This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.

St George, Redfield and Whitehall: Images of England

History

Jones, Andy

Stephenson, David

Cheesley, David

Wilmott, Jill

Europe

Tempus

This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.

Old Market, Newtown, Lawrence Hill and Moorfields (Images of England)

Haste, Ernie

The last prince of Wales: Llywelyn and King Edward : the end of the Welsh dream, 1282-3

Barracuda Books

Big Data is a big topic, based on simple principles. Guided by leading expert in the field, David Stephenson, you will be amazed at how you can transform your company, and significantly improve KPIs across a broad range of business units and applications. Find out how an ecommerce company avoided two million product returns per year, how a newspaper saw triple-digit annual growth in digital subscriptions, how researchers in England learned to better detect pending cardiovascular problems, and how AI programs taught themselves to win games using techniques that even their human programmers didn’t understand, all thanks to big data. Find out also how one company realized it could swap a million dollar hardware system with a twenty thousand dollar replacement. With simple and straightforward chapters that allow you to map examples onto your own business, Big Data Demystified will help you: · Know which data is most useful to collect now and why it’s important to start collecting that data as soon as possible. · Understand big data and data science and how they can help you reach your business goals and gain competitive advantage. · Use big data to understand where you are now and how you can improve in the future. · Understand factors in choosing a big data system, including whether to go with cloud-based solutions. · Construct your big data team in a way that supports an effective strategy and helps make your business more data-driven. BIG DATA MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE “Read this book! It is an essential guide to using data in a practical way that drives results." Ian McHenry, CEO Beyond Pricing “This is the book we’ve been missing: big data explained without the complexity.” Marc Salomon, Professor in Decision Sciences and Dean at University of Amsterdam Business School "Big Data for the rest of us! I have never come across a book that is so full of practical advice, actionable examples and helpful explanations. Read this one book and start executing Big Data at your workplace tomorrow!" Tobias Wann CEO at @Leisure Group

Big Data Demystified: How to use big data, data science and AI to make better business decisions and gain competitive advantage

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

FT Publishing International

Rugby Stories...and other misadventures was incredibly enjoyable. I'm a bit of a history buff and the one area of American rugby history I always wanted to know more about was the period in the 1960s and 70s, when the Eagles were just formulating. The generation of players that came of age during that period is only getting old and some of the stories from that time are getting lost. The greatest triumph of "Rugby Stories" is that it preserves that part of history for future generations. Written by former Eagle, UCLA, and Santa Monica player Dave Stephenson, "Rugby Stories" offers a unique take on a crucial period in U.S. rugby history. Stephenson's writing style is like his play on the field, solid with a touch of bravado. He tells the story of his emergence as a school player in England, to immigrant in Los Angeles where he finds rugby once again. Stephenson has an interesting life that in and of itself is well worth a story and when you throw in rugby, it makes a great combination. The inside knowledge Stephenson provides of the early Eagles is invaluable. It was a different time back then, and while things didn't always run smoothly, the passion that all of those involved had was impressive. If there is one disappointment, it's that Stephenson isn't around for years and years with the team, but that's something you'll have to read about in the book. It's more than just the early history of the Eagles that makes "Rugby Stories" valuable for the American rugby fans, it's the early history of UCLA and Santa Monica as well. Stephenson was part of Dennis Storer's legendary Bruins squads that challenged for the World Cup with Cal and UBC, as well as in the Monterey Tournament, the unofficial national championship at the time. He was also a founding member of Santa Monica Rugby Club. This is a crucial part of American rugby history and that should make "Rugby Stories" a crucial part of your rugby book collection. I can't recommend this book highly enough. I learned so much about American rugby history that I couldn't find anywhere else. ThisisAmericanrugby.com Check out more than a decade of national rugby photos at www.numinaphoto.com/collections.

Rugby Stories: ... and other misadventures

Sports & Outdoors

Other Team Sports

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Complete F&amp;I Reference Book is no longer the only available 'handbook' on how to do the job of Finance and Insurance manager. Twenty years ago, this manual was found on the bookshelves of hundreds of dealerships across the country and used by F&amp;I training programs everywhere, including Northwood University. However, it is still the only guide to applying the lessons of Neuro-Lingiistic Programming specifically to successful F&amp;I sales. Since then, the car business has changed. Whole technologies, like the fax machine, have come and gone. Elite sales talent, which often found a home in high-end car sales, has moved on for the most part. Instruction in the business these days seems to be more about Compliance than it is about how to sell. The F&amp;I manager's job has always been that challenging combination of compliance and sales. This book covers both comprehensively. The guidelines on how to do this complicated job successfully haven't really changed, even though some laws and taxes may be different. The 'old school' approach ... people buy from people they like ... is always at the heart of successful selling. This has always come naturally to the most talented salespeople. Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) grew out of the study of these most successful people ... what is it that they do, often without being fully aware of it, that engages the other person so fully? NLP brings those characteristics and those habits to light, so that we can copy the behavior and obtain similar results. Dave Stephenson started as an F&amp;I manager in a Toyota dealership in 1979. During the heyday of Silicon Valley in the 80's, Dave was the F&amp;I director at one of the country's leading Mercedes-Benz dealerships, right in the middle of it all. After publishing this book twenty years ago, Stephenson traveled the country doing seminars for a couple of years, before joining a start-up based in Virginia, The Automark Group. When Automark was sold in 2000, first to Half-A-Car and then to Reynolds and Reynolds, Dave went back into the business for a couple of years at Beverly Hills Mercedes-Benz as Director of Marketing, helping to prepare the store for sale by Jardine Matheson. For the last few years, Stephenson has been a professional sports photographer in the Bay area. He recently moved into the redwoods by the Russian River. This book was reprinted by popular request. Other books are: Rugby Stories and other misadventures; Buddha Never Heard of Buddha and Brain Wave.

