Advances in International Accounting, Volume 10 (Advances in International Accounting)

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Advances in International Accounting is a referred, academic research annual, that is devoted to publishing articles about advancements in the development of accounting and its related disciplines from an international perspective. This serial examines how these developments affect the financial reporting and disclosure practices, taxation, management accounting practices, and auditing of multinational corporations, as well as their effect on the education of professional accountants worldwide.
Advances in International Accounting welcomes traditional and alternative approaches, including theoretical research, empirical research, applied research, and cross-cultural studies.

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Simple Methods to Multiply the Benefits of Training Programs.......2005-10-21

In my training and development career, some truths have been disappointing to me. The first was that many trainees never use what they learned once they return to their workplaces--what we often refer to as "transfer of training.") Back in 1992, Broad and Newstrom wrote this simple, easy to read, yet very powerful book on strategies for maximizing the likelihood that the training will be trainsferred.

Broad and Newstrom provide more than 65 such strategies, conveniently summarized on the inside front cover where I turn every time I take this book off my shelf. The strategies are divided into those to be undertaken by trainers, those by managers, and those by trainees themselves. They list strategies to be followed before, during, and following training.

This book approaches training transfer as a system. As such, the authors argue that transfer is not simply something that trainees are responsible for alone, but that it is a system. The research, experience, and wisdom of these two writers shines clearly through in a concise 200 pages. You don't find wasted words here--no flowery prose or irrelevant theories. You will find practical advice that can be implemented, and implemented well. You find that 40% of this book is dedicated to explaining those 65+ strategies and their implementation. You find case studies on two major corporations.

This is my highest possible praise for this book: it doesn't merely sit on my shelf. I use it, and I use it while developing instruction for training classes. If you are responsible for training in your organization, and you are looking for ways to systematically improve the transfer of your training, I suspect you will use this book, too.

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Managing Transfer Training : Action-Packed Strategies to Ensure High Payoff from Training Investments
John W.; Broad, Mary Newstrom
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Transfer of Training: Action-Packed Strategies to Ensure High Payoff from Training Investments

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Transfer of Training: Action-Packed Strategies to Ensure High Payoff from Training Investments
John W. Newstrom Mary L. Broad
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The power of the prince versus the rights of his subjects is one of the basic struggles in the history of law and government. In this masterful history of monarchy, conceptions of law, and due process, Kenneth Pennington addresses that struggle and opens an entirely new vista in the study of Western legal tradition.
Pennington investigates legal interpretations of the monarch's power from the twelfth to the seventeenth century. Then, tracing the evolution of defendants' rights, he demonstrates that the origins of due process are not rooted in English common law as is generally assumed. It was not a sturdy Anglo-Saxon, but, most probably, a French jurist of the late thirteenth century who wrote, "A man is innocent until proven guilty."
This is the first book to examine in detail the origins of our concept of due process. It also reveals a fascinating paradox: while a theory of individual rights was evolving, so, too, was the concept of the prince's "absolute power." Pennington illuminates this paradox with a clarity that will greatly interest students of political theory as well as legal historians.

The Prince and the Law: 1200-1600, Sovereignty and Rights in Western Legal Tradition.: An article from: Renaissance Quarterly

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The Prince and the Law: 1200-1600, Sovereignty and Rights in Western Legal Tradition.: An article from: Renaissance Quarterly
Retha M. Warnicke
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Title: The Prince and the Law: 1200-1600, Sovereignty and Rights in Western Legal Tradition.
Author: Retha M. Warnicke
Publication: Renaissance Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1994
Publisher: Renaissance Society of America
Volume: v47 Issue: n2 Page: p390(2)

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A fun read for astronomy fans

INTERESTING VIEW

History of mathematical planetary astronomy

Terrific Discovery. (And I'm talking about the book!)

Great story but not much new info...

