China's Stockmarket: A Guide to Its Progress, Players and Prospects (The Economist Series)

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China's stock market is the third largest in Asia. Western banks and investment firms have a strong presence in Shanghai. Now that China has become a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the growth of the Chinese stock market is eagerly watched. This informative guide explains the development of the market, examines key policies, and recounts major scandals. It analyzes the different types of investors--institutional and individuals--and maps out the likely development of China's stock market over the next ten years.

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Interesting book.......2007-02-04

This isn't an easy read and you'll be checking the list of acronymns in the back of the book frequently. Still, this is the only book that discusses the evolution of the financial markets in China. It was published in 2003, so many things have changed.

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Author Ted Miller doesn't offer pie-in-the-sky promises or use Wall Street lingo. Just straight-forward, practical guidance about money-to help readers keep more of it, make it grow, use it to achieve their financial goals, protect it, and pass it on.

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Great Overview of Everything Money.......2003-08-21

This book is a great overview of all the big topics concerning money (savings, investments, real estate, wills, car buying, home buying, etc). The information is presented in an understandable way and gives examples on the topics that are more difficult. I learned a lot in this book, and it gave me more confidence in how to handle money. Excellent read!

About this book.......2000-03-20

I've checked out many books on basic financial advice and this is the best - from college savings and IRA's to advice on making a will.

The best of the bunch.......1999-03-23

For anyone looking for a readable, reliable guide to everything they want to know about their money, I'd say this is the book. I've checked out many, many of them and feel that this is the best of the bunch.

Kiplinger's Practical Guide to Your Money: Keep More of It, Make It Grow, Enjoy It, Protect It, Pass It On (Third Edition)

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Kiplinger's Practical Guide to Your Money: Keep More of It, Make It Grow, Enjoy It, Protect It, Pass It On (Third Edition)
Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine Editors
Manufacturer: Kaplan Business
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 141951752X
Release Date: 2005-10-01

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Kiplinger's Practical Guide to Your Money covers every one of life's financial milestones in detail-from renting or buying a home, purchasing life insurance, and sizing up banks and credit unions, to marrying, paying for a child's education, and planning for retirement-making this the most exhaustive handbook on the market. What's more, Kiplinger's Web site, www.kiplinger.com, complements the guide by providing all the latest tax code information. When it comes to money, the editors of Kiplinger's Personal Finance contend that people should be able to keep more of it, make it grow, enjoy it, protect it, and pass it on. Equipped with their sound advice, readers will assume responsibility for their financial futures, so that they can gain and maintain greater financial independence.

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Written in a clear, direct style, this book provides educators with a comprehensive presentation of the laws and rules governing collective bargaining. Establishing from the outset that educators have a constitutionally protected right to organize for purposes of bargaining collectively, Ostrander identifies basic regulations for such activity in the education field and goes on to present in-depth analyses of specific legal issues that may arise. Topics include impasse procedures, the right of middle managers to bargain collectively, the legal status of strikes, the legal basis for public involvement in bargaining, statutory provisions for union security, the legal rights of the individual in a collective bargaining setting, legal issues in post-secondary bargaining, and the legal status of grievance arbitration.

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Plant disease is one of the greatest causes of economic losses of crops throughout the world. Every year, billions of dollars are spent on chemical control measures, but there is an increasing awareness that alternatives to these chemical control measures may be becoming more viable. This work explores the international impact of plant disease on man and how this is measured and diagnosed, discusses epidemiology and the genetics of host-parasite relations and looks at the range of defensive tactics currently available and those under development, in particular those which are more environmentally acceptable than many in widespread use now.

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This is a review monograph on quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Different theoretical and experimental aspects of the program to produce QGP in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are covered by experts in the field. This is the third volume in a series on the subject, and the first such monograph to focus on the implications of the experimental results from RHIC, the relativistic heavy-ion collider at the National Brookhaven Laboratory. The review articles will be useful to experienced researchers as well as to graduate students entering the field.

