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Going Public: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Turn a Private Enterprise into a Publicly Traded Company
Frederick D. Lipman Manufacturer: Prima Lifestyles ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0761508317 Release Date: 1997-01-22 |
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This highly acclaimed, groundbreaking book details everything you need to successfully implement your initial public offering (IPO) and avoid costly pitfalls.Customer Reviews:
Thorough coverage of the IPO process-needs update.......1999-04-30
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Going Public: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Turn a Private Enterprise into a Publicly Traded Company
Frederick D. Lipman Manufacturer: Prima Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000UZZ8EI |
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Paying with Plastic, 2nd Edition: The Digital Revolution in Buying and Borrowing
David S. Evans , and Richard Schmalensee Manufacturer: The MIT Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 026255058X |
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For better or worse, most of us have at least one of the 720 million little plastic cards that are used each year to complete $860 billion worth of purchases at 15 million incredibly varied merchant locations throughout the world. This is a far cry from the humble beginnings of these myriad credit, debit, and charge cards, which just a few decades ago were generally a perk offered only to elite customers for the acquisition of fine meals, hotel rooms, department-store goods, and oil-company products. They are now so common and such an integral part of our economy, in fact, that few pay them much mind--a situation that makes David Evans and Richard Schmalensee's Paying with Plastic all the more interesting. Evans, senior vice president of National Economics Research Associates, and Schmalensee, dean of MIT's Sloan School of Management, meticulously trace the history of these cards from both the consumer and merchant perspectives in this surprisingly appealing volume, which will prove enlightening to anyone who ever wondered how plastic money works. --Howard RothmanBook Description
The payment card business has evolved from its inception in the 1950s as a way to handle payment for expense-account lunches (the Diners Club card) into today's complex, sprawling industry that drives trillions of dollars in transaction volume each year. Paying with Plastic is the definitive source on an industry that has revolutionized the way we borrow and spend. More than a history book, Paying with Plastic delivers an entertaining discussion of the impact of an industry that epitomizes the notion of two-sided markets: those in which two or more customer groups receive value only if all sides are actively engaged. New to this second edition, the two-sided market discussion provides useful insight into the implications of these market dynamics for cardholder rewards, merchant interchange fees, and card acceptance. The authors, both of whom have researched the industry for more than 25 years, also examine the implications of the recent antitrust cases on the industry as well as other business and technological changes -- including the massive consolidation brought about by bank mergers, the rise of the debit card, and the emergence of e-commerce -- that could alter the payment card industry dramatically in the years to come.Customer Reviews:
Great Overview.......2006-11-05
Great book!!.......2006-01-04
What's old will be new again.......2005-10-24
A remarkable accomplishment.......2005-07-11
Highly Recommended!.......2005-05-09
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Debt for Sale: A History of the Credit Trap.(Paying with Plastic: The Digital Revolution in Buying and Borrowing, 2d ed. )(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Economic Issues
Robert III Scott Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000E3BJDA Release Date: 2006-01-02 |
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Economic Issues, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1373 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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Houses of cards.(Paying with Plastic: The Digital Revolution in Buying and Borrowing, Second Edition )(Book Review) : An article from: Regulation
Timothy J. Brennan Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000BSQBAY Release Date: 2005-10-17 |
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This digital document is an article from Regulation, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 2268 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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Paying with Plastic: The Digital Revolution in Buying and Borrowing
David; Schmalensee, Richard L. Evans Manufacturer: The MIT Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OQG9X2 |
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Paying with Plastic: The Digital Revolution in Buying and Borrowing (Second Edition)
Richard Schmalensee David S. Evans Manufacturer: The MIT Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OQGRHU |
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Paying With Plastic: The Digital Revolution in Buying and Borrowing.
David S. and Richard Schmalensee. Evans Manufacturer: Mit Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OQCOX6 |
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Force. Contractual Policies Concerning Continued Vocational Training in the European Community Member States
Manufacturer: Peeters ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: 9068315498 |
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Historical Farm Buildings of Wales
Eurwyn Wiliam Manufacturer: John Donald Publishers Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0859761363 |
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Life, Part 2: Information and Heredity
William K. Purves , David Sadava , Gordon H. Orians , and H. Craig Heller Manufacturer: W. H. Freeman ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 071676671X |
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Life Part 1: The Cell, Part 2: Information and Heredity & Part 3: The Biology of Animals
William K. Purves Manufacturer: W. H. Freeman ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0716777835 |
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A Field Guide to Roughness Characteristics of Gravel-Bed Rivers: A Practical Approach
Richard D. Hey , and C. R. Thorne Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0471967386 |
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Based on the data from 62 surveyed sites on gravel-bed rivers in the UK, this book is an excellent reference document containing site photographs, cross sections, and bed material size data.
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Astrophysics Simulations: The Consortium for Upper Level Physics Software/Book and Disk (Cups)
J. M. A. Danby , Richard Kouzes , and Charles Whitney Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0471548790 |
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Other Cups Projects Classical Mechanics Simulations Electricity and Magnetism Simulations Modern Physics Simulations Nuclear and Particle Physics Simulations Quantum Mechanics Simulations Solid State Physics Simulations Thermal and Statistical Physics Simulations Waves and Optics Simulations Astrophysics Simulations is one volume in a series of nine book/software packages developed by the Consortium for Upper-Level Physics Software. CUPS is an international group of 27 physicists, all with extensive backgrounds in the research, teaching, and development of instructional software. The simulations included in this volume cover: Stellar Evolution, The Interior Model of Star, Binary Stars, The Motion of n Bodies, Galactic Kinematics, Stellar Pulsation, and Stellar Atmospheres. These simulations include complex, often realistic, calculations of models of various physical systems. If desired, the user may also vary many parameters of the system, and interact with it in other ways, so as to study its behavior in real time. Source code has been provided for users who wish to modify programs. All of the programs are written in Borland/Turbo Pascal for MS-DOS. Minimum hardware requirement is an IBM-compatible 386-level machine with mouse and VGA color monitor. The disk(s) included in this package are 5.5???.
