Sentences with phrase «face value of the book»

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Typically, when stocks of big banks trade at prices substantially below book value, the bank is in some kind of distress, or banks broadly in the market are facing structural problems.

Its effort to create community in the face of suspicion, its combination of idealism and despair, its testimony to the corruption of both oppressor and oppressed, and its tragic heroism in trying to actualize human values against impossible odds is a kind of microcosm of much of American history, but it would take a book to do it justice.

Never - the-less, without accepting the work at face value, it is possible to regard the Book of Mormon as the product of an extraordinary and profound act of the religious imagination.

You are very weak - minded to really take at face value a 2000 year old book filled with 3000 year old stories, when there isn't one iota of proof that ANY «god» at all was behind those writings.

Originally, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, the authors of the 1982 non-fiction book Holy Blood, Holy Grail, had accepted Plantard's farce at face value.

On face - value, another cinematic version of The Beguiled, based on the book A Painted Devil by Thomas P. Cullinan, wasn't needed.

While I certainly recognize the value of one common book, I also know that their will be greater by - in from your teachers when they can choose the direction of their summer reading (I would also say the same for those students who are facing their own summer reading requirements).

At face value, though, this feature seems to bring into the e-book world one of the most undesirable aspects of used books — someone else's highlights.

Here's a little real talk about the book publishing industry — it adds almost no value, it is going to be wiped off the face of the earth soon, and writers and readers will be better off for it.

The struggle that people within the industry face as we try to pitch your book to everyone else in the value chain — sales teams, marketers, booksellers, and ultimately readers — is why the gatekeepers at the very beginning of the chain (the literary agents) have to be so very selective about the authors we take on.

A terrific scene between Parker and the Ultimate Nick Fury, who mostly accepts what Peter is saying at face value, and more words in a single bubble we've seen outside of a Grant Morrison book.

And here's a little real talk about the book publishing industry — it adds almost no value, it is going to be wiped off the face of the earth soon, and writers and readers will be better off for it.

A REIT trading at a premium of 40 - 50 % of its book value faces greater price - risk on prepayments and rising rates in the event these risks play out.

«Take a look at the business section next time you're in a bookshop and the chances are the smiling, bespectacled face of Warren Buffett will be looking at you from multiple book covers, advocating the merits of value investing.

This company is facing some challenges such as slow sales, but it has a book value of nearly 4 times the current stock price.

According to the book, which I actually read many years ago, Dryden started the company by selling burial policies with a face value of $ 100 to working class families who couldn't otherwise afford life insurance.

While both collision and comprehensive insurance are optional, Margot Bai, a former insurance agent and author of the book Spend Smarter, Save Bigger, advises against waiving collision and comprehensive coverage, «unless your car is so old that the increase in premiums you'd face when making a claim exceeds the value of the vehicle.»

[And as for any actual existential risk Saga Furs might face, I've also written about that before: Based on the company's ongoing earnings / dividends, the substantial gap between the current share price & book value (which I believe is fully realisable in a wind - down scenario), the likely implementation of transition periods / grandfathering clauses / a compensation regime / etc... I'd expect Saga Furs would turn out to be a decent investment regardless, even in such a (remote) scenario.]

And Hyatt points are attractive, with some of the best redemption rates for its top properties: 22,000 Hyatt Gold Passport points, even for properties such as the Park Hyatt Paris or Park Hyatt Maldives, and if you book during a time when that award room (or suite, in the case of the all - suite Park Hyatt Maldives) would normally go for $ 1000 / night, you're getting 4.5 cents per point in face value.

This means travelers who use miles or points are not able to insure the face value of their tickets or rooms booked using points.

According to the book, which I actually read many years ago, Dryden started the company by selling burial policies with a face value of $ 100 to working class families who couldn't otherwise afford life insurance.