As cross-market bond trading has increased, it has become vital for international participants to understand the many different features that characterize the various international bond markets. Of particular interest to bond traders and investors are such factors as calculation of prices, accrued interest, yields, and durations. Bond Markets compares and contrasts all major bond markets with particular attention to: how different instruments are normally quoted; how much accrued ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • “A glorious sweep of a novel” (Ann Patchett) that weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century.“Mesmerizing.”—People**“Captivating.”—The New York Times Book Review“A once-in-a-decade novel . . . I fell in love with these characters.”—Jenna Bush Hager

This collection, marking the centenary of Avery Dulles’s birth, makes an entirely distinctive contribution to contemporary theological discourse as we approach the second century of the cardinal’s influence, and the twenty-first of Christian witness in the world. Moving beyond a festschrift, the volume offers both historical analyses of Dulles’s contributions and applications of his insights and methodologies to current issues like immigration, exclusion, and digital culture. It i...

This exposition provides the state-of-the art on the differential geometry of hypersurfaces in real, complex, and quaternionic space forms. Special emphasis is placed on isoparametric and Dupin hypersurfaces in real space forms as well as Hopf hypersurfaces in complex space forms. The book is accessible to a reader who has completed a one-year graduate course in differential geometry. The text, including open problems and an extensive list of references, is an excellent resource for resear...

Brutal murders have been occurring in the rural villages of Caguas, Puerto Rico. A sinister force is beginning to show its terrifying presence. Michael Moretti, a seasoned expert in these matters, is hired by the Vatican City for his greatest challenge. But as he works with his partner Roberto, he begins to doubt his Catholic faith and capacity to defeat such an abomination. He falls in love with a beautiful woman who could jeopardize his mission. While the murders continue, Michael, Rober...

Patrick Ryan’s first work of fiction is written with such authority, grace, and wisdom, it might be the capstone of a distinguished literary career.In the Florida of NASA launches, ranch houses, and sudden hurricanes, Teresa Kerrigan, ungrounded by two divorces, tries to hold her life together. But her ex-husbands linger in the background while her four children spin away to their own separate futures, each carrying the baggage of a complex family history. Matt serves as caretaker ...

You are warned! Beware the lurking terror in the shadows! From bestselling horror author, Patrick James Ryan comes a brutal collection of short stories. A timid man plagued with anxiety has a rare response to panic attacks. A small farm town experiences a horrific encounter with a spider. A demented genius displays an unusual proclivity for puzzles. A cocky young hitchhiker takes the ride of his life. Jack the Ripper returns to wreak bloody havoc. A group of D-Day soldiers battle a deadly ...

Don Girard has spent five years in captivity since the terrifying day a monstrous creature unleashed Hell, butchering hundreds, and turning his life upside down. Consumed with grief, bitterness, and hatred he will experience a gauntlet of new emotions, as the people behind the beast are far from finished with their nefarious plans.Deep in a military complex, experiments continue with eight of the powerful creatures, but not all goes according to plan.Don discovers that not al...

Jimmy Turner is terrified. Very frightening things are happening in the neighborhood and he can't figure out why. The Maggots Underneath the Porch is a powerful coming-of-age novella circa 1975. In the midst of a mid-West group of teens who are collecting baseball cards and beer cans, experiencing the cultural impact of JAWS, playing little league baseball, blasting guitar God rock music on ghetto blasters, a ravenous abomination is about to unleash death and mayhem on their unsuspecting r...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • “A glorious sweep of a novel” (Ann Patchett) that weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century.“Mesmerizing.”—People**“Captivating.”—The New York Times Book Review“A once-in-a-decade novel . . . I fell in love with these characters.”—Jenna Bush Hager

The homilies and speeches of Archbishop Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio from 2009 through his election as Pope Francis in 2013.These writings provide an intimate glimpse into the theological, philosophical, scientific, and cultural-educational currents that forged the steady, loving, and nurturing leadership style with which Jorge Mario Bergoglio guided the Church in Buenos Aires, Argentina. That style has now done the same for the Church from Rome...

The first book from the renowned philosopher investigates the flip side of economic self-interest: the interest of the greater good.Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his classic work The Theory of Moral Sentiments, he advanced ideas about conscience, moral judgment, and virtue that have taken on renewed importance in business and politics...