5th in Series: How to Get Paid Taking Surveys and Other Creative Online Jobs
Working From Home has many advantages for all types of people. I read an article the other day about how the elderly are getting in to making money from home because so many of them have lost their retirement funds when the market crashed. The elderly are very fortuitous to be living in an age where they have an opportunity to make money when their bodies are worn out. The saddest part of the situation to me is that the elderly are the smartest folks in our society. They have sharp minds and capability to work, but their bodies just can’t do what they used to.
Anyone that has spent a significant amount of time around the elderly knows how strapped they are for money, how bored they are and how much they worry. I think it’s wonderful that the elderly are learning how to use computers to make enough money to pay their bills, buy their medications, give their grandkids birthday and Christmas money and ease their stress. It makes me want to high five all the old folks who are smart enough and creative enough to kick butt making money.
As I’ve mentioned before in this series, when my daughter was born I was a single mom. I was struggling hard to make ends meet and finally found a way to make money at home taking online surveys. It isn’t easy to take care of a child alone and work from home, but it can be done. Because I did online Surveys For money I stayed off of welfare and managed to go to college. Now it’s my turn to help others that are in the same situation I was once in. Surveys aren’t the only way to work from home, but they’re easy, even when you’re distracted. A good place to find Legitimate Paid Surveys is at http://www.getpaidtotry.com/. You can get paid to read emails through them too. Now it’s time to mention other ways to make money from home.
1) If you’ve got graphic design skills you can do tons of different projects. One good one is to create clip art. Clip art is used in everything from letter heads to power point presentations.
2) If you love to read, there are companies you can find through bidding sites like oDesk, Elance, etc. that pay people to dig, stumble, etc articles. Some even pay for sharing these stories on Facebook.
3) Speaking of Facebook, some companies will pay you to find Facebook friends. The world of social networking is huge, and companies are coming up with new ways to use Facebook and other networking sites to advertize. If you can find the opportunity to do a job like this, stick with it. The market is going to boom.
Stay tuned for more on how to get paid taking surveys and other creative online jobs. If you have success stories or job ideas, please leave them in the comments section. I hope these ideas are paying off for you folks.
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All About Market Indicators $22 All signals are GO! Read the “mind of the market”—and make more money!All About Market Indicators explains how to forecast the direction the market is taking so you know precisely when to get in and when to get out. This accessible but highly detailed guide introduces many of the key indicators that suggest what other investors are up to.You’ll learn how to access these indicators—often using free or low-cost sources—and interpret and implement them to raise your odds of success. Make the right decisions at the right time using market indicators, including:• VIX • Stochastics • Volume • Moving Averages • MACD • New High–New Low • Arms Index • Advance-Decline Line • RSI • Bollinger Bands • Put/Call Ratios • Breadth • Momentum • Sentiment Surveys • Prices • Trends • EconomicsPlus, professional traders reveal how they apply their favorite indicators!Gerald AppelRichard ArmsBernard Baumohl John BollingerThomas DeMarkDr. Alexander ElderKen FisherFred HickeyWilliam J. O’NeilLinda RaschkeBrett SteenbargerDr. Van TharpLarry WilliamsAnd others… |
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Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty: Theory and Case Studies $159 This book presents a new method for measuring multidimensional poverty. The author critically analyzes various statistical approaches, and proposes a new way of applying the factorial technique, Multiple Correspondence Analysis, to poverty analysis. The core of this new appraoch rests on the identification of poverty types and on the construction of a Composite Indicator of Poverty, which objectively weights the multiple categories of poverty. Built as a two-step approach, Multiple Correspondence Analysis allows for the integration of money-metric income techniques.The author reflects on the conceptual debates and dimensions of poverty, presenting empirical studies showing the strengths and weaknesses of various poverty-measurement methodologies. The first part of the book is theoretical. In it, the author uses examples to develop the rationale underlying the new approach. The second part of the book presents two case studies: one from Vietnam and the other from Senegal. Each study uses Multiple Correspondence Analysis and both are based on large household surveys implemented by the respective national statistical offices. The unique structure of this book makes it practical for use by poverty and policy researchers, professionals in international development, and graduate students interested in poverty and inequality. |
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Are You Normal about Money? Do You Behave Like Everyone Else? $5.79 New – This book offers a charming and whimsical look at how people think about and behave with money. Kanner pulls together a myriad of surveys, statistics, and factoids to reveal some very personal relationships to money. |
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Are You Normal about Money? Do You Behave Like Everyone Else? $5.72 New – This book offers a charming and whimsical look at how people think about and behave with money. Kanner pulls together a myriad of surveys, statistics, and factoids to reveal some very personal relationships to money. |
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Are You Normal about Money?: Do You Behave Like Everyone Else? $1.16 This book offers a charming and whimsical look at how people think about and behave with money. Kanner pulls together a myriad of surveys, statistics, and factoids to reveal some very personal relationships to money. |
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Art & Money: An Irreverent History $5.47 Used – Surveys the history of financing art from sculpture in the fifth century B.C. to the marketing of Pompeii today, chronicling the struggles of Phidias, Donatello, Michelangelo, Rubens, Cezanne, Picasso, and other artists to earn their keep |
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Attracting Capital from Angels: How Their Money-And Their Experience-Can Help You Build a Successful Company $4.98 Used – Due to the large amount of new start-ups, including IPOs, business financing is at an all-time high. This book, which is based on both the authors’ experience as consultants and the results of numerous surveys, shows the entrepreneur seeking to grow his business how to find angel investors. |
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Banking $5.17 Used – Surveys the history and functions of banks and discusses how to manage your money. |
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Banking $5.38 Used – Surveys the history and functions of banks and discusses how to manage your money. |
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Banking Services and the Consumer $142.02 New – This report, prepared for the government by the National Consumer Council, examines money transmission, access to banking services, new technology, banking and the law, disputes between bank and customer, saving and borrowing. There are special sections on Northern Ireland and Scotland and on bank executor and trustee work — all from a consumer perspective. It is based on the findings of two surveys of consumer attitudes to banking services and evidence from the banks and building societi |
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Best Courses of Ireland $83.04 New – Using information gathered form Golf World’s own research team as well as readers’ surveys and the opinions of players, both professional and amateur, the guide evaluates courses in the following categories: — Value for money– Course difficulty– Pro shop– Quality of welcome– Course presentation– Food and drink– Practice facilities– Overall ratingOrganized by region, these guides evaluate every course in detail highlighting the best course in each area. In addition to the ratings, i |
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Bike Touring: The Sierra Club Guide to Travel on Two Wheels $18.95 First published in 1979, Bike Touring introduced tens of thousands of riders to the joys of bicycle travel, and quickly became the go-to reference for an entire generation of bike-touring enthusiasts. But much has changed in the last three decades—and this fully revamped edition provides authoritative information on both the latest equipment and the ever-expanding universe of touring options for a whole new generation of riders.Readers learn how to train, equip, plan, and pack for tours of any length and difficulty, from overnight trips near home to multiweek journeys abroad. Author Raymond Bridge surveys the wide range of touring options, which now include extensive commercial offerings and roof-to-roof (or “credit card”) tours, as well as independent, self-contained travel. Chapters covering bike styles—road, mountain, and world-touring models—along with bike frames and fit, drive trains, wheels, brakes, saddles and handlebars, and accessories, offer up-to-date guidance on the myriad equipment choices from the booming bike industry. And chapters on camping, transporting bikes, and roadside repairs are full of expert advice to help both novice and experienced bike travelers get maximum pleasure from any journey while saving money and staying safe. |
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Bike Touring: The Sierra Club Guide to Travel on Two Wheels $18.95 First published in 1979, Bike Touring introduced tens of thousands of riders to the joys of bicycle travel, and quickly became the go-to reference for an entire generation of bike-touring enthusiasts. But much has changed in the last three decades—and this fully revamped edition provides authoritative information on both the latest equipment and the ever-expanding universe of touring options for a whole new generation of riders.Readers learn how to train, equip, plan, and pack for tours of any length and difficulty, from overnight trips near home to multiweek journeys abroad. Author Raymond Bridge surveys the wide range of touring options, which now include extensive commercial offerings and roof-to-roof (or “credit card”) tours, as well as independent, self-contained travel. Chapters covering bike styles—road, mountain, and world-touring models—along with bike frames and fit, drive trains, wheels, brakes, saddles and handlebars, and accessories, offer up-to-date guidance on the myriad equipment choices from the booming bike industry. And chapters on camping, transporting bikes, and roadside repairs are full of expert advice to help both novice and experienced bike travelers get maximum pleasure from any journey while saving money and staying safe. |
