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To achieve society's goals, as set out in the UN Sustainable
Development Goals and the Paris Agreement, the finance sector has a
crucial role to play in driving sustainable business and the
transition to a net zero economy. To achieve this change, it is
vital for the finance sector to allocate capital to the firms,
investments and activities looking to create a more sustainable
world. Green and Sustainable Finance offers a comprehensive guide
to green and sustainable principles and practice in banking,
investment and insurance to help finance professionals manage
sustainability risks and support their clients and customers in
transition. Given the need for urgent, rapid and sustained change,
it is essential that all finance professionals understand and apply
these principles so that every professional financial decision
takes account of sustainability. Written by the CEO of the
Chartered Banker Institute this fully updated second edition
includes the most recent assessments of climate science from the
IPCC, extended coverage of sustainability reporting and carbon
accounting, and regulatory and market developments in
sustainability risk management. It also features material on the
rapid growth of sustainable lending and investment and the latest
finance sector alliances and initiatives. Endorsed by the Chartered
Banker Institute as the core text for the global benchmark
Certificate in Green and Sustainable Finance, this book is
essential reading for finance professionals, university students
and individuals working to embed sustainability in business,
finance, policy and regulation.
The go-to guide in machine learning projects from design to
production. No ML skills required! In Managing Machine Learning
Projects, you will learn essential machine learning project
management techniques, including: Understanding an ML project's
requirements Setting up the infrastructure for the project and
resourcing a team Working with clients and other stakeholders
Dealing with data resources and bringing them into the project for
use Handling the lifecycle of models in the project Managing the
application of ML algorithms Evaluating the performance of
algorithms and models Making decisions about which models to adopt
for delivery Taking models through development and testing
Integrating models with production systems to create effective
applications Steps and behaviours for managing the ethical
implications of ML technology About the technology Companies of all
shapes, sizes, and industries are investing in machine learning
(ML). Unfortunately, around 85% of all ML projects fail. Managing
machine learning projects requires adopting a different approach
than you would take with standard software projects. You need to
account for large and diverse data resources, evaluate and track
multiple separate models, and handle the unforeseeable risk of poor
performance. Never fear — this book lays out the unique practices
you will need to ensure your projects succeed!
To the impartial observer Britain does not appear to have any
mountains. Yet the British invented the sport of mountain climbing
and for two periods in history British climbers led the world in
the pursuit of this beautiful and dangerous obsession.
Unjustifiable Risk is the story of the social, economic and
cultural conditions that gave rise to the sport, and the
achievements and motives of the scientists and poets, parsons and
anarchists, villains and judges, ascetics and drunks that have
shaped its development over the past two hundred years. The history
of climbing inevitably reflects the wider changes that have
occurred in British society, including class, gender, nationalism
and war, but the sport has also contributed to changing social
attitudes to nature and beauty, heroism and death. Over the years,
increasing wealth, leisure and mobility have gradually transformed
climbing from an activity undertaken by an eccentric and privileged
minority into a sub-division of the leisure and tourist industry,
while competition, improved technology and information, and
increasing specialisation have helped to create climbs of
unimaginable difficulty at the leading edge of the sport. But while
much has changed, even more has remained the same. Today's climbers
would be instantly recognisable to their Victorian predecessors,
with their desire to escape from the crowded complexity of urban
society and willingness to take "unjustifiable" risk in pursuit of
beauty, adventure and self-fulfilment. Unjustifiable Risk was
shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker prize in 2011.
Build a better, faster forecast. In this Authority Guide,
forecasting guru Simon Thompson shows you how to build financial
forecasts quickly, effectively and cheaply through his unique,
proven and easy-to-follow 10-step process. By learning how to
create effective forecasts you will master the ability to
understand the potential financial outcomes for your business and
be able to communicate financial information in order to
successfully raise investment or loans.
The past several decades have seen the emergence of a vigorous
ongoing debate about the 'politics of recognition'. The initial
impetus was provided by the reflections of Charles Taylor and
others about the rights to cultural recognition of historically
marginalized groups in Western societies. Since then, the
parameters of the debate have considerably broadened. However,
while debates about the politics of recognition have yielded
significant theoretical insights into recognition, its logical and
necessary counterpart, misrecognition, has been relatively
neglected. 'The Politics of Misrecognition' is the most meticulous
reflection to date on the importance of misrecognition for the
understandings of our political and personal experience. A team of
leading experts from a range of disciplines, including philosophy,
political theory, sociology, psychoanalysis, history, moral economy
and criminology present different theoretical frameworks in which
the politics of misrecognition may be understood. They apply these
frameworks to a wide variety of contexts, including those of class
identity, disability, slavery, criminal victimization and domestic
abuse. In this way, the book provides an essential resource for
anyone interested in the dynamics of misrecognition and their
implications for the development of political and social theory.
