The Die Broke Complete Book of Money: Unconventional Wisdom About Everything from Annuities to Zero Coupon Bonds

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An agressive approach to the new economy from America's most trusted financial consultant.

The incredible economic growth of the past few years may have made scores of new millionaires, and plenty of rich people, but it hasn't made managing your personal and business finances any easier. In fact, most of the old rules and principles have proved ill-suited to this new environment.

The Die Broke Complete Book of Money is the definitive guide to modern money management. The man famous for turning conventional wisdom on its head expounds on the new rules for the new millennium with an opinionated, hard hitting, and informative style. Sophisticated and succinct, this incisive and engaging audio is filled with offbeat, practical advice that stems from Pollan's unconventional strategies. It is an indispensable resource for anyone who wants financial success.

Customer Reviews:

Good info, just not right for the audio cassette format.......2002-06-15

I love Stephen Pollan's work. However, listening to the Complete Book of Money on cassette is like listeining to an encyclopedia on cassette. The book is written as a reference and the audio version is basically the author reading each entry in alphabetical order. I loved the intro where he reviews topics from other books as a primer for the info to follow.
I'll buy the book and keep it on my shelf as a reference, but I don't know if I'll ever be able to finish all 4 cassettes.
Buy the book- the info is great.

Junk of money tips.......2002-05-22

Listened audio tape edition of this book. Though the contents are somewhat helpful, the recording is all junk of money tips. I don't understand why the author needed to discuss Mutual fund, Neighborhood, Nursing Home, then Outsourcing (your business) followed by Pension plan in that order. Can Mutual fund and Pension plan be discussed in sequence?

Each one of topic is not discussed in detail, so you better off read a book for particular topic you are interested. I would call this book "Complete Book of Incomplete Money Tips".

Average customer rating:

Author is a bit cocky but very Knowledgeable

Worth reading!

Good read

The Die Broke Complete Book of Money
Stephen Pollan , Mark Levine , and Stephen M. Pollan
Manufacturer: Collins
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Binding: Paperback

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The incredible economic growth of the past few years may have made scores of new millionaires and plenty of people rich, but it hasn't made managing your personal and business finances any easier.

In fact, most of the old rules and principles have proved ill suited to this new world. What's needed is a user's guide to the new economy -- a handbook for everyone looking to succeed in this new, fast-paced environment.

In this single, highly unconventional financial reference volume, America's most trusted financial consultant and author of the bestselling Die Broke and Live Rich takes an aggressive approach to the new economy and tells you everything you need to know about money.

Pollan's clients are grappling with today's financial challenges -- and his advice is battle tested in the real world. Putting the old rules aside, he sees the worlds of consumerism, career, business, and personal finance as being inseparable -- money has to be considered as a whole unit rather than as different elements. And because he's a practicing financial adviser who deals with real people, he knows financial decisions shouldn't be made in a vacuum: emotions, feelings, and attitudes must come into play. By explaining what you should do and how you should do it, Pollan offers advice grounded in a hands-on, real-world approach that is easy to understand and simple to follow.

Savvy, sophisticated, and succinct, this incisive and engaging book is filled with offbeat, practical advice that stems from Pollan's unconventional strategies. It is an indispensable guide to money for anyone who plans on succeeding in the new economy.

Customer Reviews:

Author is a bit cocky but very Knowledgeable.......2004-03-11

A good reference book on many topics regarding personal finance, networking, career advancement and living happy

Worth reading!.......2002-05-25

I have read half a dozen books on Estate Planning and this one makes more sense than all of them. This is more of a "why to" book rather than a "how to" book but if you want to avoid: probate, contested wills, arbitrary waiting periods, expensive trusts and siblings who squabble over who is to get what upon your death then read this book.

I don't agree with everything the author proposes but the concept of giving away assets now while you are alive beats anything that the "death industry" offers.

Good read.......2001-01-09

Good, but a lot of reading with some material not useful.

