If you want to learn more about the sharemarket but you're baffled by the rules and jargon — not to mention the price fluctuations — this is the book for you. Teach Yourself About Shares is the most comprehensive share-investing book on the market. This revised edition of Roger Kinsky's bestseller is a user-friendly guide that will have you maximising your profitability on the sharemarket in no time. Inside you'll discover: what the different types of shares are, and how to buy and sell them the positives of share investing and the traps for the unwary how to judge the market and trade the right shares at the right time how to set up and manage your share portfolio why share prices fluctuate, and how to use this knowledge to your advantage how to tailor your trading strategy to your lifestyle and investment capital how to minimise your share-investing risks. Each chapter concludes with practical learning exercises with solutions, enabling you to consolidate your knowledge so you can move on to the next step with confidence. Whether you are just starting out in shares or you're an experienced trader, this book contains everything you need to know to allow you to maximise your profits in the Australian market.
Are you thinking of joining the thousands of Australians profiting from our stock market, but intimidated by the jargon and unsure of where to start? Let Australia's foremost share-investing educator guide you through the simplest ways to make money from shares -- and how to ensure you protect your hard-earned dollars in the process! Shares Made Simple is the essential ground-up investing guide for stock market beginners. Unlike most sharemarket guides, this book explains in simple language all the relevant stock market terms and definitions; includes practical, uncomplicated tips after each succinct section to ensure readers have grasped concepts clearly; and then provides straightforward strategies for profiting on the market -- no expensive financial advisor required! Kinsky covers everything you'll need to get started and get ahead: buying and selling shares, building a portfolio, managing risk, dealing with dividends and how to pick the best stocks.
A straightforward guide that answers investors questions and helps them develop their own charting system The fifth book in the Wrightbooks "Made Simple" series, this book gives investors the answers they need to understand and use charting without the expense of a proprietary program. It explains such commonly used charting tools as the moving average indicator and Bollinger brands and shows readers how to combine tools and techniques into a coherent charting system that works for them.
Have you been searching for a share investing book that enables you to learn at your own pace? Whether you're new to investing or ready to take your portfolio to the next level, Teach Yourself About Shares explains everything you need to know about investing in the Australian sharemarket. Best-selling author Roger Kinsky offers step-by-step guidance on everything from investing basics and share pricing to using market indices, managing risks and improving performance. This fully-updated third edition provides even more worked examples, learning exercises and real-world trading strategies to help you profit from capital gains and dividends, use fundamental and technical analysis, monitor your investments and much more. This is your blueprint for success in the ever-changing financial sharemarket. Learn how to: build and self-manage your share portfolio assess the market to make the best trades at the best times minimise your investing risks and maximise profits build a trading strategy that fits your lifestyle and capital avoid common risks that new investors often take. Exceptionally comprehensive and highly accessible, Teach Yourself About Shares is required reading for anyone wanting to achieve superior results on the Australian sharemarket.
How to trade and invest online, from bestselling investing author Roger Kinsky With the wide availability of market data and the low cost of online trading, millions of people are taking control of their own future and investing their savings online. The Internet allows small investors to manage their portfolios, set up their own superannuation funds, and research and trade shares all from the comfort of a home office. But there are always risks to investing and without the knowledge of a traditional stockbroker or investment manager to help them steer clear of bad deals, investors need guidance to successfully navigate the abundance of information available to them. This new Fourth Edition of Online Investing on the Australian Sharemarket is a complete and comprehensive guide to researching stocks and trading shares, demystifying the complexities and explaining confusing investment jargon along the way. You'll discover how to find the best online broker, setup your account, place orders, analyse the market, and monitor and improve your portfolio's performance. The ideal guide for beginner and intermediate level investors who want to learn to invest wisely and profitably Written by an active trader and bestselling author of Teach Yourself About Shares, Shares Made Simple, and Charting Made Simple Covers all the basics of online investing, including how to set up an account, research shares, and make profitable trades Updated to include all the latest information setting up a self-managed superannuation fund, forex trading, and mobile technologies For Australians who want to take control of their investment portfolios, Online Investing on the Australian Sharemarket is the perfect beginner's guide.
