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Take Your Soul To Work
Tanis Helliwell Manufacturer: Adams Media Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1580622895 |
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Can you take your soul to work? (Career Management).: An article from: Physician Executive
Barbara J. Linney Manufacturer: American College of Physician Executives ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008JD9LA Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Physician Executive, published by American College of Physician Executives on March 1, 2000. The length of the article is 2996 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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TAKE YOUR SOUL TO WORK: Transform Your Life and Work
Tanis Helliwell Manufacturer: Randon House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0679309586 |
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In this unique and timely book, Tanis Helliwell explores the importance of personal transformation and how it relates to the work world by considering all elements of the human experience, including our spiritual nature. The need to nurture growth and potential has never been stronger as more people leave large businesses to start their own and as others find themselves underemployed or unhappy with their current jobs. Take Your Soul to Work is an optimistic and practical book that gives people the tools to regain direction over their personal and work lives.
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Take Your Soul to Work : Transforming Your Life and Work
Tanis Helliwell Manufacturer: Random House of Canada, Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000PVYOA6 |
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Derivatives : The Theory and Practice of Financial Engineering (Wiley Frontiers in Finance Series)
Paul Wilmott Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Import) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471983896 |
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Derivatives by Paul Wilmott provides the most comprehensive and accessible analysis of the art of science in financial modeling available. Wilmott explains and challenges many of the tried and tested models while at the same time offering the reader many new and previously unpublished ideas and techniques. Paul Wilmott has produced a compelling and essential new work in this field.The basics of the established theories - such as stochastic calculus, Black-Scholes, binomial trees and interest-rate models - are covered in clear and precise detail, but Derivatives goes much further. Complex models - such as path dependency, non-probabilistic models, static hedging and quasi-Monte Carlo methods - are introduced and explained to a highly sophisticated level. But theory in itself is not enough, an understanding of the role the techniques play in the daily world of finance is also examined through the use of spreadsheets, examples and the inclusion of Visual Basic programs.
The book is divided into six parts:
Part One: acts as an introduction and explanation of the fundamentals of derivatives theory and practice, dealing with the equity, commodity and currency worlds.
Part Two: takes the mathematics of Part One to a more complex level, introducing the concept of path dependency.
Part Three: concerns extensions of the Black-Scholes world, both classic and modern.
Part Four : deals with models for fixed-income products.
Part Five : describes models for risk management and measurement.
Part Six : delivers the numerical methods required for implementing the models described in the rest of the book.
Derivatives also includes a CD containing a wide variety of implementation material related to the book in the form of spreadsheets and executable programs together with resource material such as demonstration software and relevant contributed articles.
At all times the style remains readable and compelling making Derivatives the essential book on every finance shelf.
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Great book on PDE approach to derivatives........2003-10-02
A fine introduction from the standpoint of PDEs.......2003-09-26
The author's approach is not always rigorous from a mathematical standpoint, but this is fine since the emphasis is on developing insight into the principles behind the subject, such as the principle of arbitrage, the idea of hedging, etc. Early on, the author shows what is involved in removing oneself from the Black-Scholes world, with clear explanations of jump conditions, time-dependent volatility, and path dependency. The discussion on the valuation of American style options using partial is illuminating considering this is typically done with Monte Carlo simulations. Another interesting part of the book is the derivation of the partial differential equation for the market price of volatility risk. In addition, the author gives an overview of how to speculate with options, a topic that is truly removed from the Black-Scholes world, but of course is taken up with enthusiasm by many traders the world over. This discussion is very interesting, in that it sheds light on just how subjective preferences enter into options trading; but it also shows that such preferences can be treated quantitatively. Assuming the asset price follows a random walk, the author derives an equation for the present value of the expected payoff, an equation that differs from the Black-Scholes equation in having the drift rate rather than the interest rate in the delta term. This risk-neutral valuation is dealt with in more detail in the author's discussion on portfolio management.
The author uses spreadsheets and Visual Basic to perform some of the numerical calculations, with many included on the accompanying CD. This is done no doubt to maintain the connection with practical trading. All of the mathematics and numerical studies could be done more efficiently though with a high-level programming language, such as Mathematica or Maple. The graphical capabilities of these languages will allow the reader to view the results of the calculations on-the-fly.
