HISTORY OF ACCOUNTANCY IN USA: THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ACCOUNTING (HISTORICAL PERSP BUS ENTERPRIS)

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The more I read this book, the more I understand why and how today's accounting runs.

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HISTORY OF ACCOUNTANCY IN USA: THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ACCOUNTING (HISTORICAL PERSP BUS ENTERPRIS)
GARY JOHN PREVITS
Manufacturer: Ohio State University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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The more I read this book, the more I understand why and how today's accounting runs. .......2005-09-07

The more I read this book, the more I understand why and how today's accounting runs. My major is Engineering, not business nor accounting. I tried to study accounting by myself. But I was confused about the reason that the accounting should run the way the textbooks said. Till I read the history of accounting. This book talked the accounting's history in the United Stated of America. I get how today's accounting come from and the close relation between accounting and business in the USA. That's to say, if there was not the history of accounting, the history of business did not live today. Reading this book is good for you, of course, and me.

Interesting but distracted.......2003-11-03

A generally interesting and enjoyable book. The drawback is that the authors' somewhat socialist world-view takes them into irrelevant tangents.

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In recent decades, the biosphere has become increasingly stressed, often beyond the point where the internal structure and function of ecosystems are sustained. We have experienced an intensified “exploration” of natural system resources to support agricultural and forest production, to provide water for human consumption, to supply the needs of industrial processes, and to provide, in addition, attractive, diverse landscapes for recreation and tourism. Exceeding thresholds via anthropogenic disturbance that results in degradation of ecosystems is dangerous, since the system-level effects and feedbacks (e.g., soil erosion, famine, polluted drinking water, etc.) are highly undesirable. Finding appropriate compromises in resource use that satisfy existing competitive interests and result in sound environmental management, especially in densely populated regions, requires an improved understanding of the trade-offs that accompany changes in “exploitation” or altered resource allocation at regional and landscape scales.

Progress on landscape-level understanding of coupled water, carbon, and nitrogen budgets is limited by a lack of commitment to a rigorous development and application of synthetic techniques (e.g., strongly linked remote sensing studies, geographic information system applications, computer simulation modeling, and ecosystem experimentation) more than by basic site-level measurement alone. Possible research approaches that will contribute to new use of ecosystem knowledge in a landscape and regional context were considered by this Dahlem Workshop. The importance of conducting improved landscape and regional assessment of ecosystem function as input to global scale efforts of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme is a major theme of this book.

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Superhigh Frequency Generators of Plasma describes the basic physical processes defining the properties and characteristics of SHF-discharges at pressures from 100 Pa to atmospheric. It provides a detailed analysis of propagation mechanisms of the discharge front in atomic and molecular gases, and it examines specific forms of discharges in external magnetic fields and under conditions of combined effect by SHF- and dc-electric fields. Methods for calculating the intensity of electric SSHF-fields and their energy efficiency in a plasma for different schemes of SHF-plasma generators are described. The book incorporates examples demonstrating the possibilities of utilizing SHF-discharges in modern technology, including one illustrating the preparation of finely divided powders of titanium, zirconium, and hafnium nitrides. Superhigh Frequency Generators of Plasma will benefit researchers and engineers dealing with the physics of plasma and plasma technologies, in addition to students interested in the topic.

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"[The] impudent Pimpernels of post-conceptual performance art." -Dave Hickey The Art Guys have done it again! In a project exploring the connection between fashion, art, and commerce that only these irrepressible mavericks could have conceived, the two Houston-based artists spent a year crisscrossing the country wearing suits by designer Todd Oldham on which they had sold advertising space to 56 American companies. Suits captures-through photographs, essays, and an interview with The Art Guys-the story of their often hilarious experiences in their guise as human billboards.

As readers discovered in The Art Guys' first Abrams book, Think Twice-the catalogue of their 1995 exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston-their unique brand of subversive humor is a springboard for insightful observations about society and behavior. In Suits, the duo have found a fresh, fun, outlandish way to make us think about our material culture as we never have before.

The ART GUYS are JACK MASSING and MICHAEL GALBRETH, artists who teamed up while students at the University of Houston in 1983. Their work has been shown all over the country in museums, galleries, and other spaces. The Art Guys live and work in Houston.

TODD OLDHAM is a well-known contemporary fashion designer.

DAVE HICKEY is associate professor of art criticism and theory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

SHAILA DEWAN is a former art critic for the Houston Press. She has recently joined the staff of The New York Times.

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Russian spacesuits is a unique contribution to space science. The authors, part of the original Zveda team that manufactured spacesuits for the first Russian space flights, still play an integral role in spacesuit research and development. Thus there is no-one better to describe the technical innovations of the past 40 years, which enabled Gagarin's first flight in 1961, the first space walk in 1965 and the Mir missions of the 1980s and 1990s, and which have culminated in today's International space Station. The authors also describe how the political climate within the Soviet Union and internationally has affected the development of the space programme and their work. Many documents are published for the first time that, together with photographs, detailed descriptions of the events of the time and the authors' personal memories, provide a fascinating review of a previously unknown aspect of space science

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Dressing for vacuum.......2007-09-11

Spacesuits should be of renewed interest with the upcoming private space tourist ventures.

