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To master the power of investments and money in today's instantaneous global markets, investors must understand the high-powered, complex world of Derivatives. Derivative Securities: The Complete Investor's Guide provides investors and investment managers with the technical and strategic tools they need to make derivatives an integral part of their investment arsenal. Here, at last, is a simple, unified approach to the world of derivative securities. "Unified" because Derivative Securities pays equal attention to options and future pricing in both theory and practice. In addition, the issue of credit risk in pricing and risk management of securities is covered extensively.

Derivative Securities: The Complete Investor's Guide

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Derivative Securities: The Complete Investor's Guide
Robert Jarrow;Stuart Turnbull
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En este libro encontrara los principios fundamentales que necesita para triunfar en el terreno financiero y que le permitiran engrosar su bolsillo, aumentar su cuenta bancaria y asegurarse el exito economico que todos anhelamos, aprendiendo a conservarlo y a hacerlo fructificar. Se trata de una guia perfecta tanto para graduados y especialistas como para profamos en el tema.

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exelente.......2006-08-17

exelent item...
realmente recomiendo este libro ya que esta escrito en una forma muy sensilla de entender.

Un excelente libro para organizar sus finanzas.......2006-05-05

Es un libro muy interesante, lo he recomendado a muchas personas que necesitan organizar su vida financiera, y balancera sus gastos, es una historia de facil lectura cuyo mensaje llega al lector con efectividad.

Un manual para alcanzar prosperidad.......2005-06-26

Considero este libro sin dudar un instante, el mejor libro en enseñar prosperidad. Lo hace de una manera simple y profunda. Este libro me enseño a ahorrar y a pensar en prosperidad de una manera diferente. "El hombre mas rico de Babilonia", me proporcionó las ideas y conceptos con los cuales pude adquirir todo lo necesario para vivir con tranquilidad y comodidad.
Este libro debe ser leído por toda persona que quiera construir un futuro sólido para sus seres queridos.

Tony Alcázar
Autor del libro del libro de Superación Personal:
"La Nueva Raza Latina en America - La historia de un Ilegal"

Libro muy interesante.......2002-01-16

Este libro nos una percepcion sobre la riqueza. Pone nuestra mente a pensar y reflexionar sobre el dinero y la verdadera riqueza.

Un excelente principio.......2001-09-14

Para todos aquellos que constantemente nos preguntamos... cómo hago para ahorrar.... porqué no me alcanza el dinero a pesar de que año con año recibo aumentos considerables. Este libro es una excelente guía de principios para crear patrimonio. Vale la pena leerlo y empezar a desarrollar una colonia de 'esclavos' que nos ayuden a vivir mejor en el futuro.

El Hombre Mas Rico de Babilonia: La Vesion Original Renovada y Revisada

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El Hombre Mas Rico de Babilonia: La Vesion Original Renovada y Revisada
George S. Clason
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El Hombre Más Rico de Babilonia

Los secretos del éxito de los antiguos

Cómo alcanzar el éxito y solucionar sus problemas financieros

por George S. Clason

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Este best seller de los anos 20 sigue vigente, pues habla de ocmo las personas comunes podemos encontrar una forma de mejorar nuestra calidad de vida, pero ante todo nuestra actitutd. Los preceptos que aqui se presentan, se han adecuado a este siglo XXI con todas sus ventajas y desventajas, pero aun asi, son tan simples y universales, que los puede seguir desde un humilde obrero hasta un empresario.

Piense y Hagase Rico by Napoleon Hill & El Hombre Mas Rico de Babilonia by George S. Clason

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Piense y Hagase Rico by Napoleon Hill & El Hombre Mas Rico de Babilonia by George S. Clason
Napoleon Hill , and George, S. Clason
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Piense y Hagase Rico by Napoleon Hill & El Hombre Mas Rico de Babilonia by George S. Clason

Piense y Hágase Rico Napoleon Hill

Enseñando por primera vez, la famosa formula de Andrew Carnegie para ganar dinero basada en los PROBADOS TRECE PASOS para lograr HACERSE RICO.

El método más famoso y efectivo para hacer dinero. Nunca hubo otro libro como éste ni nunca podrá haberlo. Miles de personas han aplicado sus famosos principios en aras de su propio enriquecimiento.

Para escribirlo, Napoleon Hill entrevistó a 500 millonarios que le revelaron el origen de su riqueza. Uno de los libros más válidos de nuestro tiempo.

