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New Books List July-September 2015 NOW in ITS 10Th by MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING YEAR! AUTHOR STELLA COTTRELL New Books List July-September 2015 NOW IN ITS 10th BY MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING YEAR! AUTHOR STELLA COTTRELL ‘A perfect planner for any student! ’ - student buyer of the previous edition Includes study skills advice, diary pages, timetables, notes pages, ‘to do’ lists, personal finance guidance, quick check guides and more. Calendar | 9781137516190 | £8.99 | May 2015 Order securely online at www.palgrave.com or telephone +44 (0)207 418 5802 fax + 44(0)1256 330688 email [email protected] New Books List Bouncing Balls © ValeriKimbro/thinkstock.com July - September 2015 Contents Anthropology 2 Life Sciences 46 Banking and Finance 3 Literature 48 Business and Management 9 Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry 54 British Film Institute 17 Modern Languages 55 Counselling and Psychotherapy 18 Nursing and Health 56 Criminology 19 Philosophy & Religion 56 Culture and Media 20 Politics 58 Economics 22 Psychology 68 Education 27 Religion 75 Further Education and Vocational 31 Social Work and Social Policy 76 Gender Studies 31 Sociology 78 General and Reference 33 Study Skills 82 History 34 Theatre and Performance 82 Language and Linguistics 40 Index 86 Law 43 Worldwide Services IBC For a complete list of titles, please visit www.palgrave.com. Prices are correct at the time of print. Our catalogues and the packaging they are delivered in are recyclable - when you have finished with this catalogue please recycle it. Printed by an ISO 14001 (Environmental Standard) accredited printer on paper from a managed source to PEFC standard, and printed using vegetable-based ink. ANTHROPOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY NEW IN PAPERBACK TEXTBOOK The Anthropology of Contemporary Human NEW IN PAPERBACK Protestantism Geography Spirits and Slaves in Central Faith and Crisis among Scottish Fishermen Culture, Globalization, Landscape Sudan Joseph Webster, Downing Mona Domosh, Dartmouth College, University of College, USA, Roderick P. The Red Wind of Sennar Cambridge, UK Neumann, Florida “A provocative study International University, Susan M. Kenyon, Butler USA, Patricia L. Price, University, USA that draws on the Florida International “Although Zar is a traditional strengths University, USA well-documented of [anthropology]: village community, More than any other cultural movement, book for the introductory this treatment is reflexive ethnography, human geography course, particularly rich in ritual and everyday Contemporary Human ethnographic detail and life . In addition to Geography shows what local voices . the book scholars of Christianity, geographers actually do—how they conduct is an important addition anthropologists of research, develop new insights, teach us about the world from a geographer’s perspective, and to that specialized Europe, and those interested in the globalization of religion generally, this book could make a apply their skills in a wide range of academic and literature. Summing Up: professional pursuits. Highly recommended. good pairing with other works on religious life Graduate students/ taking different theoretical turns and engaging Contents: 1. Human Geography: A Cultural Approach faculty.” - CHOICE distinct ethnographic settings . Webster’s / 2. Many Worlds: Geographies of Cultural Difference / work makes an excellent contribution to the 3. Population Geography: Shaping the Human Mosaic This historical ethnography from Central Sudan Contemporary Anthropology of Religion series and / 4. The Geography of Language: Building the Spoken Word / 5. Geographies of Race and Ethnicity: Mosaic explores the century-old intertwining of zar, spirit portends more good things to come from this possession, with past lives of ex-slaves and shows or Tapestry? / 6. Political Geography: A Divided World that, despite very different social and cultural young scholar.” - Anthropology News / 7. The Geography of Religion: Space and Places of contexts, zar has continued to be shaped by the Through his ethnographic study of the fishermen Sacredness / 8. Agriculture: The Geography of the experience of slavery. and their religious beliefs, Webster speaks to larger Global Food System / 9. Development Geography: Growth, Transformation, and Exchange / 10. The Contents: PART I: BACKGROUND / 1. Remembering debates about religious radicalism, materiality, economy, language, and the symbolic. These Geography of Cities: A World of Cities / 11. One World Spirits and Sufis in Central Sudan / PART II: THE HOUSE or Many? The Cultural Geography of the Future OF ZAINAB / 2. The Ottoman Ranks / 3. Colonialism debates also call into question assumptions and Colonization / 4. Independence, Islamism, and about the decline of religion in modern industrial March 2015 496pp 274x230mm Modernity / PART III: THE HOUSE