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Set for Life: A Financial Planning Guide for People Over 50
Bambi Holzer Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471321141 |
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PaineWebber investment executive Bambi Holzer's first book, Retire Rich, presented peak-earning, but financially naïve, baby boomers with the fundamental tools and techniques necessary to create individualized retirement plans based on current situations and projected needs. In Set for Life, she addresses financial planning and management issues for readers even closer to retirement age. Unlike boomers a decade or two younger, who are still actively accumulating resources, Holzer writes, these folks "are more concerned with keeping what they have. They are not necessarily trying to get rich. They just want to have a comfortable lifestyle and make their money last as long as they do." She offers advice on maximizing "your retirement bucket ... between now and then" through sound investment decisions; determining how assets will be affected by additional sources of income such as Social Security, real estate, and paid employment; accommodating the inevitable impact of taxes, insurance, and inflation; and generally preparing the best way possible for the uncertainties ahead. --Howard RothmanBook Description
"When can I afford to retire?""Will my money last long enough?"
"How can I enjoy my retirement to the fullest?"
Not long ago, retirement was simple. You'd spend thirty or forty years at the same company, get your gold watch, and collect your pension and savings bank giveaways for the duration of your years left on earth. No longer. The classic notion of retirement has been replaced with a newer, healthier concept that reflects the longer lifespans, more active lifestyles, and exciting "creative aging" options that seniors enjoy today. Along with these new choices come new responsibilities, as people in their fifties join the "sandwich generation" who must simultaneously care for their children, their parents, and themselves.
So how can you ensure that your retirement is as comfortable as possible? How can you make sure your money will last at least as long as you do? How can you, in short, be set for life?
In Set for Life, financial expert Bambi Holzer provides the answers. This practical, thoughtful book-the only guide specifically for individuals age fifty-plus-shows you how to assess your needs, manage your investments, cope with taxes and insurance, stay ahead of inflation, prepare your estate, and develop realistic financial goals, no matter what your situation or how financially savvy you are.
In plain, simple language, Set for Life walks you through the various parts of your financial life and explains how to pull them together to build a clear, achievable plan for a satisfying future. As you read through the book, you will:
Set for Life is more than simply a financial planning guide-because life after fifty is no longer simple. Written by a woman who helps people like you every day, this book is as full of encouragement and insight as useful information. It will help you clarify your own vision of your retirement and bring it to fruition. Most of all, it will give you confidence that you can take control of your financial life, and secure the future you hope for.
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This retirement planner isn't just for those still young.......2001-02-25
Easy Reading.......2000-07-18
Set for Life: Financial Peace for People over 50.......2000-06-12
Nothing new here.......2000-05-07
Great Easy Reading.......2000-03-14
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Private Saving and Public Debt
Michael J. Boskin , and John S. Fleming Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0631151427 |
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Social Security versus private saving (Series on capital investment and saving)
George M. Von Furstenberg Manufacturer: Ballinger Pub. Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0884106756 |
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Portfolioeffekte offentlicher Kreditnahme: Ihre Bedeutung fur die private Realvermogensbildung und deren Finanzierung (Untersuchungen uber das Spar-, Giro- und Kreditwesen)
Hans-Hermann Francke Manufacturer: Duncker & Humblot ProductGroup: Book Binding: Perfect Paperback ASIN: 3428049470 |
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Public debt and private saving in the United States: A checklist of materials (Public administration series--bibliography)
Lorna Peterson Manufacturer: Vance Bibliographies ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1555905684 |
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Public debt, private credit
Keith Feiler Manufacturer: Federal Reserve bank of Chicago ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00072JN0O |
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Public policies and private saving in Mexico (NBER working paper series)
Martin S Feldstein Manufacturer: National Bureau of Economic Research ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding Accessories:
ASIN: B0006R3IL0 |
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Moral Philosophy Through The Ages
James Fieser Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0767412982 |
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This book takes a middle ground between the topical and historical approaches to Western ethics. The chapters are topically arranged, but preserve the flow of history in two ways. First, each chapter explains the historical development of the topic under consideration. Second, most chapters focus on a specific famous philosopher who championed a particular tradition, such as Aristotle, Locke, or Kant, and the chapters are chronologically ordered based on when these key philosophers lived.
