This market is the largest and most liquid-call type derivative in the world. Philips and Connolly intend to clarify definitions and discuss why the warrant is so important to the institutional investor. The authors consider its versatility and the implications for profit from the tremendous volatility in this market.

Experts from wine tasters to radiologists to bird watchers have all undergone perceptual learning-long-term changes in perception that result from practice or experience. Philosophers have been discussing such cases for centuries, from the 14th-century Indian philosopher Vedanta Desika to the 18th-century Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid, and into contemporary times. This book uses recent evidence from psychology and neuroscience to show that perceptual learning is genuinely perceptual, rather than post-perceptual. It also offers a taxonomy for classifying cases in the philosophical literature. In some cases, perceptual learning involves changes in how one attends; in other cases, it involves a learned ability to differentiate two properties, or to perceive two properties as unified. Connolly uses this taxonomy to rethink several domains of perception in terms of perceptual learning, including multisensory perception, color perception, and speech perception. As a whole, the book offers a theory of the function of perceptual learning. Perceptual learning embeds into our quick perceptual systems what would be a slower task were it to be done in a controlled, cognitive manner. A novice wine taster drinking a Cabernet Sauvignon might have to think about its features first and then infer the type of wine, while an expert can identify it immediately. This learned ability to immediately identify the wine enables the expert to think about other things like the vineyard or the vintage of the wine. More generally, perceptual learning serves to free up cognitive resources for other tasks. This book offers a comprehensive empirically-informed account, and explores the nature, scope, and theoretical implications of perceptual learning.

What are we thinking at any given moment? What happens to a thought as that moment, on its way to oblivion, collides with its successor? Rambunctious, witty, joyous, and bittersweet, drift is an investigation conducted by a truly unfettered imagination. In fluid, sparkling cadences, Kevin Connolly's poems let the mind's downtime have the stage for a change -- the desert sky transformed; Spring Break as viewed by passing skipjacks; narratives of danger and dream narrative; a meditation on the business end of a sea cucumber; figures of history disfigured and left to wander the consumer grid -- such are the entirely odd, entirely current events in Connolly's world, a realm that stands at an acute angle from the place we normally live in but which we all seem to drift into. As one of Connolly's own high-voltage sonnets states, "what stops the heart starts the world." In drift's constant juxtaposition of abundance and loneliness, we hear what it is to confront a new century, having quite likely failed during the last. We're reminded, by a voice unlike any other on the Canadian landscape, that our solitude is painful yet precious.

Nine years in the making, award-winning poet Kevin Connolly’s new collection extends its author’s investigation of identity, authority, intention, and authenticity. What is public poetry? In an age of tweets and trolls, what should it even try to be? Through revision, redaction, ventriloquism, homage, self-sabotage, and outright plunder, the poems in Connolly’s Xiphoid Process interrogate the alleged futility and alleged insight of mid-life. Are we who we are simply because we’d otherwise be nothing? Or are we (more hopefully) something parked, for a time, in time, trying to make something useful out of the experience? Walt Whitman, Tom Petty, Alec Baldwin, Doug Stanhope, Journey, Judd Nelson, Billy Ripken, Johnny Weissmuller, Don Felder, Lindsay Lohan, Shiprock, NM, the police blotter at Point Reyes Station, California, and the moons of Saturn are all poised to make their case in the poet’s latest deliberations.

His son murdered by a wealthy family, Jonty Kenny is faced with saving his clan in Ireland, 1828. He soon realizes that to do this he must return to his old ways and old friends long forgotten. Jonty Kenny is a man with a past. He secures their escape to lands far away and sees to the people he holds accountable for the horror inflicted on him, his wife Mary, and their children. Then he will be free to reunite his family. So begins a forty year journey that would cover half the world. So begins Jonty Kenny's "Life's Purgatory"

In A Comprehensive Review of the Federal Budget, Kevin Connolly has reviewed the entire United States federal budget in painstaking detail. Leaving no agency stone unturned, and using the Constitution and common sense as his guide, he has identified the problem points and solutions thereto. Included is a proposal that could not only balance the budget immediately, but also pay off the entire National Debt in under a decade.

There are so many people I have to thank for getting this book to publication. But firstly I have to thank "The Bride," Barbie Ann. How she has spent over 40 years with me I have no idea. Not only has she typed the original manuscript, but she has translated it from my Irish gibberish, into reasonable English, without loosing the content. Perhaps because she is the only person who can fully understand me. My good friend David Cunningham, has been a fantastic inspiration to me, and has helped enormously. Becky my eldest Granddaughter, who helped us old Farts to understand our computer. Chef, son, and best friend Stephen, who watches out for me at every turn. The friends that I have worked with over the years, and not to forget, without any hesitation, my customers without whom, I would not have had anything to write about.

Kevin Connolly's four previous poetry books have garnered widespread critical acclaim and awards for their cutting humor, vivid language, and lyricism. Now comes "Revolver." A daring marriage of brilliant technical skill and feverish imagination, "Revolver" features poems that are each written in a different form -- "revolving" through various styles while imbuing each with the precise control and sharp wit for which Connolly is noted. This much-anticipated follow-up to "drift" is both an ideal introduction to this master poet and a worthy successor to his earlier work.