Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success
by Brian Tracy
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Now in paperback, Create Your Own Future is a powerful book on self-empowerment that offers a wealth of ideas readers can apply immediately to take complete control of their personal and work lives. Intended for anyone who wants to make more money and get more satisfaction from life, the book offers twelve principles for success and real-world action plans that help you reach your goals. Author Brian Tracy is one of the most renowned and successful self-help authors and speakers in the world; Create Your Own Future presents all his accumulated experience in making success happen for others. Now, it can make success happen for you.

Industrial Clusters in Asia: Analyses of Their Competition and Cooperation
by Kuchiki, Akifumi Tsuji, Masatsugu
Palgrave Macmillan | ISBN: 1403943508 | PDF | 368 Pages | 1.46 MB







East Asia has been attracting FDI and is a center of industrial agglomeration; because of this, the production structure in the world has been dynamically transforming. This book analyzes this world trend and provides a framework for strategy that is required not only for Japanese local governments to implement industrial cluster policy, but also for firms to survive the global competition[/align]

Textbook Finance: Leading Financial Professors From the World's Top Business Schools
on the Fundamentals All Business Professionals Should Know About Finance
(Inside the Minds Series)
Aspatore Books | ISBN: 1587621169 | CHM | 160 Pages | 182.12 KB


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Inside the Minds: Textbook Finance is the most authoritative book ever written on the essentials of finance for the business professional. Featuring Chairmen of Finance Departments from some of the nation's leading Business Schools, these pages brim with insights from those at the height of their profession, who have each contributed chapters akin to objective, experience-related, white papers or essays on the core issues of finance, to make for an overarching as well as in-depth presentation of the fundamentals-the unspoken rules and the important issues for the future. From the history of financial matters to the key concepts that help to govern the ways in which business operates, this book pulls readers through all things financial from beginning to end. The different niches represented and the varied perspectives presented, enable readers to really get inside the great academic minds of finance as they go back to basics in a must-read for the business professional.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen R. Covey
Free Press | ISBN: 0743269519 | PDF | 384 Pages | 686.22 KB










The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change was a groundbreaker when it was first published in 1990, and it continues to be a business bestseller with more than 10 million copies sold. Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, realizes that true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas. His anecdotes are as frequently from family situations as from business challenges.

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Mathematics for Finance: An Introduction to Financial Engineering (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series)
By: Marek Capinski Tomasz Zastawniak
ISBN: 1852333308
Publisher: Springer - 2004-09-23
Paperback | 1 Edition | 310 Pages | List Price: $39.95 (USD) | Sales Rank: 34915
Product Dimensions: 9.22 x 7.34 x 0.81 inches


Designed to form the basis of an undergraduate course in mathematical finance, this book builds on mathematical models of bond and stock prices and covers three major areas of mathematical finance that all have an enormous impact on the way modern financial markets operate, namely: Black-Scholes’ arbitrage pricing of options and other derivative securities; Markowitz portfolio optimization theory and the Capital Asset Pricing Model; and interest rates and their term structure. Assuming only a basic knowledge of probability and calculus, it covers the material in a mathematically rigorous and complete way at a level accessible to second or third year undergraduate students. The text is interspersed with a multitude of worked examples and exercises, so it is ideal for self-study and suitable not only for students of mathematics, but also students of business management, finance and economics, and anyone with an interest in finance who needs to understand the underlying theory.

Insufficient and disappointing. Not even a good introductury text.
As a graduate student in Financial Engineering I have found this book useless.
The title of the book is "Mathematics for Finance", but can you find in it even an elementary introduction to the stochastic processes? No. Ditto for the Ito's lemma and many other topics. The derivation of the Black Scholes formula is just sketched, and the insight that you can get from it is very limited.

I wouldn't mind the narrow breadth of topics covered and lack of mathematical depth if this was compensated by a simplicity in the explanations and solid financial intuition. Unfortunately this book is not good even in that. In comparison to other textbooks the theorems and definitions are convoluted and do not go straight to the point. For example, in many other textbooks such as Shreve's "Stochastic Calculus for Finance" or Baxter & Rennie "Financial Calculus" the Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing is stated in this way: "In a market with risk neutral probability there is no arbitrage". Can you find such a simple and explanatory definition in Capinski's book? Not at all. The theorem at page 83 (you can see it yourself by searching inside the book) basically says the same thing using 8 lines of text and little financial intuition.
The only good thing that I can say about this book is that all exercises are resolved.
Overall, "Mathematics for Finance" has been a big disappointment: it doesn't have either the mathematical depth of Shreve's books or the conciseness in explaining financial concepts of Baxter & Rennie.
Whatever is the level of education that you are pursuing I don't see any point in using it.

Great Book for Undergrad Quants
Mathematics for Finance (An Introduction to Financial Engineering) is a book intended for undergrad students "IN MATHEMATICS" or other discipline with a relative high mathematical content.

The book assumes some basic notion of Calculus and Probability Theory and it is focused more on the mathematics than in its theory and application of Finance. If you are looking to dwell into the mathematics (Proof of Equations) this is a great book, but if you are looking for a book that is rich in theory and in application then you should consider "Option, Future and Other Derivatives" or "Quantitative Methods for Finance" as an alternative. Both books are "a most" for any finance student and are of great help. Now if you want an introduction into the mathematics behind Finance then this book is a perfect purchase.

Important to state that all the problems presented in this book are solved meaning that it is great for self teaching. Marek Capinsi and Thomas Zastawniak have done a great job on this book.

I gave it four stars, because it has room for impovement.

Joining the chorus
I can only echo the other reviewers. As far as I can tell this book has no serious competition. This is an excellent introduction to mathematical finance for those with a solid undergraduate level understanding of higher math but without graduate level exposure. I agree that it is ideal for self study as that is exactly what I am using it for. The price is right especially in contrast with its overpriced brethren. Five stars!

The very best intro. . .Ideal for self-study
Part of my job is executing derivatives trades and doing risk management. This is the best introduction to financial engineering that I have seen. The authors explain their topic clearly. A major strength of the book is the numerous exercises, WITH WORKED SOLUTIONS. If you work through most of the exercises, your understanding of financial engineering will be greatly enhanced.

This book is ideal for self-study. At under $40, it is better than other books at twice the price. I recommend it without reservation.

Excellent Starting Place for Financial Software Developers
While shy on the mathematics for the would-be-quants, this treatment of mathematical financial is way beyond the mundane coverage typically seen in MBA-level texts, is widely accessible, and very well written.

The other reviewer's comments on Black-Scholes are wrong. Chapter eight is entirely devoted to the Black-Scholes formula and models and Chapter nine is a study in its applications (hedging the greeks, etc...)

Smarter than many of the more high-level math texts (Joshi, Willmott, Neftci, etc...) in that it is both an introduction to the financial topics as well as the mathematics and links the intuitive (and counter-intuitive) observations of how financial instruments should behave with the formal and mathematical discussion of how they really do behave.

Not nearly as good in the math as the others mentioned.

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Everyone's Money Book
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Kaplan Business | ISBN: 0793142245 | PDF | 992 Pages | 7.61 MB






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