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Principles of Taxation for Business and Investment Planning is a different approach to the study of taxation than the traditional tax preparation approach. This book teaches students to recognize the role taxes play in business and investment decisions. In addition, the book presents the general role of taxation and its implications across all taxpaying entities before discussing the details of specific exceptions. This approach allows students to really grasp the fundamental concepts that are the foundation for specific tax rules. The benefit is that the students will understand the framework of the tax system, even though specific tax regulations change from year to year.
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A guide book for those Facilitators that expect more............2006-08-07
I found this book through Amazon's recommendations from other books I had purchased through them. This book is an essential kit in our arsenal of Faciltator's tools. This book is small in size but big in content. It has problem solving, facilitation methods, "energizers" and interpersonal skills. This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to content. This book has many great illustrations and many great tips and techniques. This book is an excellent buy. It is also a recent version (2005) for the most up to date information. The book is small but the value is really big.
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The Clifford Chance Lectures: Volume 1: Bridging the Channel (Clifford Chance Lectures)
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This is the first volume in what is intended to be an annual series designed to publish lectures delivered at the Centre for European Law Studies in Oxford. These lectures have been sponsored by one of Britiain's largest law firms, Cliffor Chance. The first volume brings together lectures given by some of Britain's most distinguished academic lawyers and judges. These lectures have apppeared previously only in pamphlet form.
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Solar Journey: The Significance of Our Galactic Environment for the Heliosphere and Earth (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)
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Solar Journey: The Significance of Our Galactic Environment for the Heliosphere and Earth lays the foundation for an interdisciplinary study of the influence of interstellar material on the solar system and Earth as we travel through the Milky Way Galaxy. The solar wind bubble responds dynamically to interstellar material flowing past the Sun, regulating interstellar gas, dust, and cosmic particle fluxes in the interplanetary medium and the Earth. Cones of interstellar gas and dust focused by solar gravity, the magnetospheres of the outer planets, and cosmic rays at Earth all might yield the first hints of changes in our galactic environment.
Twelve articles from leading experts in diverse fields discuss the physical changes expected as the heliosphere adjusts to its galactic environment. Topics include the interaction between the solar wind and interstellar dust and gas, cosmic ray modulation, magnetospheres, temporal variations in the solar environment, and the cosmic ray isotope record preserved in paleoclimate data.
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Astronomy: Journey to the Cosmic Frontier/Book and 3-D Glasses
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Not A 3-D Book.......2003-07-12
I had bought this book expecting it to be an astronomy/space 3D book with lots of cool 3D pictures. However a "cool" 3D graphic book was not what I got. This book is a heavy, college level text book. The 3D glasses that come with the book are for a couple of stereoscopic line drawings that are in the book.
Just want to send this warning out to anyone who thinks they may be buying a 3-D book.
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This is a text for an introductory astronomy course. One of the main goals is to provide a broad enough and deep enough background in astronomy so the student will be able to follow current developments in astronomy years after they complete the course. This book presumes that most of its readers are not science majors and that they probably have not had a college-level science or mathematics course. The book provides a complete description of current astronomical knowledge, neither at an extreme technical level nor at a level that fails to communicate the quantitative nature of physical science. Finally, the historical development of astronomy is emphasized to show that astronomy, like other sciences, advances through the efforts of many scientists, and to show how present ideas have been developed.
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This is a text for an introductory astronomy course. One of the main goals is to provide a broad enough and deep enough background in astronomy so the student will be able to follow current developments in astronomy years after they complete the course. This book presumes that most of its readers are not science majors and that they probably have not had a college-level science or mathematics course. The book provides a complete description of current astronomical knowledge, neither at an extreme technical level nor at a level that fails to communicate the quantitative nature of physical science. Finally, the historical development of astronomy is emphasized to show that astronomy, like other sciences, advances through the efforts of many scientists, and to show how present ideas have been developed.
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Astronomy: Journey to the Cosmic Frontier.......2005-09-26
The book was in mint condition. I received it promptly. I am confused though as to the record of it's purchase date. I bought this book in early September and the notification I just received says I purchased it yesterday. Other than that, no complaints.
Good read lost of water.......2005-07-11
Its a good read, clear definitions, emphasis on getting sence of things, and simple relationships (say lifetimes scales as inverse of mass squared) but rather poor problems if one intends to use as a textbook... a 100lvl classes only :)
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Beautiful story of a major breakthrough.......2007-01-15
The story of how mankind first came to understand what the microwave background describes is related. The first rate science done by the entire COBE team is a great
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Mather's account of the COBE project and its science is a priceless account since he was the head scientist of the project. He writes about the cosmology as well as the instrument science in a very easy to understand way.
