The Pivot Generation: Informal Care and Work After Fifty (Transitions After 50 Series)

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For electronics technicians who want to keep up with ever-changing consumer demand, this professional guide to servicing today's advanced color television systems is an excellent, one-stop source of information on the latest troubleshooting and repair techniques. Covering everything from color TV basics to state-of-the-art test equipment, this fully illustrated manual supplies vital information on every aspect of TV systems, including remote controls, digital audio, compression, and receivers. The newest digital and high definition television systems are also discussed in detail.

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Very good book but doesn't cover the latest u'processor TV's.......1997-09-05

Does a good job of covering service procedures and equipment and includes some theory. However, it does not cover more current TV's that have microprocessor control and one big chip that provides all the signals, e.g horizontal, vertical etc.

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The Original "Big Daddy" Kane raps about The Bat!.......2007-02-27

So ya think ya know about The Batman,eh? Well, here's the story straight from the man who created him. Bob Kane, one of the rare souls who was able to have some control over the destiny of his brainchild, lays it all out in his whimsical, informative and flamboyant manner. Kane not only tells us about how the Batman came to be, but gives us insights into the kind of world that would give birth to such a character--the Post-Depression era. While Superman was an answer to a cry for help, Batman reflected the "bootstrapping", tougher than shoe-leather type spirit one needed to survive in those days. Kane also reveals his secret mentor and discusses the members of the cartooning studio he created to help him chronicle the Caped Crusader's adventures: Jerry Robinson, George Roussos and most important of all Bill Finger, Kane's studio writer and right-hand man, whom many consider to be the unofficial co-creator of The Batman. Although naysayers challenged some of Kane's assertions when this volume was first published, Kane's claims were later verified by persistent historians.While reading this book you'll laugh, cry, stare in bewilderment and give out a big "Hoo-Hah!" with Kane leading you all the way! It's the kind of book that would make even the dreaded Batman smile...occasionally!

A FASCINATING LOOK AT EGO.......2001-04-21

This tome earns three stars on the strength of its audacity. Bob Kane is a man who never met an idea he couldn't claim as his own, it seems.

Kane made himself very rich on the backs of writer Bill Finger and a host of ghost artists. The narrative in this book, with its clumsy boasts and baldly revised history (including sketches that are almost certainly purposefully misdated to support Kane's claims), provide ample indictment of one man's hubris.

But that's not to say it isn't entertaining in its own sad way ...

Batman wins again !.......2000-05-30

BATMAN AND ME is a great book for pepole who are just begining on batman.it tells how Batman was created.It tells about bob's first ideas.It is the best book on BATMAN

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, #186 (Comic Book): RIDDLE ME THAT, PART 2 OF 5

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Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, #186 (Comic Book): RIDDLE ME THAT, PART 2 OF 5
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Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, #187 (Comic Book): RIDDLE ME THAT, PART 3 OF 5

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Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, #187 (Comic Book): RIDDLE ME THAT, PART 3 OF 5
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Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, #188 (Comic Book): RIDDLE ME THAT, PART 4 OF 5

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Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, #188 (Comic Book): RIDDLE ME THAT, PART 4 OF 5
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Famous Financial Fiascos by John Train UNABRIDGED, Audio Cassette, Narrated by John Train
John Train
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Cassette
ASIN: B000LO678Y

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Historyespecially the last centuryhas been filled to the brim with scams and frauds. As with most tales of disaster and greed, the bigger they are, the more entertaining they become. But these fiascos are also instructive and educational in their own way, and are likely to save you both time and money, as you begin to create your own financial history.

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A Useful Collection of Financial Vignettes...
Interesting stories but poorly written
Investor Beware!

Famous Financial Fiascos
John Train
Manufacturer: Fraser Pub. Co.
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Binding: Paperback

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Foreword by Professor C. Northcote Parkinson. Illustrated by Pierre Le-Tan. A classic study on different ways not to succeed. Everything from Mr. Ponzi, Tulipomania, the Kuwait Stock Exchange Explosion, Bernie Cornfeld, Ivan Krueger, and others. Shows the confusion of purpose, overgenerous investments, mistakes in timing and many other ways where investors have gone wrong. As Parkinson says, "It is better to learn from a book than to learn in a bankruptcy court.

