From the Boiler Room to the Living Room: The Financial Services Revolution and What it Means to You and Your Clients

ISBN13: 9780470255094Condition: NewNotes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!Sure to make you think twice before responding to the next telephone sales call you receive, this volume explores why telephone boiler rooms and other scams thrive and how fraudulent techniques and deception migrate to and from conventional businesses. "The Boiler Room and Other Telephone Sales Scams" is grounded in the nine years Robert Stevenson spent working covertly as a "participant-observer" in telephone rooms (the ethical implications of which he discusses in an epilogue). As Stevenson details boiler room hierarchy, you'll learn why all boilers are telephone salesmen...

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Schwarzkopf Osis Dust It 10 gm

Sprinkle a small amount of powder into your palms and rub togetherRake through dry hair and lift into style with matt effectFor extra root volume apply directly to the rootsFor extra line separation apply more powder in small amounts where neededSEVEN-YEAR-OLD MATTHEW DISAPPEARS one day on a walk into Horshoe, a dust bowl farm town in Depression-era Saskatchewan. Other children go missing just as a strange man named Abram Harsich appears in town. He dazzles the townspeople with the promises of a rainmaking machine. Only Matthew’s older brother Robert seems to be able to resist Abram’s spell, and to discover what happened to Matthew and the others.“A remarkably effective sense of atmosphere.”â€"Kirkus Reviews, Starred“Choose it for...

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L.A. Confidential (Two-Disc Special Edition)

L.A. Confidential is "tough, gorgeous and vastly entertaining" (James Maslin, The New York Times) and won 1997 Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress (Kim Basinger) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Brian Helgeland & Curtis Hanson). Three cops, a call girl, a mysterious millionaire, a tabloid journalist fuel a labyrinthine plot rife with mystery, ambition, romance and humor. Format: DVD MOVILandmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom...

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Hard Boiled (Two-Disc Ultimate Edition)

A tough-as-nails cop teams up with an undercover agent to bring down a gun smuggling ring. Features some of the most amazing and influential action set pieces in cinematic history. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R Age: 796019801928 UPC: 796019801928 Manufacturer No: 80192A tough-as-nails cop teams up with an undercover agent to bring down a gun smuggling ring. Features some of the most amazing and influential action set pieces in cinematic history.Masterful Hong Kong action director John Woo (The Killer, Face/Off) turns in this exciting and pyrotechnic tale of warring gangsters and shifting loyalties. Chow Yun-fat (The Replacement Killers) plays a take-no-prisoners cop on the trail of the triad,...

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Hunter - After The Fall (Book One)

Twenty-First Century Civilization Will Soon CollapseJust One In Ten Thousand Will Survive The ApocalypseYou Have Been Chosen To Escape The Great PurgingWelcome To The Future...Praise for Maureen F. McHugh:"Gorgeously crafted stories."-Nancy Pearl, NPR"Hauntingly beautiful."-Booklist"Unpredictable and poetic work."-The Plain Dealer In her new collection, Story Prize finalist Maureen F. McHugh delves into the dark heart of contemporary life and life five minutes from now and how easy it is to mix up one with the other. Her stories are post-bird flu, in the middle of medical trials, wondering if our computers are smarter than us, wondering when our jobs are going to be outsourced overseas, wondering if we are who we say we are, and not sure what...

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Monster Claw Carnage - Spider-Man The Animated Series Action Figure

Monster Claw Carnage from the Spider-Man 3 3/4" action figure collection from HasbroEach figure comes with 3 Fiercest Foes Battle Cards and an interlocking web-tech accessoryFor Ages 4 & UpWith Suits for any mission, Spider-Man is ready to battle his fiercest foes no matter where they hide! The Carnage action figure comes with a snap-shut monster claw!...

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