The Emerald City: And Other Essays on the Architectural Imagination

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In The Emerald City, Dan Willis takes us on a flight of imagination that paradoxically never strays far from the most tangible, even intimate subjects. His essays range from the Tower of Babel to the Wizard of Oz, from Christo to Christmas trees, from the "lightness of being" to the "weight of architecture." This ultimately optimistic book suggests that architecture is as vital as ever: "It is tempting to say that our present cultural situation...has rendered architecture nearly impossible if not unnecessary. But it is also possible to look to what our lives, at the turn of the millennium, typically lack-fulfillment, spirituality, a sense of belonging, weight-and to conclude that the ground for architecture has never been more fertile. The texts-intelligent and readable-draw equally from literary sources, architectural practice, philosophical analyses, pop culture, and everyday experiences. Willis's perspective as a writer, architect, artist, and teacher informs his work; his texts are at once reflective and proactive, as they challenge readers to rethink their participation in the built environment. Accompanying the text are the author's original illustrations, which link the forms and forces surrounding architecture at the end of the twentieth century in novel, thought-provoking ways.

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Easy and fun.......2007-05-13

This book is cute to look at, easy to follow, and the colorful, fun pictures are wonderful. We have this for my son, but all of his friends (girls and boys, 6 years old) want to draw everything from every page and they can do it very well. Steps are simple to master for ages as young as 4, and the book helps build confidence because the kids can really draw what is shown. Variations are easy too. Perfect book to have laying around to encourage children to try drawing. Great gift idea!

amazing!!!.......2007-04-22

The instruction is simple and easy to follow and all makes sense. The minute I saw it I knew it'd work. The minute my 6 years old daughter laid her eyes on it she fell in love with it. Not only can she draw a lot better than before, even I could use some help from this book when requested by my 2 years old son to draw a truck. Is there any more book like this?

6 Year old girl loves it!.......2007-01-10

It's been two weeks since we gave our six year old girl this book. Last night she still was using it to draw a rocket ship. She loves it.

Helped turn my non-artist into a VanGogh!.......2006-07-17

This product, and the others like it "I Can Draw Animals" and "I Can Draw People" are incredible! Just a year ago, I was able to pick my son's artwork out of his entire class: It was the unfinished or poorly executed one. Then, he started bringing some wonderful drawings home from Kindergarten. I asked him who drew them, and he said he did. I was shocked. Then, I found out his teacher has this series of books. The teacher told me that my son eagerly thumbed through the books when given a drawing assignment for ways to construct characters. My son - the one who was drawing stick figures a few short months ago! I quickly ordered the entire series and now we have a "super silly art gallery" in our home. He loves to draw now. I realized that he just didn't know how to get started before. He even lent the books to his older cousin that needed to draw a wizard for a school project. Now that he's more skilled, he is able to draw great things even without referencing the books. I am amazed and so very pleased.

Great for elementary school.......2006-06-04

I just got through my first year of teaching and this book was really fun for some of my kids who lack confidence in drawing. They were able to have great success with the ideas in this book.

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What Shall I Draw?: Art Pack (Kid Kits)
Ray Gibson
Manufacturer: Usborne Books
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What Shall I Draw?
Ray Gibson
Manufacturer: Usborne Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K7N2JE

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A comprehensive guide to a highly popular movie camera, the Arriflex 35 Book details the simplicity and complete interchangeability of the ARRI 35mm system, the wide range of lenses, accessories and after-market products available, and how they may all be used and serviced. The new edition has been completely revised to include a wide range of updates, retrofits and especially camera accessories. The book features exploded view drawings and photographs of every camera and accessory, with technical specs. It discusses every aspect of prep, use and maintenance.

Divided into six sections each covering a different camera or accessory system, the Arriflex 35 Book is exhaustive in the information it provides the camera operator: checking mirror shutter timing, timing Arriglow, removing ground glasses, setting eyepiece diopters, threading and servicing magazines, lubrication, and checking flange focal depths are just a few examples. The Arriflex 35 Book also includes an appendix listing frequently needed reference information such as camera and magazine weights, magazine tensions, flange focal distances, fuse numbers, and a directory of Arriflex dealers and after-market product manufacturers worldwide.

