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Essentials of Investments with Standard & Poor's Educational Version of Market
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Essentials of Investments with Standard & Poor's Educational Version of MarketEssentials of Investments with Standard & Poor's Educational Version of Market

The market leading Essentials of Investments, 5/e by Bodie, Kane and Marcus is an undergraduate textbook on investment analysis, presenting the practical applications of investment theory to convey insights of practical value. The authors have eliminated unnecessary mathematical detail and concentrate on the intuition and insights that will be useful to practitioners throughout their careers as new ideas and challenges emerge from the financial marketplace.
 
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Tags: investment, insights, Investments, practical, Essentials, Investments, investment
The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters
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The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shootersThe Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters

Joe McNally, one of the world’s top pro digital photographers, whose celebrated work has graced the pages of Sports Illustrated, Time, and National Geographic (to name a few), breaks new ground by doing something no photography book has ever done—blending the rich, stunning images and elegant layout of a coffee-table book with the invaluable training, no-nonsense insights, and photography secrets usually found only in those rare, best-of-breed educational books.


 
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Uncommon Sense: Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism
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Uncommon Sense: Economic Insights, from Marriage to TerrorismUncommon Sense: Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism

On December 5, 2004, the still-developing blogosphere took one of its biggest steps toward mainstream credibility, as Nobel Prize–winning economist Gary S. Becker and renowned jurist and legal scholar Richard A. Posner announced the formation of the Becker-Posner Blog.

In no time, the blog had established a wide readership and reputation as a reliable source of lively, thought-provoking commentary on current events, its pithy and profound weekly essays highlighting the value of economic reasoning when applied to unexpected topics.
 
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Cheating in School: What We Know and What We Can Do
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Cheating in School: What We Know and What We Can Do

Cheating in School is the first book to present the research on cheating in a clear and accessible way and provide practical advice and insights for educators, school administrators, and the average lay person.

 

 

 
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What Everyone Should Know about Economics and Prosperity
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What Everyone Should Know about Economics and ProsperityWhat Everyone Should Know about Economics and Prosperity

Most of you do not want to spend a lot of time learning new terms, memorizing formulas, or mastering details that are important only to professional economists.What you want are the insights of economics that reallymatter—those thatwill help youmake better personal choices and enhance your understanding of our complex world. And you want those insights to be presented in a concise, organized, and readable manner, with a minimum of economics jargon. This short book attempts to meet both of these objectives.
 
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