How to Finance a Growing Business: An Insider's Guide to Negotiating the Capital Markets

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This user-friendly guide on the mechanics of raising capital shows entrepreneurs and business owners how to find willing investors and lenders. It shares time-tested tips for presenting a small business in the best light to bakers, venture capitalists, and other sources of money.

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A captivating how-to guide for the expansionist........1999-07-10

As a financier I found this book to be instructive, informative and specific. The Author sticks to what matters to a business owner, rather than what a bean counter would find interesting.

Using simple pro-forma financials to illustrate the effects of utilizing different stategies, Diener sheds light on the seemingly secret systems of business finance, and translates through the jargon of the trade. A must-read for any business serious about obtaining financing.

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How to Finance a Growing Business: An Insider's Guide to Negotiating the Capital Markets

Manufacturer: Silver Lake Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000E0E37W

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Executive Edition published in 2001. This book given as gift to NAWBO-UNIVERSITY attendees Oct. 24, 2002.

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Twenty-one sets of twenty-one ideas, activities and tips drawn from decades of international practical experience

*Invaluable sourcebook on participatory training methods from the authority in the field

*Essential for trainers, facilitators and teachers

*Robert Chambers' author of "Whose Reality Counts?", and "Challenging the Professions"

Making participation real requires workshops, training and learning that are themselves participatory. This sourcebook presents the results of the author's vast experience in the form of twenty-one sets of ideas, activities and tips, both serious and fun, for topics such as getting started, seating, forming groups, managing large numbers, analysis, feedback, evaluation and ending.

From the Preface: "This is for all who try to help others learn and change... There is something here for participatory teachers and trainers; for organizers, moderators and facilitators who want their conferences and workshops to be interactive; for staff in training institutes who want to enliven their courses; for faculty and teachers in universities, colleges and schools who would like to enable students to do more of their own analysis; and for those engaged in management training who want to widen their repertoire."

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Single best volume.......2004-06-04

I have taught facilitation for 20 years and maintain an extended bibliography of available books. If someone said they can buy only one book as a resource in facilitating, I would recommend this one. It is a remarkable collection of exercises, tools, strategies, and tips.

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In The Honest Hour, Ross explains how to formulate ethical standards for time-based billing. Tapping a broad range of sources, including judicial opinions, rules of professional conduct, the recent ABA opinion on hourly billing, fee agreements, bar journals, law reviews, personal interviews, and nationwide surveys of hundreds of private practitioners, and an inside counsel that he conducted in 1991 and from 1994 to 1995, Ross shows how members of the business and legal communities view the propriety of various billing practices.

Ross also evaluates the magnitude of unethical billing, drawing on his surveys, the experiences of legal audit firms, and anecdotes. Although he concludes that overbilling is widespread, he contends that most attorneys try to bill their clients ethically and that much overbilling is the result of excessive zeal rather than fraud. He also explains how clarification and reform of billing practices could help to improve the public image of attorneys and stimulate greater public service by lawyers.

The Honest Hour discusses how attorneys and their clients can work together to develop fee agreements that will permit attorneys to spend enough time to produce quality work, while guarding against practices that exploit clients. The book also covers the merits and disadvantages of various alternatives of hourly billing and the reactions of clients and lawyers to their experiences with such alternatives.

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Dry; Plodding; Sobering.......2001-11-17

This book has the look, feel, and tone of an extended law review article. The author is a professor at a law school in Alabama with numerous law review articles to his credit, so the tone is not surprising.

Before he entered academe, however, the author spent nine years practicing law in New York City and is clearly wise to the ways of the big firm world periodically lampooned in places like _The American Lawyer_.

This book is largely descriptive and not prescriptive, and at times has an ingenuously horrified tone at the sharp billing practices chronicled through the use of an impressive variety of resources. Nonetheless, most professionals who log their time and use it for billing will find something to make them squirm.

Unfortunately the conclusions were only three pages of a 264-page book, and a number of other conclusions were scattered throughout the preceding chapters. More unified conclusions would have been helpful.

Worth struggling through if you want to take a cold hard look at how you do your timesheets.

