Property Exchange
Are there legal agreements for leasing Property in exchange for services?
I am renting out my house to a person who is doing fix-up projects in the house in exchange for part of the rent. How much rent he pays depends on how much work he does. I was told that there are “barter leasing” agreements but have not found any. Please help! 
Man, I would not do this. It sounds like an IRS nightmare waiting to happen. Have both your attorney and your accountant look this over.
CBS News story on swapping homes – permanent house exchange
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Companies Based In Galveston, Texas $10.37 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. Excerpt: American National Insurance Company (NASDAQ: ANAT) is a major American insurance corporation based in Galveston, Texas. The company and its subsidiaries operate in all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and American Samoa. American National was founded in 1905 by Galveston businessman William Lewis Moody, Jr.. Today the company offers a wide array of insurance products and services including life insurance, annuities, health insurance, property and casualty insurance, credit insurance, and pension plan services. Mutual funds and other securities products are distributed through its broker-dealer subsidiary, Securities Management and Research, Inc. Through its subsidiary, ANREM, the company founded and developed the large-scale housing development, South Shore Harbour, in League City, Texas. Although a publicly traded company, the majority of the stock continues to be controlled by the Moody family through the Moody Foundation and Libby Shearn Moody Trust, which are administered by the trust department of the family owned Moody National Bank. American National is subject to insurance regulation and examination by all 50 states as well as federal entities like the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Federal Trade Commission. In addition, its records are audited by KPMG as well as the major financial rating agencies. The ratings reflect the companys capitalization, operating performance and liquidity. American National was listed in Forbes Magazine in its “100 Most Trustworthy Companies” list for 2009. Moody Plaza, American National Insurance’s Home Office in downtown Galveston, Texas American National’s earlier history involved some controversy. The company’s early growth occurred largely during the open era o… More: |
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Confederate Finance $24.74 Confederate Finance, first published in 1954, looks at the measures taken by the Confederacy to stabilize its currency and offer a basis for foreign exchange. By the end of the Civil War, the Confederacy had resorted to a number of financial expedients, including the most desperate of measures. The Confederate government seized the property of enemies, levied direct taxes, and placed duties on exports and imports. In addition, donations and gifts were gratefully accepted. All the while, treasury notes flooded the market, and loans were floated in an attempt to continue the Confederacy’s existence.Richard Cecil Todd shows how these measures were used by the Confederate government to meet its obligations at home and abroad. He also discusses the organization and personnel of the Confederate Treasury Department. |
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Conservative Capitalism $147 Smith, Burke, Marx, Durkheim, Polanyi and Hayek–all sought to situate market exchange and property-based acquisitiveness in the broader context of human interaction and social values. This book explores that framework of interdependence and ethics that embeds the capitalist market economy in an ongoing whole of which the calculative present-day is but a part. It argues that the stability of conservatism anchors the dynamism of entrepreneurship in a matrix of patterns and habits without which orderly free enterprise would be at risk of degenerating into the Hobbesian war of each against all. |
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Construction and Civil Engineering Companies of Australia: Brookfield Multiplex, Bovis Lend Lease, Clough Engineering Limited $9.16 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: Brookfield Multiplex, Bovis Lend Lease, Clough Engineering Limited, Leighton Holdings, Civil and Civic, Bilfinger Berger Australia, Grocon, Orbit Homes. Excerpt: Brookfield Multiplex is a large Australian-based group of property and construction companies notable for its involvement in large scale projects. The group is involved in construction, property development, facilities management and property funds management. The group also owns and operates a portfolio of investment grade commercial and retail properties. The Central Park tower is the tallest building in Western Australia. The new Wembley Stadium.It was founded in 1962 in Perth, Western Australia by John Roberts. It went on to build many large projects such as Wembley Stadium. In December 2003, it listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with the code of MXG, raising a total of $1.2 billion AUD. Multiplex announced in late November 2006 that it planned to create a European real-estate fund to increase profits. Multiplex posted a preliminary financial report on 22 February 2007 which announced the group’s net profit of $295.6 million AUD. In January 2007 Multiplex faced a takeover bid which caused its share price to jump 17%. The $4.03 billion AUD proposal was never formally made and the potential bidder remained anonymous. On June 11, 2007, Brookfield Asset Management proposed an acquisition of Multiplex which valued the company at approximately $7.3 billion AUD. The offer to shareholders of $5.05 per security was supported by the Multiplex board of directors, including the Roberts family, who sold their 26% ownership of Multiplex to Brookfield. The offer also proved popular with investors, with Brookfield rapidly acquiring 90% ownership of the company by 31 October 2007. Brookfie… More: |
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Conversations On The Principal Subjects Of Political Economy $25.43 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:tain intrinsic value independent of changes in trade prices, else it could not at any time command a price in exchange ; its possibilities, as well as its fruits, are estimated in its valuation in business. T. Yes, but remember that the benefits which it affords are just what it yields at and for the time. A man may own lands or stocks that have been, and may again be, worth thousands of dollars in market, but suppose that, during a business revulsion, they yield him nothing, would you call him wealthy; and what would you say of his welfare ? If well-being is really the meaning of the word wealth, he may live and die in destitution in spite of nominal past or future valuations. A man is wealthy whose property yields him the means of commanding an abundance of the commodities and services he requires. Our definition, therefore, holds firmly against all the accidents which affect the subject. Labor is the source of wealth or welfare, because it forces products or the yield of property. CHAPTER III. THE GROWTH OF WEALTH—ITS AGENCIES. T. Assuming, for the present, that wealth grows in all well- constituted societies, and, in proportion to their social and industrial development, we will get proof and the use of the proposition by examining the laws operative in the process. Let me give you an index to the several heads of the inquiry : — We may accept Adam Smith’s aphorism, that ” labor is the first price—the original purchase-money—that is paid for everything ;” taking care not to abandon, as Smith did, this fundamental principle, by limiting its force to that ” rude stage of society which precedes the accumulation of stock and the appropriation of land.” Mr. Carey’s doctrine of labor value in all production is the proper correction of Smith’s |
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Conversations On The Principal Subjects Of Political Economy $25.85 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:tain intrinsic value independent of changes in trade prices, else it could not at any time command a price in exchange ; its possibilities, as well as its fruits, are estimated in its valuation in business. T. Yes, but remember that the benefits which it affords are just what it yields at and for the time. A man may own lands or stocks that have been, and may again be, worth thousands of dollars in market, but suppose that, during a business revulsion, they yield him nothing, would you call him wealthy; and what would you say of his welfare ? If well-being is really the meaning of the word wealth, he may live and die in destitution in spite of nominal past or future valuations. A man is wealthy whose property yields him the means of commanding an abundance of the commodities and services he requires. Our definition, therefore, holds firmly against all the accidents which affect the subject. Labor is the source of wealth or welfare, because it forces products or the yield of property. CHAPTER III. THE GROWTH OF WEALTH—ITS AGENCIES. T. Assuming, for the present, that wealth grows in all well- constituted societies, and, in proportion to their social and industrial development, we will get proof and the use of the proposition by examining the laws operative in the process. Let me give you an index to the several heads of the inquiry : — We may accept Adam Smith’s aphorism, that ” labor is the first price—the original purchase-money—that is paid for everything ;” taking care not to abandon, as Smith did, this fundamental principle, by limiting its force to that ” rude stage of society which precedes the accumulation of stock and the appropriation of land.” Mr. Carey’s doctrine of labor value in all production is the proper correction of Smith’s |
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Conversations On The Principal Subjects Of Political Economy $19.43 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:tain intrinsic value independent of changes in trade prices, else it could not at any time command a price in exchange ; its possibilities, as well as its fruits, are estimated in its valuation in business. T. Yes, but remember that the benefits which it affords are just what it yields at and for the time. A man may own lands or stocks that have been, and may again be, worth thousands of dollars in market, but suppose that, during a business revulsion, they yield him nothing, would you call him wealthy; and what would you say of his welfare ? If well-being is really the meaning of the word wealth, he may live and die in destitution in spite of nominal past or future valuations. A man is wealthy whose property yields him the means of commanding an abundance of the commodities and services he requires. Our definition, therefore, holds firmly against all the accidents which affect the subject. Labor is the source of wealth or welfare, because it forces products or the yield of property. CHAPTER III. THE GROWTH OF WEALTH—ITS AGENCIES. T. Assuming, for the present, that wealth grows in all well- constituted societies, and, in proportion to their social and industrial development, we will get proof and the use of the proposition by examining the laws operative in the process. Let me give you an index to the several heads of the inquiry : — We may accept Adam Smith’s aphorism, that ” labor is the first price—the original purchase-money—that is paid for everything ;” taking care not to abandon, as Smith did, this fundamental principle, by limiting its force to that ” rude stage of society which precedes the accumulation of stock and the appropriation of land.” Mr. Carey’s doctrine of labor value in all production is the proper correction of Smith’s |
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Conversations On The Principal Subjects Of Political Economy $32.04 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:tain intrinsic value independent of changes in trade prices, else it could not at any time command a price in exchange ; its possibilities, as well as its fruits, are estimated in its valuation in business. T. Yes, but remember that the benefits which it affords are just what it yields at and for the time. A man may own lands or stocks that have been, and may again be, worth thousands of dollars in market, but suppose that, during a business revulsion, they yield him nothing, would you call him wealthy; and what would you say of his welfare ? If well-being is really the meaning of the word wealth, he may live and die in destitution in spite of nominal past or future valuations. A man is wealthy whose property yields him the means of commanding an abundance of the commodities and services he requires. Our definition, therefore, holds firmly against all the accidents which affect the subject. Labor is the source of wealth or welfare, because it forces products or the yield of property. CHAPTER III. THE GROWTH OF WEALTH—ITS AGENCIES. T. Assuming, for the present, that wealth grows in all well- constituted societies, and, in proportion to their social and industrial development, we will get proof and the use of the proposition by examining the laws operative in the process. Let me give you an index to the several heads of the inquiry : — We may accept Adam Smith’s aphorism, that ” labor is the first price—the original purchase-money—that is paid for everything ;” taking care not to abandon, as Smith did, this fundamental principle, by limiting its force to that ” rude stage of society which precedes the accumulation of stock and the appropriation of land.” Mr. Carey’s doctrine of labor value in all production is the proper correction of Smith’s |
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Conversations On The Principal Subjects Of Political Economy $26.89 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:tain intrinsic value independent of changes in trade prices, else it could not at any time command a price in exchange ; its possibilities, as well as its fruits, are estimated in its valuation in business. T. Yes, but remember that the benefits which it affords are just what it yields at and for the time. A man may own lands or stocks that have been, and may again be, worth thousands of dollars in market, but suppose that, during a business revulsion, they yield him nothing, would you call him wealthy; and what would you say of his welfare ? If well-being is really the meaning of the word wealth, he may live and die in destitution in spite of nominal past or future valuations. A man is wealthy whose property yields him the means of commanding an abundance of the commodities and services he requires. Our definition, therefore, holds firmly against all the accidents which affect the subject. Labor is the source of wealth or welfare, because it forces products or the yield of property. CHAPTER III. THE GROWTH OF WEALTH—ITS AGENCIES. T. Assuming, for the present, that wealth grows in all well- constituted societies, and, in proportion to their social and industrial development, we will get proof and the use of the proposition by examining the laws operative in the process. Let me give you an index to the several heads of the inquiry : — We may accept Adam Smith’s aphorism, that ” labor is the first price—the original purchase-money—that is paid for everything ;” taking care not to abandon, as Smith did, this fundamental principle, by limiting its force to that ” rude stage of society which precedes the accumulation of stock and the appropriation of land.” Mr. Carey’s doctrine of labor value in all production is the proper correction of Smith’s |
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Conversations On The Principal Subjects Of Political Economy $32.85 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:tain intrinsic value independent of changes in trade prices, else it could not at any time command a price in exchange ; its possibilities, as well as its fruits, are estimated in its valuation in business. T. Yes, but remember that the benefits which it affords are just what it yields at and for the time. A man may own lands or stocks that have been, and may again be, worth thousands of dollars in market, but suppose that, during a business revulsion, they yield him nothing, would you call him wealthy; and what would you say of his welfare ? If well-being is really the meaning of the word wealth, he may live and die in destitution in spite of nominal past or future valuations. A man is wealthy whose property yields him the means of commanding an abundance of the commodities and services he requires. Our definition, therefore, holds firmly against all the accidents which affect the subject. Labor is the source of wealth or welfare, because it forces products or the yield of property. CHAPTER III. THE GROWTH OF WEALTH—ITS AGENCIES. T. Assuming, for the present, that wealth grows in all well- constituted societies, and, in proportion to their social and industrial development, we will get proof and the use of the proposition by examining the laws operative in the process. Let me give you an index to the several heads of the inquiry : — We may accept Adam Smith’s aphorism, that ” labor is the first price—the original purchase-money—that is paid for everything ;” taking care not to abandon, as Smith did, this fundamental principle, by limiting its force to that ” rude stage of society which precedes the accumulation of stock and the appropriation of land.” Mr. Carey’s doctrine of labor value in all production is the proper correction of Smith’s |
