Combines academic research & practical expertise on alternative assets & trading strategies in a different way. This book discusses asset classes including: credit risk, cross-asset derivatives, energy, private equity, freight agreements, real alternative assets (RAA), & socially responsible investments (SRI). ...

Investigates & analyses the diverse forms & genres of journalism that have arisen as challenges to mainstream news coverage. This book charts the historical & cultural practices of this diverse & globalized phenomenon. It addresses not just the issues of politics & empowerment but also the journalism of popular culture & the everyday. ...

The definitive BBC Series produced in conjunction with The Open University, which attracted over 7.5 million viewers per episode. For thousands of years, what we now think of as Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM) was the only medicine; now, traditional cures are being treated with a fresh respect. In this series of programmes Professor Kathy Sykes embarks on a quest to quantify just how successful a range of alternative therapies can actually be & why science is starting to respond to these centuries-old remedies. ...

A compendium that brings together articles from the " Journal of Alternative Medicine Research" in 2009 with a research agenda on a global basis, addressing questions ranging from policy to practice, human development & a whole spectrum of issues also involving infancy & early childhood, to adolescence & adulthood. ...