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The Honest Hour: The Ethics of Time-Based Billing by Attorneys
William G. Ross
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUBTVC

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A Good Translation of Perhaps the First Science Fiction Work

Kepler's Somnium: The Dream, or Posthumous Work on Lunar Astronomy

Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Kepler Kepler

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The Footnote: A Curious History

The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making

ASIN: 0486432823

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Both a scientific treatise on lunar astronomy and a remarkably foresighted science-fiction story about a voyage to the moon, Kepler's Somnium went unrecognized for centuries. This edition of the work by the 17th-century mathematician and astronomer presents a full translation from the original Latin, with an informative introduction and helpful notes.

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A Good Translation of Perhaps the First Science Fiction Work.......2004-01-07

Although technology did not develop to the extent that actual travel to the Moon could take place, for centuries people posited that it was theoretically possible and longed for the time when it would happen. When Galileo first broadcast his findings about the solar system in 1610, he sparked a flood of speculation about lunar flight. Johann Kepler, himself a pathbreaking astronomer, posthumously published a novel, "Somnium" (Dream) (1634), that recounted a dream of a supernatural voyage to the Moon in which the visitors encountered serpentine creatures. He also included much scientific information in the book, speculating on the difficulties of overcoming the Earth's gravitational field, the nature of the elliptical paths of planets, the problems of maintaining life in the vacuum of space, and the geographical features of the Moon. It is an interesting and useful and perhaps the first entry in the genre of science fiction.

Kepler's Somnium : The Dream, or Posthumous Work on Lunar Astronomy. Translated with a commentary by Edward Rosen

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Kepler's Somnium : The Dream, or Posthumous Work on Lunar Astronomy. Translated with a commentary by Edward Rosen
Edward Rosen
Manufacturer: The University of Wisconsin Press
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Kepler's Somnium. the Dream Or Posthumous Work on Lunar Astronomy
Johannes. Translated With a Comentary By Edward Rosen. Kepler
Manufacturer: Wisconsin
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ASIN: B000OL8PM0

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Kepler's Somnium the Dream, or posthumous Work on Lunar Astronomy
Ioannis; Rosen, Edward [trans] Kepler
Manufacturer: U Wisconsin
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Kepler's Somnium. the Dream Or Posthumous Work on Lunar Astronomy
Johannes. Translated With a Comentary By Edward Rosen. Kepler
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Chemistry- The Central Science Nasta Edition
Lemay , Brown
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall College Div
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIH4MA

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Three views on creation and evolution are presented in this popular format whereby the contributors provide their own articles and respond to those of their peers.

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Not Very Helpful.......2007-09-19

In "Three Views on Creation and Evolution," several Christian thinkers defend differing approaches to the integration of science and theology, particularly with regards to Genesis and God's method of creation.

Paul Nelson and John Mark Reynolds support Young-Earth Creation, which argues that the account in Genesis should be taken literally and the `days' actual twenty-four hour periods of creation six to ten thousand years ago. Robert Newman defends the Progressive Creation view, which contends that the universe and the earth are very old, and the `days' referred to in Genesis are not to be taken as literal twenty-four hour periods, but rather as unspecified periods of time. Howard Van Til defends Theistic Evolution (or, Fully-Gifted Creation), whereby God created the universe with the capability to develop life. Additionally, a host of commentators, including J.P. Moreland, Philip Johnson, and Walter Bradley, offer responses to the individual essays or to the exchange as a whole.

Unfortunately, while I view the topic as a worthwhile one, I simply felt that this book did not contain enough meat to be valuable. Most of the authors spend the time trying to show that their view is consistent with a solid Christian faith or that it is, for some theological or practical reason, preferable. However, this does not really resolve the debate. The authors should have spent more time analyzing the relevant Bible verses and, especially, discussing the scientific evidence. This book does establish that all of the views, including theistic evolution, are quite compatible with a Christian faith and worldview, but it does not really advance the issue much further. Moreover, the authors of each section are not given the chance to respond to their colleague's essays. Instead, four separate authors offer responses. However, all of these reviewers are Progressive Creation advocates, which leads to a slightly biased presentation. If you are interested in the creation/evolution debate with regards to Christian theism, then Three Views on Creation and Evolution may be of some use, but is not highly recommended.

