Acquisitions: How to Expand, Extend and Defend Your Business (Entrepreneur's Guide Series)

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Acquisitions: How to Expand, Extend and Defend Your Business (Entrepreneur's Guide Series)
Sharon L. Blanding
Manufacturer: Probus Professional Pub
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1557382026

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I know how to find this book if you want one.......1999-07-12

I've read this book when it was first published and know the author personally. If you are interested in the book and want contact information, just email me anytime. Thanks! I can even help Amazon.com get the book.

ACQUISITIONS how to Expand, extend and Defend Your Business

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ACQUISITIONS how to Expand, extend and Defend Your Business
Sharon L. Blanding
Manufacturer: Probus Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NQ65FU

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This collection of essays, derived from an international workshop, explores the significance of implicit understandings and tacit expectations of the parties to different kinds of contractual agreements, ranging from simple discrete transactions to long-term associational agreements such as those formed in companies. An interdisciplinary and comparative approach is used to investigate how the law comprehends and gives effect to the these implicit dimensions of contracts. The significance of this enquiry is found not only in relation to the interpretation of contracts in many different contexts, but more fundamentally in how social practices involved in making contracts should be analysed and comprehended.

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This text develops the principles of irrigation and farm irrigation system design in the context of their relationship to plant science, soil science, and fluid mechanics. Consideration of related material is worked into the text only as it is needed to develop an in-depth understanding of irrigation systems, a classroom-tested approach that improves student motivation and comprehension. The text describes the design of irrigation systems and the roles of the designer and landowner in the process, and covers all current irrigation practices as well as the components, layout, technical, and economic aspects of various systems and methods.

James: Solutions Manual for Principles of Farm Irrigation System Design (Pr Only)

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James: Solutions Manual for Principles of Farm Irrigation System Design (Pr Only)
LG JAMES
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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The first volume ever to cover all aspects of the subject, Architectural Electromagnetic Shielding Handbook provides the practicing architect/engineer with a comprehensive guide to electromagnetic shielding. This practical handbook is a one-stop source for every form of shielding enclosure now used in commercial and government test laboratories, communication and computer centers, and electromagnetic hardened facilities designed to prevent electromagnetic interference (EMI) from reaching either a sensitive piece of equipment or an unauthorized agency.

Additional features include:

extensive supporting information on penetrations such as doors, vents, piping, and electromagnetic filters for each type of shielding
complete descriptions of modular, welded, and architectural forms of shielding as well as design checklists for shielded enclosure installation
detailed descriptions of performance specifications and methods of testing necessary to prove performance

Now you can have practical design and manufacturing techniques for solving ESD problems associated with sophisticated equipment used in a home or office environment. This book takes the mystery out of ESD by showing how it is generated and how it affects electronic devices, such as integrated circuits. It provides practical guidelines and the rationale on how ESD solutions can work for you.

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This monograph is devoted to the study of equilibrium and nonequilibrium states of infinite continuous systems in quantum statistical mechanics. The states of these systems are described by infinite sequences of statistical operators (reduced density matrices) or Green's functions which satisfy the infinite hierarchy of integro-differential equations. The investigation of these equations and constructing their solutions is the main subject of this work. Model systems in the theories of superconductivity and superfluidity and other exactly solvable models are studied in detail. This volume will be of interest to mathematical and theoretical physicists and applied mathematicians interested in quantum statistical mechanics.

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An interesting and enjoyable story.

Suprised at the one-star reviews...

Great Book!

Swapping Lives

Swapping Lives
Jane Green
Manufacturer: Viking Adult
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0670034800

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The New York Times bestselling author of The Other Woman returns with a wry tale of two women who discover the grass is not always greener on the other side of the Atlantic

Vicky Townsley is single, solvent, and seriously successful. Features director of the hugely successful Poise! magazine, she has an amazing flat, good friends, a fantastic wardrobe . . . in short, everything—except the life she wants: marriage, children, and a house in the country.

On the other side of the Atlantic, Amber Winslow has a stone mansion in Connecticut, two kids (and a full-time nanny), the requisite golden retriever, and a busy charitable commitment for the local Women's League. But she hasn't quite found the fulfillment she had expected from being a wife and mother. When she spots an intriguing contest in Poise!, Amber never expects to be picked.

Life Swap is a riotous and poignant look at what happens when two women, both of whom think their bliss lies elsewhere, walk in each other's shoes for a month only to discover that happiness is closer than they'd ever thought. A rich, clever, and sharply observed chronicle of the true lives of women, Life Swap is a must read for the modern mademoiselle that will again squarely position Jane Green in a preeminent place in women's fiction.

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This book is lame........2007-09-12

The whole time while reading this book I wondered what it constitutes to call something out for plagiarism? The TV show "Wife swap" runs for several years now, so the whole exchanging lives idea was nothing new.

