ActiveBook, Accounting (5th Edition)

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Keown's Finance ActiveBook is an interactive, online, digital book that uses multimedia resources to greatly enhance the learning experience. FM 9e builds the presentation around the “10 Principles of Finance” as an insightful framework for showing “the big picture” of finance. This book provides a solid, enduring foundation of the tools of modern theory while at the same time developing the logic behind their use. Chapter topics include an introduction to the foundations of financial management; the financial markets and interest rates; understanding financial statements and cash flows; evaluating a firm's financial performance; financial forecasting, planning, and budgeting; the time value of money; valuation and characteristics of bonds; valuation and characteristics of stock; the meaning and measurement of risk and return; capital-budgeting techniques and practice; cash flows and other topics in capital budgeting; cost of capital; determining the financing mix; dividend policy and internal financing; introduction to working-capital management; liquid asset management; and international business finance. For anyone looking for a lasting understanding of the fundamentals of finance.

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difficult read.......2005-04-27

it seems like the writers of this text's intentions were to confuse the hell out of finance majors and intimidate them so that they would stay away from the finance 'game'.

I'm sure the book is chockfull of information, but using it for the two past semesters, i havent learned as much as i wanted to. Perhaps in the next edition they will be able to make the text easier to understand and read.

Finance can be a very intimidating subject, and the writers of this book seemed to have no intention of making the topic easy to understand.

Review of Foundations of Finance by Arthur J. Keown.......2000-12-20

This is an excellent text. I've read it thoroughly. The material , as presented, assumes a robust course in accounting at the college level. This text is for a student desiring a complete rendition in basic finance topics and techniques. The text is replete with many examples and challenging problems of various complexities. The presentation is easy to read. The book is directed to students perhaps majoring in economics or finance. It is not a purely descriptive rendition of finance. A

considerable amount of so called "numbers crunching" is involved in reviewing this text. As such, the book serves the analytic student optimally. The text is devoid of the most complicated analytics inherent in "quantitatively oriented texts". There is a good appendix on the use of financial calculators ,as well as, present value calculations and other useful knowledge supplemental to the study of finance. This book would be most useful to students planning their careers as financial analysts, corporate planners or private entrepreneurs.

Of all those Management books..........2000-12-09

This was the best. A very clear and concise book for the serious student being introduced to the subject of Finance. Other books on the subject I've seen are very abstruse or just plain hard to read aside from weighing a ton. I had another book twice as thick to complement this one and my class abandoned it in short order. This book is comparatively light and chalk full of useful ideas and examples laid out in an organized and methodical manner. The generous use of charts and tables was executed well. Probably as simple as finance can possibly be put while still retaining the rigor and teaching the processes necessary for making financial computations.

Topics included are on basic valuation of various securities and projects using discounted cash flows, capital budget management, liquidity management, etc. I'm still learning from it after school. There simply wasn't enough time to fully cover everything in the book that I would have wanted. Now I'm ready to tackle more advanced corporate finance books/materials.

This is an introductory book for someone who may be interested in becoming a financial analyst but is obviously geared to the educational market for use in schools. The academic slant limits its applicability somewhat. Although it may give a stock market player who wants to start understanding the systematic process involved in the valuation of securities on a cash flow basis some insight for example, discussion on valuation by multiples like P/Es is virtually absent.

Nonetheless a great book.

Best Finance Book It will help You Make $$$.......1998-04-22

I use this book at the University of Wisconsin Stout. I think this book is excellent. I'm taking a copy with me to London. "A must" if your a Finance major.

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Supervising others is a special challenge many people are called to do in their professional careers. The New Supervisor prepares those meeting this new leadership responsibility to gain confidence and project the right attitude from Day One. A best-seller for many years, The New Supervisor has been newly revised by Wil McKnight to include updated examples and an added focus on productivity and getting results.

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Good for newbie Supervisor and as a refresher.......2005-06-24

This book is well laid out with basic statement on how to function in the new supervisory position and some practical examples of situations you may find yourself addressing. There are questions to help you notice areas that you may have just scanned over. It may take only 55 minutes to read, however it will take some time to naturedly gain the skill sets.

I found several sections valuable in this shop. Especially the section on "supervising People Who Used to Be Peers." This constantly happens here.

