Our Native Trees And How To Identify Them: A Popular Study Of Their Habits And Their Peculiarities

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A great old tree book........2006-11-11

I love old tree books like this that are not just dry technical desciptions, but actually say something about the trees.There is even a little poetry here and there.I purchased a 1920 edition a few months ago and just loved it.

A natural history so detailed as to include descriptions of bark, leaves, winter buds, and much more.......2005-11-08

Educator and naturalist Harriet Keeler was an important figure around the turn of the century, and Kent State's facsimile reprint of her first book, Our Native Trees, returns to new audiences a classic which first appeared when America was urbanizing and public interest in parks was growing. The trees identified herein are indigenous to the Atlantic to Rocky Mountains and Canada to the Southern states: fine black and white illustrations accompany a natural history so detailed as to include descriptions of bark, leaves, winter buds, and much more.

Our native trees and how to identify them: A popular study of their habits and their peculiarities ; with 178 ill. from photos. and with 162 ill. from drawings

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Our native trees and how to identify them: A popular study of their habits and their peculiarities ; with 178 ill. from photos. and with 162 ill. from drawings
Harriet Louise Keeler
Manufacturer: Scribner
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Patrice Fusillo and Noriko Araki have authored a large book about a small country where space is at a premium, and packed it with the sort of details and options that let you maneuver, if not like a native, at least like a well-informed traveler. Covering all the islands, and giving in-depth attention to Mt. Fuji, the Japan Alps, and all the major cities, Open Road's Japan Guide is a remarkably comprehensive and useful tome. Fusillo and Araki explain everything, including the craftsmanship that goes into making a perfect lacquer bowl, the acumen that churns out millions of Walkmans, proper etiquette for Japanese inns and baths, and what the temples and shrines are all about. Along with a history of Japan and asides on culture and religion, they give cost-cutting advice; direct you to hot-spring resorts, kabuki dances, smoking volcanoes, serene rock gardens, and virtual reality game centers; explain how to get around by train; introduce you to a vast array of restaurants; detail all the sight-seeing alternatives; and thoroughly cover the lodging options in each city. With additional chapters on sports and recreation in Japan and traveling with children, they make the diverse pleasures of Japan accessible.

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Informative, interesting and very readable.......1998-04-14

This book gives you information from insiders who know subtle distinctions that may be overlooked. Great printing job--very readable for tired eyes

Tokyo Guide 1999 (Open Road's Tokyo Guide)

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Well written guide book
Do you want to go to true and core Tokyo world?
Indispensible resource for long or short trips to Tokyo
Exactly the book we needed for our trip
Invaluable guide!

Tokyo Guide 1999 (Open Road's Tokyo Guide)
Patrice Fusillo
Manufacturer: Open Road Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1883323894

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Tokyo offers soaring castles, peaceful parks and gardens, fabulous modern hotels and restaurants, fun coffee houses, art galleries, and nightclubs. It is the pulse of modern Japan. It is a gourmet`s paradise, from small noodle shops to moderately priced traditional restaurants to exotic, international cuisine. Stroll around the Imperial Palace, with its walls and moats; visit the Meiji Shrine; soak up the ambience of the Korakuen Garden. At night you`ll be mesmerized by the neon world of the Ginza shopping district, or take in an unforgettable Kabuki performance or Noh play. See old Tokyo in lively Asakusa, with its wonderful shops and restaurants, or shop for the latest electronics gadgets in Akihabara. We`ll tell travelers how to find delicious sushi at prices well below the norm, which department stores have the best bargains, where to view authentic wood block prints, and how to cheaply get around town without getting stuck in Tokyo`s fabled traffic. We`ll tell readers about Tokyo`s best traditional Japanese inns as well as the deluxe and moderately priced hotels. We give you extensive walking tours of each district, and we hit both the highlights and the hidden gems; readers will discover countless museums, shops, parks and gardens, but also the unexpected pleasures of an early morning tuna auction, where to go for a perfect shiatsu massage, and how to participate in a tea ceremony or where to take a flower arranging class. Excursions include the former capital of Kamakura, with its multitude of temples in a lovely seaside setting, Nikko, home of one of the most ornate shrines in the world, the fast-paced port city of Yokohama, and a trip to legendary Mt. Fuji.

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Well written guide book.......2005-01-29

There are so many books out there to choose from! I am very satisfied with this one, even though it happens to be a few years old. The entire book is carefully thought out and covers many topics that you will need to know-especially if you are travelling for the first time to Japan without a guide. I found this book very helpful,entertaining and easy to use. (I would definately reccommend it over Foder's.)

Do you want to go to true and core Tokyo world?.......2004-11-14

Off course it is good that you can do the trip written in many guide books. But I want to dare to introduce the true trip and Tokyo cultures not to be written in such books.

