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Destiny distrupted

a history of the world through islamic eyes

This is a gripping drama that pulls the reader into great, seminal events of world history, and a book which offers a wealth of knowledge and insight to any reader who wants to understand the movements and events behind the modern-day hostilities wracking Western and ...

Conquistador

Hernán Cortés, Moctezuma y la última batalla de los Aztecas

En 1519, Hernán Cortés llegó a las costas de México con una variopinta tripulación de aventureros y la intención de extender el imperio español. En su viaje, el audaz y rebelde conquistador trató de convertir al catolicismo a la población nativa y reunir una fortuna ...

Winning across global markets

how Nokia creates strategic advantage in a fast-changing world

This title presents lessons for attaining global competitiveness, one market at a time, from international business giant Nokia. "The Future Is Calling" examines how 145-year-old Nokia grew from a paper mill in Finland to a multinational telecommunications leader. Why are Nokia's lessons critical for ...

Alchemists of loss

how modern finance and government intervention crashed the financial system

An engaging look at how modern finance almost destroyed our global economy Over the last thirty years, capital markets have been restructured through the tenets of modern finance. This has been enormously profitable for the financial services sector.

Supertrends

winning investment stretegies for the coming decades

Shows investors and entrepreneurs where to seek out the best investment opportunities.

Selling America short

the SEC and market contrarians in the Age of Absurdity

An industry insider reveals the inner workings of our financial system and the agencies who attempt to control it. During his dozen years as an SEC attorney, author Richard Sauer opened and supervised some of its most notable financial cases - investigations that took him to ...

Dividends still don't lie

the truth about investing in blue chip stocks and winning in the stock market

Foreword by Geraldine Weiss. This is a timely follow-up to the bestselling classic "Dividends Don't Lie". In 1988 Geraldine Weiss wrote the classic "Dividends Don't Lie", which focused on the Dividend-Yield Theory as a method of producing consistent gains in the stock market ...

Hack the Planet

science's best hope -or worst nightmare- for averting climate catastrophe

This title takes you on an inside tour of the incredible - and probably dangerous - plans to counteract the effects of climate change through experiments that range from the plausible to the fantastic. David Battisti had arrived in Cambridge expecting a bloodbath. So had many of ...

Fair pay fair play

aligning executive performance and pay

This title offers a timely look at how to evaluate and determine executive pay. Recognized as the leading expert on executive compensation, Robin Ferracone combines her own 20 years of experience with interviews with executives and compensation committees to provide a clear examination of and ...

Private equity as an asset class

Unfairly reviled, and much misunderstood, private equity differs from all other asset classes in various important respects, not least the way in which its fund mechanisms operate, and the way in which its returns are recorded and analysed. Sadly, high level asset allocation decisions are ...

Credit derivatives

trading investing, and risk management

The credit derivatives industry has come under close scrutiny over the past few years, with the recent financial crisis highlighting the instability of a number of credit structures and throwing the industry into turmoil. What has been made clear by recent events is the necessity ...

Exotic options and hybrids

a guide to structuring pricing and trading

The recent financial crisis brought to light many of the misunderstandings and misuses of exotic derivatives. With market participants on both the buy and sell-side having been found guilty of not understanding the products they were dealing with, never before has there been a greater ...

Michael Wittmann

y Villers-Bocage, 1944

Ilustraciones de Greve Fernández. La Segunda Guerra Mundial fue un conflicto repleto de hechos espectaculares, entre los que sin duda destaca la hazaña del carrista alemán Michael Wittman en un pequeño pueblo francés de Normandía que desde entonces alcanzó fama imperecedera entre los estudiosos del ...

The endowment model of investing

return, risk, and diversification

This title offers a cutting-edge look at the endowment model of investing. Many larger endowments and foundations have adopted a broadly diversified asset allocation strategy with only a small amount of traditional U.S. equities and bonds. This technique, known as the 'endowment model of ...

Mastering corporate finance essentials

the critical quantitative methods and tools in finance

An essential guide to corporate finance Understanding corporate finance is a necessity for financial practitioners who struggle every day to find the right balance between maximizing corporate value and reducing a firm's financial risk. Divided into two comprehensive parts, Mastering Corporate Finance Essentials presents ...

Post-crisis risk management

bracing for the next perfect storm

'Tsuyoshi Oyama, an experienced risk management professional, has produced a valuable and insightful examination of the causes of the global financial crisis, the initial public sector responses to the crisis, and his recommendations on how best to bolster international financial soundness. A Japanese perspective on ...

A pocket guide to risk mathematics

key concepts every auditor should know

This uniquely accessible, breakthrough book lets auditors grasp the thinking behind the mathematical approach to risk without doing the mathematics. Risk control expert and former Big 4 auditor, Matthew Leitch, takes the reader gently but quickly through the key concepts, explaining mistakes organizations often make ...

How an economy grows and why it crashes

two tales of the economy

"How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes" uses illustration, humor, and accessible storytelling to explain complex topics of economic growth and monetary systems. In it, economic expert and bestselling author of Crash Proof, Peter Schiff teams up with his brother Andrew to apply their ...

How to measure anything

finding the value of "intangibles" in business

This title is now updated with new research and even more intuitive explanations, a demystifying explanation of how managers can inform themselves to make less risky, more profitable business decisions. This insightful and eloquent book will show you how to measure those things in your ...

Making money in forex

trade like a pro without giving up your day job

This is a practical guide to trading around the commitments of career and family. "Making Money in Forex" will help aspiring traders successfully enter this field while maintaining a job. With this book, author Ryan O'Keefe explains his own personal journey to becoming a ...