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This book is full of holes and outdated. Should not be sold post-bubble.

He says e-Marketplaces are best when they are for commodity products (stocks and shares) so "hands up!" those suppliers that want to sell commodity products the same way, forever, as their competitors. Those that raised their hands, go buy this book before you run out of cash. Everyone else, that's the 99% of you, get real.

He says, "B2B exchanges have failed because they simply ran out of cash before they could...integrate with internal systems." They failed cause they did not respect normal competitive behavior. No amount of cash can help that.

He says, "the core service an exchange provides is a centralized marketplace" and yet to make his forecasts show growth, he includes all manner of B2B that has nothing to do with any centralized processes; he includes internet-based transactions flowing directly between partners; he includes private exchanges; though he so nicely excludes EDI - boo hoo.

There are several white papers out on the web that talk about this issue for real e-Marketplaces, and Gartner got it right though the selective Gartner notes included in his book are picked to justify his wrong position. This book is wrong.

This book explains exactly what went wrong last time, and how to avoid it in the future. A hugely successful exchange can be developed if based on the infomation in this book. It is excellent.

This is not so much a "how to" book, but rather a sophisticated analysis of B2B exchanges written by one of the world's experts on exchanges. The perspective, therefore, is not that of a techno-implementer (though Woods certainly has experience in this regard), but rather that of someone interested in creating successful B2B exchanges which become actual market makers and creators of increased market efficiencies.

Much has happenned in the last couple years, and much ground has been covered since Woods' first volume. Three years ago the world was one of hype, with many exciting experiences, but little proof of viability. Now everything has changed. Woods examines the many failures as well as the significant successes and draws many lessons which anyone interested in markets can benefit from.

I found several discussions particularly informative: building liquidity, significance of neutrality, and hybrid models, in particular. Woods' discussion of moving exchanges offshore is also very interesting, with a spin not often addressed in the B2B literature. Last, his seven secrets of success revisited is an essential action plan for most technology-centric businesses.

A must read for anyone serious about online exchanges and markets..

Tis book is merely a repackaging of the authors previous books and is a disservice to cancer patients. It is designed for losing weight, not a common problem among cancer patients. The introduction blithely states that the cancer patient may want to substitute high calorie items for the low calorie ones used. The recipes are for four to six servings, something cancer patients do not need. It is "recommended" to freeze the remaining servings for future use. However, at that rate the freezer will be filled within a few days with leftovers.

More importantly, there appears to be little to no basis for the recipes chosen. There is nothing in the introduction or the recipes explaining why these recipes would be good for cancer patients. Nor do I see they particularly would be. The recipes appear to have no particular basis for helping either patients undergoing cancer treatment, trying to recover from cancer, or trying to prevent cancer.

I would recommend avoiding this book. If you want a good book on this subject, go to a true cancer recovery book, written by an expert and with full explanations of why things will or will not help you, Daniel Nixon's "The Cancer Recovery Eating Plan: The Right Foods to Help Fuel Your Recovery."

Make no mistake about it--this is a COOKBOOK, not a diet book. And none of the recipes are repeated from earlier books!

JoAnna Lund's recipe books are wonderful for eating healthy, whether your goal is losing weight, lowering cholesterol, or recovering from cancer or other medical conditions. All of her recipes can be enjoyed by all members of the family, not just the person recovering from cancer. (For the previous reviewer to say that cancer patients don't need recipes that serve 4-6 people is ridiculous and even offensive! Cancer patients are family members, and JoAnna's easy, tasty recipes make it possible for all members of the family to eat together. They're even easy enough for most teenagers to make if Mom or Dad aren't feeling well one evening.)

I own most of JoAnna's cookbooks and have used them primarily to lose weight and get healthy. The front section of all of her books contains information to be used if weight loss is your goal, or ignored if you're simply looking for healthy, easy, dishes to tempt a recovering patient back to the table. Each recipe also contains diabetic exchanges for anyone who needs that information. (If you're not diabetic, you just ignore it.)

The heart of this book is the FOOD--please don't lose sight of that. Yes, the introduction is from a top cancer educator and provides some valuable insights if you're coping with that disease. But the recipes are for EVERYONE, and they're delicious.

