Bond Markets: Structures and Yield Calculations

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BOND MARKETS Structure and Yield Calculations As cross-market bond trading has increased, it has become vital for international participants to understand the many different features that characterize the various international bond markets. Of particular interest to bond traders and investors are such factors as calculation of prices, accrued interest, yields, and durations. Bond Markets compares and contrasts all major bond markets with particular attention to:

** how different instruments are normally quoted ** how much accrued interest is payable by the buyer in addition to traded price ** the cost of a bond if quoted on a yield basis ** normal settlement periods ** rules for adjusting coupon rates ** how yields are quoted and calculated

The Csfb Guide to Yield Calculations in the International Bond and Money Markets: Structure : Trends : Analysis
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The Csfb Guide to Yield Calculations in the International Bond and Money Markets: Structure : Trends : Analysis
Credit Suisse First Boston
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Becoming a Successful Manager provides hands-on exercises and advice to help neophyte managers make the difficult transition from managing only themselves to managing others. It shows new managers how to create a positive, productive environment, one that motivates and brings out the best in employees while providing maximum benefit to their employers.

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A must for any manager..........2007-08-09

This is a great book. I've learned alot as a first time manager. I've also loaned it out to a friend who was working on a "culture in the workplace" project. She loved it too. Whether you are new to management or have been in the seat for a while, you should read it.

Hope you enjoy it!

Bec oming a Successful Manager.......2007-04-03

The book was helpful and gave me some good ideas for managing and also for what managers expect from me.

Very Touchy-Feely, Love Thy Neighbor.......2004-11-18

I am a new manager in a very large company. I purchased this book and another to help me learn how to deal with people, especially the ones with whom I used to work that now work for me. The book reads like a self-help book for a 10 year old with review questions at the end of each chapter. Also, it is very touchy-feely. The author wants you to treat your subordinates like your very best friends. I found some good pointers from the book, though not very many.

Great Book for New Managers!.......2002-04-20

What a great book for new managers! So many people suddenly placed in a management position feel shot out of a cannon. They are completely unprepared for the new responsibilities that face them, the new dynamics they'll encounter in the workplace, and the stresses that can so easily result. Grossman and Parkinson give wonderful, useful advice that is wise and practical at the same time. I recommend this book highly!

Tom Morris

Practical, Informative and Insightful.......2002-03-08

This is a must-have book for all new managers, those who hope to be managers one day, and even managers who have been managing for years. The information provided in this short and easy-read book is even applicable to relationships outside of work - your spouse, children and friends.

The authors take you through a series of topics that make you appreciate why 'great' managers are great. These topics can be viewed as good ole common sense, but unfortunately one realizes how often we don't demonstrate common sense. The book is full of questions - situations that all managers encounter, along with several effective ways of handling each situation so that every wins - your company, your employess and you, the manager - good practical techniques that everyone can put to use.

This is not the kind of book to rest on your libary shelf. Read it and pass it on.

The Human Challenge: Managing Yourself and Others in Organizations
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tediously dull writing and uninteresting layout

The Human Challenge: Managing Yourself and Others in Organizations
Mary L. Tucker , Anne M. McCarthy , and Douglas A. Benton
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This book provides readers with the needed skills in human relations that are becoming increasingly important for career success. It emphasizes the person in the organization and on the interactions between managers and other employees. Chapter topics include communication in the workplace; appraisals, promotions, and dismissals; conflict management; leadership; labor relations; intercultural relations; and more. For managers and other professionals in any field that want to learn the skills needed to interact most effectively with managers and co-workers.

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tediously dull writing and uninteresting layout.......2007-03-09

A required textbook for my kid's college class. I have an MBA and am usually interested in anything having to do with business. I thumbed through this very expensive book and gratefully closed it after slogging through a few numbing pages. If you're a business teacher thinking about using it for a class, do the world a favor, put your copy out of its misery and send it to goodwills.

They Shoot Managers, Don't They?: Managing Yourself and Leading Others in a Changing World

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They Shoot Managers, Don't They?: Managing Yourself and Leading Others in a Changing World
Terry L. Paulson
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Just the Right Information.......2001-02-24

I am interviewing next week for my first management position after being a High School teacher for 11 years. I enjoyed the book and found a lot of valuable material. I was also able to see many of the priciples and suggestions in the book modeled by the better administrators at my school.

There is a lot of business-oriented material in the book that won't necessarily apply to my new (prospective) position as an outdoor-science school Program Director. Still it may be valuable some day and the examples served to clarify the material presented.

