MOUS Essentials: Access 2000

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I passed the exam!.......2001-12-03

I used this book to prepare for exam, and I passed on the first try! It used interesting examples, and I got through it without too many problems. This is a DIFFICULT subject, and I think they explained things really well. There is just so much to remember!

This book is not worth the $45 price tag........2001-11-22

This book tells the student repeatedly to "send the file to Drive A and remove the read only status." However it gives very little attention to relationships and join types. Also there are numerous typos throughout the book; some of which are obvious and others will cause the student to pull out their hair in frustration. This is a decent book if you have a good instructor who can steer you around its pitfalls....

Learning Access over the Internet.......2001-01-06

As a college instructor of software, I have found this book to be very understandable, challenging and compelling. Students new to Access can pick up this book and work on their own to understand the software with little assistance. Yet the book includes challenging exercises which can force the student to work with myself or other students to figure out how to approach the problem and solve it.

I have found this book to be better written then many others, the layout is friendly and enhances the classroom work. I am able to create labs from examples in the book which bring the concepts to the student with more clarity.

I use this book also to teach Access over the Internet. I provide the students with what problems to work and after completion of my course many have gone on to get Microsoft Certification.

I like this book and so have my students. I will continue to use it for my courses.

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Mous Essentials: Access 2000
Robert; Preston, John; Preston, John M.; Preston, Sally Ferrett
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OHDMD6

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The history of the microfinance movement in Latin America is brought to life through the lens of the Bolivian experience in MAINSTREAMING MICROFINANCE. Microcredit in Bolivia grew and became successful in only a decade, lifting an enormous segment of the country's population into the financial mainstream in the process. The example of its high-achieving institutions charted a course for the development of the international microfinance field.

Drawing on participant interviews, Elisabeth Rhyne details how Bolivia's special breed of social entrepreneurs found the keys to unlock the huge unmet demand of informal clients. She explores how these social activists shaped the character of the institutions that now dominate Bolivia's microfinance sector, and traces how these institutions proved that lending to microenterprises could become a commerical business. Rhyne investigates the transformation of NGOs into formal financial institutions, led by the creation of BancoSol, and closely examines microfinance under the conditions of commercialization and competition that have altered the dynamics of the new industry.

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This book will cut timely research out of your day by putting the latest review and analysis on franchise and distribution law at your fingertips.

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Designed to assist students in developing the skills required of professionally certified outdoor power equipment technicians, this book features operation, troubleshooting and service information that can be used to maintain and repair commonly used outdoor equipment, including: lawnmowers and garden tractors, snow throwers, leaf blowers and string trimmers, chain saws, and more! Comprehensive in scope, Small Engines for Outdoor Power Equipment begins by acquainting students with shop safety, tools and basic service information. Following exposure to "the big picture" of small engine operation, students are then introduced to the specifics of the ignition system, fuel system, governor and throttle control system, lubrication system, cooling and exhaust system, manual starting system, and the electrical starting and charging system. Both two-stroke and four-stroke engines are covered in detail. Small Engines for Outdoor Power Equipment also features step-by-step photo sequences to illustrate service techniques and provides students with an opportunity to "test" their knowledge by conducting a failure analysis and successfully rebuilding a failed engine.

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Outdoor Power Equipment-Book Review.......2007-05-11

One of the most informative books I've read on the subject. Very simple and illustrativly formatted. If your looking for the one book this one is it. When using this book with the repair manual of a specific manufacture you will have all the information you need at your fingertips.

Biorenewable Resources: Engineering New Products from Agriculture

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Biorenewable Resources: Engineering New Products from Agriculture
Robert C. Brown
Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing Limited
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ASIN: 0813822637

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Immense potential for sustainable development lies in the production of fuels, chemicals, and materials from bioresources. This timely book provides comprehensive coverage of the engineering systems that convert agricultural crops and residues into bioenergy and biobased products.Leading the way as the first textbook for coursework on biobased products, Biorenewable Resources: Engineering New Products from Agriculture covers not only pertinent technologies but offers a primer on necessary foundation subjects the student or other reader may lack: organic chemistry, thermodynamics, plant science, crop production, environmental science, and process economics. Of special value to those working or planning to work in the field are compilations of bioresource properties, such asproduction yields,bulk densities and moisture content,summative analysis of plant materials, andchemical conversion yields.By defining this multi-disciplinary field -at the interface between agricultural sciences and process engineering -Robert C. Brown has produced an introductory textbook that also serves as a handbook for agronomists, engineers, chemists, and environmentalists.

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Very informative
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A Museum of Early American Tools
A wonderfully illustrated peek into woodworking of old

A Museum of Early American Tools
Eric Sloane
Manufacturer: Henry Holt & Co
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0805012923

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Absorbing book describes, in detail, farm tools and kitchen implements and how they were made. Includes devices used by curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, loggers, tanners, coachmakers, and other craftsmen of the pre-industrial age. An informal, expressively written book for cultural historians, woodcrafters, and Americana enthusiasts. 184 black-and-white illustrations.

