Hidden Wealth in Local Real Estate

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Hidden Wealth in Local Real Estate
Richard H. Jorgensen
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Practical, down-to-earth, and extremely helpful

How to Find Hidden Wealth in Local Real Estate
Richard H. Jorgensen
Manufacturer: Richard H Jorgensen
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ASIN: 0914306855

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Practical, down-to-earth, and extremely helpful.......2000-08-25

What a welcome relief from the many real estate gurus out there. Buying real estate and maintaining rental properties involves time, money, people skills and management know-how. Jorgensen doesn't offer you a get-rich scheme. On the contrary, he gives great tips on how to become familiar with real estate prices in your area via a journal so that when a good deal comes along, you'll know it. He also gives valuable advice for analyzing properties and for keeping property maintenance bills down.

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Under attack from Zeon, the Federation forces strike back using their new weapon, the mobile suit Gundam, with devastating consequences. Young electronics whiz Amuro Ray is determined not to let his family and friends die in the crossfire. But what can one boy do to repel a squad of mobile suit - clad invaders?

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Awesome beginning to an awesome variation on the OYW.......2003-09-29

For those who've seen the original Gundam 0079 TV series, the character personalities, mecha designs and plot synopses differ from it, even if it's just a little bit. Each issue of the manga probably translates into about 1 episode or so of the show, so expect to see about 40-50 issues at the rate Japan's Gundam Ace Magazine is covering it, along with Viz's great translation to English. Once you get the right-to-left reading down, you'll have no trouble understanding it. This issue especially differs from the first episode for a few key reasons, but I'll leave them up to you to notice so as not to spoil anything. I recommend this to anyone looking to get into Gundam manga, the UC timeline, or Gundam in general.

A hard story given a modern edge..........2002-10-15

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's mecha and artistic skills work very, very well for this re-telling of the first Gundam story. The Origin is a version of the events that's been tweaked a bit, expanded in some really cool ways (we get to see a fight between a Gundam prototype piloted by an expert, among other things) and thoroughly modernized. The mecha and people still have that 70s Disco-Afro Glow, but the artistic style of the book is much more realistic, with a lot of moody shadows, more detail on the mecha and a weight of credibility slathered over all of the mechanical elements. If you've read the story before, then you won't find much that is new, but Yas' complex, rich illustrations and the modernized mecha designs are worth the cost of the book.

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The Deeds of God in Rddhipur
Anne Feldhaus
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Gundam: The Origin

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Gundam: The Origin, No. 9
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
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ASIN: 0613884620

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Gundam: The Origin, Vol. 6 (Gundam)

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Gundam: The Origin, Vol. 7 (Gundam: The Origin)

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Gundam: The Origin, Vol. 7 (Gundam: The Origin)

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Gundam: The Origin: Volume 10 (Gundam)
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
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Gundam: The Origin: Volume 12 (Gundam: The Origin)

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Gundam: The Origin: Volume 12 (Gundam: The Origin)

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Gundam: The Origin, Vol. 4 (Gundam: The Origin)

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Gundam: The Origin, Vol. 4 (Gundam: The Origin)

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Gundam: The Origin, Vol. 8

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Meet Ruby Gloom, Mighty Fine's sweetly goth and happily gloomy doe-eyed redhead!

The perfect place to keep wishes and secrets safe and sound. Die-cut into the shape of a house. 144 lined pages, 5 3/4 x 7 3/4", red padlock with 2 keys.

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Uniquely Illustrated .......2007-02-10

Very well illustrated. Bought it as a gift for a child.

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The most complete, reliable and comprehensive reference book about film composers.

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Lackluster Portrait of Contemporary "Bohemia"

oh so pretentious

Please don't waste your time....

A great book, good read for anyone

bohemia against starbucksification

Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America
Ann Powers
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In a thoughtful mixture of autobiography, journalism, and cultural criticism, Ann Powers examines how "bohemian" culture--which many consider dead and buried--has seeped into the American mainstream. While writing extensively about her own trajectory from communal living and a dead-end record-store job in San Francisco to cohabital bliss and a staff position as a rock critic for The New York Times, Powers also takes great care to include the perspectives of her peers, even when their impressions clash violently with her own. In doing so, she turns Weird Like Us into a frontline analysis of how the members of (dare we say it?) Generation X try to find significance and purpose in their lives.

