The Property Puzzle

The Property Puzzle
Author: Stuart Wemyss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2009
Genre: Real estate investment
ISBN: 9780646515595

Failing to have an investment plan is the biggest cause of property investor mistakes such as buying the wrong property, not managing risk, wrong ownership structures, under-performing property and the list goes on. Until now, property investment books and courses haven't addressed key financial planning issues such as working out how many properties you need to buy, correct risk management, retirement strategies, estate planning and so on. The Property Puzzle is an easy to understand 'how to' guide, which teaches readers how to develop their own property-based financial plan. Complementary to all other property books, it addresses topics such as defining goals, choosing a property strategy, developing financial forecasts, managing risks, developing a retirement strategy and much more. Throughout the book, we follow the journey of new property investors, David and Susan, and discuss how they tackled certain issues when developing their own financial plan. We also interview Australia's leading property experts to help you through the planning stage. The Property Puzzle is compulsory reading for all property investors. It will show you how to avoid the myriad of mistakes that many investors make. Once you have developed a financial plan, you will feel empowered, knowing you are one step closer to achieving financial security.

The Property Puzzle

The Property Puzzle
Author: Amnon Lehavi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2009
Genre:
ISBN:

This Article constructs a political and institutional model of property, offering an innovative approach for addressing some of property's most puzzling features. The central thesis of this Article is that regardless of our preferred substantive justifications for property, dramatic decisions about the giving or taking of property, such as the full-scale nonconsensual transfer of title and possession in land from one person to another, should be chiefly made by explicit and publicly-reasoned resolutions of governmental entities entrusted with the power and duty of collective decision making - chiefly legislative and administrative bodies - supervised in turn by the institution of judicial review.

The Gödelian Puzzle Book

The Gödelian Puzzle Book
Author: Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2013-08-21
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486315770

These logic puzzles provide entertaining variations on Gödel's incompleteness theorems, offering ingenious challenges related to infinity, truth and provability, undecidability, and other concepts. No background in formal logic necessary.

A Treasure's Trove Puzzle Book Companion

A Treasure's Trove Puzzle Book Companion
Author: Michael Stadther
Publisher: Treasure Trove
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-09
Genre: Puzzles
ISBN: 9780976061861

In addition to 101 puzzles, this vividly illustrated book also includes exciting accounts and surprising information about historical treasure hunts.

British History Puzzle Book

British History Puzzle Book
Author: P. Parker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-10
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780712354400

Illustrated with beautiful images from the British Library's collection, The British History Puzzle Book will provide hours of entertainment and delight readers with questions for history novices to experts alike. It also spans British history from the first Stone Age settlers to today's post-industrial country. A spectacular, puzzle-fueled, myth-busting journey through the hidden history of Britain in 500 questions. Britain's history is one of the richest and most complex in Europe. From the first Stone Age settlers, through the Roman occupation, the waves of Germanic and Viking invaders, the wars of the Middle Ages, the consolidation of the United Kingdom, the British Empire, the two World Wars and today's post- industrial country, its development is filled with well-known highpoints and lesser-known byways. The British History Puzzle Book poses fascinating and fiendish questions which will test your knowledge of the nation's history to the limit and reveal a treasure trove of astonishing facts. So if you've ever wondered where cricket was invented, how many husbands the reigning queens of England have had, or who the first recorded tourist to visit Britain was, then The British History Puzzle Book will provide all the answers.

Berkeley's Puzzle

Berkeley's Puzzle
Author: John Campbell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2014
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198716257

Sensory experience seems to be the basis of our knowledge and conception of mind-independent things. The puzzle is to understand how that can be: even if the things we experience (apples, tables, trees, etc), are mind-independent how does our sensory experience of them enable us to conceive of them as mind-independent? George Berkeley thought that sensory experience can only provide us with the conception of mind-dependent things, things which cannot exist when they aren't being perceived. It's easy to dismiss Berkeley's conclusion but harder to see how to avoid it. In this book, John Campbell and Quassim Cassam propose very different solutions to Berkeley's Puzzle. For Campbell, sensory experience can be the basis of our knowledge of mind-independent things because it is a relation, more primitive than thought, between the perceiver and high-level objects and properties in the mind-independent world. Cassam opposes this 'relationalist' solution to the Puzzle and defends a 'representationalist' solution: sensory experience can give us the conception of mind-independent things because it represents its objects as mind-independent, but does so without presupposing concepts of mind-independent things. This book is written in the form of a debate between two rival approaches to understanding the relationship between concepts and sensory experience. Although Berkeley's Puzzle frames the debate, the questions addressed by Campbell and Cassam aren't just of historical interest. They are among the most fundamental questions in philosophy.

Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses

Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses
Author: Eric A. Hanushek
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2009-04-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1400830257

Improving public schools through performance-based funding Spurred by court rulings requiring states to increase public-school funding, the United States now spends more per student on K-12 education than almost any other country. Yet American students still achieve less than their foreign counterparts, their performance has been flat for decades, millions of them are failing, and poor and minority students remain far behind their more advantaged peers. In this book, Eric Hanushek and Alfred Lindseth trace the history of reform efforts and conclude that the principal focus of both courts and legislatures on ever-increasing funding has done little to improve student achievement. Instead, Hanushek and Lindseth propose a new approach: a performance-based system that directly links funding to success in raising student achievement. This system would empower and motivate educators to make better, more cost-effective decisions about how to run their schools, ultimately leading to improved student performance. Hanushek and Lindseth have been important participants in the school funding debate for three decades. Here, they draw on their experience, as well as the best available research and data, to show why improving schools will require overhauling the way financing, incentives, and accountability work in public education.

The Goblin's Puzzle

The Goblin's Puzzle
Author: Andrew Chilton
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2016
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0553520709

A boy, a goblin, a scholar, and a princess join forces to defeat a dragon, outwit a scheming duke, and solve a logic puzzle.

Satan, Cantor, And Infinity And Other Mind-bogglin

Satan, Cantor, And Infinity And Other Mind-bogglin
Author: Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2012-05-30
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0307819825

More than two hundred new and challenging logic puzzles—the simplest brainteaser to the most complex paradoxes in contemporary mathematical thinking—from our topmost puzzlemaster (“the most entertaining logician who ever lived,” Martin Gardner has called him). Our guide to the puzzles is the Sorcerer, who resides on the Island of Knights and Knaves, where knights always tell the truth and knaves always lie, and he introduces us to the amazing magic—logic—that enables to discover which inhabitants are which. Then, in a picaresque adventure in logic, he takes us to the planet Og, to the Island of Partial Silence, and to a land where metallic robots wearing strings of capital letters are noisily duplicating and dismantling themselves and others. The reader’s job is to figure out how it all works. Finally, we accompany the Sorcerer on an alluring tour of Infinity which includes George Cantor’s amazing mathematical insights. The tour (and the book) ends with Satan devising a diabolical puzzle for one of Cantor’s prize students—who outwits him! In sum: a devilish magician’s cornucopia of puzzles—a delight for every age and level of ability.