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Breadcrumbs and Banana Skins: The Birth of Thrift $14.95 In the early twentieth century, many housewives had no choice but to make every penny count. Stringent meal-planning, thrifty shopping, and careful cooking were second nature in families where money was tight, and vigilant use and re-use of every resource from coal to hot-water bottles ensured that nothing was wasted and little was thrown away. Cookery books of the period offered cheap recipes, menu plans, meals made by means of little or no fuel in hay boxes and jam jars, and prepared using leftovers. This book surveys the range of money-saving and thrifty living advice offered to housewives in the years before the Second World War, from strict budgeting to penny capitalism, and demonstrates that the practice of thrift was entrenched in the national consciousness before the war years. Moreover, it contains advice that can still be followed in today’s households. |
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Breadcrumbs and Banana Skins: The Birth of Thrift $1.27 Used – In the early twentieth century many housewives had no choice but to make every penny count. Stringent meal-planning, thrifty shopping and careful cooking were second nature in families where money was tight, and vigilant use and re-use of every resource from coal to hot-water bottles ensured that nothing was wasted. Cookery books of the period offered cheap recipes, menu plans and meals made by means of little or no fuel in hay boxes and jam jars. This book surveys the range of thrifty-li |
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Buying a Property France $3.58 New – Now fully revised and updated, this bestselling guide to buying Property in France is written by local experts and packed with essential information on every step of the process: dealing with estate agents, surveys, insurance, renting for income, and building from scratch and renovation. The guide gives reassuring help with settling in and includes all the legal advice you need: on money transfer, ownership, mortgages, contracts, taxes, visas, wills, permits and fees. For a new start, a bu |
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Buying a Property France $4.99 Used – Now fully revised and updated, this bestselling guide to buying Property in France is written by local experts and packed with essential information on every step of the process: dealing with estate agents, surveys, insurance, renting for income, and building from scratch and renovation. The guide gives reassuring help with settling in and includes all the legal advice you need: on money transfer, ownership, mortgages, contracts, taxes, visas, wills, permits and fees. For a new start, a b |
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Can’t Buy Me Love $38.15 New – Insight into the psyches of money-obsessed people. Practical advice, surveys, worksheets. |
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Comparative Consumer Insolvency Regimes: A Canadian Perspective $119.85 All modern legal systems within advanced economies must address the question of how to respond to the needs of insolvent consumers whose burden of debt greatly exceeds their capacity to repay within a reasonable time frame. This study surveys comparatively the insolvency regimes currently in place or likely to be adopted in the foreseeable future in Canada, the United States, Australia, England and Wales, Scotland, Scandinavia and a representative group of Western countries on the continent of Europe. Modern legal systems have two basic alternatives in providing relief for over-committed consumers. The first, which involves restricting the enforcement of individual creditor remedies is a method with which this study is not concerned. Where the consumer is seriously insolvent and owes money to many creditors, a different approach is required – a collective solution to debtor”s problems – and this, the solution provided by modern insolvency systems, is the focus of this study. |
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Construction Surveying and Layout $5.18 Used – This handy reference was written to help builders, contractors and developers understand this important subject so they can handle more of their own survey and layout work.If you’ve been paying for simple surveys, guessing about boundaries, or have had trouble making accurate layouts, this valuable reference will save you time and money.It shows how to make a survey for any residential or commercial lot, driveway, road, or bridge — including how to figure cuts and fills and calculate exc |
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Construction Surveying and Layout $81.52 New – This handy reference was written to help builders, contractors and developers understand this important subject so they can handle more of their own survey and layout work.If you’ve been paying for simple surveys, guessing about boundaries, or have had trouble making accurate layouts, this valuable reference will save you time and money.It shows how to make a survey for any residential or commercial lot, driveway, road, or bridge — including how to figure cuts and fills and calculate exca |
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Currency Use and Payment Patterns $7 New – Deals with the various aspects of the demand for and use of currency and its role in a world of changing payment patterns. A comprehensive introductory survey outlines the evolution of the relevant money demand theory in the last four decades and the empirical findings. The theories are tested and analyzed for the Netherlands, using specially designed surveys, paying particular attention to the influence of cash dispensers and plastic money, providing new measurement methodology. The deman |
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Currency Use and Payment Patterns $0.63 Used – Deals with the various aspects of the demand for and use of currency and its role in a world of changing payment patterns. A comprehensive introductory survey outlines the evolution of the relevant money demand theory in the last four decades and the empirical findings. The theories are tested and analyzed for the Netherlands, using specially designed surveys, paying particular attention to the influence of cash dispensers and plastic money, providing new measurement methodology. The dema |
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Defense Inventory: Improved Industrial Base Assessments for Army War Reserve Spares Could Save Money $10.78 New – Original publisher: [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. General Accounting Office, [2002] OCLC Number: (OCoLC)53147673 Subject: Spare parts — United States. Excerpt: …before taking action, we added information to our report stating that DLA does validate its industry surveys as part of its process. With regard to our fourth recommendation, DOD concurred with the concept that management strategies are needed to resolve spare parts availability problems. But, it disagreed with the implication that t |
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Defense Inventory: Improved Industrial Base Assessments for Army War Reserve Spares Could Save Money $10.78 Used – Original publisher: [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. General Accounting Office, [2002] OCLC Number: (OCoLC)53147673 Subject: Spare parts — United States. Excerpt: …before taking action, we added information to our report stating that DLA does validate its industry surveys as part of its process. With regard to our fourth recommendation, DOD concurred with the concept that management strategies are needed to resolve spare parts availability problems. But, it disagreed with the implication that |
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Developing Essential Financial Markets in Smaller Economies $61.35 This paper surveys the foreign exchange markets, money and secondary government security markets, and stock exchanges in 107 smaller economy countries. The underdevelopment of these markets impedes risk transfer, monetary policy, corporate financing, and the capacity to absorb capital inflows. This study marks a first step toward formulating policies to develop essential smaller economy financial markets by documenting the stylized facts and presenting a framework for assessing the policy issues.–Publisher”s description. |
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Developing Essential Financial Markets in Smaller Economies: Stylized Facts and Policy Options: IMF Occasional Paper #265 $25.96 Used – This paper surveys the foreign exchange markets, money and secondary government security markets, and stock exchanges in 107 smaller economy countries. The underdevelopment of these markets impedes risk transfer, monetary policy, corporate financing, and the capacity to absorb capital inflows. This study marks a first step toward formulating policies to develop essential smaller economy financial markets by documenting the stylized facts and presenting a framework for assessing the policy |
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Discover the Wealth Within You: A Financial Plan For Creating a Rich and Fulfilling Life $10.99 Chapter OneDoes the Cabbie KnowWhere You Want to Go?Have you ever gotten into a cab but refused to tell the driver where you want to go? Of course not. The whole point of hailing a cab is to have the driver help you get to your destination. You tell him your goal, and the cabbie both develops the plan for getting you there and implements it for you.Financial planning operates the same way. Thus, if you don’t have goals, the planning effort is as pointless as asking a cabbie to drive you around town, with no destination in mind.I bet you can tell me what surveys reveal are the top three reasons people save money. They are:To buy a homeTo pay for collegeTo afford a comfortable retirementIf you were to expand this list, you could add:wedding costscapital expenses, such as a carcelebrations, such as a couple’s 50th anniversaryvacationsmajor medical expenseselder care costsand, ultimately, leaving your money to your kids and/or other heirs.Each of the aboveis a common reason why people save and invest. Each requires or constitutes a set of goals. And when combined, each fits into an overall financial plan.But one thing bothers me about this entire list. And I imagine it bothers you, too. You know what the problem |