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Conversations On The Principal Subjects Of Political Economy $19.43 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:tain intrinsic value independent of changes in trade prices, else it could not at any time command a price in exchange ; its possibilities, as well as its fruits, are estimated in its valuation in business. T. Yes, but remember that the benefits which it affords are just what it yields at and for the time. A man may own lands or stocks that have been, and may again be, worth thousands of dollars in market, but suppose that, during a business revulsion, they yield him nothing, would you call him wealthy; and what would you say of his welfare ? If well-being is really the meaning of the word wealth, he may live and die in destitution in spite of nominal past or future valuations. A man is wealthy whose property yields him the means of commanding an abundance of the commodities and services he requires. Our definition, therefore, holds firmly against all the accidents which affect the subject. Labor is the source of wealth or welfare, because it forces products or the yield of property. CHAPTER III. THE GROWTH OF WEALTH—ITS AGENCIES. T. Assuming, for the present, that wealth grows in all well- constituted societies, and, in proportion to their social and industrial development, we will get proof and the use of the proposition by examining the laws operative in the process. Let me give you an index to the several heads of the inquiry : — We may accept Adam Smith’s aphorism, that ” labor is the first price—the original purchase-money—that is paid for everything ;” taking care not to abandon, as Smith did, this fundamental principle, by limiting its force to that ” rude stage of society which precedes the accumulation of stock and the appropriation of land.” Mr. Carey’s doctrine of labor value in all production is the proper correction of Smith’s |
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Conversations On The Principal Subjects Of Political Economy $32.75 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:tain intrinsic value independent of changes in trade prices, else it could not at any time command a price in exchange ; its possibilities, as well as its fruits, are estimated in its valuation in business. T. Yes, but remember that the benefits which it affords are just what it yields at and for the time. A man may own lands or stocks that have been, and may again be, worth thousands of dollars in market, but suppose that, during a business revulsion, they yield him nothing, would you call him wealthy; and what would you say of his welfare ? If well-being is really the meaning of the word wealth, he may live and die in destitution in spite of nominal past or future valuations. A man is wealthy whose property yields him the means of commanding an abundance of the commodities and services he requires. Our definition, therefore, holds firmly against all the accidents which affect the subject. Labor is the source of wealth or welfare, because it forces products or the yield of property. CHAPTER III. THE GROWTH OF WEALTH—ITS AGENCIES. T. Assuming, for the present, that wealth grows in all well- constituted societies, and, in proportion to their social and industrial development, we will get proof and the use of the proposition by examining the laws operative in the process. Let me give you an index to the several heads of the inquiry : — We may accept Adam Smith’s aphorism, that ” labor is the first price—the original purchase-money—that is paid for everything ;” taking care not to abandon, as Smith did, this fundamental principle, by limiting its force to that ” rude stage of society which precedes the accumulation of stock and the appropriation of land.” Mr. Carey’s doctrine of labor value in all production is the proper correction of Smith’s |
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Culture Wars: Context, Models and Anthropologists’ Accounts $29.95 The relationship between anthropologists’ ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence that ethnographers are only ever interpreters of it, others point out that anthropologists are, themselves, implanted within specific cultural contexts which generate particular kinds of theoretical discussions. The contributors to this volume reject the premise that ethnographer and informant occupy different and incommensurable “cultural worlds.” Instead they investigate the relationship between culture, context, and anthropologists’ models and accounts in new ways. In doing so, they offer fresh insights into this key area of anthropological research.Deborah James is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Her research interests, focused on South Africa, include migration, ethnomusicology, ethnicity, property relations and the politics of land reform. She is author of Songs of the Women Migrants: Performance and Identity in South Africa (Edinburgh University Press, 1999) and of Gaining Ground? “Rights” and “Property” in South African Land Reform (Routledge, 2007).Evelyn Plaice is Associate Professor of Anthropology jointly appointed to the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Education at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. Her interests include land, identity and the ethnopolitics of land restitution, and the anthropology of education. She has conducted research in both South Africa and Canada and is the author of .The Native Game: Indian-Settler Relations in Central Labrador (ISER, 1990).Christina Toren is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. Her fieldwork areas are Fiji and the Pacific, and Melanesia, and her theoretical interests include exchange processes; spatio-temporality as a dimension of human being; sociality, kinship and ideas of |
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Defunct Mining Companies of Canada: Falconbridge Ltd., Bre-X, Hollinger Mines, Noranda, Placer Dome, Granby Consolidated Mining $11.18 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: Falconbridge Ltd., Bre-X, Hollinger Mines, Noranda, Placer Dome, Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Company, Limited, Mcintyre Mines, Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited, Mond Nickel Company, Saskatchewan Mining Development Corporation, Echo Bay Mines Limited, Cambior, Inco Ltd.. Excerpt: Bre-X was a group of companies in Canada . A major part of the group, Bre-X Minerals Ltd. based on Calgary , was involved in a major gold mining scandal when it was reported to be sitting on an enormous gold deposit at Busang, Indonesia (on Borneo ). Bre-X bought the Busang site in March 1993 and in October 1995 announced significant amounts of gold had been discovered, sending its stock price soaring. Originally a penny stock , its stock price reached a peak at CAD $286.50 (in May 1996) on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE), with a total capitalization of over CAD $6 billion. Bre-X Minerals collapsed in 1997 after the gold samples were found to be a fraud. Busang’s gold resource was estimated by Bre-X’s independent consulting company, Kilborn Engineering (a division of SNC-Lavalin of Montreal), to be approximately 70,000,000 troy ounces (2,400 ST; 2,200 t). Reports of resource estimates of up to 200,000,000 troy ounces (6,900 ST; 6,200 t) were never made by Bre-X though the property was described as having this potential. Bre-X’s gold resource at Busang was a massive fraud . Encouraging gold values were intersected in many drill-holes and the project received a positive technical assessment by Kilborn. Crushed core samples had been falsified by salting with gold that has a wide variety of characteristics that had been subjected to mineralogical examination by Bre-X’s consultants. The salting of crushed core samples with placer or supergene gold constitutes the most |
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Derivatives: Derivative, Normal backwardation, Contango, Credit default swap, Contract for difference, Futures contract $24.95 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: Derivative, Normal Backwardation, Contango, Credit Default Swap, Contract for Difference, Futures Contract, Collateralized Debt Obligation, Exchange-Traded Derivative Contract, Interest Rate Swap, Forward Contract, Hedge, Credit Derivative, Repurchase Agreement, Futures Exchange, Gold Exchange-Traded Fund, Binary Option, Foreign Exchange Hedge, Box Spread, Iron Condor, Variance Swap, Implied Volatility, Property Derivatives, Vix, Heston Model, Stochastic Volatility, Cme Span, Foreign Exchange Option, Power Reverse Dual Currency Note, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Thinkorswim, Risk-Neutral Measure, Backspread, Interest Rate Cap and Floor, Derivatives Market, Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance, Non-Deliverable Forward, Renewable Energy Derivative, Volatility Arbitrage, Interest Rate Derivative, Sabr Volatility Model, Notional Amount, Options Strategies, Ivx, Local Volatility, Equity Swap, Pin Risk, Constant Proportion Debt Obligation, Moneyness, Total Return Swap, Delta Neutral, Credit Spread, Equity Derivative, Exercise, Fixed Bill, Real Estate Derivatives, U.s. Futures Exchange, Weather Derivatives, Forward Price, Options Spread, Energy Derivative, Inflation Derivative, Bull Spread, Single-Stock Futures, Currency Future, Asian Option, Married Put, Mark to Model, Stock Market Index Future, Dual Currency Deposit, Itraxx, Low Exercise Price Option, Credit Default Swap Index, Over-The-Counter, Strike Price, Bear Spread, Cme Group, Quanto, Intrinsic Value, Forex Swap, Butterfly, Open Interest, Net Volatility, Freight Derivative, Options Arbitrage, First Prudential Markets, Commodity Price Index, Financial Future, Variance Risk Premium, Accumulator, Calendar Spread, Commodity Tick, Position, Ratio Spread, Option Screener, Mexican Derivatives Exchange, |
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Economic Anthropology $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: Property, Gift Economy, Money, Economic Anthropology, Inalienable Possessions, Types of Societies, Hoe-Farming, Spheres of Exchange, Adaptive Strategies, Society for Economic Anthropology, Substantivism. Excerpt: The expression adaptive strategies is used by anthropologist Yehudi Cohen to describe a society s system of economic penalism. Cohen argued that the most important reason for similarities between two (or more) unrelated societies is their possession of a similar adaptive strategy. In other words, similar economic causes have similar sociocultural effects. For example, there are clear similarities among societies that have a foraging (hunting and gathering) strategy. Cohen developed a typology of societies based on correlations between their economies and their social features. His typology includes these five adaptive strategies: foraging , horticulture , agriculture , pastoralism , and industrialism . Until 10,000 years ago people everywhere were foragers. However, environmental differences did create contrasts among the world s foragers. Some, like the people who lived in Europe during the ice ages, were big game hunters. Today, hunters in the Arctic still focus on large animals and herd animals; they have much less vegetation and variety in their diets than do tropical foragers. The foraging way of life held on in certain forests , deserts , islands , and very cold areas -places where food production was not practicable with simple technology . Horticulture and agriculture are the two types of cultivation found in nonindustrial societies. Both differ from the farming systems of industrial nations like the United States and Canada , which use large land areas, machinery, and petrochemicals . According to Cohen, horticulture is cultivation that makes |
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Economy Of Bulgaria $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: Economy of Bulgaria, Industry of Bulgaria, Bulgarian Lev, Medieval Bulgarian Coins, Economy of Plovdiv, Beer in Bulgaria, Energy in Bulgaria, Bulgaria and the Euro, List of Power Stations in Bulgaria, Statistics About the Economy of Bulgaria, Bulgarian National Bank, Bulgarian Stock Exchange – Sofia, Business Park Sofia, Bulgarian Property Bubble, International Fair Plovdiv, Varna-Devnya Industrial Complex, Bulgarian Mint, Asarel Medet, Business Park Plovdiv. Excerpt: Asarel Medet (Bulgarian : ) is an enormous copper extracting and processing factory located at 11 km to the northwest of the town of Panagyurishte in the Pazardzhik Province , Bulgaria . It consists of two main factories: Medet which operates from 1964 and Asarel which began operation in 1989. The number of employees has been greatly reduced since 1990s from over 5,000 to 2,500.It extracts over 10,5 million tons of copper ore every year and produces copper concentrate which is sold to the copper refineries at Pirdop . The ore also contains molybdenum , nickel , gold , silver . During the past several years some 40,000,000 have been invested in environmentally-friendly technologies in order to preserve the nature of Sredna Gora in the area relatively untouched. Coordinates : 42°3231N 24°96E / 42.54194°N 24.15167°E / 42.54194; 24.15167A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at The modern history of beer in Bulgaria (Bulgarian : , pivo or , bira ) dates back to the 19th century, when it was introduced to the country by foreigners (from Austria-Hungary , France and Switzerland ) shortly before the Liberation of Bulgaria . Until then, beer was practically unknown in what used to be a mainly rakia and wine-drinking country. Today, Bulgaria ranks 21st by beer consumption per capita , |
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Economy and State $22.95 ‘This smart, accessible book surveys a vast and complex terrain with clarity and insight. From the workings of monetary and fiscal policies to debates regarding the welfare state, from the origins of neoliberalism to consideration of the determinants of economic development, among many other topics, Bandelj and Sowers offer a lucid overview of key issues pertaining to the state’s role in constituting the economy in contemporary society. With clear explanations, broad coverage, and a comparative emphasis, this book will provide an extraordinary resource for teaching.’Greta Krippner, University of Michigan’Economy and State offers a wonderful introduction to the burgeoning fields of economic and political sociology, and in particular to work at the dynamic intersection of those fields. Bandelj and Sowers’s sweeping overview shows how governments structure all aspects of the economy, large and small. Everyone interested in understanding economic behavior should read this book.’Frank Dobbin, Harvard University’In a world where too many people really believe there is an invisible hand coordinating economic activity, this book will come as an accessible and concise discussion of the many ways in which states are involved in the distribution and exchange of economic goods. Bandelj and Sowers have written a welcome review of the relationships that different state forms have with economic orders.’Nicole Biggart, University of CaliforniaShould governments be involved in economic affairs? Challenging prevailing wisdom about the benefits of self-regulating markets, Nina Bandelj and Elizabeth Sowers offer a uniquely sociological perspective to emphasize that states can never be divorced from economy. From defining property rights and regulating commodification of labor to setting corporate governance standards and international exchange rules, the state continually manages the functioning of markets and influences economic outcomes for individuals, |
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Economy and State $46.43 ‘This smart, accessible book surveys a vast and complex terrain with clarity and insight. From the workings of monetary and fiscal policies to debates regarding the welfare state, from the origins of neoliberalism to consideration of the determinants of economic development, among many other topics, Bandelj and Sowers offer a lucid overview of key issues pertaining to the state’s role in constituting the economy in contemporary society. With clear explanations, broad coverage, and a comparative emphasis, this book will provide an extraordinary resource for teaching.’Greta Krippner, University of Michigan’Economy and State offers a wonderful introduction to the burgeoning fields of economic and political sociology, and in particular to work at the dynamic intersection of those fields. Bandelj and Sowers’s sweeping overview shows how governments structure all aspects of the economy, large and small. Everyone interested in understanding economic behavior should read this book.’Frank Dobbin, Harvard University’In a world where too many people really believe there is an invisible hand coordinating economic activity, this book will come as an accessible and concise discussion of the many ways in which states are involved in the distribution and exchange of economic goods. Bandelj and Sowers have written a welcome review of the relationships that different state forms have with economic orders.’Nicole Biggart, University of CaliforniaShould governments be involved in economic affairs? Challenging prevailing wisdom about the benefits of self-regulating markets, Nina Bandelj and Elizabeth Sowers offer a uniquely sociological perspective to emphasize that states can never be divorced from economy. From defining property rights and regulating commodification of labor to setting corporate governance standards and international exchange rules, the state continually manages the functioning of markets and influences economic outcomes for individuals, |
