Select Winning Stocks Using Financial Statements

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Good overview, a bit sloppy.......2006-03-21

A good overview of walking through a standard financial statement. Covers the balance sheet, statement of income, and statement of cash flows, along with some analysis and specifics on banks and utilities.

My big gripe? It has a model spreadsheet at the back that you can use to help do your own analysis, but I found several typos in the formulas. A gripe that makes this less than a perfect book.

Ok, BUT.......2002-03-07

This is a good book and I glad I bought it. Mr Loth does a good job of covering the finanical statements in a non complicate fashion. After all acounting is not that complicated. It is only made complicated when people want to hide things.

There is one MAJOR SHORTCOMING. NOTHING ABOUT THE ACCOUNTING FOR STOCK OPTIONS. This is the reason the book is only a 3 star inside of a 4 star. I guess in Mr Loth world stock options do not exist.

OK but..........1999-10-04

One of the worthwhile things about this book, which serves as a pretty decent introduction to financial statements, is its treatment of the DIFFERENT types of statements for retailers/manufacturers, banks and utilities. I'm not aware of any other book for beginners which offers guidance towards the distinction between the three. But since the author took the trouble to detail these, one wonders why he didn't also discuss insurance companies as a separate entity, especially since utilities have offered less capital appreciation potential to investors in recent years.

For every serious individual investor!.......1999-03-03

This book is written for the lay investor, not for the professional. It is easy to read and understand, and offers great assistance to the investor who uses financial statements in evaluating and comparing companies. The forms presented help organize the important data in an easy-to-follow manner. This is a worthwhile book for every serious individual investor.

Demystifies financial analysis!.......1999-03-03

Richard Loth demystifies financial analysis, even for those without financial training or background. For anyone seriously interested in improving their ability to study companies and pick stocks using fundamental information, this book is essential.

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This Sourcebood is an easy-to-use guide to seasonal price movements for commodity futures, providing the statistics necessary to time entry and exit points, set stop-loss orders, and establish realistic goals. Provides details of dozens of seasonal price trends in the futures markets with over 80% reliability. These extremely useful charts and tables offer traders and hedgers insight into the profit potential and risk involved at any given time of the year, enabling readers to avoid trading against the seasonals. Includes charts and tables for T-bonds, T-bills, soft commodities, metals, etc. The layout of the book enables readers to see the historical trends in both tabular and graphic detail, making this a very easy reference to use.

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This volume explores modern concepts of trophic and guild interactions among natural enemies in natural and agricultural ecosystems - a field that has become a hot topic in ecology and biological control over the past decade. Internationally recognized scientists have combined their expertise and passion to examine how species interactions between biological control agents, such as competition, predation, parasitism, disease infection, mutualism, and omnivory affect arthropod population dynamics and the outcome of biological control. The common approach is the use of ecological theory to better interpret the prevalence, nature and outcome of trophic and guild interactions and, from a more applied perspective, to gain a comprehensive understanding of how and when to use biological control.

The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators

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Living things that creep upon the earth...
Totally engaging with a sardonic message
Non-fiction work that reads like a monster story
Grice takes on arthropods with Poe-like sensitivity
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The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators
Gordon Grice
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ASIN: 0385318901
Release Date: 1999-03-09

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Gordon Grice, a young essayist from rural western Oklahoma, writes winningly of insects in all their glory, basing his narrative on lifelong observations of creatures such as the black widow, praying mantis, brown recluse--and the occasional human being. For the black widow spider he professes an affectionate fascination, dangerous though the spider may be; for the brown recluse, a more dangerous creature still, he exhibits a healthy respect; for all the creatures who fall under his survey, he has many sympathies. Grice writes with good humor, even when he's writing of matters that are not for the squeamish, as when he describes the rather gruesome ways in which female mantises dispose of inconvenient mates or humans dispose of each other.

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Snake venom that digests human flesh. A building cleared of every living thing by a band of tiny spiders. An infant insect eating its living prey from within, saving the vital organs for last. These are among the deadly feats of natural engineering you'll witness in The Red Hourglass, prize-winning author Gordon Grice's masterful, poetic, often dryly funny exploration of predators he has encountered around his rural Oklahoma home.

