Accounting and Tax Aspects of Computer Software Manufacturing

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With limited exceptions, present accounting rules do not address software accounting, and state and federal rules of taxing software remain ambiguous. Up-to-date, comprehensive, and written by the leading authority in this field, Accounting and Tax Aspects of Computer Software Manufacturing explains these rules for anyone involved with the tax or accounting aspects of software, including accountants, attorneys, and corporate executives.

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Your business is either enhanced by the presence of trust or held back by the presence of distrust. Robert Shaw gives conviction and advice to the leader who recognizes that trust becomes a performance multiplier only when the leader is prepared to go first.
-- Craig E. Weatherup, president, PepsiCo, Inc.

If you've never examined how trust affects your organization, maybe you should. In this engaging book, Robert Shaw moves past the right thing to do argument and focuses on trust as a critical issue successful managers cannot take for granted. He shows how lack of trust is compromising more and more organizations in today's highly competitive environment. And he offers a way out. Drawing on a variety of examples from real business situations, Shaw explains trust's increasing importance at four key levels: individual credibility, one-to-one collaboration, team effectiveness, and organizational vitality. He then provides an assessment survey to help you determine how you and your organization measures up trust-wise, and offers action steps for overcoming trust dilemmas such as those that arise during reinvention efforts. A vital handbook for leaders, change agents, and anyone interested in building high trust for high performance.

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The business case for trust.......2001-07-13

We talk a lot about "trust" in my organization, but it's always in vague terms. You get the feeling that everyone has their own definition, which they assume everyone shares. This book breaks trust down into easily understood components, makes a bottom-line business case for improving your relationships in the workplace, and then helps you do just that. It focuses on behaviors, not motivations, and therefore gives you a framework for talking about trust without accusing or blaming. It's one of the most useful business books I've read in a long time.

Clear, Interesting and Practical.......2000-07-30

Robert Bruce Shaw addresses an issue that is often either neglected or handled with bromides. To its credit, Shaw's book does not overpromise by announcing a magical ten day program to restore trust. Instead, it provides an interesting variety of examples and succinctly shows how the organizations that have succeeded in establishing high levels of trust differ from their less adept colleagues. While doing so, Shaw does not engage in preachy denunciations. The overall tone of the book emphasizes creating solutions rather than affixing blame.

In that spirit, "Trust in the Balance" contains surveys of the key factors affecting trust in the workplace; surveys that can be easily used by the reader to spot problems in his or her organization. Each chapter has meaty analysis and specific guidance on the steps that should be taken to address particular trust problems. There is also a helpful "Trust-Building Resources" section in the back of the book.

One is fortunate to glean one good idea from many business books. Shaw's book contains many excellent points and observations. Anyone seeking a no-nonsense analysis of how to handle the "trust issue" should read this book. It will be well worth your time.

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Beautifully Written Treatise.......2000-06-02

This book is a beautifully written treatise on man-legislated law in the Roman Catholic Church today. It includes an invaluable historical perspective that could be complete all on its own. Father McKenna uses the ever controversial issues of confidentiality, marriage annulment and human rights, to explore the concepts of law underlying the complex workings of this universal church. Catholic Canon Law, set out in the Code of Canon Law, is probably the only universal system of law in the world. Despite the global nature and dimensions of our world today, that is a complicated concept. This dessertation sets out the map for the basic concepts and leaves the reader hoping Father McKenna explores more such issues in the future.

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The Ministry of Law in the Church Today
Kevin E. McKenna
Manufacturer: University of Notre Dame Press
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ASIN: B000OR0ZEA

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Highly recommended.......2000-03-25

As an engineer I feel obligated to keep up to speed with things scientific, and I also have an interest in Physics. This book definitely updates modern Physics to an average reader, and has many interesting stories to supplement the material. It has just the right mix of science, history and math to keep the reader interested. I seriously recommend it to all interested in Physics.

Gravity's Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves

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Gripping account of a controversial field
2nd half an interesting study of g. waves detection politics

Gravity's Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves
Harry Collins
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ASIN: 0226113787

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According to the theory of relativity, we are constantly bathed in gravitational radiation. When stars explode or collide, a portion of their mass becomes energy that disturbs the very fabric of the space-time continuum like ripples in a pond. But proving the existence of these waves has been difficult; the cosmic shudders are so weak that only the most sensitive instruments can be expected to observe them directly. Fifteen times during the last thirty years scientists have claimed to have detected gravitational waves, but so far none of those claims have survived the scrutiny of the scientific community. Gravity's Shadow chronicles the forty-year effort to detect gravitational waves, while exploring the meaning of scientific knowledge and the nature of expertise.

