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Reflections for Working Parents: A Treasure Chest of Truths for Every Working Parent (The Mcgraw-Hill Reflections Series)
Carol Turkington , and Edith Poor Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Accessories:
ASIN: 0070505144 |
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Reflections For Working Parents: A Treasure Chest Of Truths For Every Working Parent (the Mcgraw-hill Reflections Series)
Poor, Turkington Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OFFF3I |
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The Irwin Guide to Using The Wall St.reet Journal, 6th Edition
Michael B. Lehmann Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 007134649X |
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It's quaint that in this day of search engines to help us find more search engines, some old-fashioned reference books are still perennial sellers. When The Irwin Guide to Using The Wall Street Journal premiered in 1984, the future day traders of the world weren't trading much more than Atari cartridges. So, the advent of this sixth edition--penned, as ever, by Michael B. Lehmann, a University of San Francisco economics professor who has developed a popular seminar class around it--receives a round of well-deserved kudos.Even if, that is, its title remains a bit of a misnomer. For this is not, nor has ever it been, so much a guide to using the WSJas it is a tidy primer on the fundamental workings of the U.S. economy and stock markets, intended not just to help readers enjoy the WSJ more, but to help them more fully comprehend what they read there. Lehmann covers just about everything, like a rigorous-but-not-draconian year of Economics 101: from how and why interest rates affect markets and when to expect the next recession to the Federal Reserve's impact on your investment portfolio and which fixed-income market is right for you. The guided tour Lehmann gives is well organized and accessible to the average financial layperson who can handle sentences slightly longer than those in USA Today and doesn't think "Federal Reserve" refers to an early 19th-century architectural style. A certain amount of patience may be called for, too: though no opaque academic text, The Irwin Guide is far from one of those Dummies/Idiots books that somehow crams the greatest matters of civilization into what generally look like coloring books for adults. Lehmann's text is dense, relieved only occasionally by various charts or articles previously published in the WSJ. Curious is the near-total absence of terms you would have expected to see in an update from the 1996 edition--terms like "Internet," "dot-com," and "WWW." But after six editions you have to think that Lehmann's a sly one--maybe he speaks most eloquently of how the current dot-com/IPO mania will play in the long term by saying absolutely nothing. --Timothy Murphy
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The perennial bestseller to help readers get the most from The Wall Street Journal.
For over a decade, prominent businesspersons and individual investors alike have used Michael Lehmann's one-of-a-kind guide to unlock the secrets of The Wall Street Journal, and discover previously overlooked tips and strategies to make informed and profitable business and investment decisions. This overview to the largest-circulation daily in the U.S. contains charts, graphs, and articles taken directly from WSJ to help readers:
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Basic Information and not all in the WSJ.......2006-07-30
ON Target.......2005-11-26
The best economics book ever.......2005-11-19
really useful.......2005-10-29
American Economic System Made Easier.......2005-10-22
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Fundamentals of Investments w/student CD + Stock-Trak + Powerweb+Crabb's Finance and Investments Using The Wall Street Journal
Charles J. Corrado , Bradford D Jordan , Charles Corrado , and Bradford Jordan Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0072866829 |
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Fundamentals of Investments was created to: 1. Focus on students as investment managers, giving them information they can act on instead of concentrating on theories and research without the proper context. 2. Offer strong, consistent pedagogy, including a balanced, unified treatment of the main types of financial investments as mirrored in the investment world. 3. Organize topics in a way that makes them easy to apply--whether to a portfolio simulation or to real life--and support these topics with hands-on activities. The approach of this text reflects two central ideas. First, there is a consistent focus on the student as an individual investor or investments manager. Second, a consistent, unified treatment of the four basic types of financial instruments--stocks, bonds, options, and futures--focusing on their characteristics and features, their risks and returns, and the markets in which they trade.Customer Reviews:
Great book for Beginners.......2002-12-05
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Finance and Investments Using The Wall Street Journal
Peter R. Crabb , and Peter Crabb Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0072829362 |
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Peter Crabb’s The Wall Street Journal Workbook for Investments and Finance will help students evaluate and apply information from the Wall Street Journal. It consists of three main parts: 1. An overview of the finance/investments topic, 2. A group of exercises based on data or an article that is printed in the workbook, 3. A group of exercises based on data or an article that is in a current edition of the Wall Street Journal. This workbook establishes a firm link between our textbooks and the discounted Wall Street Journal subscription program ($20 for 15 weeks of the WSJ, both printed and online versions).
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The Dow Jones Irwin Guide to Using the Wall Street Journal
Michael B. Lehmann Manufacturer: Business One Irwin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 155623242X |
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Best book on understanding markets.......1999-12-24
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Finance and Investments Using the Wall Street Journal.
Peter R. Crabb Manufacturer: Publisher Unknown ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000UYC72U |
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Finance & Investments Using Wall Street Journal
Crabb Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OGKCSK |
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Finance and Investments Using the Wall Street Journal.
