Best Selling Books by Ivo

Corporate Finance: An Introduction presents core principles of corporate finance within a unique organizational structure that builds from perfect to imperfect markets. This unifying perspective and an example-driven presentation develop students'' understanding by building from simple to complex and from concrete to theoretical.

Successful branding is more than just a logo or a catchy slogan—it’s about creating lasting emotional connections that foster trust, loyalty, and long-term success. In The Branding Boardroom, Dr. Ivo Ganchev presents compelling interviews with five globally renowned branding experts: Martin Roll, Sophie Bowman, Dennis Yu, Prof. Oliver Errichiello, and Dr. Francesca Hansstein. Each shares their unique perspectives on navigating the complex world of branding, from harnessing the power of social media influencers to using data-driven strategies to build consumer loyalty. These conversations explore the art and science behind successful branding in a global marketplace, offering practical strategies that blend innovation with timeless principles. With insights on adapting to local cultures, leveraging data, and building authentic connections, this book serves as a vital guide for business leaders, branding professionals, and anyone looking to elevate their brand to the next level. Meet the Author Dr. Ivo Ganchev is a business strategist, political consultant, and branding expert with extensive experience advising Fortune 500 companies and government bodies. He is currently the Director of Corporate Education and an Assistant Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University. Dr. Ganchev has previously served in senior business roles such as Global Partner at the boutique Chinese consultancy TopBrand Union, published three edited books and numerous academic articles, and taught at top universities, including Queen Mary University of London. As a speaker of six languages educated in international studies at Peking University and the London School of Economics, Dr. Ganchev brings a unique perspective to leadership and strategy, combining practical business insights with a global outlook. Meet the Experts • Martin Roll – Global business strategist, bestselling author of Asian Brand Strategy, advising Fortune 500 companies and family offices on strategy and leadership. • Sophie Bowman – Award-winning marketing guru and Forbes contributor, specializing in social media and influencer marketing and serving global celebrities. • Dennis Yu – CEO of BlitzMetrics, digital marketing expert with over 30 years of experience, and a sought-after keynote speaker in over 20 countries. • Prof. Oliver Errichiello – Professor of Brandsociology and founder of Büro für Markenentwicklung, specializing in building timeless brands and enhancing public trust. • Dr. Francesca Hansstein – Consultant and academic specializing in Chinese consumer behavior and market research, with extensive experience in food consumption studies. For more information or to download a free electronic copy of this book, visit www.thebrandingboardroom.com. All proceeds from the sales of paper copies will be donated to charity.

A biracial son of a subcontinental, migrant family searches for his estranged father''s story and ultimately rewrites his own.

Witchcraft to Celebrate Your Witty and Versatile Self Enhance your magical practice and personal development with the power of your Gemini Sun sign. Ivo Dominguez, Jr. and Laura Tempest Zakroff share what strengths and challenges your sign brings to both witchcraft and everyday life. Featuring recipes, exercises, stories, rituals, and spells from the authors and a host of Gemini contributors, this book teaches you how to best connect with your sign''s energy, manage your power, cleanse and shield yourself, tailor-fit magical workings to your sign, and more. Contributors to this volume: Chris Allaun • Crystal Blanton • Irene Glasse • Tiffany Lazic • Najah Lightfoot • Austin Nix · Dawn Aurora Hunt · Sandra Kynes

The purpose of this book is to describe the rules of due process as they are being applied today and as they have evolved over the years. The book offers an intensive analysis of the more important issues of due process that arise in the quasi-criminal context of infringement proceedings and in the somewhat less adversarial context of merger clearance proceedings.

