The Truth About the National Debt: Five Myths and One Reality

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The Truth About the National Debt shatters five long-held myths and highlights one reality about what is now a $5 trillion national debt. Drawing on more than 30 years at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he served seven presidents, Cavanaugh argues that public debt is not all bad news. Instead, the problem is undisciplined government expenditures-whether financed by debt or taxes. He also outlines the real effects of the debt on future generations, private investment, interest rates, social security, and foreign investment and proposes a redefinition of the federal deficit to restore discipline and confidence in the management of the government's finances.

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A must read.......2006-07-12

This is a must read for anyone who wants to know about the national debt and its significance, or as you will find out in the book, its lack thereof.

The only point I disagree with is his argument of the insignificance of foreign debt. I feel this is still a major issue. Also, he tries to go into other aspects of government funding that are problematic, but I found it very difficult to understand.

Food: The Gift of Osiris
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Food: The Gift of Osiris
William Jefferson Darby
Manufacturer: Academic Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Food: The Gift of Osiris. Two volumes.
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Food: The Gift of Osiris. Two volumes.
William J. Darby
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000M4LEEK

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Food: The Gift of Osiris
William Jefferson, et al. Darby
Manufacturer: Academic Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OHR638

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Statistics without Math is not your typical statistics book; nor is it designed to serve as a substitute for conventional statistical texts. Experience with ecology students and researchers has shown that too much mathematical detail diverts attention away from basic logical concepts, resulting in errors in sampling design, data analysis, and comprehension of the ecological literature. Hence, this book starts with real-world observations and explains how statistics may be used as a practical tool to answer questions about them, and to clearly communicate these results. The book targets intermediate-level statistics (given short shrift in most books and courses), and teaches concepts with a minimum of mathematical detail, instead using simple graphs and, where necessary, analogy. This approach, class-tested for many years by the authors, has revolutionized students' ability to understand statistics.

Basic Psychological Measurement, Research Designs, And Statistics Without Math

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Basic Psychological Measurement, Research Designs, and Statistics Without Math

Basic Psychological Measurement, Research Designs, And Statistics Without Math
Marty Sapp
Manufacturer: Charles C. Thomas Publisher
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0398076146

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This book is designed to give students the confidence to understand theoretically issues like reliability and validity and through calculator and statistical packages such as Microsoft Excel, SPSS, SAS, and EQS. Students are shown that they can easily find reliability and validity measures without mathematics. Once exposed to measurement concepts, research design is the next topic. With this area, the topic of variables are cover-dependent, dependent, moderator, control, suppressor, and intervening. Additionally, the concepts of interval and external validity are discussed, and research designs are covered such as one-group, two-group, multiple treatment, factorial, quasi-experimental, and nested designs. Measures of central tendency and variability are presented, and examples are connected to a calculator and the statistical packages. The general univariate statistics are examined such as t-tests, analysis of variance, simple regression, analysis of covariance, nest analysis of variance, and the univariate and multivariate approaches to repeated measures. Two-way analysis of variance with repeated measures on one factor are covered along with multivariate matched pairs analysis, totally within repeated measures designs, and doubly multivariate repeated measures. Multiple regression, structured coefficients within multiple regression, interaction effects within multiple regression, cross-validation within multiple regression, logistic regression, multivariate regression, multilevel re-gression, factorial analysis of variance and covariance, stepdown analysis, discriminant analysis, exploratory and factor analysis, structural equations modeling, canonical correlation, and loglinear analysis are discussed. Finally, a nonmathematical treatment of psychological measurement, research designs, and statistics is presented.

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Basic Psychological Measurement, Research Designs, and Statistics Without Math .......2006-03-13

Basic Psychological Measurement, Research Designs, and Statistics Without Math is designed to give students and researchers the confidence to understand issues like reliability and validity through calculator and statistical packages such as Microsoft Excel, SPSS, SAS, and EQS. This text provides a modern treatment of measurement, research designs, and statistics. In addition, the assumptions of each statistic are discussed along with calculator and computer codes for calculations. This text emphasizes confidence intervals around reliability and validity indices and the testing specific hypotheses for reliability and validity indices, in contrast to the typical null hypothesis of zero. For school situations, this text covers nested designs, both the univariate and multivariate case. Effects sizes are covered in detail along with the computer codes for calculating confidence intervals around effect sizes. Moreover, this text covers 16 major correlations. Finally, this text covers the most common univariate and multivariate statistics, especial the multivariate approaches to repeated measures.

Statistics Without Maths for Psychology: Using Spss for Windows

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A good book for students who do not like maths

Statistics Without Maths for Psychology: Using Spss for Windows
Christine P. Dancey , and John Reidy
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 013124941X

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A good book for students who do not like maths.......2007-09-24

It is a good book with clear illustration of the statistics. It begin with simple statistics and then move on to more difficult analysis. Before I get this book, whenever I pick up a book about statistics, I feel fate. Then I close it immediately after reading 1 to 2 pages, and never pick it up again. However, for this particular book, I've read more than half (about 300 pages)and still want to finish it. After you've read one page, you are eager to read another and another. So, I highly recommend this book to undergradaute and postgraduate students.

