Full-Color Fruit Crate Labels CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Series)

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These 92 brilliantly colored, royalty-free images once decorated old-fashioned crates of Florida grapefruits and oranges, Louisiana sweet potatoes, Oregon pears, New York grapes, and dozens of more products from California and other states. Now available for use in a wide variety of art, craft, and graphic projects, these labels will be fun for casual browsers and nostalgia lovers, too.

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Full-Color Fruit Crate Labels CD-ROM and Book (Dover Electronic Series).......2007-10-01

This is a great book of vintage label clip art. Very clean images and lots of diversity in subject. I would recommend for any craft, or graphic project.

Same Book as Old-fashioned Fruit Crate Labels.......2003-01-23

I bought this book and Old-Time Fruit Crate Labels in Full Color because I was interested in using some of the labels for decoupage. Imagine my surprise when I received them and found out the books have exactly the same labels inside--Full-Color Fruit Crate Labels just has the CD-ROM and a different cover.
The labels are beautiful and I will be using them, but I am disappointed that it is not possible to determine from the book descriptions that they have the same labels. Oh well, I'm giving my extra copy to our local library.

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'Shareholder Value' presents a powerful and useful toolkit of market-based perspectives, analytic approaches, valuation techniques, and specific financial metrics for use in everyday business life.

The author helps a broad spectrum of professionals understand the salient points and real world implications of a 'value management' movement which has taken hold in many corporations in the United States and around the world. This movement is being supported by some of the major institutional investors who influence financial markets.

The main goal of 'Shareholder Value' is to help working professionals grasp the concept of value 'creators' and 'destroyers', along with the implications. He also provides tools to measure the success (or failure) of major strategic and operational initiatives and enables corporate managers to understand how shareholder value is created, and then directs behaviour toward 'value-based' planning and action.

Although mainly aimed at the professional market, 'Shareholder Value' will also be of use to students of business and finance as it is intended to provide a comprehensive foundation for important elements of business strategy and acquisition valuation, corporate financial analysis, capital investments, corporate financing and economic value based metrics.

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When developing this book, I strived to achieve the following:

* Provide the finance professional and student of finance with a comprehensive template of shareholder value concepts and techniques - geared toward use in a corporate setting.
* Give the non-financial professional an understanding of the underpinnings and behavioural aspects of economic value management.
* Outline and provide details of an effective process for implementing a value-based financial performance system within a corporation.
* ...And, combine learning with enjoyable reading by presenting technical material through a story.

The "story" and "characters" are unique features of Shareholder Value - A Business Experience. The reader can get an appreciation of the environment surrounding value-based management, along with challenges that arise when transitioning from traditional "accounting" performance (where earnings and earnings per share reign supreme) to "economic" performance (where cash flow and return on investment are emphasized). Characters occupying operating and staff roles have been created to represent people that those working inside companies (large, medium and small) may encounter and, also, to invoke some humour. Insights into how to function in different corporate roles can be gained by following the characters through the story.

Presents a combination of analysis and case study in which a strong technical treatment is blended with a fictional case study to offer clarity and explanation
A practical and effective implementation process for a comprehensive financial performance system
Offers a perspective of the role of different corporate and business unit functions in the implementation of value-based financial performance within a company

Valuation effect of international joint ventures: does experience matter? [An article from: International Business Review]

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Valuation effect of international joint ventures: does experience matter? [An article from: International Business Review]
P.X. Meschi
Manufacturer: Elsevier
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000RQZXEA

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This digital document is a journal article from International Business Review, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This article investigates the relationship between accumulation of different types of experience (managerial and geographical) by companies involved in international joint ventures and shareholder value creation. From an event study methodology, cumulated abnormal returns (CARs), used as a proxy of shareholder value creation, are estimated for a sample of 67 French partners that announced the formation of joint ventures in China during a period ranging from January 1994 to December 2002. The results show that the valuation effect of experience has to be distinguished according to the type (managerial or geographical) of experience analyzed: French companies entering into joint ventures in China create more value as they accumulate alliance experience (experience in setting up and managing Sino-French Joint ventures) or international experience, whereas there is no evidence that these companies create more or less value as they accumulate Asian experience.

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This unique comprehensive volume in the Human Cell Culture Series encompasses research methodology for the growth and differentiation of all types of primary mesenchymal cells. Each of eleven mesenchymal cell types is covered by a leading expert in the field, providing insightful background information along with detailed current culture and assay techniques. Tissue types covered include bone, cartilage, tendons and ligaments, muscle (smooth, skeletal, and cardiac), adipose tissue, and skin (dermis), as well as multi-potent mesenchymal stem cells and fibrocytes. In addition to uses for research applications, current and future clinical applications of large-scale culture methods are also discussed. Further, the procurement and processing of primary human tissues is covered in detail. The generous inclusion of figures and tables, along with a consistent format, makes critical information highly accessible to the reader. Additionally, numerous literature citations provide a valuable reference for students and professionals in the fields of cell biology and bioengineering.