The past several decades have seen the emergence of a vigorous
ongoing debate about the 'politics of recognition'. The initial
impetus was provided by the reflections of Charles Taylor and
others about the rights to cultural recognition of historically
marginalized groups in Western societies. Since then, the
parameters of the debate have considerably broadened. However,
while debates about the politics of recognition have yielded
significant theoretical insights into recognition, its logical and
necessary counterpart, misrecognition, has been relatively
neglected. 'The Politics of Misrecognition' is the most meticulous
reflection to date on the importance of misrecognition for the
understandings of our political and personal experience. A team of
leading experts from a range of disciplines, including philosophy,
political theory, sociology, psychoanalysis, history, moral economy
and criminology present different theoretical frameworks in which
the politics of misrecognition may be understood. They apply these
frameworks to a wide variety of contexts, including those of class
identity, disability, slavery, criminal victimization and domestic
abuse. In this way, the book provides an essential resource for
anyone interested in the dynamics of misrecognition and their
implications for the development of political and social theory.
To achieve society's goals, as set out in the UN Sustainable
Development Goals and the Paris Agreement, the finance sector has a
crucial role to play in driving sustainable business and the
transition to a net zero economy. To achieve this change, it is
vital for the finance sector to allocate capital to the firms,
investments and activities looking to create a more sustainable
world. Green and Sustainable Finance offers a comprehensive guide
to green and sustainable principles and practice in banking,
investment and insurance to help finance professionals manage
sustainability risks and support their clients and customers in
transition. Given the need for urgent, rapid and sustained change,
it is essential that all finance professionals understand and apply
these principles so that every professional financial decision
takes account of sustainability. Written by the CEO of the
Chartered Banker Institute this fully updated second edition
includes the most recent assessments of climate science from the
IPCC, extended coverage of sustainability reporting and carbon
accounting, and regulatory and market developments in
sustainability risk management. It also features material on the
rapid growth of sustainable lending and investment and the latest
finance sector alliances and initiatives. Endorsed by the Chartered
Banker Institute as the core text for the global benchmark
Certificate in Green and Sustainable Finance, this book is
essential reading for finance professionals, university students
and individuals working to embed sustainability in business,
finance, policy and regulation.
"Emotion, Politics and Society" critically addresses the
intersection between power, politics and the emotions. This is a
very timely project given the centrality of mass emotions such as
fear and humiliation on the world stage today. Challenging
traditional dichotomies which counterpose rationalist to
non-rationalist epistemologies, it offers a sustained argument for
a more complete and integrated rationalism and helps us understand
emotions in contemporary social and political life, for example,
racism, populism, mass grief, political protest and processes of
paranoia and terror.
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Erlang Programming (Paperback)
Francesco Cesarini; Contributions by Simon Thompson
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This book is an in-depth introduction to Erlang, a programming
language ideal for any situation where concurrency, fault
tolerance, and fast response is essential. Erlang is gaining
widespread adoption with the advent of multi-core processors and
their new scalable approach to concurrency. With this guide you'll
learn how to write complex concurrent programs in Erlang,
regardless of your programming background or experience. Written by
leaders of the international Erlang community -- and based on their
training material -- Erlang Programming focuses on the language's
syntax and semantics, and explains pattern matching, proper lists,
recursion, debugging, networking, and concurrency.This book helps
you: Understand the strengths of Erlang and why its designers
included specific featuresLearn the concepts behind concurrency and
Erlang's way of handling itWrite efficient Erlang programs while
keeping code neat and readableDiscover how Erlang fills the
requirements for distributed systemsAdd simple graphical user
interfaces with little effortLearn Erlang's tracing mechanisms for
debugging concurrent and distributed systemsUse the built-in Mnesia
database and other table storage features
Erlang Programming provides exercises at the end of each chapter
and simple examples throughout the book.
Have you ever wondered how the top City traders make big profits
from share trading? Do you know why the best investors know exactly
when the market is going to rise or fall? And do you wish you could
do the same?
By following 20 hard and fast rules, "Trading Secrets" shows you
how you can make the same high returns as experienced investors and
traders. Using historical, economic and technical trend analysis
from the last fifty years, it identifies the ways for you to
capitalise on such events as the clocks going back or moving
forward, religious holidays, major sporting events and even the US
presidential election.
Written for both experienced investors and also those with
little knowledge of the stock market, Simon Thompson's practical
investing guide offers trading strategies that you can use over the
short-term or the long-term. For instance, do you know how daylight
changes affect how the stock market performs and, more importantly,
how to make big gains by trading on this knowledge? Or do you know
which sector has massively outperformed the market in the first
quarter of the year - posting a quarterly return of 12 per cent -
in all bar four years in the past three decades?
Trading Secrets uncovers all and more importantly explains why
these trends occur, so that you can be confident your investments
will pay off, even when the market is falling.
