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Dean LeBaron's Treasury of Investment Wisdom

Today, investors are faced with an information overload when it comes to investment opportunities. It's hard to find straight answers on which investment vehicles are the best, which ones will last, and what opportunities truly suit your needs. Dean LeBaron's Treasury of Investment Wisdom easily answers all these questions for you. This comprehensive guide to the world's greatest investment ideas and thinkers gives you everything you need to understand today's complex and exciting investment landscape.

"There have been other books on investment gurus, but none as complete nor as entertaining as this one. Dean LeBaron has produced an enlightening, thorough, and thought-provoking compendium of the thinking of many of the nation's investment professionals. It covers all the major investment styles and vehicles, from active portfolio management to venture capital, and offers theoretical insights into everything from behavioral finance to market efficiency, providing point and counterpoint. It's a must read."
-Michael J. Clowes, editorial director, Pensions & Investments and Investment News and author of The Money Flood: How Pension Funds Revolutionized Investing

Filled with commentaries and opinions on a wide range of must-know investment issues, Dean LeBaron's Treasury of Investment Wisdom is your guide to a profitable investing future. Take your investment knowledge to the next level with one-of-a-kind insights that have made the best investors in the world what they are today.

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An extremely helpful introduction to a wide range of topics.......2001-12-26

The book covers thirty general categories, styles or concepts in investing and then uses the following technique; first, Mr. LeBaron will introduce the subject, displaying a high level of knowledge that he has acquired through his 30+ year investing career (along with Romesh Vaitlingam). Then he introduces a guru for the particular topic, such as Warren Buffett for value investing. Then as "Counterpoint", he mentions weaknesses of the concept or technique. Most entertaining is "Guru Response", where the aforementioned guru gets to attack his critics; and finally a wrap-up called "Where Next", where Dean summarizes the topic and perhaps sometimes gets in a few digs at gurus he disagrees with.

I did get the sense that Dean is on a first-name basis with all of these gurus, and it undoubtedly helped in creating a book of this type. The chapters are brief and do not need to be read sequentially, just pick the topic you are interested and run with it. Particularly helpful are the references at the end of each chapter which suggest further reading. Somewhat amusing, however, is the procedure of listing a book multiple times if it relates to multiple topics - at times the references seemed like an advertisement for Bernstein's "Capital Ideas".

Readers will learn enough to get started on a topic and perhaps for an engaging cocktail-party conversation, but to really understand something they of course will need to move on to the references, and I think that is the book's intention.

Partisans may feel that he did not cover their favored topic well enough, such as "short selling" or "technical analysis". I myself felt that the chapter on Value Investing seemed weak. Although Buffett may be the most famous current proponent of value investing, I think he may have spent too much time defending his own particular flavor of value investing, and that to get a better introduction to the topic they might have used an additional guru or two (I suppose Benjamin Graham doesn't qualify because he is dead and couldn't have written a "Guru Response" section - pity.).

Also, the topics are skewed towards big-concept, guru-think type categories such as "international money" which I suppose are entirely justified but seem more weighted towards what people are thinking about at annual retreats at Davos, Switzerland than what a middle-of-the-road investor worries about. I would like to have seen a chapter on Small Cap Stocks, perhaps with Ralph Wanger as a guru, or on a practical topic like how to avoid getting ripped off by an unscrupulous broker.

This book gave me inspirations for the next ten books I'd like to read.

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An International Perspective on Foreign Legal Systems.......2002-01-12

"Comparative Criminal Justice Systems: a Topical Approach" is a study of a few foreign legal systems with a political approach and an "international perspective". According to the author, Phil L. Reichel, the goal of his book is to extend the reader's knowledge about other countries, their citizens and their cultures but most important to find ways to improve society; not only at a local but at a global level as well.

In this book, Reichel talks about interesting facts about crime and crime rate around the world. For example, crime statistics may not be accurate due to lack of means to report them-small villages away from the city; same legal system encourages law officials not to make reports, political reason. Reichel also talks about substantive law and procedural law in the four legal traditions.

Learning an international perspective on foreign legal systems is also undoubtedly excellent to better understand and to improve the American Justice System. Although the last chapter of this book was so disappointing to me, I still recommend it.

