Bond Reviews

Valerie Thompson has done an outstanding job of tackling this portion of the global bond market. The book is thorough enough to provide a refresher to a market pro yet accesible to moderately skilled retail investors. Mastering the Euromarkets is particularly recommended for the legions of retirement plan equity investors who will eventually need to worry about generating income from their portfolios.

I love the Pamplemouse books. They are kind of like Inspector Clouseau meets Julia Childs. Not only will you be greatly entertained, you will learn more than you thought possible about the subleties of French cuisine. Michael Bond has oviously spent an enormous amount of time in France, and he lampoons the French in a way that only an Englishman can - and makes you hungry along the way.

Monsieur Henri Leclercq, Director of Le Guide has suggested that Monsieur and Madame Pamplemousse, accompanied by Pommes Frites, might well enjoy a vacation on the Cote d'Azure in Southern France. Of course while there, he is also quite sure that Pamplemousse would not mind picking up an object d'art, that Madame Leclercq's Uncle Caputo is having delivered by a contact at a performance by female pupils of a Russian school, in a production of West Side Story, and testing some new technology that Le Guide has acquired. Unfortunately, the contact never contacts the good Monsieur Pamplemousse, Trigaux, develops a number of derrieres and one doudoune in the photographic department at Le Guide, Pommes Frites protects his master from the new technology, and Pamplemousse finds himself in a coffin, courtesy of the Russian Mafya.

Paintings by Mose Tolliver, the key folk art painter from Alabama, who is one of America's greatest living treasures, inspired this gem of a book of poems by Robert Ely. The 8" 1/4-by 8 1/4" volume, published in Alabama by Black Belt Press, includes a brief introduction by Julian Bond. Twenty of Mose T's best known images are finely illustrated here in color, alongside the witty poems they inspired. Featured in the book are the fanciful inhabitants of the town of Slapout, among them the "Hoodoo Man...who learned his art from Kulba Khan," the "Jick-Jack Girl...who "kicks off her shoes when she begins to feel the blues" and "Mose t" himself, the artist who "paints pictures made with real paint...and many folks find them quaint."

--David Ebony, Assistant Managing Editor, Art in America magazine.

This is a wonderful book. It lets mothers know what their daughters are going through in their teenage years. This book shows that you, as a daughter, want your mother to be involved in this confusing time of your life. The relationship between you and your mother will flourish! If you're looking for a mother's day gift or just some way of expressing your love for your mom, I recommend this book!

The set was given to us as a gift a few years ago and our kids have enjoyed it so much that we have worn out a couple of the pages! With favorite recipes like M&M cookies included in this book, be sure to keep it on hand for easy access. The mouse cookie cutter is cute but even cuter is the little story done in pictures throughout the book and it's recipes. Kids will revisit the mouse and the boy from the original "If you give a mouse a cookie" book, in another story about baking cookies. This will grow to be a favorite book, not just a recipe book...we "read" it for our bedtime story tons of times!

The Fabozzis and Feldstein have, once again, produced a most helpful book which any municipal bond investor, portfolio manager, public official, or investment banker will want to own. From the mathematics to the markets to the mechanics, the authors open up the all too arcane world of public bond finance for both the professional and average investor. Detailed, thorough, accessible, comprehensive and logical.

This is a great little reference book for the bizarre names of New England towns. Why is Massachusetts called Massachusetts? Buy this treasure and find out.

Lederman and Sullivan have crafted an insightful review of the High Yield market in the early '90's.
Contributed chapters from thoughtful sources.
This is a MUST own for junk bond junkies.

I recommend this work to anyone interested in Africa - quite possibly the best you can get without going to Botswana.