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Structured Equity Derivatives, the Definitive Guide to Exotic Options and Structured Notes by Harry Kat, John Wiley & Sons. 392 pages, $89.95. ISBN 0–461–48652–3

This interesting practitioner book on structured equity derivatives, which demands of the reader no more than a high-school mathematics background, follows in the line of John Braddock’s ‘Derivatives Demystified: Using Structured Financial Products’ (Wiley, 1997). The author, Harry Kat, is now an associate professor of finance at the Isma centre at the University of Reading, and has been head of equity derivatives for Europe at Bank of America. Prior to that, he was adjunct professor at the