The Neptune File: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting (Science Matters) (Science Matters)
Tom Standage
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In 1841, while browsing in a Cambridge bookshop, a young English student named John Couch Adams happened upon a perplexed remark in an astronomical report on the erratic behavior of the planet Uranus. A gifted mathematician, Adams set about arriving at an explanation, commenting to a fellow student, "You see, Uranus is a long way out of his course. I mean to find out why." Eventually, he did, using not direct observation but, controversially, mathematical modeling of a sort that has become commonplace today. Adams's work, built in a close race against rival French scientist Urbain Le Verrier, eventually established that Uranus's path was influenced by the gravitational pull of the then unseen planet of Neptune; Standage credits both Adams and Le Verrier with its discovery.

Drawing on long-forgotten archives, including a scrapbook by the author of the remark that fired Adams's imagination, science correspondent Tom Standage serves up a fine tale of discovery. His story begins with the earliest scientific descriptions of Uranus, an annoyingly wayward planet whose "position in the sky obstinately refused to match up with the position predicted by theory"--the classical theory, that is, of a regular, clockwork universe, which obtained in Adams's day and would not quite be laid to rest until Einstein's time. Standage's story continues to the present, an era when astronomers are, it seems, discovering new planets at every turn. Thanks to Adams and Le Verrier, Standage writes at the end of this graceful book, "Uranus lit the way to Neptune--and Neptune now points the way to the stars." --Gregory McNamee

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The bizarre orbital patterns of Uranus had for years been an nsolved astronomical puzzle. But when English mathematician John Crouch Adams came across them in 1841, he discovered that there was one very important piece missing: The gravitational pull of another planet-a planet no one had ever seen before. If Adams was able to see in the sky what he was able to deduce on paper, he would not only have discovered a new planet, but also a revolutionary ability to gain knowledge of worlds we cannot see through the power of mathematics.

Unfortunately for him, he had a rival. The French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier calculated the planet's position shortly after Adams-and the international race to spot Neptune began.

"Standage has dug out some fascinating new information, greatly enlivened by the stories of acrimonious fighting." (Sir Arthur C. Clarke)

"An enterprising book that deals adeptly with both the astronomical theory and the human passions." (The Economist)

"It's wonderful to realize that scientists of 150 years ago were chasing fame and glory just as they do today." (Cliff Stoll, author of The Cuckoo's Egg and High Tech Heretic)

"Extraordinary...colorful...both astronomy buffs and armchair explorers will revel in his tale." (Publishers Weekly)

"This is science writing at its best, broadening the mind even as it entertains." (The Oregonian)

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A fun read for astronomy fans.......2006-05-15

I read this to my son a couple years ago (when he was 10), and we both really enjoyed it. I had been reading it myself, but decided to read the opening chapter to him and he was hooked. The process of "finding" Neptune gave perspective to our own backyard endeavors with a simple refractor telescope.

INTERESTING VIEW.......2003-12-24

The field of science has long been a habitat for entrenched older types who do not want to shake the fundamental assumptions of its own field. It takes visionaries to do such a thing. The Neptune File chronicles the attempts and successes of planet hunters who had to work against the inertia of the belief that were no other planets to be found beyond Jupiter and Saturn. It begins with the discovery of Uranus by William Herschel in the 1700's and all the skepticism he had to fight against. Once it was accepted as a fact, it opened up a new can of worms because the orbit of the planet did not make sense. It seemed to be irregular, as though some force was operating on it, a force with enough mass to cause that might just be another planet, so the whole thing starts over again. Of course, we would find that there was another planet, Neptune. This book tries to show how much adventure, luck, and just plain persistance leads to great scientific discoveries. Some of the scientists are motivated by fame, others by simple curiosity. It does start to drag by the end, but for the most part is an engaging and entertaining read. It also shows how one discovery settles nothing, but simply leads to more.

History of mathematical planetary astronomy.......2002-03-18

I devoured this book in three big bites. From the shockingly superior optics of William Herschel to the elegant mathematics of John Couch Adams to the extra-solar planets discovered in the late 1990s to the techniques being now developed to find planets orbiting other stars -- its all fascinating. In the end, most of what you thought watching Star Trek had taught you about distant worlds is sacked. "The idea that planetary systems around other stars will be broadly similar to our own solar system is no longer tenable. Indeed, as more planets are discovered, it is our solar system itself that starts to seem more and more unusual."
If you don't read science books and don't know why anybody would, this book might change your mind. Highly recommended.

