Palgrave Macmillan

An Introduction to Global Financial Markets provides an accessible introduction to the world's principal financial markets and institutions. This new edition has been extensively updated to include the latest developments in the field:* Latest European Union developments* Deregulation, and its affects, on the banking systems in USA, Japan etc.*...

Why do so many European biotechnology companies fail? This book finds an answer in the behavior of the investors who dominate the industry and control the behavior of the companies they invest in. Starting from a detailed analysis of the history of the industry from its earliest days, this book cuts through the hype and mythology to identify what...

The book is divided into three sections plus detailed appendices and glossary and accompanying CD-ROM. The first section provides a description of the investment management process providing a context for quantitative techniques.Section 2 addresses different quantitative techniques as applied to investment management. Each chapter explains the...

Explores the evolution of Palestinian identity and nationalism from the Crusades to the present, and the (pre-modern) strong sense of mission to guard the holy sites of Jerusalem for all of Islam....

A companion budget guide to Eastern Europe. The book contains maps, listings on everything from restaurants to entertainment, and information on culture, history and people....

Why do the earliest representations of cowboy-figures symbolizing the highest ideals of manhood in American culture exclude male-female desire while promoting homosocial and homoerotic bonds? Evidence from the best-known Western writers and artists of the post-Civil War period - Owen Wister, Mark Twain, Frederic Remington, George Catlin - as well...