Independently Wealthy: How to Build Financial Security in the New Economic Era, 2nd Edition

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Praise for INDEPENDENTLY WEALTHY

Second Edition

"Anyone who has heard Dr. Goodman speak knows he delivers intelligent advice in a clear, forthright manner. His book does the same, helping investors chart a well-thought-out financial plan."-Miles Gordon, CEO, ING Advisors Network

First Edition

"Are you looking for a way to take charge of your financial future? Read Bob Goodman's Independently Wealthy. It is a terrific first step to financial prosperity."-Bill Griffeth, Anchor, CNBC-TV

"A fascinating look at the events and trends influencing today's economy, coupled with pragmatic ideas on creating a solid investment portfolio."-Ginger Applegarth, author, The Money Diet: -Reaping the Rewards of Financial Fitness

"Written in a forthright and accessible manner, Independently Wealthy places current economic events into perspective. It is must reading for anyone who aspires to financial independence in the new economic era."-Arthur Laffer, President, A. B. Laffer, V. A. Canto & Associates

"A well-reasoned, commonsense approach to achieving financial independence in the new economic landscape."-John Bachmann, Managing Partner, Edward Jones

"Bob Goodman's message about retirement: Uncle Sam is about to take the ax to Social Security and Medicare, but he's providing plenty of help for workers who are willing to invest for their own financially secure retirement. Goodman shows that you have to deal effectively with this new reality."-Todd Robinson, Chairman and CEO, LPL Financial Securities

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Bland/Ineffective; Try Sy Harding's "Riding the Bear".......2002-07-01

No specific advice here, very bland and ineffective. Glossy puff piece, nothing here to help the average investor make $$$. Buy Sy Harding's "Riding the Bear" (which predicted the current bear market a year before it happened and helps one understand the market and its history), then, get Charles Caes' excellent "Tools of the Bear" which helps investors make $$$ in both bear and bull markets.

A great introduction to economics and financial planning.......2001-03-11

This book is geared to the those with a beginner to intermediate level of financial planning knowledge. It is very thorough, insightfull, and touches on many areas that other basic financial planning works lacked (Such as how lower tax rates will affect muni bond performances, UTMA's & UGMA's, finding the right financial advisor, etc). It is divided into 3 parts:

The first is an overview of economics and the economic philosophies that have guided the US market since World War 2. This is very concise and simple without being simplistic.

The next section is an excellent overview of the basic concepts of financial planning and investment vehicles.

Finally, the third part goes into how to apply it to your personal situation and goals. It sums up 10 principles for building wealth.

As I am self-employed, I have several books on financial planning to prepare for the financial future of my family. This is my favorite for the basics. Good companions that deal more with the inner psychological aspects would be "The 9 Steps To Financial Freedom" by Suze Orman, and "The Energy of Money" by Marcia Emory.

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Independently Wealthy: How to Build Financial Security in the New Economic Era, 2nd Edition
Robert Goodman
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUC3J4

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Independently Wealthy How to Build Financial Security in the New Economic Era
Robert Ph.D.
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J16RQ6

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Human resource managers will find the crucial information they need to make intelligent workforce decisions in these studies that include detailed statistical data, forecasts, and trend research on a variety of topics including employer benefits, intergenerational workforces, healthcare costs, and retirement investment plans.

This survey explores the advantages and disadvantages that human resource professionals have observed regarding intergenerational workforces. An examination of the types, frequency, and severity of intergenerational conflict in the workplace, along with strategies for addressing and preventing future conflicts, is also provided.

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Eating locally is a growing movement that is good for your health—but even better for the planet.

Everyone everywhere depends increasingly on long-distance food. Since 1961 the tonnage of food shipped between nations has grown fourfold. In the United States, food typically travels between 1,500 and 2,500 miles from farm to plate—as much as 25 percent farther than in 1980. For some, the long-distance food system offers unparalleled choice. But it often runs roughshod over local cuisines, varieties, and agriculture, while consuming staggering amounts of fuel, generating greenhouse gases, eroding the pleasures of face-to-face interactions, and compromising food security. Fortunately, the long-distance food habit is beginning to weaken under the influence of a young, but surging, local-foods movement. From peanut-butter makers in Zimbabwe to pork producers in Germany and rooftop gardeners in Vancouver, entrepreneurial farmers, start-up food businesses, restaurants, supermarkets, and concerned consumers are propelling a revolution that can help restore rural areas, enrich poor nations, and return fresh, delicious, and wholesome food to cities.

