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Bleeding Hearts {Unabridged} {Cd}
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Recorded Books, LLC, 2007

First published in the U.K. in 1994 under the pseudonym Jack Harvey, this routine thriller from Edgar-winner Rankin tells the story of Michael Weston, a fastidious British assassin whose life gets complicated when Hoffer, an American PI, starts to close in on him. The novel opens with Weston's carefully choreographed hit on London TV journalist Eleanor Ricks, but Hoffer is chasing Weston for another assassination, in which the antihero ...

The Black Swan

303 reviews
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 2007

We have to remember, it is a model about the world, not a world about the model
If you ever questioned what your history teacher told you, you will find this book very interesting. If you ever hated grading on the curve, you will find out your were not alone. If you ever built a portfolio and it was perfect, and later you had asked yourself what in the world were you doing, you will find an answer in this book. If you ever had to decompose a forecast at your work to get ...

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

1 review
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Penguin Books Ltd, 2008

deceptively simple
"The Black Swan" may seem to be a simple concept, but the implications are more complex and deep than may appear at first glance. The leap from commonplace beliefs to the realization that many of them are just that: commonplace and wrong is as difficult as the leap was for physics from linear Newtonian systems to Quantum physics and non-linear systems. This means waking up to the fact that market ...

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

303 reviews
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Allen Lane, 2007

We have to remember, it is a model about the world, not a world about the model
If you ever questioned what your history teacher told you, you will find this book very interesting. If you ever hated grading on the curve, you will find out your were not alone. If you ever built a portfolio and it was perfect, and later you had asked yourself what in the world were you doing, you will find an answer in this book. If you ever had to decompose a forecast at your work to get ...

Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options (Wiley Finance)

40 reviews

Wiley, 1997

Revised edition?
Books-A_Million lists a revised edition, ISBN: 0471353477, with December, 2008, as a publication date. Their advance order price is $76.95.

Existe la Suerte?: Enganados Por el Azar
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Paraninfo, 2006

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Penguin Books Ltd, 2007

The Volatility Surface: A Practitioner's Guide (Wiley Finance)

8 reviews
Jim Gatheral

Wiley, 2006

Applying models to the real world
The book is a great guide to understanding the different models used on Wall Street to capture the intricacies of modeling and pricing derivatives. The books focus of using models as a tool and NOT a solution is a great reminder to both traders and salespeople. This summarized when the author describes the pricing of a digital cliquet. "Those sellers using local Vol models will certainly ...

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

373 reviews
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Your Coach in a Box, 2008

Fooled by Randomness - every day!
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an extremely insightful individual with an equally impresive gift for storytelling. His basic thesis is that although we like to think of our lives as ordered and predictable, they are extremely prey to random chance, and are in fact far far more so than most of us can even understand. We create delusions of predictabilty, mentally rewriting our own history in order to ...

Fooled by Randomness Revision (Not Available in US): The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Texere, 2004

Selected by Amazon.com and The Financial Times as one of the best business books of the year, Fooled by Randomness is an instant classic. Already published in 14 languages, the book?s title has entered our vocabulary. After reading the excitement expressed below for Fooled by Randomness one realizes that its world-wide bestseller status is no random event. This book is about luck ? or more precisely how we perceive and deal with luck in life ...

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