Sentences with phrase «what value the book»

As Encyclopedia Britannica, a fixture in reference books, announced yesterday that it has created its last print edition, GoodeReader talked to Mark Gross, CEO of Data Conversion Laboratory, about what this type of development holds for academia and for the perception of what value a book has.

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In two moves last year, the company lopped $ 2.9 billion off Safeway's book value — half what it paid for the business.

But what really draws us is the value we hope to gain from reading those books.

«The book is nominally about entrepreneurship,» Zuckerberg observes in an interview with Fortune, «but what I actually think it's about is the philosophy of how you go about creating value in the world.»

So, what's happening is their book value is staying virtually the same, but their debt is going like this.

«This analysis is about figuring out what the brick and mortar and the machinery and the inventories and the accounts receivable are worth and subtracting the debt, and you've got a book value,» says Bertocci.

Eric Ibara, another Kelley Blue Book analyst, said it's possible that values could rebound, depending on how the automaker handles the crisis and «what the fix will be for the U.S. market.»

This favorable environment has allowed RGA to earn what we believe are solid returns and increase book value around 10 % annually for the last decade.

In the past few months, the price to economic book value (zero - growth value) ratio of SPY reached 2.6, which is what we consider to be a Dangerous level.

While the current price / peak - earnings multiple is already at an elevated level above 18, what I'll call the «P / E equivalent» multiples on other fundamentals are: 21 on the basis of book values, nearly 23 on the basis of enterprise value / EBITDA (which factors in the increasing share of debt on corporate balance sheets), over 25 on the basis of revenues, and 29 on the basis of dividends (largely because dividend payout ratios remain relatively low even on the basis of normalized earnings).

Finding value stocks — stocks that trade for less than what their book values suggest they should, or stocks with low P / E ratios and other metrics — is one way to find stocks with potential.

Searching For and Finding Value» 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Charlie Tian, Founder & Director of Research, Guru Focus Topic: «What Worked in the Market from 1998 - 2008: Undervalued Predictable Companies» 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Robert Miles, Author & Conference Organizer & Host [USA] Topic: «Portrait of a Disciplined Investor: Beating the S&P 500 by 6.8 % Annually For 25 Years» 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Optional Tour depart from Ayres Hotel LAX to Huntington Library 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Briefing by the Chief Curator of Rare Books on the history of the Huntington Library and the Munger Research Center 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Continue to Pasadena 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Charlie Munger's Wesco Financial Annual Meeting [The Pasadena Center, 300 East Green Street, Pasadena, CA.]

Generally, your best value can be gotten out of using points to book hotel stays, which is what we recommend and what our analysis will focus on.

Many of the dumb mistakes of omission I've made have come from caring too much about exactly what a business looks like now (what it's reporting in earnings, showing in book value, etc.) rather than what I think it'll roughly look like in 5 years.

ROIC explains 46 % of the difference in valuations for companies in the tech sector, and KLAC's enterprise value divided by invested capital (a cleaner version of price to book) is roughly half of what it should be based on the regression analysis below.

And many value investing books do say that's the basic idea of what you should be doing.

This book is well worth reading by both financial industry insiders and potential clients since Chris Turnbull, a portfolio manager at TheIndexHouse uses the principles and approaches described in the book, showing a practical way to deliver the high value components of what clients need.

I do not forecast numbers years or even months in advance at all and only value and analyze what I see in the company now so you will not see any DCF valuations in this book.

«Following the Gospels towards Easter, this book asks the reader what it means to dethrone Mammon in the values and priorities of our civilisation and in our own existence.»

Klauck, professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago, has ideas about what to make of all this, but the value of the book is to be found in his brief summaries of the various topics, the judicious citation of primary sources, and the up - to - date bibliographies.

can see the value of what she has gone through, and also feel that they can try it, to save their lives, then... don't you agree that the book, just «may» have been worth writing...?

Seems funny how we always want to quote these Numbers from this or that book, rather than look at the pure emotional value in what there saying without judging.

Also central to her book is the contention that in their opposition to the totalitarian Roman state, «Christians forged the basis for what would become, centuries later, the western ideas of freedom and of the infinite value of each human life.»