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Don’t Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America $20 A radically new vision of women and girls living below the poverty line; Lisa Dodson makes a frontal assault on conventional attitudes and stereotypes of women in poor America and the seriously misguided “welfare reform” policies of the end of the century.”I hear Odessa, a thirty-two-year-old woman, speak at a forum on welfare reform. I ask her about the phrase she used, ‘Don’t call me out of name,’ for it seemed to speak for a whole nation of people. Odessa tells me that women who have no money and no one to stand up for them get put into a bad position and they get misnamed. Most often they get called ‘welfare mothers’ or ‘recipients,’ words she will no longer acknowledge. With millions alongside her, Odessa has emerged by her own strength and some opportunity, and now she insists upon naming herself.”While Lisa Dodson was working in a Charlestown factory twenty years ago, the stories of the women she worked with daily captivated her; she listened to them speak about harsh lives and their deep commitment to family and community. It was the beginning of Dodson’s desire to learn the truth and write it down.For over eight years, Dodson has been documenting the lives of girls and women-hundreds of white, African-American, Latino, Haitian, Irish, and other women in personal interviews, focus groups, surveys, and Life-History Studies. This book is a crossing—a class crossing—taking readers into fellowship with people who are seldom invited to speak but who have powerful stories to tell and who force us to abandon common myths that have been fed to us by the media about school dropouts, teen pregnancy, and welfare “cheats.” Don’t Call Us Out of Name delves deeply into the realities of their lives, often with surprising and uplifting stories of commonplace courage, unimaginable strength, and resourcefulness. Lisa Dodson does not simply give us the truth about women living in poverty but offers realistic hope for meaningful policy reform based on |
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Easy Ways To Get More Money With Paid Surveys: Get Secret Tips For Getting Paid To Do Surveys So You Can Find Legit Paid Surveys That Pay The Highest Paid Surveys Online To Help You Earn Fast Money For Additional Income $3.99 Can people really make money just by taking part in paid surveys? More importantly, do companies actually pay?The answer to both questions is a big YES! Anybody can participate in surveys which big companies run and then get paid real money for doing so. Paid surveys are very legit businesses. They’re a way for big companies to get valuable buyer feedback without costing them too much time, money and effort to manage. It’s a very quick and easy way for ordinary people, like you and me, to make money online right at their own home at their own time.There are very effective ways to getting more money from paid surveys. Here are some:1.Find the legit companies2.Find the best paying ones3.Sign up into all of the top sites so you get more opportunities4.Fill-out your profile completely5.Include all survey sites into your email safe list so you don’t miss out what they send You can learn more ways to get more money from paid surveys with the information in this book. |
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Easy Ways to Get More Money With Paid Surveys: Get Secret Tips for Getting Paid to Do Surveys So You $98.87 Used |
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Easy Ways to Get More Money With Paid Surveys: Get Secret Tips for Getting Paid to Do Surveys So You $98.87 New |
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Easy Ways to Get More Money With Paid Surveys: Get Secret Tips for Getting Paid to Do Surveys So You $100.22 Used |
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Easy Ways to Get More Money With Paid Surveys: Get Secret Tips for Getting Paid to Do Surveys So You $171.45 New |
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Easy Ways to Get More Money With Paid Surveys: Get Secret Tips for Getting Paid to Do Surveys So You $97.83 Used |
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Economics and Happiness $17.29 New – Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Economics – Other, grade: 1,7, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: Money does not buy happiness ” with that statement Richard Easterlin (1974)somehow initiated a new field of research for economists. Within the last thirty yearsplenty of surveys and dozens of papers were produced to identify the determinants ofhappiness. Unfortunately little importance was attached to a definition or a consistentconcept of what h |
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Economics and Happiness $17.29 Used – Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Economics – Other, grade: 1,7, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: Money does not buy happiness ” with that statement Richard Easterlin (1974)somehow initiated a new field of research for economists. Within the last thirty yearsplenty of surveys and dozens of papers were produced to identify the determinants ofhappiness. Unfortunately little importance was attached to a definition or a consistentconcept of what |
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Effective Measurement and Management of ICT Costs and Benefits $57.95 •Put the difficulties with ICT benefits behind you•Measure ICT benefits and manage their delivery•Use cost benefits analysis and business case accounting•Employ value for money studies and user satisfaction surveys •Integrate ICT benefit delivery into ICT project management•Get into the right ICT benefit mind setThe Effective Measurement and Management of ICT Costs and Benefits is an established, comprehensive guide to both the economics of how information is used and the management of information to boost a company’s performance. The book presents a wide spectrum of ICT cost and benefit solutions, from business case accounting and user satisfaction studies to the business processes that need to be in place to ensure the effective measurement and management of ICT costs and benefits.This third edition has been extensively updated with a number of innovative new chapters reflecting current thinking:•Evaluation and management instinct•ICT asset evaluation•ICT costing modelsThe Effective Measurement and Management of ICT Costs and Benefits has been in print for over 17 years. It has been read all over the world and is currently available in English and Chinese. The book has been prescribed at a number of universities and business schools around the world and is used as the basis of executive and degree courses. It is regarded by many as essential reading for ICT professionals, consultants, accountants, students and academics. |
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Essential Astrology for Women: The Complete Astrology Guide to 2025 $11.86 Used – The only astrology guide wholly for women – now completely updated and revised. In this Jessica Adams’s updated classic the astrologer for international Vogue and The Australian Women’s Weekly looks at all facets of women’s lives from relationships with life partners to bosses colleagues flat-mates and friends. Jessica brings her fresh contemporary take to women’s Indian Moon signs Chinese Zodiac signs and also surveys money career home family and business predictions until 20 |
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Essentials for Maths: Bind-up: Numbers to 50 / Measuring / Surveys / Money $9.6 Used – A bind-up of the four titles in the “Essentials” series which covers the topics of numbering to 50 (number), measuring (number, weight, length, time etc), surveys (data handling) and money (number). Each book offers photocopiable activities and games designed to support any maths scheme. |
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Everything Twentys $6.88 New – “Everything Twentys” offers a surprisingly honest look at the societal pressures, religious taboos, and personal struggles that twentysomethings face every day. Written by authors who are grappling with the issues firsthand, this book surveys every area of the twentysomething lifestyle, including relationships, money, image, faith, work, and culture, and will provide real-world strategies for making every day of this turbulent decade count. |
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Finance and Development: Surveys of Theory, Evidence, and Policy $236.35 New – In this new book a group of 18 distinguished authors presents comprehensive surveys of current issues in the field of finance and development. . . This book nicely bridges the gap between general research on the role of finance for economic growth and the role finance plays for developing economies and poverty reduction. . . Moreover, the authors identify a great number of promising ideas for future research. . . Ryszard Kokoszczynski, SUERF Newsletter The European Money & Finance Forum In |
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First Person Political $93.48 First Person Politicalilluminates why people run for and serve in state legislatures from the standpoint of the legislators themselves and in a way that increases our appreciation of representative democracy. Part of the charm of this book is that it is intensely personal and, therefore, compelling. Karl Kurtz, co-author ofRepublic on Trial: The Case for Representative Democracy First Person Politicalfills an important void in our understanding of politicians and politics. Through a combination of surveys and the tools of the political scientist, Reeher provides for the reader both empathy and insight into what makes politicians tick at the state legislative level. We may not like what our state legislators do, but reading this work will help us understand much better who we elect and the constraints that operate on them. Thomas J. Volgy, author ofPolitics in the Trenches: Citizens, Politicians, and the Fate of Democracy ocirc; An informative, sophisticated, and entertaining book. Reeher’s interviews with three sets of state lawmakers in three distinct legislatures provide candor, real food for thought, and wonderful insights.First Person Politicalstands as a real contribution to understanding legislative politics, the people who practice these politics, and how to gently nudge politicians to provide candid glimpses of their world.ouml; Burdett Loomis, co-author ofThe Sound of Money: How Political Interest Groups Get What They Want InFirst Person Political, Grant Reeher combats the public’s alienation from and distrust of politicians by putting a personal face on everyday political life. Through moving personal interviews, Reeher allows legislators to tell their ownstories about how and why they came to politics, the experience of serving in their state legislature, their decisions to stay or leave, and the many trials they face in the name of public service. Reeher contends that these politicians do have the public good in mind and often su |
