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The Challenge
Imagine if you tried painting a picture using old brushes and only three colors rather than the finest brushes and a rainbow of colors? Or playing competitive golf with three old rusty clubs instead of using fourteen clubs utilizing the most modern technology?
It's the same thing in investing. Investing is hard enough without making it more difficult by using old investment tools, narrow outdated strategies and trial by error methods. Are you still primarily invested through mutual funds that have high expenses plus high annual capital gains distributions? Are you still limiting your investments to the United States and ignoring global markets and 75% of the world's opportunities? In the last ten years, the U.S. has never been the world's best performing stock market. In fact, it has never ranked higher than fourth place. Isn't it time to think big with a global perspective and use the same tools as the big boys? Now is the time to become a New Global Investor and build a smarter, simpler and safer portfolio that is the envy of friends and colleagues.
Customer Reviews:
Great Resource!.......2007-04-08
Carl gives straight forward answers to the critical questions of ETF investing. He doesn't try impress the reader with the complicated language of the industry. He gave me the first-step information I needed to understand the role and power of ETF's. Carl respects the reader as an investor and provides valuable resources for continuing education and leverage.[...]
Vanity Press - Light on ETF.......2005-10-01
This is simply a overblown brochure. There were attempts to drive the reader to the writers company web site. Just when you think you are going to gain a better understanding on how ETFs operate, you are directed to contact Chartwell Partners. This book should have a price of $0. There were some helpful hints, such as the mix of certain ETF, but that was about it.
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. There are much better guides. I did not do enough research and paid the price.
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Effective Change Management: Ten Steps for Technical Professions (NetEffect Series) (NetEffect Series)
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Biostatistics for the Biological and Health Sciences is the result of collaboration between the author of the #1 statistics book in the country and an expert in the biological sciences field. The major objective of this book is to provide a thorough, yet engaging introduction to statistics for students and professors in the biological, life, and health sciences.
This text reflects the important features of a modern introductory statistics course and includes an abundance of real data and biological applications, and a variety of pedagogical components to help students succeed in their study of biological statistics.
MARKET: It is the ideal introduction to statistics for students and professors in the biological, life, and health sciences.
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Great Resource.......2007-06-27
I have just completed my Biostatistics class and received an A by using this textbook. This is very concise, informative and easy to read.
Not good at all.......2006-11-03
I couldn't make heads or tails of this book... not enough practical application and way too much inconsequential detail. Other students complained about its format too. I found better information using Google searches.
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Garter Snakes: Their Natural History and Care in Captivity
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Customer Reviews:
Seems uninformed about its own subject matter.......2001-08-18
It's hard to say whether this book merely reflects the state of knowledge about the care of garter snakes in captivity at that time it was published (1992) or whether the author simply didn't know his subject matter. Perhaps a little of both.
Like several other authors, Sweeney makes the mistake of associating vitamin B1 deficiencies with frozen fish -- in fact, only some fish contain the thiaminase enzyme that causes it, and they do so whether they're alive or frozen. But he also makes several other mistakes about certain species. For example, he says that Butler's garter snakes have a wide diet in the wild (no) and are picky feeders in captivity (not in my experience!), and that western ribbon snakes include earthworms in their diet (they don't). Nor is any mention made of the cannibalistic tendencies of the western terrestrial garter snake, an omission that could lead to a big surprise for keepers who house a pair together!
There is surprisingly little information here on garter snake care per se; too much space is given to talking about snakes as a whole, or to listing and describing the many different species and subspecies (taxonomy's out of date too). In general, this book is too imprecise to be of much value; don't bother tracking it down even if you are a die-hard garter snake enthusiast.
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"I never cease to be blown away by how the geniuses at Baseball Prospectus can provide you with new insights into players and teams you thought you couldn't possibly have followed more closely. They're amazing."—Jayson Stark, ESPN
Find new, in-depth statistics and predictions for every major league team and 1,600 players, with at least 50 players per team—more players than any other book on the market
Contains new content, including articles and statistics, with updates available daily.
Here's the book that ESPN's Rob Neyer has called "the best book of its kind." Now extensively updated for the 2003 season, Baseball Prospectus analyzes every top player in each organization all the way down to rookie ball and does it with objective, entertaining commentary. Prospectus gives you the final word on what the players did, why they did it, and what they're going to do in the future. Readers will get the in-depth statistics covering every crack of the bat from the 2002 season that they would expect. They'll also find entertaining essays on every team and articles on special-interest topics not found anywhere else. Sprinkled throughout are the same touches of irreverent humor that Baseball Prospectus readers enjoy and expect. The exclusive Davenport Translations again compare performances across leagues and ballparks, and Prospectus provides new ways to analyze everything, from starting pitchers' win-loss records to pitcher workloads to bull pen effectiveness. Find out why ESPN's Peter Gammons says, "Baseball Prospectus's rankings are an invaluable tool. If more general managers understood them, they wouldn't do some of the trades they do."