Completely revised to include all updates, retrofits and accessories
Covers every aspect of prep, use, and maintenance
Features nearly 360 exploded view drawings and photos of every component and accessory

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An outstanding guide to the Arriflex camera system.......2000-07-07

If you browse through Jon Fauer's latest book, THE ARRIFLEX 35 BOOK, the following statement from page 28 might catch your eye. "This funny looking tool (ARRI K.4.30689.0), which looks like a scissors mated with a platypus, can be..." One might wonder, what kind of technical manual this is? But as you read on, the validity of the text quickly becomes obvious and statements such as the above, elevate Jon Fauer's book above so many dry, and difficult to comprehend technical books. From the first page to the last, 358 pages bristle with the most thorough and detailed information. THE ARRIFLEX 35 BOOK is comprehensive, providing the reader with the know how required to use, maintain and care for the Arri family of cameras, one the world's most popular professional motion picture systems.

The informative, logically presented text, peppered with Jon's wry humor, is amply illustrated with hundreds of clear and precise drawings and photographs that leave nothing to the imagination. All available accessories, even home made ones, are discussed in this detailed and illustrated text. Even so, the book is not restricted to technical information alone. Useful information, such as shipping weights, Arriflex worldwide suppliers, and sales agents are listed with included addresses and phone numbers.

Additional information, shooting tips, and other equipment used in cinematography are discussed. Jon's enormous research compiles the knowledge of some of the top people in the industry. When added to his own vast experience, this book, "platypus" and all, is clearly the best, most important and necessary text to anyone who owns, maintains or works with Arriflex cameras. It is simply a must read for students and professionals alike.

Good work Jon! Thanks very much!

Andrew Laszlo A.S.C.

Arriflex 35 Book, Third Edition
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Arriflex 35 Book, Third Edition
Jon Fauer ASC
Manufacturer: Focal Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPRUMC

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William M. Bulger has been a formidable force in the Massachusetts Democratic party since the 1960s. He's not quite an authentic South Boston Irish (his family, it must be admitted, moved from neighboring Dorchester when he was 4), but he's become nationally recognized for representing that community, first as a state representative and later as the president of the state Senate. While the Music Lasts is a passionate memoir, alternately hilarious and saddening, about a lifetime spent standing up for the little guy. South Boston is one of the most politically active communities in the state and, as Bulger tells the tale, one of the most misunderstood. He is particularly compelling when addressing the Boston busing crisis of the 1970s, arguing that his district's opposition to forced desegregation was not primarily racially motivated, but rooted instead in the intense desire to raise their children as they saw fit without government interference (even when well intentioned). Political junkies from far outside Boston's city limits will enjoy Bulger's firsthand account of life in the political trenches.

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Great View of an Era Passed.......2007-06-04

I enjoyed this book immensely. The drama that unfolds is well described, and the prose is precise without being onerous. This book captures the spirit of Tip O'Neill's "All politics are local", and the manner in which Bulger and other politicians gain support and ply their craft is truly a view into the grass roots of politics, not as a gimic but as the way it had to be done. The characters are a colorful part of the times in which the simple act of standing out with a sign or declaring your support for a candidate to the people at the bus stop was important, raising the everyday citizen to the master of the political process.

The Leader as Navigator!.......2005-11-21

Possessing a rare accurate portrayal of life in South Boston, the highly anecdotal work: 'WHILE THE MUSIC LASTS: My Life In Politics' (c. 1996) by William M. Bulger, Esq.; also contained insight into the advantages and disadvantages of the political process inside the Massachusetts Statehouse during his twenty-seven year tenure as elected State Senator and Senate President.

While maintaining a good sense of humor throughout a serious work, Mr. Bulger was also not afraid to expouse on the gritty fundamentals of political reality as experienced in a working-class neighborhood or the shrewd choices required for political success. Based on his considerable political experiences, Mr. Bulger defined leadership as a "catalytic function" (p.71). "The leader" explained Mr. Bulger "is not a captain with power to command ... but must navigate in ways acceptable to the majority" (p.72).

Almost written as a biography, the memoir: WHILE THE MUSIC LASTS described the Bulger family's 1938 move into South Boston when the author was just four years old, and the family's twenty-three year experiences with the residents of the Old Harbor Projects. It was in this working-class neighborhood of South Boston where Mr. Bulger found his life's calling and pursued politics as more than a career. A consummate politician, and loyal to the Neighborhood, Mr. Bulger was the right man at the wrong time when forced busing was decreed regarding "Alleged segregation in our schools,..."(p.108).

Containing a well-founded criticism of media activists and newspapers, particularly the tendentious 'Boston Globe', the book: WHILE THE MUSIC LASTS described the 1964 Supreme Court decision in 'Sullivan v. The New York Times' which shifted the burden of proof to the victim of libel to prove their own innocence - essentially a requirement to prove a negative! This gave the media activists and the various left-winged interlopers who poured into South Boston during the first year of forced busing a license to lie with virtual impunity! Thus freely bashing South Boston and its residents with limited restraint, a virtual torrent of politically-correct vitriol was unleashed against concerned parents and elected representatives: (please read: DEATH AT AN EARLY AGE (c. 1966) by Jonathan Kozol as an example of this unrestrained propaganda).

