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This book provides the most comprehensive treatment of the
theoretical concepts and modelling techniques of quantitative risk
management. Whether you are a financial risk analyst, actuary,
regulator or student of quantitative finance, Quantitative Risk
Management gives you the practical tools you need to solve
real-world problems. Describing the latest advances in the field,
Quantitative Risk Management covers the methods for market, credit
and operational risk modelling. It places standard industry
approaches on a more formal footing and explores key concepts such
as loss distributions, risk measures and risk aggregation and
allocation principles. The book's methodology draws on diverse
quantitative disciplines, from mathematical finance and statistics
to econometrics and actuarial mathematics. A primary theme
throughout is the need to satisfactorily address extreme outcomes
and the dependence of key risk drivers. Proven in the classroom,
the book also covers advanced topics like credit derivatives. *
Fully revised and expanded to reflect developments in the field
since the financial crisis* Features shorter chapters to facilitate
teaching and learning* Provides enhanced coverage of Solvency II
and insurance risk management and extended treatment of credit
risk, including counterparty credit risk and CDO pricing* Includes
a new chapter on market risk and new material on risk measures and
risk aggregation
Today's multi-modal, participatory exhibitions and attractions are
bound by a desire to convey information, excite the viewer and
create social and narrative experiences. Without design at the helm
and employed effectively, these experiential moments would not
become lasting memories that inform and inspire an increasingly
sophisticated audience. This full-color illustrated handbook, based
on the author's research and expertise as an exhibition designer,
educator, and critic, is the first title to simultaneously
ï‚·explain how to design exhibitions and attractions successfully;
ï‚·contextualize contemporary exhibition design practice through
its historical and theoretical underpinnings; ï‚·elevate
understanding of one of the most rapidly evolving and
trans-disciplinary creative disciplines; ï‚·illuminate exhibition
design's contributions to the expanding global market for civic,
cultural, commercial and entertainment experiences; and ï‚·reframe
the exhibition design process using a set of recurring tropes and
the methods they employ, making this book distinct from other
practice-based, museological or commercially-driven titles. This
full-color book with over 250 photographs and drawings uses
real-world examples, museum and exhibition design studio profiles,
historical and contemporary voices, and draw on the author's own
creative practice and exhibition making experience, as well as
contributions from his extensive network of international museum,
attraction, and design professionals. The author introduces a new
methodology for understanding exhibition and experience design. One
that elevates understanding of one of the most rapidly evolving and
trans-disciplinary creative disciplines. Twelve easy-to-follow
illustrated chapters introduce a set of reoccurring exhibition
design conventions or "tropes" that are omnipresent in exhibition
making and can be used to chart a new methodology for understanding
exhibition design and its process.
The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple
points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic
and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past
developments, current controversies, and future developments for
specialists and newcomers alike. * Combines temporal, geographic,
thematic and contextual approaches from prehistory to the present
day * Explores environmental thought and action around the world,
to give readers a cultural, intellectual and political context for
engagement with the environment in modern times * Brings together
environmental historians from around the world, including scholars
from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and China
The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple
points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic
and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past
developments, current controversies, and future developments for
specialists and newcomers alike. * Combines temporal, geographic,
thematic and contextual approaches from prehistory to the present
day * Explores environmental thought and action around the world,
to give readers a cultural, intellectual and political context for
engagement with the environment in modern times * Brings together
environmental historians from around the world, including scholars
from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and China
William H. McNeill is known for his ability to portray the grand
sweep of history. The Global Condition is a classic work for
understanding the grand sweep of world history in brief compass.
Now with a new foreword by J. R. McNeill, this book brings together
two of William Hardy McNeill's popular short books and an essay.
The Human Condition provides a provocative interpretation of
history as a competition of parasites, both biological and human;
The Great Frontier questions the notion of "frontier freedom"
through an examination of European expansion; the concluding essay
speculates on the role of catastrophe in our lives.
Noted biblical scholar John McNeill (The Church and the Homosexual)
offers further insight into the role of sex in the Bible and how
the original viewpoints by Church Fathers has been twisted by the
Catholic Church over the years. This book also offers a festschrift
by current scholars in honor of McNeill. John McNeill was
co-founder of the New York City chapter of Dignity, a group for
Catholic gays and lesbians. For over twenty-five years, he has been
active in a ministry to gay Christians through retreats, workshops,
lectures, publications, etc. In 2007, he was the recipient of the
Human Rights Campaign Lifetime Achievement Award.
With the publication of his groundbreaking "The Church and
Homosexuality" in 1976, John McNeill placed himself in the vanguard
of scholars who were challenging long-held assumptions about the
Bible and homosexuality. Through his continued scholarship,
spiritual reflection, and untiring activism, McNeill has brought
hope and affirmation to thousands of gay and lesbian Christians.
"Both Feet Firmly Planted in Midair" is McNeill's
autobiography.
Father McNeill's outstanding work, which convincingly establishes
that the Bible does not condemn homosexuality, has brought comfort
to thousands of gay and lesbian Christians since its original
publication in 1976. In this fourth edition, the author calls on
the Vatican to make a public act of repentance for its homophobia.
"Blessed be that John McNeill's courageous classic is available
again".--Carter Heyward, Episcopal Divinity School.
The second book in John McNeill's pathbreaking trilogy for lesbian and gay Christians, Taking a Chance on God brings a gay perspective to fundamental Christian questions: How can we understand suffering and death? How can we overcome fear, anger, and guilt? What does it mean to love God? What gifts do we bring to the body of Christ?
"Wife," one longtime resident of Blanco Canyon was overheard
sighing, "we've spent most of our forty years here just waiting for
a rain!" Blanco Canyon, on the edge of West Texas' Cap Rock, is a
land of charm and brutality, generosity and denial, exquisite
beauty after a rain and harsh death when the rains don't come. It
is a land where over a hundred years ago one Captain J. C. McNeill
started a cattle ranch in the mistaken hope that range and weather
conditions then prevailing would continue. It is a land where his
descendants still raise cattle, but with full knowledge now that
any good years will have to carry them through some lean ones too.
The story of Texas cattle raising has been told from the
perspective of the big ranches. Here it is told as seen through the
eyes of a small landholder and his family. J. C. "Cap" McNeill III
was born on the SR Ranch in 1905, grandson and namesake of the
ranch's founder. His memories and family stories provide anecdotes
that show the region's way of life over the last century. From
unusually full files of early-day correspondence and his own
experience he culls the essence of the cattle business as it has
been successfully practiced through changing conditions and times
by one family. The economic hardships that have periodically
assailed area ranchers are vividly described and incisively
analyzed. The hardiness, intelligence, and gentle humor of a native
who knows both his business and his roots paint a picture of ranch
life as it has been known by few whose families did not similarly
persevere on rugged land.
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