El Hombre Mas Rico de Babilonia George S. Clason

Los secretos del éxito de los antiguos Cómo alcanzar el éxito y solucionar sus problemas financieros por George S. Clason Los babilónicos se han reducido al polvo, junto a las orgullosas paredes de sus templos, pero su sabiduría aún perdura.

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In this provocative work, Thomas DeGregori explores many of the revolutionary technological advances of the past century, especially those in agriculture.

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A very highly recommended, fact-filled primer.......2003-01-06

Bountiful Harvest: Technology, Food, Safety, And The Environment by Thomas R. DeGregori (Professor of Economics, University of Houston) is a thoroughly "reader friendly" introduction and analysis of how modern technology has drastically affected our environmentally based, technology enhanced food supply. Exposing myths and presenting extensive, meticulous research on the history of pesticides, pollution, organic agriculture, and much more, Bountiful Harvest is a very highly recommended, fact-filled primer, which will provide the non-specialist general reader an invaluable instructional background with respect to what really is served up on the dinner plate.

DeGregori Makes "Bountiful" Sense.......2002-12-24

Radical environmentalists and nature-first types beware! Dr. Tom DeGregori dares to controvert your bluster, and has the courage not to "think small." DeGregori, a Professor of Economics at the University of Houston Central Campus, has long played the "Devil's Advocate" to Barry Commoner's "Runaway Technology Thesis." For a minimum of thirty years, he has steadily proffered logical counterpropositions to the knee-jerk anti-science of modern ecological Luddites.

In his wonderful new book, aptly entitled BOUNTIFUL HARVEST: TECHNOLOGY, FOOD SAFETY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT, DeGregori carefully integrates human evolution, reason, art, writing, and manufacture as the prerequisites and components of technology. As he has done elsewhere, DeGregori once again promotes the humanity of technology, which is both a phenomenon and process, in defiance of those who would spurn it as a materialistic vice. Early on, he declares that without technology, we pitiful humans would have had to adapt to our environments "by the much slower adaptive process known as speciation [the evolution of different species]." Technology, which is unique to the human species, saved us eons of evolution and gave us to ability to maneuver and develop throughout the world.

DeGregori reminds us that anti-technology evolved "with, and probably before, Plato," who argued that with the creation of the alphabet (and writing), the young would be urged not to rely on their own memory. This in turn founded a viewpoint that we, as humans, somehow "lose something" with every technological advance. He unmasks the insanity (and inanity) of such sophistry in his chapters on food safety, where he cleverly refutes the would-be superiority of "organic foods." Indeed, we created artificial substances to fend off the very toxicities and incapacities, which organic farming reintroduces. The author boldly asserts that a return to purely organic farming might feed one-fifth of the current world population, involving farm output losses of 53 to 100 percent. Moreover, organic fertilizers often are accompanied by graveolent diseases that have been long since stymied, or eliminated, by technological countermeasures. DeGregori is best when he scoffs at the "whole foods" fad, which encourages well-to-do (and well-fed) customers to buy potentially fecally contaminated foods at a 57 percent mark-up!

The fact is that human beings never have, and never will, live in "harmony" with nature because "by nature" humans must transform or, at the very least, disturb environments to make the regions habitable. Without technology, our physically inferior species could only survive in tropical or, at best, subtropical environments. Even the simplest of farmsteads, say, a swidden plot, at least temporarily clears natural vegetation to make way for crop cultivation. The fact is that it is only through the implementation of suitable technologies that humans can minimize the disturbance and the dangers to themselves and their environments.

As Dr. DeGregori has reminded us for decades: never before have so many of us lived such long and such relatively healthy lives. The shortest lived and least healthy among us, as in Africa South of the Sahara, are comparatively miserable precisely because they do not have the technology to meet their needs. It is the ultimate irony that the anti-technologists, who oppose irradiated, genetically altered, and biotechnological foods, are harming the very people--whom they blatantly otherwise claim to defend--who most need the potential bounty of that advanced nutrition. Already bypassed by the Green Revolution, Africans can ill afford to miss the coming revolution in food technology.

Always stimulating and controversial, Dr. DeGregori once again takes up the cross of sensibility against those who make the headlines and only occasionally make sense. BOUNTIFUL HARVEST should be read by economists, geographers, anthropologists, ecologists, and any and all who value their fellow human beings and their environment. Highest rating*****!

an excellent defence of agriculture and biotechnology.......2002-11-06

Thomas R. DeGregori knows his food technology. A professor of economics at the University of Houston, DeGregori has written an excellent defence of modern agriculture and biotechnology.

I would recommend this book as an antidote to the frightening biotechnology-gone-mad scenarios painted by organisations such as Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth.

