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Today's financial practitioners need to be fully conversant with the differences in the way that bonds are structured, valued, and traded. "Fixed Income Securities and Derivatives Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the array of techniques and applications used in analysis and valuation of principal debt market instruments. With a wide range of methodologies covered, the reader will gain a solid understanding of fixed-income securities and their associated derivatives. The book investigates the fundamentals of fixed-income analysis by reviewing its underpinnings alongside the latest research and presenting it in an accessible way, whether the practitioner is new to the field or seasoned and needing a refresher on new developments. The research is summarized in a way that enables readers to apply results to their individual requirements. A mix of academic theory and market practice, "Fixed Income Securities and Derivatives Handbook presents an enlightening framework so readers can obtain a firm grounding in fixed-income analytics.

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introduces the key ideas like Black-Sholes option modelling.......2006-06-06

Starting from scratch, assuming just a basic knowledge of calculus and the summation of series, Choudhry explains important ideas about how securities and derivatives are priced. Crucial concepts like how to model interest rates, and the various models that do exist for this purpose, are also gone into. This is built upon with the use of interest rate swaps, of varying complexity.

For options, there is the seminal Black-Scholes model. It is shown to be easy to understand, resting on the assumption of a Weiner process for the asset pricing. More elaborate option modelling is possible, and several of these are discussed.

Really good for newbie.......2005-12-31

By saying newbie, I mean at least you should know some basic terminology like duration, convexity, interest rake risk, etc. It's really for those who have some basic knowledge on fixed income securiteis and want to explore more in depth. I personally read some chapters from Fabozzi's handbook, and feel like it's not very technical oriented and I prefer this one.

Haven't finished reading yet, but so far, very comprehensive, concise and lucid.

Fixed-income Securities and Derivatives Handbook: Analysis and Valuation

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Fixed-income Securities and Derivatives Handbook: Analysis and Valuation
Moorad Choudhry
Manufacturer: Bloomberg Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N67RUM

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The main goal of this seminar is to clarify on the basis of case studies what is meant by the concept of abusive application of tax treaties and whether and to what extent the concept of abuse is a domestic one and/or one of treaty law. To the extent that the concept of abuse is a purely domestic one, the question arises how domestic anti-avoidance rules affect double taxation conventions and to what extent one contracting state, for the purpose of taxation, should be prepared to consider the other contracting state's notion of abuse. To the extent that the concept of abuse is one of treaty law, it has to be clarified whether such a concept is known in Treaty law as an unwritten rule or whether the treaties need to include an express provision. Another important question in this respect is whether abusive use of tax treaties by contracting states is possible, e.g. by denying the access to the treaty or by implementing exit charges in the national legislation. What is or can be the role of the OECD in this process and to what extent does EC law innuence the way abuse of tax treaties can be tackled?

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The existence of endothelium-dependent hyperpolarization and endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor was firmly established during 1997 at an international symposium held near Paris, France. This further volume reinforces the concept that EDHF, as opposed to nitric oxide (NO), is of particular importance in smaller blood vessels and, in addition, underlines the multiplicity of other factors involved.
Many candidate mediators are discussed, including some new, sometimes surprising ones and the actions of EDHF on vascular smooth muscle cells are detailed, almost down to the molecular level. Further chapters enlarge our knowledge of the physiological and pathological roles of endothelium-dependent hyperpolarizations, and the book concludes with reports on the still limited but crucial knowledge of the contribution of EDHF in human blood vessels in health and disease.
Endothelium-Dependent Hyperpolarizations will be of interest not only to physiologists and pharmacologists, puzzling ove

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The present book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the topics of crystallography and diffraction for undergraduate and beginning graduate students and lecturers in physics, chemistry, materials and earth sciences, but will also be of interest to the layperson who wishes to know about these topics beyond the level given in more general trade science books. The book shows how crystal structures may be built up from simple ideas of atomic packing and co-ordination, and develops the concepts of crystal symmetry, point and space groups by way of two-dimensional examples of patterns and tilings. Furthermore, the concept of the reciprocal lattice is explained in simple terms and its importance in an understanding of light, x-ray and electron diffraction shown. Finally, the book covers practical examples of the applications of these techniques, and describes the importance of diffraction in the performance of optical instruments. For this second edition, the existing material has been thoroughly updated, additional figures and exercises have been supplied and two new chapters added. From reviews on the 1/e: '... This is a timely, well-constructed book which should be seriously considered by every teacher of crystallography and can be recommended to anyone who wants to get to grips with crystallography and diffraction.' P. Goodhew, Journal of Microscopy, June 1998 'IUCr publications have always been outstanding for quality of presentation and exposition and this book maintains that high standard.' J.E. Chisholm, Mineralogical Magazine, February 1998

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Review.......2007-04-02

I found this book to be a very nice introduction of X-Ray Crystallography. There is just enough detail so that it is not overwhelming, but you can still learn quite a bit from this book.

good introduction to crystallography.......2006-07-05

For an undergrad reader, Hammond develops the theory and explains the experiments you can do in crytallography. The theory of scattering from a single crystal explains the diffraction patterns. The latter are what you observe, and the text shows how you can work back from these to deduce what the underlying crystal structure might be.

