Former editor of "Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine," author Ted Miller has a unique understanding of what otherwise knowledgeable adults don't know about their money. The basics of money management--saving or investing--are presented here in a straightforward, easy-to-grasp style, and will fill in those gaps so you can make money-smart decisions for the rest of your life. In this comprehensive volume, a proven financial expert shows you how to grapple--decisively and effectively, in good times or bad--with any financial decisions you encounter.
According to the commonly accepted view, Thomas Hobbes began his intellectual career as a humanist, but his discovery, in midlife, of the wonders of geometry initiated a critical transition from humanism to the scientific study of politics. In Mortal Gods, Ted Miller radically revises this view, arguing that Hobbes never ceased to be a humanist. While previous scholars have made the case for Hobbes as humanist by looking to his use of rhetoric, Miller rejects the humanism/mathematics dichotomy altogether and shows us the humanist face of Hobbes’s affinity for mathematical learning and practice. He thus reconnects Hobbes with the humanists who admired and cultivated mathematical learning—and with the material fruits of Great Britain’s mathematical practitioners. The result is a fundamental recasting of Hobbes’s project, a recontextualization of his thought within early modern humanist pedagogy and the court culture of the Stuart regimes. Mortal Gods stands as a new challenge to contemporary political theory and its settled narratives concerning politics, rationality, and violence.
Over the last one hundred years, the term “sovereignty” has often been associated with the capacity of leaders to declare emergencies and to unleash harmful, extralegal force against those deemed enemies. Friendly Sovereignty explores the blind spots of this influential perspective. Ted H. Miller challenges the view of sovereignty propounded by Carl Schmitt, the Weimar and Nazi–period jurist and political theorist whose theory undergirds this understanding of sovereignty. Claiming a return to concepts of sovereignty forgotten by his liberal contemporaries, Schmitt was preoccupied with the legal exceptions required, he said, to rescue polities in crisis. Much is missing from what Schmitt harvests from the past. His framework systematically overlooks another extralegal power, one that often caused consternation, even among absolutists like Thomas Hobbes. Sovereigns also made exceptions for friends, allies, and dependents. Friendly Sovereignty plumbs the history of political thought about sovereignty to illustrate this other side of the sovereign’s exception-making power. At the core of this extensive study are three thinkers, each of whom stakes out a distinct position on the merits and demerits of a “friendly sovereign”: the nineteenth-century historian Jules Michelet, the seventeenth-century political philosopher Thomas Hobbes, and Seneca, the ancient Stoic and teacher of Nero. Analytically rigorous and thorough in its intellectual history, Friendly Sovereignty presents a more comprehensive understanding of sovereignty than the one typically taught today. It will be particularly useful to scholars and students of political theory and philosophy.
Eddie Thomas, a slick auto wholesaler has visited Joe Lags' office almost every Monday the past ten years, either making payments on existing loans or opening new ones. Eddie got a little too slick and scammed Joe for a $20,000 loan using cars on his used car lot for collateral, cars he had on consignment. Learning he'd been duped, Joe is insanely angry. Eddie stumbles across a banker with like vices, Brian Sweeney and shortly puts him on a program that Eddie hopes will get him even, a goal he's been trying to achieve for years. The chief of police, Harry Burton is also on Joe Lags' payroll, but is in deep trouble with the citizenry because of four un-solved bank holdups. When Harry was a young beat cop he falsely arrested Eddie for breaking and entering, knowing full well the store had been broken into by other thieves. Eddie and his friends entered the store when they noticed a wide open door. Eddie did steal some bananas. Eddie and Harry do not like one another. A dark humored tale taking place during the turbulent sixties with swindles occurring on every corner, and sprinkled with characters right out of Damon Runyon's short stories.