Some omissions in the book include discussions on energy and weather derivatives, but these are covered, although in not too much detail, in the author's more recent books. Also omitted is any discussion on bandwidth markets or derivatives trading in network capacity. This is also a new area, but one that is growing rapidly. Discussion of it will no doubt be included in future books on derivatives.
Not to be passed by any derivative readers.......2003-01-29
The book is so comprehensive such that it's going to be very difficult if not impossible to find the book with greater coverage on the subject. The level of discussion should be on the intermediate level or first-year graduate students. A good background on basic derivatives or mathematics ( algebra, differential calculus, and statistics) will proof sufficient in most of the cases to follow the mathematical detivations in the book. Working out the exercises at the end of each section will be a great pleasure to all the derivative students. Unlike many other text books which provided many difficult but interesting exercises but never the solutions elsewhere as if it's the author's intention to keep the secret with themselves forever, the Book's Instructor Manual with the solutions to all the exercises is separately available through the Publisher. However, I feel that the unexperienced readers should spend some time with a more directly accessible derivatives book such as Hull's classic ( Options, Futures, and Derivatives Securities ) before approaching this book. Once this is done, you'll realize that the Author knows the subjects very well and has his interesting ways to take you to a very heart of the concepts.
I think there are 2 limitations of this book that should be put forward. Some mathemetical concept on modern derivative pricing theory such as martingale or measure theory are only scantly touched throughout the book. Yet I have a good perception that it;s the Author's intention to follow his preferred PDE approach on derivatives pricing and to make a book more directly accessible to a practitioners i.e., derivative traders or researchers, rather than the full academic researchers. Also the treatments on interest rate through sufficiently comprehensive, is far from completion. However, the literature on interest rate derivatives is very farflung such that it should be treated in a place of it's own. I myself don't really look at this as a handicap on this book.
All in all, I can't find any good reason why this book shouldn't be on derivatives section shelf.
Wide but lopsided coverage.......2000-09-01
THE DERIVATIVE BOOK.......2000-07-31
It's still very technical though, be reminded that Paul is a mathematician, so readers who are looking for a non math book on derivatives are well advised to look for another book (e.g. Kolb).
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Terrorism and the Military: International Legal Implications
Manufacturer: Asser Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9067041610 |
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In November 2002, legal experts from the academic world, defence ministries and the military, gathered in The Hague for a two-day conference, entitled 'Terrorism and the Military: International Legal Implications'. The discussions centred on three themes: Ius ad Bellum, the laws governing the use of force; Ius in Bello, the laws governing the conduct of hostilities and Criminal law. This volume contains the proceedings of this highly informative conference, including the discussions, syntheses and an overall conclusion.
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Training for Agriculture and Rural Development 1984/F2757 (Training for Agriculture and Rural Development)
Manufacturer: Food & Agriculture Org ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9251021392 |
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Localized Rnas (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 3540600051 |
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Internet GIS: Distributed Geographic Information Services for the Internet and Wireless Network
Zhong-Ren Peng , and Ming-Hsiang Tsou Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471359238 |
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* Provides case studies in each chapter illustrating how principles work in practice.Customer Reviews:
good refrence for GIS reader.......2006-08-23
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Online GIS and Spatial Metadata (Geographic Information Systems Workshop)
David R. Green , and Terry Bossomaier Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0748409548 |
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The World Wide Web presents many new, exciting prospects for geographic information systems, but also numerous technical, practical and organizational challenges. Users no longer require specialized and expensive hardware, software and data, and they can access a GIS readily from almost anywhere, using off-the-shelf browser software. An online GIS removes the need to collate all the necessary elements in a single database. Instead it has the potential to seamlessly combine datasets that are stored on many different servers and maintained by many different organizations. However, to realize this potential it is crucial to develop appropriate standards and protocols. Such problems belong to the realm of "spatial metadata" which forms the basis of this book. The book covers the principles, techniques and standards for online GIS, including online spatial information and data warehousing. It examines the idea of metadata and outlines why it is important today, especially in the context of online information. It explains the underlying methodologies, including relevant standards, and the tools and skills needed to manage metadata. Finally, the subject is placed in the context of global GIS: putting data online; creating metadata; creating virtual data warehouses; geographical agents, and spatial data mining.
