Accounting For Success, A History Of Price Waterhouse In America 1890-1990

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Set firmly within the larger context of American business history, Accounting for Success traces the evolution of the century-old, distinguished accounting firm of Price Waterhouse (PW). Allen and McDermott divide PW's history into three distinct periods. The first (1890 to the mid-1920s) covers the establishment of the American outpost of a British parent and the Americanization of its practice. The second (the next 40 years) highlights PW's rise to unrivaled professional leadership and the important role played by the audit. The third (the 1970s on) focuses on PW's response to the challenges brought about by the globalization of the economy, heightened competition among firms, and the growth of nonaudit services. The authors also address six central themes that recur throughout PW's history: the importance of the partner; the significant role played by the law in shaping the accounting profession's rights and responsibilities; the changing nature of accounting services; the continuously evolving and complex business environment; the highly visible role played by PW's leadership; and PW's worldwide approach to its business.

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Living History.......2007-03-09

If you want to learn more about the history of one of the first "global" accounting firms in America this book is it. FYI, I met my future wife while working at PW which was an excellent beginning to my career.

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International Human Resource Management: Managing People in a Multinational Context (Visit the Website)
Peter J. Dowling , and Denice E. Welch
Manufacturer: South-Western College Pub
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Readings and Cases in International Human Resources Management

Cultural Intelligence: People Skills for Global Business

International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior

International Human Resource Management (Routledge Global Human Resource Management Series)

Staffing Organizations

ASIN: 0324318669

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The new edition of this highly successful and groundbreaking text continues to cover key topics in International Human Resource Management while increasing coverage of emerging theory and issues in this area. Globalization of business is forcing managers to grapple with complex issues as they seek to gain or sustain a competitive advantage. Faced with unprecedented levels of foreign competition at home and abroad firms are beginning to recognize not only that international business is high on top management's list of priorities but that finding and nurturing the human resources required to implement an international or global strategy is of critical importance. The role of human resource management in this complex, ever-changing world is central to this book.

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Boring.......2006-08-23

Without previewing this book, I ordered it as the primary textbook for a graduate level course I was teaching in International HR Management. The table of contents looked comprehensive and since it was written by a couple of Australians, I thought it had to be good. Not so. Although the field of international human resource management is interesting and exciting, this book was not. Excessively wordy and academic, it was excruciatingly boring to read. My students unanimously gave it a thumbs-down.

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International Human Resource Management Managing People in a Multinational Context
Denice E. Welch
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N7IIPY

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This title is part of The Wadsworth Professionalism in Policing Series, edited by Samuel Walker. This reader is a descriptive presentation of current practices within policing and juvenile justice (focusing on gangs) that utilize the community-policing model. By looking at specific strategies and their efficacy, the authors attempt to combat a major perceived problem with community policing; that the methodology of community policing can be subjective and nebulous, using ill-defined and misinterpreted practices. This book shows what is working for agencies across the country and how these "best practices" can be employed.

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The Cambridge Planetary Handbook is an invaluable reference text, bringing together key facts and data on the planets and their satellites, discoverers and researchers. It summarises many centuries’ worth of data, from the earliest observations of the planets through to the most recent spaceprobe findings. The author discusses the history, mythology and theories of the main objects in our solar system, and provides a comprehensive information section with accurate and up-to-date data on the planets. The book contains excellent photography and explanatory illustrations, along with numerous historical drawings from Galileo, Huygens, Herschel and other astronomers. This book is a must for all astronomy enthusiasts, as well as academic researchers, students and teachers. Those unfamiliar with the sky will find this a user-friendly guide written in clear, non-technical language.

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Another Handy Reference Book.......2006-06-11

If you need a quick look up reference for statistical information on the major bodies of the solar system then this is a really fine book.