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Export-Import Theory, Practices, and Procedures $64.95 Export-Import Theory, Practices, and Procedures is the first book on the market to truly serve the needs of the academic/professional audience, going beyond the usual soft coverage of international trade operations. Discussing theoretical issues in depth, such as the role of exports/imports in the global economy and pertinent regulatory and policy issues, this innovative text offers comprehensive explorations of import processes as well as export activities and incorporates the most relevant and current research information in these areas. New to this edition are important discussions of trends in regional integration agreements, international transfer pricing, terms of sale, US export regulations, export financing programs, and moreExpanded coverage in this edition of topics such as taxation of international trade operations, export counseling, export channels of distribution, export sales contracts, transportation, import procedures and techniques and more Other topics include:Exploration of trade agreements such as the GATT/WTO, NAFTA, and the European Economic Community (EEC), and how they affect tradeIn-depth treatment of investment and intellectual property policies, rules on government procurements, safeguard, and services of NAFTADocumentation, risks, and different forms of insurance, as well as assessing the risks of foreign tradePrice setting in international trade, export sales contracts, exchange rates, methods of payment for exporting and importing goods, the benefits and theories of countertrade, the entry process for imports, and import relief to domestic industryExport-Import Theory, Practices, and Procedures, Second Edition combines an innovative conceptual and theoretical approach, a deep and broad analytical treatment, and an engaging and accessible presentation style to offer one of the most useful textbooks on the market |
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Export-Import Theory, Practices, and Procedures $64.95 Export-Import Theory, Practices, and Procedures is the first book on the market to truly serve the needs of the academic/professional audience, going beyond the usual soft coverage of international trade operations. Discussing theoretical issues in depth, such as the role of exports/imports in the global economy and pertinent regulatory and policy issues, this innovative text offers comprehensive explorations of import processes as well as export activities and incorporates the most relevant and current research information in these areas. New to this edition are important discussions of trends in regional integration agreements, international transfer pricing, terms of sale, US export regulations, export financing programs, and moreExpanded coverage in this edition of topics such as taxation of international trade operations, export counseling, export channels of distribution, export sales contracts, transportation, import procedures and techniques and more Other topics include:Exploration of trade agreements such as the GATT/WTO, NAFTA, and the European Economic Community (EEC), and how they affect tradeIn-depth treatment of investment and intellectual property policies, rules on government procurements, safeguard, and services of NAFTADocumentation, risks, and different forms of insurance, as well as assessing the risks of foreign tradePrice setting in international trade, export sales contracts, exchange rates, methods of payment for exporting and importing goods, the benefits and theories of countertrade, the entry process for imports, and import relief to domestic industryExport-Import Theory, Practices, and Procedures, Second Edition combines an innovative conceptual and theoretical approach, a deep and broad analytical treatment, and an engaging and accessible presentation style to offer one of the most useful textbooks on the market |
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Export-Import Theory,Practices,and Procedures $125 Learn the ins and outs of the export-import business!Export-Import Theory, Practices, and Procedures is a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of international trade theories and techniques. International trade professionals, researchers, students, and members of chambers of commerce will benefit from concepts and theories that explain international trade operations and give clearly defined goals and procedures for your business. This excellent text offers chapter summaries, references, World Wide Web addresses, and features learning aids such as figures, tables, vignettes, and other illustrations to help you compete in the global marketplace and better educate students in the field.With this informative text, you will explore trade agreements such as the GATT/WTO, NAFTA, and the European Economic Community (EEC), and how they affect trade. For example, you will read about the investment and intellectual property policies, as well as rules on government procurements, safeguards, and services of NAFTA. Export-Import Theory, Practices, and Procedures examines export-import marketing and strategy concepts from setting up businesses to solving typical international logistics and transportation questions. Other areas you will examine include: documentation, risks, and different forms of insurance price setting in international trade export sales contracts documenting export-import trade the risks of foreign trade exchange rates and international trade methods of payment for exporting and importing goods the benefits and theories of countertrade the entry process for imports import relief to domestic industryExport-Import Theory, Practices, and Procedures covers everything you need to know to start and run an export-import business. With over 100 tables and figures and a plethora of Web sites and Internet addresses to visit, this excellent text assists you in understanding the theories, practices, and |
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Fraser and Neave $43.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fraser and Neave Limited SGX: 600 is a Singapore based business group involved in foods and beverages, property, printing, and publishing. The company is listed on the SGX, Singapore’s stock exchange. It is also a listed component of the Straits Times Index of SGX. Fraser and Neave, Limited (“F&NL”) originated more than a century ago in the decisions of two young men, John Fraser and David Neave, who diversified from their printing business to pioneer the aerated water business in Southeast Asia in 1883. From a soft drinks base, F&NL ventured into the business of brewing in 1931, dairies in 1959 and glass bottle manufacturing in 1972, property development and management in 1990 and publishing & printing in 2000. Today, F&NL is a Pan Asian Consumer Group in the Food and Beverage, Property, and Publishing & Printing industries. It has subsidiary companies across all three industries. F&NL owns an array of brands across a mix of beer, dairies, soft drinks and beverages; residential properties, retail malls and serviced residences; as well as publishing and printing services. |
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Gallops And Gossips In The Bush Of Australia; Or, Passages In The Life Of Alfred Barnard $19.99 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER III. HUNT1NG A W1LD HORSE. After awhile I began to make acquaintance with my neighbours, amongst whom I found many young fellows of my own age, some natives of the colony, and others who had wandered out with more or less capital, either intent on making a fortune, or satisfied, after having spent one, to live at peace out of the reach of discounters, duns, bailiffs, angry fathers, drunken wives, false sweethearts, and rascally executors. In my time love, debt, drink, the stock exchange, the racecourse, and the Court of Chancery, all sent representatives of their dupes and their victims ; since that time, the number and the variety have been increased by a larger share of the purely adventurous. Among the friends that I look back to now with pleasure were the three Dawoods, Robert, Charley, and John, sons of a Yorkshire farmer, who emigrated when half ruined by believing in the possibility of keeping up war prices, and Philip Paginton, a long Devonian, who, according to hints and scraps, and bits of unwilling conversation, was the son of a large acred squire, and heir not remotely to a title, who had lived among the best of the land, and enjoyed the half of a University education, until a mysterious black cloud had wafted him off to be my neighbour as the nominal manager of a large station (with the help of a shrewd Colonial who could neither read nor write) which was the property of an Australian bank. He had plenty of money and a magnificentoutfit, rode capital horses, and told wonderful sporting stories, but was subject to fits of absence. Sometimes we set him down for a murderer, or a man who had killed his best friend in a duel; at others, for an illegitimate sprig of the highest rank; and once there was a circumstantial rumour that he had married a lovely |
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Government and the American Economy: A New History $4.47 The American economy has provided a level of well-being that has consistently ranked at or near the top of the international ladder. A key source of this success has been widespread participation in political and economic processes. In The Government and the American Economy, leading economic historians chronicle the significance of America’s open-access society and the roles played by government in its unrivaled success story.America’s democratic experiment, the authors show, allowed individuals and interest groups to shape the structure and policies of government, which, in turn, have fostered economic success and innovation by emphasizing private property rights, the rule of law, and protections of individual freedom. In response to new demands for infrastructure, America’s federal structure hastened development by promoting the primacy of states, cities, and national governments. More recently, the economic reach of American government expanded dramatically as the populace accepted stronger limits on its economic freedoms in exchange for the increased security provided by regulation, an expanded welfare state, and a stronger national defense. |
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Handbook of Financial Cryptography and Security $66 The Handbook of Financial Cryptography and Security elucidates the theory and techniques of cryptography and illustrates how to establish and maintain security under the framework of financial cryptography. It applies various cryptographic techniques to auctions, electronic voting, micropayment systems, digital rights, financial portfolios, routing networks, and more.In the first part, the book examines blind signatures and other important cryptographic techniques with respect to digital cash/e-cash. It also looks at the role of cryptography in auctions and voting, describes properties that can be required of systems implementing value exchange, and presents methods by which selected receivers can decrypt signals sent out to everyone.The second section begins with a discussion on lowering transaction costs of settling payments so that commerce can occur at the sub-penny level. The book then addresses the challenge of a system solution for the protection of intellectual property, before presenting an application of cryptography to financial exchanges and markets.Exploring financial cryptography in the real world, the third part discusses the often-complex issues of phishing, privacy and anonymity, and protecting the identity of objects and users.With a focus on human factors, the final section considers whether systems will elicit or encourage the desired behavior of the participants of the system. It also explains how the law and regulations impact financial cryptography.In the real world, smart and adaptive adversaries employ all types of means to circumvent inconvenient security restraints. This useful handbook provides answers to general questions about the field of financial cryptography as well as solutions to specific real-world security problems. |
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Hints On Business, Financial And Legal; Xiv. Letters $14.14 General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1884Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: LETTER II. ON RAILWAY PROPERTY. I PROPOSE in this letter to discuss Railways as a mode of investment; and my remarks will be limited to British lines, as I have slight knowledge of railways abroad — save in the character of a discontented traveller. You will see at once, by an inspection of the Stock Exchange list, that railways are of all sizes and degrees of success. Some are magnificent and wealthy undertakings, while others are small and unremunerative. As a rule, I should avoid the little lines, and become a’ shareholder only in the great ones. The affairs of the latter are accurately known, and the management is able and successful. There is keen competition, but rivalry seems beneficial to the great lines as well as to the public. The best lines in England seem to me to be the Great Northern, the Midland, the L. |
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Hostess: Hospitality, Femininity, and the Expropriation of Identity $13.45 The evolution of the idea of hospitality can be traced alongside the development of Western civilization. Etymologically, the host is the “master,” but this identity is established through expropriation and loss—the best host is the one who gives the most, ultimately relinquishing what defines him as master. In The Hostess, Tracy McNulty asks, What are the implications for personhood of sharing a person—a wife or daughter—as an act of hospitality? In many traditions, the hostess is viewed not as a subject but as the master’s property. A foreign presence that both sustains and undercuts him, the hostess embodies the interplay of self and other within the host’s own identity. Here McNulty combines critical readings of the Bible and Pierre Klossowski’s trilogy The Laws of Hospitality with analyses of exogamous marital exchange, theological works from the Talmud to Aquinas, the writings of Kant and Nietzsche, and the theory of femininity in the work of Freud and Lacan. Ultimately, she contends, hospitality involves the boundary between the proper and the improper, affecting the subject as well as interpersonal relations. Tracy McNulty is assistant professor of romance studies at Cornell University. |
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Information in coordinated system control. $69 In this thesis, two subjects are considered: new techniques to improve stabilizing performance and feasibility in model predictive control and disturbance rejection control in coordinated systems.;Model predictive control is powerful when a system has constraints. However, by nature, feasibility and stabilizing property of model predictive control can be lost without proper treatments. A new idea is studied for the case that a system is not well stabilized by classical model predictive control since the origin is not reachable from initial states in a limited horizon. We handle this matter by using a time-varying contractive terminal state equality constraint in model predictive control. The core condition to execute our idea is a structural property of the system such as contractibility or a known control lyapunov function. In addition, algorithmic approaches to guarantee feasible model predictive control are developed with several state constraint structures. Assuming that the model predictive control problem at current time is feasible, we want to know the set of terminal states or new references such that the problem at the next time instant is still feasible. Solutions are given for the linear system case using reachability analysis.;The rest of the talk considers disturbance rejection control in coordinated systems. We employ a fixed vehicle formation problem as a working problem. The aim is to design a controller to maintain the formation and avoid collisions in the presence of disturbance, measurement, and communication noises. Each vehicle has its own local controller that uses the state and input information from neighbors via communication. We formulate local model predictive control and estimators for one vehicle to estimate the states of the neighboring vehicles. Since coordinated systems interact via the exchange of information through communication, as the network of coordinated systems increases in the number of subsystems, natural limits on the |
