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GREAT BOOK.......2001-09-27
THIS BOOK REALLY HELPED ME WITH MY ACCOUNTING PROBLEM. THE INFORMATION WAS VERY INFORMATIVE. THOSE AUTHORS ARE GREAT. I AM INTERESTED IN PURCHASING CHAPTER 1-14
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
SANDRA ROLLE
A useful addition to the textbook........1999-10-16
Useful if you are having trouble with figuring out how the information given becomes the report shown in the textbook. Expands on the subject matter, gives useful hints and methods, and shows you how to do things the right way.
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Intermediate Accounting is the bestselling book that has powered the careers of countless professionals. This new edition builds on the book's reputation for comprehensiveness, accuracy, and currency, incorporating all the recent changes to the accounting literature. Updated with the latest developments and standards in the field. The book includes a CD-ROM with an accounting cycle tutorial, a financial statement analysis primer, an annual report database, spreadsheet tools, career resources, and more. It will help readers develop the knowledge- and skills-base they need to succeed as professional accountants.
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Problem-Solving Survival Guide: Intermediate Accounting Vol. 2, Chapters 15-24.......2007-01-05
The problem solving guide gave excellent chapter sumarry for test review. The additional tips and explanations aided my understanding of the material and working through the problems showed practical applications of the material. I think it improved my class grade from a C to a high B. Highly reccomend it to students like me.
The Vol. 2 is not as good as Vol. 1.......2006-03-10
I received the book recently. Compared with its Vol. 1, this book is not as good. I've just gone over Chapters 14 and 15. The examples are not as clearly presented as the ones in Vol. 1. I have to say this book is not up to my expectations, but the book, of course, can still help.
Must have to accompany the textbook.......2005-10-20
The title, Survival Guide, is exactly as it means. This workbook, that accompanies `Intermediate Accounting' by Donald Kieso, is necessary to survive and understand intermediate accounting! The key is it gives you many more examples and probable situations to solve than the textbook could handle. I would not have done as well as I did in class without it!
Problem-Solving Survival Guide: Int Act. Vol. 2 Ch 15-24.......2005-09-24
Completing the workbook items really helps reinforce concepts and offers great practice for tests. The book is not perfect. There's an occasional typo, and I wish there was more space to write in the workbook, and I was expecting it to cost a bit less, but in my opinion the book is very worthwhile to use.
Intermediate Accounting.......2005-08-03
Haven't used this book yet. Will next semester. Volume I of this series was of great use to me. By practising the exercises my memory retention and understanding went a whole lot further. I would say this would be a worthwhile purchase.
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Most organizations spend less than 1% of their training budgets on measurement and evaluation, and this figure only covers post-program analysis. Yet to truly maximize the benefits of ROI, training and performance improvement programs should be measured throughout the planning and development process.
But before jumping on the ROI "bandwagon," you should first determine whether your organization is a candidate for ROI and also how to overcome the various barriers to ROI implementation. In The Bottomline on ROI, Patricia Phillips addresses these critical issues and more.
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An Excellent Primer on ROI.......2002-12-19
"The Bottomline on ROI" written by Patricia Phillips explains the principles of the Return on Investment (ROI) process clearly and succinctly and points out the most imporant aspects of implementing the process in order that it be successful. It is an important addition to the field of measurement and evaluation because it provides the benefit of Phillips's extensive experience in the field of measuring training and performance improvement but at the same time does not intimidate the new practitioner. Although my library is filled with books on evaluation, I keep this one in my hip pocket.
