Options and Futures Markets, Uses, and Strategies presents students with an approachable and academically sound introduction to options and futures. The text explains why options exist, the function and role they have in the financial marketplace, and how flexible they can be through a variety of historic examples. Opening chapters introduce and explain the origin of options and their legal and physical attributes. Additional chapters discuss the factors that determine their pricing and the functions used to assess potential option price behavior. Students learn about performance statistics currently in use by option traders, collectively known and referred to as the Greeks. The final section presents a variety of option strategies through examples and real-life case studies, as well as guidance on what to do if a trade moves away from its expected path. Designed to provide a highly informative yet easy-to-understand introduction, Options and Future Markets, Uses, and Strategies is an ideal textbook for courses and programs in finance.

Creating Connections features over 70 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and watercolours from the Rosenthal Collection of work by self-taught artists. This richly illustrated publication explores the mysterious connections we have with works of art and examines the journey into the meaning of art for its creators. It looks at the historic approaches to the creations of self-taught artists and the problems inherent in their interpretation. It also considers where we should go to achieve a more equitable and inclusive art history. The Rosenthal Collection comprises a significant and notably varied grouping. Not only does it cover a broad mix of American names including Earl Cunningham, Henry Darger, Thornton Dial, Bill Traylor, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Ralph Fasanella, Martín Ramírez, and Janet Sobel, it also includes non-US artists Carlo Zinelli, Hiroyuki Doi, Adolf Wölfli, Donald Pass, and Nek Chand among others. Jean Dubuffet, the French painter who famously promoted their study, is also featured. An illustrated interview by Julie Aronson with Richard Rosenthal provides special insight into the collector who has brought together this exceptionally diverse array of work. Essays by Olivia Sagan and Charles Russell look at the need for a more nuanced approach to these artists and their work, at the history of its appreciation (including terminology such as “Outsider Art”), and examine the work in the context of autobiography, trauma, connection, and remembering.

Veteran officer of the New York City Police Aviation Unit, Richard Rosenthal takes readers into the clouds as he shares details on the nerve-racking and life-saving missions of high-flying cops as they take crime fighting and rescue heroics to a thrilling new level. With state-of-the-art helicopters that fly at speeds of more than 120 miles per hour, the policemen that take to the air to fight crime maneuver expertly between treacherous urban obstacles every day they report for duty. Across the country, police aviation units swoop down from the skies, relentlessly pursuing the nation’s most dangerous criminals and performing breathtaking feats of rescue. From New York to Los Angeles, Sky Cops tells the stories of the men and women who plucked terrified victims from the high-rise ruins of the World Trade Center bombing, responded miraculously to the Avianca air disaster, and foiled a helicopter assault on the White House.​

Peggy King, the ambitious, combustible Supervisor of Eastcogue, New York, hates dandelions. To her, they are noxious, unruly weeds that threaten her fashionable town's patina of orderliness. But to Gus Sonalag, the nearly impoverished Town advocate for seniors and people with disabilities, and to hundreds of Eastcogue's struggling old settlers who face homelessness from the area's soaring land values, dandelions are beautiful wild vegetables that staved off starvation during the Great Depression and embody their determination to thrive in the face of society's disregard for them.

The battle begins when King and the federal government order the eradication of the dandelions in BayCogue Village, the town's only affordable seniors' housing project. Gus and his devious ingenious blackmail schemes to extract the millions needed from a temperamental movie star and a notorious billionaire.