Corporate Capital: Control, Ownership, Saving and Crisis

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This book looks at the role of the modern corporation in advanced capitalist countries. In particular it considers corporate control and shareownership and the impact of these on consumers’ choice, the mobilization of financial capital, the saving function, and the question of the potentially inherent tendency towards stagnation and crisis. The author suggests that there is a tendency towards social ownership of the means of production in modern capitalist economies, directly via share purchase and indirectly via, e.g., occupational pension funds, while at the same time control and appropriation remain vested in a small minority. This is shown to affect financial capital accumulation and the saving function, since the competition between giant corporations encourages their controllers to increase corporate saving above the level desired by small shareholders who are suggested to be unable fully to compensate for such increases by their actions.

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Structured Credit Products: Credit Derivatives and Synthetic Securitization
Moorad Choudhry
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Structured Credit Products are one of today's fastest growing investment and risk management mechanisms, and a focus of innovation and creativity in the capital markets. The building blocks of these products are credit derivatives, which are among the most widely used products in finance. This book offers a succinct and focused description of the main credit derivative instruments, as well as the more complex products such as synthetic collateralised debt obligations.

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Detailed product descriptions and analysis
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Latest developments in synthetic structures.

Written in an accessible style by an acclaimed author in the field of finance, this book is aimed at the entire banking, securitisation and fund management market.

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Useful book.......2006-01-16

Choudhry has done well in expressing this sometimes difficult subject. Worth the money as ever!

Same Old.......2005-09-02

I bought this on the strength of another review, but was very disappointed. Much of the book is not new, and what is new seems cloned from previous publications. It seems this author puts out a lot of books after reading previously published research. That is reason enough not to pay $70 plus dollars. To add to the injury, the book is not a pleasant read. The writing style is oddly stilted.

Concise and practical.......2004-11-15

In my view, Choudry's new book on credit derivatives and synthetic securization is simply the best book in the market (at the moment). The book is extremely readable, with fantastic examples using many illustrated examples of cash flows and samples of Bloomberg pages. The book targest clearly market practitionars, while it doesn't neglect aspects like pricings of those instruments (you don't need to be a quant to understand the technical part). The author begins with the basics of credit derivatives, it's use in the market, Basel I and II, market size etc. and leads to more and more detailed dicussions of how those new instruments are used (ink. termsheet examples). A huge amount of information comprised in a relatively small book of 400 pages.

Fantastic job Mr. Choudhry. Thank you!

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This book considers some of the fundamental issues concerning the legal framework that has been established to support a single EU securities market. It focuses particularly on how the emerging legal framework will affect issuers’ access to the primary and secondary market. The Financial Services Action Plan (FSAP, 1999) was an attempt to equip the community better to meet the challenges of monetary union and to capitalise on the potential benefits of a single market in financial services. It led to extensive change in securities market regulation: new laws; new law making processes, and more attention to the mechanisms for the supervision of securities market activity and legal enforcement. With the FSAP nearing completion, it is a good time to take stock of what has been achieved, and to identify the challenges that lie ahead.

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BUILDING AN EU SECURITIES MARKET
EILIS FERRAN
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Poisonous Plants of the Midwest & Their Effects on Livestock
Robert A. Evers , and Roger P. Link
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This book describes and illustrates midwestern plants which may poison livestock. It is written for the general reader as well as for students, livestock owners, veterinarians, and botanists.

Poisonous Plants of the Midwest and Their Effects on Livestock (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Agriculture. Special publication 24)

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This book explores the ways to improve the classical resolution limits of an imaging system, and provides novel approaches for achieving better results than would otherwise be possible with current imaging technology. The book begins by presenting the theoretical foundations, background information, and terminology of super resolution, and then discusses methods and systems used to achieve the super resolution effect. Various approaches to dealing with and exceeding the limitations of the lens aperture, the pixel size of the camera, and the noise generated at the detector are presented and analyzed. The last chapter illustrates several industry-related examples and potential applications to real industrial eletro-optical systems. This book is intended for graduate students or researchers in academia or industry, and anyone else looking to improve the performance of their electro-optical system design.

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As We Were Saying
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1891. Contents: Rose Chrysanthemum; The Red Bonnet; The Loss in Civilization; Social Screaming; Does Refinement Kill Individuality?; The Directoire Gown; The Mystery of the Sex; The Clothes of Fiction; The Broad A; Chewing Gum; Women in Congress; Shall Women Propose?; Frocks and the Stage; Altruism; Social Clearing-House; The Dinner-Table Talk; Naturalization; Art of Governing; Love of Display; Value of the Commonplace; The Burden of Christmas; The Responsibility of Writers; The Cap and Gown; A Tendency of the Age; and A Locoed Novelist.

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As We Were Saying
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As We Were Saying
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The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner: As We Were Saying/As We Go/Fashions in Literature (Notable American Authors)

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Edited by Thomas R. Lounsbury. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1904 edition by the American Publishing Company, Hartford (Conn.).

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This digital document is an article from Wines & Vines, published by Hiaring Company on February 1, 2003. The length of the article is 450 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Decíamos ayer. (legalización de la marihuana en España)(TT: We were saying yesterday) (TA: legalization of marijuana in Spain): An article from: Epoca
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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on June 30, 1997. The length of the article is 1199 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on November 2, 1998. The length of the article is 1014 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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As We Were Saying
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Building on his previous work in The Dynamic Society and The Ephemeral Civilization, Graeme Donald Snooks lays bare the forces driving human society from its earliest beginnings to its present stage of evolution and examines why previous attempts to discern these laws have failed.

