Japanese Labor Market in a Comparative Perspective With the United States: A Transaction-Cost Interpretation

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Statistics of Financial Markets presents in a vivid yet concise style the necessary statistical and mathematical background for Financial Engineers and introduces to the main ideas in mathematical finance and financial statistics. Topics covered are, among others, option valuation, financial time series analysis, value-at-risk, copulas, and statistics of the extremes.

The underlying structure of the book, i.e. basic tools in mathematical finance, financial time series analysis and applications to given problems of financial markets, allows the book to be used as a basis for lectures, seminars and even crash courses on the topic.

A full set of transparencies can be downloaded using the registration card at the back of the book. The registration card also allows the use of the e-book version with links to world wide computing servers.

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Great intutive introduction to stochastic calculus.......2006-06-17

This book was such a relief after going through tens of books/lectures notes on stochastic calculus. Most math books give the theory behind Ito calculus (martingales, measure theory etc.), but fail to give the motivation and reasoning behind abstract definitions. This book does an excellent job in deriving many seemingly-complicated math formulas (or, theorems) using intuitive terms. It is an excellent read for people who have a reasonable background in probability theory, and are wishing to learn stochastic calculus (plus finance). I strongly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn the rudiments of Ito integral and see its applications in finance.

Great introduction to the Value at Risk measures.......2005-10-14

Got the friendly yellow paperback version. The book is in three major parts; Options, Time series and then Value at Risk.

The first section starts out well with an overview of Stochastic Processes and then moves on to Stochastic Integrals and Differential Equations. All of this is motivation to help with the pricing of Options, starting with European, then American and moving onto Exotics and Bond Options. It covers all the major points, though it is a little limited in the Exotics, it does have a good references to more thorough works.

The second section on time series works with ARIMA, ARCH and GARCH models.

The third section (labeled Selected Financial Applications) is mostly about the VAR though is has some really good commentary on the Volatility of Option Portfolios.

An added bonus is that you can download the PDF version of the book, and all the data for the examples from the web, with quite a neat one-time license.

I would recommend this book to people needing a good overview of the subjects listed above, and as a handy reference.

Copula Methods in Finance (The Wiley Finance Series)

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Comprehensive but full of mistakes
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Copula Methods in Finance (The Wiley Finance Series)
Umberto Cherubini , Elisa Luciano , and Walter Vecchiato
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Copula Methods in Finance is the first book to address the mathematics of copula functions illustrated with finance applications. It explains copulas by means of applications to major topics in derivative pricing and credit risk analysis. Examples include pricing of the main exotic derivatives (barrier, basket, rainbow options) as well as risk management issues. Particular focus is given to the pricing of asset-backed securities and basket credit derivative products and the evaluation of counterparty risk in derivative transactions.

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"Copula Methods in Finance is the first book to address the mathematics of copula functions illustrated with finance applications. It explains copulas by means of applications to major topics in derivative pricing and credit risk analysis. Examples include pricing of the main exotic derivatives (barrier, basket, rainbow options) as well as risk management issues. Particular focus is given to the pricing of asset-backed securities and basket credit derivative products and the evaluation of counterparty risk in derivative transactions. "

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Not a good introductory book.......2006-04-13

This book is difficult to follow, although the examples helps to clarify some of the concepts. While it might be a good reference, it is not a good introductory book for someone who didn't have any prior knowledge on copulas.

Comprehensive but full of mistakes.......2006-02-08

This book promises to be a very good comprehensive introduction to copula theory and addresses many practical aspects of copula. There are useful sections on bivariate (2-dimensional) and mulit-variate copulas including elliptical (Normal, Student t) and archimedian copula. There is a fair section on fitting copula parameters to data and a good section on Monte Carlo simulation of fitted copula.

However, there are numerous errors that I've come across, which make learning from this book very difficult or impossible. In fact, every section I've looked at in detail has mistakes, not typos, in the equations. (I just dropped my rating to 2 stars because of this!) The multivariate Frechet minimum boundary is written incorrectly in multiple locations. Whereas an example demonstrates that this bound is not a true copula, the following theorem says that it is a copula. The reference for the theorem, Sklar (1999), actually reads "Personal communication" in the bibliography! This reference is only slightly better than "From a dream..."