I have been a subscriber to JoAnna Lunds newsletter every since it began publishing. I have all of her books,but this one strikes a chord close to my heart. As a volunteer with Hospice I know up front how important nutrition is with people undergoing treatment of any kind for cancer. JoAnna takes that into consideration and makes everyday "comfort food" have the most nutrition possible while not breaking your bank account. I have used this cookbook as a helper of sorts to families who are caregivers so they can sit down together as a family and eat the same dishes the patient does. If you only buy one of JoAnna's cookbooks (who can stop at one? They are all great!) please buy this one, everyone in the world today seems to have someone they love or that they work with or a neighbor or someone they go to church with that has had cancer in their family or just want to take better care to better of theirselves, this is the book for that.

Buying this book is a lot like buying stock in a CLEC - but you will lose less money! For $, you get 325 pages with no references or documentation of any kind. McDermott makes myriad assertions as with RBOC use of the regulatory process: "They know how best to use it while their competitors looked at the process as a necessary nuisance to be put up with in order for them to get into business." No substantiation needed - this is not an academic treatise but a statement of "truth" from somebody who has been there. The only remaining question is whether this book offers true insight to the CLEC industry and how it thinks of itself, or if this book is merely McDermott's attempt to capitalize on the fact that he was an important player in the industry. In the end, it is a lot like buying CLEC stock: is the business case real or hype?

McDermott documents his first hand experiences within the CLEC industry, illustrating the good, the bad, and the ugly. From the enthusiasm created by Congress and the Telecom Act of 1996, to the poor execution by Executives, McDermott paints a clear picture of the rise and fall of the CLEC industry. This book provides insight into the obstacles that CLECs encountered on a daily basis. Obstacles included pressure from WallStreet, competitiion against the RBOC's and other CLEC's, flawed business plans, and their inability to execute.

The book also points out some of the things CLECs did as well. However, based on the current telecom market that has sent many of these companies packing and their shareholders broke, I found it to be extremely informative on why and how it failed so bad. This book is not for everyone, it is for persons who are directly or indirectly tied to the telecom and datacom industry or have plans to be. McDermott's style is smooth and the book flows well.

Well worth the $...

As the title suggests, the author gives a first hand view of life in a CLEC: The unbridled optimism created by the telecom act of 1996, the management decisions, underestimations, and consequences. His bias towards CLECs shows through, and readers may draw different conclusions about CLEC management teams. However, the book contains a wealth of information about the industry and a first hand account of the challenges faced by competitive local exchange carriers. The author explains the pressure applied by investors, management oversights, business plans, competitive interactions, and customer expectations. He also contrasts the local exchange market to the deregulation of the long distance market several years earlier. The book gives information on pricing and the cost of network deployment that is not widely circulated. The writing style flows well and is easy to stay with.
This is invaluable information to anyone in telecommunications, and is also a great case study for business students in general.

While I am sure that the book is excellent, it is for C programmers only. The code examples seem to be comprehensive, however, I was expecting them to be in Visual Basic. No where in any of the book description did it mention that this book required a knowledge of C. While it may be a great book, it is not what I can use. Sorry.

This is a really good soup-to-nuts introduction to directory services under Microsoft. There is tons of sample code in this book, which I find very helpful. The language is C, with a MS flavor to it. There is an amazing amount of detail in this book, and the author takes great care to explain some difficult concepts. Definitely pick this one up if you are doing MS directory development.

First came a theoretical explanation then very detailed code. There are a lot of references to more detailed information on similar topics if the reader chooses to go off on a tangent on his own. This book has been a great springboard for me. The author does a great job of covering the art writing LDAP and ADSI clients separately and then bringing them together for a very nice compare and contrast.

There are not many books focusing on the phenomenon of dollarization, and the few that have devoted significant attention to the subject have usually been written from the perspective of developed countries. Unfortunately, Gabriel's book fails in several respects to offer a legitimate alternative. He apparently has little or no economic training, and the book itself describes him as a "philosopher and inventor." This may be fine if you want to debate the sentiments associated with dollarization, but his argument against dollarization has no basis. Most of his argument seems to be based on ideas he has just came up with himself instead of actually researching and analyzing the subject. Further, the writing itself is very weak, with many instances of incorrect grammar. If you are looking for a solid reference source for the causes and effects of dollarization, avoid this book and read something from a journal of economics or political science. I recommend reading something by Guillermo Calvo from the University of Maryland, who has studied dollarization extensively.

