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The 2000 World Market Forecasts for Imported Lenses, Prisms, Mirrors, and Other Optical Elements

The first inclusive book on the cutting-edge field of modern optics, optics marker and its applications.
For the first time, all the major aspects of forecasting optics market are covered in one book, comprised of original methods developed by experts at all of the world. We can apply to a lot of Methods for optical production and its application, expecting with application technologies and the market forecasts, and also for experimental studies and testing of optical products. The contributors also detail the three key approaches as follows: a various geometrical optics (ray-tracing) and the rigorous design based on modern optic industry. Methods of approaching Optical Elements is an estimable reference for experts in the aerospace industry, research and development institutes, optoelectonic industry, as well as students and university professors.

I have spent the last year losing money in the stock market. Everything I tried lost money. I saw the ad for the Alchemy book and thought what have I got to lose? Within one week I was making money, a lot of money. On my first trade I [made quite a bit]. Now all my friends are asking me what option writing is about and if it is hard to do. The program was easy, and the thing I like the best was that I can do it forever. I just wanted to say that this is a great book and I am really glad I found it.

This is a must for a serious trader or a novice just getting started in the market. It goes into great details on how to watch the market and make an instant treasure within a day, or for more sophisticted strategies over a period of time. For times like these, this book has been very helpful to me understanding the market, and of course cashing in.
What differentiates this book is the detail the book goes into. It gives every step in each chapter. If you are thinking of getting some type of second income, than Alchemy is the book to get started with. This book certainly has motivated me be smarter on the market and has brought new life to my financial world.

I found Mr. Czlonka's technique's easy to understand and even entertaining to read through. My husband is already invested in the stock market but these techniques helped us become actively involved with our investments. I would recommend this book as a must read for anyone who is considering ways to make their money grow.

In this brave, bold, and frequently shocking report, Ehrbar goes beyond the wink and nod of world finance and thrusts us deep into the underworld of international licensing agreements. With courage and conviction, Ehrbar unravels the shroud of secrecy that weaves this international cartel together leaving this once untouchable creature exposed and naked before the reader's eyes. Using riveting investigative journalism, akin to Morrow, Woodward and Walters, Ehrbar risks his own personal safety to bring us chapter upon chapter of nail-biting intrigue and international espionage. Taking the reader through 14 key international markets, we meet the unscrupulous Dr. No Cho Low of The Peoples Republic who crushes his opponents with his trademark "fine-print". In Chapter 57, tariffs and international trade barriers are cleverly skirted through the underhanded loopholes of Vlad Solvaski. Finally, in Chapter 487, Ehrbar gives us hope that international order will prevail when Morry the orphan refuses to succumb to the "final offer" by making a counter demand that leaves the party of the first part weak and defenseless.

Page after page, chapter after chapter, this book is truly a one of a kind masterpiece. Unfortunately, but understandably, Ehrbar leaves us with many unanswered questions, most notably, the existence of the mysterious 15th key international market. These questions will undoubtedly be answered in the long anticipated sequel, provided, of course, Thomas J. Erhbar, himself, does not become then next victim of the International Market cartel.

Big little book; that is little and big both, and especially big in the ideas department. Big subject has to have big ideas, huge ideas in fact. Now take this licensing in perpetuity thing that EVERYBODY has to have these days. You know? What gives? What a perp got to do with it? Huh Ehbar ? What? WHAT? Great big black bat of a book I tell you.

This book rules! Never before have I been so entranced by the process of finding a suitable local partner for a license, for example. (Did you know this is generally conducted through private negotiations between the parties concerned? In Chile, at least. It's true. All true.)

It sure pisses me off that MacMillan let this masterpiece go out of print. Who the hell is Business International anyway?

I know this book is currently out of print and with the date of 1992, I was hesitant at first to purchase this book. It is a true gem of a discovery, his information can be applied to real estate investing in the year 2001 and beyond.

He delivers the information very well written, and gives incredible ideas of ways to continually expand your ideas of how the appraisal business works, as well as many other timely topics.