Very Informative..One of Best Scientific Journals I've read.......1999-04-03
This is a great book. And every physicist, future-physicist, or any science lover should really read this book. One of best ways to get the brief summary of whole history of cosmology, while learning about the satellite that proves one of most famous theory we have in physics: big bang. I had borrowed this from library, and I loved it so much, I went ahead and bought a copy, and am in process of re-reading it. Really cool. Check it out!
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This is a text for an introductory astronomy course. One of the main goals is to provide a broad enough and deep enough backround in astronomy so the student will be able to follow current developments in astronomy years after they complete the course. This book presumes that most of its readers are not science majors and that they probably have not had a college-level science or mathematics course. The book provides a complete description of current astronomical knowledge, neither at an extreme technical level nor at a level that fails to communicate the quantitative nature of physical science. Finally, the historical development of astronomy is emphasized to show that astronomy, like other sciences, advances through the efforts of many scientists, and to show how present ideas have been developed.
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Waste on a Scale of Cosmic Proportions.......2005-08-01
This is quite possibly one of the worst text books I have ever had the displeasure to read. I have no doubt that the author is a person of great intelligence, but his ability to write effectively and provide clear explanations is sorely lacking. The main problem deals with his lack of attention to detail when explaining fundamental concepts.
My main issue comes into play with the problems section of the book, supposedly designed to test one's knowledge/comprehension of the subject covered in that chapter or building on the preceeding chapters. However, this is not the case. The problems will hint to equations that do not exist in the text or asks questions too ambiguous for an accurate understanding. Answers are given in the back of the book, but no work is shown in how to arrive at those conclusions.
Honestly, I'd get more out of my Astronomy class if I had just been turned loose on the internet with a set of problems to solve.
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Yay! Color pictures!.......2001-07-13
This was an excellent book and fun to read. I've been a lover of astronomy for 7 years since I was 13 years old! I've read dozens of astronomy books and this one really is a great one. It definitely made my class easier and more enjoyable. The CD-ROM helps too! Nice big book with tons of color pictures, and interesting facts. Not boring at all. It was a good choice for the class.
Astronomy: Journey to the Cosmic Frontier.......2000-05-04
This book is a well expresed and enjoyable introduction toastronomy; pictures and graphics, text-boxes on seminal concepts,clear writing do it an amazing reading. Programs and texts on CD arethe precise aid to textbook as a powerful tool for those that want learn about modern astronomy, this thanks to up-to-date references and glossary.
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After The Beginning: A Cosmic Journey Through Space And Time
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In a brilliant flash about fourteen billion years ago, time and matter were born in a single instant of creation. An immensely hot and dense universe began its rapid expansion everywhere, creating space where there was no space and time where there was no time. In the intense fire just after the beginning, the lightest elements were forged, later to form primordial clouds that eventually evolved into galaxies, stars, and planets. This evolution is the story told in this fascinating book. Interwoven with the storyline are short pieces on the pioneering men and women who revealed those wonders to us.
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An optimist who's not afraid of equations.......2005-04-06
The best-known popular books about the origin of the universe may be Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time," famous largely because it quotes his publisher's advice that every mathematical equation cuts sales in half, and Steven Weinberg's "The First Three Minutes," famous (or infamous) for his conclusion that "The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless."
In "After the Beginning," Norman Glendenning, like Hawking and Weinberg a theoretical physicist, differs with both their points of view. His enlightening, entertaining, sometimes startling story tells how philosophers, astronomers, and physicists have teased out cosmic history right back to the first 10-to-the-minus-43rd of a second, before which time, he observes, we can't know anything, because the laws of physics didn't apply. (His title can be read as a commentary on astronomer Martin Rees's quite different approach in "Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others.")
For the most part Glendenning's narrative is equation free, but unlike Hawking, he provides plenty of equations for those who really want them. In some cases the mathematical arguments in the boxes that follow key chapters actually make "After the Beginning" easier to understand than the opaque prose in "A Short History of Time"; in any event the equations can be ignored without impeding the narrative flow.
As for Weinberg, Glendenning is more cheerful by nature. To find the universe pointless is not, after all, a logical necessity, and in all that has happened since Weinberg's book was last revised in 1993, Glendenning finds anything but anxiety, notwithstanding that, if anything, the universe is less comprehensible than it seemed a decade ago. For at that time the great mystery of dark energy, which accounts for 70 percent of the density of the universe, was as yet unsuspected. Such new mysteries on the grand scale are balanced by new mysteries on the microscopic scale, of supersymmetry, string theory, and hidden dimensions.
