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TAIL RISK HEDGING: Creating Robust Portfolios for Volatile Markets
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2014)TAIL RISKS originate from the failure of mean reversion and the idealized bell curve of asset returns, which assumes that highly probable outcomes occur near the center of the curve and that unlikely occurrences, good and ... -
Tainted : how philosophy of science can expose bad science
(Oxford University Press, 2014)Three-fourths of scientific research in the United States is funded by special interests. Many of these groups have specific practical goals, such as developing pharmaceuticals or establishing that a pollutant causes only ... -
Taken for Grantedness: The Embedding of Mobile Communication into Society
(MIT Press, 2012)Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends and family don't answer their mobile phones? If the Internet has allowed us to broaden our social world into a virtual friend-net, the mobile phone is an instrument ... -
Talent management in healthcare : exploring how the world's health service organisations attract, manage and develop talent
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Providing a global perspective on the increasingly important concept of talent management in the health sector, this significant new text brings together evidence and research findings to suggest how healthcare organisations ... -
Tales of the ex-apes : how we think about human evolution
(University of California Press, 2015)What do we think about when we think about human evolution? With his characteristic wit and wisdom, anthropologist Jonathan Marks explores our scientific narrative of human origins—the study of evolution—and examines its ... -
Tales of the quantum: understanding physics’ most fundamental theory
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Tales of the Quantum is a discussion of the fundamental principles of quantum physics for the non-scientific reader. Hobson brings together examples that illustrate the simple and logical consistency of what otherwise is ... -
Tales of the quantum: understanding physics’ most fundamental theory
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Tales of the Quantum is a discussion of the fundamental principles of quantum physics for the non-scientific reader. Hobson brings together examples that illustrate the simple and logical consistency of what otherwise is ... -
The Taming of Education: Evaluating Contemporary Approaches to Learning and Teaching
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book evaluates contemporary approaches to education, with a particular focus on the ways in which assessment shapes the educational experience and influences pupils and students. It adopts a critical approach, arguing ... -
Taming Tibet: landscape transformation and the gift of Chinese development
(Cornell University Press, 2013)The violent protests in Lhasa in 2008 against Chinese rule were met by disbelief and anger on the part of Chinese citizens and state authorities, perplexed by Tibetans’ apparent ingratitude for the generous provision of ... -
Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development
(Cornell University Press, 2013)The violent protests in Lhasa in 2008 against Chinese rule were met by disbelief and anger on the part of Chinese citizens and state authorities, perplexed by Tibetans' apparent ingratitude for the generous provision of ... -
Tangled governance : international regime complexity, the troika, and the Euro crisis
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Tangled Governance addresses the institutions that were deployed to fight the euro crisis, re-establish financial stability, and prevent contagion beyond Europe. The author addresses why European leaders chose to include ... -
Tanzania : the path to prosperity
(Oxford University Press, 2017)This book, the third in the Africa: Policies for Prosperity series, is concerned with the challenges of securing economic prosperity in Tanzania over the coming decades. Building on widespread economic reforms in the early ... -
A tapestry of values: an introduction to values in science
(Oxford University Press, 2017)The role of values in scientific research has become an important topic of discussion in both scholarly and popular debates. Pundits across the political spectrum worry that research on topics like climate change, evolutionary ... -
The Tapping Solution for Weight Loss & Body Confidence: A Woman’s Guide to Stressing Less, Weighing Less, and Loving More
(Hay House, 2014)Many women live their lives believing that they can’t ask for what they want until they change something they’re unhappy with. No promotion until they get new skills. No relationship until they establish their career. No ... -
Target Opportunity Selling: Top Sales Performers Reveal What Really Works
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2012)A game-changing sales model that targets opportunities in every stage of today's long sales cycle. Target Opportunity Selling reports on how top sales performers are creating and winning deals in today's highly-competitive, ... -
Targeting Civilians in War
(Cornell University Press, 2012)Accidental harm to civilians in warfare often becomes an occasion for public outrage, from citizens of both the victimized and the victimizing nation. In this vitally important book on a topic of acute concern for anyone ... -
The Targeting System of Language
(MIT Press, 2018)In this book, Leonard Talmy proposes that a single linguistic/cognitive system, targeting, underlies two domains of linguistic reference, those termed anaphora (for a referent that is an element of the current discourse) ... -
The Targumic Toseftot to Ezekiel
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2012)This book focuses on the additional liturgical and alternative readings of Targum Ezekiel, the so-called Targumic Toseftot. The critical text, translation, and commentary are presented with special reference to the long ... -
Task-based language teaching in foreign language contexts : research and implementation
(John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012)This final chapter builds on issues which have been discussed implicitly or explicitly within the volume. I address five themes: research methodology contextual adaptations TBLT in Chinese contexts assessment and teacher ... -
Tasting French terroir : the history of an idea
(University of California Press, 2015)This book explores the origins and significance of the French concept of terroir, demonstrating that the way the French eat their food and drink their wine today derives from a cultural mythology that developed between the ...
