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Все книги издательства IngramConfessions of a Bookseller
“A bookseller in Wigtown, Scotland, recounts a year in his life as a small-town dealer of secondhand books....Irascibly droll and sometimes elegiac, this is an engaging account of bookstore life from the vanishing front lines of the brick-and-mortar retail industry. Bighearted, sobering, and humane.”—Kirkus Reviews A bestseller in the UK and a memoir every bit as warm and welcoming as a visit to your very favorite bookstore. Inside a stone-faced Georgian townhouse on the Wigtown highroad, jammed with more than 100,000 books and one portly shop cat, Shaun Bythell manages the ups and downs of Scotland's largest used bookshop with a sharp eye and even sharper wit.
Infinite Dimensional And Finite Dimensional Stochastic Equations And Applications In Physics
This volume contains survey articles on various aspects of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) and their applications in stochastic control theory and in physics. The topics presented in this volume are: dynamics of stochastic reaction-diffusion equations; stochastic Itô-Volterra backward equations in Banach spaces; stochastic equations of Schrödinger type; optimal control of stochastic Navier-Stokes equations; quantum Hamilton equations from stochastic optimal control theory. This book is intended not only for graduate students in mathematics or physics, but also for mathematicians, mathematical physicists, theoretical physicists, and science researchers interested in the physical applications of the theory of stochastic processes.Contents: Preface Dynamics of Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion Equations (C Kuehn and A Neamtu) Stochastic Itô-Volterra Backward Equations in Banach Spaces (M Azimi and W Grecksch) Stochastic Schrödinger Equations (W Grecksch and H Lisei) Optimal Control of the Stochastic Navier-Stokes Equations (P Benner and C Trautwein) QHE from Stochastic Optimal Control Theory (J Köppe, M Patzold, M Beyer, W Grecksch and W Paul)Readership: Graduate students in mathematics or physics, mathematicians, mathematical physicists, theoretical physicists, and science researchers interested in the physical applications of the theory of stochastic processes.
Risk Factors And Contagion In Commodity Markets And Stocks Markets
The link between commodities prices and the business cycle, including variables such as real GDP, industrial production, unemployment, inflation, and market uncertainty, has often been debated in the macroeconomic literature. To quantify the impact of commodities on the economy, one can distinguish different modeling approaches. First, commodities can be represented as the pinnacle of cross-sectional financial asset prices. Second, price fluctuations due to seasonal variations, dramatic market changes, political and regulatory decisions, or technological shocks may adversely impact producers who use commodities as input. This latter effect creates the so-called 'commodities risk'. Additionally, commodities price fluctuations may spread to other sectors in the economy, via contagion effects. Besides, stronger investor interest in commodities may create closer integration with conventional asset markets; as a result, the financialization process also enhances the correlation between commodity markets and financial markets. Our objective in this book, Risk Factors and Contagion in Commodity Markets and Stocks Markets, lies in answering the following research questions: What are the interactions between commodities and stock market sentiment? Do some of these markets move together overtime? Did the financialization in energy commodities occur after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis? These questions are essential to understand whether commodities are driven only by their fundamentals, or whether there is also a systemic component influenced by the volatility present within the stock markets. Contents: PrefaceAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsBubbles on Bitcoin Price: The Bitcoin Rush (Dominique Guegan and Marius-Cristian Frunza) Investigating the Association between Oil VIX and Equity VIX: Evidence from China (Anupam Dutta, Timo Rothovius and Jussi Nikkinen) The Predictive Power of Oil and Commodity Prices for Equity Markets (Leila Dagher, Ibrahim Jamali and Nasser Badra) Time-Varying Linkage between Equities and Oil (Beyza Mina Ordu-Akkaya, Adil Oran and Uğur Soytaş) Has the Causal Nexus of Oil Prices and Consumer Prices Been Asymmetric in the US during the Last Fifteen Decades? (Abdulnasser Hatemi-J and Youssef El-Khatib) Risky Financial Assets in Financial Integration and the Impacts of Derivatives on Banking Returns (Hasan Dinçer, Serhat Yüksel, Fatih Pınarbaşı and Mehmet Ali Alhan) The Risk-Sharing Paradigm in Islamic Financial System: Myth or Reality? (Jamel Boukhatem and Mouldi Djelassi) Commodity Markets' Asset Allocation with Robust Liquidity Risk Management Optimization Parameters (Mazin A M AlJanabi) Comovements and Integration in African Stock Markets (El Mehdi Ferrouhi) Interdependence or Contagion in Equity Markets? Evidence from Past Crises (Olfa Kaabia) Impact of Contagion on Proxy-Hedging in Jet-Fuel Markets (Dominique Guegan, Marius-Cristian Frunza and Rostislav Haliplii) Index Readership: Students and professionals interested in the field of quantitative finance, commodity markets and contagion.Risk;Commodity;Commodity Markets;Stock;Risk Contagion;Contagion;Volatility0 Key Features: Addresses the state-of-the-art, current issues and new trends in quantitative energy finance (pricing, modeling, risk management, etc.)Gives a resume of the main results obtained in the modeling of the behaviors and dynamics of energy and stock marketsBrings insights about the mathematical modeling contagionStudies the financial mathematical particularities of the contagion, financial effects, commodities risk, and contagion spillovers in a unified and comprehensive frameworkGives a definition of contagion effects, the common sources of risk, the dimension of the correlation fluctuation depending on the factor loadingsOffers an innovative theoretical approach to problems of interest in energy risk management and modelingBlends mathematical techniques with new developments and theoretical results in energy finance
