Focus on Value: A Corporate and Investor Guide to Wealth Creation

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"Focus on Value-with its theoretical and practical focus on economic profit fundamentals-is a modern day 'Graham and Dodd' primer on company and equity securities analysis."-Robert S. Hamada, Edward Eagle Brown Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
"Now that investors have abandoned momentum and are migrating back to fundamental investing, the market has become a more rational place. This book is a manual for serious investors who believe that identifying growing corporate earning power is the foundation of value creation. Those following its precepts should minimize risk and be rewarded over the long term."-Byron R. Wien, Chief U.S. Investment Strategist, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.
"Economic profit is one of the most useful managerial tools as well as a key to understanding the valuation of companies. Focus on Value is an outstanding piece of work. It captures the full spectrum of the 'Metric Wars' without ever confusing the reader. The serious student of economic profit will be richly rewarded by reading this excellent book from cover to cover."-Mario A. Corti, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Swissair Group, Zurich
"Messrs. Grant and Abate have provided an analytical tool for corporate executives and investment managers which takes the concepts of economic profit and value maximization to the next level."-Suresh Thadhani, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, Alcan, Inc.
"This book makes a real contribution to the most critical element in helping companies implement efficient capital resource allocation by highlighting the direct linkage between economic profit and stock price."-Jack Warner, Chairman, Kerry Inc.
"The authors have put together an excellent piece of work and finally provide readers seriously interested in applying economic profit with a practical, market-oriented approach to integrate the basic building blocks of economic profit with valuation and market expectations."-David King, Director of Research, North America, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Corporate Value Consulting
"In an era of following the herd toward indexation and price momentum, it is refreshing to see thinking out of the box and substantiating the tenets of an investment process that equates value with real investment opportunity."-Eric Colson, Senior Vice President, Callan Associates
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A Gem!.......2001-12-13

A true gem for the serious investor who want practical advise on how to use an economic profit framework to value a company and how economic profit factors drive stock prices. In this current investing climate this book is a must for anyone who wants to mitigate risk and increase reward in their investment decisions.

Focus on Value: A Corporate and Investor Guide to Wealth Creation

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Focus on Value: A Corporate and Investor Guide to Wealth Creation
James A. Abate James L. Grant
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Financial Innovation and Monetary Policy: Asia and the West

Manufacturer: University of Tokyo Press
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Financial innovation and monetary policy: Asia and the West : proceedings of the second international conference held by the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies of the Bank of Japan

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Financial Innovation and Monetary Policy: Asia and the West.

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La valeur du temoignage en droit civil / The Probative Value of Testimony in Private Law brings together in one volume the national reports and the general report of the panel on testimony in private law which convened at the XIVth Conference on Comparative Law 1994. It gives an overview of probative value in the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Rumania, Sweden, the Netherlands, U.K., and U.S.A. The general report ties all national reports together and tries to distinguish a common thread. The contributions are from distinguished scholars and practitioners in the field and the work is of interest to academics and practitioners.

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Thanks to its broad range of connectable field devices, PROFIBUS DP has (in distributed I/O) acquired the status of an internationally acknowledged standard fieldbus system. In addition to imparting a basic knowledge of PROFIBUS, the book concentrates on configuring PROFIBUS DP with STEP 7, explains various methods of data interchange with user programs and provides useful advice on commissioning and troubleshooting.
With its practical orientation the book is ideal for PROFIBUS planners, configuration experts and programmers. Its comprehensive description of the fundamentals involved also makes it interesting for students and docents alike.
For this second edition, the chapter on user program interfaces has been enlarged and the overall content revised in line with the expansions that have taken place in DPV1. The new functions and applications of PROFIBUS DP in SIMATIC S7 on the basis of STEP 7 Version 5.1 SP3 are described, along with setting of an equidistant DP bus cycle and the new signals "Status Alarm", "Update Alarm" and "Manufacturer-Specific Alarm".
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Protocol architecture o Bus topologies o Bus access control o Device types o Data interchange o Interfaces o DP Master/DP Slave o Programming and configuring o User program interfaces o Typical applications o Diagnostics functions o Commissioning

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Great for S7 systems but not much general PROFIBUS info.......2004-11-19

This book has detailed practical information on using PROFIBUS with SIMATIC S7 systems and the STEP 7 software. It is very light on information regarding PROFIBUS in general. Only a few pages are dedicated to the various PROFIBUS physical layers. The Fieldbus Data Link (FDL) is given even less attention.

I was hoping this book would spoon-feed me the specs for the various physical and data link layers available in PROFIBUS. Then I would dig into the spec once I had learned in plain English what PROFIBUS was all about. Instead, I found myself digging into the spec right away. There's not that much detail in the book.

I am doing some development using a system that is different from STEP 7. Some of the stuff from STEP 7 carries over but not all that much. I wish the book were more general.

If you're working with a SIMATIC S7 system, I think this book will be a great help. It goes into great detail without being difficult to read. If you're trying to apply the information in this book to another PROFIBUS system, the book will be less useful.