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Very informative.......2007-10-01

I love tools, especially old tools and I found this book to be a treasure trove of information. As the title claims, it is a museum. For every tool there are one or two drawings and a short blurb on the tools were used and made - frequently I want more detail than this, but it is a starting place, just as any museum. For the price, this book is a good value for any lover of old tools.

Great Art.......2007-01-17

Eric Sloane doing what he does best. The illustrations are superb as usual and so are the descriptions of how the tools were used. This book is bound to make you think differently the next time you are at a yard sale or fleamarket standing in front of a bunch of old rusty tools.

Great.......2006-06-04

I would have to say this is one of my best books! The pen and ink drawings a wonderful. So well writen with so much information. I just finished reading this again and feel like going and useing some of the tools in there that i own! I love working with wood and other materials in the American way. Some of the tecniques he dessribes are so ture an i use the all the time! If u love America and/or hand tools, you must own this book.

A Museum of Early American Tools.......2005-08-06

Very informative and well written

A wonderfully illustrated peek into woodworking of old.......1998-07-23

This book is loaded with great illustrations of the tools and uses of woodworkers and farmers of old. A fast read and a valuable resourse tool you will be using for years to come.

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Agricultural Power and Machinery
Clinton O. Jacobs
Manufacturer: Gregg Division McGraw-Hill
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ASIN: 0070322104

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Steam power on the American farm
Reynold M Wik
Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press
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Farm Power and Tractors (McGraw-Hill publications in the agricultural sciences)

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Farm Power and Tractors (McGraw-Hill publications in the agricultural sciences)
Fred Rufus Jones , and W. H. Aldred
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Activity Guide for Agricultural Power and Machinery

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Activity Guide for Agricultural Power and Machinery
Jacobs & Harrell
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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ASIN: B000VRMTBK

Changes in farm power and equipment: field implements, (National research project on reemployment opportunities and recent changes in industrial techniques ... in agriculture ... [Report no. A-11])

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Changes in farm power and equipment: field implements, (National research project on reemployment opportunities and recent changes in industrial techniques ... in agriculture ... [Report no. A-11])
Eugene G McKibben
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Energy for World Agriculture (Fao Agricultural Series)

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Energy for World Agriculture (Fao Agricultural Series)
B. A. Stout
Manufacturer: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FA
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Machine management selection, operation and maintenance

Farm Power and Machinery Management
Donnell Hunt
Manufacturer: Iowa State Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0813805821

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Machine management selection, operation and maintenance.......2000-05-03

An excellent guide to the costing, performance calculation and operation of farm machinery. The text is written extremely well and is easy to comprehend. Topics include machine performance, power performance, operator performance, costs, power and equipment selection, most farm operations are included. Only critism is that the computer programs are in Basic language (Excell would be prefered). Although principally for students of farm machine management, it would prove useful for any consultants or contractors dealing with farm machiney.

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American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. Contributors representing the federal government, foundation sector, and the nation's top scientists seek to define the major issues confronting the nation in ensuring continued U.S. leadership in biomedical research. Paper not simultaneously published. 19 U.S. contributors.

Large-Scale Biomedical Science: Exploring Strategies for Future Research

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Large-Scale Biomedical Science: Exploring Strategies for Future Research

Manufacturer: Natl Academy of Science
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A brave, new laboratory world: the future of stem cells and lab medicine.(CLINICAL ISSUES) : An article from: Medical Laboratory Observer

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A brave, new laboratory world: the future of stem cells and lab medicine.(CLINICAL ISSUES) : An article from: Medical Laboratory Observer
Anthony S. Kurec
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from Medical Laboratory Observer, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1154 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A brave, new laboratory world: the future of stem cells and lab medicine.(CLINICAL ISSUES)
Author: Anthony S. Kurec
Publication: Medical Laboratory Observer (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 37 Issue: 10 Page: 22(2)

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From bench to bedside? Biomedical scientists' expectations of stem cell science as a future therapy for diabetes [An article from: Social Science & Medicine]

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From bench to bedside? Biomedical scientists' expectations of stem cell science as a future therapy for diabetes [An article from: Social Science & Medicine]
S.P. Wainwright , C. Williams , M. Michael , and Farsides
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from Social Science & Medicine, published by Elsevier in 2006. 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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The movement of scientific research from the bench to the bedside is becoming an increasingly important aspect of modern 'biomedical societies'. There is, however, currently a dearth of social science research on the interaction between the laboratory and the clinic. The recent upsurge in global funding for stem cell research is largely premised on the promise of translating scientific understanding of stem cells into regenerative medicine. In this paper, we report on the views of biomedical scientists based in the United Kingdom who are involved in human embryonic stem cell research in the field of diabetes. We explore their views on the prospects and problems of translational research in the field of stem cell science. We discuss two main themes: institutional influences on interactions between scientists and clinicians, and stem cell science itself as the major barrier to therapies. We frame our discussion within the emerging literature of the sociology of expectations.

