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  The Parsimonious Universe

  The Parsimonious Universe ab 74.99 € als Taschenbuch: Shape and Form in the Natural World. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Naturwissenschaft,

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  In the Vault , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 22min

  Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), who wrote as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his brilliant and highly influential works of horror fiction. In the Vault tells the tale of a lazy and parsimonious undertaker who tries to skimp on the cost of a coffin by reusing a substandard, cheap box which he had made previously for a very short man. The recipient of the flimsy coffin is the vindictive farmer Asaph Sawyer, a man known in the neighbourhood to be permanently set on vengeance on anyone who slights him.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000618/bk_redd_000618_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  What Makes an Effective Executive , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 23min

  Great managers may be charismatic or dull, generous or tightfisted, visionary or numbers oriented. But every effective executive follows eight simple practices." -Peter F. Drucker An effective executive does not need to be a leader in the sense that the term is now most commonly used. Harry Truman did not have one ounce of charisma, for example, yet he was among the most effective chief executives in U.S. history. Similarly, some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs Drucker has worked with over his 65-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses. They ranged from extroverted to nearly reclusive, from easygoing to controlling, from generous to parsimonious. What made them all effective is that they followed the same eight practices: They asked, "What needs to be done?" They asked, "What is right for the enterprise?" They developed action plans. They took responsibility for decisions. They took responsibility for communicating. They were focused on opportunities rather than problems. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill DeWees. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/smag/000037/bk_smag_000037_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Rank-Based Methods for Shrinkage and Selection: With Application to Machine Learning

  Rank-Based Methods for Shrinkage and Selection A practical and hands-on guide to the theory and methodology of statistical estimation based on rank Robust statistics is an important field in contemporary mathematics and applied statistical methods. Rank-Based Methods for Shrinkage and Selection: With Application to Machine Learning describes techniques to produce higher quality data analysis in shrinkage and subset selection to obtain parsimonious models with outlier-free prediction. This book is intended for statisticians, economists, biostatisticians, data scientists and graduate students. Rank-Based Methods for Shrinkage and Selection elaborates on rank-based theory and application in machine learning to robustify the least squares methodology. It also includes: * Development of rank theory and application of shrinkage and selection * Methodology for robust data science using penalized rank estimators * Theory and methods of penalized rank dispersion for ridge, LASSO and Enet * Topics include Liu regression, high-dimension, and AR(p) * Novel rank-based logistic regression and neural networks * Problem sets include R code to demonstrate its use in machine learning

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  Simplify: How the Best Businesses in the World Succeed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 489min

  For the past 40 years, Richard Koch has wanted to uncover the simple, elemental, elegant and parsimonious principles that are needed to create great new businesses. To qualify, a principle must be so overwhelmingly powerful that anyone can reliably use it towards extraordinary results. Is there any principle that can tell you how to do that consistently and with a high chance of success? Working with venture capitalist Greg Lockwood, his coauthor on Superconnect, and supported by research from the elite firm of OC&C Strategy Consultants, Koch has the answer. The principle Koch and Lockwood have discovered behind extraordinarily successful businesses is simplifying. Some simplify on price - take Ryanair's budget flights, which still take you from A to B but so cheaply that nearly everyone can afford them, multiplying the size of their market - and some simplify on proposition, such as Apple's decision to cut down on the number of their product lines and focus on perfecting only a few devices. With case studies of famous companies in all different industries from finance to fast food, the authors show how anyone can analyse their business' potential to become a simplifier and which route they should take to maximise the impact. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roger Davis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/001354/bk_twuk_001354_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Burning of the Reichstag: The History of the Controversial Fire That Led to the Rise of Nazi Germany , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 82min

  These sub-humans do not understand how the people stand at our side. In their mouse-holes, out of which they now want to come, of course they hear nothing of the cheering of the masses. - Hitler speaking about Communists as the Reichstag burned "I don't care what happens in Russia! I know that the Russians pay with bills, and I should prefer to know that their bills are paid! I care about the Communist Party here in Germany and about Communist crooks who come here to set the Reichstag on fire!" - Hermann Goering The early 1930s were a tumultuous period for German politics, even in comparison to the ongoing transition to the modern era that caused various forms of chaos throughout the rest of the world. In the United States, reliance on the outdated gold standard and an absurdly parsimonious monetary policy helped bring about the Great Depression. Meanwhile, the Empire of Japan began its ultimately fatal adventurism with the invasion of Manchuria, alienating the rest of the world with the atrocities it committed. Around the same time, Gandhi began his drive for the peaceful independence of India through nonviolent protests against the British. It was in Germany, however, that the strongest seeds of future tragedy were sown. The struggling Weimar Republic had become a breeding ground for extremist politics, including two opposed and powerful authoritarian entities: the right-wing National Socialists and the left-wing KPD Communist Party. As the 1930s dawned, these two totalitarian groups held one another in a temporary stalemate, enabling the fragile ghost of democracy to continue a largely illusory survival for a few more years. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/033277/bk_acx0_033277_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Weimar Republic: The History of Germany After World War I Before the Rise of the Nazi Party , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 112min