For general PROFIBUS info, I would recommend PROFIBUS: A Pocket Guide. That book literally fits in your pocket, costs as much as a full-sized text, and has as much information as a full-sized text.

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Much of Duhem's work as a professional scientist was closely related to the newly emerging discipline of physical chemistry. The book and associated papers translated here revolve around his concomitant philosophical and historical interests in chemistry-topics largely uncovered by Duhem's writings hitherto available in English. He understood contemporary concerns of chemists to be a development of the ancient dispute over the nature of mixture. Having developed his historical account from distinctions drawn from the atomists and Aristotelians of antiquity, he places his own views of chemical combination squarely within the Aristotelian tradition. Apart from illuminating Duhem's own work, it is of interest to see how the ancient dispute can be related to modern science by someone competent to make such comparisons. The book is lucid and logically stringent without assuming any particular mathematical prerequisites, and provides a masterly statement of an important line of nineteenth century thought which is of interest in its own right as well as providing insight into Duhem's broader philosophical views.

Audience: This volume is of interest to Duhem scholars, philosophers of science and chemists with an interest in philosophy.

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`Other works may excel this in depth of thought and knowledge of human nature: other books may rival it in originality and size; but, for hopeless and incurable vivacity, nothing yet discovered can surpass it.' (Jerome, Preface to Three Men in a Boat). Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford. It provides brilliant snap-shots of London's playground in the late 1880s, where the fashionable steam-launches of river swells encounter the hired skiffs of city clerks. The medley of social vignettes, farcical incidents, descriptions of river fashions, and reflections on the Thames's history, is interspersed with humorous anecdotes told by a natural raconteur. Three Men on the Bummel records a similar escapade, a break from the claustrophobia of suburban life some ten years later; their cycling tour in the Black Forest, at the height of the new bicycling craze, affords Jerome the opportunity for a light-hearted scrutiny of German social customs at a time of increasing general interest in a country that he loved. This account of middle-aged Englishmen abroad is spiced with typical Jeromian humour.

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Just Delightful.......2007-06-05

What a delightful read! The book weaves the happenings of a current boat trip with stories of previous trips and experiences. It is hillarious, laugh-out-loud funny in a lot of spots. The language is superb and the research section is very helpful. All in all a great read!

Mediumly funny, but dry humor (except where they fall overboard!).......2007-04-20

I liked it, but then I have a dry wit as well. It is two books in one publication and so it is good value. It also came from an age where the average folk could afford to buy books. So it is very colloquial in content. The sort of "you could be out having fun" too sort of tale. And yet most of us could easily replicate a journey like their's either rowing up the Thames or biking in Germany.

So not a laugh a minute slapstick stuff but definitely funny. On the other hand if you are worried, buy a used copy some of them are quite cheap. Or get it from the library.

super delivery.......2006-08-25

i have nothing to say about the product, a book i have allready read. i am very satisfied with the delivery. thank you

How have I missed these books for so many years?.......2005-06-10

I was going to hold off on glowing reviews for a bit, but I couldn't resist commenting on this book. I'm not even sure how I stumbled on Jerome, but I found Three Men on the Bummel about as funny as anything I've read in a long while. Bummel is about three Englishmen from the Victorianish era heading off for a bike trip through the Black Forest. I've studied German off and on for a few years, so I got a kick out of Jerome's comments on the language and people, and with the driest of dry observations energized by a bit of hyperbole it was the rare book that had me laughing out loud. Both stories are very funny, but Three Men on the Bummel was laugh out loud funny to me, and his observations on the German people (pre-WWII) were uncannily prescient. He was an unusually perceptive and observant writer, to say the least.

As an aside, I've noticed most people seem to find Three Men in a Boat the funnier of the two, but you really can't go wrong with either, in my opinion. Both stories are similar, they involve a bungling, but not too bungling, English fellow getting in a bit over his head with his mates, and the use of humorous exaggeration is about as well done as you ever see it in print. For a Wodehouse, etc fan- these are in must read territory.

Only slightly humorous.......2002-12-10

I'm a little surprised that so many people found this book so humorous. After reading this little travelogue I would say that I snickered about, oh... twice, and was stupefyingly bored for most of the read. This book put me to sleep in mid-chapter for many nights, and they are very short chapters.

I give it two stars because the guy does make an honest stab at being funny. You will smile a few times because the observations are amusing, but the humor falls short too often.

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An enjoyable author, but the book is physically too big.

14 books in 1: Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men In A Boat, Three Men On The Bummel, Diary of a Pilgrimage, Novel Notes, Paul Kelver,

Terribly disappointing

14 books in 1: Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men In A Boat, Three Men On The Bummel, Diary of a Pilgrimage, Novel Notes, Paul Kelver, Tommy and Co., They And ... Of An Idle Fellow, Second Thoughts of
Jerome, K Jerome
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ASIN: 0954840178

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This unique, great-value edition contains 14 full length works by the English humorist Jerome K Jerome. Includes the complete text of: Three Men in a Boat, Three Men on the Bummel, Diary of a Pilgrimage, Novel Notes, Paul Kelver, Tommy and Co, They and I, All Roads Lead to Calvary, Idle Ideas in 1905, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Tea-Table Talk, Told after Supper, and The Passing of the Third Floor Back. A must for any fan of Jerome K Jerome's original and witty writing!

