or political exile, translation of the written and spoken word is of ever increasing importance. This guide presents readers with an accessible and engaging introduction to the valuable position translation holds within literature and society.

Eric Tully, "The Translation and Translator of the Peshitta of Hosea"
English, Hebrew, Syriac | 2015 | ISBN: 9004288309 | PDF | pages: 381 | 1.6 mb
In The Translation and the Translator of the Peshitta of Hosea, Eric J. Tully offers the first study of the Peshitta conducted via insights and methods from the discipline of Translation Studies. Every translator leaves residue of his or her interference in the course of the translation process. This investigation analyzes that interference (seen in the form of translation shifts), categorizes it, and draws conclusions with implications for textual criticism, Translation Studies, historical reconstruction, and the history of interpretation. Eric Tully argues that the Peshitta was translated from a Hebrew text similar to the Masoretic Text (but not identical to it) and was also influenced by readings from the Greek Septuagint. The study concludes with a socio-historical profile of the translator. Just as an ancient person makes one kind of ceramic jug or bronze incense stand and not another, the translation is a literary artifact in which the translator has crafted a text that reflects his or her own values and technique.

Anthony Brewer, "The Making of the Classical Theory of Economic Growth"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415746086 | PDF | pages: 220 | 1.1 mb
This book collects together for the first time Anthony Brewer's work on the origins and development of the theory of economic growth from its eighteenth-century beginnings to its dominance in economic thinking in the nineteenth century. The key to the origins of the theory is that writers before Turgot and Smith, though they laid the foundations for later work, had no concept of continuing growth.

The Joy of Cryptography
by Mike Rosulek
English | 2020 | ISBN: n/a | 283 Pages | PDF | 4.08 MB

The Huge Book of Amazing Facts and Interesting Stuff 2020: Mind-Blowing Trivia Facts on Science, Music, History + More for Curious Minds (Amazing Fact Books 2020) by Jenny Kellett
English | February 10, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B084YXK13M | 247 pages | PDF | 0.75 Mb
**Fact Book Completely Updated for 2020**

Xiaofei Tian, "The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0674977033 | PDF | pages: 465 | 11.6 mb
The turn of the third century CE―known as the Jian'an era or Three Kingdoms period―holds double significance for the Chinese cultural tradition. Its writings laid the foundation of classical poetry and literary criticism. Its historical personages and events have also inspired works of poetry, fiction, drama, film, and art throughout Chinese history, including Internet fantasy literature today. There is a vast body of secondary literature on these two subjects individually, but very little on their interface.