Key Financial Instruments: Understanding and Innovating In the World of Derivatives

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This practical manual will help bankers to innovate and sell useful financial products. Written by a leading expert in financial instrument innovation, this book will demystify key financial instruments, their structures, benefits, risks,and rewards. It examines the process of innovating and structuring successful instruments and sheds new light on the why of their development. Using worked examples and high-profile case studies, you will learn to successfully use and avoid the abuse of all types of derivative products.

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the only readable book on derivatives I have come across.......2000-10-18

I have just read the first three chapters and it looks like I'll finish it soon. Key Financial Instruments is the only readable book on derivatives that I have come across.

incredibly well written.......2000-03-18

incredibly well written - like JK Rowling of Harry Potter and Michael Lewis of Liar's Poker combined

find time to read it again.......2000-02-18

This book is both enjoyable and informative. I will find time to read it again.

communicates his thoughts in a lively manner.......2000-02-18

not only does the author illustrate the book with real world examples but he communicates his thoughts in a lively manner.

helped me to understand "why" and "when".......2000-02-15

Key financial instruments goes beyond the normal "how to" textbook. It helped me to understand "why" and "when" certain financial instruments should be used and when they should not.

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Recruiting and Retaining Volunteers

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Recruiting and Retaining Volunteers.......2003-06-24

I remember very well the first time I read "To Lead is To Serve." I was on my way to a meeting that Shar McBee was going to keynote. I wanted to introduce myself to her philosophy of volunteerism prior to the meeting. Since then, I've re-read the book several times, and each time I get more and more out of it. The writing is fresh but timeless, new and invigorating. It's book that's so good you can tune everything else out when you're reading it. "To Lead is To Serve" is also a quick, easy read - you can read it in just a couple of hours.

The principles that Ms. McBee espouses in "To Lead is To Serve" can absolutely turn an organization - any organization, be it for-profit or a non-profit, around. Unlike many who write about non-profits, the author skillfully differentiates between management and leadership. The heart of the book is the recruitment and retention of volunteers. Membership-based organzations will find great benefit in using Ms. McBee's ideas to not only recruit members, but to also retain those members. Drawing upon her extensive background as both an employee of and volunteer for non-profits, the author sparks different, exciting and creative ideas for serving others. Truly, to lead is to serve. This book tells how; a real bonus is that many of the ideas can be implemented immediatly and individually. Whatever your position in a for-profit or a non-profit, I enthusiastically recommend that you read this book and then apply its life-changing and organization-changing principles and ideas.

A human approach to managing people!.......1999-06-25

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Chemometrics - easy to understand!
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Informative but broad.......2000-03-15

An informative book that covers a wide range of topics in chemometrics. About a third of the book deals with statistics, giving a good review to signal processing, ANOVA, t-tests, etc. For someone that wanted a book dealing only with chemometrics, it is disappointing to find a big portion of the book dedicated to basic statistics. A lot of topics are covered but not all in much detail. For example, there are 3 pages on SIMCA, 4 pages on PCR and PLS. There are more details when you get into the sections on neural networks and fuzzy theory. The examples are OK but not always easy to follow if you are not familiar with a particular method because steps are skipped. This book is a great overview of chemometrics-useful to refresh memories or get new ideas for data treatment- but needs to be supplemented with additional resources to learn more any one particular method. Fortunately the author includes a "general reading" section at the end of each chapter which provides references for books with more details.

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Mathematics for machine technology review.......2000-08-07

Temple College in Temple, Texas was awarded a $600K Grant to update the skills of the workers in industry. The math skills of the existing and new employees are exceptionally low. The difference between normal math as I call it and the aproach of the "Mathematics for Machine Technology" is that the students do not know where to apply the math that they have learned. With Mathematics for Machine Technology the aproach is applied mathmatics. This math is applied every day in the industry and now the math becomes functional. This is a great teaching aid to use by itself or to complement the math that is now being taugh. I bring measuring instruments such as verniers, caliphers, micromenters and others into the teaching enviroment to stress where the math is used.