There are variations on this approach. Especially the powder method, where you do not have a single crystal, but a powder of microcrystals. Which can be visualised as spinning the Bravais lattice around its origin, to give the diffraction patterns.

More recent observations like quasicrystals are also covered.

A good introduction to crystallography.

Highly recommended........2003-01-14

Very nice book, very comprehensive, excellent quality of pictures. Can be recommended as a very gentle introduction to crystallography and diffraction. Probably not so useful for more advanced students.

$The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction$
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The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction
C./ Hammond, Christopher Hammond
Manufacturer: NY
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ASIN: B000N6EYXA

$The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction$
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The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction
Christopher Hammond
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: B000OKRDR4

$The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction (International Union of Crystallography Texts on Crystallography , No 3)$
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The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction (International Union of Crystallography Texts on Crystallography , No 3)
Christopher Hammond
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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$The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction (International Union of Crystallography Texts on Crystallography)$
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The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction (International Union of Crystallography Texts on Crystallography)
Christopher Hammond
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Bleak Beauty.......2007-04-04

This is my third Powys novel, after The Glastonbury Romance and Weymouth Sands. I still think Weymouth Sounds the best, representing what Powys called "elementalism" (his own particular form of animism) and a magical, kaleidoscopic whirl of poetic prose seen through the mind's eye of several characters. This book is darker, told through the perspective of the eponymous main character who resembles Powys himself not a little (q.v. Powys's Autobiography), but it still has the trademark mystagogic prose that is unmatched in literature. The other reviewers have done a thorough job of painting the setting and characters. So, I'll just add a quote to give the potential reader an idea of what s/he is in for here:

" ` Don't you ever feel,' he said, `as if one part of your soul belonged to a world altogether different from this world - as if it were completely disillusioned about all the things that people make such a fuss over and yet were involved in something important?'" p.239

If you've ever had intimations of this sort, you'll love this book...and the rest of Powys's novels I might add.

As a footnote, for those interested, the last chapter presents a very droll description of Bertrand Russell in the character of Lord Carfax. Powys and Lord Russell were near contemporaries and neighbours in Wales. They often debated each other in America, and remained on very good terms, despite their diametrically opposite philosophies.

a darkly erotic and sinister view of rural england.......2005-11-13

The first time I read this book I must admit Wolf's mad ramblings irritated me and I merely skipped through to the "naughty bits". How glad I am that I took it up a second time! John Cowper Powys gives us a malevolant England full of incestous activity - outright, as in the case of Mr Malekite and his two daughters, and in the overtones of Wolf's relationship with his mother and half sister. Indeed, both the girls he falls in love with are described as childlike in different ways, Christie physically and Gerda mentally, and are indeed nearly half Wolf's age. Throw in hints of homosexuality in the clergy, conversations with the dead and twelvemonth corpes being dug up, and you have a very dark veiw of the English countryside indeed. Yet somehow the lush, lyrical prose and mystical torment of Wolf contrive to make this one of the most intriguing and beautiful novels I have ever read.

Oedipus in the English Country.......2005-04-26

In a search through the more obscure corners of 20th century literature I came across this novel and was swayed by all the positive endorsements to read it. While I can agree to some extent with the origin of all this praise, I considered "Wolf Solent" a good novel, that while often compared to works by Shakespeare and Tolstoy, struck me as rather clumsy Proust, or really good Woolf. While this book could be picked up by a slick self help guru and turned into his, or her holy book, I would like to warn prospective readers not to expect an "Anna Karenina" or "Crime an Punishment".

All previous Amazon reviews have provided quite a bit of detail of the story of the small town boy, who after spending time in London returns to the country town of his birth to "find himself" in its idyllic nature setting. This to some extent is correct. Yet, I was struck that this story's archetype, Sophocles' "Oedipus" remained unmentioned. This main theme and the clear "Yorrick" references in Woolf's internal dialogs with his father's buried skull constitute the true center of this bildungsroman.

Nature revives Woolf's senses; he follows his father's path of falling in love with two girls and marrying one of them and goes to a prolonged and often torturous inner conflict, that comes to a rather dull and anticlimactic resolution in the final pages. I, for one, considered the "endure" epiphany rather ludicrous for someone surrounded by the so ably described beauty of nature.

