Oxford University Press

The biblical story of King David and his conflict with King Saul (1 and 2 Samuel) is one of the most colourful and perennially popular in the Hebrew Bible. In recent years this story has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, much of it devoted to showing that David was a far less heroic character than appears on the surface. Indeed, more...

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The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New YorkIn the two decades after World War II, New York was shaken by struggles over urban renewal. Manhattan Projects offers a fresh look at the history of those conflicts, showing how the idea of urban renewal was made and unmade as the state of the art technique for remaking cities....

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The risk management models used by banks and insurance companies are designed for when financial markets behave smoothly and efficiently. However, large risks materialize very often, and financial markets periodically go through bubbles and crashes. This book provides a road map of the most popular models of risk management and shows how they can...