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This detailed overview provides a solid, in-depth introduction to all major accounting information systems. The coverage is balanced and comprehensive, with many current examples of AIS in practice. A single business firm is also used throughout to illustrate concepts and techniques as they are covered. An accompanying CD-ROM includes a wealth of additional material and greater-depth coverage.
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One of the Best AIS Texts.......2003-03-29
I have used the fourth edition of this book, and it's one of the best AIS text books I have seen. It's concise, to the point, and informative. The fourth edition of this book gets the point across without being longwinded. Supplementary materials are included on a CD and can be accessed if needed or to supplement the text material. The problems are extremely useful. I highly recommend this text for use in accounting information systems classes.
An overkill textbook.......1999-05-12
As a textbook for an accounting systems class, this text is extremely cumbersome and long-winded. The authors seem to want to beat every subject to death, which results in excrutiatingly long chapters. Much of the material may be relevant to information systems majors taking it in a series of two classes, but is probably not suitable for an accounting major class. The writing style is boring and cryptic in many places. Look into the Gelinas/Sutton/Oram or Bodnar/Hopwood books for much better content and readability.
This is a university text book, not a reference book.......1997-11-10
I was looking for specialized information and I failed to understand that "Essential Concepts and Applications" meant just what it said: this is a university text book for students, and in this quality it certainly rates a high grade, (although I am not qualified to say if it rates $ 311), but as a reference book for professional in the field, it is useless: half of the book introduces essentials of computer technology, the other half essentials of accounting, but none in depth. I will be more careful in the future and can only lament the loss. However, as a study text book, it is probably very good.
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DELETE to Accompany Accounting Information Systems: Essential Concepts and Applications, 4th Edition
Wilkinson
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World financial markets have grown tremendously in recent years. New financial instruments have emerged, and capital flows within markets and across countries have risen dramatically. While these developments have made financial markets more efficient, they have also increased the risk that events at one institution or in one market will have immediate and wide-ranging effects on the entire global financial system. Indeed, the recent crises in Southeast Asia are an example of how quickly crises can spread from one country to another.
To explore options for public authorities in adapting policies to keep the financial system safe and efficient, and to discuss response mechanisms to financial crises, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City sponsored a symposium titled "Maintaining Financial Stability in a Global Economy." The symposium, held at Jackson Hole, Wyoming on August 28-30, 1997, brought together a distinguished group of central bankers, academics, and financial market representatives from around the world.
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The noted copyright scholar Paul Goldstein offers a lively explanation of the concepts of copyright as it has evolved in relation to new technologies for the reproduction and transmission of intellectual property. Copyright issues shape much of our culture, and Goldstein shows how it touches on conflicting cultural, economic, and political values. Notes, index.
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Overview of copyright history through court cases.......2004-10-14
Copyright's Highway is not an overview of or introduction to copyright law. Rather it gives clearly written descriptions of the histories of some influential court cases relating to copyright and slanted towards copyright issues on the internet. Despite the title this book is very much slanted to the celestial jukebox and away from Guetenburg - after the second chapter we are in the 20th century.
Goldstein presents the history of copyright law in the US through court cases and not laws. The three cases described in great detail each with a chapter to itself are Williams and Wilkins vs the United States in which it was ruled that libraries can make xeroxes of copyrighted material, the Betamax Decision and a discussion of a lawsuit in French courts in which Ted Turner was blocked from showing a colorized version of The Asphalt Jungle in France. With the exception of the French case, which shows how US copyright law is based on very different principles than in Europe, these are cases that are getting alot of attention right now as people try to make sense of the internet. Trying to reconcile US copyright with copyright laws elsewhere is a big issue but not as pressing as for example whether I will be arrested for downloading all those mp3s. Many other cases are discussed in less detail. The selection of cases is excellent and it would benefit everyone to understand these cases.
The final chapter of Copyright's Highway looks to the future and gives various speculations about what will happen with copyright on the internet. Here the idea of the Celestial Jukebox, a sattelite from which all information in existence can be accessed by people on earth for a price, is described. Other issues include the pending lack of historical data because electronic publications can be modified and restrictions on copying can contribute to there being one source for any document, so older editions are not available for comparison. This chapter ties in the history Goldstein has described with restrictions and freedoms that will affect us in the near future. It may also date this book as time passes.
I reccommend Copyright's Highway to those who want a better understanding of current issues in copyright and how we got where we are in relation to copyright. It is very readable and presents detailed facts in an entertaining way.
An excellent book.......2000-12-31
This is not intended as a survey of copyright, although it does succeed admirably in introducing nonlawyers to the field and defining the major themes for those already in the field. Its primary focus, however, is upon several key cases and key issues, which are explored in detail, partly through the eyes of some of the major participants. This is of course a bit dated, and it is, alas, out of print. But if you at all interested in reading an overview from the undisputed master in the field, track down and read this book. Whether you're already into copyright or just wanting to find out about it, you'll come away with an enriched understanding of copyright.
