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- Foreign Exchange Handbook
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Foreign Exchange Handbook: Managing Risk and Opportunity in Global Currency Markets
Paul Bishop , and
Don Dixon
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In today's fast-changing global marketplace, many managers are not aware of the extent of their foreign exposure. Even a domestic business, operating entirely in its own currency, can be affected seriously by currency price moves that favor overseas competition. Foreign Exchange Handbook helps managers face the challenges posed by foreign currency exposure. Designed to meet an especially broad array of management needs, the book's topics range from the basic of identifying foreign exchange risk to the more sophisticated techniques used to implement hedging policy. In addition, it is organized in such a way that readers can pick and choose the topics that concern them, depending on their backgrounds and current needs, or read the entire book for a comprehensive overview of the subject.
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Foreign Exchange Handbook.......2000-03-30
Is a very good introduction for a Foreign Exchange Market. Specially in futures markets
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Not Quite for Beginners.......2001-11-26
This book is intended for someone who has a bit of a background in design. Landa does explain some of the things you will want to think about in a design, say for a book jacket or advertisement, but unless you are already familiar with the terms, this may not help.
There are exercises for you to practice what you have learned, but there are no answers. These are intended for the reader to explore what they have learned rather than "parrot" back what the author wants.
In the end of the book are some words about design from some big-name designers in either interview or short-letter form. This will mean more to you if you are familiar with the names.
The examples are good pictures with some information (who did the work and whom it was for), and they have a brief paragraph explaining what the creator were thinking about the project. In some cases, it is very enlightening, but in others, it just seemed like reminiscing.
I recommend this book for people with designer training, but not for the beginner.
Eye Candy, Brain Vacuum.......2001-03-05
OK, you can certainly see lots of examples of cool designs, but if you are looking for actual HELP with learning to design, this is NOT the book for you. I kept waiting for the book to be useful. Finally, towards the end is a section of exercises that can help "unlock" your visual creativity. That was useful, but in the end, it didn't redeem the book.
If you are looking for a neat beginner's guide to design principles, see "The Non-Designer's Design Book," another gem by Robin Williams.
helped me.......2000-09-30
Landa is the absolute authority on creative visual thinking. This book helped me tremendously! Buy it.
A book FILLED with great examples of design..........2000-01-28
Actually, the book ITSELF is well designed/layed out too, which could lead you to establish somewhat of a biased faith in its content before you even read it thoroughly (the content IS good, by the way). I've lost count how many times I've referred to it for inspiration and come out on top. It's certainly been a good investment for me.
An outstanding book stuffed page to page with juicy ideas........1999-01-08
Tired of searching for inspiration to unlock the block that's been stifling your creative flow? Well, this book is dynamite! Lots of direction both in writing and pictures for expanding creative muscle. Clear and friendly writing style, excellent organization of material, easy to follow and cruise through. And, not so expensive given the good quality paper, hc, and all those photos! I thought the interviews with designers was a humanistic touch. Nice to know the faces behind great design.
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Crown Point Press's founder, Kathan Brown, presents thirteen "magical secrets"—creative strategies exemplified by the different approaches to art-making taken by artists she has worked with. Sophisticated and yet straightforwardly explained, the magical secrets help the reader understand fundamental strategies such as how to creatively use the physicality of materials or how an artist may enter a mental state that encourages creative connections. Clear explanations of printmaking processes and stunning reproductions help to illuminate the secrets. An accompanying DVD features Brown's popular "Magical Secrets" lecture. At once authoritative and inspiring, Magical Secrets offers a deeper understanding of the creative impulses in us all.
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The art of life.......2006-05-27
In a culture where art and life are often inextricable, Magical Secrets comes as the latest in a series of books, sites and magazines that keep them entwined. In the last few years, the number of magazines and websites devoted to art criticism, art projects and found art, has ballooned, a sign of rising enthusiasm about art among people from all walks of life. There is an abundance of new books, on one hand (the hand of cultural criticism), Michael Kimmelman's The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa, John Updike's Still Looking: Essays on American Art; on the other hand (the hand of pure pop culture) an insurgence of immensely successful novels based as much on art as on life: Girl with a Pearl Earring, Jonathan Harr's The Lost Painting, last but not least, The Da Vinci Code. And then there are plenty of examples of pop cultural criticism, such as Hal Niedzvieki's Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity, along with countless books and products on the market designed to help everyone from businessmen to babies to bus drivers embrace their own creative genius.
Magical Secrets, which is at once a book, a DVD, and a website (www.magical-secrets.com), is one of the smartest of these forays into exploring creativity. The book is formulaic without being predictable: Author Kathan Brown has organized it into thirteen chapters, one for each "magical secret," (my favorites are chapters five and six, "Don't Know What You Want" and "Know What You Don't Want," a very Zen-like juxtaposition). Magical Secrets manages to pack a lot in, from stories about artists to musings on the creative thought process. Yet Brown spends no more than a handful of pages on any one Secret, and addresses her reader clearly and concisely, not as an entertainer or an academic but as a confidant, pupil and friend. She guides her audience confidently on a path that leads inward, but still somehow ends up outside the self.