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Intervention to Save Hong Kong: Counter-Speculation in Financial Markets $99 By August 1998, the Hong Kong economy had become threatened not only by the natural consequences of the Asian crisis (1997-98), but also by waves of speculation, betting that the authorities would be forced to abandon the linked exchange rate (to the US dollar). When facing previous speculative attacks (starting October 1997), the authorities had followed traditional policies of raising interest rates. But by August 1998, such policies had helped to batter asset markets; property prices and output were falling, and confidence was low. Moreover, the speculators had developed an ingenious ‘double play’, simultaneously selling both the foreign exchange market and the Hang Seng equity market short; whether the authorities used an interest rate defense, or abandoned the ‘link’, the speculators would gain either way. So, the authorities decided on a bold, unexpected and unconventional response to reports of a further attack. They would undertake counter-intervention, again both in the equity and foreign exchange markets. This book provides a fascinating story in itself, and insights into what lessons academics and practitioners can learn from the turbulent events of the time. |
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Investing For Canadians For Dummies $29.99 Become a savvy investor with this completely revised and updated guideWant to take charge of your financial future? This friendly guide has been thoroughly updated to provide you with the latest insights into smart investing, from weighing your investment options (such as stocks, real estate, and small business) to understanding risks and returns, managing your portfolio, and much more.Get time-tested investment advice — expert authors Eric Tyson and Tony Martin share their extensive knowledge and reveal how to invest in challenging marketsDiscover all the fundamentals of investing — explore your investment choices, weigh risks and returns, choose the right investment mix, and protect your assetsBuild wealth with stocks, bonds, and mutual funds — use indexes, understand prices, minimize costs, and diversify your investmentsGet rich with real estate — find the right property, evaluate the market, finance your investments, work with agents, and close the dealStart, buy, or invest in a business — write a business plan, consider a franchise, and improve profitabilityManage education and retirement savings plans — establish your goals, evaluate your investment options, and tame your taxesInvestigate the best investing resources — determine which sources on the air, in print, and online offer you valuable information — and which you should avoidOpen the book and find:How to develop an investment strategy that fits your goals and personalityRecommendations on the best stock, bond, and money market fundsThe best times to buy and sell stocks and bondsThe scoop on exchange-traded and index fundsHow to make the most of your Tax-Free Savings AccountTips for reading and analyzing financial reportsHow to make safe and profitable real estate investments |
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Investing in a Vacation Home for Pleasure and Profit $28.95 As baby boomers retire, home offices increase, and an unsteady stock market prompts investors to consider their options, vacation home investing is gaining a growing following. Written by longtime real estate authority Jack Boykin, Investing in a Vacation Home for Pleasure and Profit offers timely, practical advice. Extremely accessible and well organized, the book walks readers through the entire process of acquiring a vacation property, from systematically evaluating home preferences and selecting a real estate agent to finding the ideal location and amenities and working out financing. It offers tips for finding leads on bargain purchases, as well as compares the pros/cons of new versus existing homes. Drawing from his years of experience, Dr. Boykin equips readers with the best negotiation techniques, offers ideas for raising equity capital, explains the proper use of deferred tax exchange technique, and covers mortgages, tax issues, rental concerns, resale, and much more. For anyone considering investing in a vacation home, this comprehensive resource is an invaluable guide! |
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Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law $12 Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law provides an economic rationale for the dominant role of investment banks in the capital markets, and uses it to explain both the historical evolution of the investment banking industry and also recent changes to its organization. Although investment decisions rely upon price-relevant information, it is impossible to establish property rights over it and hence it is very hard to coordinate its exchange. The authors argue that investment banks help to resolve this problem by managing "information marketplaces," within which extra-legal institutions support the production and dissemination of information that is important to investors. Reputations and relationships are more important in fulfilling this role than financial capital. The authors substantiate their theory with reference to the industry’s evolution during the last three centuries. They show how investment banking networks were formed, and identify the informal contracts that they supported. This historical development points to tensions between the relational contracting of investment banks and the regulatory impulses of the State, thus providing some explanation for the periodic large-scale State intervention in the operation of capital markets. Their theory also provides a technological explanation for the massive restructuring of the capital markets in recent decades, which the authors argue can be used to think about the likely future direction of the investment banking industry. |
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Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law $60 Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law provides an economic rationale for the dominant role of investment banks in the capital markets, and uses it to explain both the historical evolution of the investment banking industry and also recent changes to its organization. Although investment decisions rely upon price-relevant information, it is impossible to establish property rights over it and hence it is very hard to coordinate its exchange. The authors argue that investment banks help to resolve this problem by managing “information marketplaces,” within which extra-legal institutions support the production and dissemination of information that is important to investors. Reputations and relationships are more important in fulfilling this role than financial capital. The authors substantiate their theory with reference to the industry’s evolution during the last three centuries. They show how investment banking networks were formed, and identify the informal contracts that they supported. This historical development points to tensions between the relational contracting of investment banks and the regulatory impulses of the State, thus providing some explanation for the periodic large-scale State intervention in the operation of capital markets. Their theory also provides a technological explanation for the massive restructuring of the capital markets in recent decades, which the authors argue can be used to think about the likely future direction of the investment banking industry. |
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Jumping Jack $3.99 A beautiful story about how sometimes our worst moments may be the bridge to our dreams. . . In exchange for being able to live on Cedar Creek Farm, thirteen year old Sarah Baker’s parents must train horses and students in the property owners’ equestrian facility. After being born in North Carolina and living nearly her whole life on the farm, Sarah finds out she’s moving to Tennessee. And not only will she have to start a new life in another state, but she has to leave her precious horse, Jack, and her dog, Ginger, behind since she’s going to live in a town, not a farm. Sarah is devastated, and she knows that she will never get to fulfill her dreams now- competing in the US Equestrian Nationals.When she moves to Tennessee, however, she finds a luxurious equestrian barn owned by a retired Olympic show jumper. There she finds a beautiful white mare, just as free-spirited and adventurous as Jack. Sarah, being a great rider herself, begins to secretly jump this mare in the woods located in the back of the property. After the owner of the farm finds her riding his horse, Sarah has no idea that her dreams of competing in the US Equestrian Nationals might just come true after all. |
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Kentucky Woman $5.99 KENTUCKY WOMAN. [Siren Ménage Amour #19: Ménage a Trois Romance, M/F/M] Having lost their lust for life and holding secrets, Cutter Raines and Billy Marlow live for their mission as spies for Lincoln. Posing as bounty hunters in the divided state of Kentucky, they value only their friendship and trust no one. Jessie McGee has a secret of her own. She runs a way station for the underground railroad. When friends are abducted, Jessie wants to hire the bounty hunters to track her “property”. Jessie offers a bargain they can’t refuse–sex in exchange for their skills. The problem is sex with a beautiful, feisty woman just might pull them back into life and give them something to lose. For men like Raines and Billy, that’s more dangerous than the hazards of war. And for Jessie, the danger lies in trusting men who stand against everything she believes in. *** “The Civil War seemed a perfect backdrop to provide a moral dilemma. Given Jessie’s circumstances, having sex with two men seemed an easy choice. But in an era when loyalties were divided, trusting two men when they stand against everything she believes in offers inherent complications.” ~ Amber ~ |
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Kentucky Woman $15.5 KENTUCKY WOMAN. [Siren Ménage Amour #19: Ménage a Trois Romance, M/F/M] Having lost their lust for life and holding secrets, Cutter Raines and Billy Marlow live for their mission as spies for Lincoln. Posing as bounty hunters in the divided state of Kentucky, they value only their friendship and trust no one. Jessie McGee has a secret of her own. She runs a way station for the underground railroad. When friends are abducted, Jessie wants to hire the bounty hunters to track her “property”. Jessie offers a bargain they can’t refuse–sex in exchange for their skills. The problem is sex with a beautiful, feisty woman just might pull them back into life and give them something to lose. For men like Raines and Billy, that’s more dangerous than the hazards of war. And for Jessie, the danger lies in trusting men who stand against everything she believes in. *** “The Civil War seemed a perfect backdrop to provide a moral dilemma. Given Jessie’s circumstances, having sex with two men seemed an easy choice. But in an era when loyalties were divided, trusting two men when they stand against everything she believes in offers inherent complications.” ~ Amber ~ |
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Knowledge at Work: Creative Collaboration in the Global Economy $110 This book focuses on the processes through which knowledge is created, accumulated and put to use in the knowledge-driven global economy. Its unique perspective stems from its “knowledge diamond” framework to examine how individuals, communities, organizations and host industries reciprocally influence each other in the course of knowledge work. Case examples are selected to appeal to an international audience.The book also covers the key topics of project-based, virtual, and global knowledge work and intellectual property. It emphasizes the practices and tools – both behavioral and information technology – through which participants exchange knowledge and generate new learning. Each chapter concludes with summary questions that can be the basis for the reader’s personal reflection, or for discussion among classroom or management development audiences. |
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Lawlessness and Economics: Alternative Modes of Governance $30 “Avinash Dixit, a superb economist at the very peak of his profession, is one of the best-qualified economists in the world to write this book. With exceptional clarity he develops an elegant model of the scope of informal governance, one that will be indispensable for economists working in this area and for some political scientists as well.”–James E. Rauch, University of California, San Diego”A major contribution to the field. Avinash Dixit provides an accessible and well-written overview of a sort not previously available in book form, integrating theoretical and empirical findings and developing new aspects of the issue.”–Avner Greif, Stanford University”This extremely well written book presents a lucid and comprehensive survey of a new field in economics, namely the study of exchange, contracts, and property rights enforcement in the absence of a benevolent state. Besides providing a clear picture of the existing literature, it raises interesting questions in a coherent framework–pointing to exciting new avenues of research.”–Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics |
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Lawlessness and Economics: Alternative Modes of Governance $30 “Avinash Dixit, a superb economist at the very peak of his profession, is one of the best-qualified economists in the world to write this book. With exceptional clarity he develops an elegant model of the scope of informal governance, one that will be indispensable for economists working in this area and for some political scientists as well.”–James E. Rauch, University of California, San Diego”A major contribution to the field. Avinash Dixit provides an accessible and well-written overview of a sort not previously available in book form, integrating theoretical and empirical findings and developing new aspects of the issue.”–Avner Greif, Stanford University”This extremely well written book presents a lucid and comprehensive survey of a new field in economics, namely the study of exchange, contracts, and property rights enforcement in the absence of a benevolent state. Besides providing a clear picture of the existing literature, it raises interesting questions in a coherent framework–pointing to exciting new avenues of research.”–Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics |
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Leave Us Alone $15 Economics is the science of production and exchange, and capitalism is the inalienable right to life and property applied to economics. Exchange is what takes place naturally among humans when humans are left free. To subvert capitalism, therefore, requires a massive act of government force; for as Adam Smith said: Man has a natural tendency to truck, barter, and exchange. Today, the preponderating number of people, businesspeople perhaps most especially, are no longer capitalists but interventionists who fear competition, and who because of their fear call for more and ever more government protection. Yet, incontrovertibly, capitalism has brought to this world a higher standard of living by far than anything the world has ever seen before. Why, then, is economic freedom under such unrelenting assault from both sides of the political spectrum? The answer, in large part, is that people simply don’t understand the nature of capitalism – which is the full recognition of private property rights and the corollary freedom to exchange that property. |
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Libertarianism $19.95 Libertarianism: For and Against offers dueling perspectives on the scope of legitimate government. Tibor R. Machan, a well-known libertarian philosopher, argues for a minimal government devoted solely to protecting individual rights to life, liberty, and property. Against this view, philosopher Craig Duncan defends democratic liberalism, which aims to ensure that all citizens have fair access to a life of dignity. In a dynamic exchange of arguments, the two philosophers cut to the heart of this important debate. |
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Life Of Lincoln $33.75 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:LINCOLN THE CITIZEN CHAPTER I LINEAGE, PARENTAGE, AND CHILDHOOD In the year 1619, in the then considerable, rudely built, and socially isolated city of Norwich, the shire town of Norfolk County, England, in one of the humble families, was born a child who, in due course of time, received the baptismal appellation of Samuel Lincoln. During the same year, at Jamestown, a newly founded hamlet in the wilderness of North America, a vessel, in stress of want, cast anchor in the river and offered in exchange for supplies, as their sole vendible property, sundry human chattels, which the Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony, then in command, chiefly from considerations of humanity to the destitute sailors, accepted, and the transaction was deemed of sufficient consequence to be thus jotted down in the sober chronicles of a town gossip: “About the last of August came in a Dutch man of warre that sold us twenty negars.” The vessel, thus relieved, proceeded home, and, coincident with its arrival in Holland, an incident occurred in a neighboring harbor, which is thus narrated by the local historian: So they left that goodly and pleasant City of Leyden, which had been their resting place for above elevenyears: but they knew that they were pilgrims and strangers here below, and looked not much on these things, but lifted up their eyes to Heaven, their dearest Country where God had prepared for them a City (Heb. xi. 16) and therein quieted their spirits. When they came to Delfs-Haven, they found the ship and all things ready, and such of their friends as could not come with them, followed after them, and sundry came from Amsterdam to see them shipt, and to take their leavs of them. . . . But the tide (which stays for no man) calling them away that were thus loathe to depart, |
