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This new text reflects Bill Kinney's experience on the special committee of assurance services, The Elliot Committee. The book is not designed to train students to be auditors. Instead, it has a strategic orientation and is intended for future managers, bankers, investment bankers, analysts, investors, IT consultants, and practicing CPAs. It is unique in that it builds upon related courses in finance, strategy, operations management, information technology, and financial and managerial accounting. There are two broad objectives of the book: 1. To introduce business students to the use of auditors and internal control to run a business better by lowering the costs of capital, production and distribution. 2. To assist accounting students by integrating their knowledge of financial and managerial accounting, information technology, and business strategy with the role of professional assurers.
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This book assists lawyers in identifying qualified legal counsel in more than 130 foreign jurisdictions.
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Guide to Foreign Law Firms
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Must Have Business Resource Book.......2000-06-15
Complying With The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act should be on the bookshelf of every manager who works with a U.S. firm doing business in an international market environment or any firm with reporting responsibility to the SEC. The book provides a concise and easy to read explanation of the FCPA and the expanded requirements of subsequent amendments. Mr. Cruver suggests measures individuals and companies can put in place to ensure compliance. Sample forms and agreements are included which make Complying With The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Second Edition an extremely useful resource tool. The cost of this book seems like a bargain when compared to the $69 million in fines one company agreed to pay in 1991 for FCPA violations.
Must Have Business Resource Book.......2000-06-15
Complying With The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act should be on the bookshelf of every manager who works with a U.S. firm doing business in an international market environment or any firm with reporting responsibility to the SEC. The book provides a concise and easy to read explanation of the FCPA and the expanded requirements of subsequent amendments. Mr. Cruver suggests measures individuals and companies can put in place to ensure compliance. Sample forms and agreements are included which make Complying With The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Second Edition an extremely useful resource tool. The cost of this book seems like a bargain when compared to the $69 million in fines one company agreed to pay in 1991 for FCPA violations.
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Unique among amateur astronomy books, The Cambridge Eclipse Photography Guide describes everything a viewer needs to know to observe and photograph the solar and lunar eclipses in the 1990s. It gives maps and descriptions of where and how to watch forthcoming eclipses, with particular attention to two popularly-awaited solar eclipses: an annular eclipse (where a ring of sunlight is visible around the moon) that will cross the United States in 1994, and a total eclipse that will pass over Europe in 1999. The authors also describe past eclipse expeditions, capturing the excitement of the observers. Well illustrated with color and black-and-white eclipse photographs, The Cambridge Eclipse Photography Guide will be an invaluable handbook for those who wish to witness--with safety and understanding--one of nature's most spectacular events. Michael A. Covington is the author of Astrophotography for the Amateur (Cambridge University Press, 1985, 1991). Jay M. Pasachoff, is the author of one of the bestselling astronomy books of all time--Contemporary Astronomy (1989)--as well as many popular Peterson Guides on astronomical subjects.
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Nice, short, and concise.......2000-03-22
This excellent guide was written by two of the most experienced professional eclipse speciallists in the world, so you are guaranteed to get highly useful knowledge that will help you a lot in your eclipse adventures.
One feature that I liked was its brevity. The authors go directly to the "meat". It is a thin book, but every paragraph contains a high dosis of information, nevertheless keeping a "light" non-boring style.
You will find its text, charts, and tables very useful, and its pictures lovely.
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This book offers a comprehensive introductory treatment of the organic laboratory techniques for handling glassware and equipment, safety in the laboratory, micro- and miniscale experimental procedures, theory of reactions and techniques, relevant background information, applications and spectroscopy.
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This proven and well-tested laboratory manual for organic chemistry students contains procedures for both miniscale (also known as small scale) and microscale users. This lab manual gives students all the necessary background to enter the laboratory with the knowledge to perform the experiments with confidence. For the microscale labs, experiments were chosen to provide tangible quantities of material, which can then be analyzed. Chapters 1-2 introduce students to the equipment, record keeping, and safety of the laboratory. Chapters 3-6, and 8 are designed to introduce students to laboratory techniques needed to perform all experiments. In Chapters 7 and 9-20 students are required to use the techniques to synthesize compounds and analyze their properties. In Chapter 21, students are introduced to multi-step syntheses of organic compounds, a practice well known in chemical industry. In Chapter 24, students are asked to solve structures of unknown compounds. Chapter 25 introduces students to reading the literature in organic chemistry.
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A great help.......2000-06-26
This book writen by Gilbert and Martin provides an excellent help to the student who is currently studying organic chemistry. It is full of useful information and it provides assistance for the completion of the organic labs. it is full of helpful pointers and they provide alot of useful knowledge
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Brilliant Collection of Essays.......2004-10-26
Donna Haraway will be remembered historically, if she's remembered at all, as the most misunderstood theorist of the twentieth century. Appealing to individuals used to simplistic rhetoric and discourse, due to her subject matters of feminism and science studies, Haraway uses langugae more apt to the deconstructions of Jacques Derrida. This connection is elided but important in understanding Haraway's project.
