Dynamic asset allocation

modern portfolio theory updated for the smart investor

This book presents a unifying theory of long-term investing for strategic-minded investors that combines modern portfolio theory with value investing. It shows how to build a winning portfolio using dynamic asset allocation, how modern portfolio theory has changed in recent years, and how those changes ...

Increasing Alpha with options

trading strategies using tecnical analysis and market indicators

While there are many books on options and many books on technical analysis, there are few books that bring these two important areas of the financial markets together. In Increasing Alpha with Options, Scott Fullman expertly describes how options can be used in conjunction with ...

Cross-border insolvency

a Commentary on the UNCITRAL model law

Given the current financial market crisis and economic uncertainty, cross-border insolvency is more topical than ever. "Cross-Border Insolvency: A Commentary on the UNCITRAL Model Law (Second Edition)" is an updated, enhanced edition covering the national implementation of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency. Written ...

Six pixels of separation

everyone is connected. Connecte your business to everyone

A digital marketing maven who parlayed a podcast into a thriving career, Joel extends the notion of human interconnectedness by six degrees to the virtual world. With abundant Internet social networking sites and mobile texting, we are all intrinsically connected, he argues in this accessible ...

Oraciones para una guerra

Valladolid al claroscuro (corría el año 1936...)

Pérez Pellón es un veterano periodista, que comenzó su carrera en El Norte de Castilla, dirigido entonces por Miguel Delibes, para posteriormente ejercer su labor profesional en Televisión Española, de la que fue corresponsal en Italia y en toda la cuenca del Mediterráneo.

Renewable energy focus handbook

A one-stop Desk Reference, for engineers involved in renewable energies; this is a book that will not gather dust on the shelf. It brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the field. The full range of renewable energies are explored ...

Managing world order

United Nations peace operations and the security agenda

Since the end of the Cold War, United Nations peace operations have become an established and prominent feature of world politics. From Liberia to East Timor, the UN now carries out extensive governance- related functions and is a significant political force in Southern states and ...

A responsibility to assist

EU policy and practice in crisis management operations under european security and defence policy

Ed. Tom Hadden. This report, written as part of a wider review of human rights in EU foreign policy, describes and assesses the current decision-making structures and procedures for EU military, police and civilian crisis management missions throughout the world.EU interventions or missions in ...

The British Industrial Revolution in global perspective

Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He ...

Cómo superar la crisis

decálogo de supervivencia

El fin de este libro es dar las claves para afrontar la crisis económica de una manera positiva y sensata. Explicar al lector todas las posibilidades que tiene a su alcance para salir de esta crisis. En la primera se analizan cinco casos reales. Los ...

International patent litigation

developing an effective strategy

Ed. David Wilson. As the importance of technology-based products and processes continues to increase, so too does the significance of patents. Patents are extremely powerful - they provide invaluable market exclusivity to their owners and present a potential barrier to third parties' freedom to operate. Unsurprisingly ...

The value of money

Why is money more valuable than the paper on which it is printed? Monetarists link the value of money to its supply and demand, believing the latter depends on the total value of the commodities it circulates. According to Prabhat Patnaik, this logic is flawed ...

Interest rate modeling

theory and practice

Interest rate derivatives play a central role in modern financial markets. Self-contained, practical, and easy to follow, this graduate- level textbook provides a systematic introduction to interest rate models used for pricing and hedging various derivatives on interest rates. It reveals the missing links between ...

The climate diet

how you can cut carbon, cut costs, and save the planet

The atmosphere is getting fat on our carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions and it needs our help. We live in a world of excess, consuming too much of everything - food, clothes, cars, toys, shoes, bricks and mortar. Our bingeing is often so extreme that ...

Victims of crime

policy and practice in criminal justice

Over the last thirty years, victims of crime have become a staple topic of media interest and policy-making discourse. Drawing on an extensive program of first-hand empirical data gathered at some 300 English criminal trials, this book examines the practical outcomes of this reform agenda ...

Consejos de empresarios para empresarios

69 cuestiones fundamentales para su empresa analizadas por reconocidos empresarios

Coord. Josep Gajo. En esta obra se recogen las opiniones de destacados empresarios sobre las cuestiones que inevitablemente surgen en el día a día de una empresa, como la gestión de los recursos humanos, las decisiones estratégicas, la comunicación interna, entre otras. Con un formato ...

Economic growth

a unified approach

How can society improve its living standards? What are the conditions necessary for prosperity? These are the questions that define the essence of growth theory. In this user-friendly book, Olivier de la Grandville provides a fascinating introduction to the theory of economic growth and shows ...

Economic reforms in India and China

emerging issues and challenges

Ed. B. Sudhakara Reddy. The role of India and China is expanding in the global economy. A whole new array of economic and financial issues are emerging which need to be tackled if the current period of growth is to endure. The issues that need ...

Criminology and political theory

'A lucid, sophisticated and timely vindication of the importance of Marxist, feminist and other radical perspectives on the state and political economy to the analysis of crime, control and justice. It offers a valuable guide to issues of political philosophy for students and teachers of ...

And then the roof caved in

how Wall Street´s greed and stupidity brought capitalism to its knees

CNBC's David Faber takes an in-depth look at the causes and consequences of the recent financial collapse. "And Then the Roof Caved In" lays bare the truth of the credit crisis, whose defining emotion at every turn has been greed, and whose defining failure ...