Gravitational wave detection involves recording the collisions, explosions, and trembling of stars and black holes by evaluating the smallest changes ever measured. Because gravitational waves are so faint, their detection will come not in an exuberant moment of discovery but through a chain of inference; for forty years, scientists have debated whether there is anything to detect and whether it has yet been detected. Sociologist Harry Collins has been tracking the progress of this research since 1972, interviewing key scientists and delineating the social process of the science of gravitational waves.

Engagingly written and authoritatively comprehensive, Gravity's Shadow explores the people, institutions, and government organizations involved in the detection of gravitational waves. This sociological history will prove essential not only to sociologists and historians of science but to scientists themselves.

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Excellent and Most Comprehensive.......2006-08-17

The research involved in complex sciences and in particular the study of delicate signals which emanate from the edge of our galaxy are not something for the faint of heart to pursue. Collins does a remarkable job of accurately and objectively telling the story of how four decades of intense research unfolded in search of Gravitational Waves by more than a dozen qualified scientists. His perspective is rare as we often are not told about the heartache and miscalculations which inevitably punctuate the search for new knowledge. This book is valuable from the perspective that the reader is shown the effort, dedication and pain that many people endure in the name of science. this is a story that happens time and again but rarely is told with such glaring accuracy to this level of detail and objectivity. Best hundred dollars I have spent on a book in some time and it certainly has aided me in my research

Gripping account of a controversial field.......2005-02-18

This book covers two related stories, each fascinating in its own right. It is first of all the definitive account of the controversy surrounding Joe Weber's claimed detection of gravitational waves, told by someone who has met and interviewed all of the leading participants since the origins of the controversy in the 1970s. Weber was a remarkable character whose story is one of considerable pathos and Collins gives a sympathetic and incisive account of his career and its ramifications that no one else is qualified to give.
The second part of the book covers the dramas that shaped the more recent efforts to detect gravitational waves, a remarkable story with important insights into the way big science projects evolve, sometimes to the point of near implosion. I was a graduate student at Caltech while some of these events occured, and was later a colleague of Collins while he conducted many of his interviews, and can only say that he does an amazing story full justice. As readers of the Golem will know he has a clear, direct style of writing which carries the reader along through a long book, partly for the intrinsic interest of the material, and partly for the engaging style. I highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in physics.

2nd half an interesting study of g. waves detection politics.......2004-10-28

Skip the first 400 pages, unless you're obsessed with Joe Weber. But read the second 400 for an interesting take on the politics and people involved in gravity wave detection. Also a decent presentation of the issues in gravity wave detection for non-physicists.

Ripples on a Cosmic Sea: The Search for Gravitational Waves (Frontiers of Science (Reading, Mass.).)

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Ripples on a Cosmic Sea.
Is There Life Out There?
Gravity
glossary anyone?
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Ripples on a Cosmic Sea: The Search for Gravitational Waves (Frontiers of Science (Reading, Mass.).)
David Blair , and Geoff McNamara
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ASIN: 0738201375

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The fascinating story of the race to detect gravitational waves-those magnificent ripples that will finally let us "listen" to the universe

In their first book for a general reader, Blair and McNamara weave a thrilling tale about the race to build the first gravitational wave antenna. What these scientists find will allow us to listen to the explosion of stars and the creation of black holes and will undoubtedly chart a new course for astronomy in the coming millennium.

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Ripples on a Cosmic Sea........2006-03-07

Overall this is an excellent treatment of a little considered but intriguing problem of physical theory, the direct observation of gravitational waves. Such waves seem to be demanded by Einstein's gravitational theory, general relativity, but, as gravity is by far the weakest of the fundamental forces, it is a phenomenon that presents great difficulty in terms of direct detection. In trying a little too hard to build interest in their thesis, the authors conjure a small blunder early on, but once they 'get down to business' the book unfolds as an exceptionally well-told story. The first chapter blunder is not particularly important to the thesis and many readers won't even notice it, so I'll return to it only as a closing thought, and only in the interest of defending science from misleading oversimplifications.

Paul Davies' foreword and the authors' prologue should not be missed, and when Blair and McNammara hit their stride, discussing the gravitational curiosities that are quite commonplace in our universe -- supernovae, black holes, white dwarfs, and neutron stars, especially pulsars which lend themselves so well to close mathematical examination -- the text is outstanding. The discussion of the processes that produce these objects is a real page-turner as is the examination of the objects themselves: A densely massive binary pulsar traveling at one-sixth the speed of light! Emitting the gravitational wave 'luminosity' of a hundred thousand galaxies! Talk about energy! If we could examine the gravitational wave spectrum, what kind of information might we glean? No one knows, but Blair and others want to. The text does become less interesting in protracted discussions of the mechanics and sensitivities of instruments employed in the search for gravitational waves and the myriad technical difficulties and challenges involved.

