The book offers the best analysis yet of Goldman's increasingly tangled web of conflicts.
This is an ambitious book, offering an analysis of the failures of academic economics and a call for a more inclusive, less materialistic society.
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There is little clever analysis in the book, but that hardly matters.
The strength of this book lies less in its analysis of individual authors than in the way it captures an entire literary movement.
Based on the analysis in that book, I estimate that all these reforms altogether would reduce federal spending by 50% as a percent of GDP over the long run.
The musical analysis in the book is limited--mostly annotated transcriptions of some Desmond solos by other musicians--but for the general reader there are scores of photos and the liberal use of Desmond's lifelong correspondence with his father, Emil Breitenfeld , an organist and arranger in San Francisco responsible for much of his son's musical education.
Mr. Greifeld said the compensation program was based on an analysis of the order book and what trades Nasdaq deemed as having been executed at an inferior price.
He ends his book with a blast of cartographical analysis, and suggests that weather maps have created the template for other representations of volatile geographic phenomena such as the incidence of crime and disease.
In fact, a large part of the book is devoted to this exploration, analysis and goal realization.
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Where the book is more original is in its analysis of what often happens to couples when the mother gets sucked into becoming First Parent while the father's career progresses.
On the other hand, distilling a lifetime into a series of practical lessons has clearly pushed Mr Broad to do some hard thinking and self-analysis, which makes his book a useful read, especially for anyone engaging in entrepreneurship or philanthropy.
His book, The Day Britain Died, an analysis of post-devolution Great Britain, was published to accompany a BBC series of the same name.
The tensions in Libya and other countries in the Islamic World have supported the ongoing basic materials sector rally, but my analysis suggests that its time to book some profits here.
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It seems like a short time ago that Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, subject of the best-selling book Moneyball, first employed a new school of analysis that placed added value on statistics like on-base percentage while devaluing more traditional numbers like batting average and stolen bases.
So while the policy analysis was arguably the part of the book that was weakest, or least strong (it was said that the pages of the Federal Register exploded under Bush, but no numbers were provided to support the claim), its chapters on philosophy were absolutely great.
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In writing his book, Mr Owen though has not attempted much strategic analysis.
Other economists, including Robert Solow, have reviewed this book and picked nits about the breath of its economic analysis.
Whether the earnings and book values are of the real world would require deeper analysis, but with the uptrends intact, this may be a decent place to start investigating.
See my book, The Power of Passive Investing, for detailed analysis.
Much as one feared, however, their book is splendid because it is full of fascinating detail and analysis, not because it settles anything.
In 2000 she put together a book, China Chic, rich with striking photos and in its analysis of Chinese culture and fashion.
Partly because none of these general answers is wholly persuasive, it is the industry-by-industry analysis that is by far the best part of the book.
Weisman, who covered Moynihan for the Times in New York, Washington, and New Delhi, and knew him well for decades, introduces the book with a lively essay that is part biography, part political and psychological analysis, part appreciation, and part personal reminiscence.
The goodwill impairment charge, or lowered book value of an asset, arose after the Advanced Micro Devices conducted an analysis of the businesses and determined that they weren't performing to its expectations, making it the second ATI-related write-down that the chipmaker has had to stomach since buying the company in July 2006.
"Golfers are being sold a lie when they're told they'll get better with 30 minutes of swing analysis, " said Rick Jensen, a sports psychologist who argued in his book "Easier Said Than Done" that simple lessons aren't enough.
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Nevertheless, Michael Lewis, the author of the 2003 book Moneyball, the story of how the penny-pinching Oakland A's used quantitative analysis to win at baseball, said he couldn't see the harm in additional analytics in youth and scholastic sports.
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In some ways, Mr Pendergrast's book is precisely the obverse of the one by Mr Dicum and Ms Luttinger: his work contains too much sober analysis and not enough feeling.
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