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Food Museums $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Lion Salt Works, Small Carpathian Museum, Cadbury World, Wine Museum, Cantillon Brewery, Salt Museum, Northwich, Cider Museum, Food Museum, List of Potato Museums, Sab World of Beer. Excerpt: The Lion Salt Works is the last remaining open pan saltworks in Cheshire, England. It closed as a works in 1986 and is now preserved as a museum. The works is situated in Marston, near Northwich (grid reference SJ670754). John Thompson Junior, a member of a family which had been making salt probably since the 18th century, started the Lion Salt Works when he built a salt pan in the coal yard of the Red Lion Hotel, Marston in 1894. During the 20th century more efficient methods of extracting and refining salt were developed and by 1960 the works was the only business continuing to use the open pan process in the country. The business closed down in 1986 when the West African markets, the major purchaser of natural salt, were lost because of the Nigerian Civil War. Salt VanThe buildings were purchased by Vale Royal District Council to prevent their demolition. In 1993 the Lion Salt Works Trust was formed as a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee. In 2000 a survey showed that the land around the works was stable and during the following years money was raised from DEFRA, English Heritage, Cheshire Rural Recovery and the Northwest Development Agency to enable surveys to be completed and a conservation plan to be written. In July 2005 an application was made to the Heritage Lottery Fund and a Stage 1 award was made the following March. In March 2008 it was announced that the Heritage Lottery Fund had made an award of £4.96m towards the £7m total cost of the restoration project. In 2004 Lion Salt Works was a candidate on the BBC’s Restoratio… More: |
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Forbes Top Companies: The Forbes Annual Profile of Today’s Leading Businesses $0.63 Used – “Forbes” magazine is arguably one of today’s most highly regarded business publications, read by captains of industry, managers, and investors. This book contains the annual results of “Forbes” special issue surveys on leading businesses, including “Forbes Annual Report on American Industry, 500 American Leading Companies, World’s Best Small Companies, Forbes Money Guide”, and “Forbes Mutual Fund Guide”. |
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Get Paid For Taking Surveys: The Best Book Guide On How To Get Paid For Surveys With Smart Facts On Paid Online Surveys And How To Take Online Surveys For Money Plus Essential Tips On Understanding Survey Questions, Paid Survey Sites And A Lot More! $3.99 Mullen,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Frances P. Mullen |
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Growth and Distribution $73.66 Growth and Distribution is the first text designed to support a comprehensive advanced undergraduate or graduate course on the theory, measurement, and history of economic growth. The book, which presents Classical and Keynesian in parallel with Neoclassical approaches to growth theory introduces students to advanced tools of intertemporal economic analysis through carefully developed treatments of land- and resource-limited growth, and covers money and growth, the impact of government debt and social security systems on growth, and theories of endogenous growth and endogenous technical change. The models emphasize rigorous reasoning from ba.sic economic principles and insights without excessive formal complication, and respond to students’ interest in the history and policy dilemmas of real-world economies. Surveys of data and discussion of empirical controversies are closely integrated with the development of theoretical tools. The book includes access to a comprehensive data set extending the Penn World Tables in a form suitable for exploration in hands-on student projects.In addition to carefully worked examples showing how to use the analytical techniques presented, the book contains many problems suitable for inclusion in problem sets and examinations. Detailed answers to these problems are also provided. |
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Growth and Distribution $68.5 Growth and Distribution is the first text designed to support a comprehensive advanced undergraduate or graduate course on the theory, measurement, and history of economic growth. The book, which presents Classical and Keynesian in parallel with Neoclassical approaches to growth theory, introduces students to advanced tools of intertemporal economic analysis through carefully developed treatments of land- and resource-limited growth, and covers money and growth, the impact of government debt and social security systems on growth, and theories of endogenous growth and endogenous technical change. The models emphasize rigorous reasoning from basic economic principles and insights without excessive formal complication, and respond to students’ interest in the history and policy dilemmas of real-world economies. Surveys of data and discussion of empirical controversies are closely integrated with the development of theoretical tools. The book includes access to a comprehensive data set extending the Penn World Tables in a form suitable for exploration in hands-on student projects.In addition to carefully worked examples showing how to use the analytical techniques presented, the book contains many problems suitable for inclusion in problem sets and examinations. Detailed answers to these problems are also provided. |
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Guerrilla Marketing Research: Marketing Research Techniques That Can Help Any Business Make More Money $5 Used – Not only is marketing research well within the budget of any company, it’s also a resource you can ill afford to ignore. “Guerrilla Marketing Research” shows how your business, whatever it’s size, can benefit from conducting focus groups and surveys – and reveals how to do it for far less money than you think. Illustrated with examples taken from companies of all shapes and sizes, this practical and compelling book takes you on a fascinating journey through one of the most misunderstood a |
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Home Closing Checklist $12.95 A concise, quick-reference guide to save money and headaches when closing on a home Fraught with arcane rituals, hidden traps and pitfalls, and confusing legal mumbo jumbo, the closing can be the most harrowing part of the home buying equation. Modeled after Robert Irwin’s popular Home Buyer’s Checklist, this book is packed with checklists, pointers, questions, and tactics that help a home buyer close the deal without losing his or her sense of humor, sanity, or shirt, including: A complete lowdown on what to ask, where to get the answers, and how much things cost A list of information and documents needed to ensure a closing goes smoothly Guidance on issues such as attorneys, bankers, title, inspections, insurance, surveys, and walk-throughs |
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How to Read the Victorian Novel $32.95 How to Read the Victorian Novel provides a unique introduction to the genre. Using examples from the classics, like The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, The Woman in White, and Middlemarch, it demonstrates just how unfamiliar their familiarity is. The book attempts to break free of the sense that the Victorian novel is somehow old fashioned, moralizing, and formally careless by emphasizing the complexity, difficulty, and rare pleasures of the Victorian writers’ strenuous efforts both to entertain and to teach; to create serious “art” and to appeal to wide audiences; to respond both to the demands of publishing and also to their own rich imaginative engagement with a world heading into modernity at full speed. Broad in its scope, the text surveys a wide variety of literary types and explores the cultural and historical developments of the novel form itself. The book also poses a series of “big questions” pertaining to money, capitalism, industry, race, gender, and, at the same time, to formal issues, such as plotting, perspective, and realist representation. In addition, it locates the qualities that give to the great variety of Victorian novels a “family resemblance,” the material conditions of their production, their tendency to multiply plots, their obsession with class and money, their problematic handling of gender questions, and their commitment to realist representation. How to Read the Victorian Novel challenges our comfortable expectations of the genre in order to explore intensively a burgeoning and changing literary form which mirrors a burgeoning and changing society. |
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How to Read the Victorian Novel $80.88 How to Read the Victorian Novel provides a unique introduction to the genre. Using examples from the classics, like The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, The Woman in White, and Middlemarch, it demonstrates just how unfamiliar their familiarity is. The book attempts to break free of the sense that the Victorian novel is somehow old fashioned, moralizing, and formally careless by emphasizing the complexity, difficulty, and rare pleasures of the Victorian writers’ strenuous efforts both to entertain and to teach; to create serious “art” and to appeal to wide audiences; to respond both to the demands of publishing and also to their own rich imaginative engagement with a world heading into modernity at full speed. Broad in its scope, the text surveys a wide variety of literary types and explores the cultural and historical developments of the novel form itself. The book also poses a series of “big questions” pertaining to money, capitalism, industry, race, gender, and, at the same time, to formal issues, such as plotting, perspective, and realist representation. In addition, it locates the qualities that give to the great variety of Victorian novels a “family resemblance,” the material conditions of their production, their tendency to multiply plots, their obsession with class and money, their problematic handling of gender questions, and their commitment to realist representation. How to Read the Victorian Novel challenges our comfortable expectations of the genre in order to explore intensively a burgeoning and changing literary form which mirrors a burgeoning and changing society. |
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Independent Visions: A Critical Introduction to Recent Independent American Film $7.6 New – Far from the big money movie machine of Hollywood lies the cutting-edge world of American independent film. Follow critic Donald Lyons as he surveys today’s most innovative and exciting movies and the fascinating careers of the men and women who make them. |
