Research in Banking and Finance, Vol. 3 (Research in Banking and Finance)

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This volume includes papers on topics related to efficiency issues in U.S. and European equity and options markets, as well as the productive efficiency of various types of depository financial institutions. In the capital market context, the book highlights the provisions of efficient trading services in the capital markets and the role of market size, concentration, quality, governance and automation of trading. In the banking perspectives, the volume presents topics related to market integration, dynamic models of bank production, regulatory closure rules for banking firms, risk based insurance premiums in banking, and the economics of the research and development in private firms.

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Learning to Solve Problems is a much-needed book that describes models for designing interactive learning environments to support how to learn and solve different kinds of problems. Using a research-based approach, author David H. Jonassena recognized expert in the fieldshows how to design instruction to support three kinds of problems: story problems, troubleshooting, and case and policy analysis problems. Filled with models and job aids, this book describes different approaches for representing problems to learners and includes information about technology-based tools that can help learners mentally represent problems for themselves. Jonassen also explores methods for associating different solutions to problems and discusses various processes for reflecting on the problem solving process. Learning to Solve Problems also includes three methods for assessing problem-solving skillsperformance assessment, component skills; and argumentation.

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Learning to Solve Problems is a much-needed book that describes models for designing interactive learning environments to support how to learn and solve different kinds of problems. Using a research-based approach, author David H. Jonassen-a recognized expert in the field-shows how to design instruction to support three kinds of problems: story problems, troubleshooting, and case and policy analysis problems. Filled with models and job aids, this book describes different approaches for representing problems to learners and includes information about technology-based tools that can help learners mentally represent problems for themselves. Jonassen also explores methods for associating different solutions to problems and discusses various processes for reflecting on the problem solving process. Learning to Solve Problems also includes three methods for assessing problem-solving skills-performance assessment, component skills; and argumentation.

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Legalines on Corporations, 9th--Keyed to Hamilton
Linda Schneider
Manufacturer: Gilberts
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Binding: Paperback

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Gilbert Law Summaries: Agency, Partnership, & Limited Liability Companies (Gilbert Law Summaries)

ASIN: 0314172378
Release Date: 2006-08-21

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This study aid provides detailed explanation of the cases in the corporations casebook by Hamilton. The discussion of each case provides the facts of the case, issues, holdings, and the court's reasoning. This title includes cases that pertain to the closely held business, control and management in the publicly held corporation, and problems common to closely held and publicly held businesses.

Legalines: Corporations Keyed to Hamilton (Legalines)

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Legalines: Corporations Keyed to Hamilton (Legalines)

Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace Legal and Professional Publica
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ASIN: 015900313X

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Unedited interviews of varying interest.......2004-05-24

This book is a collection of interviews Swift conducted with sixteen scientists and engineers who played significant roles in starting a scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence (a seventeenth interview of a younger researcher is tacked on at the end). The interviews vary widely in substantive interest. Unfortunately, Swift gives us the full contents of each interview, including what he said himself. This forces the reader to wade through a lot of marginal verbiage to get to the nuggets of thought-provoking material. The book would be far more readable, and shorter, if Swift had been tougher about editing his own work. The concluding chapter provides some interesting sociological analysis.

Seti Pioneers: Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

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Seti Pioneers: Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
David W. Swift
Manufacturer: Univ of Arizona Pr
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ASIN: B000K3UAVQ

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Highly recommended.......2006-11-28

There isn't too much to say, except that this is a great book. The artistic depictions are by turns evocative and poignant (Who can look at the pair of emaciated Apatosaurs without wincing?), and the text is well-written, occasionally poetic, even. However, I can't quite recommend it for beginners; the book's general focus is actually more on paleoecology and geology than dinosaurs proper, which may make it slow-going for neophytes. Nevertheless, for people who consider themselves to be at the intermediate level and up, I think it's a great choice.

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Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics merges two long-running serials-Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics and Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy. This series features extended articles on the physics of electron devices (especially semiconductor devices), particle optics at high and low energies, microlithography, image science and digital image processing, electromagnetic wave propagation, electron microscopy, and the computing methods used in all these domains.

