Capital Ideas Evolving AUTH-493671 William Labov is Professor of

William Labov is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Sociolinguistic Patterns

including The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism & Culture and the novel Woodsmen

" She was the first white woman to stand atop Longs Peak

merely a compelling story of good versus evil in which good is sure to triumph

* Complete Scofield(R) references

Capital Ideas Evolving AUTH-493671 William Labov is Professor ofA lot has happened in the financial markets since 1992, when Peter Bernstein wrote his seminal Capital Ideas. Happily, Peter has taken up his facile pen again to describe these changes, a virtual revolution in the practice of investing that relies heavily on complex mathematics, derivatives, hedging, and hyperactive trading. This fine and eminently readable book is unlikely to be surpassed as the definitive chronicle of a truly historic era. John C.