Careercycles : A Guidebook to Success in the Passages and Challenge of Your Work Life

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The authors trace the development of the financing profession from its early days to the present, revealing the events and personalities that have given it shape. The book shows how securities markets and major firms evolved in the financial centers of London, New York, and Tokyo.

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Great book for understanding I-banking.......1998-06-12

This is a good book for anyone interested in seriously understanding the business of I-banking with its history and future implications. The portrayals of the different firms and the system as a whole are very informative. A Great text.

Investment Banking a tale of Three Cities

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Investment Banking a tale of Three Cities
Samuel L. And Hubbard, Philip M. Hayes
Manufacturer: Harvard
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Investment Banking a tale of Three Cities
Samuel L. And Hubbard, Philip M. Hayes
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Throughout their evolution, living creatures have developed systems to attach themselves to a variety of substrate textures. As is the case in many technical systems, animals use friction and adhesion to generate an attachment force for overcoming drag. In recent decades, our knowledge of such systems has greatly increased.
This volume summarizes more than 10 years of ultra structural and experimental studies on insect attachment systems and presents an up-to-date overview of this subject. Many examples are presented and the general rules of the interrelationship between the construction of attachment systems and the function are outlined showing the principles of morphology and ultra structure of such systems.
The principles of design involved in the attachment systems described may inspire new ideas relating to the biomimetics of new surface-active materials.
Audience: This volume provides an excellent introduction to biological attachment and will be of interest to biologist, zoologist, materials scientists and engineers.

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This dictionary gives an overview of the English, French, German and Italian names of birds occurring in Europe, North America, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and French-speaking countries. It contains 10,838 scientific names of orders, families, species and some sub-species. The relevant order and family are shown for each term. The taxonomy is that used by the different authors of the sources.

This dictionary will be of value to translators of scientific and general literature; scientific and botanical authors; environmentalists and ecologists; and scientific and lay readers of foreign literature.

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This book is the first to cover the fundamentals of hydrogeophysics from both the hydrogeological and geophysical perspectives. Authored by leading experts and expert groups, the book starts out by explaining the fundamentals of hydrological characterization, with a focus on hydrological data acquisition, hydrological measurement analysis, and geostatistics. The fundamentals of geophysical characterization are then presented, with a focus on electrical resistivity, induced polarization, electromagnetic, GPR and seismic methods. The geophysical methods and petrophysical discussions presented here emphasize the theory, assumptions, approaches, and interpretations that are particularly important for hydrogeological applications. A series of case studies illustrate hydrogeophysical approaches for mapping hydrological units, estimation of hydrogeological parameters, and monitoring of hydrogeological processes in both the vadose and saturated zones. Finally, the book concludes with a discussion of hydrogeophysical frontiers, such as emerging technologies and stochastic hydrogeophysical inversion approaches.

Hydrogeophysics is intended to provide an introduction to students and to new researchers to the field, to be used as a resource for researchers already active in the field, and to serve as a springboard for advances in the field that are needed to improve our understanding and management of the earth’s shallow subsurface.

Applied Hydrogeophysics (Nato Science Series: IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences)

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Applied Hydrogeophysics (Nato Science Series: IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences)

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This book focuses on how hydrogeophysical methods can be applied to solve problems facing environmental engineers, geophysicists, agronomists, hydrologists, soil scientists and hydrogeologists. We present applications of hydrogeophysical methods to the understanding of hydrological processes and environmental problems dealing with the flow of water and the transport of solutes and contaminants. The majority of the book is organized as a series of process-driven chapters, each authored by leading experts. Areas covered include: infiltration and solute transport processes, biogeochemical functioning of soil-water systems, coastal groundwater interactions, cold region hydrology, engineered barriers and landfill processes. In addition, the book offers insight into the development of new data fusion methodologies, of value to many hydrogeophysical investigations, and provides an account how the rapidly developing self-potential technique can give valuable information about water fluxes and hydrochemical states within the subsurface.

