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Getting Started in Bonds, Second Edition
Sharon Saltzgiver Wright Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471271233 |
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Everything you need to know about bondsCustomer Reviews:
Best bonds book for novices .......2007-04-08
License to Compound.......2005-02-20
Excellent Guide to the Bond Market!.......2000-03-19
A useful primer on the bond markets.......1999-08-24
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Getting Started in Bonds
Michael C. Thomsett Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0471524808 |
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Getting Started in Stocks, Bonds, Online Investing Set
Alvin D. Hall , Sharon Saltzgiver Wright , and David L. Brown Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471380709 |
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These three accessible volumes provide clear explanations and practical guidance to help you understand the fundamentals of today's financial trends. Included in this special set are:Getting Started in Stocks, 3E has been praised as the definitive guide for new investors and is packed with updated material on mutual funds, and dozens of real-life examples to help you set clear financial goals.
Getting Started in Bonds includes an in-depth coverage of a variety of products, from thirty-year treasury notes to high-yield junk bonds.
Getting Started in Online Investing covers everything from finding investment ideas to managing your portfolio to keeping up with the market. It provides inside information on brokers, online trading, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and futures, as well as the best sites for news, portfolio management, education and research.
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The best book for beginers that I've ever read.......2006-09-14
A great read for beginners.......2006-08-23
Thorough and Understandable.......2006-08-12
Very good beginning investment book.......2002-02-05
An excellent book for the beginner investor........2001-03-30
The book goes through setting your goals, assesing your risks and rewards. It teaches you about common and preferred stocks and the basics of buying and selling stocks.
There is a chapter on different investment strategies and then the book takes you into fundamental and technical analysis of a stock.
Finally the book touches on mutual funds, rights, warrants, and options.
All in all this is an excellent book and is one that any beginner investor will learn a lot from.
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The Bank Customer's Guide To Safe & Smart Investing: Maximizing The Power of Your Savings Using: Mutual Funds, Annuities, Tax-Free Bonds, Government Bonds, Retirement Accounts, Certificates of Deposit, Stock Bonds, Successful Investment Strategies, Getting Started Tips and more
Jeffrey H. Champlin Manufacturer: Irwin Professional Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0786304030 |
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Designed as a tool for the bank investment sales representative to communicate with customers, The Bank Customer's Guide to Safe & Smart Investing is the perfect resource to help build and strengthen relationships with bank customers. This guide promotes the use of bank-based retail investment sales programs as well as builds the credibility of the trustworthy, knowledgeable, professional providers of investments and financial advice. It is designed for banks to educate customers on the basics of investing. This valuable guide offers bank customers: A step-by-step program to determine personal saving and investing needs; easy-to-understand descriptions of investment products, with emphasis on packaged products; help on how to use investments with the assistance, of their bank representative, and how and where to combine them with FDIC-insured bank accounts; basic investment strategies, such as asset allocation, and how to work with their investment representatve to structure their investment and savings portfolio.
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Getting Started in California Real Estate (Real Estate Ser.)
Robert J. Bond Manufacturer: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0840309880 |
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Outsourcing: The Definitive View, Applications, and Implications
Nicholas C. Burkholder Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0471694819 |
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THE DEFINITIVE RESOURCE ON OUTSOURCINGOutsourcing is the hottest topic in business, and it will likely stay that way. Managers, workers, executives, and almost anyone else involved in any large business will probably have to deal with it one day, in one way or another. Outsourcing is a business issue first and foremost, but it's also a political, personal, and cultural issue that many people, not least managers and executives, find difficult to fully understand.
Outsourcing documents the theory, facts, myths, benefits, and costs of outsourcing and gives managers the information they need to implement an outsourcing program that will help their business the most and hurt their employees the least. Bringing together noted academics, corporate leaders, and outsourcing practitioners, the book covers all the major topics in the outsourcing debate, but also presents expert guidance for business leaders dealing with the practical side of this global issue:
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The Canon of American Legal Thought
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0691120005 |
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This anthology presents, for the first time, full texts of the twenty most important works of American legal thought since 1890. Drawing on a course the editors teach at Harvard Law School, the book traces the rise and evolution of a distinctly American form of legal reasoning. These are the articles that have made these authors--from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., to Ronald Coase, from Ronald Dworkin to Catherine MacKinnon--among the most recognized names in American legal history.
