Covers the hottest topic in investment for multitrillion pension market and institutional investorsInstitutional investors and fund managers understand they must take risks to generate superior investment returns, but the question is how much. Enter the concept of risk budgeting, using quantitative risks measurements, including VaR, to solve the problem. VaR, or value at risk, is a concept first introduced by bank dealers to establish parameters for their market short-term risk expo...

These Student's Books will help students understand the core ideas and principles behind the political ideologies, and how they apply in practice to human nature, the state, society and the economy.- Comprehensive coverage of the ideologies of Liberalism, Socialism, Conservatism, Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Ecologism- Definitions of key terms and concepts to help clarify knowledge and understanding of political language.- Exam focus sections at the end of each c...

The information you are about to read was written to provide health care practitioners with an additional tool for educating their patients with pain. Many times I have been asked for a handout to go along with my Overcome Pain, Live Well Again education seminars, and even more times clinicians have asked me if there is something that will help them educate their clients… “without it taking so much time!” Traditionally, pain neurophysiology education takes two to three hours. It is perceiv...

This book takes an integrated approach to pain rehabilitation and combines pain science, rehabilitation and yoga with evidence-based approaches from respected contributors. They demonstrate how to integrate the concepts, philosophies and practices of yoga and pain science in working with people in pain. An essential and often overlooked part of pain rehabilitation is listening to, working with, learning from, and validating the person in pain's lived experience.Th...

A unique distillation of the skills that people need to develop to be successful in business. Most people cannot give up two years to study for a Masters in Business Administration (MBA), but the techniques that are taught for an MBA are invaluable. This practical, accessible book presents all the essential theory, practice and techniques taught to MBA students and is ideal for the busy executive. Above all, this is a practical book that covers everything needed to be commercially ...

Three unabridged readings of original novels from the creator of Paul Temple.In The Desperate People, read by Neil Pearson, Philip Holt is determined to uncover the truth about the death of his brother, Rex, and those who were responsible for it.In Dead to the World, also read by Neil Pearson, Philip Holt's skills are again in demand after he meets Robert Scranton, a wealthy American, on a...

Terry Jones introduces ten dramatisations of choice Florentine Fancies, adapted from Giovanni Boccaccio's classic human comedy by the BBCMonty Python star and medieval historian Terry Jones presents ten BBC Radio dramatisations of tales from Giovanni Boccaccio's humane and comic masterpiece.Composed in the early 1350s, in the wake of the Black Death, The Decameron comprises 100 short stories from all over the world, reset by Boccaccio amon...

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace has to solve a disturbing murder whilst protecting an innocent eye witness in Looking Good Dead, by award winning crime author Peter James.When a young woman’s body is found butchered in Brighton, Roy Grace cannot help but think of his own missing wife and her unsolved fate.Elsewhere in the city, when Tom Bryce finds a disc left on a train, he simply tries to do the right thing – return it to its owner. But this a...

All three series of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom, plus the hour-long special Locked In*‘*Bold, beautiful, daring radio’ The TelegraphVent charts coma patient Ben’s journey from the depths of unconsciousness, where he travels through the distinctly odd landscape of his own mind, to recovery and his attempts to readjust to the real world.In Series 1 and 2, as his mum and wife Mary sit round his bedside an...

Neil Pearson stars in Andy Hamilton’s BBC Radio 4 comedy series about a sports agent with a conscienceOne of the main movers and shakers at TS Sports Stars agency, Trevor Heslop is honest, decent and sensitive. Unfortunately, he works in a world of cut-throats and corruption, with nightmare clients and a rapacious partner with the morals of a barracuda. Add to that his dysfunctional family – estranged wife Meryl and teenage son Toby – and it’s a miracle he manages ...

The Martin Beck books are widely acknowledged as some of the most influential detective novels ever written. Written by Swedish husband and wife team Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö between 1965-1975, the ten-book series set a gold standard for all subsequent Scandanavian crime fiction. Long before Kurt Wallander or Harry Hole, Beck was the original flawed policeman, working with a motley collection of colleagues to uncover the cruelty and injustice lurking beneath the surface of Sweden's seemi...

The complete BBC Radio 4 satirical comedy series about a seasoned presenter of travel documentaries, Brian Gulliver, who finds himself in a hospital's secure unit after claiming to have experienced a succession of bizarre adventures.In series 1 we hear about Brian's travels in Gelbetia, a country run by doctors; Juradia, where every other person is a lawyer; Osminia, a land where marriage is outlawed; Sham, a country where alternative therapies abound; Erosia, which has a very diff...