The Living Trust Workbook : How You and Your Legal Advisors Can Design, Fund, and Maintain Your Living Trust Plan, and Secure Your Family's Future

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The Living Trust Workbook : How You and Your Legal Advisors Can Design, Fund, and Maintain Your Living Trust Plan, and Secure Your Family's Future
Robert A.; Peterson, Renno L.; Cahoone, David Esperti
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJ97KG

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TheStreet.com is the exciting financial news Internet Web site cofounded by James J. Cramer that has become one of the most trusted news sources-and the go-to investment site-in the world of finance. With more than three million unique visitors a month, and the company's up-to-the-minute news featured at NYTimes.com, AOL, and Yahoo!, TheStreet.com has become the way informed investors discover what's hot and what's not in the stock market and on Wall Street.

Now, drawing on its unparalleled expertise, TheStreet.com has laid bare the fundamentals to investing in the stock market with their comprehensive investment guide, TheStreet.com Guide to Smart Investing in the Internet Era. Written with refreshing clarity and an irresistible touch of attitude by Editor-in-Chief Dave Kansas, and featuring contributions from TheStreet.com's premier columnists and specialists, the book reveals the ins and outs of investing in stocks offers a crash course in how revolutionary long-term changes to the New Economy will affect stocks' value and future growth.

Among the issues the book tackles are:

*How to navigate the risk and uncertainty of today's volatile market

*How interest rate changes, buy backs and splits, and earnings reports can affect the price of a stock.

*How to use the resources of the Internet to find, research and screen stocks.

*How to build a portfolio fitting for the New Economy

*How to identify the stocks TheStreet.com describes as "High Octane" (stocks that hold out the promise of both great reward and hefty risk), "Core Performers" (solid investment opportunities in various sectors of the economy), and "Income Engines" (safer stocks with a dividend kick)

Beyond these basics, the book offers informed advice on when to buy and when to sell, how to tell when a company's story has changed, how to find and research great stock ideas, how to figure out a stock's financials, how to read a stock chart, the ins and outs of IPOs and options, and penetrating insights into how the economy has changed and what that means in terms of future stock performance.

Providing the tools and information the individual investor needs to secure a competitive advantage against the big Wall Street firms, TheStreet.com Guide to Smart Investing in the Internet Era is destined to be the investment bible for the new millennium.

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Insightful!.......2002-06-05

If you can make it past the typical James Cramer stock-market cheerleading, The Street.com's guide to investing is well worth a look for novices. Skip over the dated, New Economy hype and get right to the overview of global equity markets, including risk factors, economic indicators and corporate performance measures. Author Dave Kansas does a great job of summarizing these voluminous concepts in a way that's easy to digest and remember. This book reads much better than most of those in the investment field, perhaps because it was written by actual writers, not economic experts fumbling their way through the writing process, or ghostwriters churning out personality-free prose. We from getAbstract highly recommend this book to beginning investors, with a word of warning: The tone of this book is still very much of the optimistic `90s era, and does not seem to reflect the subsequent market retreat.

Street Smarts.......2002-01-02

"It truly is a brave new world for investors," writes Dave Kansas at the conclusion of this book. The phrase "brave new world" comes from Shakespeare via Aldous Huxley, who of course used it ironically. It will be the rare investor who can read those words today without a twinge of pain: most of the last two years have been a bad trip for stock owners. Many people with money in the stock market have seen their gains evaporate like snow in Tucson.

The more you know about how the market works, presumably, the less you are likely to succumb to the investor's perennial traps - fear and greed - or pay the price for naiveté. TheStreet.com Guide to Smart Investing in the Internet Era has a splendid pedigree, namely the web site TheStreet.com (and its sister site, RealMoney.com), and Kansas has called on a number of its shrewd writers to contribute sections in their own areas of expertise.

The book benefits from most of its writers having been "in the trenches," that is, actually having spent years trying to make money on Wall Street. They are not just journalists or academic theorists. The book, like the site that spawned it, has a pleasingly pragmatic quality.

It is also easy to read, insofar as a subject with as many complexities as equity investing can be easy. Even the through-the-looking-glass world of options almost seems to make sense in these pages. (But although the discussion includes shorting stocks and buying and selling puts, there is, curiously, no section about selling covered calls - the only form of options trading that is appropriate for many nonprofessional investors. The book's other major gap is that there is nothing about the strategy of indexing, which deserves consideration.)

It is evident that care went into this guide. It has been editorially polished, unlike so many quick-and-dirty productions from even supposedly reputable publishers today that appear to have gone directly from the author's word processor to type.