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The core of this practical book comprises ten "laws" of leadership that will provoke you to look at some old problems in new ways, check your assumptions, and learn more about yourself. After discussing each law, the author poses questions to help you reflect on the key ideas and apply what you have learned to your own work situations. You will develop new insights that will help you to not only cope with but also actually enjoy the challenges of leadership

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Couldn't be better..........2005-06-27

One of the best management helps I've ever read. Practical and light-hearted, dealing with the real issues of management, prioritized and yet written in an easily accessible format, "Leading Others Managing Yourself" couldn't be better. I regularly recommend it to anyone who has anything to do with the craft of dealing with that most difficult aspect of any profession: people!

A lot of insight in a brief, well structured book.......2005-02-08

McGinn has done a great job of doing something that good strategists do: seeing close things at a distance and distant things closely. Using a concise, understandable framework he reviews ten basic laws of leadership. He provides excellent overviews and these are shaped in ways which lead directly to useful action. This is not book of theory unachored by reality nor is it a tedious series of practical tips which fail to hang together.

The book is a deceptively quick read because it not only provides immediate ideas for action it also gets below the surface. Some examples: "There Is No Right Way: The First Law of Management" "If Everyone Is Doing It, Either It Is the Wrong thing, Or It Is Too Late: The Second Law of Strategy" A number of chapters have useful summary tables such as "Figure 2. Knowing Versus Doing" which helps the reader to understand that doing what is right means that the leader needs to consider those things that are easy to do and hard to do and then to look and how they intersect with knowing what is right as a function of the things that are easy to know and hard to know.

This book can be useful for first line supervisors preparing for greater responsibility, middle managers working to deal with day to day challenges and senior managers wanting a broader, more conceptual framework to use when evaluating their work and its impact in the context of the overall organization. It should be on a leader's bookshelf for repeated use and sharing with others in the organization. It is a gem.

A Box of 64.......2005-01-19

Remember your first box of 64 crayons? It opened up great new possibilities. Sure, your box of 8 had carried you a long way --but 64 . . . ah! . . . the possibilities.

Most business books are a 'box of 8'. Peter McGinn's Leading Others, Managing Yourself is a 'box of 64'. Yes,it includes some tried-and-true colors (navy blue/Doing the Right Thing and forest green/If You Can't Measure It, You Can't Improve It) but it also has many unexpected and brilliant lessons (periwinkle/If Everyone Is Doing It, Either It Is the Wrong Thing or It Is Too Late; magenta/The Platnum Rule; even purple pizzazz/Seven 2X2 Think Tables.

And, the book is laid out like a box of crayons -- with shades of the same color, or in this case, elements of the same basic law/principle, grouped together. That makes the book easy to read and easy to use.

I give the book FIVE STARS -- gold stars that is.

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Managing Yourself Managing Others
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It Takes Two presents a fresh perspective on the relationship between manager and managed, telling not how to manage your boss but how to manage yourself in the relationship with your boss.

The author's unique perspective on self-awareness and personal development can be applied to a wide variety of organizations. Based on extensive quantitative and qualitative research--including a base of more than seven hundred managers and interviews and self-analysis data with dozens of managers--this book maps the patterns of people's responses to authority relations and provides guidance on how to change yourself and the relationship to be more effective, satisfying, and productive. Drawing on examples from both business and politics--including such notable political figures as Oliver North and Ronald Reagan--Gene Boccialetti describes the three orientations of management relationships--accommodating, autonomous, adversarial--and shows how to identify one's own style and determine how well and under what circumstances it does and doesn't work.

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Since the launching of the first women's studies courses in the early 1970s, more than 600 programs in women's studies have opened in the U.S. and throughout the world. In this special 30th anniversary edition of WSQ, teachers, scholars, activists, and poets examine the historical impact and the new struggles in this dynamic field. Contributors explore intergenerational differences, the effect of new technologies on women's studies curricula, and the challenges of teaching women's studies since September 11, 2001. They speak from community colleges and established undergraduate and doctoral programs in urban, rural, and borderland settings. This special volume offers unique historical perspectives on the growth of the field as well as rich and challenging discussions of its present and future.

Gender And Culture in the 1950s: Wsq, Fall/winter 2005 (Women's Studies Quarterly)

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In the mainstream American imagination, the 1950s were an era of conformity when women strove to be perfect middle-class suburban housewives a la June Cleaver. But in reality, the 1950s were the decade of The Kinsey Report and The Bell Jar, of Cold War Communists and civil rights activism, and change for women.

