The Mathematics of Finance: Modeling and Hedging (The Brooks/Cole Series in Advanced Mathematics)

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The Mathematics of Finance: Modeling and Hedging explains the process of computing derivative prices in terms of underlying equity prices, while at the same time provides readers with the mathematical tools and techniques to carry out that process. The authors help readers understand the process, develop insights into how derivatives are used, and comprehend the risk associated with creating or trading these assets. These insights into derivative trading provide extra knowledge of how modern equity markets work.

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The book's unique perspective serves to address both theory and practice, making it an essential volume for various professionals and practitioners.
-Professional managers and buyers: The newly appointed manager from another business function will find this is the only management book that completely covers the disciplines of purchasing and supply management.
-Practitioners: Use this book as a buyer's handbook, a reference and "how to" manual with easy access to a myriad of contemporary supply management topics.-Consultants and information technology experts: Gain greater insight into the processes and techniques used in the field by reviewing the "nuts and bolts" approach to the fundamental supply management processes in a global context.
-Students of purchasing and supply management or marketing: Find practical material for learning the tasks of global purchasing in the real world.

The vision presented by the authors contains management philosophy, ideas, and opinions in an attempt to create a progressive, contemporary purchasing and supply management posture. The three authors have an outstanding combination of teaching, consulting, and well over 100 years of collective on-the-job experience.

Global Purchasing and Supply Management: Fulfill the Vision, Second Edition will prove to be the most advanced, technically detailed, management book about purchasing and supply management written to date.

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Beneath the Surface is the first book to be published on the caves of the whole of Australia. Written for a general audience, it is scientifically accurate and up-to-date. The book's contributors include some of Australia's leading scientists--all of them active cavers.

Beneath the Surface comprehensively reviews what is presently known about Australia's caves, including the varieties of cave types and how they form, cave fauna (both vertebrates and invertebrates), fossils, Aboriginal relics and decorations in caves, and a history of cave exploration in Australia.

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Caves of Adventure: A Personal Account of Danger, Death and Discovery Far Beneath The Surface of The Earth
Haroun Tazieff
Manufacturer: Harper & Brothers, 1953
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CAVES OF ADVENTURE: AN ACCOUNT BY AN EXPLORER-SCIENETIST OF DANGER, DISCOVERY AND DEATH BENEATH THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH.

Manufacturer: Hamish Hamilton
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Very disappointing and not recommended

Craters, Caverns and Canyons: Delving Beneath the Earth's Surface (The Changing Earth Series)
Jon Erickson
Manufacturer: Facts on File
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Very disappointing and not recommended.......2003-01-15

Being a geology maven, I am loathe to pan a book on my favorite subject, but it must be done here. This book is very amateurish, displays no sign of proofreading, and is horrendously inaccurate on any of a number of fronts. The writer has utterly no idea of how to prepare a geographically accurate map of large-scale features, frequently misspells ordinary place names, makes great misstatements of fact, particularly in the area of lists of features, such as the names and diameters of meteoritic impact structures, and glosses over or ignores numerous fundamental geologic rules and precepts.

Up to now, I have had a tremendous regard for Facts on File as a publisher of books about the natural world, but the Erickson series is one that has slipped through the cracks of their quality control system, and this is one of the worst. Don't buy this book, or take it out from your library, unless you want to be greatly misinformed and an ignoramus about geology and geological features.

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Craters, Caverns & Canyons - Delving Beneath the Earth's Surface (The Changing Earth Series)
Jon Erickson
Manufacturer: New York: Facts On File Publications, 1993
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ASIN: B000LVFVP2

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This outstanding approach to Continuum Mechanics follows the traditional lectures held at the Ecole Polytechnique. Its highly mathematical level of teaching, together with abstracts, summaries, boxes of essential formulas and numerous exercises with solutions, make the Handbook of Continuum Mechanics the most complete book in this area. Students, lecturers, and practitioners alike will find it a rich source for their studies or daily work. A fold-out glossary and a short reader as a booklet are included.

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great textbook and handbook.......2005-11-26

You can start learning the subject from the book as well as using it as a handbook for reference.
The illustrations are very good, some photographs are spectacular. Concepts are given in modern tensor calculus notation.

Handbook of Continuum Mechanics : General Concepts - Thermoelasticity

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Handbook of Continuum Mechanics : General Concepts - Thermoelasticity
S. Lyle Jean Salencon
Manufacturer: NY
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"I am making haste to pass on the contents to 25. 13. 8. 9. 38. . . . who has ordered me to open communications with you." So reads a French dispatch captured by the British in the Peninsular Campaign against Napoleon's armies, causing the Duke of Wellington to comment, "The devil is in the French for numbers"--and occasioning Mark Urban's intriguing study of code making and code breaking.

The early 19th-century British army was hidebound by tradition, writes Urban; elegant and well-placed gentlemen gained command, while more deserving but lower-born men languished in the ranks. Against that army, in Spain and Portugal, stood Napoleon's forces, "the mightiest armament since the legions of ancient Rome." Thanks to one common-born officer, George Scovell, a linguistic genius and adept solver of puzzles, Wellington's forces avoided disaster by learning of the superior enemy's plans--though, after the war, Wellington dismissed Scovell's contributions and took credit for himself and his favorite staff officers. A fine chapter in the history of intelligence and cryptography, Urban's book provides a fascinating aside to the well-documented Napoleonic Wars. --Gregory McNamee

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Spanning the battle of Corunna in 1809 to the 1815 victory at Waterloo, this is the dramatic true-life tale of an unsung hero in Wellington's army.