Excellent Resource Guide.......2004-10-07

I found this book while researching in the library one day for astronimical events. I opened it and became intrigued immediately. The information contained within it kept me fascinated for hours and still does. I refer to it anytime I wish to know anything about the planets, eclipses, statistics concerning the planets etc. Each planet is addressed separately giving a history of the founder, how it was located. The beginning of each section pertaining to a planet includes items such as:

Physical Data: Size, Mass, Escape Velocity, Temperature Range, Oblateness, Surface Gravity, Volume, Magnetic Field Strength and orientation, Albedo, Density, Solar Irradiance, Atmosphere Pressure, Composition of Atmosphere, Maximum Wind Speeds, Cloud Features, Surface Features, Orbital Data, Observational Data, Early Ideas (a good history of how people interpreted information in earlier periods of time when technology was not as advanced as now), Important Concepts, Transits, Interesting Facts, Observing Data which includes Conjunction dates, elongation dates, Close conjunctions, Eclipses if applicable, Historical timelines.

The above information is provided for each planet, which makes this invaluable source book. In the beginning of the book there are comparison charts showing how each planet compares in Albedo, Angular Size, Atmospheric Composition, Atmospheric Pressure, Brightness & size of the Sun from each planet, Brillancy at Opposition, Cloud Features, Constellations Visited by the Moon and Planets, Density, Distances from Earth, Distances from Sun, Eccentricity, Escape Velocity, Future Dates of Conjunction (up to 2010), Future dates of Opposition (up to 2010), Future Significant Alignments, Future Transits (up to 2255), Inclination of Orbit, Magnetic Field strength and orientation, Mass, Named features on the planets and the Moon, Names of the planets, Sun and Moon around the world (includes: Arabic, Danish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Spanish, Swedish), Oblateness, Orbital period, Orbital Velocity, Rotational Period, Rotational Velocity (equatorial), Size, Solar Irradiance, Speed of Light Travel Times, Surface Gravity, Synodic Period, Temperature Range, Tilt of Axis, Volume, Winds Speeds, Satellites (which includes all the subject headings here for each satellite)

This is a wonderful book, packed with information that will fascinate and amaze at the same time teaching you about the universe. Science was not one of my favorite subjects but now as an adult I truly have begun to love it thanks to this one book.

I also consult this book whenever I wish to validate any astrological information that I might be working with or on. Truly and indispensible book.

Handbook of Isotopes in the Cosmos: Hydrogen to Gallium (Cambridge Planetary Science)

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A must-have for anyone involved in nuclear astrophysics

Handbook of Isotopes in the Cosmos: Hydrogen to Gallium (Cambridge Planetary Science)
Donald Clayton
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Physics and Chemistry of the Solar System, Volume 87, Second Edition (International Geophysics)

ASIN: 0521823811

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Each naturally occurring isotope contributes to the history of matter by having its own special role in cosmic evolution. This volume elucidates the origins of our material world by looking at the abundance of the elements and their isotopes, and how this is interpreted within the theory of nucleosynthesis. Each isotope of elements from Hydrogen to Gallium is covered in detail. The book will be suitable for astronomers, physicists, chemists, geologists and planetary scientists, and contains a glossary of essential technical terms.

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A must-have for anyone involved in nuclear astrophysics.......2007-09-19

This book is easily one of the most useful books in regard to nuclear astrophysics. While the chapters have very repetitive structure and wording, this fits very well with the books namesake of a handbook, rather than a work which is meant to be read straight through.

While this book lacks many technical details, it is, to my knowledge, the only qualitative book on nuclear astrophysics, focusing on the connection of ideas in simple language. If you are interested in a technical book on the subject, these are widely available, from Clayton's 1968 Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis, to Rolf's Cauldrons in the Cosmos: Nuclear Astrophysics (Theoretical Astrophysics Series), Pagel's Nucleosynthesis and Chemical Evolution of Galaxies, Arnett's Supernovae and Nucleosynthesis (Princeton Series in Astrophysics) and Iliadis's Nuclear Physics of Stars.

In this regard, it is a unique book and extremely useful for preparing a talk to a general audience. One requires some background in the field to understand all the material, and so in that sense the book is not the best primer to the field.