Unfortunate notation confuses the reader by repeating the copula density notation for the "conditional distribution" in the simulation section. This section is also riddled with mistakes and unexplained notation. Thankfully, enough examples exist that some use can be make of portions of the text by the practitioner.

The most readable and .......2004-07-22

This is the kind of book I wished to have when I started to study copula functions in finance. The book does not bring big innovations in the subject, but has an exception value in its attempt to collect and make accessible lot of material on copulae. Equity and Credit Risk are the primary fields of application. After introducing bivariate families of copulae and different measures of association, it extends the analysis to the multidimensional case. Then two very nice chapters deal with the problem of 1) calibrating copulae 2) sampling from various copulae. Finally, applications to credit risk (CDOs) and equity options are presented. Overall, I think it is a very valuable book for all the people looking to have one unique source to understand and apply copula functions in finance.

Implementing Models in Quantitative Finance: Methods and Cases (Springer Finance)

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Implementing Models in Quantitative Finance: Methods and Cases (Springer Finance)
Gianluca Fusai , and Andrea Roncoroni
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ASIN: 3540223487

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This book puts numerical methods into action for the purpose of solving concrete problems arising in quantitative finance. Part one develops a comprehensive toolkit including Monte Carlo simulation, numerical schemes for partial differential equations, stochastic optimization in discrete time, copula functions, transform-based methods and quadrature techniques. The content originates from class notes written for courses on numerical methods for finance and exotic derivative pricing held by the authors at Bocconi University since the year 2000. Part two proposes eighteen self-contained cases covering model simulation, derivative valuation, dynamic hedging, portfolio selection, risk management, statistical estimation and model calibration. It encompasses a wide variety of problems arising in markets for equity, interest rates, credit risk, energy and exotic derivatives. Each case introduces a problem, develops a detailed solution and illustrates empirical results. Proposed algorithms are implemented using either Matlab ^® or Visual Basic for Applications ^® in collaboration with contributors.

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Decision Analysis, Game Theory, and Information (University Casebook Series)
Louis Kaplow , and Steven Shavell
Manufacturer: Foundation Press
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ASIN: 1587788071

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"Decision Analysis, Game Theory, and Information" is a spin-off title from a new casebook written by a team of Harvard Law professors, "Analytical Methods for Lawyers," which was written to provide law students with an overview of basic business and finance principles necessary for the study of law.

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This book is devoted to a special class of decision making problems, called `unstructured problems'. The peculiarity of these problems is connected with the essentially qualitative description of the involved factors and the subjective character of relations between these factors.
The work describes the world of human decisions and methods of action that improve the chances of making sensible decisions in a complicated, contradictory and incompletely definite environment. A new procedure of decision making in non-structured problems is constructed and some methods that are logical inferences from it are demonstrated. The studies proceed from the contradiction between the normative methods of decision making, which prescribes the decision maker how to make the best decisions and the descriptive results showing how in real life people act when making a decision. The authors propose an approach that integrates modelling procedures with elicitation methods.

Analysis of a family of two-person bargaining games with incomplete information ([Working papers in management science])

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Analysis of a family of two-person bargaining games with incomplete information ([Working papers in management science])
John C Harsanyi
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Viruses must be able to overcome the host immune response to replicate themselves and produce infectious progeny. Although eventually the host immune response succeeds in eliminating viruses and virus-infected cells, viruses have evolved a variety of mechanisms to escape immuno surveillance and survive in a hostile environment. In addition to rapid antigenic variation (HIV), latent infection (herpesvirus) or modality of life cycle (papillomaviruses), these mechanisms include the production of viral proteins which actively fight the host immune response.

The reviews in this book, written by authors of international renown, deal with the immuno modulators and inhibitors encoded by a variety of viruses, from the poxviruses, which are very well known in this respect, to the papillomaviruses, whose evasion from the host immune response has just begun being elucidated.

In addition to being scientifically stimulating, the reviews, by highlighting the countermeasures operated by viruses to fight the host immune response, point the way to new potential anti-viral strategies.

