Chaos and Order in the Capital Markets: A New View of Cycles, Prices, and Market Volatility (Wiley Finance)

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The latest developments in chaos theory - from an industry expert

Chaos and Order in the Capital Markets was the first book to introduce and popularize chaos as it applies to finance. It has since become the classic source on the topic. This new edition is completely updated to include the latest ripples in chaos theory with new chapters that tie in today's hot innovations, such as fuzzy logic, neural nets, and artificial intelligence.

Critical praise for Peters and the first edition of Chaos and Order in the Capital Markets

"The bible of market chaologists." - BusinessWeek

"Ed Peters has written a first-class summary suitable for any investment professional or skilled investor." - Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities

"It ranks among the most provocative financial books of the past few years. Reading this book will provide a generous payback for the time and mental energy expended." - Financial Analysts Journal

This second edition of Chaos and Order in the Capital Markets brings the topic completely up to date with timely examples from today's markets and descriptions of the latest wave of technology, including genetic algorithms, wavelets, and complexity theory.

Chaos and Order in the Capital Markets was the very first book to explore and popularize chaos theory as it applies to finance. It has since become the industry standard, and is regarded as the definitive source to which analysts, investors, and traders turn for a comprehensive overview of chaos theory. Now, this invaluable reference - touted by BusinessWeek as "the bible of market chaologists" - has been updated and revised to bring you the latest developments in the field.

Mainstream capital market theory is based on efficient market assumptions, even though the markets themselves exhibit characteristics that are symptomatic of nonlinear dynamic systems. As it explores - and validates - this nonlinear nature, Chaos and Order repudiates the "random walk" theory and econometrics. It shifts the focus away from the concept of efficient markets toward a more general view of the forces underlying the capital market system.

Presenting new analytical techniques, as well as reexamining methods that have been in use for the past forty years, Chaos and Order offers a thorough examination of chaos theory and fractals as applied to investments and economics. This new edition includes timely examples from today's markets and descriptions of cutting-edge technologies-genetic algorithms, wavelets, complexity theory-and hot innovations, such as fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence.

Beyond the history of current capital market theory, Chaos and Order covers the crucial characteristics of fractals, the analysis of fractal time series through rescaled range analysis (R/S), the specifics of fractal statistics, and the definition and analysis of chaotic systems. It offers an in-depth exploration of:
* Random walks and efficient markets - the development of the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) and modern portfolio theory
* The linear paradigm - why it has failed
* Nonlinear dynamic systems - phase space, the Henon Map, Lyapunov exponents
* Applying chaos and nonlinear methods - neural networks, genetic algorithms
* Dynamical analysis of time series - reconstructing a phase space, the fractal dimension

Tonis Vaga's Coherent Market Hypothesis - the theory of social imitation, control parameters, Vaga's implementations

Plus, Chaos and Order now contains a Windows-compatible disk including data sets for running analyses described in the appendices.

Written by a leading expert in the field, Chaos and Order in the Capital Markets has all the information you need for a complete, up-to-date look at chaos theory. This latest edition will undoubtedly prove to be as invaluable as the first.

Customer Reviews:

Poorly explained.......2004-02-04

I have a university maths degree and found the book very obvious and drawn out for the first few chapters. In spite of this I looked forward to what was going to be explained later. Suddenly from a very simple and easy to understand explanation on the EMH he starts to use mathematics in his equations that I had a lot of difficulty following. There was very little or no explanation of how these equations were arrived at and a lot of mathematics and statisics is assumed. This book does not apply the theory in ny meaningful way to the markets let alone the capital markets in my opinion. I found that I took very little away from this book and would not recommend it to anyone who has basic mathematics like myself or is looking for some deeper insight into the markets. I would hate to have Mr Peters as a teacher based on his book.

