Advanced Strategies in Financial Risk Management (New York Institute of Finance)

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Taking the Series 6.......2000-04-29

I originally purchased this book to study for the Series 6 exam. I found it very helpful since it covered all the topics I wanted to review. Equities, bonds, economic policy, mutual funds, and even retirement planning were all covered in great detail. It's a good study guide too, because it has questions at the end of each section. If your taking the Series 6, I would like to recommend this book, and wish you good luck!

Passtrak Series 6 : Investment Company Products/Variable Contracts Limited Representative : License Exam Manual (Passtrak Series 6)

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Series 6 Investment Company Products/Variable Contracts Limited Representative Exam License Exam Manual (Investment Company Products/Variable Contracts Limited Representativ)

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Series 6 Investment Company Products/Variable Contracts Limited Representative Exam License Exam Manual (Investment Company Products/Variable Contracts Limited Representativ)

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Series 6 Investment Company Products/Variable Contracts Limited Representative Exam License Exam Manual

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Buy book not online course.......2007-06-30

the book and cd area great. their online course has problems. it times out so you constantly have to go thru a menu of password access...very frustrating. with the cd it can't crash...as the on-line version does and you find yourself locked out a day before your exam! oh yes, when the online program crashes on the weekend, you are on your own!!! Kaplan doesn't have enough resources to man a help desk so you are just out of luck! If you can attend a class, that's the best. I successfully passed series 7 using their class in LA.

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This concise guide to the best of what is out there and available now is updated considerably with half of the listings all new and a significant representation of the best in manga. There is so much being published in this exploding field, let this guide show you what is worth concentrating on and having in your library. Weiner ("The Rise of the Graphic Novel") is the director of a library in Massachusetts and renowned pioneering expert in the field of graphic novels for two decades.

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Great resource for teachers.......2007-09-30

I received the book and it is just what I wanted....a great resource. I teach Language Arts in Junior High and I wanted a list of graphic novels to guide me in my purchases as to suitability and content. It has certainly provided direction.

Childhood Dreams.......2007-07-22

The main problem with this book is the list itself. There are far too many books aimed at children and teens, and not enough for the mature reader. The author seems to have stopped reading the latest books, and is trapped by the classic, easy insertions. How can you leave out "Road to Perdition" and "A History of Violence" ? Sure, Spiderman and Superman are fine, but both of these are more comic book and less graphic novel. The term Graphic Novel has moved beyond the superhero stage.

would strongly recommend this for any reader, teacher, librarian, teacher educator, or parent with an interest in comics.......2007-04-15

As an educator trying to get a handle on graphic novels and comics in literacy education, this was an excellent starting point (along with Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art). The selections, descriptions, and rating were helpful and accurate. It's been an excellent guide.

The entries are listed alphabetical by author, and I only wish that there were alternate indexes (by ratings or subject). However, it did force me to expand my initial interests...not a stress for a brief book.

I would strongly recommend this for any reader, teacher, librarian, teacher educator, or parent with an interest in comics or graphic novels--it can introduce you to a variety of titles or expand your existing readings.

Give this book a try.......2007-02-02

This book was written as an introductory guide to the the world of graphic novels because graphic novels and comics have become such an intregal part of mainstream culture in recent years. While noting the best books, I worked hard to balance the variety of types of graphic novels published for different audiences. If you do read this book, you'll probably discover some real gems as well as plenty of good graphic novels. You'll also get ideas on what to read next.

Not what I expected.......2006-12-02

I thought this would be a list of adult grahic novels, like those of Harvey Pekar. A few were, but many were for children or comic book collectors. I do not think some of them really qualify as graphic novels. From the term "your library" I understood my own personal library, but seems it is for public librarians serving a mixed public. Fine, but I did not see that in the editorial description.

The Average American: The Extraordinary Search for the Nation's Most Ordinary Citizen

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Would have been more interesting if executed differently
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The Average American: The Extraordinary Search for the Nation's Most Ordinary Citizen
Kevin O'Keefe
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A travel narrative with a winding route aimed directly at the heart of America. Who is the most perfectly average man or woman in the nation, and what does that mean for the rest of us?

John Q Public. Plain Jane. The Average Joe. We know the type but we've never met the person, until Kevin O'Keefe took matters into his own hands. O'Keefe hit the road to find the one man or woman who is more average than any other. And he asked, how does America--a nation as fond of its superlatives, its winners, and its "best of" lists as it is of the common man--think about the averageness within it?

Combining this search with a look into the history and assumptions about the average American, O'Keefe discovered that many myths about Americans are untrue. We are not as culturally divided as is often said, nor as fat. Most people are staying in suburbs rather than moving to exurbs, IQs are rising, and no, not everyone wants to be famous. Readers will learn a lot about America, the people in it, and whether it's ok (it is) to be average.

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One Extra Star for Cool Idea That is Also Uplifting.......2006-10-04

If you are an Amazon buyer you are probably not average, and Amazon reviewers even less so. I was compelled to buy this book simply on the premise that it would be interesting to learn what "average" was. I was NOT expecting an uplifting book that inspired reflection about what it means to be a good man, a good citizen, a good husband and father, and that is what this book is.

Yes, it would have benefitted from maps as well as a statistical table and a calendar of the search, and I would normally have given it four stars for lacking those "visualization & closure" elements, but I simply cannot get over the fact that this book made me feel good about America and good about the standard run of the mill American.