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must read.......2007-04-24

This book is a must read - it should be assigned reading in classrooms. More people care where their food comes from but this goes beyond that and goes to the farmer and the other reasons why we should all care. A little education goes a long way and if we take heed we can help each other as this goes to the heart of what is community. The Walmarts and other big centers for anonymous food are the antithesis of community and their paltry attempts at throwing money at communities does not change that. The first goal is to get people to care what effects their actions and their shopping in particular have on others, both here and abroad and this addresses one part of that.

Pleasures Abound..........2005-08-25

This is required reading for everyone, not just farmers. It's packed with informative fact and real-life stories. A resource to aid those interested in knowing where their food originates (local is best) as well as how their food is cultivated. This book offers many suggestions to help readers find creative ways to support regional agriculture and a healthier lifestyle.

Great Job, Brian!.......2004-12-15

This book is very well done. He not only describes the problems in the American food system, but does a fantastic job of describing international problems, something that is lacking in many books published in the US. The writing is easy to understand even though it broaches some complicated issues. If there were any weaknesses, I think it's that he doesn't cover the nutritional losses of old food enough.

Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket Brian Halweil. : An article from: UN Chronicle

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Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket Brian Halweil. : An article from: UN Chronicle

Manufacturer: United Nations Publications
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Title: Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket Brian Halweil.
Publication: UN Chronicle (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2005
Publisher: United Nations Publications
Volume: 42 Issue: 1 Page: 74(2)

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Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket.(BOOK NOTES) : An article from: Multinational Monitor

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Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket.(BOOK NOTES) : An article from: Multinational Monitor
Robert Weissman
Manufacturer: Essential Information, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from Multinational Monitor, published by Essential Information, Inc. on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 527 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket.(BOOK NOTES)
Author: Robert Weissman
Publication: Multinational Monitor (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2005
Publisher: Essential Information, Inc.
Volume: 26 Issue: 5-6 Page: 44(2)

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Advances in Inorganic Chemistry presents timely, informative and comprehensive reviews of the current progress in all areas within inorganic chemistry ranging from bio-inorganic to solid state studies. This acclaimed serial features reviews written by experts in the area and is an indispensable reference to advanced researchers. Each volume of Advances in Inorganic Chemistry contains an index, and each chapter is fully referenced.

. The latest volume in this highly successful series is dedicated to redox-active metal complexes
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How does a marble manufacturer know that the color will be consistent throughout the products being made? How can you tell if liquid at the bottom of a container is the same consistency as at the top? How does a pellet manufacturer know if the pellets are consistently the same size? How does a chemical manufacturer know if the percent purity in a sample is representative of the whole batch? These and similar questions are answered in A Primer for Sampling Solids, Liquids, and Gases: Based on the Seven Sampling Errors of Pierre Gy. Author Patricia L. Smith illustrates what to look for in sampling devices and procedures to obtain correct samples from bulk materials. She gives sampling guidelines that can be applied immediately and shows how to analyze protocols to uncover sampling problems.

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This compelling work is Lloyd M. Wells's firsthand account of World War II based on a journal he kept during the war, letters he sent home, and personal records, as well as recollections of people and events. Wells offers the reader information that has never before been provided. He tells exactly what happened to 2/7 Queens on the night of February 21, 1944, when the troops came up to "the caves" at Anzio. He also depicts what happened during the last offensive in Italy and what armored infantry troops experienced on the perimeter of the attack. This book, however, is not just a story of battle actions. It is a personal story about the "old Army" and how young soldiers were transformed by it during one of the greatest upheavals in world history.

"Beyond question this is one of the best written, most hauntingly eloquent books I've read in years. It is beautifully done."-Robert H. Ferrell

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An honest account.......2006-10-06

This is not a bad book at all. I honestly enjoyed it for a number of reasons. First, there are not a lot of books dealing with the Italian Campaign in WWII. This book covers one man's journey from Anzio to the Italian Alps. Second it mentions a number of military units not commonly written about, such as the joint Canadian and American 1st Special Services division and the South African 6th Armored Division.

On another note, I get the feeling that while the author was very young at the time of the war, he grew up very quickly, but still had some adolescent tendencies that he struggled with. I suppose this is part of his growing up in a twisted world. The book ends abruptly, and I won't spoil it for you. But I did enjoy the fact he admitted he came back from the war, troubled, angry, addicted to cigarettes and alcohol. Probably, because I have found myself in the same shoes.

