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The Wall Street Journal Guide To Planning Your Financial Future

provides clear explanations of the things you need to know and guidelines for the decisions you have to make to enjoy a comfortable retirement. It covers the advantages of salary reduction plans, clarifies the difference between Roth and traditional IRAs, and describes the benefits of effective tax planning. And it provides practical, helpful ideas to get you started. ... Read more

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A Good Overview of Retirement Planning
This book promotes financial literacy in the area of basic retirement planning. The book provides readers with important financial information. In our schools, students are taught subjects such as english, math, and history. While these subjects are important, we as a society are poorly educated in matters of finance and economics.

Financial knowledge and fiscal literacy are a major weakness in our society. This books helps to educate consumers and provide a working knowledge of the rules related to basic retirement planning. Unfortunately it does little to discuss some of the inherant perils associated with traditional retirement planning techniques, such as compound taxes...which often accompany the percieved gains in tax deferred accounts.

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Good but dated
A good basic guide for those new or young to understanding the path to retire with cash

WSJ Guide to Retirement
I am really enjoying.It covers all aspected of planning for retirement in simple to understand manner.It also has numeric examples of the principles.

In wonderful condition!
This book arrived in new condition and all of my expectations were met or exceeded. Thank-you kindly!

Great information
I was very much impressed by the book.It had all the information you would ever need and to find it in one book was great. ... Read more

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Why have our drug wars failed and how might we turn things around? Ask the authors of this hardhitting expos of U.S. efforts to fight drug trafficking and abuse. In a bold analysis of a century's worth of policy failure, Drug War Politics turns on its head many familiar bromides about drug politics. It demonstrates how, instead of learning from our failures, we duplicate and reinforce them in the same flawed policies. The authors examine the "politics of denial" that has led to this catastrophic predicament and propose a basis for a realistic and desperately needed solution.Domestic and foreign drug wars have consistently fallen short because they are based on a flawed model of force and punishment, the authors show. The failure of these misguided solutions has led to harsher get-tough policies, debilitating cycles of more force and punishment, and a drug problem that continues to escalate. On the foreign policy front, billions of dollars have been wasted, corruption has mushroomed, and human rights undermined in Latin America and across the globe. Yet cheap drugs still flow abundantly across our borders. At home, more money than ever is spent on law enforcement, and an unprecedented number of peopledisproportionately minoritiesare incarcerated. But drug abuse and addiction persist.The authors outline the political struggles that help create and sustain the current punitive approach. They probe the workings of Washington politics, demonstrating how presidential and congressional "out-toughing" tactics create a logic of escalation while the criticisms and alternatives of reformers are sidelined or silenced. Critical of both the punitive model and the legalization approach, Drug War Politics calls for a bold new public health approach, one that frames the drug problem as a public healthnot a criminalconcern. The authors argue that only by situating drug issues in the context of our fundamental institutionsthe family, neighborhoods, and schoolscan we hope to provide viable treatment, prevention, and law enforcement. In its comprehensive investigation of our long, futile battle with drugs and its original argument for fundamental change, this book is essential for every concerned citizen. Amazon.com Review
The use of illegal drugs should not be treated as a crime, butas a public health problem, argue Eva Bertram, Morris Blachman,Kenneth Sharpe, and Peter Andreas. Though the idea is hardly new,Drug War Politics revitalizes public debate over whether taxdollars are better spent suppressing drugs and pushers orrehabilitating addicts. Through interviews with health-carespecialists, law enforcement officials, and drug users, theauthors--who constitute a drug policy think-tank--illustrate thatAmerica's war on drugs must be revamped before it exacerbates theproblem. ... Read more

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drug war politics
The book came quickly and in perfect condition.I am using it for a college research paper, but haven't looked inside yet to find the relevant information.I would certainly order future products from this vendor.

Our Nation's Drug War Nightmare
This five year old book is regrettably as relevant as if put together yesterday. The authors deplore the use of mind altering drugs.Eva Bertram and her cohorts,however, are "troubled by a common pattern in public policy: the persistence of unworkable (criminal justice) policies in the face of overwhelming evidence of their failure...It seemed to be conventional wisdom that the reason force had not worked was not that enough had been applied and that the logical response, therefore, was escalation--not reevaluation."

The vice of political correctness is not limited those of a more Liberal temperament. William F. Buckley is cited as one of the few high profile conservatives willing to publicly challenge the Republican status quo. Politically powerful conservatives relish in "viciously attacking and demeaning critics and sidelining pragmatic alternatives. Less zealous conservatives and liberals, many of whom are skeptics or closet critics, have been willing to go along or have chosen to remain silent," add the authors. Democrats such as President Jimmy Carter attempted to redirect our efforts to treating mind altering drugs as primarily a medical problem. The ensuing tidal wave of public outrage severely threatened his political power. George W. Bush won the 1994 Texas Governors race in part by successfully attacking Texas Democrat Governor Ann Richards for the latter's "actively pushed diversion-to-treatment and in-prison treatment programs in the early 1990s."

