Managing Credit Risk, Second Edition opens with a detailed discussion of today's global credit markets-touching on everything from the emergence of hedge funds as major players to the growing influence of rating agencies.[...]

Twelve tales by a master of the English language take readers on flights of fancy and make-believe. Enhanced by the author's power of expression and ten ethereal illustrations by S. H. Simes, the collection includes such inventive tales as "The Highwayman," "In the Twilight," "The Ghosts," "The Lord[...]

Critics of the policy-making process argue that private interest groups exert too much influence on the decisions of government, but only rarely has this proposition been examined systematically. This book draws on interviews with more than 300 interest groups, 800 lobbyists, and 300 government offi[...]

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Procrastination. Disorganization. Distractibility. Millions of adults have long considered these the hallmarks of a lack of self-discipline. But for many, these and other problems in school, at work and in social relationships are actually symptoms of an inborn neu[...]

Edward Gorey's off-kilter depictions of Yuletide mayhem and John Updike's wryly jaundiced text examine a dozen Christmas traditions with a decidedly wheezy ho-ho-ho. This long out-of-print classic is the perfect stocking-stuffer for any bah humbug. 32 pages, smyth-sewn casebound book, with jacket.[...]

This reference book on the Cockatoo family provides a comprehensive physical description of the various species of this exotic parrot, the habitat they favour, and their distribution and behaviours both in the wild and in captivity. Their reproductive history is examined, as is the possibility of br[...]

"The Blessing of Pan portrays English rural life under a sign of paganism, after the fashion of writers like T.F. Powys." -- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy[...]

Part of a three-volume set, this text presents selected work of Edmund Burke on English history and political thought. This third volume presents his "Letters on a Regicide Peace"(1795-1796). The first volume contains Burke's defence of the American colonists' complaints of British policy and includ[...]

Carefully revised in modern English, this modern classic includes Bunyan's original scripture references plus hundreds of additional references, chapter end-notes to help clarify scriptural and historical references, and an Index of words, meanings, titles, characters, and places. 50+ illustrations.[...]

Twenty-fifth anniversary edition featuring a new Preface, invaluable for graduate students and researchers in high energy physics and astrophysics.[...]

Published between 1896 and 1902, this revised two-volume textbook offers extensive coverage of statics, with formulae and examples throughout.[...]