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Quick service. I thought I was going to receive this book late, however it was delivered in the nick of time

This helped my Western Civilizations Class schoolwork so much. It's very educating on ancient history

The book is very helpful, but I need to review information on the 1996 Classic, 40th Aniversary Edition of Bayliner boats again.

This book is required reading in a class I'm taking. I've been through several chapters at this point and one quiz. The book provides a good foundation for later business classes. It takes you step by step through various types of business structures and includes a good bit of detail about nuances that are present in each state. I am business illiterate, and I am finding this book a good primer. It is a bit dry and written from an outline, but I've read much worse. I would definitely recommend this to anybody who doesn't know much about businesses and their organization and needs a good introduction. There is not much about law or about paralegals tasks, mostly just sidebars stating that a paralegal will probably be filling out the forms and info on where to get the forms.

Sherryl Woods continues this delightful miniseries, The Calamity Janes, with a single title release by the same name. Five friends share an enduring friendship, begun in high school, self-named for their penchant for broken hearts and troubles. Though their lives are widely divergent now, these women are still as close as sisters, despite their infrequent contact. In this forth installment, top Denver attorney Emma Rogers struggles with pressures from work, family and the past.

Competitive Emma is on a career fast track despite a divorce and motherhood. Too bad she rarely has time for dinner with her six-year-old daughter Caitlyn. Her ex had assumed she'd sacrifice her career to be a stay at home mother after a failed birth control fluke. But Emma hadn't cooperated. She hadn't excelled in law school only to walk away. Despite her ex's manipulations designed to sabotage her career, including the ultimate of betrayals, Emma was steadfast in her goals. The trouble is, years later she can't help wondering if she's making a mistake to allow the nanny the pleasure of raising her daughter.

Enjoying their first vacation in two years, Emma and Caitlyn return to Winding River, Wyoming for Emma's class reunion. Her immediate antipathy to the town's new newspaper publisher Ford Hamilton only results in friends and family's speculation and hope that she'll return to the slower paced town for keeps. Indeed, she's surprised to realize Ford easily matches the excitement she's only found before in court. But she's very uncomfortable that he's as adept at zeroing in on the hidden motives and the hearts of matters as any good prosecutor. She'd best find a quick defense before she gives away her heart and her future.

In this single title release of the Calamity Jane series, author Sherryl Woods dazzling gift for storytelling excels, as references to other books in the series enrich the narrative without inhibiting the flow. Heroine Emma's struggle with her inward expectations lends depth, giving voice to many career mom's concerns. Hero Ford Hamilton's persistence and perseverance in spite of Emma's protestations makes for enduring reading. Readers will also find themselves smiling at grandparent's efforts to charm their grandchild complete with pony and kitten. Very highly recommended.

Hi, this book narrates the story of seven students who felt love for the souls in china and russia, they were called to be missionaries abroad... For me it was really worth reading it. The movement they started is now a worldwide student movement present in more than 150 country members.

Used this book when my husband and I went to buy a car. I could not believe how good the information was, everything in the book was true and really easy to do. We purchased a new Honda Odyssey and saved over $2000 from following what the smart kit said. We are now planning to use it to save more money on insurance rates. I highly recommend this book to anyone.

Marjorie Brody is a professional speaker, consultant and coach to Fortune 1,000 executives. In Career Magic: A Woman's Guide To Reward & Recognition, Marjorie draws from her many years of experience and considerable expertise to provide the reader with a straightforward guide filled from cover to cover with practical career advice quite appropriate for both genders. Individual chapters concisely address the importance of adopting an effective professional manner; increasing personal involvement; creating articulate commentary, and so much more. Career Magic is an upbeat and practical collection of tips, tricks, and techniques ranging from the importance of everyday manners; to dedicating oneself to an attitude of life-long learning; to capsuling profiles of successful people. If you want to advance your career, then give a careful reading to what Marjorie Brody has to offer you in Career Magic.

This was one of the first Jigsaw Jones books I read to my children.It hooked us and I've now read the eight in the series so far.The books are short enough to keep the kids interested.James Preller has the nack of putting the right ingredients in the books to make my children laugh,things that happen in every 4 to 8 year olds life.We've practiced the different secret codes that Jigsaw and his best friend Mila come up with.Also we learned abit about Abraham Lincoln even though we are Canadians living in England.The Jigsaw Jones books are well travelled and luckily I can get them through Amazon in the U.K., So I guess this is really a review of the series and not necessarily one book.They are nice reading before bed and my children are always ready to listen to the Jigsaw Jones books. Lisa Pyke.

