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  • The Interval Market Model in Mathematical Finance

    Game-Theoretic Methods

    by Pierre Bernhard, Jacob C. Engwerda, Berend Roorda, J.M. Schumacher, Vassili Kolokoltsov, Patrick Saint-Pierre, Jean-Pierre Aubin ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Toward the late 1990s, several research groups independently began developing new, related theories in mathematical finance. These theories did away with the standard stochastic geometric diffusion “Samuelson” market model (also known as the Black-Scholes model because it is used in that most famous theory), instead opting for models that allowed minimax approaches to complement or replace ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Environmental Geomechanics

    Edited by Pierre Delage, Bernhard A. Schrefler ...
    This book covers a range of topics that are of increasing importance in engineering practice: natural hazards, pollution, and environmental protection through good practice.The first half of the book deals with natural risk factors, of both natural and human origin, that should be considered: subsidence, accidental infiltration, soil instability, rockslides and mudslides, debris flow, and ... Read more

    $259.99 CAD

  • Administering Interpretation

    Derrida, Agamben, and the Political Theology of Law

    by Peter Goodrich, Michel Rosenfeld, Giovanna Borradori, Marinos Diamantides, Allen Feldman, Stanley Fish, Pierre Legrand, Bernadette Meyler, Bernhard Schlink0, Jeanne Schroeder1, Laurent de Sutter2, Katrin Truestedt3, Marco Wan4 ...
    Series series Just Ideas
    Populism in politics and policy orientations in law have thrown the jurisdiction of the academy and the disciplines of interpretation into disarray. Critique flounders in abstraction and negativity, law loses itself in particularity. Administering Interpretation brings together philosophers, humanists, and jurists from both continental and Anglophone jurisdictions to reassess the status and ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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  • How to Cool the Planet

    Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate

    by Jeff Goodell ...
    "Thoughtful, informative, and darkly entertaining. It's the best treatment of this important (and scary) topic you can find." —Elizabeth KolbertRight now, a group of scientists is working on ways to minimize the catastrophic impact of global warming. But they're not designing hybrids or fuel cells or wind turbines. They're trying to lower the temperature of the entire planet. And they're doing it ... Read more

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  • Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg

    The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic 30

    by Ben Stewart ...
    The true story of Greenpeace activists imprisoned in Russia—and the fight to free them: "A gripping story of tremendous courage that reads like a thriller" (Naomi Klein)."The most important prison motto is hope for the better, but every moment, literally every moment, be prepared for the worst. Don't hope, don't fear, don't beg." —Roman Dolgov, one of the Arctic 30With rising temperatures, a ... Read more

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  • Choice Theory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Allingham ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    We make choices all the time - about trivial matters, about how to spend our money, about how to spend our time, about what to do with our lives. And we are also constantly judging the decisions other people make as rational or irrational. But what kind of criteria are we applying when we say that a choice is rational? What guides our own choices, especially in cases where we don't have complete ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Beautiful Game Theory

    How Soccer Can Help Economics

    by Ignacio Palacios-Huerta ...
    The first book to use the world's most popular sport to test economic theories and document novel human behaviorA wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and other fields. Research has also shown that economics can provide insight into many aspects of sports, ... Read more

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  • Algorithmic Game Theory

    Edited by Noam Nisan, Tim Roughgarden, Eva Tardos, Vijay V. Vazirani ...
    In recent years game theory has had a substantial impact on computer science, especially on Internet- and e-commerce-related issues. Algorithmic Game Theory, first published in 2007, develops the central ideas and results of this exciting area in a clear and succinct manner. More than 40 of the top researchers in this field have written chapters that go from the foundations to the state of the art ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Financial Enterprise Risk Management

    by Paul Sweeting ...
    Series series International Series on Actuarial Science
    Financial Enterprise Risk Management provides all the tools needed to build and maintain a comprehensive ERM framework. As well as outlining the construction of such frameworks, it discusses the internal and external contexts within which risk management must be carried out. It also covers a range of qualitative and quantitative techniques that can be used to identify, model and measure risks, and ... Read more

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  • Beyond Compliance

    by Nicholas Cheremisinoff, Motasem B. Haddadin ...
    This book offers refineries a practical guide for implementing environmental management systems (EMS).The author, who has implemented hundreds of successful EMS programs throughout North America, Europe, Russia and the Middle East, provides a detailed explanation of what an EMS is and how it can benefit refinery operations in complying with environmental laws and improving the overall efficiency ... Read more

    $155.19 CAD

  • The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic

    by Richard A. Epstein ...
    Early in his rise to enlightenment, man invented a concept that has since been variously viewed as a vice, a crime, a business, a pleasure, a type of magic, a disease, a folly, a weakness, a form of sexual substitution, an expression of the human instinct. He invented gambling. Recent advances in the field, particularly Parrondo's paradox, have triggered a surge of interest in the statistical and ... Read more

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