Emphasizes the stakeholder's importance in making decisions, highlighting key trade-offs to consider when choosing between opposing outcomes. This book presents quantitative instruction & qualitative concepts, helping you learn about the influences that should guide your decision making. ...

Options have been traded for hundreds of years
- at least since the sixteenth century when they were used to buy & sell commodities
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This study traces the emergence of changing attitudes about the child, at once economically "useless" & emotionally "priceless", from the late 1800s to the 1930s. It describes how turn-of-the-century America discovered new, sentimental ways to determine a child's monetary worth. ...

How can managers increase their ability to calculate price & risk data for financial instruments while decreasing their dependence on a myriad of specific instrument variants? This book builds a practical framework for analysing the market & credit risk exposure of financial instruments & portfolios. ...

Collection of three British film dramas. ' Prick Up Your Ears' (1987) tells the life story of controversial 1960s playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman), revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina). Born in Leicester, Orton moves to London & enjoys an openly gay relationship with Halliwell in their famous Islington flat. However, when Orton achieves spectacular success with such plays as ' What the Butler Saw' & ' Loot', Halliwell begins to feel alienated & the pair's future looks increasingly uncertain. ' Made in Britain' (1982) is Alan Clarke's critically acclaimed study of alienation & disaffection in Thatcher's Britain. Skinhead Trevor (Tim Roth) is a car thief with no regard whatsoever for authority figures. His social worker realises that Trevor is highly intelligent, but any attempts to control his behaviour have disastrous results
- Trevor is set on the road to self-destruction. ' Meantime' (1983) is set in East London in the early 1980s. Frank Pollack (Jeff Robert) & his sons Mark & Colin (Phil Daniels & Roth) are all unemployed. The situation seems hopeless, & things are made worse when Colin's Auntie Barbara (Marion Bailey) tries to help out by offering him some decorating work, an act which arouses Mark's jealousy & ultimately effects everyone in the family.
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I stirred & found myself in a mist. As my brain cleared a little, vague recollections passed through my mind. Disentangling myself from what I discovered was a mosquito net my eyes travelled out to the horizon to a breathtaking view of the Indian Ocean- I was in AFRICA! ...