Levy Processes in Finance: Pricing Financial Derivatives (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)
Financial mathematics has recently enjoyed considerable interest on account of its impact on the finance industry. In parallel, the theory of Levy processes has also seen many exciting developments. These powerful modelling tools allow the user to model more complex phenomena, and are commonly applied to problems in finance.
Frommer's Turkey with Your Family: From Bustling Bazaars to Historic Sites (Frommers With Your Family Series)This family-friendly travel guide to Turkey is a full colour, on-the-ground, practical book containing all the fun, exciting and useful information parents need for a trouble free holiday for memories to last a lifetime.
One in the "Thinkers" series for Key Stage 1 children, this title has been written to encourage children to see complex but familiar situations from a number of viewpoints. The stories contain thought-provoking real-life situations and questions for use both by parents as well as teachers.
The Sesame Street Podcast is a series of portable video episodes featuring Murray Monster and all your other favorite Sesame Street Muppets. In this series of Word on the Street podcasts, celebrity guests and fuzzy friends explain the meaning of words like "habitat", "octagon", "nature" and other interesting ones.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 1 February 2011
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Ordinary Thunderstorms
It is May in Chelsea, London. The glittering river is unusually high on an otherwise ordinary afternoon. Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, ambles along the Embankment, admiring the view. He is pleasantly surprised to come across a little Italian bistro down a leafy side street. During his meal he strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterwards. With horrifying speed, this chance encounter leads to a series of malign accidents through which Adam will lose everything - home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, mobile phone - never to get them back.
