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An Embarrassment of Riches

Tapping Into the World's Greatest Legacy of Wealth

By: Alexander Green

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An Embarrassment of Riches

Tapping Into the World's Greatest Legacy of Wealth

By: Alexander Green

Tune into the news and you’ll hear stories of war, disease, natural disasters, corruption, violence, poverty, crime, nuclear proliferation, terrorism and political dysfunction in Washington. Polls show many believe the American dream is fading, our children face limited opportunities, and the country is decidedly on the wrong track. Yet this dour perspective – one recycled 24/7 by the national media – is a gross distortion of the world we live in today. As national investment expert and bestselling author Alexander Green reveals in this engrossing and provocative new book, the human race has never had it so good. In the West today, we work shorter hours, have more purchasing power, enjoy goods and services in almost limitless supply, and have more leisure time than ever before. Living standards are the highest they have ever been. The human life span has nearly doubled over the past hundred years. Literacy and education levels – even I.Q.’s – are at all-time highs. Technology and medicine are revolutionizing our lives. All forms of pollution – with the exception of greenhouse gases – are in decline. Access to the arts has never been greater. Crime is in a long-term cycle of decline. And the risk of death by violence has never been smaller for most of humanity. By almost every measure, our lives today are wealthy beyond measure. We are all heir to an embarrassment of riches. Yet – thanks in large part the drumbeat of negative media coverage – most of us don’t realize it. Green compares the average citizen to “a lottery winner whose ticket is lost in some upstairs drawer.” The consequences of adopting the cynical but popular worldview are many, including needless pessimism, missed investment opportunities, and – surprisingly – even poorer health. Yet An Embarrassment of Riches provides a powerful antidote. Green begins with a robust survey of the many ways our lives are becoming longer, easier, safer, healthier and more prosperous. He then embarks on a wide-ranging exploration of the ideas and the many men and women – both living and dead – that are still enriching our lives today. Among the many subjects explored are American exceptionalism, the extraordinary power of economic freedom, the lifesaving role of medicine and technology, the life-extending benefits of optimism, the radical theology of Thomas Jefferson, the keys to civility and greatness, the wisdom of Confucius and Aristotle, the ability of beauty to enrich our lives, and even one artist’s thought-provoking take on “how to defeat death.” In An Embarrassment of Riches, New York Times bestselling author Alexander Green offers a holistic approach to wealth – and offers a welcome perspective that allows us to live fuller, richer lives.

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111864655X

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AARP The Secret of Shelter Island

Money and What Matters

By: Alexander Green

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AARP The Secret of Shelter Island

Money and What Matters

By: Alexander Green

AARP Digital Editions offer you practical tips, proven solutions, and expert guidance. In The Secret of Shelter Island, nationally renowned financial analyst and bestselling author Alexander Green explores the complicated relationship we all have with money and reveals the road map to a rich life. Drawing on some of today's best minds and many of history's greatest thinkers, The Secret of Shelter Island is both a much-needed source of inspiration and an insightful look at the role of both money and values in the pursuit of the good life. Addresses what really matters when it comes to money and how to make smarter decisions with what you have Describes the profound connection between money, character, personal philosophy, and outlook Other bestselling titles by Green: The Gone Fishin' Portfolio If you want to understand what ultimately provides meaning, contentment, and the satisfaction of a life well-lived, then read The Secret of Shelter Island.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118230922

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The Gone Fishin' Portfolio

Get Wise, Get Wealthy...and Get on With Your Life

By: Alexander Green

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The Gone Fishin' Portfolio

Get Wise, Get Wealthy...and Get on With Your Life

By: Alexander Green

Learn how to invest, relax, and let your money do the work with this incredible guide Fully revised, updated, and expanded for the first time since its New York Times Best-Selling debut in 20TK, the legendary Alexander Green's essential guide for individual investors spells out stock-market success for everyone from first-timers to seasoned pros. The Gone Fishin' Portfolio: Get Wise, Get Wealthy…and Get on With Your Life, Second Edition delivers a long-term investment strategy that lets you reap the rewards of financial success with a simple, yet sophisticated, strategy that increases returns, reduces risk, and leaves you with time to enjoy the finer things in life. You'll learn about the fundamental relationship between risk and reward in the financial markets and get a trading insider's view of how the investment industry actually works. With The Gone Fishin' Portfolio, you'll also discover: How to take your financial future into your own hands How to invest in a way that doesn’t require you to spend every waking moment worrying about your money How to avoid the most common traps the investment industry sets for you Why skilled investing doesn't have to be complicated Perfect for individual investors who want to put their money to work for them, The Gone Fishin' Portfolio gives you all the tools you need to manage your own money and maximize your investment returns today.