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The Die Broke Complete Book of Money
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFDRSI

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ASIN: B000OFBOCO

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It is surprising how many engineers cannot evaluate bids properly, and therefore award contracts for major equipment based solely on the lowest price received. This book provides valuable and practical “hands on” guidance on engineering procurement formation techniques, from planning to placing the contract, in the mechanical, electrical, process, and mining fields. This book is unique in that it covers both the commercial (legal and financial), and technical aspects of an engineering contract for the acquisition of major plant equipment. For plant engineers, plant owners, legal counsel, upper levels of management who approve the bid evaluation and recommendation, and equipment suppliers who bear heavy costs for bid preparation.

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The sociology of law in the 1990s encountered uncertain terrain. The reconsideration of race, class, and gender destabilized the discourses of the previous 30 years. Global economic politics, restless divisions within both nation and state, and increasing demand from the marginalized have nearly paralysed these discourses in their attempt to address the very real and serious problems faced by increasing numbers of the population.

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The work in this text represents an evolving body of critical analysis of the law and its social context. Moving from Gayle MacDonald's overview of the traditional discourses of the sociology of law and the promise of critical theory, contributing authors offer insights into the effect of social context on the formation of law and the ways in which the particularities of social location bear on the application of law and resistance to it.

This text weaves social location and the social context, stories about law in ways that reveal the exciting new developments in critical theory in this field. Critical theorists tend to be characterized by an ability to move easily between micro/macro traditions, and to strengthen theories of conflict by adding new, micro explanations that come from the interpretative tradition, such as feminist theory and social constructionism. This, in fact, is one of the key strengths of critical theory; to move between and among prior classifications of theory and method with relative ease, blurring the distinctions between these dialectics and opening the possibility for new fields of research. The premise, then, of the critical paradigm is to critique law, legal process and outcome in terms of the social problems that are created or even exacerbated by the very system designed to root out discord among social groups.

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Good info, but not quit as detailed as hoped.

Exhibiting Poultry for Pleasure and Profit
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Originally published in 1946. This work has been compiled with the object of advising the beginner on all aspects of duck management for pleasure and profit. Contents Include : Breeds of Ducks for Laying and Table Purposes - Breeding Practices and Principles - Hatching, Natural and Artificial - Rearing, Natural and Artificial - Feeding For Eggs and The "Table" - Housing and Penning of Ducks - Some Duck Diseases and Ailments - A List of Technical Terms As Used by Duck Keepers - General Management. Illustrated with photos. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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This book is a teacher's resource that provides complete instructions and teaching techniques for teaching chemistry principles through simple activities that use popular children's toys like Silly Putty, balloons, crayons, paints, Magic Sand, Dinosaur Grow Beasts, and others. The activities are grouped by appropriate grades, i.e., K-3, 4-6, and 7-9. Each activity provides the teacher with a list of key science topics.

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Don't Pay Attention to What Grades This Book Is For!.......2000-08-09

O.K. I'll begin by confessing that I am a middle school teacher who participated in one of the NSF funded summer Institutes for Chemical Education. So, I already had the pleasure of working with and learning from two of the authors, Jerry and Mickey Sarquis. I would not have expected anything less than a 5-star professional resource from them. This book is a gem. It offers 42 activities, evenly distributed among K-3, 4-6, and 7-9. However, those categories meant little to my students or me. We loved them all. Of course, I might have changed an activity title like "Twirly Whirly Milk" to something that was more "8th gradish" and added a question or two to the accompanying handout, but what is important is that my students enjoyed the activities and thought about science as a result of doing them.

The activities all include the following well developed sections: key science topics, key process skills, time required, materials - for getting ready - for introducing the activity - for the procedure - for variations and extensions, safety and disposal, getting ready, introducing the activity, procedure, variations and extensions, explanation, assessment options, cross-curricular integration, and some of the activities also have hand-out masters. (I almost rated the book only 4 stars because I would have liked handouts for each activity, but the assessment sectionss offer the teacher many creative options. So, you'll have to think a little. What else is new?)

