Bond Reviews

There is no substancial information about trading other than symbols for a large number of companies, this takes 1/3 of the book the other 2/3 talk about how carefull you should be but doesn't give you specifics. The information about the industry is very inaccurate. If you have access to the internet there is nothing in this book you can't get on one of the many internet portal out there and you get accurate information. If you are new to trading this book doesn't help and if you are allready trading you'll find it very useless.

Remember those stock market books you started to read, then put down before you gave it to Uncle Charlie. This is not that kind of book. If you're new to on-line trading, this provides some concise and essential information. If you're thinking of switching from a regular broker to on-line trading there is help. Almanac does the essentials well and then some. Much as you might turn to another kind of almanac for the phase of moon in six weeks, you turn to this for needed trading information and it's likely to be there and easy to find. The author doesn't have a miracle program to make you rich in two days. But if you pay attention to the common sense advice, you might avoid overnight poverty. And, you'll have a much better chance of achieving your financial goals.

"The Almanac of Online Trading" by Terry Wooten is the first of it's type in this rapidly growing segment of the securities brokerage industry. As more investors use the Internet to trade, this book will become more valuable.

Do not be mislead that the straight-forward approach lacks the necessary information traders are seeking. Mr. Wooten provides all the necessary steps from opening an account and how to get started, to a complete reference of symbols of traded securities, the names and addresses of state regulators, a listing of online brokers, and a glossary of terms that is indispensible for those new to online trading. There are tables that cover commodities trading and trading on foreign exchanges that are valuable for even the most experienced online investor.

This book is not intended to be an investment advisor, whereby if you will profit from following suggested investment strategies. Rather, it is a toolkit for selecting a broker, setting up an account, and executing trades. If you are thinking about opening an online account, or even if you are already an established online trader, this book is an indispensible reference source.

As a student of sociology, I'd recommend reading Anthony Giddens' works rather reading this trivial rubbish. In fact, you're better off reading Time Magazine or for that matter, MAD magazine.

A good treatment of emotion and in particular shame and a helpful way to deal with the emotional life of individuals that doesn't rely on psychoanalytic theory. He treats six sociologists: Simmel, Cooley, Elias, Lynd, Goffman, Sennett. His discussion of Norbert Elias is especially worthwhile.

In this important book, Scheff offers an innovative approach to understanding human behavior which relate the smallest part to the broadest wholes of social structure. He sees the details and connection of everyday life usually found only in the finest novels. Scheff combine the insights of the humanities and social sciences to capture the same evocative details of sight, sound and context, to understand "human reality".

If you really are just starting out and have no clue what you're doing then this book might be helpful. Might. For me, most of the book was too vague to be useful. Comments to the effect of "choose the best possible system [or arrangement] for X" drove me crazy. What, in his opinion, is the best system, and why? Also, the sentences were so short and basic that I felt like I was in grammar school. This book might serve as a useful checklist for things to think about, but I didn't find many answers or very good advice. Skim it at the library.

William J. Bond presents a guide for people who want to become home-based consultants. His manual covers every aspect of freelance consulting, from finding, landing, and keeping clients, to maintaining records and understanding the marketplace. This common-sense book is part narrative and part workbook, including questionnaires and fill-in list forms. It is detailed, but if you have any experience as a solo practitioner, the elementary basic business practices outlined may cover material you already know. We at getAbstract recommend this book as a primer for anyone who wants to become a consultant working from a home-office and to those who are already doing exactly that and would like a few more tips about how to make a better living at it.

I just finished reading Going Solo, and by the time I was finished, I had a fairly complete business plan already completed. Not only did this book contain valuable information, it also stimulated pages of ideas and things to do. I definitely recommend reading this book with a pen and notebook handy.

It's the industry standard. Everyone has one. It stands alone in its field. And if you're reading this you're probably going to buy regardless of what is written here.

But I've found this book (along with some of the other Fabozzi 'Handbooks') to be overrated. Basically, the format of 30 or so different authors each writing a chapter in the form of an article diminishes the usefulness of the book. There is no narrative, pedagogical or otherwise. The format leads to significant gaps in coverage. The quality of the chapters is uneven, as is the level of detail covered.

Don't misunderstand me -- the Handbook isn't bad, by any strecth of the imagination. It's just not as good as it could be. It has almost no fluff, and all the information in it is good. And the competition is a very slim field. For many things Fabozzi is not only your best choice, it's your only one.

I have seven years of experience selling these products, and I use Fabozzi's book often. This is a good reference, and a good treatment of mortgage and asset backed securities. I only gave it four stars because the fact that this is a compiled work of research material interrupts the flow of ideas. On the other hand, there is some merit to getting different angles on the subject from different viewpoints.

One caveat. Mortgage derivatives used to mean calls and puts on mortgage backed securities. Today, however, entire portfolios of mortgage risk are laid off in the form of credit derivatives.

Tavakoli has the best treatment of that topic in the book: "Credit Derivatives".

