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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Equity Compensation, Fourth Edition
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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Equity Compensation is a comprehensive overview of employee ownership practices and practicalities. From examining motivations for sharing ownership to determining plan types and features, the Entrepreneur's Guide is an excellent tool for entrepreneurs, executives, advisors, investors, and anyone else wishing to learn about using equity compensation effectively.
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The resource unlocks the door to the American dream - Home ownership.
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Simply a must read for all real estate agents and buyers.......2007-01-09
This book is a breakthrough manual for "how-to" buy real estate. Using simple language, a large number of examples, and an organized approach to each chapter, Marilyn Sullivan shows every real estate agent and home buyer innovative techniques for obtaining real estate.
I knew that Equity Sharing was a proven technique to buy and sell real estate, but this book outlines strategies for real life situations. If you are getting a divorce and want to keep your home, The New Home Buying Strategy shows you how to do it! If you don't have enough money for a downpayment, and if you wisely don't wish to buy with 100% financing, then the New Home Buying Strategy shows numerous examples of exactly how to locate an investor and make your dream come true. By the way, a hidden benefit of this book is that it is a significant help to investors as well as buyers. The book is filled with tables, illustrations and real life examples of how to calculate ownership percentages, payoffs, buyouts, etc. In other words, what I loved about this book was that it is truly an operating manual, not just another overview book. I highly recommend this book, its author, and the concepts around which the book is written.
So far, *so* good.......2007-01-09
I have only read the first three chapters, but so far, I find the content clear, direct, and nicely repetitive -- just enough to function as cumulatively self-drilling in the basics of joint ownership. The writer clearly knows what she is talking about, and her enthusiasm comes through to make the read an eager one. I would have rated this a '5,' but I haven't finished the book yet, and who knows what's in store.
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Equity Sharing
Georgia Anderson , and
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The Scanlon Plan for Organization Development: Identity, Participation, and Equity
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- Awww... isn't that cute???
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned from the Mouse
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This delightful gift book is a collection of wisdom, insights and inspirational thoughts inspired by the life of America's most beloved icon, Mickey Mouse.
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Awww... isn't that cute???.......2001-12-23
Well, I got this book because nobody loves Mickey more than me (no, really). While I expected much more from it, I'm not disappointed by it. Basically, it's a little picture book full of scenes from various Mickey movies with one-line advice captions on each page pertaining to the scene shown... did that make sense?? Let me explain... there's a picture of the scene from "Fantasia" where he's leading the marching brooms and the caption on the bottom says "Be a leader." You got it now??
It's a very elementary book, but it's adorable none the less. And it's full of Mickey pics, which everyone MUST love!
And That's Quite A Lot.......2001-05-24
A charming collection of timeless advice for getting through life, this little book confirmed my suspicions that Mickey Mouse was way ahead of his time. The little mouse has faced it all in his eighty or ninety years of making us laugh, smile and think. And evidently, he's learned a thing or two. The illustrations, taken from old animated shorts and features, are delightful; the text is short, sweet and ripe fruit for thought. The perfect, life-affirming read while waiting for a friend, sitting by a pond, or recovering from thorassic surgery.
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“HAIR-sterical! Hair-A-Baloo will make you laugh and cry, much the way you do on your worst hair day. Who needs Dr. Phil when we have Patricia Wynn Brown—the hair doctor. Her wit and wisdom make us realize that hair really does make the world go round.”
—Tim Bete (Director of the Erma Bombeck Humor Conference and author of In the Beginning…There Were No Diapers.)
Hair-A-Baloo proves it: “It's all about the hair.” Hair can make us laugh…cry…and a single strand can send us to prison for life!
Who hasn't experienced a touch of hair envy or left the hair salon with a poodle perm? We spend so much time with the mops on top of our heads that it's become a subject for movies, musicals, and gossip columns. We copy celebrity hairstyles, spend hundreds on hair products, and constantly concoct homemade hair treatments in our kitchen. Hair has even played a major role throughout history. Who could forget Samson and Delilah or the 1920s, when every woman in America wanted to bob her hair?
This forty-billion-dollar industry is given the royal “treatment” with Brown's wicked sense of humor. Take a break from the blow dryer and curl up with Hair-A-Baloo.