Terrific Discovery. (And I'm talking about the book!).......2001-08-12

I actually picked up this book in a used bookstore and read the back cover. The facts surrounding the discovery of the planet were new to me. (Kind of embarrassing really that I had never heard it before. Remind me to contact the secondary school I attended!!) In any event, I was enamored by the discriptions on the back cover and bought it for around four or five bucks. I read it in less than a day, which for me is an extreme rarity. I usually spend my time in the "shallow end" of the literary pool, reading books that can only be described as "easy" reads. This is one of the most entertaining books I've read in years. Unfortunately, I lent the book to someone who had more of a background in astronomy who must have known the book's true value and I haven't seen the book (or the guy) since. So I'm back here to purchase another copy. This time I am much more certain of my investment.

Great story but not much new info..........2001-07-29

The story of the discovery of the planet Neptune is one of the most fascinating in the era of modern astronomy. Kepler's laws of planetary motion and Newton's unprecedented mathematical description of the law of universal gravitation allowed predictions of planetary positions to an accuracy of arcseconds.

In view of this successful mathematical description, Uranus' misbehavior was so bad that it was proving to be a continual embarrassment to astronomers, and the drive to find a solution was strong in the early to mid 19th century. The story of Adams in England, Le Verrier in France, and Galle in Germany has been told many times, and will be familiar to fans of the history of astronomy. Standage's retelling of the story is a good read, but probably adds little to Grosser's 'The Discovery of Neptune' (1962). An interesting facet Standage adds to the picture has to do with the title of his book. The 'file' in question belongs to George Airy (a notoriously fastidious record keeper). It contained correspondence, news clippings, etc., on the issue of the discovery of Neptune. Conspiracy theorists abounded in the years after the discovery, and some made the claim that Airy was in cahoots with Le Verrier in suppressing Adams' work to ensure that the credit would go to the Frenchman. Apparently Airy's file disappeared at some point during the last 20 years or so, renewing the conspiracy theorists' energies. Standage informs us late in his book that the file eventually turned up among the papers of a recently deceased former astronomer of the Greenwich Observatory. Examination of the file proved that there was no collusion.

This incident deserves further mention. Standage does not name the astronomer who had the file, nor the circumstances under which it was 'borrowed.' Nor does he elaborate on what was found there, other than exonerating Airy of the charge of conspiracy to suppress Adams' findings. Just who did have the file, and for how long? My own brief research revealed that an historian of science named Dennis Rawlins has written several articles about this situation, claiming a cover-up on the part of English astronomers, and alleging that the Neptune file contains a copy of Adams' original paper in which his position prediction is off by more than 12 degrees, and that a faction of 'Cambridge' astronomers is conspiring to keep the contents of the file suppressed.

I contacted two historians of science, one at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and one at Harvard. Neither knows of any evidence as to the truth of these allegations, and both attest that Rawlins tends to gravitate toward farfetched notions that mainstream science regards with suspicion. In fact, Rawlins doesn't publish his papers in mainstream journals, but in his own self-published journal 'Dio.'

At any rate, Standage's treatment of the issues was disappointingly brief and left me wondering if he was unable to dredge up any additional info himself.

Standage doesn't end the story with the discovery of Neptune and the international fallout over credit that ensued. He goes on to add the modern planet seekers, those who look for - and find - planets around other stars. Their challenge may be technically greater - to discern the minute wobbles of distant stars and infer the existence of planets, but they also have superior tools. Standage draws the parallel between their task, and the way Adams and Le Verrier inferred the existence of Neptune mathematically long before it was seen by astronomers. The comparison is perhaps valid, but the modern search for extrasolar planets certainly carries none of the intrigue of the Neptune story, where the search was carried out with paper and pencil and little more.

Standage's book is a good read, particularly for those unfamiliar with the details of the story. However, I would still recommend Grosser's book as the better account (minus the modern info), but I would even more highly recommend Richard Baum and William Sheehan's excellent 'In Search Of Planet Vulcan: The Ghost In Newton's Clockwork Universe,' a book which retells the Neptune story, possibly better than either Grosser and Standage, and adding the historical context of the planet Vulcan search as well.

