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Crash Profits: Make Money When Stocks Sink and Soar!
Martin D. Weiss Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471429988 |
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Smart investing strategies from bestselling author and America's consumer advocate for financial safetyCustomer Reviews:
Take Prozac!!!.......2005-11-18
Weiss is a Huckster.......2005-05-17
Misleading title, but story interesting in the beginning.......2004-05-07
Crash Profits.......2003-07-06
1 star is too generous.......2003-05-05
For any practical benefit, this book should have been published 3 years ago. So perhaps publication now is actually a contrarian indicator?
BTW some of the rave reviews are just bizarre, one guy recommending "9 Free Secrets of New Sensual Power" in the same breath. I canýt comment on that selection, but if youýre trying to pad your order to get free shipping, that is probably a better choice.
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Finanzas Para Empresas Competitivas
Eugenio Pendas , and Diana Mondino Manufacturer: Ediciones Granica, S.A. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 950641212X |
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La empresa espanola, lista para comerse Europa: mas competitiva que nunca, mas avanzada tecnologicamente y con mayor musculo financiero. Asi es nuestra ... oportunidad europea.: An article from: Epoca
Juan Manuel Ona , and Lola Fernandez Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008E5YJU Release Date: 2006-05-24 |
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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Thomson Gale on September 5, 2003. The length of the article is 1225 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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Reasoning with Rules and Precedents - A Computational Model of Legal Analysis
L. Karl Branting Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0792361059 |
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Few areas of human expertise are so well understood that they can be completely reduced to general principles. Similarly, there are few domains in which experience is so extensive that every new problem precisely matches a previous problem whose solution is known. When neither rules nor examples are individually sufficient, problem-solving expertise depends on integrating both. This book presents a computational framework for the integration of rules and cases for analytic tasks typified by legal analysis. The book uses the framework for integrating cases and rules as a basis for a new model of legal precedents. This model explains how the theory under which a case is decided controls the case's precedential effect. The framework for integrating rules and cases is implemented in GREBE, a system for legal analysis. The book presents techniques for representing, indexing, and comparing complex cases and for converting justification structures based on rules and case into natural-language text.
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Eradication of Exotic Pets: Analysis with Case Histories
Donald L. Dahlsten Manufacturer: Yale University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0300043325 |
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Exotic pest infestations -- important lessons from the past.......2000-12-04
In 2000 we are revisiting many of these issues- the citrus canker eradication effort in Florida took 30 years... and now we are battling another infestation of this devastating plant disease. Fire ant has spread to California. Repeated infestations of exotic fruit flies are found in the US.
Dahlstein and Garcia's compilation of case histories can help the general public, eradication and regulatory personnel, policy makers and scientists to understand issues and concerns that also apply to our current problems.
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Eradication of Exotic Pests: Analysis with Case Histories
Donald L., Richard Garcia Dahlsten Manufacturer: Yale University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000ORWLE2 |
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Tools, Techniques & Assessment in Biology: Nelson Advanced Science (Nelson Advanced Science: Biology S.)
John Adds , and Erica Larkcom Manufacturer: Nelson Thornes ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0174482736 |
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The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair
Denis Hayes Manufacturer: Island Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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That most of the world's environments are in bad shape is by now well known. They need not remain that way, insists veteran environmentalist Denis Hayes, a coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970 and now CEO of the International Earth Day Network. Many animal and plant species have been brought back from the brink of extinction since the dawning of the environmental movement, and more and more people are aware of the ecological consequences of their actions. But then, Hayes notes, more and more people are buying gas-guzzling SUVs, using energy-thirsty halogen torchieres, consuming fossil-fuel-squandering foodstuffs grown far from home out of season, and otherwise behaving as if the good times will never end. The cost of that behavior is mounting: witness the greenhouse effect, by which gases trapped in the atmosphere prevent solar heat from escaping, thereby warming the earth. "Within a few decades," Hayes warns, "you will breathe air containing twice as much CO 2 as the air your grandparents breathed unless we radically change our use of carbon fuels such as coal and fuel."There is much we can do, counsels Hayes. We can change our habits of energy consumption and develop sources of clean energy. We can agitate for the protection of air-cleansing forests--especially the vast boreal forests of North America and Asia, which, while less rich in biodiversity than the better-publicized Amazon rainforest, are far more effective at filtering poisons out of the air. We can try to leave a smaller footprint, ratchet up our consciousness just a little bit more, elect "green" politicians and boycott "brown" corporations. The list goes on.