This is the best real estate book for the serious long term investor. I have bought four properties from 1992 to 1997 in the depressed Boston area real estate market and would have never been able to without this book. The focus of this book is that you can creat long term wealth by buying and holding real estate in the right location. It is not a get rich quick scheme. This is the serious real estate investors "bible"

Many books on real estate usually tell you get rich quick schemes that never seem to work. This one however, show the important of buying and holding onto real estate much like stocks. The author stresses holding onto the estate, rather than trying to sell it quick to make a quick buck. Throughout the story, the author details his own experiences on his quest for his real estate fortune. After losing money gambling with the commodities, the author decided to try real estate. He started with virtually nothing, and eventually built his estate to be worth more than $15 million in four apartments, and 30 condominiums. This is a definite book to read for those who want to start investing in real estate

Author Jonathan Story has assembled in one relatively short book a dense collection of facts, hypotheses and perspectives on China. Unlike many writers who have fixed ideas about China and use their books to promote their ideas, Story gives full and fair time to competing viewpoints. He is not selling a hypothesis, but exploring possibilities. Readers who prefer easy and definitive answers may feel frustrated, because Story provides only difficult and ambiguous alternatives. Yet his approach is solid, and more accurate than a finite stance could be. The future of anything is uncertain, and China is egregiously inscrutable, so any honest pronouncement on China's future must acknowledge uncertainty, difficulty and ambiguity. If the book has a demerit, it is that the author sometimes offers interesting, but meandering digressions through the minutiae of Chinese chronology without fully explaining why the details matter. China is perplexing, so we welcome this compilation of insight - we would have been glad to read even more.

China: the race to market is an excellent book for anyone who wishes to understand the direction in which the Chinese polity and economy is developing. For providing a background for developing strategies for business development it is therefore a must. And in addition it is a very enjoyable read.

The major attraction of the analysis is the clear exposition of the various forces bearing on policy making and action in China within the Communist state, and by implication therefore on the the economy and the business environment. One cannot make business strategy without reference to a coherent macro view of the relevant environment and for any business either seeking to operate in China, or likely to be impacted directly or indirectly by events there, there can be nothing better than this book to establish a coherent view of likely development.

Jonathan Story is one of only a few writers who can relate so credibly the connection between business decision-making and public policy making.. In China: Race to market, he documents political and economic developments in the emerging China of the 21st century. More importantly, especially for those at the helm of Western enterprises, Professor Story explains in clear terms the opportunities and the challenges facing those seeking to establish and grow businesses in China. It's a good read: compelling, thought provoking, and laced with sound and practical business advice.

The author of this book, Dr. Alan Downs, performed corporate downsizings for years and now explains they seldom attain the goals a company wanted.

Dr. Downs explains that, contrary to what we read, life in the workplace is deteriorating for nearly everyone. He explains that greed is the driving force behind company lay-offs and it must be checked. He advocates a new "social contract" between companies and employees.

America's businesses must begin to understand that they are often responsible for the tension in our society that invites the rampant drug use. Top-down, authoritarian, do-it-my way management defies research into human development that has been with us since 1927 when the "halo effect" was discovered. More harmony and less friction is needed between labor and management and this is what Dr. Downs writes about. He states that businesses need "rejuvination, not dismemberment. He is right!!

Many books have been written and studies have been made that show management is not as good as it is cracked up to be and it is time for change. Worker friendly institutions will only be brought about in the 21st Century by managers who know how to inspire workers. Companies who heed this advice, based on sound research will benefit across the board as will communities and the people who work in them.

Dr. Downs book reveals a hidden truth about corporate America that government officials should pay attention to, but they may not as special interest groups are at the very top of these companies that promote this "ugly truth" with large pay checks in the form of political contributions.

If you are a CEO, in high level management, a politician or a union leader, read this book and go to work on correcting this ugly corporate structure sure to play havoc within America sometime in the 21st Century.

Norman Jones, Ed.D author of Performance Management in the 21st Century

In Corporate Executions, Dr. Downs shows how the government and top executives foster top-down management practices that are helping to create unwanted and unneeded tesnion in our country. Years ago it seems that companies had the best interest of communities and employees in mind, but this book dispells that long lost attitude. To his credit, Dr. Down rebukes the downsizing, the re-engineering of companies because he participated in these tragedies and makes recommendations to increase the performance of companies without affecting the morale of people. His book should be read by every politician and every CEO and taken to heart as a measure that would make us a safer, calmer nation. The recommendations of Dr. Downs are even more important than he writes about as I believe he touches upon the attitude of big business that creates tension in our country and delivers a message to young people that the future is going to be a lot rougher on them than the past has been on people in the world of work. Dr. Down's ideas should be put into practice soon, but I fear he is going to be one of many authors who will only be able to set back and say, "See I told you so."

