Sabrina Bond’s “Running From Her Father God” is about Elizabeth Forbes. In 1968, Liz was born in the after math of a blizzard. Her parents getting to the hospital was no small miracle itself. Liz’s life is full of miracles; her brother was almost shot before her, and her mother survived an abusive relationship before kicking her father out. In high school, Liz rebels against her mother by befriending a much older man. As she finished high school, she also begun hanging out with the wrong crowd even more where she saw many people die, get pregnant, had abortions, and do other destructive things to themselves at such a young age.
As an original innovator of the portable alpha concept, PIMCO has been managing an increasing number of different portable alpha strategies for investors since 1986. And now, with Portable Alpha Theory and Practice, the PIMCO team shares their extensive experiences with you. Filled with in-depth insights and expert guidance, this reliable resource provides an informative look at portable alpha and key related concepts, as well as detailed discussion on the many ways it can be applied in real-world situations.
Dirty Lying Faeries is a wholly entertaining new take on a familiar concept." – Fangirlish For better or for worse, the newest changeling has arrived . . . When Thea Kanelos’s best friend drags her to an art gala (that’s definitely not her thing), she doesn’t expect a chance encounter with Devin Grayson to change her life forever. The handsome stranger isn’t just anyone—he’s a powerful fae, charged with bringing Thea into his world. Believing that she’s always been human, Thea must accept that everything she’s known about herself up until now has been a lie. She’s not human at all. She is a fae—funny, because she doesn’t even believe in faeries. But with strange creatures now visible on the street and fangs and colors flashing in the shadows, it can’t be denied: faeries are real. And with the Winter Solstice approaching, a magnificent ball will bring her fully into the fae world and draw her closer to Devin with whom she has a deepening and dangerous attraction. As her new powers awaken, Thea learns she plays a more pivotal role to the fae than she ever imagined. And when the barrier between the human and the fae worlds begins to crack, it will be up to her to save not just herself, but everyone she loves from a terrible fate. Deeply sensual and darkly magical, Dirty Lying Faeries is the first book in an exciting new series that takes readers inside a universe filled with faeries, dragons and werewolves--and those that love them.
The latest tools and techniques for pricing and risk management This book introduces readers to the use of copula functions to represent the dynamics of financial assets and risk factors, integrated temporal and cross-section applications. The first part of the book will briefly introduce the standard the theory of copula functions, before examining the link between copulas and Markov processes. It will then introduce new techniques to design Markov processes that are suited to represent the dynamics of market risk factors and their co-movement, providing techniques to both estimate and simulate such dynamics. The second part of the book will show readers how to apply these methods to the evaluation of pricing of multivariate derivative contracts in the equity and credit markets. It will then move on to explore the applications of joint temporal and cross-section aggregation to the problem of risk integration.
Time is a burden we can't escape. But it holds no power over a chaotic fire nymph. Marsais is adrift after sacrificing his bond to save the faerie he loves. Now he must save the realm from shadow, only there's one catch—his mind is cracking. As he slips further into madness, a malevolent force is unleashed on the Isle of Wise Ones, forcing him down a desperate path. A land of death hides a sliver of hope, but an old enemy pursues him over the seas, and those loyal to Marsais begin to question his judgment. The crew is mutinous, the sea is furious, and all his careful plotting is thrown to the winds when a harbinger of chaos appears on deck. A character-driven high fantasy novel with coming-of-age themes, pyromaniac faerie, and friends-to-lovers tropes. Previously published as The Broken God. A story of innocence and brutality, of love and loss, and courage and hope. It contains mature subject matter. For a list of content warnings: visit www.sabrinaflynn.com
There are terrors that would make a god weep with fear. Some things are best left unknown. Haunted by memory, hunted by a traitor, and lost in a wilderness, Isiilde totters on the edge of darkness. Battered and broken, she steps from certain death to uncertain doom, and finds herself in a wilderness battling for survival. But the monster-filled shadows are the least of her worries—the faerie defied her nature for freedom's sake, and now the Fate of the realm rests on her shoulders. Isiilde must learn to control her fire before the realm is consumed by shadow. But first, she needs to decide if it's worth saving. A character-driven high fantasy novel with coming-of-age themes, pyromaniac faerie, and friends-to-lovers tropes. Previously published as King's Folly. A story of innocence and brutality, of love and loss, and courage and hope. It contains mature subject matter. For a list of content warnings: visit www.sabrinaflynn.com
Rudari Lingurari families, one of many significant minority groups in Southeastern Europe, have been characterized by mobility since the end of the nineteenth century, from voluntary border crossings to deportations and forced relocations. Other Borders draws from participatory, multi-site ethnographic research to explore rudari families' cultural and relational frames of mobility through their social and economic organization. Sabrina Tosi Cambini develops the concept of 'moving gaze' to more effectively explore rudari migration paths across multiple countries, their occupation of unoccupied buildings in Italy, their housing practices in both Italy and Romania, and the movement of their objects, ideas and imaginaries.