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1119795044

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Green's Kernels and Meso-Scale Approximations in Perforated Domains

By: Vladimir Maz'ya,Alexander Movchan,Michael Nieves

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Green's Kernels and Meso-Scale Approximations in Perforated Domains

By: Vladimir Maz'ya,Alexander Movchan,Michael Nieves

There are a wide range of applications in physics and structural mechanics involving domains with singular perturbations of the boundary. Examples include perforated domains and bodies with defects of different types. The accurate direct numerical treatment of such problems remains a challenge. Asymptotic approximations offer an alternative, efficient solution. Green’s function is considered here as the main object of study rather than a tool for generating solutions of specific boundary value problems. The uniformity of the asymptotic approximations is the principal point of attention. We also show substantial links between Green’s functions and solutions of boundary value problems for meso-scale structures. Such systems involve a large number of small inclusions, so that a small parameter, the relative size of an inclusion, may compete with a large parameter, represented as an overall number of inclusions. The main focus of the present text is on two topics: (a) asymptotics of Green’s kernels in domains with singularly perturbed boundaries and (b) meso-scale asymptotic approximations of physical fields in non-periodic domains with many inclusions. The novel feature of these asymptotic approximations is their uniformity with respect to the independent variables. This book addresses the needs of mathematicians, physicists and engineers, as well as research students interested in asymptotic analysis and numerical computations for solutions to partial differential equations.

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Springer

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3319003577

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Landmarks in Mapping

50 Years of the Cartographic Journal

By: Alexander Kent

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Landmarks in Mapping

50 Years of the Cartographic Journal

By: Alexander Kent

Founded by the British Cartographic Society (BCS) and first published in June 1964, The Cartographic Journal was the first general distribution English language journal in cartography. This volume of classic papers and accompanying invited reflections brings together some of the key papers to celebrate 50 years of publication. It is a celebration of The Cartographic Journal and of the work that scholars, cartographers and map-makers have published which have made it the foremost international journal of cartography. The intention here is to bring a flavor of the breadth of the journal in one volume spanning the history to date. As a reference work it highlights some of the very best work and, perhaps, allows readers to discover or re-discover a paper from the annals. As we constantly strive for new work and new insights we mustn't ignore the vast repository of material that has gone before. It is this that has shaped cartography as it exists today and as new research contributes to the discipline, which will continue to do so.

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Routledge

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1351191225

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The Scotish Gaël

Vol. II

By: Alexander Stewart,James Logan

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The Scotish Gaël

Vol. II

By: Alexander Stewart,James Logan

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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3385519500

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Entries and Exits

Visits to Sixteen Trading Rooms

By: Alexander Elder

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Entries and Exits

Visits to Sixteen Trading Rooms

By: Alexander Elder

Come behind closed doors and see real trades made by real traders. Dr. Alexander Elder leads you into 16 trading rooms where you meet traders who open up their diaries and show you their trades. Some of them manage money, others trade for themselves; some trade for a living, others are on the semi-professional level. All are totally serious and honest in sharing their trades with those who would like to learn. You will meet American and international traders who trade stocks, futures, and options using a variety of methods. All are normally very private, but now, thanks to their relationships with Dr. Elder, you can see exactly how these traders decide to enter and exit trades. Each chapter illustrates an entry and an exit for two trades, with comments by Dr. Elder. With this book as your guide, you can get closer to mastering the key themes of trading—psychology, tactics, risk control, record keeping, and the decision-making process. The companion Study Guide is filled with striking insights and practical advice allowing you to test your knowledge and reinforce the principles outlined in Entries & Exits.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471678058

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VW Transporter and Microbus Specification Guide 1967-1979

By: Vincent Molenaar,Alexander Prinz

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VW Transporter and Microbus Specification Guide 1967-1979

By: Vincent Molenaar,Alexander Prinz

This comprehensive guide is the first one to tell the whole story of the Volkswagen Bay-Window Transporter, produced from 1967 - 1979. This new paperback edition deals with the Transporter's development, its technical evolution, the model codes, the specification detail changes, the factory fitted M-codes and Transporter export.Using this book, Bus enthusiasts can crack the codes of their own specific vehicle, to find out the factory-fitted specifications like paint and trim colours, engine and transmission types, and even the date of manufacture, model and destination code.The first guide to tell the whole story of the VW Bay-Window Transporter. The photographs took over three years to collect from Volkswagen archives resulting in an invaluable source of crucial information for restoration. Superbly illustrated with 470 colour photographs. Vincent Molenaar and Alexander Prinz are keen experts on Bay-Window buses.