The complete guide to trading and researching the Australian sharemarket online, fully revised and updated It has never been easier to use the internet to trade and invest in the Australian sharemarket. Thanks to the wide availability of online brokers and financial websites, online market data, low cost broadband and trading sites and user-friendly digital platforms, a growing number of Australians are taking more direct control of their investments and wealth management. Online Investing on the Australian Sharemarket is a comprehensive guide to researching and trading shares and other securities online in Australia. This popular book offers step-by-step guidance on choosing an online broker, accessing and making best use of online share investing resources, planning trades, identifying profit-making opportunities, timing of and placing online orders, managing investment risks, and much more. Bestselling author and successful trader Roger Kinsky provides a step-by-step process for harnessing the power of the internet to make informed and profitable trading and investment decisions. Now in its fifth edition, this time-proven resource features extensively revised content and up to date information throughout. Featuring real-world advice and practical tips drawn from the author’s decades of online share investing experience, this valuable guide will: explain the basic concepts, terminology, and advantages of online investing and share trading explore how to avoid the potential pitfalls and common mistakes that might otherwise occur examine the different types of financial websites, data, information, tools, and other resources available online provide guidance on fundamental and technical analysis, online charting and indices, and strategic risk management Offering authoritative information and proven trading strategies, Online Investing on the Australian Sharemarket, Fifth Edition is essential reading both for those new to the market and more experienced investors alike.
Your no-nonsense guide to trading shares and succeeding on the share market Starting your share investing journey is easier than you might think. You don’t need a heap of capital, just a few basic rules and strategies. In Starting With Shares you’ll take your first steps toward building a profitable, sustainable portfolio. Written for beginners and packed with informative illustrations, straightforward tips and proven techniques, this essential guide will help you to become an effective and financially successful share investor. From Roger Kinsky, Australia's foremost share-investing educator and the best-selling author of Teach Yourself About Shares and Online Investing on the Australian Sharemarket, this guidebook will show you the simplest ways to make money from shares and protect your hard-earned dollars in the process! Unlike most sharemarket guides, this book explains in simple language all the stock market terms and definitions you need to know, with uncomplicated tips and straightforward strategies for earning returns. Learn how to get started and get ahead, buy and sell shares, build a portfolio, manage risk, deal with dividends and choose the best shares. Intimidated by jargon and unsure about where to start? Starting With Shares is a unique book that is shorter, simpler and more visual than other trading and investing resources, making it an excellent choice for you if you have little or no prior sharemarket knowledge. Learn to buy and sell shares from the best-selling author of Teach Yourself About Shares Start investing right away, even if you are an absolute novice with no knowledge of the markets Appreciate the simple, accessible explanations and informative illustrations of share investing basics Discover uncomplicated strategies that you can use for long-term investing success In Starting With Shares, you’ll not only learn how to start your share investing journey, but you’ll discover how to maximise your profitability into the future.
This renowned, comprehensive text is an introduction to applied engineering mechanics and strength of materials. The theory is supported by a wealth of detailed illustrations and diagrams to give students a complete understanding. This text includes many worked problems, end-of-chapter problems and exercises, and illustrations for both text and problems.
Thermodynamics: Advanced Applications is print only. Thermodynamics: Advanced Applicationsis designed to cover a second coursein thermodynamics. It extends the basicthermodynamic knowledge obtained in thecompanion text Thermodynamics and FluidMechanics: An Introduction.
Are you thinking of joining the thousands of Australians profiting from our stock market, but intimidated by the jargon and unsure of where to start? Let Australia's foremost share-investing educator guide you through the simplest ways to make money from shares -- and how to ensure you protect your hard-earned dollars in the process! Shares Made Simple is the essential ground-up investing guide for stock market beginners. Unlike most sharemarket guides, this book explains in simple language all the relevant stock market terms and definitions; includes practical, uncomplicated tips after each succinct section to ensure readers have grasped concepts clearly; and then provides straightforward strategies for profiting on the market -- no expensive financial advisor required! Kinsky covers everything you'll need to get started and get ahead: buying and selling shares, building a portfolio, managing risk, dealing with dividends and how to pick the best stocks.
