Book Description
It's hard to be five.
Just yelled at my brother.
My mind says do one thing.
My mouth says another.
It's fun to be five!
Big changes are here!
My body's my car,
and I'm licensed to steer.
Learning not to hit? Having to wait your turn? Sitting still? It's definitely hard to be five. But Jamie Lee Curtis's encouraging text and Laura Cornell's playful illustrations make the struggles of self-control a little bit easier and a lot more fun!
This is the sixth inspired book from the #1
New York Times best-selling team of
Today I Feel Silly: & Other Moods That Make My Day and
I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self Esteem.
Customer Reviews:
Parents Beware.......2007-10-17
I did not even get so far as READING this book. As a parent trying to see through my kids eyes I did the first thing a kid at this age reading level would do. I looked at the pictures first. We have a boy playing in the dirt NAKED burying his little brother up to his chin, a little boy lying on his back NAKED with his private part covered by an exclamation point from the text, and a little girl holding the front of her dress up for the 5 year old reader to view her girly little underpants. How is this book appropriate?? This was a book my kindergarten child checked out from his school library. I sent it back post hast. If I ever see this book come home again it will not be returning to the library. It will go straight in the trash.
My 5-year old is just like the kid in this book...........2007-05-31
My son is 5 and he loves this book. It captures the essence of a 5-year old perfectly. He loves to study the pictures and he tapes things on the wall with 20 pieces of tape just like the kid in the book does! We've been reading it every night before bedtime.
It's Hard to Be Five, It's Great to have this book.......2007-03-09
My five year old quickly made this one of her favorite books. We read it together almost every night. Jamie Lee Curtis once again has delighted my family with humor, wit and a glimpse a child's world.
mother of a 5 yr old.......2007-01-12
My son turned 5 in September and I bought this for him for Christmas. It's now the middle of January and we have read that book every night since Christmas day. He loves it. It starts out talking about the difficulties, but ends with the positives of being five. Good book.
My son loves this book!.......2007-01-10
He loved this book and wanted to read it all the time. Even when he turned six, he still wanted to hear the story!
Book Description
Collection includes all five of Jamie Lee Curtis's books:
When I Was Little, A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of Her Youth, the tale of a growing girl who can now do lots of things, such as braid her own hair, paint her toenails and go to nursery school.
Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born, "tell me again how you would adopt me and be my parents...", a heartwarming story of not only how one child is born but how a family is born.
Today I Feel Silly, And Other Moods That Make My Day, helps kids explore, identify and even have fun with their ever-changing moods.
Where Do Balloons Go? An Uplifting Mystery, a gentle and humorous journey of the joys and perils of a balloon's adventure.
I'm Gonna Like Me, Letting Off a Little Self Esteem, whimsically demonstrating that it's important to like yourself every single day - no matter what.
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Over the next few years, the proprietary trading and hedge fund industries will migrate largely to automated trade selection and execution systems. Indeed, this is already happening. While several finance books provide C++ code for pricing derivatives and performing numerical calculations, none approaches the topic from a system design perspective. This book will be divided into two sectionsprogramming techniques and automated trading system ( ATS ) technologyand teach financial system design and development from the absolute ground up using Microsoft Visual C++.NET 2005. MS Visual C++.NET 2005 has been chosen as the implementation language primarily because most trading firms and large banks have developed and continue to develop their proprietary algorithms in ISO C++ and Visual C++.NET provides the greatest flexibility for incorporating these legacy algorithms into working systems. Furthermore, the .NET Framework and development environment provide the best libraries and tools for rapid development of trading systems.
The first section of the book explains Visual C++.NET 2005 in detail and focuses on the required programming knowledge for automated trading system development, including object oriented design, delegates and events, enumerations, random number generation, timing and timer objects, and data management with STL.NET and .NET collections. Furthermore, since most legacy code and modeling code in the financial markets is done in ISO C++, this book looks in depth at several advanced topics relating to managed/unmanaged/COM memory management and interoperability. Further, this book provides dozens of examples illustrating the use of database connectivity with ADO.NET and an extensive treatment of SQL and FIX and XML/FIXML. Advanced programming topics such as threading, sockets, as well as using C++.NET to connect to Excel are also discussed at length and supported by examples.
The second section of the book explains technological concerns and design concepts for automated trading systems. Specifically, chapters are devoted to handling real-time data feeds, managing orders in the exchange order book, position selection, and risk management. A .dll is included in the book that will emulate connection to a widely used industry API ( Trading Technologies, Inc.s XTAPI ) and provide ways to test position and order management algorithms. Design patterns are presented for market taking systems based upon technical analysis as well as for market making systems using intermarket spreads.
As all of the chapters revolve around computer programming for financial engineering and trading system development, this book will educate traders, financial engineers, quantitative analysts, students of quantitative finance and even experienced programmers on technological issues that revolve around development of financial applications in a Microsoft environment and the construction and implementation of real-time trading systems and tools.
* Teaches financial system design and development from the ground up using Microsoft Visual C++.NET 2005.