I have two complaints, however. Clayton states in the preface, "Some may criticize my omission of reference to the research literature." This I do not mind, considering the book's goal of being non-technical. However, whenever Don Clayton has done the research in question, he is sure to point that out to the reader. But rarely does he name any other scientific researchers in nuclear astrophysics who have greatly contributed as well. In this way, one who reads the book may come away with the incorrect impression that Clayton is the main contributor to this sort of research, when in fact the conclusion that Clayton is a bit self-righteous is probably more accurate. At the very least, it's poor form and becomes annoying.

My second complaint is that when I asked Clayton if he was going to write the second volume, germanium to uranium, and he laughed and said no.

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A user-friendly handbook on the principles and techniques involved in the various applications of pharmacokinetics. Provides a concise reference for clinicians who need quick information on the pharmacokinetic characteristics of specific drugs. Thoroughly updated and revised, this book features pharmacokinetic data profiles on more than 600 drugs.

Biopharmaceutics and Clinical Pharmacokinetics

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Biopharmaceutics and Clinical Pharmacokinetics
Milo Gibaldi
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Solutions Manual for Biopharmaceutics and Clinical Pharmacokinetics, Fourth Edition
Notari
Manufacturer: Marcel Dekker
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Binding: Ring-bound
ASIN: 1574444247

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The Evolution Wars draws on history, science, and philosophy to examine the development of evolutionary thought through the past two and a half centuries. It focuses on the debates that have engaged, divided, and ultimately provoked scientists to ponder the origins of life--including humankind--paying regard to the nineteenth-century clash over the nature of classification and debates about the fossil record, genetics, and human nature. Much attention is paid to external factors and they underlying motives of scientists. In these pages you will meet Charles Darwin's ebullient grandfather Erasmus, the contentious Frenchmen Georges Cuvier and Etienne Geoffroy Sainte Hillaire, new creationist Phillip Johnson, the brilliant J.B.S. Haldane, outspoken Richard Dawkins, and many other stars of the debates. The Evolution Wars is intellectually rewarding not only for evolutionists but also for opponents of evolution theory, and for anyone who wants to see how one of the great ideas of Western civilization resonates through time, both within and beyond the scientific community. Michael Ruse is the Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University in Tallahassee. He is the author of many books including The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw; Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology; and Can a Darwinian Be a Christian?: The Relationship Between Science and Religion.

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Debates?.......2006-07-22

The facinating debate occurred between the Marxist biologists Stephen Jay Gould and R. C. Lewontin versus the progenitor of Sociobiology E. O. Wilson, thoroughly and scrupulously documented by sociologist Ullica Segerstrale in "Defenders of the Truth: The Sociobiology Debate," (Oxford University Press, 2000) is the place to begin.

If ever (and it has repeatedly been "ever') science is the handmaid of ideology (the "social Darwinists," eugenicists, Lysenko, Boaz, Mead, the Harvard Marxists, almost ad infinitum), science typically serves ideological purposes. Whoever doubts that science is the "means" of ideological "ends," this recent debate illustrates it clearly.

The "non-debate" between creationists and Darwinians is precisely that: NO debate. Evolution is an incontrovertible fact, even if Darwin's "five" evolutionary theories remain "theories." But, so does the "theory of gravity" remain a theory, so let's keep our eye on the "debate." It should be noted that Darwin's 1859 theories, by Karl Popper's "falsifiable" criterion, have not been falsified. Indeed, genetics, embryology, molecular biology, paleontology, etc. have repeatedly vindicated Darwin's original theories. The creationists' petard does not register in the real world.

Besides the "sociobiology" debate (which Wilson won), evolutionary insights are now reorienting medicine, psychiatry, psychology, literary theory, philosophy, and despite ideological entrenchment and resistance, even some of the "soft sciences" like political theory, sociology, anthropology, religion, etc. Whatever "wars" may seem to appear, they are confined to the ideologues defending their turf, not with respect to either evolution or Darwinism. The State of Kansas and the Dover School District and the Scopes' Trial do not constitute a "debate" other than a debate over intelligibility and science (vs. Revelation). Using Gertrude Stein's phrase, "there's no there."

