Equity Derivatives: Theory and Applications

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Written by the quantitative research team of Deutsche Bank, the world leader in innovative equity derivative transactions, this book acquaints readers with leading-edge thinking in modeling and hedging these transactions. Equity Derivatives offers a balanced, integrated presentation of theory and practice in equity derivative markets. It provides a theoretical treatment of each new modeling and hedging concept first, and then demonstrates their practical application. The book covers: the newest and fastest-growing class of derivative instruments, fund derivatives; cutting-edge developments in equity derivative modeling; new developments in correlation modeling and understanding volatility skews; and new Web-based implementation/delivery methods.
Marcus Overhaus, PhD, Andrew Ferraris, DPhil, Thomas Knudsen, PhD, Frank Mao, PhD, Ross Milward, Laurent Nguyen-Ngoc, PhD, and Gero Schindlmayr, PhD, are members of the Quantitative Research team of Deutsche Bank's Global Equity Division, which is based in London and headed by Dr. Overhaus.

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Equity Derivatives Theory and Applications

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Equity Derivatives Theory and Applications
Marcus Overhaus
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EQUITY DERIVATIVES: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS

Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons New York
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000I9X57I

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Why are some organizations successful, while others perish in the marketplace? Evidence is growing to suggest that a key part of the answer is communication. How people interact with each other, or fail to do so, often determines an organization's overall prospects of success. Accordingly, there is growing interest in techniques, which can be employed to measure current communication effectiveness and enable targets to be set for improvements.

The Handbook of Communication Audits for Organisations equips readers with the vital analytic tools required to conduct assessments. Owen Hargie, Dennis Tourish and distinguished contributors drawn from both industry and academia:

*Review the main options confronting organizations embarking on audit;
*Discuss the merits and demerits of the approaches available;
*Provide case studies of the communication audit process in action;
*Discuss how audit findings can be interpreted so suitable recommendations are framed;
*Outline how reports emanating from such audits should be constructed.

The Handbook will be invaluable to students of organizational communication, as well as the growing number of communications managers in the business world.

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Great Communication Audit Resource.......2007-01-05

If you need to perform or receive a communication audit, this book is an excellent resource. It provides case studies, sample audit questions and resources to help you plan and execute an audit.

The book focuses on the internal audit process, so it isn't much help for those seeking to do external communication audits. It also is best suited for employee audits, but it can be adapted for use in a non-profit/volunteer setting.

For those businesses wanting to learn more about internal communication issues, this book is right on track. The language is easy and approachable (although be prepared to deal with English word spellings). It is very practical and a book that should be on your shelf if you're doing internal communication audits.

Review of Handbook of Communication Audits for Organisations.......2000-09-29

Owen Hargie, Professor of Communication at the University of Ulster and Dennis Tourish, senior lecturer at University of Queensland, Australia, introduce the concept of communication audits in their handbook. This book is useful for employees involved in communications audits or those conducting audits for an organization. Their book examines methodologies for audits including a chapter each on questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, and log-sheets. The handbook provides practical help for auditors including a section on possible survey questions as well as attributes of a world-class communication system. A section of the book includes real-world examples where the authors have conducted similar communication audits to the ones they describe in the introduction. These case studies show how application can be made of the principles discussed in the handbook and include some valuable "lessons learned". This book includes some of the lastest thinking on communication audits in organizations. Only one drawback that may be noticable to an American audience - both authors are native to the "queen's English" and some of the wording may sound very British especially when trying to "translate" for a typical American organization. It's important to keep in mind that some wording may need to be slightly adjusted for the American business reader.

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With contributions from a wide range of international experts from both the industrial and academic sectors, this book offers balanced coverage of a topical area. Mechanisation and Automation in Dairy Technology covers the main sectors of dairy technology, their basic science and manufacture, mechanisation and automation, and quality control. It introduces the basic principles of automation, such as objectives, levels and tasks of automation systems, operation and programming of control systems, use of automation in HACCP applications, and designing a process line. The following chapters deal with the individual sectors of the dairy industry, examining the special problems that have been, and remain to be, solved in conversion from manual to mechanised operations. The book also shows how the principles of automation can then be applied or adapted to make the mechanised process interactive within its component parts.