A vast collection of articles by practitioners on Wall Street, this book covers a broad number of topics on Mortgage Backed Securities. While not a scholarly approach, 'street research' typically aims to educate the fixed income portfolio manager.

I think that this book is very good for the people wno likes to be in suspense. It gets you inside of the story and surprises you each chapter. One of the things I most liked about this book is that James Bond gets personally involved. What surprised me about me about James Bond was how much he cares about inocent people diying. I think that this book is different from the other books about James Bond because the other books have more action and I think this change is because it wasn't written by Ian Fleming.I liked this book because when you read the first two chapters you can't stop reading it because you want to know what is going to happen next.It gives you information about the characters chapter by chapter and I like that because you can imagine everything that is happening.This book makes you think alot because you have to remember what happened in last chapter in order to know what is happening and you also start to imagine what is going to happen next.The first couple of chapters were my favorites because you start thinking about all possible resolutions and you start liking the book. I didn't like Sukie Tempesta's character because she was kind of predictible.One of my favorite parts of this book is the end and the phrase were it says "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.But it is,perhaps, the end of the beginning" because it makes you think.Finally,I think that every James Bond's fan should read this book, and even if this is the first book about James Bond that you will read I am sure you will find it very interesting.

I believe that this is a very good book for people who like suspense, because this edge of your seat thriller keeps you involved every chapter. In this sotry James Bond gets involved sentimentaly because he thiks that his girl friend was killed, later he found that she wasn not dead. She betrays him. One of the things I liked the most about this book, is that each of the caracters are described in detail. I think this bood is different from the other James Bond's books, because it was written by John Gardener. I think that James Bond's boss shouldn't assign this mission to him because he knew that James Bond will get personally involved. This book was good, but some ot the parts were a little confusing because you had to remember perfectly what happend in the last chapter's to understand what was going on. I didn't like that character of Sukie Tempesta, it was very predictible since chapter 2 and in chapter 23 you realize that she wasn't as good as she seemed to be. I think that the other stories I have read have more action than this one, and James Bond cares more about inocent people dying. James Bond continues to be very smart like in the other stories.

Slam bang action. This adventure hits the USA and Washington DC! Bond is sent to take charge! And that is what he does in this great Bond adventure! Great reading! Loved the ending!

Grant Morrison, at his best, is one of my favorite comic book writers. The Mystery Play, Arkham Asylum, and parts of Invisibles rank among the very best comics ever made. However, like Frank Miller, it seems like Grant either brings the house down in a pyrotechnic jubilee or writes virtually unreadable junk, the latter being the case with Kill Your Boyfriend. It's actually not THAT bad a read-- it's a sexual, violent, druggy romp, but unlike Grant's best works, nothing more.

A short (56 pages) Grant Morrison story that contains neither superheroes nor science fiction. The plot is similar to that of NATURAL BORN KILLERS, where 2 youngsters run off to take drugs and kill people. Like that film, this story is also a dark comedy, although this one takes a more aloof and antiseptic tone than the film did. The tale gets much of its energy from its complete and matter-of-fact disregard of any ethics or morality.

Philip Bond's colorful artwork contibutes a lot toward the dry humor in this story. He draws people's faces and their expressions quite well, which is particularly useful in the numerous asides to the reader, where the girl looks directly out of the page and talks to you. It reminds me of some movies that have used this device.

Although not the greatest Grant Morrison story ever written, it's a malignant little comic with a certain charm, and worth reading if you can find a copy somewhere.

A lovely short story from Grant Morrison, the genius reinventor of Doom Patrol and the current chronicler of The Invisibles. A sulky schoolgirl somewhere in suburban Britain meets a cheeky delinquent boy on the bus one day, and before your jaw can drop they've gone on a killing spree, hooked up with a bunch of anarcho-hippies on a bus, experimented wildly with their respective sexualities and found themselves halway up Blackpool Tower with a live grenade while the Police shout threats at them through a bullhorn.

Love story, irresponsible celebration of violence and Dionysus myth, this is a highly cheeky piece of work from the irrepressible Mr. Morrison. Always a man to take the phrase "For Mature Readers" to the absolute limit, Morrison respects not a single taboo. I forget who the artist is and I'm not proud of having done so, as the art is appropriately wacky and witty, as befitting the, well, Dionysian tone of explosive release. Great fun, even if you're glad it didn't happen to anyone you know, and a slap in the face to boring journalists who claim that British fiction is dead. (Why don't those idiots read comics?)

For Ian Fleming, writing was an escape from the restraints of real life. One spring in 1952 he sat down at his typewriter and began 'Casino Royale', first of the James Bond thrillers. He drew upon his six years of wartime service as personal assistant to the director of naval intelligence in Whitehall. Research followed the initial burst of writing; he was not shy about consulting experts. Over the next eleven years he wrote a book a year. Gradually the lifestyle he prescribed for himself and his hero -- 60 cigarettes a day, whiskey or gin -- took its toll, and he saw the beginning of real success just about the time he succumbed to "the iron crab" -- heart disease. The books took real incidents, real places, and real parts of his own personality and turned them into enduring fantasies -- popular not just with people familiar with these settings but with those for whom they seemed realistic in detail but far removed from personal experience.