From New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries, a wonderful revised edition of one of her earliest historical romances, originally written as Deborah Martin. Miss Marianne Winchilsea is running for her life from those whom she believes have attempted to kill the king. Forced to disguise herself, she trusts no one—especially not Garett Lockwood, the Earl of Falkham, who usurped her family home and who seems to be her most dangerous enemy. And what Garett sees behind her masquerade is a beautiful half gypsy enrobed in mystery, deception, and burning secrets. A woman he should avoid at all costs. In a world where treachery and betrayal reign, a sweet seduction rules their hearts—and dares them to risk their destinies on a passionate love that all the powerful forces of the world cannot defeat.
In today’s Europe, migrant domestic workers are indispensable in supporting many households which, without their employment, would lack sufficient domestic and care labour. Black Girls collects and explores the stories of some of the first among these workers. They are the Afro-Surinamese and the Eritrean women who in the 1960s and 70s migrated to the former colonising country, the Netherlands and Italy respectively, and there became domestic and care workers. Sabrina Marchetti analyses the narratives of some of these women in order to powerfully demonstrate how the legacies of the colonial past have been, at the same time, both their tool of resistance and the reason for their subordination.
Fast-Track Your Success Three weeks? Can you really start a business in three weeks? Yes, you can. Tim Berry, business planning expert and principal author of Business Plan Pro, the country's bestselling business plan software, and Sabrina Parsons, co-founder of Palo Alto Software UK, unveil a new, more innovative business landscape and show you how to streamline your startup using the fastest resource in the world-the internet. Eliminate the exhausting, time-consuming legwork involved in traditional startup plans, and instead fast track your business using a wealth of online tools and services. Berry and Parsons help you build your business step by step, including establishing your business plan, making your business legal, financing your venture, hiring your staff and more-using online tools and resources at every stage. Discover how easy it is to reach your dream of opening your own business faster than you ever thought possible. Let the countdown begin-you're just 3 weeks away from opening the doors to your new business!
This book proposes a conceptual-empirical framework for exploring forms of continuity and change along psychosocial pathways in South African universities. It illustrates how the psychosocial pathways are grounded in the symbolic narratives and knowledges of young scientists, engineers and architects - all interlocutors in the research from which this book is based. Alala, Mamoratwa, Welile, Odirile, Kaiya, Amirah, Takalani, Nosakhele, Naila, Ambani, Khanyisile, Itumeleng, Ethwasa and Kgnaya provide collective standpoints in the multiplicities within and between the lived lives and told stories of young Black South African women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. In doing so, this compelling work advances possibilities for demythologising scientific endeavour as a white male achievement and shifting knowledge communities across gendered, racialised, class and national divides. This book presents an innovative narrative methodology, utilising the myth of the Minotaur to examine the state of the university at the heart of the hierarchical labyrinth in “post”-apartheid South Africa. Throughout the work the author wrestles with and self-reflexively highlights her own positionality as a white, middle-class South African woman to examine how this affects the production of this research in ways which serve to preserve the colonial knowledge system. With the rise of the Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall student movement in South Africa, demanding for the fall of institutionalised racial hierarchies, the author uses the cover image of narrative formations in the spirit of exploration to think with and through undulating networked forms that could possibly forge new psychosocial pathways towards decolonising and reinventing South African universities. This work offers a unique conceptual and methodological resource for students and scholars of psychosocial and narrative theory, as well as those who are concerned about the politics of higher education, both in South Africa and in other contexts around the world.
A Fairy Called Catastrophe: Book 1 of the Fadareino Trilogy By: Sabrina Bare In the Fairy Kingdom, the scroll keeper's words are prophecy: Many try to break the path But fail to pass a mother’s wrath A future of uncertainty Rests in the hands of Catastrophe. When seventeen-year-old Cat learns her true name, she also discovers her destiny – the long-lost princess of the Fairy Kingdom, prophesied to bring an uncertain fate to the realm. Her name, after all, is Catastrophe. As she makes new friends and learns to wield her fairy powers, she faces threats from enemies unknown and from a usurper whose lust for the throne has made him capable of murder. Can Cat break her destiny and save the Kingdom? Or is she doomed to bring catastrophe to the land of magic?