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Multimedia Encryption and Watermarking $159 Multimedia Encryption and Watermarking presents a comprehensive survey of contemporary multimedia encryption and watermarking techniques, which enable a secure exchange of multimedia intellectual property.Part I, Digital Rights Management (DRM) for Multimedia, introduces DRM concepts and models for multimedia content protection, and presents the key players. Part II, Multimedia Cryptography, provides an overview of modern cryptography, with the focus on modern image, video, speech, and audio encryption techniques. This book also provides an advanced concept of visual and audio sharing techniques. Part III, Digital Watermarking, introduces the concept of watermarking for multimedia, classifies watermarking applications, and evaluates various multimedia watermarking concepts and techniques, including digital watermarking techniques for binary images.Multimedia Encryption and Watermarking is designed for researchers and practitioners, as well as scientists and engineers who design and develop systems for the protection of digital multimedia content. This volume is also suitable as a textbook for graduate courses on multimedia security. |
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Multimedia Encryption and Watermarking $159 Multimedia Encryption and Watermarking presents a comprehensive survey of contemporary multimedia encryption and watermarking techniques, which enable a secure exchange of multimedia intellectual property.Part I, Digital Rights Management (DRM) for Multimedia, introduces DRM concepts and models for multimedia content protection, and presents the key players. Part II, Multimedia Cryptography, provides an overview of modern cryptography, with the focus on modern image, video, speech, and audio encryption techniques. This book also provides an advanced concept of visual and audio sharing techniques. Part III, Digital Watermarking, introduces the concept of watermarking for multimedia, classifies watermarking applications, and evaluates various multimedia watermarking concepts and techniques, including digital watermarking techniques for binary images.Multimedia Encryption and Watermarking is designed for researchers and practitioners, as well as scientists and engineers who design and develop systems for the protection of digital multimedia content. This volume is also suitable as a textbook for graduate courses on multimedia security. |
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Mutual Funds $0.99 Learn about Mutual Funds with iMinds Money’s insightful fast knowledge series. A mutual fund is an investment vehicle that allows a group of investors to pool their money, allowing a professional to collectively trade securities on their behalf in exchange for a small fee. The pooled funds are used to purchase a diverse range of assets and provide a return to the investor. Typically the assets purchased are shares of companies and so reflect share market movements, but some funds focus on other markets such as property. Although the term ‘mutual fund’ has specific meaning in United States law, it is globally synonymous with the names managed fund, unit trust or collective investment.The origin of mutual funds can be traced back to a Dutch merchant, who in 1874 created a trust that accepted funds from several small investors. King William I appropriated this idea nearly fifty years later, launching investment companies in the Netherlands that placed a strong focus on investment diversification. It is this diversification that is the strength of the mutual fund. By pooling their funds a group of investors can afford to invest in a wider range of assets than would be possible individually. The benefits of investment diversification come from the exploitation of economies of scale in two ways. Firstly, brokerage costs are significantly reduced and the purchase of wholesale investment assets – which are typically issued in denominations of $1 million or more – becomes possible. Secondly, unsystematic risk is reduced by the diversification of the investment portfolio.iMinds will hone your financial knowledge with its insightful series looking at topics related to Money, Investment and Finance.. whether an amateur or specialist in the field, iMinds targeted fast knowledge series will whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.iMinds unique fast-learning modules as seen in the Financial Times, Wired, Vogue, Robb Report, Sky News, LA Times, |
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Narrative Of A Journey From Heraut To Khiva, Moscow And St. Petersburgh, During The Late Russian Invasion Of Khiva (V. 1) $20.86 Volume: v. 1General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1856Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: CHAPTER XXXI. Route to Dahsh Qullah — Its Difficulties — The Favourite of Hope — Resolution to pursue that Route — Choice of my Suite — Quarrel and Affray between the Tooroumuns and Oozbegs — Pacified by Saleh Mu- huinmud — Forced Reconciliation — Mooraud All leaves me to my Fate — Khojeh Muhummud — Atonement of his Father’s Crime. UP to this moment, I had steadfastly adhered to my first proposition of return to Khiva. I had not given any one the slightest reason to think I could be persuaded to change my apparent purpose. But my heart was travelling in the other direction, and I waited only the appearance of a possibility, to determine my steps towards Dahsh Gullah. The difficulty of this route seemed increased tenfold, by the loss of Mooraud Ali’s protection. There lay, between the inhabited steppe of the Mungh Kishlauk district, and the Russ’an fort, about forty miles of stepppe, utterly destitute of inhabitants; and although the undoubted property of the Khaun, and time out of mind, an integral portion of Khaurism, yet under the fear of the Russians, since their erection of a fort in the Khaun’s territory. The Kuzzauks, indeed, are less in fear of the Russians, of the garrison, whose interest it is to encourage them to dwell in the neighbourhood, and from whom theypurchase in exchange for sheep and hides, all the few luxuries and conveniences they are acquainted with; than they are in dread of the Chowdhoor Toorcumuns, who make such dealings a pretence for plundering THE FAVOURITE OF HOPE. 31 them. Nevertheless, the steppe is utterly abandoned, |
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Olive Season $0.38 Carol Drinkwater’s The Olive Farm told the lyrical tale of her real-life romance with partner Michel and an abandoned Provençal olive farm that they fell in love with and bought-a double love story, recounting with wit, warmth, and alluring detail the couple’s attempts to bring their dreams to life. In The Olive Season, Carol Drinkwater’s much-anticipated follow-up to The Olive Farm, Carol and Michel prepare to exchange vows in, of all places, Polynesia-Michel’s answer to Carol’s challenging response to his marriage proposal (“Only if the ceremony is performed by the King of Tonga!”) Upon their return to the south of France as husband and wife, they find there is much hope-and work-to greet them. With a farm consisting of fifty trees producing some of the world’s finest olive oil, no longer is the challenge one of restoring the farm but in charting its development and growth. France’s rigorous agricultural standards are responsible for some of the world’s best produce but also for one of its most infuriating bureaucracies. In order to obtain the coveted AOC rating, Carol and Michel are forced to both expand their farm and to negotiate a Byzantine world of forms, officials, and inspections, including the surveying of their land by a water diviner, who, via a power akin to extrasensory perception, can point out the existence of underground water sources on their property. Further complicating matters is the fact that Carol has become pregnant with the couple’s first child and has just accepted a demanding acting role. As the harvest season approaches, dramatic events, culminating in a heartbreaking miscarriage, cast shadows over the olive farm. With all the warmth and vibrancy of the Mediterranean sun, Carol Drinkwater tells her passionate, moving, and utterly uplifting story. Author Biography: Carol Drinkwater is a critically acclaimed actress. Among her many stage and screen performances, she is probably most widely |
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Pan- Electric Industries $48 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pan-Electric Industries was a Singapore-based company that specialised in marine salvage work, and had 71 subsidiary companies, including hotel and property interests, with a market capitalization of S$230 million.The company collapsed in 1985 due to unsettled forward contracts, forcing the stock exchanges of both Singapore and Malaysia to shut down for three days.At its demise, the company had a total debt of S$480 million, and all its shares held by 5,500 shareholders were found to be worthless overnight. As of 2000, it remains the largest corporate collapse in Singapore’s history, and the only instance where the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) had to close.The Malaysian Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange was also forced to close for three days as a result.In the aftermath of the collapse, key people in the company such as Peter Tham, Tan Kok Liang, and Tan Koon Swan were prosecuted and given varying jail sentences. The collapse of the company shook public confidence in the SES, causing prices of stocks to plunge.New securities laws were introduced in March 1986 to ensure that stockbroking firms can protect themselves against credit risks. |
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Partnerschaft $14.14 Kapitel: Fernbeziehung, Paartherapie, Erotic Power Exchange, 24/7, Bundling, Total Power Exchange, Double Income No Kids, Sugardaddy, Offene Beziehung, Homogamie. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: In BDSM, Master/slave or M/s is a relationship in which one individual (the submissive) gives to another (the dominant) ultimate authority over them. It is a form of dominance and submission or total power exchange. The participants may be of any gender or sexual orientation. The relationship is structured in terms of slavery, because of the association of the term with ownership of the slave and the rights of a master to their body, as property or chattel. The dominant is often called Master if male, or Mistress if female. The owner/slave relationship is usually entered into on a consensual basis, without the legal force of historical or modern non-consensual slavery, which is forbidden by the laws of most countries. Outside the BDSM community, the relationship of master/slave is sometimes regarded as a form of consensual sexual slavery. In BDSM, a slave is a specific type of submissive. The master/slave relationship refers to the relationship between the individuals involved, and does not necessarily require any specific acts, sexual or otherwise, though sexual activity is usually an aspect of the relationship. The sexual aspect could be conventional, and not necessarily BDSM. A slave could also be a masochist or bottom, but this is not always the case. Some participants regard the relationship as sexual roleplay, while others enter into the relationship on the basis of a highly committed, long-term, submissive lifestyle. Some practitioners feel the difference between submissive and slave is the degree of submission. However, many who are involved in master/slave relationships see the difference as being conceptual. For example, some slaves may not have a naturally submissive personality, but choose to surrender their will |
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People From Br?Ila County $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. Excerpt: George Becali (commonly known in Romania as Gigi Becali, born 25 June 1958) is a controversial Romanian politician and businessman, mostly known for his involvement in the Steaua Bucureti football club. He is a Member of the European Parliament since June 2009. He was born in Zagna, Vdeni, Brila County, as his family was deported to the Brgan by the Communist authorities because of their associations with the pre-WWII fascist Iron Guard. His cousins, Victor Becali and Ioan Becali, are also involved in Romanian football. In 1994, he married Luminia, 11 years his junior; the couple have three daughters: Teodora (b. 1995), Alexandra (b. 1996) and Cristina (b. 2001). After the 2005 floods, he used $4 million of his personal money to fund the reconstruction of about 200 houses in the Vulturu village (Vulturu commune, Vrancea county) that was destroyed by the overflow of the Siret river. However, he is still the legal owner of the 200 houses. Subsequently the villagers wanted to rename it Vulturu Becali (Becali Vulture) in his honor. Becali became a millionaire through an exchange of land with the Romanian Army, dubbed by the Romanian press as suspicious, as the Army did not need the land it received and the land he received was worth much more. The deal consisted in Becali giving the army a 21.5 ha plot in tefnetii de Jos (about 15 km from Bucharest) in exchange for a 20.9 ha plot in Bneasa-Pipera, in Northern Bucharest. As the real estate prices skyrocketed in the capital, he sold the land to some companies which built residential areas. In 2007, it was revealed that in 1998, when Becali sent the offer to the Romanian Army, he was not the owner of the property in tefnetii de Jos, buying it only after it was clear that the deal would be signed. A… More: |
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Performance of Property Unit Trusts and Property Loan Stocks $64.99 The book compares the performance of Property Investment Trusts and Property Loan Stock companies which have similar investment instruments but have different restrictions on borrowing. This book is highly relevant in understanding the properties of risk versus return when you considering different debt structures of Property Investments Trusts. The book also applied Value at Risks concepts in the analysis of the data. The study population in the book was based on the Property Unit Trusts and Property Loan Stock companies listed on the JSE Securities Exchange over the period 1990 to 2004. The returns were measured and both nominal and risk-adjusted returns (using Sharpe measure) were subjected to the NCSS statistical program analysis to determine whether there were significant differences in the returns. The Value at Risk analysis clearly indicates that Property Unit Trusts, with low gearing, have better risk-sharing characteristics than Property Loan Stock companies with no restrictions on gearing. |
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Pope’s Children: The Irish Economic Triumph and the Rise of Ireland’s New Elite $24.95 The Pope’s Children is botha celebration and bitingly funny portrait of the first generation of the Celtic Tiger—the beneficiaries of the economic miracle that propelled Ireland from centuries of deprivation into a nation that now enjoys one of the highest living standards in the world.Named for the ironic coincidence of the Irish baby boom of the 1970s, which peaked nine months to the day after Pope John Paul II’s historic visit to Dublin, the Pope’s Children are overflowing with money, ambition and optimism—but they are also the most hedonistic, status-conscious and decadent Irish generation ever. They have abandoned the Old Irish Dream of Catholicism, nationalism and limited expectations in exchange for the New Irish Dream of instant gratification, material possessions and endless possibility.A noted Irish economist, broadcaster and bestselling author, David McWilliams cleverly dissects and describes contemporary Ireland. He tells how “Wonderbra Economics” is raising living standards and pushing the social classes closer together. He describes how prosperity has given rise to two distinct social classes: the Decklanders, so named because of their obsession with backyard decks and rank materialism; and the HiCos, who are trying to fuse their Irish heritage with their newfound cosmopolitan values—sometimes with hilarious results.A brilliant writer, McWilliams blends words into new and unexpected forms. You’ll learn about “the Expectocracy,” “Property Porn,” the “Carrot Juice Contrarians,” “RoboPaddy” and “Speed Bump Moms.” Vividly and powerfully, McWilliams brings contemporary Ireland to life.Witty, intelligent and irreverent, The Pope’s Children tells the real story of Ireland’s amazing economic and social transformation and the special generation that is changing the country forever. |