Just about all the important topics are covered in enough detail to be useful but not so much as to be esoteric. Also included are two worthwhile features that I have not seen in any other investment guide: a table, based on specific quantitative and qualitative criteria, of the best stock analysts in a variety of sectors; and another table ranking online brokers, based on a reader survey by TheStreet.com.

But while TheStreet.com Guide does many things well, and there is nothing particularly wrong with it, I have to confess to being mildly disappointed. The problem is style - or rather, the lack of it - rather than substance.

If you are familiar with TheStreet.com or RealMoney.com web sites (which I expect most of those who buy the book will be), you know that James Cramer, the sites' co-founder and frequent contributor, is that rare bird who can write about stocks with color, flair and wit. Many of the sites' other writers have something of the same ability. The web sites flash lightning; they're a gas to read as well as timely and informative. The book goes down smoothly, but it's rather bland. To see what I mean, compare its prose with that of the glossary, which is written by Cramer himself. (Sample Cramer-isms: "Dumb money: Slow money, usually mutual-fund or pension money." "Flip: When you get a hot stock and you blow it out immediately. The brokerages try to discourage flipping, but in this crazy market where only small bits of stock get floated at the beginning, there are a ton of flippers on these pops.")

If TheStreet.com Guide to Investing in the Internet Era as a whole had been written with this kind of sass, which appears regularly on the web site, it would have been more memorable. Nevertheless, the book is less work to read than most of its ilk, and will teach you things you don't know or encourage you to think freshly about things you do. For this "brave new world" of online investing, TheStreet.com Guide is worth its weight in armor plating.

Not what I expected from JJC.......2001-11-24

[...] The book is a good primer on fudamental and technical analysis, but that is about it. I suppose that my expectations were too high. I subscribe to the website spin-off of thestreet.com, and find the commentary, reporting, and trading tips well worth the money. This is the sort of hard hitting writing that I expected in the book. My opinion, save your money on the book and just use the website daily.

Good for the beginner, not sure about more than that.......2001-02-27

I was looking for something a bit more adept -- this is "investing for dummies" -- which has its place, but the title makes it look like it has some new ideas when, in fact, it's mostly advice you've read on thestreet.com and elsewhere, in one book. Valuable to a novice, a nice but unnecessary compendium for more experienced investors. While this book wasn't what I was looking for, I also think the rips on Cramer and thestreet.com are unwarranted and childish and the reviews based on those criticisms are off the mark.

Well written, fundamental advice.......2001-02-27

The information in this book is by no means ground breaking. However, it is a well written book that provides solid all around advice for the new investor.

The book touches on many aspects of investing without being biased toward any particular one. It basically gives an overviews of many of the tools available to make investing decisions and leaves it to the reader to choose and learn more. For example, it starts out with an overview of economic factors and then moves into fundamental analysis, charting and buy/sell guidelines. It then touches on options, IPO's and tax issues.

Compared to other "newbie" books such as those by the Motley Fool, I think this offers a much more rounded approach. These books (and others) tend to present a biased view of the "correct" way to invest. This book gives a broader view that gives the reader more starting points to continue their learning and ultimately make better investing decisions.

Book Description

The first year of the new millennium has brought profound changes to the landscape of America’s financial markets. Understandably, investors are feeling increasingly wary when it comes to choosing stocks. Now more than ever, TheStreet.com Guide to Smart Investing is the guide no investor can do without–an invaluable resource to help you regain your confidence and ride out today's difficult market. TheStreet.com, the exciting on-line financial news center, has become one of the most trusted news sources–and the go-to investment site–in the world of finance. Featuring contributions from TheStreet.com’s premier columnists and specialists, the book discusses how to research stocks; how to use the extraordinary resources of the Internet in screening stocks and deciding which stocks to invest in; how to build a portfolio; what the effect is on a stock in the case of a merger, management change, acquisition, or change in the company’s profile; and penetrating insights into how the economy has changed and what that means in terms of future stock performance.
Written with clarity, verve, and attitude, and drawing on unparalleled expertise, TheStreet.com Guide to Smart Investing is destined to be the investment bible for anyone weathering today’s New Economy.