A very good introduction.......2004-02-01

I read this book, the 1991 version, years ago. Around 1980 my own attempts to crack share prices statistically convinced me that all share prices behaved like a Gaussian random walk meaning that all speculation was comparable with playing roulette and I am not one of those guys who usually wins when gambling. This view was strengthened when the option pricing model came up, meaning that even the real pro's in the field assume that share prices are nothing but a random walk. This book has opened my eyes to the fact that there is much more to randomness than just the Gaussian curve. Share prices are not fully random. Impressive is the demonstration that an RS analysis on the real data is different when applying the same RS analysis on scrambled data. So there is information hidden in these time series, somewhere. Since then I have picked up the subject of cracking time series again with great pleasure. I think this book is exceptionally well written and without it I doubt if I would have been able to follow Mandelbrot's book "scaling and fractals in finance" that I bought later. The book is about understanding a subject, not about learning a simple formula to apply on a time series.

A dated overview, with little real meat.......2003-02-10

The second edition of this book was published in 1996. The book
seems to be largely based on Feder's 1988 book "Fractals". The
dated nature of this book means that it is missing later work
on long memory processes, which Peters estimates using the Hurst
exponent.

As one reviewer already noted, don't assume that this book will
provide much in the way of useful equations. For anyone who wants
more than an overview, this book is a disappointment. Peters does
a poor job of explaining the equations and I did not find enough
detail to implement the algorithms discussed (I turned to Feder's
book and various journal articles). The book does come with a
"floppy" disk containing the Visual Basic algorithms. This is
a poor choice, since C is pretty much the lingua franca for
algorithms.

The various chaos and fractal techniques are applied to a handful
of financial data sets, but this is far from even a solid
suggestion that these techniques might be useful to anyone
developing real market models.

Some of the conclusions that Peters draws (cycles in financial
data) do not seem to be supported the evidence he presents.

In summary, if you are looking for something beyond an overview,
save your money. Feder ("Fractals") has a better description of
RS calculation. "A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Lo
and MacKinlay has a chapeter on the application of the RS
statistic and long-memory processes which is much better than
Peters. For those who need to simulate fractal brownian motion
(data sets with a particular Hurst exponent) "The Science of
Fractal Images" by Barnsley et all is a good reference.

Good overview, bad balance.......2001-03-22

If you're looking for a purely conceptual introduction to how chaos theory can be applied to financial markets, this book is as good a source as any. Peters's discussion of R/S statistics and the graphical examples drawn from the markets are clear and intuitive (Ch. 7-8). The key point demonstrating long-term memory effects in the market is well made.

However he spends an inordinate amount of time attacking the foundations of the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) to the point of being boring, yet the argument boils down to "it has errors when compared to reality". Duh, so does every other theory, including fractal. The real issue is "for the error in theory A, how bad are the results X, and is theory B much better at it?" If you're not going to do that, don't spend 40 pages (Ch. 1-4) on it. This is misleading to those not familiar with EMH, and boring to those who are.

Don't look to this book for good math. In my edition (1991), careless and erroneous notations abound. Also, the equations are written in BASIC notation which is notoriously hard to visualize, but this is probably the fault of the editor/publisher. Peters makes frequent and unannounced jumps between the apparent rigor of math and loose conjectures. The math is distracting to a qualitative reader, and the conjectures irritating to the quantitative one. Better to cater to one audience, and do it well.

Still, I would recommend this book as a good conceptual introduction to the subject. But if you're planning to go deeper, use the equations in this book at your own perils. Go to the source.

Commit it to the flames.......2001-01-04

For those of you intrigued by chaos versus the financial markets, I would suggest you get the basic knowledge in Garnett P. Williams "Chaos Theory Tamed" (if you don't mind being explained in the first twenty chapters things like the laws of exponents and logarithms), or the Devaney books, for people with some maths. By the time you finish these honest, carefully and painstakingly written books, you will have a fair understanding of what chaos theory is about, and you will also see that while it is interesting stuff, it is hard to imagine it having any practical relevance to finance, since finance is the realm of stochastic, not deterministic phenomena.

Mr. Peters' readers will not have the chance of gaining such a perspective on chaos or on finance, alas. Mr. Peters hasn't produced a clear, comprehensible text, but rather a imprecise and frustrating piece, presumably written in a very short time, filled with a huge number of graphs having epsilon informational content. It is also full of conceptual mistakes - Mr. Peters most probably doesn't have a good grasp of what he's speaking about, but to be fair, it is hard to tell since the implicit message of the book is: "Hey, like I'm going to give out all my secrets...! Forget it, baby!", so the readers are never given all of the story. Readers therefore have to decide whether they believe that the author has found a meaningful and secret way to use chaos, that unfortunately will not be revealed, or whether the author should be put in the same category as those who write about Crystals or Financial Astrology.

