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Successful Real Estate Investing: A Practical Guide to Profits for the Small Investor
Peter G. Miller
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Bestselling author Peter G. Miller's completely revised edition of his no-nonsense guide to real estate investing in today's economy.

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Good reference guide........2005-08-23

I have been reading many real estate books recently and this one is the one that stands out the most. This book is a very good start for beginners who are looking to get into RE investing, either as a full-time job or something to do on the side. This book takes you through most of the detail needed to accomplish these and other tasks: writting an offer letter, tenant management, rent control understanding, etc.
The book also covers area of mortgage negotiations, tips on how to be able to show profits without paying taxes immediately and other tips of the trade.
I recommend this book over many others who preach their seminars and other non-RE related topics.

Straightforward and very clear.......2001-08-27

The book is great. No pie in the sky stuff but real practical instructions that you would need to get started and realistically have things work. Full of ideas with the advantages and disadvantages so you know the up and downside of a strategy. Best money I ever spent.

Overall - good book........2001-06-28

Just finished reading Successful Real Estate Investing and really liked this book. I have read numerous books on Real Estate and this is one of the better books I have read. Very informative and up to date. He really debunks the tv Guru's and gives you the nitty truth about what it takes to get into the market. He is also very conservative in his approach and tries to give all angles to buying property. Give this book a four out of five stars.

Successful Real Estate Investing in the '90s: A Practical Guide to Profits for the Small Investor

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Successful Real Estate Investing in the '90s: A Practical Guide to Profits for the Small Investor
Peter G. Miller
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Successful Real Estate Investing: A Practical Guide for the Small Investor to Profits After Tax Reform

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Successful Real Estate Investing: A Practical Guide for the Small Investor to Profits After Tax Reform
Peter G. Miller
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ASIN: 006091579X

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In Our Right to Drugs, Thomas Szasz shows that our present drug war started at the beginning of this century, when the American government first assumed the task of protecting people from patent medicines. By the end of World War I, however, the free market in drugs was but a dim memory, if that. Instead of dwelling on the familiar impracticality or unfairness of our drug laws, Szasz demonstrates the deleterious effects of prescription laws which place people under lifelong medical tutelage. The result is that most Americans today prefer a coercive and corrupt command drug economy to a free market in drugs. Throughout the book, Szasz stresses the consequences of the fateful transformation of the central aim of American drug prohibitions from protecting us from being fooled by "misbranded" drugs to protecting us from harming ourselves by self-medication--defined as "drug abuse." And he reminds us that the choice between self-control and state coercion applies to all areas of our lives, drugs being but one of the theaters in which this perennial play may be staged. A free society, Szasz emphasizes, cannot endure if its citizens reject the values of self-discipline and personal responsibility and if the state treats adults as if they were naughty children. In a no-holds-barred examination of the implementation of the War on Drugs, Szasz shows that under the guise of protecting the vulnerable members of our society--especially children, blacks, and the sick--our government has persecuted and injured them. Leading politicians persuade parents to denounce their children, and encourage children to betray their parents and friends--behavior that subverts family loyalties and destroys basic human decency. And instead of protecting blacks and Hispanics from dangerous drugs, this holy war has allowed us to persecute them, not as racists but as therapists--working selflessly to bring about a drug-free America. Last but not least, to millions of sick Americans, the War on Drugs has meant being deprived of the medicines they want-- because the drugs are illegal, unapproved here though approved abroad, or require a prescription a physician may be afraid to provide. The bizarre upshot of our drug policy is that many Americans now believe they have a right to die, which they will do anyway, while few believe they have a right to drugs, even though that does not mean they have to take any. Often jolting, always stimulating, Our Right to Drugs is likely to have the same explosive effect on our ideas about drugs and drug laws as, more than thirty years ago, The Myth of Mental Illness had on our ideas about insanity and psychiatry.

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A Supremely Courageous, Truthful, and Useful Book.......2002-04-07

This book is a supremely courageous and truthful book written by one of the great luminaries of the age(s).
This book "cuts to the chase" as regards fundamental constitutional issues raised by laws regulating
the procurement, possession, sale, and use of drugs.

The book's most striking charge (a correct one, at that!) is that a fundamental tyranny overtook this nation about
90 years ago when "Americans" lost their property rights over their own bodies--all in the name of governmentally-controlled "truth in advertising" for drug sales.

However, this "seemingly benign" governmental goal created untold danger for the very people it was meant to
protect. Szasz rightfully puts America's so-called "drug problem" in proper perspective by suggesting that the
admonition "buyer beware" should have sufficed--for drugs, as for almost everything else.

In the most general terms, this book demonstrates that there are no shortcuts to a thorough-going approach to American Liberty and Freedom. Dr. Szasz very clearly, and effectively, corrects those who claim that drug laws be summarily repealed for any reasons other than their moral unacceptability in a free state.