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A New Economy?.......2006-07-24

This book was written in 2000 and it reflects all the "irrational exuberance" of the late 90s. The authors proclaim a "new economy" in which traditional rules of valuation are no longer applicable! "Expansions have grown longer and deeper, while recessions have become narrower and shorter. The resulting long-run growth has created a New Economy, an economy that's forcing stock market analysts to redefine how they view investments and long-term earnings" (3). "Technology has played a starring role in the New Economy's emergence. . . . Given the backdrop of benign inflation, a technology-driven productivity revolution, and sound fiscal policy, it becomes easier to see why a number of high growth companies receive mind-boggling valuations" (4) As a result of these miraculous new conditions, "the economy can grow faster and longer without the kind of inflationary and financial dislocations that have felled previous expansions" (8). How naive this book sounds after the terrible market crash of 2000-2003! My favorite example is the author's discussion of Cisco, which enjoyed a P/E of 186 in August 2000. The author states, "Does that kind of sky-high P/E ratio mean that you shouldn't own the stock? Not necessarily. The fact of the matter is that some companies deserve to have lofty P/E ratios because their earnings potential really is that tremendous" (179). Cisco fell from $80 in 2000 to $8 in 2002. It's currently (July 2006) trading at around $18 with a P/E of 20. Many tech stocks fared far worse.

OK, it's not all bad. When the author gets off his soap box, he does provide some good insight into how the stock market works, and how to evaluate a stock. His discussion of the value and limitations of PEG ratio is quite helpful. And the section on options is absolutely the best introduction to this complicated subject that I have found anywhere. His discussion of larger market forces such as inflation and interest rates is also very good. Worth reading, but don't believe the hype about the "New Economy" and tech stocks.

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This book brings to the management of nonprofit organizations and public sector organizations the kind of concepts that have long been applied to commercial firms. Management thinking has long been concentrated on the problems of managing commercial organizations. Authors Sandler and Hudson set out to study the best managed nonprofit and government organizations and to determine what they did to achieve their success. The authors found that there is a close similarity between the management thinking of these organizations and that of profit-making firms. Each type of firm defined who their customers were and how to best serve them. They looked for ways of selling their particular product. They formed partnerships with other organizations in pursuit of their ultimate goals. They encouraged innovation among their workers. They diffused power down through the organizations to the lowest level possible. They created an atmosphere that made their workers feel valued. And they had extensive systems for communicating within and outside the organizations. The book develops these concepts in separate chapters and describes the organizations the authors study as examples. Sandler and Hudson are experienced writers who have produced a straightforward, non-technical work that analyzes the special problems and concerns that these organizations share and offers a set of effective organizing principles to improve their management.

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Not Bad.......1999-06-27

The title of the book has been lifted right out of Plumtree's Book in Canada "Beyond the Bottom Line" concerning management practice in the Canadian Public Service - shame on you. All-be-it the book here isn't bad.

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As in many states, Texas has seen a renewed focus on real estate agency. With this new focus comes an emphasis on key topics such as professionalism, the increased complexity of real estate transactions, litigation in real estate law, and role perceptions by customers. This popular text addresses these issues through a straightforward, step-by-step approach that provides individuals with immediate reinforcement.

Texas Real Estate Brokerage and Law of Agency

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Texas Real Estate Brokerage and Law of Agency

Manufacturer: South-Western Pub
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 189117245X

Texas Real Estate Brokerage and Law of Agency: 2004 Update

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Texas Real Estate Brokerage and Law of Agency: 2004 Update
Charles J. Jacobus , and CRB, George C. Stephens
Manufacturer: South-Western Educational Pub
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0324187378

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As in many states, Texas has seen a renewed focus on real estate agency. With this new focus comes an emphasis on key topics such as professionalism, the increased complexity of real estate transactions, litigation in real estate law and role perceptions by customers. This popular text addresses these issues through a straightforward, step-by-step approach that provides individuals with immediate reinforcement.

Texas real estate brokerage and the law of agency

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Texas real estate brokerage and the law of agency
Charles J Jacobus
Manufacturer: Sterling Publishing
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0006QIM8A

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Texas Real Estate Brokerage and Law of Agency
Paddy D. Amyett Charles J. Jacobus
Manufacturer: South-Western Educational Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OUOQNI

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More than 30 years after his sudden death in 1970, Jimi Hendrix remains one of the most influential electric guitarists for rock fans and musicians. Rather than waning, interest in this enigmatic, profoundly talented artist's life and the circumstances surrounding his untimely death are as strong as ever. This four-CD collection of Hendrix interviews was taken from archival material, press conferences, and one-on-one sessions. With each disc concentrating on a different period of Hendrix's life, this set serves as a complete chronicle of the attitudes, desires, and motivations of one of the greatest guitarists who ever lived.

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~ Those poor trees ~.......2004-01-31

What a waste of paper this one is. It is a shame some trees had to give their very all for this particular title.

Mostly information culled from far, far better books than this one about Jimi Hendrix, such as _"Electric Gypsy"_.