"The men and women among us who in earlier times would have been priests and priestesses," he writes, "have been able to recognize the very seeds of the galaxies. One of these alone, the Milky Way, harbors billions of suns with billions of planets. From one small planet, the Earth, we look out in wonder."
Glendenning revels in the latest discoveries while laying the groundwork to appreciate them, not least with anecdotes of historical figures, some from the distant past ("The great tide of Alexander's conquests that soon swept over Asia and India often obscures what is important to our story of cosmology -- an end to the independence of the Greek cities and to the spirit of free inquiry of their citizens") and many more recent. For example, it was Paul Dirac's loneliness and depression, Glendenning suggests, that led indirectly to Dirac's insights linking quantum mechanics and general relativity.
The personal approach benefits greatly from Glendenning's long tenure at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, from his familiarity with machines like the Bevatron, once the world's most powerful accelerator, where the antiproton and antineutron were first detected, and from his aquaintanceship with leading players in the still unfolding story of the cosmos there, scientists like George Smoot, who pioneered studies of the cosmic microwave background radiation, and Saul Perlmutter, who led the way in discovering that the expansion of the universe is accelerating as a consequence of mysterious dark energy.
Like all great science books that return to territory that has often been explored before, "After the Beginning: A Cosmic Journey Through Space and Time" displays the essential properties of new revelations and fresh surprises.
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A Guide to Problems in Modern Electrochemistry 1 - Ionics
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It has been always an incentive for students to find whether his/her efforts to solve exercises give correct results, or to find tips for problems that he/she finds more difficult. These are the main reasons for the appearance of the present book. As part of the textbook Modern Electrochemistry 1: Ionics, A Guide to Problems in Modern Electrochemistry: Part 1: Ionics compiles many of the solutions to the exercises and problems presented in the text, as well as many new problems.
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Most evolutionary biologists agree that what makes humans unique among animals is our brainpower. But why--and how--did we evolve our oversized brains? Craig Stanford dusts off the old "Man the Hunter" theory, roundly criticized as replete with bad (and sexist) assumptions, and finds a thick, juicy, postmodern steak at the heart of it. He argues, "The origins of human intelligence are linked to the acquisition of meat, especially through the cognitive capacities necessary for the strategic sharing of meat with fellow group members."
Stanford studied the great apes, especially chimpanzees, and came to the conclusion that among primates, meat is a valuable commodity both nutritionally and socially. Although many other foods are nutritionally desirable, meat is unique in its social desirability, and for males, it represents power:
Underlying the nutritional aspect of getting meat, part of the social fabric of the community is revealed in the dominance displays, the tolerated theft, and the bartered meat for sexual access. The end of the hunt is often only the beginning of a whole other arena of social interaction.
In Stanford's view, females play a crucial role in keeping groups together and cementing individual relationships. Meat plays an important role in the way males fit in to a society, and the ability of males to get meat readily may very well explain their societal dominance. These conclusions are not liable to be nearly so controversial as the way Stanford gathered his data--he drew broad parallels between chimps and modern hunter-gatherer societies. Stanford also admits that a lack of fossil evidence supporting his meat/brain link is problematic. The Hunting Apes is an interesting look at what is likely the worthwhile center of a discredited evolutionary theory. --Therese Littleton
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What makes humans unique? What makes us the most successful animal species inhabiting the Earth today? Most scientists agree that the key to our success is the unusually large size of our brains. Our large brains gave us our exceptional thinking capacity and led to humans' other distinctive characteristics, including advanced communication, tool use, and walking on two legs. Or was it the other way around? Did the challenges faced by early humans push the species toward communication, tool use, and walking and, in doing so, drive the evolutionary engine toward a large brain? In this provocative new book, Craig Stanford presents an intriguing alternative to this puzzling question--an alternative grounded in recent, groundbreaking scientific observation. According to Stanford, what made humans unique was meat. Or, rather, the desire for meat, the eating of meat, the hunting of meat, and the sharing of meat.
Based on new insights into the behavior of chimps and other great apes, our now extinct human ancestors, and existing hunting and gathering societies, Stanford shows the remarkable role that meat has played in these societies. Perhaps because it provides a highly concentrated source of protein--essential for the development and health of the brain--meat is craved by many primates, including humans. This craving has given meat genuine power--the power to cause males to form hunting parties and organize entire cultures around hunting. And it has given men the power to manipulate and control women in these cultures. Stanford argues that the skills developed and required for successful hunting and especially the sharing of meat spurred the explosion of human brain size over the past 200,000 years. He then turns his attention to the ways meat is shared within primate and human societies to argue that this all-important activity has had profound effects on basic social structures that are still felt today.