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Property Securities $0.99 Learn about Property Securities with iMinds Money’s insightful fast knowledge series. Property securities are interests in property trusts that are listed on the stock exchange. These listed property trusts are known globally as Real Estate Investment Funds, or REITs. They hold portfolios of property assets that consist of large properties that, due to their size and value, could not be bought by average private investors. REITs break these large investments up into smaller units that can be purchased by individuals, investment institutions and managed funds. The trust manages the properties and investment direction and distributes rental income to the investors. Unit holders trade on the stock market where the value of the unit is determined by demand and supply. The economies-of-scale realised by large trusts, the expertise required for successful non-residential investment and the significant funding required to diversify in this type of property result in REITs maintaining a strong dominance in the commercial property market.Created in 1960 by the U.S. Congress, REITs were originally designed to provide access for all income levels to diversified, professionally managed real estate previously reserved for large real estate organisations. While initially showing slow growth, the industry grew dramatically from the early 1990. This was sparked by demand for liquidity from institutional investors recovering from the 1990 property bubble, who traditionally held direct property investments. Since then, REITS have become a mature, sophisticated, highly successful indirect property investment vehicle. Total assets of the REIT industry worldwide increased from $16 billion to $568 billion from 1992 to 2008. This growth came particularly from the US, Australia, France and the UK who account for 41%, 12%, 11% and 6.5% of current world REIT assets respectively. iMinds will hone your financial knowledge with its insightful series looking at topics |
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RES FINANCE V15 $110.95 Eleven papers in this volume present some current interesting and important research in finance. Based upon the CAPM, Chen and Kane show that double taxation and differential tax rates on a personal and capital-gains income, affect corporate stock values and financial policies in nonneutral ways. Sengupta shows tax evasion decisions of a monopolist in a price-ceiling regulatory environment. In their paper, Osterberg and Thomson empirically examine the impact of state-level deposit preference laws on resolution type and costs for all operating FDIC-BIF insured commercial banks that were closed, or required FDIC financial assistance, from January 1986 through December 1992. Peek and Wilcox show that during periods of international financial crises, or of domestic economic stress, the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) are well suited to stabilize mortgage markets. In their paper, Chen, Robinson and Siems empirically show the association between banks’ subordinated debt and their loan sales activities and its implications in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy.Also in this volume, Lin et al. use the Granger causality test to examine the linkage between the euro exchange rate and the money supply and GDP in the euro community, as well as its impact on the UK exchange rate and the London stock exchange market index. In their paper, Kane and Muzere extend the Diamond-Dybvig model of bank runs to an open market economy and show that adding the central banks and the IMF, guarantees will reduce, but not eliminate the banking as well as currency crises. The paper by Chung et al. empirically shows the presence of a long memory, property in currency, futuremarkets, and discusses its hedging implications. In their paper, Lee, Lee and Yu develop a valuation model for the pension benefit guarantees that incorporates the plan termination conditions as well as a stochastic interest rate. In a case study, Hung et al. empirically show |
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RES FINANCE V16 $19.98 Eleven papers in this volume present some current interesting and important research in finance. Based upon the CAPM, Chen and Kane show that double taxation and differential tax rates on a personal and capital-gains income, affect corporate stock values and financial policies in nonneutral ways. Sengupta shows tax evasion decisions of a monopolist in a price-ceiling regulatory environment. In their paper, Osterberg and Thomson empirically examine the impact of state-level deposit preference laws on resolution type and costs for all operating FDIC-BIF insured commercial banks that were closed, or required FDIC financial assistance, from January 1986 through December 1992. Peek and Wilcox show that during periods of international financial crises, or of domestic economic stress, the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) are well suited to stabilize mortgage markets. In their paper, Chen, Robinson and Siems empirically show the association between banks’ subordinated debt and their loan sales activities and its implications in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy.Also in this volume, Lin et al. use the Granger causality test to examine the linkage between the euro exchange rate and the money supply and GDP in the euro community, as well as its impact on the UK exchange rate and the London stock exchange market index. In their paper, Kane and Muzere extend the Diamond-Dybvig model of bank runs to an open market economy and show that adding the central banks and the IMF, guarantees will reduce, but not eliminate the banking as well as currency crises. The paper by Chung et al. empirically shows the presence of a long memory, property in currency, futuremarkets, and discusses its hedging implications. In their paper, Lee, Lee and Yu develop a valuation model for the pension benefit guarantees that incorporates the plan termination conditions as well as a stochastic interest rate. In a case study, Hung et al. empirically show |
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RESEARCH IN FINANCE RFIN19 H $15.04 Eleven papers in this volume present some current interesting and important research in finance. Based upon the CAPM, Chen and Kane show that double taxation and differential tax rates on a personal and capital-gains income, affect corporate stock values and financial policies in nonneutral ways. Sengupta shows tax evasion decisions of a monopolist in a price-ceiling regulatory environment. In their paper, Osterberg and Thomson empirically examine the impact of state-level deposit preference laws on resolution type and costs for all operating FDIC-BIF insured commercial banks that were closed, or required FDIC financial assistance, from January 1986 through December 1992. Peek and Wilcox show that during periods of international financial crises, or of domestic economic stress, the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) are well suited to stabilize mortgage markets. In their paper, Chen, Robinson and Siems empirically show the association between banks’ subordinated debt and their loan sales activities and its implications in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy.Also in this volume, Lin et al. use the Granger causality test to examine the linkage between the euro exchange rate and the money supply and GDP in the euro community, as well as its impact on the UK exchange rate and the London stock exchange market index. In their paper, Kane and Muzere extend the Diamond-Dybvig model of bank runs to an open market economy and show that adding the central banks and the IMF, guarantees will reduce, but not eliminate the banking as well as currency crises. The paper by Chung et al. empirically shows the presence of a long memory, property in currency, futuremarkets, and discusses its hedging implications. In their paper, Lee, Lee and Yu develop a valuation model for the pension benefit guarantees that incorporates the plan termination conditions as well as a stochastic interest rate. In a case study, Hung et al. empirically show |
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RESEARCH IN FINANCE V22 $123.95 Eleven papers in this volume present some current interesting and important research in finance. Based upon the CAPM, Chen and Kane show that double taxation and differential tax rates on a personal and capital-gains income, affect corporate stock values and financial policies in nonneutral ways. Sengupta shows tax evasion decisions of a monopolist in a price-ceiling regulatory environment. In their paper, Osterberg and Thomson empirically examine the impact of state-level deposit preference laws on resolution type and costs for all operating FDIC-BIF insured commercial banks that were closed, or required FDIC financial assistance, from January 1986 through December 1992. Peek and Wilcox show that during periods of international financial crises, or of domestic economic stress, the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) are well suited to stabilize mortgage markets. In their paper, Chen, Robinson and Siems empirically show the association between banks’ subordinated debt and their loan sales activities and its implications in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy.Also in this volume, Lin et al. use the Granger causality test to examine the linkage between the euro exchange rate and the money supply and GDP in the euro community, as well as its impact on the UK exchange rate and the London stock exchange market index. In their paper, Kane and Muzere extend the Diamond-Dybvig model of bank runs to an open market economy and show that adding the central banks and the IMF, guarantees will reduce, but not eliminate the banking as well as currency crises. The paper by Chung et al. empirically shows the presence of a long memory, property in currency, futuremarkets, and discusses its hedging implications. In their paper, Lee, Lee and Yu develop a valuation model for the pension benefit guarantees that incorporates the plan termination conditions as well as a stochastic interest rate. In a case study, Hung et al. empirically show |
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RESEARCH IN FINANCE V23 $116.95 Eleven papers in this volume present some current interesting and important research in finance. Based upon the CAPM, Chen and Kane show that double taxation and differential tax rates on a personal and capital-gains income, affect corporate stock values and financial policies in nonneutral ways. Sengupta shows tax evasion decisions of a monopolist in a price-ceiling regulatory environment. In their paper, Osterberg and Thomson empirically examine the impact of state-level deposit preference laws on resolution type and costs for all operating FDIC-BIF insured commercial banks that were closed, or required FDIC financial assistance, from January 1986 through December 1992. Peek and Wilcox show that during periods of international financial crises, or of domestic economic stress, the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) are well suited to stabilize mortgage markets. In their paper, Chen, Robinson and Siems empirically show the association between banks’ subordinated debt and their loan sales activities and its implications in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy.Also in this volume, Lin et al. use the Granger causality test to examine the linkage between the euro exchange rate and the money supply and GDP in the euro community, as well as its impact on the UK exchange rate and the London stock exchange market index. In their paper, Kane and Muzere extend the Diamond-Dybvig model of bank runs to an open market economy and show that adding the central banks and the IMF, guarantees will reduce, but not eliminate the banking as well as currency crises. The paper by Chung et al. empirically shows the presence of a long memory, property in currency, futuremarkets, and discusses its hedging implications. In their paper, Lee, Lee and Yu develop a valuation model for the pension benefit guarantees that incorporates the plan termination conditions as well as a stochastic interest rate. In a case study, Hung et al. empirically show |
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Reclaiming Development: An Economic Policy Handbook for Activists and Policymakers $20.95 The authors of this book challenge prevailing ideas about free markets and globalization. They question whether globalization is a technological reality that cannot be stopped and ask if the US economy really outperformed its competitors in the 1990s. They show how in each key area—trade and industrial policy, privatization, intellectual property rights, investment and financial policies, exchange rate and currency policy, labour and social welfare —there are alternatives to neoliberal policies that the historical experience of particular countries prove really works. |
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Reflections On The Formation And The Distribution Of Riches (1898) $14.14 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:§. VIII. First division of the society into two classes: the one productive,1 or that of the Cultivators; the second stipendiary,2 or that of the Artisans. Here then we have the whole society divided, by a necessity founded on the nature of things, into two classes: equally industrious.3 But one of these by its labour produces, or rather draws from the land, riches which are continually springing up afresh, and which supply the whole society with its subsistence and with the materials for all its needs. The other, occupied in giving to materials thus produced the preparations and the forms which render them suitable for the use of men, sells its labour to the first class, and receives in exchange its subsistence. The first may be called the productive class, and the second the stipendiary class. In the first ages the Proprietor cannot have been distinguished from the Cultivator. Up to this point we have not yet distinguished the Husbandman from the Proprietor4 of the lands; and in fact they were not originally distinct, ‘it is by the labour of those who have been the first to till the fields, and who have enclosed them, in order to secure to themselves the harvest, that all the lands have ceased to be common to all, and that landed properties have been established.Until the societies have been consolidated, and the public force, or law, now become superior to individual force, has been able to guarantee to each man the tranquil possession of his property against all invasion fromwithout, a man could retain the ownership of a field only in the way he had acquired it and by continuing to cultivate it. It would not have been safe to get his field cultivated by somebody else, who, having taken all the trouble, would have had difficulty in understanding that the |
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Renaissancebauwerk In Bayern $19.99 Kapitel: Augsburger Rathaus, Perlachturm, Schloss Ortenburg, Alte Hofhaltung, Schloss Johannisburg, Goldener Saal, Fuggerschloss Kirchheim/schwaben, Schloss Mespelbrunn, Fleischbrücke, Schloss Haidenburg, Pellerhaus, Stadtmuseum Fembohaus, Schutzengelkirche, Schloss Wörth an Der Donau, Fuggerhäuser, Schloss Aicha Vorm Wald, Schloss Obernzell, Trennbach-Kapelle, Schloss Moos, Schloss Eggendobl, Schloss Sinning, Kurfürstliche Regierungskanzlei, Mollnhof. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: The Town Hall of Augsburg (German: Augsburger Rathaus) is the administrative centre of Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, and one of the most significant secular buildings of the Renaissance style north of the Alps. It was designed and built by Elias Holl, Stadtbaumesiter (Master Builder of the town), in 1615-1624. Due to its historic and cultural importance, it is protected by the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. On 25 August 1615, the foundation stone of the building was laid by then Stadtbaumeister Elias Holl. The exterior of the building was completed in March 1620, and the interior in 1624. Technologically, the Augsburger Rathaus was a pioneering performance; upon its completion it was the first building in the world with more than six storeys. The rigid elegance of the large stonework was similar to Florence, the cultural and financial capital of Northern Italy, with which the city gladly compared itself. The self-image of the Free Imperial City of Augsburg is represented by two conspicuous ornaments on the large gable at the front of the building: the first is the Reichsadler, or Imperial Eagle of the Holy Roman Empire, representing the town’s importance; the second is the large copper pine cone, or Zirbelnuss, which is the symbol of Augsburg. The view of the Rathaus was almost completely blocked by the stock exchange building built in 1828, until British bombing on the night of |