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Laughter is Great Medicine.......2005-10-28
In 1997, author Pat Wynn Brown was diagnosed with malignant melanoma. She admits that losing her hair was first on her mind as she dealt with this possibly fatal disease. Now, 7 years later and cancer free, Ms Brown helps other cancer patients by performing an original, comedy show about hair. Hair Theatre takes a loving look at women's obsession with their hair. If the show is anything like her book "Hair-a-baloo," the cancer patients are leaving the building as healthier people. After all, laughter is great medicine.
In the book, "Hair-a-baloo" the author shares story after hilarious story of hair antics and trauma. Oddly enough I can relate to almost every one of them. Every story proves how important our hair is to each of us. Whether we want to admit to our attachment or not, hair seems to take first place in all of our plans.
Ms. Brown asks, "Have you made peace with the DNA doled out to you?" Patricia Wynn Brown tells many her own personal stories and shows that everyone has a hair story to tell. Our hair experiences are so traumatic that we will remember them and can retell the story for years to come. Fortunately, in looking back, we can laugh at the mishaps and disasters - usually.
Brown has a sense of humor that all can relate to, - uncontrived and honest fun. "Hair speaks. Sometimes it even roars."
When you need cheered up but don't have much time, this is the perfect book to pick up for a chuckle. Each chapter stands on its own and even a paragraph or two will make your day.
This is a terrific book for hair lovers everywhere.
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Edgy, suspenseful, and darkly comic, here is the first novel in a riveting new mystery series starring two cranky but brilliant old detectives whose lifelong friendship was forged solving crimes for the London Police Department's Peculiar Crimes Unit. In
Full Dark House, Christopher Fowler tells the story of both their first and last case—and how along the way the unlikely pair of crime fighters changed the face of detection.
A present-day bombing rips through London and claims the life of eighty-year-old detective Arthur Bryant. For his partner John May, it means the end of a partnership that lasted over half-a-century and an eerie echo back to the Blitz of World War II when they first met. Desperately searching for clues to the killer's identity, May finds his old friend's notes of their very first case and becomes convinced that the past has returned...with a killing vengeance.
It begins when a dancer in a risque new production of Orpheus in Hell is found without her feet. Suddenly, the young detectives are plunged in a bizarre gothic mystery that will push them to their limits—and beyond. For in a city shaken by war, a faceless killer is stalking London's theaters, creating his own kind of sinister drama. And it will take Arthur Bryant's unorthodox techniques and John May's dogged police work to catch a criminal whose ability to escape detection seems almost supernatural--a murderer who even decades later seems to have claimed the life of one of them...and is ready to claim the other.
Filled with startling twists, unforgettable characters, and a mystery that will keep you guessing,
Full Dark House is a witty, heartbreaking, and all-too-human thriller about the hunt for an inhuman killer.
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Edgy, suspenseful, and darkly comic, here is the first novel in a riveting new mystery series starring two cranky but brilliant old detectives whose lifelong friendship was forged solving crimes for the London Police Department's Peculiar Crimes Unit. In Full Dark House, Christopher Fowler tells the story of both their first and last case—and how along the way the unlikely pair of crime fighters changed the face of detection.
A present-day bombing rips through London and claims the life of eighty-year-old detective Arthur Bryant. For his partner John May, it means the end of a partnership that lasted over half-a-century and an eerie echo back to the Blitz of World War II when they first met. Desperately searching for clues to the killer's identity, May finds his old friend's notes of their very first case and becomes convinced that the past has returned...with a killing vengeance.
It begins when a dancer in a risque new production of Orpheus in Hell is found without her feet. Suddenly, the young detectives are plunged in a bizarre gothic mystery that will push them to their limits—and beyond. For in a city shaken by war, a faceless killer is stalking London's theaters, creating his own kind of sinister drama. And it will take Arthur Bryant's unorthodox techniques and John May's dogged police work to catch a criminal whose ability to escape detection seems almost supernatural—a murderer who even decades later seems to have claimed the life of one of them...and is ready to claim the other.
Filled with startling twists, unforgettable characters, and a mystery that will keep you guessing, Full Dark House is a witty, heartbreaking, and all-too-human thriller about the hunt for an inhuman killer.
