Excel Modeling in Corporate Finance and MBA Corporate Finance(2nd Edition)

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This book teaches readers how to build financial models with step-by-step instructions in Excel. Progressing from simple examples to practical, real-world applications, this book covers the time value of money, valuation, capital budgeting, financial planning, and options and corporate finance. For financial planners and analysts.

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excel modeling.......2006-02-22

I have returned this book more than 2 weeks ago but I have not seen credit on my credit card yet and sent an email while ago, and ask when I will get refunded but nobody really gave me any clear answer.

Missing files.......2005-06-02

The "Live In-class Problems" that are halfway done are only available to instructors. This book can be fully utilized if it is used by a instructor in the class, otherwise, a self learner would not have an access to the required files needed to do the end of chapter exercises.

2nd Edition of Spreadsheet Modeling in Corp Finance.......2004-11-16

This is the 2nd edition of the "Spreadsheet Modeling in Corp Finance" -learn from my mistake and don't buy the old version.

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This book covers financial sector stability issues in the following areas: risk management and governance in financial institutions; financial crises and contagion; domestic monetary and financial policies, and international cooperation. The papers were presented at the IMF's eighth Central Banking Seminar by authors from academia, investment banks, government, and other international institutions. The papers discuss such subjects as bank soundness, systemic bank restructuring, and the safety and efficiency of systemically important payment systems, and their interaction with the macroeconomic environment.

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This standard work provides practically-substantiated advice for the legal practice, without having to refrain from any scientific deepening. As a result, it offers cooperative business enterprises - but also legal advisory agencies, auditing firms and courts - comprehensive and reliable help in all matters of daily practice. The new edition explains the Cooperative Societies Act (GenG), the law regulating the transformation of the German Cooperative Bank (DG Bank-Umwandlungsgesetz) and the Statute of the European Cooperative Society (SCE). The legal amendments brought about through the Euro Introductory Act, the Commercial Law Reform Act, the Insolvency Ordinance, the Law of Obligations Modernisation Act, the Auditor's Ordinance Amendment Act, the Euro Balance Sheet Act as well as the Transparency & Disclosure Law are taken into consideration. The development in the judicial decisions and the literature has been worked in up until the spring of 2005 (and partially beyond). The text of the ordinance pertaining to the Register of Cooperative Societies is reproduced in the appendix. Overviews of the arrangement as well as marginal numbers and a comprehensive subject index facilitate the handling of the commentary.

Berliner Kommentar Zum Genossenschaftsgesetz

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Berliner Kommentar Zum Genossenschaftsgesetz
Klaus-Peter Hillebrand
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Genossenschaftsgesetz: Kommentar zu dem Gesetz betreffend die Erwerbs- und Wirtschaftsgenossenschaften und zu umwandlungsrechtlichen Vorschriften fur Genossenschaften

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Genossenschaftsgesetz: Kommentar zu dem Gesetz betreffend die Erwerbs- und Wirtschaftsgenossenschaften und zu umwandlungsrechtlichen Vorschriften fur Genossenschaften
Eduard Hettrich
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The material provides an historical background to forecasting developments as well as introducing recent advances. The book will be of interest to both mathematicians and physicians, the topics covered include equations of dynamical meteorology, first integrals, non-linear stability, well-posedness of boundary problems, non-smooth solutions, parameters and free oscillations, meteorological data processing, methods of approximation and interpolation and numerical methods for forecast modelling.

Weather Forecasting as a Problem in Physics

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Weather Forecasting as a Problem in Physics
Andrei S. Monin
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Weather Forecasting as a Problem in Physics
Andrei S. Monin
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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This book presents a short, fairly simple course on the basic theory of phase transitions and its modern applications. In physics, these applications include such modern developments as Bose-Einstein condensation of atoms, high temperature superconductivity, and vortices in superconductors, while in other fields they include small world phenomena and scale-free systems (such as stock markets and the Internet). The advantage of treating all these topics together lies in showing their connection with one another and with the general theory of phase transitions.