Okay, about that blunder: In a first chapter derision of "lies" taught "at school," the authors lament that students are taught "lies" about the correct nature of space-time, as opposed to other areas of scientific interest in which schools are said to teach "the truth." With uncharacteristic carelessness it is said that we are taught "the truth" about "the solar system," about "atoms," and about the biological "evolution of species." As a matter of sober epistemological integrity, such cavalier statements create an unwarranted mess. How can we teach "the truth" about the solar system if we are teaching "lies" about space-time?! Is "the truth" about atoms the so-called objective particles of the standard model or, are "particles" really field oscillations, the vibration patterns of string/M theory? Are "atoms" classical physical objects or pragmatic mathematical abstractions of 'something' rather 'immaterial'? Is "the truth" about biological evolution "the truth" of C. Darwin, "the truth" of L. Margulis, or "the truth" of S. Kaufmann? Is "the truth" of the evolution of species what R. Dawkins believes it to be, or is it what S.J. Gould argues, or is it what S.C. Morris thinks? Although each is held to be an 'authority', they do disagree. Strongly disagree. What a mess the authors create with just a couple of reckless sentences! If we must claim that we teach scientific "truths" we should do so cautiously, even tentatively (see R. Feynman). If we must call some things 'scientific truths' we should at the least restrict ourselves to what R. Penrose has wisely called our 'Superb' theories, as opposed to those that are merely 'Useful' or 'Tentative.' Superb theories are mathematically fertile, general relativity being an excellent example. There are only a handful of 'Superb' scientific theories and all fall strictly within the categories of mathematical physics. "The truth" of biological theories, such as the evolution of species for example, is unclear, and is at best an inductive or pragmatic version of "truth" and not a rigorous, mathematical "truth." (If biology has any theory that might advance beyond being 'Useful,' it is mathematical genetics.)

Anyway, once they've escaped the temptation toward bellicose grandiosities, the authors proceed to do a pretty good job. For those who might read and enjoy this book, I recommend a somewhat similar but even better book by cosmologist George Smoot, 'Wrinkles in Time.'

Is There Life Out There?.......2005-10-08

For thirty years now, a new kind of astronomy called "state of gravitational wave" has been taking place as we get ready to "listen" to what is out there. Gravitational waves are "ripples in space time." These infinte waves when they do happen will not disturb the placement of objects in four-dimensional space time (what we live in), but they may change the distance between them by stretching space time itself in one direction while compressing it in the other. Einstein predicted this in 1916 in his general theory of relativity.

Now, in LSU Physics Department, the mathematicians and physists (college instructors, not astronomers) have built LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. First, they used ALLEGRO to listen since 1991 but as yet no sound has come forth, to show us that there is indeed some intelligent species besides our own. In ALLEGRO, they used liquid nitrogen (77 degrees K) which can burn out pre-cancers but leave behind masses of scar tissue on a human's face. The second chamber used liquid helium (4.2 degrees K, the lowest temperature possible in nature).

The two LIGO detectors sensitive to different frequencies are waiting to hear the sound like a big, low-pitched bird. The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LIGO) is the latest in technology which will track three spacecraft orbiting the sun in formation. The gravitational wave detector outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana, will fliter out noise as it waits for the subtle shiver of a gravitational wave passing by.

These waves carry information about extreme astronomical processes now unknowable any other way. NASA and the European Space Agency are working together for an experiment with LISA in 2014. Astronomers have observed indirect evidence of this phenonenom with two white dwarf stars circling each other. As they spiral inward they will fuse into a single mass. We are eagerly awaiting ET as the changes in gravitational fields send shudders across the universe.

Thirty years of research and expensive equipment worldwide, but no evidence of what we are waiting or looking for. Maybe soon, if ET decides to come back to Earth. In the meantime, we wait and wonder.

Gravity.......2001-07-21

I too would have appreciated a glossary. Also illustrations would have been very helpful along with the explainations and descriptions of the various instruments used to attempt to detect gravity.

glossary anyone?.......1999-12-08

This book would have greatly benifited from the inclusion of a glossary. Any work covering a subject this complex needs definitions set out and collected together. The publisher's given web site was unavailable.

Please produce an audio adaptation ..........1999-06-02

To the publisher I would appreciate it if the publisher could produce an audio adaptation of this book. I would love to listen to this while I drive to work and to let my 16 month old son listen to it as a bedtime story. Arnold D Veness

Quantum Gravity: From Theory to Experimental Search (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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Quantum Gravity: From Theory to Experimental Search (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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The relation between quantum theory and the theory of gravitation remains one of the most outstanding unresolved issues of modern physics. According to general expectation, general relativity as well as quantum (field) theory in a fixed background spacetime cannot be fundamentally correct. Hence there should exist a broader theory comprising both in appropriate limits, i.e., quantum gravity. This book gives readers a comprehensive introduction accessible to interested non-experts to the main issues surrounding the search for quantum gravity. These issues relate to fundamental questions concerning the various formalisms of quantization; specific questions concerning concrete processes, like gravitational collapse or black-hole evaporation; and the all important question concerning the possibility of experimental tests of quantum-gravity effects.