"It's hard to shock most Americans," Powers notes in a chapter on the shifts in sexual politics and culture. "But it's hard to engage them, too." Weird Like Us shows how this applies to many other aspects of social life besides sex: experimentation and variance have become increasingly normal in everything from drug use to pop-music styles, but with little or no conscious reflection on their consequences. Without that self-awareness, "alternative culture" risks becoming nothing more than an empty pose. "For too long we have united only within a culture of rebellion. What we need to refuse is the negativity that comes from always defining ourselves against a society we can't help but live within." For Powers, acknowledging and accepting one's position within mainstream culture isn't an act of "selling out," but an opportunity to act, in an individual capacity, as an agent for social change, an example of a good life worth living. Weird Like Us demonstrates that you don't have to be a cultural conservative to believe in "values," and Powers's emphasis on integrity, respect, and self-consciousness adds a new and inspiring voice to progressive cultural criticism. --Ron Hogan

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There is a feeling of nostalgia that surrounds the idea of bohemia, that place where art and ideas and alternative thinking become the focal point of life. To most, bohemia is gone -- erased by the lifestyle of the 1990s and the too many, too fast influences of modern living.

Ann Powers, an acclaimed pop critic for The New York Times and one of today's most notable authorities on alternative culture, claims in this powerful and personal chronicle that bohemia is alive and well in America -- nurturing new lifestyles and defining our tastes in art, politics, sexual mores, and all matters cultural. Weird Like Us sets the record straight on alternative America -- a new bohemia whose dynamic citizens are re-creating traditional modes of building families, falling in love, having sex, and making careers, reinventing our shared values from the ground up.

So how different are these bohemians? Through stories from her own life and those of her fellow alternative Americans -- artists, writers, entrepreneurs, feminists, cyberoutlaws, punk rockers, politicos, and queers -- Powers traces the evolution of this world and where it has gone. The observations and attitudes that fill these pages will touch many who long for this lifestyle, and will shock others. No longer confined to coffee shops in North Beach or Greenwich Village, bohemia is thriving from coast to coast.

In this wonderfully written memoir, Ann Powers writes of an alternative culture that has never before been fully presented -- one that takes into account the real politics, real feelings, and genuine creativity of those who transformed the dying counterculture of the sixties into a mode of artistic and spiritual survival in the nineties. In doing so, she has written a vibrant, engrossing take on a culture and its people.

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Lackluster Portrait of Contemporary "Bohemia".......2006-09-20

I sympathize with the author who is trying to document an underground that is genuine and vibrant. But unfortunately she doesn't make it that way for her readers. I suspect it's because she wasn't there long enough; 4 years in a group house and at a minimum wage job at a record store apparently haven't qualifed her perspective. Her descriptions of eating ramen noodles, dying her hair blue, and sharing a bed with housemates while on multiple forms of drugs just sound adolescent. She was out of what she calls "bohemia" by her mid-twenties. She keeps identifying as "weird" but outside the context of a community of freaks. "Weird" becomes a professional identity.

That said, some of the people she interviews are truly living according to bohemian values, and her interviews offer some insight into their lives. The book also has the advantage of her connections as a journalist to provide interviews with some of the more visible of freaks.

But she misses out on the opportunity to really think hard about the complications of bohemia, about issues of class and also, how education impacts someone's social status within society, gentrification and our changing urban centers, and the cooptation of underground aesthetics by mass advertising, especially directed at young people.

Personally, I think she's watching too much TV in that Brooklyn condo of hers. But, then, watching MTV has become part of her job.

Too bad, because it'd be really cool if someone else could do a good job on this theme.

oh so pretentious.......2005-08-14

i snored through this one. I got about 20 pages from the end and finally couldn't take it anymore. it has very little to do with bohemian life. you better have a dictionary ready because she is really trying to impress someone. i can't beleive it got published.

Please don't waste your time...........2005-01-16

More than a year has passed since I bought and read this book, and while I truly dislike spreading negativity, I feel compelled to warn others tempted to spend their time and money on this depressing memoir. The book is mistitled; the author and her feather of friends are neither 'weird' or 'bohemian'. Re-titling this book 'Ennui: My Self-Absorbed America' would properly describe the story told within.
Honestly - from a woman who cherishes my thousands of books...I could not allow this blot on my shelves, or in good conscience donate it...I threw it away.

A great book, good read for anyone.......2004-01-28

Well worth the read, offers an insight into a life you might not lead (certainly not my own). Coming from a middle-class mid-west family home, the subjects in Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America are almost 'taboo'. Surely my mother would be shocked at what was in the book, it's not for children. It's very real and honest and tells Powers' truth. It's very well told and I would recomend it to anyone. Even if you don't have a praticurally open mind on subjects like drugs and sexuality, it's still something I would recomend. Powers tells her stories with a honest, humbling vigor, and reminds the reader not to judge with steriotypes. The people in this book are alive, are human. What's considerd 'taboo' by most Americans is justafiable in this 'Bohemian America'; which is more of a democracy and expression of freedom than its 'American Ideal'counterpart.
This book reminded me of what America is made to be, to choose your own. That 'morals' are not defined by one person or a group of people, especally in America, that my choices are seperate and are [supposed] to be untouched by anothers bias or oppinion.
This is certainly not the life I choose, but I respect it and have no right to judge. When you read this book, do so objectively. No one is asking you to do anything Ann Powers has, and she is not attempting to influence you to, just accept her right as an American to do so.

