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Dunnan's Guide To Your Investment$ 2001: The Year-Round Investment Sourcebook for Managing Your Personal Finances (Dunnan's Guide to Your Investments)
Nancy Dunnan Manufacturer: Collins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0062737287 Release Date: 2000-12-26 |
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For nearly a half century, this trusted resource has helped investors of all levels take charge of their money with sound, reliable, up-to-the-minute advice on all kinds of personal money matters. Now, in her fourteenth year authoring this indispensable guidebook, financial adviser Nancy Dunnan takes readers through the maze of personal finance, offering an insider's view of today's hottest investments, which ones are right for whom, and what to watch for in the coming year. This comprehensive money manual also includes:Tips on getting started with managing your moneyTailoring a personal financial strategy, whether you're saving for college or buying a yachtAn expanded personal finance calendarThe latest information about investing onlineThe pros and cons of day trading, index funds, dot-com stocks, and high-tech investingWays to protect your portfolio from the volatility of the Internet bubbleAnd much more
Updated and expanded for 2001, Dunnan's Guide to Your Investments is your most reliable resource for all money matters -- your own personal financial planner -- without the heavy price tag.
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Good reference book but too vague for me.......2001-08-30
I do have to applaud the calender in the front of the book though. It is a good tool to help you keep your financial house in order.
The most comprehensive, easy-to-use book of its kind.......2000-01-27
Each of the 36 chapters contains easy to understand, practical information interspersed with helpful hints and cautionary asides (denoted by a checked box and a little cannonball bomb, respectively) that add a clever dimension to the financial discourse. What impresses me most about this book is that Dunnan has no bias (unlike other noteworthy publications) when it comes to the topic of investment advice and fees. She provides encouragement and insight as to how to get the most out of your own efforts, if you feel comfortable on your own, or out of your investment professional, if you don't. Topics range from beginning to complex investment vehicles, choosing financial professionals, financing major purchases, on-line investing, and considerations related to insurance and retirement. There's even a chapter on the tax status of your investments, arranged alphabetically by subject. All throughout, there are numerous listings of alternative information sources (e.g., organizations and publications) to bolster your education. In the back of the book you'll find a decent glossary (conspicuously absent in other books) of Wall Street jargon. Unless your goal is to day-trade, this book is for everyone who has a question involving the world of money and investments.
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Magic Numbers for Human Resource Management: Basic Measures to Achieve Better Results
Hugh Bucknall , and Zheng Wei Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0470821612 |
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This book simply outlines a range of the key measures that any HR , financial or business manager can use to address this situation in a more business-like manner. For each definition, there is not only a description of the measure but also why it has vital significance to managing business better. It is written as a basic text book in easy to read language but with a powerful underlying message - HR managers must measure the main features of HR in order to get their voice heard at the executive table and make demonstrable impact on business operations.
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Toward a New Common Sense: Law, Science and Politics in the Paradigmatic Transition (After the Law)
de Sousa Santos , and Boaventura de Sousa Santos Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0415904390 |
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Considering the paradigm of modernity's three key concepts --law, power, and science--Santos argues for extensive epistemological shifts in the field of critical social thought. He traces the historical process by which both modern science and modern law lost the balance between social regulation and social emancipation inscribed originally in the paradigm of modernity. Pleading for a new dialogic rhetoric and moving back and forth between solid empirical work and highly innovative and far reaching theorizing, he deals with diverse topics.
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40 Nights to Knowing the Sky: A Night-by-Night Sky-Watching Primer
Fred Schaaf Manufacturer: Owl Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0805046682 |
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The first practical, interactive guide for learning astronomy. Fred Schaaf has spent years perfecting the teaching of skywatching and astronomy to newcomers. Here, he distills his experience into a revolutionary new approach to learning about the night sky. No other book on the market offers anything like the simple, interactive, step-by-step program Schaaf has created for new skywatchers of all ages. The key to Schaaf's ingenious program is a system of practical objectives and activities that get readers actively involved in skywatching. Starting with simple instructions on learning one's way around the night sky and progressing to more challenging concepts, each night's activity takes the reader to a deeper level of knowledge and understanding. All it takes is forty clear nights, and anyone can learn to enjoy the beauty of the heavens.Customer Reviews:
Good but some more careful editing could have saved headache.......2003-03-20
Good start.......2000-10-28
Cosmic Orientation Guide.......2000-06-30
It's important to point out that you don't need a telescope to complete the lessons, but I still would recommend using one... it will enhance your experience and appreciation.
