July 10th, 2009 Posted in Business & Investing
Inflation-indexed Securities: Bonds, Swaps and Other Derivatives (The Wiley Finance Series) The global market for inflation-indexed securities has ballooned in recent years, and this trend is set to continue. This book examines the rationale behind issuance and investment decisions, and details the issues facing anyone who designs indexed securities, illustrating them wherever ...
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Andrew Derry,
Bank of England,
Barclays Capital,
Dariush Mirfendereski,
deflation floor,
Economic,
hardcover,
Inflation,
inflation rate risk premium,
inflation swaps,
Mark Deacon,
Ministry of Finance,
The Wiley Finance Series
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July 9th, 2009 Posted in Business & Investing
The Handbook of Inflation Hedging Investments: Enhance Performance and Protect Your Portfolio from Inflation Risk Invaluable perspectives on the progress of inflation protection Recent interest rate increases signal a return to the days of less benign inflation. The Handbook of Inflation Hedging Investments discusses effective inflation protection vehicles, along with strategies for integrating them into ...
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July 9th, 2009 Posted in Fiction
Miles to Go “There are multiple sides to all of us. Who we are and who we might be if we follow our dreams.” -Miley Cyrus Three years ago, Miley Cyrus was a virtual unknown. Her life in rural Tennessee was filled with family, ...
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July 9th, 2009 Posted in Fiction
Wings Laurel was mesmerized, staring at the pale things with wide eyes. They were terrifyingly beautiful—too beautiful for words. Laurel turned to the mirror again, her eyes on the hovering petals that floated beside her head. They looked almost like wings. In this extraordinary tale of magic and ...
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July 9th, 2009 Posted in Entertainment, Fiction
The Summoning (Darkest Powers, Book 1) My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again. All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don't even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost—and the ghost saw me. Now there are ghosts ...
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July 9th, 2009 Posted in Entertainment, Fiction
The Awakening (Darkest Powers, Book 2) If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girl—someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I'm as far away from normal as it gets. A living science experiment—not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister ...
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Aunt Lauren,
darkest power,
delivery gate,
dreadlocked girl,
Edison Group,
hardcover,
HarperCollins,
Horror,
Kelley Armstrong,
Lyle House,
scarred girl
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July 9th, 2009 Posted in Entertainment
The Hunger Games Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and ...
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July 8th, 2009 Posted in Fiction
Thirteen Reasons Why Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker--his classmate and crush--who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why ...
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July 8th, 2009 Posted in Fiction
The Graveyard Book Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and ...
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Abanazer Bolger,
Dave Mckean,
Ghosts,
graveyard folk,
hardcover,
HarperCollins; Later printing edition,
indigo man,
Josiah Worthington,
large policeman,
Miss Lupescu,
Neil Gaiman
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July 8th, 2009 Posted in Entertainment
Twilight: Director's Notebook: The Story of How We Made the Movie Based on the Novel by Stephenie Meyer A personal, behind-the-scenes look at the making of the blockbuster film Twilight from groundbreaking director Catherine Hardwicke!This intimate full-color "notebook", designed to replicate the one director Catherine Hardwicke kept on and off the set, takes you through the creative process that ...
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