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What is Ahead of Us?

What is Ahead of Us?

First published in 1937 What is Ahead of Us? is a collection of essays which were originally presented as lectures before the Fabian Society. Conceived in an era of growing fascism and economic despair the essays urge the reader to imagine more equitable alternatives to capitalism. The authors offer socialism as a solution but what is more interesting is their criticism of capitalism and the connections they draw between capitalism and fascism using examples from the West. This book will be of interest to students of history economics and political science.

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What is Financialization?

What is Financialization?

This book introduces a new and original analytic approach to defining understanding and explaining financialization. It provides a precise and quantifiable definition of financialization disaggregating financialization into its three varieties. These are examined through the lens of financial development both before and after the Great Recession providing the most in-depth analysis of the finance-real economy-labor nexus. It provides a historical perspective looking at financialization as a key dynamic that has shaped real economic structures in terms of both growth and inequality of income over the last four decades in high-income upper-middle-income and lower-middle-income countries. The book makes its multidisciplinary content readily accessible to non-economists by providing economics background information and to economists by providing social-theoretical context. It will be essential reading for academics researchers analysts and students of economics business finance sociology politics and international relations. It will also serve as a vital resource for policy-makers and bureaucrats in determining formulating implementing and revising policy alternatives to govern the pros and cons of financial development in terms of its effects on real output and income inequality. | What is Financialization?

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Pharmacy What It Is and How It Works

Pharmacy What It Is and How It Works

Now fully updated for its fourth edition Pharmacy: What It Is and How It Works continues to provide a comprehensive review of all aspects of pharmacy from the various roles pathways and settings of pharmacists to information about how pharmacy works within the broader health care system. Beginning with a brief historical perspective on the field the book discusses the many facets of the pharmacy profession. It describes the role of pharmacists in different settings and provides information ranging from licensing requirements to working conditions highlighting the critical role of pharmacists within the health care system. The author examines the drug use process with sections on distribution prescribing dispensing and pricing. He also discusses the role of pharmacy support personnel. A chapter on informatics explores how pharmacy has evolved through information technology and automation. Additional chapters cover poison control pharmaceutical care pharmacy organizations the drug approval process and career development. Designed for classroom and professional use the book contains numerous tools to facilitate comprehension including: Learning objectives to help readers focus on the goals of each chapter Informative tables and figures summarizing data Summary paragraphs tying in salient points Discussion questions and exercises to test assimilation Challenges which place the material in broader context Websites and references to encourage further study This valuable text provides a look into the profession that is both broad and deep supplying a one-stop introduction to a promising career in pharmacy. | Pharmacy What It Is and How It Works

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What Works (and Doesn't) in Reducing Recidivism

What Works (and Doesn't) in Reducing Recidivism

What Works (and Doesn’t) in Reducing Recidivism offers criminologists and students an evidence-based discussion of the latest trends in corrections. Experts Latessa Johnson and Koetzle translate the research and findings about what works and doesn’t work in reducing recidivism into understandable concepts and terms presenting them in a way that illustrates the value of research to practice. Over the last several decades research has clearly shown that rehabilitation efforts can be effective in reducing recidivism among criminal offenders but it is clear that treatment is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Offenders vary by gender age crime type and/or addictions to name but a few ways and these individual needs must be addressed by providers. Finally issues such as leadership quality of staff and evaluation efforts affect the quality and delivery of treatment services. While other texts have addressed issues regarding treatment in corrections this text is unique in that it not only discusses the research on what works but also addresses the implementation issues faced as practitioners move from theory to practice as well as the importance of staff leadership and evaluation efforts. This book synthesizes the vast research for the student interested in correctional rehabilitation as well as for the practitioner working with offenders. | What Works (and Doesn't) in Reducing Recidivism

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What We See and What We Say Using Images in Research Therapy Empowerment and Social Change

What We See and What We Say Using Images in Research Therapy Empowerment and Social Change