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General Circulation Models (GCMs) are rapidly assuming widespread use as powerful tools for predicting global events on time scales of months to decades, such as the onset of EL Nino, monsoons, soil moisture saturation indices, global warming estimates, and even snowfall predictions. While GCMs have been praised for helping to foretell the current El Nino and its impact on droughts in Indonesia, its full power is only now being recognized by international scientists and governments who seek to link GCMs to help them estimate fish harvests, risk of floods, landslides, and even forest fires.
Scientists in oceanography, hydrology, meteorology, and climatology and civil, ocean, and geological engineers perceive a need for a reference on GCM design. In this compilation of information by an internationally recognized group of experts, Professor Randall brings together the knowledge base of the forerunners in theoretical and applied frontiers of GCM development. General Circulation Model Development focuses on the past, present, and future design of numerical methods for general circulation modeling, as well as the physical parameterizations required for their proper implementation. Additional chapters on climate simulation and other applications provide illustrative examples of state-of-the-art GCM design.

Key Features
* Foreword by Norman Phillips
* Authoritative overviews of current issues and ideas on global circulation modeling by leading experts
* Retrospective and forward-looking chapters by Akio Arakawa of UCLA
* Historical perspectives on the early years of general circulation modeling
* Indispensable reference for researchers and graduate students

General Circulation Model Development: Past, Present, and Future (International Geophysics)

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General Circulation Model Development: Past, Present, and Future (International Geophysics)
David A. Randall
Manufacturer: Academic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OHKOAA

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A thorough introduction to atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) science and engineering

Atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) science and engineering stands at the confluence of strong scientific and technological currents in physics, chemistry, and electrical engineering. It seeks ways to expand our ability to use light for many purposes: to observe and manipulate matter at the atomic scale, to use nanostructures to manipulate light at the subwavelength scale, to develop quantum devices, and to control internal molecular motion and modify chemical reactivity with light. The two-volume Light-Matter Interaction draws together the principal ideas that form the basis of AMO science and engineering. Volume 1: Fundamentals and Applications fills many gaps left by standard courses and texts in chemical physics and electrical engineering to supply the basis of what the AMO scientist or engineer needs to build a solid foundation of understanding in the field.

Organized to serve as both textbook and reliable desk reference to a diverse audience ranging from student and novice to advanced practitioner, this book discusses both the fundamentals and common applications, including:

Classical absorption and emission of radiation
Quantum dipole coupling to the two-level system
The optical Bloch equations
Quantized fields and dressed states
Optical forces and cooling from atom-light interaction
The laser in theory and practice
Geometrical and wave optics: theory and applications
The Gaussian beam and optical resonators

Customer Reviews:

OUTSTANDING BOOK.......2003-11-19

This book covers most of the details regarding the light-matter interaction because it points to the actual topics right from the beggining, without boring and escessive formalisms. Even though by having 244 pages, it is more solid and clearer (by a far extent) than Yariv's one, and is much Better than Lounden's book. Perhaps, an odd point of the book could be that it has not extensive excersises left to the reader. Nevertheless, the book "really" introduces to hot topics in the field. I strongly recommend the book for first-year graduated students, and anyone that needs to have a quick straighten up for quantum electronics.

clear, cogent, relevant.......2003-11-02

This book fills a major hole in the education of EEs, p-chemists, and materials scientists that need to know something about the interaction of light and matter. Explanations get past the formal math to reveal the physics behind.

Comprehensive and well-written account.......2003-10-12

The thing that jumps out is that there is a lot of emphasis on the physical meaning behind the math. It puts everything into perspective quite well.

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And busting out of Chattahoochee State Hospital ... without his meds! The thrill-killing Floridaphile needs to get to the bottom of his bookie grandad's bizarre 1964 death -- not to mention launch "Serge & Lenny's Florida Experience," the new Miami specialty tour venture he's cooked up with his best brain-dead druggie-buddy. It's all good. For Serge A. Storms, anyway. Not so much for anyone else.

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"If I can only track down those diamonds I'm sure it will lead to the killer".......2007-09-02

In the last Dorsey book we finally found out what happened with the suitcase full of money, but now there is a new target for Serge and his "friends". In 1964 there was a big heist in New York and most of the jewels were recovered in Miami Beach, but there are twelve large diamonds that were never found. Guess who will go after them? In this case though, Serge's ultimate goal is not the valuable merchandise, but to find out what really happened to his grandfather. Serge believes his death is related to the diamonds and that he did not kill himself, but that he was murdered instead.

