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Modelling, Pricing, and Hedging Counterparty Credit Exposure: A Technical Guide (Springer Finance)

Springer, 2010

The credit crisis that started in 2007, with the collapse of well-established financial institutions and the bankruptcy of many public corporations, has clearly shown the importance for any company entering the derivative business of modelling, pricing, and hedging its counterparty credit exposure.

Building an accurate...

Mastering Rust: Learn about memory safety, type system, concurrency, and the new features of Rust 2018 edition, 2nd Edition

Packt Publishing, 2019

Become proficient in designing, developing and deploying effective software systems using the advanced constructs of Rust

Key Features

Improve your productivity using the latest version of Rust and write simpler and easier code

Understand Rust's immutability and...

Gender in International Relations

Columbia University Press, 1992

As a scholar and teacher of international relations, I have frequently asked myself the following questions: Why are there so few women in my discipline? If I teach the field as it is conventionally defined, why are there so few readings by women to assign to my students? Why is the subject matter of my discipline so distant from women's lived...

Debating the Reagan Presidency (Debating Twentieth-Century America)

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009

The presidency of Ronald Reagan has become a Rorschach Test for politicians and citizens alike. Conservatives see the Reagan era as the high-water mark for their movement, in much the same way that many progressives view FDR's presidency as the pinnacle of liberalism. Liberals maintain that the rosy Reagan legacy is based largely on myth, and...

Highs and Lows of European Integration: Sixty Years After the Treaty of Rome

Springer, 2018

In light of Europe’s prolonged state of crisis, this book reassesses the challenges and prospects of the European integration process. Scholars from diverse disciplines reflect on various types of integration by analyzing political, economic and sociological variables, while also taking legal...

Women, Performance and the Material of Memory: The Archival Tourist, 1780–1915

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book proposes that the performance of archival research is related to the experience of tourism, where an individual immerses herself in a foreign environment, relating to and analyzing visual and sensory materials through embodiment and enactment. Each chapter highlights a particular set of tangible objects including: pocket...

Dialogue with Bakhtin on Second and Foreign Language Learning: New Perspectives

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

This volume is the first to explore links between the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical insights about language and practical concerns with second and foreign language learning and teaching. Situated within a strong conceptual framework and drawing from a rich empirical base, it reflects recent scholarship in applied linguistics that...

PostgreSQL 11 Server Side Programming Quick Start Guide: Effective database programming and interaction

Packt Publishing, 2018

Extend PostgreSQL using PostgreSQL server programming to create, test, debug, and optimize a range of user-defined functions in your favorite programming language

Key Features

Learn the concepts of PostgreSQL 11 with lots of real-world datasets and examples

Learn queries,...

France since 1945

Oxford University Press, 2002

`a very thoughtful and stimulating analysis ... He is acute about the ways in which France today needs to change to meet the challenges of its new role in the world.' John Ardagh

The last fifty years of French history have seen immense challenges for the French: constructing a new European order, building a modern economy,...

The Chef's Companion, Third Edition

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

The essential A—Z reference of culinary terms–concise and up-to-date

Anyone who has ever struggled to pronounce a word on a menu or wrestled with an unfamiliar recipe ingredient or cooking technique will find a true friend in this revised and updated edition of The Chef’s Companion. This indispensable culinary reference covers...

The Board Game: A Director's Companion for Winning in Business

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

The corporate board game is complex and fraught with dangers for the unwary. In this practical look at life at the top of the organisational tree, Peter Waine distils his many years experience and exclusive access to leading board directors into a biting exposé of how company decisions are really made and executed. The Board Game offers...

The Cold War (Questions and Analysis in History)

Routledge, 1999

Designed to aid undergraduate and advanced study, this invaluable reference work provides an up-to-date summary of the latest research on the origins, escalation, and end of the Cold War. The major phases of the war are clearly organized and presented in eight chapters--each consisting of a factual overview of events, a detailed analysis of key...

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