From ABC's website:
Wife Swap is ABC's most-watched series in the time period in four years, and its highest-rated among Adults 18-49 in eight years - since the 2001-02 and 1997-98 seasons, respectively.

Aside from all that the book was still halfway enjoyable to read until it comes out that Amber's husband Richard had lost his job 6 months ago, and she happily moves with him to some sort of Apple farm to stat over their life - then it just got too unrealistic and plain lame...

An interesting and enjoyable story........2007-09-05

I've always enjoyed Jane Green's books and "Swapping Lives" is no exception. The story was interesting, but not a surprise since the subject of swapping something, homes, mates, work, etc has been around for awhile. The characters in the story were believable, especially Vicky and Amber. I read the book over a two day period, so for me it was a fast read, but an enjoyable read. I won't say it was one of Jane Green best, but it was still a wonderful read.

Suprised at the one-star reviews..........2007-08-22

I am a little surprised at all the bad reviews. I've read all of Green's books, and while this might not be her best book to date, I have a hard time imagining it being considered an awful book.(I actually would have given this three and a half stars, were that an option).

Yes, this book is a little predictable, and the characters don't have tremendous depth - certainly not as much as some of Green's characters in earlier books. But what Green did really well in this book was to make the reader see how Vicky and Amber both got into the positions they're in today - a successful but single woman who longs for a family (Vicky), and a happily married woman with two children who, despite being caught up in the social climbing ridiculousness that surrounds the women in her town, loathes her own lifestyle (Amber).

While I had a hard time understanding why Vicky and Amber didn't make more proactive choices in their own lives, and while I had a hard time relating to the desire to actually swap lives with someone else, I thought Green stayed true to her typical M.O. - fun, easy to read books with likable characters and a satisfying ending.

Great Book!.......2007-08-05

i thought this was a great chick lit book! great characters and a neat idea for a story- didn't want to put it down- read it in 3 days! - jane green is a great writer- good vocabulary and very clever writing-

Swapping Lives.......2007-07-21

If you love Jane Green you will be happy with this book written in the same style as others. Her characters in this book tend to very naive. Sometimes when ready it they drag on and on-all I could think was get over it already.

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Swapping Lives
Jane Green
Manufacturer: Penguin Audio
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Cassette
ASIN: B000GXBO8I

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This book offers relentless proofs that public debt works

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England's Democracy versus France's Ancien Regime

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An excellent history of public debt and its role in developi

A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy
James Macdonald
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0691126321

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For the greater part of recorded history the most successful and powerful states were autocracies; yet now the world is increasingly dominated by democracies. In A Free Nation Deep in Debt, James Macdonald provides a novel answer for how and why this political transformation occurred. The pressures of war finance led ancient states to store up treasure; and treasure accumulation invariably favored autocratic states. But when the art of public borrowing was developed by the city-states of medieval Italy as a democratic alternative to the treasure chest, the balance of power tipped. From that point on, the pressures of war favored states with the greatest public creditworthiness; and the most creditworthy states were invariably those in which the people who provided the money also controlled the government. Democracy had found a secret weapon and the era of the citizen creditor was born. Macdonald unfolds this tale in a sweeping history that starts in biblical times, passes via medieval Italy to the wars and revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and ends with the great bond drives that financed the two world wars.

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This book offers relentless proofs that public debt works.......2004-11-25

I have not finished this marvelously over-written book but I can tell you I no longer look at the U.S.'s problems the same way. This book of history has much to say about our current problems with social security, health insurance and the Middle East. The most impressive insight I have taken away from this book is that a King with a hoard of gold is no match to a republic where everyone willingly shares the debt load, no matter how great that debt is. You have to wonder if the U.S./U.K. would do better in Iraq if they spent more time setting up money markets. I also understand why the Palestinians refusal to use direct deposit will forever keep them poor and undeveloped.

Insightful!.......2004-06-08

This impressively researched opus reflects an obsession with One Big Idea that never comes quite clearly into focus, but revolves around the critical historical role played by national credit. Behold an author who not only quotes the Biblical book of Numbers, but also interprets it as a document of financial history, ignoring the contentious issues of authorship and anachronism that make scriptural exegesis such challenging work for specialists. He traces the way government and conflict are funded from Herodotus to the Hanoverian Court to Woodrow Wilson. Like the River Platte, this work is a mile wide and an inch deep; but the river has a definite direction, and this meanders. If you fancy an intriguing browse through major and minor points of political and fiscal history, we have found just the book for you. Some scenes are indelible, like the Germans celebrating WWI bond purchases by driving iron nails into a big wooden statue of a Field Marshall, and may jolt you if you think Allied and Axis powers were funded differently. The U.K. and the U.S. sponsored similar popular financial mobilizations, complete with bombastic slogans (no statues, though).

