Haldane's Best Salary Tips for Professionals (Haldane's Best Series)

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Focuses on one of the most popular job search subjects today--how to negotiate a higher salary, including stock options and other benefits.

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Tells pros how to negotiate the best salary.......2001-12-10

Bernard Haldane Associates' Best Salary Tips For Professionals tells pros how to negotiate the best salary based on understanding how salary discussions operate. Outlines of the common salary mistake job seekers make is particularly insightful and useful.

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In Managing Lease Portfolios, Townsend Walker, an expert in this field, explains how to evaluate the risk of lease portfolios as well as hedge their long-term, non-traded risks. Here, you’ll learn how to apply various financial tools to your portfolio of leases and discover the work that goes into each step—such as measuring the risks of a lease, calculating the returns, and estimating the effects of diversification. Many of the ideas and concepts found within this comprehensive resource have existed for a number of years in the fields of foreign exchange, interest rate and credit derivatives, and the bond and stock markets. This book adapts and applies these concepts to managing leases. Then it illustrates how you can implement these new concepts through concrete models that have been proven to work in the real world.

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Leasing is one of today's more complex forms of financing, and, unless you have extensive experience in this arena, making informed decisions can be difficult. Over the life of a lease, its risks and returns change, and the factors that affect the risks and returns also change. In Managing Lease Portfolios, Townsend Walker, an expert in this field, explains how to evaluate the risk of lease portfolios as well as hedge their long-term, non-traded risks. Here, you'll learn how to apply various financial tools to your portfolio of leases and discover the work that goes into each step such as measuring the risks of a lease, calculating the returns, and estimating the effects of diversification. Many of the ideas and concepts found within this comprehensive resource have existed for a number of years in the fields of foreign exchange, interest rate and credit derivatives, and the bond and stock markets. This book adapts and applies these concepts to managing leases. Then it illustrates how you can implement these new concepts through concrete models that have been proven to work in the real world.

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Lawsuits over coffee burns, playground injuries, even bad teaching: litigation "horror stories" create the impression that Americans are greedy, quarrelsome, and sue-happy. The truth, as this book makes clear, is quite different. What Thomas Burke describes in Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights is a nation not of litigious citizens, but of litigious policies--laws that promote the use of litigation in resolving disputes and implementing public policies. This book is a cogent account of how such policies have come to shape public life and everyday practices in the United States.
As litigious policies have proliferated, so have struggles to limit litigation--and these struggles offer insight into the nation's court-centered public policy style. Burke focuses on three cases: the effort to block the Americans with Disabilities Act; an attempt to reduce accident litigation by creating a no-fault auto insurance system in California; and the enactment of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Act. These cases suggest that litigious policies are deeply rooted in the American constitutional tradition. Burke shows how the diffuse, divided structure of American government, together with the anti-statist ethos of American political culture, creates incentives for political actors to use the courts to address their concerns. The first clear and comprehensive account of the national politics of litigation, his work provides a new way to understand and address the "litigiousness" of American society.

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The Constitutional Underpinnings of our Litigious Society.......2005-03-05

Why are Americans so litigious? That is the question author Thomas F. Burke tries to answer in his book: "Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights."

After dismissing some of the old standby explanations like rights consciousness, erosion of community values and an overrepresentation of lawyers in Congress, Burke focuses on how the fundamental structure of American government makes litigious policies an attractive option for activists seeking change.

Burke said the U.S. Constitution set up a government structure based on federalism, separation of powers and judicial independence that makes it hard for activist groups to advance social change through the legislative process.

According to Burke, the Constitution also shapes the way Americans view government and their own political interests; and distrust of centralized government power is at the core of the American constitutional tradition:

"American activists support court-based schemes in part because of their ambivalent attitudes toward the welfare-regulatory state, attitudes that are strongly reinforced by the structures in the Constitution."

Burke's thesis is that this constitutional tradition creates specific incentives for activists to support litigious policies, rather than legislative or regulatory ones. Litigious policies help activists to:

1. Insulate their policies from political enemies

2. Gain power over the actions of states and localities

3. Do good things for constituents without spending government dollars.

Burke introduces four types of antilitigation efforts - Discouragement, Management, Replacement, and Resistance - and shows how key interest groups influence the political process in order to support reforms that advance their interests or undermine ones that don't.

He spends a good deal of the book exploring three attempts at litigation reform and explaining how the constitutional incentives to litigation affected the outcome of each. The examples are the Americans with Disabilities Act, the struggle over no-fault auto insurance in California, and the vaccine injury compensation program.

The book is written in a manner that is easy to read and easy to understand, and the author makes good use of detailed examples to explain and emphasize key concepts. The detailed blow-by-blow accounts of each attempted litigation reform get to be a little tedious at times, but they do paint a clear picture of America's litigious political system in action.

What Business Leaders Should Know about Litigation.......2005-02-05

This book is a must read not only for lawyers interested in litigation reform but for business persons who too easily decry the abuses within today's legal system. Burke explains why contemporary litigation is not the result of trial lawyers filing allegedly "junk lawsuits" in search of profits. Neither, of course, is it a phenomenon that can be chalked up to natural forces. Instead, Americans sue each other because Congress and our constitutional system encourage us to do so. Congress does this because it's cheaper to offer those at the bottom of the economic ladder a chance at a lawsuit than to provide actual funds which might help lift them up. Burke contrasts, for example, the temptation to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act, with the more costly approach of providing government subsidies to the disabled. The constitutional advantage of litigation is that the analytical process of presenting tough problems to impartial, life-tenured judges is often better able at sorting out complexity than the log rolling process within legislatures. One added strength of the book is the rare focus on the nitty-gritty details of legislative action. Burke reminds readers of the debates and forces that led to passage of particular legislation rather than treating statutes as a fait accompli. In short, if you have any interest at all in today's debate over litigation as a technique for confronting social problems, you can't miss this book.

Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights: The Battle over Litigation in American Society.(Book Review): An article from: Trial

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Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights: The Battle over Litigation in American Society.(Book Review): An article from: Trial
Michael L. Rustad
Manufacturer: Association of Trial Lawyers of America
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Trial, published by Association of Trial Lawyers of America on April 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1350 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights: The Battle over Litigation in American Society.(Book Review)
Author: Michael L. Rustad
Publication: Trial (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2003
Publisher: Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Volume: 39 Issue: 4 Page: 70(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Democratic Practice Workbook first examines democratic teaching philosophy and then provides concrete, step-by-step techniques for teachers to apply this philosophy to field observations and reflective teaching. No other text uses the philosophy behind democratic practice to inform the field experience. This brief, hands-on field observation/participation guide features specific suggestions for reflection during field observation and uses case studies to further illustrate how democratic principles can be exercised in the classroom. The text is designed with a complete resource set of focused observation forms for the student to use out in the field. It offers a complete guide for students’ term projects, multiple formats for classroom discussions, a model for curriculum development in democratic practice, and a beginning set of student written lesson plans.

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Tips and Tools for Democratic Classroom Practices.......2001-04-28

Terrific observation forms for preservice teachers implementing democratic practices in the classroom!

Good for developing a democratic classroom environment

Good for practical workshops and seminars on democratic practice

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This comprehensive review presents all modern methods for plant root research, both in the field and in the laboratory. It covers the effects of environmental interactions with root growth and function, and focuses in particular on the assessment of root distribution and dynamics. The processing of root observations, analysis and modelling of root growth and architecture, root-image analysis, computer-assisted tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, are described and discussed. Furthermore, a survey of the application of isotope techniques in root physiology is given.

You too, can root out your roots: An easy to follow "do it yourself" method for recording your genealogy

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You too, can root out your roots: An easy to follow "do it yourself" method for recording your genealogy
Roy E McCluskey
Manufacturer: R.E. McCluskey
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Binding: Paperback

General | Genealogy | Reference | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0961109203

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The science of energy harvesting materials is experiencing phenomenal growth and attracting huge interest. Exploiting recently acquired insights into the fundamental mechanisms and principles of photosynthesis, it is now possible to forge entirely new and distinctive molecular materials and devise artificial photosystems and applications far remote from conventional solar cell technology. In this comprehensive treatment of energy harvesting, a team of internationally acclaimed scientists at the forefront of the subject paint a state-of-the-art picture of modern energy harvesting materials science. Covering all aspects of the subject, ranging from natural plant and bacterial photosystems, through their biologically inspired synthetic analogs, to other photoactive molecular materials such as dendrimers, the book also establishes the theory and underlying principles across the full range of light harvesting systems. With an authoritative, comprehensive and well-referenced content, it will appeal to all students, researchers and technologists interested or involved in solar energy, photobiology and photoactive materials science.

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT: Solar Cell Infrared Light Harvesting Advanced.: An article from: Nanoparticle News

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ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT: Solar Cell Infrared Light Harvesting Advanced.: An article from: Nanoparticle News

Manufacturer: Business Communications Company, Inc.
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Nanoparticle News, published by Business Communications Company, Inc. on February 1, 2005. The length of the article is 462 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT: Solar Cell Infrared Light Harvesting Advanced.
Publication: Nanoparticle News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2005
Publisher: Business Communications Company, Inc.
Volume: 8 Issue: 1 Page: NA

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Planning for the protection of human health from the potential impacts of global environmental changes, such as climate change, requires a greatly improved understanding of the disease inducing mechanisms involved, possible synergetic effects, and the vulnerability of populations. An important aspect is the development of theoretical and conceptual methods for the assessment of the health impact of global environmental changes. This book addresses the concepts and methods needed to analyse and understand this complex issue, and will be of great value to researchers and graduate students.

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This collection is confined to an extremely fundamental level of subject matter common to the great majority of introductory physics courses. Questions range from simple to fairly sophisticated, extending over a variety of modes that emerge as essential components in the learning and understanding of physics. These modes include forming and applying basic concepts, operational definition, verbalization, connection of abstractions to everyday experience, checking for internal consistency and interpreting results.

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The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge
Joseph Dunn
Manufacturer: David Nutt
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PL0G62

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Does not include any original Irish ("Gaelic") text

The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge

Manufacturer: IndyPublish
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Classics | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
ASIN: 1428066721

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Does not include any original Irish ("Gaelic") text.......2007-08-23

I'm sure this is an excellent translation, but I much prefer those versions of old literature that have translations alongside the original language, such as so-called "parallel text" or "dual-language" editions.

The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge "The Cualnge Cattle-Raid" (Dodo Press)

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The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge "The Cualnge Cattle-Raid" (Dodo Press)

Manufacturer: Dodo Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1406550264

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Táin Bó Cúailnge ("the driving-off of cows of Cooley", more usually rendered The Cattle Raid of Cooley or The Táin) is the central tale in the Ulster Cycle, one of the four great cycles that make up the surviving corpus of Irish mythology. It is recorded in Old and Middle Irish, and is written mainly in prose, with some verse sections, especially at moments of heightened tension or emotion. The tale relates a war against Ulster by the Connacht queen Medb and her husband Ailill, who intend to steal the stud bull Donn Cuailnge, and the efforts of the teenage Ulster hero Cúchulainn to oppose them.

The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge

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The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge
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Manufacturer: Hard Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1406917850
Release Date: 2006-11-03

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