Real Options, Ambiguity, Risk and Insurance

Alain Bensoussan, Shige Peng, Jaeyoung Sung, “Real Options, Ambiguity, Risk and Insurance”
English | ISBN: 1614992371 | 2013 | 297 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Financial engineering has become the focus of widespread media attention as a result of the worldwide financial crisis of recent years. This book is the second in a series dealing with financial engineering from Ajou University in Korea. The main objective of the series is to disseminate recent developments and important issues in financial engineering to graduate students and researchers, and to provide surveys or pedagogical exposition of important published papers in a broad perspective, as well as analyses of important financial news concerning financial engineering research, practices or regulations. Real Options, Ambiguity, Risk and Insurance, comprises 12 chapters and is divided into three parts. In Part I, five chapters deal with real options analysis, which addresses the issue of investment decisions in complex, innovative or risky projects. Part II presents three chapters on ambiguity. The notion of ambiguity is one of the major breakthroughs in the expected utility theory; ambiguity arises as uncertainties cannot be precisely described in the probability space. Part III consists of four chapters devoted to risk and insurance, and covers mutual insurance for non-traded risks, downside risk management, and credit risk in fixed income markets. This volume will be useful to both graduate students and researchers in understanding relatively new areas in economics and finance, as well as challenging aspects of mathematics.

Building a Real World iOS Application with Swift [repost]

Building a Real World iOS Application with Swift
Size: 1.03GB | Duration: 3h 54m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1024×768 15fps | Audio: AAC 44.1KHz 2ch
Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate | Language: English

This course uses Apple’s Swift language to build a recipe iOS app. The app will allow adding and deleting of recipes. Rather than a basic looking app, we’ll ensure our app is visually appealing. We’ll utilize iOS technologies such as NSUserDefaults and iCloud. We’ll see how to set up their application for use with iCloud and how to integrate iCloud document sharing. Setting up iCloud will give us lots of exposure and hands-on use of the iOS Developer Center.

Get Real, Get Gone: How to Become a Modern Sea Gypsy and Sail Away Forever

Get Real, Get Gone: How to Become a Modern Sea Gypsy and Sail Away Forever by Rick Page
English | 2015 | ISBN: 151684663X | 290 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

“Don’t even think of buying a boat until you have read this book” Tom Cunliffe (legendary sailor and author of The Complete Yachtmaster).

The idea that you have to be rich to travel the world on your own yacht is so universal that it goes largely unquestioned. The ubiquitous images of rich men on super-yachts sipping Martinis only help cement this image. This book hopes to change all that.

Rick and Jasna’s recent appearance on Ben Fogle’s New Lives in the Wild chronicled their budget lifestyle and adventures aboard Calypso, and introduced the idea of budget sailing to a whole new audience – an audience who may have never considered the possibility that such a dream could be made a reality, on such a small amount of money. This book is for them and for any experienced sailors who want to cast off the yoke of consumerist yachting and get back to what really matters at sea.

If you are not rich, but dream of seeing our beautiful world from the deck of your own boat, this book is packed full of practical and spiritual advice to help you cut through the endless marketing and identify what it is you truly need to become a modern sea gypsy and sail away on the greatest adventure of your life…

Argus Developer in Practice: Real Estate Development Modeling in the Real World (Repost)

Argus Developer in Practice: Real Estate Development Modeling in the Real World By Dr Tim M Havard
2013 | 260 Pages | ISBN: 1430262621 | EPUB + MOBI | 12 MB + 25 MB

This book is a practical guide to using Argus Developer, the world’s most widely used real estate development feasibility modeling software. Using practical examples and many case studies, it takes readers beyond the basic training Argus provides in-depth knowledge required to analyze potential real estate deals and help ensure a profitable development.

Argus Developer in Practice fills an important gap in the market. Argus Developer, and its predecessor Circle Developer, has long had a dominant position as the primary real estate development appraisal tool. It is used all over the world, including North America, the UK and Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australasia, on a variety of projects from simple residential schemes to huge and complex master planned, mixed-use commercial, residential, and leisure projects. It is also used on “refurbs”–taking an existing building or complex and upgrading it or turning it into something entirely different. The manual that comes with the program, while comprehensive, focuses on features and does not take you—as does this book—through the development/project appraisal process step by step. Using a case study format, this is in fact the first book that concentrates on the practical application and use of the program.

Author Tim Havard has over 25 years experience in carrying out development appraisals both in practice and in teaching at the postgraduate level in UK and Australian universities. He started using the DOS version of Circle Developer in 1990, then worked for both Circle and Argus training clients on the software in the UK, continental Europe, and the Middle East.

