Advances in Accountability, Regulation, Research, Gender and Justice (Advances in Public Interest Accounting)

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Hardbound. Advances in Public Interest Accounting is a research publication with two major aims. First, to provide a forum for researchers concerned with critically appraising and significantly transforming conventional accounting theory, practice, teaching and research. Second, to increase the social self-awareness of accounting practitioners, educators, and researchers, encouraging them to assume a greater responsibility for the profession's social role.

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Beyond Transfer of Training: Engaging Systems to Improve Performance
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Since it was first published in 1992, Transfer of Training has become a landmark book in the development and application of training and performance improvement interventions. Beyond Transfer of Training; Engaging Systems to Improve Performance moves beyond that classic work and integrates the challenges of today's complex systems into its guidelines, flowcharts, examples, checklists, and case studies. Written by acclaimed international consultant Mary Broad (coauthor of Transfer of Training), this important book is an essential guide that offers a solid foundation and the tools needed to help key stakeholders in complex organizations achieve the desired workforce performance and organizational results.

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This unique dictionary provides accurate and up-to-date legal definitions of any product regulated in the EU. The author has systematically compiled the definitions of products as published in the Official Journal of the European Communities (OJEC) since its 1952 inception, including only the most recent version of each definition. The Dictionary also covers definitions of frequently-occurring related aspects, such as testing, control, marketing and transport. The Dictionary follows a systematic structure: + names of products (or related aspects), + descriptive key words, + definitions, and + coded references to definition source documents (legal instruments). The CD-ROM format makes access even simpler, permitting instantaneous searches with just a few clicks of a keyboard. Yearly updates of this work will keep users current on future legislative developments and will integrate definitions issued by the Court of First Instance and the Court of Justice of the European Communities. This thorough, easily-accessed work is the only one of its kind. Its maintenance of currency and ease of use makes it a lasting resource of great practical value.

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Astronomers believe that a supernova is a massive explosion signaling the death of a star, causing a cosmic recycling of the chemical elements and leaving behind a pulsar, black hole, or nothing at all. In an engaging story of the life cycles of stars, Laurence Marschall tells how early astronomers identified supernovae, and how later scientists came to their current understanding, piecing together observations and historical accounts to form a theory, which was tested by intensive study of SN 1987A, the brightest supernova since 1006. He has revised and updated The Supernova Story to include all the latest developments concerning SN 1987A, which astronomers still watch for possible aftershocks, as well as SN 1993J, the spectacular new event in the cosmic laboratory.

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A good overview about Supernovae, though its from 1988.......1998-04-19

This book brings a good overview to the reader, how Supernovae brings their information to our planet and how they develop with all the basics of astrophysics an cosmology needed to understand. It was published first in 1988 but a 2. series came out in 1994. So you can't find the newest informations on Supernovae.

A Blast!.......1997-12-31

Found the book to be inspirational to my own writing. A good introduction to the lay person, and with healthy detail for the versed.

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Controlled Burn: Stories of Prison, Crime, and Men (Unabridged)

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Crimes, Men, Prison...
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Controlled Burn: Stories of Prison, Crime, and Men (Unabridged)
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"Once or twice a decade, an unknown short-story writer blazes onto the literary scene with work that is thrilling and new. Scott Wolven is such a talent, and his raw, blistering tales of hard-bitten convicts, dodgy informers, and men running from the law make for ""the most exciting, authentic collection of short stories I have read in years,"" says George Pelecanos. Brooding, edgy, and sometimes violent, Controlled Burn's loosely linked stories are each in some way a distillation of hard time -- spent either in prison, the backwoods of Vermont, or the badlands of the American West. Peopled by boxers, drunks, truck drivers, murderers, bounty hunters, drifters traveling under assumed names, and men whose luck ran out a thousand miles ago, these stories feel hard-won from life, and if they are moody and stark, so too are they filled with human longing. Controlled Burn is divided into two sections: ""The Northeast Kingdom"" and ""The Fugitive West."" In each, Scott Wolven reveals a broken world where there is no bottom left to hit. In the haunting ""Outside Work Detail,"" convicts stoically dig graves for their fellow prisoners yet reserve their deepest grief for the senseless death of a deer. ""Crank"" introduces Red Green, a maniacally brilliant addict who brews his own crystal meth in a backwoods lab, and whose high-energy antics inspire both cautious admiration and mortal fear in his business associates. In ""Ball Lightning Reported,"" Red Green's ultimate fate is revealed. In ""Atomic Supernova,"" a revenge-obsessed sheriff deputizes a known cop-killer to help him hunt down a counterfeiter and drug lord. The unexpectedly tender and heartbreaking ""The Copper Kings"" concerns a father facing the dark truth behind his son's disappearance. And in ""Vigilance,"" a hunted man struggles to escape his past, always yearning for an honorable yet perhaps unreachable future. Powered by a spare, ruminative prose style that recalls the best of Denis Johnson and Thom Jones, Controlled Burn is an unforgettable debut. "

