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What's Your Game Plan: Creating Business Strategies That Work
Milton C. Lauenstein Manufacturer: Beard Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1587982374 |
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What's Your Game Plan: Creating Business Strategies That Work
Milton C. Lauenstein Manufacturer: NY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000MUIKA0 |
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Privatizing Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks: Why and How
Peter J. Wallison Manufacturer: AEI Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0844741906 |
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Many people want to tighten federal regulations governing the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs)-Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks. But better regulations will not do much to reduce the real risks that the GSEs create for U.S. taxpayers and the economy, and aren't likely to have real force. Fannie and Freddie are the most politically powerful companies in America. The S&L debacle of the late 1980s showed that politically powerful organizations can intimidate regulators and stave off tough regulation. Under these circumstances, privatization-the elimination of government backing-is the only viable way to protect the taxpayers and the economy against the consequences of major financial difficulties at one or more of the GSEs. Opponents of privatization believe that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would be even more powerful as privatized entities. Fannie and Freddie would be able to obtain better financing than their competitors, according to this line of thinking. Concerns have also been raised about whether the privatization of Fannie and Freddie would disrupt the residential finance market or raise mortgage rates for home buyers. The plans in this book together address these concerns. Thomas H. Stanton demonstrates that it is possible to cut the ties between the government and the GSEs-and to create a fully competitive private mortgage market-without disrupting the current system of residential mortgage finance. Financial consultant Bert Ely shows that it would be possible to obtain lower mortgage rates than currently offered by Fannie and Freddie, without any government involvement. The book presents a complete legislative proposal to enact these plans, along with a detailed section-by-section analysis of the bill. Peter J. Wallison is a resident fellow at AEI and the codirector of AEI's program on financial market deregulation. Thomas H. Stanton is a Washington, D.C.-based attorney. Bert Ely is a financial institutions and monetary policy consultant.
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Take Note: Tip-A-Page Notepads
Kathy Morris Manufacturer: American Bar Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1590310535 |
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Keep your job search tactics and career focus sharp with regular reminders. Specially designed to help you stay organized in your job search and upbeat about your career, this set of five 50-sheet notepads comes complete with a new career or job search tip on each page.
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Peppers: Vegetable and Spice Capsicums (Crop Production Science in Horticulture Series)
P. Bosland , and E. Votava Manufacturer: CABI ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0851993354 |
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Due to their great versatility, peppers have become a major commodity worldwide, finding uses in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics as well as in numerous cuisines. Aimed at advanced students and growers, this book covers all aspects of the plant's history, genetics, composition, production, and diseases and pests.
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Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube (Writing Science)
Hans-Jorg Rheinberger Manufacturer: Stanford University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Strong family and low fertility:a paradox?: New perspectives in interpreting contemporary family and reproductive behaviour (European Studies of Population)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Accessories:
ASIN: 1402028369 |
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This book is the first one to be devoted to the analysis and interpretation of the lowest low fertility in the Southern part of Europe. It presents a comparative viewpoint and enables the readers to understand the peculiarities of a demographic situation that has characterized a vast part of Europe over the past three decades. The book places a particular emphasis on the cultural keywords, i.e. the connection between strong family ties and fertility.
The observation of the European geography of the strong family and that of low fertility at the end of the twentieth century renders surprising coincidences. It is no simple task to clarify the behavioural processes underlying this geographical correspondence. This volume contains two different possible interpretations, which, though departing from similar premises, lead to quite distinct conclusions.
This volume is of interest to demographers and social scientists, as well as to (doctoral) students of demography and social science.
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Foundations of Theoretical Mechanics II: Birkhoffian Generalization of Hamiltonian Mechanics (Texts and Monographs in Physics)
Ruggero Maria Santilli Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0387094822 |
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Foundations of Theoretical Mechanics II: Birkhoffian Generalizations of Hamiltonian Mechanics
Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 3540094822 |
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The Stingray Shuffle
Tim Dorsey Manufacturer: HarperTorch ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0060556935 Release Date: 2003-12-30 |
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When serial-killing local Florida historian Serge A. Storms is off his meds, no one is safe -- not Russian hoods, Jamaican mobsters, spoiled frat boys, women's book clubs, drug dealers, bad Vegas-rejected local lounge acts -- especially when $5 million in cash in a bugged suitcase is still racing up and down the Eastern Seaboard. But in the oddball circus known as the Sunshine State, little things like astronomical body counts tend to get lost in the shuffle.
