Get in the Game!: The Girls' Guide to Money and Investing

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Get in the Game! targets educating and empowering young women in their twenties in all aspects of money and investing. Written in a fresh, fun, accessible, and informative style, the book spells out when women need to invest, how they can set achievable goals and then find the tools for reaching them.

The book is simple enough for a beginner but savvy enough to be of real value to every reader. No other finance book provides this blend of empathy, humor, and most of all, immediacy. As a mentor to her peer group and speaking from her own experience, author Vanessa Summers is well equipped to help young women develop a sense of confidence and competence about their money matters.

Step-by-step, Get in the Game! shows young women why it is important for them to start investing now. It explains how to define their personal financial identities, control unrestrained spending, and pay themselves first by building three 'adventure backpacks' (retirement, emergency funds, and immediate cash).

Summers explains the basics of 401(k)s, IRAs, mutual funds, and other financial instruments and includes a special section on Internet research. There's even a wrap-up that helps the reader get comfortable with the wealth of information the book shares -- without feeling overwhelmed.

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Loved it!.......2006-10-28

This book is great for begineers and speaks at that level. Even if you are an intermediate level you will still enjoy the outline of this book. The follow up book is good too.

Scored!.......2005-04-07

This was an amazing book. I first read it when i was 18. I am not the reason this book is sold out at 4 diffrent borders location aroudn town. This book is Phenomonal and i HIGHLY recommend women in general reading. I give it as a gift all the time. I started with my mom and my sister and they both loved it. The book is very informative and simple to understand. The book ranged from words i had heard before but was to embrassed to ask what they ment- to more advanced ideas and concepts. The book also isn't just about Finanaces it is about finding the blance ina ll aspect of you life. I was motivated and inspired. I got to meet Vanessa and attened one of her Wealth and Sucess workshops and she sincerly belives and backs and lives everything she talks about. She is an amazing person and a great example for us all.

Book plus website = financial freedom! .......2004-11-25

I LOVED this book and was so motivated while I was reading it that I signed up for an online software before I got halfway through! Everybody keeps saying that tracking your spending is the first step to saving money, getting out of debt and building a retirement fund. But I've always found Quicken and Money and all those other programs really boring and complicated. Thank God for moneypants.com. Their cashtracking software is tailor-made for idiots like me who prefer pictures to numbers!

Great for any woman!!.......2003-06-05

Summers is great at introducing her topics in a manner that is not overwhelming. Plus she gives great tips and facts to back up why you should take care of your finances. An excellent read for a recent college grad or your mother.

Not for the serious investor.......2002-03-07

The book was short, light and easy to read. It was also a very superficial treatment of the topic, more of a cheerleading tome than anything else. If you want hard numbers/facts, look elsewhere.

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"Fred Newell has pulled together the basic principles for marketing in the 21st century. The year 2000 is just around the corner. DonOt wait until then to update yourself." NStanley Marcus, Chairman Emeritus, Neiman Marcus. Fred Newell, "The Father of Database Marketing," shows in The New Rules of Marketing how you can use dramatic new techniques and strategies to learn everything possible about your customers...and leverage that information into dramatically increased sales! Written in fast-moving and humorous style, NewellOs book is packed with actual examples and case histories that explain: How to discover the powerful needs and desires that every customer tries to hide; 5 important consumer trends that will impact the marketing scene well beyond the year 2000; a step-by-step guide to building your own database marketing program; and the 5 new century consumer trends that will change marketing forever. Database marketing pioneer Fred NewellOs The New Rules of Marketing reveals the new technologies you will need to uncover and analyze your customersO invaluable wants and needs, and shows you how to design your marketing efforts to cater to each and very customer!

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Good insights, but he should have checked his facts.......2000-01-15

While I agree with others who have noted that this book is somewhat out of date, I still found his insights, gained from participating in CRM projects, quite useful. While I was reading the book, I thought that several of his stories and anecdotes would be useful in the classroom. Then he blew some of his credibility late in the book by falling for the "Cookie Recipe" story, a well-known urban legend. I first received that recipe, and heard the story, back in 1977, long before it started floating around the Internet. A small amount of checking would have uncovered this as a hoax. Unfortunately that made me question the credibility of many of his other examples.

Reply to "West Coast Reader" 10/13.......1999-11-10

You are right on target. The book was written three years ago and did not cover any of the now important Internet opportunities for CRM.

The purpose of the new book, loyalty.com Customer Relationship Management in the New Era of Internet MArketing is to serve the needs of folks like this West Coast reader who want to learn more about conducting e-dialog.