Image-based research methods such as arts-based research can fill the absence of the voice of impoverished under-privileged populations. In What We See and What We Say Ephrat Huss argues that images are deep and universally psycho-neurological constructs through which people process their experiences. The theoretical model demonstrated in this book demonstrates that images can be used to enable three different levels of communication: with self with others similar to oneself and with others who differ in terms of culture and power. Dr. Huss centers her argument on a case study of impoverished Bedouin women’s groups in Israel who used art as self-expression and includes many additional examples such as unemployed women and teenage girls in slums women who have underwent sexual abuse and the experiences of illegal immigrants. Ultimately the author points to how the inherent structural characteristics of images help to intensify the voices of marginalized groups in research therapy empowerment and social action. | What We See and What We Say Using Images in Research Therapy Empowerment and Social Change

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Coaching for Retirement A Practical Guide

Coaching for Retirement A Practical Guide

Retirement is a time of both challenge and opportunity which can be a daunting prospect. This highly practical book written for coaches and HR professionals who are supporting others through the process shows what can be done to help people towards a successful change in their lives and circumstances as they move towards post-employment. Coaching for Retirement explores how to coach people towards sound planning for and management of retirement from both an employer and employee perspective. The book considers how coaching has evolved to include retirement coaching as a growing specialism and how retirement itself is changing because of a range of social economic and political factors both in the UK and globally. As a recent retiree herself as well as an experienced coach Angela Mulvie provides useful and interesting insights into the factors impacting how people plan and prepare for this next stage answering key questions such as: How can the pre-retirement needs of staff be determined? How might retirement coaching support the decision-making processes involved? What options might individuals consider e. g. part-time work volunteering pursuit of a second/portfolio career new learning opportunities etc. ? What financial implications do people need to explore and how can these be prioritized? How can emotional aspects of retirement – health wellbeing and relationships – be supported? What tools are available to support people in planning their retirement? As organizations are increasingly recognizing the importance of providing support to employees at all stages of their careers this is an essential resource for coaches HR professionals and all professionals involved in retirement planning. | Coaching for Retirement A Practical Guide

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Kedi A Docalogue

Kedi A Docalogue

This second book in the Routledge Docalogue series continues to model a new form for the discussion of documentary film focusing on a new film and a different set of critical questions. Kedi (2016) is the first feature documentary by Turkish-American filmmaker Ceyda Torun. The film provides a window into the everyday lives of Istanbul street cats; their itinerant meanderings present a non-human perspective on this ever-changing ancient city while at the same time exploring the meaningful impact these cats have on the humans they encounter. Kedi: A Docalogue brings together a diversity of perspectives on this film. By combining five distinct critical approaches to a single documentary this book acts both as an intensive scholarly treatment and as a guide for how to analyze theorize and contextualize a documentary. Together the essays in this book touch upon key topics in documentary studies including animal studies eco-documentaries sound studies and media industry studies making them essential reading for scholars interested in contemporary documentary. They also provide useful case studies for teaching documentary film in courses on Contemporary Cinema Cultural Studies and Media Industries. | Kedi A Docalogue

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Practical Macroeconomics for Non-Economists A Question-and-Answer Approach

Practical Macroeconomics for Non-Economists A Question-and-Answer Approach

Practical Macroeconomics for Non-Economists provides the tools the theory and the empirical understanding of macroeconomics without the heavy lifting of the mathematical and econometric models. This accessible book introduces the building blocks of macroeconomic thinking and challenges the reader to apply these insights to learn why economists say what they do and what guides economic policymakers. Linking actual data to theoretical concepts it explores competing economic theories and uncovers some of the key controversies in macroeconomic theory and how different perspectives lead to alternative and vastly different policy recommendations. Key features include: • Coverage of all the key macroeconomic topics such as GDP inflation unemployment output and productivity business cycles aggregate demand/supply and fiscal and monetary policy. • Question-and-answer format covering the foundations of each topic in a logical progression to provide the reader with a quick reference and more focused discussion. • Advanced questions to encourage deeper discussion. • Start-of-chapter learning objectives which allow the reader to see the road ahead for each section. • End-of-chapter Issues to think about boxed features which offer the reader an opportunity to apply critical thinking to the issues covered. • Resource manual and PowerPoints for instructors. Practical Macroeconomics for Non-Economists is the ideal textbook for anyone looking for a practical and non-technical introduction to the subject. | Practical Macroeconomics for Non-Economists A Question-and-Answer Approach

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Live Sports Media The What How and Why of Sports Broadcasting