Applied Hydrogeophysics provides students and new researchers to the field a comprehensive set of process-based studies that demonstrate the value (and limitations) of using geophysical methods for improved hydrological characterisation and management of the subsurface environment. Researchers already active in the field will find the case studies a very useful source of reference.

Hydrogeophysics of Tropical Africa: Recent Advances and Perspectives (Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, No. 21)

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Hydrogeophysics of Tropical Africa: Recent Advances and Perspectives (Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, No. 21)
Elónio Muiuane
Manufacturer: Coronet Books Inc.
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THE LAND TO WHICH WE BELONG..........2005-02-23

In this, the author's second published work, the author writes about that which she knew best, early pioneer life in Nebraska, the place to which she and her family moved in 1883 when she was a mere slip of a girl. She eventually attended the University of Nebraska, graduating in 1895, at a time when most girls did no such thing.

In this work, the author was on very sure footing. Her clear, straightforward prose lends itself capably to the story of early pioneers who went to Nebraska and set down roots, weathering the exigencies that often plagued a newcomer to a particular region. It is a surprisingly unsentimental look at pioneer life.

This thematically complex, but simply written story focuses primarily on Alexandra Bergson, the intelligent, independent, resourceful, and strong-willed daughter of pioneer John Bergson. Upon his death he did what was then the nearly unthinkable. He left his land in the hands of his oldest child, his daughter, Alexandra, rather than in those of his sons, recognizing in his daughter those qualities that would ensure that his land would prosper under her stewardship.

This then is the story of not only Alexandra but of that land and those whose sustenance depended upon its fruitfulness. The reader follows the Bergson clan as they live their lives and interact with their neighbors. Under Alexandra's skillful management, the Bergson farm prospers. As the farm prospers, so does its environs, as the area becomes a bustling center of activity with more and more settlers developing the land around that of the Bergsons.

Thematically, the book explores the vicissitudes of life, as well as its life-affirming moments. As in all lives, the characters in this book experience moments of high drama and great tragedy, as well as memorable moments of love and hate. All this is grounded within the context of pioneer life, with all its hardships and privations, as well as its occasional abundance. The author skillfully re-creates a melting pot of the many nationalities that cultivated the land known as Nebraska.

This is a book that those who like reading about pioneer life will certainly enjoy, as will those who simply like a well-written book with a tale to tell. This classic novel was also adapted for a Hallmark Hall of Fame film, starring Jessica Lange in the role of Alexandra Bergson.

Love, Murder, and Hard-won Triumph.......2000-11-18

This compelling saga of torrid passion, blood-curdling murder, and greed immediately seized my attention, and I am convinced that Willa Cather's adroit rhetoric will have the same effect on all the other skeptical readers out there. Ingeniously composed O Pioneers paints an ineffable vignette of the backdrop of the enigma more commonly known as the prairie. Growing up in this environment is Alexandra and her three brothers, who have struggled against the hardships and toils of the untamed land all their lives. It is through these afflictions and all of life's tribulations that the Bergsons grow robust in the soul as well as in the body.

The realistic fiction novel begins thirty years ago in the provincial town of Hanover, anchored on the outskirts of the Nebraska tableland. Here, two protagonists are introduced: Alexandra, a headstrong adolescent and her frail, five-year-old brother Emil who, at the time is fully dependent on his sister. The latter shows so much compassion for a kitten clutching the top of a pole in fear that he brings his tender heart and vulnerability into awareness. The sister on the other hand is completely different. " . . . His sister was a tall, strong girl, and she walked rapidly and resolutely, as if she knew exactly where she was going and what she was going to do next." When the father, John Bergson dies, it is with this sort of resolution that Alexandra makes the fateful decision to purchase two homesteads by the money collected in selling their cattle and crops. "Under the shaggy ridges, she felt the future stirring."

