Mauro: 609 books

Lisbeth Salander, heroine of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels, is one of the most compelling, complex characters of our time. Is she an avenging angel? A dangerous outlaw? What makes Salander tick, and why is our response to her-and to Larsson’s Millennium trilogy-so...

In 1662, two men and their families settled along the banks of Overpeck Creek. At this location, the township of Ridgefield would be established and later become the beloved borough of Ridgefield. Historically, the settlement of Ridgefield began as a modest subdivision within the English Neighborhood...

Modern-day fly fishing, like much in life, has become exceedingly complex, with high-tech gear, a confusing array of flies and terminal tackle, accompanied by high-priced fishing guides. This book reveals that the best way to catch trout is simply, with a rod and a fly and not much else. The wisdom...

Un eccezionale evento editoriale: dopo un mese in compagnia di Montalbano, un anno intero con i detective di casa Sellerio per la prima volta insieme con 12 racconti inediti. Ogni autore ha scelto il «suo» mese, ambientando lì, in quel tempo dell’anno, una storia con il «suo» investigatore.

L’esordio di un nuovo personaggio letterario: Angela Mazzola, giovane poliziotta di Palermo, intuitiva, curiosa, sicura di sé, alle prese con un territorio difficile. Il caso, rimasto irrisolto, di una parruccaia uccisa in modo sanguinoso attira la sua attenzione fino a spingerla ad avviare un’indagine privata e clandestina. Che seguirà con caparbietà fino a venirne a capo.

Un entrenador es alguien que anima a los jugadores de su equipo, alguien que se entusiasma por tener a los jugadores de los que dispone. Alguien que valora el esfuerzo requerido y que se sacrifica por el equipo. Enseñar un deporte de equipo es una labor de insistente trabajo, un estar siempre en...

Path-breaking research on one of the most important macroeconomic policy challenges in the post-crisis world, presented in accessible language Written and researched by a team of experts from the International Monetary Fund, other policy-making institutions, and academia, this timely book looks...

This African Department Paper examines the rise in international sovereign bonds issued by African frontier economies and recommends policies for potential first-time issuers.

This book provides a thorough legal analysis of sovereign indebtedness, examining four typologies of sovereign debt – bilateral debt, multilateral debt, syndicated debt and bonded debt – in relation to three crucial contexts: genesis, restructuring and litigation. Its treatise-style approach makes...

The financial crisis that began in 2007 triggered a break with banking practices of the past. Even as the crisis occurred, a broader set of economic, geopolitical, and technological forces were already reshaping the financial industry’s transition from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. While...

The great moderation lulled macroeconomists and policymakers alike in the belief that we knew how to conduct macroeconomic policy. The crisis clearly forces us to question that assessment. In this paper, we review the main elements of the pre-crisis consensus, we identify where we were wrong and what...

This book arose from our conviction that the NNS-DSGE approach to the analysis of aggregate market outcomes is fundamentally flawed. The practice of overcoming the SMD result by recurring to a fictitious RA leads to insurmountable methodological problems and lies at the root of DSGE models’ failure...

This book presents a systematic overview of cutting-edge research in the field of parametric modeling of personal income and wealth distribution, which allows one to represent how income/wealth is distributed within a given population. The estimated parameters may be used to gain insights into the...

Banking in SSA has undergone very significant changes over the last two decades. Financial liberalization and related reforms, upgrades in institutional and more recently the expansion of cross-border banking activities and the rapid development of Pan-African banking groups are signaling greater financial...