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The Study Guides include quizzes and test tips, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and true-false questions with solutions. They are designed to assist students in comprehending the concepts and principles presented in the text.
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study guide.......2006-11-10
This guide went beyond what the instructor taught yet it prepared me for the tough questions on the exam.
Thank you.......2006-11-07
Thanks for the great service and quick turnaround on the order. :)
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-Showcases today's fence and gate styles.
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Adequate if you don't expect too much.......1999-12-23
This book did provide a "portfolio" of photos of fences and gates as advertised, however, it repeats many of the photos in various sections of the book. If you are grasping for ideas and need a reasonable number of photos for inspiration, this book may be adequate. If you are looking for a wealth of photos, it may not be the book for you.
Awful! Not worth the money.......1999-03-08
This book was completely useless in helping plan my fence/deck. It's just a collection of photos from various industry associations and manufacturers; OK, as far as that goes, but there are very few photos - generally one per page (84 pages); that means, few ideas! To top that, the same photos appear repeatedly throughout the book - one photo shows up 4 times!! The text is sparse and very general. This is certainly not much of a portfolio - going to the library & flipping through the deck/garden magazines will serve you better. There are a whole raft of "Portolio" books put out by the same publisher - I will not buy anything else by them!
Great book for fence ideas........1998-08-24
I was looking for a book that would give me some unique, as well as traditional, fence design ideas. This book was exactly what I wanted. It contains lots of color pictures and helps you decide the purpose of your fence so you can better decide on it's design.
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Household Portfolios
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Until recently, researchers in economics and finance paid relatively little attention to household portfolios. Reasons included the tendency of most households to hold simple portfolios, the inability of the dominant asset pricing models to account for household portfolio incompleteness, and the lack of detailed databases on household portfolios in many countries until the late 1980s or 1990s. Now, however, the analysis of household portfolios is emerging as a field of vigorous study.
The eleven chapters in this collection provide an overview of current theoretical knowledge about the structure of household portfolios and compare predictions with empirical findings. The book describes the state-of-the-art tools of analytical, computational, and econometric investigation, as well as some of the key policy questions. It provides an original comparative analysis of household portfolios in countries for which detailed household-level data are available (the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands). Finally, it uses microdata for an in-depth study of the portfolio composition of population groups of special policy interest, such as the young, the elderly, and the rich.
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valuable resource.......2002-07-03
This book is a valuable resource for any economist interested in the subject of household portfolios. It provides a comprehensive overview of the state of research on portfolios, including theory, data sources and distributional and institutional aspects. Much of the work presented isn't especially original, but it's all carefully and thoughtfully done and usefully collected in one place. The cross-country comparisons are insightful and new. Overall, this is required reading for those interested in this field.
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The ideas presented in this book offer patio and porch concepts that are both fun and functional. Design ideas include large, old-fashioned porches; screened-in porches; free-form patios; poolside patios, and more. 150+ color photos.
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Accounting for unsystematic risk: diversifying your portfolio is a sound equity investment practice, but that alone is unlikely to maximise your returns. ... An article from: Financial Management (UK)
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Title: Accounting for unsystematic risk: diversifying your portfolio is a sound equity investment practice, but that alone is unlikely to maximise your returns. Malcolm Howard offers some other ideas.(TECHNICAL MATTERS)
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Title: Federal Information Collection: A Reexamination of the Portfolio of Major Federal Household Surveys Is Needed.
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Foreign funds broaden your investment horizons.(Money): An article from: Winnipeg Free Press
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This paper investigates the effect of changes in health status on household financial wealth and financial portfolio choice. It is shown that the impact of health events on household financial and non-financial wealth is asymmetric. A diagnosis of a new disease leads to a larger decrease in financial wealth than in non-financial wealth. Moreover, we find that the puzzle pertaining to the relationship between health status and portfolio choice discussed in the extant literature generally disappears after controlling for differences in the amount of financial assets held by healthy and sick people. The results suggest that the effect of changes in health status on household financial portfolios is indirect. A health shock significantly reduces household total financial wealth, in turn leading households to restructure the composition of their financial assets.
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Canada and the United States increasingly rely on law to grapple with complex societal issues. What is the impact of this growing dependence on law and legal systems? W.A. Bogart offers a timely and erudite investigation of the impact of law on societies, and how this excessive reliance on law, particularly litigation, has generated difficulties in achieving consensus regarding issues of domestic policy.
Focussing mainly on the United States as the center for post World War II legal culture, the book takes into consideration other western countries, and allows the reader a comparison of legal systems. Consequences begins by documenting the growth of law and the reasons for its enhanced influence; the book then discusses the complex meanings of impact and the substantial difficulties in gauging outcomes produced by law. Bogart illustrates his discussion with five case studies, documenting law's complex ties to economics, education, and political issues, and asserts that positive outcomes have occurred despite litigation's disappointing record. Consequences is a timely, important and interdisciplinary contribution to the study of law and sociology, and will make a substantial addition to the studies of law and society.