Answer to "West Coast Reader," October 13, 1999.......1999-11-10

You are right on target. The book is now three years old. It was a book of basics about database marketing and did not include any of the now important Internet opportunities.

That is exactly why I have written loyalty.com Customer Relationship Management in the New Era of Internet Marketing, to answer this reader's need. It will be published in January.

Entertaining, philosophy right on,tactically out of date.......1999-10-14

Mr. Newell uses an entertaining style to make his points, and the overriding philosophy he espouses hasn't changed, but strategies and tactics have! He doesn't seem to have recent real-life experience with data analysis or online efforts. The biggest successes are derived from a combination of academics and street-wise, hands-on tactics.

Content well developed with a good topic range........1999-07-07

This is an excellent book for those companies moving to the Integrated Marketing & One To One paradigm. Newell has laid the foundation for planning. Wish I had written it!

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This book offers comprehensive coverage of the most important areas in photoreceptors and light signalling. Photoreceptors enable most species to sense not only the presence of light but also the information, such as irradiance, colour or spectral distribution, direction and polarization of light. They are vital, therefore, in providing organisms with energy and information about their surroundings, such as day and night cycles. This book covers the range of photoreceptors that have been discovered to date and the broad range of methods used when researching how they operate, including: action spectroscopy; methods for protein purification; the whole range of molecular biological and genetic methods; and numerous spectroscopic methods, from absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy to X-ray diffraction, used for solving the structure of photoreceptors. Written by leading experts in the field, Photoreceptors and Light Signalling provides the reader with the most recent results and research. This book will be valued by a wide-range of readers, including students of photochemistry, photobiology, biology, chemistry and physics and other professionals in academia.

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Review of the 4th edition "... The growing society of GPS users and designers could be very grateful for the efforts of both the authors and the publisher resulting in the fourth, revised edition of this splendid reference book within six years ... The continous updating and revising make this book an excellent standard reference on GPS for theoreticians and practicians in the future.” Acta Geodaetica, Geophysica et Montanistica Hungarica

Customer Reviews:

For the mathematically inclined.......2005-06-15

This text provides a great introduction to the *theory* of GPS. It is rigorous on the mathematics so I wouldn't recommend it for someone who just needs a general understanding of how GPS operates or an understanding of the applications of GPS (e.g. software project managers or other personnel who aren't actually implementing sat or receiver software). For those who need to dive into the theory and algorithms with of GPS, you should have a firm understanding of trigonometry, linear algebra (matrix operations) and basic calculus before reading this text. As one reviewer pointed out, it does cover the application of GPS to surveying in depth.

If you are software engineer working on an application that only needs to know what comes out of a GPS receiver's serial data port and how to make use of if, this book isn't for you. There are other texts available that cover most of the material that you need. If you need to know what comes out of a GPS receiver's data port (the interface specification), you should refer to (controlled access) the latest version of ICD-GPS-153 "GPS User Equipment Interface Control Document for the GPS Standard Serial Interface Protocol". Then refer to numerous other texts on coordinate transformations, projections, etc. However, this is not to say that this book is completely useless for such a developer as it does cover material such as coordinate transformations with respect to the GPS reference system (WGS-84) and it touches on the topic of projections that I will return to shortly.

My primary complaint with the text is the notation utilized. The text makes use of non-standard (or perhaps it would be better to say "archaic") vector and matrix notation. At least, non-standard in my experience. This could be driven by technical limitations in the publishing/printing process used by Springer or other reasons. I personally have few texts by the publisher with which to compare this text. I found myself having to make notes or constantly flipping back-and-forth just to remind myself of what a particular symbol represented. If you have a background in geodesy or Geographic Information Systems (GIS), you may find the notation alien in appearance.

The text offers an inverse method of transforming Geocentric ECEF (X,Y,Z) coordinates into Geodetic (latitude, longitude, height). A topic that many authors shy away from. I haven't studied the approach or compared it to algorithms that I currently use. Therefore, for the software developer, you might want to compare these results with those obtained by other algorithms developed by Bowring, Nautiyal and others. There are several variations of Bowring's algorithm sprinkled around the Internet, each developed to meet specific needs (e.g. extreme accuracy or extreme speed of execution). The developer should explore all algorithmic approaches and determine the best for his/her application.