"Atmospheric, hugely beguiling and as filled with tricks and sleights of hand as a magician's sleeve...it is English gothic at its eccentric best; a combination of Ealing comedy and grand opera: witty, charismatic, occasionally touching and with a genuine power to thrill."
JOANNE HARRIS, AUTHOR OF
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"A first class thriller, but don't expect any sleep."
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"The writing is as ever fluid and pacey, the characterization deft and the plot fresh and ingenious."
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Clever on the surface, yes, but deep as a well...........2007-02-17
This is a detective story of sorts, but don't read this book expecting the usual type of mystery story. Of course there are crimes to be solved, and an investigation to be carried out, with lots of plot twists and all the usual trappings of detective fiction. There is an ensemble of odd characters, eccentric heroes and twisted villains. There is also a very atmospheric evocation of life during the air raids on London during World War II. I thought that all of this was very well-done and interesting. But what really hooked me into this book was the obvious love the author (and his characters) have for the deep history and diverse people of London. Every bit of the book is alive with strange and fascinating London lore, and fortunately for the readers of this series, that is an inexaustable well of material that even the finest fiction can't match.
This book is not for everyone, but if you like quirky fiction that operates according to its own laws, and takes you to places you might never find on your own,you may enjoy this book (and series) as much as I did.
Slow, pedantic and pseudo-everything.......2007-02-13
If you don't mind "new age" pseudo-religious, pseudo-scientific and pseudo-historical fad "intellectualism" and you don't mind skipping pages and pages of slow moving empty dialogue, knock yourself out. If you prefer fast-paced "London" based mysteries try Will Thomas' new books instead.
Good characters.......2006-10-11
The plot is a trifle filled with chapters that end in 'come on there isn't a moment to lose' sort of artificial suspense, but the enjoyable partnership of the somewhat otherworldly Bryant and the down to Earth May, a much more plausible Holmes and Watson, with more wit as well more than makes up for it.
3 and 1/2 stars for the engaging (sort of) time shifting.......2006-09-19
Setting his mystery in blitz-ravaged London and evoking its atmosphere of night bombing raids and their aftermath in the city streets, along with a risque operatic production trying to make its opening night, Fowler concocted a tanatlizing background for a mystery. He stirs into this already promising mix a stretch of 60 years, a span that presents a boyish pair of detectives during wartime London, and later at the end of their careers (octogenarian detectives?!?! there's a novel twist) in the multicultural London of the 21st century. Back and forth we go between then and now, and not always with the greatest clarity.
The plot involves a "peculiar crimes unit" headed up by the disheveled and eccentric Bryant. He's a well-drawn character and the dialogue between him and May, as well as the out-of-sorts authoritarian Biddle, is enjoyable. But in the end, the various plot elements that are meant to sustain the "peculiar crimes unit" don't really add up. Fowler didn't seem to have the nerve to have the seances and clairvoyants (beloved of Bryant) actually lead us into the realm of the uncanny - throwing the reader (not to mention May and Biddle) into uneasy terrain. He pulls back. May's encounter with a clairvoyant's summoning up of a "deceased personage" could've been a presence or a poltergeist, but - naw - it's just a kitchen accident caused by a nearby train. Even the accident's meaning lacks motivation from the summoned spirit.
A lot of late 20th century British humor, especially in film, seems to hope that if your mise-en-scene accumulates enough eccentric caricatures in the narrative, and go through a routine in a ripe, slightly surreal atmosphere (Fowler's decaying London theatre), you've done your job. Well not quite, old chap.
The Bryant & May series has continued, I see, and I hope that Fowler will take a clue from a British detective fiction writer like P.D. James. She is the same age as the characters Bryant and May, and is a master at convincingly weaving (not just stirring in along the way) character, dialogue, motivation, locale on the way to a compelling denouement/conclusion. Blend that approach with the spot on humor found in the American Anglophile mysteries of Martha Grimes and Fowler's promising ideas and authorial voice will find its mark.
Full Dark House.......2006-08-26
Wow! This was fun! The combination of the theater, Greek myth and the Blitz all at once makes for a cracking, good read. The several main characters are appealing - you root for their success against the forces of darkness...