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Isn’t It Their Turn to Pick Up the Check?: Dealing with All of the Trickiest Money Problems Between Family and Friends — from Serial Borrowers to Serious Cheapskates By Jeanne Fleming and Leonard Schwarz $21 Your next-door neighbor’s two-year-old broke your most expensive vase, and your neighbor hasn’t offered to replace it. Your best friend expects you to shop at the boutique she just opened, though her very pricey clothes look terrible on you. And your sister says she needs $1,500 to send her child to creativity camp, but you think what your sister needs is a job. What do you do?<P>Such tricky and emotionally charged dilemmas involving money are ubiquitous. Yet few of us know how to handle them. In <I>Isn’t It</i> Their <I>Turn to Pick Up the Check?</i> Jeanne Fleming and Leonard Schwarz – the authors of the enormously popular “Do the Right Thing” column in <I>Money</i> magazine and the blog of the same name on CNNMoney.com – dissect a host of thorny, sometimes comic, inevitably awkward, and frequently infuriating money-and-ethics problems that arise among friends, relatives and neighbors.<P>Here’s just a sample of the situations they respond to:<ul> <li>Who gets Grandma’s jewelry?</li> <li>I lent money to my niece, and now my brother wants a loan.</li> <li>My rich friend keeps encouraging me to do things I can’t afford.</li> <li>Our brother is stealing our inheritance.</li> <li>Our freeloading friends are driving us crazy.</li> <li>I just made a bundle of money, and I don’t want my family to know.</li></ul><P>Fleming and Schwarz also report on the results of two groundbreaking surveys designed to illuminate the money-and-ethics problems we confront every day. The surveys reveal, for example, just how many of us have a friend or relative who’s a freeloader or a deadbeat; how common we believe it is for someone to lie, cheat, or pretend to be loving in order to be in someone else’s will; and the percentage of men – compared with women – who say you should never marry someone who is deeply in debt, no matter how much you love them.<P><I>Isn’t It</i> Their <I>Turn to Pick Up the Check?</i> offers a fascinating tour of the secret life of other people’s money disputes and |
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Isn’t It Their Turn to Pick Up the Check?: Dealing with All of the Trickiest Money Problems Between Family and Friends — from Serial Borrowers to Serious Cheapskates By Jeanne Fleming and Leonard Schwarz $14.99 Your next-door neighbor’s two-year-old broke your most expensive vase, and your neighbor hasn’t offered to replace it. Your best friend expects you to shop at the boutique she just opened, though her very pricey clothes look terrible on you. And your sister says she needs $1,500 to send her child to creativity camp, but you think what your sister needs is a job. What do you do?<P>Such tricky and emotionally charged dilemmas involving money are ubiquitous. Yet few of us know how to handle them. In <I>Isn’t It</i> Their <I>Turn to Pick Up the Check?</i> Jeanne Fleming and Leonard Schwarz – the authors of the enormously popular “Do the Right Thing” column in <I>Money</i> magazine and the blog of the same name on CNNMoney.com – dissect a host of thorny, sometimes comic, inevitably awkward, and frequently infuriating money-and-ethics problems that arise among friends, relatives and neighbors.<P>Here’s just a sample of the situations they respond to:<ul> <li>Who gets Grandma’s jewelry?</li> <li>I lent money to my niece, and now my brother wants a loan.</li> <li>My rich friend keeps encouraging me to do things I can’t afford.</li> <li>Our brother is stealing our inheritance.</li> <li>Our freeloading friends are driving us crazy.</li> <li>I just made a bundle of money, and I don’t want my family to know.</li></ul><P>Fleming and Schwarz also report on the results of two groundbreaking surveys designed to illuminate the money-and-ethics problems we confront every day. The surveys reveal, for example, just how many of us have a friend or relative who’s a freeloader or a deadbeat; how common we believe it is for someone to lie, cheat, or pretend to be loving in order to be in someone else’s will; and the percentage of men – compared with women – who say you should never marry someone who is deeply in debt, no matter how much you love them.<P><I>Isn’t It</i> Their <I>Turn to Pick Up the Check?</i> offers a fascinating tour of the secret life of other people’s money disputes and |
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Issues in Islamic Banking: Selected Papers $9.53 New – This text surveys the theory of money, banking and monetary policy in an Islamic economy. It also considers policy recommendations on how to eliminate payment of interest from the economy of Pakistan. |
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It’s Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth-Friendly Living $0.01 Surveys find that over 80 percent of Americans agree with the goals of the environmental movement. Sadly, most Americans admit to doing little more than basic recycling when it comes to acting on that disposition. What is the reason for this great divide between environmental sentiment in this country and individual actions? Author and environmental consultant Crissy Trask seeks to answer this question-and solve the disparity-with a new book that makes it easy to be an environmentalist, no matter how busy or hectic your lifestyle. This is a day to day guide with simple, practical suggestions that anyone can put into action, like: Install rain gutters and rain barrels to collect rainwater from your roof to use in the garden.Shift appliance use to off-peak hours. Some utility companies offer off-peak rates, so you’ll save money!How to make effective household cleaners instead of relying on toxic commercial products.Submerge a plastic bottle in your toilet tank to save one quart of water per flush and thousands of gallons a year.This is what the busy person needs to start making changes today. Get informative, comprehensive and practical information for adopting greener buying habits and identifying earth-friendly products; shopping for green products online; participating in online activism; and learning from tips for cultivating a sustainable environment. |
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Make Exponential Profits with Backend Sales $1.99 Make Exponential Profits with Backend Sales”How to Achieve Success with Backend and Make Piles of Ca$h!”Description: No matter what type of business you are in, or whether you market your products online or offline, the backend offers are the ones which determine whether you are going to make marginal or staggering profits.Why Is The Money In The Backend? There is no additional customer acquisition cost, as you will be selling to customers you have already acquired, for one. Assume that the selling price of your initial product (frontend) is $97, while its original cost price is $30. You run an advertisement for $600, which got you ten customers. Your gross profit will thus be $670 ($97 X 10 customers) – ($30 X 10 customers), while your net profit will be $70 ($670 gross profit – $600 ad costs) for 10 customers.This is just one small example of how powerful the ‘backend’ concept can prove to be. Even if you do not make profit from your initial sale, you can always compensate and make more from your ‘backend’ sales!Sneak Peak: Table Of ContentsWhat is a Backend Product? 5Why Is The Money In The Backend? 5The Importance of a Backend Strategy 7Taking the Advantage of Backend Selling 9Getting Started with Your Backend Strategy 11Conducting Surveys 11Conclusion… 12Why Need a Backend Marketing Strategy in Your Business? 13Backend Marketing Method 15Promoting Back End Products for Increased Sales 16Backend Products: Key to Long Term Wealth in IM 18Choosing the Products for a Successful Backend Sale 20Affiliate Marketing and Backend Selling 22Backend Products and Affiliate Programs 24How to Increase Backend Sales from Your Current Customers 26Backend Sales and Email Marketing 28How to Double Your Sales with Backend Selling and Up Selling 30How to Increase Your Backend Profits Quickly and Effortlessly 32 |
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Marketing Research Kit For Dummies $29.99 Your hands-on guide to getting and putting marketing data to workWhen money is tight and everything is on the line, you need to make sure you’ve done your homework. You need Marketing Research Kit For Dummies. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, a small business owner, or a marketer in a large organization, this powerful resource provides you with the hands-on tools you need to identify, obtain, record, and analyze marketing data.Make better business decisions — get the lowdown on marketing research and learn what it can do for you to start making better business decisions todaySurvey your way to success — find out how different types of surveys can (and can’t) work for you and get do’s and don’ts for the best ways to conduct themIt’s a method (not madness!) — discover how secondary data (like online sources and sites with links to multiple sources) can be used in your marketing researchAnalyze this — get the tools and information you need to collect, analyze, and report your dataBonus DVD IncludesSample questionnaires, checklists, focus group scripts, and research reportsVideos of a complete focus group session and a results presentationExcel-based tools and a step-by-step guide to various data-analysis methodsSee the DVD appendix for details and complete system requirements.Open the book and find:How marketing research can (and can’t) help youQuestions to ask when gathering dataStrategies for analyzing resultsWhen to call in outside expertiseThe strengths and weaknesses of surveysTips for avoiding errors in survey researchExamples of good (and bad) research questionsGuidelines for setting up your own data analysisLearn to:Design surveys and questionnairesIdentify, obtain, record, and analyze marketing dataImprove existing products and servicesUse the forms, templates, checklists, and video |
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Marketing Research That Won’t Break the Bank: A Practical Guide to Getting the Information You Need $29.95 Marketing research is vital to part of organizational effectiveness in today’s highly competitive marketplace. But many managers in small businesses with limited budgets consider it out of reach. In Marketing Research That Won’t Break the Bank, Alan Andreasen shows readers how to get the information they need to make smart, strategic decisions without spending a lot of money. The tools and techniques presented will help managers gain an in-depth understanding of their target market, competitors, and environment without stretching the organization’s budget.Marketing Research That Won’t Break the Bank shows that research need not be expensive, overly complex, or involve complicted statistics to be extremely helpful to managers in a wide range of organizations. Andreasen, an expert marketer with a proven track record, demystifies marketing research in an accessible, readable, and easy-to-use way sweeping away the misconceptions that keep managers from doing marketing research and motivating them to get started. He offers a basic approach that assures that any research done is actually needed and useful to the manager and describes a variety of low-cost research techniques that can provide management with crucial market insights and improve decision making. Andreasen offers insights on how to use the Web, conduct low-cost surveys and focus groups, make astute observations of customers and competitors, use simple experiments to test tactics and strategies, create internal records that yield maximum creative insight, and more. |