The essay "Situated Knowledges" offers the clearest construction of her argument, which is, roughly and unjustly on my part, to trouble the subject-object distinction and provide potential postions for ethical research and study.
Her brilliance makes her important but also extremely difficult. Why it was used for a sophomore level university class I'm not sure. This book promotes and profits from rereadings--and why else buy a book?
Brilliancies........2004-09-10
Donna Haraway's work in this collection continues to amaze me. Her intense critical engagement with the history of science is resolutely brilliant: she takes common conceptions of the body, objectivity, power, and 'nature' and pulls the rug of patriarchal metaphysics out from under them. These essays are concerned with unravelling origins myths, pointing out the pitfalls of political innocence, deconstructing our conceptions of the natural and the artefactual--you know, the usual. Her project is immense, but the she hones her points in each essay very well with dazzlingly astute political analyses and characteristic poetic phrases. If you're interested in oppositional antiracist feminist consciousness, Haraway's yr philosopher.
Jaded and slanted.......2003-11-02
"Simians, Cyborgs, and Women" sounds as if it might be interesting to discuss the connections between the three conceps upon first glance. Feel free to read the opening portions of the book. They are representative of the majority of the book. If you are well-versed in fanatical feminist theories - and, more importantly, agree wholeheartedly with them - then you will enjoy the book immensely. On the other hand, if you are expecting a healthy discussion of the basis of, rationale for, and definitions of feminist theories, look elsewhere. The book is rife with shakey feminist theories which serve as premises to even still more outrageous conclusions, without any attempt to justify the premises themselves. As a result, it ends up a house of cards, without a strong foundation, puffed up far more than it ever should. I would have been more interested in seeing a well-structured analysis of the views underlying the arguments she makes. Alas, a search for such an analysis was in vain.
Book Club 3.......2003-04-08
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Simians, Cyborgs, and Women written by Donna J. Haraway is a compilation of ten essays from 1978 through 1989 that focus on the idea that nature is constructed, not discovered, and truth is made, not found. Donna J. Haraway is a science historian and Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She explains her ideas in this book through a strong feminist viewpoint.
Haraway divides her book into three sections, each section addressing different topics. The first section of the book discusses feminist struggles of developing knowledge and behavior in the social lives of monkeys and apes. The second part of the book discusses contests for the power to determine stories about nature and experience. The last part of the book discusses the cyborg embodiment and the fate of feminist concepts of gender, feminist ethics and even discusses the immune system as a biopolitical map of the chief system of difference in a postmodern world.
My opinions on this book are very one sided. I did not enjoy reading it at all. I thought that the book was very difficult to read. The book had a great deal of words in it that I have never seen before. I found myself constantly looking to a dictionary just so I could get the message behind what Haraway was trying to relay. One of the other reasons that the book was difficult to read was because it talked about many theories and ideas that I have never heard about before. This would have not been a big issue if the theories had explained more before they were used in proving Haraway's arguments. A direct example of this is when Haraway uses the theories that Zuckerman and Rowell have about reproduction. There was one part of the book that I thought was fairly interesting and that was Haraway's idea, that people in today's modern world are cyborgs because we incorporate so much technology into our lives. I thought that that idea was a very clever way to describe our highly technical world. I went into reading this book with an open mind and I left the book with an open mind. Even though I did not enjoy reading this book and I thought it was very boring after reading it I am now more aware about how different people think and their point of view and that is always a valuable thing to take away from an experience.
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women The Reinvention of Nature.......2003-03-28
Christine Kovac
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Simians, Cyborgs, and Women The Reinvention of Nature
How did nature come about? Did it happen over night or was it a process that happened gradually over time? Donna Haraway, in a complex manner, addresses this issue in her book with a feminist perspective as she analyzes historical narratives, accounts, and stories about the creation of nature. She looks at several theories of famous theorists including Darwin's evolutionary theory, social constructionism, and Freud's body politic in order to justify her argument throughout the book.
Haraway believes and argues with insightful information that everything that exists is a form of construction in which one thing leads to the development of another and so on. She specifically targets women throughout her book when supporting her argument. For example,
"Teaching in women's studies classrooms is a historically specific activity. Such
teaching inherits, constructs, and transmits particular reading and writing practices that are politically complex. These material practices are part of the apparatus for producing what will count as `experience' on personal and collective levels in women's movement. It is crucial to be accountable for the politics of experience in the institution of women's studies. ......Women do not find `experience' ready to hand any more than they/we find `nature' or the `body' performed, always innocent and waiting outside the violations of language and culture" (Haraway, 109).
This particular situation is not an obvious feature when it comes to looking at the method of women's movement. It is the experience that women obtain which enables them to move forward in women's movement. It is constructed from one thing to the next, in which many different aspects such as experience are part of a process. It is humans that have constructed scientific evidence and then analyzed it and tested it over and over again. Haraway implicitly stresses that humans make what exists, things do not all of the sudden appear in front of us. She also talks about human bodies and how we make them, they do not pre-exist as many people believe. They are made through the process of intercourse between a man and a woman where a human organism inside a female comes to existence.
