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Quantitative Trading: Algorithms, Analytics, Data, Models, Optimization

Quantitative Trading: Algorithms, Analytics, Data, Models, Optimization

Xin Guo, Tze Leung Lai, Howard Shek (Trinity 1991), Samuel Po-Shing Wong

The first part of this book discusses institutions and mechanisms of algorithmic trading, market microstructure, high-frequency data and stylized facts, time and event aggregation, order book dynamics, trading strategies and algorithms, transaction costs, market impact and execution strategies, risk analysis, and management. The second part covers market impact models, network models, multi-asset trading, machine learning techniques, and nonlinear filtering. The third part discusses electronic market making, liquidity, systemic risk, recent developments and debates on the subject.

The Heirs of Owain Glyndŵr

The Heirs of Owain Glyndŵr

Peter Murphy (Downing 1963)

1 July 1969. The Investiture of the Prince of Wales. 

When Arianwen Hughes is arrested driving with a home-made bomb near Caernarfon Castle, her case seems hopeless. Her brother Caradog, her husband Trevor, and their friend Dafydd are implicated in the plot, the evidence against them damning. Ben Schroeder's reputation as a barrister is riding high after the cases of Billy Cottage (A Matter for the Jury) and Sir James Digby (And is there Honey Still for Tea?). But defending Arianwen will be his greatest challenge yet. Trevor may hold the only key to her defence, but he is nowhere to be found. . .

My Cambridge Look Back in Love

My Cambridge Look Back in Love

M Harunur Rashid (Fitzwilliam 1964)

The book nostalgically flashes back on my memories of residence at Fitzwilliam College in the mid-sixties. It was a time when the College had just moved into the Huntingdon Street building. I remember my stay at digs owned by a Greek landlady married to a World War II veteran. I remember my friends, my rides to the Sidgwick Avenue, visits to other places like Oxford, Stratford-upon-Avon, London and Paris but most importantly I remember my teachers in English, who were world icons. 

Highway Law

Highway Law

Stephen Sauvain (Sidney Sussex 1967)

A detailed and practical commentary on the law relating to the creation, upkeep, development and ownership of highways, including the powers and duties of highway authorities, the rights of users of the highway and of those who own land around the highway, and road traffic regulation.

Re-Thinking Autism

Re-Thinking Autism

Ed. Katherine Runswick-Cole, Rebecca Mallet and Sami Timinmi (Chapter 11 author Graham Collins (Clare 1974))

This book inaugurates Critical Autism Studies, challenging received wisdom about the diagnosis and critically examining the phenomenon of autism from sociological, philosophical, scientific and psychological perspectives.

The Mayor of Mogadishu

The Mayor of Mogadishu

Andrew Harding (Emmanuel 1986)

An epic, uplifting story of one family’s journey through the violent unraveling of Somalia, and a timely exploration of what it means to lose your country and then to reclaim it.

Portland Place: secret diary of a BBC secretary

Portland Place: secret diary of a BBC secretary

Sarah Shaw (Librarian at Selwyn College 2002-2014)

Portland Place is Sarah Shaw's diary for 1971, in which year she was working at the BBC as a junior secretary.  While vividly recreating daily life for an office worker in the days of manual typewriters, Gestetner stencils, rail strikes, IRA bombs and decimalisation, it also traces the development of an extraordinary romance with a much older Irishman.

Refuge and Resilience: Promoting Resilience and Mental Health Among Refugees and Forced Migrants

Refuge and Resilience: Promoting Resilience and Mental Health Among Refugees and Forced Migrants

Laura Simich and Lisa Andermann (eds) (Darwin 1990)

Taking an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on the social and psychological resources that promote resilience among forced migrants, this book presents theory and evidence about what keeps refugees healthy during resettlement. The book draws on contributions from cultural psychiatry, anthropology, ethics, nursing, psychiatric epidemiology, sociology and social work.

First Overland - London-Singapore by Land Rover

First Overland - London-Singapore by Land Rover

Tim Slessor (St Catharine's 1952)

Why not? After all, no-one had ever done it before. It would be one of the longest of all overland journeys-half-way round the world, from the English Channel to Singapore. They knew that several expeditions had already tried it. Some had got as far as the deserts of Persia; a few had even reached the plains of India. But no-one had managed to go on from there: over the jungle-clad mountains of Assam and across northern Burma to Thailand and Malaya. Over the last 3,000 miles it seemed there were “just too many rivers and too few roads”. But no-one really knew…

An Old Engineer Remembers

An Old Engineer Remembers

Meher Kapadia (Fitzwilliam 1965)

This is an amusing true tale about the early days of computer control systems, based on the actual experiences and life story of an ordinary engineer. The book consists of technical descriptions of the systems of that era, intertwined around a memoir describing the engineering and business environment.  It gives some idea of the fun and excitement involved in systems engineering, and will interest new and aspiring engineers. It may even have some reminiscences for older engineers.

