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Aviation Weather Services: FAA Advisory Circular 00-45F
Revised and updated, this new edition features full coverage of weather-related tools to assist every pilot’s flight planning and in-flight decisions. The reference thoroughly explains the many aviation weather products and services available to pilots and details the interpretation and application of advisories, coded weather reports, forecasts, observed and prognostic weather charts, and radar and satellite imagery. Weather product examples and explanations are taken primarily from the Aviation Weather Center’s Aviation Digital Data Service website. Including weather station location tables, lists of contractions and acronyms, weather symbols, conversion charts, internet links, and more, this greatly expanded and full-color edition should remain a part of every aviator’s library. .
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Rapid Recovery from Back and Neck Pain: A Nine-Step Recovery Plan
This is the second edition of Rapid Recovery from Back and Neck Pain, originally published in 1999. This is a companion book to Dr. Sarno's Mind Over Back Pain, Healing Back Pain, and The Mind Body Prescription It provides an easy and effective step-by-step plan based on techniques used by Olympic athletes. Rapid Recovery from Back and Neck Pain Book is a unique and fascinating account of one man's search for a cure. You accompany the author as he searches, like a detective, for clues to solve the mystery of back and neck pain and share with him the joy of rapid recovery from months of pain and disability. You discover crucial research information as well as easy and effective strategies for rapid recovery. This book provides you the tools to design your own rapid recovery plan for a pain-free and active life. Rapid Recovery from Back and Neck Pain features:
. The revolutionary scientific discovery for the cause of most back, neck, and hand pain
. Crucial medical research that you are not likely to learn from most doctors or chiropractors
. The noninvasive university treatment program with a phenomenal success rate
. Case studies of people who have recovered rapidly and avoided surgery, including those with herniated or buldging disc and carpal tunnel syndrome
. Special section for designing your own rapid recovery plan
. Fascinating information on related research from major universities.
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How to Value, Buy, or Sell a Financial Advisory Practice: A Manual on Mergers, Acquisitions, and Transition Planning
Financial planning is a young industry The International Association of Financial Planning - one of the predecessors to the Financial Planning Association - was formed less than forty years ago. But as the profession's first tier of advisers reaches maturity, the decisions that may be part of transition planning for their firms loom large. A sale? A partner buyout? A merger? No matter what the choice, its viability hinges on one critical issue - the value of the firm. Unfortunately, many advisers - whether veteran or novice - simply don't know the worth of their practice or how to influence it. That's why "How to Value, Buy, or Sell a Financial-Advisory Practice" is such an important book. It takes advisers carefully through the logic and the legwork of coming to a true assessment of one of their most important personal assets?their business. Renowned for their years of experience helping advisers tackle the daunting challenges related to the valuation, sale, and purchase of adviso.
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Parental Advisory: Music Censorship in America
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Music Your Parents Never Wanted You To Hear Believe it or not, music censorship in America did not begin with Tipper Gore's horrified reaction to her daughter's Prince album. The vilification of popular music by government and individuals has been going on for decades. Now, for the first time, Parental Advisory offers a thorough and complete chronicle of the music that has been challenged or suppressed -- by the people or the government -- in the United States. From Dean Martin's "Wham, Bam, Thank you Ma'am" to Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar; from freedom fighters such as Frank Zappa and in-your-face rappers such a N.W.A. to crusaders such as Tipper Gore, this intelligent and entertaining book shows how censorship has crossed sexual, class, and ethnic lines, and how many see it as a de facto form of racism. With nearly one hundred fascinating photographs of musicians, record burning, and controversial cover art; illuminating sidebars; and a decade-by-decade timeline of important moments in censorship history, Parental Advisory is by turns frightening and hilarious -- but always revealing. .
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The Readers' Advisory Guide to Nonfiction
Navigating what at she calls the "extravagantly rich world of nonfiction," renowned readers' advisor (RA) Wyatt builds readers' advisory bridges from fiction to compelling and increasingly popular nonfiction to encompass the library's entire collection. She focuses on eight popular categories: history, true crime, true adventure, science, memoir, food/cooking, travel, and sports. Within each, she explains the scope, popularity, style, major authors and works, and the subject's position in readers' advisory interviews.Wyatt addresses who is reading nonfiction and why, while providing RAs with the tools and language to incorporate nonfiction into discussions that point readers to what to read next. In easy-to-follow steps, Wyatt explains the hows and whys of offering fiction and nonfiction suggestions together; illustrates ways to get up to speed fast in nonfiction; shows how to lead readers to a variety of books using her "read-around" and "reading map" strategies; and provides tools to build nonfiction subject guides for the collection.This hands-on guide includes nonfiction bibliography, key authors, benchmark books with annotations, and core collections. It is destined to become the nonfiction 'bible' for readers' advisory and collection development, helping librarians, library workers, and patrons select great reading from the entire library collection!.