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Crowood

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1847975453

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Constraint-Based Design Recovery for Software Reengineering

Theory and Experiments

By: Steven G. Woods,Alexander E. Quilici,Qiang Yang

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Constraint-Based Design Recovery for Software Reengineering

Theory and Experiments

By: Steven G. Woods,Alexander E. Quilici,Qiang Yang

The great challenge of reverse engineering is recovering design information from legacy code: the concept recovery problem. This monograph describes our research effort in attacking this problem. It discusses our theory of how a constraint-based approach to program plan recognition can efficiently extract design concepts from source code, and it details experiments in concept recovery that support our claims of scalability. Importantly, we present our models and experiments in sufficient detail so that they can be easily replicated. This book is intended for researchers or software developers concerned with reverse engineering or reengineering legacy systems. However, it may also interest those researchers who are interested using plan recognition techniques or constraint-based reasoning. We expect the reader to have a reasonable computer science background (i.e., familiarity with the basics of programming and algorithm analysis), but we do not require familiarity with the fields of reverse engineering or artificial intelligence (AI). To this end, we carefully explain all the AI techniques we use. This book is designed as a reference for advanced undergraduate or graduate seminar courses in software engineering, reverse engineering, or reengineering. It can also serve as a supplementary textbook for software engineering-related courses, such as those on program understanding or design recovery, for AI-related courses, such as those on plan recognition or constraint satisfaction, and for courses that cover both topics, such as those on AI applications to software engineering. ORGANIZATION The book comprises eight chapters.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461554616

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Ghost Riders of Upper Egypt

A Study of Spirit Possession

By: Hans Alexander Winkler

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Ghost Riders of Upper Egypt

A Study of Spirit Possession

By: Hans Alexander Winkler

In 1933 the German anthropologist Hans Alexander Winkler came across a 'spirit medium' named 'Abd al-Radi in a village near Luxor in Upper Egypt. 'Abd al-Radi was periodically possessed by the ghost of his uncle, and in that state passed messages to those who came to seek help. In an intense study, Winkler lays out the construction of the world shared by the rural people, with its saints and pilgrims, snake charmers and wandering holy men, all under the overarching power of God. Winkler's book was ahead of its time in analyzing a single institution in its social context, and in showing the debates and disagreements about the meaning of such strange events. "This multilayered study from the 1930s was precocious in its method and conclusions, and thus it retains its relevance today not only for Egyptian folklore but also for the history of anthropology in Egypt." from the Introduction by Nicholas S. Hopkins

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American Univ in Cairo Press

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9774162501

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9789774162503

The Papers of Alexander Hamilton

Additional Letters 1777-1802 Addenda and Errata Cumulative Index

By: Alexander Hamilton,Harold Coffin Syrett,Jacob Ernest Cooke

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The Papers of Alexander Hamilton

Additional Letters 1777-1802 Addenda and Errata Cumulative Index

By: Alexander Hamilton,Harold Coffin Syrett,Jacob Ernest Cooke

Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future. Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances. From a consideration of the effect of stimulants, such as caffeine and nicotine, and the reasons and consequences of their sudden popularity in the seventeenth century, the book moves to a discussion of more modern stimulants, such as cocaine and ecstasy. In addition, Regan explains how we process memory, the nature of thought disorders, and therapies for treating depression and schizophrenia. Regan then considers psychedelic drugs and their perceived mystical properties and traces the history of placebos to ancient civilizations. Finally, Intoxicating Minds considers the physical consequences of our co-evolution with drugs -- how they have altered our very being -- and offers a glimpse of the brave new world of drug therapies.