Intellectual Property Policy, Law and Administration in Africa: Exploring Continental and Sub-regional Co-operation

Intellectual Property Policy, Law and Administration in Africa: Exploring Continental and Sub-regional Co-operation

Caroline Ncube (Darwin 1999)

This book gives a panoramic view of the harmonisation of Intellectual Property (IP) policy, law and administration in Africa. It outlines what is being done, asks why it is being done and considers how such developments will affect the continent. It argues that the only acceptable justification for harmonisation is the public interest of each of the states concerned.

Nurses Never Run

Nurses Never Run: A Student Nurse in Cambridge 1967 – 1970

Eileen Gershon

Nurses Never Run is an account of my time as a student nurse at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. I wrote it for our grandchildren to read one day in the future when I may no longer be around to answer questions, so it includes the story of how I met and fell in love with their Grandpa. I was persuaded to publish and am donating all the proceeds from sales to The Sick Children’s Trust, specifically the houses in Cambridge.

John Henry Wigmore and the Rules of Evidence: The Hidden Origins of Modern Law

John Henry Wigmore and the Rules of Evidence: The Hidden Origins of Modern Law

Andrew Porwancher (Darwin 2008)

At the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States was reeling from the effects of rapid urbanisation and industrialisation. Time-honored verities proved obsolete, and intellectuals in all fields sought ways to make sense of an increasingly unfamiliar reality. The legal system in particular began to buckle under the weight of its anachronism. In the midst of this crisis, John Henry Wigmore, dean of the Northwestern University School of Law, single-handedly modernised the jury trial with his 1904-5 Treatise on evidence, an encyclopedic work that dominated the conduct of trials.

International Leadership Development

International Leadership Development

Simon Gillett (Homerton 2005)

This important study tackles an issue of major historical and contemporary concern in international education in the medium of English: the interplay between the progressive costs of English language medium education in international schools, the overall global expansion of the phenomenon of English language instruction, and the historical, current, and potential impact of Christian leadership values throughout the system.
 

Chaucer the Alchemist: Physics, Mutability, and the Medieval Imagination

Chaucer the Alchemist: Physics, Mutability, and the Medieval Imagination

Alexander Gabrovsky (Trinity 2009)

The secrets of Nature's alchemy and the mysteries of "change" captivated both the scientific and literary imagination of the Middle Ages. Beneath the sphere of the moon in the medieval realm of mutability, the endless process of chemical transmutation of one element into another was seen as the basis of all physical change on Earth; human beings, animals, and all material things were thought to be part of a continual cycle of generation and corruption. This book investigates Chaucer's fascination with earthly mutability.

Walk With Us: How "The West Wing" Changed Our Lives

Walk With Us: How "The West Wing" Changed Our Lives

Claire Handscombe (King's 1997)

The West Wing premiered in 1999. That's a long time ago. Back then, we were worrying about the Millennium Bug, paying $700 for DVD players, and using pagers. 1999: a century ago.

Chains of Sand

Chains of Sand

Jemma Wayne (Newnham,1999)

He has always been good at tracking down things that are hidden, like cockroaches in his mother's kitchen cupboard, or tunnels in Gaza. At 26, Udi is a veteran of the Israeli army and has killed five men. He wants a new life in a new place. He has a cousin in England.

Daniel is 29, a Londoner, an investment banker and a Jew. He wants for nothing, yet he too is unable to escape an intangible yearning for something more. And for less. He looks to Israel for the answer.

Under the Tump: Sketches of Real Life in the Welsh Borders

Under the Tump: Sketches of Real Life in the Welsh Borders

Oliver Balch (Christ's 1999)

Hay-on-Wye is world famous as the Town of Books. But when travel writer Oliver Balch moved there, it was not just the books he was keen to read, but the people too.

After living in London and Buenos Aires, what will he make of this tiny, quirky town on the Welsh-English border? To help guide him, he turns to Francis Kilvert, a Victorian diarist who captured the bucolic rural life of his day. Does anything of Kilvert's world still exists? And could a newcomer ever feel they truly belong?

Magical Musical Kingdom

Magical Musical Kingdom

Frances Turnbull (Homerton 2013)

Magical Musical Kingdom is a vibrant theme that uses well-known and lesser-known childhood songs to teach musical concepts with a royal flavour! Dance like a Dragon to semi-breves, walk like a King to crotchets and queen to quavers, as we use physical movement to express the grounding rhythms of music!

Tributes to Jean Michel Massing: Towards a Global Art History

Tributes to Jean Michel Massing: Towards a Global Art History

Mark Stocker (King's 1975) and Phillip Lindley (Downing 1976)

This book is a Festschrift to honour Jean Michel Massing, Professor of the History of Art at the University of Cambridge, on his retirement and contains essays from 21 of his colleagues and former students.

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