Witchcraft to Celebrate Your Intuitive & Compassionate Self Nourish your magical practice and personal development with the power of your Pisces Sun sign. Ivo Dominguez, Jr. and Mat Auryn share what strengths and challenges your sign brings to both witchcraft and everyday life. Featuring recipes, exercises, stories, rituals, and spells from the authors and a host of Pisces contributors, this book teaches you how to best connect with your sign’s energy, manage your power, cleanse and shield yourself, tailor-fit magical workings to your sign, and more. Contributors to this volume: Byron Ballard • Patricia M. Lafayllve • Heron Michelle • Thea Sabin • Thealandrah • Matthew Venus • Dawn Aurora Hunt • Sandra Kynes

Witchcraft to Celebrate Your Intelligent & Skillful Self Improve your magical practice and personal development with the power of your Virgo Sun sign. Ivo Dominguez, Jr. and Thumper Forge share what strengths and challenges your sign brings to both witchcraft and everyday life. Featuring recipes, exercises, stories, rituals, and spells from the authors and a host of Virgo contributors, this book teaches you how to best connect with your sign''s energy, manage your power, cleanse and shield yourself, tailor-fit magical workings to your sign, and more. Contributors to this volume: Stephanie Rose Bird • Alexander Cabot • Ellen Dugan • Gina Martini • Mercedes NineMoons • Katrina Rasbold • Dawn Aurora Hunt • Sandra Kynes

Who were key figures in the making of European monetary union? Which ideas did they contribute to ensuring that monetary union would be sustainable? How prescient were they in identifying the necessary and sufficient foundations of a sustainable monetary union? This book provides the first systematic historical examination of key architects of European monetary union in the period before its launch in 1999. Using original archival and interview research, it investigates the intellectual and career backgrounds of these architects, their networking skills, and their own doubts and reservations about the way in which monetary union was being constructed. In the light of the later Euro Area, Architects of the Euro deals critically with not just their contribution to the making of European monetary union but also their legacy. The book brings together a distinguished group of scholars working on the history of Economic and Monetary Union.

When communism was ushered into Czechoslovakia, it was supposed to last forever – yet over eleven days in November 1989, this supposedly eternal order collapsed. Why did it fall apart so easily? This respected sociological essay, written in the pivotal years of 1989 and 1990, is now available for the first time in English. Ivo Možný tells the story of a despotic state expropriating the Czechoslovak family and subjugating the personal sphere in exchange for promises of a bright collective future, only for the regime to be vanquished forty years later by the very institution it had dispossessed. The essay explains the reasons for communism’s downfall, examining the private aspirations of whole swaths of nameless social actors that left hardly anyone interested in keeping the regime afloat.

Learn dynamic programming with Julia to build apps for data analysis, visualization, machine learning, and the web Key FeaturesLeverage Julia''s high speed and efficiency to build fast, efficient applicationsPerform supervised and unsupervised machine learning and time series analysisTackle problems concurrently and in a distributed environmentBook Description Julia offers the high productivity and ease of use of Python and R with the lightning-fast speed of C++. There’s never been a better time to learn this language, thanks to its large-scale adoption across a wide range of domains, including fintech, biotech and artificial intelligence (AI). You will begin by learning how to set up a running Julia platform, before exploring its various built-in types. This Learning Path walks you through two important collection types: arrays and matrices. You’ll be taken through how type conversions and promotions work, and in further chapters you''ll study how Julia interacts with operating systems and other languages. You’ll also learn about the use of macros, what makes Julia suitable for numerical and scientific computing, and how to run external programs. Once you have grasped the basics, this Learning Path goes on to how to analyze the Iris dataset using DataFrames. While building a web scraper and a web app, you’ll explore the use of functions, methods, and multiple dispatches. In the final chapters, you''ll delve into machine learning, where you''ll build a book recommender system. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be well versed with Julia and have the skills you need to leverage its high speed and efficiency for your applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: Julia 1.0 Programming - Second Edition by Ivo BalbaertJulia Programming Projects by Adrian SalceanuWhat you will learnCreate your own types to extend the built-in type systemVisualize your data in Julia with plotting packagesExplore the use of built-in macros for testing and debuggingIntegrate Julia with other languages such as C, Python, and MATLABAnalyze and manipulate datasets using Julia and DataFramesDevelop and run a web app using Julia and the HTTP packageBuild a recommendation system using supervised machine learningWho this book is for If you are a statistician or data scientist who wants a quick course in the Julia programming language while building big data applications, this Learning Path is for you. Basic knowledge of mathematics and programming is a must.

The clash of Napoleon''s consul and his Austrian rival in Turkish Bosnia, where the westerners struggle to maintain their standards in a Balkan maelstrom.

