The Motley Fool's Guide to Paying for School: How to Cover Education Costs from K to Ph.D.

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Who Knew School Could be So Affordable?

The Motley Fool's Guide to Paying for School: How to Cover Education Costs from K to Ph.D.
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With the rising cost of a diploma, it's more important than ever to plan carefully for education. This handy guide covers everything from tax-friendly savings accounts to getting a piece of the $74 billion financial aid pie. Tables and worksheets are included.

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common sense.......2003-06-29

This book only has common sense ideas in it. I generally like the motley fools products. However, this book should be purchased only by those who do not have a basic understanding of how to save or prepare for college. We all know it is best to start saving early and talk to people at the schools about how to get a scholarship.

Who Knew School Could be So Affordable?.......2003-03-29

This book tackles a daunting financial topic and makes it easy to digest. Best of all, it's only 125 pages, so I didn't have to commit hours and hours of my time to learn what I needed to know. The book offered charts, tables and plain English, distilling topics such as the Education IRA (now called the Coverdell ESA), 529 Plans (there are two main kinds of these and you can sock away up to $100,000 or more in them -- who knew??) and even paying for elementary school and grad school. Oh -- and did I mention that it's funny, too?

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Quantization state of baryonic mass in clusters of galaxies.(quantum celestial mechanics ): An article from: Progress in Physics

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Quantization state of baryonic mass in clusters of galaxies.(quantum celestial mechanics ): An article from: Progress in Physics
Franklin Potter , and Howard G. Preston
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Release Date: 2007-02-21

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This digital document is an article from Progress in Physics, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 2218 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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Title: Quantization state of baryonic mass in clusters of galaxies.(quantum celestial mechanics )
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Date: January 1, 2007
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This mesmerizing debut, uncannily uniting the trials of a postmodern upbringing with a murder mystery, heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in literary fiction

Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary, political, philosophical, and scientific knowledge—and is quite the cineaste to boot. In her final year of high school at the elite (and unusual) St. Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina, Blue falls in with a charismatic group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. But when the drowning of one of Hannah's friends and the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries, Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural references to guide—or misguide—her.

Structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of Literature class and containing ironic visual aids (drawn by the author), Pessl's debut novel is complex yet compelling, erudite yet accessible. It combines the suspense of Hitchcock, the self-parody of Dave Eggers, and the storytelling gifts of Donna Tartt with a dazzling intelligence and wit entirely Pessl's own.

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If you're still on the fence...........2007-09-25

I'll be honest, I almost bypassed this book. The reviews were off putting. The over all ranking was not good. Phrases like "pretentious" and "overly loquacious"were sprinkled liberally throughout the reviews. This all added up to a "I should pass on this one" in my book. Even the positive reviews mentioned numerous negative aspects. So why did I read the book? Someone asked me to. Since they asked nicely, I complied, if not without some misgivings.

Wow, what a clever, refreshing read. Less of a whodunnit and and more of a what the....? It's the book you go back and re-read the first chapter after you're done. It's the book you don't care how late it is or how early you have to get up the next morning. It's the book you're sorry when it's over. It's the book with clever asides that make you chuckle, or you just don't get, but it doesn't matter. It's the book that you wouldn't mind reading again.

A brief plot summary wouldn't do it justice or be accurate. If I said Blue and her father have worked all their lives toward Blue graduating high school as valedictorian and getting in to Harvard you would think it's a coming of age chick lit book. But there is more than that involved. If I said the book details the harrowing experiences of Blue as she struggles to find her niche in a clique driven private school, it wouldn't even begin to scratch the surface of the real plot. If I made some obscure reference to Blue's blazing intellect that she uses in an effort to solve one of the greatest mysteries of her life, you'd wrongly picture her as Nancy Drew. If I said it is more a story about social revolution, terror cells and secret societies that wouldn't be quite right either.

It is hard to summarize without spoiling the story. What you read is a heavily referenced, pseudo research paper that details Blue's efforts to understand the many events that unfold over the course of her senior year of high school.

All in all it's a great read. If you're still undecided, consider this a little shove towards diving in.

A heroine with heart........2007-09-22

I liked the character of Blue van Meer immensely. Completely original and quirky heroine of this novel. Motherless. Father is an eccentric and outrageously intelligent professor who believes that traveling and living all over the country is the best education a child could wish for.
The novel begins as the two move to Stockton, North Carolina so Blue can complete her entire final year at one high school, St. Gallway. There she meets the "bluebloods", an odd assortment of teens who have one thing in common, their admiration (sometimes obsession) with part-time film teacher Hannah Schneider. They include Blue in their group and they all go to Hannah's bizarre home, decorated salvation army style, every sunday for dinner. Hannah has a party at one point, doesn't invite the kids but they end up crashing it, and a man drowns in her pool, ruled an accident. Later, Hannah orders them all to go hiking with her and during the trip she is found dead by Blue. From there the book changes from one of cultural examiner to a who-dunnit.
A lot of the previous reviews proclaim this book pretentious, which I suppose it is with all the references and indeed the set up of the book as "core curriculum" but it worked for me. I'll take pretention any day over lackadaisical or pedestrian fare.
I look forward to more from Ms. Pessl.