Alan Downs knows whereof he speaks when he details the rationale, strategies, and methodology of corporate downsizing in the 90's. His spellbinding expose is written from the standpoint of a converted "corporate reconstructionist," and he pulls no punches. He takes you behind the scenes, into boardrooms, managerial conferences, and strategy meetings, in which employees are little more than pieces of play on a game board, manipulated by corporate henchmen in an attempt to drain every last drop of profit from an undervalued workforce. Mr. Downs' insightful, caring treatment of the workers' modern day employment dillemma both comforts and informs. If nothing else, the reader leaves with a greater understanding of why he or she has been buffeted about in the economic storm that has characterized the greedy 90's. Such understanding allows the victim of a layoff to salvage an othewrwise devistated sense of self worth, knowing that they are not alone -- that the fruits of "profits before people" ideology are widespread. Corporate Executions is also recommended to the thoughtful exec who realizes that short-term profits derived from a decimated workforce are over-shadowed by negative factors engendered by trimming the sinew with the fat. Low worker morale, lost job knowledge, confusion as to job responsibilities, a general lowering of work accuracy, etc. plague workers to the detriment of the stated corporate mission and precious bottom line. Alan Downs' suggestions on how to structure a kinder, gentler, and, yes, more profitable company are well worth the read

The cover and page quality make this book a joy to read compared to other derivatives texts on the market.

Even more important, Dr. McDonald's writing is clear and logical. His theory is current and well laid-out. Compared to Hull it has more PDE's and sound theory. Compared to still other derivatives texts, Dr. McDonald gives more applications to supplement the theory.

If I could only recommend one derivatives texts to students and practitioners needing a thorough overview of the market, this would be the one.

Far too many books on derivatives are written by academics who claim to be writing for intelligent professionals but are in fact really trying to impress their colleagues. This book is a wonderful exception to that general rule. It is written by a master teacher who understands the importance of knowing several different ways to solve problems, and who provides numerous examples so that the reader can check his/her own answer. The book also provides software in VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) so that the reader can experiment with the results explained in the text and apply them to his/her own problems.

McDonald is very concerned to explain the intuition behind the numerous formulas presented in the text, and presents the various chapters in an expertly-designed sequence so that new results nearly always become understandable as more general ways of seeing results presented in earlier chapters. The material progresses gradually from basic to complex, so that the dedicated reader becomes thoroughly acquainted with results that have only recently been discovered. As a consequence, this textbook becomes a handy reference work to be kept at one's desk for daily use.

I came across this book more or less by accident, and as I was browsing through it I noted with particular interest several substantial discussions of how derivative pricing can be done with real probabilities so as to arrive at the same results as pricing done with the pseudo-probabilities (or risk-neutral probabilities) discussed in most texts. These sections provided an extremely important clarification of an issue that undoubtedly occurs to nearly all students of derivative pricing but is nonetheless ignored in nearly all of the relevant textbooks and literature. I knew right then that the author understood what questions were occurring in the minds of his students and how to deal with them.

This book is a bit more expensive than some rival texts, but it is entirely worth it because of its tremendous clarity and because of the software that accompanies it. In reality, this book is a bargain.

I had the privilege of using the manuscript of this book for two advanced finance courses I did at Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University---the Author's home) and just got a chance to read the final published book. This is an excellent book on derivatives markets which should appeal to three types of readers: 1) MBA students doing their first finance course on derivatives; 2) Non-finance professionals who can easily grasp quantitative aspects of derivatives pricing schemes but lack an an intuitive understanding of why, where and how derivatives are used (I was in this category until I attended Kellogg); and, 3) Corporate finance professionals trying to understand different risk management tools. Bob McDonald did a great job in maintaining a good balance between mathematics of derivatives pricing schemes and logical explanations of several economic concepts one would encounter in derivatives. This book is going to be a popular MBA text book very soon.

In the first four chapters of the book, the author assumes that the prices of different derivative securities are known and discusses how these securities can be used for insurance and speculation (Chapter 4 has a nice introduction to risk management). Chapters 5-8 explain pricing methods for futures, forwards and swaps using simple discounting models. Chapter 6 has a lucid discussion on how would "futures contract price vs. time" curves for different commodities differ based on the seasonality, transportation costs and storability aspects specific to each commodity.

Starting in Chapter 9, the author discusses different option pricing models. The material presented in Chapters 10-13, where in the author discusses binomial option pricing models, Black-Scholes formula and delta hedging, is clearly the highlight of this book. I did not find such a crystal clear discussion of binomial pricing models and the rationale behind delta hedging in any other text book. In Chapters 15-17, the author discusses financial engineering (how to create a required payoff from basic building blocks) and corporate applications of derivatives (including real options). In the remaining chapters (Chapters 18-24), I would recommend Chapters 18, 19 and 24 to all the readers. The other chapters are not really necessary unless you plan to work on developing derivatives pricing schemes.