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This text provides a comprehensive and up to date overview of those polymers most often used in the manufacture of electronic and optoelectronic components. Detailed information on the characteristics of each different material is given before their application in practical environments is discussed.

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Superstrings and green whiskers

Good book. Highly recommended

Calder Makes Current Science Come Alive

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Magic Universe: The Oxford Guide to Modern Science
Nigel Calder
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Magic Universe brings current science to the general reader in an imaginative and wholly original way. It offers an exhilarating tour of the horizons of knowledge, from quarks to linguistics, climate change to cloning, and chaos to superstrings, presented as a set of self-contained stories. The stories are arranged as A - Z entries, but this is not a conventional encyclopedia. Each story unfolds in a totally unpredictable way, seamlessly crossing disciplines, and told in engaging, accessible language. Here is a celebration of the reunion of the many subdivisions of science now in progress. 'The magic of the Universe reveals itself in the interconnections', Calder tells us. 'A repertoire of tricks let loose in the Big Bang will make you a planet or a parakeet. In some sense only dimly understood so far, the magic works for our benefit overall, whilst it amazes and puzzles us in the particulars. Natural conjuring that links comets with life, genomes with continental drift, iron ore with dementia, and particle physics with cloudiness, mocks the specialists.' The stories can be read and enjoyed in any order. Perhaps you will start with Alcohol - 'genetic revelations of when yeast invented booze'. Or Prions -'from cannibals and mad cows to new modes of heredity and evolution'. Or maybe Higgs bosons - 'the multi-billion-dollar quest for the mass-maker'. Wherever you begin - and you can begin anywhere - you can be sure of an engrossing and a surprising voyage of discovery. As Nigel Calder puts it, the best of science is romantically exciting, and also illuminating - so why trouble busy readers with anything that isn't?

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Superstrings and green whiskers.......2005-09-05

This is a remarkably interesting series of science essays (the author calls them 'short stories'). Even if I had not read the back of the book's dust jacket, I would have known that Nigel Calder was a former writer for the ebullient British weekly, "New Scientist." He's got their opinionated, breezy, clear style of writing. "Magic Universe" scintillates. It is easy to understand. The author does not linger overly long on even the most fascinating topics (actually, this brevity is sometimes frustrating).

There are several ways of working through the book. There is the 'spider-web' method as illustrated by the book's end-papers, where all of the subjects are ultimately linked together. For instance, I started onto a subject path with "Volcanic Explosions (where will the next big one be?)" which led to "Hotspots (are there really chimneys deep inside the Earth?)" which pointed to "Plate Motions (what rocky machinery refurbishes the Earth's surface?)" which sent me back to "Extremophiles (creatures that thrive in unexpected places)."

According to the author, the "spider's web" celebrates a reunion of the many subdivisions of science that is now in progress..." but I'm getting dizzy flipping back and forth. Let's try an alphabetic read-through for awhile, starting at "Extremophiles"--> "Flood Basalts (can impacting comets set continents in motion?)"--> "Flowering (colourful variations on a theme of genetic pathways)" --> "Forces (a pointer entry)."

Wait a minute, here's an interesting entry about something called the 'Casimir force (the attractive force between two surfaces in a vacuum).' I've never heard of it, even though I'm a faithful cover-to-cover reader of "New Scientist." Where does it point? To "Plasma Crystals." What is a Plasma Crystal? Isn't that an oxymoron? Let me just follow this topic a little further...

Warning: if you like good writing, especially concerning outré, outer-edge-of-science topics, you might not be able to put down "Magic Universe" until you've read every 'short story' in this book. From first-hand experience, the author knows that "thrilling discoveries can tip-toe in, almost unnoticed to begin with."

There were many thrilling discoveries for me. Consider those plasma crystals. They opened up many windows in astronomy for me, including a new look at the method by which planets form.

Nigel Calder also believes that the surest way to shorten this book's life would be to "report only the consensual opinions of the late 20th century." To drive home this point, let me quote from his article on "Superstrings (Retuning the cosmic imagination):" "A scandalous fact was not lost on the bystanders. This was the lack of even the smallest shred of direct evidence for the validity of either superstring or M-theory as a description of the real world." What can a great science writer like the author do, but refer to Lewis Carroll's White Knight: "But I was thinking of a plan/ to dye one's whiskers green, /And always use so large a fan /That they could not be seen."