An indictment of Virginia's child support parenting adjustment
A Book Review by Roger F. Gay
For Men's News Daily and Fathering Magazine
This review is available with links at:<...Support's Wacky Math is a book about the way that Virginia and other states modify child support orders in consideration of visitation and shared parenting. It promises two things; to prove that the formula is grossly in error, and to show how reality gets lost and logic muddled in the overly political process that now dominates the child support system. It delivers on both promises with room to spare.

The author is a divorced father of "four wonderful children" and a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel. He is also a child of divorce. Robert W. Ingalls wrote the book because he feels obligated to his children who he admits are the joy of his life. He recognizes the pain that divorce causes children and the pattern of interference that millions of fathers encounter in their efforts to remain good parents.

In response, he applied career skills in math and logic to analyze the parenting adjustment formula. He found influential recommendations from the Virginia Bar Association to be logically and mathematically flawed and shows that their errors were intentional. Their recommendations amount to special interest politics rather than honest analysis.

Virginia, like most states, uses the "Income-Shares formula" for calculating child support amounts. The Income-Shares model has an explicit goal of increasing child support orders to two and a half times what they had been under established child support law. The name "Income-Shares" suggests redistributing parental income rather than providing support for children.

The idea of a shared parenting adjustment is to reduce the amount that paying parents are ordered to pay in recognition of the time they spend caring (and paying) for their children directly. The Income-Shares adjustment begins with a calculation that increases a paying parent's financial obligation to the other parent.

To some, the calculation may seem strange and invalid from the start. To others, the author points out, it can seem logical on the surface. If two households are involved doesn't that mean more expenses? But the underlying logic of this particular formula, he explains, is to get the result that the designer wants rather than an honest balancing of the books. It is illogical to reason that a payer's financial obligation to the other parent increases in recognition of his own expenses. The result is inadequate adjustment to child support orders. In most cases there is no reduction at all.

As obvious as the problem may seem to some, the debate has raged for more than a decade and this logical error and many like it are still policy. In an effort to reach the broadest possible audience, two prehistoric gentlemen are called upon early in the book to illustrate a basic point. Caveman Vinney invented the wheel and manufactures them. His cousin Grog sells them. Should Grog account honestly for his inventory or falsify his numbers to create the business picture that he wants? Lying about the numbers or applying flawed logic leads to problems. From there the book moves to a steadily paced demonstration of the wackiness of the Virginia parenting adjustment. If similar evidence was presented against Grog's wheel business it would undoubtedly be investigated by the Bedrock Securities and Exchange Commission, leading to Grog's indictment.

How should the child support problem be addressed? I place particular importance on an overlying theme of this book. "Mathematics is about logic and relationships," he writes. "Just because you can 'do the math' does not necessarily mean that the solution or formula or algorithm or whatever you call it is correct, even if every time you work the numbers the value arrives at the same answer. It has to have meaning."

Virginia statues have previously been criticized for leaving the term "child support" undefined; the ultimate absence of meaning. Avoiding meaning; meaningful definition, meaningful logic, meaningful data, was an essential part of the process of developing the Income-Shares guideline. Yet, too often I have seen well-intentioned experts repeat the process as though it will unlock a hidden secret and lead to improvement. At the end of Child Support's Wacky Math is a fitting quote from Albert Einstein. "No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it." Good problem solving starts at the beginning and proceeds logically.

I suspect that Child Support's Wacky Math is the kind of book that many paying parents would like to write. An average father is no stranger to bill-paying and might even show stereotypical irritation when his dilapidated old wallet is beaten too hard. That irritation can only get stronger when it threatens the precious time divorced parents share with their children.

Putting together an integrated view of the child support issue that includes basic wisdom, logic, mathematics, and politics is not an easy task. Robert Ingalls was motivated to focus on one part of the child support formula, the shared parenting adjustment, because of the enormous personal importance of time with his children. That sentiment is echoed by millions of parents across the country. Narrowing the focus to one piece of the problem also allows a more complete presentation of the problems that the author promised to expose. His criticism of Virginia's wacky adjustment equation is probably the most extensive in existence.

Given the absence of an independent judiciary (my own observation); policy oversight must be provided by concerned and responsible citizens. (An important activity in any case.) The book Robert Ingalls has written certainly places him solidly in that group. Will it speak to the masses? The answer may lie in the promotional quotes on the back cover. After reviewing material that was used in the book, two members of the Virginia House of Delegates promised support to "address the error" and "correct the situation." If Robert W. Ingalls' analysis can induce corrective action, then this book should be in the hands of every legislator, governor, review panel member, judge, lawyer, reform advocate, and child support paying parent in the country.

The book was in great condition. By mistake I purchased a class room activities Manual instead of the book needed for the school class I am enrolled in. I need to return the book for a refund. Sorry, Patrick