The Complete Finance & Insurance Reference Book: ... includes an introduction to Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Marketing & Sales

Heavenly Vaults: From Romanesque to Gothic in European Architecture

Reference

Princeton Architectural Press

This book explains the foundational business skills you'll need to deliver business value and grow your career as an analyst or data scientist. Drawing on best practices, published research, case studies and personal anecdotes from two decades of industry experience, David Stephenson lays out a practical and concise overview of foundational skills related to Company, Colleagues, Storytelling, Expectations, Results and Careers--emphasizing how each topic relates to your unique position as an analytics professional within a larger corporation. From the introduction: "The six topics in this book-company, colleagues, communication (storytelling), expectations, results and careers-are covered in six sections. They are presented roughly in the order you'll need them during your career, with project leadership skills coming later in the book. The final topic, careers, will be relevant at all stages of your career, even as you pursue your first job as a data scientist. The first section, company, will help you work within a larger organization. Chapter one discusses how organizations generally view data scientists, why they hire them and what they expect from them. This chapter begins to explain how you as a data scientist can produce business value, a topic that is more fully developed in chapter ten. Chapter two describes how to relate to the diverse range of individuals within your organization. By understanding how various roles and functions differ in their goals and values, you will be better prepared to deliver valuable results to them. The second section, colleagues, covers interpersonal challenges that often present significant problems for data scientists-cultural misunderstandings, negotiating through disagreements, and office politics. Younger data scientists generally perceive these topics as less important, until the day when they suddenly find them extremely important. The third section, storytelling, covers principles and methods key to oral and visual presentations. This section describes how to clarify your message, which is easy in principle but difficult in practice, and how to produce clear slides, graphs and tables. It goes into detail on techniques for decluttering and drawing focus, leveraging principles such as Gestalt and preattentive processing. The two chapters in this section are perhaps the most immediately relevant for data scientists and will provide you with some very quick wins, as I've seen from the responses of my training participants. The fourth section, expectations, covers techniques for setting expectations, kicking off a project, and maintaining the trust of your stakeholders. In particular, I cover ways to build consensus at the start of a project and ways to avoid the common mistake of working hard to build a solution that no one wants to use. The fifth section, results, presents principles, techniques and case studies related to selecting the most beneficial data science projects. It then describes concepts and frameworks that will help you run those projects to successful completion, despite the shifting expectations and lack of clarity that are so prevalent in data science projects. The sixth and final section, careers, addresses questions I'm often asked by data scientists, such as how to choose between job opportunities, how to strengthen your CV, and even whether to start working independently as a freelance data scientist."

Business Skills for Data Scientists: Practical Guidance in Six Key Topics

Computers & Technology

Data Science Innovation

Political Power in Medieval Gwynedd investigates the governance exercised by the princes of Gwynedd on that independent kingdom that existed until the thirteenth century in what is now northwest Wales. David Stephenson combs literary texts, laws, and records from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, as well as archaeological findings, to chronicle how the princes of Gwynedd, particularly Llywelyn the Great (1194–1240) and Llywelyn the Last (1243–82), extended their power over much of Wales. Stephenson explores a number of topics, including the princes’ recruitment of advisors, their collection and building of revenue, and their attempts to overcome the segmented nature of the political structure. He also explains how the princes’ efforts to expand their rule created tension within Gwynedd and contributed to the final collapse of native rule in Wales.

Political Power in Medieval Gwynedd: Governance and the Welsh Princes (Studies in Welsh History)

University of Wales Press

Powys, extending over north-east and central Wales, was one of three great medieval Welsh polities, along with Gwynedd to the north and Deheubarth (south-west), occupying nearly a quarter of the country. However, it has been somewhat neglected by historians, who have tended to dismiss it as a satellite realm of England, and viewed its leaders as obstacles to the efforts of Gwynedd leaders to construct a principality of Wales. This book provides the first full, authoritative history of Powys in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It argues in particular that the Powysian rulers were dogged and resourceful survivors in the face of pressure from Welsh rivals and the problems of internal fragmentation; and that, paradoxically, co-operation with the English and intermarriage with marcher families underlay a desire to regain lands to the east lost in earlier centuries. Dr David Stephenson is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology, Bangor University. Table of Contents Introduction: The problem of medieval Powys: Historiography and sources. The re-emergence of Powys The age of eminence: Madog ap Maredudd. Crisis and renewal: 1160 and its aftermath The ascendancy and fall of Gwenwynwyn Eclipse: the supremacy of Gwynedd Survival: the case of Gruffudd, lord of Bromfield Survival: the case of Gruffudd ap Gwenwynwyn The persistence of Powysian lordship: Owain ap Gruffudd ap Gwenwynwyn and the descendants of Madog ap Maredudd Powysian Polities I: aspects of governance Powysian Polities II: secular dynamics; fragmentation and integration Powysian Polities III: the ecclesiastical dimension Some Powysian perspectives: fears and aspirations Appendix I. The Combermere charters: a new analysis and some implications Appendix II. Two alleged charters of Elise ap Madog Appendix III. 'Powys Fadog' and 'Powys Wenwynwyn' Appendix IV. The date of composition of Breuddwyd Rhonabwy Select Bibliography

Medieval Powys: Kingdom, Principality and Lordships, 1132-1293 (Studies in Celtic History, 35)

Boydell Press

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