bohemia against starbucksification.......2003-10-19

i liked many parts of this book. the fact is that in America, bohemian living is so quickly co-opted by corporate America for its own purposes, that it is hard to touch or in many ways to live an authentic bohemian lifestyle. powers' book does a wonderful job of showing Americans in the past few decades struggle with sticking to principles while dealing with corporate capitalism. this struck a nerve with me as it may with many who feel at odds working in the typical structure, but haven't figured out what alternatives exist outside it.

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Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America
Ann Powers
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The orcs swarm like a plague over half the continent. Mage-hunting legates and their demonic pets track down the last vestiges of magic in the land. The dark god Izrador broods and watches the world through his black mirrors. The forces are overwhelming, your enemies are dark and twisted, and you will surely perish if you resist.

But you fight.

You are the northborn ancestral bladebearer. You are the elven spellsoul. You are the pureblood Sarcosan knight. You are the fellhunting wogren rider. Your magic is rare but ancient, your allies few but stalwart.

Against the Shadow is a player's companion and DM resource for the dark and epic campaign setting Midnight. Desperate fighters against the shadow will find new heroic paths, prestige classes, feats, spells, and weapons to help them survive. New herbalism rules create a non-magic party support option specifically tailored for the Midnight campaign. Finally, even DMs will find valuable material in new power nexuses and covenant items.

The dark lord Izrador hasn't won yet. These are bleak times, but there are still those who pit themselves Against the Shadow.

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Great DM Resource.......2004-12-23

The Fantasy Flight Games campaign setting of Midnight is excellent, and the "Against the Shadow" Players Companion adds a lot of new details to the setting as well as expanding on items covered in the core books.

However my first and only real issue with this book is that it is defined as "A Players Companion" , cripes!!! Don't give it to your players at all, for any DM wanting to allow his/her players a chance to really learn about the world they are in, the players should start off with as little detail as possible, this book blows away that opportunity.

The books contents deal with

1. Race and Class Backgrounds, why do Dorns' think what they think, what do they know that others don't, good stuff for getting players to build pre game backgrounds

2. New prestige classes.

3. Legendry Classes, which are very cool, and take prestige classes to the next level, something that I believe is explored in other FFG books too.

4. New Heroic Paths, some interesting ones, especially the Tactician.

5. More Nexus info

6. New spells and a new spell 'type' using spells as Engraved Runes, these rules are excellent and add another way to use magic while not giving players access to items too swiftly

7. More convent items

8. New weapons and equipment , a focus on concealed weapons and other items that can more easily be carried by the players.

9. Herbs, this section is my favourite part of book, detailing the different herbs, how they are used, different uses, how to prepare, store, and more. Already my players consider Herbalism and Healing to be right next to Tumble as a "must have skill"

All that's missing is a detailed map of where the herbs are located across the world, that would have been a nice addition.

All in all a great book, but keep it to yourself DMs, the info is way to valuable to be given out to the players in one go.

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Every so often a book comes along that makes you ask yourself, "Gee, when was the last time I had my eyes checked?" David M. Beazley's Python: Essential Reference is just such a book. Condensing thousands of pages of Python online documentation into a compact 319-page softcover, Beazley and his editors used the old-college trick (often performed in reverse) of dickering with the font size to meet a putative page-limit requirement. The result is a truly condensed product fit for the occularly well-adjusted (nota bene).

Beazley's subject is Python, a full-featured, freely-redistributable, POSIX-compliant (platforms include Linux, Unix, Macintosh, and Windows) scripting language that is based on object-oriented design principles. As advertised, Beazley's source release (1.5.2) is available from an unfortunately slow server at www.python.org. The installation under Linux (Redhat 5.2) proceeded without incident.

Beazley holds true to his catalogic purpose: fully 230 pages are formatted as technical appendices and indices covering the standard litany: built-in function syntax, database features, OS-level interfaces, Internet interfaces, and compiling/profiling/debugging. All references are fully annotated and illustrated with example source code that runs from a couple of lines to a couple of pages. In lock step with competing scripting languages, Python is extensible and embeddable in C and C++, and with blitzkrieg efficiency, Beazley summarizes these crucial practical issues in the final 30 pages. Python users who are tired of chasing questions through hyperlinked online documents will benefit from the expansive random-access index.