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The deformed and hermet-like narrator of this humorous thriller spends earns his keep as a hitman for the local mafia. But when Hanna Woyczik becomes the key witness in a pivotal court case, he is called on to perform the most difficult task imaginable: to move in with and guard the woman for an entire week.

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stunning and hilarious.......2005-10-25

the sort of book you find yourself reading out loud to your friends. funny and twisted, yet literate: lets that inner punk rocker out even if you're wearing librarian glasses. worth reading, worth keeping--and worth sharing. if you have a reluctant reader you're trying to coax, this is the book to win them over to the good guys.

Dark and Rich.......2005-07-14

I was recommended this book by a close friend after having read and enjoyed "Motherless Brooklyn". At first I couldn't see why. There seemed to be little similarity other that a few simple plot points and broad character traits. I quickly found that while these two novels rely on many of the same tools the end products are remarkably different. Each one is immensely engaging read in its own right but "Guarding Hanna" is easily the meatier of the two. I found myself deeply immersed in its world rather than simply caught by the plot. I loved it!

Excellent stuff.......2003-06-05

It's a very interesting story. What happens when a deformed loner is assigned to guard a woman for a week before she's due to testify in court? He moves into her apartment to protect her, and the ensuing eight days bring a lot of surprises and drama. Mazzini has some dead-on insights about modern urban life and how it distorts our capacity to understand each other. Better yet, he tells his story well, with humor, an intriguing plot, two strange and curious main characters, and an exciting conclusion. The book's a mix of detective story, psychological drama, and crime novel.

I want a turn Guarding Hanna.......2003-05-28

Guarding Hanna is an allegory of the relationship between the sexes. Men are dogs and women are fawns. Men crave hamburgers and women get a warm glow from a cup of herbal tea. Put the two extremes together, and the tension can cause both sides to bloom. It's funny and painful and extremely smart. I want a turn Guarding Hanna. It might be the only relief from the tyranny of the industrial world of single men and women living out their lives alone, in tiny apartments, in cities like Berlin.

Guarding your own emotions.......2003-01-10

(This was written by a 40 year old reader)
Rarely have I come across a recommended book that having read it I think about incessently afterwards. The main character of Guarding Hanna, a kind of anti/hero, certainly has few redeeming qualities. He was brought up in a home for delinquents, facially deformed and a constant curiosity to insensitive eyes. Rescued from the orphanage by a petty gang leader called Maestro he subsequently enters his service. When he is latter given the task of guarding a witness to a crime for a week it seems to present our hero with such an awesome challenge. Being a loner, whose previous experience with women had only been with prostitutes, he now must learn to accomodate the simple needs of another person until it becomes no longer clear who is actually guarding or helping who. Through their relationship the reader comes to realise that even though life has dealt our hero such a bad hand there is a real sense of humanity that is struggling to break through the prejudices of his peers, and perhaps that is something that every reader might empathise with and which is why the climax of the novel left such a profound effect on me. It was so unexpected. Perhaps my out pouring of emotions was just from a sense of release from the accumulated tensions. The novel is written in such a way that it holds your attention with every page. Ever entry, told from our heros point of view like a diary, is given a time. One is therefore very much aware that our heros assignment is drawing to a conclussion and that something unexpected must surely happen. When it finally comes there is nothing predictable about it, which makes it all the more shocking, and as I turned the last page I really felt that for a second the world had stopped turning and that nothing would be the same again. Read this book, suspend your prejudices and leave your emotions unguarded, it will be all the more rewarding.

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So formidable an opponent did the Iraqi airforce consider the F-14 that during the Iran-Iraq war, they ordered their pilots not to engage F-14s and the presence of one in an area was usually enough to empty it of Iraqi aircraft. Officially losses where tiny; only one F-14 was lost in aerial combat (to a MiG-21), one to a control problem and one downed by a ground-to-air missile. This book looks at the F-14’s Iranian combat history and includes first hand accounts from the pilots themselves. It will consider key engagements and the central figures involved, illustrating the realities, successes and failures of the Iranian air campaign.