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Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign (UNABRIDGED)
Shelby Foote Manufacturer: Random House Publishing Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette Similar Items:
ASIN: 0679434666 Release Date: 1994-10-25 |
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Shelby Foote, who cut such a courtly figure in Ken Burns's PBS series The Civil War, is an uncommonly graceful writer as well, and this careful study of the 1863 Gettysburg campaign assumes the contours of a classical tragedy. Foote positions readers on the field of battle itself, among swirling smoke and clattering grapeshot, and invites us to feel for ourselves its hellishness: "men on both sides were hollering as they milled about and fired, some cursing, others praying ... not a commingling of shouts and yells but rather like a vast mournful roar." Foote's fine book is history as literature, and a welcome addition to any Civil War buff's library.Book Description
Historian/novelist Foote's masterly work has been culled from his critically acclaimed three-volume narrative of the Civil War. 3 cassettes.Customer Reviews:
As Good as it gets.......2007-06-27
"They will attack you in the morning and they will come booming--skirmishers three-deep. You will have to fight like the devil.".......2006-07-04
A wonderful read, and a sincere search for truth.......2006-03-28
The Tragedy of Gettysburg.......2006-01-22
Superb Account of the Gettysburg Campaign.......2005-02-06
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The Star of Gettysburg
Joseph A. Altsheler Manufacturer: Echo Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1406816884 |
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A story of Southern 'high tide', a 'complete romance', one in Altsheler's Civil War series
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The Star of Gettysburg: A Story of Southern High Tide (Dodo Press)
Joseph A. Altsheler Manufacturer: Dodo Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1406508241 |
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Harry, leaning against a bush, fell into a light doze, from which Dalton aroused him bye and bye. But the habit of war made him awake fully and instantly. Every faculty was alive. He arose to his feet and saw that Lee and Jackson were just parting. A faint moon shone over the Wilderness, revealing but little of the great army which lay in its thickets.Download Description
Harry, leaning against a bush, fell into a light doze, from which Dalton aroused him bye and bye. But the habit of war made him awake fully and instantly. Every faculty was alive. He arose to his feet and saw that Lee and Jackson were just parting. A faint moon shone over the Wilderness, revealing but little of the great army which lay in its thickets.
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Five Star First Edition Mystery - Murder at Gettysburg (Five Star First Edition Mystery)
Leslie Wheeler Manufacturer: Five Star ProductGroup: Book Binding: Board book ASIN: 1594142882 |
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When author and historian Miranda Lewis accepts an invitation from her old college roommate and her roommate's father, a handsome, courtly Virginian, to attend the reenactment of the Gettysburg Battle over the Fourth of July weekend, she hopes to recapture the magic of the long-ago summer she spent with them. But the jaunt down memory lane turns into a nightmare when her roommate's estranged husband, Wiley, a hardcore Confederate reenactor, is shot in the leg and dies of a heart attack while reenacting Pickett's Charge. Wiley's death begins to look suspicious when a large amount of money is found on the shooter, a fellow reenactor, after he flees the scene on his motorcycle and is mowed down by a truck. Also, the victim had no known history of heart trouble. Concerned for her grieving friend, who blames herself for her husband's death, Miranda sets out to discover the truth. As she plunges into the strange and sometimes scary world of Civil War reenactors, she uncovers a string of betrayals that have resulted in mayhem and ultimately murder. The revelations force Miranda to shed certain cherished illusions about people and events of both the past and the present, and to risk her own life to uncover a cunning killer.Leslie Wheeler, a descendant of Union general George B. McClellan and a self-confessed Civil War buff, is the author of a previous mystery, Murder at Plimoth Plantation. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband, son, and cat.
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interesting amateur sleuth.......2005-06-04
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The Liberty Collection: The Unanimous Declaratin of the Thirteen United States of America, The Constitution, Bill of Rights, The Monroe Doctrine, The Gettysburg Address, The Star-spangled Banner and The Pledge of Allegiance
Manufacturer: The Liberty Collection Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000CRTJQW |
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Front cover illustration of Liberty Bell in red, white and blue with United Savings printed on the bottom. Reproduction printing on fine quality parchment paper, including Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, Monroe Doctrine, Gettysburg Address, Star Spangled Banner, and the Pledge of Allegiance printed on inside back cover with U.S. Flag above. Back cover has the Foundation's Credo written by Don Delding, Dean of American Advertising Men". has approval of over 250 State Supreme Court Justices as the best statement of principles of our American Way of Life and explanation of our Bill of Rights." Credo is in red, white, blue and black; lists Political and Economic Rights and pictorial illustration of Valley Forge. Rare, Patriotic Keepsake.
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The Star of Gettysburg A Story of Southern High Tide
Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler Manufacturer: Hard Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1406927597 Release Date: 2006-11-03 |
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The star of Gettysburg: A story of southern high tide
Joseph A Altsheler Manufacturer: D. Appleton and Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0008CQCW0 |
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Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign
Shelby Foote Manufacturer: Modern Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000K0UKFA |
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The Three Days: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg (Ace Star, K-108)
Don Robertson Manufacturer: Ace Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: 0441111084 |
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Gettysburg's five-star farmer
Arthur S Nevins Manufacturer: Carlton Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006WZSDG |
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