Stephen Butler Books

Focusing on sophisticated investment concepts, the book delves into essential principles that foster true investment success. It avoids oversimplified information, instead offering insights into topics such as "marked-to-market," "the snapback phenomenon," and "Modern Portfolio Theory." By engaging with these advanced themes, readers can enhance their understanding and build confidence in their investment strategies.

The book challenges conventional expectations of structure and coherence, leaving readers questioning their understanding and the overall purpose of the text. It invites exploration of its seemingly chaotic nature, pushing the boundaries of narrative form and engaging readers in a unique intellectual experience. The lack of a clear plan or order prompts reflection on the nature of reading and comprehension itself.

Gérard de Nerval's French translations of Goethe's Faust are key works in Franco-German cultural relations. This book presents a nuanced view of works that continue to be the principal conveyors in France of arguably the foremost work of German literature.

In the second decade of the twenty-first century, crime fiction remains one of the most popular genres among both readers and writers. This compilation of essays attempts to trace the reasons behind this ongoing popularity as well as to offer a closer reading of a number of crime fiction texts from English, American, Swedish, Italian, Japanese and other national literatures. It contains twenty-one original essays written by scholars and practitioners of crime fiction which discuss key concepts in the field of crime fiction studies: generic diversity, the evolution of characters, the growing significance of space and place and reader response. This book includes a short story by David Malcom.