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Brilliant Debut.......2005-11-20

Wolven's outstanding debut collection of thirteen short stories are arranged in two geographic sections, "The Northeast Kingdom" of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, and "The Fugitive West" of Idaho, Montana, and western Washington. But regardless of the location, the characters are cut of the same cloth. This is a book populated by tree cutters, truck drivers, cons, ex-cons, brawlers, alcoholics, crystal meth heads, white supremacists, scrap metal workers, and bikers -- a host of tough men who are born to lose. Many of the characters weave in and out of the various stories and to a certain extent, the stories cover a lot of the same themes in a lot of the same ways. Yet Wolven's voice is so strong and his writing so matter-of-factly taut that each is gripping and the overall effect is devastating.

The book's opener, "Taciturnity", sets the tone for all that follows: a tough old woman orders local tree men to cut down the three ancient oaks on her property that provide shade for her new neighbor, a policeman who didn't cut her grandson any slack. Here are encapsulated a number of the books' recurring motifs: terse blue collar workers, tough old-timers, ambivalence and suspicion toward the law, and a definite sense of making one's own justice. "Outside Work Detail" is set in a minimum security prison, where men detailed to dig graves in the frozen ground watch as a deer impales itself on an electrified fence and bleeds to death. The symbolism is perhaps a little too in-your-face, but it works. "El Rey" is a brutal story revolving around an impromptu boxing match at a logging camp between the local hard case a Latino fighter up from New York. "Crank" is about a couple guys putting together a meth lab in the woods and all the bad stuff that leads to. "Ball Lightning Reported" is about a guy working in a medical waste facility who boosts biohazard trash in order to sell leftover drugs -- again, bad things happen. "Tigers" is the probably most powerful story in the book -- its protagonist is a hardworking freelance tree-cutter who's struggling to put something good together with a single mom. Just when it seems like Wolven's given us a character for whom things might actually work out, he shows just how brittle relationships in the Northeast Kingdom can get.

"The Rooming House" acts as a transition from East to West, as the alcoholic protagonist recounts a cautionary tale from his upstate New York childhood and then offhandedly explains "I ended up in Seattle several years later, really just a series of rides in police cars that took me further and further across the country...." The other outstanding story in the collection is "Atomic Supernova", a gothic tale of modern-day frontier justice involving a cop-killer in hiding and the Sheriff who may or may not turn him in -- it's rife with tension and surprises. "The Copper Kings" picks up the narrator from "The Rooming House" as he becomes a bounty-hunter's assistant and becomes entangled in a search that leads to a dangerous biker compound out in the boonies. His story continues briefly in "Underdogs", a story Wolven says was inspired by Mexican writer Mariano Azuela's book The Underdogs. From its first line ("This is what happened, the same story I told the investigators.") "Vigilance" is a contemporary noir, complete with protagonist trying to lead a quiet life, and a sexy siren who drags him into all kinds of trouble.

The stories definitely all occupy the same interior landscape, and are consistent in atmosphere and tone, with characters cut of the same cloth. In that regard, you can read one story and know whether or not you're going to like the rest. In fact, six of them can be easily found and read online and three of them also appeared in various editions of the "Best American Mysteries" anthologies. Taken together, the stories reveal an assured storyteller with a strong voice, and I can't wait to see what he does next.

2 thumbs up.......2005-09-10

I enjoyed it very much. The stories were all similarly related to each other and very gripping. A great quick read.

Crimes, Men, Prison..........2005-08-26

Controlled Burn, $22.00 Amazon.com, is a debut collection of short fiction from New York author Scott Wolven. To give you a good feel for what he's got here, I can only offer an analogy. If Ernest Hemingway had written Winesburg, Ohio as a rough and tumble - instead of Sherwood Anderson, - and moved the place setting of those stories to both New England and the American West, the end result would resemble something akin to this collection.

Outside Work Detail is the tour de force of this bunch. In a prison tale on par with Stephen King's work, two St. Johnsbury, Vermont convicts (that have endured too much) dig graves for their fellow inmates in the prison cemetery during a snow storm, only to witness an act of nature that's almost cruelly indescribable. The three main characters - Ray Cooper, Russ Harper, and Reb Phillips - are spot on, and their spooky dealings are wryly observed. My favorite line? "That's one thing you don't get on the outside, to watch your own grave dug..."

