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Extreme events

robust portfolio construction in the presence of fat tails

With slight exaggeration, a case can be made that modern finance has been built, in practice, if not in theory, on implicit tolerance and widespread ignorance of extreme events." -Jean Pierre Landau, Deputy Governor, Banque du France Markets are fat-tailed; extreme outcomes occur more often ...

Executive's guide to solvency II

A straightforward guide to the evolution, benefits, and implementation of Solvency II Providing a guide to the evolution, practice, benefits, and implementation of Solvency II, Executive's Guide to Solvency II deftly covers this major European regulation which ensures that insurers can meet their risk-based ...

Cinema and the Swastika

the international expansion of Third Reich cinema

Eds. Roel Vande Winkel, David Welch. Cinema and the Swastika is the very first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of the Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to economically, politically and culturally infiltrate the film industries of 20 ...

Media and Crime

Yvonne Jewkes' Media and Crime is a remarkable book-a book remarkable for its critical, comprehensive engagement with the most important of contemporary issues. As one of the top scholars in her field, Jewkes provides a panoramic view across the full sweep of media and crime ...

Health Care financing and insurance

options for design

This book offers a unique combination of conceptual, institutional and empirical analyses of the design of healthcare financing systems, and explores the complex interactions of finance and insurance arrangements in several OECD countries.

The economic crisis and the state of economics

Eds. Robert Skidelsky, Christian Westerlind Wigström. The Economic Crisis and the State of Economics brings together leading economists from a diverse set of backgrounds and presents their take on how economics can explain the current crisis but also how the crisis will affect economic thought.

The Oxford handbook of empirical legal research

Eds. Peter Cane, Herbert M. Kritzer. The empirical study of law, legal systems and legal institutions is widely viewed as one of the most exciting and important intellectual developments in the modern history of legal research. Motivated by a conviction that legal phenomena can and ...

Introduction to fixed income analytics

relative value analysis, risk measures, and valuation

A comprehensive introduction to the key concepts of fixed income analytics The First Edition of Introduction to Fixed Income Analytics skillfully covered the fundamentals of this discipline and was the first book to feature Bloomberg screens in examples and illustrations. Since publication over eight years ...

Mesolithis Europe

Ed. Geoff Bailey, Penny Spikins. This book focuses on the archaeology of the hunter-gatherer societies that inhabited Europe in the millennia between the Last Ice Age and the spread of agriculture, between ten thousand and five thousand years ago. Traditionally viewed as a period of ...

Trotski

una biografía

"Al ser asesinado se convirtió en un mártir político y, a partir de ahí, muchos autores que de otro modo lo hubieran tratado con escepticismo le otorgaron el beneficio de la duda. También había algo más: Trotski les había proporcionado argumentos para desacreditar la reputación ...

Fundamentals of traffic simulation

Ed. Jaume Barceló. The increasing power of computer technologies, the evolution of software engineering and the advent of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) worldwide has helped make traffic simulation one of the most used approaches for traffic analysis in support of the design and evaluation of ...

La caída de Roma

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Antigua y Medieval, Nº1, año 2010)

The orthodox Church

an Introduction to its history, doctrine, and spiritual culture

This important work offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of the Orthodox Church available, providing a detailed account of its historical development, as well as exploring Orthodox theology and culture * Written by one of the leading Orthodox historians and theologians in the English-speaking world ...

Quantitative analysis in archaeology

Quantitative Analysis in Archaeology introduces the application of quantitative methods in archaeology. It outlines conceptual and statistical principles, illustrates their application, and provides problem sets for practice. * Discusses both methodological frameworks and quantitative methods of archaeological analysis * Presents statistical material in a clear and straightforward ...

Wallenstein

the enigma of the Thristy Years War

A minor Bohemian nobleman who within the space of a few years became a prince and one of the greatest landowners of his age; a military entrepreneur who twice saved the Holy Roman Emperor from disaster with armies he raised, financed and led, but was ...

The enlightenment

a genealogy

What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of 'the Enlightenment' first emerged, Edelstein departs from ...

Writing, Law and kingship in old Babylonian Mesopotamia

Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to be the cradle of civilization - home of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, as well as the great Code of Hammurabi. The Code ...

The Big Ditch

how America took, built, ran, and ultimately gave away the Panama Canal

On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an example of ...

Reading Obama

dreams, hope, and the american political tradition

Barack Obama puzzles observers. Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Obama does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Instead, his writings and speeches reflect a principled aversion to absolutes that derives from sustained engagement with American democratic thought. "Reading Obama ...

Michael Oakeshott's Skepticism

The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) is known as a conservative who rejected philosophically ambitious rationalism and the grand political ideologies of the twentieth century on the grounds that no human ideas have ultimately reliable foundations. Instead, he embraced tradition and habit as the guides ...