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Comparative Criminal Justice Systems: A Topical Approach
Reichel Philip L
Manufacturer: Regents/Prentice Hall
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Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab Manual, Main Version is a clearly written and comprehensive lab manual that guides readers through well-planned lab activities and feature illustrations and full-color photographs that help readers better understand the material. Designed to stand alone or for use with other materials, the manual offers hands-on experience with anatomical structures and physiological concepts to aid in mastery of the subject. Packaged with the book, the new PhysioEx™ Version 6.0 includes new Serological Testing laboratory simulations, a revised and redesigned Histology Tutorial, and online worksheets with multiple-choice answers. PhysioEx™ Version 6.0 is available in CD-ROM format and on the Web at www.physioex.com. The Human body, An Orientation, The Microscope and Its Uses, The Cell, Histology, The Integumentary System and Body Membranes, The Skeletal System, The Muscular System, The Nervous System, The Endocrine System, The Circulatory System, The Respiratory System, The Digestive System, The Urinary System, The Reproductive System, Development, and Heredity, Surface Anatomy. For all readers interested in learning the basics of human anatomy and physiology.

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Not pleased.......2007-09-09

I am not happy to report that we never received the book we ordered. We ordered the book on August 4, 2007 and told shipment would arrive by August 24th. On August 24th, we wrote in that we had not received the book. We never received a response from Amazon. On August 26th a duplicate of the book had to be purchased from the University Bookstore as the school term had begun and we were still without the needed book. The only positive thing I can say is that after submitting a claim on the purchased book, our money was promptly returned.

Good Work.......2005-09-12

I was pleased with the arrival time of this book and the quality of material that arrived. Thanks

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Lab Manual for Biology, 7th
Linda T. Collins , Rebekah P. Bell , and Charles H. Nelson
Manufacturer: Brooks Cole
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Binding: Spiral-bound

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Access usable seismic engineering data right at your fingertips

Don’t miss out on the first book specifically devoted to seismology, geotechnical engineering basics, earthquake analysis, and site improvement methods. Written by Robert Day, one of the most respected names in the field, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Handbook is a one-stop resource that gives you instant access to:

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Fractals and surfaces are two of the most widely-studied areas of modern physics. In fact, most surfaces in nature are fractals. In this book, Drs. Barabási and Stanley explain how fractals can be successfully used to describe and predict the morphology of surface growth. The authors begin by presenting basic growth models and the principles used to develop them. They next demonstrate how models can be used to answer specific questions about surface roughness. In the second half of the book, they discuss in detail two classes of phenomena: fluid flow in porous media and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). In each case, the authors review the model and analytical approach, and present experimental results. This book is the first attempt to unite the subjects of fractals and surfaces, and it will appeal to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in condensed matter physics and statistical mechanics. Because of the technological importance of MBE, it will also be of interest to scientists, particularly materials scientists, working in industry and research. Interested readers may view a sample chapter by contacting our web site at http://www.cup.org/onlinepubs/Fractals/fracts1.html.

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Good on self affine scaling.......2004-04-14

I'm not into surfaces and have only used a small part of this book for one purpose: for an introduction to self affine scaling. The topic is presented very systematically, with nice examples. Especially nice is the binomial model of multiaffine scaling. Multiaffine scaling is supposed to appear in "soft" fluid turbulence and is often mislabeled multifractal scaling, which is a horse of a different color altogether!

Fractal Concepts in Surface Growth.......2001-05-16

This is the first book I have so far encountered on interface growth to treat the subject in a simple, intuitive and entertaining manner. All the basic mathematical concepts are explained, the book is easy to read and contains plenty of illustrations and examples from real life. Barabasi and Stanley show how processes ranging from accumulation of snow on car windows, to bacterial colony growth on agar surfacees, are governed by similiar mathematical laws. Exercises are conceptual as well as mathematical, with many questions asking for discussion or further research. This book is essential for novices and experts alike.

gives science growth that generates a increase in human life.......1999-02-02

This book does not deseves critics in completelly perfect

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Absolutely Phenomenal Work.......2007-08-08

For many reviewers who lack an essential knowledge of their perceived history....The acclaimedd and respected anthropologist Sertimas assertions are wild and untethered..In truth All of which he has laid down gives serious weight the standard policy of colonialisic powers re-writing history..(It was done with the Indians, Hawaiians, Aborigines etc) The policy of re-education to the established order is basic and can be expected. Dis-information agents working forf the governemnt are out at full swing, seeking to discredit the truth that Africa the continent, the human birthplace gave birth to Also civilization, invention and human thought as we know it.. To know that Rome hated the British and controlled the Anglo society for over 400-700 years bringing in Africans, coupled with the fact the Europe is only 15-20 miles from Africa (not to mention the fact that between 1440 -1773 hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of Guineas were imported into Europe with no hint of these people today which were mulatooed into the populace) brings further the conclusion that there is no pure race of white..Einstein said that humans are a conglomeration of so many admixtures that no pure race remains... .Shopenhauer said there is no such thing as a white race...just a bleached one... DNA proves inexorably that we are ALL Africans out of exile!! All achievement and invention is African....Period!!