Thoughtful and well written, The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair is a fine sourcebook for anyone willing to get started on the perhaps quixotic but just as certainly necessary task of fixing all the damage we have done. --Gregory McNamee
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Everyone talks about the weather but no one ever does anything about it. Sadly, that old joke is no longer true. A large body of increasingly compelling scientific evidence is telling us that many things we do - from the kinds of cars we drive to how we heat our homes - are directly affecting our global climate in unprecedented and alarming ways. But what can any one person do about this vast, global problem? Help fix it! And it doesn't have to be a do-it-yourself project; we citizens and stewards of the earth can unite in greater numbers and power than ever before.
In The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair, Earth Day leader and renewable energy expert Denis Hayes tells us how changes in individual, local, and national energy choices can slow or even stop the dangerous build-up of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, while at the same time saving us money, helping the economy, creating new jobs, and enhancing human health. A how-to home improvement guide for the planet, the book:
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An ideal home, school, and community library reference........2000-06-04
Surprisingly optimistic!.......2000-06-01
The really good news is that this book makes clear that we already KNOW how to reduce our greenhouse emissions (thereby helping our planet and ourselves), keep our economy strong while we do it, and continue to be a world technological leader to boot. The only thing standing in our way is a group of people (a large, politically powerful group of people!) who feel that their short-term profits from fossil fuels matter more than the health of ourselves, our descendants, and all the other people on the planet.
I hope that this book gets a broad readership; it deserves it. We all deserve to hear this message and start moving toward a cleaner world.
Not a bad book but not what I expected.......2000-05-04
Its not an expensive book, but I personally would return it, or give it away,...I didn't really learn anything new at all- except the last chapter where the author goes into detail about the GCC -Global Climate Coalition - which I previously hadn't heard of. This was really the only new thing that I learned- not worth the (...) for 3 pages of new info.
I am presently looking for a better environmental book which gives me ideas for little things I can do day to day in order to help the earth.
Concise and constructive!.......2000-04-18
He starts with a brief review of the state of the environment (not great, folks!), with a focus on global warming, major national policy decisions and international efforts of the last decade. He then moves on to identify energy sources to get rid of and general technology developments that we deparately need to support for the future.
Following these bigger industry issues, he then gives some simple suggestions on how to make our own lives more energy efficient and earth friendly - in the near term, and for the long haul. Very helpful - I've followed three!
As a finale, Hayes circles back to the initial discussion of global warming & climate change and comments on how many major industries do NOT have a strong interest in our improving our energy efficiency, but the exact opposite. This reminder gives new insight into any media coverage on this issue.
So, whether you are convinced about global warming or not, this book offers the average person some constructive suggestions for helping to reduce waste and pollution. And, hey, you might help keep the planet cooler, too.
Note: Compared to other books that I'm reading on the subject, this one is concise and very readable - great for the average reader. The others (while excellent) are much more philosophical and/or detailed ("Natural Capitalism", by P. Hawken et al, and "Believing Cassandra", by A. AtKisson).