* Provides dozens of examples illustrating the programming approaches in the book
* Chapters are supported by screenshots, equations, sample Excel spreadsheets, programming code and interactive CDROM
Customer Reviews:
great book for wall street developers.......2007-06-29
Unlike some other comments about this book, the intended readers are serious developers who have not started or just begining to use .Net 2005 framework. That is why some readers do not like this book.
A pure programmer do not need to read this book.
A pure quant strategist do not need this book.
A network specialist do not need this book.
It is only good for the intended readers.
Excellent resource to build Automatic Trading Systems.......2007-04-22
I read some of the other reviews and was moved to write my own evaluation as those reviews were mistreating this book.
This book is NOT fiction nor is it a comprehensive reference on C++.Net. so for someone trying to read this book from cover to cover will not feel like adding much value. Also the title says it clearly that the book includes an introduction to VC++.Net (just want to stress that the book is not meant to teach you the language in and out)
The value in this book is to understand the typical challenges that financial trading systems offer and some really insightful examples on how to solve them. This book deals with everyday problems that any programmer will face when building his/her own trading system (Automated/semi-automated). There is a lot of good advice on Building Automatic Trading Systems all compiled into one resource.
Like I mentioned before the book is not a comprehensive reference on C++.Net(Use MSDN for that) and neither is it verbose, but simply a bridge between building trading systems and programming. The introduction to VC++.Net is a quick read even if you have no or basic programming skills and only serves as an introduction to the language with a quick reference of the concepts.
I love this book and appreciate some of the issues that it addresses. It also better prepared me for the job that I got after taking Professor Van Vliet's class and using this book for the same.
I recommend this book for all those developers (or beginners) who are dealing with financial markets and have the need to build ATS.
Excellent CONCISE Treatment of C++.Net.......2007-04-13
I feel I am qualified to review this book as I have been a student of Professor Van Vliet's at IIT-Chicago. I have taken his courses in ANSI C++,VB.Net,and developing automated trading systems using C++.Net. I took the course in C++.Net/Automated Trading Systems using the notes that were the basis for this book.
A few of the previous reviews were way off the mark in my opinion. One of Professor Van Vliet's strengths and approach to programming is to develop concepts through simple examples. In this book, as in all his classes, he gives small but complete programs to learn concepts. Most books, e.g. Deitel, introduce concepts with 2-3 page programs where you get lost in what you are trying to learn. Van Vliet emphasizes that programming is learned by doing, not just by reading. If you just plan to read the book and not actually implement the programs then maybe it's value is limited. But this is not how most people REALLY learn programming. You have to get your hands dirty.
Previous reviews are way off the mark in terms of substance as well. You just have to go to MSDN's documentation on C++.Net to see that Van Vliet includes a lot of helpful information that is hard to find in other books and on the NET. For example, for those who care to pay attention, he does an excellent treatment on how to get to methods in objects stored in hashtables and sorted lists. Almost all other discussions of hashtables use very primitive hashtables where you only store a key and a simple value (like an integer or string) . Van Vliet actually shows ways, for example, to create a Stock Class with all the attributes of a stock and then store the stock objects in a hashtable that would represent a portfolio. (this is not the example in the book but he clearly shows you how to do this). Then he shows you how to get at the methods using a dynamic cast or static cast (with the advent of generics in VS 2005 there are now even better ways in some instances).
To give further evidence of his building block approach and the substance in the book, Van Vliet towards the end of the book develops a single-threaded algorithmic trading system and then uses a producer-consumer semaphore model to show you how to create a multi-threaded algorithmic trading system. Where else can you find this in the literature? He even created his own API, Trader API, that is very similar to that of Trading Technologies's XTAPI, so programmers can learn how to connect and use an API.
Finally, through my study with Van Vliet I have been able to write multi-threaded trading programs using XTAPI, write a stat arb program for equity trading that searches a large database of equities, write technical trading systems, and write factor model programs for equity trading. In large part because of what I learned from Professor Van Vliet at IIT I have been able to be employed by a local hedge fund. Whenever I program his books are with me for reference purposes.
J.S. Haworth
April 2007
Unreadable...........2007-04-02
Strong regret that I spent 80$ on this book. The backcover said this book was suitable for people who wanted to learn c++.net with a focus on trading systems, however the intro to the language itself is very very light.
It starts directly with pages of code (that you can find on the cd...) explaining how to manage threads, processes, time etc etc.
I had the feeling that this book has no real beginning nor real ending and that chapters can be all mixed up, it won't change anything.
On the other side, I am maybe too beginner for it. Maybe this suitable for people who want to transfer their system from one language to c++.net.
Excellent book for beginners to intermediate develepers.......2007-03-23
I thought this was an excellent book for beginner and intermediate developers. It takes you through the building blocks necessary to create a fully functioning automated trading system. Especially useful for programmers in other languages that are looking to transfer their code to C++.net. I've have 7 years of experience in financial programming and many of the problems addressed in this book, I deal with on a daily basis.