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Dancer in the Dark
Lars Von Trier
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MAGAZINE , 1980, 1st Edition, VG-/GOOD+, SOLD AS-IS, SOFTCOVER, Slight Rub, Wear Scuff , tiny Crease Cover, , Interior Nice Condition Light Wear., FOX, Tiny Nicks Scuff Pages Edges, ,
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The Dance (Dark Chronicles, No 1)
Barbara A. Steiner
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- Keeps you on your toes
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Dancer in the Dark
Joseph Steven
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When Lieutenant James Francis Moran, newly named chief of the NYPD Cold Cases File Task Force, reopens the case of eight sniper killings that terrorized the City of New York sixteen months before, the killer re-surfaces again with a series of brazen daylight murders in different parts of the city. Moran soon discovers that trying to catch this madman is not an easy job. The sniper/killer is a very cunning and highly intelligent individual. When Moran turns to a criminal profiler and her wheelchair-bound professor friend for help the pattern they uncover is chillingly evil. What is the killer ultimate agenda? Who is this mysterious sniper and why is he killing? The road to these answers is a very bumpy and scary ride as the killer becomes more emboldened with each murder. However, he hasnt counted on one thing
Morans tireless determination.
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Keeps you on your toes.......2006-03-19
Good characterizations in this story, some fiendish plot complications, and some memorable phrases... Dancer in the Dark is a fast-moving, involving story that will keep you on your mental toes.
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Keeps you on your mental toes.......2006-03-19
Good characterizations,some fiendish plot complications, and memorable phrases... Dancer in the Dark is a fast-moving involving story that will keep you on your mental toes.
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Exceptional Plot Twist, Remarkable Ending.......2006-01-07
What a roller-coaster ride of a novel. New York Detective James Moran is baffled at every turn by a sniper who stays three steps ahead of him. And the sudden appearance of a copy-cat killer doesn't help Moran one bit. Only after several people have been murdered, including two police officers, does the pattern begin to emerge -- and what a pattern! I haven't enjoyed a mystery this much in years. Intriguing characters, more twists than a corkscrew, and an ending that caught me completely off guard. ...Joseph Steven tells his tale in a clean, no-nonsense manner. "Dancer in the Dark" held my interest from start to finish, and I felt it was well worth reading.
A Real Gem.......2005-12-23
Thrilling... if you're new to Joseph Steven you will quickly become a fan after reading Dancer in the Dark. Fine writing... a great story... engaging characters and realistic dialogue.
Good Concept.......2005-12-23
I liked the concept of this book... Moran is also a likeable character who I respected for trying to solve the case without regard to the rules.
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Dancer in the Dark (New Line Platinum Series)
Manufacturer: New Line Cinema Corporation
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- The truth and nothing else
- It's not all glitter and glamour ...
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Dancers in the Dark
Howard Dando
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A gritty, biting novel that exposes the excitement, grace, glamour and backstage of the ballet world with lusty dancers in cutthroat competition. Allison Fain's desperate hunger for love and fame drives her from the lights of the stage to the dark realms of jealousy, sex and deception destroying lovers and friends along the way.
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The truth and nothing else.......2001-05-02
A perfect description of the hard reality behind the world of ballet. One says every sport is hard, but art seems even harder, competition between dancers is without mercy. Mr Dando discribes this very well. The ongoing "battle" between young dancers and especially Temple and Allison is perfectly put on paper. I was not familiar with the world of ballet, but this novell opened my eyes, it is so well written that the reader is immediately into the story and feels for one of the two main characters ; who both have their reasons to dance. The main issue is the very need Allison and Temple feel to dance, to be a star. Are all means allowed to obtain this goal ? This novell is the answer.
It's not all glitter and glamour ..........2001-02-14
Anyone who has ever danced will love, hate and empathize with the characters in this gossipy, gritty, angry novel about the ballet world. And for everyone else, it's great eye-candy, a fast read and a darn good story. I found Dando's prose a bit sparse, but there are moments when he perfectly captures the essence of a daily barre, a dancer's desperate need to dance, and the exhilaration of performing. My favorite character is Allison, a Hillary Clinton of the dance world. Despite the plethora of women in ballet, everyone knows the industry is more sexist than any company in corporate America. I loved Allison's determination to fight against the patriarchy and go for what she wants, with her backbone of steel and legs like knives. Still, I would have liked some more depth to the characters. Is Allison really dancing for herself or to please a pushy 'ballet mother'? But these are the reflections one has when a book touches a nerve and brings back memories. I heartily recommend the novel to anyone who loves dance, loves to dance, or loves a dancer.