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Good understanding........1998-10-19

For the physics that want to go deeper in quantum optics, a really good book.

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The Valkyrie is one of the icons of modern aviation, which is curious considering only two were built and they flew just 164 times. Like the Maiden it was named for, the Valkyrie awed those around it. Beautiful in form, and almost unbelievable in function, the B-70 would have been the ultimate incarnation of Curtis LeMay's vision of a strategic bomber. The half-million pound aircraft was capable of flying over 2,000 miles per hour in excess of 80,000 feet, and doing it for hours at a time. Fantastic as the Valkyrie appeared, it was not to be. The political and fiscal climate that existed during the 1960s strangled - then killed - the aircraft almost before it was born. This is the story of the largest Mach 3 aircraft ever flown - the North American Aviation XB-70A Valkyrie. Dennis R. Jenkins and Tony R. Landis have conducted extensive research in military, NASA, and company archives to find previously uncovered aspects of this fascinating program. Included are descriptions of the proposed bombing and navigation systems, defensive armament, electronic countermeasures, and early attempts at stealth technology. Accompanied by over 250 photos and dozens of illustrations, this in-depth history covers the entire B-70 program, not just the two aircraft that ultimately flew.

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Comprehensive.......2007-06-28

An amazingly comprehensive view of the B-70 project and other military projects that were associated with it. It's a glimpse into a frantic period when weapons systems were evolving so rapidly and the stakes couldn't have been higher... nuclear annihalation.

As the US and Soviet Union jockey furiously trying to allocate their finite resources to the most promising weapons, the B-70 emerges as the last gasp of the high speed high altitude manned penetrator school of thought... just as unmanned ICBM's and SAM's render this idea untenable.

Although this book is written entirely as a rather detached factual account, the result is remakably dramatic. The stops and starts and misdirections that our government takes desperately trying to stay "ahead" of the Soviets gives a glimpse of how highly charged this issue was.

The book is well-written and well-researched. Not to be missed.

Great Book!.......2007-02-13

Answered all my questions and more. Definitive book on a monumental aircraft. Additional chapters on other subjects would be worth the price as a separate volume.

Valkyrie - Sky Goddess Takes Flight.......2007-01-02

Valkyrie - North American's Mach 3 Superbomber
Dennis R. Jenkins & Tony R. Landis
© 2004 Specialty Press
Review by Ned Barnett

Ohmygosh - this book is remarkable. Fantastic. Fascinating. Detailed almost beyond belief. This is without a doubt the most comprehensive volume on a single experimental aircraft type that I have ever read, and considering the fact that I've been a voracious reader of books on aviation technology since 1962, that's saying a lot.

First of all - this book, produced by Specialty Press, is a beautiful example of the printer's art. It is remarkably well-manufactured, well-designed and well laid-out. The balance of color and B&W photography, graphs and charts and line drawings - and text, reams of informative text - is a classic example of what an aviation-technology book ought to be about.

If you have any interest in the B-70, this book is for you. However, if you DON'T have any interest in the B-70, this book is still for you - it absolutely will change your mind about the Valkyrie. I know. Before I got a review copy of Valkyrie from Specialty, I never really cared much for this failed exercise in creating a high-speed manned bomber. I'd seen the cine-film shots of the plane's fatal crash on a test flight, and viewed the B-70 Valkyrie as a tragic technological "bridge too far," one that cost the lives of brave men, yet led nowhere. Besides, as a modeler, I could hardly get too interested in an aircraft that had basically one marking scheme during its too short test career. It never flew combat, never carried squadron markings or nose art, never flew in camouflage - or even bare metal. It was white, dull, unadorned - a failure.

Wrong! Oh, sure, the plane flew in one basic marking scheme. But it still offers modelers a lot of opportunities for creating something distinctive. The Valkyrie flew so fast that the paint burnt off, leaving the plane looking like it had a bad case of acne. The Valkyrie landed at such high speed that burnt-up tires were a constant companion, offering modelers interesting vignette/diorama possibilities - the famous (at least famous among B-70 fans) "tip-toe" landing just begs for a diorama. This plane had more than it's share of landing incidents, including a near-disaster on it's maiden flight - all of which could be modeled. And that's just the beginning.