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Essential Cell Biology, Second Edition contains basic, core knowledge about how cells work. It has a proven track record in providing students with a conceptual and accessible grounding in cell biology. The text and figures have been prepared to be easy-to-follow, accurate, clear and engaging for the introductory student. Each section follows logically from the previous one, telling a story, rather than being a collection of facts. Questions integrated throughout each chapter encourage the reader to pause, think about what they have read, and attempt to apply the new knowledge in ways that test their understanding. Based on user feedback, the Second Edition now offers increased coverage of genetics and more experimental background. It is completely up-to-date.

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Mwentzler.......2007-09-27

Is an read easy and understandable read. Explains all topics very thoroughly yet in a clear concise manner especially for a biology text book.

Very good book.......2007-09-24

It's kind of hard to judge a textbook, especially when you're a student. But i can honestly say that this book is very straight forward. The diagrams are great, and especially if you read the diagrams as you're reading the book, they add a lot of depth and diversity to the reading. The text itself is not mundane...you won't fall asleep reading it. The CD it comes with is nice....but i tend not to use it that much...all it is, is just video clips. Overall i'd say this is one of the best, if not THE best, biology book i've used.

HOWEVER! Remember that this IS a bio book and it DOES get a little tedious at points

Cell Biology made clear.......2007-03-08

Great book. Although not a basic book, this text make many aspects of cell biology very clear. I would highly recommend it.

Essential Cell Biology 2nd Ed........2006-11-06

This is probably one of the best cell biology books out there. It's easy to understand, covers all the basics, and the CD included with it has really helpful videos.

Fine book, for whatever it matters.......2006-02-28

The book is decent. To be honest though, reviewing textbooks is kind of funny. Does it matter what I say? I suppose if you're ordering this book because you honestly just have a burning desire to learn about essential cell biology, well... the more power to you. You'll learn it just fine from this book. If you're just buying the book because it's the required text for your college class (like I expect), well yeah, doesn't really matter what I say, does it?

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Essential Biology, Second Edition
Neil A. Campbell , Jane B. Reece , and Eric J. Simon
Manufacturer: Benjamin Cummings
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ASIN: 0805374736

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Essential Biology is a brief non-majors biology book that combines clear writing, real-world applications, vivid art, and powerful media to teach readers the important concepts of biology and give them an appreciation for how biology relates to their everyday lives. In the Second Edition, best-selling authors Neil Campbell and Jane Reece are joined by Eric Simon, who uses his experience teaching non-majors biology to keep the book both accessible and up to date. To help readers become informed citizens, the new edition features even more human applications and up-to-date information on important issues like DNA technology, cloning, and global warming. KEY TOPICS The book covers four major biological topics Ð cells, genetics, evolution/diversity, and ecology Ð and uses evolution as an overarching theme to tie all 20 chapters together. For college instructors, students, or anyone interested in biology.

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Textbook vs Outline.......2007-02-07

Be sure to double check your ISBN numbers to make sure you know what you're getting. I was careless and ended up with this Outline rather than the actual Textbook. The outline having a deceiving title w/ what looks like a typo "2nd Editio" ~ "2nd Edition"
Buyers please be careful w/ your purchases and double check what you're ordering. Personally I found this outline to be useless.

Bio Book.......2005-10-12

I needed this book for college. At the college book store the same exact book was $120.00 plus tax. On Amazon it was $80.00!!

Depth and Accuracy.......2003-03-01

Campbell and Reece are best known as the authors of the hefty and excellent "Biology", now in it's 6th edition used by undegraduate biology majors and AP Biology students.

"Essential Biology" uses a different approach. The authors have packed a great deal into this amazingly small textbook. I recently reviewed a huge number of introductory biology texts for adoption in our school district. We use Campbell and Reece's Biology, 6th edition for our AP biology course but were looking for a textbook to use with our 9th grade honors biology students.

After a lengthy comparison of textbooks we picked "Essential Biology" based on several things. First we found the book to be accurate, readable, and concise. We felt that it would give the students a depth of understanding in the core biological principles so that they would be ready when they moved on to AP biology later in their high school career.

