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How biased samples, chosen averages and cut-off chart axes make numbers mislead.

Antitrust should rest on the economics of efficiency, not on protecting competitors.

How futures, options and swaps work and how to price and hedge them.

The economic criteria for setting regulated utility rates.

The standard cost accounting text, built around costs that serve managers' decisions.

Stigum's institutional bible of bills, repo, CP and Fed funds.

The standard reference on every kind of bond, its analysis and its management.

The economics of shipping: the market cycle, freight rates and vessel costs.

The standard text on bonds: instruments, valuation, risk and portfolio strategy.

How the music business works in contracts and money, from a music lawyer.

Predicting corporate failure with models like the Z-score, and how bankruptcy works.

Lease structures, residual values and tax treatment of equipment leasing.

The standard text on non-recourse financing of infrastructure projects.

A reference on municipal bonds: credit analysis, structures and analytics.

A catalogue reviewing over 1,500 tools and what each one is good for.

Survey of what humans have known, era by era

Retail-investor guide with the clearest chapters on buying munis.

Real estate finance from property law to mortgages, underwriting and valuation.

The publishing-side reference on royalty streams and licensing income.

How the repo market works as the way securities positions are financed.

How to run an open source project, its community and its sponsors.

The standard academic text on airline economics.

How project finance deals are structured, with the theory and worked cases.

The closest thing to a cat bond reference; several chapters on structure and triggers.

How convertible bonds are priced, structured and risk-managed.

Extends the same treatment to CoCos and other hybrids.

How funders back claims in international arbitration, and how it is regulated.

How litigation funders raise money, pick cases, structure deals and earn returns.

An 1829 household economy manual that treats thrift as a financial system.

Numbered rules of English usage and composition, with examples, under 100 pages.

A method for reading hard books for understanding, not just information.

Quantum theory applied to atoms, molecules, solids, nuclei and particles.

A 70-question test that sorts readers into 16 temperament types, like Myers-Briggs.

Second edition 2017 with Mark Etzkorn, titled A Complete Guide to the Futures Market.

A one- or two-semester modern physics course built on quantum theory and its uses.

Performance data on over 6,000 stocks, 7,000 bonds and 700 mutual funds.

Plain-language guide to reading the three financial statements.

Techniques for designing data structures in functional languages, with examples.

How to ride a motorcycle well on city streets and country roads and handle hazards.

Maps in sequence of peoples in Europe and the Near East, from 50,000 BC to AD 362.

Quantum field theory for students who have finished a course in quantum mechanics.

Tips and tools for securing Linux, Windows, BSD and Mac servers and networks.

How to get a mutual fund off the ground: what to do, what it costs, how it works.

Practical Lisp programming, from language features to projects like an mp3 server.

An introduction to the structure and function of the nervous system for students.

LSTA reference on how leveraged loans are originated, syndicated and traded.

Nearly 200 entries by leading mathematicians on modern maths and its core ideas.

A trader's technical primer on oil barrels, grades, refining and pricing.

How the US economy really works, explained for lay readers without jargon.

Study outlines and FAA questions for passing the private pilot knowledge test.

How to choose, brew and enjoy artisan coffee at home, with 40 recipes.

Short illustrated catalogue of the common logical fallacies

Mechanisms for writing parallel and concurrent programs in Haskell.

Short procedural handbook for funded claims in England.

An introduction to quantum field theory for beginners and self-learners.

English-law practitioner text on funding agreements.

Expert entries on applied maths: concepts, modelling, simulation and applications.

How to analyse and invest in small community banks that institutions ignore.

The only book-length treatment of aircraft leasing; a textbook.

Ethiopia's economy sector by sector: history, foreign exchange, agriculture and land.

The official guide to the Nmap scanner, from port-scanning basics to pen testing.

How to split, stack and season firewood and build a fire, the Scandinavian way.

Ocean flying for small-plane pilots: navigation, weather, equipment and regulations.

Operating system principles, from processes to file systems, shown in the MINIX code.

The theory, techniques and uses of partial evaluation, which specialises programs.

How to prepare for programming job interviews: languages, patterns and algorithms.

Quantum algorithms, teleportation, cryptography and error correction, from basics.

The foundations and methods of modern particle physics, through the Standard Model.

Quantum mechanics, its formalism and practice, through nearly 700 worked problems.

Scratch-and-sniff scents like butter and grass, and the wines in which they show up.