Peter R. Crabb Manufacturer: see notes for publisher info ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000M4P658 |
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Equal Protection: Rights and Liberties under the Law (America's Freedoms)
Francis Lee Manufacturer: ABC-CLIO ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1576078507 Release Date: 2003-11-17 |
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And on That Farm He Had a Wife : Ontario Farm Women and Feminism, 1900-1970
Manufacturer: McGill-Queen's University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000I72W3S |
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And on That Farm He Had a Wife : Ontario Farm Women and Feminism, 1900-1970
Manufacturer: McGill-Queen's University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000I72UHQ |
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And on That Farm He Had a Wife: Ontario Farm Women and Feminism, 1900-1970
Monda M. Halpern Manufacturer: McGill-Queen's University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0773521852 |
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Focusing on white, Anglo-Protestant farm women in southern and southwestern Ontario, Monda Halpern argues that many Ontario farm women were indeed feminist, and that this feminism was more progressive than their conservative image has suggested.
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And On That Farm He Had a Wife: Ontario Farm Women and Feminism, 1900-1970. .(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Resources for Feminist Research
Alicja Muszynski Manufacturer: O.I.S.E. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008D9T2E Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from Resources for Feminist Research, published by O.I.S.E. on September 22, 2002. The length of the article is 1110 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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And on That Farm He Had a Wife : Ontario Farm Women and Feminism, 1900-1970
Manufacturer: McGill-Queen's University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000I71EAU |
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Graded Exercises in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Christopher R. Robertson Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0340645660 |
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This book perfectly complements the author's other two volumes, Electrical and Electronic Principles volumes 1 & 2. It presents realistic engineering problems, which in many cases encourage the student to utilise knowledge gained over a range of topics; an approach which is difficult in the main textbooks where questions are presented chapter by chapter. In each chapter the relevant equations are followed by graded questions. Answers are provided at the end of the book and are supplemented with additional hints, practical points, and other useful information.
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Scale and Geographic Inquiry: Nature, Society and Method
Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 063123070X |
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This book is the first contemporary book to compare and integrate the various ways geographers think about and use scale across the spectrum of the discipline and includes state-of-the-art contributions by authoritative human geographers, physical geographers, and GIS specialists.The editors place competing concepts of scale side by side, demonstrating how different aspects are significant for each, and providing a detailed comparative assessment. They set out from the premise that there is much acknowledged common ground between these different approaches and that valuable insight can be gained by exploring it.In light of the increased interest in global change and globalisation, there has been a huge surge of interest in the environmental and human sciences in the relationship between the global, the regional and the local. For this reason, this cutting edge survey of how geographers conceptualise scale should be of interest across a broad range of disciplines.Customer Reviews:
Will enhance your understanding of geography.......2007-05-07
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Scale and Geographic Inquiry: Nature, Society, and Method.(Book Review): An article from: The Geographical Journal
Nadine Schuurman Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000BNT8C2 Release Date: 2005-10-04 |
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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1502 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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Optics: Experiments and Demonstrations
C. Harvey Palmer Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 080180518X |
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Exploring Laser Light: Laboratory Exercises and Lecture Demonstrations Performed With Low-Power Helium-Neon Gas Lasers
Thomas Kallard Manufacturer: Amer Assn of Physics Teachers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0877390045 |
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Some demonstrations of lens performance diffraction and interference (Contemporary optics)
David Dutton Manufacturer: The Institute of Optics, the University of Rochester ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006XAB14 |
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Physiologic optics: New experiments for demonstration and new apparatus
Winfield Scott Hall Manufacturer: [s.n.] ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0008B0LPA |
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The Strategic Stewardship of Cultural Resources: To Preserve and Protect
Manufacturer: Haworth Information Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0789020912 |
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Keep your cultural resources safe for generations to come!Culled from papers presented at a Library of Congress symposium in October 2000, The Strategic Stewardship of Cultural Resources: To Preserve and Protect examines the challenges you face in preserving and safeguarding your library's resources. Twenty-two leading library and archival professionals address critical issues on the preservation and security of collections in cultural property institutions, including libraries, museums, and archives. The book explores the connections between physical security and the preservation of our cultural heritage.
The Strategic Stewardship of Cultural Resources identifies the risks involved in preserving cultural resources and presents effective strategies for security. The book guides you through the process of evaluating preservation and security programs, budgeting costs, determining the right amount of facilities security, meeting the challenge of preserving digital information, and coping with the negative effects of theft and vandalism.
The Strategic Stewardship of Cultural Resources focuses on four keys that are central to safeguarding your heritage assets:
physical securityprotection from theft, mutilation, damage by water, fire, etc., with strategies used by the Library of Congress and other major libraries
preservationprotection from deterioration through conservation and reformatting, using examples from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library of Congress, and other institutions
bibliographic controlknowing what your library has
inventory controlknowing where your collections are
The Strategic Stewardship of Cultural Resources: To Preserve and Protect also examines the FBI's Art Theft Program, national and institutional requirements for preservation funding, and measuring the effect of environmental elements (temperature, humidity, etc.) on your collection. The book is an essential resource for library, archive, and museum directors, preservation officers, security professionals, curators, and archivists.
