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A mathematician shows how to use basic arithmetic to take control of your financial destiny–from financing your home to buying insurance to saving for your kids’ college education.Drawing on his life’s experiences and many years as a classroom teacher, Lipsman presents an easy-to-read introduction to the mathematics of personal finance….An excellent companion Web site (http: //www.math.umd.edu/~rll/cgi-bin/finance.html) provides a series of problem-solving engines to perform the calculations for those who are less experienced in mathematics. Although oriented toward the personal finance neophyte, even those with more sophistication in financial decision making will find the book and the Web site an interesting and useful reference. This work can also serve as an excellent refresher or supplemental resource to traditional texts on the subject. Highly recommended. General readers; all levels of undergraduates; practitioners.-Choice S]uperbly user friendly and well conceived.-Montgomery Gazette/Gazette.Net

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The dozen short stories in Updike’s new collection revisit many of the locales of his fiction: the small Pennsylvania town of Olinger, the lonely farm to which the hero moves as an adolescent, the exurban New England of adult camaraderie and sexual mischief, and the New York City of artistic ambition and taunting glamor. To these tales, the author adds Rabbit Remembered , a novella-length sequel to his quartet of novels about Harry Rabbit Angstrom. From the Publisher A highly unusual book from Updike: twelve short stories, coupled with the sequel of the book’s subtitle: a novella that closes the Rabbit quartet. The short stories are in the classic Updike mode, set mostly in exurbia of the sixties, in what seemed then a revolutionary time that taught us the high moral value of copulation, and we were slow to give up on an activity so pleasureable and healthy . The stories are reflective and take on a particular poignancy; memory is selective and every detail is relished. Among these dozen gems are two masterpieces, both of which appeared in the New Yorker and were much talked about and greatly admired. One is about the narrator’s father, about an only son’s fear that somehow his father would fall from grace, would lose his job as a revered high school math teacher, and that the family would be ruined — a very real fear at the height of the depression. The other is a haunting story called The Cats, about a son’s return to the Pennsylvania farm of his youth after his mother’s death only to find the place literally overrun with the stray cats that his mother had fed, and the moral dilemma this poses. The second half of the book is a wonderful novella-length sequel to his four Rabbit novels. We find out what happened to Janice (she married again), to son Nelson (a social worker temporarily separated from his wife and children), and we meet the illegitimate daughter, the fruit of Rabbit’s first dalliance, who inserts herself into the Angstrom clan. All the strands are artfully woven together and Rabbit is finally laid to rest. The setting is, as before, the area of Brewer, Pennsylvania; the time, the last months of 1999. A brilliant Updikeanfinale to a saga that we hate to let go of.

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