Do superstrings exist? Are they composed of green whiskers? Read, "Magic Universe" and you'll be pondering similar, mind-bending theories.

Good book. Highly recommended.......2005-08-31

I have been reading this book whenever I can make some time. The endeavour is to keep myself abreast of the latest that human civilisation has to offer, as far as scientific achievemnts are concerned. I must say the book is written very well and especially Nigel's breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding are remarkable.
For a person like me, having lost touch with pure science for the last 15 years or so this is almost a revelation.
However, I can't hand this book over to my son, 10 year's old for example. The concepts are, naturally too advanced. If, however, Nigel is reading this review I urge him to write an illustrated encyclopedia on Modern science, so he can reach out to more people, more children. His knowledge and depth of understanding, gained during his entire life devoted to science, is too much to lose for human civilisation.

Calder Makes Current Science Come Alive.......2005-05-07

Nigel Calder is a lifelong science journalist. He has spent 49 years explaining big scientific discoveries to the public, and is perhaps best known for his award winning science documentaries for BBC TV.

This book is an obvious labor of love consisting of 119 chapters in 705 pages, averaging 5.9 pages per entry. I suspect he has written about most (if not all) of these subjects in the past, judging from the familiarity and ease with which he handles each item. For $4.50 plus postage (used through Amazon) one could not find a better, cheaper science resource book. Time and again after bringing us up to date in a given chapter, Calder tells us about new research, imminent plans for a new satellite or new technology which will exponentially increase our knowledge base within only a few short years. In Nigel Calder's world, what an exciting time to be alive!

It will take a while, but I guarantee reading this book will be well worth your time. "Magic Universe" can be read straight through (the chapters are in alphabetical order), each new subject being pot luck, or start anywhere you like. At the end of any given chapter, you will be directed to 2-5 related chapters, thereby maintaining continuity in that particular field.

Calder is brilliant in the depth of his knowledge. While presenting the inevitable scientific controversies, he does not hesitate to show his biases. I approve of his license to do so and believe this quality of his writing adds color and vitality.

By the way, did you know that one of the naturally occuring forms of carbon has 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons, just like a soccer ball? This little gem from the chapter "Buckyballs and Nanotubes" gained entry into a 10th grade chemistry paper my son was writing.

On a personal note, I have endeavored to increase my science literacy during the past 2 years. One of the better books I started with was Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything." Calder's book is more complete, more knowledgeable, and is pure gold. I do not have a higher recommendation for a mid-range comprehensive science book. I believe if this book (and Bryson's) were somehow included with (or substituted for) the usual textual materials in high schools, there would be a significant increase in candidates for majors in science of all types in college.

Congratulations, Nigel Calder, on this superb effort.

Amazing book.......2005-01-17

Almost all my free time during the past two weeks has been devoted to reading this extraordinary book. I thought that I would read just a selection of the (119) essays (over 700 pages!) on the cutting edge of science, but after reading two or three I was so enthralled that I turned to the beginning and read all the way through. Why? Simply because this is easily the most readable and knowledge-packed book on science that I have ever read.

The range of topics (organized alphabetically from "Alcohol" to "Volcanic Explosions") that science writer extraordinary Nigel Calder reports on is impressive, from the very small at the subatomic level to the very large at the edge of the universe, to the very old near the beginning of the Big Bang, to the very new as the genomes of species are being read. The depth and breath of Calder's knowledge is extraordinary, but that's not the best part of this frankly amazing book. What Calder does so very well is convey that knowledge in a way that makes science fascinating.

He calls his essays "stories." He usually begins with a bit of atmosphere, letting us know where the research is being done and who the people are making the discoveries. And then he may dip back into time and give us a brief historical precis. After that Calder takes us right up to the very edge of discovery, and sometimes even beyond, as he tries to make sense of where the research is going and what effect it will have on our lives. His prose is full of excitement and fascination, and yet he is no pie-in-the-sky enthusiast. Indeed, as he says in the Introduction, he's wary of scientific hype and dogmatism, and aware "that thrilling discoveries can tiptoe in, almost unnoticed," and so his tone is sober and largely objective.

