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There's so much to do when there's nothing to do. Here's a family lifesaver of 160 engaging activties that can all be easily done using stuff from around the house. Includes indoor adventures, magic tricks to wow your friends, rainy-day bandstand, mysterious fun, and more. Illustrations throughout and two-color in this 240 page book. 9 x 8 1/4 inches. For ages 7 to 11.
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Turn boredom into an adventure for kids!.......2007-10-02
Kids and families never need be bored again with this imaginative encyclopedia of activities. Broken down into sections according to the time needed to complete each project, kids can work alone or with friends to make a yarn spider web encompassing an entire room, create a personal cartoon strip, decorate a T-shirt, or learn decoupage, plus much, much more!
Super collection of activities!
Rainy Days.......2007-01-19
I purposely purchased this book for my mother whose name is the same as the author as a novely gift. It just so happens that my daughters have the same book and really enjoyed it.
Rainy Days and Saturdays.......2000-07-23
I loved the book because it gives me a lot of ideas to try out with my son. The ideas in the book are imaginative, creative and fun. Some of the activities are quite difficult but overall, its a fairly good compilation of activities to do with kids. Not only does it keep them busy, but they will learn something form some activities too. Sure beats just letting them watch TV.
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Rainy Day Activities has everything you need to make being stuck inside fun! Filled with quiet games to create relaxing moments, active games to get the wiggles out, and games that require no materials at all. Excerpted from Transition Tips and Tricks, Rainy Day Activities is just the thing to chase away the rainy-day-blues!
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Jean Feldman has been actively involved in education for over 30 years as a classroom teacher, teacher trainer, consultant, and author. She is the author of several early childhood books, including Transition Time and Transition Tips and Tricks. Jean lives in Dunwoody, Georgia.
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52 rainy Day Activites features an array of enjoyable and imaginative things to do. This fun pack is ideal for children (and their parents) stuck inside on a rainy day.
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Lots of fun activities.......2001-11-29
Each card in this deck has a different activity on it - some activities are quick and simple, some are longer and messier - each one is creative and fun. I got them to help me be more fun with my 4-year-old nice and it was great! We had a blast making paperbag puppets and necklaces out of bits of paper and dental floss. Many projects were for a bit more mature audience, but we had a great time with the things we picked. Another good thing about the activities - you don't have to buy lots of stuff to do them.
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Alvin schwartz
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New from John Lithgow, the bestselling author of whimsical books for children and creative ideas for families
This kit presents dozens of creative and unusual ways for kids to keep themselves entertained and engrossed no matter where they are. The materials included-4colored markers, card-stock paper and"puzzle paper" perforated into puzzle pieces that can be broken apart, origami paper, jeweled chips, and magnetic tape-may sound ordinary, but it's Lithgow's extraordinary ideas for using them that make this kit a real winner!
Don't just ask, "What's a palooza?" Try one! A palooza is an activity guaranteed to take a kid's mind off of the long drive or day ahead and get him orher interested in something new, creative, and out-of-this-world fun. A palooza takes an everyday idea and makes something completely different-and totally unexpected-out of it. A palooza isn't just an idea, it's a way of thinking. Our Lithgow Palooza kits come complete with just about all the materials neededto make imaginations soar. Sculpt a racing seagull from chenille sticks! Make a puzzle only you can solve! Tons of ingenious and inspired brainstorms will soon have kids everywhere saying, "It's not just an idea, it's a palooza of an idea. "
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Rainy day fun.......2005-06-03
Lithgow has done it again with another great book to keep you kids both entertained and creative. His rainy day tips range from origami folding to mud painting to "po-art-ry," and there are so many that even the most obstinately bored child will find something to stimulate her mind. The book comes with a kit that contains all the hard-to-find items required for the projects, so parents won't have to drive around and hunt them down. I would recommend this to any parent with kids who love to have fun.
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The New York Times Crosswords: As Good As It GetsThe New York Times end-of-the-week crossword puzzles are famed worldwide for their challenging clues, wide-open grids and virtuoso construction. So when you have the long, cozy hours of a rain-filled day stretching ahead, why not grab a pencil (or pen, if you're confident) and dig into seventy-five of Will Shortz's most impressive creations? Seventy-five Friday and Saturday puzzles from the pages of The New York Times Edited by crossword great Will Shortz
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You might get bored if your older than eight.......2003-04-20
When I was 8 I loved this book and found it very interesting. Now, though I find it boring. Now I'm more into longer books, like Lemony Snicket. This book is for younger children and although its good for a quick look, its not something I put on my favourite list anymore. Get this book if you are around the age of eight. Although there is not much writing it has amusing pictures. It has some quizzes that are fun to try, and activities, like "make your own olmpyic games" such as the popcorn olympics. Younger children will probably enjoy this but unless you are a fan of these books I don't recommend this. A while from now you will probably donate it to your local libary.
THE BEST BOOK IN THEWHOLE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2001-12-02
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I'm a 9 year old girl.For my B-day it looked like a cool book.So I gave it a look.And BOY WAS I RIGHT!!!First I found one great idea then anouther and soon 600 GREAT ideas!I couldn't Stop doing the activities!And geuss WHAt???The Amealia books are for all ages.I have a cousin Nicole who is 11 she has the whole searis!And She Can't stop reading them over and over again.I'd do the same.I wish the Amealia books were not so hard to find.Girl's PLEASE take my advice.It's for YOUR own advice.Thanks for your time!From your 9 year old pal.........