A Fun Read.......2001-02-13
The novel is a fascinating romp through the dance world with cutthroat competition and lusty dancers. I found it involving, and the characters intriguing, even the evil ones, the prose is open and accessible. The pages flew by and I wished it wouldn't end.
ballet verite.......2001-01-26
An entertaining and well crafted look at the excitment, grace, glamour and underbelly of the ballet world - written by someone who seems to know that world intimately. An interesting plot mixed with a sly sense of humor. I learned alot of backstage info I had no idea was part of the world of ballet. Reads like a movie - very enjoyable.
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Dancers in the dark: A novel
Daniel Boone Dodson
Manufacturer: Dodd, Mead
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This digital document is an article from Albion, published by North American Conference on British Studies on March 22, 2002. The length of the article is 828 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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Title: Spiritualism and British Society Between the Wars. (Reviews of Books).
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- Fascinating study flawed by academicism
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Spiritualism and British Society Between the Wars (Studies in Popular Culture)
Manufacturer: Manchester University Press
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Historians of modern British culture have long assumed that under pressure from secular forces, interest in spiritualism had faded by the end of the Great War. Jenny Hazelgrove challenges this assumption and shows how spiritualism grew between the wars and became part of the fabric of popular culture. This book provides a fascinating and lively insight into an alternative culture that flourished--and continues to flourish--alongside more conventional outlets for spiritual beliefs and needs.
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Fascinating study flawed by academicism.......2002-05-28
The material is fascinating, and leaves you wanting more. Hazelgrove has trawled through mediums' biographies, books on spiritualism, novels based on the subject, accounts of visits to seances. From this wealth of forgotten literature she has distilled the essence of attitudes to spiritualism that spill out into wider considerations of religion and science. She has the current feminist academic attitude. She doesn't judge on the truth or otherwise of accounts of messages from the dead, or the appearance of ectoplasm. Instead she considers what these happenings meant to the people involved, and to society who viewed them with ambivalence. But she is by no means as fair as she pretends to be. She can't mention science without an ill-concealed sneer, always referring to it as 'the Englightenment/scientism project' or some such cliche. I agree that ideas of the soul, or of women's place in society, are part of narratives - stories that people tell themselves. But when she considers actual narratives - the autobiographies of mediums - she accepts them at face value instead of seeing them as the literary genre they obviously are. And surely nearly all of them were GHOST-written? No one can fail to sympathise with the distress of medium Helen Duncan, who was subjected to painful indignities disguised as scientific tests of her powers. But what part did her husband play in forcing her to produce phenomena? The testers paid handsomely, probably more than the bereaved sitters who came to her seances. Hazelgrove clearly inhabits a society in which the 'scientistic paradigm' is by no means a dogma, and I suspect she objects to science because it makes belief in a spiritual realm difficult. That's just a speculation on my part, but it's mild compared to her - I can only call them dogmatic - statements about the unconscious, the psyche, the other, the mother and whathaveyou. I enjoyed this book, but I'd love to read a much longer and less prejudiced work using the same material. She writes well and clearly, despite feeling obliged to use words like 'hegemonic' and 'interpellation.'
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Great but VERY different from PEG's.......2007-03-26
This version of Deadlands is a licensed version from PEG made with GURPS rules. The book actually is in desperate need of being re-built as some things are out of order but regardless this version I actually like far better than PEG's version. It seems to be far more flexible for what the GM wants the DL world to be like and seems to take a more "D&D in the old west" style than PEG's. It's more "overt" horror than "covert" like PEG's. Specifically it seems the battle or conflict is about keeping the Reckoning from spreading east even if it means sealing off the borders to expansion. Maybe I'm wrong but that's the impression I get from it and actually like better because it gives the GM more latitude in what she wants to do for a particular adventure or campaign.
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