Great general information book.......2000-01-05
A great beginner's book to the night sky.......1999-03-17
"40 Nights to Knowing the Sky" will help any adult learn more about the night sky and how to prepare for that first look through a telescope.
Each chapter is well written and easy to understand. The book has a lot of reference material, including pictures and drawings, to use well into the next century.
If you're beginning a hobby in amateur astronomy, this book will be a great addition to your library.
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Tribology In Chemical-Mechanical Planarization
Hong Liang , and David Craven Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0824725670 |
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The role that friction and contact play in the processes of wear and planarization on material surfaces is central to the understanding of Chemical-Mechanical planarization (CMP) technology, particularly when applied to nanosurfaces. Tribology in Chemical-Mechanical Planarization presents a detailed account of the CMP process in a language that is suitable for tribology professionals as well as chemists, materials scientists, physicists, and other applied scientists and engineers in fields of semiconductors and microelectronics. The first half of the book is devoted to CMP, while the other focuses on the fundamentals of tribology. As the first source to integrate CMP and tribology, the book illustrates the important role that these fields play in manufacturing and technological development. It follows with an examination of tribological principles and their applications in CMP, including integrated circuits, basic concepts in surfaces of contacts, and common defects. Other topics covered in depth include basics of friction, flash temperature, lubrication fundamentals, basics of wear, polishing particles, and pad wear. The book concludes its focus with CMP practices, discussing mechanical aspects, pad materials, elastic modulus, and cell buckling. Expanding upon the science and technology of tribology to improve the reliability, maintenance, and wear of technical equipment and other material applications, Tribology in Chemical-Mechanical Planarization provides scientists and engineers with clear foresight to the future of this technology.
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Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism
Philip Kitcher Manufacturer: The MIT Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 026261037X |
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Abusing Science is a manual for intellectual self-defense, the most complete available for presenting the case against Creationist pseudo-science. It is also a lucid exposition of the nature and methods of genuine science. The book begins with a concise introduction to evolutionary theory for non-scientists and closes with a rebuttal of the charge that this theory undermines religious and moral values. It will astonish many readers that this case must still be made in the 1980s, but since it must, Philip Kitcher makes it irresistibly and forcefully.Customer Reviews:
see Kitcher's new book.......2007-08-27
The Ultimate Refutation of Classic Creationism.......2007-05-31
A stellar piece of work!.......2004-04-04
Excellent Info on Creationist Irrationality.......2002-11-16
Doesn't cut the mustard.......2002-08-16
Strong on research and defense of previously-established evolutionary theories, but fails to prove that life evolved out of still matter.
This book succesfully explains how organisms are malleable and evolve according to environmental demands. However, it fails to convincingly prove or even attempt to describe how life started and expanded into the plethora of plants and animals that now inhabit Earth. By what natural process did chemicals combine to form even a single living cell? This is not convincingly explained in this book.
While this book's details and technical information are quite hefty, there are innumerable questions concerning our origins that are left untouched. For example, what about anomolous creatures with features that cannot have been developed by a competition for limited resources, like the spider and her web, or the electric eel? How did an unconcious accident produce the first photoreceptor?
Until these questions are convincingly answered - especially the question of what kicked life off in the first place, the idea that the universe and life within it is the creative product of an unimaginable force or god makes more sense than the theory that it was all random.