  The Weimar Republic has become a byword for a failed, tragic, political experiment. The official period of its existence, 1919-1933, marked the interwar years in Germany and their related uncertainty, chaos, and the state’s ultimate collapse. Historians have found the roots of Nazism embedded in the Weimar years and that in the final analysis, Weimar politicians voluntarily handed over power to the man who wrought destruction on an epic scale, Adolf Hitler. Yet, the Weimar era encapsulated a number of trends and fissures within German society, as well as the international community. The Weimar Republic was a prisoner of events and, in the long run, had little power to shape them. Historians are fond of interpreting the past as a tension between human agency, that is to say decision-making, and structural developments that evade individual choices. Both these interpretations are crucial when examining the tumultuous years of Germany’s Weimar Republic. The early 1930s were a tumultuous period for German politics, even in comparison to the ongoing transition to the modern era that caused various forms of chaos throughout the rest of the world. In the United States, reliance on the outdated gold standard and an absurdly parsimonious monetary policy helped bring about the Great Depression. Meanwhile, the Empire of Japan began its ultimately fatal adventurism with the invasion of Manchuria, alienating the rest of the world with the atrocities it committed. Around the same time, Gandhi began his drive for the peaceful independence of India through nonviolent protests against the British. It was in Germany, however, that the strongest seeds of future tragedy were sown. The struggling Weimar Republic had become a breeding ground for extremist politics, including two opposed and powerful authoritarian entities: the right-wing National Socialists and the left-wing KPD Communist Party. As the 1930s dawned, these two totalitarian groups held one another i ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/106938/bk_acx0_106938_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Understanding English-German Contrasts

  Seit langem besteht in der Fremdsprachendidaktik Übereinkunft darüber, dass durch einen umfassenden Vergleich von Muttersprache und zu erlernender Fremdsprache verbesserte Grundlagen für den Fremdsprachenunterricht und das Studium einer Fremdsprache geschaffen werden können. Der wichtigste Teil dieses Programms der kontrastiven Linguistik, nämlich das Erstellen von umfassenden, detaillierten Bestandsaufnahmen der wesentlichen Kontraste zwischen zwei Sprachen, ihrer Zusammenhänge und ihrer Erklärungen, wurde lange Zeit nicht realisiert. Das vorliegende Buch schließt diese Lücke, indem es einen feinkörnigen Sprachvergleich des Deutschen und Englischen vorlegt, der auf zahlreichen kontrastiven Untersuchungen der Autoren, auf der einschlägigen Literatur zu den beiden Sprachen und auf den verfügbaren sprachtypologischen Einsichten aufbaut. Die 4. Auflage wurde im Anfangs- und im Schlusskapitel um einige relevante Einsichten neuerer Literatur erweitert.Taking up some of the goals of the Contrastive Program formulated in the sixties and seventies of the last century, this book presents a comprehensive and fine-grained analysis of the major contrasts between German and English with the aim of showing how far the two closely related languages have moved apart and of providing new foundations for the study and the teaching of English from the perspective of German and the study of German from the perspective of English. It is based on numerous contrastive studies published by the authors and on a thorough exploration of the relevant literature on the two languages and on language typology in general. Parsimonious in its use of complex technical jargon, the book can be used both for the relevant B.A. modules and the relevant M.A. modules, as well as for more general courses on Comparative Linguistics and Contrastive Analysis. The fourth edition has added further elaborations of the introductory and final chapters on the basis of recent contributions.Rezensionsstimme:"This is the best contrastive study of English and German, and indeed of any two languages, that I have ever seen... This book delivers what contrastive studies should deliver: a comparison of two languages that leads to a better understanding of each. It is also an extremely useful book at a practical level, for learners of each language and for students of translation. König & Gast are to be congratulated!"Professor John A. Hawkins, Cambridge University

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