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An enjoyable author, but the book is physically too big........2007-05-08

I'd recommend both the author and his work but not in this format. A paperback that is nearly 10" by 8" by 2" is too heavy and clumsy to hold and read. I've already dropped it a couple times and I'm hoping I can finish reading it before the binding starts to go. Too expensive a purchase to last through only one reading.

14 books in 1: Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men In A Boat, Three Men On The Bummel, Diary of a Pilgrimage, Novel Notes, Paul Kelver,.......2007-02-08

This book offers an extremely rare opportunity - to own most of JKJ's works in one volume at a terrific price! I have been collecting Jerome K. Jerome's books for years; editions ranging from early 20th century to contemporary paperbacks. And now I have them all, the works of the greatest, the most brilliant humorist ever born (to say nothing of his punctuation!)

Terribly disappointing.......2007-02-08

Unless you must have the text of these 14 Jerome K. Jerome books, don't waste your money (as I regret doing) on this terribly disappointing volume. It's densely printed, in two columns per page, in a rather small typeface, and has none of the illustrations that the original books had and that, for me, added much to their charm. I opened this volume once, and immediately put it straight into my bag of "Books to be Discarded."

Ronald Wyllys

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Three men - Two stars
What could possibly go wrong?
Rollicking story of three gentlemen on a cycling tour
Humorous tales of cycling the Black Forest

Three Men on the Bummel
Jerome Klapka Jerome
Manufacturer: Adamant Media Corporation
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ASIN: 0543897729
Release Date: 2000-04-26

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Some tens years later the same comic characters from Three Men On A Boat go on a cycling tour in the Black Forest of Germany. As they make their way, George, Harris and Yarn learn how to cope with perilous tasks such as purchasing a cushion, taking a bicycle off a train, map-reading in the mountains and even crossing the road.

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Three men need change - Anecdote showing evil result of deception - Moral cowardice of George - Harris has ideas - Yarn of the Ancient Mariner and the Inexperienced Yachtsman - A hearty crew - Danger of sailing when the wind is off the land - Impossibility of sailing when the wind is off the sea - The argumentativeness of Ethelbertha- -The dampness of the river - Harris suggests a bicycle tour - George thinks of the wind - Harris suggests the Black Forest - George thinks of the hills - Plan adopted by Harris for ascent of hills - Interruption by Mrs.

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Three men - Two stars.......2006-03-08

Three men in a boat is a fantastic read - the mix of comedy and adventure is perfect and it captures the Victorian era to a 't'.

I therefore had high hopes of the sequel, Three men on the bummel. Unfortunetly I can not praise it. The laugh aloud comedy element has given way to, at beast monologues you smile through, at worst, ones you want to skip. The adventure is in short supply and doesn't sit well with the comedy. A real shame.

What could possibly go wrong?.......2005-02-03

Three Englismen decide to go on holiday in Germany. They plan to take their bicycles; they will travel by train between the major cities and do day trips by bike. What could possibly go wrong?

The answer is EVERYTHING! You will laugh yourself sick.

I'm surprised that this hasn't been made into a film or a TV series; get some of the guys from Monty Python, or the guys who played James, Tristan and Sigfried on "All Creatures Great & Small".

Rollicking story of three gentlemen on a cycling tour .......2004-12-09

Three Men On The Bummel is Jerome K. Jerome rollicking story of three late-Victorian gentlemen on a cycling tour in Germany's Black Forest. This long out of print comic classic of English literature is now finally available in a complete and unabridged audiobook format (6 CDs, 6 hours, 56 minutes) enhanced with a superb narration by David Case. School and community are encouraged to send for the free Tantor Media catalog for a complete listing of their unabridged literary classics of popular fiction.

Humorous tales of cycling the Black Forest.......2004-01-13

I read this book--which I assume is a fictionalized account of an actual journay--after having spent a year in Germany and I bemused by the fact that the Germans that Jerome K. Jerome characterizes in this book (published in 1900) are very similar to those of the present day. Added to this, is the fact that the book is mainly set in the Black Forest region of Germany, which is where I stayed. So not only was this book humorous and entertaining, it rekindled fond memories as well. The writing I fear will disillusion the more casual reader, but for those who have the inclination, this book is a very worthwhile read.

Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel (Everyman's Library, 118)

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Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel (Everyman's Library, 118)
Jerome K. Jerome
Manufacturer: J. M. Dent
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KU8AAM

Three men in a boat, also, Diary of a pilgrimage ; [and], Three men on the bummel

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Three men in a boat, also, Diary of a pilgrimage ; [and], Three men on the bummel
Jerome K Jerome
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THREE MEN ON THE BUMMEL
JEROME
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Three Men on a Bummel
Jerome K. Jerome
Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing Ltd
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THREE MEN ON THE BUMMEL
JEROME
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Three Men on the Bummel
Jerome K. Jerome
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Three Men on the Bummel
K. Jerome Jerome
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