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by GrahamfromWiley
March 4th, 2003, 3:54 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: literary agents
Replies: 6
Views: 190053

literary agents

No problem. My email address is grussel@wiley.co.uk
by GrahamfromWiley
March 3rd, 2003, 7:53 am
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Wilmott Magazine
Replies: 125
Views: 205560

Wilmott Magazine

Hi Starbuck. If you want to PM me your details - or email me grussel@wiley.co.uk - I'll check to make sure you're going to get one.Cheers, Graham
by GrahamfromWiley
February 28th, 2003, 9:47 am
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Wilmott Magazine
Replies: 125
Views: 205560

Wilmott Magazine

<t>Hi DCFC. Sorry for keeping you in suspense. We've been intending to let you have the very latest fresh and bang-up-to-date issue (currently being lovingly printed). It will be out in a couple of weeks.[There's absolutely no suggestion that we'd already sent your copy to you care of the "Old Bank ...
by GrahamfromWiley
February 20th, 2003, 2:35 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Risk Management Book By Bessis?
Replies: 2
Views: 189883

Risk Management Book By Bessis?

Joël Bessis's "Risk Manangement in Banking" 2nd edition and Kevin Dowd's "Measuring Market Risk" are both available at special discount in the Wilmott Book Club. And all you have to do to join the Wilmott Book Club is to subscribe to the magazine subscribe
by GrahamfromWiley
February 20th, 2003, 2:25 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: literary agents
Replies: 6
Views: 190053

literary agents

<t>Hi ytfloyd; Yes, literary agents will certainly help you to hawk your stuff to publishers - maybe organizing an auction for the right sort of book - but in the process they will expect a cut of any deal. For a normal sort of book, you could therefore end up paying the agent a percentage of the sa...
by GrahamfromWiley
January 29th, 2003, 12:57 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Wilmott Magazine
Replies: 125
Views: 205560

Wilmott Magazine

<r>Apologies for this confusion. Everyone should agree that the first issue has the cover date "Sep 2002"; the second issue was "Dec 2002"; and the third issue just came out ("Jan 2003").But as you can see, some people have been calling the Sep 2002 issue "the pilot issue", and then counting the Dec...
by GrahamfromWiley
December 16th, 2002, 1:34 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Wilmott Magazine - first issue
Replies: 12
Views: 191134

Wilmott Magazine - first issue

<t>Hi Aaron and Pat - looking into what's happened to your copies right now. Will PM you both straightaway.Distribution to the US is via overnight airfreight to New Jersey, so bulk delivery of copies reach there very soon. As soon as, in fact, the UK copies will be being delivered in London (by UK's...
by GrahamfromWiley
December 11th, 2002, 11:36 am
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Wilmott Magazine
Replies: 125
Views: 205560

Wilmott Magazine

<t>It's true that some lucky people may have got issues one and two ... as part of our continued promotional activities.There aren't many copies of issue two left in stock now; and obviously we cannot give them all away for free when there are paying subscribers who want copies!However, if you can P...
by GrahamfromWiley
December 10th, 2002, 1:33 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Wilmott Magazine
Replies: 125
Views: 205560

Wilmott Magazine

No immediate plans to have it instore, I'm afraid, but Wiley are talking to Bankers (a.k.a. Financial World) bookshop about further ways we can work together in promoting our book list and WILMOTT magazine specifically.
by GrahamfromWiley
December 10th, 2002, 11:41 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: .
Replies: 65
Views: 196290

.

<r>Too many numbers!Dr Edwin Goodwin suggested in 1897 that he had already solved the "noted problems that had been long since given up by scientific bodies as insolvable mysteries and above man's ability to comprehend", in particular, he had "trisected the angle, duplicated the cube, and squared th...
by GrahamfromWiley
December 10th, 2002, 9:42 am
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: bookshop in London
Replies: 31
Views: 193784

bookshop in London

<t>The eccentric Christina Foyle ran Foyles for many, many years till her death at 88 about 3 years ago.My favourite headline on her obituary was:"Bookseller leaves £100,000 for tortoise care in £60m will" ....Christina Foyle was rumoured to be so terrified of any of the bookshop staff staying longi...
by GrahamfromWiley
December 6th, 2002, 10:56 am
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Infectious Defaults
Replies: 6
Views: 190074

Infectious Defaults

<r>"Infectious defaults" by Mark Davis (note, not David) and Violet Lo is in the IoP's new e-journal "Quantitative Finance" vol.1 (No 4 July 2001) pp.382-387Link to paper is here:<URL url="http://www.iop.org/EJ/S/UNREG/hAkaOqNXzdMKWwtpbBoBrw/article/-search=2263717.1/1469-7688/1/4/602/qf14f2.pdfBut"...
by GrahamfromWiley
December 4th, 2002, 11:40 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Wilmott bookshop arbitrage
Replies: 6
Views: 190436

Wilmott bookshop arbitrage

<r>Patrik's quite right. The Wilmott Book Club is only for subscribers to the magazine - but even institutions can take advantage of it.Once you've subscribed, you'll be able to get any of the books listed in the Book Club pages of the magazine at 40% off their normal prices.... And there will be mo...