These authors proposed answers to the classic question: "What does it mean to think like a lawyer--an American lawyer?" Their answers differed, but taken together they form a powerful brief for the existence of a distinct and powerful style of reasoning--and of rulership. The legal mind is as often critical as constructive, however, and these texts form a canon of critical thinking, a toolbox for resisting and unravelling the arguments of the best legal minds. Each article is preceded by a short introduction highlighting the article's main ideas and situating it in the context of its author's broader intellectual projects, the scholarly debates of his or her time, and the reception the article received.
Law students and their teachers will benefit from seeing these classic writings, in full, in the context of their original development. For lawyers, the collection will take them back to their best days in law school. All readers will be struck by the richness, the subtlety, and the sophistication with which so many of what have become the clichés of everyday legal argument were originally formulated.
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anti-edited.......2006-12-04
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The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Manufacturer: Duke University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0822322455 |
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Beginning with a historical survey by editor Morris Dickstein of the 20th-century revival of pragmatism in American philosophical circles, this collection of academic essays continues with a typically bold assertion from pragmatism's most prominent modern advocate, Richard Rorty. "Mill's On Liberty provides all the ethical instruction you need," he writes, "all the philosophical advice you are ever going to get about your responsibilities to other human beings." Other contributors consider the influence of pragmatism on social thought, law, and culture. While most of the writers share to some degree the enthusiasm with which federal judge Richard A. Posner elaborates upon the notion of "pragmatic adjudication," there are some naysayers. Richard Weisberg, for example, in his proposal for a countertradition of "codifiers," suggests, "The challenge for us is to develop and perfect our own private beliefs and, if they are good enough, to make them public." And, in his concluding remarks, literary critic Stanley Fish throws some cold water on the fire:Some people do philosophy, some people (lots more) don't and those who do have not ascended to some rarefied realm of reflection or critical self-consciousness from which they bring back the news to their less enlightened brethren; they merely have the knack of doing a trick some others can't do and the competence they have acquired travels no further than the very small arenas in which that trick is typically performed and rewarded.The Revival of Pragmatism is an intriguing collection of essays that manages for the most part to achieve clarity of prose equal to its rigor of intellect. --Ron Hogan
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Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatismâwith its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truthâlost popularity in mid-century after the advent of World War II, the horror of the Holocaust, and the dawning of the Cold War. Since the 1960s, however, pragmatism in many guises has again gained prominence, finding congenial places to flourish within growing intellectual movements. This volume of new essays brings together leading philosophers, historians, legal scholars, social thinkers, and literary critics to examine the far-reaching effects of this revival.Customer Reviews:
Comprehensive, yet complex overview.......2007-08-09
important.......1999-02-11
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Legality and Legitimacy
Carl Schmitt , and Carl Schmitt Manufacturer: Duke University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0822331748 |
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Carl Schmitt ranks among the most original and controversial political thinkers of the twentieth century. His incisive criticisms of Enlightenment political thought and liberal political practice remain as shocking and significant today as when they first appeared in Weimar Germany. Unavailable in English until now, Legality and Legitimacy was composed in 1932, in the midst of the crisis that would lead to the collapse of the Weimar Republic and only a matter of months before Schmitt’s collaboration with the Nazis. In this important work, Schmitt questions the political viability of liberal constitutionalism, parliamentary government, and the rule of law. Liberal governments, he argues, cannot respond effectively to challenges by radical groups like the Nazis or Communists. Only a presidential regime subject to few, if any, practical limitations can ensure domestic security in a highly pluralistic society.
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Star Trek Visions of Law and Justice (Law, Crime, and Corrections Series, V. 1)
Manufacturer: Adios Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0966808029 |
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An eclectic variety of learned authors draw upon ideas presented in Star Trek.......2005-08-05
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Legal Norms and Normativity: An Essay in Genealogy (Legal Theory Today)
Sylvie Delacroix Manufacturer: Hart Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1841134554 |
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This book offers a 'genealogical' explanation of law's normativity. The term 'genealogical' conveys a commitment to a non-metaphysical type of enquiry. While it explains how law, as a normative phenomenon, comes about, it does not seek to ground law's normativity in anything but the context of social interaction giving rise to it. Legal normativity is brought about on a daily basis. Whether in revolutionary circumstances or in the quotidian need for judges, lawmakers or citizens to balance law's demands with those of morality or prudence, our ability to bind ourselves through law ultimately depends on our capacity to articulate a better way of living together, and to commit ourselves to it. These efforts of assessment and articulation depend, in turn, on our conception of normative agency. Assert the need to trace the truth of ethical judgments to some independent moral 'facts' conditioning their objectivity, and you will get a different understanding of what it is we are doing when we dispute law's authority in the name of moral values. Tracing the truth of moral judgements back to our own social practices not only affects the nature of disagreement; it also dramatically increases our responsibility when, as lawmakers, judges, or citizens we 'take the law into our own hands' and confront it with our moral expectations.