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A Useful Collection of Financial Vignettes..........2002-03-15

Financial fiascos are as old as the hills, but John Train has done a good job of selecting a useful cross-section of twenty of them for readers to enjoy. This book is an excellent graduation gift for an MBA, or for someone starting a new business. It's light reading, with humor leavened throughout, and the stories are memorable enough to stick with you as you make your own way in life.

The challenge and the beauty of this brief work is in the selection of which fiascos to present. Although many a reader will think of one or two scandals that were missed, there are enough of them here of various types that any one exclusion is not relevant to the presentation. This was not written to be a history of all financial scandals of all time. The organization of fiascos in the book is non-chronological, jumping between long stories and short stories in different time periods, offering different lessons.

"Fiascos" carefully dissects various overriding themes of financial scandal in its seven page afterword, which I will not repeat here. The book is also bracketed with an excellent foreword by C. Northcote Parkinson. I will just summarize that most of the scandals involve otherwise talented or intelligent people driven to do very foolish things, whether by personal ambition or under the influence of a crowd. It was noteworthy to me that three of the twenty scandals (John Law, the French Revolutionary hyperinflation and the French Panama Canal) involved France in a major way. What am I to make of this? France obviously had a difficult transition from its absolute monarchy into the modern era, and it appears to have been an environment ripe for manipulation. It may be correct to say that under authoritarian environments, whether involving governments or just corporate bureaucracies, financial weeds are more likely to grow. This suggests to me that China may be ripe for scandal as it continues its uneven road towards a modern economy (beyond those involving metals trading or banking that have already been disclosed).

In fact, the best antidote to financial fiasco appears to be complete transparency between buyers and sellers regarding what is being offered, and intelligent consideration of risks by those involved. This is what makes truth in financial accounting, to the extent it can be achieved, so critical.

One criticism I do have of Train's storytelling involves repentance, told towards the end of his description of the French Panama Canal fiasco [p.74]:

"[In the wake of the scandal] over a hundred parliamentarians were brought to trial, but a single poor naif who actually confessed was the only one found guilty.

...But there was a happy twist: on the basis of a legal technicality a higher court quashed the sentences."

Hooray for the "poor naif"! I don't know why he chose to confess when so many other guilty figures did not, but on the day that man died I'm sure his conscience was a little bit clearer for it. It's most difficult to "play by the rules" when the entire crowd goes mad, as these stories often illustrate. This dissent by the lone French parliamentarian is to be lauded, even if it could have cost him dearly as the sole bearer of guilt.

When the rest of the crowd goes against you, will you have the strength to stick to your convictions?

Interesting stories but poorly written.......2001-12-08

This book could have been much better. John Train's essays contain some interesting nuggets of information, but the overall quality is uneven at best. The book reads a bit like a first draft. With some better editing, this could have been an outstanding book. As it stands, though, it's a moderately entertaining collection of half-baked stories.

Investor Beware!.......2001-06-30

C. Northcote Parkinson provides an especially informative Foreword in which he briefly discusses the balance between investment risk and reward, noting that human error is frequently the cause of investment failure. Shifting his attention to this book, Parkinson suggests that Train "has usefully analyzed a number of these human errors and we do well to study his conclusions. Some of the worst mistakes have been made by people to whom the nature of their problem was entirely new. They lived at a time when the textbooks of economics had still to be written, at a time when the word `inflation' was applied only to balloons. There are still such people today and they can be identified, very often, as folk who have plunged into industry without any previous background in commerce." Parkinson suggests that there are many different causes of financial disasters, with the worst the result of several causes in combination, such as confusion of purpose, overgenerous investment, and a mistake in timing. To these I would add "homework" or rigorous due diligence. Train carefully examines 20 of the most famous (infamous?) "financial fiascos" which range from "Mr. Ponzi and His Scheme" to "The Putrefaction of Juan March." He also includes an excellent analysis of two which have always fascinated me: "Xerox Discovers the Computer: The S.D.S. Scandal" and "The Fine New $6 Million Sydney Opera House."

Following the brief but insightful analyses of such `fiascos", Train concludes his book with an Afterword which has special relevance to the contemporary business world. After noting that the syndrome that begets inflation and then unavailing price controls seems as old as history (e.g. Hammurabi's code in about 1745 B.C. and Diocletian's in A.D. 301), he poses a thought-provoking question: "Do we still treat inflation by controlling prices instead of government expenses and the money supply?" After all the millennia, Train suggests, an aphorism attributed to the Swedish chancellor Oxenstierna seems to remain true: "The world always wishes to be deceived: let it be deceived." Those who share my high regard for this book are urged to check out Edward Chancellor's Devil Take the Hindmost.

