Teenvestor.Com: The Practical Investment Guide for Teens and Their Parents

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A practical guide for teaching teens the principles of investing including how to invest in stocks, mutual funds, and other financial instruments. Parents are also instructed on how to help their children join the 51 million stockholders in the United States and to own assets that will make their money grow. The book promotes the idea that kids are intellectually capable of understanding investment basics. It does so by using one of the most effective tools for learning yet at our disposal-the Internet-to point them to sites that will help them learn all they need to know about investing. Finally, here is a "youth friendly" approach that makes understanding investing easy.

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Teenvestor.com is out-of-date.......2007-09-24

It is unfortunate that I find this book while trying to get my daughter interested in how money really works and an understanding what investing is. I say unfortunate because I went to http://www.teenvestor.com and became very disappointed. The first thing I noticed on the home page is some sort of stock index. One that seems to be an index of teenvestor.com stocks. Sounds reasonable. The problem is the quote is from mid 2006 - almost 1 1/2 years old!!! Clicking on it still showed the same 2006 figures. Further investigation shows the copyright date of the website to be 2003!

This is very disappointing. I cannot stress enough how schools totally ignore financial matters when it comes to educating our children. No wonder our children graduate college only to be immediately drowned in debt.

I very much would have enjoyed purchasing a book like this if the relevant website was up-to-date. Being up-to-date would tell me they are serious about the book and want our children to succeed.

This does not appear to be the case.

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Who's steering your boat?

Lead Yourself presents an array of concepts, ideas, and techniques to help you take a greater degree of control over your life. Stimulating you to assess how you think, feel, and behave, it highlights where you need to make changes to become a more effective and fulfilled individual.

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Lead Yourself: Be Where Others Will Follow (Momentum)
Mick Cope
Manufacturer: Perseus Books Group
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N79G28

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Differential Diagnosis, Clinical Foundations, Treatment Principles and Clinical Protocols (Chinese Medical Qigong Therapy, Volume 3)

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The information contained within the Chinese Medical Qigong Therapy: A Comprehensive Clinical Text has currently been tripled and reformatted into five exciting new textbooks. The five new Medical Qigong textbooks are composed of both modern and ancient knowledge, graphics, and expanded techniques guaranteed to fascinate and intrigue the reader. Never before in the history of Chinese Medicine has a textbook series been made available to the public that includes such comprehensive and thorough understandings on ancient Chinese energetic healing techniques. Written by an internationally recognized Grand Master of Martial, Medical, and Spiritual Qigong training, this five textbook series (often referred to as the "Medical Qigong Encyclopedia") provides the first complete explanation of ancient Chinese esoteric theory that has for centuries eluded and confounded the West. This third textbook includes a thorough understanding of the ancient metaphysical theories of Chinese energetic medicine, including Qi diagnosis, materializing and dematerializing energy, discovering and removing energetic cords, long distance scanning (moving clairvoyance), breath incantations (mantras) and medical talismans, hand seals (mudras), the ancient Daoist use of the magic mirror, advanced energy cultivation and Qi emission techniques, vibrating palm cultivation techniques, and other practical clinical applications of energetic medicine. The featured highlights of this clinical textbook include: - Introduction To Differential Diagnosis - Clinical Examination and Diagnosis - Establishing the Medical Qigong Clinic - Principles and Parameters of Energetic Therapy - Balancing the Body's Energetic System - Other Healing Modalities - Healing Emotional Traumas - Precautions and Ethical Considerations - Qi Massage and Tissue Regulation - Qi Extension, Vibration and Advanced Emission Techniques - Sound and Color Projection - The "Invisible Needle" Theory & Application

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A Concise Practical Manual

Textbook of Clinical Medicine for Asia

Manufacturer: The Chinese University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 9622017738

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Most textbooks of clinical medicine are written by authors in Western countries. Asia has 60% of the world's population and the disease pattern in this region is, in many aspects, quite different from that of the West. Textbook of Clinical Medicine for Asia is written by a group of local experts in Hong Kong. While it is based on Western medicine, this book places particular emphasis on diseases prevalent in Asia, e.g., IgA nephropathy, recurrent pyogenic cholangitis, thyrotoxic period paralysis and many other infections. The use of herbal drugs and their possible toxic effects are also included. Designed primarily for use by medical students and trainees in internal medicine, the book should also be an interesting reference for physicians who practice in Asia as well as physicians in the West who occasionally see Asian patients.