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Seeds: The Yearbook of Agriculture
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A basic factor in our realization of mankind's most sought goal, agricultural abundance, good seeds can be a means of bringing about an Age of Plenty. Seeds are the germ of life, a beginning and an end, the fruit of yesterday's harvest and the promise of tomorrow's. The seeds we use today enable our farmers to produce a variety of healthy and hardy food and fiber crops that were virtually unknown a few years ago. Our plant breeders and geneticists have accomplished miracles in the development of more useful plants.
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Handbook of Monochromatic XPS Spectra, Polymers and Polymers Damaged by X-Rays
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Contains an invaluable collection of research grade XPS spectra, including comprehensive information about the XPS instruments used, the materials, and the advanced methods of collecting the spectra. Energy resolution settings, instrument characteristics, energy referencing methods, traceability, energy scale calibration details and transmission function are all reported.
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Red Meat Cures Cancer
Starbuck O'Dwyer
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What would you do if you were a few months from collecting early retirement—a pension for which you’d sucked up and sycophanted almost twenty years—when your obscenely overweight and extremely crass boss told you that if you didn’t raise the company’s market share by the end of the year, you’d be out on your ass without a dime?
If you’re Sky Thorne, Senior V.P. of Tailburger—a fringe fast food chain whose specialties are batter dipped, deep-fried meat patties and 96-oz. beef-flavored shakes—you’ll get to work on as many harebrained, desperate schemes as you can think of. And if that means launching a marketing campaign that asks the public, “Why just abuse your body when you can torture it?” then damn it, that’s what you’ll do! Because Sky Thorne is ready to fight dirty and do anything necessary to earn the pension he sees as the reset button on life, liberty, and the pursuit of unadulterated deep-fried happiness.
Red Meat Cures Cancer is a hilarious and poignant romp through a world of excess, and marks the arrival of a great new satirical voice in American literature.
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Steve from MA.......2006-08-14
This is the funniest novel/farce/satire that I have read in a long time. I hope Starbuck is not a one book author.
good solid story.......2004-08-08
overall a solid story. great developed characters, you know the people he describes. nothing too original, a bit slow at the beginning, but it picks up about 1/3 of the way in. the ending was done well. there are a few bright spots in the book, parts that shine, but as a whole, it is an even keel book.
Laughter is the Best Medicine.......2004-03-29
Outrageous and smart humor makes this book an enjoyable read. The story starts so far from reality and coherently spins out of control, I found myself searching for real-world parallels. This is an effective technique making the story work and the characters memorable.
Like a recurring, well done Saturday Night Live sketch (Will Ferrell as George W. Bush or Darrell Hammond as Chris Matthews "Hardball") the caricatures follow the subject and continue to entertain far into the future. Red Meat will no doubt have the same result for the many stereotypes O'Dwyer weaves into the book.
I love stories set in familiar places and I think this is the first book I have ever read set in Rochester NY, where I grew up. The many popular landmarks from upstate NY added to the story
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Are you kidding?.......2004-03-17
I do not understand the positive reviews of this book. I saw it on display in a bookstore, the first couple of pages made me laugh, and so I picked it up. It was all downhill from there. There isn't much humor, the characters are too much, the silly names are distracting, and the main character's attack of conscience was painful.
Culture of Meat.......2004-02-26
This review from NadaMucho.com, which features book reviews focusing on contemporary fiction...
"Red Meat Cures Cancer" tackles the world of fast food corporate culture - although not quite the way we'd expect - with the story of Schuyler "Sky" Thorne, a sort of everyman executive hoping to coast through his last year of work so that he can collect retirement. A threat from his grossly obese, good ol' boy boss to raise market share "or else" triggers a series of outrageous events that threaten Sky's chances of finishing off his career in peace.
As Senior V.P. of Tailburger, an underdog burger chain whose target audience is convicts and other assorted lowlifes, Sky's life takes a turn from bad to worse as he realizes his morals are slipping away in a wash of increasingly desperate marketing ploys, most of which have gone horribly awry. The books shines in this aspect - by presenting the story from an intimate, first person point of view, "RMCC" puts a personal spin on the otherwise terribly inhumane world of corporations.
Additionally, this angle allows O'Dwyer to tackle the many gray areas and personal conflicts that are all part of survival for people in positions of power. Successfully balancing an insane boss, political alliances that shift with the daily news, and a personal life gone terribly awry, Sky becomes an improbably sympathetic character. It's refreshing to read about an executive-type who is portrayed as much more human than the stock, heartless "The Man" (read: aging white guy) character, which would be the obvious choice for a story such as this.
This is O'Dwyer's greatest strength. He understands that competent satire requires a blend of absurdity and subtlety, and that the obvious choice (which in this case would've been a McDonald's executive) is not always the funniest. He deftly walks the fine line between archetype and stereotype, delicately balancing an outrageous cast of familiar characters that might have come across as stale in lesser hands.
A penchant for silly names (a Texas beef council member named Traylor Hitch, for example) and superfluous characters, a tendency to throw in a few too many absurd and unnecessary situations, and an all-too-abrupt and poorly conceived ending are the few missteps in an otherwise purely American satire. Super mad props to the author for self-publishing the hardcopy edition before Vintage picked it up for larger distribution in paperback. It may not be the benchmark for contemporary corporate satire, but "RMCC" is a double bacon burger with extra cheese: delicious and enough to satisfy.
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