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At the start of the seventeenth century a distinction emerged between 'public', outdoor, amphitheatre playhouses and 'private', indoor, hall venues.…
This book is the first sustained attempt to ask: why? Theatre historians have long acknowledged these terms, but have failed to attest to their variety and complexity. Assessing a range of evidence, from the start of the Elizabethan period to the beginning of the Restoration, the book overturns received scholarly wisdom to reach new insights into the politics of theatre culture and playbook publication. Standard accounts of the 'public' and 'private' theatres have either ignored the terms, or offered insubstantial explanations for their use. This book opens up the rich range of meanings made available by these vitally important terms and offers a fresh perspective on the way dramatists, theatre owners, booksellers, and legislators, conceived the playhouses of Renaissance London.By Michael Benton. 2015
Drawing upon a wide range of biographies of literary subjects, from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to William Golding and V.S. Naipaul,…
this book develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding them together. Biography is seen as a hybrid genre in which historical and fictional elements are imaginatively combined. It considers the roles of story-telling, factual data in the art of life-writing, and the literariness of its language. It includes a case study of the biography of Ellen Terry, discussion of the controversial relationship between a subject's life and works, 'biographical criticism' and, through the issue of gender, the social and cultural changes biographies reflect. It frames a poetics on the basis of its strategy and tactics and demonstrates how the literal truth of verifiable data and the poetic truth of what is narrated are interdependent.By Roland Stamm, Roland Lichters, Donal Gallagher. 2015
This book provides a comprehensive guide for modern derivatives pricing and credit analysis. Written to provide sound theoretical detail but…
practical implication, it provides readers with everything they need to know to price modern financial derivatives and analyze the credit exposure of a financial instrument in today's markets.By Samuel O. Idowu, Cătălina Sitnikov. 2020
This book presents the latest evidence on, and new approaches to, the development of Corporate Social Responsibility in emerging and…
established economies. To do so, it examines a broad range of industries, from fashion to banking, and various aspects, like accounting, information security, and human resource management. Special emphasis is placed on the role of education. The case studies gathered here analyse both small and medium sized companies, as well as listed enterprises. The book is a valuable resource for researchers in the fields of sustainability and corporate responsibility, provides student teaching cases for courses on CSR and sustainable management, and offers blueprints for professionals seeking guidance and inspiration on their path towards responsible business operations.The European payment market has undergone rapid transformation in recent years due to changes in payment habits, new business rules…
and new legal frameworks and regulation. There has also been an advent of new technologies and payment solutions which has altered the European payments landscape drastically.This book provides an overview of the fundamental issues involved in this new payments landscape. The authors discuss fundamental problems such as substitution between cash and non-cash payment instruments, payment costs, the economics of fees, and the demand for cash and deposit money. They also analyse issues such as two-sided markets, business platforms and the problem of critical mass.Other chapters focus on new phenomena in payments such as mobile payments, multi-sided platforms, electronic wallets, virtual currencies, decentralised ledgers, private digital currencies, blockchain and instant payments. The authors also review existing regulation for the topic including the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2), Interchange Fee Regulation (IF/MIF Reg), and the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) project.Transforming Payment Systems in Europe offers insight into changing payment culture and the ways in which new payment systems can create a single digital market to foster further integration in Europe.By Jakub Mácha, Sebastian Sunday Grève. 2016
This volume is the first to focus on a particular complex of questions that have troubled Wittgenstein scholarship since its…
very beginnings. The authors re-examine Wittgenstein’s fundamental insights into the workings of human linguistic behaviour, its creative extensions and its philosophical capabilities, as well as his creative use of language. It offers insight into a variety of topics including painting, politics, literature, poetry, literary theory, mathematics, philosophy of language, aesthetics and philosophical methodology.By Peter Larkin, Christian Crispoldi, Gérald Wigger. 2015
Interest rate traders have been using the SABR model to price vanilla products for more than a decade. However this…
