Operational Risk: Regulation, Analysis and Management

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Developments in IT and e-commerce, large-scale mergers and acquisitions, andincreased outsourcing all suggest that operational risk exposures are substantialand growing. In recent years, bankers and financial professions have recognizedthe crucial and growing importance of operational risk management, and thefield is currently undergoing a surge of innovation and development. In thisauthoritative, up-to-date book, Operational Risk, leading operational riskmanagement expert Carol Alexander brings together contributions from theworld's leading experts to identify today's best practices for measuring andmanaging operational risks, and assessing them in the broader context of allrisk.

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For two decades the idea of governments and fishers working together to manage fisheries has been advocated, questioned, disparaged and, most importantly, attempted in fisheries from North and South America through Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. This book is the first time these experiences have been pulled together in a single volume, summarized and explained. The Fisheries Co-management Experience begins with a review of the intellectual foundations of the co-management idea from several professional perspectives. Next, fisheries researchers from six global regions describe what has been happening on the ground in their area. Finally, the volume offers a set of reflections by some of the best authors in the field. The end result describes both the state-of-the-art and emerging issues for one of the most important trends in natural resources management.

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This book is a tribute to the life and work of J Q Chen. The contributions of Chen to nuclear and molecular physics are discussed vis-à-vis present developments in these fields. Among other subjects, the present status of microscopic theories of the interacting boson model in nuclear physics and the theory of symmetry adaptation of molecular vibrations in molecular physics are reviewed. The latter theory is particularly useful for large molecular species such as fullerenes, where icosahedral symmetry plays a fundamental role.

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If two aging hippies can stubbornly hang on to the '60s for 30 years, then hanging on to life after dying isn't much of a stretch. Sponsored by rival deities, Tex (Bear) and Molly (Raven) become players--or prompters--in an improvisational drama of survival whose improbable cast is vast and largely unwitting. Grant's multimythic storytelling lends glamour to scruffy coastal Dublin, Maine; he's a relentless observer, but an affectionate reporter, of the foibles and faults of the authentically miscellaneous residents and visitors. His major themes and leitmotifs are here, but the novel overall is less abstract and more playful than some of Grant's previous work.

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Molly's and Tex's abrupt and accidental deaths have granted them a unique opportunity to brazenly reinvent their personal realities-not to mention a chance to commune with various forsaken ancient deities and down-and-out woodland spirits. But a pair of gentle souls once firmly rooted in the Earth cannot so easily vacate this corporeal plane. There are despoilers, witches, wolves, outlaw hackers, and rabid survivalists running wild through the soon-to-be corporately mutated Great North Woods. And Tex and Molly aren't about to vanish forever into the fast-moving eddy of Time until they take one last shot at profoundly influencing Eternity and this Life that is no longer theirs. Like a racous pagan dance in Thomas Pynchon's garden, here is a novel rich in intelligence, wit, unrestrained joy, and serious strangeness -a truly breathtaking flight of the imaginatino-written with style and heart by an award-winning storyteller whom the Washington Post once proclaimed "either a genius or a madman."

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Hats off to Richard Grant.......2002-02-11

A lovely lovely book. Richard Grant has upped the ante on Peter S. Beagle's talking raven and dead folk from "A Fine and Private Place" like a writer on a dare and morphed and mutated and created a book so original and wild and funny that it bears re-reading and re-reading. This book impressed the hell out of me. And besides, Tex and Molly listen to some of my fave 60s tunes.

Something different for a change.......2000-04-15

This is a great book if you're looking for something out of the ordinary. It's a great story about some nature lovers and friends fighting to save their local forest, but it has many interesting twists. Great pagan-celebrating, tree-hugging, funny, full of surprises, and afterlife-stuff read.

The Product of a Mad (in the best possible way) Genius.......1999-10-29

Tex & Molly is simply one of the best books I've read in ages. My boredom with what usually passes for fiction crumbled before the majesty of Richard Grant's zany genius. I am all admiration for how he can draw characters so well, sharply observing their foibles, and yet still loving them all so tenderly. Dickens also was such a writer.

Missing something.......1999-06-12

Is it me or is it the book? I just found it to be a boar [s.i.c]. The writing was certainly clever but alas, I only made it to p. 94. Stop. Move on.

Fabulous!.......1999-05-08

This book made me laugh so hard that I fell off my chair in a waiting room and recieved accusing glances from suspicious neighbors (nothing unusual really) I am looking forward with great anticipation to his next novel!