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Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor’s, but isn’t quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world—of real struggles, passion, pain, and love—spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber—by a man’s real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all—in Alice McDermott’s luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.

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Good Author, Bad Book.......2007-03-03

Generally Alice's writing makes me think and follow closely so as not to miss her little back-and-forths with her characters. I enjoy her writing style and story lines very much.

However, and a big however it is, this book had such a disappointing ending that I can't even recommend it in good conscience. More precisely, it had NOOO ending at all. The story started out with some direction but quickly lost it. The farther I read the more I wondered whose secrets we were going to uncover. In the end we uncovered nothing. She left us hanging here folks.

Tupper was horrible. His personality was as bland as his complexion. And arrogant??? What's the guy so proud of? Elizabeth could've been okay if she'd snapped out of her coma and decided to have any kind of life. Some points made in the book were interesting although incredibly glorifying to a batch of people who selfishly "commit" themselves to more than one partner. If you want more than one "wife" don't get married!! No offense intended but how can anyone ever call bigamy a moral alternative to cheating? Or at the least when all parties involved aren't privy to the set up? Doesn't that make it the same thing??

But hence I divert. The short version...good author, bad book. Skip this one and read something else she wrote if you want to give Alice a try.

Unsatisfying and Pointless.......2003-01-18

I received The Bigamist's Daughter as a gift as "anything written by Alice McDermott" was highly recommended by Anna Quindlen in a USA Today story. Although the writing is precise and flows, the story and the characters are not engaging. Elizabeth the main character seems to be sleep walking through her life, her affair and her job. I kept waiting for the story to click and I had to reread the final chapters to see what I was missing. It just wasn't there. No stars is a more accurate assessment of my review. Skip this book. I am going to try another of her titles since I got two as gifts. I will read another Isabel Alende and an Amy Tan and a Jane Austen in between.

What Was the Point?.......2000-10-15

Elizabeth Connelly works for a Manhattan vanity press. When Tupper Daniels, a sure-to-be-published author presents her with the story of a bigamist in his southern hometown, she jokingly kids that her own father had more than one wife.

Tupper's book lacks an ending, and Elizabeth seriously considers whether her father was indeed a bigamist. Together author and editor forge a relationship to search for the end of one story and the truth of another. I reached the end of A BIGAMIST'S DAUGHTER without resolution to either quest. I'm not even sure what becomes of Tupper and Elizabeth, the couple.

As a story that describes itself as "an absolutely contemporary portrait of a new generation's search for--and avoidance of--committment in life and love," it's not a picture I would hang on a wall.

it enthralled me.......2000-06-26

I liked this so well, I've bought 5 copies as gifts. Illuminating look at family relationships, memory, story, integrity. Just when you think you have these characters figured out, there's an AHA! incident which you should have anticipated, but didn't. Has one of the best last lines in fiction. Her best work!

Potential but needed more development.......1999-07-30

This book had such potential, but the characters were so static and did not develop or mature in any way throughout the novel. I was very disappointed in the protagonist's unemotional responses to emotional situations and subjects. McDermott does have a beautiful style of writing, but she did not take these characters to the level that she could have. The ending was anti-climatic and frustrating.

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A BIGAMIST'S DAUGHTER
Alice McDermott
Manufacturer: Random House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000M0QSIQ

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A Bigamist's Daughter -
Alice McDermott -
Manufacturer: Harper Publishing -
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PS09GC

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A BIGAMIST'S DAUGHTER
Alice Mc Dermott
Manufacturer: Harper & Row
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IOB2T6

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Bigamists Daughter
MCDERMOTT ALICE
Manufacturer: Harpercollins Publisher
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OF38EQ

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*32 b/w photos
* 30 maps
* 6 x 9

"A glorious retelling of a brave invasion. . . . A riveting tale."--Baltimore Sun

"Offers some perceptions never presented on the Normandy invasion."--Military Review

"If you want to know what it was like, from Private to General, from rifle to tank, from beginning to end, this is the book for you." --CharlesM. Shulz

Originally published in 1989, Beyond the Beachhead became the standard for nearly all future histories of the WWII citizen-soldier. It illustrated the brutal realities of life on the front line through following the movements of one division circumflex--the 29th--during 45 days of combat from Omaha Beach to the liberation of St. Lo. Available for the first time in trade paperback, this now-classic study of one division's experience set against the backdrop of the U.S. Army's tactical strategy is a must read for anyone interested in the real World War II.

