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Erwin Beatz
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When I was writing The Focus Course, I loved having a dozen books all spread out at once. I would pull text from different ones while interweaving their overlapping ideas. This is something you just cannot do with digital books unless you buy a dozen Kindles.
The point of the Beautiful Language tag is that it serves as a catch-all for those phrases or quotes that really stand out to you but which may not necessarily fit into a particular category of your index.
Taking that additional amount of time to add a few extra tidbits of information can give a significant amount of context to the information in the book. Moreover, these are massive assets you can return to and use in many different contexts.
These books are good. While there has been some change and some progress in many places, Americans still live in big houses with too much stuff. Refugees in refugee camps still live in tents with almost no stuff. Traditional societies in Bhutan still live in multigenerational setttings in many cases. Some live in apartment blocks, but many still live in traditional homes. Even if there HAD been some change (a marked case would be the great growth in resources available to many Chinese) then these portraits would still be valuable as marking a place, a time, the tradition from which the Chinese we know today came.
Looking for a reliable CMYK uncoated colour guide book. Pantone is a little expensive (especially for design graduates), in my opinion. Is there an alternative with ICC profile and stock details specified?
I thought the same thing when I first started. Pantone really controls the market on their colors. Personally, I got my full set used from eBay for $30. They do recommend getting a new set annually, claiming the printed colors can fade on the samples, but unless you're a pro print shop, going with a used set every couple of years should suffice.
Lets say a home printer, a digital printer on a shop there is near your home you can make your own set of patches, and send them to print. This will be the most acurate color reference there is for that particular printer.
Not Pantone, nor Uncoated, but here is an inexpensive alternative for UV Coated/Non-UV coated on standard 16pt card stock that provides CMYK printed examples of the default Adobe Illustrator Print Color Swatches for $25
This book takes a more alternative approach to teaching quantum mechanics, focusing on intuitive explanations and real-world applications rather than complex mathematical derivations. It also includes interactive simulations and visual aids to enhance understanding.
Yes, this book is designed for undergraduate students with little to no prior knowledge of quantum mechanics. It starts with the basics and gradually builds upon them, making it accessible for beginners.
No, this book is intended for undergraduate students and covers the fundamental concepts and principles of quantum mechanics. It does not delve into advanced topics, but provides a solid foundation for further studies.
Yes, this book includes a variety of practical exercises and problems to reinforce the concepts learned. It also provides step-by-step solutions to selected problems to help students better understand the material.
While this book covers the essential topics of quantum mechanics, it is recommended to use it in conjunction with other resources, such as lectures and tutorials, to fully grasp the concepts. It can serve as a helpful supplement to traditional textbooks.
The Tower of Books Challenge is based on two core ideas: to widen students' reading choices and to provide a fresh and motivating way to keep track of what they read.
Students are given a reading list (I call these the "category lists") with numerous genres and categories of books they must read to meet the challenge.
Lots of different category lists are are included to help you suit the challenge to your students, as well as parent letters, a reader pledge and other activities to help with accountability, and even "Master Stacker" award certificates.
STEP 1: HOW MANY BOOKS? How many books do you want your students to read to complete the challenge? Choose a 20, 30, or 40 book challenge. Think about the age of your students and the time frame you have in mind.
STEP 2: WHICH LIST? Choose a category list. Students will read books that fit into each category on the list you choose. There are now 13 different lists, each one varying in genre, book type, and quirkiness, and each one comes in all three amounts (20, 30, and 40 books). And there's an editable category list too, in case you want to customize a list even more.
STEP 3: WHICH FORMAT? Choose a format for how students will keep track of the books they read. You can do the two-dimensional version or three-dimensional version, or there's even a "paper saver" version where everything's recorded onto one sheet of paper.
The strength of The Alternative Answer is the down-to-earth explanations of exactly what hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, business development companies, and master limited partnerships do and how they are different from the more well-known mutual funds. Not only will you learn about the major strategies used by hedge funds, but you'll likely learn about some investments you've never heard of, like Catastrophe Bonds, which investors can buy from casualty insurance companies to make bets on the likelihood of a hurricane hitting a particular area.
The second biggest criticism I have of the book is that he continually suggests hiring skilled managers. Although he presents some very interesting data that suggests having a skilled manager makes a far bigger difference in alternative investments than in mutual funds, if you read between the lines you'll realize that there are precious few skilled managers out there, there are even fewer once the ridiculously high (but decreasing) fees are taken into account, and most of those are either closed to new investors, or require such a huge minimum investment that the typical doctor won't qualify to invest with them. Are there skilled managers adding alpha for their investors? Absolutely. Can you invest with them? Probably not. And even if you could, his suggestion for picking them out in advance mostly boils down to past performance. The mutual fund data suggests that is a lousy way to pick a fund, and I'm not convinced it is much better for alternative investments.
I also appreciated Rice's discussions about how to get paid for illiquidity. The truth is I am more than willing to give up a lot of liquidity in my portfolio if I can manage to get paid well for it. The vast majority of my portfolio won't be spent for at least 2 decades. I don't absolutely have to have investments I can get out of tomorrow, or even next month. However, Rice shows just how out of touch he is with the typical investor by introducing his own formula for how much of your portfolio should be in illiquid investments (which he seems to think are those you can't get your money back out of for just 2-5 years). The formula is this:
If you weren't sure who this book was aimed at already, this chapter made it abundantly clear. I found it interesting that someone who makes $1 Million a year, and spends $3 Million a year, would somehow end up with a net worth of $20 Million. Where did that come from?
Overall, the book is less dense than Swedroe's (I read it in about 4 hours) but does a better job of explaining the alternative investment world. There aren't as many practical, definitive recommendations as Swedroe's, and some of his recommendations don't make much sense to me, but it is far better than the vast majority of investment books out there and worth a look for someone interested in adding some alternatives to a traditional portfolio. Buy it off Amazon or pick it up at the library today!
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I can find a big lists of Algebraic geometry books on here. On a very old thread on Maths overflow someone recommended that a person should read James Munkres Topology first, then you should read Allen Hatcher book.
I certainly sympathize with your situation. When I was reading Hatcher as a freshmen for the first time it was very difficult to read for various reasons. But to be honest your post feels quite shallow and awkward, because people usually complain things by making concrete points and your points (cheap, ten times thick, seems impossible,etc) are not really relevant. Would it be better for you to:
2) Consolidate your mathematical background by working on some relevant classical textbooks first (Kelley's General topology, Dummit&Foote's abstract algebra, Ahlfor's complex analysis, etc). It is not really necessarily for you to learn graduate level algebraic topology at your current mathematics level. It might be condescending for me to suggest this but I believe it is better to read easier stuff than struggle with texts "impossible" for you. The above books are not closely relevant but may be helpful to prepare you to read Hatcher. Also If I remember correctly Hatcher does provide a recommended textbook list in his webpage as well as point set topology notes .
3) In case you decide you must learn some algebraic topology, and favor "short" books. You may try this book: introduction to algebraic topology by V.A. Vassilev. This is only about 150 pages but is difficult to read (for me when I was in Moscow). It seems to be available in here. Vassilev is a renowned algebraic topologist and you may learn a lot from that book.
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