I bought this book after I had the opportunity to examine, hands-on, a Russian SOKOL rescue suit. What struck me was the sheer simplicity of the design and I wanted to know more about this suit.

This book provides much of that background, plus that of the famous Orlan EVA suits and others in the history of the Russian space program.

Compared to the related books on US Spacesuits (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration), it is remarkable how different Russian suits are, and how much more conservative their designs are. Russian suits, like their spacecraft are relatively stable designs undergoing incremental improvements, probably in response to the much fewer resources available to them for development.

The book covers the development well, although I did not notice any mention of ideas borrowed from US suits, whereas the book on US spacesuits has a wry mention of the remarkable similarity of some US suit components to Russian ones.

As with the US spacesuit book, the same comments on the lack of color illustrations and technical details apply.

Suits for the Space Pioneers.......2007-03-12

In Russia, the need for suits to be worn in the upper atmosphere, developed in the 1930:ies, engendered the suits to be used in spacecrafts, outside spacecrafts and on the Moon. Naturally, the use of a protective garment inside the space cabin was the first usage, Juri Gagarin wore such a garment on his historic flight. Even today the protective garment is the iconic spacesuit, which we see Cosmonaut wearing as their uniforms for the trip off the Earth. Suits for extravehicular activities, EVA, are quite different. The Soviet Union, of course, never made it to the lunar surface, but had a cosmonaut, probably Alexei Leonov, made a landing, he would have been dressed for the occasion. After all, the first Space Walk ever was also a first testing of a garment to be worn on the Moon, by the man who was supposed to wear it!
The space suit technology, as developed in the Soviet Union, was even applicable to our canine friends, some of which did ballistic flights into space dressed more or less like the dog Milou in Hergés "Tin-Tin on the Moon". Thus we know where to turn if we want to walk our dogs on the Moon.
When Westerners started to fly in space alongside the Soviets, later Russians, in Saljut, Mir and International Space Station, it was as had inhabitants from different planets met. Now we may appreciate all those differences in technical culture as exemplified in the space suits of the Cosmonauts. There is, of course all the common ground resulting from like problems demanding like solutions, but overlying we see these subtle differences arising from different technical and engineering usages of two different cultures.
The book is co-authored by some of the actual developers of space suits in the then Soviet Union, later Russia, and thus as authoritative on the subject as can be. Fascinatingly, also, the historical developments inside the Soviet Union/Russia and internationally, reflect in much that the space suit developers had to contend with.
The scope of common activities betveen the Russians and the West European ESA was news to this rewiewer. We also note, that the Chinese "taikonauts" wear protective suits designed by the nowadays "Zvezda Development and Production Company". We also read of the challenge of rendering original technical texts in Russian into readable English, and concomitant difficulties inherent in the fact that, not only is translation of language required, but even the transliteration from one system of letters, i.e. Cyrillic, into our Roman alphabet poses its own problems and pitfalls. On the whole, the endeavour has been crowned with success. The system of measurements are, thankfully, the same on both sides of this barrier of language and glyphs.
All in all fascinating facts from a space program now slowly opening itself to inquisitive Western eyes. Great hopes for the future is embodied in the prospects of joint developments of the advanced spacesuits for space station EVA and the lunar and martian surfaces.

Russian Spacesuits.......2004-03-27

This is an excellent book with details not before shown outside the formerly closed confines of the old Soviet space program, except in various technical society papers. It has many excellent b&w photos and diagrams of Russian spacesuits from the SK-1, used for Vostok, up to the most modern Russian investigations of Mars EVA suits. The text is somewhat general in content though well written. It is also done in the typical style of Russian/English transliteration. Readers in the West, if they have not previously read any Russian technical papers, may find the transliteration hard to follow at times; but, this does not detract from the value of Mr. Ibramov's good work. If I had any complaint about the book it would be two items. First, the book lacks some technical detail in specific areas, so it sometimes creates more questions than it answers. If I did not already have a background in pressure suits some explanations would have confused me. The inclusion of a few explanatory drawings could have avoided this. Second, while the book gives credit, for the first time, as to which designers at Zvzeda created various general concepts, it does not often shed light on specific contributions, or the dynamimics involved in individual contributions. Nevertheless,I recomend this book. It is a MUST for your library. If the reader wants a technical look at Russian spacesuits I recommend "Pressure Suits and Systems For Work In The Open Cosmos" by Abramov, Severin, Stoklitsky and Sharipov. It is, however, a nearly impossible to find textbook.

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Another enjoyable book of his ;-)
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mediocre
Funny
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Guys in Suits
Van Whitfield
Manufacturer: Anchor
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0385498470
Release Date: 2002-12-03

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A group of friends try to make sense of love and life in the new millennium in this hilarious novel from Van Whitfield, author of Something’s Wrong with Your Scale! and Beeperless Remote.

