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Advances in the Valuation and Management of Mortgage-Backed Securities details the latest developments for valuing mortgage-backed securities and measuring and controlling the interest rate risk of these securities. Complete coverage includes: decomposition of mortgage spreads, MBS index replication strategies and market neutral strategies, Monte Carlo/OAS methodology, valuation of inverse floaters and ARMs, relative value analysis, and hedgin...

Der Autor untersucht zentrale Fragestellungen des Verbandscontrolling: Wie ist eine Kosten- und Erlösrechnung für Verbände aufgebaut? Was ist bei der Budgetierung zu beachten? Wie können Verbände ihren Erfolg messen?

This book provides an innovative contribution to debates about the use of metaphor in the social sciences written by one of today's foremost archaeological theorists.

Jonathan Vance teaches in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Objects of Concern: Canadian Prisoners of War through the Twentieth Century (UBC Press, 1994).

The democratic revolution that swept Classical Athens transformed the role of law in Athenian society. The legal process and the popular courts took on new and expanded roles in civic life. Although these changes occurred with the consent of the "people" (demos), Athenians were ambivalent about the spread of legal culture. In particular, they were aware that unscrupulous individuals might manipulate the laws and the legal process to serve thei...

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The theatre is full of borders and boundaries: between the "real" and "illusionary" conditions of the stage, between the way one acts onstage and in "real" life, between stage and audience, performance and reception. As such, theatre offers a unique opportunity to examine the construction, representation, and functioning of borders. This is the task undertaken by the authors of this volume, the first to apply the lexicon and concepts of border...

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Wootton's translation brings out the liveliness of More's work and offers an accurate and reliable version of a masterpiece of social theory. His edition is further distinguished by the inclusion of a translation of Erasmus's 'The Sileni of Alcibiades, ' a work very close in sentiment to Utopia, and one immensely influential in the sixteenth century. This attractive combination suits the edition especially well for use in Renaissance and Refor...

Villers-Bocage has, for years, been the battle that confirmed the reputation of Germany's greatest tank ace, Michael Wittmann. In this book the battle is analyzed in depth for the first time through detailed examination of the images taken by war photographers after the town was captured by German forces.

Defined by custom and treaty, and now increasingly embodied in charters, regulations, and resolutions of international organizations, does the existence of international law point to progress in humankind's capacity for moral conduct? Or does the lack of a discernible ethical foundation in either law or political action make progress impossible to define?In Law and Moral Action in World Politics, the authors -- activists and scholars of intern...

Many parents, politicians, and activists agree that there's too much violence and not enough education on children's television. This title examines the history of adults' attempts to safeguard children from the violence, sexism, racism, and commercialism on television since the 1950s.

The Great Persuader is the biography of a robber baron, the greatest railroad mogul of them all -- Collis P. Huntington, the Sacramento, California, storekeeper who, along with Leland Stanford and Mark Hopkins, parlayed $1, 500 into America's first continental railroad. It is an almost unbelievable story of a high dream of fortune realized through highhanded practices -- an adventure which left the national treasury poorer by millions of swind...

Between 1961 and 1989, the years of the building and dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the New German Cinema came into being, the product of the diverse efforts of West German politicians, West German filmmakers, and foreign -- chiefly American -- film enthusiasts. This book takes the story of the New German Cinema beyond its strictly German context to show its relation to the international constellations of the Cold War and postcolonial politic...

First volume in a series of comprehensive texts which address both recent developments and important theoretical debates in the field of Development Studies. This text provides the only student textbook which addresses broad contemporary perspectives and debates on development and development cooperation.

This extensively researched biography of a talented yet quixotic lawyer who contributed much to Canada's heritage begins in the early 19th century and covers well over a hundred years of our nation's growth.

Covering a period from c.1450 to the present, this "Companion" is designed to serve the needs of readers whose interests lie well beyond the familiar boundaries of Irish culture.

This text presents a classic history of magic and occultism, and is a book of which A.E. Waite said "there is nothing in the occult literature to compare with it..."The History of Magic" is the most arresting, entertaining and brilliant of all studies on the subject".

In 1861, just a few years after the publication of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species, " a scientist named Hermann von Meyer made an amazing discovery. Hidden in the Bavarian region of Germany was a fossil skeleton so exquisitely preserved that its wings and feathers were as obvious as its reptilian jaws and tail. This transitional creature offered tangible proof of Darwin's theory of evolution. Hailed as the First Bird, "Archaeoptery...

Taking a fascinating look at the rapture, "The Great Escape" helps readers merge Scripture and current events to see how they may be on the verge of the greatest escape in the history of the world.