Book Description
This book provides an overview of key wireless technologies, industries, systems and services. Wireless systems are communications networks that are installed and operated for information exchange between data communication devices that use wireless transmission. Although wireless networks can transfer any type of media (voice, data or video), the type of network, services used and optional configurations can dramatically affect the performance of information services. This book provides descriptions of the key types of wireless systems along with explanations of their functional parts. You will discover how mobile radios (subscriber stations), base stations, wireless networks and gateways work together to provide communication services. You will discover the fundamentals of wireless technologies and their terminology are described along with how the radio frequency spectrum is divided, the basics of radio frequency transmission and modulation, antennas and radio networks. You will learn about the different types of mobile telephone systems including cellular telephone, land mobile radio (LMR), cordless telephony and wireless PBX (WPBX). Explained are the key types of wireless personal area networks (WPANs) including Bluetooth and UWB. Discover how wireless LANs such as 802.11 WLAN are evolving to offer ultra broadband data transmission speeds. Learn how and why broadcast television, radio broadcast and wireless cable TV systems are transitioning from in way analog systems to two-way digital multimedia communication systems. Descriptions of paging systems are provided and you will discover how paging systems are evolving from one-way numeric messaging to two-way interactive information services. The key types of satellite systems are covered including GEO, MEO and LEO systems. An overview of fixed wireless systems including point to point microwave, wireless cable, and broadband wireless is included. Discover how WiMax systems operate and how it can provide data transmission speeds up to 155 Mbps at distances of 15 km or more. You will lean about the common types of wireless services and their approximate service costs along with the market numbers and trends for wireless industries. Some of the important topics featured are: . Functional parts of wireless networks . Descriptions of radios, base stations, mobile networks and gateways. . The market numbers and trends for wireless industries . Personal area wireless systems including Bluetooth and UWB . Mobile telephone systems from 1G, 2G, 2.5G to 3G . Private and public land mobile radio systems . Cordless and wireless office (WPBX) telephone systems. . Broadband wireless Wi-Fi and WiMax networks . Broadcast television, radio, wireless cable TV and satellite systems . Wireless service types
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The large number of already available textbooks on stochastic calculus with specific applications to finance requires a justification for another contribution to this subject. The justifcation is mainly pedagogical. These lecture notes start with an elementary approach to stochastic calculus due to Föllmer, who showed that one can develop Ito's calculus "pathwise" as an exercise in real analysis. The text opens to students interested in finance a quick (but by no means "dirty") road to the tools required for advanced finance in continuous time, including option pricing by martingale methods, term structure models in a HJM-framework and the Libor market model. The reader is supposed only to be familiar with elementary real analysis (e.g. Taylor's Theorem) and basic probability theory. The text is also useful for mathematicians interested in the methods of modern mathematical finance without prior knowledge of advanced stochastic analysis.
Customer Reviews:
simple but too superficial intro to stochastic calculus.......2006-11-16
This book is intended to present a new pedagogical approach to stochastic calculus and its applications in finance. Prof. Sondermann makes an easy to follow introduction to quadratic variation, Ito's formula etc. using only basic tools from real analysis. After he introduces the Ito calculus and Girsanov theorem, he presents some applications in finance, like the risk neutral valuation, the currency options and the HJM model.
The book has the advantage that it introduces the stochastic calculus without relying on very heavy background. However, by doing this, it loses most of the precision of statements, and makes the book more suitable for bed-time reading. The book has no index term(!!), which is quite surprising for a mathematical book these days. Exercise problems are presented only for the introductory chapter on real analysis, none though for the material dealing with stochastic calculus. I do not see the reason why Prof. Sondermann decided on having exercises on the preliminaries and none on the main material, stochastic calculus. The book has also its share of typos, so be careful.
On the nice features, I liked the careful discussion of the currency options paradox (Siegel-Paradox), and the change of numeraire.
I think that Prof. Sondermann succeeded in presenting stochastic calculus in an easy way, and now readers might feel more comfortable to start reading a more advanced book on stochastic calculus.
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The traditionally separate Fixed, Mobile, and Internet sectors have been evolving recently toward a single sector, offering numerous implications for those involved in technology and business. It is therefore essential for telecommunication professionals to get a keen grasp of where the industry is heading. Providing a solid foundation in the industry, Introduction to Mobile Communications: Technology, Services, Markets explores the core requirements of modern mobile telecommunications-from markets to technology. It explains how wireless systems work, how mobility is supported, the underlying infrastructure, and what interactions are needed among the different functional components. The book also examines how mobile communications are evolving in order to meet the changing needs of users. The information provided in the book comes primarily from the four core modules of the Certificate in Mobile Communications Distance Learning program run by the Informa Telecoms Academy in London. Designed by a highly experienced training development team, the program examines the complex and fascinating world of mobile communications. Designed to give a broad picture of mobile communications, the book provides an excellent grounding for those involved in both business and engineering-leaving them much better equipped to fulfill roles within their current or prospective companies
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This digital document is an article from Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 3358 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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ADC INTRODUCES NEXT-GENERATION BROADBAND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY FOR MMDS SYSTEMS.(Product Announcement): An article from: Federal Computer Market Report
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