After years of disappointment, Simon Washington has grown tired of the Washington, DC, dating scene. He’s desperately looking for a wife when he runs into his first love and determines to regain her affections. Meanwhile, Simon’s best friend Stuart Worthington is doing his best not to settle down when he also rekindles a relationship with an ex-girlfriend. As it happens, both friends are in immediate need of dates for their annual New Year’s vacation. With the clock ticking and their tickets waiting, Stuart and Simon lay plans to convince these old flames to accompany them, only to have a shocking revelation threaten everything at the last minute. With its page-turning plot and hilarious insights, Guys in Suits is a delightful novel that shines a spotlight on the imperfections of men, the enigmas of women, and the perils they both face in the quest to find someone right.

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Another enjoyable book of his ;-).......2006-08-20

I've read most of Van Whitfields books and I've loved each one I've read. He's funny, honest and has a really good writing style that makes it easy to read and makes it flow well.
This book is hilarious. Simon is ready to settle down after getting sick of dating when he runs into one of his ex-girlfriends and decides to try and win her back again. His best friend Stuart is trying anything but to get married but he also finds an ex and starts up an old relationship again.
I can't give away anything else because it's something you've got to read for yourself (you'll love it), but it's well written and really enjoyable. I love the 60-Day Relationship Rule For Guys in the front of the book. Very funny.
This is a great book and you'll see how addictive his stories are. As I said, I have a lot of his books, but not all - I'm going to go and order some more because I've not been disappointed yet by anything of his I've read so far.

Predictable.......2004-05-24

Although not a bad book, it was a little predictable. I got a little bored in the middle, but made it thru.

mediocre.......2003-05-08

The book was readable, that's about it. The ending was cute but the point of the story did not seem strong enough to me to base a book around it. The two main characters in the book are extremely immature. Example when Stuart (the suave guy) has to follow a list of things to say to a girl on a date. What type of suave guy can't even hold a conversation without a list to accompany them. They don't know how to act around woman and I hate reading books where the main characters are weak. Most of the stunts pulled in the book are very unbelievable and I didn't find the book very funny. But im guessing if you have read his past books and enjoyed them, you will also like this one.

Funny.......2003-02-18

As usual his work is funny, not his best but still enjoyable.

LADIES OF COLOR TURNING PAGES (BOOK CLUB).......2003-02-18

This book won an "Oscar" for Most Entertaining for 2002 from our book club-LADIES OF COLOR TURNING PAGES. We found the book to be light hearted, humorous and entertaing. We laughed aloud at many of the situations the two main characters-Simon and Stuart encountered. We noted that the author was honest and on target in his observations about men and how they deal with their emotions in relation to women and life.

Alien Alien: Memoirs of the Strange Looking Guy in the Silver Jump Suit That You Always See on Tabloid Front Pages during Presidential Election Years

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Alien Alien: Memoirs of the Strange Looking Guy in the Silver Jump Suit That You Always See on Tabloid Front Pages during Presidential Election Years
Ben Watson
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For decades the federal government and Air Force have denied that an alien spacecraft crashed at Roswell in 1947. Many people feel that there was a massive cover-up to hide this fact. Indeed there may have been, not by the Air Force, more likely by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The fact is, this alien creature escaped the grasp of the military after the crash and has been an illegal resident of the United States for most of the time since (at least in most time lines). This book tracks the convoluted history of Nilnix Esoterica (or at least that is what he called himself while he lived here) and the impact of his residency on the history of the post-WWII United States. This book is a ride through what happened, why it happened, and the way it happened in the other time lines where it happened or where it did not happen.

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Big Game Big Country
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BOULE SUIT AND OTHER STORIES
GUY DE MAUPASSANT
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000S4NPPA

Collected Works of Irving Langmuir Volume 12

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Collected Works of Irving Langmuir Volume 12
Guy [Ed] and Albert Rosenfield Suits
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Collected Works of Irving Langmuir Volume 7

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Collected Works of Irving Langmuir Volume 7

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The Grammar School Boys Snowbound SERIES #2 in RARE Color DustJacket Of Green/Red 3 Guys One Brown Suit Holding Flag Pennant & Wearing Brown Hat, One Basketball Outfit & Third in Green Tie White Pants Standing By Walter Hayn, (Grammer ) Written By H.

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The Grammar School Boys Snowbound SERIES #2 in RARE Color DustJacket Of Green/Red 3 Guys One Brown Suit Holding Flag Pennant & Wearing Brown Hat, One Basketball Outfit & Third in Green Tie White Pants Standing By Walter Hayn, (Grammer ) Written By H.
Color Dustjacket By Walter Hayn, Blank Endpapers Ink Inscription Date Former Owner, B/W Frontispiece of Boys in Room Mr. Fit at Door, Illustrated Internally in B/W H. Irving Hancock
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Mr. Pickwick's Promise: Bardell Against Pickwick : The Story of a Law Suit (Players Press Classicscripts)

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Mr. Pickwick's Promise: Bardell Against Pickwick : The Story of a Law Suit (Players Press Classicscripts)
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