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INSTAP Academic Press The Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi: Volume
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume on the Late Minoan III necropolis of Armenoi in western Crete. It sets the scene, introduces the site and its topography, and offers the results of site surveys and their finds. A chapter on the Linear B discovery from the necropolis is also included. The necropolis is the most important and extensive, and the only intact, cemetery that dates to Late Bronze Age III on Crete. This publication will augment our knowledge of Minoan burial practices, craft production, and religion. It will elucidate Minoans as a people: what they ate and drank, how they lived their lives, what diseases caused them suffering, and how they died.
£74.10
Disease and Healing in the Indus Civilisation
Book SynopsisDisease and Healing in the Indus Civilisation presents a synthesis of what is currently known about health, disease and healing in the Indus Civilisation in the third to early second millennia BCE, underpinned by original research. It is the result of a detailed study of published human skeletal remains and material culture, with an increasing awareness of the natural environment. When combined with a knowledge of palaeoepidemiology and the natural history of disease, ancient climate change, and what is known of healing and health in contemporary Bronze Age societies of the Near East, with which the Indus Civilisation was in contact, it has been possible to piece together a picture of diseases in the period, the practice of healing and the development of public health. For the first time, the book illustrates the health, life expectancy, and the illnesses and injuries from which those at the bottom of society suffered, both at work and at home.
£36.10
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Fundamental Index
Book Synopsis2008 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (The PROSE Awards) Finalist/Honorable mention, Business, Finance & Management. The Fundamental Index examines a new approach to indexing that can overcome the structural return drag created by traditional capitalization-based indexing strategies, and in so doing, enhance the performance of your portfolio. Throughout this book, Robert Arnott and his colleagues outline this breakthrough strategy and explain how it can be used to improve investment returns, typically at lower risk and lower cost than most conventional investments.Trade Review2008 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (The PROSE Awards) Finalist/Honorable mention, Business, Finance & Management. In The Fundamental Index, the leading industry thinker, Rob Arnott and his colleagues, present a new indexing method that captures more return for equity investors. In this important new book, the authors explain how passive, market-capitalization-weighted index investing falls short and fails to serve investors by investing too much in overpriced stocks and too little in underpriced shares. In short, Arnott et al.’s innovative and straightforward strategy provides investors with a new tool for achieving excess returns in a projected low-return environment while preserving the many positive attributes of index fund investing.- Financial Markets and Portfolio Management "Rob Arnott and his colleagues have, in The Fundamental Index, produced one of the most controversial books in years in the investment world…Investment professionals would be very well advised to read it."- Financial Times "...one of the most controversial books in years...Investment professionals would be very well advised to read it." (Financial Times, September 15, 2008)Table of ContentsForeword. Preface. Chapter 1. Efficient Indexing for an Inefficient Market. Evidence of Market Efficiency. The Case for Indexing. Evidence of Market Inefficiency. Conclusion. Chapter 2. Origins of the Fundamental Index Concept. The Origins of Research Affiliates Fundamental Index (RAFI). A Series of Aha! Moments Research Affiliates Fundamental Index. Fundamental Index Performance. Concluding Thoughts: A Better Way to Invest. Chapter 3. Investors Greatest Errors. Negative Alpha. Practicing What We Preach. Conclusion. Chapter 4. The Virtues of Index Funds. The Appeal of Equity Investing. Equity Investing Choices. The One Guarantee in Investments—Costs Matter. Index Fund Advantages. Avoiding the Performance Game. Concluding Point. Chapter 5. The Index Fund's Achilles Heel. Market Efficiency: Two Interpretations. Constructing a Well-Functioning Index. The Achilles Heel of Cap-Weighting. The Problems with Equal Weighting. Concluding Thoughts. Chapter 6. A Fundamental(ly) Better Index. Building the Fundamental Index. Adjustments for non-dividend-paying companies. Why Multiple Measures of Company Size? Advantages of a Composite Measure. An Index of the Broad Economy. Capacity and Liquidity. Reconstituting the Fundamental Index: Keeping Turnover Low. Concluding Comments. Chapter 7. Fundamental Index Performance in U.S. Stocks. RAFI US Large Company Performance. Digging Deeper across