Can smart people make profit with chaos theory? Certainly! However, the only way to do so is by writing books about it...

Profit which seems interesting, since Wiley accepted to publish a second product from Mr. Peters, thereby losing all credibility as an editor of financial books.

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James McDonald has put his experiences over 60 years in the oil business into his book, Gettyrama. While an officer of Tidewater Associated Oil Co. (Flying A) he worked closely with George Getty, son of J. Paul Getty, and indirectly with J. Paul himself. In the first part of Gettyrama, he recites a number of "tales" about the Gettys which were not generally known outside of a few in the company. In the second part of the book, McDonald has included a number of articles, which were published in Pacific Oil World over a period of years when he was an editor of the publication. He had a vast experience in the industry, over 60 years, and is considered an expert in the industry both domestically and worldwide.

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Vladimir Krainov has produced one of the few books in the field to concentrate on qualitative methods. He presents order of magnitude solutions for physical quantities in various nonequilibrium statistical processes as well as qualitative solutions of differential equations for macroscopic nonequilibrium processes in gases and other media. Covers topics including free convection, turbulence phenomena, sound propagation, and surface phenomena.

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Engaging & with insight

Page Turning Debut

Gripping character study

pure joy

shallow and superficial

London Is the Best City in America
Laura Dave
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London is the Best City in America, is the insightful, wickedly funny story of two siblings who have found themselves at a crossroads. In mapping their struggles over one wild and emotional wedding weekend, Laura Dave gives us a brilliantly subtle and honest look at contemporary courtship, family tension, and the angst that we all experience when we have to make difficult choices.

Three years ago, Emmy Everett made the painful decision to call off her engagement and leave New York City behind. Since then she has been hiding out in Rhode Island working at a bait and tackle shop and haphazardly shooting a documentary about fishermen's wives. July 4th weekend has rolled around again and Emmy is mustering up the courage to return home to New York (the site of her own failed romance) to celebrate her brother Josh's wedding.

En route to his bachelor party, Emmy is shocked when her typically resolute brother confesses that he is having serious doubts about getting married - and he may even be in love with another woman.

Emmy is determined to help her brother face up to this decision—the one she fled from herself. With less than twenty-four hours to go before the wedding, she takes Josh on a road trip to find this mystery woman. Along the way, Emmy embraces her own hard-earned lessons about romance, commitment and what happens when we refuse to let go of the past.

London is the Best City in America is a courageous, big-hearted portrait of love, loyalty, and heartbreak. Emmy is lively, wise and, ultimately, very brave as she tries to answer the universal question: how do we take that first step toward making our lives our own? BACKCOVER: “Incredibly deft, utterly satisfying…I love every character. A triumph of a first novel.”
—Melissa Bank, author of The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing and The Wonder Spot

“London is the Best City in America is a delicious comedy of manners and a smart examination of the heart and its desires. What a sparkling debut!”
—Susan Isaacs, author of Long Time No See

"With its suspenseful plot, endearing heroine and vivid prose, Laura Dave's London is the Best City in America is an immensely appealing novel. A sparkling debut."
—Margot Livesey, author of Eva Moves the Furniture

Customer Reviews:

Engaging & with insight.......2007-09-11

I listened to the CD on a road trip. As a single guy who doesn't read much chick lit and who didn't have any sisters, I found the book helped me to better understand and appreciate the other human species and reinforce some important lessons about making choices.

Page Turning Debut.......2007-08-12

This is one of those books that pulls right in and keeps you pulled in. You'll think, I'll just read a little more - and the next thing you know you've sat up half the night! The characters, especially Emmy (the narrator), are funny and engaging searchers trying to find their way through to the right way to love and live. It's a great read!