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A True Representation of IIAF Personnel.......2006-05-04

In his review, R. A Forczyk (Laurel, MD USA), unwittingly notes the cause of US animosity towards Iran as the 1979 Hostage Crisis. However, he fails to mention that the source of hostage crisis is indeed the 1953 CIA coupe against the democratically elected and legal government of Iran. In fact, it is this unwise, and shortsighted effort by CIA only a few months after a Republican was elected into the office, that set the stage for terror in the Middle East in the coming years. R. A Forczyk conveniently ignores the undeniable facts of our current history. The reality is that the Iranian Air Force outperformed their Iraqi and non-Iraqi/Arab counterparts inspite of all adversity and inspite of lack of spare part and munitions for their aircrafts. No other Air Force could have acheived the results acheieved by the Iranian Air Force. It shows the depth of creativity by Iranian Air Force personnel demonstrated and documented by this book. This a great read by a couple of informed individuals. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the military affairs.

The Iranian Tomcats were tough opponents indeed.......2006-05-02

F-14 Tomcats remain the mainstay of the IRIAF today and pose a serious challenge to anyone who plans an air strike against Iran. The book gives a nice operational record of the type in Iranian service with many photos and personal stories of heroism, triumph and sacrifice. The IRIAF of the 1980s was initially decimated by the mullahs but the F-14 fleet kept enough of its skilled personnel to give the Iraqis a bloody nose. "Shah's pilots" returned to duty en masse after the Iraqi invasion (pardoned by the revolutionary government) and used the F-14 in a most professional way scoring numerous kills. The author overturns some myths about the F-14s, like that the American technicians sabotaged the AIM-54 missiles or that the lack of spare parts reduced the number of available aircraft to a mere handful. The Iranians not only put the F-14 to use as a pure air to air fighter, but they used boldly the AWG-9/AIM-54 combination scoring kills from extreme ranges like 56, 64 and even 100 km! In one case an AIM-54 hit destroyed three (!) Iraqi jets with its blast and there were cases where single F-14s engaged eight or more enemy aircraft in dogfight and prevailed! The main problem was the TF30 engines which caused more losses than the enemy fire. Of course the lack of published records does not help to verify the total number of kills achieved by the IRIAF F-14s but they must be several dozens given the superiority of the type over the Iraqi MiGs and Mirages. It is doubtful though whether the IRIAF Tomcats remain as potent today and how many AIM-54 missiles are left in stock, but surely their pilots and technicians know the F-14 well and have even made some improvised corrections to it.

Strong response to American unwillingness to accept the truth.......2005-12-18

I have read this book 5 times so far and since I am from an Iranian Air Force family, I highly recommend this book to those who are still in denial and can not think of any one being better/equal than/to them.

The IRIAF F-14As saved the Iranian airspace from the Iraqi aggression while providing a mini-AWACS role for the Iranian armed services during the 8 years of war with Iraq.

If people do not know much about the Iranian F-14As, it is mostly due to the misinformation campaign going on in western societies by the media.

The trainings that Iranian technicians (HOMAFARS) got in the US in the late 1970s helped the Iranians to keep their nice birds flyable and combat ready till today!

The intelligent Iranian technicians did what American instructors couldnt believe such as installing AGM-65As on AH-1Js or installing HAWK SAMs on F-14As to give it a better performance while engaging Iraqi MiGs.

It is all written in this book for once by a European (read Neutral) author who havent gained any personal benefits by writing and researching about one of the most capable air forces of the 1980s.

The book has some errors simply due to the lack of more communications with the Iranian party (again due to secrecy and protecting the lives of those officers who contributed to the book) but it is still providing misinformed readers with valueable information and data that can not be found any where else.

There is not a single book one can find in the market that is in favor of the Iranian AF but this book written by these two authors are simply giving us the truth we needed to know for too long.

It is a masterpiece overall and I believe many more people should read this book!

another side of tomcat.......2005-07-26

this book tell us about F-14 tomcat belong to IRIAF, not U.S Navy, very good book,many stories is new for me, just like shot down Tu-22 iraq by AIM -54 Phoenix.
this book highly recomended for F-14 tomcat Fans just like me.