The Pulitzer Prize–winning film critics offers up more reviews of horrible films. Roger Ebert awards at least two out of four stars to most of the more than 150 movies he reviews each year. But when the noted film critic does pan a movie, the result is a humorous, scathing critique far more entertaining than the movie itself. I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie is a collection of more than 200 of Ebert’s most biting and entertaining reviews of films receiving a mere star or less from the only film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize. Ebert has no patience for these atrocious movies and minces no words in skewering the offenders. Witness: Armageddon * (1998)—The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense, and the human desire to be entertained. No matter what they’re charging to get in, it’s worth more to get out. The Beverly Hillbillies * (1993)—Imagine the dumbest half-hour sitcom you’ve ever seen, spin it out to ninety-three minutes by making it even more thin and shallow, and you have this movie. It’s appalling. North no stars (1994)—I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it. Police Academy no stars (1984)—It’s so bad, maybe you should pool your money and draw straws and send one of the guys off to rent it so that in the future, whenever you think you’re sitting through a bad comedy, he could shake his head, chuckle tolerantly, and explain that you don't know what bad is. Dear God * (1996)—Dear God is the kind of movie where you walk out repeating the title, but not with a smile. The movies reviewed within I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie are motion pictures you’ll want to distance yourself from, but Roger Ebert’s creative and comical musings on those films make for a book no movie fan should miss.
The complete guide to trading and researching the Australian sharemarket online, fully revised and updated It has never been easier to use the internet to trade and invest in the Australian sharemarket. Thanks to the wide availability of online brokers and financial websites, online market data, low cost broadband and trading sites and user-friendly digital platforms, a growing number of Australians are taking more direct control of their investments and wealth management. Online Investing on the Australian Sharemarket is a comprehensive guide to researching and trading shares and other securities online in Australia. This popular book offers step-by-step guidance on choosing an online broker, accessing and making best use of online share investing resources, planning trades, identifying profit-making opportunities, timing of and placing online orders, managing investment risks, and much more. Bestselling author and successful trader Roger Kinsky provides a step-by-step process for harnessing the power of the internet to make informed and profitable trading and investment decisions. Now in its fifth edition, this time-proven resource features extensively revised content and up to date information throughout. Featuring real-world advice and practical tips drawn from the author’s decades of online share investing experience, this valuable guide will: explain the basic concepts, terminology, and advantages of online investing and share trading explore how to avoid the potential pitfalls and common mistakes that might otherwise occur examine the different types of financial websites, data, information, tools, and other resources available online provide guidance on fundamental and technical analysis, online charting and indices, and strategic risk management Offering authoritative information and proven trading strategies, Online Investing on the Australian Sharemarket, Fifth Edition is essential reading both for those new to the market and more experienced investors alike.
A revised edition of the Notting Hill Editions essay collection by the late Sir Roger Scruton with a new introduction by Douglas Murray. Confessions of a Heretic is a collection of provocative essays by the influential social commentator and polemicist Roger Scruton. Each “confession” reveals aspects of the author’s thinking that his critics would probably have advised him to keep to himself. In this selection, covering subjects from art and architecture to politics and nature conservation, Scruton challenges popular opinion on key aspects of our culture: What can we do to protect Western values against Islamist extremism? How can we nurture real friendship through social media? Why is the nation-state worth preserving? How should we achieve a timely death against the advances of modern medicine? This provocative collection seeks to answer the most pressing problems of our age. In his introduction, the bestselling author and commentator Douglas Murray writes of what it cost Scruton to express views considered unpalatable, and of the importance of these ideas after Scruton’s death.
Ebert's 2001 version of the movie-lover's bible is guaranteed to please both those who have come to rely on his reviews and those just discovering him as not only a respected critic but a gifted and entertaining writer. Includes every review he wrote between January 1998 and mid-June 2000, about 650 in all.
When America wants to know movies, it turns to Roger Ebert, the only film critic to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for criticism.Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2002 presents all of Ebert's reviews from January 1999 to mid-June 2001. This annual volume-required reading for film fans-also contains all of his interviews and essays for the year, the biweekly "Questions for the Movie Answer Man," his daily notebooks from major film festivals, plus a list of all movies and star ratings ever appearing in an edition of this annual collection.
This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with its inexorable rise. As poet, translator, critic and oriental scholar, Schlegel's extraordinarily diverse interests and writings left a vast intellectual legacy, making him a foundational figure in several branches of knowledge. He was one of the last thinkers in Europe able to practise as well as to theorise, and to attempt to comprehend the nature of culture without being forced to be a narrow specialist. With his brother Friedrich, for example, Schlegel edited the avant-garde Romantic periodical Athenaeum; and he produced with his wife Caroline a translation of Shakespeare, the first metrical version into any foreign language. Schlegel's Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature were a defining force for Coleridge and for the French Romantics. But his interests extended to French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literature, as well to the Greek and Latin classics, and to Sanskrit. August Wilhelm Schlegel is the first attempt to engage with this totality, to combine an account of Schlegel’s life and times with a critical evaluation of his work and its influence. Through the study of one man's rich life, incorporating the most recent scholarship, theoretical approaches, and archival resources, while remaining easily accessible to all readers, Paulin has recovered the intellectual climate of Romanticism in Germany and traced its development into a still-potent international movement. The extraordinarily wide scope and variety of Schlegel's activities have hitherto acted as a barrier to literary scholars, even in Germany. In Roger Paulin, whose career has given him the knowledge and the experience to grapple with such an ambitious project, Schlegel has at last found a worthy exponent.