The Dollar Hegemony is a small book but, with its amazing ideas, it could shake the American financial fortress and urge it for more fairplay and justice.

In this book, Jean Gabriel, not only fights the hegemonial dollar as a factor of more poverty throughout the world, but more importantly he fights poverty itself advocating a genial theory on inflation, which only awaits implementation by a bold government.

In my opinion "The Dollar Hegemony" is a gem full of genial, innovative ideas that stand solid and look irrefutable. The author's thesis on inflation deserves very close attention, and should be tried.

Books like The Dollar Hegemony, sooner or later, will change the world.

This book denounces false assumptions about money, currency and development. It also opens new horizons for developing countries.

I found this book very useful in bringing people back to reality as to the speculative nature of option trading. It even includes very good advice as to how to avoid (or mitigate if you will) losses. I only gave 3 stars to this book as it does not provide strategies as to how to pick correct stocks, and as they say, winning in options is 90% stock selection and 10% option trading.

It is a good purchase for anyone starting in this business. Wish you all luck.

The strengths of this book are the clarity with which it has been written, the numerous practical examples provided, and most importantly, the opinions which the author, an experienced options trader, freely provides. Ansbacher has avoided dealing with the complexities of options such as the Black-Scholes pricing model, the greek sensitivities, etc., instead focussing on the basics: common strategies and analyzing what to do when things don't work as planned (in contrast to Fontanills' whose examples always make money!), but it is his experience which really shines. Reading this book is straightforward, owing to its conversational tone and is really like having an experienced options trader at your disposal -- Ansbacher is no flake, he's traded SPX options for years and runs a successful hedge fund....This one belongs on the bookshelf with McMillan and Natenberg...

If you are serious about trading options, BUY and study this book! Ansbacher explains the concepts needed to understand options in clear and nontechnical terms. Often he is brutally honest in ways the force you to think. The most valuable parts of the book are the strategies that he provides for each type of trade to inform you of what action to be prepared to take if (and when!) the market turns against you. Ansbacher repeatedly tells you that it is not easy to make money with options, but the thesis of the book is that if you approach options trading with some of the strategies he shares, you will be able to keep the premiums you collect and not get an ulcer. His ideas about trading two-strike prices out and about how to easily figure the margin requirements on options are well worth the price of the book. The purpose of this book is not to tell you how to find good stocks for writing options; the book's purpose is to provide you with sound strategies to be successful once you identify stocks in which you are interested. If you want to identify the good stocks, spend a few dollars and sign up for a program like VectorVest. Then you will have both the process and the content for success...

It is not a matter of like or dislike here.
I did really enjoyed of the same author - "Irrational exuberance", finding its conclusions very well argumented and the exposition clear and easy.
Here we have only a kind of "laboratory" with a collection of articles about hypotesys testing: very specific, many formulas,use of advanced math but NO DEFINITIVE CONCLUSION.Not even the thesys about market efficiency has been clearly attacked.
If the thesys lacks, you cannot either form a judgement and agree or refuse conclusions.

I love reading and discussing: if you happen to have ideas different from mine - or whatever - feel free to write me.

It is a nice book.But for me,I love Shleifer's "Inefficient market" more.This book focus on the Divident-to-price ratio and use it for the analysis of the market volatility.The writer does give us some insight about the market.But I doubt if it could stand for a long... since the market is changing all the time.

Shiller does to the Effecient Market Theory what Columbus did to the flat earth theory. This is one of the finest books on markets I have read, and I have read hundreds.

This is a pretty good book but it is very difficult to find the right information because it dos not follow the standard table of contents from Microsoft e.g. Planning, Installation etc etc. It maybe sounds like nothing but it really is a payne because you can not locate stuff in the way you read it in the main book for your Exchange exam.

Excellent book for learning the structure of Exchange and the most used features. You need something else for the test, however. Exchange is so "tab" heavy that explaining every function on every tab of every screen for every object would take volumes. I would recommend this book for a new exchange administrator.