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Preserve and Protect; A Novel.
Allen Drury Manufacturer: Doubleday ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0385010303 |
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The setting is Washington, D.C. The action begins when President Harley Hudson is killed in an air crash. The Speaker of the House becomes President and calls for a national committee to select new nominees for the coming election.The theme of this novel is violence in American life--a violence promoted and condoned by politicians who are fools, dupes or knaves. The narrative moves quickly, full of the excitement and intrigue for which Allen Drury is well known.
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HIS BEST SINCE ADVICE & CONSENT -- BUT A COP-OUT END.......2004-03-20
Here the action is practically non-stop from the first page through the final paragraph on the last page. As in "Capable of Honor" the narrative tension builds and builds and builds. And as in "Advise and Consent" there are some genuine surprises along the way.
One of the major surprises is that the conservative Drury, who has been fiercely cudgeling the liberal media and all their dupes in the second and third books, evidently believes in Redemption. Two of the liberal boogeymen of the earlier books, Bob Leffingwell and Justice Tommy Davis, redeem themselves in surprising ways and now, apparently, have become Good Guys in the ongoing Drury narrative. What they'll be up to in the two final books in the series I'll be curious to see....
One great plus for this book: like the third one, it is absolutely uncanny how it foretells both the assassinations of 1968 that so enflamed the country at the time and the riotous Democratic convention in Chicago that year. This book was written from July 1967 through April 1968 -- Drury must have had a well-functioning crystal ball.
One great minus for this book: Drury is now clearly writing melodrama ("a work characterized by extravagant theatricality and by the predominance of plot and physical action over characterization") rather than drama ("a composition in verse or prose intended to portray life or character or to tell a story usu. involving conflicts and emotions, through action and dialogue"). There's nothing intrinsically wrong with melodrama (and 1968, for instance, really *was* a melodramatic year in the history of the Republic), but here Drury cranks the level up a little higher than I think it should be.
The ending, which I won't reveal to you, comes as a surprising shock and is intended clearly to open the way to the next book. And the way that Drury *deals* with the ending is pure melodrama -- he is only interested in getting the reader to buy the next book to find out just what the hell is going on here.
He should have been writing scripts for the cliff-hanger endings of the old Western serials....
All in all, a 4-star effort. It would have been a clear 5-star except for the ending.
While not quite as good. . ........2001-12-27
In this, the fourth novel in the "Advise and Consent" series, Allen Drury addresses a less tangible subject than in the first three. While "Advise and Consent" dealt with the Senate, and "A Shade of Difference" dealt with racism and the United Nations, and "Capable of Honor" dealt with the newsmedia, the theme for "Preserve and Protect" is violence. The novel picks up just where "Capable of Honor" left off -- and runs non-stop. The newly renominated President Hudson has been killed -- and Governor Jason and Senator Knox are going toe-to-toe for the new nomination.
The ending of this novel is quite surprising, and leads to the last two novels in the series.
As with the entire "Advise and Consent" series, there are many familiar characters, a few new faces, and in-depth background behind a few.
Again, as with the entire series, this book should be required reading in high-school civics.
A Classic of the Genre!.......1999-04-05
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Preserve and Protect. A Political Novel.
Allen. Drury Manufacturer: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968 ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000J0I8YG |
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Legacy Plan, Protect & Preserve Your Estate: Plan, Protect & Preserve Your Estate
Robert A. Esperti Manufacturer: Esperti Peterson Institute ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0922943095 |
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Great Reference on Estate Planning.......2000-09-17
Good advice for anybody who might die someday........1999-05-19
An Encyclopedia of Estate Planning Information.......1999-04-11
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To Preserve and Protect
Lee Edwards Manufacturer: The Heritage Foundation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0891951164 |
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From the halls of Californias State Capitol to the Oval Office in the White House, Edwin Meese III was Ronald Reagans most trusted aide. Raised in a devout family steeped in public service, Meese has always answered the call. His contributions to Constitutional law, criminal justice, and public policy have left an unparalleled legacy in a career spanning nearly five decades. This book tells the life story of this accomplished American, principled conservative, and devoted husband and father.Customer Reviews:
A gem of a book!.......2005-05-25
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Preserve and Protect (Eagle Books)
Manufacturer: Popular Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000DZE7RO |
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Houghton Mifflin Invitations to Literacy Teacher's Book: A Resource for Planning and Teaching, Level 4 Imagine, Theme 2 Earth Patrol: Preserve and Protect
J. David Cooper , and John J. Pikulski Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound ASIN: 0395914523 |
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Houghton Mifflin Preserve and Protect Earth Patrol
Invitations to Literacy Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0395762618 |
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How to Protect and Preserve Your Freedom, Identity and Privacy
Vernon Coleman Manufacturer: Blue Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1899726411 |
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Invitations to Literacy, Grade 4 Teacher's Edition (Earth Patrol: Preserve and Protect, Sample Theme)
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0395735505 |
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