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Tex and Molly in the Afterlife
Richard Grant
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Millions of American soldiers, many of whom had never left their hometowns before, crossed the nation by rail during the years of World War II on their way to training camps and distant theaters of battle. In a little town in Nebraska, countless thousands of them met with extraordinary hospitality--the "miracle" of veteran journalist Bob Greene's title. "The best America there ever was. Or at least, whatever might be left of it." So Greene writes of North Platte, now a quiet town along the interstate, its main street all but dead. It was a quiet town then, too, at the outbreak of the war, but still a hive of activity as its citizens gathered to provide, at their own expense, coffee, sandwiches, books, playing cards, and time to the scared young men who rolled through by the trainload, "telling them that their country cared about them." Greene's pages are full of the voices of those who were there, soldiers and townspeople alike, who took part in what amounted to small acts of heroism, given the shortages and rationing of the time. Greene, generous in his praise if rather disheartened by the modern world, against which he contrasts the past, turns in a remarkable account of the home front. It deserves the widest audience. ---Gregory McNamee

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The author of the New York Times bestseller Duty shows how a small town in Nebraska gave meaning, joy, and hope to every train of World War Two soldiers passing through their town. The town came to symbolise the patriotism of the American people during World War Two.

North Platte, Nebraska, is alone on the plains in the middle of the country. But before the air age, the Union Pacific Railroad's main line ran right through town. When World War Two began, the trains transported young soldiers across the continent to both coasts on their way to battle. Then a local resident had an idea: why not meet the trains coming through, offer the servicemen and servicewomen some warmth and support? On Christmas Day, 1941, the first train rolled in and the surprised soldiers on board were greeted with welcoming words and baskets of treats.

What happened in the years that followed was a miracle. The railroad depot was transformed into the North Platte Canteen. Every day of the year, every day of the war, the Canteen was open from 5 a.m. until the last troop train pulled away after midnight, staffed and funded entirely by private volunteers, to serve thousands of military personnel daily.

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nostalgic look at the past.......2007-01-06

This was a book I read for my book club. I liked the story yet I felt it became repetitive. I think I would like to see more pictures and a few less stories. I found myself wishing the book would end and kept going back to the photos.

Love the story, despise the writing and the writer.......2006-11-09

Six million boiled eggs, more or less.
Fried chicken, sandwiches, cookies, milk, birthday cakes, chewing gum, candy, matches for six million.
North Platte, a small town in western Nebraska, was a water stop for steam locomotives. From a few days after Pearl Harbor until 1946, the people of North Platte and the surrounding farm and ranch country of Nebraska and eastern Colorado met every troop train that came through town.
Dozens, sometimes, in a single day, at any hour. During the 10-minute stops, the ladies of the area handed out food and smiles.
No other place did that. When Bob Greene tracked down some of the men who were met at the North Platte Canteen, most of them started crying. It was, they said, the nicest thing that happened to them during the war.
You can take it as heartwarming or as a slap at the rest of the country, much of which was indifferent or hostile to men in uniform in those days. In places like Norfolk, Va., there were signs on stores that said: No sailors or dogs allowed. Either way, it's a remarkable story.
It started with Rae Wilson, then 26, whose brother was in the Nebraska National Guard. She thought, mistakenly, that her brother was coming through town on a troop train and wrote a letter to the North Platte Daily Bulletin suggesting a canteen to greet the local boys.
Somehow, the community recognized that all the soldiers and sailors passing through were their boys, and they spontaneously formed the canteen.
Greene takes the story as purely heartwarming. The mothers, some of whose sons had been killed in combat, coming down day after day, the young girls excited to meet the handsome boys even if only for minutes.
It was a women's outfit. Men participated, but only in the background.
The story never got the attention it deserved, and Greene was barely in time to salvage it. The heroism of the people was worthy of a better messenger.
Greene's attempt to explain why this happened in North Platte and not anywhere else is superficial.
To him, it was a remarkable effort from a town of 12,000 people who had been through the Great Depression. But in fact western Nebraska's economy had collapsed in 1922. Most of the banks had failed even before the stock market crashed in 1929.
The rest of Greene's ruminations are equally ill-informed, trivial or both.
The writing is as inept as we have come to expect from Greene, a long-time Chicago Tribune columnist until he was forced to resign in disgrace for a serious violation of ethics. The book does not appear to have been edited or even proofread.
The story is wonderful, though, and worth reading anyhow.

Oey! A great story but NOT a good storyteller........2005-11-17

I agree that the story of the North Platte canteen and all the people supporting it for all those years is wonderful, incredible, definitely a story needing telling.

However, I only give the book 2 stars b/c the author repeats himself what feels like hundreds of times. I forced myself to listen to the entire book b/c I had a lot of hours in car. But the gist of the story can be completely conveyed in 1 cassette. Sure, we would have lost the personal vingettes, but mostly we would have lost hearing the same words repeated again and again and again and again. The author may be a journalist, but definitely it felt like one who likes to hear himself talk.