Witchcraft to Celebrate Your Optimistic & Adventurous Self Boost your magical practice and personal development with the power of your Sagittarius Sun sign. Ivo Dominguez, Jr. and Enfys J. Book share what strengths and challenges your sign brings to both witchcraft and everyday life. Featuring recipes, exercises, stories, rituals, and spells from the authors and a host of Sagittarius contributors, this book teaches you how to best connect with your sign''s energy, manage your power, cleanse and shield yourself, tailor-fit magical workings to your sign, and more. Contributors to this volume: Mama Gina • Donyelle Headington • Devin Hunter • Cosette Paneque • Michael G. Smith • Natalie Zaman • Dawn Aurora Hunt • Sandra Kynes

This volume presents practical guidelines for students, professors, and lifelong learners on how to seek, define, and improve our creative role in our common journey to sustainability. It describes innovative ideas for achieving sustainable development goals and global peace by solving pressing societal, environmental, and economic challenges with the development of new knowledge, skills, and technologies. The readers are invited to examine their values and creative purpose, and to realign their minds and hearts toward achieving personal victories on the path to sustainability.

Drawing on interviews with many key U.S., NATO, and allied participants, the authors explore the causes, conduct, and consequences of the Kosovo conflict.

Discover how to use the next-generation language Red for full-stack development, from systems coding over user-interfaces to blockchain programming Key Features Explore the latest features of Red to build scalable, fast, and secure applications Learn graphical programming and build highly sophisticated reactive applications Get familiar with the specific concepts and techniques of Red development, like working with series, viewing code as data, and using dialects. Book Description A key problem of software development today is software bloat, where huge toolchains and development environments are needed in software coding and deployment. Red significantly reduces this bloat by offering a minimalist but complete toolchain. This is the first introductory book about it, and it will get you up and running with Red as quickly as possible. This book shows you how to write effective functions, reduce code redundancies, and improve code reuse. It will be helpful for new programmers who are starting out with Red to explore its wide and ever-growing package ecosystem and also for experienced developers who want to add Red to their skill set. The book presents the fundamentals of programming in Red and in-depth informative examples using a step-by-step approach. You will be taken through concepts and examples such as doing simple metaprogramming, functions, collections, GUI applications, and more. By the end of the book, you will be fully equipped to start your own projects in Red. What you will learn Set up your Red environment to achieve the highest productivity Get grounded in Red, gaining experience and insight through many examples and exercises Build simple, compact, and portable applications Analyze streams of data through Parse Compose GUI applications with View and Draw Get prepared for smart contract blockchain programming in Red Who this book is for This book is for software developers and architects who want to learn Red because of its conciseness, flexibility, and expressiveness, and more specifically for its possibilities in GUI apps and blockchain / smart contracts programming. Some knowledge of the basic concepts and experience of any programming language is assumed.

The students will review programming concepts such as functions, if-statements, for-loops and physics, but also dive into using mathematical concepts to code more complicated games. Among other things, students will learn about Pythagoras'' theorem, sine curves and linear interpolation. Students will finish with a cool fruit-slashing game, inspired by the popular mobile game Fruit Ninja!

Practical strategies and techniques for automating network infrastructure As networks grow ever more complex, network professionals are seeking to automate processes for configuration, management, testing, deployment, and operation. Using automation, they aim to lower expenses, improve productivity, reduce human error, shorten time to market, and improve agility. In this guide, expert practitioner Ivo Pinto presents all the concepts and techniques you''ll need to move your entire physical and virtual infrastructure towards greater automation and maximize the value it delivers. Writing for experienced professionals, the author reviews today''s leading use cases for automation, compares leading tools, and presents a deep dive into using the open source Ansible engine to automate common tasks. You''ll find everything you need: from practical code snippets to real-world case studies to a complete methodology for planning strategy. This guide is for everyone seeking to improve network operations and productivity, including system, network, storage, and virtualization administrators, network and security engineers, and many other technical professionals and managers. You can apply its vendor-neutral concepts throughout your entire environment—from servers to the cloud, switches to security. Explore modern use cases for network automation, and compare today''s most widely used automation tools Capture essential data for use in network automation, using standard formats such as JSON, XML, and YAML Get more value from the data your network can provide Install Ansible and master its building blocks, including plays, tasks, modules, variables, conditionals, loops, and roles Perform common networking tasks with Ansible playbooks: manage files, devices, VMs, cloud constructs, APIs, and more See how Ansible can be used to automate even the largest global network architectures Discover how NetDevOps can transform your approach to automation--and create a new NetDevOps pipeline, step by step Build a network automation strategy from the ground up, reflecting lessons from the world''s largest enterprises