Live Sports Media The What How and Why of Sports Broadcasting

In Live Sports Media: The What How and Why of Sports Broadcasting Dennis Deninger provides an all-encompassing view of the sports television industry from his own perspective as an Emmy Award-winning producer at ESPN at a time of seismic shifts in the industry. Technological advances and the proliferation of sports content across multiple media platforms have increased accessibility to sports events of all kinds across the world. Shifts in viewing habits and audience preferences are changing the dynamic of sports media and the sports industry as a whole. The result: more power for some sectors and diminished power for many others to which professionals in the field need to rapidly adapt. This second edition has been substantially updated to explore the impact of COVID-19 disruptions on sports and the growth of women's sports broadcasting and evolving sports as well as political statements made in sports: Black Lives Matter and taking a knee. It illustrates the origins impact reach economics production and presentation of sports on video media – including but not limited to television. It takes the reader behind the scenes to describe the forces and processes that have shaped and continue to change sports content its delivery and how it connects with fans. Dennis Deninger draws from his experiences as an expert in the industry to expose how the choices and decisions that are now being made affect the programming content storytelling production advertising and delivery of the sports broadcasting that we will see next season and how it will evolve in the years to come. This practical entertaining book provides insights into sports broadcasting that sports management media and journalism students and learning practitioners will not find anywhere else. | Live Sports Media The What How and Why of Sports Broadcasting

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A Handbook for Training Strategy

A Handbook for Training Strategy

When the first edition of Martyn Sloman’s Handbook appeared it made an immediate impact on the HRD community. Its starting point was the idea that traditional approaches to training in the organization were no longer effective. The Handbook introduced a new model and set out the practical implications. The world of HRD has moved on and Martyn Sloman has now drastically revised the text to reflect the increased complexity of organizational life and the many recent developments in the field. His aim remains the same: to help readers to develop a framework in which training can be effectively managed and delivered. In Part I of the text the author draws attention to the opportunities created for training by the current emphasis on competition through people. In Part II he poses the question: ’What should training managers be doing to ensure that training in their organization is as good as it can be?’ Here he stresses the need to keep training aligned with business objectives and to encourage line managers to work alongside the human resource professionals. The third and final Part considers the trainer as a strategic facilitator and examines the skills required. Martyn Sloman writes as an experienced training manager and his book is concerned above all with implementation. Thus the text is supported by questionnaires survey instruments and specimen documents. With its combination of thought-provoking argument and practical guidance the Handbook will continue to serve all those with an interest in organizational training. | A Handbook for Training Strategy

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Ujamaa and Ubuntu Conceptual Histories for a Planetary Perspective

Ujamaa and Ubuntu Conceptual Histories for a Planetary Perspective

For over a decade the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge. It is a language ordering time and space with words such as enlightenment reason rationality modernization and the most recent by-word globalization. However it is a language that has been accompanied by colonialism imperialism racism the exploitation of people and nature an unequal distribution of the world’s resources pogroms genocides and world wars. There has been a gap between assumptions underlying a visionary ambition and the often-brutal practices that have accompanied it. Moreover it is a language that expresses European values with the implicit or explicit suggestion that they pertain to the whole world a civilizing mission from a European centre. Although the established narrative argued that there was continuous progress it was a conclusion reached through hindsight. The idea of progress had to be repeatedly recreated through new visionary projects that attempted to live up to the high ideals their predecessors failed to achieve. Against the backdrop of this meta-normative point of departure the book argues that a convincing grand narrative has failed to materialize since the discrediting of globalization. In the search for a new narrative it argues at a meta-normative level for a reformulation of the term ‘global’ away from its close connection to the globe as an unbounded self-propelling market that exists beyond human influence. ‘Global’ should no longer be reduced to auto-playing market fiction but instead be connected to the planet Terra the Earth. With reference to Latour and Chakrabarty ‘global’ and ‘planetary’ mean cohabitation; life on earth is seen as an infinite symbiotic system nurtured and protected but also destroyed by human action. The book argues that a new conceptualization of ‘the global’ and ‘the planet’ requires input from African and Asian language cultures. The book explores in depth the history of the two political African key concepts of ujamaa and ubuntu and argues that they are cases showing how work on a new global/planetary narrative might look. The investigation of the two concepts demonstrate that translations are juxtapositions that point up what is shared and what isn’t between concepts in two or more languages. The point of comparison is not to develop a uniform global perspective even if that were possible but to develop a global understanding of difference and through that to begin to look for a common ground. Translations of political key concepts are the source of a growing understanding of difference. | Ujamaa and Ubuntu Conceptual Histories for a Planetary Perspective