OF SPIRITS / 5. The societies. Paperback £49.99 9781464133442 World of Red Spirits / 6. Nations of Spirits / 7. Serving Contents: Introduction: Gamrie, Words, Signs / PART Published by W. H. Freeman the Spirits / PART IV: DEALING WITH POWER / 8. I: GAMRIE / 1. Situating Gamrie / 2. The Triple Pinch Bargaining with Power / 9. Spirits at Play / 10. Sacrifice / PART II: WORDS / 3. Preaching / 4. Testimony / 5. www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781464133442 / PART V: NOT A MOMENT TO LOSE / 11. Slavery Fishing / PART III: SIGNS / 6. Providence and Attack / 7. Remembered: Lessons from the Zar Eschatology / Conclusion: Enchantment July 2015 316pp 216x140mm July 2015 272pp 235x152mm Paperback £24.00 9781137534798 Paperback £22.00 9781137527295 Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Series Edited by: Don Seeman, Tulasi Srinivas Series Edited by: Don Seeman, Tulasi Srinivas www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137534798 www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137527295 4 Join our subject-specific mailing lists at www.palgrave.com/sign-up ANTHROPOLOGY • BANKING AND FINANCE NEW IN PAPERBACK BANKING AND FINANCE FX Barrier Options A Comprehensive Guide for Industry Quants Housewives of Japan SABR and SABR LIBOR Market Zareer Dadachanji, Model Quant Solutions, UK An Ethnography of Real Lives and Consumerized Models in Practice This book is a quantitative guide to barrier options Domesticity With Examples Implemented in Python in FX environments. Contents: Preface / Foreword / Glossary of Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, Tel Christian Crispoldi is Vice Aviv University, Israel Mathematical Notation / Contract Types / 1 Meet the President at Nomura in New Products / 1.1 Spot / 1.1.1 Dollars per euro or euros per "A fascinating book York where he is responsible dollar? / 1.1.2 Big figures and small figures / 1.1.3 The about what it means for the valuation and pricing value of Foreign / 1.1.4 Converting between Domestic and feels like to be a of interest rate derivatives. and Foreign / 1.2 Forwards / 1.2.1 The FX forward market housewife in 2000s Peter Larkin is a Data / 1.2.2 A formula for the forward rate / 1.2.3 Payoff a Scientist working on building Japan . This is an forward contract / 1.2.4 Valuation of a forward contract predictive models using big / 1.3 Vanilla options 1.3.1 Put-Call Parity / 1.4 Barrier- imminently readable data in the (re)insurance contingent vanilla options / 1.5 Barrier-contingent book that engages industry. Gérald Wigger is payments / 1.6 Rebates / 1.7 Knock-in-knock-out (KIKO) Japanese history, Head of Quantitative options / 1.8 Types of barriers / 1.9 Structured products gender theory, and Analysis at Weisshorn Re. / 1.10 Specifying the contract / 1.11 Quantitative truisms media studies to / 1.11.1 Foreign exchange symmetry and inversion A hands-on guide to / 1.11.2 Knock-out plus knock-in equals no-barrier describe the options interest rate modelling, facing housewives in contract / 1.11.3 Put-call parity / 1.12 Jargon-buster / 2 including the SABR model, the market standard for Living in a Black-Scholes World / 2.1 The Black-Scholes the contemporary moment. As omnipresent vanilla products, and the LIBOR market model, the model equation for spot price / 2.2 The process for ln S / as housewives remain, this book shows us most commonly used model for exotic products. 2.3 The Black-Scholes equation for option pricing / 2.3.1 how varied and reflective they can be about This accessible book also provides an explanation The lagless approach / 2.3.2 Derivation of the Black- their status, responsibilities, and degrees of of the extended SABR LIBOR market model. Scholes PDE / 2.3.3 Black-Scholes model satisfaction." - American Ethnologist Contents: PART I: VANILLA INTEREST RATES / August 2015 323pp 323ppx234mm Interest Rate Notions / Basic Terminology / Black 91 figures, 3 b/w tables Drawing on a unique ethnographic inquiry, Ofra Hardback £60.00 9781137462749 Goldstein-Gidoni explores the complexities of Model / Normal Black Model / CEV Model / Caps & the relationship between socially and culturally Floors (Product Definition, Market Conventions And Overview, Including Vol Stripping Etc...) / Swaptions Applied Quantitative Finance constructed roles bestowed on Japanese women (Product Definition, Market Conventions And Overview, by a variety of state agents, including the market www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=1137462744 Including Vol Cube Etc...) / SABR Model / Model and the media, and the ‘real’ lives of these women. Definition (Including An Overview Of Its Parameters) Contents: PART I: A COLLABORATIVE QUEST FOR / Hagan’s Approximate Formulas (Give A Clear UNDERSTANDING ‘SENGYŌ SHUFU’ / Intertext I Description Of Each Of The Formulas He Developed / Entering the Field: Joining Mariko’s Introspective And Their Differences) / The Low Strike Problem / Journey
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