The Valkyrie went through more provisional designs - many of them visionary, others nothing short of bizarre - than you can shake a large-sized stick at, and this exceptional book covers them all, with line drawings, photos of desktop models, and remarkably informative text. I literally had no idea just how fascinating the development of this Superbomber really was, but this book was enough to open my eyes.

The B-70 was not an aircraft developed in isolation - a series of Mach 3 fighters were created in lock-step; none went into production, but when you see these sleek machines and marvel at their performance, you've got to wonder why. In addition, the Valkyrie was planned to be more than "just" a multi-sonic strategic bomber. Designers saw it as a launch vehicle for the X-15 rocket plane, for nuclear-armed ICBMs, for manned Gemini spacecraft and for low-earth-orbit satellites. And that was just for starters. However, no matter how remarkable the aircraft was (and it was VERY remarkable) the Valkyrie ultimately fell victim, first to the potential threat from Soviet SAM missile technology such as the SA-2 that shot down a high-flying U-2 spy plane, and more directly to the dubious management style and budget-cutting talents of President Kennedy's Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara. This is the man who also gave us the botched TFX program ... and, perhaps coincidentally, the man who finally admitted that he lied to Congress and the American people about Tonkin Gulf in order to "justify" an aggressive war in Vietnam, a war that cost American 58,000 fighting men to no good purpose.

While it's a shame that the Valkyrie didn't become operational - this is a conclusion I reached after reading the book - McNamara's budget-cutting decision that killed the B-70 is a minor issue compared to this once-respected Secretary of Defense's blood-soaked dishonesty over Vietnam. If McNamara ever made a good decision as Secretary of Defense, I'm not aware of it. Killing off what was arguably the most remarkable aircraft developed to that time is merely an example of the kinds of bad decisions McNamara made while serving under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

Almost none of this political rant is in the book - I just have strong feelings about McNamara's lies and the blood-price America paid for his misguided decisions - but his impact on the B-70 is noted. No matter how you feel about McNamara - or Vietnam - set that aside and enjoy this book. It's about technology, not politics, and it's perhaps the most stellar book on a single airplane I've ever seen.

I generally skim review books - except those that really zero in on my areas of personal interest. This should have been a "skim-job" - but instead, I invested an entire weekend reading it from cover to cover in one giant gulp. Sleep? Who needs it!

Unless I haven't made it clear, I cannot recommend this book too highly. From every perspective - text, illustrations, design, even printing - this is an exceptional book and well worth your investment in time and dollars.

Buy It.......2006-03-03

If you are interested in the XB-70 AT ALL buy this book. This is by far the best book on the subject. Thats not to say the others are without merit. This book tells you everything you want to know and more. Look back into the past when we (the USA) use to think we could do and build anything if we set are minds to it. Where have those days gone?

Great book on a super aircraft.......2006-01-18

One of the few books that really cover the XB-70, an airplane that was cancelled after two prototypes were built in Palmdale during the early 1960's. The F-108 Rapier was killed before even a prototype could be built. I was thre when the XB-70 made its first flight and worked at NASA when they used it for a test bed. It was a shame that the plane was terminated when short sighted people thought that iw would be vulnerable to a SAM like the U-2. Since it was capable of Mach 3 flight, sustained ( just like the SR-71 which was never really threatened though many attempts were made to shoot them down). It was an awesome aircraft to see and I was lucky to have found this book which I recommend to anyone that wants to know more about this truly great aircraft. It was a shame the aircraft number two was destroyed when it was on a General Electric photo flight when NASA pilot Joe Walker's F-104 sheared off the XB-70's tail during a mid-air.

Kurtis-Kraft: Masterworks of Speed and Style

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Kurtis-Kraft Heaven
Cool design, Cool topic
Don't waste your time!

