Quantitative Analysis in Financial Markets Volume I : Collected Papers of the New York University Mathematical Finance Seminar

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This invaluable book contains lectures presented at the Courant Institute's Mathematical Finance Seminar. The audience consisted of academics from New York University and other universities, as well as practitioners from investment banks, hedge funds and asset-management firms.

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Legal Forms and Procedures Handbook of New York 2000 (Legal Forms and Procedures Handbook of New York, 2001)
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Manufacturer: Gould Pubns
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 9990293562

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New York Legal Forms and Procedures Handbook 2000 (New York Forms and Procedures Handbook, 2000)
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Manufacturer: Gould Pubns
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 9999196136

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Now in its fifth edition, the book has been updated to include more detailed descriptions of new or more commonly used techniques since the last edition as well as remove those that are no longer used, procedures which have been developed recently, ionization constants (pKa values) and also more detail about the trivial names of compounds.

In addition to having two general chapters on purification procedures, this book provides details of the physical properties and purification procedures, taken from literature, of a very extensive number of organic, inorganic and biochemical compounds which are commercially available. This is the only complete source that covers the purification of laboratory chemicals that are commercially available in this manner and format.

* Complete update of this valuable, well-known reference
* Provides purification procedures of commercially available chemicals and biochemicals
* Includes an extremely useful compilation of ionisation constants

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Cannot properly review because amazon won't sell it........2007-05-27

This is more a review of amazon then the book. I have been trying to order the digital version for close to six months and I am encountering the same idiotic obstacles. Amazon will let me add the digital version to my shopping cart from my wish list. When I get to my shopping cart the book is not there and I get a message telling me to go to the product page for instructions on how to order. Go to the product page and there are no instructions. WTF????? Emailing customer support about the issue and I am told to follow the instructions on the product page. WTF???? So now not only has customer service failed to read my complaint they did not bother to check into my complaint. Why hasn't this situation been addressed?

An Absolute Essential for Chemists!.......2000-11-18

As a chemist, I am often in need of techniques for purification of various chemicals. Often time is a constraint and the "best" technique may be too time consuming, if one even knows what it is. This text offers several alternatives to the purificatin of most common compounds (especially solvents), including the best way to make the compound pure as well as other known techniques. One can then choose, based on the reaction one is doing whether one needs to use the best techniques or the fastest technique to get mostly pure material or somewhere inbetween. Unfortunately, often the text does not list the actual percent purity that each technique can yield (though it is often easy enough to guess which methodology will yield the best results.) An invaluable resource for any chemist, but especially for graduate students.

Great for the "Synthetic" Chemist.......2000-06-06

This is an indispensible resource for any synthetic chemist, either organic or inorganic (not sure about the biochemical section). This book has concise, informative entries on the purification of a vast number of common solvents and reagents. I don't know how any chemist can survive without having this on his/her bookshelf!

Great for the Organic Chemist.......1998-12-31

Like Carey & Sundberg, Jerry March, the Aldrich catalog, and the Merck Index, (etc.), this book should be a benchmate for the Organic Chemist. It is very good when one requires the purification of reagents, or the drying/purification of solvents. The protocols for purification are usually pretreatment followed by distillation or recrystallization, and can be carried out to give anywhere from moderately pure material, to giving the pure, pure substance.

Excellent for the research organic chemistry graduate student or the pharmaceutical industrial research chemist who likes to start with the purest materials, so as to leave only the investigative variables open to question.

However, in industry, although FedEx-ing new and pure reagents (and disposal of the old questionable ones!) is the easiest and encouraged method for research, it is often found that purification is totally appropriate--in these instances, Purification of Laboratory Chemicals (D.D. Perrin & W.L.F. Armarego) is highly recommended.

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MAX PLANCK (1858-1947) ist als Begründer der Quantentheorie der herausragende Physiker Deutschlands. 1918 erhielt er den Nobelpreis für Physik. Er hat sich in Wort und Schrift zu brennenden Problemen aus Kultur, Religion und Wissenschaft geäußert. Viele dieser Beiträge haben bis heute ihre Aussagekraft nicht verloren. Die vorliegende Sammlung, zusammengestellt und herausgegeben von Hans Roos und Armin Hermann, würdigt den Menschen und Physiker anläßlich des 100jährigen Jubiläums der Geburtsstunde der Quantentheorie (14.12.1900). Das Buch richtet sich an eine breite Leserschaft.

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Megaton Man is an outrageous and loony satire of the superhero genre. The origins of Megaton Man are shrouded in mystery. Some say he was bitten by a radioactive frog, others that he was a guinea pig in a top secret government megasoldier program. Regardless, one-time normal civilian Trent Phloog now has superpowers and is Megaton Man! Armed with a highly developed sense of justice, superhumanly developed biceps, and a brain the size of a pea, Megaton Man strides through the city determined to bring evildoers to task-regardless of the chaos he causes.

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WOO!.......2006-07-13

I believe this book was originally announced as a "Best of Megaton Man" collection, but DON SIMPSON'S MEGATON MAN, from ibooks, is actually a collection of MM #1-5, from 1984-85. But hey, you're still getting some great material! This series from Simpson is a superb satire of the superhero genre in general, and a parody of 1960s Marvel Comics in particular: the hyperbole, the purple prose, the beloved origins, and even goofs on artistic styles are all here, along with thinly-disguised versions of Silver Age Marvel heroes (sometimes bordering on the edge of lawsuit). There are even mock-ups of classic covers. Megaton Man is a hypermuscular and nigh-invulnerable clod who none-too-subtly disguises himself as Trent Phloog, ace reporter, simply by wearing an ill-fitting suit and hat over his superhero togs.

The humor and look is straight out of Harvey Kurtzman's MAD - the buffoonish characters, the chaotic crowded panels, the excessive details. Believe it or not, the storyline does get a bit laborious at times, and I can't say it's all that easy to follow the flashbacks, let alone figure out where Simpson was going with this storyline at the time. Actually, what begins as a parody of Marvel heroes appears to be developing towards some serious insight into their motivations (or lack thereof) near the end of the book. The only real problem I have with this collection is that the reproduction quality is not that great. The art appears to have been scanned from the printed pages, so lines are blurry, and details and subtle colors are difficult to catch. Still, this is a worthwhile book, just for the humor in the stories. I would love to see more volumes, but as ibooks is under Chapter 7 bankruptcy due to editor Byron Preiss' sudden death in July 2005, that may not be too likely.

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