Recommend with some reservation.......2005-03-11

This is a book that provided additional information on Iranian F-14s, a topic that is rarely covered. Cooper and Bishop provided perspectives from Iranian pilots, views that are essentially ignored because these neither fit general military analysis, Iraq POV, nor the official Iranian government positions. Anyone who studied or read air combat accounts knows that, there are always uncertainties on air combat records, whether it's due to propaganda or fog of war. You usually have to look at stories from different sides to get a more complete picture. Therefore, Cooper and Bishop's efforts are greatly appreciated, even if they are not verifiable or totally correct (and with obvious Iranian pilot bias - not necessarily a bad thing if you know that upfront).

Having said that, I'd like to provide some additional info in response to Mr. Forczyk's review (even though I'm not military intelligence officer like him). The attitude from Cooper stems from the fact that he and Bishop's works are often belittled and ridiculed by others, including US military aviators. This bounds to make a person unhappy, especially when there are declassified US government documents to support some of his claims. Although Mr. Forczyk raised some reasonable doubts, such as no independent verification of these accounts and no details explaination about sources, I think he forgets that this is supposed to be an original work with first-hand sources. It's hardly surprising that this account is different from the Iranian government's account, since there is politic involved (FYI, Bishop and Cooper's work appears to be banned or at least unwelcomed by Iranian government). Saying "These are the same guys who lie to the world every day about their nuclear program, isn't it?" doesn't make much sense. What does Iranian government's nuclear program and propaganda has anything to do with the words of pilots their government dislike? Having contacts with former Iranian air force pilots (some no longer in Iran) is not the same as "pretty cozy with the Iranian Government", I don't think that's a right assumption.

Furthermore, I think it is a big jump to say that F-14's superior performance in Iraq-Iran war is impossible because otherwise Iran would have won by aerial bombing. The way Iraq and Iran used air power is very different from US traditional thinking (especially the post Desert Storm type). Air power simply isn't a decisive factor in Iraqi and Iranian minds, Saddam didn't say "Air Force has never been a decisive factor in the history of wars" without reason. During the Iraq-Iran war, Iraq perfected the underground and passive defense. Able to shoot down enemy aircraft in some air combats doesn't guarantee that you have impressive SEAD capability, and Iran certainly did not have US technology advantages displayed during Desert Storm. Mr. Forczyk forgets that Iran and Iraq both used Ballistic missiles to bomb each other's cities, that didn't have any cease fire effects. So why should F-14s, F-4, and F-5 with limited load and no PGM able to achieve greater results, given the air defense threats? Given these questionable assumptions, I think Mr. Forczyk's two stars is a bit unfair to the authors.

In sum, I'd say this book is certainly worth a look for anyone interested in F-14 or Iraq/Iran war, even though you may not accept all of its views. I give this book 3.5 stars - One for stuffing a lot of interesting info in a small book, one for interesting/rare photos, one for originality and going into a relatively untouched subject, and another half star for its potential value (if most content prove to be true...)

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Here is a tightly written, concise survey of the history of technology and science over four centuries. In constructing this engaging account, Professor Brose weaves a fabric from three histories which, until now, have been thought of as mutually exclusive. The history of technology, the history of science, and the history of economic development leading to the Industrial Revolution have been developed to a large degree separately. Few historians have attempted a synthesis such as this which demonstrates the relationship between them and general political developments in a way which produces a rounded account, with each strand playing its part in supporting and interacting with the others.

The narrative starts with the opening of the modern historical epoch around 1500 and ends with the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and covers events in both Europe and the United States. Brose constructs his account from the standpoint of technological systems--the idea that each epoch evolves a system to meet the material demands of society--and the rise and fall of each system within the period.

This is a fine introductory overview of the interrelationship between science and technology and society in the early modern and modern periods and the impact of each upon the other.

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Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, philosopher, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. Offering an elegant and accessible portrait of this remarkable man, Mary Terrall uses the story of Maupertuis's life, self-fashioning, and scientific works to explore what it meant to do science and to be a man of science in eighteenth-century Europe.