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Isn't deep enough.......2003-09-08

This book is neither comprehensive or deep enough for students and practitioners. As a result, one hardly knows what the target reader this book is written for. If it is aimed for the general reader, then it's a bit too academic and dry (it's not very well written from a linguistic perspective). For the practitioner, it is of very limited use. A disappointing publication.

A Concise Practical Manual.......2000-06-25

It isn't a good reference for internal medicine but it's concise practical handbook for quick cross-reference and revision.

Compared to other textbook of similar size, such as Davidson's, it lacks concise review of important anatomy and physiology, detailed explanation of pathophysiology, colourful illustrations, and useful tables. These drawbacks make it too difficult for medical students starting clinical practice to read and understand, and too brief for doctors to look up detailed description and explanation.

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This reference brings together, for the first time, information on the electrochemical and physicochemical properties of carbon that are relevant to the understanding of its electrochemical behavior. The book is divided into three major sections. The first section reviews the manufacture and physicochemical properties of commercial carbons. The second section presents a discussion on the characteristics and types of carbon electrodes. The third section explores the wide range of applications of carbon in electrochemical systems. Features many tables and figures, as well as numerous references.

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Carbon fibre.......1999-12-24

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Military conflicts, particularly land combat, possess the characteristics of complex adaptive systems: combat forces are composed of a large number of nonlinearly interacting parts and are organized in a dynamic command-and-control network; local action, which often appears disordered, self-organizes into long-range order; military conflicts, by their nature, proceed far from equilibrium; military forces adapt to a changing combat environment; and there is no master "voice" that dictates the actions of every soldier (i.e., battlefield action is decentralized). Nonetheless, most modern "state of the art" military simulations ignore the self-organizing properties of combat.

This book summarizes the results of a multiyear research effort aimed at exploring the applicability of complex adaptive systems theory to the study of warfare, and introduces a sophisticated multiagent-based simulation of combat called EINSTein. EINSTein, whose bottom-up, generative approach to modeling combat stands in stark contrast to the top-down or reductionist philosophy that still underlies most conventional military models, is designed to illustrate how many aspects of land combat may be understood as self-organized, emergent phenomena. Used worldwide by the military operations research community, EINSTein has pioneered the simulation of combat on a small to medium scale by using autonomous agents to model individual behaviors and personalities rather than hardware.

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A Brilliant Pioneering Work of Depth and Breadth!.......2005-01-16

This sophisticated yet accessible book has much to offer. While many groups today are applying complexity and agent-based modeling to combat, the models developed by Ilachinski and described in this book, ISAAC and EINSTein, are the true pioneers, and the story behind their development is fascinating.

Following the Vietnam War, a major rethinking about the type of education and skills needed to fight a modern-day war resulted in many reforms that led to the U.S. military's swift victory in "Operation Desert Storm" in 1991. Building on those successes, the United States Marine Corps undertook a search for new discoveries with the potential to influence the military's thinking about and readiness for future conficts. Through this effort they learned about the emerging new field of nonlinear studies, also known as chaos theory and complexity science.

In 1995, under the direction of Lt. General Paul K. Van Riper (now retired) an "Office of New Sciences" was established within the Marine Corps Combat Development Command--a sort of futures think tank for the Marine Corps--to explore the possible applications of complexity to the Marine Corps' strategic thinking about the future of combat.

In the Forward to this book General Van Riper writes, "In an initial discussion Dr. Ilachinski (employed by the Center for Naval Analysis and invited by Gen. Van Riper to meet with him to discuss these ideas) suggested we focus our research on the relevance of complexity theory to land combat because of its unique characteristics, these being hierarchically organized units engaged in multifaceted interactions with each other and the enemy over complicated terrain." This book is the story of the project, insights and models that resulted from those early conversations.