Python the book captures the orderliness of Python the language. Beazley begins with an 86-page précis of Python in the fashion of Kernighan and Ritchie: too brief for a newbie tutorial but enough to propel old hands into a scripting language that aspires to the elegance of a compiled language.

Indeed, it is a byte-compiling language. The line bytecode=compile("some_python_script",'','exec')) creates 'bytecode' as a token executed by exec bytecode. But a five-minute investigation through Beazley's book does not describe how 'bytecode' can be written into a separate executable file. If writing the byte-compiled code to a file is not possible, Python suffers from the limitations of other scripting languages: the executable is the source and cannot be hidden from the user, at least not without some difficulty. Despite its extensibility, embeddability, and pleasing architecture, Python is like other scripting languages: appropriate for solving small nonproprietary problems.

Those familiar with more established scriptors like Perl may ask, "Why Python?" Unlike Perl, Python is a product of the fully object-oriented (OO) era, and its constructs reflect design principles that aspire beyond keystroke shortcuts of the succinct-but-often-arcane Perl. Python creator Guido van Rossum cleansed Perl's idiosyncracies and objectified basic data structure, data manipulations, and I/O. With Python, OO is so intrinsic that learning Python is equivalent to learning OO. The same cannot be said of Perl.

Unfortunately, comparisons with other languages are missing from Beazley's book. Van Rossum, in an embarrassingly self-serving foreword, preemptively asserts that we readers need "neither evangelizing nor proselytizing"--after all, we already own the book--but we do need galvanizing and we don't find it. Specifically, we need a response to the oft-repeated wisdom that new computer languages are only worth learning if they teach us to organize our thinking along new lines.

Scripting languages, however, are for quick and dirty projects: quick to write, easy to hack, and ultimately disposable. The essential tension created by van Rossum and friends is between the elegance of object-oriented principles and the utility of a quick-hacked script. Sadly, the tension remains unresolved in Beazley's reference. There is little to convince us that Python has earned its place in the firmament by changing our thinking. But Beazley has given us much to get us going if we have already taken the leap of faith. --Peter Leopold

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Python Essential Reference, 3rd Edition, is a comprehensive reference to the Python programming language. The focus of this latest edition is to add coverage of significant new features and new library modules added to the language over the past five years. Clearly written with concise organization, the new features covered include new style classes, unification of types and classes, xmlrpclip, intertools, bz2 and optparse, making it the most up-to-date Python book on the market.

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Examples Needed.......2007-06-07

Python Essential Reference is a decent book. It is very convenient to have such a book at your desk with a nice index to look things up and concise statements of syntax etc. The problem is that many times I look something up and want to know *how* to use something, and find that there are no examples for it. The book would be twice as useful if it had such examples in it. Nothing major, just a one or two liner demonstrating the use of the function or construct. Without that, you end up having to look it up elsewhere after having looked it up in this book.

Just the facts, Ma'am........2007-03-09

If you're looking to learn programming, then this is probably not the right book. This one is intended to sit on your shelf and get cracked open when you have a fairly specific question and want a more thorough answer than the typical a quick google will provide. And it fills that role to perfection. I have actually spent some time reading through the book instead of simple indexing into it, and found it complete, logical and thorough. I don't typically read books on programming languages, but I might make an exception for this one.

With the possible exemption of the Turing Reference Manual, this is the best reference manual for a programming language I have ever encountered.

Python Essential Reference (3rd Edition).......2007-03-08

'Python Essential Reference' - is one of the best IT reference books I have ever read. I use this book for years (starting with 2nd Edition - in 2001). This book taught me basics and the beauty of Python programming. I constantly use Python in my work (for the last 5 years), and I still use this book for references. In fact - this book is always on my desk, with lots of sticky notes identifying important pages.

I have read a lot of programming books. But in my opinion, this book - is a perfect example of what programming books should be. It is precise in describing Python's features, it has short but right-to-the-point descriptions of methods and attributes, it has clear structure and great reference tables, and it includes everything people need to know about Python in order to start using it.

In short - this book is a great reference source, giving its readers great "sense" of Python programming language and encouraging "playing" with it and learning more from personal experience.

3rd edition is updated to include Python 2.4 new features and "standard" modules.

Great paper reference for Python.......2007-03-05

An excellent, compact reference for a large part of the Python standard library. Includes a succinct but thorough reference of Python syntax and standard data types as well.

Fantastic Python text.......2007-02-06

It's an overview of the grammar and it's a reference. It covers all of the essentials and dips into the major packages used. For me, these include csv, zipfile, email, smtplib, poplib, ftplib, httplib, urllib, os.path, optparse. I still don't understand python's access to databases and why the topic does not figure prominently in python texts, but that's another issue entirely.

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