I was frustrated upon finishing this book. I wished Standage had done the digging necessary to really tell the story behind the "file." Hopefully more will come to light of the contents of Airy's Neptune File, and will be published in some still unwritten account.

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The Neptune File: a Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting
Tom Standage
Manufacturer: Walker & Company
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Wonderful for ANY chem student.......2003-03-16

This book is great! Our AP Chem teacher had everyone in the class buy one, then makes us read the summaries BEFORE we start the work in the textbook. It makes seemingly difficult concepts simple by cutting away all of the overhead, so you can understand the main concepts before diving completely into the subject.

A solid and relevant study guide.......2001-10-26

I used this book to study, NOT to review, for the AP Chemistry test in 2000. I used it on my own, for the most part, and found its preparation sufficient to do well on the test in almost all areas. I would suggest supplementation from a standard college textbook in the areas of buffer and acid/base chemistry, as well as organic chemistry. It is, however, not necessary to go far beyond the book in the matter of organic. I would recommend this book to any student self-motivated enough to use it properly. Note that while it gives good information for the test, students planning to continue in the subject absolutely must supplement their use of this book with other resources.

Great Summaries.......2001-08-29

I just took the AP Chemistry exam this year. Although our teacher taught us the fundamentals of the test, a good review book was still needed. I bought this book about halfway through the school year, and started reading it about a month before the AP exam, doing all the practice questions and going through the answer explanations. After I have reviewed all the concepts, I took both practice exams. On the day of the test, I still kept it in my backpack for some last minute studying at school. My emphasis is on the great summaries (including equation overviews, shortcuts, etc.) and detailed explanations of each question. I thank Princeton Review for helping me get my 5.

Missing key information.......2001-05-17

This book is very good, but misses key information from time to time. During the AP test, I came across questions that were never even discussed in this book, and those were mandatory part II questions. Not good to be omiting stuff like that. But overall still a good buy

Only Get If You Get The Barron's As Well.......2000-08-17

This is a good book, I'm not denying that, but it's got some serious flaws that everyone definitely needs to be aware of. Its end of the chapter questions and simulated test questions are WAY too easy! Basically, I got almost all of them right since they came nowhere near the difficulty of the actual AP exam. Also, brief is good. We all like brief. But some of the chapters are just way too brief. I mean, sometimes, all the book did was like laundry list formulas. That's great and all, but that's like telling someone, okay, PV=nRT, now you know the ideal gas law. I mean, a little explaining would help.

I don't mean to sound all like I hated this book or anything. I didn't. Its cracking the Descriptive Chemistry part of the test is so absolutely, amazingly helpful, that I think that I would have gotten everything wrong on that section without the Princeton Review. But, I cannot stress enough the fact that using this book alone is a big no-no. If your budget can only afford you to get one book, get the Barron's. But, if you can buy two, getting this book and the Barron's should help you conquer any question that the evil maniacs at ETS stick in front of you. It sure helped me. I got a five...=)

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John Maisey is a curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, behind whose monumental facade seethes a hotbed of revolution in the science of classification. The shake-up is cladistics, a movement that began with studies of insects and fish and is gradually sweeping through all of biology. Maisey's book gives a clear overview of the evolution of fishes and their descendents (which includes people) from a mind-broadening perspective. The downside of cladistics is a forest of terminology, but anyone who can master the nomenclature of a children's dinosaur book should get even more out of this illuminating work.

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Artistic Genius.......2003-12-23

The text is average but the pictures are outstanding! Most paleo-artists prefer to envision land animals or birds as opposed to sea life.
I am totally in awe of paleo-sea life and addicted to thumbing through this book!

Discovering Fossil Fishes.......2003-03-13

Discovering Fossil Fishes written by John G. Maisey is a book covering fish fossilization through out history. Spanning more the one-half billion years fishes are older than dinosaurs and have links to the tetrapods on land.

This book is highly illustrated with art work one nearly half of the pages with the dialog on the other half of the book. Fishes have a unique evolutionary history that stretches back in time, they are incredibly ancient and include the ancestors of all the limbed vertebrates living on the land.