It is a feat in itself simply that Magical Secrets conveys a lot of information. Etching, one finds, is a centuries-old technique of incising an image into metal with acid. The artist begins by covering the surface of a copper plate with a hard, waxy ground. He cuts the image he wants into the ground with an etching needle or other sharp tool, then submerges the plate in acid. The acid bites into the grooves and crevices, the waxy ground is rubbed off, and the image is left engrained in the smooth surface of the plate. The resulting incisions are filled with ink, a piece of paper is placed on the plate, and the whole thing is run through the printing press. Scraping and burnishing the copper, rubbing the ink into the grooves, and pulling the plate through the press are highly physical, labor-intensive processes that involve a lot of painstaking, detailed work, yet the resulting lines an artist can get are often the most delicate you've ever seen, and the textures the most subtle. Though etching is appreciated by many art lovers, the number of master etchers in the United States might be comparable to the number of virtuoso organists or rare orchid cultivators. It is not the first thing most people think of when faced with something as huge as Life.
But etching has been Kathan Brown's life. Despite the beauty of etching, it was not taken seriously in the United States contemporary art market until Brown made it her mission to revive it. Since Crown Point Press's inception in 1962, artists from all over the world who work in different mediums--from San Francisco conceptual sculptor Tom Marioni to New York composer John Cage; from Australian Aboriginal artist Dorothy Napangardi to Pakistani-born miniature painter Shahzia Sikander--have been drawn there for a unique experience in art making. Magical Secrets about Thinking Creatively marks the forty-fourth year in Brown's highly energetic and passionate career.
The variety of art represented at Crown Point speaks to the depth of Brown's understanding of it; while her technique is narrow, her scope is broad, and that is what makes Magical Secrets a compelling read. Brown offers a broad understanding of the etching process, and ultimately steps back to examine creativity itself. "Many artists have told me that after working with etching they have a new awareness of what they are doing in their painting or sculpture," she writes in the preface. "You can share their awareness through this book, which is for artists and people who have - or would like to have - the spirit of an artist." Indeed, Brown's style makes it difficult not to share this awareness: like good art, her writing makes her subject seem both obvious and somehow profound.
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This outstanding collection of essays offers thought-provoking insights on a range of future-shaping issues, such as harnessing the powers of a coming "digital transformation," creating more livable cities, dealing with the impacts of immigration, transforming school systems to meet the needs of the future economy, solving the drug-abuse problem through systems thinking, and overcoming traps in thinking about the future.
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Backcasting and forecasting: what are the trends from yesterday towards tomorrow?.......2007-05-11
Major trends that affect how we work today and how we will have to work in the future.
--If we want to stop killing ourselves by the tens of millions in violent conflict, we're going to have to get much smarter, because our genes haven't been able to solve that by themselves.
--However, Mulhall's vision of being "surpassed by our own creations" is not so clear. Being "smart" also has to do with intuition and imagination or is driven by intention, purpose, and the amazing power of curiosity. In this sense, machines are not now nor may never be smart, while humans are. Intelligence is the source of knowledge that helps people make imaginative and intelligent choices. Intelligence is the essence of order: defining the knowable and the known, the predictable, the expectable, and the dependable. "Smartness" on the other hand, has the flavor of the unpredictable, of opportunity, the unknown, and the surprise of innovation. NO change, no innovation, no scientific breakthroughs, no groundbreaking engineering insights, and no new expressions of art take place without this smartness. Smartness is just another word for "creativity with purposes".
--In every organization, trying to avoid traps in future thinking and being thirsty for success, whether operating in business, administration, education, or the academy, it would be good to have a kind of disturbance generator (DG) to keep you awake in front of the turbulent future(s). The tasks of a DG include asking odd questions concerning the basic assumptions and modes of operation in the organization from the future perspectives, identifying new important weak signals in the operating environment--in the economy, technology, world politics, societal issues, environment, values, etc.--having potential impacts on the organization's development, and producing innovations related to products, services, customers, modes of operation, strategies, and scenarios.
--The 21st century is being recognized as the "century of cities".
More than half of the world's population now live in cities, and the importance of urban environments has become even greater over recent decades. Cities are the key centers of human activity and the engines of economic growth throughout the world, a world that has been dramatically transformed and is more complex, more competitive, and better connected than ever before.
--"Home-basing" will be the next phase of disaggregating our vertically integrated Industrial Era enterprises, following "outsourcing" and "off-shoring".
--If given free time, humans tend to become unhappy, disordered, and unproductive. Surprisingly, people tend to find work more satisfying than free time. When we focus our minds we feel better.
Mental order leads to increased happiness and productivity.