In 1894, Martin Conway became the first man to walk the Alps 'from
end to end' when he completed a 1,000-mile journey from the Col de
Tende in Italy to the summit of the Ankogel in Austria. On a
midsummer's morning, nearly 120 years later, Simon Thompson
followed in his footsteps, setting out to explore both the
mountains and the man. A charming rogue who led a 'fantastically
eventful' life, according to The Times, Conway was a climber and
pioneering explorer of the Himalaya, Spitsbergen, the Andes and
Patagonia; a serial pursuer of American heiresses; an historian,
collector and Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge; a company
director and stock market promoter of dubious gold mines and
non-existent rubber forests; the founder of the Imperial War
Museum; the first foreigner to see the Russian crown jewels after
the revolution; a successful journalist and author of over thirty
books; a liberal politician; and a conservative MP. Shortly before
he died, he was created 1st Baron Conway of Allington. Conway was a
clubbable man who counted Winston Churchill, David Lloyd George,
Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, J. P. Morgan, John Ruskin, Mark Twain
and Edward Whymper among his many friends and acquaintances. An
imperialist, a dreamer, a liar and a cheat, Conway 'walked in
sunshine all his life', according to contemporaries, but he was
also a restless, discontented man, constantly searching for meaning
and purpose in his life. And that search that led him back, time
and time again, to the Alps. In A Long Walk with Lord Conway, Simon
Thompson retraces Conway's long journey over the peaks, passes and
glaciers of the Alps and rediscovers the life of a complex and
remarkable English adventurer.
This is the tale of a shark who, rather than confronting his own
fears, decides to scare other fish to make himself feel better. He
is soon taught a valuable lesson in the importance of being kind.
This timely book critically addresses the intersection between
power, politics and emotions. Challenging traditional dichotomies
which counterpose rationalist to non-rationalist epistemologies, it
offers a sustained argument for a more complete and integrated
rationalism and helps us understand emotions in contemporary social
and political life.
Organized around five key themes, this accessible introduction
offers a thorough survey of the affective turn in contemporary
political science. "Politics and the Emotions" is a unique
collection of essays that reflects the affective turn in the
analysis of today's political world. Contributed by both prominent
and younger scholars from Europe, US, and Australia, the book aims
to advance the debate on the relation between politics and the
emotions. To do so, essays are organized around five key thematic
areas: emotion, antagonism and deliberation, the politics of fear,
the affective dimension of political mobilization, the politics of
reparation, and politics and the triumph of the therapeutic. In
addition, each chapter includes a case study to demonstrate the
application of concepts to practical issues, from the war on terror
in the UK and the AIDS activist organization ACT UP in the US to
women's liberation movement in New Zealand and Dutch policy
experiments. "Politics and the Emotions" provides an accessible
introduction to a rapidly developing field that will appeal to
students in political theory, public and social policy, as well as
the theory and practice of democracy.
Organized around five key themes, this accessible introduction
offers a thorough survey of the affective turn in contemporary
political science. "Politics and the Emotions" is a unique
collection of essays that reflects the affective turn in the
analysis of today's political world. Contributed by both prominent
and younger scholars from Europe, US, and Australia, the book aims
to advance the debate on the relation between politics and the
emotions. To do so, essays are organized around five key thematic
areas: emotion, antagonism and deliberation, the politics of fear,
the affective dimension of political mobilization, the politics of
reparation, and politics and the triumph of the therapeutic. In
addition, each chapter includes a case study to demonstrate the
application of concepts to practical issues, from the war on terror
in the UK and the AIDS activist organization ACT UP in the US to
women's liberation movement in New Zealand and Dutch policy
experiments. "Politics and the Emotions" provides an accessible
introduction to a rapidly developing field that will appeal to
students in political theory, public and social policy, as well as
the theory and practice of democracy.
This book aims to identify and measure cognitive and social
abilities in people with dementia and also in people with
additional learning disabilities. Definitions of dementia are
discussed in detail, outlining the neuropathology, neuropsychology
and clinical signs of Alzheimer's disease, and the neuropsychology
of multi-infarct dementia. Discussion is made of the difficulties
of a differential diagnosis and also the difficulties in assessing
learning disability and dementia. A critique of instruments used in
the clinical studies includes details of their reliability,
validity, and standard error and norms of each tool. Empirical
studies are presented together with the design and development of a
neuropsychological test battery for the clinical assessment of
people with dementia and learning disability. A link between
cognitive performance and social abilities is presented for people
with Down's syndrome and dementia that highlights failure in the
Central Executive System and Articulatory Loop System, important in
normal memory. Emphasis is made on the need to improve and widen
access in service provision for these valued people.
This is the heart-warming tale of Geoff, a grumpy dove who loves
nothing more than his own company, and how an unexpected turn of
events leads to him looking after his beautiful niece Pearl. She
teaches him that there is much more to life than crossword puzzles
and being grouchy and together they form a beautiful and lasting
friendship.
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