Advanced Green Chemistry - Part 2: From Catalysis To Chemistry Frontiers
Green Chemistry has evolved in response to several environmental issues in the second half of the last century, mostly due to the almost freely expanding chemical, petrochemical, and pharmaceutical industries. During the past two decades Green Chemistry grew rapidly and we can now consider this area as a mature and powerful field. Tremendous development has taken place in many important areas including renewable energy and resources, reaction environments, catalysis, synthesis, chemical biology, green polymers, and facile recycling. The combination of Green Chemistry with engineering, biology, toxicology, and physics will lead to novel interdisciplinary systems, which can now lift Green Chemistry to the next, advanced level. The editors have assembled authors among the best specialists of this growing area of research. This collection of reviews and perspectives provides an exciting vision of the more recent developments in Green Chemistry. The contents of this book illustrate the breath of the field and its role to address environmental issues. This volume will serve as a book of reference showing a panoramic view of the field and a preview of its future direction, as well as a book of inspiration for those aiming to further advance its frontiers. This volume emphasizes on the most recent developments in green catalysis, bio-sourced polymers and the study of continental organic matter for a better understanding of the carbon geochemical cycle. Contents: Green and Sustainable Chemistry (István T Horváth) Pd-Catalyzed Sequential Reactions Involving C–H Bond Activation: A Green and Sustainable Tool for Natural and Industrial Product Synthesis (Elena Motti, Nicola Della Ca', Giovanni Maestri and Max Malacria) Photoredox Catalysis, an Opportunity for Sustainable Radical Chemistry (Christophe Lévêque, Etienne Levernier, Vincent Corcé, Louis Fensterbank, Max Malacria and Cyril Ollivier) Brønsted Acid as Efficient Catalyst for Synthesis of Biologically Active Natural Products (Guillaume Levitre and Géraldine Masson) Bio-Sourced Polymers: Recent Advances (Henri Cramail, Boris Bizet, Océane Lamarzelle, Pierre-Luc Durand, Geoffrey Hibert and Etienne Grau) Insight into Continental Organic Matter: A Chemist View (Katell Quénéa, Sylvie Derenne and Marc F Benedetti) Readership: Undergraduate students, graduate students and researchers in catalyst chemistry, polymer chemistry, environmental/atmospheric chemistry, organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry.Green Chemistry;Sustainable Energy;Renewable;Energy;Energy Resources;Reaction Environments;Catalysis;Multicomponent Synthesis (Cascade, Domino, Tandem);Photo Red Ox;Contimental Organic Matters;Bio-Sourced Polymers0 Key Features: The editors have assembled as authors among the best specialists of this growing area of researchThis collection of reviews and perspectives provides an exciting vision of the more recent developments in Green ChemistryIt illustrates the breath of the field and its role to address environmental issuesThis volume will serve as a book of reference showing a panoramic view of the field and a preview of its future direction as well as a book of inspiration for those aiming to further advance its frontiersIn this volume, Part 2, emphasis will be done to the most recent developments in green catalysis, bio-sourced polymers and the study of continental organic matter for a better understanding of the carbone geochemical cycle
Rule Of Law In China: Progress And Problems
This book comprehensively introduces the development of rule of law and law-based governance in China. Through theoretical interpretation, background analysis and empirical analysis of several key issues, this book answers why and how China promotes its rule of law and how the country identifies major challenges of promoting rule of law. It also looks at how China solves its problems in the process of practicing socialist rule of law. Contents: The Historical Course of and Achievements Made in Developing Socialist Rule of Law with Chinese CharacteristicsThe Background and Major Tasks of Comprehensively Advancing the Law-Based Governance of ChinaLegislating More Effectively and with a Democratic Approach to Improve the Legal System with Chinese CharacteristicsComprehensively Advancing Law-Based Government Administration and Accelerating the Building of a Rule-of-Law GovernmentComprehensively Promoting the Level of the Rule of Law in the Socialist Market EconomyDeepening the Judicial Reform to Establish a Just, Efficient, and Authoritative Judicial SystemAdvancing the Observance of Law by All to Build a Rule-of-Law SocietyStrengthening and Improving the Party's Leadership Over the Law-Based Governance of the CountryIndex Readership: Academics, policy-makers, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, interested in China's legal system.Rule of Law in China;Legal System with Chinese Characteristics;the Rule of Law in the Socialist Market Economy;Judicial Reform;Judicial System00
The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass
Enter a wicked cool fantasy world of witches and their assassins, where a group of renegades battle to capture the Heart of the Coven. “A unique, gripping, engaging book by a voice that the genre has been waiting for.” – Seanan McGuire, author of the Wayward Children series Even teenage assassins have dreams. Eli isn’t just a teenage girl – she’s a made-thing the witches created to hunt down ghosts in the human world. Trained to kill with her seven living blades, Eli is a flawless machine, a deadly assassin. But when an assignment goes wrong, Eli starts to question everything she was taught about both worlds, the Coven, and her tyrannical witch-mother. Terrified that she’ll be unmade for her mistake, Eli seeks refuge with a group of human and witch renegades. To earn her place, she must prove herself by capturing the Heart of the Coven. With the help of two humans and a girl who smells like the sea, Eli is going to get answers – and earn her freedom.