Certain omissions were the only short-coming of this work, as Mr. Bulger listed at length the colorful nick-names of Neighborhood residents while omitting Ray Flynn's Southie nickname of 'MEL' Flynn (and why he earned it). Also omitted was the mentioning of the 274 Afro-American families living and attending schools in South Boston prior to the forced busing decree, or the small colony of Mic Mac Indians living down on E. 3rd Street (between G and K), or the majority of South Boston Polish, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Greek, Czech, Albanian, and German ethnic groups (whom the racists would label 'white') which reduced the Irish presence to a mere vocal minority. While he correctly mentioned that the "Racial Imbalance Law was not an extension of the civil rights struggle ... but a device to accomplish forced busing" (p.131) Mr. Bulger further omitted mentioning that in 1996 the entire Boston Public Schools were (and still are) 86% black & hispanic in egregious violation of the Racial Imbalance Act, yet nothing is being done to alleviate this massive segregation! Mr. Bulger had correctly described the forced busing collectivization as a "misuse of State power!" (p.119).

Standing as a testament to grace under pressure, the memoir: WHILE THE MUSIC LASTS is also a pragmatic manual on how to build a political organization from scratch; how to deal with a forty-member state senate; the realities of passing a bill into law; what to expect from media activists; and the first hand account of the clash between positive and natural law (the war between the judiciary & legislature)as intimately witnessed by the author following the 1974 forced busing debacle in Boston. Yet it is true that forced busing still exists in Boston under the oxymoron: "Controlled Choice." Today in 21st century Boston you are still forced by court decree to send your children to substandard schools in unsafe neighborhoods at taxpayers expense!

A compilation of reference, biography, expose', memoir, and political savvy, the insightful work: 'WHILE THE MUSIC LASTS: My Life In Politics' by William M. Bulger, Esq., should be required reading in any Political Science, Philosophy, Ethics, or Law course in college.

Excellent.......2004-03-22

All I have to say is that this book was excellent. This man has been an inspiration to me throughout my teenage years to the present. Anyone who reads this cannot deny the fact that this man is an inspiration to all. He has done so many good things for the people of Massachusetts. He has risen out of the shadow of his brother and succeeded, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. This book was well written and very descriptive of his life and the lives of all the people of South Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Read it and you will see, trust me.

It May Be Music, But It's A Sad Tune.......2003-11-26

Do not be misled by the title or the cover of this work. While there are moments of hilarity in this book, there is a tragic quality to the life of William Bulger that extends even beyond the publishing of this book in 1996. The author made news within the past year when he was dismissed from the presidency of the University of Massachusetts, a personal disgrace with roots in both Massachusetts politics and the author's intractability.

William Bulger was a career Massachusetts politician, making his first run for the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1960. Eventually he would serve seventeen years as president of the Massachusetts Senate, no mean feat in that state's Byzantine political culture, until he assumed the reins of the University of Massachusetts at about the time of the publishing of this book. He was a product of the self-contained community of South Boston, a neighborhood of modest incomes, generally good folks, and thoroughly marinated in the Irish sauce of religion, politics, and penny ante corruption. At an early age Bulger discovered the circus element of politics and what passed for dirty tricks in the 1940's. He tells genuinely funny stories of political mishaps he witnessed as a child. The best, in my view, is the tale of the perennially soused postman who is scared sober by a horse in a third story apartment--the animal having been abandoned there by a political candidate with a cash flow problem.

Bulger does not dramatize his Herculean efforts to get himself, penniless, into Boston College High School, and subsequently through BC's law school, with an army tenure in between. It is somewhat more difficult to assess his description of his older brother, Jim. Bulger describes him as bright, somewhat oppositional, and unstructured. Juvenile delinquency eventually would progress into armed robbery. Bulger suggests that police brutality and bad companions contributed to his downfall, which eventually led him to Alcatraz. Bulger denies knowledge of his brother's subsequent activities, though the FBI would press the author years later. In 2003 the Republican Governor, Mitch Romney, removed the author from his university position on the grounds of his suspected association with his brother and hindering criminal investigation.

Marrying the woman in 1960 who would bear his nine children, Bulger entered state politics as a traditional Massachusetts progressive of the 1960's: he believed in government's role to improve the hundreds of neighborhood communities like his own. One of his particular interests was stricter interventions for abused or neglected children. State representatives like Bulger knew their constituencies intimately and their offices were as much social service centers to assist in employment and local quality of life. Bulger was a horse trader, to be sure, but he viewed the process as a necessary evil. It was never a matter of the thrill of the hunt, as it was for Lyndon Johnson, for example. Bulger was living proof of Tip O'Neill's dictum that all politics are ultimately local.

