Investing in Collateralized Debt Obligations

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The fastest growing sector of the asset-backed securities market is the collateralized debt obligation (CDO) market. CDOs are securities backed by a pool of diversified assets and are referred to as collateralized bond obligations (CBOs) when the underlying assets are bonds and as collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) when the underlying assets are bank loans. Investing in Collateralized Debt Obligations covers not only the fundamental features of these securities and the investment characteristics that make them attractive to a broad range of institutional investors, but also the tools for identifying relative value. Nearly a dozen of today's best known analysts discuss emerging market CBOs, relative value frameworks, pricing strategies and techniques, and more.

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Very high quality book - buy it.......2004-01-02

This is an excellenbt book on CDOs and has recently been bettered still by Ms Goodman's newest book on CDOs. I am pleased to publicly state that it is excellent, I have bought a copy and I recommend it highly.

Collateralized Debt Obligations: Structures and Strategies

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Collateralized Debt Obligations: Structures and Strategies

Manufacturer: Wachovia Securities
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MOZK4K

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This book is an overview of the collateralized debt obligation (CDO) market. The contributors to this book are Nichol Bakalar, Inna Koren, Brian P. Lancaster, Jeffrey T. Prince, Michael E. Rose, Ph.D., and Yu-Ming Wang.

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Lawyers and litigants in ancient Athens;: The genesis of the legal profession
Robert Johnson Bonner
Manufacturer: Barnes & Noble
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

General | Law | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0389012521

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Learning all about hamsters couldn't be easier!!.......2000-11-12

It an easy read with lots of colorful pictures! If you have kids or if it is just for yourself you will adore this book. It tells you how to house, feed, breed, detect signs of illness, and gives advise on selecting and caring for hamsters of all species. I highly recommend this book. I love it!

The Guinea Pig: How to Care for Them, Feed Them, and Understand Them (Family Pet Series)

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Best book for the guinea pig owner
Best Guinea Pig Book Ever!!
This book is AWESOME! It has everything!
A great book for new owners of all ages!

The Guinea Pig: How to Care for Them, Feed Them, and Understand Them (Family Pet Series)
Katrin Behrend
Manufacturer: Barrons Educational Series Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Animal Care & Pets | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

Rabbits | Animal Care & Pets | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books

General | Veterinary Medicine | Medicine | Subjects | Books

General | Agricultural Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books

Animal Husbandry | Agricultural Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books

Reference | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0812065964

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Best book for the guinea pig owner.......1999-06-24

This is the best single book for the guinea pig owner. If you own a guinea pig, you owe it to yourself and the pig to get this book!. Well written, with good advice and adorable photographs.

Best Guinea Pig Book Ever!!.......1998-09-16

I've bought a few books on guinea pigs to learn about my pets. If I got this one first, I would not have bought any others!

This book is AWESOME! It has everything!.......1998-07-23

I've read many different pet books, mainly on dogs and rats. But I've also read a few on guinea pigs because 'm planing to purchase a few as pets pretty soon. I can tell you easily that this is the best pet book I've ever seen! It thoroughly explains all matters of guinea pig care and even includes a table for feeding amounts! That's one of the best things! You should definitly get this book! It's AWESOME! Bye!

A great book for new owners of all ages!.......1998-06-17

This book is filled with all kinds of interesting and useful inforomation on guinea pigs. If you are a new owner and are interested in learning more about your pet this is the book to buy!

Guinea Pigs: How To Care For Them, Feed Them, and Understand Them (Family Pet Series)

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Guinea Pigs: How To Care For Them, Feed Them, and Understand Them (Family Pet Series)
Katrin Behrend
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Animal Care & Pets | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B000TRVO9K

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Guinea pigs have a good-natured personality, making them an ideal pet. This easy-to-read book is loaded with invaluable information on buying, grooming, proper care, and training these endearing creatures. This fun book is filled with tips on how to keep your pet healthy, happy, and living longer. Some of the helpful information you'll find inside includes: Up-to-date information, historical facts, tips on choosing the right pet, preventive care, health problems, breeding, simple training and playing tips, diet and nutrition, and communicating with your pet and much more. Also included are childrens corner sections through out the volume which present graphics and information especially written for young pet owners and their often asked questions in mind. Every page has a beautiful photo, including the table of contents, index and the fold out covers

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The rhizosphere in soil environments refers to the narrow zone of soil influenced by the root and exudates. Microbial populations in the rhizosphere can be 10 - 100 times larger than the populations in the bulk soil. Therefore, the rhizosphere is bathed in root exudates and microbial metabolites and the chemistry and biology at the soil-root interface is governed by biotic (plant roots, microbes) and abiotic (physical and chemical) interactions.

The research on biotic and abiotic interactions in the rhizosphere should, thus, be an issue of intense interest for years to come. This book, which consists of 15 chapters, addresses a variety of issues on fundamentals of microscopic levels and the impact on food chain contamination and the terrestrial ecosystem.

It is an essential reference work for chemists and biologists studying environmental systems, as well as earth, soil and environmental scientists.

