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The art of credit derivatives

demystifying the black swan

Looks at how some aspects of quantitative modelling led to the credit crisis. This book shows how a mind-shift is needed within the quant community to move from simple modelers to a more hands on mindset where the modeller understands trading implicitly.

Swaps and other derivatives

It accompanie CD-ROM. The swaps market is a central market to many businesses, especially among the most liquid of financial contracts. Fully revised and updated from the first edition, "Swaps and Other Derivatives" offers a new insight on the growth of swaps markets worldwide. Additionally ...

The crisis of the twelfth century

power, lordship, and the origins of european government

Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men around castles who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility, heedless of the old public order. In The Crisis of the ...

Militant Islam

a sociology of characteristics, causes and consequences

Controbutions from Donncha Marron and Philip W. Sutton. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Written in a clear and direct style, Stephen Vertigans´ text provides a comprehensive and reliable guide to modern Islamic movements around the world. Militant Islam is a valuable analysis of Muslim responses to the West that dispels ...

The modern historiography reader

western sources

Ed., Adam Budd ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In The Modern Historiography Reader, Adam Budd guides readers through European and North American developments in history-writing since the eighteenth century. Starting with Enlightenment history and moving through subjects such as moral history, national history, the emergence of history as a profession ...

La doctrina de los actos propios

doctrina y jurisprudencia

Doctrina y jurisprudencia. La aplicación de la ley. Los principios generales del derecho, su alcance y aplicación. Principio general de la buena fe. La doctrina de los actos propios. Perfiles de la doctrina de los actos propios en la doctrina argentina. Principales supuestos de aplicación ...

A concise history of Pakistan

This is a comprehensive one-volume history of Pakistan, a country that lies at the centre of the worlds strategic concerns. Being published as Pakistan completes its sixtieth year as a nation state the book covers contemporary crises in the perspective of the subcontinents ancient and ...

Fictions in science

philosophical essays on modeling and idealization

Science is popularly understood as being an ideal of impartial algorithmic objectivity that provides a realistic description of the world. The essays collected in this book challenge this popular image right at its heart, taking as their starting point that science trades not only in ...

Jesus and philosophy

new essays

Ed., Paul K. Moser ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ What, if anything, does Jesus of Nazareth have to do with philosophy? This question motivates this collection of new essays from leading theologians, philosophers, and biblical scholars. Part I portrays Jesus in his first-century intellectual and historical context, attending to intellectual ...

Strategy and the business landscape

For MBA level strategy courses. Strategy and the Business Landscape is based on contemporary research in the field of strategy and adopts a value-focused, firm-centered perspective that promotes an analytical approach to strategy.

The fossil trail

how we know what we think we know about human evolution

Ideal for courses in Human Evolution, History of Paleoanthropology, and as a supplement for Introduction to Biological Anthropology, The Fossil Trail is a history of paleoanthropological thought and discovery. Ian Tattersall's account of the study of human evolution offers a colorful history of fossil ...

Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politic

Ed., Jeffrey Haynes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From the United States to the Middle East, Asia and Africa, religion has become an increasingly important factor in political activity and organisation. This Handbook provides a definitive global survey of the interaction of religion and politics. Featuring contributions from an international ...

The Routledge Companion to military conflict since 1945

From the depths of the Cold War to the War on Terror, The Routledge Companion to Military Conflict since 1945 is an in-depth and comprehensive reference guide to the confrontations that have shaped the modern age. Covering the personalities, the wars and the ideas that ...

The renaissance world

Ed., John Jeffries Martin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the history of ideas, political history, cultural history and art history, this volume in the successful Routledge Worlds series offers as sweeping survey of Europe in the Renaissance, from the late thirteenth to early seventeenth ...

The rise and fall of the Spanish Empire

A concise history of the rise, organization and fall of the Spanish Empire. WILLIAM S. MALTBY is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Missouri-St Louis, USA. His publications include The Black Legend in England: The Development of Anti-Spanish Sentiment, 1588-1660, Alba: A Biography ...

Empire and the english character

the illusion of authority

Kathryn Tidrick's highly acclaimed book explores the origins of the ideal of British imperial rule and the effect it had on the character of the English ruling classes. From the Lawrence brothers of the Punjab, Rajah James Brooke of Sarawak and Mountbatten to Frederick ...

The new age of terrorism and the international political system

Did the 9/11 attacks on the US usher in a new age of mass-casualty terrorism and war on "terrorist groups of a global reach?" Adrian Guelke questions whether terrorism has evolved into a new form of political violence or whether it remains essentially unchanged ...

The earl and his butler in Constantinople

the secret diary of an english servant among ottomans

Content illustration ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull, was an unconventional ambassador. A Scottish aristocrat who had been imprisoned for his Jacobite sympathies and almost bankrupted by his involvement in the South Sea Bubble, Lord Kinnoull had no previous diplomatic experience when he was unexpectedly ...

History beyond the text

a student´s guide to approaching alternative sources

Eds., Sarah Berber and Corinna M. Peniston-Bird. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Over the past few years, the question of 'what is a historical source' has become an increasingly prominent concern. In "History Beyond the Text", Sarah Barber and Corinna Peniston-Bird open up the discussion on sources beyond the 'traditional ...

Routledge Handbook of public diplomacy

Eds., Nancy Snow, Philip M. Taylor. Published in association with the USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School based at the University of Southern California. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contents: Table of Contents Introduction: The Revival of Public Diplomacy Philip M. Taylor Part I: The Context of ...