{"title":"Books by Thomas Meyer","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780735845411","title":"The Little Christmas Tree","description":"\u003cb\u003eIt’s the size of one’s heart that matters most in this heartfelt Christmas story for young readers!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlex the Christmas tree is teased because he is the smallest fir tree in the tree nursery. He can’t hold as many ornaments, he can’t stand as tall . . . Alex isn’t sure any animal family will want him as their Christmas tree. When the families come to choose their fir tree, Alex isn’t noticed at first. But then Selma, the smallest rabbit of all, discovers him. The rabbit family takes Alex home, and they all celebrate and sing together–even Alex, the littlest Christmas tree with the biggest holiday spirit!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Swiss best-selling author Thomas Meyer tells the story with humor and a big dose of Christmas spirit. Philippe Goossen’s pictures create a warm mood, and his characters win hearts–big and small.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296982086005,"sku":"9780735845411","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780735845411_4639fb6a-8d5d-44a6-8a62-20f40be6e777.jpg?v=1786015045"},{"product_id":"9781394159604","title":"The Art of Commitment Pacing – Engineering Allocations to Private Capital","description":"Advanced guidance for institutional investors, academics, and researchers on how to manage a portfolio of private capital funds The Art of Commitment Pacing: Engineering Allocations to Private Capital provides a much-needed analysis of the issues that face investors as they incorporate closed ended-funds targeting illiquid private assets (such as private equity, private debt, infrastructure, real estate) into their portfolios. These private capital funds, once considered \"alternative\" and viewed as experimental, are becoming an increasingly standard component of institutional asset allocations.   However, many investors still follow management approaches that remain anchored in the portfolio theory for liquid assets but that often lead to disappointing results when applied to portfolios of private capital funds where practically investors remain committed over nearly a decade.   When planning for such commitments, investment managers and researchers are faced with practical questions such as:   How to measure and control the real exposure to private assets? How to forecast cash-flows for commitments to private capital funds?  What ranges for their returns and lifetime are realistic, and how can the investor’s skill be factored in?  Over which dimensions should a portfolio be diversified and how much diversification is enough? How can the impact of co-investments or secondaries be modelled? How to design pacing plans that lead to resilient and efficient portfolios? What stress scenarios should be considered and how can they be applied?  These are just examples of the many questions for which answers are provided. The Art of Commitment Pacing describes established and new methodologies for building up and controlling allocations to such investments. This book offers a systematic approach for building up and controlling allocations to such investments.  The Art of Commitment Pacing is a valuable addition to the libraries of investment managers, as well as portfolio and risk managers involved in institutional investment. The book will also be of interest to advanced students of finance, researchers, and other practitioners who require a detailed understanding of forecasting and portfolio management methodologies.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297869214069,"sku":"9781394159604","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781394159604_70fd28af-a6ab-45fb-8757-04ac10f1b063.jpg?v=1786018433"},{"product_id":"9780008385354","title":"Hannah Arendt","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe long-awaited and revelatory biography of Hannah Arendt — one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century — and the story of an intellectual icon whose character and ideas continue to captivate and challenge us to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Germany in 1906 to a Jewish family, Hannah Arendt became a chronicler able to translate personal experience into concise analysis; an analytical thinker who wrested from Plato, Kant, and Heidegger that which seemed eternal yet was of the utmost contemporary relevance; a free spirit who felt an obligation only to her friends, her lovers, and the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArendt's mode of thinking and the sheer range of her interlocutors and influences form an intellectual panorama of the twentieth century that is unparalleled. For her entire life, she refused to think within boundaries — her teachers, friends, and intellectual allies included Heidegger, Bultmann, Mannheim, Brecht, and Benjamin, to name but a few.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on newly discovered archival materials and previously overlooked documents in both Germany and the USA, Thomas Meyer traces Arendt's journey from Königsberg to Paris — where she fled after being imprisoned in 1933 — and finally to New York in 1941, illuminating her formative years and the development of her radical and brilliant books, as well as her famous affair and lifelong philosophical debate with Martin Heidegger, whose Nazism was a permanent challenge to her. Woman, friend, lover, journalist, Jew, human rights activist, philosopher and political theorist, Arendt continues to exert fascination as both icon and thinker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeyer's biography centres on two pivotal phases: Arendt's years in Paris after fleeing Nazi Germany, and her time in the United States leading up to the landmark publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was her coverage of the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961, however, that would make her world-famous — and notorious. Her coining of the phrase *the banality of evil* to describe the Nazi bureaucrat who had helped orchestrate the Holocaust remains one of the most debated and resonant formulations in modern thought, as controversial today as when she first wrote it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is not only a meticulous reconstruction of an extraordinary life but a compelling invitation to rethink her legacy for our own troubled times. At a moment of acute political polarisation, with liberalism in crisis and urgent debates about freedom, responsibility, and truth unfolding all around us, Arendt's ideas resonate more powerfully than ever — and this magnificent biography restores to us the full complexity of the woman behind them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56367674950005,"sku":"9780008385354","price":26.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682631754101,"sku":"9780008385385","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008385354.jpg?v=1792511577"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-thomas-meyer.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}