Imaging in biomedical science: Part three--imaging the future.: An article from: Advanced Imaging

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Imaging in biomedical science: Part three--imaging the future.: An article from: Advanced Imaging
Mike May
Manufacturer: Cygnus Business Media
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This digital document is an article from Advanced Imaging, published by Cygnus Business Media on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1072 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Imaging in biomedical science: Part three--imaging the future.
Author: Mike May
Publication: Advanced Imaging (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2004
Publisher: Cygnus Business Media
Volume: 19 Issue: 8 Page: 24(2)

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Large-Scale Biomedical Science: Exploring Strategies for Future Research
Sharyl J. (EDT) / Stillman, Bruce (EDT) / National Cancer Policy Board (U. S.) Committee on La Nass
Manufacturer: Natl Academy of Science
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSX6GI

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This book provides a comprehensive review of the present knowledge and current problems concerning physical-chemical aspects of the behavior of excess electrons in various media. The book's 13 chapters strike a balance between theoretical and experimental accounts and provide in-depth presentations of specific subjects. Among the several topics discussed in this stimulating volume are primary interactions, transport, and relaxation of excess electrons of a few tens of electron-Volts in various solid and liquid materials; energetics and transport properties of electrons after thermalization in non-polar dielectric liquids; quantum simulation methods; and electron solvation in polar liquids and of excess electrons trapped in polar matrices at low temperature. Applications of these concepts are discussed as well, including hot electron transport in silicon dioxide, the fate of excess electrons created in polar dielectric liquids by photoelectrochemical methods or by cathodic generation, and excess electron production and decay in organic microheterogeneous systems. Researchers, instructors, and engineers working in the radiation sciences, condensed-matter physics, chemical physics, biophysics, photochemistry, and the biochemistry of electron transfer and electrochemistry should consider this book to be an invaluable reference resource.

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Modern Techniques for Characterizing Magnetic Materials provides an extensive overview of novel characterization tools for magnetic materials including neutron, photon and electron scatterings and other microscopy techniques by world-renowned scientists. This interdisciplinary reference describes all available techniques to characterize and to understand magnetic materials, techniques that cover a wide range of length scales and belong to different scientific communities. The diverse contributions enhance cross-discipline communication, while also identifying both the drawbacks and advantages of different techniques, which can result in deriving effective combinations of techniques that are especially fruitful at nanometer scales. It will be a valuable resource for all graduate students, researchers, engineers and scientists who are interested in magnetic materials including their crystal structure, electronic structure, magnetization dynamics and their associated magnetic properties and underlying magnetism.

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Surrender, Dorothy

Solid effort

Blah......

We aren't in Kansas anymore

Unsatisfying drama

Surrender, Dorothy: A Novel
Meg Wolitzer
Manufacturer: Scribner
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Sara Swerdlow and Adam Langer are in many ways the ideal Manhattan pair. Their relationship is unvexed by the strains of sexual attraction, since both prefer men, and has even survived Adam's huge early success as "the gay Neil Simon." This couple, after all, can commiserate about lovers, talk about their favorite types, and ponder "the puzzlingly popular aesthetic of boxer shorts, which transformed all men into their uncles." Each August, along with their married friends Maddy and Peter, they rent the perfect Long Island wreck, complete with impossible landlady. Now that they're all 30, each is clinging to the last vestiges of youth--and a little concerned that Maddy and Peter's baby, not to mention Adam's new boyfriend, will alter the chemistry. But what no one can possibly know is that an accident will put Sara entirely out of the picture and bring her grieving, eccentric mother into it.

Killing off her ostensible heroine so early in Surrender, Dorothy may initially seem a bizarre undertaking, since Meg Wolitzer's fans would be more than content with her take on the foursome's summer holiday. The author, let's recall, is an expert social observer, and can turn a divinely comic phrase in her sleep. But in her fifth novel Wolitzer is aiming for more, and her expertly controlled scenes slide from charming farce to deeper melancholy. Set in a temporary summer rental, Surrender, Dorothy is really about the permanence of loss and revelation. --Kerry Fried

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For years, Sara Swerdlow was transported by an unfettered sense of immortality. Floating along on loving friendships and the adoration of her mother, Natalie, Sara's notion of death was entirely alien to her existence. But when a summer night's drive out for ice cream ends in tragedy, thirty-year-old Sara -- "held aloft and shimmering for years" -- finally lands.