Only wish I could give it zero stars.

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The issue of personal character is hotly debated in our newspapers and on our airwaves today. When No One Sees is perfect for the reader of any denomination or spiritual standing who is seeking insight and direction on character development and why character counts. Presenting the truth of the Bible in the context of modern society, other faiths, and 3,000 years of history, Guinness offers a compelling analysis of current culture along with profiles of historic individuals of model character. Using both classical and modern examples, he illustrates how character is built and tested, presenting practical help for bringing about change in personal character. This is the first in a series of six Trinity Forum studies which combine classical and current readings with provocative discussion questions. They have been successfully using this format for over eight years in their private leadership forums.

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Highly Recommended.......2006-09-23

As one who's been hiring and firing in the public and private sector for almost 40 years, I can tell you this book is a gift we ought to give every staffer. It's basically a highly readable workbook, a tool for understanding the true nature of human character and how to develop it. The reader will be greatly impacted if the material is treated as a personal devotional guide, reading it slowly, meditatively, contemplatively. Guinness touches the very essence of the subject. Who we are "when no one sees" is who we truly are.
Highly recommended.

A great teaser for in-depth character studies.......2006-04-07

This book is another in a long line of books that continue to feed my appetite for serious discussion on the movers and shakers of history. I would say that this book is like a wonderful appetizer to vital historical and philosophical studies. It's perfect for a small group and likely to cause some heated debate. It definitely causes reflection on the differences between cultural Chrisitanity and Christianity through conviction. In a climate where working life and decisions therein are a sort of stage and life behind that curtain is accepted as a completely different arena of actions and ideas, this book is a spark that will definitely light a flame in your soul. What is your source and where do you stand?

Good material, good idea, but irreparably flawed.......2006-03-13

"When No One Sees" is part of a series of books produced by The Trinity Forum (Os Guinness, project director). Their stated purpose reads: "Contributing to the transformation and renewal of society through the transformation and renewal of leaders." Toward this end, "When No One Sees" aims to introduce the topic of the virtues of personal integrity, honesty, self-sacrifice and other important character traits as exemplified throughout history.

As a supplement to a fuller study in the importance of personal character and integrity, I can heartily recommend "When No One Sees." However, as a single, primary text for such a study, this book is deeply flawed. Although Guinness uses clear "gender accurate" grammar, and cites positive characters from different ages, countries, and races, he nonetheless presents only male heroes of character. Not one woman! Half the human race is utterly excluded from the author's list of examples. While, in the inset boxes, some women have been quoted briefly, nowhere does Guinness hold up a single woman of history as a positive example of character -- not even Mary the mother of Jesus.

Near the end of the book, Guinness actually states, "Many of the greatest heroes are unknown and unsung, unaware of their own significance" (p. 253), but he then continues to exclude women. This male-dominated selectivity is not a subtle problem or defect of "When No One Sees." It is a glaring and inexplicable fault which renders the book virtually useless as a primary text for church study groups or Christian college liberal arts courses. Guinness had a good idea in this project, but he needs to produce a more thorough second edition without the obvious male bias.

The importance of character in an age of image.......2005-07-06

Os Guinness has a knack for taking difficult and complex subjects and capturing and presenting information that allows small chunks of the philosophy to be grasped and pondered deeply. This book is no exception. The fact that it is also a study guide is even more effective in delivering the message while directing the reader to several key questions to consider in each section.

One of the best aspects of the book are the hundreds of quotes and essays, all around the central theme of the importance of character. While our culture often acts to create an "end justifies the means" behavioral set, never before has character been so important, or so difficult to really practice and live.

The book begins with some essays from famous leaders; from Plato to George Washington, Winston Churchill to Machiavelli, and compares and contrasts what each felt about the importance of character, and how it was to be demonstrated. Much of the material is pretty well known, yet the ability to so easily read and discuss different styles and approaches is well worth the effort.

My favorite sections were on the "Cultural Erosions of Character" in which the many examples of how society pushes and changes the definition and meaning in life impacts what we define as important at all. From advertising, to media, the pressure to conform is greater than ever, but in some ways has always existed.

One of the best essay's in my opinion is called the "Revenge of Failure" wherein Henry Fairlie rips the "legend of our times", as envy at its worst. No longer content to envy what others have and we do not, we now attempt to destroy in others that which we cannot achieve ourselves. This process degrades talent and is a poor attempt to "buy" our way into importance not through the achievement of something remarkable, but through the tearing down of the remarkable achievement into something attainable. Thus character becomes something that is no longer "earned".