The great wound of Bulger's political and personal life was his limited understanding of the American revolution of the 1960's, specifically the Civil Rights movement. For the old school politician Bulger, his responsibility lie with South Boston. The plight of neighboring Roxbury was, in his mind, the responsibility of citizens and politicians in that community. The idea that federal law and the judiciary would override local political structures, and worse, that such interference would be undertaken arrogantly and in the guise of social engineering appalled Bulger, who maintains to this day that the excesses of the judiciary destroyed his beloved South Boston.

The villains of this work are Judge W. Arthur Garrity and, to a lesser extent, The Boston Globe. Garrity's name may ring a bell with older readers, particularly if paired with that of Louise Day Hicks, a Bulger compatriot, in the context of school busing. At the time of the Boston busing crisis, 1974, the national news coverage depicted neighborhoods like South Boston as bastions of Jim Crow separatism. As a lawyer and resident of South Boston, Bulger was deeply troubled by what he first perceived as judicial social engineering; later, he became more incensed by the intimidating tactics of riot police in the streets of his own neighborhood. Looking back thirty years, Garrity's judicial excesses are troubling, and the acquiescence of the Globe most disappointing.

Having said that, it must also be admitted that Bulger's limited comprehension of civil rights and social policy probably contributed to the problem. He admits that the schools in Roxbury were a nightmare, but he adopts the attitude that Athens has nothing to say to Jerusalem. This is the price of parochialism, the inability to see that racism, as a national problem, could not be addressed piecemeal like filling potholes after a bad winter. As a politician, he did not see this freight train approaching, a reality that, I suspect, fuels his bitterness of those bad days.

That Bulger survived the 1970's and would rise to become his state's kingmaker for many years is a tribute to the author's doggedness; had Bulger resigned during the heyday of Gerrity's excesses, no one would have second-guessed him. But he remained, continuing such traditions as his annual St. Patrick's Day breakfast, a must for every politician on the make, even the Kennedys. He was not exactly loved by his peers, but seems to have been respected. His consistency as much as anything kept Massachusetts government functioning as efficiently as it did. He was as ethical as his circumstances permitted, and despised political arrangements that did not pass the smell test. It is sad to note that a career like Bulger's ended under the shadows that it did.

"While the Music Lasts" Plays Well.......2002-05-29

Former Massachusetts State Senate President William Bulger's autobiography provides readers insights into the inner workings of his state's politics and into legislative affairs. In addition, it provides many personal insights into the rise of a man from a working class South Boston neighborhood to legislative leadership.
A primary lesson Senator Bulger wishes to convey is that politicians should be driven by their believe they can make a difference. They should continue at politics "while the music lasts" and they can still hear that music that lets them know they can create the changes for which they fight.
Mr. Bulger's advice to legislators is to learn facts and data when arguing the merits of their proposals. He believes good research is more valuable than good rhetoric. He recommends that legislators avoid creating divisions amongst their peers and to avoid choosing sides too soon when these divisions occur. For that reason, he followed a rule of avoiding discussing divisions with the media, whom he believes fuels these divisions. Senator Bulger was a practitioner of the art of compromise, although he states taht moral principle should always come first.
The book provides a good description of the two year fight Senator Bulger had in passing key child care legislation. Part of his struggle included withdrawing his name as sponsor in order to pick up votes to pass it. The book also provides the author's insights into the very heated school busing issue.
This book is a great resource for readers wishing to learn more about the legislative process, about Massachusetts politics, or the insights of a colorful politician from South Boston.

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While the Music Lasts
Susan K. Frost
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1425101429

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While the Music Lasts is the contemporary story of Isabel, a sensitive young woman and gifted pianist, born to privilege on Manhattan’s wealthy Upper East Side. As a girl she spends her summers with her grandparents who live in a large, idyllic nineteenth-century house in upstate New York. There the expansive lawns and exquisite flower beds sweep down to the Susquehanna River, a river which serves as an early source of fascination for Isabel, and later as a source of fear.

Isabel’s sheltered existence is shattered by an attempted rape and an unexpected death. We watch her struggle to recover from clinical depression and begin a promising college career.

When a kindly man falls in love with her, Isabel settles into what she believes will be a pleasant, conventional marriage. Looking forward to being a wife and mother, she has no way of knowing that her most difficult days still lie ahead of her.

