Total Risk: Nick Leeson and the Fall of Barings Bank

Customer Reviews:

An Enjoyable Read.......1999-12-09

Unlike the previous reviewer, I found the book to be a captivating and educational read! The plot held my attention throughout the book, even through the technical descriptions of how investment futures work. I felt that the book was a balanced blend of story and analysis. If you want more than a superficial account of the Barings debacle, this is a good book for you.

It is true that this author focuses as much on the role of management in the fall of Barings as on Nick Leeson's role in it, which is fine. It is an opinion that she substantiates somewhat persuasively throughout the book. The reader gets the sense that Nick was just an opportunist who took advantage of a glaring management weakness at Barings. (The author will not be able to persuade you, however, that Nick is just a good guy who slipped. He's scum. I think the author was too lenient with him.) But through her account of Baring Bank's mismanagement of its Futures division, the author provides a very useful lesson for senior management out there.

Pretty dull really.......1997-08-07

This is an account which does not delve enough into the psychology of Nick Leeson personally (as opposed to traders generally) to be interesting, and is too apologetic for the management debacle that was Barings. Skip it. Nick's disingenous account is better. Lefevre's story of about stock operators is better still

Total Risk : Nick Leeson & the Fall of Barings Bank

Average customer rating:

Total Risk : Nick Leeson & the Fall of Barings Bank
Judith H. Rawnsley
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OF9FMU

Total risk : Nick Leeson and the fall of Barings Bank / Judith H. Rawnsley

Average customer rating:

Total risk : Nick Leeson and the fall of Barings Bank / Judith H. Rawnsley
Judith H. Rawnsley
Manufacturer: New York, NY : HarperBusiness
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VZMELC

Average customer rating:

Total Risk: Nick Leeson & the Fall of Barings Bank
Judith H. Rawnsley
Manufacturer: Harper Collins
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NQGTM4

Book Description

The book deals with collaborative planning, an approach to supply chain planning which aims to coordinate planning tasks of independent supply chain partners while respecting their local decision authority. The major contribution of this work is to provide a process model concerned with the decision making and negotiation aspects of collaborative planning. Taking technological means for data exchange as a given, it sketches a detailed picture of a collaborative planning process at the medium-term level of master planning, assuming that mathematical programming models are used by all partners. Building on the planning process, it indicates how financial outcomes and partner incentives are affected by the negotiations of supply quantities between buyers and suppliers, and demonstrates how supply contract terms can be adapted in order to establish a win-win situation for all partners.

Azeotropic Data-III (Advances in Chemistry Series 116)
Average customer rating:
Azeotropic Data-III (Advances in Chemistry Series 116)
Lee H. Horlsey
Manufacturer: Amer Chemical Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Science | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0841205337

Book Description

MATLAB is used in a wide range of applications in geosciences, such as image processing in remote sensing, generation and processing of digital elevation models and the analysis of time series. This book introduces basic methods of data analysis in geosciences using MATLAB. The text includes a brief description of each method and numerous examples demonstrating how MATLAB can be used on data sets from earth sciences. All MATLAB recipes can be easily modified in order to analyse the reader's own data sets. The book comes with a CD containing exemplary data sets and a digital version of the MATLAB recipes.

Geographic Information Systems for Geoscientists: Modelling with GIS (Computer Methods in the Geosciences)

Average customer rating:

Great text for learning GIS in the Geosciences

Geographic Information Systems for Geoscientists: Modelling with GIS (Computer Methods in the Geosciences)
G.F. Bonham-Carter
Manufacturer: Pergamon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books

Geophysics | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Travel | Subjects | Books

Earth Sciences | Sciences | New & Used Textbooks | Stores | Books

All Amazon Upgrade | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Computers & Internet | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Engineering | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Professional & Technical | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Science | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Travel | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
Similar Items:

The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis Volume 1: Geographic Patterns & Relationships
Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop: The Basics of ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo Updated for ArcGIS 9 (Getting to Know series)
An Introduction to Applied Geostatistics
Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS
The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis: Volume 2: Spatial Measurements and Statistics

ASIN: 0080424201

Book Description

This valuable reference book is unique in its coverage of examples from the geological sciences, many centred on applications to mineral exploration. The underlying principles of GIS are stressed and emphasis placed on the analysis and modelling of spatial data with applications to site selection and potential mapping. The book commences with a definition of GIS and describes a case study of mapping mineral potential. The ways in which spatial data are organized with models (raster, vector, relational) are discussed and data structures, such as quadtrees and topological structures are introduced. Data input including digitizing, geographic projections and conversions is covered together with output (visualization, representation of colour and spatial query). Spatial data transformations are dealt with thoroughly and attention is paid to map analysis and modelling as related to single maps, map pairs and multiple maps respectively. Methods of quantifying the associations between pairs of maps are emphasized. Finally, examples of landfill site selection and mineral potential mapping illustrate the application of map algebra for combining maps and tables with models, employing Boolean logic, index weighting, fuzzy logic and probability methods such as weights of evidence. There is an extensive glossary of terms, and references accompany each chapter. Contains 40 pages of colour illustrations.

