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 Creating Robust Vocabulary: Frequently Asked Questions and Extended Examples (Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy) $24.00 If you want to know how to make your vocabulary instruction effective, regardless of age level, this is the book you need to read and use. Examples included.  Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance $49.95 If you have been away from the office for long or have been busy on a long boring project for months, this is the book to refresh your memory before you get back to quant world. It contains lots of quantitative finance-related need-to-know and a bit of nice-to-know information. It is written in a question-followed-by-answer format in witty English. Mostly prominent quanty questions collected from the online Wilmott FAQ project are featured. For those in a hurry short answers are provided first. For more detail a long answer including some math is also shown. When you start reading the FAQ section you do not want to stop which is a good thing. In a way the ease with which so much need-to-know information is made available makes you feel you are cheating - getting a sort-of unfair advantage on quanty knowledge. However, some sections, for example the quant finance time line, brainteasers, frequent Wilmott search phrases and how to write a CV and prepare for a job interview seemed a bit out of place given the title of the book. Although these added nice-to-know sections may be useful to some, like those looking for a quant job, it dilutes the focus of the book somewhat. At the time of writing this it is also nearly twice as expensive as competing books e.g. Heard on the Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews and Starting Your Career as a Wall Street Quant: A Practical, No-BS Guide to Getting a Job in Quantitative Finance and Launching a Lucrative Career putting a question mark on the value for money. Still, overall I think it is a very useful book for quant students and practitioners. I'll give it four stars. |
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