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Wall Street Words: An Essential A to Z Guide for Today's Investor (Wall Street Words)
David L. Scott Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0395853923 |
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Whether you are managing a personal investment portfolio or a major mutual fund, this comprehensive revision of the well-respected reference to finance and investment, is a must for the home or office. Wall Street Words features nearly 4,000 terms - including hundreds of new entries - that accurately and clearly explain the language of the world of finance and investment. Contemporary case histories offer practical, real-world applications of investment concepts and principles. The book also gives new and updated tips from experts in investment, accounting, and financial law to help you manage your money in today's market.Customer Reviews:
A valuable asset.......2006-05-31
THIS BOOK GIVES YOU AN EDGE WHEN STUDYING FOR THE SERIES 7.......2003-08-07
Now, I have all of the definitions I need right at my finger tips. This book has been a great supplement to the Series 7 study material. I no longer waste time struggling with terms I do not understand. I do not have to waste valuable time on hold calling into my trainer to get a better understanding of terms.
A good word for Wall Street Words.......2001-08-10
Very Helplful.......2000-07-19
An excellent guide to Wall Street Terms.......2000-05-23
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Wall Street Words: An Essential A to Z Guide for Today's Investor
David Logan Scott Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin (P) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000R0WYSE |
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Use Of Ice On Small Fishing Vessels (Fisheries Technical Paper)
Manufacturer: Food & Agriculture Org ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9251050104 |
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Journey To The Frontier - Two Roads To The Spanish Civil War
Peter and Abrahams, William Stansky Manufacturer: Univ. Of Chicago Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000IWVR8O |
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Journey to the Frontier, Two Roads to the Spanish Civil War
Peter/William Abrahams Stansky Manufacturer: New York: Norton, 1966 ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000R4SWM2 |
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Journey to the Frontier: Two Roads to the Spanish Civil War
Peter Stansky , and William Abrahams Manufacturer: Univ of Chicago Pr (T) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0226771113 |
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Journey to the Frontier: Two Roads to the Spanish Civil War.
Peter Stansky Manufacturer: see notes for publisher info ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000M42UL6 |
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Journey to the Frontier: Two Roads to the Spanish Civil War
Peter; William Abrahams Stansky Manufacturer: Little, Brown/Atlantic Monthly Press: Boston, Massachusetts ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000FMBROG |
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Journey to the Frontier: Two Roads to the Spanish Civil War
Peter; Abrahams, William Stansky Manufacturer: Univ of Chicago Pr (T) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OPZXY4 |
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Journey to the Frontier: Two Roads to the Spanish Civil War.
Manufacturer: 0 ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000ICO3PI |
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Dictionary of American Biography Supplement, 1974-1975 : With an Index Guide to the Supplements
Kenneth T. Jackson; John Arthur Garraty Manufacturer: Charles Scribner ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0684150549 |
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Published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies
The 20-volume set records the lives of 19,173 celebrated women and men who have made significant contributions to American life. Included are 19,173 biographies covering peoples who died through 1980 in 10 base volumes and 10 supplements. In addition, a comprehensive index to the entire set is available. Explorers, artists, scientists, inventors, business leaders, criminals, political figures, diplomats, and outstanding individuals from over 700 fields of endeavor are chronicled in signed biographies by specialists.