Pathetic.......2007-07-13

If you really want answers to questions of this nature study biology
instead of getting your head filled with this ideological non-sense.

three views on creation and evolution.......2006-11-11

A very good review of the three views on creation/evolution (Young Earth and Old Earth Creation and Theistic Evolution). The format (point cpounterpoint was helpful and informational. I found the book to be very helpful in understanding the three point of view.

The Gift of God's Miraculous Intervention: A Clear Exposition of Christian Perspectives on the Origin of Life.......2006-06-22

For Christians, the issues raised by the different views on creation and evolution can be challenging. Can a "young earth" be reconciled with a universe that appears to be billions of years old? Does scientific evidence point to a God who designed the universe and life in all its complexity?

Three Views on Creation and Evolution deals with these and similar concerns as it looks at three dominant schools of Christian thought. Proponents of young earth creationism, old earth creationism, and theistic evolution each present their different views, tell why the controversy is important, and describe the interplay between their understandings of science and theology. Each view is critiqued by various scholars.

Paul Nelson and John Mark Reynolds provide a clear explanation of the differences between theistic evolution, young earth, and old earth creationism. Young and old earth creationism both share a view that there are discontinuities in biology and real design in nature. Yet theistic evolution does not share this view.

Robert C. Newman then explains that his approach is to harmonize both nature and Scripture. Theistic evolution is problematic because of its common refusal to let Scripture speak to matters of origins. Young earth creationism is problematic in that it does not permit science to speak. Wiester argues that the natural record provides many challenges to evolution--such as the explosion of life during the Cambrian period.

Finally Howard J. Van Till expounds his view of a "fully gifted creation" where the universe was created to bring life into existence through natural laws. He finds claims that Scriptures provide "privileged information" to be "embarrassing" because they show little regard for the "informed judgment" of the scientific community. Phillip Johnson finds Van Till's views self-contradictory: Van Till argues that God should "withhold" no gift from creation that would require God's intervention to create, but yet Christians of all stripes believe God has intervened in history.

This volume clearly expounds the pro's and con's of various Christian perspectives on creation. While this debate is surely not going to end soon, this book will bring a greater understanding and appreciation of "other viewpoints" to all interested.

ID vs "Fully gifted creation".......2005-09-22

While there are three views presented in this book, the great devide is between Intelligent Design (represented by both Young and Old Earth Creationism) and Van Till's "Fully gifted creation". According to Howard Van Till God created everything at the Big Bang, and since the created Universe had all it needed from the start the dead matter evolved naturally to life to plants to fish to mammals to man. Creation did not need God to intervene so man could be created, it was from the start "fully gifted". All that was needed was time.

Nelson & Reynolds (Young Earth) and Newman (Old Earth/Progressive creationism) believe that Van Till is both biblically/theologically wrong and that also science shows that everything did not evolve naturally. The differences between the YE and OE views are quite insignificant, compared to the difference between Van Till and the others. Therefore, the editors gave as much space to Van Till as the other two views together. (A view that is missing is creationism that is only based on the Bible, which I believe has been and probably still is quite common.)

Nelson and Reynolds have dissapponted some reviewers, since they don't make a very strong case against the OE view. Instead they describe their view, give some reasons why it's intellectually acceptable to still be a YE creationist, and then make the reader focus on naturalism as the enemy. Until naturalism has lost its dominance, it would "not just be foolish; it would be intellectual treason" not to unify with other critics of naturalism, even if they disagree on chronology (p.100). In my opinion Nelson and Reynolds' essay is easy to read, informative, and focuses on the important issue.

Robert Newman argument for the OE view can be summarised in his words "I prefer to interpret nature as to avoid having God give us fictitious information" (p.109). In other words, what special (the Bible) and natural (creation) revelation tell us, should form our views. This poses problems for the YE view, since starlight seems to have travelled for several million years before reaching earth. If God created it to look that way, he has given us a "fictitious history" - misleading information. Newman considers the scientific evidence against a young earth to be strong, but he has also found some "biblical hints" (e.g. the "last hour" in 1 John 2:18 has lasted for 2000 years). Van Till's "fully gifted creation" faces similar problems. Newman thinks that it can fit (more or less) with Genesis 1, but in Genesis 2 man is created directly from the dust which doesn't square with a complete evolution from first life to man. Newman also thinks that the ID movement has mounted quite a lot of scienitific evidence against natural evolution as a complete explanation. When it comes to the description of Newman's own view it is appearant that the OE is the largest "tent" to be in -from persons who believe that God created the first life which evolved from there, to people who differ from YE creationists only in their interpretation of the biblical "days", they are all under this label. Newman himself thinks that the days were literal days, but that there was time *between* this creation days. That's about the oddest interpretation in my opinion ("the second day is actually the 109982783 day, but God rested between the first and the second day - although he of course didn't rest in the same sense as on the 7th day..." or what does he mean?), although I have respect for the OE view generally.

