This book of proceedings contains papers that were presented in the symposium. As it discusses new findings and insights about Austronesian studies from various perspectives (paleoclimate and paleogeography, paleoanthropology, anthropology, genetics, archaelogy, and linguistcs), the publication of this proceeding is a step forward for the study of Austronesia. It reveals how interesting the stu…
Introduction to Stochastic Finance with Market Examples, Second Edition presents an introduction to pricing and hedging in discrete and continuous-time financial models, emphasizing both analytical and probabilistic methods. It demonstrates both the power and limitations of mathematical models in finance, covering the basics of stochastic calculus for finance, and details the techniques require…
The idea for a reference book on the mathematical foundations of quantitative nance has been with me throughout my professional and academic careers in this eld, but the commitment to nally write it didn't materialize until completing my first introductory book in 2010. My original academic studies were in "pure" mathematics in a subeld of mathematical analysis, and neither applications g…
Despite these changes, there has been relatively little systematic analysis of whether the efforts that have been made have led to better social or environmental outcomes or whether the costs of analysing and acting on social and environmental issues outweigh the benefits. These are hugely important issues, given the potential contribution of fixed income markets to sustainability goals and …
We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Ryan Holiday, who dropped out of college at nineteen to serve as an apprentice to bestselling 'modern Machiavelli' Robert Greene and is now a media consultant for billion-dollar brands, draws on the philosophy of the Stoics to guide you in every situation, sh…
Terror warnings, fake news, spectacles and scandals in real time – the networked world has wound itself up into a nervous frenzy, where everything has become visible: the banal and the terrible, the uninhibited abuse and the anonymous attack. Translated for the first time into English, Digital Fever analyses the patterns of outrage and agitation that have come to define social media and th…
Th e term “network” can mean all sorts of things, but I use it here to describe three levels of connections, all insecure. Th ere are the social connec- tions made explicit by social technologies; the behavioral networks mapped and traced through consumer-level tracking and aggregation of big data; and perhaps most powerful and invisible, the deeply rooted and interconnected networ…
As this project started as a PhD dissertation, I express my great thanks to my first supervisor, Birgit Krawietz, whose provided criticism and constructive advice on writing a dissertation which is not only enjoyable for expert readers, but also for non-expert readers. Without her suggestions, I would have ignored the importance of an international audience. Furthermore, her comments and s…
Late in December 2019, the world first learnt about the outbreak of a cluster of viral pneumonia cases in Wuhan Province, China. Soon after, on 9 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the Chinese authorities had identified a novel coronavirus as the cause of these cases. The virus spread rapidly across the globe, and the out- break of the initially unnamed disea…
This book is a result of how wickedly complex life is for most all of us. Nothing seems to go according to plan. If that were the case, I would be penning a book about my adventures as an astronaut/firefighter/artist/sol- dier, which was my original plan around ten years of age. My father, Irving Zweibelson, was a World War II veteran, fine artist, and university professor. In the end,…
Originally published in 1993, this book provides an excellent analysis of commodity policies internationally during the late 20th Century. It discusses 2 major methods of market regulation: price stabilization – based on buffer stocks or export quotas – and compensatory finance. The authors analyse whether major commodity policies have reached their primary objectives and to what extent the…
The topic of book has occupied my mind since I finished writing my previous book: A Complexity Theory for Public Policy (2012a). In A Complexity Theory my goal was to present the implications of com- plexity theory for public policy studies. The complexity of public policy processes was recognized by almost everybody who practiced policy ana- lysis or policymaking or who studies policy…
Emerging Practices in the Age of Automated Digital Journalism provides detailed insight into the current state of journalism and its future challenges. The book brings together a global team of authors to review and analyse emerging practices in the automated digital scenario through which journalism is being reshaped, such as novel languages, storytelling forms, and business models. Providi…
This book explores democratic possibilities for education after the critique of the impact of neo-liberalism on educational policy and practice. Together, the authors investigate the contours of a 'new publicness' of education. This edited volume refers to well-established critiques that expose how neoliberal governance has normalised the privatisation of public life and undermined the publi…
The classic book Frankenstein, written two centuries ago by English author Mary Shelley, bears an eerie descriptive of our pandemic world today. ‘Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change’, Shelley wrote. Well, say hello to our COVID-19 world, ‘a great and sudden change’ accompanied by waves of pain jolting minds and lives worldwide through lockdowns, quar…
Privileged populations in the global north are increasingly getting hammered by natural disasters, turbo-charged by climate change. In other words, what vulnerable communities everywhere have been experiencing for decades. Climate breakdown is indeed accelerating, and the existential threat is finally impossible to ignore in the halls of power. This makes the debate about the Green New Deal…
In this handbook, we discuss and reflect on two intricately interwoven concepts: privacy and social media. Using social media is fun, allows us to stay connected, to socialize, to be entertained, to seek out news, and to stumble across content we didn’t know we were interested in. Social media are platforms for exploration, games, and the unlikely beauty of the mundane, the ridiculous, and…
Taking a qualitative approach based on original case studies, this book offers a detailed overview of the contemporary media system in Malta. Three Maltese news organisations are examined to understand the editorial routines, ownership and management structures, and social and cultural factors that affect the day-to-day business of creating news. In-depth interviews with key stakeholders of …
Under Science Diplomacy, three types of activities were noted in 2010 by the Royal Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science: (i) informing science and supporting foreign policy objectives (Science in Diplomacy), (ii) diplo- macy facilitating international cooperation (Diplomacy for Science), and (iii) scien- tific cooperation improving international relations (Scien…