Haraway's book is ten complicated chapters full of many technical aspects about the evolution of nature through creation. While it is quite insightful, a lot of unfamiliar and technical language is used that can make the reading very frustrating. Identifying the specific argument Haraway is trying to make is not easy when digesting an incredible amount of complex information. It is a difficult book that addresses and investigates many theories critical to her argument that nature was constructed over time. If you have a lot of time on your hands, are interested in the development of nature, and are aroused by the enjoyment of intellectual challenges, I recommend this book.
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A number of general-purpose, reasonably accurate and well-tested ab-initio codes for crystals are discussed in this book. The aim is to expand competence of their application in material sciences and solid-state physics. The book addresses particularly readers with a general knowledge in quantum chemistry and intends to give a deeper insight into the special algorithms and computational techniques in ab-initio computer codes for crystals. Three different programs which are available to all interested potential users on request are presented.
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The Popejoys of Pistolburg
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White collar crime is something a simpleton like Bosco Popejoy should avoid, but an idea to sell property he doesn't own has been brewing since he was influenced by an infomercial on how to buy real estate with no money down. That plan takes wing when he meets Gwen, an old acquaintance on probation for misappropriating funds from Buster's Large Appliance. Together, they tackle the unfamiliar logistics of land dealing, delving into document forgery - which reveals a surprising talent within Gwen's family - followed by escrow circumvention, and eventually, the attraction of naive buyers. Two instances of biological extortion fill the news and Bosco can't shake a niggling suspicion that his shady father, a firewood dealer and part-time smuggler bent on largely unsuccessful attempts to sabotage earth moving equipment realigning the highway in front of his house, may somehow be involved.
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A plausible story for the good-humored reader!.......2002-03-18
"I'm not sure we've actually broken any laws. Is it written somewhere that you have to own land before selling it?"
Bosco Popejoy is the smart one in his family. He's got a good job over the Idaho border in Washington State delivering pizza on weekends and during the week he delivers firewood for his daddy. He's been learning new vocabulary from his "word a day" calendar and he's got the seed of an idea that's going to bring in some big money, if not a little time in "the pokey" if he's not real careful.
These days the TV news programs are consumed with an extortion story. Someone has blackmailed the walnut farmers out of a lot of cash by releasing a controlled amount of the Indonesian Stimite worm into a local crop thus threatening to ruin the entire industry. Perhaps the success of this scam is making Bosco a little bolder regarding his own get rich scheme. No matter, it's when he meets up and gets reacquainted with his high school crush Gwen Tipp that "Operation Gordon Surprise" gets solidified.
Gwen works as a flag girl for InterGlobal, a government contractor that is currently realigning a stretch of road in front of the Popejoy property, which Bosco's daddy is none to happy about. Gwen's own personal history includes an embezzlement charge from when she misplaced some bank deposits while working at Buster's Large Appliance. She's just completed 100 hours of community service, is paying restitution through garnished wages and is monitored by a malevolent probation officer. So even though Gwen starts off by saying that she wants to keep her distance from this scam, she's attracted to criminality and to what she calls Bosco's "dangerous aura." Besides, she's a natural con and between the two, is the one who puts the details together for this inventive real estate swindle.
About Bosco's aura, the only danger emanating from him is his own lack of worldliness in a town where everyone seems to have a shady deal going, especially his own daddy. To get to his pizza delivery job or to deliver cord wood, he drives through a manned US Border Patrol station that shares space with an Agriculture Inspection station. His daddy knows that locals are flagged by on their daily commute and takes advantage of this by placing containers of contraband in Bosco's old postal wagon (that he proudly refers to as his Jeep) or the twenty year old Ford 600 he uses for firewood delivery. Bosco doesn't even think to question any of this illicit activity, he just knows it as part of his daily routine. Gwen's the one that's curious about the people who seem to be tinkering around Bosco's vehicles whenever they are parked for any length of time. But as "Operation Gordon Surprise" gains momentum, Gwen is pleasantly surprised to learn that her own family has a depth of criminality.
At any rate, this novel will have you chuckling as you anticipate the outcome. Every one of the characters in this novel has some quirky habit that's hard to forget. C. Mike Reid succeeds in juggling the plot between the real land owners, the would-be marks, and all of the supporting events that in one way or another help this haphazard scam come to fruition.
Tangled in this and supporting the causality of the outcome is the daily lives of the poor Popejoy family, Gwen's fellow road crew, Gwen's aunt and roommate, and dozen other no opts. Throughout this novel is an overriding desire to find a way to get more than one's current share. As Bosco says when he and Gwen are thinking about the money, that he just wants to further his social education, gain a little experience, like "tour a cigar factory, learn to ski jump, use an ATM, rent a tuxedo... I've never flown in a plane, rode on a train -- shoot, I don't even know how to go about hailing a taxicab. I see these things on TV and it makes me want to join in."
One reason that I like to read novels is the chance to peek into how people might live in other parts of the country or world. The Popejoys of Pistolburg genuinely meets Reid's intention to "present people living through plausible situations for the enjoyment of the the good-humored reader." In fact, he fulfills a shameless curiosity entertaining us with this ignoble cast of characters.
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