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Forced Exit: Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and the New Duty of Die
Wesley J. Smith Manufacturer: Encounter Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1594031193 |
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Filled with new reporting and research, this expanded edition of a classic book makes a compelling case against legalized euthanasia and takes a closer look at the truly humane and compassionate alternatives.Customer Reviews:
A Must-Read on the Dangers of Death Fundamentalism.......2006-10-07
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Cyberspace and the Law: Your Rights and Duties in the On-Line World
Ed Cavazos , and Gavino Morin Manufacturer: The MIT Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0262531232 |
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What legal recourse do you have if someone has read your private e-mail without your consent? Who owns the copyright to the message you just posted on a bulletin board? Can you get into trouble for downloading a sexually explicit file? These are among the many questions that the authors, both practicing attorneys, address in Cyberspace and the Law. Without resorting to confusing legalese, they present a clear and concise analysis of legal issues in the anarchic world of cyberspace for members of the on-line world who have little or no legal background.Customer Reviews:
Out of date.......2004-04-04
Good for starting, but limited in space and somehow outdated.......2003-01-07
1. They are familiar with the internet but have no law studies.
2. They have studied legal matters but don't know how to apply them to the internet.
If you are not in any of these cases, the book would be somehow difficult to understand.
Though the internet is a worldwide network, the book deals only with the US law; moreover, it recognizes the need for updating (edited: 1994). So, you should later go to another source for country-specific or updated information (there is plenty of books and the internet itself). And, due that the internet is always changing, you will have to update the information without regarding the book you read.
Good coverage of the field for layman and sysops.......1998-11-28
Chapter one provides a very brief description of cyberspace, starting with William Gibson's invention of the term, running through various different electronic entities, and including some basic online activities. Privacy, and particularly the Electronic Communications Privacy Act as applied to the Steve Jackson Games case, is the topic of chapter two. The chapter ends with a rather odd look at encryption. Eventually getting around to PGP's problems with ITAR (the International Traffic in Arms Regulations), the book seems to state that PGP should be avoided because simple possession of it may be illegal. Since the book is based entirely on US law, it is obviously aimed at an American audience, and the issue of export does not appear to be mentioned. Contracts are the subject of chapter three, mostly dealing with common law.
Chapter four covers copyright. I must say that I am always amused by the wording of the American First Amendment; that government shall make no laws regarding the abridgement of freedom of speech or press; since there are laws about defamation, fraud, and pornography. These, and free speech, are dealt with in chapter five. Considerations of prurient material are discussed in significantly more detail in chapter six, and I must say that this is one of the most informative and even-handed explanations of the topic in any book reviewed to date. Chapter seven closes off the book with a grab bag of potentially illegal computer related activities. The intent seems to be to warn users about apparently innocuous actions that could bring them afoul of the law. As usual, there is a section on computer viruses, and, as usual, it isn't very good. Appendix A provides a good list of contacts for legal and paralegal interest groups. Other appendices list various US statutes examined in the book.
While this work once again limits itself to the US, and fails to note the international nature of cyberspace, it does provide its information in a readable and accessible form. The authors do not always deliver on their promise to avoid legal jargon (such as "color of law"), but all the contents can be understood by the intelligent and determined lay reader. Where legal niceties are not completely delineated they would only be of interest to other lawyers anyway.