Quite a disappointing book...at least from the standpoint of thinking creatively!.......2006-08-18
I am quite disappointed by this book. I find the contents, even though they are future-relevant, do not stand up to the title of 'Thinking Creatively in Turbulent Times.'
Out of the rag-tag collection of twenty nine articles in this book, all from different contributors, I reckon only three pertains to thinking creatively. They are:
- Traps in Futures Thinking & How to Overcome Them, by Mika Mannermaa;
- Innovating for the Future, by Patrick van der Duin;
- Creativity, Innovation, & Visionary Thinking: Becoming All You Can Become, by Lynn Ellen Burton;
The rest are the typical stuff you would find in most publications from the World Future Society (WFS), as they pertain to how social & technological developments are shaping the future.
The back page of the book boldy carries this message: "The world changes so quickly it's hard to keep up. New inventions and innovations alter the way we live. People's values, attitudes, and beliefs are changing. And the pace of change keeps accelerating, making it difficult to prepare for tomorrow..." To reinforce this message of theirs, I would have expected more contributions in the book to help readers to think creatively in such turbulent times.
In other words, I would want to read more about 'process' information instead of overwhelming 'content' information.
I dont know. Maybe WFS is just trying to use a catchy title to attract readers to this particular publication.
I have always held the WFS in high esteem & many of their other publications I owned turn out to be great stuff. 'Futuring: The Exploration of the Future' by Edward Cornish is one good example.
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DK's best-selling Essential Managers series are ideal for managers at every level. These compact references demonstrate the techniques and skills that are useful in any work environment, making this series the most accessible single-subject business guides on the market.
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A Classic Example of..........2007-09-23
...what happens when creativity is subjugated to analytic, overly structured methods.
This book offers the path to NOT be creative. What it does is reinforce positive "group-think" behaviour.
Why 5 stars? Because it is a perfect contradiction. Recommended.
Implementing thought, is all there is to creativity.
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Break free from the patterns of habitual thinking—and enter a new world of out-of-the-box ideas, imaginative solutions, and creative satisfaction. These 101 techniques will help you find original styles of thinking, open yourself up to new possibilities, and turn your best schemes into practical reality. Start by recognizing the boundaries we set for ourselves—restrictions we may not even realize we’ve imposed. Choose from a wide repertoire of mind-expanding, problem-solving strategies for home, work, and leisure. Discover the value of following your intuition and thinking laterally, and see how to avoid the mid-project blues. And for some fun, there are puzzles to show you how it feels to be trapped inside that box—and make getting out even more delightful.
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The Creatively Gifted
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Studying Creatively: A creativity toolkit to get your studies out of a rut
Clegg
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ASIN: 0415428157 |
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Are you stuck in a rut? Short of inspiration? Looking for a study guide that's a break from the norm?
This innovative book will give you the tools and techniques you need to work a bit of creative magic into every aspect of your studying.
Clegg's easy-to-read, entertaining book will show you:
- what the whole creativity business is about
- why you need to bother with it
- clever methods to stimulate your brain into action
- how to come up with a mass of ideas at a moment's notice
Mind stretches and mental workouts will enable you to take effective notes and to absorb and structure information in a way that can easily be recalled.
Studying Creatively, the study guide with a difference, will show you how to change your environment to make creative study more effective, it will help you work on your presentation skills - there's no point having great ideas if you can't putthem across.
Good ideas are essential for any student who wants to do well. This invaluable guide, suitable for students from ages fifteen to twenty-one, empowers you with the tools you need to work creatively.
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Teaching Creatively: Learning Through Discovery
Byron G. Massialas , and
Jack Zevin
Manufacturer: Krieger Pub Co
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Fun with Language Arts.......2005-02-01
This textbook is an outstanding approach to teaching language arts fluently. Children aren't reading the way they should. They don't have the creativity they did in the past. We have become such a video orientated society we forgot to have fun with reading. Having had the pleasure of having Dr.Pilon as a college professor and friend I highly recommend her books to anyone who wishes to awaken the fun in reading with young and old.
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R.Douglas Hurt's brief history of American agriculture, from the prehistoric period through the twentieth century, is written for anyone coming to this subject for the first time. It also provides a ready reference to the economic, social, political, scientific, and technological changes that have most affected farming in America. American Agriculture is a story of considerable achievement and success, but it is also a story of greed, racism, and violence. Hurt offers a provocative look at history that has been shaped by the best and worst of human nature.
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Essential Part of American History.......2005-01-23
Best one volume history of American agriculture by dean of American agricultural historians; much superior to Danbom, Born in the County, which attempts a similar brief summary.Good bibliographies of additional readings. Although America was primarily an agricultual county for 250 years, most conventional histories ignore this fact. This book supply an essential missing dimentsion, although the reader still has to do a good deal of work to relate it to political,cultural, and economic history that was going on at the same time.
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American Agriculture: A Brief History.(Brief Article): An article from: American Scientist
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Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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Proceedings of the 212th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Costa Teguise, Lanzarote, Carnary Islands 24-28 June 2002
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