The idiocy and mendacity of our leaders aside, this is a great Nation, and I have tears in my eyes as I conclude the book, where the man chosen by the author as the average American, informed on the 4th of July, properly concludes that it is a great honor. Honor indeed. This is a superb book.

tells a story.......2006-02-16

This book keeps you interested. The search for the average american keeps narrowing and so builds your curiousity. The author travels the country on his quest, so its more about his experiences than a bunch of numbers.

Would have been much better as a magazine article.......2006-01-08

The author works hard to build suspense in his final selection of "J. Average", the Average American. He also selectively reveals elements of his own life story to add focus to his project. On both counts, the book failed to capture my interest.
I enjoyed the first three chapters of this book- then I realized that the structure was choppy but repetitive. Had the author condensed the first and last chapters into an essay, it would have been memorable. As published, I skimmed large sections in the middle of the book and don't feel that I missed anything.

Would have been more interesting if executed differently.......2005-12-21

In The Average American author Kevin O'Keefe chronicles his attempt to discover the archetypical resident of the United States, that one man or woman whose quantifiable attributes, preferences, and living conditions are as close to "normal" as possible (normal as determined by the 2000 census and a number of other polls and reports). O'Keefe arrived at a list of 140 criteria that his Average American had to meet, most of them suggested to him by conversations he had with regular folk while traveling around the country on his quest. In the end, the identity of O'Keefe's quintessential American came as a surprise to him, and makes for a very tidy finish to the book, particularly given O'Keefe's secondary motive in undertaking the project. The author portrays himself in the book as an unduly competitive, unlikable type-A character who's never accepted average performance from himself, who's racked up accomplishments not so much because he enjoyed himself in the doing, but because he needed to be better than everyone else. He suggests that in finding the average American he may find as well something that's been missing in himself.

O'Keefe's chronicle is certainly interesting, sprinkled as it is with statistical tidbits which readers will inevitably want to measure themselves against. (The average American falls asleep within seven minutes of going to bed and eats three pounds of peanut butter annually.) And there is a certain frisson in the idea that every American reading the book was, for a short time at least, at the beginning of the project, a candidate for O'Keefe's Everyman.

Except.... Except that some of O'Keefe's candidates were more equal than others. Among the criteria he uses to winnow out the un-average Joes are two geographical filters that alone knock much of the country out of consideration. O'Keefe required that his Average American live in the eastern or central time zones and that he or she live no more than 100 miles from the shore. Residents of California, for example, never really had a chance. O'Keefe similarly applies various political criteria to his candidates. The Average American, for example, is required to live in a state that is represented by at least one Democratic senator (as most Americans do). Thus the majority of O'Keefe's sifting of candidates is done by applying to the population criteria that are external to the individual. Whole communities, whole swaths of the country are thrown out on political or geographical grounds. It would have made for a far more interesting project and book if all of O'Keefe's criteria were instead centered on the individual. As it is, it feels as if much of the population was removed from consideration unfairly.

Two other small additions would have made for a better book. First, I would have appreciated the inclusion of a series of maps in which areas being removed from consideration were shaded out. And it would have been more fun if O'Keefe's 140 criteria were presented in checklist form rather than in paragraphs.

By now you'll be wondering whether your intrepid reviewer comes close to meriting the appellation of Average American. Decidedly not! My annual consumption of eggs and peanut butter is on the low side, and I buy far fewer clothes per year than most. I can't be certain, moreover, but my guess is that I won't be losing twelve of my teeth over the next nine years.

Reviewed by Debra Hamel, author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece

Insightful, interesting, and fun.......2005-12-12

Is it possible to find someone who ranks as the most average person in America? That is the task of the author as he takes the reader across the United States in search of this most average of all people. First he starts at the Census Bureau to discover what qualifies as average. From there the actual search begins. Throughout the book the author narrows his search by expanding his criteria as tries to find this person by finding an average town, a commonly named street, an average religious belief, average marital relationship, etc. He even finds several very interesting relationships such as the average person lives within two miles of a park, three miles of a McDonalds and twenty minutes of a Wal-Mart. This is actually an interesting view into America and the American people and mindset. The Average American makes interesting reading and is a recommended read.

Documenting movements, identity, and popular culture in Latin America: Papers of the Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin ... Nashville, Tennessee, May 30-June 3, 1999

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Genre and Ethnic Collections: Collected Essays (Foundations in Library and Information Science)

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Popular Culture and Acquisitions (Acquisitions Librarian, No. 8) (Acquisitions Librarian, No. 8)

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Twentieth-Century Popular Culture in Museums and Libraries Mpn

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Twentieth-Century Popular Culture in Museums and Libraries Mpn
Fred Schroeder
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The University of Wisconsin--Madison collection of materials on modern Indonesian culture: Handlist of the 1985 acquisitions : popular literature, regional ... theater (Wisconsin papers on Southeast Asia)

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The University of Wisconsin--Madison collection of materials on modern Indonesian culture: Handlist of the 1985 acquisitions : popular literature, regional ... theater (Wisconsin papers on Southeast Asia)
Philip Yampolsky
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This law handbook contains information on basic business legislation, laws and regulatoins affecting export-import, business, foreign investments, property rights, taxation and banking.

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Spain Tax Guide

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