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You Are the Earth: Know the Planet So You Can Make It Better
David Suzuki , Kathy Vanderlinden , and Diane Swanson Manufacturer: Greystone Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1550548395 |
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Interesting again and again!.......2004-03-14
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A Study Guide To Liberating Planet Earth (A Study Guide to Gary North's Liberating Planet Earth)
ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0930464427 |
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21st Century Essential Guide to Asteroids, Comets, and Near-Earth Objects (NEOs): Tracking and Studying Threats to Planet Earth, NASA Spacecraft Missions and Studies, Options for Deflection (CD-ROM)
World Spaceflight News Manufacturer: Progressive Management ProductGroup: Book Binding: CD-ROM ASIN: 1422009270 |
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This up-to-date electronic book on CD-ROM presents a comprehensive library of authoritative federal government scientific documents and publications covering all aspects of the threat posed to Earth by Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), asteroids, and comets. It provides a complete reproduction of the important March 2007 NASA report on NEO Survey and Deflection, an Analysis of Alternatives, plus complete coverage of Potentially Hazardous Objects (PHOs), impact risk assessment, and ongoing projects to detect, track, catalogue, and characterize these objects. There is detailed information about major NASA spacecraft missions studying asteroids and comets: DAWN, NEAR, STARDUST, DEEP IMPACT, and others. Asteroids and comets are the two types of potentially hazardous objects (PHO). For objects in the inner solar system, astronomers can distinguish these bodies on the basis of their appearance. Moving objects that appear as a star-like point of light are known as asteroids. Moving objects that appear diffuse or those that have visible tails are known as comets. People have known about comets since antiquity. The existence of asteroids, however, was not known until about 200 years ago when telescopes became powerful enough to detect the largest such objects. It has taken several generations of improvements in telescope design to detect and understand the small bodies that orbit near Earth. Differences in the appearance of comets and asteroids reflect in part a difference in their composition. Generally, asteroids are relatively rocky or metallic objects without atmospheres, while comets are composed in part of volatiles such as water ice that vaporizes when heated to produce a tenuous and transient atmosphere around the solid nucleus. Comets that are far from the Sun or those that have lost most of their volatiles can look like an asteroid. A volatile-rich object will develop an atmosphere only when heated sufficiently by a relatively close approach to the Sun. The near-Earth as
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Amazing Earth Adventures: A Kid's Guide to Preserving the Planet
Chapman Mott Manufacturer: Scholastic ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0590455605 |
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The Blue Planet : An Introduction to Earth System Science (STUDY GUIDE ONLY)
Brian J. Skinner , Stephen C. Porter , and Daniel B. Botkin Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471326135 |
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The image of the Earth on the front cover was acquired from the GOES-8 Imager by the Laboratory for Atmosphere at NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. It was taken on September 2, 1994, using two channels for the Imager to produce a "natural color" effect. The photos shown here on the back cover illustrate the four spheres of the Earth system - the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere - together with changes being produced by human activities.Customer Reviews:
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The Blue Planet: An Introduction to Earth System Science, Study Guide
Brian J. Skinner , and Stephen C. Porter Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0471599255 |
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Geology Today: Understanding Our Planet, Study Guide
Barbara W. Murck , and Brian J. Skinner Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0471323233 |
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This book provides an introduction to the six main areas of physical geography. It uses an earth systems approach to discuss the planet as a whole, plate tectonics, rocks and rock formation, surface processes, oceans/atmospheres, and resources.
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Planet Earth Reproducible Pages Plus Teacher's Guide Grades 4-6 (Discover!)
Avalyn McGinley Manufacturer: Milliken Pub. Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006RTIXC |
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Planetary geology : a teacher's guide with activities in physical and earth sciences (SuDoc NAS 1.19/4:1998-03-109-HQ)
NASA Manufacturer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00010XCMC |
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Topics in the Theory of Random Noise
R. Stratonovich Manufacturer: Gordon & Breach Science Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0677008007 |
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Readable intro. by an expert.......2004-01-21
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Topics in the Theory of Random Noise Vol 2
R L Stratonovich Manufacturer: Gordon and Breach, ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000R09B1W |
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Topics in the Theory of Random Noise, Volume I: General Theory of Rand
R.L. Stratonovich Manufacturer: See notes ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000V25B92 |
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Topics in the Theory of Random Noise, Volume I: General Theory of Rand
ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000IBGI3O |
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Bruce's Loose Tooth - Fun with a Moose and a Goose
Eileen Landay Manufacturer: Hallmark ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000CRMSV0 |
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Children's action book.Customer Reviews:
Bruce the Moose.......2007-08-17
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bruce's loose Tooth Fun with a Moose and a Goose
Landy Eileen Manufacturer: Hallmark ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JLVOQ4 |
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Moose, Bruce, and the goose
Robert Scott McKinnon Manufacturer: Bobbs-Merrill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006C2KB4 |
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A wonderful book.........1999-03-10
This book is a classic.......1998-07-18
A great coming of age story........1998-06-30
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