Grice is a witty and intrepid guide through a world where mating ends in cannibalism, where killers possess toxins so lethal as to defy our ideas of a benevolent God, where spider remains, scattered like "the cast-off coats of untidy children," tell a quiet story of violent self-extermination. It's a world you'll recognize despite its exotic strangeness--the world in which we live. Unabashedly stepping into the mix, Grice abandons his role as objective observer with beguiling dark humor--collecting spiders and other vermin, decorating a tarantula's terrarium with dollhouse furniture, or forcing a battle between captive insects because he deems one "too stupid to live."

Kill. Eat. Mate. Die. Charting the simple brutality of the lives of these predators, Grice's starkly graceful essays guide us toward startling truths about our own predatory nature. The Red Hourglass brings us face to fanged face with the inadequacy of our distinctions between normal and abnormal, dead and alive, innocent and evil.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Living things that creep upon the earth..........2007-04-04

An amateur naturalist's musings on the various vermin and mongrels he's studied over the years. The pieces are written in the style & tone of a monthly slickzine, which according to the flap copy is the kind of writer Prof. Grice is. He wisely stays away from attempting much actual zoology, instead confining himself to his own observations and philosophizing. These anecdotes make for the most effective pieces. A giant cricket devouring a frightened praying mantis; dogs being seized by bloodlust to kill rattlesnakes; and a whole, miniature cycle of rotating top predators in an old shed; all make for absorbing reading--if your tastes run to creepy-crawlies, that is. The chapter on pigs feels like makeweight, as he has little first-hand material in the way of predation to relate about that animal.

At the end, he cuts loose a sneer against scientists, behind which there's doubtless another book.

Totally engaging with a sardonic message.......2006-07-12

This is without doubt the most gruesomely graphic book on predation that I have ever read. The predators are: the black widow spider, the praying mantis, the rattlesnake, the tarantula, the pig, the dog, and the brown recluse spider. Another half dozen or so ghastly creatures also make their appearance such as the crocodile, a bizarre "cricket-beast," hawk wasps and wolf spiders, not to mention humans.

Gordon Grice, who is a gifted amateur naturalist who teaches humanities and English at Seward County Community College in Kansas is the kind of guy who collects crickets and spiders and beetles in jars so he can feed them live creatures and watch them chow down. He is the kind of guy who goes to rattlesnake roundups and breathes deeply. He is the kind of guy who stops for road kill and likes to attend vivisections. He's like the guy who goes to the top of a tall building just for the thrill of looking down; but what excites Grice's fancy is to watch how predators kill and devour their prey. The creepier the predator, the better. You can put those quick, clean and "humane" lion kills back in your VCR and watch it on TV. What Grice wants us to experience is exactly how the mandibles of the "cricket-beast"sound as they crunch through the beetle's exoskeleton and just how it feels to die, or nearly die, of rattlesnake or black widow venom.

He's not particularly interested in scholarship (there are no footnotes or references), although he is careful about letting us know when he thinks a certain report, say of a nine foot rattler, is probably an exaggeration. He is an excellent writer who knows the value of concrete detail, tersely put; and he has the scientist's love for finding out exactly how something happens. What he does that no other writer in my recall has done is to emphasize the disgusting and revolting details of predation without euphemism or the use of any fig leaves.

Be forewarned then that this is NOT the sort of nature book your eight-year-old grandson needs to read before going to bed--although if he gets his hands on it, he will! And he will have nightmares.

The question that might be asked is why is Grice so intend on rubbing our faces in the brutality of nature? Clearly he has an agenda over and above grossing us out. I get the idea that he thinks a lot of what we hear about ourselves and our fellow creatures is so much pollyannaish tripe. He doesn't say as much directly but consider this from page 245:

"There is actually nothing your average scientist hates more than information from nonscientists, all of whom he assumes to be unwashed, idol-worshipping degenerates good only for working on cars. The thing your average scientist despises second most is a fact that doesn't fit his theory..."

Grice is able to dazzle us with his own observations about the animals he studies, but being an English prof he knows that his standing in the scientific community is (or before he wrote this book, was) zilch. It's easy to identify with his frustration in this matter, and acknowledge that it is a shame that scientists tend to run the other way when they see a nonscientist coming, or that they will not give credence to ideas that come from nonscientists. And it is especially true that nothing is worse for a scientist than a fact that doesn't fit his theory!

