Benefits of Books

This textbook is the leading textbook in the country in Retirement Planning. It has been adopted by over 50 universities across the country including: Georgetown University, Northwestern University, College for Financial Planning, Duke, UCLA, and Texas Tech. The students at all the school have rated this book as "excellent."

This textbook is generally not available in the most current edition on Amazon or any other re-sale site due to necessity of information to be current with latest tax law. The 4th edition will be available through Money Education in January 2007.

Most of the purchasers keep this text in their professional library as an excellent reference for their practice in financial planning. While we cherish the right for any person to have an opinion, we have serious doubts as to Mr. Valdez's credentials to evaluate either the writing or content of this or any other technical book.

This is a poorly written book with an even poorer test bank. It comes with its own page of corrections and that is only to set the tone for the terrible explanations of a difficult subject. If you want to misguide anyone with confusion and sensless cantor, then perhaps it is a buy.

This book was awful. Just terrible. It had no indication to its underlying structure, which is a collection of essays. It was very repetative. Most of the statistics were presented in an anectdotal fashion, which I found bothersome. The binding was stiff, and because of that and how tiny it is, it was difficult to read.

A necessary book to educate yourself on the facts and statistics of homeschooling.

It is a nice collection of essays that would constitute a good starting point for the problems associated with the variosu social security systems and alternatives to these. It is not a must-have since very similar work can be found at OECD and alike web sites.

The sexual assault and murder of a young boy from Sioux City, Iowa, apparently took place in Plymouth County in the 1950s. A man who had picked him up was not given a fair chance at a defense. His original trial in Le Mars, Iowa, ignored that he had been given methamphetamines while questioned relentlessly in a mental hospital. A University of Iowa law professor helped win a new trial years later by thorough investigative work.

It was delivered faster than expected. Good service and delivery. Somehow, I was surprised to find that my 1st order frm Bargainbook was processed as somehow it was out of stock at the time and I made new order. Well, both orders came to me, unexpectedly frm Bargain Bookstore.

This book gives many examples of where Risk-Benefit analysis was utilized in the assessment of commonplace therapies up to and including more modern lipid complexes, etc. In this regard, the book is quite useful although abstracting from these specific examples into some generalizable approach is difficult at best. In addition, the section specifically devoted to methods is limited and does not provide a comprehensive overview which would have been greatly appreciated. Not recommended unless the therapies included in this work are relevant to your area of practice/research.

Very technical work on Canadian fraudulent transfer law an insightful of how these issues are resolved by the Canadian courts.

This book promised a great deal. Given the "new workforce" paradigm, I was eager to read about new compensation strategies that would meet their different interests.

Instead we got this.

What you'll read here is a rehashing of old, largely academical theories which have been proven flawed or outright wrong by success stories in the field. It was used, for example, as a call to arms by content motivational theorists who still do not believe in variable pay and incentive compensation.

As my mom used to say, if you're looking for trouble, you'll find it. Grinding the old ax that rewarding good performance is just, well, just morally wrong is what many of these articles resonate.

If you've seen a good book of success stories which tie compensation approaches to create powerful, clear business strategy execution, would you let me know what it is?

The debate about financing health care rumbles on, not only in Britain but around the world.

After the Conservative government's reforms in Britain, a new Labour government aimed at renewing the National Health Service in it's own way. This book appeared at around the time of transition.

How to Pay for Health Care gathers together five papers of varying quality which look at the history of the NHS and some options about the then current thinking going on to pay for health care in Britain.

This is not a free marketeer's charter. In some ways it is a significantly pragmatic attempt to incorporate additional funding within broadly party political lines into the National Health Service to keep it essentially available to all.

It is in that context that the book misses it's target audience. The only common feature is reform and the authors explore various options without getting into any depth or to look more generally into the core concept of state provision of healthcare.

The ease by which the Labour Party brushed aside real attempts to tackle the continuing deep seated problems of the NHS by the Conservatives, seen by the continued failure of the current Labour administration to bring about significant reforms, illustrates how hot a political potato health is in Britain.

In essence I see this book as little more of a newsletter about current thinking on the issue of health care funding. What is required is some politically impossible thinking by some brave academics about the whole notion of health and healthcare.

Some interesting notions to consider which is like a meal when once consumed it still leaves one hungry.

Although Amazon shows a 2005 digital date, this article was written circa 1991 as a marketing piece for Metafile Information Systems.

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