This transatlantic novel takes Isabel to Spain and the brutality of a bullfight, to the beautiful beaches of Florida’s Gulf Coast and to London’s literary and historical sights. A memorable stay at Pembroke College, Oxford, including dinner at the high table precedes a grim discovery.

The Italian city of Venice, a painting by the Pre-Raphaelite artist, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, classical music and the poetry of T.S. Eliot recur as themes throughout the book.

As Isabel strives to find her authentic self, she faces issues of life and death, cruelty and friendship, faith and philosophy and of love and passion. As her story approaches its bitter-sweet denouement, Isabel comes to understand that the last can be either dangerously destructive or ultimately redeeming.

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While the Music Lasts
Suzanne Goodwin
Manufacturer: St Martins Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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While the Music Lasts
Jane Hinchman
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
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While the Music Lasts
Alice McVeigh
Manufacturer: Trafalgar Square
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1857979397

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Wondrously insightful.......2004-08-13

It just so happens this book is about the individual members of a large symphony orchestra. Truly, however, the personality types involved could easily be found in any tightly-knit group of folks who spend inordinate amounts of time together in an enclosed space, or who frequently travel together. It could perhaps be about an athletic team, although, of course, there are few of them which are co-ed. (But then, of course, neither is the Vienna Philharmonic!)

There are 105 musicians in a standard large orchestra, and the same types play over and over and over again, regardless of location. Anyone who has ever studied music and played in an orchestra (or even a large concert band) will readily recognize each of these characters, although they will be known by different names.

Ms. McVeigh is not only a symphonic caliber cellist, but also a gifted writer possessed of absolutely wicked insight, not to mention humor, perception, sensibility and grace. She uses her musical skills to great advantage, as well, while juggling the lives and tales of her principal players, conductors and the other persons who occasionally wander through the story.

The main theme belongs to Isabel and William, who cannot be together, but neither can they be apart, a situation altogether too common in every day life. Their tale, and all the others, are variously told in flashback, as narrative or diary entries, blended together into twelve-part harmony, with only slight dissonances here and there.

What lover hasn't thought as Isabel does when she says about William, for instance: `If love was a foreign country, let him be my interpreter...' This is a marvelous book about people; witty, perceptive and well-written--vastly enjoyable on many levels. One doesn't have to be a musician to appreciate its depths.

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While the Music Lasts
Bob St. John
Manufacturer: Taylor Pub
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While the Music Lasts
Alice McVeigh
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While the Music Lasts My Life in Politics

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While the Music Lasts My Life in Politics
Bulger William M.
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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ASIN: B000UCKVVG

While the Music Lasts: The Representation of Music in the Works of George Sand

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While the Music Lasts: The Representation of Music in the Works of George Sand
David A. Powell
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Brook Mays music--the aftermath: after last October's bankruptcy, former Brook Mays employees pick-up the pieces and readdress the market, while competitors ... FRONT LINES): An article from: Music Trades

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Brook Mays music--the aftermath: after last October's bankruptcy, former Brook Mays employees pick-up the pieces and readdress the market, while competitors ... FRONT LINES): An article from: Music Trades
Gale Reference Team
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This digital document is an article from Music Trades, published by Thomson Gale on June 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1722 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: Brook Mays music--the aftermath: after last October's bankruptcy, former Brook Mays employees pick-up the pieces and readdress the market, while competitors rush to fill voids.(RETAILER UPDATE: NEWS FROM THE RETAIL FRONT LINES)
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Publication: Music Trades (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 155 Issue: 5 Page: 44(5)

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Operational risk is one of the oldest risks in the banking sector, and yet regulatory bodies including the Basle Committee are still working on a regulatory framework. Damage control measures introduced by banks have often proved ineffective. The successful management of operational risk will be a significant competitive advantage for banks in the future. This book is a practical guide to achieving control of operational risk. Using qualitative analysis, the author suggests risk identification procedures and provides tools for the analysis, quantification, and management of risk. He goes on to discuss future developments in both the regulatory and insurance sectors, including the most recent Basle Committee proposals.

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Breaking New Ground.......2002-03-14

This is a thoughtful and comprehensive piece of work by an industry insider whose practical experience of the topic is clear. I found this helpful both for myself as head of operational risk in a financial institution, as have some of the other staff in my department.

No value added to the subject.......2002-01-08

One of the most significant debates in the financial industry nowadays is the one of quantification of operational risk. This book does not add anything to the discussion. Find qualitative standards for operational risk inside a bank is a challenging but always achievable task as it usually relies on the particular characteristics of the own organization. The problem lies on the quantification. Subjects like operational risk capital allocation, VaR models, correlation etc are not mentioned here. The book is absolutely qualitative with many flaws even there.

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