What is the role of regional organizations in maintaining security across different parts of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? How did COVID-19 impact states in the region and what types of collective action have helped respond to public health emergencies? In what way is LAC environmental policy formulated and what broader lessons can be drawn for the Global South? This edited volume addresses these questions, revealing the reasons behind the successes and failures of LAC regional responses to collective challenges as well as their limitations and potential for future improvement. It contains 11 chapters, authored by 16 authoritative academics who employ methodologically-diverse perspectives. Each chapter provides insights that would be of interest to scholars, students and policy-makers working on the regional governance of LAC and the Global South. The contributions are thematically organised in three parts and produced with pragmatic considerations in mind, discussing existing and potential real solutions to pressing issues.

Leverage the features of TypeScript to boost your development skills and create captivating applications About This Book Learn how to develop modular, scalable, maintainable, and adaptable web applications by taking advantage of TypeScript Explore techniques to use TypeScript alongside other leading tools such as Angular 2, React, and Node.js Focusing on design patterns in TypeScript, this step-by-step guide demonstrates all the important design patterns in practice Who This Book Is For This Learning Path is for intermediate-level JavaScript developers who want to use TypeScript to build beautiful web applications and fun projects. No prior knowledge of TypeScript is required, but a basic understanding of jQuery is expected. This Learning Path is also for experienced TypeScript developers who want to take their skills to the next level, and also for web developers who wish to make the most of TypeScript. What You Will Learn Understand the key TypeScript language features and runtime Install and configure the necessary tools in order to start developing an application Create object-oriented code that adheres to the SOLID principles Develop robust applications with testing (Mocha, Chai, and SinonJS) Apply GoF patterns in an application with a testing approach Identify the challenges when developing an application Migrate JavaScript codebases to TypeScript to improve your workflow Utilize System.JS and Webpack to load scripts and their dependencies Develop high performance server-side applications to run within Node.js In Detail TypeScript is an open source and cross-platform typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript that runs in any browser or any host. TypeScript adds optional static types, classes, and modules to JavaScript, to enable great tooling and better structuring of large JavaScript applications. Through this three-module learning path, you''ll learn the ins-and-outs of TypeScript for building more robust software. The first module gets you started with TypeScript and helps you understand the basics of TypeScript and automation tools. Get a detailed description of function, generics, callbacks, and promises, and discover the object-oriented features and memory management functionality of TypeScript. The next module starts by explaining the current challenges when designing and developing an application and how you can solve these challenges by applying the correct design pattern and best practices. You will be introduced to low-level programming concepts to help you write TypeScript code, as well as working with software architecture, best practices, and design aspects. The final module will help you build a complete single page app with Angular 2, create a neat mobile app using NativeScript, and even build a Pac Man game with TypeScript. As if the fun wasn''t enough, you''ll also find out how to migrate your legacy codebase from JavaScript to TypeScript. By the end of this Learning Path, you will be able to take your skills up a notch and develop full-fledged web applications using the latest features of the TypeScript. This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: Learning TypeScript by Remo H. Jansen TypeScript Design Patterns by Vilic Vane TypeScript Blueprints by Ivo Gabe de Wolff Style and approach This is a step-by-step, practical guide covering the fundamentals of TypeScript with practical examples. The end-to-end projects included in this book will give you ready-to-implement solutions for your business scenario, showcasing the depth and robustness of TypeScript.