(1) Unfixed and Fixed Shapes (2) Crystal Pictures (3) Crayon Prints from a Change of State (4) Smell-Good Diffusion Ornaments (5) Smelly Balloons (6) The Scratch-and-Sniff Challenge (7) Density Batons (8) Clay Boats (9) Are Mittens Warm? (10) Magic Worms (11) Fortune-Telling Fish (12) Paint with Water Books (13) Weather Bunnies (14) Twirly Whirly Milk (15) Temperature Mixing (16) Under Pressure (17) Water Fountain in a Jar (18) The Amazing Balloon Pump (19) Pencil Hydrometers (20) Plastics Do Differ! (21) Shape Shifters (22) Pop the Hood (23) Things that Glow in the Dark (24) A Collection of Surface Tension Activities (25) One-Way Screen (26) Mysterious Sand (27) Sumi Nagashi (28) Chromatography Color Burst (29) Properties of Silly Putty (30) Marshmallow in a Syringe (31) Liquid to Gas in a "Flick" (32) Salt Solutions and Grow Creatures (33) The Liquid Timer Race (34) Density Bottles (35) Frustration Bottles (36) Expanding, Floating Bubbles (37) Hats Off to the Drinking Bird (38) Heat Solution TM (39) Color-Changing Cars (40) Investigating the Effect of Temperature on Lightsticks (41) Experimenting with Light-Sensitive Paper (42) The Diving Whale

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The New York Times calls him "the funniest man in America," and his legions of fans agree, laughing and snorting as they put his books on bestseller lists nationwide.

In Boogers Are My Beat, Dave gives us the real scoop on:

• The scientific search for the world's
funniest joke (you can bet it includes the word "weasel")
• RV camping in the Wal-Mart parking lot

• Outwitting "smart" kitchen appliances and service contracts

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• The choice between death and taxes
And much, much more - including some truths about journalism and serious thoughts about 9/11.

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The New York Times calls him "the funniest man in America," and his legions of fans agree, laughing and snorting as they put his books on bestseller lists nationwide.

In Boogers Are My Beat, Dave gives us the real scoop on:

The scientific search for the world's funniest joke (you can bet it includes the word "weasel")
RV camping in the Wal-Mart parking lot
Outwitting "smart" kitchen appliances and service contracts
Elections in Florida ("You can't spell Florida without 'duh'")
The Olympics, where people from all over the world come together to accuse each other of cheating
The truth about the Dakotas, the Lone Ranger, and feng shui
The choice between death and taxes

And much, much more -- including some truths about journalism and serious thoughts about 9/11.

Customer Reviews:

loved it!.......2007-04-01

I purchased this particular book because I wanted the articles about Grand Forks, North Dakota. When I received it and read those specific ones first, then I went back and started at the beginning...and could barely put it down. Mr. Barry is one of our favorite writers and always has us in stitches about some of the things he comes up with.
I wish I had his quick wit and fantastic humor. : )

Dave and the The Clown Narrator from Hell.......2007-02-03

I've been reading Dave Barry for years, and have developed my own impression of Dave's comic voice. It is laid back, dry, a little slow-witted and beer-addled, maybe. But it is not the bozo-clone, wacky-happy voice that was chosen to read this compilation of Dave's work. I can only assume that Dave was ball-gagged and duct-taped to his office chair when the auditions were going on. *My* Dave would never have allowed his work to be so hokily performed.