Introductory Statistics Without Calculus

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Introductory Statistics Without Calculus
Math Association of America
Manufacturer: Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000LB6XMM

Recension del libro: Dancey, Ch.P. & Reidy, J. (2004, 3rd Edition). Statistics without maths for Psychology: using SPSS for Windows.: An article from: Psicológica

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Recension del libro: Dancey, Ch.P. & Reidy, J. (2004, 3rd Edition). Statistics without maths for Psychology: using SPSS for Windows.: An article from: Psicológica
Carmen Dasí
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000CSLE00
Release Date: 2006-06-27

Book Description

This digital document is an article from Psicológica, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1113 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: Recension del libro: Dancey, Ch.P. & Reidy, J. (2004, 3rd Edition). Statistics without maths for Psychology: using SPSS for Windows.
Author: Carmen Dasí
Publication: Psicológica (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 26 Issue: 2 Page: 353(3)

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Statistics without maths
Christine P Dancey
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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A unique feature of this book is the focus on large, domestic animals. Previous editions were considered the "Bible" of reproductive physiology. It covers basic, large animal reproductive physiology, provides species-specific information and is suitable as a textbook for upper-division courses.

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Great Fishing book especially for the beginner. .......2006-08-07

All of the books by Vic Dunaway about fish identification are very well written and useful.

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When time is short, Fast Talk Italian gives you the essential language to:

* do the sights & shop till you drop * book a room & order a meal * get from A to B fast * clinch that crucial deal * get your message across

Includes easy pronunciation of all words & phrases plus a mini dictionary of key words.

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As the newest additions to the popular Fast Talk series, Fast Talk with Audio - Italian is a pocket-sized phrasebook and CD companion, packed with key phrases for short trips. Read and listen to all the language you need for sightseeing, shopping, eating, drinking, and be sure to make this your best break yet.

Tres Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry
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A Truly Magical World

The hardback version of this art masterpiece is awesome

Picture Quality is awful

Tres Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry
Millard Meiss
Manufacturer: george braziller
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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A Truly Magical World.......2004-04-14

Enter the magical medieval pages of the illuminated manuscripts of the gifted Limbourg brothers and discover a world long gone, but one which seems oddly familiar in a storybook sort of way. The colors (nicely reproduced in this hardback version of the book) will dazzle you - the skies were painted with an ultramarine made from costly lapis lazuli. The compositions, drawn in the pre-perspective days of the 15th century, will delight you. Many of the religious illuminations are moving - the Death of Christ captures the grim darkness into which the world has been cast in tones of grey and brown with only the shining gold halo of Christ piercing the gloom; God in his heavenly lunette above the picture looks sadly down on the scene, brilliant amidst reds, blues, and gold. But it is the pictures of the calendar - a wonderful record of daily life among the rich and the poor alike - that will charm you the most. The Duke feasts, the peasants warm themselves before fires, the plowman tills the soil, the farmers shear the sheep, and the pigs forage for acorns. And rising in the background of each of these magical scenes, in regulation storybook fashion, is a shining white castle. This hardcover version is a beautiful book that you will treasure for years.

The hardback version of this art masterpiece is awesome.......1999-04-07

Having read negative reviews of the cheap, paperback version of this book, I took a deep gulp and sprang for the expensive hardback. This is a case where spending more for the hardback version is more than worth it. The pictures are very large size format, with the gold intact (unlike the paperback version). The quality of the paintings is excellent. The book is beautiful to display, look at and/or study. I have been copying one of the illustrations, and having a great time.I love medieval illustrated books. I have not found another one in this large a format, with such detail. If you are into illuminated manuscripts, you must have this one, there can be no argument. (Hardback version)

Picture Quality is awful.......1998-09-06

The books begins with an introduction, then many images from the Tres Riches Heures, and at the end there is a commentary of the pictures.

The big problem is that the pictures were made in the sixties, they are fuzzy, unsharp, the colors are not vivid and bright, such a very low quality of photocomposition is no more acceptable at the end of the 20th century. It is high time that a newer edition be made available in English, as is already the case in French.

The Duke and the Peasant: Life in the Middle Ages (Adventures in Art Series)
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The Duke and the Peasant: Life in the Middle Ages (Adventures in Art Series)
Sister Wendy Beckett , and Jean De France Berry
Manufacturer: Prestel
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 3791318136

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Duc de Berry's magical calendar pictures in the "Tres Riches Heures" give a colorful, richly detailed account of the life of peasants and nobles through the changing seasons - the cold, snowy days of winter and the warmth of the open fire, spring with its fresh colors and flowers everywhere, summer with harvesters labouring in the heat, and autumn when the grapes are picked and the seeds sown.

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of Jean, Duke of Berry
TRES RICHES HEURES
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MXA62M

Tres Riches Heures of Jean Duke of Berry

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Tres Riches Heures of Jean Duke of Berry
Jean Longnon
Manufacturer: GEORGE BRAZILLER INC
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OKTKM0

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Tres Riches Heures of Jean Duke of Berry
Jean Longdon
Manufacturer: GEORGE BRAZILLER
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The Tres Riches Heures of Jean Duke of Berry. Musee Conde, Chantilly

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The Tres Riches Heures of Jean Duke of Berry. Musee Conde, Chantilly

Manufacturer: New York George Braziller, Inc. 1989.
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Binding: Hardcover
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The Tres Riches Heures of Jean, Duke de Berry

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The Tres Riches Heures of Jean, Duke de Berry
Jean Longnon
Manufacturer: george braziller
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The Tres Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry

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The Tres Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry
Jean Longnon
Manufacturer: Braziller
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The Tres Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry

Manufacturer: George Braziller
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The Tres Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry
Victoria (Translated From The French) Benedict
Manufacturer: George Braziller
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