It is now sixteen years after John Bergson has died, and the white shaft beside his grave signifies that his wife now lies beside him. Were he to rise from the shaggy coat of the prairie, he would not know the "country under which he has been asleep" for it has vanished forever. " . . . One looks out over a vast checkerboard, marked off in squares of wheat and corn; light and dark, dark and light . . . The rich soil yields heavy harvests; the dry, bracing climate and the smoothness of the land makes labor easy for man and beasts." The previous passage conveys the effect that barely two decades makes on the unpredictable land as well as Cather's virtuoso storytelling skills and unique way of adding life and color to her words. The inevitable time takes its toll on the inhabitants of this country as well. Emil Bergson is now barely recognizable for his stormy gray eyes peer out from under an intent brow. He is not quite the delicate child he was years ago, because now he is a splendid figure of a boy, with a body as stocky and built as a young pine tree. Though caught up with Emil's transformation, one should not forget Alexandra, though she has changed very little. In spite of turning into a sunny, vigorous woman, one can sense in her eyes that she is still the deliberate and placid girl she used to be. Marie Shabata was once Emil's favorite playmate in their childhood, and their friendship has remained even after all those years. Jovial Marie's dancing tiger-lily eyes and delightful nature has earned her the adoration of all that knows her. Formerly Marie Tovesky, the cheerful girl is now married to Frank Shabata. Though quite a handsome man, even in his agitation, Frank is a rash and violent man and altogether the contrary of his charming wife. In this section of the book, we are also introduced to a long-lost friend, Carl Linstrum, who is travelling back from St. Louis. Out of the group, this young man is probably the most changed. One distinctly recognizes the many rings under the boy's eyes, marking trouble and desperation. Carl almost appears to "shrink within himself" as if to hold something back that is too painful to be divulged.

Throughout the book, the reader may sense an obscure barricade between Marie Shabata and Emil Bergson that are restraining them from one another. That certain barrier is Frank Shabata. It is not difficult for one to conjecture why that barricade is there in reading this passage: "Marie, when she was alone or when she sat sewing in the evening, often thought about what it must be like down there where Emil was . . . 'And if it had not been for me,' she thought, 'Frank might still be free like that . . . Poor Frank, getting married wasn't very good for him either . . . It seems as if I always make him just as bad as he can be.' " Willa Cather has such an extensive knowledge of life's inexplicable emotions that she makes this novel all the more realistic. The author portrays such tenderness, desperation, and resolution, and she words her passages so powerfully and effectively that a reader is fully convinced by the end of the book that the events actually took place. So what happens at the end of this highly esteemed novel? One might be pondering after reading this review: How does Frank react to Emil and Marie's bond? What becomes of them? Well, patient reader, the conclusion of O Pioneers! Is up to you to unravel, and do not be surprised if it catches you off guard.

In conclusion to my book review, I would like to quote my favorite lines from the novel. "They went into the house together, leaving the Divide behind them, under the evening star. Fortunate country, that is one day to receive hearts like Alexandra's into its bosom, to give them out again in the yellow wheat, in the rustling corn, in the shining eyes of youth!" This fictitious anecdote of French, Bohemian, and Swedish settlers in America is truly appealing. It draws its readers into the world of farming and frontier life, while offering an authentic and at times amusing glance at the dynamics of pioneer life. While providing a historical background, O Pioneers! Also relates to the turmoil of one's mind in troublesome times and predicaments. I can relate to and learn valuable lessons from this book though it takes place approximately one hundred years ago. This quality makes the novel so much more realistic and engrossing to read. Willa Cather stressed much of the book into analyzing the differences in personality in each of the characters as time went on. Now, I understand the purpose of this - indistinguishable "gears" are silently turning to lead up to the explosive culmination of this saga. Packed with warmth and poignancy, both children and their parents are privileged to step into the rich world of the Bergsons as the hardships they endure strengthen their souls. Filled with moving descriptions, vibrant settings, and strong characters, O Pioneers! will be the ideal book for readers of different styles. Seldom can one say that a book is destined to become a classic, but in O Pioneers! 's case, that problem is not presented because a classic is what it already is!

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