Anyway, "Boogers Are My Beat" is another workmanlike effort from the master of modern comedy. Dave uses his standard comedic formulae (suggesting phrases as good names for rock bands, using outrageous numerical exaggerations and making self-deprecatory remarks about his lack of masculine skills) to actually write some decent material. In spite of Bozo the Narrator, it is still possible to get a few laughs from these columns, which is a testament to the quality of Dave's wit. Dave covers the 2000 Democratic and Republican conventions, where he beats up on silly demonstrators who shout on behalf of "the people.". He climbs a Florida trash heaps with Tenzig Norgay's son, samples the fine products of Grand Forks, ND (a baggie filled with peat) and describes life with his 2-year old Barbie-loving daughter. His piece on driving a new Hummer pokes fun at the price tag and at its hyper-macho gadgetry, including self-inflating tires. Dave avoids direct analysis of politics -- though his endless Bill Clinton jokes (Clinton is a philanderer! Ha! Ha!) seem dated and got on my nerves. But the Office of Homeland Security made a horrible faux-pas (literally, weasel poop) when it picked him, his wife and toddling daughter for an extensive airport screening. What better way to show the ludicrous nature of our screening procedures than to force the 2-year-old child of a famous humor columnist to crawl alone through a metal detector.

Anyway, there are worse ways to experience the comic stylings of Dave Barry. Just kidding -- short of special rendition, this audio CD *is* the worst way. Get the book and record it yourself, even if you are just learning to read. Or just read it the old-fashioned way from the printer page. You'll thank me later.
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On a more somber note, Dave ends of volume with two of his 9/11-related columns. While he's not a master of global nuance, his columns were full of heartfelt emotions for those who had lost loved ones in the attacks. His evocations of the spirit of Gettysburg (in his reflection on the experience of Flight 93, which crashed into Shanksvillee, PA) were somber and actually quite profound. Not bad for a guy who normal jokes about bodily effusions.

Funny Stuff!.......2006-08-02

Dave Barry has written and selected an extremely humorous collection of his articles from The Miami Herald. There is a huge margin in difference of quality in Boogers are My Beat than in his initial non fiction books such as Dave Barry's Bad Habits. Boogers are My Beat is one of those rare books that once you start turning the pages you don't want to put down until the back cover. Dave Barry educates his fellow man on a diverse range of topics such as why you can't use the towels hanging in the bathroom, the Salt Lake City Olympics, babies on airlines, North Dakota, Bear in the Big Blue House and cell phones to name just a few.

His article written the day after September 11 and one written a year after, about the Philadelphia crashed plane are also included which prove Barry could have been a serious writer if he had pursued that career. Thankfully he didn't because the rest of the book is hysterically funny as is his Carl Hiaasen style fiction novel Tricky Business. Big Trouble isn't bad either. Check them out along with his other non fiction novels as well.

Re-read this to re-live the year 2000 and all its quirks.......2005-07-08

I always trust Dave Barry to provide me with some quality laughs, and this book does not disappoint. He covers the 2000 presidental campaigns and conventions, the Florida election counting debacle, the winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, and a bunch of regular weekly columns from that time period.

Barry concludes with two amazing columns about September 11th. These are stunning. When I was searching for reading material/commentary in those days immediately post-9/11, I wish I had found these columns. His ability to write to Americans in the face of tragedy proves his true depth and talent as a columnist. (Yes, he actually writes about moore than just boogers.)

Still a Fan.......2005-05-31

I've been a Dave Barry fan since he was writing columns about his (now twenty-something) two-year old son doing embarassing things in public places. Now Barry is on a new wife and has a brand new two-year old to write columns about. And he still thinks the word (and presumably the concept of) "booger" is funny.

I picked up this book with mixed feelings. He seems to rely more and more on silly humor (boogers, exploding toilets, hilarious names for rock bands) rather than the classic columns of Dave Barry's Bad Habits (my favorite Barry book). And the jackets of his books always have him in some ridiculous pose. I keep saying, "This will be my last Dave Barry book."

But Dave Barry always comes through. I read this latest book cover to cover. His comments on the Republican and Democratic conventions were scathing, his observations at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City were deadly, and the serious columns at the end reveal that there is more to Barry than adolescent humor. (His essay from an earlier collection, written after the death of his mother, is a masterpiece.)

So I will ignore the goofy cover photos, the inane titles, and the wacky cartoons, and just read what Barry writes -- solid, mostly humorous, essays.

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