model suffers however from a severe limitation: its inability to value exotic products. A term structure model à la LIBOR Market Model (LMM) is often employed to value these more complex derivatives, however the LMM is unable to capture the volatility smile. A joint SABR LIBOR Market Model is the natural evolution towards a consistent pricing of vanilla and exotic products. Knowledge of these models is essential to all aspiring interest rate quants, traders and risk managers, as well an understanding of their failings and alternatives. SABR and SABR Libor Market Models in Practice is an accessible guide to modern interest rate modelling. Rather than covering an array of models which are seldom used in practice, it focuses on the SABR model, the market standard for vanilla products, the LIBOR Market Model, the most commonly used model for exotic products and the extended SABR LIBOR Market Model. The book takes a hands-on approach, demonstrating simply how to implement and work with these models in a market setting. It bridges the gap between the understanding of the models from a conceptual and mathematical perspective and the actual implementation by supplementing the interest rate theory with modelling specific, practical code examples written in Python.By Kevin Chovanec. 2020
This book offers the first full study of the challenges posed to an emerging English nationalism that stemmed from the…
powerful appeal exerted by the leaders of the international Protestant cause. By considering a range of texts, including poetry, plays, pamphlets, and religious writing, the study reads this heroic tradition as a 'connected literary history,' a project shared by Protestants throughout Northern Europe, which opened up both collaboration among writers from these different regions and new possibilities for communal identification. The work’s central claim is that a pan-Protestant literary field existed in the period, which was multilingual, transnational, and ideologically charged. Celebrated leaders such as William of Orange posed a series of questions, especially for English Protestants, over the relationship between English and Protestant identity. In formulating their role as co-religionists, writers often undercut notions of alterity, rendering early modern conceptions of foreignness especially fluid and erasing national borders.By Giovanni Barone Adesi, Nicola Carcano. 2016
Where institutions and individuals averagely invest the majority of their assets in money-market and fixed-income instruments, interest rate risk management…
could be seen as the single most important global financial issue. However, the majority of the key techniques used by most investors were developed several decades ago, and the advantages of multi-factor models are not fully recognised by many researchers and practitioners.This book provides clear and practical insight into bond portfolios and portfolio management through key empirical analysis. The authors use extensive sets of empirical data to describe the value potentially added by more recent techniques to manage interest rate risk relative to traditional techniques and to present empirical evidence of such an added value. Beginning with a description of the simplest models and moving on to the most complex, the authors offer key recommendations for the future of rate risk management.By Marianne Van Remoortel. 2015
By Athina Karatzogianni. 2015
This book introduces four waves of upsurge in digital activism and cyberconflict. The rise of digital activism started in 1994,…
was transformed by the events of 9/11, culminated in 2011 with the Arab Spring uprisings, and entered a transformative phase of control and mainstreaming since 2013 with the Snowden affair.The Political Economy of Imperial Relations offers a much needed historical and theoretical intervention into the relationship between Britain and…
Malaya after the Second World War. It challenges existing accounts and details a strong continuity in this relationship from 1945 until 1960.By Piyush Tiwari. 2016
With mega townships as the tool, this book analyses the complexity, scale and the challenges associated with the development paradigm…
in India from various built environment lenses. The Towers of New Capital is an enquiry into how these 'global fixes' are leading to territorial reorganization.This paperback edition has an updated first chapter, resituating its main argument for today’s readers. New historical data on eighteenth-…
and nineteenth-century Egypt makes an extremely persuasive argument for the eighteenth-century roots of Egyptian modernity. The similarity, too, of Egyptian history with other Mediterranean countries is much more clearly demonstrated today than when Islamic Roots of Capitalism first was published.By Heribert Wienkamp. 2020
Dieses Fachbuch gibt einen Überblick über den erfolgreichen Einsatz von Kennzahlensystemen im Personalwesen und stellt die dafür notwendigen Instrumente und…
