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- Understand exactly how divorce will affect you financially - Negotiate the settlement that is right for you - Discover how to preserve your security

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Written in clear, no-nonsense, simple terms.......2004-01-14

Your Divorce Your Dollars by Achillea Davis is (a certified financial planner specializing in divorce and separation issues) is a thoroughly "user friendly" financial planning and self-help guide which is especially intended for anyone involved in a divorce or extended separation. Written in clear, no-nonsense, simple terms ideal for the non-specialist general reader, Your Divorce Your Dollars competently and expertly covers the five common models of divorce with their attendant money issues; the process of starting over with new financial realities in a single world; the financial aspect of remarriage preparations; taking the financial needs of children into account, and more. Enhanced with an appendix of extremely useful sample worksheets for calculating one's net worth, income, as well as expense estimates, Your Divorce Your Dollars is very highly recommended, clearly essential reading for anyone having to deal with the financial aspects of a dissolving marriage.

This book can save you a bundle!.......2003-11-14

If you are considering getting a divorce, or even just separating from your partner, you should really have a look at this book. It tells you straight up what you can expect financially and gives great advice on avoiding some of the mistakes people often make. There's good advice in here even for people who have already divorced.

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With sixty percent of the land in the United States under private ownership, the role of the private sector in the conservation of habitat and species diversity is increasingly important. This book examines the "market" for conservation of natural areas in the U.S., considering the efforts of both profit- and nonprofit-making ventures. It discusses the costs and benefits of protecting natural areas and uses specific examples of landowners and agencies involved in private sector conservation. The book concludes by discussing the potential and limitations of the private conservation market, and the role of the government in the market. Dr. Edwards examines the effectiveness of conservation methods at three levels: constitutional, organizational and operational. The book will therefore appeal to all those interested or involved in conservation, from students to policy makers.

Dealing in Diversity: America's Market for Nature Conservation. (book reviews): An article from: American Journal of Agricultural Economics

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Dealing in Diversity: America's Market for Nature Conservation. (book reviews): An article from: American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Elizabeth T. Kennedy
Manufacturer: American Agricultural Economics Association
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from American Journal of Agricultural Economics, published by American Agricultural Economics Association on May 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1077 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: Dealing in Diversity: America's Market for Nature Conservation. (book reviews)
Author: Elizabeth T. Kennedy
Publication: American Journal of Agricultural Economics (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1996
Publisher: American Agricultural Economics Association
Volume: v78 Issue: n2 Page: p477(2)

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In 1920, Albert Einstein wrote to Max Born, "Theoretical physics will flourish wherever you happen to be; there is no other Born to be found in Germany today." The End of the Certain World presents for the first time Born's full story: Nobel physicist, a discoverer of quantum theory, exile from Hitler's Germany, teacher of nine Nobel physicists. Born's role in the "Golden Age of Physics" helped to shape the science of the twentieth century and open the door to the modern era. Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, and Eugene Wigner, among others, flocked to Gšttingen, Germany in the 1920's to work with Born, the physicist who had discovered one of the most profound principles of the century - the physics of indeterminacy. In a cruel twist of fate Born, a pacifist who loved science for its beauty, had educated these renowned scientists who developed the atom bomb.

Not everyone embraced Born's revolutionary quantum principle. Throughout much of his forty year friendship with Einstein, the two debated the nature of the universe - deterministic versus non-deterministic - with Einstein declaring "God does not play dice", even though the Nobel Committee supported Born's position when they awarded him the 1954 Prize. A social history and a history of science as well as an intimate biography, The End of the Certain World reveals the story of a great physicist and humanitarian and his struggle with the forces of religion, politics, and war during the upheavals of the twentieth century.

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A magnificent biography that links Born's science with his personal life..........2006-12-31

I've been reading steadily about the physicists from the same time period as Einstein up through and including oppenheimer and Feynman. My training in science is mostly neuroscience and cell biology, but I've been teaching a lot of chemistry lately at the local community college. This means I have to teach about the atom and what is now known about electrons and basic atomic theory. I've always been very curious about physics, especially physics that deal with atomic particles and light. Einstein has always been one of my favorite people to read about and quote, so it was natural to me to start reading about the people he came across, and those who helped build on his work through work of their own. Besides, it has always driven me batty trying to separate all the names and the countries of these guys. So many were German, and if they were not German, they went to German schools of physics for their training, or were deeply involved with the German school of physics. I was always getting Born and Bohr mixed up...so I decided the more I knew about these guys the better able to explain their work.

