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Interest rate swaps and other derivatives

The first swap was executed over thirty years ago. Since then, the interest rate swaps and other derivative markets have grown and diversified in phenomenal directions. Derivatives are used today by a myriad of institutional investors for the purposes of risk management, expressing a view ...

On the account

piracy and the Americas, 1766-1835

In addition to being commercialised and romanticised, piracy's history has also been distorted, with many works straying far from the facts recorded in the Age of Sail. In this book, author Joseph Gibbs goes back to many of the original materials about those who ...

La Capilla de Música de la Catedral de Ávila

(siglos XV al XVIII)

INDICE: 1. Del silencio al sonido: los inicios de la música en la catedral de Ávila en la Edad Media..2. "Para el servicio del coro y aumento del culto divino": organización y marco jurídico de la capilla de música en el siglo XVI..3 ...

La conquista social de la tierra

¿de dónde venimos? ¿qué somos? ¿adónde vamos?

¿De dónde venimos? ¿Qué somos? ¿Adónde vamos? En una obra apasionante que culmina el trabajo de toda una vida, Edward O. Wilson plantea estas tres cuestiones fundamentales y demuestra que la religión, la filosofía y la reflexión no pueden dar respuestas por sí solas, y ...

Democratization and research methods

Democratization and Research Methods is a coherent survey and critique of both democratization research and the methodology of comparative politics. The two themes enhance each other: the democratization literature illustrates the advantages and disadvantages of various methodological approaches, and the critique of methods makes sense ...

Escritos franceses

Los escritos aquí reunidos corresponden al último período de la vida de Walter Benjamin: su exilio en Francia, desde 1933 hasta su suicidio en 1940, cuando no pudo obtener una visa para entrar a España. Ya se trate de los trabajos que su autor redactó ...

El Contrato Social

Este explosivo llamamiento de Rousseau a favor de la libertad humana contribuyó a encender la mecha de la Revolución Francesa y ha avivado desde entonces cualquier debate sobre cómo deberíamos gobernarnos los unos a los otros, siendo considerado tanto un modelo para el terror político ...

The luxury strategy

break the rules of marketing to build luxury brands

"The Luxury Strategy" has established itself as the definitive work on the essence of a luxury strategy, providing a thorough understanding of the unique (and often paradoxical) rules for successful luxury brand management. Completely revised and updated, the second edition of this classic text explores ...

Demystifying strategy

how to become s strategic thinker

"Demystifying Strategy" provides you with not only the basic strategic tools and techniques but also a thorough understanding of the entire process of strategic thinking and management. Using tips, guidelines and exercises it helps you to assess your own strategic mind and covers key topics ...

A secular Europe

Law nad religion in the european constitutional landscape

How to accommodate diverse religious practices and laws within a secular framework is one of the most pressing and controversial problems facing contemporary European public order. In this provocative contribution to the subject, Lorenzo Zucca argues that traditional models of secularism, focusing on the relationship ...

Computational methods in finance

As today's financial products have become more complex, quantitative analysts, financial engineers, and others in the financial industry now require robust techniques for numerical analysis. Covering advanced quantitative techniques, Computational Methods in Finance explains how to solve complex functional equations through numerical methods. The ...

Transparency in EU Institutional Law

a practitioner's handbook

Transparency of the European Union's institutions has engendered much law over the last ten years. This handbook is the first publication to provide a comprehensive practical overview of these rules. Moreover, the author discusses in detail the practice that has developed within the institutions ...

Animal rights without liberation

applied ethics and human obligations

Alasdair Cochrane introduces an entirely new theory of animal rights grounded in their interests as sentient beings. He then applies this theory to different and underexplored policy areas, such as genetic engineering, pet-keeping, indigenous hunting, and religious slaughter. In contrast to other proponents of animal ...

Take back the center

progressive taxation for a new progressive agenda

Midcentury America was governed from the center, a bipartisan consensus of politicians and public opinion that supported government spending on education, the construction of a vast network of interstate highways, healthcare for senior citizens, and environmental protection. These projects were paid for by a steeply ...

Una historia de la medicina

o el aliento de Hipócrates

"Una historia de la medicina o el aliento de Hipócrates" es una obra divulgativa de interés general para el gran público que abre caminos de reflexión para cualquier tipo de lector, al mostrar numerosos temas desde una dimensión científica asociada al universo del arte. Se ...

The flame of Miletus

the birth of science in Ancient Greece (and how it changed the world)

Miletus: one of the wealthiest and most important towns in ancient Greece. It was here, on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor, in the 6th century BC, that the great traditions of Greek science and philosophy sparked into life, setting in motion a chain of ...

The reason why

the post Civil-War agrarian crisis in Spain

This book analyses the influence of Francoist policy on agricultural output in the 1939-55 period. The focus is on the wheat, olive and wine sectors and special attention is given to small-scale farmers. Agrarian policy for wheat and olive oil included pricefixing, production quotas and ...

Geoconservación

Millones de personas se desplazan cada año para visitar el gran cañón del Colorado, las cataratas Victoria o el valle de Ordesa, lo cual no hace sino demostrar que la geología desempeña un papel esencial en gran parte de los paisajes emblemáticos de nuestro planeta ...

El pensamiento vivo de Kierkegaard

«A lo largo de una vida industriosa, Auden aceptó muchos encargos y siempre los enriqueció con su creatividad. El pensamiento vivo de Kierkegaard es más que una antología, pues con gran atrevimiento da nueva forma a la obra del pensador danés y ofrece una introducción ...

Ámbar

Hace unos 30.000 años alguien se aprovisionó de ámbar en el norte de la península Ibérica para adornarse… En nuestros días, el astronauta Pedro Duque se llevó consigo, como diversión científica, una pieza que contenía un insecto a orbitar el planeta. El ámbar o ...