Breathtaking Revelations in Need of an Update.......2007-03-21

This is a compilation book by various authors, edited by Ivan Van Sertima, who also contributed one chapter himself. The chapters treat the following contents: The evolution of the "caucasoid" and the inhabitation of Earth; the first (black skinned) homo sapiens settlers in Europe; original black inhabitation of ancient Greece and later influence in the classic period of Mediterranean Europe; black popes and madonnas; the definitions of the "Moors" and their contribution on the Iberian peninsula and beyond; other blacks in Western Europe inclusive a focus on black women; ancient black settlers on the British isles, Greenland, in Scandinavia and the Caucasus; biographies of (black) Abraham Hannibal, Alexander Pushkin and Ira Aldridge in Russia and the Chevalier de Saint-Georges in France; parallels between Shakespeare's Othello and real life Leo Africanus.

This book was written in 1985, I read the ninth edition of 2006. The historical data is largely still fresh. However, human knowledge currently doubles every five years. Therefore, I strongly advise to skip the chapter on paleoanthropology and most certainly the two on genetics. Instead read one or two very recent genetic books. Ivan Van Sertima would be thankful, as all the new findings in these areas support his claims more than the lacking data possibly could in the ancient genetic years of the 1980s. Since there is no respective update/word of caution in this new printing I have subtracted one star of an otherwise simply astonishing book. And I thought I knew a bit about African influence on Europe already! Interesting, how the system makers and keepers were/are able not to make this knowledge known to the larger public. Considering that some of the chapters are rather reviews and updates of yet older, some indeed much older books.

This book doesn't only provide information in the sense of new/revealed data, but occasionally indeed in an enlightening way. I wish, some chapters would have been followed up in the re-prints. Also, for the massive African influence on Europe, many subjects could be merely mentioned and my guess is, some had to be left out. Yet nobody interested in the subject matter should leave out this incredible work.

Hit Dogs up in Heah!.......2007-02-28

African/Black people are the original humans. Everyone else are the children of African people no matter what your physical being is. It is what it is.

This is a great book. I am so happy that people of African descent are beginning to expose the truth.

In fact, Europe was the last place to be peopled by the Africans.

come again? .......2006-10-20

This book and its various companion volumes are edited by Ivan van Sertima, a particularly extreme Afro-centrist. Now, I'm not against historians unearthing early (or late) African presences in Europe. Such a book could indeed be very illuminating. If no such books exist, Black scholars should write them. Or White scholars, for that matter.

But the books by Van Sertima are, I'm afraid to say, utter nonsense. Sorry, Ivan! The author is an extreme hyper-diffusionist, who believes that civilization started in Africa, and that Africans then spread it all over the world. Apparently, everyone was Black African: Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Krishna, the builders of Angkor Wat, even the Olmecs in Central America. Come again? This is presumably the Black nationalist alternative to White supremacist hyper-diffusionism, where everyone is White instead: from Quetzalcoatl to the ancient Chinese, even the Zulu (I kid you not). However, it is a very bad alternative, simply reversing Euro-centrism.

"African presence in Early Europe" is very disconcerting. One example is its discussion of Herodotus, who claimed that Pharao Sesostris conquered "Europe" and "Asia". From this, one contributor draws the conclusion, that Sesostris actually did conquer what we today call Europe and Asia, including northern Europe with Scandinavia! This is rather like suggesting, that since Dubya is "American" president, he's in charge of everything from Greenland to Patagonia. (Well, maybe he thinks he is?) Of course, Herodotus was refering to Asia Minor and the European Black Sea region.

Further, the book claims that Pygmies lived in Scandinavia in ancient times. The proof? Legends about trolls! I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that statement. Frankly, it would make any Scandinavian laugh. The authors also believe that some Norsemen must have been African, since one of them was nicknamed "the Black". But other Norsemen were nicknamed "the Red", for instance the discoverer of Greenland, Erik the Red, or the Swedish king Hakan the Red. Yet, nobody claims they were American Indians.

This book may be interesting to those who study extreme forms of "alternative history", being essentialy a Black version of it, a sort of Black "Da Vinci Code". But those seriously interested in whatever impact Blacks might have had on Europe, should look eleswhere.

How Racists Never Want to Admit Africa Was Diverse.......2005-10-19

To the person who asked the simplistic question on why Europeans, during and after the slave trade, only found 'primitive' cultures with 'no technology' I say this:

YOU must learn how to understand historical records. What do you think Europeans found in African with the pyramids? Yeah, the pyramids were built BEFORE the Greeks came to Egypt. Egypt, no matter what museums have done, is PART OF AFRICA.

