Desk Companion: How to Measure, Convert, Calculate and Define Practically Anything

By Economist Books and The Economist

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047124953X
• ISBN13: 9780471249535
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.4" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Informative

helped me get me texts quicker, and my mental comparisons make a lot more sense.