books by Christopher L. Jones

books by Christopher L. Jones

books:

Christopher L. Jones

The Intelligent Portfolio: Practical Wisdom on Personal Investing from Financial Engines

Christopher L. Jones

Wiley, 2008

Easy read with great investment advice
This book was well written and easy to read. The author makes the case that we would need about 1500 years of stock market return data to be able to predict stock market returns within +/- 1% with high confidence. Since we only have about 100 years of reliable data, ...

Johannes Renner's Livonian History 1556-1561 (Baltic Studies, Vol 1)
Johannes Renner

Edwin Mellen Press, 1997

Python & XML

Christopher A. Jones, Fred L., Jr. Drake

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2001

Good Coverage of Python XML possibilities
I really liked this book because I was able to quickly start using XML with Python. I tried to use the package docs, but they were often hard to read, and didn't fill me in on the background stuff I needed to know. The examples in this book were easy to understand, ...

The Columbia Viking Desk Encyclopedia: A-K, Volume One (Volume 1, 2nd Edition, Condensed Version)
William Bridgwater, Columbia University, ...

Viking Press, 1952

Nanostructured Catalysts (Nanostructure Science and Technology)

Springer, 2003

With the recent advent of nanotechnology, research and development in the area of nanostructured catalysts has gained unprecedented prominence. Novel materials with potentially exciting new applications in catalysis are being discovered at a much higher rate than ever before. Innovative tools to fabricate, manipulate, characterize, and evaluate ...