This book is first rate. I cannot comment on the accuracy of the physics, but there are many physics concepts that Greenspan elucidated because they were Born's ideas or discoveries, and from reading this book, I certainly understand these ideas much better than I did before. Just as in reading David McCullough's books on John Adams, where you cannot separate the man from his political beliefs about individual freedom, neither should you read a book about a man such as Born and expect to get through without being introduced to the work of his lifetime, which was explaining and proving parts of atomic theory through mathematics. I enjoy reading the science, even if I have to go back and read it more than once to gain an understanding of it. Even more thrilling is reading the work of these men and being able to better explain these concepts in my classes.

I admire greatly theoretical physicists and mathematicians, even if I am incapable of doing this work myself. As Einstein once stated, he wanted to know these things because he could better understand the 'work of God.' I find that the more I read from the physicists of this period of time, the more I understand. It's difficult to fathom so many great men (and a few women) who lived at one time period and worked together to bring the world to an understanding of physics as we know it. It makes you wonder why we have no outstanding physicists now (except for Stephen Hawkings) and it makes me wonder how limiting our education is, that not only the U.S. but Europe and Asia seem not to be able to produce the great men that we saw so many of during the first 50 years of atomic physics (say from 1890 to 1950). What happened, and where have all these magnificent minds gone? Why can we not produce men and women like this now...these are the questions that educators should be asking themselves.

Born's life with his family and friends, the escape from a rabidly anti-Semitic Germany, the life spent in Scotland, all of which were entwined with his work is absolutely fascinating. Greenspan did a beautiful job not only of research but of editing, and placing in her book, the important letters and research. I've only seen biographies like this from one other person, and he dealt with the great men from the Revolutionary time period in America. This is definitely a book worth buying and reading, and one that I recommend highly to my students and those interested in this time period. Warning to readers, this is a heavy duty book, and not one to be undertaken lightly!

Karen Sadler

fascinating time period.......2006-07-20

This is a good, easy-to-read biography of a well known yet not quite household name physicist who was pivotal in the early days of quantum mechanics and beyond.

This book is mainly a biography of the man and less so of the science. It is very good in that respect and shows how Born fit into the history of those times. Due to the fact that he was a Jew in Germany before WWII lends well to an interesting history.

The science is in here yet quite useless to the layman and the language the author sometimes uses is confusing to the physicist. The physicist will want to see more of the physics and mathematics but you will not get it in this book.

Many will see that Max Born was a person not too much different than a university educated person nowadays in his beliefs, morals, and ethics. Since mine are opposed to his, I personally did not find his life to be much of an inspiration (with such quotes as "For the belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it, seems to me the deepest root of all that is evil in the world").

Of course, the book just made me jealous of his brains, but most biographies do that to me.

Thorough research has uncovered many fascinating facts.......2006-03-17

Although the physics in this book has been criticized, I noticed only a couple of errors. They did not seriously degrade the book. Be sure to read Born's reaction to his student Oppenheimer on page 146. ("My soul was nearly destroyed by this man.") I was a little disappointed that there was not more about Jordan - the Nazi who collaborated with Born for many years. Also, it would have been nice to have put in a little about Born's granddaughter - the singer/actress Olivia Newton-John.

The end of the certain world.......2005-12-18

The title of the book clearly is to be taken two ways. Relating to the development of quantum theory where the calculations of the most basic quantities such a position and momentum of a particle yield fundamentally inexact quantities, probabilistic distributions rather specific numbers. Also relating to the end of the relatively tranquil and to an extent predictable, world of well to do professional and academic Jews in Germany as the result of a horrific anti-Semitism. That story, the far more poignant of the two, makes the book, unexpectedly, a page-turner.

The origin of matrix mechanics and wave mechanics appears here directly connected to the individuals involved, their personalities including Born's often openly exposed. The book is a wonderfully detailed history of the scientific events described, paper by paper, as they happened. The author has done a wonderful job. The book is very thoroughly annotated. The personal biographical information is sometimes very revealing. I'd read the published Born-Einstein correspondence and was aware of Einstein's understandable refusal to find acceptable Born's move back to Germany, pretty explicit in one letter. Einstein though probably understood and so will you if you read the book.

The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born.......2005-09-11

An excellent blend of biography with the relevant aspects of the history of physics and the social context in which it evolved. It makes clear that the immense importance of Born's role in the emrergence of quantum mechanics has been inadequately recognized. The author also conveys clearly the great impact Born had as a teacher of great physicists and through his many magisterial books. I learned considerably more than I expected to about both Born and the history of physics in the first half of the 20th century, and the graceful, clear prose fo the author made it a pleasure to do so.

