The complete guide to the gap year : the best things to do between high school and college / Kristin M. White. by White, Kristin, 1972-

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Data science + design thinking A perfect blend to achieve the best user experience / Radwin, Michael. by Radwin, Michael

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Cannabis sativa for health and hemp / Ethan L. Clark, editor.

Table of Contents: “…Raich (2005) -- Americans for Safe Access (ASA) Lawsuit Against HHS -- STATE AND LOCAL REFERENDA AND LEGISLATION -- States Allowing Use of Medical Marijuana70 -- Statistics on Medical Marijuana Users -- California (1996) -- Oregon (1998) -- Alaska (1998) -- Washington (1998) -- Maine (1999) -- Hawaii (2000) -- Colorado (2000) -- Nevada (2000) -- Vermont (2004) -- Montana (2004) -- Rhode Island (2006) -- New Mexico (2007) -- Michigan (2008) -- New Jersey (2010) -- Other State and Local Medical Marijuana Laws -- Arizona (1996).…”
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Procedural Content Generation for C++ Game Development. by Green, Dale

Table of Contents: “…Random Gem and Heart classes -- Random gold class -- The random potion class -- Creating a random potion -- Determining potion pickups -- Exercises -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Procedurally Generating Art -- How procedural generation is used with art -- Using sprite effects and modifiers -- Combining multiple textures -- Creating textures from scratch -- Creating complex animations -- The benefits of procedurally generated art -- Versatility -- Cheap to produce -- It requires little storage -- The drawbacks of procedurally generated art -- Lack of control -- Repeatability -- Performance heavy -- Using SFML sprite modifiers -- How colors work in SFML -- Creating sprites of a random color -- Selecting a preset color at random -- Generating a color at random -- Creating sprites of a random size -- Saving modified sprites -- Passing a texture into an image -- Drawing to a RenderTexture class -- Saving an image to a file -- Creating enemy sprites procedurally -- Breaking sprites into components -- The draw setup -- Randomly selecting sprite components -- Loading the default armor textures -- Choosing the armor tier -- Rendering the armor textures -- Rendering the final textures -- Overriding the default draw behavior -- Debugging and testing -- Editing the game tiles -- Exercises -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Procedurally Modifying Audio -- An introduction to SFML audio -- sf::Sound versus sf::Music -- sf::SoundBuffer -- Selecting a random main track -- Adding sound effects -- Editing sound effects -- Playing a sound function -- The audio listener -- Creating a fluctuation in a pitch -- 3D sound -- spatialization -- The audio listener -- The minimum distance -- Attenuation -- The position of the sound -- Fixed positions -- Moving positions -- Exercises -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Procedural Behavior and Mechanics -- An introduction to pathfinding.…”
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Commodity trader's almanac 2013 : for active traders of futures, forex, stocks and ETFs / Jeffrey A. Hirsch and John L. Person. by Hirsch, Jeffrey A.

Table of Contents: “…Patrick's DayMarch British Pound Invasion; April Almanac; April Tax Time Takes a Bite out of Gold; Bonds Can Go Up When Stocks Go Down; Beef Prices Head South before Summer; May Almanac; Copper Tops in May; Silver Slips in May; Coffee Buzz Fades in Summer; June Almanac; Short Soybeans for Summer; Sugar's Summer Sweet Spot; Summer BBQ Season Gives Beef a Bounce; Mother Nature Makes Corn Pop; July Almanac; Last-Half of July Short S&P 500; Summer Air Conditioning Heats Up Natural Gas; Swiss Franc Follows Gold Higher; August Almanac; August Gives Coffee a Lift…”
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Digital wealth : an automatic way to invest successfully / Simon Moore. by Moore, Simon, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Longer-Term Mean ReversionAssessing Tilts in a Portfolio Context; Notes; Chapter 15 Establishing a Tax-Efficient Portfolio; Tax Shelters; Tax Efficiency for Retirement; Tax Efficiency for College; Tax Efficiency for Giving; Tax-Efficient Asset Placement; Tax Loss Harvesting; Offsetting Gains with Losses; The Principal of Tax Deferral; How Tax Loss Harvesting Works; Challenges of Implementing Tax Loss Harvesting; Conclusion; Chapter 16 The Value of Rebalancing and Glidepaths; Rebalancing Keeps a Portfolio on Course; Tiered Rebalancing; Glidepaths; Notes; Chapter 17 How to Manage a Market Crash.…”
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Macro-prudential policy in a Fisherian model of financial innovation / Javier Bianchi, Emine Boz, Enrique G. Mendoza. by Bianchi, Javier, Boz, Emine, Mendoza, Enrique G., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Figure 11: Decomposition of Taxes on Debt: Gradual OptimismFigure 12: Dynamics in Asymmetric Priors Calibration; Figure 13: Taxes on Debt: Asymmetric Priors.…”
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Doing Business 2017 : Equal Opportunity for All. by Bank, World

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Overview; About Doing Business; Reforming the Business Environment in 2015/16; Case studies; Getting Electricity Factors affecting the reliability of electricity supply; Getting Credit: Legal Rights Two approaches to developing an integrated secured transactions regime; Getting Credit: Credit Information Casting a wide net to expand financial inclusion; Protecting Minority Investors Achieving sound corporate governance; Paying Taxes Assessing postfiling processes; Trading Across Borders Technology gains in trade facilitation.…”
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Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-WA).

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T. Coleman Andrews (1955).

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Offshore incorporated.

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Your Ancestors in the County Courthouse.

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Right Turn.

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Digital wealth : an automatic way to invest successfully / Simon Moore. by Moore, Simon, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Longer-Term Mean ReversionAssessing Tilts in a Portfolio Context; Notes; Chapter 15 Establishing a Tax-Efficient Portfolio; Tax Shelters; Tax Efficiency for Retirement; Tax Efficiency for College; Tax Efficiency for Giving; Tax-Efficient Asset Placement; Tax Loss Harvesting; Offsetting Gains with Losses; The Principal of Tax Deferral; How Tax Loss Harvesting Works; Challenges of Implementing Tax Loss Harvesting; Conclusion; Chapter 16 The Value of Rebalancing and Glidepaths; Rebalancing Keeps a Portfolio on Course; Tiered Rebalancing; Glidepaths; Notes; Chapter 17 How to Manage a Market Crash.…”
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Studies in Labor Markets. by Rosen, Sherwin

Table of Contents: “…Employment in Construction and Distribution Industries: The Impact of The New Jobs Tax Credit; 8. Black Economic Progress after 1964: Who Has Gained and Why?…”
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Magento 2 Beginners Guide. by Guarino, Gabriel

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The new rules of retirement : strategies for a secure future / Robert C. Carlson. by Carlson, Robert C., 1957-

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Popular economics : what the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James can teach you about economics / John Tamny ; foreword by Steve Forbes. by Tamny, John

Table of Contents: “…Taxes. Taxes are nothing more than a price placed on work ; When we tax companied, we rob them of their future ; Government spending did not create the Internet, and has never created a job ; It's the spending, stupid : budget deficits really don't matter ; Capital gains are the elusive jackpot that drive innovation ; The best way to spread the wealth around is to abolish the estate tax ; Wealth inequality is beautiful ; Savers are an economy's most valuable benefactors ; Job creation requires perpetual job destruction ; Bulldoze the Y.S. …”

British Expansion in India (1757-1820).

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Caste and Tribal Identity under Colonialism.

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