Alchemists Of Loss

Author : Kevin Dowd,Martin Hutchinson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470689967

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Alchemists of Loss by Kevin Dowd,Martin Hutchinson Pdf

An engaging look at how modern finance almost destroyed our global economy Over the last thirty years, capital markets have been restructured through the tenets of modern finance. This has been enormously profitable for the financial services sector. However, these innovations, coupled with unsound risk and regulatory practices have proved disastrous for the global economy. In a clear and accessible style, ex-investment banker and financial journalist Martin Hutchinson, and highly respected academic, Kevin Dowd show how modern finance combined with easy money threatened to bring down the world financial system. At the heart of the book is modern finance as a U.S. invention, the theories and practices associated with them, and the changes they made in business models and risk management on Wall Street and other major financial centers. Breaks down the events involved in the 2007-08 financial collapse Reveals how botched policy response made a bad situation worse Focuses on lessons that the practice of finance must learn from recent events The Alchemists of Loss will help you to understand how our financial system crashed and show you what it will take to make sure this won't happen again as we move forward.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8126527730

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Alchemists of Loss by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nicholas Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0648511995

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The Dying Alchemists by Nicholas Bennett Pdf

The Dying Alchemists is a reflection on existence through prose, poetry and art, from our thoughts as conscious creatures on this planet and how it feels to be human, to the way in which the Universe reveals itself through the grand and majestic unfolding we see all around us.

Author : Marilyn Bowering
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 088878435X

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The Alchemy of Happiness by Marilyn Bowering Pdf

Bowering delivers poems that blend of personalities, times, and places that add up to an overall substance she sees as happiness.

Author : Cynthea Masson
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770908468

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The Alchemists' Council by Cynthea Masson Pdf

As a new Initiate with the Alchemists' Council, Jaden is trained to maintain the elemental balance of the world, while fending off interference by the malevolent Rebel Branch. Bees are disappearing from the pages of the ancient manuscripts in Council dimension and from the outside world, threatening its very existence. Jaden navigates alchemy's complexities, but the more she learns, the more she begins to question Council practices. Erasure, a procedure designed not only to remove individuals from Council dimension but also from the memories of other alchemists, troubles Jaden, and she uses her ingenuity to remember one of the erased people. In doing so, she realizes the Rebel Branch might not be the enemy she was taught to fight against. Jaden is caught between her responsibility to the Council and her growing allegiance to the rebels, as the Council finds itself at the brink of war. She is faced with an ethical dilemma involving the free will of all humanity, and must decide whether or not she can save the worlds.

Author : Ronald Douglas Gray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108015288

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Goethe the Alchemist by Ronald Douglas Gray Pdf

This 1952 study analyses Goethe's writings in the light of his youthful readings in alchemy.

Author : Ronald D. Gray
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Goethe The Alchemist by Ronald D. Gray Pdf

Author : Theodore Ziolkowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191063817

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The Alchemist in Literature by Theodore Ziolkowski Pdf

Unlike most other studies of alchemy and literature, which focus on alchemical imagery in poetry of specific periods or writers, this book traces the figure of the alchemist in Western literature from its first appearance in the Eighth Circle of Dante's Inferno down to the present. From the beginning alchemy has had two aspects: exoteric or operative (the transmutation of baser metals into gold) and esoteric or speculative (the spiritual transformation of the alchemist himself). From Dante to Ben Jonson, during the centuries when the belief in exoteric alchemy was still strong and exploited by many charlatans to deceive the gullible, writers in major works of many literatures treated alchemists with ridicule in an effort to expose their tricks. From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, as that belief weakened, the figure of the alchemist disappeared, even though Protestant poets in England and Germany were still fond of alchemical images. But when eighteenth-century science almost wholly undermined alchemy, the figure of the alchemist began to emerge again in literature—now as a humanitarian hero or as a spirit striving for sublimation. Following these esoteric romanticizations, as scholarly interest in alchemy intensified, writers were attracted to the figure of the alchemist and his quest for power. The fin-de-siecle saw a further transformation as poets saw in the alchemist a symbol for the poet per se and others, influenced by the prevailing spiritism, as a manifestation of the religious spirit. During the interwar years, as writers sought surrogates for the widespread loss of religious faith, esoteric alchemy underwent a pronounced revival, and many writers turned to the figure of the alchemist as a spiritual model or, in the case of Paracelsus in Germany, as a national figurehead. This tendency, theorized by C. G. Jung in several major studies, inspired after World War II a vast popularization of the figure in novels—historical, set in the present, or juxtaposing past and present— in England, France, Germany, Italy, Brazil, and the United States. The inevitable result of this popularization was the trivialization of the figure in advertisements for healing and cooking or in articles about scientists and economists. In sum: the figure of the alchemist in literature provides a seismograph for major shifts in intellectual and cultural history.

Author : BERNIE. GARRETT
Publisher : Hammersmith Books Limited
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1781611882

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The New Alchemists by BERNIE. GARRETT Pdf

How to identify and see through deceptive and unethical health marketing practices Health scams come in all shapes and sizes--from the suppression of side-effects from prescription drugs to the unproven benefits of 'traditional' health practices--taking advantage of the human tendency to assume good intentions in others. So how do we avoid being deceived? Professor of Nursing, Bernie Garrett explores real-world examples of medical malpractice, pseudo and deceptive health science, dietary and celebrity health fads, deception in alternative medicine and problems with current healthcare regulation, ending with a simple health-scam detection kit. And he looks at how these practices and ineffective regulations affect our lives.

