“robert pardo”

Praise For The Evaluation and Optimization of Trading Strategies SECOND EDITION "The testing process is key to a profitable trading method and Bob Pardo brings order and sanity to it. He shows the reader how to navigate the minefield of optimization and offers walk-forward testing as a way to change... More

Praise for Beating the Financial Futures Market "A must-read for all system traders--and even for those who aren't. Art Collins demonstrates why system trading works, and points out the biggest pitfall: the trader himself! By the way, there are a lot of good trading systems in this book, too." --Law... More

This is a collection of stories by Emilia Pardo Bazan (1851-1921), a Spanish author who often found the subject matter of her stories in the mysteries and vicissitudes of life. Some of her tales are fictional accounts of actual occurrences or people ("The Pardon", "A Galician Mother", and "The Lady ... More

A young priest arrives at Pazos de Ulloa to help Don Pedro manage his household. The priest soon discovers that behind the noble facade lies disaster, ruin, and worst of all, sin.... More

Este libro es una verdadera evocacion o reconstruccion del pasado, mas bien que un estudio historico. La leyenda del Santo, la parte mas bella del libro, esta contada y descrita con una plasticidad, y al mismo tiempo con una suavidad de idilio mistico, que sin confundirse ni con el ingenuo realismo ... More

CONTENTS The Evolution of Russia Scope and Purpose of the Present Essay; The Russian Country; The Russian Race; Russian History; The Russian Autocracy; The Agrarian Communes; Social Classes in Russia; Russian Serfdom Russian Nihilism and its Literature The Word "Nihilism"; Origin of the Intellectual... More

CONTENTS First Love, by Emilia Pardo Bazan An Andalusian Duel, by Serafin Estebanez Calderon Mariquita the Bald, by Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch The Love of Clotilde, by Armando Palacio Valdes Captain Veneno's Proposal of Marriage, by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon... More

Este libro contiene las descripciones, escritas en el momento y lugar en que sucedieron, de pasajes claves de la peregrinacion de la autora desde Madrid a la Ciudad Eterna, Roma, con motivo del Jubileo sacerdotal del Papa Leon XIII en diciembre de 1887. Dona Emilia Pardo Bazan de Quiroga (1851-1921)... More

Emilia Pardo Bazan (1852-1921) stands as perhaps the Spanish speaking world's greatest woman novelist. Along with Galdos and Clarin she was one of the three most important writers of late 19th century Spain. An intellectual of astounding breadth, she was the leading exponent of the Naturalist litera... More