As is normally the case, Dorsey starts the book with an illogical scene, and then without warning us, goes back in time to explain how the characters got there and what is the logic behind the events. A group of salesmen visiting Miami for a convention decide to play a prank on an old friend. But being drunk, they grab the wrong person, who ends up dead in an accident during the "kidnapping". The fact that the victim was a member of the Palermo organization, one of the most powerful families in the Florida mafia, and that Serge was driving the limo, complicate things a little.

Serge has teamed up with Lenny, the weed fiend, and decided to put his knowledge and special personality to use. They start a tour business, which is intended to show the other side of Miami to those willing to take the risk. Once again, besides the hilarious comments and situations, we get a collection of eye-opening tidbits about Florida's history, in this case focused on Miami. The vast amount of things that bother Serge are also a treat to rejoice in; especially because he is right in most of them. For example, he is bothered by bait and switch tactics and by the last episode of "Seinfeld", among many others.

As those that are familiar with the series know, Dorsey consistently delivers an array of outrageous situations that make us laugh out loud. But in this case, there is much more, because part of the book focuses on the past. Yes, on the time previous to the death of Serge's grandfather, who by the way was named Sergio. We get to see who shaped Serge's personality and also the origins of this charming serial killer. I still can see him in my mind as an innocent little boy running around the tables in strip joints. For the Dorsey fans, this is as good as it gets, and for those that have not tried the series yet, I just have to say: What are you waiting for? Go and pick up "Florida Roadkill" right away and embark on this wonderful journey.

There is something to be said for escaping reality, ya know........2007-05-23

So, it's over the top, outrageous, ridiculous even. But, it's so dang funny -- And, you'll actually root for the serial killer, who's not all that bad.

You absolutely must have a sense of humor to read Dorsey. It's not cartoon-y, more of a futuristic Keystone cops on bad dope, perhaps?

Anyway, the Florida historical information is rich and believable and Dorsey includes enough truth in his work to make you think maybe the Sunshine state residents are sniffing the Coppertone a bit too enthusiastically.

If you need an escape and can't afford a plane ticket or the time to get away, try this book (or any of the other Dorsey novels) and you'll emerge refreshed and perhaps a bit stunned, but you'll know you've been somewhere.

An insane, zany mystery plus a Miami, history lesson. Wow!.......2007-04-07

So - It was an impulse buy.

There on the local Barnes & Noble, remainder rack.

Cadillac Beach - Ok! It was the cover art that made me pick it up; apparently this Tim Dorsey has written a slew of books. I figured if Tim was keeping the publishers happy (they are a notoriously, bottom line lot) he may be worth a "look."

Pretty damn good!

Serge, the main character, is thought to be criminally insane.
A fictional example of genius having its curious, other side.

Set simultaneously in 1964 and the present day Miami - Serge feels compelled to bring back the heyday of a bygone era - when Miami was America's southern jewel; exotic, trend setting, and notorious.

Throughout - it is difficult to determine whether Serge is a genius - appearing crazy or a lucky lunatic. Perhaps both.

What's good:

Insightful, historical backdrop - very funny - ingenious plotting- great characterizations

Not so good:

Sometimes over the top, a few, seemingly senseless killings, lengthy rants - the true genius of Dorsey's, inspired, plot twists may appear confusing

Somewhere towards the end, this novel seemed to run out of gas. I set it aside and thought about not finishing it. Gladly that was not my mistake!

Serge has a master plan that he never divulges. He links bizarre events and issues. With the main character's reasoning so horribly flawed that only humor can respite, the final product is simultaneously dirty and elegant.

I appreciate an author who brings more to the table than clever verbiage. Spoiled by writers who teach as well as they tell - I highly recommend Cadillac Beach!

Caslo

pointless .......2007-04-04

But humorous. This tale is too complicated to even begin to describe. Serge and his dopehead buddy Lenny never grew up, and take a wild romp through Miami under the guise of a tourism business. Lots of gangsters, shootings, diamonds, trying to find out what happened to grandpa Sergio, etc. The plot jumps back and forth over a 40 year span and becomes way too hard to try to follow.. just enjoy the pointless laughs.

A new Tim Dorsey Fan!.......2007-02-14

So, I desperately needed a new book to read.. I head down to the local Borders and happen to run across this book.. I figured it looked fun, so I'd give it a chance.. I love Tim's writing style, and only a genius could come up with that kind of storyline! My only question, when did he meet my father-in-law (Kooky Serge reminded me so much of him it was scary! LOL)

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Cadillac Beach : A Novel
Tim Dorsey
Manufacturer: William Morrow
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEKAI4

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