The text touches on the Transverse Mercator projection and the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid reference system. The coverage of UTM is inadequate for someone needing to implement it in software. I would refer the reader to the Defense Mapping Agency (DMA, now the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, or NGA) document 8358.2 "The Universal Grids: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) and Universal Polar Stereographic (UPS)" for a thorough treatment of the UTM grid reference system. This document is available to the public on the Internet.

For a text that covers practice/applications of GPS, I would like to see some detailed discussion of the interfaces between receivers and external equipment (i.e. computers & application software) with respect to ICD-GPS-153. I believe that some discussion of this can be made without revealing sensitive interface details.

The reference section is superb and the book sprinkles many useful online resources throughout the text.

I found the comparison of GPS to GLONASS (Russian equivalent to GPS) particularly interesting. There is only a brief mention of Galileo (the European civial "GPS" system).

A resource for more than just GPS.......2001-07-26

This is an excellent book for anyone that works with spacecraft geometry and/or timekeeping. It contains concise descriptions of coordinate systems, orbital elements and timekeeping. I've been using it as an algorithm 'cookbook'. This is not a book for a casual GPS user, or someone who is sqeamish about math. It's much easier to use than the Astronomical Almanac for basic algorithms. Like a fool, I lent it out. Now I need to buy another one.

More theory than practice!.......2000-01-21

As a commercial GPS user, I was looking for a book that would offer a fairly basic overview of GPS, but that would still go into significant detail. This book does exactly that, but it also covers a lot of the mathematical theory behind GPS. This book certainly isn't introductory and I think would be more suited to a surveyor with a good knowledge of surveying techniques who was interested in GPS. The mathematics gets a bit heavy for a non-mathematician but Chapter 7 (Surveying with GPS) is an excellent introduction/review of the practical uses of GPS in the field. A good intermediate-advanced level book, probably very suited to students.

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1:12 000 pianta della citta, Lugano e dintorni: Con indice delle strade = 1:12 000 Stadtplan, Lugano und Umgebung : mit Strassenverzeichnis = 1:12 000 ... map, Lugano and environs : with street index
Orell Fussli Kartographie AG
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Bearbeitung thematischer Karten mit dem Plotter: Beitrage zum Einsatz von EDV in der Kartographie (Arbeitsberichte und Ergebnisse zur wirtschafts- und sozialgeographischen Regionalforschung)

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Bearbeitung thematischer Karten mit dem Plotter: Beitrage zum Einsatz von EDV in der Kartographie (Arbeitsberichte und Ergebnisse zur wirtschafts- und sozialgeographischen Regionalforschung)

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Bibliotheca Cartographica. Bibliographie des kartographischen Schrifttums, etc. Nos. 1-30

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Bibliotheca Cartographica. Bibliographie des kartographischen Schrifttums, etc. Nos. 1-30
Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz.; Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kartographie.
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Das Festungsbuch des Nicolas Person: Wichtige Festungen Europas Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts (Quellen zur Geschichte des Vedutenstichs und der Kartographie)

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Das Festungsbuch des Nicolas Person: Wichtige Festungen Europas Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts (Quellen zur Geschichte des Vedutenstichs und der Kartographie)
Peter H Meurer
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Desktop Mapping: Grundlagen und Praxis in Kartographie und GIS

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Desktop Mapping: Grundlagen und Praxis in Kartographie und GIS
Gerold Olbrich , Michael Quick , and Jürgen Schweikart
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Schätzungsweise 80% aller verfügbaren Daten haben geographischen Bezug. Dank der rasanten Entwicklung von Hard- und Software ist es heute leichter denn je, diese raumbezogenen Daten als Karte abzubilden. Zunehmend bedienen sich daher heute auch Praktiker und Wissenschaftler ohne spezielle Kartographiekenntnisse dieser Form der Darstellung. Dem Leser wird zunächst unverzichtbares Basiswissen aus dem Bereich der thematischen Kartographie vermittelt und darauf aufbauend die Methodik der angewandten digitalen Kartographie erläutert. Wie sieht ein kartographischer PC-Arbeitsplatz aus? Wie kommen die Daten in den PC? Wie wird eine Karte daraus und wie kommt diese anschließend auf den Drucker oder ins Internet? Diese Fragen werden in einem separaten Kapitel zur angewandten digitalen Kartographie beantwortet. Ein ausführlicher Überblick über gängige Software rundet das Buch ab. Die beiliegende CD-ROM enthält Demoversionen zu diesen Programmen.