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Students Scholars & Saints
Louis Ginzberg
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Louis Ginzberg
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Students Scholars and Saints
Louis Ginzberg
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STUDENTS SCHOLARS AND SAINTS.

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Students, Scholars and Saints
Louis Ginzberg
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useful but uneven

Illuminating essays by a great Jewish scholar

Students, scholars and saints,
Louis Ginzberg
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This book, originally published by the Jewish Publication Society of America in 1928, now contains a new introduction by Jacob Neusner. The book gives the reader some insight into the cultural life of the Jew, by making him acquainted with the bearers of this culture. It was in the Talmud Academies that the spiritual life of the people pulsated, and hence a closer acquaintance with the ideas and ideals of the talmudic scholar will lead to a better knowledge of that life.

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useful but uneven.......2006-05-17

The essays in this book were based on speeches given by the author between 1901 and 1922. Some of the essays were enlightening, others less so.

Generally, I liked the speeches on Jewish education and institutions better than the speeches about individuals; the former speeches were especially useful for someone with limited cultural literacy, while the latter tended to assume too much background knowledge (with the possible exception of Ginzberg's excellent essay on Israel Salanter).

A few points I thought were interesting:

*Ginzberg's explanation of how Poland became so heavily Jewish. In medieval Poland, Jews were allowed to enter a wide variety of businesses, while in western Europe Jews were confined to a few trades. Unsurprisingly, Poland became more popular with Jews, western Europe less so.

*An essay on Jewish childhood education points out that early childhood education begin with biblical Hebrew, so that students could learn to follow adult prayers as soon as possible. By contrast, I wasted my childhood Sunday School mornings on conversational Hebrew - useful if you are moving to Israel, but not so useful in shul.

*An essay on the Talmud emphasizes that scholars were expected to master the secular sciences as well as Torah; he notes that St. Jerome, one of the 4th-century Christian Church Fathers, actually criticized Jews' interest in medicine. By contrast, today some Jews seem to think that the most "authentic" or "traditional" type of Jewish education is limited to Torah and a minimal level of secular literacy.

*An essay on Salanter (a leader in the Musar movement, a 19th-century group focusing on moral regeneration) does a nice job of pointing out Salanter's wisdom and purity: noting, for example, that Salanter believed that equanimity of temper is a fine thing for oneself, but that "Trust in God . . . is an abominable sin if applied to shift from us our obligations towards our fellow man; one must not trust in God at the expense of those who seek our help." Salanter was also something of an ascetic; when he died, his room contained only his tallit and tefilin. Ginzberg also points out that Musar was actually controversial during Salanter's lifetime; some Jews worried that Musar was a potential separatist sect.

*His essay on Zechariah Frankel makes a case for something resembling Conservative Judaism (though the phrase never creeps into his essays, since Conservative Judaism as a separate denomination did not exist at the time of his 1901 speech). He wrote: "the sanctity of the Sabbath reposes not upon the fact that it was proclaimed on Sinai, but on the fact that the Sabbath idea found for thousands of years its expression in Jewish souls . . . practical Judaism [ ] is not concerned with origins, but regards the institutions as they have come to be." Regardless of its origin, Judaism is how Jews express religiousness, and is thus our way "to grasp the highest ideas and to keep them clearly before them".

Some negatives:

*His last few essays, focusing on a few Western European religious intellectuals, were very hard to follow for anyone without an enormous level of background knowledge. One example: an essay on Solomon Schechter states: "The letter of Rabbi Hushiel dispelled with one stroke the legend of the four captives, with which Jewish history in the West was supposed to start." A footnote explaining Rabbi Hushiel and "the legend of the four captives" might have been a good idea.

*Incredible defensiveness about East European Judaism, which Ginzberg goes out of his way to compare favorably with Sephardic Judaism- perhaps because at that time, East Europeans were sometimes viewed as a little backward.

Illuminating essays by a great Jewish scholar.......2006-01-25

The essays in this book are titled as follows: 'The Jewish Primary School', 'The Disciple of the Wise', 'The Rabbinical Student' 'The Religion of the Pharisee' 'Jewish Thought as Reflected in the Halakah' ' 'The Gaon.Rabbi Elijah Wilna'
'Rabbi Israel Salanter' ' Zechariah Frankel' Isaac Hirsch Weiss'
'Solomon Schecter ' ' David Hoffman'.
The biographical essays are of special interest and value, but the whole of the work is rich in Jewish learning and insight.

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Students Scholars & Saints
Louis Ginzberg
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