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Famous Financial Fiascos
John Train
Manufacturer: Random House Value Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NXWXJK

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Famous financial fiascos / by John Train ; illustrations by Pierre Le-Tan ; foreword by C. Northcote Parkinson
John Train
Manufacturer: New York : C.N. Potter : Distributed by Crown Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VT5J24

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Famous Financial Fiascos
John, Illustrated by Pierre Le-Tan Train
Manufacturer: G. Allen & Unwin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OE7T4W

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Each of the over 2,450 entries includes the title of the film exactly as it appears on the sheet music cover, studio, date of the film's release, main stars, the song title, composers and lyricists, publisher, and a brief description of the cover. Includes song and composer indexes.

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Extraordinary, nuanced, complex history of the commonplace........1998-10-08

Elegant and well-written, this is one of the few books to take a realistic look at American popular cultural technology. Historians and archaeologists coupld learn a lot from this case study.

The Portable Radio in American Life.: An article from: American Antiquity

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The Portable Radio in American Life.: An article from: American Antiquity
Peter Bleed
Manufacturer: Society for American Archaeology
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from American Antiquity, published by Society for American Archaeology on January 1, 1994. The length of the article is 781 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: The Portable Radio in American Life.
Author: Peter Bleed
Publication: American Antiquity (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1994
Publisher: Society for American Archaeology
Volume: v59 Issue: n1 Page: p156(2)

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The Druid Animal Oracle-Beautiful Book & Card Set!.......1999-12-21

The Druid Animal Oracle was wonderful esthetically & spiritually. A Chiste Agus a Stór! Just beautiful. Another nice thing that Phillip & Stephanie Carr-Gomm do for the readers, is to put the names of the animals neatly in a guide that gives the Gaelic name & the Modern English name side by side. I was so enchanted by the cards & the book that i was flooded with a desire & the energy to memorize the cards & book completely before putting it down. I was deeply touched by it. I showed it to others & we all enjoyed it together. Also there were a few blank cards that you could put a creature on, in case one you want is not already included. I used one of mine for a Dolphin & one for a giant SeaTurtle. I would highly recommend this book & card set for yourself or for a precious gift for another.Moran Taing! Slán

Skillful ancient images&legends from the Euro/UK psyche........1999-01-23

A wonderful tool to join with the spirit of nature's creatures. The depth of imagery in these cards is just breathtaking when you first see them. Their blend of western european traditions is unsurpassed in the details of each line and color used (both in the main images, and in the "talking" border of plants). A must for any student of nature's history - either spiritual or as an animal lover.

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If anything can make accounting fun (or even just a little less painful) QuickBooks Pro 2005 can--especially if you get this no-nonsense task-based guide to it! While QuickBooks Pro 6 was all about going native (Mac OS X–native, that is!), this time out the focus is on ease of use. To ensure that you don't miss out on any of the many features that can streamline your accounting processes, trusted Mac teacher Maria Langer uses simple step-by-step instructions and loads of visual aids to get you up to speed on QuickBooks Pro fast. After providing a detailed account of how to install and configure the program, Maria shows you how to enter sales, make payments, work with transactions, track inventory, process payroll, report results, print forms, and more. Along the way, Maria discusses the accounting principles that guide the program's use and delves deeply into all of QuickBooks' newest features: one-click viewing of cash flow and unbilled hours, the ability to share QuickBooks data with Windows users, and more.

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If anything can make accounting fun (or even just a little less painful) QuickBooks Pro 2005 can--especially if you get this no-nonsense task-based guide to it! While QuickBooks Pro 6 was all about going native (Mac OS X-native, that is!), this time out the focus is on ease of use. To ensure that you don't miss out on any of the many features that can streamline your accounting processes, trusted Mac teacher Maria Langer uses simple step-by-step instructions and loads of visual aids to get you up to speed on QuickBooks Pro fast. After providing a detailed account of how to install and configure the program, Maria shows you how to enter sales, make payments, work with transactions, track inventory, process payroll, report results, print forms, and more. Along the way, Maria discusses the accounting principles that guide the program's use and delves deeply into all of QuickBooks' newest features: one-click viewing of cash flow and unbilled hours, the ability to share QuickBooks data with Windows users, and more.

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