Accessing Capital Markets Through Securitization (Frank J. Fabozzi Series)

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This innovative collection, written by securitization professionals and edited by finance guru Frank Fabozzi, thoroughly explains the basics and the mechanics of securitization and shows how securitization can help more institutions offer innovative fixed-income products.

Further, it discusses the effects of the capital markets on securitization and helps financial professionals decide whether or not to securitize. Filled with strategies and techniques, financial professionals will learn how to use float asset-backed offerings and how to hedge against risk and default.

Contemporary Business Law and the Legal Environment: Principles and Cases
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solid, comprehensive & comrehensible

Contemporary Business Law and the Legal Environment: Principles and Cases
James M. Highsmith , and Michael J. Garrison
Manufacturer: Richard D Irwin
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ASIN: 0070519145

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solid, comprehensive & comrehensible.......2000-09-05

I've used the book for several years in my Business Law I & II classes. I've found its excerpts from judicial opinions pretty useful. The coverage of topics is quite compehensive, and the authors do a good job of describing the legal principles accurately while still remaining comprehensible.

Contemporary Business Law & Legal Environment Principles & Cases 5th

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Contemporary Business Law & Legal Environment Principles & Cases 5th
J. David Reitzel
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OG13N8

Agricultural Engineering in Development: Post-Harvest Operations & Management of Foodgrains (Fao Agricultural Services Bulletin,)
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Agricultural Engineering in Development: Post-Harvest Operations & Management of Foodgrains (Fao Agricultural Services Bulletin,)
M. De Lucia
Manufacturer: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FA
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ASIN: 9251031088

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This book concentrates on the techniques and practicalities of data collection from the estuarine environment. It is intended that the information presented will increase the reader’s understanding of estuarine processes thus enabling him to devise sensible sampling programmes and to interpret the results once obtained. Techniques discussed include trace element and organic matter analysis, use of ion-selective electrodes, and measurement of salinity, dissolved oxygen and nutrients.

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The present work represents a unique undertaking in scientific publishing to honor Nick Metropolis, who passed away in October, 1999. Nick was the last survivor of the Manhattan Project that began during World War II in Los Alamos and later became the Los Alamos National Laboratory. In this volume, some of the leading scientists and humanists of our time have contributed essays related to their respective disciplines exploring various aspects of future developments in science, technology, and society. Speculations on the future developments of science and society, philosophy, national security, nuclear power, pure and applied mathematics, physics and biology, particle physics, computing, information science, among many others, are included. Contributors include: H. Agnew * R. Ashenhurst * K. Baclawski * G. Baker * N. Balazs * J.A. Freed * R. Hamming * M. Hawrylycz * O. Judd * D. Kleitman * M. Krieger * N. Krikorian * P. Lax * J.D. Louck * T. Puck * M. Raju * R. Richtmyer * J. Schwartz * R. Sokolowski * E. Teller * M. Waterman

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When the Internet—and the collective memory of the 21st century— crashes, the past is reassembled from the downloaded memories of Ginger, wife of ex-President Wilson. The transcripts take the reader on an intellectually breathtaking tour. In Mamet's baroque, fragmented world, nothing is certain except the certainty of academics. In playing with the ideas of perception, understanding, and accuracy, he dares to doubt them all. When truth is quicksand, the gag becomes a lifeline of stoic nobility.

After the Cola riots, the fire at the Stop n' Shop, and the death of my kitten, what remains? Can any sense be made of the texts found in the capsule or stuffed in the airlock? Does the Joke Code still operate? Has anyone seen my copy of Bongazine? Who were the members of the Bootsie club? Does the Toll Hound dance? What was the meaning of the message written in Mrs. Wilson's urine? Can Jane of Trent unlock this paranoia? What were Chet and Donna doing in the boathouse? And just who does Ginger think she is?

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HATS OFF GENTLEMEN!* DAVID MAMET IS A GENIUS!.......2006-01-26

The case can be made for this amazing(1) book with three little words: Huzzah for WILSON! Imagine you have been commissioned by the Misanthropological Society of Mars in the year 2006(2) to dissertate about life on the bugbog(3) planet, but find that all life and vestige of civilization have been wiped out by something or another, and that all that remains are some pages of an annoying book called "Misanthropology" (op. cit.). Get the idea? WILSON is not about that at all, but it is an amazingly amusing book; witty, philosophical, likened unto Nabokov's "Pale Fire" (q.v.) because of the footnotes, or unto Mendoza's "Sin Noticias de Gurb" (q.v.) which has no footnotes, but is in Spanish.(4)