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Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted himself solely to scholarly and spiritual pursuits. One of his students is the sensual, restless Goldmund, who is immediately drawn to his teacher’s fierce intellect and sense of discipline. When Narcissus persuades the young student that he is not meant for a life of self-denial, Goldmund sets off in pursuit of aesthetic and physical pleasures, a path that leads him to a final, unexpected reunion with Narcissus.

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Narcissus and Goldmund.......2007-04-12

I felt a sense of loss after finishing this novel. Not as I read its last pages and not as I closed it, but days later, when I thought to myself that for a week, it had been sustaining something in me--something introspective and romantic and idealistic. The novel traces Goldmund's development from youth to a premature old age. However otherworldly and idealistic the boy's thoughts sometimes seem, they are always deeply sincere, and the respectful tone he has for everything around him carries over into the reader's own attitude toward life. Next to Steppenwolf, which is beautifully darker and more solitary, Narcissus and Goldmund is fast becoming my favorite among Hesse's works. It is a novel which will be remembered fondly, and it is so complete and fulfilling that readers might be left with a sense of aimlessness after it is done. In the end, perhaps only novels which leave one with this feeling are truly worth the read.

Perhaps Hesse's greatest novel. It's certainly my favorite........2006-12-12

I actually don't read a lot of fiction, but when I do I try to read very high quality material with a lot of depth, complexity and a story that reflects life as it is really lived with all of the uncertainties, difficult emotions, paradoxes, etc. This book succeeds on all accounts and is top notch in every way e.g. round characters, carefully developed plot and engaging interwoven themes that anyone can relate to.

This story deals with the struggle between the intellect and flesh. This personified by the two main characters. One is of a more artistic temperment and the other is a very disciplined type. The two are in search for truth and meaning, but they approach their search differently although they both start out life the same as monks.

In the end, as in real life I don't think the dilemma is resolved or completely understood. However, it is clear that both paths seem to lead to similar realizations. On one hand, the disciplined, intellectual approach to reality and on the other the more meandering, open and free-spirited path of direct experience guided by intuition.

There are many other reviewers who have written more detail about the plot, specifics and other details, so I won't repeat what they have said. What I would like to add is that this book shines a light on the important existential questions we all have and does it in a very powerful and moving way.

His friend awakened him- the world and wandering molded him........2006-07-12

_This is the story of two very different young would-be monks in the medieval cloister of Mariabronn. Narcissus was a lunar type- introverted, a thinker and a scholar. On the other hand, Goldmund was a classic solar type- extroverted, a lover and an artist.

_Yet, these two beings of seemingly opposite temperaments became the deepest of life-long friends. This is because different strengths- and different weaknesses- complement each other. In this way two unbalanced natures may in strange alchemy fulfill each other. They may be able to see their shadow in the other- and their pivotal conflict.

_It was in this way that Narcissus saw his friend Goldmund's central repressed crisis. It was this shattering revelation that drove Goldmund out into the world beyond the sheltered cloister. It drove him to a life on the edge as a life-long wanderer. He started in a search for his nearly forgotten mother and ended by finding the eternal feminine in all women. Yet the years of hardship and horror (including murder, the Great Plague, and prison) took their toll on him. When after over a decade of wandering, he finally encountered his friend Narcissus again it saved his life- both literally and spiritually.

_I could not imagine a more Jungian novel. Nor could I imagine a better expression of the meaning of profound friendship.

An incredibly moving tale unlike any other.......2006-03-21

This is one of the most captivating and beautifully written novels in history. Hermann Hesse is a fascinating story teller and vividly romantic poet. Deep introspection, hilarious laughter, pensiveness, tears, and spiritual elevation are all experienced within the pages of this incredible and unmatched journey. Worth every minute... you won't waste a moment once you turn the first few pages. An amazing read!

Narcissus and Goldmund.......2006-01-19

Do yourself a favor and read this book - especially if you have enjoyed any of Hesse's other wonderful works of art.

If you care about life, mystery, dreams, artistic endeavors, love, and truth: read this novel and drink in it's secret and magical beauty.

Who knows? You might just be one of the one's who 'get it'.
And this my friend, is no small prize for those delvers into the inner reaches of the soul.

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