Kurtis-Kraft: Masterworks of Speed and Style
Gordon White
Manufacturer: Motorbooks
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0760309108

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Working out of his shop in Glendale, California, Frank Kurtis changed the face of racing, producing a long string of innovative midget, sprint, champ and Indy cars. This photohistory examines the entire range of these Kurtis-Kraft racers, with special emphasis on the 60-plus cars that campaigned the Indianapolis 500 in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Kurtis-Kraft Heaven.......2007-09-05

This is a wonderful book covering the career of one of the great racecar designers and builders of all time. I can't imagine how a better job could have been done with the subject in the same space. Many, many great photos illustrate this history and the text is first-rate.

Cool design, Cool topic.......2002-01-11

This is book full of cool pictures of cool cars. I really like these early roadsters, so I buy everything I can about them. I have to agree with the other review, though, the writing in this really is bad. There are so many cool pictures, though, that they make up for the writing. If you like roadsters and already know a good deal about them, buy the book. If you are a first timer looking for an introduction to the history, this one probably isn't for you.

Don't waste your time!.......2001-12-18

Too bad about this book....Great topic, some good pics, but the author just ran the subject into the ground. I don't think he could connect two thoughts if his life depended on it, so to make up for it, he simply spilled out every mundane detail he could dig out about Frank Kurtis and/or his cars. There is a lot of good primary stuff here, but the author did a lousy job of historiography in distilling it into a concise, engaging story.

The pictures COULD have been awesome, but they are not. Many look like they were photocopies or bad digitals that were reproduced. I am surprised the publisher even considered them...in any case, it contributed to the overall fact that the book is a pile. It really is too bad. This is a very cool period of racing and an interesting, albeit, not crucial, part of the history. The neatest thing about the book is the cover. It will look darn nice on your shelf if you end up with a copy. You will like the pictures, but don't try to decipher the author's ramblings. It will only turn you against Frank Kurtis and his very cool cars.

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Mammy's white folks
Emma Speed Sampson
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Catamaran Racing: Solutions, Secrets, Speed
Rick White
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The Fastest Man On Earth: The Inside Story Of Richard Noble's Land Speed Record
David Tremayne
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Mammy's White Folks
Sampson Emma Speed
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The speed boy: A story of the big league
Frank J Hart
Manufacturer: Lakewood House
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Speed Factory
Bernard Cohen , John Kinsella , Terri-Ann White , and McKenzie Wark
Manufacturer: Fremantle Arts Center Pr
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The Speed of White

Pure Craziness

A roller coaster of laughs

A gem!

Is there a word for "literary diamond mine"?

The Speed Of White
Alyssa Kyser
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1413450393

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The Speed of White.......2007-07-07

Interesting because I live in the same town where it took place. I would say she is a little self-absorbed. She had a lot of good stories though. I enjoyed it, she kept the momentum going.

Pure Craziness.......2006-07-24

This book is unclassifiably unique and rich. It suffers slightly from the lack of professional editing, being self-published, but that adds to its quirkiness in a way. A collection of wicked short stories about marriage with some sentimentality thrown in, I enjoyed it a lot.

A roller coaster of laughs.......2005-09-12

With a heart of gold, Kyser weaves a mixture of wit, sarcasm and fearless truth into stories that are intelligent and hilariously over the top. It's a hell of a read!

A gem!.......2005-04-07

Kyser's uproarious collection of short stories could be described as an episodic novel. Main character Julie, whose post-marriage life takes her through a series of adventures ranging from hysterical to heart-wrenching to downright weird, never loses her momentum, hence the bridal gown-inspired title.

Is there a word for "literary diamond mine"?.......2005-04-06

Because "Speed of White" is packed with gems!

Alyssa Kyser's character, Julie, has a knack for finding both humor and insight under the most trying of circumstances and, without fail, manages to deliver with love, making this book a memorable read.

Velocity gradient method of ray tracing in the atmosphere

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Velocity gradient method of ray tracing in the atmosphere
Thomas G Barnes
Manufacturer: Schellenger Research Laboratory, Texas Western College of the University of Texas
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