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Alternative Principles of Economics
Stanley Bober Manufacturer: M.E. Sharpe ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0765605538 |
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The Eureka Principle: Alternative Thinking for Personal and Business Success
Colin Turner Manufacturer: Penguin USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1852307277 |
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Good but not as good as "Born to Succeed".......2004-07-17
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Gandhian Political Economy: Principles, Practice And Policy (Alternative Voices in Contemporary Economics) (Alternative Voices in Contemporary Economics)
B. N. Ghosh Manufacturer: Ashgate Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0754646815 |
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Social Economics: An Alternative Theory (Building Anew on Marshall's Principles)
Neva R. Goodwin Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0312057806 |
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Social Economics: An Alternative Theory, vol. 1, Building Anew on Marshall's Principles. (book reviews): An article from: Southern Economic Journal
Bruce Larson Manufacturer: Southern Economic Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00092NHNG Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Southern Economic Journal, published by Southern Economic Association on October 1, 1992. The length of the article is 1008 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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Social Security at 70: principles, issues and alternatives.: An article from: National Tax Journal
Julia Lynn Coronado , and Paul A. Smith Manufacturer: National Tax Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000E8TXZ6 Release Date: 2006-01-25 |
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This digital document is an article from National Tax Journal, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2005. The length of the article is 8306 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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Following Foo: (the electronic adventures of The Chestnut Man)
B.d. Wong Manufacturer: HarperEntertainment ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0060529539 Release Date: 2003-05-13 |
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High tech meets high touch in actor B.D. Wong's remarkable electronic parenting memoir, Following Foo The story begins when the surrogate mother, carrying twins for Wong and longtime partner Richie, gives birth 11 weeks early. The loss of the first twin and the anguished nurturing of the tiny Foo are described in a series of e-mails for friends, family and theatrical colleagues, whose responses are also reprinted. Readers ride the roller coaster of Foo's surgeries, eye exams, pneumonia scares, dropping heart rate, and brochospasms. Although Wong is writing about a unique situation, he manages to capture the fear and awe that every parent will recognize.Wong's wiry alertness, sly show-business humor, and aching vulnerability are a potent mix. In one e-mail, he captures the terror and tenderness of the intensive-care nursery. In another, he celebrates Foo's first, long- awaited "poop." He overeats, describes his parents in loving detail, and leaves the door of a hospital refrigerator (packed with frozen breast milk) wide open. The author's voice crackles with love, energy and astute observation. Occasionally his essays--for example, one written from baby Foo's perspective--seem forced. Also, the decision to include the name-dropping "credits" of the friends who responded to his e-mails mar this otherwise exceptional tale. Still, these don't obscure the book's charms. Early in the book, Wong compares his newborn son to "a little chestnut mana wise old man selling chestnuts on a snowy night." By the book's end, it is Wong's hard-won wisdom that will warm readers. --Barbara Mackoff
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Every now and then there comes along a literary voice so strong, so originally sincere, and so uniquely distinct that the words on the page seem to sing and to scream and to dance -- all at once and all on their own. Such is the wonderful writing debut of acclaimed actor B.D. Wong.
With a remarkable mixture of upbeat optimism, unexpected hilarity, and heart-wrenching sadness, Wong takes the reader deep inside both his psyche and the neonatal intensive care unit where he spent the better part of three months following the harrowing medical twists and turns that took place after the premature birth of his twins. "Once upon a time," as Wong explains in his true story, Following Foo: (the electronic adventures of the Chestnut Man), "my partner and I found ourselves expecting, with the help of a surrogate mother, modern medical science, and lots of good luck and prayers. To add to our blessing, she was carrying twins! Things were pretty swell ... until the twins arrived almost three months early. For those of you who don't know, babies that come almost three months early are pretty little, and boy are they scary-looking. Especially when you're their dad ... "
Originally based on a series of real-time E-mails sent to keep his friends and family abreast of the daily madness and miracles of "early" parenthood, this book is a gem, a joy, and an inspiration to anyone who has ever taken a ride on the roller coaster of life and tried to keep both sense of humor and sanity intact.
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From the Point of View of a Preemie Mom.......2004-05-20
I would love for Mr. Wong to do a follow up to his book, maybe "Following Foo, The Early Years". Julia is now 18 months old, and we are dealing with Early Intervention, Boston Children's Hospital, Weight issues, and Mom (or Dad) going nuts trying to keep it all in check. I would dearly love to hear some advice. Plus, I fell in love with his adorable son in this book and would love to know how he is doing!
The book has helped me become, hopefully, a better woman.......2004-02-15
BD has helped me become a better woman. Hopefully, I will also become more responsible, as well. Hopefully, I will be better to cope with life's emotional issues, and handling them better.
That's what drew me to the book.
You see, while growing up, many, many people automatically assume that any given person should be able to handle anything thrown at them. You ask those around you for help, or you are impacted by something trumatic, and those around you automatically assume that you're tough enough to go through it, by yourself. Many a time, I would go through life, and not tell of my problems, because I felt that those around me would make the problem worse - or blame me for it.
Some of us have a harder time getting through things. To say "get over it", is a cruel thing to say. I feel that sometimes, those saying such a thing, are really digging deeper into the mess, and allow for things to continue to spiral downward.
I feel that this book allows people to communicate, in ways that go beyond the core scope of what the book was essentially written about.
I find it ironic that 2 men, sharing their account of parenting, pregnancy, and love with the world, including me, would have more of an impact on me, than that from any woman, since I have never received this type of insight from women.
I shouldn't have to get this type of insight about childrearing, etc., from men. However, I am indebted to BD and Richie, nonetheless.
You see, women have this thing out there, where they feel that they don't like sharing, esepcially when it comes to things like child-birth and pregnancy. It's like this secret, kept to hurt those women coming up in the world. Growing up, you ask your female relatives about such things, details inolved, and those female relatives keep quiet!