A blatant rip off of Donna Tarrt's The Secret History.......2007-09-19

Group of priveleged, snarky academics? Check! An instructor they idol worship? Check! An outsider who is reluctantly brought into their innner circe? Check! A murder or two? Check! The fall out that later ensues? Check! Special Topics... is a promising novel from a promising writer but not even half as entertaining as Secret History because of Pessl's overwrought pretension.

I have no doubt Pessl is an intelligent person and on every page of Special Topics... she makes sure that you know it. Hammering the point home with obscure oh-so-clever reference after obscure oh-so-clever reference. It's very distracting and I found myself rolling my eyes every time she starts to show off. When she occasionally hits a stride of staight forward narrative her uncluttered prose shines through showing off her great writing skills and clever wit. And don't get me started on the visual aids! They do nothing to further the plot along and is a contrived look-at-me device to show off Pessl's somewhat mediorce artistic skills (yes, she does all the drawings herself). The visual aids could have been more affective if they were either drawn by someone else or if they were actual staged photographs like it was done in Tama Janowitz's A Cannibal In Manhattan.

Overall, once you are accustomed to Pessl's writing style it is a pleasant and entertaining read but I thought about The Secret History the entire time I read it. So much so that I immediately picked up The Secret History after finishing this. Pessl has potential to be a great writer once she shrugs off her pretension and focuses on a tight narrative.

wildly entertaining prose in a fun, engaging story.......2007-09-16

I loved the prose in this book! The story is a mix of bildungsroman and whodunit. At the start, Blue van Meer is a college student who sits down to write the story of her last year of high school, in which Blue grows up and someone named Hannah dies (that much is revealed in the first few pages).

The characters are fun and the story is engaging (until the end, when it's completely addictive). But, as USA Today put it, "the real star of the doorstop-weighty tome is the nimble prose. Pessl's talent for verbal acrobatics keeps the pages flipping with minimal effort." Completely true! My wife and I read the first two thirds aloud, which only heightened the pleasure of the prose. Here are a couple of passages I enjoyed:

"Unfortunately, my instinctive response to overhearing campus-wide chitchat of the aforementioned kind was not The Pacino (godfather-styled vengeance), The Pesci (urges to stick a ballpoint pen in someone's throat), The Costner (flat, frontierlike amusement), The Spacey (scathing verbal retaliation accompanied by a blank facial expression) nor The Penn (blue-collared bellows and moans)" [p. 364].

"She asked where we were from (`Ohio,' seethed Dad), what year I was (`Senior,' fumed Dad), how we liked our new house (`It's fun,' frothed Dad) and explained that she had moved here three years ago from San Francisco (`Astonishing,' fizzed Dad)" [p58].

Pessl also crams the book with quotes from and allusions to loads of films and books, fiction and non-fiction. I found this extremely entertaining (as I also find it entertaining to identify the links between my own reading and viewing and life). (I was disappointed to learn, upon looking up several of the books on the Library of Congress website, that most of them are Pessl's inventions. But the allusions are still fun.)

Entertainment Weekly's review sums up the book well: "A 514-page escapist extravaganza packed with literary and pop culture allusions, mischievous characterizations, erotic intrigue, murders, and unstoppable (occasionally unruly) narrative energy." Metacritic (a website that aggregates professional reviews) lists 10 outstanding reviews, 9 favorable, and 7 mixed.

Note on content: The book has some strong language and some macabre material (one or two characters are killed), and some sexual references.

An Exercise in Pretentiousness.......2007-09-15

I really thought I would like this book. Although I read pretty much everything, my taste skews more toward the literary and I had read an article comparing Calamity Physics to Donna Tart's wonderful debut novel, The Secret History. I'm terribly disappointed. As other reviewers have pointed out, the book is simply an exercise in pretentiousness: "Oh, look how smart I am," "look how I can manage to write twenty-two qualifiers and thirty-seven adjectives in a single sentence," "look how I can name each one of my chapters after a classic, even if it has little--or, in some cases, nothing--to do with that chapter." I know Jonathan Frazen shares an agent with Pessl, so that explains his giving a blurb for the book. As for the other reviewers, who acted too much like sheep to say this emperor has no clothes, what can I say? Shame on you.

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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Marisha Pessl
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This book follows the early years of women aviators from the end of World War I through the madcap years of the 1920s to the establishment of aviation as a serious part of defense and commercial activities during World War II. Award-winning writer Mike Walker writes about a time of immense social and technical change that radically transformed the position of women and became the golden years for the development of aviation.

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awful - it should be NO STAR.......2004-03-21

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Mike, get a real job, this "book" is pathetic. The women you were attempting to write about must be spinning in their graves. SHAME ON YOU!
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This digital document is an article from Parks & Recreation, published by National Recreation and Park Association on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 427 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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Title: Luncheon fuels fire for action: National Policy luncheon participants break bread over budget talks.
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