Getting Your Act Together: Goal Setting for Fun, Health, and Profit (General Trade Books)

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practical and easy to read.......2006-01-29

I bought this book used and all i can say is that it's one of the most useful i've read of this nature... it's really a shame it wasn't re-released...

the only reason i didn't give it 5 stars is that i haven't quite finished it. jam-packed with information, yet a very easy read.

Not just another book on goal-setting.......2000-07-14

Having read many books on goal-setting, I didn't think there was much anyone else could teach me, and so I was hesitant to buy this book, especially since it hadn't been reviewed. But I wasn't dissapointed. While much of the information was indeed familiar, there are lots of practical goal-setting tricks I had not yet heard of. This book is not the "If you can imagine it, you can acheive it," variety--the kind that pumps you up by making grand dreams sound easy to achieve. Rather, this book takes a very realistic approach--with the surprising result that I found it very motivational. I'm glad I bought this book, and thanks to the author.

Getting Your Act Together : Goal Setting for Fun, Health & Profit (General Trade Bks.)

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Getting Your Act Together : Goal Setting for Fun, Health & Profit (General Trade Bks.)
Karen; Morrisey, George L. Wilson
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HLO3MI

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Provides the right combination of basic information and sophisticated strategies to succeed in this exciting and leverage financial environment. Written by experienced traders and brokers, this authoritative guide shows investors and institutional hedgers how to deal successfully in the futures markets. Readers will find: Fundamental analytical techniques so they can react quickly to changes in the market; Strategies for viable speculative trading and for managing risk prudently; State-of-the-art computer trading strategies with tips for developing personal trading system; Special sections on program trading, on dealing with the regulatory agencies, and on commercial hedging.

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A great read, informative and worthwhile........1997-04-29

For technical traders of all markets, this book is a must-have. From the most elementary techniques to the most complicated, this book puts all relevant concepts in an easy to understand, yet thorough, study. My own trading has become much more efficient, selective, and profitable since I read Stanley Kroll's BUSINESS ONE IRWIN GUIDE TO THE FUTURES MARKETS, and I would recommend it to anyone looking to gain similar results

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The Commodity Futures Market Guide
Stanley Kroll , and Irwin Shishko
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
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Binding: Hardcover

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The Dow Jones-Irwin Guide to International Securities, Futures and Options Markets

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William E. Nix , and Susan W. Nix
Manufacturer: Richard D Irwin
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Laura Kalman, author of two prior works on legal theoretical history, has produced perhaps her finest work to date in The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism. The book traces the path of a school of thought known as legal liberalism, beginning with its roots in the realist movement that arose in the 1920s and continuing through the movement's height in the 1960s when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a series of rulings based on legal liberalism that precipitated wide-scale social reform. Yet the book is about more than the path of this legal theory; it moves into a higher debate of law's place alongside politics and history. It also takes a hard look at the discipline known as law, a discipline that by its nature should be as clear as black and white, but that increasingly is not.

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The tenets of legal liberalism have been undermined, and legal scholarship is in a state of crisis, says Laura Kalman in this new history of constitutional theory. She explores how liberal law professors have come to enlist other disciplines in the attempt to legitimize their beliefs; how lawyers, law professors, and historians have cooperated in some recent Supreme Court cases; and how these professionals can work together more effectively as social activists.

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An entertaining, but dense, look at the insanity of modern legal thought........2006-01-29

In her wonderful book, Kalman examines how legal theorists have attempted to justify legal liberalism in the post-war era. Legal liberalism is the idea that courts can bring about societal change through enforcing nationwide policy. The structure of this book is fairly simple; Kalman examines how theorists have attempted a variety of different means to justify legal liberalism in different decades. These have included history, moral, and political theory. Kalman grounds her examination firmly in how law schools became enmeshed in the academic university and began to look towards other professional disciplines for lessons, such as anthropology, history, political science, and sociology. As a historian, Kalman concludes with a lengthy discussion of the interrelationship between history and law and the possible strengths of mixing the two.

This is a generally interesting book, but it tends to be dense at times, particularly in the discussions of postmodernism and the effects on legal thought. However, the density is not Kalman's fault; it is the natural result of a legal academia striving for a replacement to the (false) certainty that classicism once provided. I would recommend that this book be read in conjunction with William Wiecek's The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought because it provides a firm analysis of the classical model of legal thought, the collapse of which has created the void that legal theorists have attempted to fill over the last 60 years.

The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism. (book reviews): An article from: Constitutional Commentary

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The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism. (book reviews): An article from: Constitutional Commentary
Stephen M. Griffin
Manufacturer: Constitutional Commentary, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Constitutional Commentary, published by Constitutional Commentary, Inc. on December 22, 1997. The length of the article is 8116 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: The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism. (book reviews)
Author: Stephen M. Griffin
Publication: Constitutional Commentary (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 1997
Publisher: Constitutional Commentary, Inc.
Volume: 14 Issue: n3 Page: 535-555

Article Type: Book Review

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The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism
Laura Kalman
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORWRUU

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Climate change is an issue that is highly debated around the globe. This book brings together the papers that were presented at a conference dedicated to this issue, held in Kyoto in October 2002. Covering a broad range of areas, the topics presented will benefit both those working in the field of carbon dioxide recovery and sequestration, and those looking at the effects of non carbon dioxide greenhouse gases. An overview of the Research and Design technologies which aid in mitigating climate change is included, which will be invaluable to those researching new opportunities for dealing with this problem.

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Will benefit both researchers in climate change, and those looking at new technologies to help deal with the problem

Presents papers from contributors spread around the globe means that this book has world wide relevance

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Using an original approach, Mauro Dardo recounts the major achievements of twentieth-century physics--including relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic and nuclear physics, the invention of the transistor and the laser, superconductivity, binary pulsars, and the Bose-Einstein condensate--as each emerged. His year-by-year chronicle, biographies and revealing personal anecdotes help bring to life the main events since the first Nobel Prize was awarded in 1901. The work of the most famous physicists of the twentieth century--including the Curies, Bohr, Heisenberg, Einstein, Fermi, Feynman, Gell-Mann, Rutherford, and Schrödinger--is presented, often in the words and imagery of the prize-winners themselves. Mauro Dardo is Professor of Experimental Physics at Amedeo Avogadro University. He has served as Dean of the new Faculty of Sciences at the University of Turin in Alessandria, Piedmont, and has also served as Director of the university's new department of Sciences and Advanced Technologies.

A Century of Ideas: Personal Perspectives from a Selection of the Greatest Minds of the Twentieth Century (Fundamental Theories of Physics)

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A Century of Ideas: Personal Perspectives from a Selection of the Greatest Minds of the Twentieth Century (Fundamental Theories of Physics)

Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1402043597

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The B.M. Birla Science Centre, part of the Birla Group (a multinational conglomerate which is over 100 years old), has blossomed into India’s foremost institution for the dissemination of science. Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Centre started a series of lectures by Nobel Laureates and other scientists of international renown, usually in Physics and Astronomy, sometimes in Life Sciences and Chemistry.

The present collection mostly consists of lectures on frontier topics in Physics and Astronomy. The transcript of each lecture is preceded by a short introduction to, and biography of, the Nobel Laureate/Scientist in question.

The lectures are aimed at, and accessible to, a wide non-specialist but higher educated audience.

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