Argus Developer in Practice is designed to help analyze all the variables when faced with both simple and complex real estate projects. Using an extensive array of screenshots and other visual aids, it delves deeply into its practical use by offering case studies of varying complexity that will help real estate professionals not just analyze real estate projects but also learn how the best minds in development analyze a project’s potential.

By using the program efficiently and making use of its more advanced features, you will help ensure a profitable project without the surprises that accompany most real estate ventures. Argus Developer in Practice therefore provides something priceless—peace of mind.



This book is for owners and employees of real estate development and investment companies worldwide who use Argus Developer and want to use the program to its fullest capabilities and learn how to model everything from simple single-use developments to complex mixed-use projects. It’s also for independent developers and development advisors, appraisers who carry out feasibility studies on development sites, and student/trainee appraisers and valuators.

The Real Right Returns

Daniel Friberg, “The Real Right Returns”
English | ISBN: 1910524492, 1910524506 | 2015 | 138 pages | EPUB | 1 MB

The Right is coming back. After decades of humiliation and political failures, the opposition is reorganising, catching up with the times, and getting itself in order. It is none too soon. Europe faces numerous challenges, challenges which the entrenched, incompetent elites of politics, academia, and the mass media are unable and unwilling to confront. Uncontrolled immigration, the mindless waste of resources, and destruction wrought by consumer society upon the very core of Western man ― these are problems posing questions which the ‘establishment’ cannot answer. The New Right can, and does. In this brief handbook, the reader will find a number of highly topical essays by the Swedish activist, Daniel Friberg. They are aimed at anyone who is or would like to take part in the true opposition which both Europe and her children around the world so sorely need. They include both practical tips as well as a brief overview of some of the concepts, issues, and ideas with which the New Right is primarily concerned. Daniel Friberg, MBA, is CEO of the Swedish mining corporation Wiking Mineral and was a founding member of the Swedish metapolitical think tank, Motpol. He has a long history in the Swedish opposition, and was one of the founders of Arktos.

Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy

Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy by David Richo
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1590308247, 1590309243 | 192 pages | EPUB | MB

Most relationship problems are essentially trust issues, explains psychotherapist David Richo. Whether it’s fear of commitment, insecurity, jealousy, or a tendency to be controlling, the real obstacle is a fundamental lack of trust—both in ourselves and in our partner.

Daring to Trust offers key insights and practical exercises for exploring and addressing our trust issues in relationships. Topics include:

• How we learn early in life to trust others (or not to trust them)

• Why we fear trusting

• Developing greater trust in ourselves as the basis for trusting others

• How to know if someone is trustworthy

• Naïve trust vs. healthy, adult trust

• What to do when trust is broken<o:p> </o:p>

Ultimately, Richo explains, we must develop trust in four directions: toward ourselves, toward others, toward life as it is, and toward a higher power or spiritual path. These four types of trust are not only the basis of healthy relationships, they are also the foundation of emotional well-being and freedom from fear.

Emails from an A**hole: Real People Being Stupid (repost)

John Lindsay, “Emails from an A**hole: Real People Being Stupid”
2010 | ISBN-10: 1402778279 | 224 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

“It’s like Sasha Baron Cohen on the internet.” – Jane Wells, CNBC When John Lindsay launched DontEvenReply.com in June 2009, it became an instant sensation. With 60% of the book featuring entirely new material never before available on the website, Emails from an Asshole offers fans a fresh opportunity to revel in people’s gullibility. Posing as a customer or seller, Lindsay responded to a variety of classified ads, making ridiculous offers to unsuspecting victims. Their responses, and the ensuing conversations, will have readers simultaneously laughing non-stop and gasping with disbelief.

PentesterAcademy - Real World Pentesting

PentesterAcademy – Real World Pentesting
English | mp4 | H264 1920×1080 | AAC 1 ch | 3 hrs 57 min | 424 MB
eLearning

This video series covers the actual process of penetration testing. Learn all of the steps involved from finding a job as a penetration tester, scoping both a network and web application pentest project, performing the engagement, threat modeling, and reporting. This video series covers everything that you need to know so that you can begin performing your own professional quality penetration tests.

Here is the flow of topics which will be covered in this short course:

– The Pentest Process

– Passive Recon

– Quick Hits

– External Scanning – the old way

– External Scanning – headache detection

– Network Vulnerability Scanning

– Web App Vulnerability Scanning

– Threat Modelling and Reporting

This course will teach you the end-to-end process of starting with the requirements of the pentest to doing threat modelling and reporting.

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Real Homes - May 2016

Real Homes – May 2016
English | 172 pages | True PDF | 51,9 MB