Kennziffern vor. Wie der Weg zu einem Personalkennzahlensystem aussehen kann, welche Adressaten es in welchem Umfang nutzen können und wie es schließlich in einem Management-Informations-System (MIS) in Ihrem Unternehmen zu integrieren ist, erfahren Sie in diesem Buch.Ohne eine konkrete Vorstellung davon, was eine Organisation an Informationen über ihr Personal braucht, ist ein wirksames Personalmanagement nicht möglich. Durch Personalkennzahlensysteme lassen sich Personaldaten komprimiert, anwendungsfreundlich und handlungsorientiert darstellen. Entscheidend für die Qualität eines solchen Systems ist weniger die Menge an Personalinformationen, sondern die bewusste Auswahl der Daten, indem nur die Messwerte berücksichtigt werden, die die aktuelle Personalstrategie in ihrer Umsetzung und Ressourcensteuerung unterstützen und in enger Beziehung zum täglichen Personalgeschäft stehen. Aus allen wesentlichen Personalfunktionen erhalten Sie als Leser konkrete Vorschläge, Anregungen und Ideen, um Ihr eigenes unternehmensspezifisches Personalkennzahlensystem zu gestalten. Das Buch richtet sich an Führungskräfte und Beschäftigte sowohl im Personalwesen als auch in anderen Unternehmensbereichen (z. B. Controlling), die sich für das Personalmanagement in Zahlen interessieren. Aus dem Inhalt Personal-Controlling durch Personalkennzahlen Anwendungsbereiche: Personalplanung, Personalbeschaffungs- und Personalentwicklungs- planung, PersonalkostenplanungSpezielle-Anwendungen: Bildungs-Controlling, Leistungsbeurteilung, VergütungscontrollingDas HR-Cockpit als finales Informations- und BeurteilungsmediumAlthough philosophers debate the morality of open borders, few social scientists have explored what would happen if immigration were no…
longer limited. This book looks at three examples of temporarily unrestricted migration in Miami, Marseille, and Dublin and finds that the effects were much less catastrophic than opponents of immigration claim.By Shu Hotta. 2020
The second edition of this book has been extensively revised so that readers can gain ready access to advanced topics…
of mathematical physics including the theory of analytic functions and continuous groups. This easy accessibility helps to create a deeper and clearer insight into mathematical physics, with emphasis on quantum mechanics and electromagnetism along with the theory of linear vector spaces and group theory. The basic nature of the book remains unchanged. The contents are targeted at graduate and undergraduate students majoring in chemistry to supply them with the practical and intuitive methodology of mathematical physics. In parallel, advanced mathematical topics are dealt with in the last chapters of each of the four individual parts so that a close connection among those topics is highlighted. Several important revisions are found in this second edition, however, and they include: (a) a description of set theory and topology that helps to comprehend the essence of the theory of analytic functions and continuous groups; (b) a deep connection between angular momenta and continuous groups; (c) development of the theory of exponential functions of matrices, which is useful to solve differential equations; and (d) updated content on lasers and their applications. This new edition thus provides a balanced selection of new and basic material for chemists and physicists.By László Zsolnai. 2015
Post-Materialist Business presents a spiritual-based approach to business and management. It uses pluralistic view of spirituality and provides a number…
of inspiring cases of alternative organizations which go beyond the materialistic mindset of business and serve the common good of society, nature, and future generations.By Hugh Chignell, Ieuan Franklin, Kristin Skoog. 2015
This book is about forms of media that have reflected or increased consciousness of - a sense of place or…
a regional identity. From landscape painting in the Romantic era to newspaper coverage of devolution, the chapters explore, through contextualized case studies, the aesthetics of a wide range of local, regional and grassroots forms of media.By Harleen Kaur, Ewa Lechman, Adam Marszk. 2017
This book examines the role that Information and Communication Technologies ICTs play in growth and economic development promotion…
specifically for developing countries It highlights multiple methodologies for quantifying the impact of ICTs This includes quantitative and qualitative methods but also novel conclusive and informative methodological approaches for measuring ICTs influence on economic development The book highlights trends perspectives and success stories for different developing countries ICTs bring new business models innovations capital-labor substitution improved goods and services to developing markets Because they can spread rapidly with little cost and require minimal skills for usage ICTs create a solid background for social and economic gains They enable significant reduction in information asymmetries which improves access to economic activities for multitude of agents fostering participation inter alias in labor market of disadvantaged societal groups After almost two decades of rapid diffusion of ICT in developing world this book seeks to assess the real benefits and consequences of ICTs adoption in developing countries The chapters use broad real-world based evidence to provide a better understanding of the precise nature of new technologies and their impact of the country s economy and society