The result is no modest accomplishment. Very few other people in the world could have written this book. Perhaps no one else could have. Calder's requisite knowledge comes from a lifetime of reading, editing and reporting on science in the press, in magazines and on television. He negotiates a fine path between pleasing scientists and those who read about science. He must be both accurate and intelligible--and, as far as I can tell, he is both to an amazing degree.

Yet there is, as he allows, a certain subjectivity inevitable in such a momentous task--the task of guiding the educated reader to a knowledge of what is happening in a host of scientific disciplines. The science must not only be reported on, but it must be interpreted; and, as anyone who has ever interpreted anything more difficult than the leaves at the bottom of a tea cup knows, the interpretative waters are murky and full of danger.

Before I suggest a couple of places where Calder may have gone wrong--and believe me no one could write a book like this and not be wrong in at least a dozen places--let me say that I would not have--could not have--read this book unless I was enormously impressed with what I was reading. One does not devote so many hours to one book--especially considering the reading schedule that I have--without the belief that the time is very well spent.

I am not qualified to critique Calder's interpretation of what is likely to come from a bigger and faster supercollider, or whether epigenetic heredity can explain the rapid development of new species, or a hundred other ideas that Calder comments on. Even those people at the horizon of a particular discipline cannot be sure. But I very much like the fact that Calder sometimes takes a critical stance and sometimes dares to put his reputation on the line by evaluating the discoveries. He has no chair at university to maintain, nor is he in the employ of any organization or government. So he is free to say what he wants as long as it is intellectually responsible. In fact, that is one of the most agreeable features of his writing.

When he avers that "Evolution proceeds mainly as a result of changes in the control of pre-existing genes," (p. 414) as he assumes a nongradualist view of evolution, one can agree or disagree, but be glad that he does indeed interpret the work being done. However when he takes a tone that suggests, as he does several times in the book, that environmentalists are largely alarmists while reminding us that so far Malthus has been wrong, one must demur. Or when he tells "conservationists" that "a sensible policy" (for reducing the killing of African animals for bushmeat) would be to "help... [indigenous people] find alternative sources of affordable protein," one wonders why he misses the better advice of helping them to find better methods of birth control. Artificially feeding a population that has grown too large for its larder is not going to solve the problem in the long run, and indeed is only going to extend the pain to generations to come.

These quibbles aside, this is a book not to be missed, a delight, an adventure in reading, and easily one of those books that the scientific-minded person most certainly would like to have on that desert island.

Let me close with an example of Calder's understated, dry wit. He is talking about Homo erectus. He writes, "Although this species then spread successfully across Eurasia, and was a skilled predator, it went on making the same old hand-axes for more than a million years--which suggests a certain lack of imagination." (p. 411)

One more. Here he is being sly as he refers to "a vacuum at the heart of biology, which leaves the survival of the fittest as an empty tautology. The survivors are defined as the fittest because they survive..." (p. 47)

Spanning all of science.......2004-06-07

Nigel Calder is a distinguished polymath and author, whose interests for years have spanned all of modern science. Here, he demonstrates his intellect and eloquence in 756 pages of compelling prose.

You can't fail to be impressed by how well he covers both the biological and the physical sciences. It is really tough to do both well. Perhaps Calder is a good successor to the late Isaac Asimov.

Very suitable (and recommended) for a high school or undergraduate reading. I would claim that this book is best directed at the high school level. For it is there that students may decide to pursue further studies in science, or not. And even for those who do not, the book gives an excellent and authoritative broad spectrum education in science, that they can carry with them in good stead.

