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Planning the New Suburbia: Flexibility by Design
Avi Friedman Manufacturer: UBC Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0774808594 |
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The suburbs house two-thirds of North America's population and are the subject of much debate and criticism. Planning the New Suburbia, by Avi Friedman, explores this phenomenon and proposes ways to respond to the challenge of creating affordable, adaptable, and environmentally sustainable neighbourhoods. An architect and planner, Friedman suggests new methods of design and regulation that would enable urban planners to conceive and inhabitants to adapt suburban communities and homes to their evolving needs, as a result of changing family size, an aging population, or new working conditions.Friedman surveys the evolution of urban planning, the history of "ideal" communities, the development of North American suburbs, and the theory behind flexible suburban design. Three case studies offer practical examples of his approach, and all are generously illustrated with drawings, plans, and photographs to demonstrate Friedman's ideas in action. Rather than dismissing a suburb as an unattractive, impersonal sprawl, Friedman shows how they can be modified into an affordable, sustainable, and adaptable community.
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Planning the New Suburbia: Flexibility by Design. (Residential Land Use Issues).(Book Review): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association
Paul Lusk Manufacturer: American Planning Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008FL7C2 Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Journal of the American Planning Association, published by American Planning Association on September 22, 2002. The length of the article is 791 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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How to Draw Cartoons: A Book for the Budding Cartoonist by a Cartoonist
Peter Maddocks Manufacturer: Michael Omara ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1854790781 |
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Some Rollicking Bull: Light Verse, and Worse, on Victorian Photography
Manufacturer: Nazraeli Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 3923922213 |
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Unexpected Returns: Understanding Secular Stock Market Cycles
Ed Easterling Manufacturer: Cypress House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1879384620 |
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Winner ForeWord Magazine Bronze Award for Best Business/Economics Book of the Year. This investment book uses extensive full-color graphics to explain the fundamentals of the markets-an essential resource before reading how-to books or engaging investment advice. It is a unique combination of investment art and investment science that enables the reader to differentiate between irrational hope and a rational view of current market conditions.Customer Reviews:
Very good book, with unconventional ideas.......2007-10-24
Excellent for the Non Financial Dude.......2007-06-27
Good Concepts, But Goes Astray.......2007-06-11
Past history is indication of future results.......2007-03-21
One of the best.......2007-03-16
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The Return of Bullish Investing: Understanding the Financial Markets, for Wise Investing Now and Into the Future (Inside the Minds)
Manufacturer: Aspatore Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1587621533 |
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Inside the Minds: The Return of Bullish Investing is the most authoritative book ever written on the basics of market trends and the fundamentals of prudent investing. This titles features some of the nation's leading financial analysts and advisors, who have each contributed chapters akin to objective, experience-related, white papers or essays on the core issues surrounding investing. In an overarching as well as in-depth presentation of the fundamentals, authors articulate the unspoken rules and the important issues looking to the future. From applicable investment strategies, to the key concepts that help to govern the ways in which markets operate today and will going forward, this book pulls readers through all facets of investment strategy from beginning to end. The different niches represented and the varied perspectives presented, enable readers to really get inside the great minds of financial research and analysis and pull practical advice, as the experts go back to basics in a must-read for every individual investor.Customer Reviews:
Excellent big picture view from established pro's..........2005-02-17
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Understanding Return on Investment
George T. Friedlob , and Franklin J., Jr. Plewa Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471103810 |
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Whether a business owner, manager, or investor, you're undoubtedly concerned with achieving maximum profit and maintaining effective management. One way to measure these two standards is by using return on investment (ROI), the most commonly used indicator of company profit and management performance. Knowing the ins and outs of ROI is essential, and while it's easy to understand the importance of this concept, it's not always easy to understand ROI itself. Understanding Return on Investment clarifies and explains all the fundamental elements of this important financial tool, making it one you can use comfortably and successfully.Written by two authorities on the subject, this comprehensive guide explains in detail all major aspects of figuring and analyzing costs versus returns of projects and acquisitions. With charts, graphs, and examples drawn from actual companies, Understanding Return on Investment shows you what the two major components of ROI are, where they originate, and how they should be controlled in your business. It highlights the various forms of ROI, including GMROI (gross margin return on investment) and CMROI (contribution margin return on investment), and how they provide different measures for evaluating investment activities. It covers the DuPont system of financial control, ROI's relationship to return on equity (ROE), solvency ratios, and decentralized management. With this concise, clearly written guidebook, you'll learn:
Straightforward and easy to follow, Understanding Return on Investment is the ideal tutor and reference source for everything you need to know about the basics of this important concept and beyond.
