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Banking is now an active asset-liability risk management enterprise, attributable in large part to the globalization of commerce. The authors of this descriptive yet practical, applications-oriented book examine the sources and management of traditional and nontraditional banking risks, then the conventional on-balance sheet and the modern off-balance sheet risk management methods. Unlike other more general risk management books, however, they focus closely on the use of financial derivatives--instruments to control the "core" risks attributable to credit and to fluctuations in interest and foreign exchange rates. The authors cover all this and more, giving experienced and novice practitioners both an easily accessed way to understand and cope with the banking risks they are already familiar with, and the new risks just emerging. The book will also be useful as a supplemental text in college-level courses on money and banking and on the operation of financial markets in general. The authors begin by explaining how banking has moved from a routine financial process to an active and impersonal process of risk management, from "relationship banking" to "community banking." Even banks that have stayed with traditional lending are now assuming greater risks. The authors then focus on the details of measuring, monitoring, and controlling risks. They define risk and the different philosophical approaches to its management, then continue with a discussion of operational matters, such as risk identification and classification. They discuss the evolution of banking risk management and the banking environment of the 20th Century, with special attention to the differences in methods used during the time of fragmented and highly regulated economies and those used in the highly integrated global economies of the last quarter century. The book describes in useful detail the major financial derivative products: forwards, options, caps, collars, and swaps, and their uses as risk management devices and tools for speculation, both. The book also treats on-balance sheet risk management methods, such as credit options and credit swaps. Interest rate risk is also covered in detail, and so too the management of foreign currency risk.
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Well-preserved brachiopods from the Niagara Gorge area, Anticosti Island, Britain, Gotland and Estonia were utilised to delineate a complex isotopic evolution for Llandovery-Wenlock seawater. The Sr-isotope record reflects the Salinic I tectophase of the Late Llandovery in the continuous increase in ^8^7Sr/^8^6Sr values from 0.708070 to 0.708346. The Salinic II tectophase is marked by relative constancy of Sr isotope values until the Late Wenlock when it rises from 0.708345 to 0.708430. The second tectonic phase was therefore likely only of a regional nature. The carbon isotopes during the Llandovery fall within a band of about -1%% to +3%%, a range comparable to modern low-latitude brachiopods. A large positive @d^1^3C excursion of about 3%%, identifies the Ireviken event/excursion, characterizes the Early Wenlock. The biotic crisis and the isotope excursion itself may be ultimately related to the onset and duration of the Cancaniri glaciation, although a direct causative scenario is as yet unknown. The oxygen isotopic trends of well-preserved brachiopods clearly reflect a warm climate interval during the latest Llandovery associated with the Silurian sea level highstand. Subsequently, in the Early Wenlock, the sea level fell with the onset of the Cancaniri glaciation in the southern hemisphere. This is reflected in a significant positive @d^1^8O excursion, particularly in brachiopods from the Niagara Gorge area. Brachiopods from lower latitudes were awash in warm tropical currents and therefore exhibit somewhat more negative @d^1^8O values, indicating a lesser cooling gradient.
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The Stillest Day
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The titles of Josephine Hart's previous novels reveal that her view of love is a dark one indeed. In Damage, she detailed the destructive love affair between a middle-aged man and his son's fiancé. In Sin she took sibling rivalry to murderous lengths, while in Oblivion she detailed the aftermath of a young woman's sudden death and the resulting madness it visits upon her grieving mother and husband. Any one of this British author's books might just as easily been named Obsession, since this seems to be the condition her characters eventually arrive at as a consequence of loving not wisely but too well.
Such is the case in Hart's fourth novel, The Stillest Day, in which she introduces us to Bethesda Barnet, a young woman living with her invalid mother in a small English village at the turn of the century. Into this quiet life comes Matthew Pearson who, along with his pregnant wife, has moved in next door. Soon Betheseda is obsessed with Matthew--the kind of obsession that can only lead to tragedy--and does. As usual, the author delineates this very Gothic tale in a cool prose that heightens the tension while supressing the melodrama. At one point, Matthew asks Bethseda, "How many Cleopatras do we need to prove we can die for love? How many Othellos to prove we can kill for love?" In Josephine Hart's bleak universe, it only takes one. --Margaret Prior
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Relentless journey to ambiguity.......2006-05-23
Like a previous reviewer, I'm not sure what the ending of 'The Stillest Day" means either. I re-read it several times myself and concluded -- but not to my complete satisfaction -- that Bethesda was paying penance. I sent the book to a friend whose wisdom and judgment I trust and she was equally mystified.
I've decided that's OK. Josephine Hart is not the greatest writer in the English language, but she is not without prodigious gifts. And like those of greater authors, many of her stories are open to interpretation. So are periods in most of our lives.