Sure to spark a lively debate, Stanford's argument takes the form of an extended essay on human origins. The book's small format, helpful illustrations, and moderate tone will appeal to all readers interested in those fundamental questions about what makes us human.
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Steak, sex and society.......2001-08-26
With a wealth of primate research supporting his thesis, Stanford argues that meat is an essential element in human evolution. Although not the older and simpler "Killer Ape" hypothesis of some years ago, Stanford sees meat hunting and consumption as the foundation of human society. Meat also acted as a basis in developing the resource voracious human brain and associated communication skills we developed. Among those primates who consume meat, its acquisition remains a male-dominated activity. However, instead of resulting in inexorably male-dominating societies, meat distribution and consumption results in complex negotiation patterns in which females play significant, if not equal roles. This concept suggests humans must seriously reassess their role in Nature. Urging that humanity's lineage is far from linear, he presents a good overview of recent studies. Although the number of definitive fossils is meager, they still demonstrate that our primate roots are not in doubt. The struggle by researchers to properly place humans within the larger animal community has been stoutly resisted by many, both scholars and the lay public alike. Feminist anthropologists, in particular, have striven to displace the male dominated academic group with excessive roles of females in various primate cultures. Some have stretched the idea to the point of seeing females as the true source of language, nutritional foods and even tool making. Stanford addresses these suggestions as mostly unrealistic. Instead, he notes how meat plays a major role in mating scenarios, granting females an active role in selection. Acquiring meat may be accomplished through various strategies, from opportunistic scavenging to actively seeking prey. The true hunter, he contends, must develop a sophisticated array of skills in pursuing meat - prey location, stealth, communication, and the tools able to kill and process. Once obtained, the distribution of the kill becomes an essential element in societal arrangement. He reviews many forms social structures have taken, from selfish monopolization of the kill to the hunter himself receiving but limited return for his effort. What the hunter does gain in all societies is respect and recognition of the group. For Stanford, this is but one indication of the diversity encountered in all primate societies, human and otherwise. The only universal is the hierarchical structure resulting from the hunting role. While hierarchy is the norm, dominance doesn't necessarily follow. In this study, Stanford examines the many social structures primates have developed. These range from nearly solitary, such as the orang-utan, to both male-male and male-female bonding strategies. These elements are essential to understanding the roots of human societal structures. As an example, in primate societies, in contrast to many other animals, it is the female who migrates from the natal group. Stanford doesn't follow this to suggest that dowries and bride-bargaining derive from this behavior, but the inference is clear. Indeed, part of the value of this book is his restriction to biological patterns. One need only accept that humans are included in the primate community. Stanford's book may raise some hackles, but it's far too important an idea to dismiss lightly. He's a skilled enough writer not to get bogged down in a pedantic rendition of the evidence or his conclusions. With the large number of works on the vagaries of human evolution appearing in recent years, finding worthwhile books can be a daunting task. Rest assured that The Hunting Apes is worth your attention and investment. Future research may modify it slightly, but is unlikely to supplant it.
Weak Hypothesis From Berkely Graduate.......2000-11-02
This book by Craig Stanford started to show some real information toward a hypothesis than lost all track. It lead to be a dull and redundant essay. It lacks logical sense in scientfic theory and has a biased theme. I would suggest another book most likely a book by Jane Goodall.
Great little book.......2000-02-15
I found Hunting Apes to be a superbly written summary of current debates in human evolution. Stanford makes a case for meat-sharing's supremacy that may or may not be true, but even if his theory were someday disproved, this book would stand as an excellent piece of readable science.
A Weak Little Book.......2000-01-16
This is not a work of fiction, so the reader's response should not be "Did I like it?" but "What did I learn?" The answer is, little. (I should qualify that by saying I have read quite a bit on this topic.) Stanford presents little that cannot be found elsewhere, more incisively. Every time you think he is going to say something, he shies off. In fact, I think there is only one sentence in the whole book: "While women may collect most hunter-gatherer protein, we should not ignore the fact that men are able to use meat for their own selfish and manipulative political ends." (p212) This is new?