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Social Entrepreneurship for Development A business model

Social Entrepreneurship for Development A business model

This book presents a fresh approach to poverty alleviation by bridging the fields of international development and social entrepreneurship. The authors present a six-step model for developing an IP business positioning strategy that allows developing country producers to position themselves better as owners of retail brands in foreign market countries. Readers will learn how producers can control the supply chain including distribution to retail stores. Focusing on Africa and least developed countries (LDCs) the authors demonstrate methods of utilizing intellectual property tools producer ownership market positioning and branding for lucrative outcomes. Extensive research provides readers with a thorough understanding of what it means to work smarter in a developing business while a rich set of international cases offers insight into the practical applications of brand positioning trademarks and licenses. With a dozen online workbooks to outline methodology skills tools and case studies Social Entrepreneurship for Development will be a valuable resource for any student of social entrepreneurship or international development. | Social Entrepreneurship for Development A business model

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Esports and the Media Challenges and Expectations in a Multi-Screen Society

Esports and the Media Challenges and Expectations in a Multi-Screen Society

This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to the question of esports and their role in society. A diverse group of authors tackle the impact of esports and the ways in which it has grown within the entertainment industry around the world. Chapters offer a coherent response to the following questions: What role do esports play in the entertainment industry? What communication skills can be learned through esports? What do the media gain from broadcasting esports? What is the relationship between social networks and esports? What are the main marketing strategies used in esports? What effect does communicative globalization have on the development of esports? What is the relationship between merchandising and esports? What do communication experts think about esports? Offering clear insights into this rapidly developing area this volume will be of great interest to scholars students and anyone working in game studies new media leisure sport studies communication studies transmedia literacy and digital culture. The Open Access version of this book has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license: https://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/oa-edit/10. 4324/9781003273691/esports-media-angel-torres-toukoumidis | Esports and the Media Challenges and Expectations in a Multi-Screen Society

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The State of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe A Comparative Perspective

The State of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe A Comparative Perspective

The State of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe brings together scholars specialising in the study of Central and Eastern Europe and provides a comprehensive analysis of some of the major issues in the democratic make-up of the EU’s new member states. The book covers the main dimensions of the state and contributors discuss questions about the development of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe over the past twenty years. What is the present state of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe more than twenty years since the end of communist regimes? What is the actual functioning of the political institutions of these countries? How is political participation structured and what role do political parties play in these democracies? What guarantees are provided to limit governmental powers and abuse? What is the role of the judicial system and the relationship between justice and politics? How can we evaluate the EU’s influence regarding democratic consolidation? What is the role of the public opinion? This book was originally published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies. | The State of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe A Comparative Perspective

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A Brief History of Knowledge for Social Science Researchers Before Method

A Brief History of Knowledge for Social Science Researchers Before Method

A Brief History of Knowledge for Social Science Researchers outlines a history of knowledge from Ancient Greece to present day in Europe and the Western world. This outline provides the basis for understanding where various research methods originate and their epistemological historical political and social roots. This book provides social science researchers with an understanding of how research methods developed and how their truth criteria and what is accepted as knowledge spring from human history. Research is often reduced to data collection results and publication in the stressful results-oriented academic environment. But research is a human enterprise a product of both individual creativity and historical political and social conditions. This book will focus on how shared research criteria (as we know them today) were developed through the work and thought of philosophers social activists and researchers. This book will be useful for graduate and post-graduate students particularly those studying Research Methods and Philosophy of Science courses; and for experienced social science researchers who wish to understand how research methods have developed in human history. | A Brief History of Knowledge for Social Science Researchers Before Method

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Supervision in Clinical Practice A Practitioner's Guide