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This bibliography includes English-language first-person accounts of individuals who survived or witnessed, as bystanders, journalists, diplomats, or liberators, genocidal acts in this century. The primary focus is on diaries, letters, memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories, interviews and statements in newspaper articles or other texts. A secondary focus is on reports, films, microfilm collections, and archives that contain first-person accounts, essays about first-person accounts, and bibliographies that list first-person accounts. Although there are bibliographies devoted to specific genocidal acts and one general bibliography on genocide, this volume is the first to cover first-person accounts. The volume opens with a lengthy introductory essay on genocide. It then devotes chapters to specific genocidal acts, including German extermination of the Hereros, Ottoman genocide of the Armenians, Soviet-induced famine in the Ukraine, the Soviet's "Great Purge", the Soviet deportation of whole nations, the Holocaust, Gypsies during the Holocaust, Indonesian genocide of Communists and suspected Communists, Ugandan genocides, Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh, Burundi genocide of the Hutus, Indonesian genocide in East Timor, the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, threatened genocide of the Baha'is, and genocide of various indigenous peoples. The chapters are subdivided by type of account, and all entries are annotated. The work includes subject and author indexes. The book will be a useful resource for historians, political scientists, and sociologists interested in genocide and international human relations.

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Sure to be a classic.......2006-05-26

Clark and ABC-CLIO have rendered a priceless service to Fortean readers and researchers alike with this collection of 645 entries spanning the years from 1729 to 1935. The vast majority are verbatim quotations of newspaper stories commonly cited only in footnotes by other authors (or with excerpts taken out of context, frequently misquoted). Every library should own a copy of this book, and no serious researcher or would-be writer on Fortean subjects will begrudge its cost.

Eyewitness accounts defy rational explanation.......2006-04-13

North America has seen some of the strangest natural phenomena in the world: some accounts yet to be proven and possibly fantasy; others well researched, documented science. UNNATURAL PHENOMENA: A GUIDE TO THE BIZARRE WONDERS OF NORTH AMERICA is a compendium of the former of these eyewitness accounts, gathering findings and events from the last 200 years that keep defying rational explanations, from strange lights and sky battles to sea monsters and huge flying starfish ghosts. Each documented sighting includes a description and a dated source reference. This could've been reviewed under 'New Age' but many a science student will find it fascinating, and not to be missed.

A great book.......2006-01-29

This is a wonderful reference book full of material that will inform much future research.

Such books are made for libraries, most often, and have high prices due to the time it takes to comply them, their length, the amount of time to edit and produce them, and more. A criticism of the price from someone that borrowed one from a friend seems immature to the extreme and should be removed from consideration as a valid critique.

Buy it if you have the money. But please, don't whine if you don't.

false claims about my book and me.......2006-01-29

As the author/editor of Unnatural Phenomena, I apologize for the immodest five stars. Unfortunately, Amazon won't accept a submission without a rating, and what the hell, I am fond of the book. It is among my own favorites of the ones I have written. This is not being written, however, to praise my own efforts but to correct some serious misinformation in T. Christopher Smith's review.

First of all, the book is not self-published. As Smith could easily have determined, ABC-CLIO is a successful, highly regarded publisher of reference books for libraries and the academic market. I am somewhere between stunned and perplexed by this sentence: "But remember, [Clark] is the one setting the price tag, not the retailer." Where in the world could Smith have gotten this impression? The retailer had everything to do with setting the price, and the author precisely nothing. Then Smith follows a baseless claim with a malicious charge, based apparently in mind reading with faulty reception, that "money now seems to be [the author's] only motivation." What did I do to deserve this?

As Smith would have learned with even the most minimal research, reference books are very expensive. I wish they weren't, but I have no say in the matter. If I had had some say in the matter, I would have liked Unnatural Phenomena to be a trade paperback, selling in the $15-17 range, so that just about everybody who wanted to read it could afford it.

I'm glad that you liked the book, Mr. Smith, but next time you feel the compulsion to throw around nasty charges, you would be better advised to make sure you know what you're talking about.

Entertaining and very broad range of subjects.......2005-08-28

Not really organized like a traditional book this is really a collection of newspaper and magazine articles from the early 1800's through the mid-1900's. The original articles are repeated verbatim complete with comments, misspellings, and colloquial word usage. I found this to be one of the endearing qualities of the book. The author takes a very broad look at unnatural phenomena and includes everything from strange things falling from the sky, to strange apparitions, animals, visions, and just about anything else you can think of that has been reported over the last two hundred years. While it is interesting reading it is not a book that I would suggest if you are looking to do a serious study of strange phenomena. On the other hand, if you are just looking for some light reading and a collection of incidents as reported by the media you will probably find this an entertaining read. The articles are all arranged by state instead of by type of phenomena so it is easy to look through your state and see what has been reported over the years. Unnatural Phenomena: A Guide to the Bizarre Wonders of North America is a recommended read for anyone interested in this subject or light enough reading for the merely curious.

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This anthology, combining articles by Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Jewish, and Native American scholar, looks at the environmental crisis through a spiritual lens.

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