I was taken aback by Stanford's approach. "This has yet to be shown. But the notion that a high-quality diet frees the metabolism of an evolving hominid to develop a larger and larger brain is extremely appealing because it would explain both the trend toward greater encephalization and toward more meat in the diet of the evolution of the human lineage (p50-51)." Appealing? (Also, I never knew that evolution had a diet.) "Surely bonobos and gorillas ought to make use of such a valuable resource whenever possible." (p95) Come on, you guys, get with it, what's the matter with you, why don't you eat hamburgers, like God intended us to? I wish Stanford would just come out and say, "Eating meat is good for you, because I was raised on an American diet with plenty of meat, and I know what I want to hear and what you want to hear. Therefore, I am going to prove that eating meat is good for you, and what's more, it's good for all of us. Dumb gorillas, don't know a valuable resource when they see one!" Stanford's method reminds me of the half joking advice to young scholars: "Put forth your hypothesis, examine all the evidence, and throw away everything that does not agree with your hypothesis." I was also aware that academics prefer not to give credit to Ardrey's African Genesis, which effectively kicked off evolutionary psychology. Nonetheless, I was surprised to read on page 182 that "In their search for evidence that modern people operate on a cognitive plane shaped by a long history of natural selection, evolutionary psychologists have erred in their level of analysis. There is no reason to consider the cognitive domains by which we respond to our social environment to be uniquely human." I thought that was the whole point of evolutionary psychology, that our congnitive domains are NOT uniquely human.
In short, if you wish to learn something, I suggest you read The Wisdom of the Bones by Walker and Shipman, Moral Animal by Wright, Lemur's Legacy by Russell, or any one of a large number of books that are more tightly reasoned than this one.
Well-written overview with intriguing hypothesis.......1999-12-22
I found this book very well written, easy to read and full of substantial information. This was a new topic for me, and I particularly found the contrasting information about hunting vs. scavenging was interesting. While the book is certainly about "hunting," it really isn't -- it's more about the politics behind meat, and about the move from being scavengers. Actually, the information about scavenging was most valuable.
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TALES FROM THE DRONES CLUB
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Tales from the Drones Club
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Wodehouse can cure a rainy day.......2005-10-31
Any day where a person can sit inside and read P.G. Wodehouse is not a day wasted. His artful comic writing is not a thing anyone should miss, whether they have read books from many english authors before or not. Reading at least some of his Jeeves and Wooster stories before reading Tales from the Drones club will add interest to the tales woven therein. A knowledge of the history of Bingo Little and his doings will help you enjoy his many misadventures with his novelist wife, thier pekenise dogs, and thier hideous but very helpful baby. However, the stories can be enjoyed just as well on thier own without any prior history with Wodehouse. The stingy Oofy Prosser, the Scrooge of the Drones club is a delight, and it is even more delightful to see him lose the cash he yearns after when he is bamboozled by of P.G. Wodehouse's masterful plot misadventures. Everyone should read a Wodehouse book. It would probably cure all depression in the world.
ok but not as good as a Jeeves/Wooster story.......2002-10-15
A collection of reasonably amusing stories (with the exception of the hat story, which you can safely skip).
However, the stories lack the spark of a good Jeeves and Wooster novel, so you will want to read all those first.
Read this book. Now........2000-03-29
It's not every book I say this about, but if you like to laugh at all, you *must* read this book! I can't adequately describe it, but I'll give it a try...This is a book of short stories about a group of well-to-do young English gentlemen, members of the Drones, a London gentlemen's club, focusing on two in particular: Freddie Widgeon, who has loved and lost so many girls that if you put them end to end they would reach halfway down Picadilly (or so they say), and Bingo Little, perhaps the luckiest chap in the club: his perpetual betting habit lands in him in the stickiest situations outside of the Jeeves and Wooster stories, but his guardian angel or lucky star never fails him. Along the way you'll also meet Reginald "Pongo" Twistleton-Twistleton and his wonderful Uncle Fred, in the classic "Uncle Fred Flits By," among other extremely likeable, if mentally negligible, young men. I haven't done this book justice. You *must* read it for yourself.
Top Wodehouse.......1999-12-31
Who can resist the Drones Club, where the members bean each other with crusty rolls? In this collection, we see Freddie Widgeon, one of the Drones Club's outstanding chumps, alienating several of the varied objects of his affections, most memorably and hilariously in the side-splitting 'Good-Bye to all Cats.' We see also treachery at the Fat Uncles Sweep and other various greedy machinations of Oofy Prosser, as well as the scrapes Bingo Little's incurable gambling habit gets him into. In fact, every story in the collection is painfully funny (I mean that literally) except for 'The Amazing Hat Story.' But big deal. The rest of the book is Wodehouse in top form, and that covers not just a multitude of sins, but all sins.
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