Plus, transitions between sections, sometimes even sentences, was terrible. So many times, there wasn't even a pause or a breath before a major turn was taking place in the story direction, making it difficult to listen to.

I'm grateful to know of the North Platte canteen and what the people did. But, this was a laborious way to hear the story.

Feel good book about the greatest generation . . ........2005-07-14

It was a monumental act of generosity that kept the North Platte Canteen in operation from 1941 to 1945, offering food, drink, and gratitude to the multitude of troop trains carrying young servicemen through Nebraska during WWII. Greene's book is a tribute to those who made it possible - a scrapbook of memories recalled by men and women who are now in their 70s, 80s and older.

Through scores of interviews, he is able to capture again the excitement, the emotions, and the utter innocence of that place and time. Just 10-20 minutes - as men burst from the trains, were welcomed with home cooking and smiles, and then dashed back onboard again - are remembered 60 years later by men who have never forgotten and often dissolve into tears as they try to explain what it meant to them, no more than boys then, far from home and family.

The book is written in a breezy Sunday supplement style, and social historians may desire a bit more objectivity. Oddly, Greene never explains how he located all the former servicemen he interviewed. And finally, it's not all feel good. Greene notes how time has changed North Platte, symbolized in the deserted downtown and the absent train depot, torn down long ago. "Dust in the wind," he muses sadly at the end. But like an old photograph, there is his book to preserve the memory that "once upon a town" it all really did happen.

The Good Old, Bad Old Days.......2005-06-24

Good, because of everyone being so generous. Bad, because it was the beginning of World War II and so many Americans, particularly in the midwest, had suffered enough in the first world war that they bitterly opposed US entry into the War until the day that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and isolationism became a thing of the past. Still that change from opposition to the war to a full-scale call for vengeance must have been a bewildering one for the little people of the midwest, and they showed it in the incidents that led to establishing the North Platte Canteen.

Bob Greene has always had a soft spot for the little person, and he has two sets of them here--the GI boys who passed through North Platte on their way to God knows where, some of them never to return to our shores. The kindness done to these boys at the station might have been the last friendly voices they heard before death. And on the other side, a gallant band of townspeople and farmers--traditional enemies--put aside their differences and started carving up pheasant to make sandwiches the likes of which most of these soldiers never tasted before. Greene underplays the generosity of these Nebraskans, for my grandmother, who lived in the town during the war, always maintained that the food and coffee wasn't just for soldiers, but for anyone who they felt like giving it out to. She was present at the station when one cup of coffee, given to a pregnant lady passing through Nebraska, triggered her labor there on the north side of the station, and she gave birth to a baby an hour afterwards. The sad thing, grandma said, is that the baby was born without a father, for he had died in the Leyte Gulf and the mother was travelling to go live with his folks in Denver.

Those were the good old, bad old days all right, and Greene's book, while repetitious, is nevertheless valuable. A few more years and most of the first person participants of the "Miracle of the Pheasants" will be stilled forever. Too bad the publisher didn't run to printing some photographs of the boys who ate and the girls who made the popcorn. Maybe there could be a special edition, as with SEABISCUIT, with an accompanying DVD.

Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen

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Bob Greene
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Once Upon a Town The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen
Bob Greene
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At the turn of the sixteenth century, princes and navigators presided over a geographical revolution that fundamentally altered the way people viewed the world. Focusing on the great traveller and map maker, André Thevet, Lestringant examines the audacity of the cosmographer, who rivaled God in the creation of new worlds. Accused of blasphemy and mocked for his encyclopedic aims, Thevet is a wonderful example of how knowledge was transformed during the decline of the Renaissance.
Lestringant describes Thevet's mapping of a Brazil of Amazons, cannibals, and kings. He describes how French colonialists' experience with the Tupinamba Indians gave rise to the myth of the noble savage. He discusses the European acceptance of the image of the naked cannibal at a time of religious and social crisis. Mapping the Renaissance World is a brilliant account of the part played by the French in the conquest of the New World.

Mapping the Renaissance World : The Geographical Imagination in the Age of Discovery (The New Historicism Ser.: Studies in Cultural Poetics)

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Mapping the Renaissance World : The Geographical Imagination in the Age of Discovery (The New Historicism Ser.: Studies in Cultural Poetics)
Frank Lestringant
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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This book presents statistical concepts and techniques in simple, everyday language. It provides short, simple descriptions and explanations of a number of statistics or concepts. Part 1 provides a brief description of the statistic, including how it is used and what information it provides. Part 2 reviews how it works, how to calculate the formula, the strengths and weaknesses of the technique, and the conditions needed for its use. Part 3 concludes with an example that uses and interprets the statistic. A glossary of terms and symbols is also included.