For instance, if you do the trip with guide books, when you will go to the gorgeous restrunts for foreigners. But I dare to recommend the cheap restrants like Izakaya. You can feel unique Japanese food culture by entering such cheap restrant for Japanese, not foregners. Izakaya is restrants like bars if I say Izakaya by other words. But I can not look at the proper example because Izakaya is unique Japanese style restrant.

But you must have a little baravy when you go to Izakaya because the restrant make such unique food like Sashimi, Tempura etc. In Izakaya, grotesque foods used cuttlefishs, eels, octopuss etc is cooked. Because I have lived in Tokyo over 20 years since my birth, I can eat them naturally and deliciously like some of Japanese. On the other hands, there are many foods that foreigner can eat deliciously and safely in Izakaya. But you have no way except you try them in the place factly. That will be a adventure too. And what I want to recommend especially is Ja@anese alcoholic drinks, for instance Nihon Syu or Syoutyuu etc. There are many kinds of drinks in Syoutyu and Nihon syu. Because such drink is used at each Japan towm or city by the unique methods of manifactures.

If you want to go Izakaya, it is good that you say [I want to go Izakaya] to Japanese, if you can not tell well, it is good that you write [Izakaya] in paper.

If you should not go to the chain Izakaya store like Sirokiya. Off course such Izakaya is good, but you can know the true Japanese foods if you select Izakaya like individual management stores. Maybe you will never understand the means when you see the menu in Izakaya. It will be a adventure that you enjoy the made foods after you select as you want. It may be a little help if you say the assistant the proper words like[Gaijin ga konomino ryouri wo tekitou ni otukuri kudasai] or show the assistants the written paper. The phraze mean (please cook foods as you(cooker) want to do but as foreigner can eat deliciousely).

Anyway the true Japan culture is not Izakaya only, many great things exist in Japan, and I wish that you can do great trips in Japan.

Thank you for poor writing and English.

Indispensible resource for long or short trips to Tokyo.......2004-10-22

Used together with the standard Tokyo street and subway guide, this book was an indispensable tool for a very enjoyable 4-day jaunt to Tokyo. The logical explanation of the sights - together with shopping and eating experiences - gave me the information I needed as a basis for my trip. I strongly recommend reading it cover to cover before going, highlighting sights to see and mapping out adventures in half-day segments with enough time for a hole-in-the-wall tempura, yakitori, noodle or sushi restaurant as a luncheon layover. Sights, shopping, sake bars ... it's all covered here. Extend yourself - it is very easy to get around in Tokyo and the people could not have been nicer.

Exactly the book we needed for our trip.......2003-01-06

I bought this book just before our first business trip to Japan and read it cover to cover while sitting in Superior Court waiting to see if I would be called to jury duty. This book is a must for anyone who really wants to explore Tokyo and has been scared off by the stories of $300/lb steaks and $450/night hotel rooms the size of a postage stamp. We are proof that you can really do Tokyo well, at a reasonable price. We were in Tokyo on business, but had some free time, and really wanted to know something tangible about the society before going. I particularly appreciated the cultural insights into the high asthetic level which pervades life in Tokyo, the artful use of glass and light which makes a crowded city seem spacious, the high tech toilets. We followed some of the more off beat suggestions including visiting the fish market at 4 ayem (missed the tuna auction but caught the melon auction), the Sunday flea markets at shrines, the 100 yen stores, but we also visited museums and department stores and travelled on the metro and JR without problem. Only one of the addresses (traditional Craft Center) was out of date and the book did not have our hotel which is called Hotel Excellent. It should be included next time --$125/night for a perfectly fine double in the middle of the posh Ebisu district, just five blocks from a 24 hour kinko's, and across the street from the metro, JR, and great shopping and eating. We ate at a lot of the little 350 yen restaurants where Japanese have lunch and dinner, but also had some extraordinary expensive meals that were so beautifully served you didn't know whether to eat or photograph each course. Shopping suggestions and the recommended shops we tried were excellent.

Invaluable guide!.......2001-09-20

I went to Tokyo this year with the guide book as my only companion and found that it was one of the best things to have with me! The info that you can find in this book is still current and worth the read. If you are planning on taking a trip to Tokyo, do yourself a favor and pick this guide up.

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Discover a practical trading strategy that combines options and ETFs.

Create Your Own Hedge Fund explains how exchange-traded funds can be used in conjunction with an options strategy to attain steady growth. Beginning with a tutorial on options and ETFs, the book goes on to describe both investment approaches in great detail providing you with a trading strategy that generates higher returns than buy-and-hold investing -- and allows you to reduce risk by adopting a hedging strategy. Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, this book is intended for you if you're a sophisticated individual investor or a professional investor, trader, or other money manager looking to update your arsenal of investment tools.