The authors point out that our country has reversed its original relative indifference to the mind altering drugs of choice. Logically it is difficult to distinguish between the harm caused by alcohol, tobacco, marihuana, or cocaine. Heroin, many studies indicate, is far less damaging than alcohol. Another fly in the ointment isthe problem of police corruption. Edgar J. Hoover was hesitant to involve the FBI for this very reason. "The logic of the drug war creates enormous pressures," the writers also reveal "to circumvent or transgress...constitutional rights." The Catch 22 circumstances of the drug wars "guarantee that poor and minority residents will be netted by the drug-enforcement system in highly disproportionate numbers." Police agencies prefer going after easier convictions to augment their overall numbers---amd if nothing else, people mired in poverty areeasier to send to jail because they rarely obtain first class legal assistance. Is the drug war unwittingly racist?Would we persist with today's drug war if moreestablishment white people filled our jails?American citizens no longer have the right to ignore these awkward questions.

Bertram and her group suggest that it's time we take a serious look at decriminalization.They realistically concede that a social price will have to be paid. Alcohol abuse decreased during our nation's prohibition era. The numbers went back up sharply after legalization. Some individuals will inevitably experiment withlegally sanctioned drugs. Nonetheless, life is often about trade offs, balancing off the good against the bad. Taking a chance on decriminalization is not a perfectsolution, but likely the lesser of evils. I strongly recommend --Drug War Politics.-- You owe it to yourself to read it thoroughly.The price of denial is indeed too high.

The best book I have read on this topic
This book is much more than the title implys.While it is a through analysis of why the war on drugs is failing it is also visionary inits view of the future.The implications of the next "post drug warera" are explored with a focus on what this means for treatment,prevention and enforcement.Quite simply this book is a must read!

It does not call for repeal, a terrible mistake.
"Drug War Politics" is an informative work and a must-have for the freedom fighter. Unfortunately,like all other published works except for one, it does not call for the repeal of prohibition. This is a dreadfuloversight and it shows just how institutionalized tyranny has become inAmerica.

Calling for reform, legalization, harm reduction etc., simplyconcedes the "right" of government to prohibit. No such rightexists because prohibition laws are repugnant to the spirit of ourfundamental legal source: The Declaration of Independence.

I've studiedand written volumes on this subject only to discover that the EstablishmentCurtain makes the Cold War Iron Curtain look like the sheerest ofnegligees.

If you want the WHOLE truth you must always follow the moneytrail to its very end. In the case of prohibition you will discover anever-growing JUDICIAL INDUSTRY that "legally" preys on harmlesshumans and the taxpayers for $billions annually. This is the best keptsecret in America.

There are but two types of crime. Force and Fraud.Self-medication is neither. Either this is a secret kept from America'slegislators and judges or they have taken criminal license with ourConstitution's Comerce Clause.

Folks, it's time to unshackle our grandjuries by making them fully aware of their right to function independentlyand issue presentments.

Tinsley Grey Sammons BASTIATLAW@aol.com ... Read more

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Chapters: Scottish Ballet Dancers, Margaret Morris, Kenneth Macmillan, Moira Shearer, Peter Darrell, Peter Royston, Tramway, Kenn Burke, Claire Robertson, Sophie Martin, Tomomi Sato, Bethany Kingsley-Garner, Lorena Fernández Sáez, Vassilissa Levtonova, Constance Devernay, Gabriel Barrenengoa, Brenda Lee Grech, Nathalie Dupouy, Victoria Willard, Christopher Harrison, Kara Mclaughlin, Louisa Hassell, Luciana Ravizzi, Sophie Laplane, Joanne Bungay, Daniel Davidson, Glauco Di Lieto, Quenby Hersh, Victor Zarallo, Lewis Landini, Martina Forioso, Amy Hadley, Layla Harrison, Mark Kimmett, William Smith, Owen Thorne, Erik Cavallari, Luke Ahmet, Soon Ja Lee, Eve Mutso, Paul Liburd, Tama Barry, Adam Blyde, Diana Loosmore. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 330. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Margaret Morris (1891, Kensington, London, England 29 February 1980, Glasgow, Scotland) was a British dancer, choreographer and teacher. She was the first proponent of the Isadora Duncan technique in Great Britain. She founded the Margaret Morris Movement, Celtic Ballet, and two Scottish National Ballets in Glasgow (1947) and in Pitlochry (1960). Although she was born in London, she lived with her parents until the age of 5 in France. She had no formal academic education, but went to dancing classes. In 1894 she began reciting professionally in French and later in English, at parties, smoking concerts and court drawing rooms. In 1899 she had her first stage engagement in pantomime - Little Red Riding Hood at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, playing First Fairy 'Twinkle Star' with solo dances and recitations before a front drop. In 1900 she joined the Ben Greet Shakespearian Company and played 'Puck' in A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Botanic Gardens, London. She remained with the company for three years, a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16287632 ... Read more