Author : Jim Ratcliffe,Ursula Heath
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785904158

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The Alchemists by Jim Ratcliffe,Ursula Heath Pdf

One of the world's top 40 manufacturing companies, one of the largest global petrochemicals producers and the biggest private company in the UK, INEOS has risen to prominence over the past twenty years led by three unassuming northern grammar school boys: majority owner Jim Ratcliffe and his business partners Andy Currie and John Reece. The company's prolific growth and unlikely success have reshaped the industry, though its first two decades have been punctuated by close calls and hard lessons, as well as unprecedented highs. As they celebrate the company's twentieth anniversary and continued evolution, Ratcliffe and his management team have opened up on the major junctions of the INEOS journey, and their insights into business and manufacturing today.

Author : Colm Holland
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781789044355

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The Secret of The Alchemist by Colm Holland Pdf

In The Secret of The Alchemist, Colm Holland reveals how you can discover the power to miraculously change the world around you beyond all recognition and for the better. Colm will tell you the story of his encounter with Paulo Coelho and his bestselling book The Alchemist and how discovering the secret in Paulo’s novel gave him the insights to achieve true empowerment in his life. Alchemy is all about transformation and draws upon the greatest power of all to convert seemingly insurmountable obstacles into life changing experiences. Through an honest account of his own, often difficult quest to live life to the full, Colm offers you the chance to draw on his discoveries and other real-life stories to inspire the pursuit of your dreams and reach your goals. How does he know? As he wrote this book, Colm asked Love to give you, the reader, everything you need to become the alchemist in your world.

Author : Dennis William Hauck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1592577350

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Alchemy by Dennis William Hauck Pdf

More than magic... Where else can one combine chemistry and philosophy to turn base metal into gold while discovering a magical elixir to prolong life? Here's a simple and straightforward guide to alchemy that explains its basic principles. Written by one of the world's few practicing alchemists, it's a concise reference guide that provides easy-to-follow information so that anybody can be a wizard-in-training.

Author : Scott Patterson
Publisher : Currency
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307453389

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The Quants by Scott Patterson Pdf

With the immediacy of today’s NASDAQ close and the timeless power of a Greek tragedy, The Quants is at once a masterpiece of explanatory journalism, a gripping tale of ambition and hubris, and an ominous warning about Wall Street’s future. In March of 2006, four of the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with million-dollar stakes, but those numbers meant nothing to them. They were accustomed to risking billions. On that night, these four men and their cohorts were the new kings of Wall Street. Muller, Griffin, Asness, and Weinstein were among the best and brightest of a new breed, the quants. Over the prior twenty years, this species of math whiz--technocrats who make billions not with gut calls or fundamental analysis but with formulas and high-speed computers--had usurped the testosterone-fueled, kill-or-be-killed risk-takers who’d long been the alpha males the world’s largest casino. The quants helped create a digitized money-trading machine that could shift billions around the globe with the click of a mouse. Few realized, though, that in creating this unprecedented machine, men like Muller, Griffin, Asness and Weinstein had sowed the seeds for history’s greatest financial disaster. Drawing on unprecedented access to these four number-crunching titans, The Quants tells the inside story of what they thought and felt in the days and weeks when they helplessly watched much of their net worth vaporize--and wondered just how their mind-bending formulas and genius-level IQ’s had led them so wrong, so fast.

Author : Theodore Ziolkowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198746836

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The Alchemist in Literature by Theodore Ziolkowski Pdf

This study traces the figure of the alchemist in Western literature from its first appearance in Dante down to the present. From the beginning alchemy has had two aspects: exoteric or operative (the transmutation of baser metals into gold) and esoteric or speculative (the spiritual transformation of the alchemist himself). As scholarly interest in alchemy intensified, writers were attracted to the figure of the alchemist and his quest for power. The figure of the alchemist in literature provides a seismograph for major shifts in intellectual and cultural history.

Author : Prabhu TL
Publisher : NestFame Creations Pvt Ltd.
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE ALCHEMISTS CODE by Prabhu TL Pdf

Step into a world where alchemy and machinery intertwine, where ancient secrets hold the key to unlimited power, and where a young alchemist must navigate treachery and form unexpected alliances to safeguard the future. In "The Alchemist’s Code," embark on an exhilarating journey through a steampunk society teetering on the brink of revolution. Set in the sprawling metropolis of New Aetheria, this captivating tale follows the story of Lira, a gifted young alchemist who stumbles upon an ancient manuscript rumored to contain the secrets of unlimited energy. As powerful factions vie for control of this arcane knowledge, Lira finds herself thrust into a dangerous game of intrigue and betrayal, where every decision could mean the difference between life and death. From the bustling streets of the steampunk city to the hidden depths of the Arcane Forge, Lira must navigate a treacherous landscape fraught with peril and deception. Along the way, she forges unlikely alliances with rebels, engineers, and even mechanical beings known as the Gears, all while uncovering the truth behind the enigmatic Alchemist’s Code. But as Lira delves deeper into the mysteries of the code, she soon realizes that unlocking its power comes with a price. Caught in a web of secrets and lies, she must confront her own fears and insecurities, lest she succumb to the darkness that threatens to consume her. "The Alchemist’s Code" is a riveting tale of adventure, discovery, and the power of friendship in the face of adversity. With its richly imagined world and compelling characters, this spellbinding novel will keep readers on the edge of their seats from beginning to end. Prepare to be swept away by the magic and intrigue of "The Alchemist’s Code," a thrilling steampunk adventure that will leave you breathless and yearning for more.