Mining the intricate relationship between love and mourning, acclaimed novelist Meg Wolitzer explores a single, overriding question: who, finally, "owns" the excruciating loss of this young woman -- her mother or her closest friends? Depicting the aftermath of Sara's shocking death with piercing humor and shattering realism, Surrender, Dorothy is the luminously thoughtful, deeply moving exploration of what it is to be a mother and a friend, and, above all, what it takes to heal from unthinkable loss.

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Surrender, Dorothy.......2004-01-03

Thirty-year-old Sara Swerdlow and her friends Adam, Maddy, and Peter spend every August in a run-down rental by the beach, re-experiencing in these regular escapes from real life their one-time college intimacy--that peculiar closeness born of cohabitation and limited responsibility that most of us lose at graduation. This year the cast of characters is expanded: Maddy and Peter, long married, have added a baby to the mix, and Sara's closest friend Adam, now a successful playwright, has brought along his uncommonly handsome new boyfriend Shawn. Their first evening at the house this year, Sara and Adam make an ice cream run. On the way back, a tub of soft-serve vanilla successfully secured from the local Fro-Z-Cone, Sara is killed in a car accident.

Surrender, Dorothy is the story of the effect of Sara's death on this circle of friends and on her mother Natalie, Sara's life-long confidante, who joins the party at the beach for a weeks-long immersion in collective grief. While her characters bicker and mourn in this sometimes oppressive atmosphere, Wolitzer explores the network of their relationships, with one another and with Sara. While the subject matter of the book is of course sad, the final product is not unbearably so. Readers like myself who shy away from depressing novels need not fear this one.

Wolitzer, meanwhile, as I discovered also when reading her novel The Wife, is capable of some very fine prose, rich in detail. Very often her descriptions are spot on, depicting in few words the essence of some banal item, for example, such as the "cool, dented metal surface" of the Fro-Z-Cone counter. Every now and then, however, Wolitzer's descriptions go too far, and the reader is distracted by some improbable comparison: "Then, during pushing, that two-hour period of time during which Maddy began to hallucinate a roll of theater tickets unspooling from her [body] [okay, that's a bit improbable too, but not what I'm talking about].

Reviewed by Debra Hamel, author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece

Solid effort.......2002-06-28

"Surrender, Dorothy" is worth reading, and worth finishing. The prose is lyrical, there are mesmerizing individual images, and the characters live lives that are spiritually bereft -- even before the central character dies unexpectedly -- which makes them unusual in this type of story. I can't remember the last time I read a book about death that didn't involve religion or faith on some level -- it is refreshing that these characters deal with grief without delving into that.

I would compare the author to Elizabeth Berg and Ann Hood -- all three are good writers who have a tendency to keep their readers at an arm's length from the characters. I never fully connected with the story, but I could appreciate it.

A solid effort,though I'm not sure I would read this author again. She's good, but not entirely distinct.

Blah.............2001-09-04

What a bunch of adolescents. All pretty self-serving. And dissappointing. I don't think friendship is too awfully deep when you screw around with your best friend's husband. Kind of a book about 30 year olds not wanting to grow up - forget the fact that their dear friend has died. And talk about a suffocating mother....YIKES! This book is mediocre at best.

We aren't in Kansas anymore.......2001-08-17

I enjoyed "Surrender Dorothy" very much. However, I would have loved to have know Sarah more before her accident. Her character was not fully developed. I liked her best male friend the best. I found the other characters self-absorbed and often annoying. The overall plot was interesting and often heart-wrenching. The author really made you think about your own mortality and how we can touch and be touched by others people's lives...and the affect we have on each other. Ms. Woltzer shows great insight into the human heart. "Surrender Dorothy" was a very quick read.

Unsatisfying drama.......2001-08-15

Wolitzer's book describes the changes in relationships caused by the death of a group of friends' close friend, Sara. The book follows the lives of four thirty-somethings and Sara's mother through a period of a month immediately following the death. In these trying times, there is a mass of sexual tension, sexual frustration, professional jealousy and general apathy to the world outside their own summer house. In relaying this interplay, however, Wolitzer fails to fully develop her characters. Everyone exists solely in relationship to someone else and does not have the presence to exist singly. While this does underscore their closeness to Sara and her former position as the nexus of their relationships, it leaves the characters flat and unfulfilling. Even the tensions within the group exist more academically than actually; Wolitzer fails to convey the deep emotions caused by Sara's death or the explosive emotions that (should have) followed. She also clutters the book by throwing in numerous other issues wholly unrelated to the central theme. Shawn's fear of AIDS, Nathalie's reunion with an old high school friend and Peter's guilt concerning his infidelity do more to add to the comic nature of the story and improve its likelihood of becoming a series of scenes for a soap opera than further along the central theme: coping with the loss of a loved one.

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