Perhaps no other city has been spoken of as often or as passionately as Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Book of Quotations brings together the kaleidoscopic impressions and perspectives of a representative group of those who have responded to the wonder of the Holy City from the biblical period to the present: Jews, Christians, and Muslims; pilgrims as well as skeptics, travelers, conquerors, scholars, and statesmen. The work gives expression to the discordant notes of contrasting perspectives about the meaning of Jerusalem. At the same time, it reflects the city s unique distinction as the embodiment of mankind s highest ethical and spiritual aspirations.
A comprehensive collection of effective litigation reports on a variety of subjects Accounting, financial, appraisal, and economic experts called upon to provide expert testimony in legal proceedings need reliable models for the critical documents they will submit to the court. Litigation Support Report Writing collects eighteen exemplary reports from a variety of financial topics, providing professionals a comprehensive resource on this vital function. Order your copy today.
Need to know real estate jargon? This quick-reference guide can help. Home buyers and sellers, as well as real estate professionals, investors, and attorneys can rely on this quick-reference source. More than 3,000 terms and definitions cover topics that include appraisal, architectural styles, brokerage, construction, development, environmental finance, mortgage types, zoning regulations, and much more. Includes graphs, charts, and line art.
Barron’s Dictionary of Real Estate Terms includes more than 3,000 terms and definitions to help you feel comfortable using modern real estate language. This quick reference guide for home buyers and sellers, real estate professionals, business students, investors, or attorneys includes: Definitions for real estate topics A-Z, including: appraisal, architecture, brokerage, construction, debenture, flood plain, negative, amortization, security instrument, subprime loan, underlying mortgage, zoning, and more More than 200 line illustrations graphs, charts, tables A list of common abbreviations and mathematical formulas Mortgage payment table and measurement tables for quick reference
As the largest outdoor living history complex in the Northeast, Old Sturbridge Village has fostered the feel, and the flavors, of America’s past for more than half a century. This third edition of the cherished The Old Sturbridge Village Cookbook—unique in presenting not only authentic mouthwatering recipes from the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but also adaptations for cooking in modern kitchens—has been revised and updated with new information on early American foodways and tested, successful recipes for fireplace cooking. Learn how to preserve apples for year-round use, how salt-preserved meats were freshened, how Election Cake got its name, and how to select the best fish for dinner. With a range of delicious recipes from roasts and fricassees to pies and puddings, and with a beautiful, user-friendly new design, The Old Sturbridge Village Cookbook will be treasured by history buffs, cookbook collectors, and all food lovers with an interest in re-creating the best of early American cuisine.
Communication and Implementation Communication and Implementation is the sixth of six books in the Measurement and Evaluation Series from Pfeiffer. The proven ROI Methodology--developed by the ROI Institute--provides a practical system for evaluation planning, data collection, data analysis, and reporting. All six books in the series offer the latest tools, most current research, and practical advice for measuring ROI in a variety of settings. Communication and Implementation explores two important topics that are vital to the ROI Methodology--reporting results and sustaining the process. The authors show how to report results that will ensure that the audience has the information needed so that the improvement processes will be implemented successfully. The book explores the range of reporting methods, including face-to-face meetings, brief reports, one-page summaries, routine communication, mass-audience techniques, and electronic communications. The authors offer suggestions for determining the best methods to employ. In addition, Communication and Implementation contains information on how to keep the ROI process going for the long haul and how to make it a valued process for any organization.
Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare, views on the evolution of U.S. intelligence, and studies on the delicate balance between the need for information-gathering and the values of democratic societies. It also includes succinct discussions of complex issues facing the Intelligence Community, such as the challenges of technical and clandestine collection, the proliferation of open sources, the problems of deception and denial operations, and the interaction between the Intelligence Community and the military. Several timely chapters examine the role of the intelligence analyst in support of the national security policymaker. Rounding out the volume are appendices on the legislative underpinnings of our national intelligence apparatus.
Small in size but packed with detailed information, Barron's Business Dictionaries are extremely useful and economical reference sources for business students, business managers, and general readers seeking advice and information on specific business subjects. Each pocket-size book defines thousands of authoritative yet specialized terms within its subject area and features an abundance of diagrams, charts, and line art. These are must-haves for students and professionals alike. This revised and expanded dictionary defines approximately 8,000 terms relating to accounting, taxation, advertising, business law, communications, transportation, computers and the Internet, insurance, international business, management, marketing, real estate, and statistics. This brand-new edition has been expanded to include more than 150 new terms specifically relating to finance and economics.
Revised and updated with rates that reflect today’s real estate mortgage market, this pocket-size handbook presents quick-reference number charts that eliminate the need for calculation. As such, its tables are time-savers for business students, loan officers, and buyers seeking an adjustable rate mortgage. The tables are as follows: Monthly Payments, Payment Adjustments Resulting from Interest Rate Adjustments, Borrower’s Worst Case Annual Percentage Rates, Borrowers Worst Case Monthly Payments, Annual Percentage Rates for First Year, Value of Below-Market Initial Rate, Annual Loan Balance Reduction, and Worst Case Annual Percentage Rate for Convertible Adjustable Rate Mortgages.
Updated to reflect the current real estate market, this book presents an informed view of the advantages and potential pitfalls connected with buying foreclosed and bargain properties.
The authors give detailed advice on buying, selling, and operating residential rental and commercial real estate to achieve cash flow, income, tax shelter, and appreciation value. Leasing information and exercising leverage through borrowing are included. Titles in the popular" Business Keys" series are written for non-professionals. They take the mystery out of finance and investment, and offer advice on money management to ordinary consumers. Using non-technical language, these books offer up-to-date information on a wide range of money matters." Business Keys" titles are regularly updated to reflect the most current market conditions and business innovations
All of the financial safety nets that this country has woven now have become part of the problem, not the solution. Today, the safety net that was created over the last forty years reaches up & helps unbalance the very system that it was designed to support, destabilizing instead of stabilizing the economy. Whether those financial dominoes will start to fall - & when - is hard to predict, but their very existence should make us thoughtfully reflect how we would manage our finances & our personal affairs during hard economic times. That is the unique value of this book. There are better analyses of America's economic plight, but this book helps readers think through how they can survive a depression, both financially & emotionally. It is a very humane & caring book, anticipating not only the financial shocks but also the psychological & social shocks. The author dedicates the book "to the strength & love within us all," & that is what he forces us to explore. Friedman tells us how to put our financial house in the best order possible, & how to put our lifestyles in order. How do we make the "inner preparation" that would be necessary to withstand an economic shock? How do we prepare our family? This book answers not only questions we have - but ones we have never thought of.
Do you want to unlock your potential, turn your life around, remove mental blocks to success and be the success you were meant to be? If your answer is yes to any of these, you need to read this book! Those who choose to travel the road to success must also travel the road of continuing education. Success is about being prepared. Every time you read a book that contains the experience of successful people, you are advancing on your road to success whatever that word means to you. The authors in this book will help you expand your horizons and gain a whole new perspective on how to achieve success. You owe it to yourself to learn what the successful people in this book know. There's no time like the present. A rewarding experience awaits you.
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