(1) Or amusing, as the case may be.(a)
(2) A Martian day is 40 minutes longer than an earth day, and we can presume(b) that earth and Mars have a common 1 A.D. origin. With this info, can you calculate the length of a Martian year?(c)
(3) The planet earth is so described in "Misanthropology: A Florilegium of Bahumbuggery" (q.v.), wherein is posed an unnerving riddle-me-ree, to wit: What do you get if you cross a buzzbug with a diet colt?(d)
(4) Ja ja

(a) Or maybe not
(b) An unwarranted presumption? Who cares? (Dr. Livingstone, I presume)
(c) Based on the information given: no way, Jose[1]
(d) Answer: Buzz Liteyear, or a bugling. (Don't get it? Derive the middle term)[2]

[1] Ha ha. To research Martian years, try Google.
[2] Don't read further unless you give up on the middle term, which follows: A diet colt is a lite yearling. (N'est-ce pas? Now go back and get it.)

* In some versions, AND GENTLELADIES! (too wordy). Trout suggests GENTLEPEOPLE! (doesn't resonate). I say, let it STET.

Twisted meta-history.......2004-12-28

If you locked Vladimir Nabokov's "Pale Fire" and Mark Z. Danielewski's "House of Leaves" in a dark room together, the resulting love child might resemble David Mamet's "Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources." This quirky, twisted "novel" takes a look at literature, pop culture, and... oh, come on, no one can tell.

Imagine a future where the literary history of the world has been put on the computer, and then the entire Internet has crashed. Culture and history as we know it have vanished. So now only a few fragments remain, and must be pieced back together with painstaking (and sometimes insane) skill. Not to mention a lot of (pitiful) academic bickering.

The result is an intricate study of the Bootsie Club, the haunted stories of Binky Beaumont, the mysterious death of Woodrow Wilson's wife, Lola Montez, soap, the Cola Riots, analyzation of the peculiar diary entries ("Dear Diary, I am surprised that I am surprised anymore"), fragments of novels, and interestingly weird poetry.

It's almost impossible to fully describe "Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources," especially since it is only a novel in the sense that everything in it is fictional. Don't expect a linear storyline, or a story in one chunk. That's too normal, too ordinary, and too little fun. So Pulitzer-winning playwright/screenwriter/novelist Mamet takes a different route.

It has no beginning. It has no real end. It can be read backwards, forwards, or from the middle outward. It's constantly self-referencing. It's a giant mass of snippets, anecdotes, and analyses. And while at first it seems like a dense, nonsensical mass of fictional bits, eventually the brain adjusts to it.

Mamet spoofs the pompous tone that academics use -- there are studies of nursery rhymes in here! The smallest and most ridiculous bits of literature and history are studied, such as the Joke Code, a philosophical look at humor. In a possible homage to Nabokov, he also peppers the whole thing with footnotes.

Every time the text seems to be getting too serious, Mamet throws in a footnote that proclaims "Why? Because it makes a pretty picture" or proclaiming, "Yah yah yah yah. I'm rubber and you're glue." And don't forget his poetry: "The ponderous burdens of the few/to license, nay, inaugurate the new/peregrinations of the Wandering Jew..."

Postmodernist comedy is at the heart of Mamet's twisted meta-history. "Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources" is hard to get into, but becomes weirdly funny when you "get it."

Is This A Book or Is It A Con?.......2002-01-08

The writing of David Mamet can be simple, much like a open jaw- steel bear trap lying exposed, at your feet. Or this open jaw- steel bear trap can really be a ravenous black hole in the center of your literary universe, a hungry black hole waiting to devour you, if you are dumb enough to go spelunking into it's center, the vortex. While reading "Wilson" ask yourself the following questions:
1)Is this a book or is it a con?
2)Is "Wilson" a series of unpublished chapters from previous works by the author?
3)Or, is "Wilson" really a surrealistic landscape onto itself much like "The Interzone" of William S.Burroughs?
Do not read "Wilson" in chronological order!
Very rarely does an author such as David Mamet compose a snub- nose revolver like "Wilson" in which the printed words within begin to tell us everything about the author's style, but always end by telling us almost nothing about the writer's style. Good!
David Mamet has informed and confounded us again.

A real fan of Glengarry Glen Ross.......2001-10-19

Marvelous. Very twisted, slowly captures you in a world that reminds you of those insidious thoughts that you had trapped in a bad history class...and the plot only comes into view in the corner of your eye, but when you try to focus on it...

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Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources
David Mamet
Manufacturer: OVERLOOK PRESS
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Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources
David Mamet
Manufacturer: Faber
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ASIN: B000GR7ZG4

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Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources
David Mamet
Manufacturer: OVERLOOK PRESS
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ASIN: B000OKSAAS

Wilson: a Consideration of the Sources Containing the Original Notes, Errata, Commentary, and the Predace to the Second Edition

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Wilson: a Consideration of the Sources Containing the Original Notes, Errata, Commentary, and the Predace to the Second Edition
David Mamet
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Bear Went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan
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The definitive study of the Soviet-Afghan war

The Bear Went over the Mountain

Tactically good but not so exciting

Tactically good but not so exciting

Horrid!!!