Market Cycles. Digging Deeper into Different Time Periods. An Equal Comparison: Fundamental Index vs. Equal Weighting. Out-of-Sample Results: Small Companies. Using the Fundamental Index with Style: Growth and Value Applications. Narrowing the Focus: NASDAQ. Narrowing the Focus: REITs. Narrowing the Focus: Sector Performance. Extending the Analysis Back in Time. Conclusion. Chapter 8. Beyond Borders: Fundamental Index Performance in Global Markets. Fundamental Index Performance in Global Markets. Multicountry Portfolios. Emerging Markets. Consistency Counts. Concluding Comments: Lessons Learned From the Global Markets. Chapter 9. Has Theory Led the Profession Astray? Will the Real Active Strategy Please Step Forward? The Origins of Cap Weighting. Apparent Validation of Cap Weighting by Theory. Forty Years Later: Empirical Results of the CAPM. Ockham's Razor Applied. Concluding Comments: Theory and the Profession. Chapter10. The Basic Criticism: Our Style and Size Tilt. Merely a Value Tilt. Small-Cap Bias. Fama and French Factors. Some Big Surprises in Small Companies. Conclusion. Chapter 11. Other Common Critiques: Hits and Misses. Mining the Data? Costs. Is It an Index? Do We Know Which Stocks Are Overvalued? How Long Can It Last? Conclusion. Chapter 12. Why Trust the Fundamental Index Concept? Stock Logic. The Present vs. the Future: How Often Is Wall Street Right? Why Does Wall Street Get It Wrong? Dynamic Style and Size Exposures: When Do We Want Value and Small Cap? Show Me the Numbers. Fundamental Index Strategy vs. the Crystal Ball. Does the Fundamental Index Concept work in Bonds? Conclusion. Chapter 13. The Future for the Fundamental Index: Secular Market Considerations. What Can We (Rationally) Expect from Our Investments? Forecasting Bond Returns. Forecasting Stock Returns. The Fundamental Index Strategy in a Low-Return Environment. The Outlook for Pricing Errors. Could Pricing Errors Actually Increase? Conclusion. Chapter 14. Using the Fundamental Index. Asset Allocation and the Fundamental Index Strategy. Should We Change Our Benchmark? Diversifying the Passive Allocation. Different Markets, Different Investors, Different Needs. Conclusion. Appendix. Notes. References. Index.
£19.54
Oxbow Books Crossing Continents: Between India and the Aegean
Book SynopsisThe first contacts between Greece, the Aegean and India are thought to have occurred at the beginning of the sixth century BC. There is now evidence of much earlier indirect connections, starting in the middle of the third millennium BC, but greatly diminishing after 1800 BC. These were initially between India with its Indus Civilisation (Meluḫḫa) and the Near East and then finally with the societies of the Early and Middle Bronze Age Aegean, with their slowly emerging palace-based economies and complex social structures. These connections point to a form of indirect or what might be called ‘trickle-down’ contact between the Aegean and India through objects, iconography and commodities, such as tin and lapis lazuli, that formed this contact.This book views the Aegean as part of a greater trade network, that includes commodities as well as more recently discovered objects, which accumulated added value as they fi rst built up a distinguished pedigree of ownership in the Near East and Syro-Palestine. It was the natural extension of trade between the Near East and India. In the Early to Late Bronze Ages, India was an important resource for valuable and indispensable commodities destined for the elites and developing technologies of much of the Old World.Finally, the period after the end of the Bronze Age to the time of Alexander the Great is examined and particularly after the sixth century, when Greeks were beginning to know about India. Within 200 years, India would be known to scholar and non-scholar alike, including those who witnessed the Persian invasions of Greece or who later became Macedonian and Greek foot soldiers marching east.Table of ContentsSummary The Author List of Table and Figures Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Prehistory: The Background The Harappan Civilisation Discovery The Decline of the Harappans Trade and Long Distance Exchange, Seafaring and Caravans Out of Meluḫḫa Farther Westwards The Harappans and Egypt Iconography Weights and Measures 2. Prehistory: The Evidence of Objects Pottery Kernoi Spiral Double Headed Pins Carnelian Beads Agate Seals and Beads Flat Disc Shaped Beads Other Beads Bronzes Pottery 3. Prehistory: The Evidence of Commodities The Role of Shortughai Organic Commodities Spices and Foodstuffs Wood Ivory Textiles Inorganic Commodities Lapis Lazuli: An Indian commodity Jade Gold: An Indian Commodity? Tin: Another Indian commodity 4. Prehistory: A Conclusion Earlier Work Summary of the Evidence 5. From the Iron Age to Alexander the Great The Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age Transition From the Sixth Century BC Greeks in Ancient Sanskrit Literature Early Geographers and Historians Religion and Philosophy Greeks, Macedonians and their Legacy in India Appendix 1. Indica of Ctesias of Cnidus Bibliography
£999.99