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When serial-killing local Florida historian Serge A. Storms is off his meds, no one is safe -- not Russian hoods, Jamaican mobsters, spoiled frat boys, women's book clubs, drug dealers, bad Vegas-rejected local lounge acts -- especially when $5 million in cash in a bugged suitcase is still racing up and down the Eastern Seaboard. But in the oddball circus known as the Sunshine State, little things like astronomical body counts tend to get lost in the shuffle.
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"If what I did was wrong, I don't want to be right...!".......2007-08-13
Jaw drop and eye pop laughter and incredulity .......2007-06-04
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sarcastic and very funny.......2007-03-14
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THE STINGRAY SHUFFLE
Tim Dorsey Manufacturer: HarperTorch ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: 0061556939 |
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The Stingray Shuffle, Triggerfish Twist
Tim Dorsey Manufacturer: Harper Torch ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000UOFBIM |
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The Stingray Shuffle: When serial-killing local Florida historian Serge A. Storms is off his meds, no one is safe-not Russian hoods, Jamaican mobsters, spoiled frat boys, women's book clubs, drug dealers, bad Vegas-rejected locaal lounge acts-especailly when $5 million in cash in a bugged suitcase is still racing up and down the Eastern Seaboard. But in the oddball circus known as the Sunshine State, little things like astronomical body counts tend to get lost in the shuffle. Triggerfish Twist: Ensconced in a lovely tropical villa on idyllic Triggerfish Lane, Jim Davenport anticipates the good life to come. But this isn't living-it's Florida-and the neighborhood is not quite what it seems. It's got overly aggressive Little League parents, drug-free Rastafarians, homicidal hookers, unnatural sex and casual violence. Oh, yes, and there's a psychopathic serial killer-cum-Sunshine-State folklorist named Serge A. Storms living directly across the street. So it's only a matter of time before Jim up and actually kills somebody.
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3 Titles By Dorsey - Hammerhead Ranch Hotel - Florida Roadkill - The Stingray Shuffle
Tim Dorsey Manufacturer: Harper Torch ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000Q6OMNY |
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Multiple books shipped as one item. Save on Shipping/Handling charges.
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3 Titles By Tim Dorsey - Cadillac Beach - Stingray Shuffle - Triggerfish Twist
Tim Dorsey Manufacturer: Harper Torch ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000MISTCQ |
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3 massmarket paperbacks.
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Stingray Shuffle
Dorsey Tim Manufacturer: William Morrow ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UEYUS4 |
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The Stingray Shuffle
Tim Dorsey Manufacturer: William Morrow ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OEGXRG |
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The Stingray Shuffle: A Novel
Tim Dorsey Manufacturer: HarperTorch ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OEQOIO |
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Notable Women in American History: A Guide to Recommended Biographies and Autobiographies
Lynda G. Adamson Manufacturer: Greenwood Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0313295840 |
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This unique guide will enable students, librarians, teachers, and general readers to easily identify the best biographies and autobiographies of 500 of the most notable women in American history. Spanning from colonial America through 1998, the guide features entries on historical and contemporary women who have achieved recognition in more than 100 fields of endeavor. It annotates approximately 1350 recommended books published since 1970 about these women. The compilation of works selected here is unavailable in any other reference. Adamson, author of the acclaimed companion volume Notable Women in World History: A Guide to Recommended Biographies and Autobiographies, provides the most up-to-date information on each woman's life, biographies, and autobiographies. Each entry contains a brief biographical sketch of the woman and an annotated list of up to five recommended biographies, autobiographies, letter collections, or journals concerning her life. Three appendixes listing the women according to year of birth, occupation, and ethnicity will help researchers easily locate women from specific time periods, professions, or ethnic backgrounds.
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The Survival of Culture: Permanent Values in a Virtual Age
Hilton Kramer Manufacturer: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1566634652 |
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Ten distinguished critics reflect on the direction of our society, emphasizing both the dangers that threaten our institutions and the vivifying survivals that are worthy of being cherished and nurtured. Contributors include Robert H. Bork, Anthony Daniels, Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer, Kenneth Minogue, Eric Ormsby, David Pryce-Jones, Diana Schaub, Mark Steyn, and Keith Windschuttle.Customer Reviews:
The survival of culture is never sure; nor is its defeat........2003-04-03
As a collection of essays, the book is naturally somewhat uneven; some of the pieces have a much broader range than others, and the tone varies widely from one to another.
Worth the price of the book is Mark Steyn's hilarious and brilliant polemic on "the West's anti-Westernism." In examples that might make one weep if they weren't so funny, he describes how a remarkable variety of people from the West have bent over backward and forward to apologize for all sorts of supposed crimes against an ever-increasing roster of victims.