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714

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Columbia University Press

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0231089260

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9780231089265

Light Scattering Reviews 4

Single Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer

By: Alexander A. Kokhanovsky

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Light Scattering Reviews 4

Single Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer

By: Alexander A. Kokhanovsky

This fourth volume of Light Scattering Reviews is composed of three parts. The ?rstpartisconcernedwiththeoreticalandexperimentalstudiesofsinglelightsc- tering by small nonspherical particles. Light scattering by small particles such as, for instance, droplets in the terrestrial clouds is a well understood area of physical optics. On the other hand, exact theoretical calculations of light scattering p- terns for most of nonspherical and irregularly shaped particles can be performed only for the restricted values of the size parameter, which is proportional to the ratio of the characteristic size of the particle to the wavelength?. For the large nonspherical particles, approximations are used (e. g. , ray optics). The exact th- retical techniques such as the T-matrix method cannot be used for extremely large particles, such as those in ice clouds, because then the size parameter in the v- iblex=2?a/???,wherea is the characteristic size (radius for spheres), and the associated numerical codes become unstable and produce wrong answers. Yet another problem is due to the fact that particles in many turbid media (e. g. , dust clouds) cannot be characterized by a single shape. Often, refractive indices also vary. Because of problems with theoretical calculations, experimental (i. e. , la- ratory) investigations are important for the characterization and understanding of the optical properties of such types of particles. The ?rst paper in this volume, written by B. Gustafson, is aimed at the descr- tionofscaledanalogueexperimentsinelectromagneticscattering.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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354074276X

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9783540742760

HPHT-Treated Diamonds

Diamonds Forever

By: Inga A. Dobrinets,Victor. G. Vins,Alexander M. Zaitsev

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HPHT-Treated Diamonds

Diamonds Forever

By: Inga A. Dobrinets,Victor. G. Vins,Alexander M. Zaitsev

High-temperature and high-pressure treatment of diamond is becoming an important technology to elaborate diamonds. This is the first book providing a comprehensive review of the properties of HPHT-treated diamonds, based on the analysis of published data and the work of the authors. The book gives a detailed analysis of the physics of transformation of internal structures of diamonds subjected to HPHT treatment and discusses how these transformations can be detected using methods of optical microscopy and spectroscopy. It also gives practical recommendations for the recognition of HPHT-treated diamonds. The book is written in a language and terms which can be understood by a broad audience of physicists, mineralogists and gemologists.

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3642374905

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The Kondo Problem to Heavy Fermions

By: Alexander Cyril Hewson

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The Kondo Problem to Heavy Fermions

By: Alexander Cyril Hewson

The behaviour of magnetic impurities in metals has posed problems to challenge the condensed matter theorist over the past 30 years. This book deals with the concepts and techniques which have been developed to meet this challenge, and with their application to the interpretation of experiments. This book will be of interest to condensed matter physicists, particularly those interested in strong correlation problems. The detailed discussions of advanced many-body techniques should make it of interest to theoretical physicists in general.

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476

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Cambridge University Press

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0521599474

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9780521599474

Quantum Theory of Many-particle Systems

By: Alexander L. Fetter,John Dirk Walecka

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Quantum Theory of Many-particle Systems

By: Alexander L. Fetter,John Dirk Walecka

This self-contained treatment of nonrelativistic many-particle systems discusses both formalism and applications in terms of ground-state (zero-temperature) formalism, finite-temperature formalism, canonical transformations, and applications to physical systems. 149 figures. 8 tables. 1971 edition.

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644

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Courier Corporation

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0486428273

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9780486428277

Condensed Matter Field Theory

By: Alexander Altland,Ben Simons

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Condensed Matter Field Theory

By: Alexander Altland,Ben Simons

Primer, including problems and solutions, for graduate level courses on theoretical quantum condensed matter physics.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521845084

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Book's by Alexander Green

An Embarrassment of Riches

An Embarrassment of Riches

AARP The Secret of Shelter Island

AARP The Secret of Shelter Island

The Gone Fishin' Portfolio

The Gone Fishin' Portfolio

Green's Kernels and Meso-Scale Approximations in Perforated Domains

Green's Kernels and Meso-Scale Approximations in Perforated Domains

Landmarks in Mapping

Landmarks in Mapping

The Scotish Gaël

The Scotish Gaël

Entries and Exits

Entries and Exits

VW Transporter and Microbus Specification Guide 1967-1979

VW Transporter and Microbus Specification Guide 1967-1979

Constraint-Based Design Recovery for Software Reengineering

Constraint-Based Design Recovery for Software Reengineering

Ghost Riders of Upper Egypt

Ghost Riders of Upper Egypt

The Papers of Alexander Hamilton

The Papers of Alexander Hamilton

Light Scattering Reviews 4

Light Scattering Reviews 4

HPHT-Treated Diamonds

HPHT-Treated Diamonds

The Kondo Problem to Heavy Fermions

The Kondo Problem to Heavy Fermions

Quantum Theory of Many-particle Systems

Quantum Theory of Many-particle Systems

Condensed Matter Field Theory

Condensed Matter Field Theory

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