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The first popular book to explain the dramatic theory behind the Moon's genesis

This lively science history relates one of the great recent breakthroughs in planetary astronomy-a successful theory of the birth of the Moon. Science journalist Dana Mackenzie traces the evolution of this theory, one little known outside the scientific community: a Mars-sized object collided with Earth some four billion years ago, and the remains of this colossal explosion-the Big Splat-came together to form the Moon. Beginning with notions of the Moon in ancient cosmologies, Mackenzie relates the fascinating history of lunar speculation, moving from Galileo and Kepler to George Darwin (son of Charles) and the Apollo astronauts, whose trips to the lunar surface helped solve one of the most enigmatic mysteries of the night sky: who hung the Moon?

Dana Mackenzie (Santa Cruz, CA) is a freelance science journalist. His articles have appeared in such magazines as Science, Discover, American Scientist, The Sciences, and New Scientist.

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Unconventional.......2004-04-26

This book stands on its own as a terrific work on science, both informative and compelling. Its ability to offer the big picture as well as technical questions is probably what makes it so interesting to laymen (like myself). But it has a distinctive stamp when compared to a great work that has become the gold standard in popular astronomy, Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Overall, the two books probably have more in common than not. And the Big Splat does share Sagan's great theme of science as a self-correcting project with a long history, one characterized both by truth and errors. But science is painted a little differently here. In Carl Sagan's works, unmanned exploration of space comes across as the chief scientific success of the space program, and Sagan himself was a critic of manned space flights. In The Big Splat, it is the Apollo landing on the moon that shines as the pinnacle of scientific gain. The moon rocks returned to earth, culled on the lunar surface by astronauts trained in what to look for, told scientists that old theories about the moon's formation were untenable, and provided the key to the new and widely accepted theory; the rocks did something very similar for theories about the origin of craters. Moreover, the sheer size and visibility of the Apollo program revived lunar science when it had fallen out of favor with the scientific mainstream and was ebbing. Very few people today know that NASA's space program has had such a profound effect on any scientific field or question. The author notes himself that the impact theory of lunar formation, though widely accepted since 1984, has made only slow progress into mainstream national culture. He also notes that if the impact theory is true - and it has fewer weaknesses than any of the three principal previous theories were known to have when they were each first proposed - then few people even today have heard about what is arguably the most important event in earth's history. It was certainly the largest impact in earth's geological history, upon which all biological and social history developed; and though The Big Splat does not get into it, the presence of lunar tides may have been a key to the development of life on our globe.

If the philosophy behind Cosmos has become the new, mainstream view of science, The Big Splat differs from it in at least one more important way. It does not rely greatly on the common theme of science-versus-religion (though that theme does appear). Science is presented as having its own fashions and dogmas, such as the onetime disinclination to take lunar science seriously, and the widespread prejudice against theories proposing large-scale impacts. The chief prejudice is one against lifeless planets: in the author's words, scientists as well as laymen had always proposed that there was life on the moon because "it was just too hard for the human intellect to grasp a place that was utterly devoid of life." In Carl Sagan's works, the greatest challenge to the human mind, and the largest opportunity to extend human knowledge, is said to be the possible discovery, by science, of extraterrestrial life; and religion in particular is portrayed as challenged by such possibilities. In this book, the role of that which is hardest for the human intellect to comprehend goes not to the discovery of life but of lifelessness: the discovery by Apollo that the moon was and always had been a lifeless body.

To read this book is to put yourself in the shoes of the past, to work out particular scientific questions step by step, in relation to larger cultural questions - that is, as the people of the past worked them out. That may be the book's greatest strength.

Moonies, meteors and tidal mechanics.......2004-03-16

There's no greater reading pleasure than good science writing. By combining ingredients from history, stirring in good data, adding some spice of characterisation, a recipe of adventure and inquiry becomes a delicious result. Dana Mackenzie has produced a confection suited to any reader's taste in this account of thinking about our neighbour in space. Tracing the history of thought on our satellite, he travels down the centuries to reach an earth-shaking conclusion.

It's difficult today to view the Moon as the ancients did. Once, it was considered a disc. Even whether its light came from the sun or originated from the lunar surface was disputed. The nature of the markings, Mackenzie explains, was equally contentious. The dark areas were finally deemed "seas" and the Latin "maria" remains with us today. After Galileo determined the moon was cratered, the origins of these enigmatic forms opened new discussion. Volcanoes held sway as their origin, although no Earth vulcanism had produced caldera of such size. Meteor impact was viewed with suspicion in an age when catastrophic events were looked on with cautious scorn.