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The Search for Gravity Waves
P. C. W. Davies
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Matters of gravity.(Gravity's Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves)(Book Review): An article from: American Scientist

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Matters of gravity.(Gravity's Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves)(Book Review): An article from: American Scientist
Lee Smolin
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Gravity's Shadow - The Search for Gravitational Waves
H Collins
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Gravity's Shadow : The Search for Gravitational Waves
Harry Collins
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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ASIN: B000OP5NTO

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Anoxic conditions--the environments in which life began--still persist in many places on Earth, such as in lake sediments, the guts of ruminants, and the deep waters of some marine basins. Ecology and Evolution in Anoxic Worlds offers a current and unified natural history of oxygen-free
environments and their microbial inhabitants. Drawing on evidence from a variety of scientific disciplines, the authors--two leading researchers in the field--describe the forces known to shape the structure, function, heterogeneity, and evolution of anaerobic communities. Topics range from the
origin and maintenance of anoxic habitats throughout Earth's history to the origin of prokaryotes, eukaryotes, and eukaryotic organelles to the development of microbial communities. Particular emphasis is placed on how energy-yielding pathways which have evolved in anaerobic microorganisms dictate
the syntrophic and competitive interactions that shape anaerobic microbial community development. The ecological and evolutionary significance of the arrival of oxygen in the Proterozoic is discussed in detail. Splendidly readable, Ecology and Evolution in Anoxic Worlds brings an interdisciplinary
topic of growing interest up-to-date. It will be sought after by students and researchers in ecology, microbiology, biochemistry, zoology, evolutionary biology, geology, marine biology, and oceanography.

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Best introduction to anoxic worlds.......2007-09-09

Ecology and evolution in anoxic worlds is one of the best introductions into the subject. I was recommended it by a research physician and I passed it on to a research palaeontologist. Not a bad coverage considering the fact that I am a tectonic geologist.

Review of Ecology and Evolution in Anoxic Worlds.......2000-06-08

This book is very clearly written. It provides detailed information about anaerobes and places it in the broader context of the evolution of life's cellular pathways. It serves as an excellent compliment to Zehnder's Biology of Anaerobic Microorganisms, which is a very difficult book to find.

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Electron Spectrum of Gapless Semiconductors presents the peculiarities of physical properties of a comparatively new class of solids - gapless semiconductors (GS). These peculiarities are determined by the main feature of the elctron spectrum, namely the absence of a gap between the conduction and valence bands. GSs form a boundary between metals and semiconductors. On the other hand GSs are of practical interest since they are very sensitive to impurities, and to the influence of light, magnetic and electric fields, and pressure.

Electron Spectrum of Gapless Semiconductors (Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences)

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Electron Spectrum of Gapless Semiconductors (Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences)
I. M. Tsidilkovskii
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The Devil's Own Dear Son
James Branch Cabell
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus
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ASIN: B000NX7GCE

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post-Poictesme Cabell at its best

Devil's Own Dear Son
James Branch Cabell
Manufacturer: Amereon Ltd
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ASIN: 0884115704

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post-Poictesme Cabell at its best.......2005-09-27

This is the final volume of James Branch Cabell's "Florida-trilogy", although, in terms of narrative and subject matter, an individual work, standing (or falling) on its own.

What appears to happen in the book is that Diego, the main character of the story, finds out that he is a son of Red Samael the Seducer, and, bound by filial duties, leaves his sedate, middle-aged life as a tourist-home manager, and sets out to hell to meet his father.

The main plot may contain some symbolical allusions, and, in the meanwhile, Cabell proves yet again to be one of the very best English language ironists in the history of literature.

As an interesting side note, Mark Twain was an enthusiastic admirer of Cabell's literary work, and Cabell wrote his early masterpiece, The Soul of Melicent (later renamed as Domnei), at the great humorist's request.

If you enjoy Devil's Own Dear Son, you will surely find much to love also in Jurgen, Figures of Earth, and in The Silver Stallion by the same author, or vice versa, as well as in the above mentioned The Soul of Melicent.

The Wildside Press edition (paperback or hardcover) is, as always, worth the price, and infinitely superior to decades old pocket book editions (unlike those old paperbacks, the Wildside Press paperbacks, although of varying sizes, are always pretty big, there's always lots of space around the image area, the pages are of superior quality and open well, the backs simply won't wrinkle, and so on).

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The Devil's Own Dear Son
James Branch Cabell
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The Devil's own dear son,: A comedy of the fatted calf

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The Devil's own dear son,: A comedy of the fatted calf
James Branch Cabell
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The Devil's Own Dear Son: A Comedy of the Fatted Calf
James Branch Cabell
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