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Study Guide for use with Fundamental Accounting Principles, Volume 2 Chapters 12-25
Kermit D. Larson , John J Wild , and Barbara Chiappetta Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0072869860 |
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Study Guide for use with Fundamental Accounting Principles, Volume 2 Chapters 12-25
LARSON Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OGN2FA |
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Study Guide: Legal and Procurement Processes
E. Lonergan Manufacturer: The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1861241259 |
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Study Guide: Legal Processes for Procurement
Manufacturer: Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1861240945 |
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Scrutton on Charterparties and Bills of Lading 18th Edition
Sir Alan Abraham; Mustill, Michael J. And Boyd, Stewart C. Mocatta Manufacturer: Taiwan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KF60ZO |
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The contract of affreightment as expressed in charterparties and bills of lading
Thomas Edward Scrutton Manufacturer: Sweet and Maxwell ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00087NPMK |
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The contract of affreightment as expressed in charterparties and bills of lading: By Sir Thomas Edward Scrutton
Thomas Edward Scrutton Manufacturer: W. Clowes and Sons ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0008B53OO |
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Scrutton on Charterparties
S. C. Boyd , A. Burrows , and D. Foxton Manufacturer: Sweet & Maxwell ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0421525800 |
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Scrutton on Charterparties and Bills of Lading Eighteenth Edition
Sir Alan Abraham; Mustill, Michael J. And Boyd, Stewart C. Mocatta Manufacturer: Sweet & Maxwell ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KF60ZY |
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Scrutton on Charterparties and Bills of Lading Eighteenth Edition
Sir Alan Abraham; Mustill, Michael J. And Boyd, Stewart C. Mocatta Manufacturer: Sweet & Maxwell ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KEZ47U |
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Complete Idiot's Guide to the Sun (Complete Idiot's Guide to)
Jay M. Pasachoff Manufacturer: Alpha ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1592570747 Release Date: 2003-08-05 |
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Everything revolves around it...and now skywatchers and armchair scientists can learn all about the origin and history of the sun. With information on the sun's physical properties; how solar flares, sunspots, and winds on its surface affect Earth's atmosphere and environment; solar and lunar eclipses, transits, and occultations, and early astronomers' discoveries about the sun, including Galileo, Copernicus, Francis Bailey, and the Mayans.Customer Reviews:
Peek Under the "Hood" of the Sun!.......2005-01-07
Not for idiots, not for laypeople - poorly written book.......2004-07-20
Jay Pasachoff is a preeminent scholar on the sun, but he was the wrong choice for this book (either that, or his editors really did a number his writing). When I read concepts that I myself understood clearly, and could perhaps have written that particular section, I found that I had to read them two or three times to make sure that, yes, this was what he was trying to explain.
This is not a book for idiots or laypeople. Idiots won't get it, because, well, they're idiots, and laypeople would get bogged down by the author's inability to relate relatively simple concepts. This book is a quagmire for anyone that wants to learn something about the sun.
Seek out the July 2004 issue of National Geographic if you really want to learn something, and don't know much. It's a terrific article, with wonderful color illustrations, cross sections - everything you could want to know.
All You Want to Know About the Sun.......2004-07-06
I really bought it looking for two things: an easy to read textbook about the sun and its workings, and a guide to help me observe it properly in white light telescopic viewing. It should be understood that this latter objective was not the intention of the book. Though the amateur astronomer with a small amount of solar observing experience would be able to sift through the chapters and find some things which he or she could use in bits and pieces, this is definitely not the correct book to be used as an observer's guide. I have to say that I still haven't found a better book for the beginning white light solar observer than James Muirden's "How to Use an Astronomical Telescope," though I am still looking.
For "The Idiot's... Sun's" intended purpose, which is teaching the curious about how the sun performs the way it does, this book is very hard to beat.
A Stellar Book!.......2004-05-19
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General Organic and Biological Chemistry: Study Guide With Answers to Selected Problems
H. Stephen Stoker Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0618606092 |
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Great Study Guide!.......2007-09-24
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Study Guide With Answers to Selected Problems: General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry
Stephen H. Stoker Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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chem lab book.......2006-06-14
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Surviving Galeras
Stanley Williams , and Fen Montaigne Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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On January 14, 1993, Stanley Williams led a party of fellow geologists up Galeras, a Colombian volcano that, though historically active, had been lying quiet long enough that they suspected it was due for an episode--and thus an opportunity for the volcanologists to practice their predicting skills. As they reached the lip of its great crater, Galeras obliged them with a vengeance: it erupted in a burst of fire and toxic gas, killing several members of the party and leaving Williams scorched and broken, "sprawled on my side, caked in ash and blood, wet from the rain, bones protruding from my burned clothes, my jaw hanging slackly."Rescued by two colleagues, Marta Velasco and Patty Mothes, Williams faced several challenges in the years to come--not only healing his body and exorcising the ghosts of Galeras, but also contending with other colleagues' whispered charges that he should have known the mountain was about to blow. But death, Williams and collaborator Fen Montaigne (Reeling in Russia) write, comes with the territory. Whenever a volcano has erupted in recent years, it seems, a volcanologist is among its victims, for, Williams notes, "the best way to understand a volcano is still, in my opinion, to climb it," and to climb it in all of its moods. And those moods, Williams and Montaigne add, are not easy to forecast, even if earth scientists have developed ever more accurate ways to predict events such as earthquakes and tsunamis.