Born into slavery, bound by Fate, and forbidden to love. One faerie will do anything to be free. It’s not easy being a child of chaos. Disaster follows Isiilde wherever she goes, but that’s the least of her problems—she’s a faerie trapped in a realm of humans. And worse yet, she’s a nymph. Destined to be sold when she comes of age, Isiilde breaks into the vault of a powerful immortal to steal coin for her escape. But, instead of finding treasure, she (accidentally) releases a fiend into the realm. As penance for her crime, the immortal tasks her with capturing the fiend. Only events quickly spiral out of control amid political scheming, power-hungry madmen, and three kingdoms bidding for her ownership. One lone nymph stands at the center of destruction, with her heart bound to a man as mysterious as her strange affinity with fire. Isiilde is far more than she seems. And so is the man who wins her heart. Fate doesn’t stand a chance against a chaotic fire nymph. A character-driven high fantasy novel with coming-of-age themes, pyromaniac faerie, and friends-to-lovers tropes. Previously published as A Thread in the Tangle. A story of innocence and brutality, of love and loss, and courage and hope. It contains mature subject matter. For a list of content warnings: visit www.sabrinaflynn.com
Jet Li is arguably the best martial arts actor alive, and his career has crossed numerous cultural and geographic boundaries, from mainland China to Hong Kong, from Hollywood to France. In Jet Li: Chinese Masculinity and Transnational Film Stardom, Sabrina Qiong Yu uses Li as an example to address some intriguing but under-examined issues surrounding transnational stardom in general and transnational kung fu stardom in particular. Presenting case studies of audiences' responses to Jet Li films and his star image, this book explores the way in which Li has evolved from a Chinese wuxia hero to a transnational kung fu star in relation to the discourses of genre, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and national identity. By rejecting a text-centred approach which prevails in star studies and instead emphasising the role of audiences in constructing star image, this book challenges some established perspectives in the study of Chinese male screen images and martial arts/action cinema. As one of the first book-length studies on Chinese stars/ stardom and transnational stardom, Jet Li: Chinese Masculinity and Transnational Film Stardom is essential reading for students and researchers in Film Studies.
From the author of Dirty Lying Faeries comes a new installment in the Enchanted Fates series, where a young witch finds herself on the run for her life . . . and in the company of a centuries-old dragon who may or may not be able to help save her. Dani has never been able to use her magic. She feels like half a witch. Without the protection of a coven, she’s lost, and is being hunted by a pack of very aggressive werewolves intent on claiming her for a powerful vampire’s “collection.” When the pack finds her one night, Dani races to the top of her apartment building and chalks a circle on the roof, but her spell mistakenly lands her in the hot spring of a centuries old dragon, Ryker. As this odd pair grows closer, the shapeshifter Ryker soon discovers the secret Dani harbors, and it turns his world upside down. When she’s captured, it’s up to Ryker to come to her aid—and their relationship will rock the supernatural world in ways neither expected, because when the truth about Dani comes out, everything changes.
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 1.3, University of Mannheim, language: English, abstract: In times of low or even negative interest rates in the German market, traditional forms of saving and classical bonds are not very attractive. Under such market conditions, wealth creation is almost impossible without participation in the stock market. Financial instruments such as shares and funds, however, only provide the opportunity to benefit from rising stock prices (Mommsen & Walle 2017). Certificates, on the other hand, are the right choice for investors who do not only want to profit from rising stock prices but who also aim to achieve positive returns when stock prices are stagnant or even declining (Götte 2009). That is one of the reasons why certificates have experienced increasing popularity among private investors over the last years (Götte 2009): In February 2019, the certificates market in Germany had a total volume of 72.6 billion euros, which represents an increase of 4.3% since February 2018 (Deutscher Derivate Verband 2019). Is the key to success not the identification of the best stock, but the identification of stock market trends that can then be exploited with suitable certificates? This paper is structured as follows. In a first step, an explanation of the general concept of structured products and their different trade forms is provided. Additionally, the Black- Scholes-Model is presented for the theoretical fair value determination of certificates. The following chapter on risk focuses on approaches to minimize issuer risk, which has caused great criticism of certificates during the financial crisis. For the quantitative analysis, selected certificates are presented in detail in order to show how tailor-made certificates can be used to build capital by exploiting anticipated stock market trends. Finally, the conclusion critically reflects the opportunities achieved by investments in structured products.