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Child versus Childmaker: Future Persons and Present Duties in Ethics and the Law (Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy)
Melinda A. Roberts Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0847689018 |
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Child Versus Childmaker investigates a person-affecting approach to ethical choice. A form of consequentialism, this approach is intended to capture the idea that agents ought both do the most good that they can and respect each person as distinct from each other. Focusing on cases in which a conflict of interest arises between childmakers parents, infertility specialists, embryologists, and others engaged in the task of bringing new people into existence and the children they aim to create, the author considers what we today owe those who will come into existence tomorrow.Customer Reviews:
An Insightful Look at Person-Affecting Consequentialism.......2000-05-29
Weak analysis.......1999-12-23
Uninteresting, unoriginal, unworthy of serious study.......1999-12-12
Anyone working in population ethics needs to read this........1999-04-15
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Against Rights adn Duties: Rights and Duties, Volume Four (Ethical Investigations)
Lawrence C. Becker Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 0415939860 |
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Volume Four of the Six-Volume set, Rights and Duties joins the most significant writings in two crucial areas of ethical reflection and behavior. This collection provides students and scholars with the history of how humanity has argued for and against entitlements, rights, and protections for itself, and how humanity has argued for and against obligations, duties, and social responsibilities toward others.
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The citizen and the neighbor: Or, men's rights and duties as they live together in the state and in society
Charles Fletcher Dole Manufacturer: Unitarian Sunday-School Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00086N9TU |
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The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany: Women's Reproductive Rights and Duties (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)
Cornelie Usborne Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0472103687 |
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The Principle of Duty: An Essay on the Foundations of the Civic Order
David Selbourne Manufacturer: University of Notre Dame Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0268038678 |
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Property as a Right, Distribution as a Duty: Rights and Duties, Volume Six (Ethical Investigations)
Lawrence C. Becker Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 0415939887 |
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Volume Six of the Six-Volume set, Rights and Duties joins the most significant writings in two crucial areas of ethical reflection and behavior. This collection provides students and scholars with the history of how humanity has argued for and against entitlements, rights, and protections for itself, and how humanity has argued for and against obligations, duties, and social responsibilities toward others.
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The Psychology Of Rights And Duties: Empirical Contributions And Normative Commentaries (Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences)
Manufacturer: American Psychological Association (APA) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1591471664 |
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Agrobacterium Tumefaciens: From Plant Pathology To Biotechnology
Manufacturer: American Phytopathological Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0890543224 |
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This anthology traces the fascinating progress from plant pathology to biotechnology through 38 scientific papers on Agrobacterium, published over the past century. Included are the seminal scientific papers on the biology and application of Agrobacterium with introductory commentaries mostly by those involved in the original work. The commentaries give background to the papers and explain the problems faced and the techniques used, providing insight into the way fundamental research progresses.Agrobacterium tumefaciens: From Plant Pathology to Biotechnology is divided into five sections. The first section begins with 1904 when Erwin F. Smith began detailed work on crown gall and considered it to be a plant pathological problem. It explores many of the biological discoveries made over the past century, including the pivotal moment when Armin C. Braun discovered that crown gall was a plant cancer. Other papers cover the beginnings of T-DNA research and the development of vectors to improve the process of transferring T-DNA from bacterium to plant cell. The second section delves further into vector systems and genetic coding for disease and insect resistance, exploring the evolution of genetic engineering in crops. The final three sections deal with themes developed from crown gall studies, including "quorum sensing" or population density, the DNA sequencing of one strain of A. tumefaciens, and the first genetically engineered organism, strain K1026, released for commercial use.
Students, professors, plant pathologists, microbiologists, or anyone interested in research and/or the history of plant pathology and biotechnology, will find this collection of papers an intriguing read.
From the Preface: " the journey is not over. As the commentary by Paul Hooykaas indicates, it looks as though T-DNA will insert into any cell, be it plant, fungal or even mammalian. Is there a possibility of using Agro¬bacterium in gene therapy? Will Agrobacterium prove to be as useful a tool in fungal genetics as it has been in plant genetics? Its potential is mind-boggling."
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A history of work with a plant-tumor of bacterial origin.......2005-11-14
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