Van Till's case is based both on theological considerations and on his philosophy of science. The theological reason for believing that God created everything at once, and then it evolved, is that God would be cheap if He withheld "gifts" from His creation that He could have given at once. Van Till does not think that the Bible does or can speak specifically on how God created, since the authors did not have our scientific concepts. "Similarly, since the biblical authors had no working concepts of genetic variability, self-organizing molecular systems, genomic phace space, or natural selection, it would strike me as wholly inappropriate to expect the biblical text to offer any unique insights in the evaluation of the various specific theories that contribute to the modern scientific concept of biotic evolution." (p.208-9) Nor can science say that God created, since sience in about finding *natural* explanations. Evidence against Darwinism would, moreover, be out of line with the view that God created everything at once - which we are supposed to believe as Christians. While Van Till's essay is rhetorically skillful, and he makes some valueble points (even if Darwinism were true, we still have a Universe created by the Almighty God), I find his arguments to be very weak. A theology that excludes what the Bible might say specifically on the subject! And a philosophy of science that has predetermined what the facts may say! Believe it if you will.

Unlike many other counterpoint books, the authors are not allowed to reply on eachothers essays in this volume. Instead, four experts (biblical studies, theology, philosophy, and science) write responses. All experts are OE creationists (though the philospher, JP Moreland, has some YE leanings too), which make the responses a bit one sided. Fortunately, no one is of the exact same brand as Newman... The book is concluded with two postscripts. One by Richard Bube, who supports Van Till's view. The other by Phil Johnson, who is in favor of (and one of the leading proponents of) Intelligent Design.

All in all, many subjects are discussed, and the book is thought provoking in many ways, but the best thing is that it gets the focus straight: The main issue is between naturalism and a biblical worldview.

Three Views on Creation and Evolution (Counterpoints)

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Three Views on Creation and Evolution (Counterpoints)
Paul Nelson
Manufacturer: Zondervan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSZDQ4

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The first part of this third volume of Wigner's Collected Works is devoted to his analysis of symmetries in quantum mechanics, of the relativistic wave equations, of relativistic particle theory, and of field theory. It is introduced by the masterly annotation of Arthur S. Wightman. Abner Shimony annotates the second part where the reader will find Wigner's contributions to the foundations of quantum physics and to the problems of measurement.

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With a farmhouse in Provence, a handsome fiancé and the prospect of filling her home with the children she's always wanted, Julie Roget thinks her life is perfect.

But when her father, world-renowned chef, Claude Roget, dies in the bed of his much younger “lover du jour,” he puts Julie's life and the lives of both her godfather, Walter Siegal, and her former fiancé, Sandy Fielding, in peril.

Claude's purchase of the fabled Brunei sapphires has plunged his L.A. catering company into bankruptcy and caused Walter to borrow an excessive amount of money from the petite and melancholy Don Dominic Doménico. Now the lovesick don wants the sapphires for his wife, Luisa, hoping they'll secure her love. But where are the sapphires? Only Claude knew for sure.

The search for the sapphires brings Sandy and Julie together again as they scour Beverly Hills and Provence, unaware that one of Don Nico's employees has an agenda all his own, or that Walter Siegal has embarked upon a quest to kill the don.

A comedic, over-the-top novel, The Real Thing shows us that love, like the sapphires, can often be found when we simply open our eyes and look.

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With a farmhouse in Provence, a handsome fiancé and the prospect of filling her home with the children she

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An enjoyable, easy read........2007-03-16

I simply can't agree with the one star reviewer. This book was pleasant, and just plain fun to read. One of those that when you pick it up on Friday night, you can't put it down all weekend.