This book is the best account of the author of the James Bond novels, Ian Fleming's, life yet. Written in 1965-1966, it is the one and only biography of Fleming that was written with true research by the author. Pearson's biography is also drawn on personel expiriences (he worked with Fleming on the Sunday Times for many years). Many excerpts of interviews with people who knew Fleming, or stayed at his house Goldeneye, have been included, and statements by close friends are plentifull. This book is to be read for pleasure, other biographies of Fleming (e.g. Andre Lycett's Ian Fleming: the man behind James Bond) are to be navigated through using an index. An excellent book.

This book was written while Fleming's wife Anne was still alive, so out of respect for her, many details of his affairs during their marriage were left out. Otherwise, this is a fantastic account of the life of this amazing man, the details of his career in Naval Intelligence during WWII are fascinating. The little points you see here and there that are later reflecting in one of his Bond novels are always neat to pick up on.

This book has major flaws. First the "worry free" investment strategy relies on a base of Social Security Income, an unrealistic assumption given the demographics of our country. Second the yields on Ibonds and TIPS are too low and the savings rate required too high to be a realistic plan for most American's to become financially independent. The book relies on unrealistic examples to illustrate that a 3% return could provide for retirment (even if 3% was available today). One example used in the book is "Paul Younger" a 30 year old male planning to retire at age 67. Using a target income at retirement of $21,000 (!!)and social security income of $13,812 per year (worry free?), the calculation for retirement shows Paul must produce only $7,188 per year from his retirement savings.

Even in the chapter on finding a financial advisor, the Author offers the designation "RIA" as a way of determining the competence of an advisor. The qualifications for an "RIA"- filling in the paperwork to register with the state or SEC and paying a fee.

As a 64 year old entrepreneur, having had a used book store, an art gallery, and small press, I have been very cocky, some would say arrogant, in my investment habits, aided and abetted by my subscription for ten years to the Wall Street Journal, and my Friday night standing date with Louis Ruykeyser, and a bowl of popcorn. I thought I would be living on the Rue de Facile, Easy Street to non-French majors. However, I watched my margin account go from a few hundred thousand, to a miserly 45,000. in two years. The roller coaster at Nantasket Beach was the last time I had that sinking feeling, back in l956.

I am now reading this book by Svi Bodie and Michael Clowes and wishing I had had the intestinal fortitude to sell off and buy TIPS in April of 2001. The sketches of families at three different life stages and the fairly simple formulae (or equations) to help the amateur financial planner like me, to get a grip, all help me to feel more sanguine about the next 20 years of thrifty and practical retirement living.

Everyone interested in investment should read this book

another animal photobook send 'em to the abbatoir!

I found the essays in this book to be very interesting....really showing the bond between people and their animals. The photos are portraits, revealing the intimacy people feel for their pets. I enjoyed this book.

Both the writing and the photography in this book were excellent. The author and people reviewed were very articulate in their efforts to relate the bond that people have for their pets. The photography was classic and the poses unique, and related well with the storyline.

In this play, the wife of Heracles (Megara), his three young sons, and Heracles' father Amphitryon are in danger of being killed by the usurping king of Thebes Lycus. Lycus wishes them dead since he had killed Megara's father, King Creon, and taken his throne and Lycus doesn't want the three sons to grow up to avenge the death of their grandfather. Heracles is absent on his trip to Hades and is believed by many to be dead (since noone has ever returned from Hades). But, Heracles returns in time to thwart and kill Lycus. Unfortunately, the goddess Hera, who has always had a hatred of Heracles, sends the minor goddess Madness down to drive Heracles temporarily insane. In his fits, he kills his wife and sons. When sanity returns to him, he realizes what he has done and how immoral the gods are. Euripides is once again pointing out that the Greek gods are not an acceptable standard for moral behavior. Man can serve as a standard, and this is exemplified in the play by Theseus, ruler of Athens.

In this play, the wife of Heracles (Megara), his three young sons, and Heracles' father Amphitryon are in danger of being killed by the usurping king of Thebes Lycus. Lycus wishes them dead since he had killed Megara's father, King Creon, and taken his throne and Lycus doesn't want the three sons to grow up to avenge the death of their grandfather. Heracles is absent on his trip to Hades and is believed by many to be dead (since noone has ever returned from Hades). But, Heracles returns in time to thwart and kill Lycus. Unfortunately, the goddess Hera, who has always had a hatred of Heracles, sends the minor goddess Madness down to drive Heracles temporarily insane. In his fits, he kills his wife and sons. When sanity returns to him, he realizes what he has done and how immoral the gods are. Euripides is once again pointing out that the Greek gods are not an acceptable standard for moral behavior. Man can serve as a standard, and this is exemplified in the play by Theseus, ruler of Athens.

I love this play. In particular, I find Theseus' comments of friendship to be very moving. Amphitryon's courage at the beginning of the play was very memorable. Overall, Heracles is a very memorable play