In this engaging collection, cultural commentators explore the 1950s from the center to the margins-from Norman Mailer to Peyton Place, from suburban porn to Patricia Highsmith, and from Soviet women to lesbians in post-Nazi Berlin. Fascinating reviews and interviews include Alicia Ostriker on Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Diane Wood Middlebrook on Willem De Kooning, and Ivy Meeropol on her documentary about her grandparents Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

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A Special Issue of this feminist periodical featuring Part One of a report called "Breaking the Rules: Women in Prison and Feminist Therapy." Chapter headings include: Women Prisoners: A Contextual Framework ~ The Experiences of Women in Prison: Implications for Services and Prevention ~ An Analysis of the Impact of Prison on Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse ~ Comparison Study of Women Who Have and Have Not Murdered Their Abusive Partners ~ Managing Motherhood in Prison: The Impact of Race and Ethnicity on Child Placements ~ Restricted Love ~ Children Without Childhoods: A Feminist Intervention Strategy Utilizing Systems Theory and Restorative Justice in Treating Female Adolescent Offenders.

Women's Rights: A Human Rights Quarterly Reader

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This interdisciplinary collection from the Human Rights Quarterly brings together in a single volume nineteen of the most compelling articles written on women's human rights issues. For the past twenty-five years, Human Rights Quarterly has been a leading publisher of important work in human rights research, exploring the fundamental nature of human rights as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. By providing decision makers with insight into complex human rights issues, the journal helps to define national and international human rights policy.

This special issue focuses specifically on the challenges that women face and the efforts by individuals and organizations alike to ensure the protection of women under international law. The articles are organized into five sections that discuss the history and evolution of women's human rights, religion, violence, economic rights, and reproductive rights. The essays address such topics as the rights of Middle Eastern women, rape camps in the former Yugoslavia, and abortion law in Ireland.

Activisms: Wsq: Fall / Winter 2007 (Women's Studies Quarterly)

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Curricular and Institutional Change (Women's Studies Quarterly)

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This WSQ contains an updated look at the issues raised by efforts at instituional and curricular change that include initiatives to alter the composition of the student body, faculty, support staff, administration, and governing boards and to transform policies and curricula to more strongly reflect the composition of the populations they serve.

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Envy, as one of the seven deadly sins, sparks the imagination toward shades of green, sinful deeds, and wicked desires. But in academic circles, envy is embedded in a large body of work focusing on emotions, ranging across disciplines from philosophy to neuroscience. With Envy, WSQ tackles the genealogy of feminist thought and the aims of contemporary feminist cultural criticism.

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A must-have.......2002-02-19

This beautifully presented large hardback is actually a series of essays covering the story of the search for Longitude from the 16th century to the 19th. The essays deal with a range of subjects from the mathematical to the absurd, from astronomy to cartography and has 4 excellent appendices. The book is well laid out with both black&white and color photography in a manner that means you don't need to be a student of the sea of chronology to understand it. A good book to have on the shelf.

review.......2002-01-18

Excellent book focused on the Longitude act's of the 1700's. The primary emphasis is on the two technologies Lunar-distance and chonometer for determining longitude with a precision under 1 degree. The relative percentages are: 50% chonometer, 30% lunar distance, 10% Jupiter's moons, 10% general history pre-1600's. I gave it four stars instead of 5 because I thought the book was going to be a balanced discussion ( i.e. equal time)encompassing all methods of determining longitude irrespective of a 1 degree precision. All that said, I would still recommend the book to anyone interested in the topic.

Most comprehensive coverage.......2000-07-26

This review is top notch and comprehensive. It's the book of choice to cover the background and the technology. I'm not a watch or clock fanatic, but I slam dunked this whole book in just a couple days; a 15 hour Qantas flight kept me captive. I wish there was more discussion on the nature of astronomy and how the clocks were calibrated. I want to read up on octants, sextants and basic navigation now. This book deserves five stars. The A&E four hour documentary, "Longitude", this month also deserves high marks. If someone knows of a good read on navigating with astronomy that's more layman oriented, please email me (thanks).

Previous reviewers say "lavish"; I say gorgeous........1998-05-09

This book considers the problem of longitude from a number of viewpoints. While Dava Sobel's book concentrated on the Harrison/Maskelyne controversy, this volume uses historical, mathematical and geographic viewpoints. What is impressive is the genius, dedication and tenacity of the Renaissance scientists. They may not have had GPS but they knew what they were doing.

The Quest for Longitude: The Proceedings of the Longitude Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993.

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The Quest for Longitude: The Proceedings of the Longitude Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993.
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