Subtitle: New adult-training methods that make the learning process active and enjoyable Author: Harold D. Stolovitch, Erica J. Keeps (US) Publisher: Enterprise Management Publishing House Publication year: 2012-1 ISBN: 9787802558861 Note: It mainly discusses how interactive training can achieve very good training results, analyzes the training and learning process and psychology, and proposes four training methods along with some suggestions.

1. How Society Runs on Credit First, let’s do a Q&A: @ask:Why can you ride the bus with just a card? @answer:Because I topped it up. @ask:Money? Then where did your money come from? @answer:My monthly salary. @ask:Why does the company pay you a salary every month? @answer:We signed a contract.

1. The Significance of the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model The Black-Scholes model and some of its variants have been widely used by option traders, investment banks, financial managers, insurers, and others. The expansion of derivative instruments has made international financial markets more efficient, but it has also made global markets more volatile.

English title: The Black Swan Subtitle: How to Deal with an Unpredictable Future Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb Translator: Wan Dan Publisher: CITIC Press Publication Year: 2009-8 ISBN: 9787508616018 Notes: The author uses his own experiences — the Lebanese war, a journalist’s war diary, a stock market crash, Yevgenia’s book — as his entry points, describing from personal experience this world that lives in uncertainty.

Function Description abs(number) Returns the absolute value of a number apply(function[, args[, kwds]]) Calls the given function, optionally providing arguments all(iterable) Returns True if all elements of the iterable are true, otherwise False any(iterable) Returns True if any element of the iterable is true, otherwise False basestring() Abstract superclass of str and unicode, used for type checking bool(object) Returns True or False depending on the boolean value of object callable(object) Checks whether an object is callable chr(number) Returns the character whose ASCII code is the given number classmethod(func) Creates a class method from an instance method cmp(x, y) Compares x and y — returns a positive number if x>y; returns 0 if x==y complex(real[, imag]) Returns the complex number with the given real part (and optional imaginary part) delattr(object, name) Deletes the given attribute from the given object dict([mapping-or-sequence]) Constructs a dictionary, optionally from a mapping or a list of (key, value) pairs.