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Case Studies in Superconducting Magnets: Design and Operational Issues (Selected Topics in Superconductivity)
Yukikazu Iwasa Manufacturer: Plenum Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0306448815 |
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Designed for graduate students in mechanical engineering, this textbook discusses the basic concepts of superconducting magnet technology. Important topics covered include field distribution, magnets, force, thermal stability, dissipation, and protection. To help the students excel in the field, each chapter contains tutorial problems, accompanied by solutions, utilizing solenoidal magnets as examples.
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Case Studies in Superconducting Magnets: Design and Operational Issues
Yukikazu Iwasa Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OS8NEI |
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Out of Time's Abyss
Edgar, Rice Burroughs Manufacturer: Cosimo Classics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1596055405 |
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It was a constant battle while they dug a grave and consigned all that was mortal of John Tippet to his last, lonely resting-place. Nor would they leave then; but remained to fashion a rude headstone from a crumbling out-cropping of sandstone and to gather a mass of the gorgeous flowers growing in such great profusion around them and heap the new-made grave with bright blooms. Upon the headstone Sinclair scratched in rude characters the words: HERE LIES JOHN TIPPET ENGLISHMAN KILLED BY TYRANNOSAURUS 10 SEPT. A.D. 1916 R.I.P. ~ ~ ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs created one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture, Tarzan of the Apes, and it is impossible to overstate his influence on entire genres of popular literature in the decades after his enormously winning pulp novels stormed the public's imagination. The third book in Burrough's Caspak series-which also includes The Land That Time Forgot and The People That Time Forgot-Out of Time's Abyss is fully enjoyable as a standalone tale. Here, Bradley, survivor of an earlier expedition to the lost continent of Caspak, near Antarctica, has been sheltered at Fort Dinosaur, and now decides to brave the dangers of the land's barbarian men and brutal dinosaurs in an attempt to get home to England. First published in book form in 1924, and a favorite of serious devotees of the author, this is one of Burrough's most thrilling science-fiction adventure stories. American novelist EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS (1875-1950) wrote dozens of adventure, crime, and science fiction novels that are still beloved today, including Tarzan of the Apes (1912), At the Earth's Core (1914), A Princess of Mars (1917), The Land That Time Forgot (1924), and Pirates of Venus (1934). He is reputed to have been reading a comic book when he died.
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Out of Time's Abyss
Edgar Rice Burroughs Manufacturer: Wildside Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1592244904 |
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This is the tale of Bradley after he left Fort Dinosaur upon the west coast of the great lake that is in the center of the island. Upon the fourth day of September 1916, he set out with four companions through the heavy Caspakian air. About them upon the ground, among the trees and in the air over them moved and swung and soared the countless forms of Caspak's teeming life. They had taken a dozen steps, perhaps, when a hideous growl broke from a dense thicket ahead, the leafy branches parted, and the hideous head of a gigantic bear emerged. "Lie still!" shouted Bradley. "Can't waste ammunition." Like a bolt of lightning the bear flashed down upon the Englishman. "Now run!" Bradley called to Tippet and himself turned in flight toward a nearby tree. The other men, now safely ensconced upon various branches, watched the race with breathless interest. Would Bradley make it? It seemed scarce possible. And if he didn't. . . !Customer Reviews:
Super Reader.......2007-08-04
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Out of Times Abyss
Edgar Rice Burroughs Manufacturer: Quiet Vision Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1576462323 |
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At The Earth's Core And Out Of Time's Abyss
Edgar Rice Burroughs Manufacturer: Blue Unicorn Editions ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1583960066 |
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Great Books-Horrible Edition.......2000-03-27
I certainly recommend a lot of ERB's series for high fantasy: The Pellucidar books, The John Carter of Mars books, The Venus books and others. But if you want my advice find a different edition, or find it used somewhere. It's getting to the point where the quality of the publishing is actually an issue. You would never see a book like this in a regular book store. I wish the publisher info was listed as well, because I wouldn't buy anything by InstaBook again.
Remarkable adventure story . . . early science fiction.......1999-02-13
The story involves a young adventurer named David Innes who decides to accompany an elderly professor on a test drive of an "iron mole." This drilling machine is intended to penetrate the earth in search of minerals. However, something goes wrong. The controls break, and the iron mole plummets straight down for hundreds of miles, to break through into an "inner earth."