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Unclear on the concept of return on investment (ROI)? Lost in all its complexities? Return on investment plays a major role in business, but it can be a difficult concept to grasp. That's why you need this information-packed, comprehensive guide. From explaining exactly what ROI is to examining its finer points, Understanding Return on Investment covers all the bases on this important business tool. You'll find information on:
If you use ROI, but are confused or unclear about some of its details, you'll definitely profit from Understanding Return on Investment, a complete guide to this all-important performance indicator.
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Back in black: understanding the financial impact of CRM. (Customer Relationship Management).: An article from: Customer Interaction Solutions
Doug Tanoury Manufacturer: Technology Marketing Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008F136C Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Customer Interaction Solutions, published by Technology Marketing Corporation on November 1, 2002. The length of the article is 2391 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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Financial risk management--understanding returns.(FOCUS ON INVESTMENT CONDITIONS): An article from: Real Estate Issues
Kenneth, Jr. Riggs Manufacturer: The Counselors of Real Estate ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00081NXE6 Release Date: 2005-08-01 |
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This digital document is an article from Real Estate Issues, published by The Counselors of Real Estate on June 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1149 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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Understanding and Managing Investment Risk and Return (Investor's Self-Teaching Seminars)
David L. Scott Manufacturer: Probus Professional Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1557381054 |
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Understanding the Basics of Return on Investment in Training
Patricia Pulliam Phillips Manufacturer: Kogan Page Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0749438916 |
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Understanding mutual fund and hedge fund styles using return based style analysis (NBER working paper series)
Arik Ben-Dor Manufacturer: National Bureau of Economic Research ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006S02RC |
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Economic Information, Decision, and Prediction: Selected Essays: Volume I (Theory and Decision Library)
M. Marschak Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9027705445 |
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Economic Information, Decision, and Prediction: Selected Essays: Volume I (Theory and Decision Library)
M. Marschak Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 902771195X |
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The Victim's Fortune: Inside the Epic Battle Over the Debts of the Holocaust
John Authers , and Richard Wolffe Manufacturer: HarperCollins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0066212642 Release Date: 2002-06-04 |
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"You can't make the dead good again. We can only take a modicum of justice--a modicum of attempting to somehow right wrongs in a small way for those who are still alive." So remarked a Holocaust survivor on receiving compensation--small, but meaningful--for the tortures he had suffered six decades before. That compensation, for him and thousands of other victims, was a long time in coming. When it did, it was not done out of innate goodness on, say, the part of the banks of Switzerland, which had held billions of dollars deposited there by men and women who would not live to claim them--even though, financial journalists Authers and Wolffe are quick to remark, those banks were staffed by good and well-intentioned people. What compelled those banks, along with companies and governments throughout the world, to do so was massive legal action, a chain of class-action lawsuits that stretched out for half a decade, brought on by lawyers, victims, and civil rights groups in a dense storm of argumentation. In this careful, complex study, Authers and Wolffe detail how these actions took shape against very long odds. Their book is a fascinating case study in justice served--if, some critics continue to charge, too little and too late. --Gregory McNameeBook Description
An extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of money, justice, and the fallout that remains from the twentieth century's worst crime.In April 1996 a billionaire businessman pulled aside Hillary Rodham Clinton at a political fund-raiser in his Manhattan apartment. Handing Mrs. Clinton a magazine article on the secretive Swiss banks, Edgar Bronfman launched an emotional fight for the forgotten fortunes of the Nazis' victims. The First Lady took the bait, and with a simple call to her husband, set in motion a whirlwind of events that rewrote history and offered a last glimmer of hope to a dwindling number of elderly war survivors.Backed by the White House, a small group of Americans embarked on an epic journey to pursue the debts owed to Holocaust victims for more than a half century. For five years they traveled from country to country and company to company, confronting those who profited from the war -- the bankers, insurers, and industrial executives who never fully acknowledged their companies' complicity in the Nazi crimes. Armed with class-action lawsuits and threats of economic sanctions, the disparate band of American lawyers, politicians, and Jewish groups fought fire with fire against some of the world's most powerful corporations and governments.But what began as a moral crusade quickly degenerated into a bare-knuckled global battle that opened up painful debates about justice and how to achieve it. The demands for billions of dollars in restitution triggered bitter disputes over who should pay the survivors and who should receive the cash. Many Europeans dismissed the demands as blackmail.The Victim's Fortune tells the remarkable tale of the Americans who cajoled, bullied, and squabbled their way across the world. It also reveals how Europeans first stonewalled, then nickel-and-dimed their way toward peace with the past.John Authers and Richard Wolffe offer a spellbinding investigative account of this momentous international struggle, which has blazed a trail for future reparations settlements of every kind. It is a riveting political drama that captures the outsize personalities, ruthless tactics, and moral dilemmas surrounding the light over compensation, all unfolding against the backdrop of one of the darkest moments in human history.Customer Reviews:
Epic Saga Of Redressing Justice Long Overdue.......2002-09-05
good read which brings 'boring' negotiations to life.......2002-08-02
I also learned a thing or two about the grounds for compensation-the use of slave labor by daimler, even ford; and the arrogance with which insurance companies asked for a death certificate to honor life insurance of holocaust victims. As a victim says, 'at auschwitz, they didn't give death certificates.'
But it's not just for novices- those with a greater knowledge and interest in the compensation dispute will certainly find an extra couple of layers of intrigue and emotion.
The book is also about the difficulty of trying to compensate for something as profoundly horrific as the holocaust, the uselessness of monetary compensation.
For such a complicated issue, with so many actors involved, it is quite an easy and pleasant read.
An epic account of an epic struggle.......2002-07-30
Too gossippy for a serious book.......2002-07-23
The book did no such thing. I read the first 106 pages which were filled with gossipy details about the many competing lawyers, dropping snide remarks about many of them along the way, especially Ed Fagan, whom the authors describe as a small-time personal-injury lawyer (even though Fagan was well enough off to afford having his office on the 84th floor of the World Trade
Center).
The book is also filled (up to where I stopped reading) with other
put-downs, such as the one where U.S. District Judge Edward Korman
tries to have the competing lawyers bury the hatchet by inviting them
to dine at Gage and Tollner, a non-Kosher Brooklyn eatery where poor
Israel Singer has to make do with a glass of water.
In the end, an award is hammered out. But there are many references
to a separate audit by a group headed by Paul Volcker, and to an
Independent Committee of Eminent Persons (ICEP). None of this is
explained. Nor is the process by which the ICEP determines who will
get what, whether the information is based on the Volcker audits, why
only 35% of the award is paid out while the rest is held back in case
of competing claims, even though claims were closed several years ago.
I now know a great deal about how some of these lawyers acted without
hope of being paid while others (Fagan is targeted here, along with
some others) are acting on a contingency basis. But I still know
nothing about the process in operation.
Starting on Page 107, the authors do their thing about insurance,
slave labor, property confiscations, etc. I could not bear to punish
myself any more.
Authoritative...and gripping.......2002-06-14
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The Victim's Fortune: Inside the Epic Battle over the Debts of the Holocaust
John and Wolffe, Richard Authers Manufacturer: HarperCollins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OF2QGW |
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Assorted Notes/Gestures
Freidman Fairfax , and M Friedman Pub Grp Inc Manufacturer: Friedman/Fairfax Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1567998410 |
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7 Principles for Creating Your Future: Pursue Your Dreams, Follow Your Passions, Live Your Values
James J. Semradek , and Michael P. Butler Manufacturer: Executive Excellence Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 189000992X |
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This book provides the answers people are seeking by offering a guide for achieving a balances, meaningful life through the application of seven life-changing principles.Books:
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