Common-born George Scovell -- an engraver's apprentice -- joins the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars and becomes a commissioned officer. As Bonaparte's juggernaut marches across Europe, Scovell soon proves himself a linguistic genius and begins to crack the basic codes used in French dispatches, giving General Wellington advance knowledge of French plans. But as the enemy changes from simple ciphers to baffling "next to impossible" encoded messages, Scovell finds himself racing against time to break the legendary "Great Paris Cipher" and save the British Army.

The thrill of clashing armies, challenging puzzles, and the personal struggle of a long-forgotten hero make The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes a gripping -- and brain-teasing -- adventure.

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Good History - Little Cryptography.......2006-06-17

An excellent historical survey of the era and astonishing depth of detail on the main protagonist, his life and times, but... regretfully, the cryptographic information in the book is scanty. One wishes for more detail in how he broke those codes.

You will note a large number of used copies of this book for sale cheaply which seems to confirm my opinion. What we have here is an excellent history book in which the publisher cleverly spiked the title to make it appear to be more - it is not.

Phenomenal.......2005-10-13

Urban's history is at once a sound history and a suspenseful, compelling read. The author documents the achievements of George Scovell, one-time apprentice to an engraver, who rose through the ranks of Wellington's Army to be responsible -- no-less than more famous actors -- for the British victory over Napoleon. While the history examines Scovell's masterful feat of ingenuity, it also narrates the events and context of military engagements throughout the campaign.

This underappreciated gem gets an enthusiastic five stars.

Solid, sound history, but the thesis is a bit thin.......2005-04-25

Welcome account of an interesting period of history I was ignorant of: the Peninsular War of the British/Spanish against the puppet Napoleonic regime in Spain, 1809 - 1813. The premise -- that an obscure staff officer to Lord Wellington, by deciphering Le Grand Chiffre, turned the tide of military history -- is a bit thin, but a competent platform for a well-told, well-researched account. Interesting theme of the social /political conflicts within the British military bureaucracy between aristocratic hegemony vs. the rise of meritocratic military colleges. The accounts of the battles are lucid and compelling, and make the point, understatedly but clearly, that war is hell. The writer is a British commentator with combat experience.

The importance of intelligence in the Peninsular War.......2005-01-17

Mark Urban's entry point into a crowded field of histories of the Napoleonic Wars is the story of George Scovell, the Duke of Wellington's cryptographer. In "The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes", Urban places Scovell's personal story in the context primarily of the Peninsular War. Urban manages to reduce the fairly esoteric work of code-breaking to understandable prose, in the process providing excellent insights into the workings of Wellington's staff and into the Duke's command style. The availability of intelligence is shown to be crucial to the survival and success of the outnumbered Anglo-Portuguese Army in the Iberian Peninsula. Wellington's success in attacking the separate pieces of the French Army in Spain while avoiding larger concentrations was based on his understanding of their movements and intentions, derived from the reconnaissance of British officers and Spanish guerrillas, and especially from the deciphering of captured French dispatches. Urban is evenhanded in his treatment of the principal characters. Scovill himself emerges as a sympathetic character, a hardworking staff officer of lower class social origins trying to make his way in an Army hierarchy informally based on social position. This book is highly recommended for the serious student of the Napoleonic Wars looking for insight into intelligence matters. Remarkably, this book will also be accessible to the casual reader, thanks to Urban's clear and engaging writing style.

Really good read.......2005-01-08

One Amazon reviewer referred to this book as a novel. It's not, but I understand that lapse. The book is very well-written and tells a story that, were it not true, might be thought unbelievable.

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Satisfying blend of Peninsular War/waterloo history and code breaking

The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes
Mark Urban
Manufacturer: Faber and Faber
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Satisfying blend of Peninsular War/waterloo history and code breaking.......2005-09-06

New insight into the Peninsular war with Mark Urban's book. This is very much about the code breaking and spying which was part of the intelligence gathering of Wellington's army and how it became an 'industry' in itself.

This is all pre-Playfair and his more complex codes which started about a decade later (Simon Singh;s book "The Code book" is an excellent parallel read to this) and so the simpler codes, what they were and how they were broken are covered = and how it developed and with it the role of one man, George Scovell.

I found this readable, but not a page turner, my interest in the Peninsular war kept me going. I felt that Urban got bogged down, especially at the beginning with setting the scene of the Peninsular War and its earlier battles. I didn't find the level of detail relevant to the story although for those not clear on the Peninsular war and its progress the detail might prove more interesting.

What I really enjoyed was Urban's sharp incisive analysis of the development of the intelligence gathering and how Scovell's role as a professional in the task came about. Urban's knowledge of processes and functioning of the army and most particularly Wellington's operations and officers provides a level of background which makes this book readable by anyone interest in early codes as well as military history.

I really enjoyed this but I felt that it needed a bit more editing at the start. Still it flowed well, Urban is an excellent writer, and it is a fascinating read. Overall it is a Highly recommended history

A Woodley

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THE MAN WHO BROKE NAPOLEON\'S CODES
MARK URBAN
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THE MAN WHO BROKE NAPOLEON\'S CODES
MARK URBAN
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THE MAN WHO BROKE NAPOLEON\'S CODES
MARK URBAN
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MAN WHO BROKE NAPOLEONS CODE
MARK SCOVELL/URBAN
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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The Tears of the White Man: Compassion As Contempt
Pascal Bruckner
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