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Research in Finance, 1995 $19.99 Eleven papers in this volume present some current interesting and important research in finance. Based upon the CAPM, Chen and Kane show that double taxation and differential tax rates on a personal and capital-gains income, affect corporate stock values and financial policies in nonneutral ways. Sengupta shows tax evasion decisions of a monopolist in a price-ceiling regulatory environment. In their paper, Osterberg and Thomson empirically examine the impact of state-level deposit preference laws on resolution type and costs for all operating FDIC-BIF insured commercial banks that were closed, or required FDIC financial assistance, from January 1986 through December 1992. Peek and Wilcox show that during periods of international financial crises, or of domestic economic stress, the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) are well suited to stabilize mortgage markets. In their paper, Chen, Robinson and Siems empirically show the association between banks’ subordinated debt and their loan sales activities and its implications in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy.Also in this volume, Lin et al. use the Granger causality test to examine the linkage between the euro exchange rate and the money supply and GDP in the euro community, as well as its impact on the UK exchange rate and the London stock exchange market index. In their paper, Kane and Muzere extend the Diamond-Dybvig model of bank runs to an open market economy and show that adding the central banks and the IMF, guarantees will reduce, but not eliminate the banking as well as currency crises. The paper by Chung et al. empirically shows the presence of a long memory, property in currency, futuremarkets, and discusses its hedging implications. In their paper, Lee, Lee and Yu develop a valuation model for the pension benefit guarantees that incorporates the plan termination conditions as well as a stochastic interest rate. In a case study, Hung et al. empirically show |
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Research in Finance, Volume 17 $116.95 Eleven papers in this volume present some current interesting and important research in finance. Based upon the CAPM, Chen and Kane show that double taxation and differential tax rates on a personal and capital-gains income, affect corporate stock values and financial policies in nonneutral ways. Sengupta shows tax evasion decisions of a monopolist in a price-ceiling regulatory environment. In their paper, Osterberg and Thomson empirically examine the impact of state-level deposit preference laws on resolution type and costs for all operating FDIC-BIF insured commercial banks that were closed, or required FDIC financial assistance, from January 1986 through December 1992. Peek and Wilcox show that during periods of international financial crises, or of domestic economic stress, the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) are well suited to stabilize mortgage markets. In their paper, Chen, Robinson and Siems empirically show the association between banks’ subordinated debt and their loan sales activities and its implications in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy.Also in this volume, Lin et al. use the Granger causality test to examine the linkage between the euro exchange rate and the money supply and GDP in the euro community, as well as its impact on the UK exchange rate and the London stock exchange market index. In their paper, Kane and Muzere extend the Diamond-Dybvig model of bank runs to an open market economy and show that adding the central banks and the IMF, guarantees will reduce, but not eliminate the banking as well as currency crises. The paper by Chung et al. empirically shows the presence of a long memory, property in currency, futuremarkets, and discusses its hedging implications. In their paper, Lee, Lee and Yu develop a valuation model for the pension benefit guarantees that incorporates the plan termination conditions as well as a stochastic interest rate. In a case study, Hung et al. empirically show |
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Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity $16.17 Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world? Rule of Experts examines these questions through a series of interrelated essays focused on Egypt in the twentieth century. These explore the way malaria, sugar cane, war, and nationalism interacted to produce the techno-politics of the modern Egyptian state; the forms of debt, discipline, and violence that founded the institution of private property; the methods of measurement, circulation, and exchange that produced the novel idea of a national “economy,” yet made its accurate representation impossible; the stereotypes and plagiarisms that created the scholarly image of the Egyptian peasant; and the interaction of social logics, horticultural imperatives, powers of desire, and political forces that turned programs of economic reform in unanticipated directions. Mitchell is a widely known political theorist and one of the most innovative writers on the Middle East. He provides a rich examination of the forms of reason, power, and expertise that characterize contemporary politics. Together, these intellectually provocative essays will challenge a broad spectrum of readers to think harder, more critically, and more politically about history, power, and theory. Author Biography: Timothy Mitchell, Professor of Politics at New York University, is the author of Colonising Egypt (California, 1991, with a new preface), and editor of Questions of Modernity (2000). |
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Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity $26.95 Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world? Rule of Experts examines these questions through a series of interrelated essays focused on Egypt in the twentieth century. These explore the way malaria, sugar cane, war, and nationalism interacted to produce the techno-politics of the modern Egyptian state; the forms of debt, discipline, and violence that founded the institution of private property; the methods of measurement, circulation, and exchange that produced the novel idea of a national “economy,” yet made its accurate representation impossible; the stereotypes and plagiarisms that created the scholarly image of the Egyptian peasant; and the interaction of social logics, horticultural imperatives, powers of desire, and political forces that turned programs of economic reform in unanticipated directions. Mitchell is a widely known political theorist and one of the most innovative writers on the Middle East. He provides a rich examination of the forms of reason, power, and expertise that characterize contemporary politics. Together, these intellectually provocative essays will challenge a broad spectrum of readers to think harder, more critically, and more politically about history, power, and theory. Author Biography: Timothy Mitchell, Professor of Politics at New York University, is the author of Colonising Egypt (California, 1991, with a new preface), and editor of Questions of Modernity (2000). |
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Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity $26.95 Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world? Rule of Experts examines these questions through a series of interrelated essays focused on Egypt in the twentieth century. These explore the way malaria, sugar cane, war, and nationalism interacted to produce the techno-politics of the modern Egyptian state; the forms of debt, discipline, and violence that founded the institution of private property; the methods of measurement, circulation, and exchange that produced the novel idea of a national “economy,” yet made its accurate representation impossible; the stereotypes and plagiarisms that created the scholarly image of the Egyptian peasant; and the interaction of social logics, horticultural imperatives, powers of desire, and political forces that turned programs of economic reform in unanticipated directions. Mitchell is a widely known political theorist and one of the most innovative writers on the Middle East. He provides a rich examination of the forms of reason, power, and expertise that characterize contemporary politics. Together, these intellectually provocative essays will challenge a broad spectrum of readers to think harder, more critically, and more politically about history, power, and theory. Author Biography: Timothy Mitchell, Professor of Politics at New York University, is the author of Colonising Egypt (California, 1991, with a new preface), and editor of Questions of Modernity (2000). |
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Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism $16.68 With this book, Richard A. Epstein provides a spirited and systematic defense of classical liberalism against the critiques mounted against it over the past thirty years. One of the most distinguished and provocative legal scholars writing today, Epstein here explains his controversial ideas in what will quickly come to be considered one of his cornerstone works.He begins by laying out his own vision of the key principles of classical liberalism: respect for the autonomy of the individual, a strong system of private property rights, the voluntary exchange of labor and possessions, and prohibitions against force or fraud. Nonetheless, he not only recognizes but insists that state coercion is crucial to safeguarding these principles of private ordering and supplying the social infrastructure on which they depend. Within this framework, Epstein then shows why limited government is much to be preferred over the modern interventionist welfare state.Many of the modern attacks on the classical liberal system seek to undermine the moral, conceptual, cognitive, and psychological foundations on which it rests. Epstein rises to this challenge by carefully rebutting each of these objections in turn. For instance, Epstein demonstrates how our inability to judge the preferences of others means we should respect their liberty of choice regarding their own lives. And he points out the flaws in behavioral economic arguments which, overlooking strong evolutionary pressures, claim that individual preferences are unstable and that people are unable to adopt rational means to achieve their own ends. Freedom, Epstein ultimately shows, depends upon a skepticism that rightly shuns making judgments about what is best for individuals, but that also avoids the relativistic trap that all judgments about our political institutions have equal worth.A brilliant defense of classical liberalism, Skepticism and Freedom will rightly be seen as an intellectual landm |
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Slaves Unchained (Slave Trade Trilogy Series) $5.99 Years ago, Rose Rico learned firsthand that Earth’s government was secretly “exporting” hundreds of human beings into bondage, in exchange for advanced alien technology from the Alphas. Forced to wear the collar of a pleasure slave, Rose and her fellow abductees were condemned to a lifetime of satisfying the Alphas’ carnal lusts. But not even her sadistic “masters” could extinguish Rose’s passion to regain her freedom. Escaping her oppressors and leading a crew of escaped slaves in a hijacked Fleet patrolship, she has returned to Earth, intent on breaking the Alphas’ stranglehold on her world. Her only chance for success lies in overthrowing Earth’s corrupt leaders and publicly exposing their ongoing clandestine pact with the aliens. But to do so, Rose and her renegade crew must first distinguish friend from foe among those closest to them, all while fending off the advances of a reinforced Alpha Fleet, which will accept nothing less than the return of their nubile “property”…and Earth’s total subjugation! SLAVES UNCHAINED IS THE ROUSING CLIMAX TO THE SLAVE TRADE TRILOGY, A SCIENCE-FICTION SAGA OF SLAVERY, SUBMISSIVENESS, AND INSURGENCE! |
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Sports In Rochester, New York $14.13 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: Rochester Knighthawks, Rochester Razorsharks, Rochester Raiders, Rochester Zeniths, Rit Tigers Men’s Ice Hockey, Rochester Rattlers, Frontier Field, Silver Stadium, Main Street Armory, Blue Cross Arena, Wegmans Lpga, Marina Auto Stadium, Rochester Jeffersons, Rochester Tigers, Rochester Lancers, Rochester Ravens, Frank Ritter Memorial Ice Arena, Oak Hill Country Club, Syracuse Braves, Spencerport Swim Team, New York Collegiate Baseball League, Rochester Aardvarks, Rochester Brigade, Empire State Roar, Filarets, Holleder Memorial Stadium, Country Club of Rochester, Sports Centre at Mcc, Rochester Flash, Rochester Colonels, Tour de New York, Culver Field, Monroe County Sting, Xerox Classic, Spikes, Genesee Valley Golf Course, Rochester Royals. Excerpt: The Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial (usually shortened to the Blue Cross Arena ) is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Rochester, New York . It is home to the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League , the Rochester Razorsharks of the Premier Basketball League , and the Rochester Knighthawks of the National Lacrosse League .The arena opened on October 18, 1955, as the Rochester Community War Memorial . It was renovated in the mid-1990s and reopened as The Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial on September 18, 1998. Its maximum seating capacity is 12,428. For hockey and lacrosse, its seating capacity is 11,215.History The arena was built on a downtown site bounded by Exchange Boulevard on the west, East Broad Street on the north, the Genesee River on the east and Court Street on the south. The property was formerly the home of the Kimball Tobacco Co. and other retail buildings. The arena, originally named the Rochester Community War Memorial, opened on October 18, 1955. The building included a full stage on |
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Strategy and Governance of Networks: Cooperatives, Franchising, and Strategic Alliances $189 The book emphasizes research in economics and management of networks as an interdisciplinary field by offering new theoretical perspectives and presenting new empirical results on strategic and governance structure issues in cooperatives, franchising networks, alliances, joint ventures and venture capital relations. The authors apply different theoretical views on networks, such as transaction cost theory, property rights theory, resource- and knowledge-based theory, evolutionary theory, information richness theory and social exchange theory. |
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Strategy and Governance of Networks: Cooperatives, Franchising, and Strategic Alliances $189 The book emphasizes research in economics and management of networks as an interdisciplinary field by offering new theoretical perspectives and presenting new empirical results on strategic and governance structure issues in cooperatives, franchising networks, alliances, joint ventures and venture capital relations. The authors apply different theoretical views on networks, such as transaction cost theory, property rights theory, resource- and knowledge-based theory, evolutionary theory, information richness theory and social exchange theory. |
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The Effect Of Silica Surface Chemistry In Rp-Lc Of Steroid Compounds $66.1 Chromatographic results from four, neutral steroids highlight the repeatable chromatography achieved on Spherisorb ODS1 phase and the non-repeatable chromatography expressed on Spherisorb ODS2 phase, with respect to retention, resolution and analyte selectivity of three keto steroids and ethinyl estradiol, a phenolic steroid. The significant differences between the two phases are that ODS2 contains a higher percent carbon load and ligand coverage, as a result of endcapping. A noteworthy and significant property of the silica component used as substrate, which is known as “type A” silica, contains high levels of metal impurities. It was shown to be inherently variable from batch to batch of the silica gel lot used for the stationary phase material. Experiments were designed to characterize the chelating potential,hydrophobicity, steric selectivity, hydrogen bonding potential and ion-exchange behavior of each phase. This work represents an attempt to determine a solute-to- stationary phase interaction that is the most likely cause for ODS2 phase chromatographic irreproducibility with the four component steroid test solution. |
