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UNINA9910781493003321 |
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Autore |
Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> |
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The world's beaches [[electronic resource] /] / Orrin H. Pilkey ... [et al.] |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
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1-283-27801-4 |
9786613278012 |
0-520-94894-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (301 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Beaches |
Seashore |
Coasts |
Coast changes |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"A global guide to the science of the shoreline."--subtitle from cover. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. The global character of beaches -- pt. 2. How to read a beach -- pt. 3. The global threat to beaches. |
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Take this book to the beach; it will open up a whole new world. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps, and graphics, it explores one of the planet's most dynamic environments-from tourist beaches to Arctic beaches strewn with ice chunks to steaming hot tropical shores. The World's Beaches tells how beaches work, explains why they vary so much, and shows how dramatic changes can occur on them in a matter of hours. It discusses tides, waves, and wind; the patterns of dunes, washover fans, and wrack lines; and the shape of berms, bars, shell lags, cusps, ripples, and blisters. What is the world's longest beach? Why do some beaches sing when you walk on them? Why do some have dark rings on their surface and tiny holes scattered far and wide? This fascinating, comprehensive guide also considers the future of beaches, and explains how extensively people have affected them-from coastal engineering to pollution, oil spills, and rising sea levels. |
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UNINA9911018825203321 |
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Autore |
Pepper Gordon T. <1934-> |
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The liquidity theory of asset prices / / Gordon Pepper with Michael J. Oliver |
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Chichester, England, : John Wiley & Sons, c2006 |
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9786610411108 |
9781118673423 |
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9781280411106 |
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9780470032770 |
0470032774 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (191 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Monetary policy |
Liquidity (Economics) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-158) and index. |
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The Liquidity Theory of Asset Prices; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; About the Authors; List of Tables, Figures and Charts; Introduction; Appetiser; Structure of the Book; Language and Jargon; Academic Theories; Modern Portfolio Theory; The Efficient Markets Hypothesis; Forms of Investment Analysis; Fundamental Analysis; Monetary Analysis; Technical Analysis; The Intuitive Approach; What the Book is Going to Say; Part I the Liquidity Theory; 1 Types of Trades in Securities; 1.1 Liquidity Trades and Portfolio Trades; 1.2 Information Trades and Price Trades; 1.3 'Efficient Prices' |
1.4 Expectations of Further Rises or Falls2 Persistent Liquidity Trades; 2.1 Demand for Money; 2.1.1 Transactions Demand for Money; 2.1.2 Savings Demand for Money; 2.1.3 Interest Rates and the Demand for Money; 2.2 Supply of Money; 2.2.1 Printing-Press Money; 2.2.2 Fountain-Pen Money; 2.2.3 Interest Rates and the Supply of Money; 2.3 Monetary Imbalances; 2.4 Excess Money in the Economy; 2.5 Summary; 3 Extrapolative Expectations; 3.1 Sentiment; 3.2 Intuition; 3.3 |
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Decision-Taking Inertia; 3.4 Crowds; 3.5 Fundamental and Monetary Forces in the Same Direction; 4 Discounting Liquidity Transactions |
4.1 Speculation4.2 Timing; 4.3 Short-Term Risk Versus Profits in the Longer Term; Appendix: Speculation and Market Patterns; 5 Cyclical Changes Associated with Business Cycles; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Direct and Indirect Effects of Money on Asset Prices; 5.2.1 Money, Business Cycles and Inflation; 5.2.2 Business Cycles and Fundamental Factors: the 'indirect Effect' on Asset Prices; 5.2.3 The Combination of the Indirect and Direct Effects; 5.3 Strategy; 5.4 Timing; 5.5 Sequences; 5.6 Triggers; 6 Shifts in the Savings Demand for Money; 6.1 The Peak of a Business Cycle |
6.2 Running Down Bank DepositsAppendix 6A: Some Bond Arithmetic; Appendix 6B: Government Bond Markets; Part II Financial Bubbles and Debt Deflation; 7 Financial Bubbles; 7.1 Detection of a Bubble; 7.2 Phases; 7.2.1 Chronically Dangerous; 7.2.2 The Burst; 7.2.3 Acutely Dangerous; 7.3 Crosschecks; 8 Debt Deflation; 8.1 The Cure for Debt Deflation; 8.1.1 Money Supply Policy; 8.1.2 Fiscal Policy; Appendix: Ignorance of Irving Fisher's Prescription; Part III Elaboration; 9 Creation of Printing-Press Money; 9.1 The UK in More Detail; 9.2 Four Policies |
10 Control of Fountain-Pen Money and the Counterparts of Broad Money10.1 Control of Bank Lending; 10.1.1 The Teaching in Textbooks; 10.1.2 How Central Banks Operate in Practice; 10.2 Bank Capital; 10.3 The UK in More Detail; 10.4 The 'Counterparts' of Changes in Broad Money; 10.5 Relationship Between the Counterparts; 11 Modern Portfolio Theory and the Nature of Risk; 11.1 Summary; 11.2 Expected Yield; 11.3 Risk; 11.3.1 Risk and the Circumstances of the Investor; 11.3.2 Variation in Risk - Life Assurance Funds; 11.3.3 Investment Managers' Personal Risk; 11.3.4 Unacceptable Risks |
11.4 Exploiting Skewness |
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Professional investors are bombarded on a day to day basis with assertions about the role liquidity is playing and will play in determining prices in the financial markets. Few, if any, of the providers or recipients of such advice can truly claim to understand the well-springs of such liquidity and the transmission mechanisms through which it impacts asset prices. This groundbreaking new book explores the belief that at the core of liquidity there is a force which exerts individuals to effect a financial transaction when they would not otherwise do so. Understanding this force of compulsio |
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UNINA9910557385103321 |
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Autore |
Torrecilla JoseÌ S |
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Titolo |
Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (89 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact |
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