-Edward Samuels, author of The Illustrated Story of Copyright
Good but wordy.......2000-01-16
My background is economics and finance and not law. Maybe because of that I found this book to be wordy and a little long-winded. The author approaches the subject from a lawyer's perspective. The book could have been better if it the author went into less detail on the one or two court cases he highlights and spent some more effort exploring some interesting concepts he introduces. Economic concepts like public good and private good, complementary and substitute goods, monopoly and copyrights, the role of the marketplace, and the intersection of copyright with natural rights were hinted at, but never fully developed. The highlight of the book is his chapter on the two cultures of copyright. Economists and lawyers sometimes fail to give the proper weight to how culture affects outcomes in society. Overall this is an interesting book that could have been better if the author was more pointed in his writing.
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Agricultural Landownership in Transitional Economies
Gene Wunderlich
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In this collection of essays, edited by Gene Wunderlich, individual authors from various institutions discuss the economics and political issues surrounding land reform and the privatization of agricultural landownership in formerly socialized economies. The authors provide a solid framework for understanding how changes in landownership affect farm organization and production, wealth distribution, the environment, and public services. The subject matter is particularly relevant, although not limited to, the formerly socialized economies of Central and Eastern Europe. This book will be particularly useful in economic development courses and classes studying comparative economic systems. This book also provides excellent background for consultants and policymakers. Contents: Foreword; Preface; Creating Private Ownership and Markets in the Agricultural Land of Formerly Socialist Countries (Wunderlich); Landed Property in Capitalist and Socialist Countries (Thiesenhusen); Changing Land Relations and Farming Structures in Formerly Socialist Countries (Lerman); Supporting Markets in the Agricultural Land of Transitional Economies (Munro-Faure); Farmland Conveyancing in Selected FAO Member Sates in Transition (Riddell); Agricultural Land Tax and the Transition to Market Economy (Muller); Authors.
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This digital document is an article from American Journal of Agricultural Economics, published by American Agricultural Economics Association on November 1, 1996. The length of the article is 2464 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: Agricultural Landownership in Transitional Economies. (book reviews)
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Date: November 1, 1996
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Economic Issues, published by Association for Evolutionary Economics on December 1, 1997. The length of the article is 2505 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: Agricultural Landownership in Transitional Economies. (book reviews)
Author: Jerry L. Petr
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Journal of Economic Issues (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1997
Publisher: Association for Evolutionary Economics
Volume: v31
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Silicon-mediated Transformations of Functional Groups
Helmut Vorbrueggen
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In the first work to comprehensively cover this all-important topic, the recognized expert Helmut Vorbr?provides both organic and bioorganic chemists with much new and valuable information for preparative synthesis.
Although every organic chemist may be familiar with different aspects of silylation for the protection of functional groups, this book covers the concept of protection while simultaneously silylating-activating various functional groups, such as amides and ureas. This novel methodology opens thus numerous synthetic pathways while effecting the elimination of water in it volatile persilylated form under rather mild reaction conditions, which are often advantageous compared to conventional methods.
The compact form and clear structure of this monograph make this a long-awaited ready reference.
From the contents:
- Introduction
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This is the first book to summarize the different instrumental approaches used to study surface reactions and interactions of geologic materials. Techniques useful for obtaining both qualitative and quantitative analytical data and techniques that yield chemical bonding and topographical data have also been included.
This handy compilation of surface analytical methods is of great current relevance since hazardous waste transport, acid rain, and other environmental impact problems are studied by these techniques. They are also important for studies of mineral extraction and ore deposit formation.
Special Feature: Focuses on the reactions occurring at surfaces and interfaces of geologic materials.
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The recent groundbreaking discovery of nonzero neutrino masses and oscillations has put the spotlight on massive neutrinos as one of the key windows on physics beyond the standard model as well as into the early universe. This third edition of the invaluable book Massive Neutrinos in Physics and Astrophysics is an introduction to the various issues related to the theory and phenomenology of massive neutrinos for the nonexpert, providing at the same time a complete and up-to-date discussion on the latest results in the field for the active researcher. It is designed not merely to be a guide but also as a self-contained tool for research with all the necessary techniques and logics included. Specially emphasized are the various implications of neutrino discoveries for the nature of new forces. Elementary discussions on topics such as grand unification, left-right symmetry and supersymmetry are presented. The most recent cosmological and astrophysical implications of massive neutrinos are also dealt with.
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Massive Neutrinos in Physics and Astrophysics (World Scientific Lecture Notes in Physics)
Rabindra Nath Mohapatra , and
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Carrion Colony
Richard King
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This absurdist comedy is set in a fictional penal colony, Old & New Bridgeford, in early 19th-century Australia. The use of boisterous language and over-the-top characters present history through a wickedly satirical lens.
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Carrion Colony
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