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Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume One

Asset Pricing and Models

by Russ Wermers, Brian Singer, Bernd R. Fischer ...

This Second Edition of Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume One: Asset Pricing and Models, presents an updated, comprehensive exploration of portfolio performance evaluation. Based on the authors' Performance Evaluation and Attribution of Security Portfolios (2012), this volume of the second edition adds four new chapters and updated content throughout in its practical approach to ... Read more

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This Second Edition of Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume One: Asset Pricing and Models, presents an updated, comprehensive exploration of portfolio performance evaluation. Based on the authors' Performance Evaluation and Attribution of Security Portfolios (2012), this volume of the second edition adds four new chapters and updated content throughout in its practical approach to
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Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume Two

Analysis and Reporting

by Brian Singer, Russ Wermers, Bernd R. Fischer ...

This Second Edition of Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume Two: Analysis and Reporting explains the practical aspects of building or interpreting a top-to-bottom performance attribution system applicable to many asset classes, providing a toolkit of attribution techniques for analyzing the performance of portfolio managers. Requiring a familiarity with the principal concepts of portfolio ... Read more

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This Second Edition of Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume Two: Analysis and Reporting explains the practical aspects of building or interpreting a top-to-bottom performance attribution system applicable to many asset classes, providing a toolkit of attribution techniques for analyzing the performance of portfolio managers. Requiring a familiarity with the principal concepts of portfolio
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63 top creatives speak out on art, inspiration, life, and random things that happened.*"We watched as 60 yards away this man fought for his life. And I felt like a coward.""The pole they have behind the spot in the parallel parking test? Yeah, I hit that.""I pretty much punched her in the face with the palm of my hand.""Then, with his usual perfect timing, Belushi crashed through the French doors, ... Read more

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63 top creatives speak out on art, inspiration, life, and random things that happened.*"We watched as 60 yards away this man fought for his life. And I felt like a coward.""The pole they have behind the spot in the parallel parking test? Yeah, I hit that.""I pretty much punched her in the face with the palm of my hand.""Then, with his usual perfect timing, Belushi crashed through the French doors,
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Montesquieu and the Discovery of the Social

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Series series Social Sciences (R0)
Montesquieu is often considered the first social thinker. Today, when 'the end of the social' has been proclaimed, it is time to reconsider its beginnings. In a wide-ranging, original interpretation of The Spirit of the Laws, this book explores what did it mean to 'discover the social', and what can it mean to recover the social today? ... Read more

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Montesquieu is often considered the first social thinker. Today, when 'the end of the social' has been proclaimed, it is time to reconsider its beginnings. In a wide-ranging, original interpretation of The Spirit of the Laws, this book explores what did it mean to 'discover the social', and what can it mean to recover the social today?
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Life in Five Seconds

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Winner of the Cannes Lions Bronze Award for Design 2013!In today's caffeine-charged, jet-fuelled, celebrity-a-minute world, who actually has the time to learn a thing or two? C'mon, let's face it, life's too bloody short. What you need is instant knowledge.Told in ingenious, award-winning pictograms that are witty, provocative and to the point, Life in Five Seconds takes over 200 important events, ... Read more

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Winner of the Cannes Lions Bronze Award for Design 2013!In today's caffeine-charged, jet-fuelled, celebrity-a-minute world, who actually has the time to learn a thing or two? C'mon, let's face it, life's too bloody short. What you need is instant knowledge.Told in ingenious, award-winning pictograms that are witty, provocative and to the point, Life in Five Seconds takes over 200 important events,
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How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer

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Take a peek inside the heads of some of the world’s greatest living graphic designers. How do they think, how do they connect to others, what special skills do they have? In honest and revealing interviews, nineteen designers, including Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Beirut, David Carson, and Milton Glaser, share their approaches, processes, opinions, and thoughts about their work with noted brand ... Read more

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Take a peek inside the heads of some of the world’s greatest living graphic designers. How do they think, how do they connect to others, what special skills do they have? In honest and revealing interviews, nineteen designers, including Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Beirut, David Carson, and Milton Glaser, share their approaches, processes, opinions, and thoughts about their work with noted brand
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The Use and Abuse of Literature

by Marjorie Garber ...

