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Over four decades ago, Harry Markowitz first unveiled his groundbreaking mean-variance portfolio analysis. Its implications for investors and portfolio managers continue to reverberate. This revised book, originally published in 1987, provides an updated portfolio selection program to go with its comprehensive, detailed-yet-accessible account of that solution.

This set gathers together key writings which chart the formative years of insurance and reviews important stages in the history of the subject from contemporary perspectives

This set gathers together key writings which chart the formative years of insurance and reviews important stages in the history of the subject from contemporary perspectives

This set gathers together key writings which chart the formative years of insurance and reviews important stages in the history of the subject from contemporary perspectives

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Martin and Barbara Moe have created the ultimate marine aquarium quiz book. There are 400 questions: each has four possible answers that test your knowledge, tease your brain, and tickle your funny bone. The correct answers are on the reverse of each question page and they are loaded with information on marine fish, marine invertebrates, marine aquaristics, reef and sea - answers that teach you a lot about this fascinating hobby. Although ther...

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The story of the founder of Buddhism is one of the world's great archetypal tales of spiritual awakening. He was born Siddhartha Gautama in the sixth century BCE, the son of a prince who ruled a small kingdom in what is now Nepal. Siddhartha led a sheltered existence until the age of twenty-nine, when he left his life of ease and set out to find a solution to the problem of suffering. For years he wandered as a homeless ascetic, practicing sev...

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This text raises questions about artistic freedom and censorship. Wu Hung uses the Chinese government's cancellation of the exhibition "It's Me", Beijing 1998, to anchor his analysis of the challenges face by contemporary Chinese artisits and curators.

This is the first book devoted exclusively to the analysis of the Nazis' radio effort against the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Propaganda is presented in context: the purposes behind it, the changing patterns, themes, styles, and techniques employed, and the impact upon the target audience and its morale. An analysis of the Nazi wireless broadcasts to Britain for the whole of the Second World War reveals a sophisticated and inte...

This succinct yet thorough history of baseball is set against the backdrop of American culture as a whole, chronicling the game's successes and financial failures, the continuing struggles between owners and players, the accommodations to radio and television, and more. 10 illustrations.

Clan, King and Covenant explores the turbulent history of the Highlands during the seventeenth century. The signing of the National Covenant in 1638 first challenged the powers of Charles I in Scotland, but it was only when Alasdair MacDonald joined Montrose in raising the Royalist clans that the country erupted into civil war. Central to the conflict was the ancient enmity between the MacDonalds and the Campbells, Earls of Argyll, as Clan Don...

Gove analyzes promiscuity within American gay culture and the root assumptions and contradictions that contribute to dominant understandings of promiscuous sex and desire. He challenges the normative dichotomy of "bad" gay male promiscuity and "good" heterosexual monogamy and presents a wider overview of American attitudes towards sexual practice and desire. The author draws on the autobiographical fiction and memoirs of three influential auth...

Offers a fresh interpretation of the full range of Chinese experiences in the West and challenges stereotypical images of Chinese pioneers.

`The student of entrepreneurship will find this book a valuable resource as it will go a long way to redressing any gaps in their understanding of due diligence... A business studies course based outside the USA could easily develop assignments or run tutorials based on this book requiring students to investigate the financial, taxation etc differences for purchasers of businesses in their own country' - Technovation In this book, the authors,...

In The American Cockerell: A Naturalist's Life, 1866-1948, botanist William A. Weber pulls together pieces of the life of T.D.A. "Theo" Cockerell, a man who was an internationally known scientist, a prolific writer, and a highly regarded teacher at the University of Colorado in Boulder. The elder brother of the noted scholar Sir Sydney Cockerell, Theo labored in relative obscurity in America while his brothers and their families were basking i...