Ms. Hart set a tone and style with her first novel, "Damage," and seems committed to it. Her prose is spare and her perennial theme of obsession remains an irrestible draw. "The Stillest Day" was the first of her novels to be set in the past and the first with a female protagonist, but the universality of obsession remains vivid and relentless. Like all Hart's other main characters, Bethesda is the only one in the novel convinced of the liberating power of obsession. She cannot see that while she is closing windows in her life, neither is she opening doors.
Josephine Hart is truly the mistress of her domain.
The Pull of darkness and the light it sheds.......2000-04-02
Every once in a while a writer comes along who refuses to indulge in the illusions we rely on to bolster life in the modern world; she refuses to pander to the need for sentimentality and the romantic belief in the perfectability of human nature;she graces us with a dark lingering pathos and we return again and again because we believe that in the process some crucial feauture has been restored to our humanity, some insight bequeathed to us which leaves us wiser and more grown up but not cynical. Such a writer is Josephine Hart whose unique and dark vision can be found in her three previous novel. The Stillest Day, perhaps her most chilling, is a tale of the obsession, love and cruelty that lie below the artifices of civilization, artifices that are really cosmetic gestures we devise to prevent ourselves from killing each other. Bethesday Barnet, artist and teacher, falls for Mathew Pearson. Why? We don't know. She sees him. She is hooked, so to speak, and the rest is pure tragedy.She finds herself inexorably pulled to a destiny whose outcome she knows will end in her destruction but which she cannot resist. Like the moth drawn to the flame she honors her destiny and fate by succumbing to the will of the gods who plan it all. The last few pages of this novel are among the most chilling I have ever read. Hart also allows us to own our shadows in the process of witnessing her dark characters. We can't really like these people, partly because they teach us about the sides of ourselves we wish didn't exist. We are drawn to her strange and twisted characters because they lead us out of the darkness by allowing the integrity of their lives to shine through their every action--even the deceptive ones. In the process we attain spiritual freedom, or perhaps enlightenment because we leave with an expanded consciousness and a sense of new moral realities which they have traversed and which have cost them their lives. Apart from all this, however, Hart has some really beautiful turns of phrase. She is simply an exquisitely beautiful craftsman whose writing is lean, mean and cold as a tombstone. She is a writer of wisdom who, in the style of the pithy aphorism, sheds more light on the human condition than a room full of many a philsophical treatise. Among some of the gems are: "Small societies practice best a democracy of silence. And sins of omission and commission fall softly into a collective, selective amnesia." And further: " I fear that our honesty has a quality of finality about it. When there is nothing to preserve, only then are men and women honest with each other." Here is the description of the first time she set eyes on Mathew: "His rain-washed face was what I first saw. It was turned to the heavens which drenched the wetness further, so that rivulets of water ran down his white skin. And in that instant I longed to let my hair loose to dry the unknown wonder of that vision." An elegant craftman who lets you into the minds of her characters just enough to let you recognize yourself before shattering the temptation to pity you might be inclined to feel because of this self-recognition, The Stillest Day is an invigorating and disturbing read.
Incredible.......1999-04-17
The book starts off slow, but gradually rises. The language is beautiful, though the middle to the end is a bit disturbing, to say the least...
A masterpiece - but please explain it to me!.......1998-10-17
I am speechless. Speechless because this novel is written with such brillance and intellect that few writers can achieve such a feat. Speechless, too, because even though I consider myself a good reader I do not think I understood the ending of this novel. I closed the book saying, "what happened?" After re-reading the final 10 pages 3 times I feel I have a grasp of 90% of what the author was illustrating with her characters; yet, I'm still perplexed by the remaining 10%. I cannot divulge too much of what I do not understand for fear that I may ruin it for other readers. I only hope that other readers who partake in this novel may respond as to the conclusions they draw upon its ending. The first half of this novel tells the story of Bethesda Barnet, an unmarried artist and teacher living a life of routiness. She takes care of her invalid mother, paints and teaches day after day after day. It is not until she lays her eyes upon Mathew Pearson that her life becomes a sea of obsession. Bethesda uses her artistic abilities to obsessively paint Mathew on mirrors. Ms. Hart brillantly weaves the reflections life and art have on the soul; and, in essence, this theory becomes the heart and soul of "The Stillest Day." And, after a major event occurs, which one may call courageous or violent, Bethesda's life is severely changes. And, thus, we enter into the second portion of this novel which examines Bethesda's life and state of mind. Often times, it seems like Ms. Hart becomes overly dramatic in her story-telling; yet, when one considers gothic pieces of literature, Ms. Hart seems justified. Ms. Hart display much of how I find truly gifted English novelists to be - sparse language steeped with complexities. One must read in-between the lines to understand Ms. Hart's writing. And though I did not understand this novel entirely, I can appreciate the brillance. One will always look at a major traumatic event in one's life as "The Stillest Day." This is a difficult novel to read but I think one which people should be exposed to. Please, I hope someone out there will explain to me the final 2 scenes of this novel.
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