The moon's effect on the oceans was realised in ancient times, brought strongly to further awareness as Europe sent ships to far shores. Tidal predictability became a normal calculation, but much about tidal forces remained mysterious, Mackenzie reminds us. Examining tidal action would help lay the foundation for the most likely mechanism of the Moon's formation.

Although Mackenzie introduces us to many thinkers on the lunar phenomenon, the key figure is Ralph Baldwin. In the midst of growing debate about the lunar craters, Baldwin had the temerity to suggest that one impact had formed a significant part of the lunar surface. The debate was resolved, of course, by the Apollo landings. Among the rocky souvenirs brought back from those explorations were some green, glassy samples. These objects can only be formed by high speed impact of solid bodies. Deep in the past, The Moon had bombarded by meteors. Some of the bolides had been large, and their origin remained in question.

One object had far greater impact than anything the lunar surface implies. It was the body that had led to the formation of the Moon itself. Mackenzie's "great splat" is the analysis of lunar material that revealed the Moon is made up of Earth-like surface material. The Moon doesn't have the iron core typical of rocky planets. The reason for this is that the Moon didn't co-form when the Earth did. The Moon was the result of a Mars-size planetoid striking the Earth shortly after its formation. The impact drove a mass of material into space which coalesced to form our satellite.

Mackenzie's lively account is an excellent read and highly informative. He deals ably with some tough questions and cantankerous characters. Scientific dispute is often entertaining, particularly when the reader has little stake in the outcome. Yet, anything that advances research should be given attention and this book deserves yours. In demonstrating that questions about the Moon are still with us, Mackenzie's final chapter examines the strange story of conspiracy theorists who contend none of the Apollo landings took place. It's easy to dismiss this kind of thinking until you become aware of how many accept the notion. He deals with it carefully, asking the questions and dismissing the idea with carefully developed answers. This finale is almost worth the price of the book. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]

wonderful read.......2004-02-17

This book is a wonderful read, detailing various theories of teh origins of the moon. More interesting to me was the history of these theories. Very few science books spend time talking about how ideas evolved, and in particular how ideas as recent as 30 years ago have changed. This book was fun and easy to read, and Dr. Mackenzie does a great job explaining the science and conveying the excitement he clearly feels for the topic!

Fascinating!.......2003-11-10

In this fascinating book, author and scientist Dr. Dana Mackenzie traces man's "scientific" study of the Moon from the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras, through the Pythagoreans, Aristotle, Kepler, Newton, and on to the present. Along the way, you get to see the flowering of modern science, and how advances helped and hindered the various explanations for how the Moon came into being. In the final chapters, the author examines the newest theory, and that is that the Moon was created by a collision between the Earth and another planet (which some have tentatively named Theia).

This is a book that really exercises the mind. It is highly informative, and brings the reader right up-to-date on the latest thinking on the nature and origin of the Moon. If you are at all interested in the Moon or the history of our solar system, then I highly recommend that you get this book.

As an added bonus, the book has an appendix that seeks to refute the theory that the lunar landings were merely a hoax, perpetrated by NASA. Overall, I thought that this was a well-written piece, but feel that anyone who believes in such a conspiracy theory probably wouldn't read this book anyway. That said, it gives you an interesting little thing to read when done with the book.

You'll never look at the moon the same way again.......2003-11-01

This book is not just for moon fans. It's packed with historical gems and scientific treats presented in an easy-going style. A real page turner for anyone who has ever wondered how our solar system go to be the way it is. The characters really came alive and the science was completely transparent. Highly recommended.