Next to that, Tigers is a melancholy stunner. Ostensibly a tale of love gone wrong, the story concentrates on Ann Latham, her young son Jimmy, and her tree-cutting boyfriend, Mark Hoff. Parts of this tale of triangulation are saccharin sweet, but by the very end, Wolven tears your heart out and laughingly throws it on the floor. I really find Wolven's use of return and reverberation in this story to be irresistible, and I couldn't have done a better job if I'd written it myself! If you can't cry on the inside some, while you're reading this account, you're truly not human.

Taciturnity, the book opener, is a nine page account of foreboding. I love the language and the dialogue, as it is exactly perfect. In a nutshell, Ida Stone - in an act of reprisal - has three massive oak trees in her yard felled by family friends Robert and Bobby Maynard, because they provide shade for her neighbor's pool and also because her neighbor, Officer Caporuzzi, was guilty, at least in her mind, of having her grandson arrested.

Readers will be bowled over by Atomic Supernova, one of the chronicles set in the American West. Elko County Sheriff Art Jenkins is on the lookout for Bob Burke, after phony money traced back to Bob results in the wrongful arrest of George Atwell. George is the son of Art's former deputy sheriff, the now retired Jim Atwell. In the course of pursuing Burke, the Sheriff - determined to set things straight - then knowingly deputizes a known cop-killer (hiding out with his brother in a scrap metal yard) to track down the dirty counterfeiter and bring him to task. There's also something kind of creepy going on in this story, about the way Jenkins and five other men in the developing manhunt for Burke interact with a five-year-old kid outside a Rogerson, Idaho strip mall laundromat, if you ask me. I'll leave the rest up to you to discover. But Atomic Supernova is top-notch in my book!

Of the remaining stories in this cycle, El Rey is a marginally strong account with an accomplished ending, but if you really want to know where Wolven got the inspiration for this yarn, look up the article in USA Today about El Rey that this was based upon. This story (blended with facts from another USA Today article) is apparently a riff on those accounts. I understand why Wolven would want to cut and paste stuff like that, but isn't that really a bit of a cheat?

Look for the ten-pager Rooming House to alert you to the hidden undercurrent of alcoholism snaking around in suburbia. This brief narrative uses memory as a lens to look at incidents in the past of the protagonist - with a neighbor, with his father, with his grandfather, with two of his wives - and then becomes an anecdote of a young man who (in his middle-age) becomes a drunkard, just like those same people that his role models despised.

Long after you've read Controlled Burn, these morose tales of people that are down on their luck will really stick with you. I think you'll appreciate them. They seem born of a sad life, some sad personal experiences.

Even though I admire at least half the stories in this volume, I do have some criticisms for Scott to ponder. If your subject matter weren't so low brow, would it work at all? This is popular fiction to be sure, but can you tackle high art? Can you tackle loftier ideas, and shed this "negative spiral" downbeat approach? Can you write in a more chronological, linear style?

Despite my affection for half the book, other stories seem disjointed and lack purpose - they only serve as a mitigating bridge. I consider The High Iron to be the weakest contribution, and much of the dialogue of the strung-out Red Green in two stories, Ball Lightning Reported and Crank, is nonsensical and abysmal. People don't really talk like that! Not even Meth addicts... While Controlled Burn is overall very good, it's not perfect. Wolven needs to concentrate on getting the patter down right - in places his dialogue is stilted, somewhat raw. Lastly, this isn't a thriller per se, but it does delve into the psychology of prison, crimes, and men. If you're a fan of shows like C.S.I. or NCIS I'd place this hardback high upon my "must read" list.

The Chick Lit Antithesis.......2005-08-23

Finally one of those cat stroking, pillow fluffing editors peeled their eyes away from their Queer Eye for the Straight Guy reruns to publish something original. I would've really given this book only three stars, because I didn't particularly like the narrative style. But it's the only decent book I've found that appeals primarily to the male demographic since `03 with Craig Clevenger's Contortionist's Handbook. Whoever came up with the idea to publish a work of fiction about crystal meth, bounty hunters, guns and dogs was completely crazy. But it's for that reason it deserves the five stars.

Obviously a gifted writer..........2005-08-03

Many of these stories are strong and depict harder, tougher characters than the ones I'm used to reading. Wolven plumbs deeply into unseemly lives and desperate situations, never afraid of being a bit too dark or bleak. I appreciated his fearlessness. The strongest stories like "El Rey," "Outside Work Detail," "Controlled Burn" and "Atomic Supernova" offer the reader provocative characters, dangerous atmospheres, breathless tension, remarkable authenticity and more than a couple of surprises. That said, other stories in the collection begin to feel repetitive and superfluous; stories like "The High Iron," "The Rooming House" and both Red Green stories just rework the same themes and situations that Wolven explores with more success and wholeness in the stronger stories. By the end of the collection, I got the fact that Wolven can write about men on the wrong side of the law better than most writers. I just wanted to see what else he could do.

