Richard Brealey presents a brief, nontechnical description of current research on investment management and its implications for the investment manager. He covers market efficiency, valuation, and modern portfolio theory in a book that The New York Times noted "rates high as reading for every professional investor."Brealey's easy-to-understand approach to modern investment theory will also prove invaluable to students. The book evaluates the use of technical models and fundamental analysis for common stock selection, examining the implications of the random walk hypothesis, publicly available information, and the efficient market theory. It takes up the valuation of common stocks and reasons for fluctuations in earnings and deals with the choice of a common stock portfolio, discussing how stocks move together, the effect of the market on stock prices, passive and active portfolios, risk and return, and measuring investment performance.Richard A. Brealey is Midland Bank Professor of Corporate Finance and Director of the London Business School's Institute of Finance and Accounting.

An Introduction to Risk and Return from Common Stocks

Business & Money

RICHARD A. BREALEY

Investing

The MIT Press Ltd

Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934) made prolific and lasting contributions to understanding "the life of the infinitely small." Widely thought of as the founder of neuroscience, Cajal made remarkable explorations into the organization and function of the nervous system. His work is still referred to more than that of any other scientist in the field.W. Maxwell Cowan's foreword to this edition conveys the excitement and energy of Cajal's life and endeavors, the liveliness and flamboyance of his engagements with the microscope. Cowan surveys Cajal's salient discoveries, noting that almost every important conceptual issue in neurobiology was foreshadowed in Cajal's work: the initial description of the climbing fibers of the cerebellum, the discovery of the growth cone, the concept of the "dynamic polarity" of the neurom an anticipation of the later discovery of axonal transport, and the prediction that new synapses may be formed throughout life to serve as a physical basis for learning and memory.W. Maxwell Cowen is Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute."

Cajal: Recollections of My Life

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Contents: "Man Without Letters." Newton, the Enigma. Paolo Toscanelli and His Friends. Alessandro Volta. Galileo Today. Necessity, Contingency, and Natural Law. Prologue to Parmenides. Galileo and Oppenheimer. The Role of Art in the Scientific Renaissance. The Italian Novel Todayâ€”A Note on Realism. The Seventeenth-Century Legacy: Our Mirror of Being. Philolaos in Limbo, Or: What Happened to the Pythagoreans? Paralipomena of the Future. Vico and Descartes. Eudodux and Plato: A Study in Chronology. "Scientific Rationalism." Einstein (pour le dÃ©cennal de sa mort). Les Grandes Doctrines Cosmologiques. De Bruno Ã Leibnitz. Postface Ã GalilÃ©e; Les Suites de l'Affaire. La Storia da Riscrivere. Fato Anticoâ€”Fato Moderno. Salvemini. Il Rovescio della Medaglia.

DESANTILLANA: REFLECTIONS MEN IDEAS (C

Santillana, Giorgio De

Dietz: Plastics for Architect Builder

Albert G.H. Dietz

How do you design corporate structures and policies that are compatible with the growth objectives of your organization? This text addresses this crucial question and explains how managers  actions shape the dynamic characteristics of a broad range of organizations. A reprint of the original text, Industrial Dynamics also contains numerous two-color graphs to help illustrate the concepts. Reprinted in 1999.

Industrial Dynamics

Forrester, Jay W.

Management & Leadership

This book has hardback covers.Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,In fair condition, suitable as a study copy.No dust jacket.

Regional Development Policy: A Case Study of Venezuela

John Friedmann

Principles of Architectural History: The Four Phases of Architectural Style, 1420 - 1900

Arts & Photography

Paul T. Frankl

Architecture

Shaping an Urban Future

William W. Nash Jr.

Bernard J. Frieden

Forrester: World Dynamics 2ed (Cloth)

FORRESTER, JW

The Estimation of Probabilities: An Essay on Modern Bayesian Methods (Research Monograph, No. 30)

Irving John Good

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