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Petroleum refining: A guide to the inspection of petroleum refineries for compliance with air pollution regulations
Darrell Hawkins
Manufacturer: Compliance Assistance Program ; California Environmental Protection Agency, Air Resources Board, Compliance Division
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- Provides a basic introduction to the topics covered in a beginning astronomy course, with an emphasis on problem-solving methods ordinarily taught “on the fly” or in ad-hoc tutorials - Closes the gap in student literature by providing a focused, comprehensive presentation of basic astronomical problem-solving techniques - Readers learn by example with the help of more than 200 detailed problems and step-by-step solutions, supplemented with over 100 detailed charts and graphs - Designed to accompany all leading 100-level astronomy textbooks, or to be used as a stand-alone guide for amateur stargazers
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Not a rave.......2004-09-17
This book is not recommended. Over the years, I have bought many of the Schaum Outlines and found them carefully written and comprehensive - until this one. Right from the beginning it is fraught with sloppy definitions and careless work.
Example from page 31, Chapter 2 "Sky and Telescopes"
Right Ascension (RA) is analogous to longitude. The ecliptic is the plane of the solar system, or the path that the Sun follows in the sky. Because the axis of the earth is tilted, the ecliptic and the celestial equator are not in the same place, but cross at two locations, called the equinoxes.
Comment - the ecliptic and the celestial equator are planes and intersect in a line.
Qne of these locations, the vernal equinox, is used as the zero point of right ascension.
Comment - but which one? The question is important because Right Ascension is measured from the Vernal Equinox
Example from page 33, on Tides
The Earth experiences one full set of tides each day (two highs and two lows), everywhere on the planet. Tides are caused by gravity. The Sun and the Moon both contribute to tides on Earth
Comment - the reader might wonder why there are two highs per day if the phenomenon is due to the rotation of the earth under the moon. Author gives no hint.
Good supplement for Introductory Astronomy.......2002-05-02
This book is an excellent text to compliment any introductory astronomy text. The review material is concise and well written, and the questions follow the same format and reasoning found in many textbooks. A good buy.
As easy as ABC.......2002-04-26
All the explanations and solved problems in this book are too simple. I think I made a mistake buying this "tome"....
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From the opening example to the closing chapter, the Second Edition of CHEMISTRY IN FOCUS maintains a consistent focus on explaining the connections between the macroscopic world (what we can see) and the molecular world (what we cannot see). With multi-part images that feature photographs of everyday objects or processes and magnifications that reveal the molecules and the atoms responsible, the book's "molecular vision" art program is truly unique. In addition, Tro develops students' appreciation for the fundamental role the molecular world plays in our daily lives and an understanding of how major scientific and technological issues affect our society. With coverage of global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, drugs, consumer products, and even the infant field of nanotechnology, the book is always contemporary, always fascinating.
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Very good book for an Introductory Level.......1999-05-12
It is a good book for people starting to learn about chemistry. It teaches the basic principles and more advanced effects on life, without going to much into detail, and therefore does not confuse the reader.
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Chemistry in Focus: A Molecular View of Our World/With Infotrac
Nivaldo J. Tro
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What does matter look like at the molecular and atomic level? Why are leaves green? Why do colored fabrics fade upon repeated exposure to sunlight? Why does a pencil leave a mark when dragged across a sheet of paper? All of these basic questions have molecular answers that teach and illustrate chemical principles. Nivaldo Tro introduces each concept with a thought experiment, then develops the chemical principles and concepts involved in a molecular understanding of the experiment. Once students have grasped the basic concepts, they are introduced to consumer applications and environmental problems related to the concepts. Mathematical aspects of chemistry are optional.
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From the opening example to the closing chapter, the Second Edition Update of CHEMISTRY IN FOCUS maintains a consistent focus on explaining the connections between the macroscopic world (what we can see) and the molecular world (what we cannot see). With multi-part images that feature photographs of everyday objects or processes and magnifications that reveal the molecules and the atoms responsible, the book's "molecular vision" art program is truly unique. In addition, Tro develops students' appreciation for the fundamental role the molecular world plays in our daily lives and an understanding of how major scientific and technological issues affect our society. With coverage of global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, drugs, consumer products, and even the infant field of nanotechnology, the book is always contemporary, always fascinating. This Update includes CNN Videos free with every new copy of the text and is now paperbound at the same low price.