In summary, I strongly recommend this book to every serious student of finance.

When is Dr. DeRooy going to publish "More Economic Literacy?"

"Economic Literacy" was just the new coat I needed after over twenty-five years of post-college economic news flowing my way in ever increasing volume and my memory of college macro and mirco economics 101 courses worn threadbare.

Dr. DeRooy put the issues into perspective; he tells what's important. He tells why.

So much has gone on since 1993, what appears to be the last year Dr.DeRooy had all the annual statistics available to him when he wrote "Economic Literacy".

I'll buy, and recommend to all who come across this comment, "More Economic Literacy".

This book is great! I read Economic Literacy once through, and now I find myself returning to it to refresh my memory on econ-related topics I encounter in the news or at the office. De Rooy uses a combination of brief lessons and anecdotes to relay information in a comprehensible form. I can understand best if I think of things in terms of real life experiences--Economic Literacy appeals to somebody like me because it is realistic. It is not at all lofty or overly theoretical. And hey, how many other econ books have cartoons in them? Economic Literacy makes a great gift, too! The friends with whom I shared it really enjoyed it.

This book saved me in multiple economics classes, explaining terms that most books clouded with superfluous rhetoric and boring text. A must for anyone interested in money, and in that case, who isn't?

Alan Rugman does yeoman service in dispelling the myths of globalization as an omnipotent and omnipresent force in international business. Drawing on a myriad of recent cases, such as Disney and Saatchi and Saatchi, Rugman presents a thorough, compelling and provocative argument that regional markets and intra-firm transactions and relationships within those markets (particularly the triad of Asia, North America and Europe) and not a globalized, cast-the-net-widely juggernaut approach to multinational corporate strategy will continue to rule the day.

Alan Rugman is one of the top business school researchers in the world. In this insightful book he takes a different view of globalisation than most. It is very useful and thougt provoking.

Rugman's "End of Globalization..." is a superb analysis of the international trade of product and services and the nature of foreign investment. He effectively shows how, in reality, international trade and investment needs to be understood in terms of firm and not market activity, and in particular, in terms of the activities of 441 of the Fortune 500 companies. Rugman's work shows how most globalization activity is, in fact, based within a triad of Europe, Japan and the U.S., Foreign Direct Investment is largely intra-firm and industry, and that the key driver is regional and local based economic activity, not a global free-for-all.

Rugman provides examples of how globalization fails (Disney, Saatchi and Saatchi) as well as success stories (ACER) and an analysis of how 20 of the world's multi-national corporations actually operate - i.e., with a strong regional and local presence.

We covers the role of the WTO (demise imminent), protectionism (NAFTA and EU), health and evironmental restrictions, and positions the dot com dream of internet-driven wealth as being one of media hype. There is no single global culture he says, and the new mantra really should be "Think Regional. Act Local. Forget Global".

This book is a brilliant demolition act on the false promises of globalization and also a stinging riposte to the doom-mongering paranoia of the Starbuck's trashers of Seattle and the McLibel crybabies.

Well written, clear, forthright, and with relevant examples this book is a must for students of globalization and international economics everywhere

Finally, a solid business book for everyone! The FOAM Ship provides a simple, yet comprehensive look at organizations and what makes them work effectively. This book is ideal for small businesses and for newcomers to the business world who want a comprehensive look at how organizations work without being overwhelmed by jargon.

Succesful leaders are known for removing layers of complexity and bring business issues to the most basic level. It is at this level where it becomes easier to get to the best answer. In summary, as R. David Bermudez-Onopa very clearly states in his book, "Simple is Beautiful". "The Foam Ship" should be mandatory reading for everybody that has anything to do with organizations. For young managers to understand very early in their careers the importance of simplifying business issues and for more experienced managers not to lose focus and forget that key principle. R. David Bermudez-Onopa's FOAM model does an excellent job at bringing together all the hard elements (functions) and soft elements ("the Corporate Soul", communications, etc) of every organization into an integrated, easy to understand, framework.

Excellent guide for business entrepreneurs that need to learn how to build a corporate culture. I found that this book is very informative. The FOAM Ship model is an easy way of explaining how a well run business should "navigate". It is also, short, sweet and to the point with an easy-to-read and follow format.