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misleading title and limited strategy.......2007-03-14

Hedge funds have been in the news lately. Since for the last few years, some have done very well. So it's quite a hot topic. Also true of ETFs, which have proliferated. Wolfinger's title invokes both, in an attempt to attract as large a readership as possible. Alas, the title is somewhat misleading.

The text gives next to nothing about how hedge funds tend to operate. Instead, it is mostly about explaining what ETFs are, and why you might want to own them. One key reason, as furnished by the text, is that you can then write (i.e. sell) covered calls on them. This increases the short term income you can garner from owning an ETF.

Commendably, the author does not recommend buying of options. He says, correctly, that on average, this is a losing game. It is reassuring to read this, for it means that the book is not one of these breathless tales about how to make money quickly.

The explanation of options could have been made 20 years ago. It is fairly limited; meant for a reader with little previous experience in finance. The only truly new material concerns describing ETFs.

The author's strategy is conservative. But in its own way, also limited. To the extent that an efficient market exists for the pricing of the underlying stocks in an ETF, then the covered calls will be priced fairly accurately by Black-Scholes. But if there is an unexpected upside, then your ETF will be sold when the call expires in the money. While if there is an unexpected downside, you retain your ETF and get the call income to reduce your losses. The problem is that if you do this method long enough, you relinquish the unexpected gains. And you end up holding losers.

Good book, bad title........2005-11-04

This book is entirely useful for those with limited knowledge on Options and Exchange Traded Funds. I have to confess that before this book when I first heard ETF I thought it was one more of those great Wall Street inventions that only serves their own evil purposes.

I don't understand why people keep investing in Mutual Funds while paying high commissions for supposed great management. Most mutual fund managers are not capable to beat the darts thrown at the Wall Street Journal. People should dump their Stock Mutual Funds and put their money in ETFs.

This book will help you understand Options, so next time someone talks about Naked Calls or Covered Puts you might join the conversation and look smart.

I'm thankful with Mark Wolfinger for answering the ton of questions I had regarding this book.

The only thing I question about the book is the title, which I think is a little pretentious and when he says that most Covered Calls expire worthless, I have doubts on that.

Should be "Exchange Traded Funds 101".......2005-06-05

The newest craze in investment publishing involves something about "hedge funds." These mysterious investment vehicles (to the unsophisticated public) are seen as the investment of choice for the "rich" investor looking for outsized market gains, or a reduction in risk.

The author seemed to be taking advantage of this when he titled the book. In actuality, there is nothing more here than a basic (and I do mean basic), primer on Exchange Traded Funds, and basic options trading strategies (covered calls and short puts).

The first few chapters involve wasted pages on Modern Portfolio theory, the advantage of index funds over mutual funds, and the benefits of ETF's over traditional index funds. Anyone who is knowledgable enough to be interested in hedge fund strategies (ie. statistical arbitrage, relative value, market neutral, etc.) will find nothing here that he or she doesn't already know.

The second half on trading options on ETF's is similarly light on any interesting information. Much basic information on covered calls and short puts is covered. It wouldn't be unfair to call it simplistic.

Unfortunately, the author did not discuss the important concept of implied volatility when discussing writing strategies on ETF's. This makes certain option strategies, that normally are equivalent, less than equal when used on an ETF.

The book correctly states short puts are equivalent to covered calls, when the puts are secured by cash. If you are going to buy 500 shares and write 5 calls, it is simpler to just sell 5 puts, and hold cash to back them up.

But the author neglects to mention that options on indexes often trade at what is called an IV skew. Out of the money calls on ETF's are generally underpriced, while the puts are overpriced. This makes short puts backed by cash superior to covered calls on an ETF. But Lord help you if the market gets caught in a huge sell off, or implied volatility increases.

There was no discussion of identifying when it is prudent to sell options and when it is wise to remain unhedged. It didn't address the various follow ups to covered call/short put strategies when the stock moves adversely.

If you know absolutely nothing about ETF's, and options trading strategies, then you might find this useful. If you are looking for information on hedge fund techniques, look elsewhere.

This book has changed my outlook on investing .......2005-02-28

The market has always intrigued me. However, following the advice of well meaning, financially secure friends never brought me the success I sought. It turns out that it's much harder to pick winning stocks than I expected. Even the mutual funds I owned were disappointing. "Create Your Own Hedge Fund" really opened my eyes with insight and clear step-by-step guidance in teaching me a profitable, yet safer, way to invest.

The best two skills I gained from this book were: How to build a portfolio and how to make money using one rather simple strategy. This book gave me the necessary confidence to take control of my own finances and provided compelling reasons for doing so. I learned that ETFs (exchange traded funds) are much less expensive to own than what Wolfinger calls 'traditional mutual funds' ...and, on average, make more money.