Customer Reviews:

Great text for learning GIS in the Geosciences.......2000-01-02

This book is a great library addition for those interested in the use of GIS in geosciences. Most of the examples are given from the SPANS program but translate easily into other software. Reading the book will give you a good understanding of aspects of spatial analysis in the Geosciences. There is a lot of detail and good examples.

The Current Role of Geological Mapping in Geosciences: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Innovative Applications of GIS in Geological ... IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences)

Average customer rating:

The Current Role of Geological Mapping in Geosciences: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Innovative Applications of GIS in Geological ... IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences)

Manufacturer: Springer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Science | Subjects | Books

All Amazon Upgrade | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Professional & Technical | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

Science | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books

All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Professional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books

Science | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ASIN: 1402035497

Product Description

The book contains private views of experts from various countries on the role of geological mapping in sustainable development. New technologies and concepts are presented, which are either awaiting for recognition by Geological Surveys, or are gradually applied in some survey. The target of the book is well worded in the "Summary and recommendations" elaborated by the Ad Hoc Committee at the Advanced ResearchWorkshop on Innovative Geological Cartography, held under NATO sponsorship in Poland in November 2003. After the "Summaries" were issued by the end of 2003, the authors who presented their views at the Workshop, gave revised versions of their papers with more new ideas and materials. Generally, the book is addressed to cartographers in Geological Surveys, geologists and geographers co-operating with landuse planners, ecologists and decision makers, who may learn about the state-of-the-art and the enormous information potential of the modern information technologies in Geosciences. The book, however, gives no methodological recipes but, as it was authors' intention, may and shall be used as a guide-book in modernizing Information Technologies at the local, regional and national levels in Geosciences.

Average customer rating:

Geoscience After IT
T. V. Loudon
Manufacturer: Pergamon Press Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books

Geophysics | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books

General | Science | Subjects | Books

General | History & Philosophy | Science | Subjects | Books

High-Tech | Industries & Professions | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

Book Description

Hardbound. Most geoscientists are aware of recent IT developments, but cannot spend time on obscure technicalities. Few have considered their implications for the science as a whole. Yet the information industry is moving fast: electronic delivery of hyperlinked multimedia; standards to support interdisciplinary and geographic integration; new models to represent and visualize our concepts, and control and manage our activities; plummeting costs that force the pace. To stay on course, the scientist needs a broad appreciation of the complex and profound interactions of geoscience and IT, not previously reviewed in a single work. The book brings together ideas from many sources, some probably unfamiliar, that bear on the geoscience information system. It encourages readers to give thought to areas that, for various reasons, they have taken for granted, and to take a view on forces affecting geoscience, the consequences for themselves and their organ

Geology and wine 8. Modeling viticultural landscapes: a GIS analysis of the terroir potential in the Umpqua Valley of Oregon.(Series): An article from: Geoscience Canada

Average customer rating:

Geology and wine 8. Modeling viticultural landscapes: a GIS analysis of the terroir potential in the Umpqua Valley of Oregon.(Series): An article from: Geoscience Canada
Gregory V. Jones , Nicholas Snead , and Peder Nelson
Manufacturer: Geological Association of Canada
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

General | Science | Subjects | Books

Science & Technology | Subjects | e-Docs | Formats | Books

Book Description

This digital document is an article from Geoscience Canada, published by Geological Association of Canada on December 1, 2004. The length of the article is 8521 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.

Citation Details
Title: Geology and wine 8. Modeling viticultural landscapes: a GIS analysis of the terroir potential in the Umpqua Valley of Oregon.(Series)
Author: Gregory V. Jones
Publication: Geoscience Canada (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2004
Publisher: Geological Association of Canada
Volume: 31 Issue: 4 Page: 167(12)

Distributed by Thomson Gale

Average customer rating:

GIS & the geosciences
Richard L Bedell
Manufacturer: Geological Society of America
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Average customer rating:

GIS for the Geosciences
R. L. Bedell
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books

GIS for the geosciences: Short course, GIS (geographic information systems) : for the National Geological Society of America, October 23rd 1994, Seattle WA USA

Average customer rating:

GIS for the geosciences: Short course, GIS (geographic information systems) : for the National Geological Society of America, October 23rd 1994, Seattle WA USA
Richard L Bedell
Manufacturer: Homestake Mining Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

GIS for the geosciences: Shortcourse, GIS (geographic information system)

Average customer rating:

GIS for the geosciences: Shortcourse, GIS (geographic information system)
Richard L Bedell
Manufacturer: Exploration Dept., Homestake Mining Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books