Instead of trying to "cover" everything under the biological sun, "Essential Biology" focuses on four core biological topics: cells, genetics, evolution, and ecology. It's 20 chapters are broken up into these 4 units and does a wonderful job of pulling it all together.

Other textbooks certainly cover more material but with less depth. What is the use of having a huge textbook that the students either never finish or rush through with no real understanding? This is a textbook that the students can dig into and throughly understand during one course.

It is supported by CD-ROM's and on-line material. The website provides activities, on-line labs, quizes, and other practice. Students can print out results or e-mail them to their teachers.

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Following a highly successful first edition, this book takes on a highly entertaining approach to an area normally reserved for dry, hard-to-follow books. Students benefit not only from the humorous aspects, but also from the in-depth and memorable discussions. This second edition features four new chapters on computer-intensive techniques, including MANOVA, Logistic Regression, Measuring Change and Structural Equation Modeling. This book is excellent for medical and other health professions students.

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A guilty pleasure.......2004-12-04

Although I have long since graduated to much less easygoing fare, I love this book. When I was a confused and clueless medical student, this was the first text that helped me to come to terms with biostatistical concepts.

If you have a background in psychology or other softer sciences, are facing your first biostatistics class, and find other texts a bit scary or obscure, this is definitely worth a try.

The jokes become annoying and the examples a bit garbled on a second read, but I still love this book because of the clarity of its visuals. I also like and highly recommend the chapters on factor analysis and survival analysis, and usually give this book to new students in our lab.

Best intro stat book I've found.......2004-11-09

I took stat 20 years ago, and decided I needed an update, particularly regarding how to calculate sample size: this book was the ticket. A lot about sample size always seemed to me to be smoke-and-mirrors, and WHEN that's so (not always, but sometimes!), Norman and Streiner admit it, saving the learner a lot of frustration. Money well spent.

The best biostatistics review ever!.......2004-11-03

I keep a copy of this book in my office to loan out to students who are reviewing for biostatistics exams, and colleagues who feel the need to brush up on their biostats.

The book definitely does assume some basic knowledge about statistics -- I wouldn't recommend it for someone trying to learn about biostats for the first time. It's really best for someone who already has some kind of formal training in biostatistics, but doesn't want to have to dredge through the heavy textbooks for every question -- I can definitely find the answers to my most common questions in this book much more quickly than I can in my formal textbooks.

For those looking for a less technical introduction to biostatistics that doesn't presume a lot of preexisting knowledge, I'd suggest Modulsky's 'Intuitive Biostatistics'.

just get to the point!.......2004-01-17

I found this book extremely annoying to read. I thought it
would be a good idea to get an easy statistics book that does
not presume too much prior knowledge I quickly found the so
called "humor" to seriously interfere with readability. The
constant attempt to be funny simply becomes the book's major
goal in almost every sentence you read! and I just found this irritating to a degree that the book is rendered useless.

A fun stats book, can you believe it?.......2003-03-27

These guys are great! An easy-to-read, enjoyable stats book. Never seen one like it. Although it's titled 'biostatistics', it's for anyone who wants to actually understand what statistics is.

Biology: The Essential Principles Second Edition

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Biology: The Essential Principles Second Edition
Thomas M. Graham
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Essential Biology, Second edition (Paperback)

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Essential Biology, Second edition (Paperback)
Neil A. Campbell , Jane B. Reece , and Eric J. Simon
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Essential Cell Biology Second Edition Transparency Set

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Essential Cell Biology Second Edition Transparency Set
Alberts et al.
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This set contains 250 full-color transparencies of images from Essential Cell Biology, Second Edition

CV Environment, Second Edition, Chapters 1-13, and Essentials of Physical Geography, Sixth Edition, C Hapters 1-21

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CV Environment, Second Edition, Chapters 1-13, and Essentials of Physical Geography, Sixth Edition, C Hapters 1-21
Raven
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Essential Biology International Edition Second Edition with CD 2004 ISBN 032120462X

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Essential Cell Biology. Second Edition.
Bruce Alberts
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