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Records cataloging the healing powers of natural substances - plants, minerals, and animal byproducts - date back more than 4,000 years. There is no denying the effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine, yet - until recently - the roots of this knowledge were largely lost in superstition and folklore. However, the use of herbs as an alternative medical treatment for many illnesses has increased steadily over the last decade, particularly since such herbs are categorized as "Natural Food Products" and are not yet subject to strict control by the FDA. Reports published in 1996 indicate that more than 10% of the US population has used herbal remedies. This book does not debate the value of Eastern or Western medicine but brings together Chinese herbal lore and Western scientific methods in a current, comprehensive treatise on the pharmacology of Chinese herbs. This second edition of The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs presents the chemical composition, pharmacological action, toxicity, and therapeutic value of 473 herbs. The book: · Classifies herbs according to their therapeutic value · Informs how active ingredients in herbs may adversely interact with other herbs or drugs · Evaluates which herbs have the potential for more investigation and possible use as drugs · Describes the pharmacological action of each herb based on recent scientific study and describes each herb according to Chinese pharmacopoeia and folk medicine · Provides a review of Chinese medical history · Presents information on how to use modern chemical techniques for enhancing or modifying herbal ingredients into better agents with more strength and activity What's New in the Second Edition Discussions on: · Herbs and their specific effects on the immune system · Herbs and fertility/infertility · Anti-cancer herbs · Anti-HIV herbs · Anti-malarial herbs · Ginseng and ginsenosides · Anti-Alzheimer herbs · Herbs affecting the nervous system

Customer Reviews:

Not worth the money, Nothing you cannot find on pubmed.com.......2004-04-29

I'm shipping this book back. It isn't worth the price tag given the info it provides. It is basically a regurjitation of pubmed.com research and abstracts. In fact with some of the entries I can almost read verbatim the abstract that it references. (In general I find CRC press books too pricey)

Concise guide to the scientific base of major herbal drugs.......1999-11-10

Very outstanding among the books on chinese herbs written in English (to be fair, many better books in Chinese exist but not well translated!)

Starting from the chemistry and ending with the toxicology, each important herbs included are presented in a well-balanced format; the therapeutic values are thus projected clearly on the empirical grounds.

The new edition is an updated gist of those related scientific works done but could not be tracked on the great MedLine due to the language barrier.

Thorough...a bit pricy, but well worth the expense........1998-12-09

As a Ph.D. student in biochemistry I have sought out critical references that would be accurate and legitimate treatises on the biochemistry and pharmacology of herbs. If one is truly interested in understanding the biochemistry and pharmacology of Chinese herbs, then this is the reference to purchase. Very intelligently presented in a concise scientific journal format, presenting critical and relevant studies on the herbs as they are currently understood with many references to the original research papers. I would certainly purchase other titles similar to this if their coverage of other herbs (e.g. South American, Ayurvedic) were as comprehensive, relevant, and credible as this one. Not for the herbologist interested in a hokey metaphysical distortion of truth. Ideal for the intelligent and/or educated layman that really wants to know what compounds are present in various Chinese herbs and what their activities are.

Pitfalls: Some listings are very brief (less than a page) For instance the discussion of Centella asiatica is only 1/2 page and listed under antipyretic herbs and makes no mention of nootropic effects if they, in fact, exist-Nobody's perfect.

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Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was one of the most prominent scientists of recent decades, a man whose expertise ranged from paleontology to evolutionary theory and the history of science. He was an unabashedly popular figure, attracting standing-room-only audiences to his lectures at Harvard and around the world. In his monthly Natural History columns and innumerable articles and books, Gould made evolution interesting in a way that hardly anyone—since the time of Darwin and Huxley—had been able to do.
In Macroevolution, major themes of Gould's work are reassessed in light of new research by his contemporaries. The book includes original essays by such noted scholars as Niles Eldredge, Richard Fortey, and Lynn Margulis on heterochrony, disparity, and macroevolution, stasis and the dynamics of evolutionary change, and mass extinctions. Fourteen essays provide an expansive overview of contemporary evolutionary theory. Macroevolution is a unique tribute to Gould that will be a valuable educational resource for students, teachers, and anyone interested in the work of this scientific provocateur.

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A Surprisingly Readable Collection of Papers.......2006-04-08

Generally, I find that I am unable to read scientific papers. But, although I have no formal education in biology (except for a freshman class a few decades ago), I was able to read most of these papers. I find that very appropriate since the collection is a memorial to Stephen Jay Gould, who is well known for his extremely readable essays for non-scientists.

These papers were published by a scientific journal and are still much more technical than Gould's Natural History essays. I have found a phrase which I think shows the general technical level of these papers: "...the monophyly of the triploblasts, those bilaterians possessing true mesoderm." If you are comfortable with that, I think you will enjoy and learn from this collection.

