The 5 Minute Investor: When You Don't Want to Spend the Time, but Want the Results

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This book gives any investor the ability to protect him-or herself in this uncertain environment by using financial statements as a weapon. Becoming a "financial detective" doesn't require any understanding of accounting, mastery of obscure language, or the ability to read the fine print without a microscope. In just five minutes, you can learn:
- How to spot the tricks modern companies use to boost revenue totals, artificially reporting top-line growth.
- Where to find all the places companies put acquisition gains and losses, either hiding bad investments or bolstering operating results with one-time items.
- How to compare the income statement, cash flow statement, and balance sheet to judge the quality and predictability of earnings.
- What "pro forma results," "EBITDA" and "goodwill" are, and what they can reveal...or hide from you.
- How to tell when even an "honest" company is feeding you information that's not entirely accurate or forthcoming.

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I didn't believe it but he knows his stuff.......2002-11-05

I saw the author on CNBC, talking about how investors could spend 5 minutes reading financial statements and understand stocks like Lucent, WorldCom, Enron. This is a really good book. The examples are easy to understand, the concepts make a lot of sense. Like a lot of people, I'm not a professional investor and my stocks are taking a bath. I don't know if this book could have prevented that but I have some better ideas of what to look for now.

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The contents of this dictionary are the result of many years work in production, purchasing, distribution, trade and traffic as well as information and communication. Enlarged by about 700 new terms, with now about 13,600 entries in both directions, this dictionary is an important tool for all those who take part in the logistics and supply chain process.

The dictionary also covers topics such as customer-, employee-, competition- and process-orientation, time management, innovative strength, increased productivity, high quality, and the motivation and qualification of employees to overcome technical, process and cultural barriers in a global competitive environment. This includes supply chain management strategies concerning the intensive collaboration of companies in common value-adding chains.

Dictionary of Logistics and Supply Chain Management/Fachworterbuch Logistik Und Supply Chain Management

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Dictionary of Logistics and Supply Chain Management/Fachworterbuch Logistik Und Supply Chain Management
Jens Kiesel
Manufacturer: Publicis MCD Werbeagentur Verlag
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 3895783129

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sunny side up.......2007-09-04

This is a beautiful book. Very powerful (no pun intended). Exceptionally well-conceived. Lovely art direction. High printing standards. All of which were established with the author Michael Light's previous book, The Moon. (With a surname such as Light, he was destined to be a photographer.) I first saw a copy of 100 Suns at a friend's place in Paris and, without knowing it was the same photographer who had collated the pictures in both books, said how much its aesthetics and purpose reminded me of The Moon. Rather than NASA's various explorations to the lunar mass (assuming you believe, like me, that they did indeed go to the moon), this book is devoted to the war-mongering Americans' obsession with nuclear warfare. As a counter-balance to the predilection of other superpowers, such as the former USSR and China, for power, the Americans went for gold from the outset, initially possessing a ridiculously huge nuclear arsenal, a dominance that wained during the supposed Cold War (a propaganda exercise to rival the Nazis, if ever there was one). Then, for a spell, the Soviets possessed more nuclear warheads than the Americans, which is perhaps fair enough since they did send the first man into space (well done Yuri). However, throughout the atomic age, the Americans, like the pesky French, the irritable Russians, the stroppy North Koreans, the determined Chinese, the desperate Pakistanis, the resolute Iranians, etc, have continued to conduct tests of nuclear weapons. Unfairly, the French have even arrogantly and selfishly pursued theirs in the Pacific, which, as New Zealanders, my family, friends and I occupy. Is it any wonder we now have global warming? Isn't it at all conceivable that the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of nuclear tests conducted underground, on land, at sea and in the air are partially (perhaps even largely) responsible for global warming? These are, after all, mammoth disruptions to the harmony of earth and her atmosphere. I use the word 'mammoth' on purpose too because, like the furry fellow, we may one day be utterly extinct. Of course, if nuclear weapons (and the woeful double bombing of Japan to end the Second World War) are a crucial counterbalance between good and evil, the haves and will haves, they are perhaps a necessary (yet problematic) deterrent. Now, having jumped atop my soap box (actually, bar stool in front of my computer), I must admit that the pictures in 100 Suns are utterly bewitching. To say they are beautiful is fraught with guilt, since it is members of our very species who created and propagated such an evil force. However, in many things evil a kind of beauty resides, whether we wish to concede this or not. And there is something strangely, hypnotically, philosophically haunting about the 100 pictures of nuclear tests in this book. They look like amoeba, jelly fish, demons, and, yes, mushrooms. They appear to be the visual manifestation of some weird hallucinatory concoction - though in this case it's the result of mankind's intellect run amock. Not enough is spoken about the nuclear age. The pictures in this must-have book say much. Let the buyer beware.

