The Bluffer's Guide to Bond

The Bluffer's Guide to Bond
Author: Mark Mason
Publisher: Bluffer's Guides
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2013-01-31
Genre: James Bond films
ISBN: 9781909365049

Never again confuse SMERSH with SPECTRE, Oddjob with Onatopp, or Plenty O'Toole with Pussy Galore. Bask in the admiration of your fellow Bond aficionados, pronounce confidently on the finer points of the books, films and the character of the man himself, and hold your own against the most dismissive of doubters.

Trading and Electronic Markets: What Investment Professionals Need to Know

Trading and Electronic Markets: What Investment Professionals Need to Know
Author: Larry Harris
Publisher: CFA Institute Research Foundation
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2015-10-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1934667927

The true meaning of investment discipline is to trade only when you rationally expect that you will achieve your desired objective. Accordingly, managers must thoroughly understand why they trade. Because trading is a zero-sum game, good investment discipline also requires that managers understand why their counterparties trade. This book surveys the many reasons why people trade and identifies the implications of the zero-sum game for investment discipline. It also identifies the origins of liquidity and thus of transaction costs, as well as when active investment strategies are profitable. The book then explains how managers must measure and control transaction costs to perform well. Electronic trading systems and electronic trading strategies now dominate trading in exchange markets throughout the world. The book identifies why speed is of such great importance to electronic traders, how they obtain it, and the trading strategies they use to exploit it. Finally, the book analyzes many issues associated with electronic trading that currently concern practitioners and regulators.

Trading and Exchanges

Trading and Exchanges
Author: Larry Harris
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 664
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780195144703

Focusing on market microstructure, Harris (chief economist, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) introduces the practices and regulations governing stock trading markets. Writing to be understandable to the lay reader, he examines the structure of trading, puts forward an economic theory of trading, discusses speculative trading strategies, explores liquidity and volatility, and considers the evaluation of trader performance. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2014-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101911107

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes the gripping story of the murder of a young aristocrat that puts an entire society—not just a pair of murderers—on trial. A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion.

Mo Said She Was Quirky

Mo Said She Was Quirky
Author: James Kelman
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2013-04-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590516001

James Kelman, the Man Booker Prize–winning author of How Late It Was, How Late, tells the story of Helen—a sister, a mother, a daughter—a very ordinary young woman. Her boyfriend said she was quirky but she is much more than that. Trust, love, relationships; parents, children, lovers; death, wealth, home: these are the ordinary parts of the everyday that become extraordinary when you think of them as Helen does, each waking hour. Mo Said She Was Quirky begins on Helen’s way home from work, with the strangest of moments when a skinny, down-at-heel man crosses the road in front of her and appears to be her lost brother. What follows is an inspired and absorbing story of twenty-four hours in the life of a young woman.

A Guide Book

A Guide Book
Author: Ontario. Waterfront Regeneration Trust
Publisher:
Total Pages: 418
Release: 1995
Genre: Golden Horeshoe (Ont.)
ISBN:

The Waterfront Trail is a project to connect many of the existing parks, pathways, natural areas, and activity areas on the Lake Ontario waterfront. This book is a guide to the Trail, arranged geographically from west to east and organized into chapters on 18 sections of the waterfront from Hamilton to Trenton. Each chapter provides information on travel directions, parks, cultural attractions, natural areas, linkages to other trails, and other places of interest. Throughout the book are vignettes giving brief descriptions of people, places, natural phenomena, and historical events related to the waterfront region. Includes a table of amenities and attractions in the municipalities along the Trail, as well as an index.

The Sociological Revolution

The Sociological Revolution
Author: Richard Kilminster
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1998
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780415029209

By controversially turning away from the current debates which surround 'social theory', The Sociological Revolution provides an historical analysis of the 'profound burden' of sociology and its implications today.

The Technological System

The Technological System
Author: Jacques Ellul
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2018-06-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532615256

Some 20 years after writing The Technological Society, Jacques Ellul realized how the totalistic dimensions of our modern technological milieu required an additional treatment of the topic. Writing amidst the rise of books in the 1970s on pollution, over-population, and environmental degradation, Ellul found it necessary, once again, to write about the global presence of technology and its far-reaching effects. The Technological System represents a new stage in Ellul’s research. Previously he studied technological society as such; in this book he approaches the topic from a systems perspective wherein he identifies the characteristics of technological phenomena and technological progress in light of system theory. This leads to an entirely new approach to what constitutes the most important event of our society which has decisive bearing on the future of our world. Ellul’s analysis touches on all aspects of modern life, not just those of a scientific or technological order. In the end, readers are compelled to formulate their own opinions and make their own decisions regarding the way a technique-based value system affects every level of human life.

Peak

Peak
Author: Roland Smith
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2008-08-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0547417179

In this unputdownable, spine-tingling adventure of a lifetime called “a winner at every level,”* fourteen-year-old Peak Marcello attempts to be the youngest climber to summit Mount Everest. After Peak Marcello is arrested for scaling a New York City skyscraper, he's left with two choices: wither away in juvenile detention or go live with his long-lost father, who runs an overseas climbing company. But Peak quickly learns that his father's renewed interest in him has strings attached. Big strings. As owner of Peak Expeditions, he wants his son to be the youngest person to reach the Everest summit—and his motives are selfish at best. Even so, for a climbing addict like Peak, tackling Everest is the challenge of a lifetime. It's also one that could cost him his life. This thrilling teen climbing adventure is "the perfect antidote for kids who think books are boring" (Publishers Weekly starred review). Roland Smith's Peak Marcello's Adventures are: Peak The Edge Ascent Descent *Booklist, starred review