Amelia is the best!.......2000-01-31
I love Amelia. Well, OK, I only have one Amelia but it's still really funny, cool, nice, and more. There are funny things about the doctor in this book which will make you laugh! I also like it because it has terrific knock-knock jokes in it. I read the book on a cold winter's day and it made me feel warm with its humor. Enjoy!
This is a great book!!.......1999-10-25
I'd recomend this book to anyone who: loves enthusiasim, gets bored a lot, or who loves to read! I'm a 11 year-old girl and I've tried all of the things that Amelia has suggested for getting bored. The best thing about this book is that you can do the things again and again!!
"Thanks, Marissa Moss!".......1999-07-02
This time Amelia has written something very useful. I like doing the boredom busters in the guide. I am going to bring it with me everywhere I go!
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Peeps are always in season! Filled with awesome activities and fun pages to color. Looks for other Peeps books too!
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We have many of the Little Hands books and all of them have fun ideas geared for preschoolers. I love how this is geared for rainy days! There are ten categories to choose from ranging from arts and crafts to simple science experiments. Like all Little Hands books, the instructions are short and easy to understand and there are discussion starters and facts to go with each activity.
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This new and unique book demonstrates that Excel and VBA can play an important role in the explanation and implementation of numerical methods across finance. Advanced Modelling in Finance provides a comprehensive look at equities, options on equities and options on bonds from the early 1950s to the late 1990s.
The book adopts a step-by-step approach to understanding the more sophisticated aspects of Excel macros and VBA programming, showing how these programming techniques can be used to model and manipulate financial data, as applied to equities, bonds and options. The book is essential for financial practitioners who need to develop their financial modelling skill sets as there is an increase in the need to analyse and develop ever more complex 'what if' scenarios.
- Specifically applies Excel and VBA to the financial markets
- Packaged with a CD containing the software from the examples throughout the book
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
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Absolutely Great!.......2006-01-11
Advanced Modeling is a fantastic book, and pretty easy to follow with relatively few coding errors. There are some books out there that have errors in the code that they use, which makes it difficult or someone to learn the techniques. Even for those without a solid background in VBA, this book can benefit you to start learning how to code properly. Anyone who is relatively proficient with Excel can definitely gain a new trick or two from reading this book. All you really need to start using this book is a basic understanding of finance concepts (e.g. portolio theory, capital budgeting, binomial options pricing, Black-Scholes, etc.). The techniques that are taught are also useful in other modeling exercises, and not necessarily just for finance-related topics.
A Cookbook for Financial Modellers.......2005-10-19
Yes, the book won't teach you CAPM, Black-Scholes, or much financial theory. But there is NO shortage of those books. There is a shortage of books with real-world Excel solutions to applying financial theory to data. I've had this book for a couple of years and have probably only used 10% of it, only because I don't have time, real business need, to do the rest. I sometimes take it to bed to read and dream of having the time to try out some of their other models. That's the only thing I can add to the other reviews here, the amount of love and passion for the subject put into this book. There's not one extra padded word or graphic in this book. Yes, if there was one book I'd have to take to a desert island with Excel and some financial data this would be it.
Not really satisfying.......2004-06-05
One of the main points of programming books is to help the reader understand the models being programmed. On this count, "Advanced modelling in finance using Excel and VBA" fails miserably. There is very little explanation of the financial concepts and models. Anyone hoping to learn finance from this book will be very disappointed.
The result is a series of programming black boxes and ugly spreadsheets having only limited usefulness.
Although the level of his book is somewhat lower, Benninga's "Financial Modeling" book is much better at explaining the conceptual basis of financial models. A good programmer will be better off with Benninga than with Jackson-Staunton.
Advanced modelling in finance using Excel and VBA.......2004-03-15
This is probably the best book written on financial modeling in excel, definitely worth the $50. Comes with a great CD-ROM. The books strength is its illustration of financial models and implantation in Excel. Since the models focus on static solutions the book is probably of greater use in academics than in industry. It would be great if there was instruction about how to input real time data into Excel and implement the models dynamically. Of particular interest to me is the great VBA code given on the CD, namely the code to calculate autocorrelation, cubic spines, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. This alone was worth the 50 bucks.
There are some major deficiencies in this book. Noticeably absent topics include: bond portfolio immunization; swap pricing; forwards and futures hedging; the ARCH, GARCH and CHARMA models.
My background is in finance, mathematics and computer science. Unlike the guy above, I don't see any need for advanced mathematics in order to study this book. In fact I am sure you don't. The point is to make excel do it for you. However it will a lot easier for those who understand the finance and mathematics behind what they are telling excel to do. I am assuming that those who are considering this book most likely have taken at least one college level calculus course and one statistics course. But I don't think even that is necessary and definitely not stochastic calculus.
Highly Recommended.......2003-03-06
VBA is one of those tools I long knew I should be proficient in but never got around to learning. That is, not until I found this book. It makes it easy for a financial professional to quickly come up to speed and start coding VBA within spreadsheets. The fact that the focus is on financial applications means that you learn coding techniques that will be useful on the job. I highly recommend the book!
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