Women do not share everything, contrary to popular belief.
Needless to say, this is one of the first things that has impacted me, while reading the book.
The other is, of course the trauma, and roller coaster that BD talks about.
Some of the things mentioned, bring me back to the trials in my life.
I am thankful for the book, and the impact that the book has on my life.
A Book of Hope & Celebration of Life.......2004-02-15
WOW.......2003-12-27
I was recommended it because I just lost someone close to me through death and this book allowed me to grieve openly and fully for my loss and for all loss.
This book made me proud to be human. I await more from B.D. Wong.
Unlike Any Read I've Ever Had.......2003-10-07
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Following Foo
B D Wong Manufacturer: HarperEntertainment ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OEPMLE |
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Alexandra Fuller Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0375758992 Release Date: 2003-03-11 |
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In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller’s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.Download Description
In Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with visceral authenticity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller's endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller's debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.
From 1972 to 1990, Alexandra Fuller -- known to friends and family as Bobo -- grew up on several farms in southern and central Africa. Her father joined up on the side of the white government in the Rhodesian civil war, and was often away fighting against the powerful black guerilla factions. Her mother, in turn, flung herself at their African life and its rugged farm work with the same passion and maniacal energy she brought to everything else. Though she loved her children, she was no hand-holder and had little tolerance for neediness. She nurtured her daughters in other ways: She taught them, by example, to be resilient and self-sufficient, to have strong wills and strong opinions, and to embrace life wholeheartedly, despite and because of difficult circumstances. And she instilled in Bobo, particularly, a love of reading and of storytelling that proved to be her salvation.
A worthy heir to Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham, Alexandra Fuller writes poignantly about a girl becoming a woman and a writer against a backdrop of unrest, not just in her country but in her home. But Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is more than a survivor's story. It is the story of one woman's unbreakable bond with a continent and the people who inhabit it, a portrait lovingly realized and deeply felt.
"This searing memoir of a white family clinging to lives in Africa as Rhodesia became Zimbabwe lays out, without moralizing or sentimentality, the way in which turmoil and injustice in society distort the lives of families and individuals."
MARY CATHERINE BATESON, AUTHOR OF COMPOSING A LIFE AND FULL CIRCLES, OVERLAPPING LIVES
"Nobody has ever written a book about growing up white in rural Africa the way Alexandra Fuller has. Her voice is mordant, her ear uncanny. Her unsentimentality is a pleasant shock. Her sense of humor is extremely sly. Without a trace of pretension, she quietly performs what is really a major literary feat-nailing both the poetry and the myopia of a child's experience in a brawling, bad-luck family on the losing side of an anti-colonial war."
WILLIAM FINNEGAN, AUTHOR OF CROSSING THE LINE: A YEAR IN THE LAND OF APARTHEID AND COLD NEW WORLD: GROWING UP IN HARDER COUNTRY
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A Traumatic Childhood?.......2007-10-02
Horrible, Horrible........2007-09-29
Fascinating setting, frustrating storytelling.......2007-09-10
Remembering Zambia.......2007-08-23
A favorite.......2007-07-28
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Don't Let's Go to Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Alexandra Fuller Manufacturer: Pan Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0330412302 |
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fascinating, though a strong tone some might not like.......2005-01-14
An uncomfortable read.......2005-01-14
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Alexandra Fuller Manufacturer: Recorded Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: 1402590407 |
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Excellent!!.......2005-06-15
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Don't Let Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Alexandra Fuller Manufacturer: Random House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000PCBP48 |
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DON'T LET'S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT
ALEXANDRA FULLER Manufacturer: Unknown ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000S58UHC |
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Alexandra Fuller Manufacturer: Random House Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OKS09O |
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (Booksense Audio Series)
Manufacturer: Booksense Audio Series ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette ASIN: 1402558171 |
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Unabridged; 6 cassettes/10.25 hrsCustomer Reviews:
Alexandra Fuller's African Childhood - powerful.......2007-02-21
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DON'T LETS GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT
Alexandra Fuller Manufacturer: Random House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000NTHXXK |
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DON\'T LET\'S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT
ALEXANDRA FULLER Manufacturer: PICADOR ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000SAIHQQ |
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Africa and her prodigies.(Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood)(The Shadow of the Sun): An article from: Queen's Quarterly
Kate Sterns Manufacturer: Queen's Quarterly ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008F9OEK Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Queen's Quarterly, published by Queen's Quarterly on March 22, 2002. The length of the article is 2356 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.Books:
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