This world is inhabited by dinosaurs, primitive tribes, and a race of evil bat-like creatures called Mayars. David must rescue a stunningly beautiful young woman, who's completely stolen his heart. But more, he must somehow end the dominance and exploitation the Mayars exert over the primitive humans in this world.
At the time this book was written, before 1920, there were serious treatises being written about the possibility that our earth was hollow, with an inner world to be discovered. Burroughs apparently just capitalized on this now out-of-date scientific notion.
The Mayars are terrifying, the girls are fantastic, and there's a nonstop series of action scenes. The friendships David makes with various prehistoric warriors are well drawn. For an episodic adventure novel, the characters are made real enough that the reader really CARES what happens to them.
This is the first of the Pellucidar novels. There were at least six, I believe. Pellucidar is what Burroughs called the inner world within the heart of the earth.
The language is clean-- the book could be recommended to young people with no concerns at all. In fact, teens -- or the young at heart -- are the prime audience for these fine adventure books.
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CASPAK SEQUENCE: The Land that Time Forgot; The People That Time Forgot; Out of Time's Abyss - Bowen Tyler Adventures
Edgar Rice Burroughs Manufacturer: Ace Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000WMPEDE |
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The Complete Land that Time Forgot: All Three Classic Adventures from the Prehistoric World that Lives Today-The Land that Time Forgot; The People that Time Forgot & Out of Time's Abyss Before Jurassic Park there was The Land that Time Forgot In 1916 the great World War is raging on land and on the world's oceans. On the high seas a ship falls victim to a marauding German U-boat. The vagaries of fate decree that soon the tables will be turned on the aggressors, and the survivors will take control. This story of war becomes something far more bizarre as the search for land and fresh water draws the polyglot crew into a subterranean channel which leads to an exotic, unknown world. When an enormous, amphibian reptile-of a type only known from distant prehistory-appears in living form and attacks, devouring a man in the process, the survivors realise that this is the start of a high adventure beyond anything they could have imagined. This Leonaur edition contains all three of Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land that Time Forgot novels and is guaranteed to deliver all the thrills and spills that Burroughs' fans expect.Customer Reviews:
Leonaur Ltd. is publishing the definitive Edgar Rice Burroughs 21st century editions........2007-05-26
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The Land that Time Forgot - Special Edition - Includes: The People that Time Forgot and Out of Time's Abyss
Edgar, Rice Burroughs Manufacturer: Breakneck Classics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0978655184 |
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THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT While matching wits and blows with a crew of Germans aboard a WWI U-33 submarine, Bowen Tyler, his loyal dog, Nobs, the stunning Lys, and a group of tough Brits become hopelessly lost on the Pacific thanks to an act of sabotage. But soon after land is sighted all hope is crushed. Long lost to the outside world, the land they have discovered-Caspak-teems with prehistoric monsters, and men of every epoch...and they're hungry. THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT Tom Billings, close friend to Bowen Tyler, sets out on a rescue mission. Having found Tyler's bottled note floating in the ocean, Billings is familiar with the dangers of Caspak, but knowledge and experience are not the same. Billings quickly finds himself alone in the land of dinosaurs and ape-men, on the run and accompanied by a beautiful Caspak native-Ajor. OUT OF TIME'S ABYSS Bradley, one of the surviving Brits from Bowen Tyler's crew, sets off into the interior of Caspak in search of Billings and a way home to England. He cuts a path through the sinewy jungle and emerges at the heart of Caspak, where he uncovers the horrible secret-a race of hideous creatures that are beyond scientific classification...beyond all imagining.
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The Land That Time Forgot Trilogy (The Land That Time Forgot, The People That Time Forgot, Out of Time's Abyss)
Edgar R. Burroughs Manufacturer: NELSON DOUBLEDAY INC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UCDI70 |
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The Land that Time Forgot: A Trilogy (including The Land That Time Forgot, The People that time Forgot, Out of Time's Abyss; movie tie-in)
Edgar Rice Burroughs Manufacturer: Nelson Doubleday, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000M52HE0 |
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The Land That Time Forgot: The Land That Time Forgot; The People That Time Forgot; Out of Time's Abyss
Edgar Rice Burroughs Manufacturer: Nelson Doubleday ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000TZNG7K |
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