Ouch........2006-06-01

This book is proof that yet again iUniverse will publish anything that crosses its desk. Childishly written and with a dull and cliched ending, you're wasting your time and your money on this one.

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Sekigahara was the most decisive battle in Japanese history. Fought against the ritualised and colourful backdrop of Samurai life, it was the culmination of a long-standing power struggle between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Hashiba Hideyoshi, two of the most powerful men in Japan. Armies of the two sides met on the plain of Sekigahara on 21 October 1600, in thick fog and deep mud. By the end of the day 40,000 heads had been taken and Ieyasu was master of Japan. Within three years the Emperor would grant him the title he sought – Shogun. This title describes the campaign leading up to this great battle and examines Sekigahara, including the forces and personalities of the two major sides and that of the turncoat Kobayakawa Hideaki.

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Fascinating explanation, illustration in chronological order .......2007-09-25

History is like a mirror. We read real stories of great successes and failures in history, we want to learn from the past so that we can repeat successes and avoid the mistakes. We too want to learn about the culture and achievements of people in the past. When we take closer look of the lifestyles our forefathers lived in an environment very different from ours today, we will better understand and appreciate them especially the things they have left behind.

Very Good Overview.......2005-10-14

In the battle between the inheritors of Toyotomi Yoshimitsu and the new usurper Tokugawa Ieyasu, there were few of the nicities associated with former times of the Momoyama Jidai. This was a very intense, large, and fanatical battle, worthy in terms of slaughter with those being undertaken in Europe at the same time.

For anyone with little understanding of the intricacies of the battle and the times, this slender volume manages to give you a good background to the events, a political primer of the major figures involved in the eventual politics and battle, details the battle organisation, tactics and weapons of the soldiers and also details in superior graphics the events on the battlefield. For a volume of this size, that is a lot to ask for, but Byant delivers.

It is a good volume and one that I would recommend.

clear and well written.......2003-12-04

Battle of Sekigahara was one of the most important moments in Japanese military history since it established the reign of the Tokugawa Shogunate which ruled Japan in peace for the next 250 years or so. The book clearly and basically tell, without bogging down the readers, the politics, reasons and why of this campaign and the battle. The maps provided in this book proves to be highly useful, epecially the one that showed how Japan was divided between Ishida and Tokugawa sides. I think the only issue where the author failed was in part, he didn't explained how the Toyotomi family felt at this period since they were at the moment, the ruling family of Japan. (They thought this was a war between their two major retainers - only to realized later on that only one of the retainers were really loyal to them - the loser!) In a campaign and battle where loyalty, betrayal and backstabbing seem to be the order of day, the author does an admirable job in putting it all together under 100 pages. Considering that there isn't too many books written in English about this battle in the first place, it probably a must read for anyone who have any interest of the Sen-joku Jidai.

Simple explanation that anyone can follow.......2000-03-08

This book offers a simplified explanation of the political motivations and battlefield tactics that led to the defeat of Ishida Mitsunari by the armies of Tokugawa Ieyasu. This is a fascinating account of one of the defining battles in Japanese history. If someone sees A.J.Bryant before I do, ask him about my armor... ;)

Tokugawa takes the cake.......1999-09-04

Woo-hoo!

This book is a great combination of the bare bones military maneuverings, and the motivations behind them. As one of the key battles in Japanese history, every student of Japan's history would do themselves well to read this book.

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Sekigahara 1600: The Final Struggle for Power (Praeger Illustrated Military History)
Anthony Bryant
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OROVJK

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Based on extensive archival research, Contesting Empires looks at the earlier contest of empires in the New World, especially among Spain, France, and England, and then examines the opposition to empire, the promotion of empire, and the question of slavery. Hart's discussion of slavery also ranges from early Arab, African and Portuguese practices in Africa and beyond, to the legal abolition of slavery in the British empire, the United States and elsewhere in the nineteenth century.

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Combining political-economic, sociological, and historical approaches, Professor Guston provides a coherent new framework for analyzing the changing relationship between politics and science in the United States. After World War II, the "social contract for science" assumed that the integrity and productivity of research were automatic; a belief that endured for four decades. But in the 1980s, cases of misconduct in science and flagging economic performance broke the trust between politics and science. New "boundary organizations" were created to mend the relationship between scientists and politicians.

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