Stark beauty of a devastating weapon.......2007-07-09

As terrible as a nuclear detonation can be, this book manages to capture the spectacle and beauty from the above-ground nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site and other detonation sites in the 50s and 60s.

The book is a collection of 100 colour and B&W photos from the US National Archives and LANL of various detonations. Some are taken mere milliseconds after detonation and show fascinating detail. Others show the detonations with soldiers looking on. Aerial shots show the impressive scale of the detonations.

Captions for the photos giving details on the test are listed in the back so as not to distract from the photo itself. It's an interesting book to look through and to see the scale of the above-ground nuclear weapon testing that was done in the middle of the 20th century.

100 suns.......2007-06-05

Some of the most brilliant photos of nuclear explosions you will EVER find. The book is almost all photos with a small documentary section in the back to help augment the photos. VERY nicely done for the non-technical person.

100 suns is the ultimate photo book!.......2007-05-21

this book is awesome! it has very stunning photos and is just plain cool.this is definitely the best coffee table book for people facinated by nuke technology.

Excellent idea, poorly executed.......2007-02-17

I agree with the review about the mushroom cloud in the center of the binding, split in two. That really reduces the effectiveness of the shot.

The idea of this book is great. I think the book is one-of-a-kind...to date I have not found a more comprehensive collection of *photos* in one place, of atomic explosions. That is cool.

But! The book misses the point! I wish there was so much more information, give me some specifications. How wide is that explosion? How tall? As I recall, there was scant info, such as power (X kilotons), but that is way in the back of the book. How annyoing to have to flip around the book to find out what could easily have been printed on the page where the photo is, such as a legend.

Here are a few things that would have pushed this book over the top.
- explosive power.
- width
- height
- location
- a perspective item, such as the transamerica pyramid, so we can see how big the cloud is.
- Etc. Surely there is declassified information available that the authors could have brainstormed, and included...?

I'm guessing the authors didn't want to "pollute" the pristine images with this extra info, however, by leaving out this critical information, we are left with images that fail to measure to their full grandeur. It's like when astronomy books show us pictures of galaxies, but don't tell us how many light years across they are, or how far away they are. Something's missing.

I give the idea of this book 4.5 stars. I give the execution 1.5 stars. The book is incomplete.

20th Century Chicago: 100 Years - 100 Voices (Illinois)

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20th century chicago
Showcasing events and personalities

20th Century Chicago: 100 Years - 100 Voices (Illinois)
Chicago Sun Times
Manufacturer: Sports Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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20th century chicago.......2005-04-29

this is the most factual book of chicago i have ever read. it has all you need about chicago from year 1900 to 2000. Adrienne drell did a fabulous job with the book and i think everyone should own a copy.

Showcasing events and personalities.......2003-05-17

Compiled from the archives of the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper and edited by Adrienne Drell, 20th Century Chicago: 100 Years, 100 Voices is a year-by-year chronological history of Chicago which offers information and insights through the means of different "historical voice" for each year of the last century. Black-and-white photographs enhance this engaging 216 page summary of the march of time and progress in a truly grand Midwest American city. Showcasing events and personalities, 20th Century Chicago is a unique and welcome contribution to American History collections and reading lists.

Will Shortz Presents Sun, Sand, and Sudoku: 100 Wordless Crossword Puzzles

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Will Shortz Presents Sun, Sand, and Sudoku: 100 Wordless Crossword Puzzles
Will Shortz
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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ASIN: 0312345429
Release Date: 2006-04-18

100 Billion Suns: The Birth, Life, and Death of the Stars

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Readable and authoritative guide to stellar evolution
galactical

100 Billion Suns: The Birth, Life, and Death of the Stars
Rudolf Kippenhahn
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Readable and authoritative guide to stellar evolution.......2001-02-15

I read a lot of astronomy books, so any one book tends only to reinforce what I know already, plus just a little bit of additional information.

This book was different. I learned a lot about star formation and particularly about the meaning of the ubiquitous Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. The diagram is obligatory in a discussion of any astronomy other than planetary, but it tends to be described rather than explained. Here Kipenhahn goes through the life of stars of various sizes, showing their evolution along the H-R diagram and why the "main sequence" is so thickly populated (simply, because that's when the stars are burning hydrogen, which is what they do most but not all of the time).

Once done with the basics, he goes on to cover binary stars, neutron stars, and other stellar oddities. He also devotes a chapter to planetary formation and the possibility of life on other planets. Three brief but valuable appendices cover the measurement of stellar velocities, distances, and masses.

This book is a treasure and an authoritative work on the topic. Highly recommended.

galactical.......2000-07-02

with out question one of the most exciting books about star evolution.