Grice's inclusion of dogs and pigs as predators goes toward making what I see as one of the messages of this book. Simply put, we humans are domesticated animals. We have--helped along by our dogs, pigs, sheep and cattle, our grains and fruits, our social and political structures--become "tamed." Grice darkly hints, as H. G. Wells did in his novel The Time Machine (1895), that this may not be all to the good. With our effete fussiness about the vulgarity of the animal world we are becoming like the Eloi who will be eaten by the brutal Morlocks. If we lose our ability to act without inhibition as the creatures Grice describes do when in pursuit of their dinners, we may indeed become something akin to sheep. Grice doesn't mention it directly but there is some considerable evidence that domesticated animals are not as smart as the wild kind.

After advising us of just how horrid dogs can be, especially as pack hunters, Grice presents the counterpoint: "The care of animals, along with the tending of crops, is a root of our social structure. It dictates our need for permanent homes, our construction of walls and fences, ultimately our economy and culture. The dog makes this possible, because it was the dog, with his keener nose and ears, that made it feasible for us to protect livestock from nocturnal predators. Our tools, intelligence, and eyesight complement his senses; we share a territorial instinct that gives us a common goal." (p 231)

He adds, "This bond [between man and dog] distinguishes the dog from other canids. It also distinguishes modern humanity from its older branches, because it is an essential element of the change from hunter-gatherer to the settled life." (p. 232)

Finally, in a kind of summation, after observing the collapse and then rise again of the brown recluse spider populations in his shed, Grice writes, "Serial murder, war, genocide, and even witch hunts have all been linked to population changes and competition. We let ourselves off the hook ["kid ourselves," I would say] when we define such killing as 'abnormal.' We put the behavior at a distance, letting ourselves think of it as something alien, something we normal folk could never do.... But the capacity to murder, to become demonic, is in our nature.

"One of our natures, anyway." (p. 258)

Non-fiction work that reads like a monster story.......2005-03-29

Gordon Grice has a disturbing fascination with bugs, spiders in particular. But his fascination is our entertainment, as he writes in flowing prose his observations of these nasty little crawlers. The Red Hourglass is an extremely well-written account of the habits and habitats of things that creep in the night.

The book is divided into seven different studies, Black Widow, Mantid, Rattlesnake, Tarantula, Pig, Canid, and Recluse. Though Grice gives fascinating accounts of the darker aspects of pigs and dogs, it is painfully clear in his writings that his love is truly for the spider.

The Red Hourglass is a non-fiction book that is written with such interesting and personal observations that it feels somewhat like a monster story at times. If you want to find out more about these creepy, crawly, nasty little arachnids, Grice is an excellent way to learn. This would be a great book to get kids started on taking interest with biology or even anthropology studies, it's that well written

And I hate spiders. Go ahead and grab up a copy of The Red Hourglass, I doubt you will ever find non-fiction reading as fun as Grice, having the same flair with his biology studies as Kurt Eicheneald does with his political studies. Enjoy!

Grice takes on arthropods with Poe-like sensitivity.......2003-02-13

What the reader gets with this book are seven essays written by a literary/humanities based college professor on seven particular predators: the black widow, the praying mantis, rattlesnakes, tarantulas, pigs, dogs, and the brown recluse spider. The writing is surpisingly good and the subject matter, while somewhat dark and gory, is fascinating.

The reader from Michigan calls this book 'backyard naturalism' in a derogatory manner. I am a biology major and, although the majority of Grice's claims appear consistent with similar data I have seen, this is not a hard science book; criticizing it in that context is an apples verses oranges category mistake. Conversely, I praise this work as 'backyard naturalism' at its best. I thoroughly enjoyed reading The Red Hourglass from front to back. Take a bit of Peter Matthiessen's literary organicism, a pinch of Steven King's macabre involvment, E. O. Wilson's entomology, a dash of Desiderius Erasmus' sad, pragmatic humor, and some of Montaigne's candor, and you can wile away sumptuous moments zoosynthesizing the adventure of the 'The Incredible Shrinking Man' crossed with a bored boy's deific experimentation with arthropods, among other animals; all written with starkness and skill. What's a long pig? one may ask. The very sight of egregious brown recluse bites makes me kiss the soil of northern California.

