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Monte Carlo methods have been used for decades in physics, engineering, statistics, and other fields. Monte Carlo Simulation and Finance explains the nuts and bolts of this essential technique used to value derivatives and other securities. Author and educator Don McLeish examines this fundamental process, and discusses important issues, including specialized problems in finance that Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo methods can help solve and the different ways Monte Carlo methods can be improved upon. This state-of-the-art book on Monte Carlo simulation methods is ideal for finance professionals and students. Order your copy today.

This book presents a developmental model for peer helping which places less emphasis on students in crises and more emphasis on helping them in advance of serious problems. The first chapter introduces peer helping and the facilitative model and provides an overview of the book. The second chapter discusses principles of human behavior. The third chapter explores the concept of relating. Facilitative conditions of caring accepting understanding, trusting, and respecting are discussed. The fourth chapter focuses on listening skills. Four steps for attentive listening are outlined and discussed. The fifth chapter deals with responding. High facilitative responses, feeling-focused responses, clarifying and summarizing, open questions, acknowledging, linking, complimenting and confronting, reassuring and supporting, analyzing and interpreting, and advising and evaluating are all discussed. The sixth chapter focuses on giving feedback. The facilitative feedback model is presented, and guidelines are offered for giving feedback. The seventh chapter discusses decision making. Five focused questions are offered to help with making responsible and effective decisions. A problem-solving model is presented which encourages the use of high facilitative responses. The eighth chapter suggests helping projects for peer helpers such as helping interviews, peer support groups, planning leisure activities, peer tutoring, buddy systems, and large group presentations. (LLL)

The popular Rookie Books expand their horizons - to all corners of the globe! With this series all about geography, emergent readers will take off on adventures to cities, nations, waterways, and habitats around the world...and right in their own backyards.

A collection of horror and ghost stories, including "Death Sight," "Fountain of Horror," and "Brain Pictures."

Discover the extraordinary stories behind everyday things! Did you know that the ice cream sundae was invented because of a law forbidding the sale of ice cream on Sundays? Or that the first motorcycle was really just a tricycle with a motor? Would you believe that Mickey Mouse started out as a rabbit? Arranged in alphabetical order with anecdotal, fun-to-read text, this fascinating book is packed with the stories behind these and over 100 more inventions. "[An] entertaining volume of trivia." --Kirkus Reviews

This program leader''s guide provides suggestions for organizing, administrating, and evaluating a middle school peer helper program. The first chapter builds a case for peer helpers. The problems of youth, peer influence and personal growth, mobilizing student resources, peer facilitators and helpers, four basic helping roles, and advantages of peer helper programs are discussed. The second chapter focuses on selecting a training approach. The academic elective class, summer course, teacher-advisor group, retreat-workshop, school club, and project-focused team are explored. The third chapter examines the primary elements involved in organizing training programs. Program goals and objectives, the program trainer/coordinator, program support, how many to train, how to select the students, when and where to meet, and how to be helpful are discussed. The fourth chapter organizes the training program into four different phases. Getting organized, facilitative skills, decision making and problem solving, and getting ready to help others are discussed. Ethics and confidentiality, responsible referrals, critical moments in peer helping, pitfalls to avoid, and evaluating the training are also discussed. The fifth chapter focuses on implementing peer helper projects. The sixth chapter discusses teaching others in peer-led learning centers. The seventh chapter addresses preventing alcohol and drug abuse. Gateway drugs and illegal drugs are identified. The eighth chapter discusses networking, and the ninth chapter focuses on program evaluation. (LLL)

Includes the experiences of a man caught in a tornado, a man who sailed around the Arctic in an upside-down ship, a man who took his family through the Iron Curtain in a tank, and a journey down Brazil''s mysterious River of Doubt.

They were mutant children, the legacy of. With their bodies hideously deformed, they were unable to move--until one of them discovered that their minds could roam the world in any shape they imagined . . . and wreak unimaginable revenge!

Centralamerikas militær-politik og dets forhold til USA i Kennedy-, Johnson- og Nixonperioden.

Traces the origin or invention of 28 common, everyday items, such as shopping carts, jigsaw puzzles, frozen foods, zippers, safety pins, vacuum cleaners, and rubber bands.

Basic arts education must give students the essence of their civilization, the civilizations that contributed to it, and the more distant civilizations that enriched world civilizations as a whole. All students are potentially capable of experiencing and analyzing the fundamental qualitativeness of art; therefore, it is realistic to propose qualitative art education for all students at all grade levels. Basic arts education is not now being delivered to the majority of students. The artistic heritage that belongs to the students and the opportunity to contribute to its evolution are being lost to young people. Qualitative art education focuses on the development of the basic competencies of artistic intelligence, namely, qualitative differentiation and the grasp of structural dynamics. A sequentially organized program of qualitative learning activities, from primary through high school, should allow the student to develop a number of progressively more complex basic competencies. A variety of elementary, middle, and high school art experiences, developed from analysis of such works as Picasso''s "Guernica" or a comparison of the works of Henry Moore and Georgia O''Keefe, are described. The qualitative way of perceiving, thinking, and knowing that is developed through inductive and constructive processes of effective school art education should not be limited to the visual arts program, and suggestions are made for interdisciplinary qualitative art education. The book closes with a chapter on techniques for evaluating qualitative art education, and includes sample evaluative charts. A bibliography cites 57 references. (PPB)

Central America has fallen to Communist regimes, and now Mexico is tottering. A reporter is sent in to cover the bloody story, where he discovers a plot a gainst America by high level American officials. Only one woman remains loyal as he travels through this human maze.

Background stories of fourteen all-time favorite books and their authors are provided with classrom instructions and activities.