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Expanded discussion of the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLB or Financial Services Modernization) and its impact on banking and financial services appears throughout the text. GLB has opened up new issues such as how to efficiently and effectively regulate combinations of large bank and nonbank businesses. New emphasis on investment banking and security...

Principles of Taxation for Business and Investment Planning, by Sally Jones is a different approach to the study of taxation from the traditional tax return preparation approach. This book teaches students to recognize the role taxes play in business and investment decisions. This textżs coverage of new tax regulations is updated yearly to reflect...

Continuing in the spirit of its successful previous editions, the ninth edition of Beer, Johnston, Mazurek, and Cornwell's Vector Mechanics for Engineers provides conceptually accurate and thorough coverage together with a significant refreshment of the exercise sets and online delivery of homework problems to your students. Nearly forty percent of...

This book pinpoints the newest, most active pirate stations. It covers the Internet pirate radio, with URL directory. Experience radio's swashbuckling side! 74 minutes of audio from dozens of underground stations. Listening to pirate radio is perfectly legal - and frequently an ear-opening experience. This book makes it easier for you to locate and...

This book stresses both the design of steel structures (as do the competing texts) and the behaviour of steel under specific conditions. The most recent editions of the American Institute of Steel Constructionżs Load and Resistance Factor Design Specifications (3e, 1999) and the LRFD Manual (3e, 2001) are used and extensively referenced in this...

"A leadership blueprint, applicable in any organization." (Captain D. Michael Abrashoff (Ret.), author, It's Your Ship with a foreword by Jim Cora, former chairman of Disneyland International). "When the subject permits, we let fly with all the satire and gags at our command. Laughter is no enemy to learning." (Walt Disney). "I was convinced that...