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Chapters: Scottish Ballet Dancers, Margaret Morris, Kenneth Macmillan, Moira Shearer, Jimmy Logan, Tony Cargill, Kenn Burke, Victor Wesley, Claire Robertson, Sophie Martin, Tomomi Sato, Bethany Kingsley-Garner, Lorena Fernández Sáez, Vassilissa Levtonova, Constance Devernay, Gabriel Barrenengoa, Brenda Lee Grech, Nathalie Dupouy, Victoria Willard, Christopher Harrison, Kara Mclaughlin, Louisa Hassell, Luciana Ravizzi, Sophie Laplane, Joanne Bungay, Daniel Davidson, Glauco Di Lieto, Quenby Hersh, Victor Zarallo, Lewis Landini, Martina Forioso, Amy Hadley, Layla Harrison, Mark Kimmett, William Smith, Owen Thorne, Erik Cavallari, Luke Ahmet, Soon Ja Lee, Eve Mutso, Paul Liburd, Tama Barry, Adam Blyde, Diana Loosmore. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 322. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Margaret Morris (1891, Kensington, London, England 29 February 1980, Glasgow, Scotland) was a British dancer, choreographer and teacher. She was the first proponent of the Isadora Duncan technique in Great Britain. She founded the Margaret Morris Movement, Celtic Ballet, and two Scottish National Ballets in Glasgow (1947) and in Pitlochry (1960). Although she was born in London, she lived with her parents until the age of 5 in France. She had no formal academic education, but went to dancing classes. In 1894 she began reciting professionally in French and later in English, at parties, smoking concerts and court drawing rooms. In 1899 she had her first stage engagement in pantomime - Little Red Riding Hood at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, playing First Fairy 'Twinkle Star' with solo dances and recitations before a front drop. In 1900 she joined the Ben Greet Shakespearian Company and played 'Puck' in A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Botanic Gardens, London. She remained with the company for three years...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16287632 ... Read more

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Chapters: Arthur Machen, Rhys Hughes, Chris Walley, Kenneth Morris. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Arthur Machen (pronounced ) (March 3, 1863 December 15, 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror. (Stephen King called it "Maybe the best in the English language".) He also is well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons. Arthur Machen's birthplaceMachen was born Arthur Llewelyn Jones, in Caerleon (now part of Newport), Monmouthshire, though he usually referred to the county by its Welsh name Gwent. The beautiful landscape of Monmouthshire, with its associations of Celtic, Roman, and medieval history, made a powerful impression on him, and his love of it is at the heart of many of his works. Machen's father, John Edward Jones, became vicar of the tiny church of Llandewi Fach, near Caerleon, and his son was brought up at the rectory there. Jones had adopted his wife's maiden name, Machen, to inherit a legacy, legally becoming "Jones-Machen"; his son was baptised under that name and later used a shortened version of his full name, Arthur Machen, as a pen-name. At the age of eleven, Machen boarded at Hereford Cathedral School, where he received an excellent classical education. Family poverty ruled out attendance at university, and Machen was sent to London, where he sat exams to attend medical school but failed to get in. Machen, however, showed literary promise, publishing in 1881 a long poem "Eleusinia" on the subject of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Returning to London, he lived in relative poverty, attempting to work ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=38293 ... Read more

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Chapters: Margaret Morris, Kenneth Macmillan, Moira Shearer, Kenn Burke, Claire Robertson, Sophie Martin, Tomomi Sato, Bethany Kingsley-Garner, Lorena Fernández Sáez, Vassilissa Levtonova, Constance Devernay, Gabriel Barrenengoa, Brenda Lee Grech, Nathalie Dupouy, Victoria Willard, Christopher Harrison, Kara Mclaughlin, Louisa Hassell, Luciana Ravizzi, Sophie Laplane, Joanne Bungay, Daniel Davidson, Glauco Di Lieto, Quenby Hersh, Victor Zarallo, Lewis Landini, Martina Forioso, Amy Hadley, Layla Harrison, Mark Kimmett, William Smith, Owen Thorne, Erik Cavallari, Luke Ahmet, Soon Ja Lee, Eve Mutso, Paul Liburd, Tama Barry, Adam Blyde, Diana Loosmore. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 314. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Margaret Morris (1891, Kensington, London, England 29 February 1980, Glasgow, Scotland) was a British dancer, choreographer and teacher. She was the first proponent of the Isadora Duncan technique in Great Britain. She founded the Margaret Morris Movement, Celtic Ballet, and two Scottish National Ballets in Glasgow (1947) and in Pitlochry (1960). Although she was born in London, she lived with her parents until the age of 5 in France. She had no formal academic education, but went to dancing classes. In 1894 she began reciting professionally in French and later in English, at parties, smoking concerts and court drawing rooms. In 1899 she had her first stage engagement in pantomime - Little Red Riding Hood at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, playing First Fairy 'Twinkle Star' with solo dances and recitations before a front drop. In 1900 she joined the Ben Greet Shakespearian Company and played 'Puck' in A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Botanic Gardens, London. She remained with the company for three years, acting and dancing. In 1903 she played child parts in Drury Lane ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16287632 ... Read more