RISK MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONSTHE GOLD STANDARD IN FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT TEXTBOOKSIn the newly revised sixth edition of Risk Management and Financial Institutions, celebrated risk and derivatives expert John C. Hull delivers an incisive and comprehensive discussion of financial risk and financial institution regulation. In the book, you’ll learn to understand the financial markets, the risks they pose to various kin...

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Ci sono libri che sembrano sottrarsi a ogni giudizio o classificazione, perché parlano da un luogo così distante che è difficile anche solo individuarne la fisionomia. Sono porte che si aprono su altri mondi – mondi nei quali, senza di loro, ci sarebbe impossibile entrare. Libri come questo, straordinario, di John M. Hull: una delle più precise e asciutte testimonianze su che cosa significhi quel particolare stato della vita e della coscienza che chiamiamo «cecità» – dalle operazioni quoti...

The Mid-Norfolk Railway is a distinctive heritage line which runs for nearly 12 miles through the rolling Norfolk countryside between the market towns of Dereham and Wymondham. Deservedly popular with families as well as enthusiasts, the railway offers a range of enticing days out by rail through a well-balanced blend of steam and diesel services.After passenger services ended in 1969, freight traffic survived for another twenty years. That lifeline meant local people had time to p...

Una preziosa e originale testimonianza su che cosa significhi cecità, dalle operazioni quotidiane a quelle più complesse, in forma di diario scritta da un uomo che è diventato cieco a quarant’anni. Hull, parte dal racconto della discesa nel buio per arrivare a spiegare quello che definisce «il dono oscuro»: uno stato in cui la mente recide ogni legame sensoriale con la vita precedente e, per sopravvivere, inventa un nuovo linguaggio.

The 2020 US presidential race was one of the most hotly contested and contentious in recent American history. While the election produced the greatest turnout in American history and the highest percentage turnout in 60 years, the election still came down to a handful of swing states that ultimately decided the election. In their third edition of Presidential Swing States, Rafael Jacob and David Schultz examine the 2020 presidential election, keying in on the few critical states that actua...

The peninsular community of Hull, Massachusetts, reaches a total of seven thin, sandy miles into Boston Harbor, forming a protective barrier against intruding navies and pounding waves. Unfortunately for those residents who choose to live here for the three miles of crescent-shaped beach and its attendant summer advantages, exposure to the sea during the winter months can be, at times, trying, to say the least. When Hull Freezes Over, by lifelong Hull resident and columnist John Galluzzo, ...

This audiobook narrated by John Telfer shares some of Jung's greatest insights about dreams and their meaningDream analysis is a distinctive and foundational part of analytical psychology, the school of psychology founded by C. G. Jung and his successors. These essays, written by Jung between 1909 and 1945, reveal his most essential views about dreaming. Through these studies, Jung grew to understand that dreams are themselves a language through which the soul commu...

Surgery inevitably inflicts some harm on the body. At the very least, it damages the tissue that is cut. These harms often are clearly outweighed by the overall benefits to the patient. However, where the benefits do not outweigh the harms or where they do not clearly do so, surgical interventions become morally contested. Cutting to the Core examines a number of such surgeries, including infant male circumcision and cutting the genitals of female children, the separation of conjo...

An Australian shipbuilder has launched the world's largest fully electric ship, marking a turning point for clean maritime transport.Incat, a Tasmania-based manufacturer, said the 400-foot-long Hull 096 vessel — the biggest electric vehicle ever built — runs entirely on battery power.Built for the South American ferry operator Buquebus, it's set to carry 2,100 passengers and 225 vehicles between Buenos Aires and Uruguay without using any fossil fuels.The ship's ener...

Il contributo politico della cecitàUna riflessione verticale sulla vista e sulla sua assenza ci immette direttamente nel ventre della nostra cultura occidentale, più propriamente del sistema consumistico, capitalistico, liberistico, che viviamo. Abitiamo quotidianamente l’immagine, ne siamo at/tratti, inghiottiti, intossicati, resi dipendenti, devitalizzati dentro un processo di consumo/consumismo che si basa soprattutto sull’apparenza, su ciò che appare, su ciò che abbagliando indu...

In the years following its near-bankruptcy in 1976 until the end of the 1980s, New York City came to epitomize the debt-driven, deal-oriented, economic boom of the Reagan era. Exploring the interplay between social structural change and political power during this period, John Mollenkopf asks why a city with a large minority population and a long tradition of liberalism elected a conservative mayor who promoted real-estate development and belittled minority activists. Through a careful ana...