Desk Companion: How to Measure, Convert, Calculate and Define Practically Anything
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (803 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 047124953X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The Economist Desk Companion How to Measure, Convert, Calculate and Define Practically Anything Featuring 75 pages of quick-access charts and tables, The Economist Desk Companion provides every international measurement and definition anyone could possibly need for: Accounting • Agriculture • Chemistry • Computers • Economics • Electronics • Energy • Engineering • Finance • Fishing • Food and Drink • Forestry • Health • Light, Optics, and Photography • Mathematics • Minerals and Alloys • South and Music • Paper, Packaging, and Printing • Statistics • Space and Time • Textiles • Transport • Weapons It also features timesaving conversions and calculations of complicated sums such as: Annual percentage rates • Net present values • Percentage reversals • Conversions of square inches into square centimeters • Barrels of oil into tons • Pounds force per square inch into kilograms force per square centimeter With its wide-ranging subject matter and extraordinary detail, The Economist Desk Companion will be indispensable to anyone involved in international business, from students to personal investors to CEOs.
This essential one volume guide compiled by staffers at the esteemed magazine is a convenient one-stop source of significant information on measurements and calculations that are used every day in business, finance, agriculture, and other topics. From the Publisher A quick and ready source of vital information and figures. . In an international business world that moves faster and faster, reliable and accessible information is paramount
This book explains everything, ever. Another super serious review.The Economist doesn't mess around. If you travel for work, grab a copy of the Economist to read on the flight and people around you will assume you are super smart - Beware though, if they ARE super smart they are going to ask you questions about the contents and you are going to be lost. So, try to muddle through - there are always amazing graphic. Jeri T Murray said information. THis book is by the Econonmist, which is a top level magazine which Ican not afford to buy.THis book was affordable. I took it to the New York State Weights and Measures Assoc. just to show it off! They loved it!The best uses of the book are Weights & Measures, and writers. The book has terms used in other countries and diffrent times.Fun to read, just pick it up for any page.. I was hoping it had more of what I was I was hoping it had more of what I was looking for specifically, a step-by-step procedure for converting measurement such as weights, etc. But, it's still thorough in other respects.