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One of the fields of study opened up by the collapse of Communism is, oddly enough, that of the distant past: Western archeologists have for the first time in six decades been allowed to explore the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. This is the region explored in the 1930s by the famed Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History. It is also the region wonderfully described in this stirring book by Michael Novacek, the current curator of the museum's department of vertebrate paleontology, who led the recent expeditions onto the high desert and into the heart of the Cretaceous Period in Asia. In 1993, Novacek's expedition found an astonishing trove of fossils in a wasteland called Ukhaa Tolgod, not too far from the Flaming Cliffs where Andrews made his most important finds. But, as with all great travel adventure stories, getting to Ukhaa Tolgod is the real tale.
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Over the past six years Michael Novacek, the Provost of Science at the American Museum of Natural History, has led a team of international scientists to the Gobi Desert on the greatest dinosaur expedition of the late 20th century.
Closed to the West since the 1920's, the remote sands of Mongolia's Gobi Desert constitute the richest fossil site in the world. In Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs, Novacek invites the reader along with his team as he recounts the day-to-day drama of field exploration and discusses the remarkable discoveries that he and his colleagues unearthed, fossil finds that have helped to reshape our understanding of the dinosaur and early mammal era.
Interweaving the adventure of field research with chapters that bring the reader up to date on contemporary dinosaur theory and science, Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs brings the excitement of scientific discovery to life.
Customer Reviews:
Print size limits reader market.......2005-10-22
I purchased this book online becasue I heard so many great comments about it. However, I was very disappointed when it arrived becasue the print size is so small that even with my reading glasses it is not possible for me to read. I wish Amazon would require every advertisement to include the print size.
Return to Xanadu: A Paleontologist's Paradise.......2003-06-10
.....Only once in a great while does a book appear which makes a great leap forward in our understanding of paleontology and the per-history of the planet, and dinosaurs in particular. Such a book is "Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs." It is an account of the American Museum of Natural History/Mongolian expeditions to the Gobi desert in 1990-95, a place first explored by Roy Chapman Andrews of the AMNH in the 1920s, where the first scientifically studied dinosaur eggs were discovered.
.....Dr. Michael J. Novacek, the expedition leader and Sr. Vice President and Provost of Science for the Museum, gives us a riveting first-person account of these explorations, alternating with detailed chapters on the paleontological discoveries which they made. Moving from collections of bones to an appraisal of how the animals (reptiles and mammals) lived and died, he gives us a new understanding, based on discoveries still being analyzed, of the implications to existing life on the planet, including homo sapiens. Including in his analysis all of biology as well as geology, Novacek giges us pause to consider what will survive on earth after a similar passage of time. All this without leaving out the human element: 1990s Mitsubishis are just as prone to getting stuck in the mud or sand as were 1920s Dodges!
.....The expeditions start at the Flaming Cliffs in Mongolia's Gobi Desert, where the Andrews/Granger expeditions made their most important finds, and go on to desert locations, mountains and canyons such as the Nemegt Valley, with names like Tugrugeen Shireh, Kheerman Tsav, and Ukhaa Tolgod. This last location they called Xanadu, after Kubla Khan's famous "pleasure dome," because it was such a treasure trove of new discoveries. And they were not only dinosaurs, but often tiny mammals, our true ancestors.
.....Dr. Novacek presents us with the greatest assemblage of new paleontology discoveries currently available to the average reader, beautifully and amply illustrated by Ed Heck of the Museum staff.
.....No one interested in paleontology and dinosaurs can afford not to read this book. Nor can anyone interested in the course of life on planet earth. Dr. Novacek and his colleagues' work is still going on.
.....This book is highly recommended for everyone from high school to old age. Public libraries should have it in their science collections. And don't neglect "Time Traveler," a later book also by Dr. Novacek.