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Mathematics: Its Power and Utility $238.95 MATHEMATICS: ITS POWER AND UTILITY, Tenth Edition, combines a unique and practical focus on real-world problem solving allowing even the least-interested or worst-prepared student to appreciate the beauty and value of math while mastering basic concepts and skills they will apply to their daily lives. The first half of the book explores the POWER and historic impact of mathematics and helps students harness that POWER by developing an effective approach to problem solving. The second half builds upon this foundation by exploring the UTLITY and application of math concepts to a wide variety of real-life situations: money management; handling of credit cards; inflation; purchase of a car or home; the effective use of probability, statistics, and surveys; and many other topics of life interest. Unlike many mathematics texts, MATHEMATICS: ITS POWER AND UTILITY, Tenth Edition, assumes a basic working knowledge of arithmetic, making it effective even for students with no exposure to algebra. Completely self-contained chapters make it easy to teach to a customized syllabus or support the precise pace and emphasis that students require. |
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Mathematics: Its Power and Utility $217.95 MATHEMATICS: ITS POWER AND UTILITY, Tenth Edition, combines a unique and practical focus on real-world problem solving allowing even the least-interested or worst-prepared student to appreciate the beauty and value of math while mastering basic concepts and skills they will apply to their daily lives. The first half of the book explores the POWER and historic impact of mathematics and helps students harness that POWER by developing an effective approach to problem solving. The second half builds upon this foundation by exploring the UTLITY and application of math concepts to a wide variety of real-life situations: money management; handling of credit cards; inflation; purchase of a car or home; the effective use of probability, statistics, and surveys; and many other topics of life interest. Unlike many mathematics texts, MATHEMATICS: ITS POWER AND UTILITY, Tenth Edition, assumes a basic working knowledge of arithmetic, making it effective even for students with no exposure to algebra. Completely self-contained chapters make it easy to teach to a customized syllabus or support the precise pace and emphasis that students require. |
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Mathematics: Its Power and Utility $238.95 MATHEMATICS: ITS POWER AND UTILITY, Tenth Edition, combines a unique and practical focus on real-world problem solving allowing even the least-interested or worst-prepared student to appreciate the beauty and value of math while mastering basic concepts and skills they will apply to their daily lives. The first half of the book explores the POWER and historic impact of mathematics and helps students harness that POWER by developing an effective approach to problem solving. The second half builds upon this foundation by exploring the UTLITY and application of math concepts to a wide variety of real-life situations: money management; handling of credit cards; inflation; purchase of a car or home; the effective use of probability, statistics, and surveys; and many other topics of life interest. Unlike many mathematics texts, MATHEMATICS: ITS POWER AND UTILITY, Tenth Edition, assumes a basic working knowledge of arithmetic, making it effective even for students with no exposure to algebra. Completely self-contained chapters make it easy to teach to a customized syllabus or support the precise pace and emphasis that students require. |
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Model Marriage $18 Dr Dag Heward Mills’ background as a medical doctor, counsellor, Bible teacher and minister are an excellent combination in this book. The research has also been enhanced by surveys that were conducted on different groups and individuals. This user-friendly manual on marriage provides information on how to counsel married couples as well as pre-married couples and post-married couples. Dr Heward-Mills also writes for married couples about aspects that can cause problems like temperaments and gives tips on how to improve your sex life, your communication, parenting, money and various other insights related to marriage. Model Marriage also contains well-researched and proven material on the anatomy and physiology of sex, human reproduction, pregnancy and the post-natal period. These self-explanatory medical insights make this book unique and are a must-have for any counsellor, minister, married couple or couples in a serious relationship. Frequently asked questions by married couples with their answers is also included in this book. |
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Money $5.32 Used – Surveys the history, development, manufacture, and use of money in its various forms throughout the world. |
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Money for Nothing: Politicians, Rent Extraction, and Political Extortion $13.72 Used – Surveys reveal that a majority of Americans believe government is run for special interests, not public interest. The increased presence and power of lobbyists in Washington and the excesses of PAC and campaign contributions, in-kind benefits, and other favors would seem to indicate a government of weak public servants corrupted by big private-interest groups. But as Fred McChesney shows, this perspective affords only a partial understanding of why private interests are paying, and what |
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Money, Exchange Rates, and Output $80 Guillermo Calvo, who foresaw the financial crisis that followed the devaluation of Mexico’s peso, has spent much of his career thinking beyond the convention wisdom. In a quiet and understated way, Calvo has made seminal contributions to several major research areas in Macroeconomics, particularly monetary policy, exchange rates, public debt, and stabilization in Latin America and post-communist countries. Money, Exchange Rates, and Output brings together these contributions in a broad selection of the author’s work over the past two decades. There are introductions to each section, and an introduction to the entire collection that outlines the connections throughout and surveys the current state of macroeconomic theory. |
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Money, Inflation, and Capital Formation: An Analysis of the Long Run from the Perspective of Overlapping Generations Models $82.63 This book offers a comprehensive analysis of long run effects of inflation on real activity. The first part presents detailed surveys of the theoretical and empirical literature. The second part introduces a monetary version of an overlapping generations economy with production and a single outside asset as a base model and offers thereby a unified framework to organize the debate. Drawing on recent contributions from the theoretical literature and new results established by the author, various modifications to the base model are discussed. These modifications address a diverse range of features such as imperfections in credit markets, random liquidity needs, transaction aspects of money in a context with multiple means of payment, and the coexistence of multiple outside assets. Throughout the second part of the book consistent notation is used, and particular attention is paid to a careful classification of comparative statics and dynamic properties of steady state equilibria. |
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Money, Inflation, and Capital Formation: An Analysis of the Long Run from the Perspective of Overlapping Generations Models $44.36 New – This book offers a comprehensive analysis of long run effects of inflation on real activity. The first part presents detailed surveys of the theoretical and empirical literature. The second part introduces a monetary version of an overlapping generations economy with production and a single outside asset as a base model and offers thereby a unified framework to organize the debate. Drawing on recent contributions from the theoretical literature and new results established by the author, va |
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More Guerrilla Marketing Research: Asking the Right People, the Right Questions, the Right Way, and Effectively Using the Answers to Make More Money $10.57 Used – “More Guerrilla Marketing Research”, the follow-up title to “Guerrilla Marketing Research” destroys the myth that only big companies can afford marketing research. The new book focuses on why small and mid-sized businesses can benefit from conducting focus groups and surveys – and how they can do it, by asking the right questions, the right way, and effectively using the answers to make more money. “More Guerrilla Marketing Research” includes new and updated material on setting research g |
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More Guerrilla Marketing Research: Asking the Right People, the Right Questions, the Right Way, and Effectively Using the Answers to Make More Money $29.95 More Guerrilla Marketing Research, the follow-up title to Guerrilla Marketing Research, destroys the myth that only big companies can afford marketing research. The new book focuses on why small and mid-sized businesses can benefit from conducting focus groups and surveys, and how they can do it. More Guerrilla Marketing Research includes new and updated material on setting research goals and objectives; how to set a research budget; secondary research; qualitative research; research into emotions; customer satisfaction research; and the future of marketing research. |
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More Guerrilla Marketing Research: Asking the Right People, the Right Questions, the Right Way, and Effectively Using the Answers to Make More Money $14.63 New – “More Guerrilla Marketing Research”, the follow-up title to “Guerrilla Marketing Research” destroys the myth that only big companies can afford marketing research. The new book focuses on why small and mid-sized businesses can benefit from conducting focus groups and surveys – and how they can do it, by asking the right questions, the right way, and effectively using the answers to make more money. “More Guerrilla Marketing Research” includes new and updated material on setting research go |
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Neuroeconomics: A Guide to the New Science of Making Choices $39.99 As technology has opened new windows into the brain, it has clarified what happens there when people make decisions about money. This clarity has produced a new science called neuroeconomics, which addresses diverse questions, such as why people save, buy stocks, steal, and overspend. The many different methods used in neuroeconomics have, however, often yielded unclear findings about the quality of these decisions, primarily because the field has lacked both guidelines for categorizing the different aspects of quality, and guidelines for selecting methods to study these aspects.Before this book, in which Peter Politser guides the reader through the different regions of study, there was no scientific guide for those interested in neuroeconomics. Politser shows how to evaluate specific elements of choice, such as regret, expectation, risk, ambiguity, time preference, and learning, and surveys economic and behavioral models of decision making skills. He reviews the neural correlates of decisional impairments and inconsistenciesclarifying, for example, why we do not recall what we experience, experience what we expect, or like what we want, and provides detailed tables of decision-making skills, their neural correlates, and possible impairments. Politser also considers what the field of neuroeconomics may add to future conceptions of decision making, and outlines the limitations of various studies of different capacities. He then introduces a broader field for the design and interpretation of neuroeconomic studiesa neuroepidemiology of decision making. Everyone who wants to understand the research in neuroeconomics or use its methods should read this book. Its accessible text, along with an extensive glossary, will guide those with little economic or neuroscience background, and make the book an excellent supplement for courses on neuroscience and decision making. |