Joseph Balkoski is a historian specializing in the history of D-Day and the Normandy Campaign during WWII. Beyond the Beachhead was his first book. He currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland, with his wife and daughter.

"The boys in Company A, 116th Infantry, were not in good spirits. They had lost two of their six landing craft on the run-in. As the four remaining boats slid onto the beach and ground to a halt, their bow ramps dropped with a splash. The company was right where it was supposed to be, just east of the Vierville draw on the beach known as Dog Green. But the Germans were waiting for them."--from Beyond the Beachhead

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A Great Book.......2006-10-03

I am a reenactor with the 29th ID, and this book is almost a bible to us. The info contained within the book is an excellent narrative of the struggle through the bocage. However, Balkoski also provides a great amount of background information, both about the 29th and their adversaries of the 352nd ID. I would reccomend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about the fight for Normandy, and the men who did the fighting.

29, Lets Go!

Go 29th.......2006-07-08

Joe has once again done a great job in weaving fact, history and personal observation into an easy reading masterpiece...he is by far a great historian and writer...

Balanced research and reading that flows well.......2006-01-09

A well researched book that flows extremely well. The author describes the division's formation, training, and preparations for the invasion of Normandy. The author also describes the German 352nd Infantry Division (primary opponent of the 29th Infantry Division in Normandy) it's background and formation. The author then compares the commanders, each nation's tactics, and overall battle strategy for the Normandy invasion.

The description of the initial assaults into Omaha landing zone is sobering, whole companies annihilated. As the author describes the follow-on landings and the eventual US breakthrough, the author goes into a "what if" analysis. What if the German high command and Division commander followed Rommel's strategy to place more troops on the beach zones. What if one extra German infantry battalion or regiment had been defending the landing zones, would the US troops been able to move inland? What if one panzer regiment was in proximity to counterattack the first day?

The author then writes of the deadly fighting in the hedgerows in trying to capture St. Lo. This becomes a very sobering point. The author notes that the 29th Infantry Division spent 8 weeks in Normandy, and took in 15,000 replacements to maintain the fighting strength of the 14,000 soldier Division.

The 82nd Airborne Division (approx. 8500 troops) spent 4 weeks in Normandy and took approx, 45% casualties (according to official records). Quite the comparison in roles and casualties suffered when not being able to pulled from the front line to receive and integrate replacements. The similar is described in The Battle for the Hurtgen Forest (Charles MacDonald) where the US took 28,000 casualties in series of deadly infantry attacks in a deep forest that reduced whole US Infantry Divisions, including the 1st and 28th.

In the Band of Brother (Ambrose) Easy Company spent years training, as did the 29th Infantry Div, jumped into Normandy, and was pulled off the fighting line to refit while the Infantry Divisions fought straight on. Ambrose considers that Easy Company was the best in Europe in late 1944. But when one compares Easy Company (part of the 101st Airborne Division) to those in the 29th Infantry as described in this book, the 29th had it much harder trying to maintain its proficiency and effectiveness due to the time spent in the front lines. Easy company was also more fortunate not to have been a landing boat in the 1st wave into Omaha where entire companies were lost or reduced to a handful of soldiers.

One note the author makes is the different leadership styles of the commanders along with the differences and initial bias against the Reserve and National Guard officers by the active duty, West Point graduate, Division Commander. Once the campaign wore on, several ineffective active duty officers were replaced, sometimes by National Guard officers. The point of the matter, where a person gains their commission is not important as to how a person performs their role and successfully accomplishes the mission while caring for their troops. Note: Colin Powell is an ROTC graduate and achieved success based on his performance, not on where he received his commission.