.....We can only hope that explorers like this will keep on going (to use Roy Chapman Andrews' phrase) to "the ends of the earth," and come back to tell us about it!
Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs.......2003-01-23
Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs written by Michael Novacek is a thrilling account of one of the largest dinosaur expeditions and finds of the 20th century.
Hidden in the Gobi desert in Mongolia are the famous Flaming Cliffs and within these cliffs are a multitude of dinosaur fossil remains. This site was known about earlier but with politics as they are not until 1993 did extensive documentation of the site occur. The American Museum of Natural History and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences teamed up to explore this site in the Gobi desert. This is by far one of the most extraordinary and miraculous fossil discoveries in history to be unearthed of Cretaceous dinosaurs and mammals. So many, in fact, that it has already helped to reshap our understanding of the dinosaur age.
I found this book to be a very easy and straight forward read. The narrative has excitement and flows well giving the reader valuable information at a steady clip. What I found interesting was the size of some of the animals found in the Gobi desert region. Whether sauropods were partial to watercress salads or treetop foliage, the question concerning the manner in which huge, absurdly small-headed beasts ate invariably comes up. The long necks of sauropods remaids one of giraffes, suggesting that these dinosaurs raised their serpentine necks into the canopy for browsing among the treetops. The necks of these sauropods varied from twenty to well over thirty feet long, making for interesting movement of the body or posture. There is a general discussion within the book that gives details of body shape to eating habits... also, the tooth patterns in the skulls help in identifing what and how they ate. Could dinosaurs have used stone to grind up the greenery that the consumed? Of course, some did. Were dinosaur warm-blooded, again of couse they have to be, is some cases. What about blood pressure in and 80 ton land animal are all and more of the questions posed in this book.
If you read this book it will pose questions about dinosaurs, but also, it will give plausable answers. What follows in the story is a journey to the Gobi and the find of the dinosaur Xanadu. The story enfolds the paleontolical lessons that can be appreciated and compares life today with that of long ago making a greater triumph for the history of life.
Interesting, educational, and fascinating in detail of a life long ago past.
So You Want To Be A Paleontologist.......2002-02-11
Michael Novacek's Dinosaurs Of The Flaming Cliffs is an excellent introduction to paleontological fieldwork and expeditions AND to the science of paleontology. The chapters alternate between the trials and tribulations of each new field season and the basics of geology, paleontology, and evolutionary theory. There is the occasional minor error [which I cannot relocate and since I just read a copy of the hardback, I cannot say if those errors have been corrected in the paperback], but these do not distract from the overall excellence of the book. This book predates the confirmation of the discovery of the end of the Cretaceous impact crater in the Yucatan, so the discussion on the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous will seem a little out of date to the knowledgable reader. I look forward to reading Time Traveler, Novaceks newest book. I highly recommend Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs to any fan of paleontology.
An essential update.......1999-12-13
Growing up in New York with the American Museum, I was an early dino fan. I made my parents get all the dinosaur books I could find, and they all had three pictures in common. The first was a poor Brontosaur being killed by an Allosaur (preferably squashing said Allosaur in it's death throes). The second was a Tyrranosaur and Triceratops locked in combat through eternity (said Triceratops preferably avenging the death of an innocent duckbill at the jaws of said Tyrranosaur). And the third was always a Protoceratops defending it's eggs from a vicious Oviraptor - the third in the unholy carnivorous dinosaur trinity, because we had never heard of Velociraptor/Utahraptor.
This was only twenty years ago, and recent discoveries have turned this whole third scenario on it's head.
The American Museum's expeditions to Mongolia have changed everything we know about Oviraptor. This one is a must for all dinosaur fans, taking us through what the expedition has learned about Mongolian dinosaurs since the seventies and describing the harrowing conditions that the expedition had to face.
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Doc an' Jim an' me: Humorous tales of camp life
Clyde C Newkirk
Manufacturer: National Sportsman
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