Where did the Egyptians get the technology to BUILD the pyramids? FROM NUBIA. Oh, let's not forget that the Romans fought the Nubians to a draw (during the great Julius Ceasar rule), and when the Nubians sued for peace, the Romans were only too eager to say 'yes'.

The Nubians took their technology of 'step pyramids' to western Africa, to most likely the Shonghai or Mali and from there to Mexico. The step pyramids in Mexico stem directly from the step pyramids of Nubia, and date AFTER the step pyramids of Nubia.

And, according to carbon dating, the giant heads of basalt, the 'black heads' of the olmecs, are dated to AT LEAST 600-800 BC, which predates even the famed Greek Civilizations. Archeologists, for the most part, have conceded that these heads ARE that old and ARE of Western African design.

The British found out about technology and strategy/tactics when the faced their own 'Custer's Last Stand' at the Battle of Isandhlwana in 1878, when almost 2000 British troops were annihilated by at the hands of the Zulu.

I won't even get into the centers of learning in Africa such as Timbuktu and Alexandria. Oh, before he whines that Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great, yes, I know that. However, the Greeks didn't view the world in 'color'. In fact, they sent many of their most brilliant minds to AFRICA (present day Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan) to study. The study of Philosophy, in fact, comes from ancient Egypt/Ethiopia. The Greeks who studied in what is today called 'Africa' wrote back in their correspeondance, free of racism, of what they learned.

So, to the racists and Eurocentricists who simply MUST deny any good coming out of Africa, please understand that knowledge and ignorance is in ALL people and comes from ALL lands. If you don't understand this, then continue to live in ignorance.

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African Presence in Early Europe
Ivan Van Sertima
Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
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Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics & Patterns of Plausible Inference (2 volumes)
G Polya
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NPMFAU

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Spock primer

Good writing - good reading

Be prepared to be amazed every few pages!

More Than A Math Book

At the very root of mathematical discovery

Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning: Volume II Patterns of Plausible Inference
G. Polya
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Here the author of How to Solve It explains how to become a "good guesser." Marked by G. Polya's simple, energetic prose and use of clever examples from a wide range of human activities, this two-volume work explores techniques of guessing, inductive reasoning, and reasoning by analogy, and the role they play in the most rigorous of deductive disciplines.

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Spock primer.......2007-06-10

If you have ever watched a star trek movie and seen Spock in action,then this is the book for you. Its all about logicical thinking when approaching problems in math.Excellent!

Good writing - good reading.......2005-12-14

The book delves deeply into logic and mathematical reasoning with quite a bit of intermediate math. While most of the chapters and concepts are mathematical Polya has skillfully made the reading easy and the concepts more universal. The book is really about thinking and looking at ideas with a clear light. Above all it's just good reading. Don't let the math scare you - there's lots of good stuff here.

Be prepared to be amazed every few pages!.......2003-01-14

This book shows you how simple concepts when applied properly can lead to ingenious solutions. For example, the author's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem will leave you shocked by its amazing elegance. And, there are several of these throughout the book.
Read this book. It's money more than well spent.

More Than A Math Book.......2001-08-09

To follow the book you don't need to be a matematician but it helps to remember this and that about integrals and differentals.

However, the book is more than a guide to mathematical reasoning - you can look at it as a guide to problem solving orriented thinking. I work as a business consultant and I could resist constantly thinking about business decision-making in the context of the book. I strongly recommend it to anybody with interest in management decision-making.

At the very root of mathematical discovery.......1998-08-07

One of the most beautiful books on scientific discovery. Read this book and then keep it at bedside for sheer amusement. Analogies are frequently the key to a discovery, but it is rare that this essential step receives credit. Here there is a collection of them: some of the most beautiful. Perhaps the most famous is Bernoulli's solution of the brachistochrone problem, based on an analogy with the path of light in the atmosphere. But there are many others, with comments and analysis by Polya, who spent a life thinking at these things. It's a pity he didn't include Riemann's "proof" of the theorem of conformal representation, based on an analogy with the physics of electrical currents on a surface. The reader can find it beautifully described in Richard Courant's "Dirichlet Principle".

PATTERNS OF PLAUSIBLE INFERENCE: VOLUME II OF MATHEMATICS AND PLAUSIBLE REASONING

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PATTERNS OF PLAUSIBLE INFERENCE: VOLUME II OF MATHEMATICS AND PLAUSIBLE REASONING
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Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, Two Volumes: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics, Patterns of Plausible Inference

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