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This book is structured by two-level presentation including a simple descriptive treatment and slightly more in-depth discussions of specific topics. The first-level treatment covers the notions, terminology and techniques that are required to use a synchrotron facility. The book is therefore
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Elements of Synchrotron Light : For Biology, Chemistry, and Medical Research (Physics)

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This Third Edition provides the latest tools and techniques that enable computers to learn

The Third Edition of this internationally acclaimed publication provides the latest theory and techniques for using simulated evolution to achieve machine intelligence. As a leading advocate for evolutionary computation, the author has successfully challenged the traditional notion of artificial intelligence, which essentially programs human knowledge fact by fact, but does not have the capacity to learn or adapt as evolutionary computation does.

Readers gain an understanding of the history of evolutionary computation, which provides a foundation for the author's thorough presentation of the latest theories shaping current research. Balancing theory with practice, the author provides readers with the skills they need to apply evolutionary algorithms that can solve many of today's intransigent problems by adapting to new challenges and learning from experience. Several examples are provided that demonstrate how these evolutionary algorithms learn to solve problems. In particular, the author provides a detailed example of how an algorithm is used to evolve strategies for playing chess and checkers.

As readers progress through the publication, they gain an increasing appreciation and understanding of the relationship between learning and intelligence. Readers familiar with the previous editions will discover much new and revised material that brings the publication thoroughly up to date with the latest research, including the latest theories and empirical properties of evolutionary computation.

The Third Edition also features new knowledge-building aids. Readers will find a host of new and revised examples. New questions at the end of each chapter enable readers to test their knowledge. Intriguing assignments that prepare readers to manage challenges in industry and research have been added to the end of each chapter as well.

This is a must-have reference for professionals in computer and electrical engineering; it provides them with the very latest techniques and applications in machine intelligence. With its question sets and assignments, the publication is also recommended as a graduate-level textbook.

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for researchers and students.......2006-11-12

Ignore the gushing blurb on the back cover about the book having the latest tools and techniques to let computers learn. While the methods are indeed state of the art when they were written, true learning by computers is still elusive. But so long as you keep that reality in mind, the text can indeed be useful.

We see the span of ideas in evolutionary computing. Aided in no small part by the massive and continued increase in computational power. Fogel laments that the book's ideas are still typically outside what is generally taken to be Artificial Intelligence.

The book strives to be both a text for researchers and for students. Though of course the two groups overlap. For researchers, each chapter has a long list of references to journal papers and monographs, so that you can go directly to many of the original sources. While for students, the chapters come with a non-trivial set of exercises, that usually involve some programming.

The book provides a solid foundation on the subject........2000-03-31

This is an introductory text useful for teaching at graduate levels in Computer/ Information Sciences. The first two chapters provide an overview of the subject and its relationship with other relevant areas. Chapter 4 covers the analysis of the GA with special emphasis to convergence of the algorithm.This is the main chapter of the book.

The presentation style of the book is very beautiful.The book should be read by everyone interested in the disciplines of genetic algorithms and/or soft computing.

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Old and new problems of the foundations of quantum mechanics are viewed from the new perspective provided by a generalization of the mathematical formalism encompassing positive operator-valued measures. One objective is to demonstrate the crucial role the generalized formalism plays in fundamental issues as well as in practical applications, and to contribute to the development of the operational approach. A second objective is the development of an empiricist interpretation of this approach, duly taking into account the role played by the measuring instrument in quantum mechanical measurements. Copenhagen and anti-Copenhagen interpretations are critically assessed, and found to be wanting due to insufficiently taking into account the measurement interaction. The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen problem and the problem of the Bell inequalities are discussed, starting from this new perspective. An explanation of violation of the Bell inequalities is developed, providing an alternative to the usual explanation on the basis of non-locality. This treatise is based on lecture notes of an advanced course on the foundations of quantum mechanics.

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A hilariously funny satire of life in Alaska as seen through the misadventures of a warm-hearted but bumbling neophyte.

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Review of The Alaskan Saga of Thomas Churchill O'Brien.......2000-04-16

This delightfully amusing novel concerns the experiences of the hero in his quest for fulfillment, and employment, in our northernmost state. The focus of the book is not on the geographical setting as much as it is on the inhabitants. This book is not for the squeamish who adhere to political correctness, and there is no doubt that some groups will take umbrage at the jibes taken at the sacred cows the author has chosen. Having said that, perhaps the parody of these groups has sufficient basis in fact to draw some blood. This Northern Huckleberry Finn tale with a political/science fiction twist is a good read, and a funny one at that.

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