The Untold Story of Shields Green
Explores the life of Shields Green, one of the black men who followed John Brown to Harper’s Ferry in 1859 When John Brown decided to raid the federal armory in Harper’s Ferry as the starting point of his intended liberation effort in the South, some closest to him thought it was unnecessary and dangerous. Frederick Douglass, a pioneering abolitionist, refused Brown’s invitation to join him in Virginia, believing that the raid on the armory was a suicide mission. Yet in front of Douglass, “Emperor” Shields Green, a fugitive from South Carolina, accepted John Brown’s invitation. When the raid failed, Emperor was captured with the rest of Brown’s surviving men and hanged on December 16, 1859. “Emperor” Shields Green was a critical member of John Brown’s Harper’s Ferry raiders but has long been overlooked. Louis DeCaro, Jr., a veteran scholar of John Brown, presents the first effort to tell Emperor’s story based upon extensive research, restoring him to his rightful place in this fateful raid at the origin of the American Civil War. Starting from his birth in Charleston, South Carolina, Green’s life as an abolitionist freedom-fighter, whose passion for the liberation of his people outweighed self-preservation, is extensively detailed in this compact history. In The Untold Story of Shields Green , Emperor pushes back against racism and injustice and stands in his rightful place as an antislavery figure alongside Frederick Douglass and John Brown.
A Strange Kind of Comfort
Secrets cannot stay buried forever In the town of Ross Prairie, Caroline Webb and Sarah Bilyk are bound by family, duty, and a decades-old act of betrayal. On opposing sides of a long-simmering feud between their husbands’ families, the two women meet again after years of estrangement when Caroline moves into the same nursing home as Sarah’s father. Seeing each other sparks memories – of young love and the path to a fateful summer day that changed everything. Together, Caroline and Sarah uncover a truth that alters their lives forever, proving that love will overcome heartache and that friendship survives time.
Tasting Qualities
What is the role of quality in contemporary capitalism? How is a product as ordinary as a bag of tea judged for its quality? In her innovative study, Sarah Besky addresses these questions by going inside an Indian auction house where experts taste and appraise mass-market black tea, one of the world’s most recognized commodities. Pairing rich historical data with ethnographic research among agronomists, professional tea tasters and traders, and tea plantation workers, Besky shows how the meaning of quality has been subjected to nearly constant experimentation and debate throughout the history of the tea industry. Working across fields of political economy, science and technology studies, and sensory ethnography, <I>Tasting Qualities</I> argues for an approach to quality that sees it not as a final destination for economic, imperial, or post-imperial projects but as an opening for those projects.<BR /><BR />  
End Of Competition, The: The Impact Of The Network Economy
The frictions that we experience when doing business, and in fact also in society, result from the impact of technology. There is a transition period from 'doing digital' to 'being digital'. This affects every aspect of our lives, both private and professional. Merely observing the changes, reading about conflicts of the old model in relation to the new model, is confusing. The current developments and frictions require more in-depth examination. Insights into these developments will be necessary in order to achieve success. Many more partnerships will develop; organisations will come together and combine forces and borders will disappear. This will lead to the changes from order entry to new digital business ecosystems, or rather from 'doing digital to 'being digital'. In the book, The End of Competition: The Impact of the Network Economy , the author explores the indicators of change, the motives for change, and the changes that are yet to come. Concrete plans provide clarity regarding the steps that can be taken, and they indicate who is already going down that road. This book will cover the similarities and differences in the approach and developments in both the Western and Asian worlds. We are at the beginning of a new age: the age of 'being digital', and closing our eyes to this is to deny ourselves a future. Contents: ForewordIntroductionDevelopments of the Network Economy: Opportunities and ThreatsThe New Market CircumstancesFrom Supply Chain to NetworkNetworks Become the CompetitionTechnology as Basis for New Competitive RelationshipsIt's About Customers Not Products: A Change of VisionNew Marketing and Competition Principles Through the Adoption of TechnologyTowards to the Future: Going In or DisappearOpportunities for Asia Based on Characteristics and Culture Appendices: Bidfood: Development and Practice of a Platform strategy RolloutDating Sites: An Example of a Multisided PlatformDifferences Between Various Forms of Collaboration Readership: Practitioners and researchers in the field of marketing, graduates and researchers in marketing.Network Economy;Supply Chain;Technology;Customers;Marketing;Asia;Platform Strategy;Multisided Platform;Collaboration00