Beginning his scientific career as a mathematician in Paris, Maupertuis entered the public eye with a much-discussed expedition to Lapland, which confirmed Newton's calculation that the earth was flattened at the poles. He also made significant, and often intentionally controversial, contributions to physics, life science, navigation, astronomy, and metaphysics. Called to Berlin by Frederick the Great, Maupertuis moved to Prussia to preside over the Academy of Sciences there. Equally at home in salons, cafés, scientific academies, and royal courts, Maupertuis used his social connections and his printed works to enhance a carefully constructed reputation as both a man of letters and a man of science. His social and institutional affiliations, in turn, affected how Maupertuis formulated his ideas, how he presented them to his contemporaries, and the reactions they provoked.

Terrall not only illuminates the life and work of a colorful and important Enlightenment figure, but also uses his story to delve into many wider issues, including the development of scientific institutions, the impact of print culture on science, and the interactions of science and government. Smart and highly readable, Maupertuis will appeal to anyone interested in eighteenth-century science and culture.

“Terrall’s work is scholarship in the best sense. Her explanations of arcane 18th-century French physics, mathematics, astronomy, and biology are among the most lucid available in any language.”—Virginia Dawson, American Historical Review

Winner of the 2003 Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society

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Mary Terrall re-creates 18th century European society.......2003-04-12

The Man Who Flattened The Earth: Marpertuis And The Sciences In The Enlightenment is the story of Maupertuis and his scientific interests in the early to mid 1700s and who represented Enlightenment thinking. Mary Terrall re-creates 18th century European society and science alike as she surveys the man who began his career as a mathematician in Paris, only to form controversial theories about the Earth, physics, and even astronomy. Maupertius used his social connections to enhance both his science and his position in society: this provides a lively account of his achievements.

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The Gamekeeper at Home: The Amateur Poacher (Oxford Paperbacks)
Richard Jefferies
Manufacturer: Oxford Univ Pr
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GAMEKEEPER AT HOME
Richard JEFFERIES
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THE GAMEKEEPER AT HOME
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THE GAMEKEEPER AT HOME
RICHARD JEFFERIES
Manufacturer: EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE LONDON
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THE GAMEKEEPER AT HOME
RICHARD JEFFERIES
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THE GAMEKEEPER AT HOME
RICHARD JERRERIES
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The Gamekeeper At Home

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THE GAMEKEEPER AT HOME
JEFFERIES
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The Gamekeeper at Home
Richard Jefferies
Manufacturer: Nimrod Press Ltd
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The Gamekeeper At Home - Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life
Richard Jefferies
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Richard Jefferies is famous for his tales of country life. `The Gamekeeper At Home` is probably his best known work, truly reflecting those by-gone days when the Gamekeeper was a vital part of rural activities. He discusses the man himself and how he fits into the community and examines his relations with his family. His area of activity is covered - the fields, the woods, the meadows and the ponds and streams. The world around him needs protection from the predators that kill the game and disturb the balance of nature. There is contact with his dogs and other animals such as rabbits and deer as well as the traditional enemies such as the fox. All parts are brought together so the reader can sense the activity of the countryside and the efforts to keep its integral parts operating in harmony. This understanding is enhanced by the masterly drawings by Charles Whymper. List of Chapters: I. THE MAN HIMSELF - HIS HOUSE, AND TOOLS II. HIS FAMILY AND CASTE III. IN THE FIELDS IV. HIS DOMINIONS:- THE WOODS - MEADOWS - AND WATER V. SOME OF HIS SUBJECTS: DOGS, RABBITS, `MICE AND SUCH SMALL DEER` VI. HIS ENEMIES BIRDS AND BEAASTS OF PREY - TRESPASSERS VII. PROFESSIONAL POACHERS - THE ART OF WIRING GAME VIII. THE FIELD DETECTIVE - FISH POACHING IX. GUERILLA WARFARE - GUN ACCIDENTS - BLACK SHEEP

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