Baseball Prospectus is the best value for every baseball fan every season. To get the information packed into the all-new 2003 edition, fans would have to buy several other books. Comprehensive enough for serious fantasy baseball enthusiasts who need the most in-depth insights, it's still entertaining for casual fans seeking a better way to understand the intricacies of the game.
Customer Reviews:
If You Care About Being Informed.......2004-01-06
Whether you want the advantage in winning a fantasy baseball league or simply want to sound intelligent when discussing the sport of baseball, this book provides unbelievably in-depth analysis found no where else, and does so in an often humorous way.
The best book for intelligent statistical analysis.......2003-12-11
I first encountered Gary Huckabay years ago on the internet before most people knew what the internet was. I made a point of reading his postings because he always had something interesting to say. He still does - although Huckabay is listed only as the editor of this book, the writing reflects his style.
There are a lot of stats books but this is one of the few that has good commentary to go along with the numbers. It's not just a reference book - it's fun to read. It's especially valuable now that Stats, Inc. has been taken over and homogenized by The Sporting News.
Not as funny as 2002, but an improved resource.......2003-04-25
BASEBALL PROSPECTUS is one of the best sabermeticians' baseball resources out there, and thanks to witty, perceptive player commentaries, very accessible to the less numerically inclined. This should not be considered a resource for fantasy baseball players, but is useful for them as well.
In 2002, PROSPECTUS carried only "translated" player statistics--actual numbers adjusted for park and league effects. The theory is that without taking context into account, it is impossible to measure the value of players relative to one another.
The theory is solid, obviously, but the 2003 edition carries both the actual and the translated statistics, which makes it a much more useful all-in-one resource. You no longer have to go flipping through another book to find what a player actually did.
The player write-ups continue in the humorous but incisive PROSPECTUS tradition, though the humor seems to be a bit less sharp this year. It seems they've decided to be a little more serious and straightforward.
Still the wittiest and most incisive commentary on baseball.......2003-04-04
Baseball Prospectus was already the best annual publication on baseball for thinking baseball fans, and in 2003 it got better in several ways. First, in the past it only contained Clay Davenport's translated stats, but this year it includes both actual (or untranslated) stats and translated stats (batting avg, OBP, SLG, ERA). That's useful because you can compare the actual to translated stats to get a sense of where a player was helped or hurt by the competition and ballparks. Second, and perhaps most significantly, this version adds a new forecasting system from Nate Silver called PECOTA. This system compares a player to his most comparable historical peers in age, skills, and physical makeup and predicts the likelihood that his performance will improve, break out, or collapse. It's a unique predictive system that capitalizes on the fact that very few players are like a Barry Bonds, who overcome historical trends and forces to become statistical anomalies.
Some new contributors were brought on board this year to join an already excellent staff. Doug Pappas writes on the economic and labor situation of baseball better than anyone out there, and Will Carroll of the popular daily e-mail newsletter "Under the Knife" joins up to discuss player injuries. And lastly, the player coverage has increased this year to include even more minor league prospects.
Some of the book's best qualities remain. If you want a clear assessment of any team's current and future prospects and the quality of its management and farm system, absolutely read the introductions at the beginning of each team's chapter. They're brilliant. Secondly, the snippets on each player are as humorous as ever. The Baseball Prospectus writers enjoy flashing their wit. On Chad Bradford, the right handed Oakland A's reliever who is murder on righties: "In the future, as part of the Commissioner's strategy to speed up games, opposing right-handed batters will be permitted to simply throw a one-hopepr down to Eric Chavez rather than actually execute their plate appearance..." If anything, I wish they'd stay on topic in their player commentaries instead of straying to comment on random topics.
For me, it's not the best publication for your fantasy baseball draft because it doesn't include stats which are contextual rather than purely in the control of the player, such as runs or RBIs. Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster is better reference for that. Still, the commentary and PECOTA and projected 2003 stats are a very useful supplement and have helped me snatch some gems in my fantasy drafts. And the entire book is written so well I find myself leaving it on the coffee table all season just to revisit from time to time.
Don't take my word for it. Among those singing its praises are Rob Neyer, Billy Beane, J.J. Ricciardi, Peter Gammons, Jayson Stark, John Hunt, John Sickels, and anyone else who knows anything about baseball. ...
Best BP yet.......2003-03-11
Baseball Prospectus just keeps getting better and better.