Supervision in Clinical Practice A Practitioner's Guide

This fully updated edition of Supervision in Clinical Practice: A Practitioner’s Guide is packed with practical examples from personal and professional experience. Since the publication of the first two editions health and social care organisations have become increasingly risk averse resources more strained and moves have been made towards stifling levels of clinical governance. In this edition Joyce Scaife counters the idea of supervision as a constraint and challenges some of the thinking associated with ‘evidence-based’ practice when this focuses on what can be easily measured rather than what matters. Joyce Scaife explores frequently encountered dilemmas including: How can supervisors facilitate learning? What are the ethical bases of supervision? What helps to create and maintain an effective working alliance? How can supervisors balance management and supervision roles? How can supervisors work equitably in an increasingly diverse and pluralistic world? Supervision in Clinical Practice remains an indispensable text for supervisors and supervisees who practice clinically in a range of professions including applied psychology counselling psychotherapy psychiatry nursing and social work. | Supervision in Clinical Practice A Practitioner's Guide

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A Guide for the Idealist Launching and Navigating Your Planning Career

A Guide for the Idealist Launching and Navigating Your Planning Career

A Guide for the Idealist is a must for young professionals seeking to put their idealism to work. Speaking to urban and regional planners and those in related fields the book provides tools for the reader to make good choices practice effectively and find meaning in planning work. Built around concepts of idealism and realism the book takes on the gap between the expectations and the constraints of practice. How to make an impact? How to decide when to compromise and when to fight for a core value? The book advises on career launching issues: doubt decision-making assessing types of work and work settings and career planning. Then it explains principled adaptability as professional style. Subsequent chapters address early-practice issues: being right avoiding wrong navigating managers organizations and teams working with mentors and understanding the career journey. Underpinning these dimensions is a call for planners to reflect on what they are doing as they are doing it. The advice provided is based on the experience of a planning professor who has also practiced planning throughout his career. The book includes personal anecdotes from the author and other planners about how they launched and managed their careers and discussion/reflection questions for the reader to consider. | A Guide for the Idealist Launching and Navigating Your Planning Career

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Consumer Behaviour and the Arts A Marketing Perspective

Consumer Behaviour and the Arts A Marketing Perspective

Although the literature on marketing of the arts is abundant very few (if any) full-length works have examined the other side of the coin and closely studied the people who consume the products of the cultural industry. This book offers a summary of the knowledge garnered in recent decades by researchers exploring consumer behaviour in arts and culture. Each chapter explores a different aspect of consumer behaviour in the arts by answering the following questions: What do we know about this aspect of consumer behaviour in general? What do we know about this aspect as it relates to the consumption of art works or cultural experiences? What are the practical implications of this knowledge for managers working in the arts? What are the implications for researchers in this field? This book fills the need for scientific and practical knowledge about the people who consume arts and culture and will therefore be of particular interest to managers of cultural venues and institutions to students or teachers in arts management training programs to researchers in the field to public policymakers in arts and culture and to anyone directly or indirectly involved in creating promoting and distributing artistic and cultural products. | Consumer Behaviour and the Arts A Marketing Perspective

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Euro-Mediterranean Security: A Search for Partnership A Search for Partnership

Euro-Mediterranean Security: A Search for Partnership A Search for Partnership

This title was first published in 2003. This work provides a clearer understanding of the EU's approach towards security in the Mediterranean. After examining the EU's interests and the potential threats to security in the region it analyzes EU security policy towards the region as a whole through the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and towards all disputes and conflicts in the area. It recommends opening up the European Security and Defence Policy to Mediterranean participation in order to establish a deep and equitable security partnership between both shores. The book argues that this way the EU could implement its innovative comprehensive and co-operative approach to security. Rather than focusing on the military aspect alone this approach takes into account all dimensions of security (political socio-economic cultural and ecological) and is based on partnership rather than confrontation. It therefore contrasts quite sharply with the policies advocated in the US National Security Strategy. | Euro-Mediterranean Security: A Search for Partnership A Search for Partnership

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Planning for Climate Change A Reader in Green Infrastructure and Sustainable Design for Resilient Cities

Planning for Climate Change A Reader in Green Infrastructure and Sustainable Design for Resilient Cities

This book provides an overview of the large and interdisciplinary literature on the substance and process of urban climate change planning and design using the most important articles from the last 15 years to engage readers in understanding problems and finding solutions to this increasingly critical issue. The Reader’s particular focus is how the impacts of climate change can be addressed in urban and suburban environments—what actions can be taken as well as the need for and the process of climate planning. Both reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as adapting to future climate are explored. Many of the emerging best practices in this field involve improving the green infrastructure of the city and region—providing better on-site stormwater management more urban greening to address excess heat zoning for regional patterns of open space and public transportation corridors and similar actions. These actions may also improve current public health and livability in cities bringing benefits now and into the future. This Reader is innovative in bringing climate adaptation and green infrastructure together encouraging a more hopeful perspective on the great challenge of climate change by exploring both the problems of climate change and local solutions. | Planning for Climate Change A Reader in Green Infrastructure and Sustainable Design for Resilient Cities