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Critical Disability Theory: Essays in Philosophy, Politics, Policy, and Law (Law and Society Series)
Manufacturer: UBC Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0774812044 |
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People with disabilities in Canada experience and inhabit a system of deep structural, economic, social, political, legal, and cultural inequality - a regime of dis-citizenship. Despite the widespread belief that Canada is a country of liberty, equality, and inclusion, many persons with disabilities experience social exclusion and marginalization. They are socially constructed as second-class citizens.Critical Disability Theory inquires into the possibilities and parameters of a critical theory of disability. Its essays argue that accommodating equality for the disabled is not fundamentally a question of medicine or health, nor is it just an issue of sensitivity or compassion. Rather, it is a question of politics, of power and powerlessness. Conventional understandings of disability are dependent upon assumptions that characterize disability as misfortune and by implication privilege the "normal" over the "abnormal." Consequently, it is presumed that societal organization based upon able-bodied and -minded norms is inevitable and the best we can do is show sympathy or pity. This book argues that we need new ways to think about the nature of disability, a new understanding of participatory citizenship that encompasses the disabled, new policies to respond to their needs, and a new vision of their entitlements.
Twenty-four scholars from a variety of disciplines come together here to identify the problems with traditional approaches to disability and to provide new directions. The essays range from focused empirical and experiential studies of different disabilities, to policy analyses, legal interrogations, and philosophical reconsiderations. The result will be of interest to policy makers, professionals, academics, non-governmental organizations, and grass-roots activists.
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Islamic Law and Legal Theory (International Library of Essays on Law and Legal Theory : Legal Cultures, 7)
Ian Edge Manufacturer: NYU Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0814721893 Release Date: 1996-05-01 |
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This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readily accessible, and their presentation in these volumes will provide a vital new resource for both research and teaching. Each volume is edited by leading international authorities who explain the significance and context of articles in an informative and complete introduction.
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Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus: Gender, Law, And Society
Manufacturer: Cornell University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0801489415 |
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"The essays in this volume confront the inroads that economics has made into the legal academy. . . . Law and Economics uses principles of neoclassical economics to develop laws and social policies that maintain if not bolster current allocations of power."The Law and Economics school has had a significant impact on the legal and governmental landscape in the United States. It posits a perfectly rational "economic man"homo economicuswho is unconstrained by familial and communal ties and who can and should make decisions solely in light of considerations of economic value. Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus offers a major intervention in debates about how law has come under the influence of economic principles. Drawing on the latest thinking in the fields of feminist legal theory, critical legal studies, and feminist economics, the essays critique the notion that legal and policy decisions should be made solely through the lens of economics. While the contributors question the wholesale incorporation of the neoclassical economic model into legal analysis, they do not all discard economic analysis and theory.
Situated at the intersection of feminism, law, and economics, Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus will appeal to scholars and students of these disciplines as well as policy analysts and social theorists interested in family, education, labor, and welfare.
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Dispute Processing and Conflict Resolution: Theory, Practice and Policy (Collected Essays in Law)
Carrie Menkel-Meadow Manufacturer: Ashgate Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 075462305X |
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New Essays in the Legal and Political Theory of Property (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law)
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0521640016 |
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This collection of new essays, written by some of the most eminent scholars in the field, examines the most central issues of property theory from a variety of perspectives. The essays discuss whether property may be dissipated or used imprudently with impunity, and analyze how a person's property should be distributed after death. They survey the current economic landscape of intellectual property and show that Locke's celebrated justification for private property falters when it comes to copyrights and patents. They also demonstrate how important it is that institutions of property be carefully justified.
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Dictionnaire de science du sol: Avec index anglais-francais
Jean Lozet Manufacturer: Lavoisier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 2852063425 |
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