Making proper analogy to the wrongful justification of the slavery of blacks in America (owing to their mischaracterization as property), Szasz makes it clear that the infringement of property rights (both of your body, and substances you might possess) lies at the heart of America's despotic and tyrannical so-called "War on Drugs."

Although he does not (if memory serves me correctly) directly cite the 9th Amendment in defense of all those who would fight this indigenous, governmentally-sponsored terrorism, he could have:

"THE ENUMERATION OF CERTAIN RIGHTS, IN THE CONSTITUTION, SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED TO DENY OR DISPARAGE OTHERS RETAINED BY THE PEOPLE."

"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms, remedy is set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is nature's manure." Thomas Jefferson

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On Having the Freedom to Change Your Mind.......1999-10-31

When I got a copy of this book - having forgotten about Dr. Szasz's breadth of outlook and singular erudition - I thought I was going to read a nice little political tract condemning the current American Drug Prohibition. "Our Right to Drugs" is that, of course, but it is so much more - it is a call to intellectual and political arms.

The War on Drugs, as Dr. Szasz so carefully shows, is nothing less than a Jihad, a Holy War waged by the forces of reaction and restriction in our society against all those who think that there should be peaceful choice, or self-ownership, or genuine free thought. And like all Holy Wars, this one permits the worst atrocities to be visited on the unbelieving because they are not just wrong - they are evil.

Like many libertarians, Dr. Szasz has little use for compromise; in this case, by those who favor "decriminalization" or "medicalization" of psychoactive drugs. Such people, the author shows, will only end up replacing the current Ayatollahs (cops and ex-generals) with a new Inquisition lead by doctors and psychologists. In the world of physician-monitored drug usage, instead of being evil, anyone who wants to alter his or her own mood will be labeled as "sick" - and instead of being sent to jail, they will be forced into "treatment".

In trying to think of some literary comparison to "Our Right to Drugs", I can only think of Plato's records of certain iconoclastic dialogues about ancient Athenian closemindedness. Truely, Dr. Szasz is our Socrates.

Good philosophical arguments, but politically naive.......1999-07-01

Good arguments for drug legalization (and deregulation of prescription drugs), but a little outdated as far as some of his allusions and political terminology go, and not precise enough in his use of the term "legalizers".

He ignores the distinctions between "decriminalization" and "legalization", and lumps all "legalizers" into a single category, as not being "good enough". He does not seem to realize that there is a wide spectrum of beliefs on drugs, ranging from his position, to the position that all drugs should be banned everywhere.

He is uncompromising, and this is politically defeating. Nonetheless, his position is admirable, and his idea of drugs as a "right" similiar to all other "rights" bandied about in political discourse today, is a good one.

Nice philosophy, and one I wish more accepted it, but he's too radical for today's politicians, who are still in the dark ages of social medicine.

Fear of people committing suicide easily, is Szasz's main hypothesis for why we regulate prescription and illicit drugs the way we do in America today.

This book is good for convincing one that drugs should be legalized, but it is no help for accomplishing that feat politically.

Truly Excellent.......1999-06-30

This is a fine and brilliant book. Szasz manhandles any pretext for government intervention in medicine and the market for drugs. This is by far the best book on the subject.

Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market

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Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market
Thomas Szasz
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Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market
Thomas Szasz
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This book provides practical information for the routine handling of cell and tissue cultures, giving guidelines on the setting up of safe laboratory practice and giving details of the national and international regulations covering the safe handling of biological materials.

Cells, Products, Safety: Background Papers from the Who Study Group on Biologicals (Developments in Biologicals)

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Cells, Products, Safety: Background Papers from the Who Study Group on Biologicals (Developments in Biologicals)

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The authors demonstrate that the essential information about order in, and energy levels of physical systems is encapsulated in the second order reduced density matrix. They have discovered an algorithm to obtain a reasonable accurate expression for the 2-matrix of an N-particle state to make nearly all properties of matter which are of interest to chemists and physicists accessible.

Many-Electron Densities and Reduced Density Matrices (Mathematical and Computational Chemistry)

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Many-Electron Densities and Reduced Density Matrices (Mathematical and Computational Chemistry)

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>When initially introduced, the reduced density matrices (RDMs) held the promise of greatly simplifying electronic structure calculations. Although these expectations were not met immediately, recent work has placed RDMs at the center of new approaches to the electron correlation problem.
Many-Electron Densities and Reduced Density Matrices presents these exciting new developments that underscore both the relevance and practical applications of RDMs. This volume, put together by leading experts in the field, covers topics ranging from fundamental theorems describing mathematical structures of many-electron densities and reduced density matrices to new electronic structure methods that open an avenue to highly accurate atomic and molecular simulations.
Many-Electron Densities and Reduced Density Matrices will be useful primarily to quantum and theoretical chemists, and solid state theorists, but also to physical, mathematical, and computational chemists.
In addition to being a valuable resource for researchers, Many-Electron Densities and Reduced Density Matrices will find a place as a textbook in special topic courses at the advanced graduate level.