This book is a good mix of the literary and scientific milieus. It draws one in by the curiousity and repulsion of the subject matter as ruse for the author's peculiar expository skill.

Riveting.......2002-11-19

Who knew just how deadly the world around us was? Grice covers a wide range of beasts: Spiders (Black Widow, Tarantula, Recluse a.k.a. Violin Spider), rattlesnake, pig, dogs (wolves, coyotes, jackals) and the praying mantis. He has a lyrical eloquence and interstices natural philosophy into the essays, making the book far more than a recitation or list of aspects of bestial killers.
One slightly disturbing feature is Grice's juvenile behavoir in collecting insects and tossing them together in tanks to see who lives. I began to feel that I was reading the Diary of a Madman, and hurried through these anecdotes.
The abilities of these various animals to kill and their instincts to murder--for food or fun--were fascinating, as were Grice's parallels to us as human predators.

Agricultural Insects of Ghana: A List of Insects Recorded in Ghana on Field Crops & Stored Produce w/ Their Host Plants,Damage Caused,Locality,Parasites & Predators Where Known,Together w/ References to the Literature for Ghana & Neighbouring Countries

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Agricultural Insects of Ghana: A List of Insects Recorded in Ghana on Field Crops & Stored Produce w/ Their Host Plants,Damage Caused,Locality,Parasites & Predators Where Known,Together w/ References to the Literature for Ghana & Neighbouring Countries
John (compiled) Forsyth
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Arthropod and nematode parasites, parasitoids, and predators of Acrididae in America north of Mexico (Technical bulletin / United States Department of Agriculture)

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Arthropod and nematode parasites, parasitoids, and predators of Acrididae in America north of Mexico (Technical bulletin / United States Department of Agriculture)
Norman E Rees
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Biological Control by Augmentation of Natural Enemies:Insect and Mite Control with Parasites and Predators (Environmental Science Research ; V. 11)

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Biological Control by Augmentation of Natural Enemies:Insect and Mite Control with Parasites and Predators (Environmental Science Research ; V. 11)

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Biology of the Plant Bugs (Hemiptera : Miridae): Pests, Predators, Opportunists (Cornell Series in Arthropod Biology)

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Biology of the Plant Bugs (Hemiptera : Miridae): Pests, Predators, Opportunists (Cornell Series in Arthropod Biology)
Alfred G. Wheeler
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Christmas Tree Diseases, Insects, & Disorders in the Pacific Northwest: Identification & Management

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Christmas Tree Diseases, Insects, & Disorders in the Pacific Northwest: Identification & Management

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Includes integrated pest management principles; seasonal monitoring activities for disease & insect pests; diseases & disorders (root rots; cankers & galls; needle diseases of Douglas-Fir, Pine, Spruce, & True Firs); insect & mite pests (scales, adelgids & true aphids, moths, beetles, flies, mites, predators & parasites); environmental stresses (drought, heat, flooding); chemical & mechanical damage (atrazine, tire damage); soil related problems (nutrient imbalances, fertilizer burn), & vertebrate pests (birds, voles & mice, gophers). Numerous color photos. Graphs & charts.

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Deadly Insects (Wild Predators)
Andrew Solway
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Deadly Spiders and Scorpions (Solway, Andrew. Wild Predators.)

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Deadly Spiders and Scorpions (Solway, Andrew. Wild Predators.)
Andrew Solway
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The Dynamics of Arthopod Predator-Prey Systems. (MPB-13) (Monographs in Population Biology)

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The Dynamics of Arthopod Predator-Prey Systems. (MPB-13) (Monographs in Population Biology)
Michael Patrick Hassell
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In this study of arthropod predador-prey systems Michael Hassell shows how many of the components of predation may be simply modeled in order to reveal their effects on the overall dynamics of the interacting populations. Arthropods, particularly insects, make ideal subjects for such a study because their generation times are characteristically short and many have relatively discrete generations, inviting the use of difference equation models to describe population changes. Using analytical models framed in difference equations, Dr. Hassell is able to show how the detailed biological processes of insect predator-prey (including host-parasitoid) interactions may be understood.

Emphasizing the development and subsequent stability analysis of general models, the author considers in detail several crucial components of predator-prey models: the prey's rate of increase as a function of density, non-random search, mutual interference, and the predator's rate of increase as a function of predator survival and fecundity. Drawing on the correspondence between the models and field and laboratory data, Dr. Hassell then discusses the practical implications for biological pest control and suggests how such models may help to formulate a theoretical basis for biological control practices.