Bear Went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan

Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
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ASIN: 0788146653

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To capture the lessons their tactical leaders learned in Afghanistan & to explain the change in tactics that followed, the Frunze Military Academy in Russia compiled this book for their command & general staff combat arms officers. The lessons are valuable not just for Russian officers, but for the tactical training of platoon, company & battalion leaders of any nation likely to engage in conflicts involving civil war, guerrilla forces & rough terrain. This is a book dealing with the starkest features of the unforgiving landscape of tactical combat: casualties & death, adaptation, & survival. Provides an intimate look at the boring but brutal business of counterinsurgency. Maps.

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The definitive study of the Soviet-Afghan war.......2006-12-25

This is, by far, the most thorough treatment in english on the Soviet-Afghan war. The Soviet attempts at a heavy-handed approach to counter-insurgency only backfires in the end. A lesson few seem to understand. This brilliant work describes how the Afghan guerrilla tactics evolved with each new Soviet attempt to thwart them. The brutality on both sides is beyond comprehension and reminds us how evil is war.

The Bear Went over the Mountain.......2004-07-15

Tactically good but not so exciting.......2003-07-13

Being in afghanistan I ordered a few books to learn where I was and this one was a great tacitcal book, I could overlfy some places this book talked about and point out areas well but as for the average reader, its black adn white, no cool photos and no real exciting stories. Its more of a pure military history of battle book.

Tactically good but not so exciting.......2003-07-13

Horrid!!!.......2002-08-24

This is not a slight on Mr Grau who I believe was only the translator of this Soviet era text; however, do not expect to learn much from this book.

The translation is excellent, this book reads as if it was written in English. Unfortunately this is the only good thing I can say about this work.

The idea that the original collection of these vignettes was done at the Frunze academy, the equivalent of one of the US Military's war colleges, goes far in helping to explain the pathetic performance of the Soviet military in Afganistan, Chechnya, and their other post WWII encounters. The vignettes are poorly written, only include one point of view, and lack almost every aspect of detail that would normally be required in this sort of work. Yet, based on a vague outline consisting of at most 150 words that describe a three day offensive action the original authors at the Frunze academy would make sweeping "lessons learned" comments on the importance of intelligence, or the coorindation of fire and maneuver. Of course, beyond making these couple of statements, nothing of practical value in the area of tactics, techniques or procedures are provided to the reader.

The quality of these after action reviews are poor and they offer very little to learn from. For a comparison I would urge any reader to contact the US Army's Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth. The history department at the CGSC has produced numerous texts of the same type, but the quality is incomparably better.

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Bear Went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan
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Lester W. Grau
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The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan.
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The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan.
Lester W. Grau
Manufacturer: National Defence University Press
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A scholarly but poetic history of earliest man.......2005-11-17

Timewalkers examines the various theories of how humanity spread across the world. For such a work of scholarship, Gamble keeps things interesting with his quirky and nearly-poetic writing style. A vast amount of detail is processed, but never feels overwhelming. The earliest history of mankind is not an easy subject; there are many bits of evidence that don't always fit neatly together. Competing theories of how those bits might fit are examined, sometimes the results are conclusive, sometimes not, but the overall picture of prehistory is filled out. As a side note, for those with some doubts about evolution, this book will quell them. Many different aspects of Homo sapiens evolution are examined thoroughly, and the process is much clearer than when Darwin first developed the theory.

Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization

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Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization
Clive Gamble
Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing Ltd
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Timewalkers: the Prehistory of Global Colonization
Clive Gamble
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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ASIN: B000JVGOUU

Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization.: An article from: American Antiquity

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Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization.: An article from: American Antiquity
Kathy D. Schick
Manufacturer: Society for American Archaeology
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from American Antiquity, published by Society for American Archaeology on October 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1066 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: Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization.
Author: Kathy D. Schick
Publication: American Antiquity (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 1996
Publisher: Society for American Archaeology
Volume: v61 Issue: n4 Page: p798(2)

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Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization.: An article from: American Scientist

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Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization.: An article from: American Scientist

Manufacturer: Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
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Inner Contradictions of Rigorous Research (Organizational and occupational psychology)
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Inner Contradictions of Rigorous Research (Organizational and occupational psychology)
Chris Argyris
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ASIN: 0120601508

Inner Contradictions of Rigorous Research (Organizational and occupational psychology)
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Inner Contradictions of Rigorous Research (Organizational and occupational psychology)
Chris Argyris
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