England's Democracy versus France's Ancien Regime.......2003-11-14

MacDonald argues that democracy arose to allow governments to borrow for war from their people. There is superb chapter on France versus England in eighteenth century. England had half the GNP of France, but it was always able to outspend France in their wars. England relied on 3% perpetual debt, readily marketable by holders, with published information about budget and single market indicator of England's credit rating. Plus England was run by "heroic citizen-creditors" who were willing to entrust their capital to Bank of England (for loan for war) because they ran the government and were sure they would get taxes to make the debt sound.
France had kings who defaulted on a whim, a bramble bush
of borrowing instruments, a terribly inefficient tax system, with lots of exemptions for their aristocrats, no public information and a lousy resale market. French citizen did not lend to France. England paid 3% on its debt and France paid 11% on its debt as the Revolution neared. England carried debt of double its GNP and France went bankrupt which killed the ancien regime with debt of 2/3d of GNP. Terrific story.
MacDonald is concise and accurate summarizer of the literature on issues (American Revolutionary War debt) that I know about.

Insightful!.......2003-10-16

An excellent history of public debt and its role in developi.......2003-08-25

This book is not what you think. The title suggests the repeat of the theme exposed by Paul Kennedy in the 80s in his book "The Rise and Fall of Great Powers." But, the two books advance almost symmetrically opposed theories. Paul Kennedy suggested that great powers eventually decline because they can't withstand the fiscal burden of maintaining a nonproductive military effort to govern their empire (the Imperial Overstretch concept). Macdonald instead advances that a public bond market is a nation?s best tool in raising funds for emergencies such as warfare. In Kennedy's book debt is bad. In Macdonald it is good.

Macdonald's argument starts with the fiscal stress associated with having to raise huge amount of funds in preparation for warfare. In such situation, raising taxes is impractical. Often tax rates would have had to double or treble to raise adequate funds to finance wars throughout history. A government can?t do that without causing a revolution. Often what states and government did before the advent of well developed public bond markets was to mine their grounds (or grounds of conquered territories) for mineral riches (gold and silver). The states would then hoard these gold reserves as funds available for a rainy day (war). But, as Macdonald points out this treasure hoarding was most inefficient from an economic standpoint.

Public debt markets became a much preferred alternative to treasure hoarding for financing wars. This was true for several reasons. Treasure hoarding represented a huge amount of wasted capital not reinvested in the economy where it could have generated rapidly rising living standards for society at large. Bond financing (public debt) was so much more flexible a tool for war financing than an ongoing tasking treasure hoarding mechanism.

Comparing two countries, one being a bond borrower, the other a treasure hoarder, one could readily observe that the bond borrower economy would grow much faster, and that it would have an easier time to finance wars when and as needed. Typically, you run out of gold reserve faster than you run out of a state's borrowing capacity.

But, for a public debt market to thrive you need democratic institutions. In democracies, the motivation of the government and its citizen are aligned. This facilitates a trust between the creditors (citizens) and the borrower (the government). As a result, democratic governments can borrow more and at a lower interest costs then other governments. In other words, the creditors of a democratic government assess a lower credit and counterparty risk to a democratic government, and therefore demand a lower risk premium (lower interest rates). This is Macdonald's main argument. Therefore, he concludes that the pressure to create public credit markets to finance wars was an impetus to create public debt markets and in turn to develop democratic institutions.

Macdonald's theory is so current. Today, it is self evident that the countries who have the most transparent disclosure, integer accounting system, accountable governance associated with democracies can borrow at a substantially lower cost than others.

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Moran/Davis/Murphy's text implements a modern approach to teaching precalculus by heavily emphasizing contexts in which mathematics can be used to solve real-world problems, and through active involvement of the student in the learning process. Students are asked to answer questions and discover ideas throughout the body of the text, and to explore mathematical concepts in group lab projects. It employs a lively, fun writing style to communicate concepts to students in a way that can be easily understood. Graphing utilities are thoroughly integrated into the text, and their use is required. Users and reviewers have given this text high acclaim for its fresh applications, projects, and wonderful use of the discovery approach.

Graphing Calculator Manual for Precalculus: Concepts in Context

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Graphing Calculator Manual for Precalculus: Concepts in Context
Marsha Jane Davis
Manufacturer: Thomson Brooks/Cole
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Precalculus: Concepts in Context (with Graphing Calculator Manual, BCA/iLrn? Tutorial, and InfoTrac®)

ASIN: 0534378226

Advantage Series: Precalculus: Concepts in Context (with Graphing Calculator Manual and BCA/iLrn Tutorial)

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Advantage Series: Precalculus: Concepts in Context (with Graphing Calculator Manual and BCA/iLrn Tutorial)
Judy Flagg Moran , Marsha Davis , and Mary Murphy
Manufacturer: Brooks Cole
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Precalculus: Concepts in Context With Graphing Calculator Manual

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Precalculus: Concepts in Context With Graphing Calculator Manual
Judy Flagg Moran , Marsha Davis , and Mary Murphy
Manufacturer: Brooks/Cole Pub Co
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