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Neuroeconomics: A Guide to the New Science of Rational Choice $37.95 As technology has opened new windows into the brain, it has clarified what happens there when people make decisions about money. This clarity has produced a new science called neuroeconomics, which addresses diverse questions, such as why people save, buy stocks, steal, and overspend. The many different methods used in neuroeconomics have, however, often yielded unclear findings about the quality of these decisions, primarily because the field has lacked both guidelines for categorizing the different aspects of quality, and guidelines for selecting methods to study these aspects.Before this book, in which Peter Politser guides the reader through the different regions of study, there was no scientific guide for those interested in neuroeconomics. Politser shows how to evaluate specific elements of choice, such as regret, expectation, risk, ambiguity, time preference, and learning, and surveys economic and behavioral models of decision making skills. He reviews the neural correlates of decisional impairments and inconsistenciesclarifying, for example, why we do not recall what we experience, experience what we expect, or like what we want, and provides detailed tables of decision-making skills, their neural correlates, and possible impairments. Politser also considers what the field of neuroeconomics may add to future conceptions of decision making, and outlines the limitations of various studies of different capacities. He then introduces a broader field for the design and interpretation of neuroeconomic studiesa neuroepidemiology of decision making. Everyone who wants to understand the research in neuroeconomics or use its methods should read this book. Its accessible text, along with an extensive glossary, will guide those with little economic or neuroscience background, and make the book an excellent supplement for courses on neuroscience and decision making. |
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Notes On The Theory Of Choice $45 In these notes, Professor Kreps surveys the standard models of choice under uncertainty that lie at the heart of microeconomic theory. Choice and preference, ordinal utility, von Neumann–Morganstern utility and utility functions for money, and subjective probability and subjective expected utility are among the standard topics covered. These notes provide a rigorous but accessible introduction to the theory of choice for mathematically inclined undergraduates and/or graduate students in economics, finance, and related disciplines. |
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Notes on the Theory of Choice $20.1 Used – In these notes, Professor Kreps surveys the standard models of choice under uncertainty that lie at the heart of microeconomic theory. Choice and preference, ordinal utility, von Neumann-Morganstern utility and utility functions for money, and subjective probability and subjective expected utility are among the standard topics covered. These notes provide a rigorous but accessible introduction to the theory of choice for mathematically inclined undergraduates and/or graduate students in e |
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Online Survey Champion : The System That Shows How YOU Can Make a Full-Time Income just by Sharing Your Opinion – One of the easiest ways to make money online is by filling out surveys $2.99 eBook Legend (Editor),NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by eBook Legend |
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Paid Surveys – Make Easy Extra Money Online $19.99 Sunil,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Sunil |
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Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don’t Give Away More Money $24.95 Passing the Plate shows that few American Christians donate generously to religious and charitable causes — a parsimony that seriously undermines the work of churches and ministries. Far from the 10 percent of one’s income that tithing requires, American Christians’ financial giving typically amounts, by some measures, to less than one percent of annual earnings. And a startling one out of five self-identified Christians gives nothing at all.This eye-opening book explores the reasons behind such ungenerous giving, the potential world-changing benefits of greater financial giving, and what can be done to improve matters. If American Christians gave more generously, say the authors, any number of worthy projects — from the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS to the promotion of inter-religious understanding to the upgrading of world missions — could be funded at astounding levels. Analyzing a wide range of social surveys and government and denominational statistical datasets and drawing on in-depth interviews with Christian pastors and church members in seven different states, the book identifies a crucial set of factors that appear to depress religious financial support — among them the powerful allure of a mass-consumerist culture and its impact on Americans’ priorities, parishioners’ suspicions of waste and abuse by nonprofit administrators, clergy’s hesitations to boldly ask for money, and the lack of structure and routine in the way most American Christians give away money. In their conclusion, the authors suggest practical steps that clergy and lay leaders might take to counteract these tendencies and better educate their congregations about the transformative effects of generous giving.By illuminating the social and psychological forces that shape charitable giving, Passing the Plate is sure to spark a much-needed debate on a critical issue that is of much interest to church-goers, religious leaders, philanthropists, |
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Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don’t Give Away More Money $24.95 Passing the Plate shows that few American Christians donate generously to religious and charitable causes — a parsimony that seriously undermines the work of churches and ministries. Far from the 10 percent of one’s income that tithing requires, American Christians’ financial giving typically amounts, by some measures, to less than one percent of annual earnings. And a startling one out of five self-identified Christians gives nothing at all.This eye-opening book explores the reasons behind such ungenerous giving, the potential world-changing benefits of greater financial giving, and what can be done to improve matters. If American Christians gave more generously, say the authors, any number of worthy projects — from the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS to the promotion of inter-religious understanding to the upgrading of world missions — could be funded at astounding levels. Analyzing a wide range of social surveys and government and denominational statistical datasets and drawing on in-depth interviews with Christian pastors and church members in seven different states, the book identifies a crucial set of factors that appear to depress religious financial support — among them the powerful allure of a mass-consumerist culture and its impact on Americans’ priorities, parishioners’ suspicions of waste and abuse by nonprofit administrators, clergy’s hesitations to boldly ask for money, and the lack of structure and routine in the way most American Christians give away money. In their conclusion, the authors suggest practical steps that clergy and lay leaders might take to counteract these tendencies and better educate their congregations about the transformative effects of generous giving.By illuminating the social and psychological forces that shape charitable giving, Passing the Plate is sure to spark a much-needed debate on a critical issue that is of much interest to church-goers, religious leaders, philanthropists, |
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Persian Gulf States: Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates $28.41 New – Though smaller than most other Arab countries, the gulf states of Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates represent some of the most fascinating areas of the Middle East. A blend of traditional and modern, most of these states have become wealthy with oil money, which has allowed them to welcome foreign workers from diverse backgrounds, while retaining their Arab character. This absorbing volume surveys the organization, culture, and history of each of these states and t |
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Persian Gulf States: Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates $6.83 Used – Though smaller than most other Arab countries, the gulf states of Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates represent some of the most fascinating areas of the Middle East. A blend of traditional and modern, most of these states have become wealthy with oil money, which has allowed them to welcome foreign workers from diverse backgrounds, while retaining their Arab character. This absorbing volume surveys the organization, culture, and history of each of these states and |
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Serious Money: Fundraising and Contributing in Presidential Nomination Campaigns $45 Serious Money offers a detailed analysis of the relationship between fundraising methods and contributing decisions in presidential nomination campaigns, specifically 1988 and 1992. Brown, Powell, and Wilcox explore the fundamental differences between direct mail solicitation and personal solicitation networks, and how candidate resources dictate the use of unique methods of solicitation. Candidate resources analyzed include home-state power bases, access to national party networks and the national legislative agenda, congressional office, social identity, and ideological proximity. With respect to contributing decisions, the book focuses on the three fundamental sources of the decision to contribute: the purposive, solidary, and material motives of contributors. The research is based largely upon newly conducted surveys of contributors to presidential candidates in 1992 and 1988, on a panel study of the 1988 contributors designed to examine campaign targeting decisions and contributing behavior during the 1992 election cycle, and on interviews with campaign fundraising professionals. |