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Magic Universe: The Oxford Guide to Modern Science
Nigel Calder
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Two university professors report on the results of ten years of research into the Shakespeare authorship controversy, showing that the name 'William Shakespeare' was definitely a pseudonym for Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and that Oxford wrote under a range of pseudonyms

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Many layered falsehood.......2004-09-25

Approximately 75 thousand years ago (modern scholarship is not yet able to be more precise) Cave Man Jake, a Neanderthal, pounded and scraped a series of deathless dramas, a clutch of memorable poetry, into the chalks of the land we know as Southern England, and coated it with mastodon grease as a sealant. Wm. Shakespeare, an enterprising businessmen of the stage, hired the multitudinous young genius Chr. Marlowe to translate these works into English. By some shady strategm, public knowledge of this work of antiquarian scholarship was prevented from transpiring to the ears of the public and posterity. One wonders how the great scholar of Cave Man Language actually met his early demise.
We know from all this, completely disregarded by the authors, that the Neanderthals were in truth every bit as intelligent as Cro-Magnon Man. Or at least Cave Man Jake was.

Mad Methods in this Madness Or Linguistic Lunacy.......2004-07-11

Even for the hardboiled supporter of the Earl of Oxford as true author of Shakespeare's works this book must be just a teeny weeny bit too much: The authors have managed to discover the fabulous Earl not only as author of Shakespeare, but as the true author of just about ALL English literature written between 1558 and 1604 - the talented Earl at the tender age of 8 being explicitly commanded to that enterprise by Queen Elizabeth to raise the quality of English literature. The list of the creative Earl's real-life-pseudonyms includes (among many many others) Gascoigne, Golding, Green, Lyly, Marlowe, Peele, Sidney, Shakespeare, Spenser....

This find is no surprise, considering just three of 14 »heuristic strategies« the authors use for identification of Shakespeare's" linguistic fingerprints in Elizabethan literature:

»Ox-Strategy: Consider occurrences of orthographic o in Elizabethan literature as possible clues to de Vere's authorship, especially in connection with e as eo."
This means, all publications that contain words with o (especially big O) are possible works of Edward de Vere, Earl of O-xford; as well as works with words containing eo = E.O. = Earl of Oxford (as for example eo in the name "George" = unrefutable evidence of de Veres authorship)(no, this is no joke!).

VER-Strategy: Consider all Elizabethan works that contain words with VER (as ever, fever, never, deliver, quiver, lover, verity, suffer etc. etc.) as possibly written by the Earl of Oxford (no joke either!)

"Original-Source-Strategy: Consider Shakespeare's English language sources with the expectation that they are themselves the works of Shakespeare-de Vere.
Etc. etc.

Considering those criteria, it should be hard going to find ANY literary work of that period that was NOT written by the Earl of Oxford.

Obviously, there is method in this madness: Both authors are tenured linguists at the University of Washington. Initially I took the whole thing to be a send-up of the authorship-issue; but a hoax of about 530 pages is just a bit over top: overdoing the joke. No, this is dead serious: The two authors have threatened to write a follow-up of three more books on the subject.

I'm no psychiatrist - but its hard to avoid the impression that this is a case of partial lunacy in its concise medical sense. And the disease seems to be catching - Professor Sharon Hagus, Professor Rafael Escribano, Professor Yasukuni Takano and Professor Jack Hoeksema, all of them praising the book (for example: The arguments are very clear, cohesive and convincing") seem to be heavily infected.

Not even to be recommended as a good laugh - its boring as hell.

(Amazon demands at least 1 star out of 5; if I had the choice I would vote for 5 lemons of the most sour sort).

Poor.......2003-07-25

I found this over-argued and altogether recherche. There are clear indications, evident to any truly educated person, that Queen Elizabeth the First wrote the plays of the so-called William Shakespeare. This is true no matter what Brame, Popova and Mark Twain may say.

A thoughtful and convincingly written account.......2003-03-09

Collaboratively researched and written by linquists and University of Washington professors Michael Brame and Galina Popova, by Shakespeare's Fingerprints is a compelling discourse defending the idea that the name "William Shakespeare" was in fact a pseudonym. The real author behind the classic plays of genius may have been Edward de Vere (the 17th Earl of Oxford), or someone else, according to carefully reasoned and supported theories. A thoughtful and convincingly written account, Shakespeare's Fingerprints is a welcome addition to the growing body of Shakespearian literature seeking to determine the correct identity of the author who produced some of the finest work extent in the history of English literature.

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