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Spies, Black Ties, & Mango Pies: Stories and Recipes from CIA Families All over the World
Cozy picnics in a CIA safe house; an official dinner party with the head of SAVAK, the dreaded Iranian secret police; a romantic dinner interrupted by mortar fire on the Mekong Delta--even meals can be cloak-and-dagger if the cooks happen to be connected to the Central Intelligence Agency. In Spies, Black Ties and Mango Pies CIA employees and their spouses share the recipes that got them through the hard times, and the good. Along with a delectable recipe for West Indies Paella, you get a hilarious account of a linguistic misunderstanding that resulted in this dish being served with tin molds for tart shells instead of mussels; the recipe for Chicken with Tofu comes garnished with an anecdote about life in Laos during the Vietnam War. The recipes range from homey to exotic, but it's the stories accompanying them that make this book special. Read about serving the Soviet Ambassador's wife cui (a South American rodent) as you prepare the recipe for Soft Fried Chicken; contemplate a hasty exit from Libya as you nibble Sweet Onion Rings in Beer Batter; imagine eating Langouste a la Maison as shells fall all around in Vietnam. And if you're wondering whether spies can really cook, just remember--Julia Child got her start with the Office of Strategic Services--the forerunner of the CIA..
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Winner's Circle V: Wealth Management Insights from America's Best Financial Advisory Teams (The Winner's Circle series)
Few industries evolve as quickly as Wall Street does. And it’s The Winner’s Circle financial advisors on the forefront of the industry—the ones affecting individuals’ lives the most—who must continually evolve their practices, their investment philosophies, and their teams to meet their clients’ ever-changing needs. These elite financial advisors—better described as "wealth managers”—are typically several years ahead of the industry. They begin with an in-depth view of each client’s goals, dreams, and overall financial and family situation. With an eye towards how much risk the client can tolerate, they provide customized and comprehensive solutions—solutions that embrace the paramount importance of diversification through asset allocation. And while top wealth managers recognize that strong investment performance is essential, they—and the teams they lead—are perhaps even more committed to building deep client relationships and consistently providing world-class customer service. Who are these top wealth managers, how do they actually run their businesses, and how are they evolving their practices? What kinds of situations do they work in, and how do they build the dedicated teams and far-reaching expertise needed to best serve their clients? When actually investing their clients’ money, what resources and research do they rely on, what investment vehicles do they use, and how do they maximize returns while safeguarding their clients’ long-term futures? Finally, what approaches do they take to getting to know their clients’ hearts and minds so well that they can be certain they are acting in their best interest? For nearly two decades now, industry authority R.J. Shook, founder of The Winner’s Circle, LLC, has been answering these and similar questions in his ground-breaking and industry best-selling series of Winner’s Circle® books, and in the many magazine cover stories and other publications nationwide that The Winner’s Circle publishes each year. Barron’s magazine calls Shook an industry "expert," and relies on The Winner’s Circle’s expertise for three annual "Top 100 Financial Advisor" compendiums based on multiple objective criteria and in-depth personal interviews. In this book, The Winner’s Circle V, Shook delves deeper than ever into the best practices, actionable ideas, and superior strategies that set apart 14 of the very best wealth managers or wealth manager partnerships. Special emphasis is placed on how these elite financial advisors build ever deeper relationships with their clients, their partners, and their team members, and on how they ensure the best possible investment returns and overall satisfaction of their clients in an increasingly volatile financial climate. A must-read for industry professionals. Financial advisors and other industry professionals can gain valuable insight into some of today’s most successful wealth managers and wealth management teams. Everything from their day-to-day practices and investment techniques to how they build superior service teams and prepare for the future is revealed in a personable and user-friendly context. Moreover, it’s hard not to be inspired by the personal stories—the challenges and triumphs—of many of these top wealth managers, as well as by the way they give back amply to their clients, teams, firms, families, and communities. An invaluable touchstone for investors. Investors at all levels can learn wealth management techniques and strategies from some of the industry’s very best wealth managers. As you see what the very best have to offer, you can gain an understanding of how your current financial advisor measures up, and you can share some of the valuable ideas found throughout this volume with the advisor or team currently serving you. If you’re on your own as an investor, you’ll gain a much better understanding of the extraordinary, multi-dimensional value that comes from working with a top-notch wealth manager. .
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In Sputnik's Shadow: The President's Science Advisory Committee and Cold War America
In today's world of rapid advancements in science and technology, we need to scrutinize more than ever the historical forces that shape our perceptions of what these new possibilities can and cannot do for social progress. "In Sputnik's Shadow" provides a lens to do just that, by tracing the rise and fall of the President's Science Advisory Committee from its ascendance under Eisenhower in the wake of the Soviet launching of Sputnik to its demise during the Nixon years. Members of this committee shared a strong sense of technological skepticism; they were just as inclined to advise the president about what technology couldn't do - for national security, space exploration, arms control, and environmental protection - as about what it could do.Zuoyue Wang examines key turning points during the twentieth century, including the beginning of the Cold War, the debates over nuclear weapons, the Sputnik crisis in 1957, the struggle over the Vietnam War, and the eventual end of the Cold War, showing how the involvement of scientists in executive policymaking evolved over time. Bringing new insights to the intellectual, social, and cultural histories of the era, this book not only depicts the drama of Cold War American science, it gives perspective to how we think about technological advancements today..
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California Artichoke Cookbook
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