Learn how to use color, value, scale, balance, and unity to create smashing quilts. Instructions for five design approaches walk you step by step through the key components of design theory.
This book evaluates Modern Portfolio Theory for future study. From the original purpose of MPT through to asset investment by management, we learn why anybody today with the software and a reasonable financial education can model portfolios. However, computer driven models are so complex that hardly anybody understands what is going on. Returning to first principles, we learn why investors and not their computers should always interpret their results.
Doing Pragmatics achieved success through its unparalleled capacity to render pragmatics truly accessible to students. Embracing the comprehensive and engaging style which characterized the previous editions, the third edition is fully revised and expanded. Grundy consolidates the strengths of the original version, reinforcing its unique combination of theory and practice with new theory, exercises and up-to-date, real data and examples. New chapters include pragmatic strengthening and language evolution, and intercultural communication.
This book is an introduction to probability theory covering laws of large numbers, central limit theorems, random walks, martingales, Markov chains, ergodic theorems, and Brownian motion. It is a comprehensive treatment concentrating on the results that are the most useful for applications. Its philosophy is that the best way to learn probability is to see it in action.
On Grammar (Collected Works of Mak Halliday Series)
On Grammar (Volume 1) This first volume contains seventeen papers, including a new piece entitled 'a personal perspective' , in which Professor Halliday offers his own views on language and linguistic theory as covered in his collected works. The first part presents early papers (1957-1966); the second part highlights how over the span of two decades (mid-60s to mid-80s) Halliday developed systemic theory to account for linguistic phenomena extending upward through the ranks from word to clause to text; the third part includes more recent work..