Good book and different perspective that is balanced and offers good comparisons on the combatants involved.

TWENTY NINE LET'S GO!.......2004-07-26

In the past few years several works have emerged about the 29th Infantry division and several memoirs of its veterans have also emerged. (Bedford Boys, No Greater Sacrifice- No Greater Love,Fragments of My Life) For those who don't know two regiments of the 29th, the 115th & 116th landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. (The 116th suffered over one thousand casualties on June 6th). The 29th then fought for St. Lo, one of the bloodiest battles of the ETO. This book should be the starting point for those who want to know the story. The Author who just published a new book titled Omaha Beach, really knows his stuff. This kind of military history fills an important niche for those who want more than Ambrose and Cornelius Ryan but who are not quite up to official Army history ('The Green Books'). My Thanks to the author.

SUPERB!!.......2003-02-24

What can be said that hasn't already been said about this great book?

Joseph Balkoski has crafted (to me, not just written, but crafted like a gem) a superb history which will stand as a tribute to all those who not only served in the Blue and Gray Division, but to all who served in the infantry divisions in the Normandy campaign.

We see the 29ers from their training camps in Maryland and Virginia, to deployment in England, to Omaha Beach to the bloody, but triumphant entry into St. Lo. Along the way, we see the personalities, General Gehrhardt, Major Tom Howie, Glover Johns and Charles Cawthon endure the training, D-Day and the hedgerow slaughter.

But Balkoski just doesn't rehash old facts. He compares the 29th to its German counterpart, the 352nd Infanterie Division. He shows German methods and compares the weapons used by both sides and explains why the fighting in Normandy was an attacker's nightmare and a defender's dream.

In the end, the 29ers bested their foemen, but not without cost. Mr. Balkoski has written a tribute to them that will stand the test of time.

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Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Division in Normandy
Joseph Balkoski
Manufacturer: Stackpole Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PSH6F4

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Thinking Orientals is a groundbreaking study of Asian Americans and the racial formation of twentieth-century American society. It reveals the influential role Asian Americans played in constructing the understandings of Asian American identity. It examines the unique role played by sociologists, particularly sociologists at the University of Chicago, in the study of the "Oriental Problem" before World War II and also analyzes the internment of Japanese Americans during the war and the subsequent "model minority" profile.

Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America

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Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America
Henry Yu
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKN93G

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Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America
Henry Yu
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKBGKO

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This well-known 2-volume textbook provides senior undergraduate and postgraduate engineers, scientists and applied mathematicians with the specific techniques, and the framework to develop skills in using the techniques in the various branches of computational fluid dynamics.
Volume 1 systematically develops fundamental computational techniques, partial differential equations including convergence, stability and consistency and equation solution methods. A unified treatment of finite difference, finite element, finite volume and spectral methods, as alternative means of discretion, is emphasized. For the second edition the author also compiled a separately available manual of solutions to the many exercises to be found in the main text.

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Computational Techniques for Fluid Dynamics : Fundamental an.......2000-11-03

This volume is an extremely clear summary of basic theory and comparative techniques for computational resolution of fluid mechanics problems. Code examples are clear and extremely helpful to practitioners trying to produce useful models.

Very good book for CFD.......2000-07-19

This is more advanced book for CFD (comparing with the volume I). More specifice topics were talked about in this book. It is a very good book for beginner, also a good reference.

Excellent books for entering the C.F.D feild.......1998-12-27

The reader should be familer with the general techniques of Computaional Science. This book does an excellent review of thoes basic techniques which are basic for computational fluid dynamics. I just finished reading it and am Now starting on the second volume. I am doing a computer Simulation of Ship wakes and this book is I think nesessary reading before a researcher dives in to the mass of research papers published in this field.

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