Despite (I write with a laugh) his math and physics background, Ilachinski is a wonderful writer, taking his time with each subject and thus making this book accessible to the nonscientist with a basic understanding of complexity. It's also fun to work with the basic model (described here in detail) and explore some of the more abstract ideas from complexity and their applications to many domains beyond those for which it was originally developed (namely, combat). There is also within this book a self-contained primer on complexity. I was so impressed with the clarity of this section that I asked the book's publisher to make this section available as a separate publication (to which they agreed) for my workshops and seminars on complexity. This book is a valued reference that I have used over and over. As an aside, Andy is also an accomplished photographer (visit his photography website) whose stunning photographs capture nature's elegance, simplicity, beauty and complexity.

As a final tribute to Ilachinski's incredible pioneering work, General Van Riper writes in the book's Forward, "When histories of this era are written Dr. Andrew Ilachinski is likely to emerge as the 'Father of Military Complexity Research'...Those in positions with responsibility for planning and conducting the Nation's defense today and into the foreseeable future ignore this book at great peril for it offers deep and meaningful insights into war on land." You won't be disappointed with this book. It's worth every penny!

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An American editor with an enthusiasm for the works of Jeffrey Aspern, a romantic poet of the early 19th century, goes to Venice to acquire the letters that Aspern wrote to his mistress, a Miss Bordereau, whom he called "Juliana." Under an assumed name he rents a suite in the ancient palace
where she lives in poverty and seclusion with her niece, Miss Tina. He finds that the old lady is shrewd and haughty and accepts him as a lodger only to put aside money for the future of Miss Tina, a timid, unattractive spinster much in awe of her aunt. During his residence with them, the editor
wins the friendship of Miss Tina, to whom he reveals his mission. Leaving Venice for a fortnight, he returns to find that Miss Bordereau has died. Miss Tina, who is clearly in love, welcomes him expectantly, but confesses that she could only give him the papers if he were "a relative."

In addition to "The Aspern Papers," this collection contains "The Private Life," "The Middle Years," and "The Death of the Lion," as well as prefaces by Henry James, a chronology of his life, and editor's notes.

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One of the Master's Very Best.......2006-08-23

"The Aspern Papers" is one of Henry James's very best works, which makes it one of the best works in all of American literature. A lovely, slightly Gothic, highly evocative novella, it floats along on James's prose like a gondola upon one of Venice's less trafficked canals. It should be as well-known as "Daisy Miller" or "The Portrait of a Lady." Back in the day (that means the 1990's, to all you tragically unhip), this would've made a great Merchant-Ivory movie.

Civilization and Its Discontents.......2005-12-17

The Aspern Papers is a brilliant story that concentrates everything great about Henry James in one brisk addictive read. James had such a deep feeling for the ornate social niceties of his day that he was able to poke fun of them while still respecting their essential decency--he seemed to understand the greed and brutality they kept in check. Our unnamed narrator's quest to outfox a great poet's elderly mistress and lay ahold of her onetime lover's papers unfolds in a languid world of gondolas, decaying Venetian palazzos, hot evenings in overgrown gardens, and above all a comfortable leisure that allows the smallest social gestures to take on earth-shaking significance.

James had an uncanny ability to make that world come alive, bringing you into its subtleties and rites, while at the same time taking you behind the elegant façade to expose the aggression, cupidity, and naked power politics that lurk just beneath the impeccable manners. Our narrator wants the papers; the mistress wants money for her niece, and the niece ... well, order this book and read on to find out. You won't be disappointed--it's one of James's best.