-- JJ Timmins
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Abusing Science The Case Against Creationism
Philip Kitcher Manufacturer: MIT Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000VUP7I4 |
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Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism
Philip Kitcher Manufacturer: MIT ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KWTMAW |
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Abusing Science The Case Against Creationism
Kitcher Philip Manufacturer: The MIT Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000LCMMG2 |
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Abusing Science The Case Against Creationism
Philip Kitcher Manufacturer: Mit Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OQMAW6 |
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Scattering Techniques Applied to Supramolecular and Nonequilibrium Systems (NATO Science Series: B:)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0306408287 |
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Scattering Techniques Applied to Supramolecular and Nonequilibrium Systems
Sow-Hsin/Chu, Benjamin/Nossal, Ralph (editors) Chen Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OT08W2 |
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Waiting For Ariana
Mike Polizzi Manufacturer: PublishAmerica ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1413766978 |
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Waiting for Ariana is a campy comedy about friendship, family, and the drawbacks of being lovesick. Our narrator is Johnny Fratelli - a young plumber obsessed with his sister's "unavailable" best friend, Ariana. After first meeting her when he was a young teenager, Johnny brings us to his early twenties, when he decides to act on his affections. As we follow Johnny on his quest for love, we encounter several amusing circumstances and eccentric characters. If you enjoy fun comedies filled with "toilet humor" and the hilarity of sexual mishaps, you are sure to enjoy this!Customer Reviews:
Excellent Love Story.......2005-06-02
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The Age of Tamerlane (Men-at-Arms)
David Nicolle Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0850459494 Release Date: 1990-07-26 |
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Tamerlane or Timur-i-Lenk ('Timur the Lame') is one of the most extraordinary conquerors in history. In the late 14th century his armies seized huge territories from the borders of Mongolia to Palestine and Anatolia. His passage was marked by massacres that outdid even those of the Mongols for sheer savagery. Timur's career was unequalled since Alexander the Great in terms of constant battlefield success. Only in his youth, while recovering his family estates south of Samarqand, did he face occasional defeat. This title tells the remarkable story of Timur and details the organisation, tactics, arms and armour of his all-conquering army.Customer Reviews:
Timur-i-Lenk.......2007-04-01
Illuminating and long overdue work.......2005-07-20
A good over view of a real hard man & his troops.......2005-07-02
The Best information you can get.......2005-06-23
another worthwhile Osprey title.......2002-08-09
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Tamerlane (World Leaders Past & Present)
Dennis Wepman Manufacturer: Chelsea House Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 0877544425 |
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Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory
Donald Bloxham Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0199259046 |
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When the Allies decided to try German war criminals at the end of World War II they were attempting not only to punish the guilty but also to create a record of what had happened in Europe. This ground-breaking new study shows how Britain and the United States went about inscribing the history of Nazi Germany and the effect their trial and occupation policies had on both long and short term 'memory' in Germany and Britain. Donald Bloxham here examines the actions and trials of German soldiers and policemen, the use of legal evidence, the refractory functions of the courtroom, and Allied political and cultural preconceptions of both 'Germanism' and of German criminality. His evidence shows conclusively that the trials were a failure: the greatest of all 'crimes against humanity' - the 'final solution of the Jewish question' - was largely written out of history in the post-war era and the trials failed to transmit the breadth of German criminality. Finally, with reference to the historiography of the Holocaust, Genocide on Trial illuminates the function of the trials in perpetuating misleading generalizations about the course of the Holocaust and the nature of Nazism.Customer Reviews:
Comprehensive and Authoritative.......2002-09-16
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Genocide on Trial : War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory
Donald Bloxham Manufacturer: Oxford University Press(UK) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OOI5P4 |
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Volume 1, The Organic Chemistry of Drug Synthesis
Daniel Lednicer , and Lester A. Mitscher Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0471521418 |
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The Organic Chemistry of Drug Synthesis, Volume 6 covers the literature on the synthesis of medicinal agents from 1994 to 1998. This well-received series meets the needs of practitioners in the field who seek a quick overview of the synthetic routes that have been used to access specific classes of therapeutic agents.While most books on medicinal chemistry are organized on the basis of therapeutic or biochemical classes, materials in this series are arranged and discussed in terms of chemical structure. Thus, the preparation and detailed organic chemistry of the classes are presented in a unified way. Only drugs that have been granted a U.S. Adopted Name are included in this series.
Synthetic organic, pharmaceutical, medicinal, and heterocyclic chemists will find this series an invaluable resource for their research in the synthetic chemistry of drug development.
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K. Chibale, Synthesis, 2000, 10:1498
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Habitat Structure: The physical arrangement of objects in space (Population and Community Biology Series)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0412322706 |
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