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'A womans answer is neuer to seke': Early Modern Jestbooks 1526–1635 Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III Part

'A womans answer is neuer to seke': Early Modern Jestbooks 1526–1635 Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III Part

By turns witty and inane crude and learned scurrilous and moralistic jestbooks offer an important and often overlooked viewpoint on the lives of women in early modern England. This volume reproduces seven jestbooks with connections to early modern Englishwomen as well as showing something of the broad genre itself. Four have a direct connection to women through their jests and framing (Wyddow Edyth VVestward for Smelts Long Meg of VVestminster and Pasqvils Iests) excerpts from two books specifically focus on women in some sections (The Schoolemaster and Wits Fittes and Fancies) and the volume also includes the extremely popular general jestbook (A C. Mery Talys). | 'A womans answer is neuer to seke': Early Modern Jestbooks 1526–1635 Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III Part

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Commodity Derivatives A Guide for Future Practitioners

Commodity Derivatives A Guide for Future Practitioners

Commodity Derivatives: A Guide for Future Practitioners describes the origins and uses of these important markets. Commodities are often used as inputs in the production of other products and commodity prices are notoriously volatile. Derivatives include forwards futures options and swaps; all are types of contracts that allow buyers and sellers to establish the price at one time and exchange the commodity at another. These contracts can be used to establish a price now for a purchase or sale that will occur later or establish a price later for a purchase or sale now. This book provides detailed examples for using derivatives to manage prices by hedging using futures options and swaps. It also presents strategies for using derivatives to speculate on price levels relationships volatility and the passage of time. Finally because the relationship between a commodity price and a derivative price is not constant this book examines the impact of basis behaviour on hedging results and shows how the basis can be bought and sold like a commodity. The material in this book is based on the author’s 30-year career in commodity derivatives and is essential reading for students planning careers as commodity merchandisers traders and related industry positions. Not only does it provide them with the necessary theoretical background it also covers the practical applications that employers expect new hires to understand. Examples are coordinated across chapters using consistent prices and formats and industry terminology is used so students can become familiar with standard terms and concepts. This book is organized into 18 chapters corresponding to approximately one chapter per week for courses on the semester system. | Commodity Derivatives A Guide for Future Practitioners

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Africa's Critical Choices A Call for a Pan-African Roadmap

Africa's Critical Choices A Call for a Pan-African Roadmap

This volume examines contemporary Africa a vast continent which while entering the era of globalization is also confronted by a number of issues including the environment and climate change demographics trade issues internal and external migration education economic Issues governance and the influence of other countries. Written by former Prime Minister of Niger and current Chief Executive Officer of the Secretariat of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Dr Ibrahim Assane Mayaki this book offers an overview of Africa and looks to the next generation of leaders in the continent aiming to offer a manifesto for future change. | Africa's Critical Choices A Call for a Pan-African Roadmap

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A Philosophy of Cultural Scenes in Art and Popular Culture

A Philosophy of Cultural Scenes in Art and Popular Culture

This book seeks to understand culture through the lens of scenes analyzing them aesthetically and culturally as well as understanding them through the frameworks of gender social networks and artworlds. It is common to talk about the cultural and intellectual scenes of early twentieth-century Vienna the visual art scene of postwar New York and the music and fashion scene of the swinging London. We often think about artists and works of art as essentially belonging to a certain scene. Scenes might offer a new approach to study what is possible what is a tradition and/or to discuss what are the relevant units of contemporary culture for research. The book posits that scenes explain a lot about how the artworld and the cultural field function. Vivienne Westwood Rene Magritte Roman Jakobson Arthur C. Danto Susan Sontag James Baldwin and Didier Eribon are among the figures included in the book which examines scenes in cities such as Moscow Bombay New York London Paris Brussels Helsinki and Bratislava. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history cultural studies philosophy film literature and urban studies. | A Philosophy of Cultural Scenes in Art and Popular Culture

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