I'm a Microsoft Certified Trainer and system administrator in Saudi Arabia, and I would like to recommend this book. It's one of the best concise summaries of Exchange Server I've seen. It lacks by not having much in the way of practice questions, so you need to use it in conjunction with Transcender if you are planning on taking the exam. But if you want a "Cliff's Notes" on Exchange, this is it.

I was really hoping this book would be THE E2K BOOK! I was wrong: poorly written, really weird chapter structure (actual installation of E2K is reviewed in Chapter 6!!), thoughts are not clearly expressed and important details are missed out. Will work as a quick reference (partly) but you will want to buy at least another book on the subject. Too bad tech-for-tech approach didn't work this time. I'll wait until O'Reily comes up with one.

Book is pretty good, but it offers a free DVD (after 6 month update), a Palm version (not really available on their web site), and free MP3's from the author to listen to while commuting (also nor really available on their web site). I feel cheated, as the front and back of the book promise all these freebies, but in reality, Syngress doesn't follow through... Be warned

This was the only book that did a really good job of explaining how to install and configure Exchange with Active Directory. No easy task. I thought it was a straight forward presentation

It appears that Gotthelf dictated much of this book into a tape recorder, some far-away typist created the manuscript, and nobody bothered to read or edit the final result. How else to explain that "Jim Ellis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Oracle" on p.43 (I thought it was Larry Ellison)? These sorts of editorial lapses are rife throughout the book.

To name but a few examples, Fig 6.5 caption says "Cash Currency trading screen" but it's actually a bar chart of Yen futures (p.124)

The data for Figure 8.11 (a perpetual contracts bar chart of Yen) is presented with the caption of Figure 8.10 ("Soybeans futures monthly chart"). No soybeans chart is presented at all; instead, a Nikkei futures chart mysteriously appears (p. 212)

Figure 8.41 is printed upside down! (p.236). Honestly. This is perhaps the ultimate insult to the reader and ought to be a source of acute embarrassment to the editor and author.

Academy Award nominee James Caan, with two a's, will be amused to read p. 89 which states "... has been depicted in fiction such as the movie Rollerball starring James Cann" with two n's.

Those who buy the book believing it may deliver on the dustjacket's promise "How to trade the world's biggest market" will receive a disappointment. The only trading strategy Gotthelf reveals is "Go Long when price crosses above a moving average, Go Short when price crosses below a moving average." Then he regurgitates standard methods of creating a synthetic position using options. There is absolutely nothing new here.

No review would be complete without mentioning Gotthelf's mysterious concept of Parity. First he tells you it's "a ratio that always equals one" (page 24). Next he tells you "there are no exact relationships" in FOREX (page 32), leaving you to wonder how Parity could always equal one if there are no exact relationships. Then he muddles through two hundred more pages and eventually you, the reader, decode the fact (which Gotthelf never bothers to state exactly) that his "Parity" actually means "Equilibrium". Great. But where's the insight?

I own several other Wiley Finance books and all of them have wonderful quotes from important figures in the trading world, in the form of testimonials and gushing recommendations on the rear dustjacket. Kaufman's "Trading Systems and Methods" has five, Hill and Pruitt's "The Ultimate Trading Guide" has four, Ryan Jones's "The Trading Game" has five, Sweeney's "Maximum Adverse Excursion" has three, et cetera ad nauseum. But this currency book by Gotthelf has exactly zero quotes on the dustjacket. No recommendations, no congratulations, no endorsements. I suggest you follow the advice of everyone who DIDN'T write a recommendation for Gotthelf's book: stay away.

As the author of the book "Futures For Small Speculators" I tend to be very critical of books that discuss my industry. Although this book had a few editorial mistakes, Mr.Gotthelf still did a solid job of getting his point across. For a beginner this is a great start. For more indepth analysis I would go to Mr. Cornelius Luca's books.

OK, I don't know if Soros used this resource, but he probably would have enjoyed it. This is a classic for anyone who wants to engage in serious trading or speculation in the foreign exchange markets. This book entertains as it illustrates. One caveat is convertibility risk detailed in Tavakoli's book on "Credit Derivatives". We saw this happen in several Latin American countries, Iran, and more, and that effects settlement on foreign exchange and foreign exchange options. Another product Tavakoli writes about is credit default contingent foreign exchange. One can speculate and earn big premiums, but the risk is difficult to evaluate.