This book provides the first thorough examination of the peace movement in pre-World War I Germany, concentrating on the factors in German politics and society that account for the movement's weakness. The author draws on a wide range of documents to survey the history, organization, and ideologies of the peace groups, placing them in their social and political context. Working through schools, churches, the press, political parties, and other opinion-forming groups, the German peace movement attempted systematically to promote the idea that the world's nations composed a harmonious community in which law was the proper means for resolving disputes. Except for small pockets of support, however, the movement met only resistance—resistance greater, the author contends, than elsewhere in the West. Evaluating the reasons for hostility to the peace movement in Germany, he concludes that dominant features of German political culture emphasized the inevitability of international conflict, in the final analysis because Imperial Germany's ruling elites feared the domestic as well as the international implications of the movement's program. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Biographical profiles of the current head of state and head of government, and other recent incumbents of these positions who remain significant and active political leaders.
In a series of interrelated essays, this book describes the British Library and the issues surrounding its design, construction, purpose and place in the architectural canon. Examining the experience of the building together with its form, these essays explore the ideas and aspirations behind its conception and its construction, offering insight into this striking, controversial, and stimulating building. For artists, architects and building professionals interested in the current debates concerning architecture and our culture, The Architecture of the British Library at St. Pancras is a stimulating read.
Opera recordings have been with us since the creation of the first wax cylinders. Now at a time when the 25-year reign of the compact disc appears to be coming to an end is the moment to take stock of the history of recordings of arguably the most popular composer of operas, Giacomo Puccini. In Giacomo Puccini: A Discography, librarian and music historian Roger Flury looks at each opera chronologically from Le Villi to Turandot, followed by sections on Puccini's instrumental, chamber, orchestral, and solo vocal works. Details of each complete opera are listed by recording date, followed by excerpts in the order in which they occur in the opera. Recordings of each aria are listed alphabetically by the name of the artist. For ease of use, Flury establishes as the main criteria for inclusion those recordings assigned a commercial issue number and available for purchase. This book does not limit itself to mainstream recordings but includes as well 'unofficial' recordings taken from broadcasts or illegally recorded in theaters, ensuring that the audio recording history of Puccini is free of gaps. (Video and DVD issues, whether of staged performances or excerpts in concert, are not included unless they have been issued in a sound-only format.) This volume brings together information on nearly 10,000 recordings of Puccini's music. It provides a comprehensive overview of the recorded history of the composer's works and serves as a useful guide for the transfer of recordings from one format to another.
This book traces the unique attraction Scotland has had for the great eighteenth- and nineteenth-century composers. It is not about Scottish composers, but rather about the music that for two centuries was written and performed outside Scotland by musicians of other countries who had Scotland in mind. Hitherto far more has been known about this attraction in Germany and France than in Britain, but Roger Fiske here puts this right and shows how nearly all the major composers from Purcell to Brahms were affected - most notably Schubert, Mendelssohn and Bruch, but also Haydn, Beethoven, Chopin and Schumann. In particular, Dr Fiske describes the travels of Mendelssohn and Chopin in more detail than has been attempted before. There are two major influences to be found in this enthusiasm for Scotland. The first is Scotch song, a generic term commonly used in eighteenth-century England for a type of popular song. The second is Scottish literature, especially Macpherson's Ossian and the writings of Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns: Scotland influenced continental literature as well as inspiring some fine music.
Joseph Wolpe brought about a revolution in psychotherapy. He provided the first clear alternative to therapy as an esoteric exploration of mental forces and presented, instead, clearly specified procedures and documented outcomes - a practical technology based on a fundamental science of learning. Roger Poppen, who witnessed some of this revolution first hand as a doctoral student, describes the major impact Wolpe's theories had on psychotherapy, compelling it to address issues of effectiveness and accountability. He assesses the criticisms that Wolpe's work has attracted both from outside and within the behavioural school, and describes the development of Wolpe's ideas and his continuing role in the theory, practice and ev
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