Injuries are one of the most serious public health problems facing the United States today. Through premature death, disability, medical cost and lost productivity, injuries impact the health and welfare of all Americans. Deaths only begin to tell the story. Although many injuries are minor, a large proportion result in fractures, amputations, burns, or other significant injuries that have far-reaching consequences. Now, for the first time in over 15 years, we have comprehensive estimates of the impact of these injuries in economic terms. This book updates a landmark Report to Congress from 1989. Since the report, no undertaking has addressed the incidence and economic burden of injuries with more timely data, despite major changes in the fields of prevention, reporting, and surveillance. Since the mid-eighties, new safety technologies have been developed to prevent injuries or to decrease the severity of injuries, and new policies and laws have been enacted to promote injury prevention. Chapter topics include incidence by detailed categorizations, lifetime medical costs and productivity losses as a result of injuries, and a discussion of recent trends. Lavishly illustrated with tables and graphs, this volume is a valuable reference for public health practitioners, researchers, and students alike.
This book does not have the typical get-rich-quick spiel. It lays out easy-to-follow guidelines and gives practical advice on how to maintain your portfolio in a good or bad economy. Ted Miller walks the reader through various strategies, which can be followed by any individual regardless of occupation and economic background. Miller explains that whatever your ultimate investment goals are, there are still simple rules that need to be followed in order to bring you to that goal and "Kiplinger's Guide to Investing Success" is a convenient and easy-to-read compilation of those rules.
Injury may be the most preventable major health care problem in the United States. It is also extremely costly, with one in eight hospital discharges and days of care relating to injury. Yet, published data on injury frequency, costs, and consequences are limited. This book is a reference volume with a correction factor for inflation updates and should, therefore, be useful for many years. The book examines selected costs of injury by body region, by body part, and by nature of injury (e.g., fracture, laceration). It estimates long-term consequences and addresses the costs of occupational injuries, consumer product injuries, intentional interpersonal injuries, motor vehicle crash injuries, and suicide. This information is for hospitals, lawyers and expert witnesses, insurers, doctors, program planners and evaluators, saftey advocates, and injured people themselves. The health care reform debate has highlighted the importance of data in monitoring and shaping national health policy. The costs and level of detail reported here should also help inform health policy discussions.
Cape Thomas is going through a midlife crisis. He has just lost his job as a pilot, and the woman he loves is slipping further away from him. Furthermore, he cannot shake a recurring vision of a woman holding a baby on his porch, which sends him on a quest to find an old flame, and possibly his child. Though he knows finding someone he hasn't seen in nearly twenty-five years will be difficult, what he doesn't expect is to find himself in a dangerous situation that puts everything dear to him at risk.
Joe Manning owned a good-size ranch outside of a small town in Virginia, and he was plowing one day close to his house. He was getting ready to plant a garden patch for the family to use for their livelihood. Three men came along the road. All three had sidearms and one man had a rifle. He shot Joe in the back while Joe was trying to get to the house to get his rifle and defend his family. Then they killed his wife and young daughter, burned the house down around them, and left Joe in his yard bleeding to death. Joe, who cared deeply about people, was the first person in the community to volunteer to help everyone who was in need. Joe, with his wife at one time or another, had entertained in their home all the people in the area. Who could have shot poor Joe Manning in the back twice and destroyed his family and house? What is going on around here? This has always been a nice area of the country. I wonder who is behind all this killing. Why would they kill his wife and daughter, and why would they have burned down his nice house? This is really a mystery. I wonder if Joe will survive. The doctor does not think so. I wonder what the sheriff is doing about it. He does not seem to have a clue. Will anyone else have to die before we find out who the culprits are?
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Capt. Cape Thomas has suffered a gunshot wound to the head, rendering him semi-comatose for over three years. On the eve of his discharge from the hospital after two more years of physical therapy, a night nurse--either a figment of his imagination or his worst living nightmare--attacks him out of nowhere. Convinced in daylight by staff and his doctor that the attack was a trick of a healing mind, Cape bids farewell to the facility, his home for the past five years. Once home with family in the Fisher mansion, strange things continue to beset him"--
Through the imagined point of view of a deceased organ donor, the author describes the many benefits of organ donation, following the miraculous recoveries of transplant recipients while outlining the history of organ donation and the technology that makes it possible.
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