At once a study in mountains, the history of geology, and the will to endure, Surviving Galeras is often terrifying, and altogether memorable. --Gregory McNamee
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Through a harrowing first-person account of an eruption and its aftermath, SURVIVING GALERAS reveals the fascinating, high-risk realm of volcanology and explores the profound impact volcanoes have had on the earth's landscapes and civilizations. In 1993, Stanley Williams, an eminent volcanologist, was standing on top of a Colombian volcano called Galeras when it erupted, killing six of his colleagues instantly. As Williams tried to escape the blast, he was pelted with white-hot projectiles traveling faster than bullets. Within seconds he was cut down, his skull fractured, his right leg almost severed, his backpack aflame. Williams lay helpless and near death on Galeras's flank until two brave women -- friends and fellow volcanologists -- mounted an astonishing rescue effort to carry him safely off the mountain. The tale of how Williams survived Galeras is the framework for a groundbreaking book about volcanoes, their physical and cultural impact, and the tiny cadre of scientists who risk their own lives to gain knowledge that might one day save many others' lives. Volcanoes unleash supremely powerful, unpredictable forces, and we have paid dearly for our understanding of their behavior. Even with ever more sensitive measuring tools and protective equipment, at least one volcanologist, on average, dies each year. Yet Williams and his fellow scientist-adventurers continue to unveil the enigmatic and miraculous workings of volcanoes and to piece together methods for predicting their actions. Volcanologists often put themselves in peril, not only because the discipline attracts risk-takers but because they know that volcanoes threaten as many as 500 million people worldwide. For Seattle, Tokyo, Mexico City, Naples -- and for volcanologists -- the clock is ticking.Customer Reviews:
A gripping read.......2005-06-18
Great adventure read.......2003-04-16
Nothing but a damn lie.......2002-09-28
Daring the goddess.......2002-08-27
In telling his own story of risk, injury and survival, Williams recounts his life and his colleagues' around the world. They come from many lands - Russia, Italy, Columbia and other regions beset by earth's upheavals. Williams, almost an anomaly as a native of Illinois - far from any volcanic activity [except, perhaps, politically], is intensely dedicated to the science. He describes the various volcanic processes and the impact volcanoes have had down the ages. The aim of the studies is to learn how to forecast eruptions. A major success in that endeavour was the saving of thousands of lives when the Philippine mountain Pinatubo erupted in 1991. Galeras, the Columbian volcano that nearly took Williams life, is neighbour to a town of three hundred thousand, Pasto. Attempts to instill evacuation programmes there was met with derision and resentment - it would hurt business.
Williams' accounts of volcano disasters make enthralling reading. From Pliny the Younger's attempt to rescue his uncle during Pompeii's famous outburst to modern eruptions, the failure of human populations to accommodate the threat are vivid examples of short-sighted views. Williams stresses the obvious threats, lava flows, "pyroclastic" flows of mud, ash and rocks mixed with toxic gases. He also recounts poorly recognized after effects the debris can evoke - chemical poisonings and crop and herd losses. Famine is a regular result of volcanic activity. Volcanoes are capable of global climate impact, the most famous being the 1815 Tambora explosion resulting in New England's "Year Without A Summer" which devastated crops and herds over wide areas. Williams attributes the wave of Western expansion to the impact of an eruption "a world away."