Born unto trouble.(The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born: The Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolution)(Book Review) : An article from: American Scientist

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Born unto trouble.(The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born: The Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolution)(Book Review) : An article from: American Scientist
David C. Cassidy
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The End of the Certain World. The Life and Science of Max Born. The Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolution.

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The End of the Certain World. The Life and Science of Max Born. The Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolution.
Max] GREENSPAN, Nancy Thorndike. [BORN
Manufacturer: Basic Books
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The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born, the Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolituion

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The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born, the Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolituion
Nancy Thorndike Greenspan
Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O1FAG4

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Little Man What Now life in Germany after WW1.......2007-01-04

This is an excellent book. I read it in 1934 when it was selected as a Book of the Month Club selection. It has contiued to haunt my mind as I watched the rise of the NationalSocialist party rise to power in Germany. It explained the plight of the German psyche after the Treaty of Versailles and the human cost of the repatriation demands creating the human bondage. It was a great lesson learned by the United States and other allies in creating the Marshall plan for the allies former enemies. I was incredulous on learing that Amazon.com was able to provide this most out of date novel. Thankyou.

Quite good.......2002-05-21

This novel provides an interesting look at Germany in the years between World War I and II. As I read it and saw got an understanding of the depths of economic depression the country was in, I began to have a better grasp of how Hitler was able to mesmerize the nation and take power -- he spoke in a way that made people think he'd restore their pride and prosperity.

The story itself is fairly basic. I liked how Fallada wrapped the lessons about history and the economic/political situation around the simple tale of a young couple trying to raise a family and survive in the Depression. The characters were a little stereotypical and could have had more depth, but in general they were quite interesting. The pace of the novel was good. The book was a bit long, but Fallada is a good enough writer that it didn't bother me too much. This book is a good read that any history buff will certainly enjoy.

Hardship and love a time of despair.......2000-03-26

The story of the life of the little man Johannes Pinneberg and his love in the Weimar Republic (Germany before Hitler). It accurately presents the hardship of people in the worldwide economic crisis in the 30ies. Pinneberg is a salesman who believes himself above the proletarians. He strives for a bourgeois kind of lifestyle. But after marrying his struggle for survival begins with his social decline. Pinneberg learns: you have to work like an animal or you won't work at all. The book is a story about money, hardship and the constant threat of failure. But one thing prevails: love.

The book is one of my all-time favorites. If you don't mind reading books that are literature at the same time I highly recommend it.

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Little Man, What Now?
Charles Albert Jr. Boynton
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Little man, what now?
Richard N Bibler
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December, 1959: What Now, Little Man?
Mark Clifton
Manufacturer: Mercury Press, Inc.
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ASIN: B000KP5H08

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DE29 Little Man What MARGARET SULLAVAN '34 Lobby Card. HereÂ’s a terrific lobby card from the original release of LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? featuring a great image of MARGARET SULLAVAN and DOUGLASS MONTGOMERY. Lobby card is in EXCELLENT condition. A few pinholes, no stains, no tears, a tiny bit of paper scruffing on upper border.
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DE29 Little Man What MARGARET SULLAVAN '34 Lobby Card. HereÂ’s a terrific lobby card from the original release of LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? featuring a great image of MARGARET SULLAVAN and DOUGLASS MONTGOMERY. Lobby card is in EXCELLENT condition. A few pinholes, no stains, no tears, a tiny bit of paper scruffing on upper border.
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Little Man, What Now?

Manufacturer: Academy Chicago Pub
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A reading experience worth while........1997-12-05

Little Man, What Now? gives great detail to the economic uncertainty of one man living between both world wars. Pinneberg and his love, Bunny, are expecting child as the book begins. We live day to day with Pinneberg and experience how it was for a German boy of not more than 25 years of age to struggle economically in the 1920's. Pinneberg is in constant competition with his coworkers in keeping his jobs and as he loses one after another he must move his new family to new dwellings. The Pinnebergs struggle with setting budgets for their groceries and all other life necessities with the little money that they have. Throughout the novel we watch Pinneberg and Bunny mature from naive youths to an experienced married couple who have gone through all of the heart aches of never having "enough" money. This book, although a little lengthy, was worth reading for the historical content of life in Germany at the dawn of the Nazi rule.

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Little man, what now?
William Anthony McGuire
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