At least that was my experience I did have to struggle with parts. For example, evolution at the level of species as opposed to individuals was difficult; a few examples would have helped a lot. (If it would help you to know more about my technical level, you can click on my name, above, or on "See all my reviews".)

Each paper expands on some aspect of Gould's writings, especially his technical writing. Fans of his essays will be familiar with contingency, exaptation, punctuated equilibrium, the neutral theory, and, probably, some other topics. But these papers go deeper. For, example, in reading the essays, I couldn't understand why there was controversy about punctuated equilibrium; the concept seemed too obvious. Not surprisingly, I now find that there was a lot more to the theory, enough for the controversy to make sense.

The term "macroevolution" refers to changes that are more rapid than those Darwin wrote about. Besides the topics I mentioned above, developmental genes, mass extinctions, and variations in the timing of development promote rapid evolution. Most of what I've read about macroevolution has been about animals; to give a little bit of balance, there is a paper here about plants.

To sum up: if you're a nonscientist and have read several elementary and somewhat advanced books about evolution and you want to go one step further, this may well be the book you want. I certainly enjoyed it and will read it again.

[Original review 8 April 2006. Revised for clarity 6 June 2006.]

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This volume includes new topics such as the stochastic limit approach to nonequilibrium states, a new algebraic approach to relativistic nonequilibrium local states, classical and quantum features of weak chaos, transports in quantum billiards, the Welcher-Weg puzzle with a decaying atom, and the topics related to the quantum Zeno effect.

Mathematical and Physical Aspects of Stochastic Mechanics

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Mathematical and Physical Aspects of Stochastic Mechanics

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Mathematical and Physical Aspects of Stochastic Mechanics (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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Mathematical and Physical Aspects of Stochastic Mechanics (Lecture Notes in Physics)
Philippe Blanchard , and Ph Combe
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Nonlinear Dynamics of Chaotic and Stochastic Systems

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Nonlinear Dynamics of Chaotic and Stochastic Systems
Vadim S. Anishchenko , Vladimir Astakhov , Alexander Neiman , Tatjana Vadivasova , and Lutz Schimansky-Geier
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This book is a complete treatise on the theory of nonlinear dynamics of chaotic and stochastic systems. It contains both an exhaustive introduction to the subject as well as a detailed discussion of fundamental problems and research results in a field to which the authors have made important contributions themselves. Despite the unified presentation of the subject, care has been taken to present the material in largely self-contained chapters.The present book can thus be used either as a textbook by graduate students or as a modern monograph by researchers in this field.

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Great Comedy Radio Shows

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16 Classic Radio Programs on 8 cassettes

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The Great Radio Sitcoms
Jim Cox
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ASIN: 0786431466

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On January 12, 1926, radio audiences heard the first exchanges of wit and wisdom between "Sam 'n' Henry"--the verbal jousters who would evolve into Amos 'n' Andy and whose broadcasts launched the radio sitcom. Here is a detailed look at 20 of the most popular such sitcoms that aired between the mid-1920s and early 1950s, the three-decade heyday of radio. Each series is discussed from an artistic and historical standpoint, with attention to the program's character development and style of comedy as well as its influence on other shows. The work provides complete biographical profiles of each sitcom's stars as well as several actors whose careers consisted primarily of supporting roles in these popular broadcasts. Appendices include an abbreviated summary of thirteen sitcoms beyond those discussed in the main body of the book, and a comprehensive list of 170 radio sitcoms.

History of Radio: Great Comedy (Golden Age of Radio)

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History of Radio: Great Comedy (Golden Age of Radio)
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Take a step back in time to an era before television, VCR's, DVD's, and the internet. Relive Radio's Golden Age with TOPICS Entertainment's "Great Comedy Radio Shows". In the 1940's and early 50's, radio captured the hearts and imagination of nearly every man, woman, and child in America. Hollywood and the magic medium of radio literally drew entire families closer together with compelling serials and hilarious comedy and variety shows. Now you, your family, and friends can relive these classic moments with nearly three hours of digitally remastered classic, original radio broadcasts. These 6 shows feature some of the biggest stars to ever step in front of a microphone. So, relax. Get comfortable, and settle in for some of the best entertainment you've ever experienced!

Laughter in the air: An informal history of British radio comedy

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Laughter in the air: An informal history of British radio comedy
Barry Took
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Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy
Mark Lewisohn
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