I am grateful to add Flavour, quite simply a gorgeous book, to my Sabrina Shelf. As ever, deliciousness abounds...' - Nigella Lawson 'Sabrina Ghayour has a knack for colourful, intensely flavoured, no-fuss recipes ... Perfect for relaxed family suppers' - Daily Mail 'Sabrina Ghayour's appeal is in offering simple Persian and Middle Eastern-inspired recipes that are fuss-free and burst with flavour... this new book has that appeal in spades - Delicious Magazine The new collection of simple, delicious, crowd-pleasing recipes from the bestselling Middle-Eastern chef. Enjoy over 100 fabulously flavourful recipes with a Middle-Eastern twist - perfect for family, friends and every occasion. CONTENTS INCLUDE: Salads Chicken shawarma salad; Halloumi, blood orange & pistachio rocket salad; Spice roasted butternut & black rice salad Little bites & savoury treats Curried cheese & potato puffs; Tamarind chicken wings; My sweet, salty & sublime BHT Meat, poultry, fish & seafood Herb koftas with warm yogurt sauce & spiced mint butter; Ras el Hanout & orange lamb cutlet platter; Pan-fried salmon with barberry butter Vegetables & pulses Smoked aubergine with lime & maple dressing; Charred broccoli with lemons, chillies & yogurt; Mama ghanoush Pasta, noodles & grains Harissa, tahini & lamb spaghetti; Nut butter noodles; samosa pasta Sweet Feta, basil & strawberry cheesecake cups; Lime, coconut & cardamom loaf cake; Pistachio & chocolate dream cake Praise for Sabrina Ghayour: 'Sabrina Ghayour's Middle-Eastern plus food is all flavour, no fuss - and makes me very, very happy' - Nigella Lawson 'I don't think she could write a dull recipe if she tried. Every one an elegantly spiced delight.' - Tom Parker Bowles 'The golden girl of Persian cookery' - Observer
Sabrina’s modern take on traditional South Asian dishes and the stories behind them makes an entertaining and tempting book!" – Michel Roux Jr "Sabrina is the real deal... The delicious flavour combinations, fun playfulness of classic dishes and a genuine love for storytelling and recipe writing makes this a must for any bookshelf." – Ravneet Gill "Sabrina has produced the most colourful, exciting book I’ve seen in a long time, coming from the heart. Each recipe is packed with love and vibrancy, and I can’t wait to cook from it." – José Pizarro Modern South Asian Kitchen is a fascinating collection of recipes, encompassing traditional family dishes passed down through generations to contemporary, eclectic recipes that reflect a collaboration between cultures and experiences. We see the merging of Sabrina's professional career in modern European kitchens unite with her Punjabi heritage, culminating in 90 unique and stunning recipes that are comforting, playful and big on flavour. She pays homage to her mother's most iconic dishes along with personal tributes to dishes her grandmother made. She believes that flavour and enjoyment are imperative – and offers snacks and small plates for entertaining, quick and light meals for midweek meals and encourages the mixing and matching of recipes for feasting and friends – teaching us not to be fearful of our spice cupboard. In her words, she is ‘creating new traditions as well as honouring old’. From the Only Dal You’ll Ever Need and Cauliflower Cheese Parathas to Punjabi Panzanella and Black Cardamom Custard Tart, these are ingenious, considerately spiced recipes you won’t have seen before. Along with a personal story of her journey, Sabrina also features conversations with eight of her 'sisters' from South Asian heritage, continuing the thread of connecting with your history whilst breaking cultural and culinary boundaries. Modern South Asian Kitchen is a thought-provoking testament to modern South Asian cuisine as well as a joyful celebration of how cooking food brings together communities, families and friends.
Explore the Depths of Male and Female Friendships in a Transformative New Light In an era where the lines of platonic relationships are constantly blurred, "Can Men and Women Be Just Friends? An Insightful Inquiry" emerges as a guiding beacon, exploring the age-old question with newfound depth and understanding. This book delves into the heart of male and female relationships, shedding light on the possibility of pure friendship amidst a web of societal expectations and biological instincts. Embark on a journey through the modern landscape of friendship, where each chapter meticulously unravels the complexities of emotional bonds, the influence of digital connection, and the delicate dance of setting boundaries. Through a blend of psychological insights, real-life stories, and expert opinions, this book paints a vivid picture of what it means to navigate friendships across the gender divide in today's world. Discover the Evolution of Friendship Concepts, tracing how perceptions have shifted over time, and dive deep into the Psychological Landscape of Male/Female Friendships, understanding the emotional intricacies at play. The Sexual Dimension chapter bravely tackles the biology of attraction and the importance of respecting boundaries, providing a roadmap for maintaining healthy, platonic relationships.The book does more than just question; it offers strategies for Successful Male/Female Friendships, emphasizing clear expectations, mutual respect, and understanding. With the rise of digital communication, it also critically assesses the role of Social Media and Technology in shaping friendships today, offering insights on how to preserve the essence of true connection in a digitized world. Whether you find yourself skeptical or hopeful about cross-sex friendships, this compelling read invites you to contemplate the potential of these relationships to transcend traditional limitations. It's an essential read for anyone navigating the nuanced dynamics of male and female friendships, offering guidance, clarity, and hope for those willing to challenge societal norms. Join us in uncovering the truth behind one of society's most intriguing questions with "Can Men and Women Be Just Friends? An Insightful Inquiry.
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