Wolfinger clearly outlines exactly how to use ETFs and options - a topic that had always scared me. His detailed explanation of how options work convinced me that options are indeed doable. I was also pleasantly surprised to discover that I've been using "options" for years - rain checks at the grocery and auto insurance policies are both essentially options. And the best part - another surprise to me - is that options actually lessen risk. My chances of losing money are now less than they were before.

The author skillfully enables his readers to understand the rationale behind trading decisions with a multitude of examples that make the lessons come to life.

The book also contains useful background information, references and statistics to support the author's ideas. I tried it, and so far, it really works. I make my own decisions now and am happy with the results. Don't be afraid - if I can do it, so can you. As Wolfinger says, I feel like I'm running my own small fund.

Power Investing With Basket Securities: The Investor's Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds

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Excellent Resource for the Investments of the Future
Worst investment book I've ever seen

Power Investing With Basket Securities: The Investor's Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds
Peter W. Madlem , and Larry D. Edwards
Manufacturer: CRC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1574442546

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Tremendously versatile, basket securities have the potential to change the way money is managed. This book provides the proper definition of the basket security, a brief exploration of their true history, and powerful ways to exploit their advantages. The authors explore simple yet effective ways basket securities can be used in asset management strategies including trading the market, building a diversified core, or creating a thousand stock portfolio. They cover the broad array of currently available basket securities and discuss others that are on the horizon, what and when to buy and sell, and how to protect investments from market declines.

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Excellent Resource for the Investments of the Future.......2002-01-28

Exchange-Traded-Funds ("Basket Securities")are fast becoming the most important and popular investments in the world. And for good reason. As the authors point out, they offer superior performance to most mutual funds at a tiny fraction of the cost, offer tax advantages in the form of low capital gains distributions, and exposure to over 100 different market indicies. The authors offer a "Holy Grail" strategy of swapping between active and passive management, and a primer on point and figure analysis to boot. Don't look for precise, technical timing formulas, but rather get this book as your definitive reference on ETFs.

Worst investment book I've ever seen.......2002-01-16

I can't believe this 260 page book has appendices that start on page 117!! Over half of this book is lists of stocks included in the ETF's...easily obtainable on the web. We didn't need to kill trees for this! I thought the author would discuss sector swapping strategies, etc. , but not in this book. This book just contains some basic information about ETF's in today's market.

Exchange Traded Funds as an Investment Option (Finance and Capital Markets)

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Exchange Traded Funds as an Investment Option (Finance and Capital Markets)
A. Seddik Meziani
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1403932875
Release Date: 2005-11-10

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Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are a relatively new open-ended investment vehicle. Launched in 1993, their appeal as an important and unique financial product has compelled institutional and retail investors alike to look anew at what seems to be their endless possibilities. This has led to their dramatic expansion in terms of capital represented and numbers of funds.

A basket of choice: exchange traded funds give green investors new options.(Money Matters): An article from: E

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A basket of choice: exchange traded funds give green investors new options.(Money Matters): An article from: E
Rona Fried
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000SHD9S0
Release Date: 2007-06-22

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This digital document is an article from E, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2007. The length of the article is 852 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: A basket of choice: exchange traded funds give green investors new options.(Money Matters)
Author: Rona Fried
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Date: May 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 18 Issue: 3 Page: 46(2)

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Exchange traded funds: A new investment option for taxable investors (NBER working paper series)

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Exchange traded funds: A new investment option for taxable investors (NBER working paper series)
James M Poterba
Manufacturer: National Bureau of Economic Research
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006RUZGG

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If you need to know what GAAP is, then buy this book........2003-03-13

This book is really the best place to find out what GAAP is today. It's perfect for CFO's, Controllers, Accountants and students of accounting. It provides a lot of excellent examples to help you understand how to apply GAAP within your own company. Everyone else may find it a little dry.

This book is a great resource for creating accounting policies for your organization but it won't help you with procedures. There are a lot of other good books for developing procedures and this is not one of them.

It's a great reference text for everything you wanted to know about GAAP, financial statements and accounting. If you need to know what GAAP is, then buy this book.

Like bread to a meal... if you're an accountant!.......2001-11-05

For accountants: You MUST have this book! I'm an accountant and this along with a dictionary of accounting terms are among my most essential books to have on my work shelf! It's a great reference and ALSO a great learning tool for topics that you're not fully knowledgeable in!

For non-accountants: This book migh be a little too technical for your needs! Unless you'll be deeply involved in accounting issues, you might want to look for another more basic book. Nevertheless, you can always make use of this book if you have one!

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Gaap Handbook of Policies & Procedures 2002
Joel Siegel
Manufacturer: PRENTICE HALL INC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N6B9CO

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GAAP Handbook of Policies and Procedures, 2002
Joel G. Siegel
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OHMHNM

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