This introduction to derivatives and financial engineering is a joint effort of about sixteen authors. Maybe it is an issue of too many chefs, or maybe the problem is someone's poor English, but the book is atrociously written. Not only is the English broken, but the technical level starts off as something that would appeal to a layman but by the end of the book would make Ph.D. sweat. The authors seem to know their stuff. There is plenty of practical information for financial engineering in the equity, inflation and fixed income markets ...