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Social Causes of Psychological Distress $47.12 A core interest of social science is the study of stratification–inequalities in income, power, and prestige. Few persons would care about such inequalities if the poor, powerless, and despised were as happy and fulfilled as the wealthy, powerful, and admired. Social research often springs from humanistic empathy and concern as much as from scholarly and scientific curiosity. An economist might observe that black Americans are disproportionately poor, and investigate racial differences in education, employment, and occupation that account for disproportionate poverty. A table comparing additional income blacks and whites can expect for each additional year of education is thus as interesting in its own right as any dinosaur bone or photo of Saturn. However, something more than curiosity underscores our interest in the table. Racial differences in status and income are a problem in the human sense. Inequality in misery makes social and economic inequality personally meaningful. There are two ways social scientists avoid advocacy in addressing issues of social stratification. The first way is to resist projecting personal beliefs, values, and responses as much as possible, while recognizing that the attempt is never fully successful. The second way is by giving the values of the subjects an expression in the research design. Typically, this takes the form of opinion or attitude surveys. Researchers ask respondents to rate the seriousness of crimes, the appropriateness of a punishment for a crime, the prestige of occupations, the fair pay for a job, or the largest amount of money a family can earn and not be poor, and so on. The aggregate judgments, and variations in judgments, representthe values of the subjects and not those of the researcher. They are objective facts with causes and consequences of interest in their own right. This work is an effort to move methodology closer to human concerns without sacrificing the scientific grounds of research as such. The auth |
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Sound Wormy: Memoir of Andrew Gennett, Lumberman $24.95 Set in what remains some of the wildest country in the United States, Sound Wormy recalls a time when regulations were few and resources were abundant for the southern lumber industry. In 1901 Andrew Gennett put all of his money into a tract of timber along the Chattooga River watershed, which traverses parts of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. By the time he wrote his memoir almost forty years later, Gennett had outwitted and outworked countless competitors in the southern mountains to make his mark as one of the region’s most seasoned, innovative, and successful lumbermen.His recollections of a rough-and-ready outdoors life are filled with details of logging, from the first “cruise” of a timber stand to the moment when the last board lies “on sticks” in the mill yard. He tells how massive poplars, oaks, and other hardwoods had to be felled and trimmed by hand, dragged down mountain slopes by draft animals, floated downstream or carried by rail to the mill, and then sawn, graded, and stacked for drying. He tells of buying timber rights in a land market filled with “sharp” operators, where titles and surveys were often contested and kinship and custom were on an equal footing with the law.Gennett saw more than potential “boardfeet” when he looked at a tree. He recalls, for instance, his efforts to convince the U.S. Forest Service to purchase undisturbed areas of wilderness at a time when its mandate was to condemn and buy up farmed-out and clear-cut land. One such sale initiated by Gennett would become the Joyce Kilmer Wilderness in North Carolina.Filled with logging lore and portraits of the southern mountains and their people, Sound Wormy adds an absorbing new chapter to the region’s natural and environmental history. |
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Starting an iPhone Application Business For Dummies $24.99 Making Everything Easier!Starting an iPhone® Application Business for DummiesLearn to: Find your niche, develop a great idea, and build your brand Develop a business model and revenue strategies for success Build your development team from the ground up Use marketing and pricing surveys, reviews, and blog marketingAaron NicholsonJoel EladDamien StolarzMake money from your Phone app ideas with this easy-to-follow advice!Got some great ideas for iPhone apps? Here’s how to turn them into a profitable business. This friendly guide helps you learn what goes into a successful app, how to price and market it, what the App Store expects from you, and even how to build a successful business team. You bring the ideas, and this book will help you with the rest! What’s out there — test the business climate, learn about the development platform, and see how others have succeeded The incredible iPhone — thoroughly understand its unique capabilities Who’s your customer? — get a clear picture of the niche your apps can fill and learn to reach your customers Make it sticky — find out what makes an app so appealing that users stick with it Development dos and don’ts — learn how to plan your app, test thoroughly, anticipate development costs, and keep it legal Pricing peculiarities — examine revenue models, learn how to price your apps, and see how “free” can actually pay off Get buzzy — build “buzz” with demo YouTubreviews, and endorsements Brand it — get tips on creating and reinforcing your brand image Open the book and find: How to get users to promote your app What kinds of apps generate the |
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Starting an iPhone Application Business For Dummies $24.99 Making Everything Easier!Starting an iPhone® Application Business for DummiesLearn to: Find your niche, develop a great idea, and build your brand Develop a business model and revenue strategies for success Build your development team from the ground up Use marketing and pricing surveys, reviews, and blog marketingAaron NicholsonJoel EladDamien StolarzMake money from your Phone app ideas with this easy-to-follow advice!Got some great ideas for iPhone apps? Here’s how to turn them into a profitable business. This friendly guide helps you learn what goes into a successful app, how to price and market it, what the App Store expects from you, and even how to build a successful business team. You bring the ideas, and this book will help you with the rest! What’s out there — test the business climate, learn about the development platform, and see how others have succeeded The incredible iPhone — thoroughly understand its unique capabilities Who’s your customer? — get a clear picture of the niche your apps can fill and learn to reach your customers Make it sticky — find out what makes an app so appealing that users stick with it Development dos and don’ts — learn how to plan your app, test thoroughly, anticipate development costs, and keep it legal Pricing peculiarities — examine revenue models, learn how to price your apps, and see how “free” can actually pay off Get buzzy — build “buzz” with demo YouTubreviews, and endorsements Brand it — get tips on creating and reinforcing your brand image Open the book and find: How to get users to promote your app What kinds of apps generate the |
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TRENCHLESS TECHNOLOGY PIPING: INSTALLATION AND INSPECTION: Installation and Inspection $115 Design, Install, Inspect, and Manage Trenchless Technology Piping ProjectsTrenchless Technology Piping offers comprehensive coverage of pipe installation, renewal, and replacement using trenchless technology methods. This step-by-step resource explains how to implement efficient design, construction, and inspection processes and shows how to save time and money with a state-of-the-art project management system.Packed with detailed illustrations, the book surveys the wide variety of trenchless technologies available and discusses the recommended applications for each. This cutting-edge engineering tool also contains vital information on contracting, project delivery, safety, quality control, and quality assurance.COVERAGE INCLUDES:• Trenchless technology methods for new pipe installations and old pipe linings and replacements• Pipeline planning and design• Pipe behavior under soil and traffic loads• Details on different types of pipes, such as concrete, plastic, PVC, HDPE, GRP, and metallic• Design and project management considerations for horizontal directional drilling (HDD)• Trenchless replacement systems, including pipe bursting and pipe removal methods• Construction and inspection requirements for cured-in-place pipe (CIPP)• Design and construction considerations for pipe jacking and microtunneling methods• Quality assurance, quality control, inspection, and safety |
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Talk about Values: Conversation Skills for Intermediate Students $2.28 Used – Talk About Values presents values-oriented topics such as honesty, money concerns, gift-giving, and what to look for in a husband or wife, which are of particular interest to older teenagers and adults. Illustrations, short readings, surveys of personal experiences and opinions, role plays, and jokes are the source materials for conversation starters. Each chapter also includes suggestions for writing activities. |
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Talk about Values: Conversation Skills for Intermediate Students $11.45 Talk About Values presents values-oriented topics such as honesty, money concerns, gift-giving, and what to look for in a husband or wife, which are of particular interest to older teenagers and adults. Illustrations, short readings, surveys of personal experiences and opinions, role plays, and jokes are the source materials for conversation starters. Each chapter also includes suggestions for writing activities. |
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Talk about Values: Conversation Skills for Intermediate Students $11.48 New – Talk About Values presents values-oriented topics such as honesty, money concerns, gift-giving, and what to look for in a husband or wife, which are of particular interest to older teenagers and adults. Illustrations, short readings, surveys of personal experiences and opinions, role plays, and jokes are the source materials for conversation starters. Each chapter also includes suggestions for writing activities. |
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The Banks and the Monetary System in the UK 1959-1971 $134.26 New – The annual Monetary Surveys published in the Midland Bank Review have become an established and authoritative source of reference for all students of money and banking and related topics, and for those concerned with general economics and current affairs.This superb volume brings together reprints of these Surveys with a selection of special articles published in the Review since the 1959 Radcliffe Report on the working of the monetary system. In his introduction the editor discusses in ou |
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