For those of you who don't know BP, it started out as a small publication doing annual analysis of baseball. Over the last decade or so, its popularity has rocketed, providing a better annual every year and a popular baseball websites (baseballprospectus.com). Each year, the annual contains an essay on each team, several essays on baseball topics in general, analysis of and performance projections for every major league player and every prospect and a top 50 prospects list.
I was concerned about BP2003. Some of the staff have changed, a number of new tools are introduced and the website has become the primary focal point of their publication. I needn't have worried. BP2003 is the usual grand mix of irreverance, hard-hitting analysis and forecasting that we've come to expect. The new PECOTA system not only projects future performance but contains probabilites that a player will have a breakout year or collapse completely.
BP is the first book I grab off the shelf when I see a player for the first time or want to analyze a trade or read about some cool prospect. It's definitely worth buying.
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This classic dictionary deals carefully and exhaustively with all the words which occur in Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose. Variant dialectic forms are given, together with variant forms found in the same dialect. Purely poetic words and words not common in prose are indicated, and references are given to the passages in which they occur. First published in 1894, this is a reprint of the fourth edition (Cambridge University Press, 1960).
Customer Reviews:
Decent, but fundamental product problems.......2007-09-28
the book arrived in perfect condition from the seller. There are a few organizational issues that are easily resolved (the placement of words starting in eth, etc). not all words and meanings are there, so if you have a glossary for a text you're working on in practice, use it in coordination.
Man by the Water.......2007-03-09
This dictionary comes in handy for looking up that word in your Old English readings. The first copyright is over a hundred years old and it is still being reprinted and at such an accessible and reasonable price. Bravo to the author, J. R. Clark-Hall!
Dictionary reprint: valuable but not easy to use.......2007-01-10
Originally published in 1894, revised in 1916, and enlarged in 1931,
this dictionary saw its fourth edition in 1960, which is reprinted here.
This reprint will surely be of great value for in-depth studies
of Anglo-Saxon by readers who have already got some introduction
to the language. It contains a wealth of lexical materials, part of
which is not so easily accessible from other sources. I have given it
only four stars because it lacks some important essentials of a
high standard dictionary: Compound and derived words are hardly
analyzed, grammatical information is minimal, there is no hint to
pronunciation, and there is no English - Anglo-Saxon index. Although
as a rule there is a clear rendering into Modern English, one will
also note that some words are only translated into Latin. So I see
the dictionary as a very valuable source of knowledge about Anglo-Saxon,
but difficult to use without prior introduction into basic facts of the
language.
Some Clarification on the Thorn/Eth Issue.......2006-02-28
I haven't anything to add to these reviews, except to offer some clarification on this dictionary's exclusive use of "eth" (ð) and never "thorn" (þ). Several reviewers have complained about this as a defect in the dictionary, so it is worth pointing out that in Old English the eth and thorn characters are used interchangeably. The phonetic quality of each is determined not by the character used, but by its placement in the word. For instance, at the beginning or end of a word, it is voiceless, but it is voiced when falling between other voiced sounds. (Here the other reviewers were, perhaps, confusing things with Old Norse, in which eth does always = voiced "th," and thorn = its voiceless counterpart.)
Now, one may say that the dictionary editors might have been more charitable by standardizing the eth and thorn characters, one each for voiced and voiceless "th" (as some editors do) to aid in pronunciation, and that would be a fair statement; on the other hand, it would be equally fair to assert that students of (or even dabblers in) Old English are expected to be able to tell the difference without the editors' help. In any case, it is highly erroneous to say (as one reviewer did) that this dictionary "screws up" the usage of thorn and eth.
A good dictionary.......2005-09-04
The Clark Hall's work is good indeed and it is the reference in Old English dictionaries, including every word you may find in an Anglosaxon text. It's quite exhaustive and there are also many dialectal forms of some words.
The main problem is that every dental fricative sound is transcribed as ð, no matter what was it's real accurate pronunciation originally. I mean, it'd have been great if the author would have used þ (thorn) for voiceless fricative and ð (eth) for the voiced one.
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1,685 bizarre and ornamental letters, including 50 full alphabets in varied motifs.
Customer Reviews:
A useful graphic tool for craftspeople.......2000-05-28
Although the content of this book overlaps other collections by Carol Belanger Grafton, it displays a wide variety of motifs and typography from the Renaissance to the Victorian era. Professionals may be dismayed that some of the more ornate alphabets are incomplete, and that for unexplained reasons, the letter "j" hardly ever shows up. A beautiful and intricate alphabet of letters designed to look like building blueprints is only complete for the letter "A". The end of the book is filled with other alphabets which are banal compared to what the cover seems to offer. Still, like most books compiled by Grafton, this one offers a wide and useful choice of good quality intricate line drawings. If this info were available on CD, like other Dover publications, it would make life that much easier.
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