I found the book to be highly readable and easy to follow as this book could be read and understood by those twelve years old or older. There are color illustrations along with fossilized pictures comparing both. This gives the reader a good approximation as to what the fossil would look like in life.

From their ancient ancestors, the craniates, fishes evolved not once, in a single lineage, but multiple times, filling countless biological niches. Given their long evolutionary history, itis not surprising that so many species of fishes exist today; one new fish species evolving every 18,000 years, or about 55.5 species evolving per one million years. The sum total of fishy diversity through time is far greater than now, and the evolutionary history of fishes is a vast and comples subject.

But, the author wrote this book with the layreader in mind and the prose are simple but very effective. as more fossil fishes are uncovered we will know better what the ancient world looked like and come to discover more of our own ancestors.

A masterpiece for serious students.......2003-01-23

I came across this book while finishing my MSc at Guelph. The book soon made its rounds among all the ichthyology students and faculty. It is well written, lavishly illustrated and nicely designed. Seeing this volume going for so cheap surprises me. I paid 5 times more for mine. Any student involved with fish taxonomy, evolution and general biology MUST get this book. I found the lateral views a bit goofy but the paintings of creatures in motion in their habitat are superb. People who are interested in early life on our planet should also consider having a look at this one. BRAVO Dr. Maisey!

Fossils galore!.......2002-10-07

Maisey is a curator of vertebrate paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History. With this work he has brought the evolution of the fishes to the popular science reader. My only major complaint about this book is in format. I would like to have seen it arranged by geological period as apposed to taxonomic group. I also think that a more visual group of cladograms arranging all the fishes would have been in order. Many cladograms are included but they only show small snippets of the relationships between fishes and you have to piece a larger picture together throughout the book. The illustrations are excellent and you will have a hard time finding so many images of fossil fish, if you are just interested in seeing images of fossils then this will be great for you. I also liked how he discussed the development of major morphological features. While a person of specialized interest might be aware of these, having them all in one place is convenient.

If you have a developing interest in fishes or in vertebrate paleontology than this book would be good to have. It would also be a nice compliment to any library including material on natural history.

Something fishy........2001-01-21

One of my areas of interest is geology, in which I am a few credits shy of a bachelor's degree, and my particular area of concentration was paleontology. I have to admit that my favorites are the invertebrates, but I thought that a book on fossil fish might improve my appreciation for them. In this I was a little disappointed. Although I enjoyed the material on the origin of various structures, ie) calcified bones, the jaws, etc. much of it was already familiar to me from other sources. I have to agree with the other reviewers, the book is splendidly illustrated, both with the fossel specimen themselves and with artistic interpretation of them. But although it is a "pretty" book, it is probably a little too detailed for the casual reader on paleontology and a little to general for a specialist. The former might easily get bogged down in the details of the fish lineages, while the former might prefer an encyclopedia of fossel fish types to use as a source for identification of field specimen. On the whole just a so-so book.

Fossil Fish Found Alive: Discovering the Coelacanth (Carolrhoda Photo Books)

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Fossil Fish Found Alive: Discovering the Coelacanth (Carolrhoda Photo Books)
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Excellent research--interesting for both children and adults.......2004-04-14

Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer discovered the fish long believed extinct on December 22, 1938. Walker provides the perfect amount of detail to make for a lively description of the research and discoveries that scientists have made until the present. Photographs and illustrations are excellent. Includes maps, timeline, source notes, selected bibliography, glossary, and index. Karen Woodworth-Roman, Children's Science Book Review

Out of the Depths.......2002-04-09

The mysteries of the ocean just keep on amazing me! This is a superbly written book about a fish, the coelacanth, that was thought to be extinct. Ms. Walker presents a tremendous amount of material in a highly readable manner. Her well-chosen photographs, drawings, and maps compliment her rich text. Ms. Walker has written clearly, bringing together comprehensive scientific research into a unique story of a unique fish. This is a terrific book and a definite must for any collection of ocean books.

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Discovering Fossil Fishes
John G Maisey
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