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

Unless the discussion in the preceding pages has entirely failed to make its point, it will be plain that what is being proposed in this book is (as I have said) a «de-mythologizing» of the inherited notions of «life after death», with their (to many of us) impossible assertions; and also the «re-mythologizing» — or better, the re-conceiving — of their implicit intention so that we may have a valid way of affirming the value and worth of human existence, its significance and importance for God, and its preservation in God as a reality which has affected the divine life and in God has acquired an enduring quality which nothing can take away.

Despite this, Beckett's book remains an important survey and reminder of what in Western thought is of value, and why, and demonstrates the truth articulated by both the Second Vatican Council and Saint Julian: «Whatever has been spoken aright by any man... belongs to us Christians; for we worship and love... the Logos which is from the unbegotten and ineffable God... [and] those writers were able, through the seed of the Logos implanted inthem, to see reality darkly» (p. 51).

Once this hurdle is over, the reader will find this an excellent book which explores, with great sensitivity and understanding, the question of what it means to be human, why each human person has great value and importance, and why the frail and gravely ill matter just as much as the rest of us.

But while I value their sociopolitical analyses and share their anger at the complex forces that make sane mothering almost impossible these days, I find little in their books to give me strength and hope for the journey — the strength and hope that are exactly what mothers need to resist the powers the authors describe.

The question is one I posed in my book The War Machine: «Exactly what human values,... what national interests, are worth defending with weapons of genocidal destruction?

In that book he repeatedly cautions the reader not to take Whitehead's language at face value, since Leclerc is sure that Whitehead could not mean what the language says.

This book is mainly about values, what we treasure and what we live for.

Al, if anyone can pick whatever he likes from a «holy book» to fit his / her personal convictions and agenda then what value is it to such a book?

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

In the book, Webb seeks to employ what he calls a redemptive - movement hermeneutic to help distinguish between cultural and trans - cultural biblical values, specifically applying this method to slavery, gender issues, and homosexuality.

What is wrong with trying to follow a book that in the end is trying to have people live by values and love one another?

It is by no means clear why this egalitarian Eden, which relies wholly on human will power, is less illusory — especially in this blood - soaked century when human capacity is unmasked — than the Jewish apocalyptic hope for the coming of God's kingdom.The value of these books is not in what they say about Jesus so much as in what their saying these things prompts one to think about.

By contrasting the line movement at books like CRIS and Pinnacle with the public betting trends from our seven contributing offshore sportsbooks, we're able to explain what factors are influencing line movement and which teams are offering value.

A child's shelf should include books that value who and what he is.

The chat will focus not only on the new program but also on the value of books in the healing process, and what books have helped our current community members.

«And when parents read books with their kids, two things happen: The kids see that what they're learning has interest and value beyond the classroom and kids and parents have shared material to talk about — what they each liked and disliked in the story, what they found boring or engaging, etc..

According to Christine Koh, one of the authors of the book Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More By Doing Less, «It's about identifying your unique values and paring down and prioritizing so you can find what works for your family.»

«Morning Joe» host Mika Brzezinski brought out New York's political and media elite to Michael's on Monday to fete her latest book, «Knowing Your Value: Women, Money and Getting What...

PhD Motivation And The 4 Hour Workweek In this post I will describe how you can boost your PhD motivation by adapting the ideas presented in The 4 - Hour Workweek book by What is The 4 - Hour Workweek Income Has No Value Without Time Most of the people want to make a lot of money to life like rich people, -LSB-...]

Goodwill is a bit of an accounting «cheat» - it's the difference between the «book value» of an acquired company and what was paid for it.

In my late 20s I made a conscious choice to seek out people who supported what I value, like being in the outdoors, taking fun group - exercise classes, eating healthy food, traveling, being silly, having meaningful conversations about relationships, growing old, reading good books, parenting, and all the other things that fill me up.

To show you the true value of what I'm offering you, I would like to say there are comparable books out there that cost $ 49.95, $ 59.95 or even $ 99.95.

Since Jimmy Moore has been unable to maintain a steady weight since 1999 AND has now regained 45 of the 76 pounds he lost on his ketogenic diet of what value is this book with regard to weight loss??

«For your foodie friend who shops by the nutritional value instead of what's on sale, she's sure to go wild for this recipe book that brings together health and booze.»

He is the author of the highly recognized and praised book What Matters: Leadership Values That Just Might Save America, as well as the award - winning new children's book The Green Box League of Nutritious Justice.