Gripping character study.......2007-08-12

From the first pages I'm in with this story. Emmy is an endearing and honest character. She doesn't take herself too seriously and yet she tries to do the right thing. She seems like the kind of girl who would actually emerge from an upper crust enclave with a sense of herself. Her brother's predicament is interesting and not at all cliche. I like the turns in this book and I'm reading all the way through. A very satisfying read!

pure joy.......2007-08-09

I just re-read London and did not want it to end. London tells the story of a brother and a sister who over the course of one weekend really save each other. If you have a sibling it will make you want to call and hug them.
I had the good fortune of actually meeting Laura Dave at one of her readings. As I read London it was hard to believe that a girl in her twenties wrote such a compelling story. This author is wise beyond her years and a complete joy. Everyone left the reading talking about Laura's depth, positive energy and wit. Laura Dave is certainly an author to keep an eye on- I can't wait for her next book.

shallow and superficial.......2007-08-06

I'd seen great reviews of this book, and am always interested in discovering a good new woman author, but this was a big disappointment. Even as a "summer/beach read" (I just read it, it is early August). I'm just not seeing the "depth" and "insight" described by other readers/reviewers. The book reads like it was written by someone in their early to mid-twenties who hasn't really lived through much. "Should Emmy go back to Matt?" "Should Emmy pick Berringer?" "Which woman will Josh pick?" That's about it. A condensed version could have been something you'd read in Seventeen magazine. The characters were never fully developed, and it was all just a bit too precious. It ended with few unanswered questions, but I didn't care enough about the characters to care how those questions might be answered. This may sound harsh, but I like to read well-written books that challenge me and make me think. This one didn't even come close. And it's not like I sit around reading Tolstoy all day. I've read chick lit for fun. Lots and lots of it. This one just didn't have much to offer and seemed to be aspiring to be something it was not.

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World War II is on everyone's mind and in every headline, and Howie Crispers has a hunch that his school principal is a spy. With a little snooping around, Howie finds out something even more alarming. Principal Lomister may not be a spy, but he is plotting to get rid of Howie's favorite teacher. Howie's dad is fighting Nazis overseas, and his mom is working hard to support the war effort, so Miss Gossim is the only person Howie can depend on. With the help of his friends, and a plan worthy of radio show superhero Captain Midnight, Howie intends to save Miss Gossim!

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Zack L. - Don't You Know There's a War On?.......2007-03-27

I really enjoy reading about World War II and once I started reading this book I couldn't put it down. It takes place in Brooklyn in 1943. Howie Crispers and his classmates learn the school is going to fire their teacher, and they plan on doing whatever it takes not to let that happen. The author's writing really makes you understand the hardships American's suffered during the war - how they had to ration food, shoes, and even endure many nights of Civil Defense blackouts.

I would have liked it if the author would have told more about how scared the kids really were during those times. They actually had to wear dog tags - if America was attacked while they were in school, their body could be identified by the dog tags! Also, the author told what happened to Howie a few years after the story took place, but he didn't let you know about Howie's best friend Denny, or their teacher Miss Gossim.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in what life was like in America during World War II. Families had to give up so much for the war effort. I don't think you would enjoy this book if you're more into Science Fiction; this was about everyday life in the 1940's and how a class banded together to save their teacher.

buy war bonds.......2006-11-09

i think that this book is the best book that I ever read. and im a big reader

Review from a 6-year old.......2005-11-20

Don't You Know There's A War Going On? by Avi
A kid called Howie is trying to save his teacher from being fired from his school (he is trying to save her because she is his favorite teacher). She is being fired because she is pregnant. During this time, World War II (WWII) was going on. Everyone had to wear dog tags in case they were killed. Dog tags have names on them so people can identify other people if they are dead. Howie was, as a matter of fact, successful in "unfiring" his teacher. He wrote a note to his principal but since the teacher did not want to give it to him, Howie gave it to the principal's boss which is how his favorite teacher became unfired. This is a very good book about WWII because it has articles about certain dates. Some of the dates actually tell about the end of the war and why it ended. I give this book 4 stars out of 5 stars! It could be better by making the book longer.

The Amazon Howie And Best Friend.......2005-11-04

This book is about a class of kids and they are trying to get there teacher job back.There teachers name is Miss.Gossim and they really like her.Howie Crispers was the first kid in his class to find oun that hisn teacher is geting fired.Howie comes up with an idea to make a pentition and has his class sign it.And just so you know Miss.Gossim is geting fired because she is having a baby.So one day they planed to go but Howie lost the pentition.He found that out after they knocked on the door you would think they would run but they stayed and talked to her.I'm going to tell you if she gets her job back or not I'm going to let you read it for your self and its a goog book I think you should read it.

why even read this book people?.......2005-10-14

This review i am writing to you all is because i read this book and i think that it is not a good book to read. but if you think you can read a good booko then dont read this book.