Reader and Writer in "The Aspern Papers".......2000-09-19

I enjoyed this book, if only for the different manners in which they approached the role of writer and reader(or non-reader in the case of "The Death of the Lion"). The four stories "The Aspern Papers", "The Middle Years" and "The Death of the Lion" revolve around the extreme devotation of a reader and their relationship with the author. All of these devotees have given up a portion or all of their lives for the author of their admiration. The question is what are their (the admirers') true motives in seeking contact with the authors, and in the case of "The Middle Years" and "Death of the Lion", what is the purpose of the admirer for the author. In "The Aspern Papers" the narrator fights to get ahold of the author's private papers, supposedly guarded by Aspern's one-time mistress. Like "Death of the Lion", it discusses to what extent the narrator or main character can rightfully claim ownership of an author and his or her works. In "Death of the Lion", told from the perspective of an expoitive newspaper man who fell in love with the author and his works, the role of the writer and reader is broken into opposing admirers: Those who admire the writer for his works, and those who admire him for the social status he can offer them. It asks the question who is most deserving of the author's time and respect, if anyone is at all. The Middle Years switches perspectives to that of the author who only now, when the time remaining for him is shorter, has he really learned how to right. He gains a devotee who he sees as a provider of an extension. The story discusses the relationship between the two. Finally is "The Private Life", which revolves around contrasting roles. It discusses characters and whether or not their outward appearances are the true personality.

Brilliant and also heartbreaking.......2000-02-12

The title novella here is one of the finest examples of the entire genre. The questions underlying the narrator's intended crime (such as the problems of literary propriety, the "hauntedness" scholars feel from their literary subjects) are exquisitely handled... yet even so this story wouldn't be nearly so memorable if its expert treatment of Miss Tina's anguish weren't rendered so vividly. Her confession scene ("I can't go on... I'm too ashamed!") is one of the most moving things James ever wrote, equalled only by her strange surmounting of that anguish later in the book and by the narrator's rueful closing words.

Intense story about a manipulative publisher.......1999-10-02

This is a fascinating, somewhat mystifying story about an American publisher who wants findsome long lost papers of an almost forgetten poet Jeffrey Aspern. The narrator finds his long ago mistress living in poverty in Venice. The reader is not only treated to this rather mysterious tale about the mistress Juliana Bordereau and her equally strange niece,Tina, but to a wonderful picture of l9th centurey Venice. The narrator behaves in a hypocritcal fashion, tryimg to get the papers of Aspern away from these two women. Henry James is his usual rather verbose mode of writing,but I found the book's tale pushing me to the end. 99bjb@mediaone.net

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The Aspern Papers and Other Stories
Henry James
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Release Date: 2000-11-16

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An unscrupulous scholar, obsessed with the life and career of the late poet JeffreyAspern, finagles his way into the household of Aspern's former mistress in an effort to obtain the poet's lost papers. Inspired by a real-life incident involving the manuscripts of Lord Byron, Henry James's novella provides an unforgettable glimpse into the intensityof scholarly obsession.

The Aspern Papers and Other Stories (The World's Classics)

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The Aspern Papers and Other Stories (The World's Classics)
Henry; Poole, Adrian James
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THE TURN OF THE SCREW THE ASPERN PAPERS AND OTHER STORIES

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THE TURN OF THE SCREW THE ASPERN PAPERS AND OTHER STORIES

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The Turn of the Screw, the Aspern Papers and Seven Other Stories by Henry James

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The Turn of the Screw, the Aspern Papers and Seven Other Stories by Henry James

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This is a wonderful collection of stories by author, Henry James. Includes a copy of a sketch of the athor, a biography of his works, and an introduction by Michael Swan, summarizing the life history of Henry James.

The Aspern Papers and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)

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The Aspern Papers and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
Henry James; Editor-Adrian Poole
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The Turn of the Screw / the Aspern Papers and seven Other Stories

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The Turn of the Screw / the Aspern Papers and seven Other Stories
Henry James
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The Turn of the Screw The Aspern Papers and Other Stories
Henry James
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Turn of the Screw, Aspern Papers and Other Stories

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Turn of the Screw, Aspern Papers and Other Stories
Henry James
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The Turn of the Screw. The Aspern Papers and Other Stories
Henry James
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Financial Contract Netting Improvement Act of 2000 : report (to accompany H.R. 1161) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office) (SuDoc Y 1.1/8:106-834/PT.1-)
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