As a combined personal account and scientific study, there are few faults in this book. One can only hope someone derives a synonym for "pyroclastic flows" someday. Williams feelings about the event and the subsequent lives of the survivors are told with intense feeling. One can only sympathise with his distress at losing friends and co-workers and how the families bore up under the stress. His historical accounts cover both fact and mythology. Strangely, although Williams describes many of the gods associated with vulcanism, he omits the only American deity - Pele. As capricious as the Hawaiian goddess is, Williams reminds us that the island volcanoes don't threaten explosive eruptions. While that might offer some mild comfort to that State, Mammoth Mountain in California remains an unheralded threat to thousands in the Golden State.
the perils of vulcanology.......2001-12-02
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Bridging The Divide: Peacebuilding in the Israeli-palestinian Conflict (Project of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention)
Manufacturer: Lynne Rienner Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1588263908 |
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Geostatistics for the Next Century: An International Forum in Honour of Michel David's Contribution to Geostatistics, Montreal, 1993 (Quantitative Geology and Geostatistics)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0792326504 Release Date: 2007-03-30 |
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This book contains selected contributions from the International Forum on `Geostatistics for the Next Century', organized in honour of Michel David in Montreal, June 1993. In order to present current problems and concerns, disseminate new significant results and futuristic ideas, as well as to promote dialogue and critique, the book includes contributions from leading researchers and practitioners as well as comments by participants and replies by authors.
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1993 Mississippi River Floods (Disasters)
Jen Green Manufacturer: Gareth Stevens Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 0836844955 |
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Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences: 1993 (Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences)
George W. Wetherill , and Arden L. Albee Manufacturer: Annual Reviews ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0824320212 |
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Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 1993 (International Astronomical Union Symposia)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0792328809 |
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This symposium was devoted to the so-called minor bodies in the Solar System, and their mutual interrelationships. Asteroids, comets and meteors provide essential information on the history of the Solar System, starting with the early phases of planetary formation, until the present epoch. Different evolutionary processes have shaped the physical characteristics of the populations of minor bodies. Among them, collisional phenomena have played an essential role, as has been generally recognized by modern planetary research. This symposium was one step in the effort to sketch a general unifying scenario of the properties of the different populations of minor bodies, which are generally studied by separate scientific communities. In particular, the most recent findings on the interrelationships between asteroids, comets and meteoroids suggest that an interdisciplinary approach should be preferred. Only in this way can the properties of different populations of minor bodies be interpreted in the framework of a coherent picture of the history and evolution of the Solar System.
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The Children's Encyclopedia of Our World: 1993 (World Geography Series)
J. Tyler Manufacturer: Edc Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0746018452 |
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The Compass: The Earth-Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon - Vol. 70, #2, Spring 1993
D. F. (ed) Merriam Manufacturer: Sigma Gamma Epsilon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000PGK13A |
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Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns: 5th International Conference, Caip '93 Budapest, Hungary, September 13-15, 1993 : Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Dmitry Chetverikov Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0387572333 |
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This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP'93), held in Budapest, Hungary, in September 1993. Formerly, the events in this biennial conference series were thought as a forum where East European researchers and professionals from academia and industry had an opportunity to discuss their results and ideas with Western colleagues active in image processing and pattern recognition. Now, CAIP'93 has a much more international scope, and in the future these conferences will not any longer take place only in East European countries, but roam throughout whole Europe. Besides invited talks by Belikova, Gimel'farb, Haralick and Roska, the volume contains 114 contributions, either presented as lectures or posters and carefully selected by a highly competent international program committee from a total of some 230 submissions; thus the book gives a thorough survey on recent research results and their applications in image processing and pattern recognition. The proceedings is organized in 20 sections, for example on image data structures, image processing, edges and contours, Hough transforms and related methods, shape, motion, 3-D vision, character recognition and document processing, biomedical applications, industrial applications, and neural networks.
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Current & Tide Tables (1993) for Puget Sound, Deception Pass, the San Juans, Gulf Islands & Strait of Juan de Fuca
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis Manufacturer: Island Canoe, Incorporated ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0918439167 |
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High Magnetic Fields in Semiconductor Physics: Proceedings Of The 16th Internatioal Conference, Tallahassee, Florida, USA, 2-6 August 2004 (Semimag)
Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9812562907 |
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Campus Delicti: A Dan Quarrier Mystery
Lloyd Davis Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0595368301 |
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When Professor Bud Harkness is found dead near the campus of Allegheny State University, Dan Quarrier, an old friend and colleague, cannot accept suicide as the apparent cause of death.With the help of Wally Fosse, his younger, red-bearded and quick-thinking sidekick, Dan's private investigation, which is sanctioned by local police detective and former student Art Morris, turns up some very disturbing information regarding the victim and his past relationships in the university community.
In addition to solving the crime, Dan and Wally come across some humorous absurdities regarding life in a modern institution of so-called higher learning.
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When Professor Bud Harkness is found dead near the campus of Allegheny State University, Dan Quarrier, an old friend and colleague, cannot accept suicide as the apparent cause of death.With the help of Wally Fosse, his younger, red-bearded and quick-thinking sidekick, Dan's private investigation, which is sanctioned by local police detective and former student Art Morris, turns up some very disturbing information regarding the victim and his past relationships in the university community.
In addition to solving the crime, Dan and Wally come across some humorous absurdities regarding life in a modern institution of so-called higher learning.
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