Don't You Know There's a War On? The American Home Front, 1941-1945

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The Way It Was
Interesting and well written

Don't You Know There's a War On? The American Home Front, 1941-1945
Richard R. Lingeman
Manufacturer: Nation Books
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The tragic events of September 11, 2001 brought to the surface memories of an earlier time of unprecedented national emergency—Pearl Harbor—and America’s subsequent involvement in World War II. In this evocative cultural history, Richard Lingeman re-creates the events—historic, humorous, and tragic—and personalities of the American home front. From V-girls and V-mail, blackouts and the internment of the Japanese, to new opportunities for African-Americans and women, Lingeman recaptures a unique time in American history in this New York Times Notable Book.

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Take with a grain of salt.......2007-05-19

I bought this book hoping to flesh out some of my knowledge of WWII with some more information about the war at home. I had high expectations of this book and was reading with great interest, until astonishingly obvious errors jumped out at me. Errors which indicated that the writer was either very sloppy in his fact checking, or relying on hearsay evidence, or just making things up as he went along.

Examples: He writes, "whether a pilot was flying B-17's in Europe, or B-19's in the South Pacific..." There was no B-19 bomber in WWII, the only one made was a prototype by Douglas Aviation, but none were ever used. I can't imagine such a glaring mistake, when all the aircraft of WWII were so well documented.

Another: "...many acts in New York's nightclubs were earning top dollar...Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis earned twice the salary for their act as before the war..." Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis didn't start working together until 1946, well after the end of WWII.

Another: "... Doolittle's Raiders struck back at Japan with a squadron of B-24's" Jimmy Doolittle flew B-25 bombers, which were medium bombers, two engines apiece, that were the largest aircraft to have ever taken off from an aircraft carrier. B-24's are huge 4 engine bombers, far too big to have taken off from an aircraft carrier. And the B-25 is universally known to WWII buffs as the plane that Doolittle flew. Anyone who lived thru WWII with any attention paid to the war would no sooner make this mistake than to say that it was President Nixon who ordered the atomic bomb dropped instead of President Truman.

The Way It Was.......2005-07-25

I was born in 1945, just a few months before the end of WWII. I grew up with the stories of shared sacrifice, rationing, war bond drives, and Rosie the Riveter (who was my mother -- well, not literally, but she did work in a defense plant).
This book is an amazing look at the home front during The War (and we always heard it with the Capital Letters). I've read it twice and my mother read it three times before her death; I have her word for it that it is all true.
Dennis Mansker
www.dennismansker.com
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Interesting and well written.......2002-12-10

This book is about American society and culture during World War 2. It discusses many different aspects of civilian America, such as the musical tastes of the public, what people were reading, movies, work, business, and housing among other things.

It is quite a good, informative book, and the author presents his subject in an interesting, occasionally funny manner. If there is any criticism of this book it is the fairly abrupt beginning and ending.

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WWII Comes Alive for Small Children

Don't You Know There's a War On?
James Stevenson
Manufacturer: Greenwillow
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"Seen through the eyes of a young boy, these [are] strikingly faithful memories of the home front during World War II....The boy wants to help win the war; he collects tin foil and tin cans, buys war stamps, and plants a victory garden....But anxious times to come, too. His father goes into the army, and the boy misses him terribly....Stevenson is adept at presenting the unsettling mixture of the humorous, the day-to-day, and the serious moments....A splendid evocation of the past; a wonderful book....for everyone to share."--Horn Book.