Others to single out include the one by Robert Bork. If you're a recovering liberal, you'll read this essay at first with a touch of queasy fascination that will then become enthusiastic head-nodding, as Bork explains just how in the name of Hollywood we have, in a short generation, come to the point where pornography and obscenity are fully privileged (and thus everwhere visible and audible) and any expression of religious faith in the public square has become Verboten (and thus everywhere hidden and inaudible).
In addition, Keith Windschuttle, whose subject matter overlaps to some degree with Mark Steyn's, rebuts the views of Edward Said and his Orientalism; Roger Kimball, among many other things, illustrates why we should be re-reading Matthew Arnold and ignoring Susan Sontag; and Kenneth Minogue, in discussing what he calls "the new Epicureans," shows how the modern "avoidance of the burdensome" has led people to forgo the responsibilities of marriage and family.
Looking over the table of contents again, I can find only two essays that I found either hard to penetrate (in one case) or narrow in scope (in another).
Although there's no recipe in this book purporting to contain the magic ingredients needed for the survival of culture, the essays as a whole will help readers think through, and resist, the assault on permanent values.
4.5 stars.
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Kramer, Hilton, and Roger Kimball, editors. The Survival of Culture: Permanent Values in a Virtual Age.(Book Review): An article from: The Review of Metaphysics
V. Bradley Lewis Manufacturer: Philosophy Education Society, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00082AJBK Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from The Review of Metaphysics, published by Philosophy Education Society, Inc. on March 1, 2004. The length of the article is 657 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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THE SURVIVAL OF CULTURE: PERMANENT VALUES IN A VIRTUAL AGE
Hilton & Kimball, Roger Kramer Manufacturer: Ivan R. Dee ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OU4PRK |
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The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
Francis S. Collins Manufacturer: Free Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0743286391 |
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Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists. He works at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of life. Yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God and scripture. He believes that God cares about us and can intervene in human affairs -- on rare occasions, even miraculously. Collins has personally discovered some of the scientific evidence for the common descent of all living creatures, even though he repudiates the materialist, atheistic worldview argued by many prominent Darwinists.
In short, Dr. Collins provides a satisfying solution for the dilemma that haunts everyone who believes in God and respects science. Faith in God and faith in science can be harmonious -- combined into one worldview. The God that he believes in is a God who can listen to prayers and cares about our souls. The biological science he has advanced is compatible with such a God. For Collins, science does not conflict with the Bible, science enhances it.
For many years Dr. Collins kept his views largely to himself, as he helped oversee the Human Genome Project's stunning sequencing of the code of life. Now, in what may be the most important melding of reason and revelation since C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity, Dr. Collins explains himself in detail. The Language of God makes the case for God and for science. Dr. Collins considers and rejects several positions along the spectrum from atheism to young-earth creationism -- including agnosticism and Intelligent Design. Instead, he proposes a new synthesis, a new way to think about an active, caring God who created humankind through evolutionary processes.
He has heard every argument against faith from scientists, and he can refute them. He has also heard the needless rejection of scientific truths by some people of faith, and he can counter that, too. He explains his own journey from atheism to faith, and then takes readers on a stunning tour of modern science to show that physics, chemistry, and biology can all fit together with belief in God and the Bible. The Language of God is essential reading for anyone who wonders about the deepest questions of all: Why are we here? How did we get here? And what does life mean?
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The Human Factor; A man of science face Darwin and the Deity.("The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief" by Francis S. Collins )(Book review): An article from: The Weekly Standard
David Klinghoffer Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000I2K3C0 Release Date: 2006-08-29 |
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This digital document is an article from The Weekly Standard, published by Thomson Gale on August 14, 2006. The length of the article is 1591 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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If God could talk what would he say?(The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief)(Book review): An article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
Robert K. Eberle Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000P7UZ80 Release Date: 2007-04-06 |
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This digital document is an article from Skeptic (Altadena, CA), published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2006. The length of the article is 1904 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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Mammoth in the garden: why harmonizing science and religion is a strong human need.(The Creationist Debate: The Encounter Between the Bible and the Historical ... An article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
Paul R. Gross Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000UDZXEU Release Date: 2007-07-27 |
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This digital document is an article from Skeptic (Altadena, CA), published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2007. The length of the article is 2940 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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Pass the peas please: buying locally grown produce for use in state park restaurants makes just about everyone happy.(Greenbo Lake State Resort, Kentucky) : An article from: State Legislatures
Leslie Teach Robbins Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000DZV8ZS Release Date: 2005-12-20 |
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This digital document is an article from State Legislatures, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1005 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.Books:
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