Reduced Density Matrices in Quantum Chemistry (Theoretical chemistry; a series of monographs ; v. 6)

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Reduced Density Matrices in Quantum Chemistry (Theoretical chemistry; a series of monographs ; v. 6)
Ernest Roy Davidson
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This authoritative graduate-level text describes the phenomenon of inelastic light scattering by crystals and its use in the investigation of solid-state excitation. Its experimental techniques are common to the study of all types of excitation, and it describes the main components of light-scattering apparatus in detail. 115 figures. 19 tables. 1978 edition.

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The bible of Raman scattering by crystals .......2005-01-08

Very concise, experiment-oriented but rigorous macroscopic descriptions of Raman scattering by dielectric crystals. Although novice spectrosopists are often seen to use a simplified theory (R. Loudon, Adv. Phys. (1964) Vol 13, 423) to interpret/predict their measurement results, it is Eq. (4.33) given in this book that should be recognized as the marrow and pith of crystal Raman theory. If one has mastered Eq (4.33), he/she can definitely explain some fascinating yet puzzling effects often observed in dielectric Raman spectra.
To better understand the relationship between crystal structure and the Raman spectra, however, one needs to use books like Poulet and Mathieu (1976), in combination with this one.
It is a regret that both authors had quit Raman studies after the publication of this first edition, and thus an updated version has never been available. I wish some followers of Hays and Loudon could incorporate newer theories (eg. applicable to carbon nanotubes) into this book and hence make this citation classic more immortal.

Inelastic Light Scattering in Crystals (Horizons in World Physics)

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Light scattering by phonon-polaritons (Springer tracts in modern physics)

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Light Scattering in Solids VII: Crystal-Field and Magnetic Excitations (Topics in Applied Physics)

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This is the seventh volume of a well-established series in which expert practitioners discuss topical aspects of light scattering in solids. Emphasis is placed on electronic excitations between crystal-field split levels of transition-metal and rare-earth ions in crystals, among them high-Tc superconductors and magnetic excitations that appear in superlattices containing magnetic metals. The contents of this volume again demonstrates the usefulness of Raman spectroscopy for the investigation and characterization of this class of materials. It will be useful to advanced students and to all researchers who apply Raman spectroscopy in their work.

Microphysical and optical properties of noctilucent clouds [An article from: Earth Science Reviews]

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Microphysical and optical properties of noctilucent clouds [An article from: Earth Science Reviews]
A.A. Kokhanovsky
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This digital document is a journal article from Earth Science Reviews, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Noctilucent clouds play an important role in the physics of the summer polar mesopause. They consist of tiny ice crystals with characteristic dimensions smaller than 200 nm. However, neither exact shape of particles nor their precise chemical composition or concentration is known with a high accuracy. Also the origin of the particulate layer at such a high level in the terrestrial atmosphere (about 80 km) is a matter of a considerable controversy. This paper summarizes recent advances in our understanding of nature of noctilucent clouds (NLCs) with special emphasis on the size and shape of crystals.

A fiber optic probe for monitoring protein aggregation, nucleation, and crystallization (SuDoc NAS 1.15:107120)

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Fluctuations and light scattering in cholesteric liquid crystals, (University of Hawaii)

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Investigation of growth instabilities of the ice-water interface by light scattering spectroscopy: Final report

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Light scattering studies of liquid crystals in the pretransition region ([Theses for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy - University of Hawaii)

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Light scattering studies of liquid crystals in the pretransition region ([Theses for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy - University of Hawaii)
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Encounter. A Novel of Nineteenth Century Korea. Translated by Ok Young Kim Chang.
Hahn Moo-Sook
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Encounter: A Novel of Nineteenth-Century Korea (Voices from Asia)
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This historical novel, Encounter (Mannam), by Hahn Moo-Sook, one of Asia's most honored writers, is a story of the resilience in the Korean spirit. It is told through the experiences of Tasan, a high-ranking official and foremost Neo-Confucian scholar at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Because of Tasan's fascination with Western learning, then synonymous with Catholicism, he is exiled to a remote province for 18 years. In banishment he meets people from various social and religious backgrounds--Buddhist monks, peasants, shamans--whom he would not otherwise have met. The events of Tasan's life are effectively used to depict the confluence of Buddhist, Neo-Confucian, Taoist, and shamanistic beliefs in traditional Korea.
A subplot involves three young sisters, the daughters of a prominent Catholic aristocrat, and affords the reader vivid glimpses into Yi-dynasty women's lives, particularly those of palace ladies, scholars' wives, tavern keepers, shamans, and slaves. In contrast to the long-held Confucian stereotype of female subservience, this story illustrates the richness of women's contribution to Korean culture and tradition.
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