Strongly recommended for personal and community library.......2004-08-08

At the age of 21, Loyd M. Wells was drafted into the army and commissioned a second lieutenant after attended O.C.S. He was later promoted to first lieutenant with the First Armored Division and saw action in North Africa, Italy, and Germany, winning the Combat Infantry Badge, the Purple Heart, and the Bronze Start. In From Anzio To The Alps: An American Soldier's Story, the late Lloyd Wells (1919-2000) leaves contemporary readers with a vividly written story about the night of February 21, 1944 when American troops came up to the caves at Anzio and what happened during the last offensive in Italy when armored infantry troops found themselves on the perimeter of a major attack. But more than just an accounting of battles and front line conditions, From Anzio To The Alps is a personal story of how young soldiers found themselves transformed by one of the most widespread and lethal wars in recorded human history. Here revealed is the humor, the sadness, the terror, and the tender moments of a war which is now remembered first hand by fewer and fewer participants more than a half-century later. A terrific read, From Anzio To The Alps is a welcome addition to the growing library of World War II biographical accounts and strongly recommended for personal and community library collections.

A Very Candid Memoir.......2004-07-08

I bought this book because my father served in North Africa and Italy and I wanted some history on those theatres of the war, which my father had not shared with me.
Instead of another historical account, filled with facts and figures, I found a very personal story of one man's experiences.
A few pages into the book, the author offers a translation of commonly used army expletives of the time. It let me know right away that this was going to be a candid and sometimes humorous memoir.
For anyone who would like to see the war through one soldier's eyes, I would recommend this book.

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After the attack on Fort Sumter, Robert Knox Sneden decided to do his part to save the Union, signing on with the 40th New York Volunteers. Owing to his skills as an artist, Private Sneden was recruited to become a cartographer within a few months. And owing to his skills as both artist and cartographer, Civil War buffs can enjoy Eye of the Storm.

During his time in the army, Sneden kept a detailed diary and made hundreds of sketches in the field. In 1994, four scrapbooks in a Connecticut bank vault were found to contain some 800 drawings, the vast majority of them based on his original sketches. Soon after, a 5,000-page illustrated memoir based on Sneden's diaries was also discovered. Selections from the scrapbooks and memoir make up this marvelous book, which offers firsthand accounts of the action of the Peninsula Campaign and Second Bull Run--as well as the monotony of soldiering between battles. Perhaps the most compelling portion of Eye of the Storm is Sneden's descriptions of Andersonville, the Confederacy's notorious prison camp:

September 7, 1864: Fine weather, but very hot, 110 degrees anywhere in the shade. This terrible heat helps to kill us off at the rate of 100 per day inside the stockade. Dead men may be seen by the score lying all along the brook which runs through the filthy swamp, while others are tearing off their soiled clothes to get thread from the seams, or patches to put on their own ragged clothes.

Sneden's account lacks the typical Victorian flowery prose, as he writes with an almost analytical detachment about the horrors around him. This detachment lends an immediacy to his memoir, bringing home the brutality of the War Between the States. Dozens of Sneden's detailed drawings illustrate the text, making this a must-have for Civil War buffs. Highly recommended. --Sunny Delaney

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Eye of the Storm is one of the most important Civil War documents ever published. Four tattered scrapbooks found in a Connecticut bank vault in 1994 have yielded a treasure trove of more than five hundred watercolors and maps that vividly depict America's great national conflict. These scrapbooks, and the accompanying memoir, are the life's work of a long-forgotten Union private and mapmaker named Robert Knox Sneden, who witnessed some of the war's greatest campaigns and spent more than a year in Southern prison camps, including Andersonville.

A must-have for anyone interested in the subject, Robert Knox Sneden's Eye of the Storm is a permanent addition to Civil War literature and art, and a lasting achievement in human expression of the horrors of war.

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Not Just Another Civil War Journal..........2005-04-02

I hesitate to rate any book five stars, but will do so when it satisfied all my expectations and gives me far more. Pvt. Sneden's journal does exactly that.

In the context of civil war journals, in my humble opinion, it rises above many others for three reasons. First, Pvt. Sneden is simply an excellant writer. Not surprisingly, the journal is no example of modern grammatical rules, but of course, that would not be expected in this context. Still, I found Pvt. Sneden to be one of those writers with a gift for painting a picture in words. It is one of those books, unlike many historical primary sources, that you do not find yourself rereading parts to try to figure out what the writer is trying to say. Secondly, Pvt. Sneden had an extremely unusual perspective for a private soldier. He acted as a map maker and had been attached to headquarters units for most of the period covered in the book. This allowed him to comment based on many perspectives as he traveled through multiple commands in each campaign. Likewise, he gave some insight to the conduct of the general officers he worked for mapping. Thirdly, Pvt. Sneden Had a hobby of drawing pictures of almost anything he tripped over on the battlefield. The analogy I would draw would are to people these days who always have a camera and will take a picture of anything that strikes them as an interesting shot.