* 15 chapter book, which addresses a variety of issues on fundamentals of microscopic levels and the impact on food chain contamination and the terrestrial ecosystem

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This text surveys the various aspects of the fundamental problem related to the metallic and non-metallic states of matter, a question physicists have been studying for almost 100 years.

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Confidence is at an all-time low.

Project Manager Trevor explains a new computer system, EVOLUTION, to his Vice Presidents, who are more interested in how their ties match than the direction of the company. The problem? Trevor is double crossed by ISOFT, the supplier of the software, and when the key "interface" isn't available, Trevor is fired.

Trevor's downfall continues as he walks in on his girlfriend cheating on him with his "Best of Porn" music CD playing in the background. Confused and drunk, Trevor inadvertently hires a hit man over the Internet to take care of Jim, the VP of Sales for ISOFT.

Trevor sobers up, lands an Executive Producer job in the adult movie industry, and quickly realizes his mistake. However, the possible hit man, who is only known as "Scorned CEO," doesn't accept cancellations. Ethan (Trevor's cross-dressing friend) traces The Scorned CEO to South Beach, where Trevor goes in an attempt to stop any incident, along the way receiving early lessons in the adult movie industry. It all leads to a showdown between Trevor, The Scorned CEO, and a script for the ultimate adult movie.

I'd like to thank everyone for the good job they did today.

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A funnier, more easygoing Bret Easton Ellis.......2006-05-09

David S. Grant's Corporate Porn represents a bright new entrant to the unnamed genre of fiction from writers like Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk. This genre could be thought of differentially as black humor, satire, deadpan character study, and a dash of existentialism. Though no one has yet to put a name on it, Grant is throwing his lot in with the vibe of some of the very best 21st century American fiction.

It does bear some mention that Grant's work, as with the aforementioned and more popular authors, is highly male-centric. This is not important of itself, but in the context of an academic (and increasingly, intellectual) community that is skewed toward women, it is significant. Not to climb a rusty and dull old soapbox, but I cannot imagine a worse intellectual climate than one controlled exclusively by women. Or, if you prefer, any single gender.

That being said, Corporate Porn is very successful at tapping into the same skeptical, sarcastic, and bitterly funny undertone of other stories of its type. The main character, Trevor, melds so completely with the reader that it might as well be the flustered voice of reason inside us all that, having been ignored for so long, has finally begun to crack under the pressure of insane "real life".

Grant uses old-hat narrative tricks like recurrent phrases and deadpan dialogue delivery to maximum effect. The fact that he did not invent this narrative style does nothing to detract from how effective it is. The narrative is highly visual, even tactile. There is something appropriate about a story that feels like you're slamming your head against a cheap pressboard doorjamb (in a good way, of course, since that's what Trevor's doing). Despite the title, there is fairly little in the book about actual pornography, and only a moderate amount of corporate banter. Nonetheless, the environment of the story is one very much alive with human interaction portrayed with a heavy and refreshing dose of sometimes-hilarious realism. My favorite scenes involved Trevor riding a public bus, an activity which, in a big city, is very much the way in reality that Grant described it.

What really sticks out is the absurdity of Trevor's life in the context of his friends. A sentiment that, no doubt, those of us born after 1975 can relate to the same way our parents related to... oh, hell, flower power or something. There is not a great way to describe how generational this book feels, but it does. I would be interested in getting the reaction from an older audience to this book, because so much of it feels like a Gen X inside joke. I think it is a little unbecoming to gush too much over a work like this, since that's obviously the very thing that the author despises, so I'll keep my qualitative comments to this: I couldn't put it down.

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The War in Afghanistan (1979-1989) has been called "the Soviet Union's Vietnam War," a conflict that pitted Soviet regulars against a relentless, elusive, and ultimately unbeatable Afghan guerrilla force (the mujahideen). The hit-and-run bloodletting across the war's decade tallied more than 25,000 dead Soviet soldiers plus a great many more casualties and further demoralized a USSR on the verge of disintegration.

In The Soviet-Afghan War the Russian general staff takes a close critical look at the Soviet military's disappointing performance in that war in an effort to better understand what happened and why and what lessons should be taken from it. Lester Grau and Michael Gress's expert English translation of the general staff's study offers the very first publication in any language of this important and illuminating work.

Surprisingly, this was a study the general staff never intended to write, initially viewing the war in Afghanistan as a dismal aberration in Russian military history. The history of the 1990s has, of course, completely demolished that belief, as evidenced by the Russian Army's subsequent engagements with guerrilla forces in Chechnya, Azerbaijan, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan, and elsewhere. As a result, Russian officers decided to take a much closer look at the Red Army's experiences in the Afghan War.

Their study presents the Russian view of how the war started, how it progressed, and how it ended; shows how a modern mechanized army organized and conducted a counter-guerrilla war; chronicles the major battles and operations; and provides valuable insights into Soviet tactics, strategy, doctrine, and organization across a wide array of military branches. The editors' incisive preface and commentary help contextualize the Russian view and alert the reader to blind spots in the general staff's thinking about the war.