Die Anfange von Kartographie und Topographie Schleswig-Holsteins, 1475-1652

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Die Anfange von Kartographie und Topographie Schleswig-Holsteins, 1475-1652
Reimer Witt
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Die Entwicklung der Kartographie von Amerika bis 1570

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Die Entwicklung der Kartographie von Amerika bis 1570
Sophus Ruge
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Die Geschichte der Kartographie
Leo BAGROW
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ASIN: B000RJHZLG

Dynamische Visualisierung: Grundlagen mit Anwendungsbeispielen aus der Kartographie

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Dynamische Visualisierung: Grundlagen mit Anwendungsbeispielen aus der Kartographie

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Dynamische Visualisierung: Grundlagen mit Anwendungsbeispielen aus der Kartographie richtet sich in erster Linie an Praktiker, die kartographische Animationen erstellen wollen. Das Buch bietet einen leichten Einstieg in die Thematik sowie konkrete Hilfestellung für die Praxis. Es werden technische und methodische Grundlagen vermittelt und Erfahrungen von Fachleuten anhand von Beispielen aus unterschiedlichen Anwendungsbereichen beschrieben. Darüber hinaus werden Gestaltungsprinzipien kartographischer Animation aus konzeptioneller und anwendungsbezogener Sicht vorgestellt. Aus technischer Sicht wird auf Herstellungsverfahren, Hard- und Software sowie auf Internetanwendungen eingegangen. Die Beispiele der Animationssequenzen sind auf der beiliegenden CD-ROM gespeichert.

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Over 40 renowned scientists from all around the world discuss the work and influence of Werner Heisenberg. The papers result from the symposium held by the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Heisenberg's birth, one of the most important physicists of the 20th century and cofounder of modern-day quantum mechanics. Taking atomic and laser physics as their starting point, the scientists illustrate the impact of Heisenberg's theories on astroparticle physics, high-energy physics and string theory right up to processing quantum information.

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Fun, light read.

Magical Man List

A Real Page-Turner!

Be careful what you ask for!

The Magical Man List: A Romantic Comedy About Finding Your Soul Mate
Christie Walker Bos
Manufacturer: iUniverse
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ASIN: 0595292399

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Dating the wrong man was not a casual endeavor for Samantha Stewart; it was turning into a lifelong career. At thirty-five, Sam was a never-married, baseball-loving, successful engineer, whose chances of finding true love, having kids and living semihappily ever after were looking bleaker with every passing baseball season. Her only guides along the way are her best friend, Marta, and Â“the twinsÂ”Â—her two inner voicesÂ—that continually give conflicting advice. Finally deciding to Â“get seriousÂ” about finding The One, Sam and Marta create a magical man listÂ—a divining rod for finding their soul mates. The concept was simpleÂ—just make a list of everything you want in the perfect man. After all, you canÂ't get what you want until you know exactly what that is. With their man lists completed, they invent Â“magicalÂ” ceremonies to activate their lists and then wait for their soul mates to arrive. Would their homegrown magic really work? The Magical Man List is a humorous tale of searching for love, tripping over romance, and unexpectedly falling in love.

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Engaging and fun read........2004-09-07

Christie is a local author whose book I advance read for the community bookstores. This little book is a fun and engaging journey about the quest to find the perfect soulmate. Everyone who buys this book loves it!

If you want other Big Bear, California authors check out: Diana L. Guerrero (me!), William Sarabande, Rita S. Robinson, and Thomas Core...

Fun, light read........2004-01-17

I read the Magical Man List while on a cross country flight. It was a fun book that made the flight zip by. I enjoyed the characters and the fun premise of the book. It will make you think about your ideal person and what you're really looking for in a partner. Looking forward to Christie's next book.

Magical Man List.......2004-01-17

I loved the Magical Man List. I laughed out loud several times throughout the book and my kids looked at me like I was crazy. It's well-written and easy to read with so many comical and romantic moments I couldn't put it down. Chapter 4 is my absolute favorite and it gets better from there. This book would make a great romantic comedy movie! I hope to see "The Magical Man List" in the movie theatre some day and I can't wait for Christie's next book!

A Real Page-Turner!.......2004-01-07

This book was a real joy to read, and kept me "hooked" from the very first chapter. The characters were funny, relatable and quite a delight to get to know. There's nothing like a well-written book that offers light, witty dialogue, and laugh-out-loud situations--all in one! Needless to say, this book was just the right blend of humor and heartfelt sentiment--I loved every page!

Be careful what you ask for!.......2003-12-13

Reading this was inspiring, makes me feel like I'd better get off my butt and ask for what I want; cause I might get it! I didn't want to put it down; and I'm looking forward to Ms. Walker-Bos' next novel.

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