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The Immaterial $19.95 In The Immaterial, French social philosopher André Gorz (1923–2007) argues, in his finely-tuned and polemical style, that the economic boom that accelerated in the 1990s and crashed so spectacularly in 2008 was based largely on an immaterial consumption of symbols and ideas, as capitalism tried to overcome the crisis of the formally industrial regime by throwing itself into a new, so-called knowledge economy.In this, the last full-length theoretical work Gorz completed before his death, he argues instead for the creation of a true knowledge economy. This economy would be based on zero-cost exchange and pooled resources, and knowledge would be treated as humanity’s common property. Currently, in order to exploit knowledge and turn it into capital, the capitalist enterprise privatizes specialized knowledge and claims ownership through private licenses and copyright. But as Gorz shows, the traditional foundations of such capitalist economics have begun to crumble because of the immaterial nature of this new form of product, which makes it almost impossible to measure in monetary terms. The knowledge economy, Gorz declares, is the crisis of capitalism.Thought-provoking and divisive, The Immaterial is the perfect book for our time, as we begin to reimagine the structures of our economic system in order to rebuild and move forward.“It is to Gorz . . . that readers should turn for a compelling combination of sharp analysis, well-wrought polemic, and suggestions for the future.”—Red Pepper            “A great figure of the intellectual Left.”—Nicolas Sarkozy            “Gorz’s intelligence strikes you at the very first glance: it is one of the nimblest, acutest intelligences I know.”—Jean-Paul Sartre |
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The Moral Rhetoric of Political Economy: Justice and Modern Economic Thought $115 This book examines the effects of the moral rhetoric of the market concept of justice on our understanding of justice. Market theory’s elevation of the role of commutative justice, or justice in exchange and property, is often taken as liberalism’s revolutionary change in priorities of justice in parting from the feudal world. This change has come at the expense of diminishing the role of distributive justice, or justice in what the community owes its members. This diminishment rules out discussion in the public sphere of any questions about our obligations to each other outside the market, relegating such questions instead to the purview of social decorum; so at the very historical moment in which equality of persons becomes the foundational condition for political liberty, the implications of that equality for how we should treat each other cease to be admissible as live political issues – that is, discussable as justice.This shift in elevating commutative justice is traced through the moral rhetoric of praise and blame in the political economy of Adam Smith and Milton Friedman. Their theories of the market serve to implicitly position social and market decorum alongside an explicit commutative framework as the condition for a naturally self-regulating market. Their appeal to decorum is presented as a naturally occurring source of social stability. The book examines how these fundamental features of the economic argument represented by Smith and Friedman appear influentially in moral and political philosophy, among critics as well as supporters of the market system. The consistent problem is the persistent neglect of the genesis of individual identity’s constitution in community, resulting in an overvaluation of individualism and an under-acknowledgement of the significance of belonging. Resolving this problem must necessarily focus on making relational complaints about justice part of public discussion again.This book should be |
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The New York Stock Exchange; A Discussion Of The Business Done $19.99 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:BUSINESS AND SPECULATION “A real distinction exists between speculation which is carried on by persons of means and experience, and based on an intelligent forecast, and that which is carried on by persons without these qualifications. The former is closely connected with regular business.”—- Hughes Committee, 1909. “All business is uncertain—all business is speculation; the term ’speculation,’ however, is commonly restricted to business of exceptional uncertainty. The uninitiated believe that chance is so large a part of speculation that it is subject to no rules, is governed by no laws; this is a serious error.”—Unknown writer. All material wealth is in the form of Kinds of property, and property is of but two Property kinds, real and personal. Houses, lots, farms, and buildings are real property; all other property is personal property— furniture, clothing, jewelry, cash, stocks and bonds are personal property. Stocks and bonds being property, are Securities subject to all laws governing prop- are Property erty, such as purchase and sale, attachment for debt, inheritance, taxation, transfer, and the like. Business is the purchase and sale Business of property, carried on for profit. The buying and selling of real property is known as the real estate business; the buying and selling of personal property is called by the name of whatever the particular kind of property the dealer specializes in, such as the dry goods business, the hardware business, the jewelry business, banking, brokerage, and the like. No form of dealing in personal property is less “legitimate” than any otl er form, if the business is conducted according to law. Speculation is the risking of money Speculation in any legitimate way, in the hope of profit. Speculation is also |
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The Part-Time Real Estate Investor: How to Generate Huge Profits While Keeping Your Day Job $24.95 Fortune Magazine states, 97 out of 100 self-made millionaires made their fortunes through Real Estate Investing, and the next 10 years will be a Golden Era for the informed Real Estate Investor. If you are saying to yourself That sounds great but I can t quit my job and begin investing full time. I ve got bills, kids in school, car payments, and a mortgage to support, you re in luck. This new book is for you! You will learn how to become a skilled professional Real Estate Investor who can generate thousands, and yes, even millions of dollars, in your spare time. Unlike starting a retail business where you need to be there every day, you can work a full-time job and invest in real estate on the side, and reap huge profits. The key is time. The real estate investing business is a perfect part-time business because real estate is a business where the assets appreciate and cash flow is generated even when you are absent. This new book will give you the information and advice necessary to buy, finance, and successfully manage a small number of positive cash flow producing properties in your spare time. Investing in real estate is one of the safest and smartest investments you can make. Real estate appreciates at a rate far greater than the rate of inflation, builds equity, provides a steady return on investment, provides cash flow, and can offer substantial tax benefits. With the sound guidance in this book you will be able to retire comfortably and EARLY! A sampling of what s covered in this encyclopedic book includes: how to find below-market deals, investing with little or no down payment, seller financing, foreclosures and REOs, investment property, negotiating, purchase offers, managing rental property, flipping, auctions, tax sales, financing, mortgage terms, agents, cash flow, inspections, contracts, tenants, lease agreements, insurance, taxes and accounting, escrow, essential mathematical calculations, sample forms, development, taxation, and exchange |
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The Pope’s Children: The Irish Economic Triumph and the Rise of Ireland’s New Elite $24.95 The Pope’s Children is botha celebration and bitingly funny portrait of the first generation of the Celtic Tiger—the beneficiaries of the economic miracle that propelled Ireland from centuries of deprivation into a nation that now enjoys one of the highest living standards in the world.Named for the ironic coincidence of the Irish baby boom of the 1970s, which peaked nine months to the day after Pope John Paul II’s historic visit to Dublin, the Pope’s Children are overflowing with money, ambition and optimism—but they are also the most hedonistic, status-conscious and decadent Irish generation ever. They have abandoned the Old Irish Dream of Catholicism, nationalism and limited expectations in exchange for the New Irish Dream of instant gratification, material possessions and endless possibility.A noted Irish economist, broadcaster and bestselling author, David McWilliams cleverly dissects and describes contemporary Ireland. He tells how “Wonderbra Economics” is raising living standards and pushing the social classes closer together. He describes how prosperity has given rise to two distinct social classes: the Decklanders, so named because of their obsession with backyard decks and rank materialism; and the HiCos, who are trying to fuse their Irish heritage with their newfound cosmopolitan values—sometimes with hilarious results.A brilliant writer, McWilliams blends words into new and unexpected forms. You’ll learn about “the Expectocracy,” “Property Porn,” the “Carrot Juice Contrarians,” “RoboPaddy” and “Speed Bump Moms.” Vividly and powerfully, McWilliams brings contemporary Ireland to life.Witty, intelligent and irreverent, The Pope’s Children tells the real story of Ireland’s amazing economic and social transformation and the special generation that is changing the country forever. |
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The Real Estate Investor’s Handbook: The Complete Guide for the Individual Investor $24.95 The Real Estate Investor’s Handbook is a must-have for beginning investors, real estate veterans, commercial brokers, sellers, and buyers. Real estate investing has created more millionaires than any other investment vehicle in this country. This comprehensive step-by-step proven program shows beginners and seasoned veterans alike the ins and outs of real estate investing. The book is a road map to successful investing in real estate. You do not need to re-invent the wheel, and you won’t have to make all the mistakes others have.Investing in real estate is one of the safest and smartest investments you can make. Real estate appreciates at a rate far greater than the rate of inflation, builds equity, provides a steady return on investment, provides cash flow, and can offer substantial tax benefits. This Handbook is the resource for novices and pros alike; it will guide you through every step of the process of real estate investing. This new exhaustively researched book will arm you with a hundreds of innovative ideas you can put to use right away. This book gives you the proven strategies and actual case studies from experts to help you invest better and wiser with less time and effort.Just a sampling of what’s covered in this encyclopedic book are : How to find  below-market deals, Investing with little or no down payment, seller financing, foreclosures and REOs , investment property, Negotiating, Purchase offers, Managing rental property, Flipping,  auctions, tax sales, financing, mortgage terms, agents, cash flow,  inspections, contracts, tenants, lease agreements, insurance, taxes and accounting,  escrow,  essential mathematical calculations, sample forms, development, Taxation, exchange rules, and  regulations are also discussed. The book is loaded with Case studies and success stories – from real people. You will uncover secrets that expert real estate investors use every day. This comprehensive resource |
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The Regulation of International Trade $192 Drawing on a wide variety of classic and contemporary sources, respected authors Trebilcock and Howse here provide a critical analysis of the institutions and agreements that have shaped international trade rules. In light of the growing debate over globalization, they include special sections examinations of topics such as:* agriculture* services and trade-related intellectual property rights* labor rights* the environment* migration.*competitionDrawing on previous highly praised editions, this comprehensive text is an invaluable guide to students of economics, law, politics and international relations. Now fully updated, this fourth edition includes full coverage of new developments including the Doha trade round, the proliferation of preferential trade agreements, the debate on trade, climate change and green energy, the response of the trading system to the 2007-2010 financial and economic crisis, the controversy over trade and exchange rate manipulation, and the growing body of WTO dispute resolution case law. |
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The Regulation of International Trade $80 Drawing on a wide variety of classic and contemporary sources, respected authors Trebilcock and Howse here provide a critical analysis of the institutions and agreements that have shaped international trade rules. In light of the growing debate over globalization, they include special sections examinations of topics such as:* agriculture* services and trade-related intellectual property rights* labor rights* the environment* migration.*competitionDrawing on previous highly praised editions, this comprehensive text is an invaluable guide to students of economics, law, politics and international relations. Now fully updated, this fourth edition includes full coverage of new developments including the Doha trade round, the proliferation of preferential trade agreements, the debate on trade, climate change and green energy, the response of the trading system to the 2007-2010 financial and economic crisis, the controversy over trade and exchange rate manipulation, and the growing body of WTO dispute resolution case law. |
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The Rhetoric of Intellectual Property: Copyright Law and the Regulation of Digital Culture $39.95 In recent years we have witnessed a rising tension between the open architecture of the Internet and legal restrictions for online activities. The impact of digital recording technologies and distributed file sharing systems has forever changed the expectations of everyday users with regard to digital information. At the same time, however, U.S. Copyright Law has shown a decided trend toward more restrictions over what we are able to do with digital materials. As a result, a gap has emerged between the reality of copyright law and the social reality of our everyday activities. Through an analysis of the competing rhetorical frameworks about copyright regulation in a digital age, this book shows how the stories told by active parties in the debate shape our cultural understanding of what is and is not acceptable in the use of copyrighted works on digital networks. Reyman posits recent legal developments as sites of conflict between competing value systems in our culture: one of control, relying heavily on comparisons of intellectual property to physical property, and emphasizing ownership, theft, and piracy, and the other a value of community, implementing new concepts such as that of an intellectual “commons,” and emphasizing exchange, collaboration, and responsibility to a public good. Reyman argues that the rhetoric of the digital copyright debate, namely the rhetorical positioning of technology as destructive to creative and intellectual production, has profound implications for the future of digital culture. |
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Three Faces of Power $73 Broadly defining power as the ability to get what we want, this volume – new in paper – identifies three major types of power: threat power, which is particularly important in political life; economic power, which derives from the power to produce and exchange goods and depends on the changing distribution of property ownership; and integrative power, which rests on relationships such as love, legitimacy, respect, affection, community and identity. Boulding argues that threat power should not be seen as fundamental since it is not effective unless reinforced by economic and integrative power. |
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Toward a New Rhetoric of Intellectual Property: Copyright Law and the Regulation of Digital Culture $133 In recent years we have witnessed a rising tension between the open architecture of the Internet and legal restrictions for online activities. The impact of digital recording technologies and distributed file sharing systems has forever changed the expectations of everyday users with regard to digital information. At the same time, however, U.S. Copyright Law has shown a decided trend toward more restrictions over what we are able to do with digital materials. As a result, a gap has emerged between the reality of copyright law and the social reality of our everyday activities. Through an analysis of the competing rhetorical frameworks about copyright regulation in a digital age, this book shows how the stories told by active parties in the debate shape our cultural understanding of what is and is not acceptable in the use of copyrighted works on digital networks. Reyman posits recent legal developments as sites of conflict between competing value systems in our culture: one of control, relying heavily on comparisons of intellectual property to physical property, and emphasizing ownership, theft, and piracy, and the other a value of community, implementing new concepts such as that of an intellectual “commons,” and emphasizing exchange, collaboration, and responsibility to a public good. Reyman argues that the rhetoric of the digital copyright debate, namely the rhetorical positioning of technology as destructive to creative and intellectual production, has profound implications for the future of digital culture. |