This one-of-a-kind document provides a powerful case study on how yet another modern mechanized army imprudently relied upon the false promise of technology to defeat a determined guerrilla foe. The Red Army had fought their war to a military draw but that was not enough to stave off political defeat at home.

This book is part of the Modern War Studies series.

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I dare you to find an adjective........2006-01-01

Ah, the great literary prose of Nabakov and Dostoyevsky this is not. Keep in mind this is an official Soviet study of the conflict. For those wondering just how colorful an after-action report from the monolithic socialist empire can be, wonder no more.

You get what you pay for, this is the literary equivalent of the cold, soul-killing, concrete block architecture employed by the soviets through Eastern Europe and Afghanistan.

If you can get past all of that, and it is a DIFFICULT read, you will find a level of detail and thoroughness without peer. It is similar to books published by our own government. Lots of numbers, lots of diagrams, and tons of information (20 pages on Ammunition Combat Service Support anyone?). The reader will need a decent level of understanding of military science - because the book does not stop long to explain concepts, and assumes quite a bit of the reader.

In conclusion, it is the type of book you only really begin to enjoy when you have finished it. A worthy undertaking.

Not An Easy Read.......2005-02-05

Definitely a manual/lessons learned for Soviet leaders or those who have to read it for a class, etc... I couldn't get past page 84. The book couldn't keep my attention. I recommend reading "The Other Side of The Mountain." Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War. This book is a testimonial of how the Mujahideen fought and defeated the Soviets. Much more engaging......

Talk about wooden prose!.......2004-03-20

Soviet General Staff studies are generally interesting, but difficult to read. They're intended for Soviet officers, and intend to convey lessons that can be used in future conflicts. I've read a couple that deal with World War II, and if they'd been carved into trees they couldn't have been more wooden. This book suffers from that: lifeless technical prose with no attempt to keep the reader's attention. What the book contains, though, is a wealth of information and knowledge of how the war in Afghanistan was fought, from the weapons and tactics that were used to the method by which Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan received their mail.

This is at times very interesting. There's a great deal about tactics and weaponry, and much about the technical aspects of soldiering, everything from aviation to engineering to supply and construction. Though there's a lot of information in the book, it's not sorted chronologically: there's no central narrative history of events. Instead, there's a brief prologue telling of the beginning of the war, and an even briefer epilogue recounting the Soviet withdrawal. I'm still waiting for a narrative of the war that's reasonably accessible, with detail and a reasonable narrative that I can follow, so that I have a better background into what's going on there now.

A sometimes boring book but VERY informative and useful.......2003-05-30

Let me first start off that this is not a quick easy read. It goes into VERY small detail about practically everything in the Soviet-Afghan War. However, some of the small things that the author goes over gets very boring very quick. When you read this book, it almost feels like a battle manual for the Soviet-Afghan War. However, when you get done reading the book, its probably the closest one person can come to understanding the war without actually being there. The drawings in the book are also very useful to help spell out what the author is saying. All in all, the book does not give an action/adventure story of the war, but when you comprehend it, you will have a firm understanding of what the war was like from an operational point of view

very informative,but very cold.......2002-07-15

This book is a must to read from informational point of view.If you need to find information on tactics, uniforms, weapons,etc-this is the one.But,this not the one,if you want to understand what this war was about.About real soldiers,who actually had to fight in Afghanistan:18-20 years old kids,who was drafted. And without any choice was thrown to a forien contry to play a strange game of survival : the one , who kill first, will win another chance to play this game again...and again.All we wanted was simple- just to go home ... alive.I was lucky to see my home.But many of my friends didn,t.
If you want to reed that kind of story,you need to find another book!

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Who is Bert Corona? Though not readily identified by most Americans, nor indeed by many Mexican Americans, Corona is a man of enormous political commitment whose activism has spanned much of this century. Now his voice can be heard by the wide audience it deserves. In this landmark publication--the first autobiography by a major figure in Chicano history--Bert Corona relates his life story.
Corona was born in El Paso in 1918. Inspired by his parents' participation in the Mexican Revolution, he dedicated his life to fighting economic and social injustice. An early labor organizer among ethnic communities in southern California, Corona has agitated for labor and civil rights since the 1940s. His efforts continue today in campaigns to organize undocumented immigrants.
This book evolved from a three-year oral history project between Bert Corona and historian Mario T. García. The result is a testimonio, a collaborative autobiography in which historical memories are preserved more through oral traditions than through written documents. Corona's story represents a collective memory of the Mexican-American community's struggle against discrimination and racism. His narration and García's analysis together provide a journey into the Mexican-American world.
Bert Corona's reflections offer us an invaluable glimpse at the lifework of a major grass-roots American leader. His story is further enriched by biographical sketches of others whose names have been little recorded during six decades of American labor history.

Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona

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Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona
Mario T. Garcia
Manufacturer: Univ. of Calif. Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NQM4LY

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