As defining as Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, and Dinesh D’Souza’s Illiberal Education were to the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, respectively, Marjorie Garber’s The Use and Abuse of Literature is to our times.Even as the decline of the reading of literature, as argued by the National Endowment for the Arts, proceeds in our culture, Garber ... Read more

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As defining as Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, and Dinesh D’Souza’s Illiberal Education were to the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, respectively, Marjorie Garber’s The Use and Abuse of Literature is to our times.Even as the decline of the reading of literature, as argued by the National Endowment for the Arts, proceeds in our culture, Garber
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Looking Closer 4

Critical Writings on Graphic Design

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The most stimulating installment yet in the acclaimed Looking Closer series! This enthralling collection of essays assembles some of the most intriguing critical commentary published in professional and general interest design magazines from 1997 to 2000. Over thirty contributors, including Rick Poynor, Kathy McCoy, Lorraine Wild, Veronique Vienne, Jessica Helfand, and others discuss such ... Read more

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The most stimulating installment yet in the acclaimed Looking Closer series! This enthralling collection of essays assembles some of the most intriguing critical commentary published in professional and general interest design magazines from 1997 to 2000. Over thirty contributors, including Rick Poynor, Kathy McCoy, Lorraine Wild, Veronique Vienne, Jessica Helfand, and others discuss such
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Simone Weil: An Introduction to Her Thought

An Introduction to Her Thought

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“The generation of 1930 in French intellectual life was unique in the gravity of the challenges they faced.” Simone Weil — the brilliant social and political theorist, activist, and spiritual writer — was one of an eminent company in the France of the 1930s who responded to these challenges. In her brief, remarkable life she wrote a host of essays and letters and filled several notebooks with ... Read more

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“The generation of 1930 in French intellectual life was unique in the gravity of the challenges they faced.” Simone Weil — the brilliant social and political theorist, activist, and spiritual writer — was one of an eminent company in the France of the 1930s who responded to these challenges. In her brief, remarkable life she wrote a host of essays and letters and filled several notebooks with
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Design Culture

An Anthology of Writing from the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design

by Marie Finamore, Steven Heller ...

Presenting a significant selection of seventy-eight essays, interviews, and symposia from the pioneering AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, Design Culture examines the coming of age of graphic design as a profession and its role in shaping our culture. A diverse group of leading designers, editors, academics, and professionals both within and outside the field offer stimulating views on the impact of ... Read more

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Presenting a significant selection of seventy-eight essays, interviews, and symposia from the pioneering AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, Design Culture examines the coming of age of graphic design as a profession and its role in shaping our culture. A diverse group of leading designers, editors, academics, and professionals both within and outside the field offer stimulating views on the impact of
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Design Disasters

Great Designers, Fabulous Failure, and Lessons Learned

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The thrill of victorythe agony of defeat. We're not talking about just any failure. Design failure. So public. So humiliating. How do designers who are really, really good (we swear!) turn a disaster into a triumph? Read this book and find out, as dozens of top names reveal the heartbreaking-and sometimes hilarious-mistakes they have made and talk about how they were able to grow from the ... Read more

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The thrill of victorythe agony of defeat. We're not talking about just any failure. Design failure. So public. So humiliating. How do designers who are really, really good (we swear!) turn a disaster into a triumph? Read this book and find out, as dozens of top names reveal the heartbreaking-and sometimes hilarious-mistakes they have made and talk about how they were able to grow from the
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Illustrated guide to the controversial sociologist Jean Baudrillard, who died in 2007. Did the Gulf War take place? Is it possible to fake a bank robbery? Was sexual liberation a disaster? Jean Baudrillard has been hailed as one of France's most subtle and powerful theorists. But his provocative style and assaults on sociology, feminism and Marxism have exposed him to accusations of promoting a ... Read more

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Illustrated guide to the controversial sociologist Jean Baudrillard, who died in 2007. Did the Gulf War take place? Is it possible to fake a bank robbery? Was sexual liberation a disaster? Jean Baudrillard has been hailed as one of France's most subtle and powerful theorists. But his provocative style and assaults on sociology, feminism and Marxism have exposed him to accusations of promoting a
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