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WWII Comes Alive for Small Children.......1999-12-15

I am a retired first grade teacher who grew up during WWII. This book is an accurate account of all the things that young children heard, saw, thought about, and participated in during this historical event. Reading it to my classes each December 7 brought back memories and tears that I had forgotten. The children were spellbound and full of questions as I read aloud, often using war mementoes-dog tags, a silver ID bracelet, ration stamps, uniform patches, saving stamps bought in school, balls of chewing gum wrappers, etc.- to help describe this time in history. The reading of this book encouraged many children to go home and question their grandparents, often finding that their grandfathers served in WWII. The book led to map studies of countries involved. I can't begin to tell you how important this book is to children who are just beginning to learn about our country. I was invited by a fifth grade teacher to present Don't You Know There's A War On? to her class. They loved it! This book should take it's place with other children's classics in every library and become a "must read" as part of a child's education about this country and its brave and patriotic citizens.

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DON'T YOU KNOW THERE'S A WAR ON?
AVI
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Fiction, Juvenile, Young Adult, Historical, American Life, World War II

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Don't You Know There's a War on
Avi
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Don't you know there's a war going on [Audiobook] by Avi

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Newbery Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author Avi recreates the sights and sounds of wartime Brooklyn in this fast-paced story. Like every student in Miss Gossims 1943 fifth-grade class, Howie Crispers has one thing on his mind: World War II. When he isnt in school, Howie stays busy watching for Nazi spies. So when he notices his principal acting suspiciously, its his patriotic duty to investigate. But what he discovers is far more devastating than any headline at the newsstand.

DON'T YOU KNOW THERE'S A WAR GOING ON? THE AMERICAN HOME FRONT 1941-1945

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DON'T YOU KNOW THERE'S A WAR GOING ON? THE AMERICAN HOME FRONT 1941-1945
Richard R. Lingeman
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Don't You Know There's a War on
Richard R. Lingeman
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Don't You Know There's a War On

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Don't You Know There's a War on: Voices From the Home Front

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A highly recommended addition to American History and Military History collections

Don't You Know There's a War on: Voices From the Home Front
Jonathan Croall
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Between 1939 and 1945, the civilian population in Britain was exposed to the grim and dangerous realities of war to an unprecedented degree. Yet many remember those years as bringing fulfilment, a sense of adventure, even exhilaration, and found the common danger gave their lives a shape and purpose that they have been unable to recapture in peacetime. Others see the wartime as essentially a time of nothing more valiant than endurance, of 'making do', a dismal episode of their lives remembered above all for its deprivations, restrictions and tedium. Yet others found that, while there was certainly intensity, it was to be found in the frustrations and disappointments they experienced, perhaps through an ambition being thwarted, a relationship abruptly severed, an education cut short, a childhood missed.This book gathers the personal stories of 35 people, drawn from all walks of life, and evokes as never before, the reality of life in Britain during the Second World War. Here is a uniquely personal portrait of a nation at war, with contemporary photographs, diaries, letters, poems, and other memorabilia belonging to the men and women whose wartime lives fill this absorbing book.

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A highly recommended addition to American History and Military History collections.......2006-09-07

Don't You Know There's A War On?: Voices From The Home Front provides an intimate 'you are there' experience chronicling the perceptions of young people during the second world war. Documents come in many forms here, from letters and poems to diary extracts and writings of soldiers. Essays by a range of authors are organized by topic, from 'Women's Work' to those out of sync with the norm. An intriguing, involving discourse, Don't You Know There's A War On? is a highly recommended addition to American History and Military History collections.

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Thought -stimulating reading.......2007-02-12

The information contained within this text is thought-stimulating, thereby encouraging the reader to further research the specific area of his or her personal interest regarding the African Diaspora by providing a helpful selected bibliography, footnotes and endontes pertinent to each essay, as well as as an useful overall index.

CLARITY.......2007-02-06

Another excellent read for us Africans by a African who knows his history and not brain washed by His Storyof the intruder.

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Casson's Invariant For Oriented Homology 3-spheres - An Exposition - Mathematical Notes 36
Selman and Mccarthy, John D. Akbulut
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IWNRAU

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Casson's Invariant for Oriented Homology 3-Spheres, An Exposition
Selman and J. D. McCarthy Akbulut
Manufacturer: Princeton U Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MY26YM

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Royal Geographical Society on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 573 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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Title: African Rain Forest Ecology and Conservation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. (Reviews).(Book Review)
Author: Uwem E. Ite
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: Royal Geographical Society
Volume: 169 Issue: 1 Page: 95(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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