In Poems That Happened: Making Sense of Daily Life, Hanna Zacks invites the reader to share with her personal experiences as well as thoughts on general issues. Hanna "discovered" poetry in her sixties, and she describes her passion and her self-doubt when she started writing poems. Concerns of old age, ambivalence about retirement, declining health, and facing mortality are subjects of several of her poems. She writes tenderly about her love ...
Praise for Managing Global Financial and Foreign Exchange Rate Risk
"From caplets and corridors to perps and wild card options, Homaifar covers the details and the essentials of the foreign exchange and futures markets. This is a thorough, detailed, yet readable and clear treatment of foreign exchange and futures markets."
--George M. McCabe
Professor of Finance, University of Nebraska
Editor, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics
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Weaving research and interpretation around dozens of historic sites and the lives of ordinary people who lived and worked nearby, The Way We Lived in North Carolina explores the social history of the Tar Heel State from the precolonial period to the present. First published in 1983 as a five-volume series, this comprehensive state history is now available in a revised and up-to-date single volume with more than 250 photographs and over two doz...
In this new edition of the most comprehensive guide to the trails of Virginia, de Hart gives directions to and descriptions of more than 1, 400 trails, noting nearby points of interest, botanical and zoological features, and characteristics of the region's terrain.