In modern terms, Woolf's elongated struggle is due to his lack of understanding that "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem". While a George Costanza character has been used so successfully to illustrate this potentially humorous vicious circle, I considered the characterization of this book as a comedy quite a misnomer. Though the protagonist's unlikability and the three-dimensional supporting cast are in themselves strong points of the book, I considered this struggle with the windmills of Woolf's mind more tedious than revelatory.

Yet, this book's substance is not so much in the plot structure as in its idyllic description of nature and the little quirks of the villagers. Throughout the prose is beautiful and evocative, resulting in a rich and rewarding read.

Poor Woolf, he (and we) could have been spared so much if he had just paid a little more attention to these two words engraved on the outside of Apollo's temple in Delphi "gnooti seautou".

Packed with swirling imagery..........2004-04-08

I took a previous reviewers advice and initiated my experience with Powys upon reading WOLF SOLENT. I found it a very rewarding reading adventure.POWYS packs his pages with profuse imagery,pagan and otherwise.He extracts profound symbolism from the most ordinary enviorments/characterizations.
His writings here are mystical...drawing upon pre-christian archetypes as well as modern day affinities.The characters are believable,likable, and frought with imperfections which only add to the otherworldly strangeness of his literary style.This book is over 600 pages so's it might be a little while before I proceed with more works of his, but I have already purchased WEYMOUTH SANDS and look forward to reading more of his peculiar "vision".

In search of sensations.......2003-07-21

John Cowper Powys is one of those authors who can be recognized just by the distinction of his prose, employing a style characterized by a picturesque metaphorical lyricism and, particularly in "Wolf Solent," the title character's deep introspection regarding his relationship to the world. Terms like "first cause" and "magnetic" are repeated throughout the novel like motifs, revealing the author's preoccupation with metaphysical forces, motivations, and effects.

Wolf is a 35-year-old man who, at the beginning of the novel, is moving from London to his native county of Dorsetshire to take a job assisting a wealthy man named Urquhart, the Squire of King's Barton, in writing a book about the more scandalous aspects of the histories of local families. Wolf finds Urquhart to be rather eccentric and petty and soon learns that his previous assistant, a young man named Redfern, died under disputable circumstances. This sounds like a setup for an intriguing mystery, especially when Wolf discovers Urquhart's gardener and another man digging around Redfern's grave one night, but the novel is concerned more with the essence of secrecy than with the mechanics of revealing secrets.

The residents of Dorsetshire, with their piquant personalities, rustic sincerity, and realistic complexity, are worthy of a Thomas Hardy novel; no set of characters can expect higher praise than that. They are there not just to drive the plot forward but to act and react against Wolf and each other to create a theater of emotions and passions in which life becomes a colorful, unpredictable masquerade. The principal players include Jason Otter, a morose, temperamental poet; Selena Gault, an ugly old spinster with whom Wolf's father had had an affair; Tilly-Valley, a foolish vicar; and Bob Weevil, a lascivious butcher whose sausages possibly connote something priapic about his role in the community.

Wolf's research brings him to two young ladies with whom he falls in love: Gerda Torp, the stonecutter's daughter, whose stunning beauty and nymphlike nature arouse his sexual desires; and Christie Malakite, the bookseller's daughter, a relatively plain but bright girl who is harboring a vile secret about her father and to whom Wolf relates on an intellectual level. As Wolf's romantic reveries careen between the two women representing two different erotic ideals, body and mind, we see an intense internal conflict building within him, one that threatens to, but somehow never does, unravel his inner peace.

And what is the source of this peace? Simply that Wolf has escaped the modernity and materialism of London to embrace the idyllic antiquity of rural England and to experience "certain sensations" -- not that he knows exactly what these are yet, but perhaps the fun is in not knowing, in exploration and self-discovery. This is also why he is annoyed by the encroachment of automobiles and airplanes into Dorsetshire towards the end of the novel -- twentieth-century technology has no place in the world whose nineteenth-century tranquility he wants dearly to preserve.

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WOLF SOLENT A NOVEL - VOLUME II

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John Cowper Powys' Wolf Solent: Critical Studies

Manufacturer: University of Wales Press
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Wolf Solent
John Cowper Powys
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Wolf Solent
John Cowper Powys
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Wolf Solent
John Cowper Powys
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John Cowper Powys
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John Cowper Powys
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Wolf Solent
John Cowper Powys
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First British edition. London: Jonathan Cape 1929 hardback. Unlike the American first, this was published in one volume. Green buckram. 644 pages. Tan jacket with minor repairs and spots to the spine. Overall a fine copy. Ships immediately. Chimera Books: Our 35th year.

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WOLF SOLENT - 2 VOLUME BOXED SET

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