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Geology of America's National Park Areas.......2000-03-28

I have previously used this book in a college course on the geology of American national parklands with mixed success. On the one hand, the quality of the photographs is better and the price is considerably lower than the new book Geology of U.S. Parklands by Kiver and Harris. On the other hand, Ellwood's writing is rather dry and the content is often oversimplified. A plus is the organization of this book. After providing basic background on a topic, such as volcanic activity, the book proceeds to give details of all the park areas in the system, including Alaska, and Hawaii, at which volcanism is prominently displayed. The alternative approach used by Kiver and Harris' book is to organize not by theme but by physiographic province. Both approaches have their benefits and drawbacks. The thematic approach may be better for teaching but the geographic organization is better for the traveler. Although I have switched to Kiver and Harris book, I may go back to Ellwood depending on how this next quarter goes.

Late Holocene Alluvial Geomorphology of the Virgin River in the Zion National Park Area, Southwest Utah (Special Paper (Geological Society of America))

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Late Holocene Alluvial Geomorphology of the Virgin River in the Zion National Park Area, Southwest Utah (Special Paper (Geological Society of America))
Richard Hereford , Gordon C. Jacoby , and V. A. S. McCord
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In 1887, Kelvin posed one of the most discussed scientific questions of the last 100 years - the problem of the division of three-dimensional space into cells of equal volume with minimal area. It has interested mathematicians, physical scientists and biologists ever since and the problem has scientific relevance to foams, emulsions and many other kinds of cells. In the 1990s, a more complex structure was discovered by Robert Phelan and Denis Weaire and it remains the best yet found. This text assesses the various merits of Kelvin's structure and of that discovered by Weaire and Phelan. It also looks at the problem of proof that Weaire's structure having minimal area remains open.

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A century of work on this problem.......2004-04-16

William Kelvin is mostly remembered today for the attachment of his name to the absolute temperature scale, in recognition of his original work on low temperature research in the late 19th century.

But during his long career, he investigated many other outstanding problems of the time. One such problem is the subject of this book. The editors chose Kelvin's pioneering paper to kick off the book. They then summarised over a century's effort by selecting papers by other prominent scientists tackling the issue.

The book is good for a historical perspective. Though undoubtedly some will be attracted mainly by Kelvin's work.

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Kelvin Problem: Foam Structures of Minimal Surface Area
Denis Weaire
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America's favorite (great) Dane proves himself just as funny on paper as he does on film. Here Borge examines the lives of such musical geniuses as Schubert, Mendelsohn, and Brahms with hilarious results.

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Musical History With A Humorous Twist.......2001-04-25

The irrepressible Victor Borge takes us through a hysterical journey of the history of modern music. With dozens of anecdotes to amuse, you barely know you are learning. Neither composer nor prodigy nor instrument is safe from the deeply tongue-in-cheek tales. A must read for any musician who is tired of dry, tedious musical histories.

My Favorite Intermissions: Lives of the Musical Greats and Other Facts you Never Knew You Were Missing

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My Favorite Intermissions: Lives of the Musical Greats and Other Facts you Never Knew You Were Missing
Victor Borge
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My favorite comedies in music
Victor Borge
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VICTOR BORGE'S MY FAVORITE COMEDIES IN MUSIC.

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If you learn something reading this book, don't get upset!

VICTOR BORGE'S MY FAVORITE COMEDIES IN MUSIC.
Victor and Robert Sherman Borge
Manufacturer: Franklin Watts
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ASIN: B000GU9ICA

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If you learn something reading this book, don't get upset!.......2006-09-21

Right from the introduction (Read, smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset) Victor Borge has you laughing right through the book as he introduces you to some of the greatest geniuses in music. It's tons of fun as he elaborates on their artistic quirks and narrates anecdotes/stories from their lives.

If you want to learn about American History I'd recommend "Dave Barry Slept Here" or Bob Hope's "My Life in Jokes". Similarly this would be my book of choice for History of Music! ;)

(To see some quotes from this book you can check out http://workinghumor.com/quotes/favoritecomedies.shtml)

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My favorite comedies in music
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