100 best restaurants in the Valley of the Sun: An economy gourmet guide to dining out in the greater Phoenix area

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100 best restaurants in the Valley of the Sun: An economy gourmet guide to dining out in the greater Phoenix area
John Bogert
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100 billion suns : the birth, life, and death of the stars / Rudolf Kippenhahn ; translated by Jean Steinberg

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100 billion suns : the birth, life, and death of the stars / Rudolf Kippenhahn ; translated by Jean Steinberg
Rudolf (1926-) Kippenhahn
Manufacturer: New York : Basic Books
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ASIN: B000VT0OH4

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100 Suns: 1945-1962
Michael Light
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Chicago Sun-Times: 20th Century Chicago, 100 Years, 100 Voices.

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Chicago Sun-Times: 20th Century Chicago, 100 Years, 100 Voices.
ADRIENNE (ED.) DRELL
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ASIN: B000RQRHBW

Old Florida 100 (The Sun Historical Series, Assembled from Harper's 1870 & Harper's 1876)

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Old Florida 100 (The Sun Historical Series, Assembled from Harper's 1870 & Harper's 1876)
Compiled By Skip Whitson
Manufacturer: Albuquerque, NM: Sun Publishing Company, 1977
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000LVJ1PI

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Solflojt-Sun Flute
Von Bahr , and Gunilla Cdbis 100
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Both volumes of this acclaimed dictionary contain over 63,000 terms and over 100,000 translations from the following subject areas: - Analytical chemistry - Biotechnology - Color - Laboratory techniques - Organic chemistry - Plastics - Biochemistry - Inorganic chemistry - Metallurgy and Treatment - Physical Chemistry - Industrial chemistry - Spectroscopy - Chromatography - Process engineering. This work is published in two separate print volumes.

Routledge-Langenscheidt German Dictionary of Chemistry and Chemical Technology / Worterbuch Chemie und Chemische Technik Englisch: German-English (Routledge Bilingual Specialist Dictionaries)

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Routledge-Langenscheidt German Dictionary of Chemistry and Chemical Technology / Worterbuch Chemie und Chemische Technik Englisch: German-English (Routledge Bilingual Specialist Dictionaries)
Gross
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Routledge-Langenscheidt German Dictionary of Chemistry and Chemical Technology / Worterbuch Chemie und Chemische Technik Englisch: English-German (Routledge Bilingual Specialist Dictionaries)

ASIN: 0415171288

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Both volumes of this acclaimed dictionary contain over 63,000 terms and over 100,000 translations from the following subject areas:

- Analytical chemistry - Biotechnology - Color - Laboratory techniques - Organic chemistry - Plastics - Biochemistry - Inorganic chemistry - Metallurgy and Treatment - Physical Chemistry - Industrial chemistry - Spectroscopy - Chromatography - Process engineering. This work is published in two separate print volumes and will soon be available as a two-volume German-English/English-German set in an easy-to-use CD-ROM format--select the version that best fits your translation needs.

Routledge-Langenscheidt German Dictionary of Chemistry and Chemical Technology (CD-ROM)/ Worterbuch Chemie und Chemische Technik Englisch: 3 Volume Set: Volume 1: German-English Volume 2: English-German Volume 3: German Dictionary of Analytical Chemistry

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Routledge-Langenscheidt German Dictionary of Chemistry and Chemical Technology (CD-ROM)/ Worterbuch Chemie und Chemische Technik Englisch: 3 Volume Set: Volume 1: German-English Volume 2: English-German Volume 3: German Dictionary of Analytical Chemistry

Manufacturer: Routledge
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The CD-ROM version of this acclaimed dictionary offers over 63,000 terms and over 100,000 translations from the following subject areas: - Analytical Chemistry - Biotechnology - Color - Laboratory Techniques - Organic Chemistry - Plastics - Biochemistry - Inorganic Chemistry - Metallurgy and Treatment - Physical Chemistry - Industrial Chemistry - Spectroscopy - Chromatography - Process Engineering.

This CD-ROM set includes the entire contents of the two print volumes of the German Dictionary of Chemistry and Chemical Technology plus the electronic edition of the German Dictionary of Analytical Chemistry.

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Teller's inspiration to others.......2004-11-27

Edward Teller was the founder of the American hydrogen bomb and a longtime controversial figure in the intersection of science and politics. One of the seminal figures in the American physics community. So this book celebrates his 80th birthday with a compendium of research papers.

Those of you interested in Teller's achievements may want to peruse these articles. While not written by Teller, they indicate how he provided inspiration to the many authors, and undoubtedly to others.

Also, ironically, the occasion was almost at the end of the Cold War. In retrospect, very apropos for Teller. For his career spanned this War, and he was one of the keynote participants.

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