Leverage the power of Julia to design and develop high performing programs About This Book Get to know the best techniques to create blazingly fast programs with Julia Stand out from the crowd by developing code that runs faster than your peers'' code Complete an extensive data science project through the entire cycle from ETL to analytics and data visualization Who This Book Is For This learning path is for data scientists and for all those who work in technical and scientific computation projects. It will be great for Julia developers who are interested in high-performance technical computing. This learning path assumes that you already have some basic working knowledge of Julia''s syntax and high-level dynamic languages such as MATLAB, R, Python, or Ruby. What You Will Learn Set up your Julia environment to achieve the highest productivity Solve your tasks in a high-level dynamic language and use types for your data only when needed Apply Julia to tackle problems concurrently and in a distributed environment Get a sense of the possibilities and limitations of Julia''s performance Use Julia arrays to write high performance code Build a data science project through the entire cycle of ETL, analytics, and data visualization Display graphics and visualizations to carry out modeling and simulation in Julia Develop your own packages and contribute to the Julia Community In Detail In this learning path, you will learn to use an interesting and dynamic programming language—Julia! You will get a chance to tackle your numerical and data problems with Julia. You''ll begin the journey by setting up a running Julia platform before exploring its various built-in types. We''ll then move on to the various functions and constructs in Julia. We''ll walk through the two important collection types—arrays and matrices in Julia. You will dive into how Julia uses type information to achieve its performance goals, and how to use multiple dispatch to help the compiler emit high performance machine code. You will see how Julia''s design makes code fast, and you''ll see its distributed computing capabilities. By the end of this learning path, you will see how data works using simple statistics and analytics, and you''ll discover its high and dynamic performance—its real strength, which makes it particularly useful in highly intensive computing tasks. This learning path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: Getting Started with Julia by Ivo Balvaert Julia High Performance by Avik Sengupta Mastering Julia by Malcolm Sherrington Style and approach This hands-on manual will give you great explanations of the important concepts related to Julia programming.

This book provides the first monograph of Coccinellidae. Although the group finds inclusion both in Clausen''s (1940) "Entomophagous Insects" and in Balduf''s (1935) "Entomophagous Coleoptera", reference in these works is limited to three and twenty pages respectively. Moreover, the last thirty years since these books appeared have ~een a great deal of work on the group. The use of insecticides largely destroyed the early attempts at biological control and interest remained low for as long as insecticides appeared quite successfuL However, the problems of insecticides soon became apparent, and in the last decade there have been tremendous developments in biological control, particularly in eombin

World War II, known as the Great Patriotic War to Russians, ravaged the Soviet Union and traumatized those who survived. After the war, memory of this anguish was often publicly repressed under Stalin. But that all changed by the 1960s. Under Brezhnev, the idea of the Great Patriotic War was transformed into one of victory and celebration. In Russia''s Hero Cities, Ivo Mijnssen reveals how contradictory national recollections were revised into an idealized past that both served official needs and offered a narrative of heroism. This triumphant narrative was most evident in the creation of 13 Hero Cities, now located across Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. These cities, which were host to some of the fiercest and most famous battles, were named champions. Brezhnev''s government officially recognized these cities with awards, financial contributions, and ritualized festivities. Their citizens also encountered the altered history at every corner—on manicured battlefields, in war memorials, and through stories at the kitchen table. Using a rich tapestry of archival material, oral history interviews, and newspaper articles, Mijnssen provides a thorough exploration of two cities in particular, Tula and Novorossiysk. By exploring the significance of Hero Cities in Soviet identity and the enduring but conflicted importance they hold for Russians today, Russia''s Hero Cities exposes how the Great Patriotic War no longer has the power to mask the deep rifts still present in Russian society.

This volume presents a survey of the painting of American artist Edward Hopper (1882-1967). While most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. In both his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life, depicting the loneliness of big-city people in canvas after canvas. Many of Hopper''s pictures represent views of streets and roads, rooftops, abandoned houses, depicted in brilliant light that strangely belies the melancholy mood of the scenes. Hopper''s paintings are marked by striking juxta-positions of color, and by the clear contours with which the figures are demarcated from their surroundings. His extremely precise focus on the theme of modern men and women in natural and man-made environments sometimes lends his pictures a mood of eerie disquiet.