Author: Feargal Cochrane
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: modern, world, conflict, war, wars, ending
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-01-09
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0745640338
ISBN-13: 9780745640334

Many books have been written about war, but few have focused on how wars can be brought to an end. Wars are rarely inevitable however and this book is aimed at understanding how violent conflicts can be brought to a close through intervention, mediation and political negotiation. The simple premise underlying the book is that wars between states and wars within states are generally fought by rational people for particular political goals or perceived interests. War is better understood as a methodology rather than an ideology. When the context, issues and actors in these armed conflicts change

Author: Feargal Cochrane
Publisher: Cork University Press
Keywords: politics, agreement, irish, unionism, unionist, anglo
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2001-10-15
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 1859182593
ISBN-13: 9781859182598

In 1997 Feargal Cochrane provided the first comprehensive account of unionist politics from the Anglo-Irish Agreement through to the forum elections and multiparty talks of July 1996. In this new edition of Unionist Politics and the Politics of Unionism, an extra chapter takes the story forward from 1997 until the UUP leadership challenge of March 2000. The analysis concentrates on the trials and tribulations of unionist politics throughout this period, concentrating on the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) of 10 April 1998 and its faltering implementation. The chapter ends with some observations co

Author: A.L. Cochrane
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: health, services, reflections, random, efficiency, effectiveness
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 1999-02-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 185315394X
ISBN-13: 9781853153945

Originally published in 1972, Archie Cochrane’s classic text has had a profound influence on the practice of medicine and on the evaluation of medical interventions. He was the first to set out clearly the vital importance of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in assessing the effectiveness of treatments, and his work led directly to the setting-up of the Cochrane Collaboration, now a world-wide endeavour dedicated to tracking down, evaluating and synthesising RCTs in all areas of medicine. The message contained in this book is as relevant to clinicians, healthcare managers and policy-m

Author: John H. Cochrane
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: revised, pricing, asset
Number of Pages: 568
Published: 2005-01-03
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0691121370
ISBN-13: 9780691121376

Winner of the prestigious Paul A. Samuelson Award for scholarly writing on lifelong financial security, John Cochrane’s Asset Pricing now appears in a revised edition that unifies and brings the science of asset pricing up to date for advanced students and professionals. Cochrane traces the pricing of all assets back to a single idea--price equals expected discounted payoff--that captures the macro-economic risks underlying each security’s value. By using a single, stochastic discount factor rather than a separate set of tricks for each asset class, Cochrane builds a unified accoun

Author: John, H Cochrane
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Keywords: trends, finance, foundations, economy, markets, real, financial
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 2005-10-21
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1933019158
ISBN-13: 9781933019154

What are the real, macroeconomic risks that drive asset prices? This question is centrally important to macroeconomics. Where better to learn about the risks of recessions and depressions than by understanding the prices of assets such as stocks that carry macroeconomic risks? The question is also at the core of finance. For example, finance has long wondered if asset prices are "rational" or not. The only meaning of that term is whether asset prices are properly connected to macroeconomic risks. Financial Markets and the Real Economy reviews the current academic literature on the macroe

Author: Peter Cochrane
Publisher: Capstone
Keywords: world, thinking, sense, uncommon
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 2004-05-28
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 184112477X
ISBN-13: 9781841124773

"Peter Cochrane is one of our most far-sighted visionaries, and brings brilliant clarity and focus to our understanding of ourselves and our technologies, and of how profoundly each is transforming the other." -Douglas Adams, Author, The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy In Uncommon Sense, Peter Cochrane’s follow up to the radical 108 Tips for Time Traveller, Peter explains how very simple analysis allows the prediction of such debacles as the 3G auction and the subsequent collapse of an industry, whilst simple-minded thinking is dangerous in the context of a world that is predomi

Author: Todd Cochrane
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: guide, yourself, podcasting
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2005-06-10
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0764597787
ISBN-13: 9780764597787

Listen up! Podcasting, which has taken the online world by storm, involves recording a broadcast and embedding it in an RSS feed so listeners can download it to their PCs, iPods, MP3 players, or even their cell phones Written by one of the first and most popular podcasters, this cutting-edge book will have readers not only finding, downloading, and listening to podcasts, but creating and broadcasting their own Shows how to find podcasts to subscribe to; use podcasting software including ipodder, doppler, and more; create a podcast with just a PC or Mac; or build a professional