This brief paperback is an ideal supplement for statistics, research methods, or any course that uses statistics, or as a handy reference tool to refresh one's memory about key concepts. The actual research examples are from a variety of fields, including psychology and education.

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Best statistics book I've read .......2005-11-09

What an easy book to read! It explains important statistical concepts clearly enough for anyone to grasp. A must read for any struggling statistic student or even students who want a better understanding of the material.

Good Stuff.......2002-07-04

Dr. Urdan was a professor of mine, and he always made Stats very, very easy to understand. Good teacher, good book. Definitely worth buying.

An excellent aid for the statistically-anxious student.......2002-04-01

This book is for all students who suffer any sort of statistics-anxiety and yet must take a statistics course in high school or college. Of course, it would also be of value for anyone simply interested in statistics. As college students well know, most statistics texts are typically impossible to make sense of. This book explains quite complex concepts and analyses in ways that professors are often unable to do. The examples are clean and crisp. Difficult material is brought down to earth with prose that is both user-friendly and often humorous. Well worth purchasing.

Data Analysis In Plain English with Microsoft Excel

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Data Analysis In Plain English with Microsoft Excel
Harvey J. Brightman
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Harvey Brightman's accessible, easy-to-understand new book focuses on helping readers learn essential statistical concepts and data analysis. In an intuitive and non-mathematical writing style, Brightman uses actual business applications and covers practical insights in business problem solving using Microsoft Excel as the primary computational tool. His clear, to-the-point presentation gives students a 'map' for learning what data analysis techniques to use and when to use them. Brightman presents descriptive and inferential methods in sequential chapters, and introduces probability only as needed and then only on a very limited basis.

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Pass On This One.......2002-05-22

This book is mostly a waste of money unless you are taking a class requiring this as a textbook. Why? Because it is written like a textbook! Every chapter ends with pages of great questions that remain unanswered because the only place to get the answer is a special order instructor's version. I am not taking a class. I foolishly expected it to be a complete teaching tool and business reference. There isn't even a disc included --a requirement for a book this expensive.

For an understanding of Excel's data analysis features, skip this book. Instead, check out "Data Analysis With Microsoft Excel" a much better book with a great disc and a fantastic macro included. Some of the information in this book is useful but for the money look for a more comprehensive book.

It really helps.......2000-06-09

I thought that statistics would be very hard for me because of all the things students have been saying for this class. I was so scared of taking it and failing, but after looking through the book and reading it when i didn't get something, it really helped me a lot. So far I have passed all my tests and it was all because of the book being good enough for me to understand.

Statistics In Plain English (Qm - Quantitative Methods)

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Best of the primers on statistics
statistics for dummies

Statistics In Plain English (Qm - Quantitative Methods)
Harvey J. Brightman
Manufacturer: THOMSON LEARNING
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Designed for self-instruction, this text is intended for students to use on their own while simultaneously taking a statistics course using a standard textbook. Then on mathematical approach maximizes the use of verbal and visual languages. The text covers such topics as Bayes' Theorem and statistical independence, probability distributions, confidence intervals, and analysis of variance.

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Best of the primers on statistics.......2003-02-18

Ok, I've tried to get through several statistics books: statistics without tears, statistics for the utterly confused, etc. etc. and this is the BEST beginner's book on statistics I have found (though it has the least attractive cover!). I did the exercises and didn't read ahead for answers, and really learned each lesson. Of all the books on statistics for beginners, this is the only one where I believe the author sincerely wants the reader to LEARN and not just get the $ for the book. Some of the books are simple at first and then jump to be more complicated too early. Not this one. Mr. Brightman really makes an effort to explain everything as simply as possible.

statistics for dummies.......2000-06-12

before reading this book I KNEW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT STATISTICS .In a friendly way this book has met me with statistics .i never entered statistics courses at school.but i passed because this book is excellent for learning alone.I am writing this review because i thought Harvey Brightman is the best statistics teacher i have ever met.And I feel thankful to him. can alaybeyoglu ankara university Turkey

Statistics in plain English: With computer applications

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Statistics without talking down

Statistics in plain English: With computer applications
Robert S Schulman
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Statistics without talking down.......2000-12-12

I have just begun as a consulting statistician, and have found this book invaluable both as a review, and as an aid for explanations for the people that I help. The book goes beyound the bare basics, with very useful discussions of statistical package use.

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