The sections on plastic surgery and other shifts into a looks based culture further erode the importance of character. In this relentless and obsessed pursuit of the elusive perfection, the hunter becomes the hunted, and always loses in the battle to fight against aging and the myth of happiness in ones physical appearance. Powerful depictions of how this societal pressure has claimed far too many who sacrifice character for fleeting and shallow appearance, are depicted with a convicting clarity.

Overall, this is a very well done and thought provoking book. As a study guide it would be ideal for small groups, or even personal reflections. The book is so full of quotes and essays that it can be read at once, or in dozens of small bites with equal effectiveness. Highly recommended.

Deep, Thoughtful, and Stimulating.......2005-05-21

Five years ago, Pat Richie, former Chaplain of the Championship 49ers, pioneered a weekly executive development/fellowship program here in Danville, CA (San Francisco's famed "East Bay"). Participants meet on Friday morning for breakfast and discussion of an assigned reading assignment relating to leadership. With Pat facilitating, participants learn leadership fundamentals from one another's experience and observations. The discussions are faith-based, robust and enlightening.

Guiness' "When No One Sees" has been the book of choice this past year. It has been an excellent choice. It begins "by exploring the place of character in our Western Heritage, from the ideas of the Bible and Plato to Machiavelli and James Madison, and in real life, from Alexander the Great to Winston Churchill.

Guiness' "then looks at the uncomfortable but inspiring role of suffering in forging - and exposing - character and at modern examples of erosion of character today."

The discussion then moves on to "an essential point: the cultivation of character - a powerful theme for centuries in Western Civilization and a key component of the 'good life' and 'good society.'"

The author forces the reader (in our case, the group) to examine and self-determine whether or not character matters. If so, what are the correct practices, insights, and habits that lead to strong, value based character. And what are the underlying spiritual truths about character that are available to all - truths that are profound, practical, revolutionary, and timely.

"When No One Sees" is not light, bedtime reading. It is deep, thoughtful, and stimulating.

A Compend of History, From the Earliest Times: Comprehending a General View of the Present State of the World, With Respect to Civilization, Religion, and Government; and A Brief Dissertation on the Importance of Historical Knowledge (2 vols in one)

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A Compend of History, From the Earliest Times: Comprehending a General View of the Present State of the World, With Respect to Civilization, Religion, and Government; and A Brief Dissertation on the Importance of Historical Knowledge (2 vols in one)
Samuel Whelpley
Manufacturer: Collins, Brother & Co.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K5VVIU

An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China: Comprising figures and descriptions of upwards of one hundred new, singular, and beautiful species; ... importance in medicine, domestic economy, &c

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An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China: Comprising figures and descriptions of upwards of one hundred new, singular, and beautiful species; ... importance in medicine, domestic economy, &c
Edward Donovan
Manufacturer: Adamant Media Corporation
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1402147252
Release Date: 2004-04-22

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1798 edition by the author, London.

The Importance of Being a Roughneck: The Importance of Being a Roughneck: A Burlesque in One Act

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The Importance of Being a Roughneck: The Importance of Being a Roughneck: A Burlesque in One Act
Robert Garland
Manufacturer: Samuel French
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000SQKIVM

Importance of Being Earnest: One Act Adaptation

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Importance of Being Earnest: One Act Adaptation

Manufacturer: I E Clark
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The importance of literacy: Hearing before the Committee on Education and the Workforce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, ... held in Washington, DC, September 26, 2000

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The importance of literacy: Hearing before the Committee on Education and the Workforce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, ... held in Washington, DC, September 26, 2000
United States
Manufacturer: [Congressional Sales Office, Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., distributor]
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 0160646383

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The Importance of One
Florence Zeldin
Manufacturer: Ktav Pub Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0870683179

QUIBERON BAY - THE CAMPAIGN IN HOME WATERS 1759

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QUIBERON BAY - THE CAMPAIGN IN HOME WATERS 1759
Geoffrey Marcus
Manufacturer: Hollis & Carter
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0000CKNKO

Volume One 1: the Theory of Constraints Journal Number 4 Four: the Importance of a System's Constraints

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Volume One 1: the Theory of Constraints Journal Number 4 Four: the Importance of a System's Constraints
Robert E. / Goldratt, Eliyahu M. Fox
Manufacturer: Avraham Y. Goldratt Institute
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OB0L4A

Water Baptism: Its History, Importance and Cessation

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Water Baptism: Its History, Importance and Cessation

Manufacturer: Grace Publications INC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0898140439

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The history and importance several denominations give to water baptism is reviewed. Pastor Schutz concludes by setting forth the place of water baptism in God's program today.

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