Focusing on the needs of active business owners, managers, and organizers, the authors demonstrate that the best way to increase chances of business success is by starting with a blueprint--a carefully researched business plan. This book offers a step-by-step detailed description on exactly how to draw up such a plan for presentation to potential p...more

This beautiful book, published in conjunction with the first major exhibition of Fra Angelico’s work since the cinquecentenary exhibition of 1955 in Florence, will feature more than seventy paintings, drawings, and manuscript illuminations covering all periods of the artist’s career, from round 1410 to 1455. Also included will be fifty selected...more

Empirical likelihood provides inferences whose validity does not depend on specifying a parametric model for the data. Because it uses a likelihood, the method has certain inherent advantages over resampling methods: it uses the data to determine the shape of the confidence regions, and it makes it easy to combined data from multiple sources. It al...more