Besides those positive aspects of this book specific to Pvt. Sneden, there are two other aspects of this book that makes it exceptional in my opinion. First, as to primary sources, I would submit that most readers would agree that the most important factor in evaluating them is veracity. In other words, the memoirs of a politician I would guess would never be taken on face value due to the bias of the author. In this book, even describing his time as prisoner, Pvt. Sneden in a very large seemingy presents a vey balenced picture of his experiences. There might be some comments put in after the war for dramatic effect, but the editors flag them. Even flagged as possible exagerations, Pvt. Sneden established his credibility to a sufficient degree with me that I would not so easily disregard such comments.

Secondly, the editors do an excellant job providing the backdrop to Pvt. Sneden's journey through the war.

In my humble opinion, this book should recognized as excellant primary source material writing about the period. Likewise, I believe it well worth the cost of anyone with an interest in the period.

Great Primary Source Material.......2005-01-10

The finding of primary source material is of great value in the field of history as it can give us a glimpse into the past through actual eyewitnesses. This book gives us a chance to see the American Civil War through the eyes of Robert Sneden of the 40th New York Regiment. His skills as a cartographer produced some remarkable depictions of some of the battlefields, land features and prison scenes that alone are worth studying. As the compilers of this book stated, his memoirs and drawings were quite substantial.

Sneden's observations offer us a glimpse into camp life (though he was spared most of the front line activity), some of the personalities of the war, the unfolding events of battle and perhaps most descriptive of all, life in the numerous prisons he stayed in, including those in Richmond, Salisbury (though briefly), and Andersonville. Once again it is his remarkable sketches and drawings of these places that capture our attention, though of course his written descriptions can be quite vivid and detailed, especially concerning some of the gruesome features of battle and prison life.

Sneden wasn't so much writing a history as he was detailing his day to day activities and observations during his time of service and captivity during the war. But it is these types of accounts that can offer new insights into historic events that we otherwise may never have known about and in Sneden's case especially his drawings. Of course even these types of sources need to be carefully scrutinized for factual errors as well.

you are there.......2002-10-30

Do you ever read book and have trouble putting it down? For Civil War buffs this is it. While RK Snedon rambles on a bit at times, there can be no better insight into the maelstrom that was the Civil War. The drawings are fascinating as is the courage and positive attitude of an individual faced with obscene circumstances.

Eye of the Storm.......2001-11-28

I always look for first hand information in journals. These are the journals by Priv. Sneden. The pictures that he drew are wonderful and his first person accounts of his journey throughout the Civil War are sad & touching. It is worth it all to read a first person account of his stay at Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Both his books, "Eye of the Storm" (his journal) and "Images of the Storm" (drawings of his journey) are prized books to treasure and will be passed on through generations. What a wonderful gift Priv. Sneden left behind.
My heart aches for this wonderful young man who realized nothing
from his legacy.

New glasses.......2001-08-01

Eye of the Storm is a rare opportunity to see a new yet original view of camp and prison life. You will find yourself drawn to Sneden's original illustrations time and time again. The more you study them the more you see. It makes you want to see more and larger versions of his drawings. Brayn and Lankford have done a good job in not tainting Sneden's work while at the same time pointing out some important historical questions. I marked over twenty parts to use in reference and speeches.

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Eye Of The Storm: A Civil War Odyssey
Maura Seger
Manufacturer: Worldwide Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0373970137

Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey (Private Robert Knox Sneden)

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Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey (Private Robert Knox Sneden)
Nelson D.; Robert Knox Sneden Lankford
Manufacturer: Free Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UYICF6

EYE OF THE STORM: A CIVIL WAR ODYSSEY. Illustrated by the author. Edited by Charles F. Bryan, Jr. & Nelson D. Lankford

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Eyewitness Account of the Civil War

EYE OF THE STORM: A CIVIL WAR ODYSSEY. Illustrated by the author. Edited by Charles F. Bryan, Jr. & Nelson D. Lankford
Robert Knox. Sneden
Manufacturer: Free Press,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N75CFS

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Eyewitness Account of the Civil War.......2007-07-28

This is one fabulous book, written and illustrated by a Union soldier. A first hand account of marching with McClellen, the Battle of Bull Run, his capture by the Grey Ghost, John Mosby and subsequent incarceration in several Southern prisons, most notably Libby in Richmond and the infamous Andersonville. Taken from a diary written during the war, lost for years and discovered when it was offered to an art dealer by a decendant of Sneden's. It was purchased by the Virginia Historical Society and published into two books, this is the first, the second one having more pictures while this one has more text, the main story so to speak. If you are Civil War buff, you can't miss this, it's fantastic! Like me you'll end up buying both!

Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey.: An article from: Journal of Southern History

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Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey.: An article from: Journal of Southern History
James A. Ramage
Manufacturer: Southern Historical Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008FBNNA
Release Date: 2005-07-30

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Title: Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey.
Author: James A. Ramage
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2002
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 68 Issue: 2 Page: 463(2)

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