"Debate" exists only in some people's imagination in hopes of defending the indefensible. Outside the "resistance," a paradigm shift is occurring, which, I suspect, is why the obstinate resistance insists on "debating" an already-established fact, and why biologists have decided not to "bother." Like the "false beliefs" of Marxism, Platonism, Freudianism, Christianity, postmodernism, someone's "ideology" has already been gored, and the defeated want to insist a "debate" still exists, if only to preserve their ideology against the facts.

Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao, biblical fundamentalists, and GWB insist a "debate" still exists. Ideologues are like that, but it does not mean it is true. Ideology is always the rascal rogue that finds "facts" at best inconvenient, worse, detrimental. But keeping the "debate" alive is itself further evidence of an adaptive strategy to survive, when they are no longer "fit." Selection, natural and artifical, eliminate the weak and unfit, but like all selection, time is its principal factor, while "debate" is the only impediment to inevitability.

A Superbly Researched and Referenced Overview.......2005-06-15

Michael Ruse, a Professor of Philosophy at FSU, and a veteran of the evolution-vs.-creation tug-of-war for the hearts and minds of the American public provides an excellent overview for the layman of the intellectual debates that have raged between supporters and opponents of Charles Darwin and his theory of descent with modification, commonly referred to as evolution.

Ruse also highlights and elucidates the points of view of the various types of evolutionary scholars, including the classicists, neo-Darwinists, sociobiologists, etc., and offers his own perspective regarding the relative merits of each of these approaches.

The book is meticulously referenced, and each chapter includes comprehesive lists of additional reading material for those interested in more in-depth study of the particular chapter's subject matter.

Overall, this book is an invaluable resource to those interested in understanding the current status of evolutionary thought among scientists, and how that thought (pardon the pun) "evolved" over the past two and a half centuries.

Still no theory of evolution?.......2005-04-08

This series of snapshots of the Great Darwin debate (which actually begins in the generation before Darwin) proceeds from the period of Cuvier/Lamarck to Gould/Dawkins, and episodically covers the key incidents of the development of Darwinism. Less detailed than the author's older, but still useful, The Darwinian Revolution, this account poses the question of why there is such a long debate. The reason must be the weakness of the theory proposed by Darwin. To that we should add the misleading scientism of the Synthesis appearing from Dobzhansky et al, and the book gives a revealing glimpse of paradigm formation in action. The problem is the public cannot see behind the math to the limits of population genetics, hence the limits of the theory itself. It seems that Gould is consciously or not trying to overthrow illusions here, yet still remains mired in the basic assumptions of the basic belief system.

Excellent book for its purpose which is..........2005-03-20

...to provide an INTRODUCTION to the multiple debates spawned by the introduction of Darwinian theory...it is clear, concise, and interesting...more to the point it provides excellent references to allow readers to further pursue those debates and controversies which they find most interesting.

Wide-ranging, informative and readable.......2003-06-02

This book does a wonderful job of presenting a wide variety of debates that have surrounded evolutionary theory from the time of Darwin to the present. Ruse makes his own positions known, but tries to present all sides fairly, and for the most part does it well. He is especially interesting in his dissection of the underlying philosophical concerns that have driven the discussion of evolution.

In spots the writing rambles somewhat and can become unclear. After going to great lengths to define what is meant by "evolution," Ruse makes no such effort to define his term, "secular religion," which recurs frequently throughout his discussions. In other places, the author veers off in a new direction before finishing his point. For example, while addressing Philip Johnson's criticism of the "methodological naturalism" of science, Ruse slides off into the question whether one can be a methodological naturalist and still believe in God. It's a fascinating and worthwhile discussion, but it leaves out what seems to me to be the more important question in response to Johnson: can one do science at all without assuming that physical events have predictable physical causes?

For serious students of the subject, this book will not be the last word. For general readers it opens up a window on the rich field of evolutionary science and the debates that have surrounded it. The suggested additional reading at the end of each chapter should help anyone who is interested in pursuing a topic further.

It helps to have some basic background in biology to understand this book, but no extensive knowledge is necessary.

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The Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debates

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