Advances in International Accounting: 1994 (Advances in International Accounting)

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Explores the psychological impact of change for employees. Provides managers with strategies necessary for successful transitions.

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Best book on change that I have read.......1999-11-20

This book is so wonderful that I have ordered copies for my clients. It is probably most useful to people with some background in Myers Briggs, but even without that information, it is a solidly written, insightful book.

I highlighted so much that I had to have a triage approach -- highlighter, blue stars, and dog-earring!

Innovative use of MBTI information but what's the so what?.......1999-08-18

This book has a really neat idea - use the wagon trail west as a metaphor for the challenges people face in changing organizations. It then discusses how people with different Myers Briggs Types respond in these situations,and how when managing change you should take account of these different preferences. Trouble is that there are no clear implications from the book - I'm not sure what change managers should do differently as a result of the information provided by the authors. Where there are recommendations they are so bland that you could have got there without MBTI. Maybe, this is an example of stretching psychological type beyond where it is useful.

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"The definitive memoir of the unfolding of the S-L 9 episode." --Publishers Weekly An account of the discovery of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet and its spectacular collision with Jupiter, just 6 months later, written by one of the comet's discoverers.

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A Smashing Story That Will Leave A Big Impact On You.......2004-06-05

In July 1994, a once-in-a-lifetime event occurred: a planetary impact in our solar system. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 headed straight for the comet and asteroid magnet known as Jupiter, our largest planet. Without Jupiter to act as a giant cue ball for incoming debris, it's unlikely that we would be here on planet Earth today, as there would be far more dangerous Earth impacts affecting life on our planet beyond the normal once-every-23 million years global wipeouts that have been occurring since life sprung up on our blue planet.

David Levy's book is a personal odyssey of how he and the Shoemaker's (Carolyn and Gene, the latter deceased as of 1998) happened to discover the impact of SL-9 in 1995. It was the first of 3 consecutive comet shows during the 1990's, with Comet Hyukatuke in 1996 and Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997 helping to revitalize astronomy and comet interest after the disappointing return of much-expected Halley's Comet in 1986.

The book does a good job of letting you experience the thrills that Levy and others went through during their confirming that the comet would hit Jupiter and the buildup to the expected collision dates. The diaries of the media frenzy are particularly illuminating. The one area where the book falls short is not having enough color photos of the impacts themselves. Published in 1995, "Impact Jupiter" should have had access to enough color photos, especially from the Hubble Space Telescope. There are some decent black-and-white shots, some interesting drawings and sketchings, but more color photos from the HST or other telescopes should have been included. Needless to say, there are a ton of such shots now available on the internet or in some quality astronomy and Hubble Telescope books.

All in all, an enjoyable and in-depth read on an event that had a long buildup and then was over in the course of a few days. Perhaps if we are lucky we will get another chance to witness a planetary impact in our solar system -- and hopefully, NOT on planet Earth!

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Impact Jupiter, The Crash of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
David H. Levy
Manufacturer: Plenum Publishing Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSGWKK

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Written by an international team of contributors, this book takes a critical look at key technological and scientific developments in sizing and their application. The book begins with the history of sizing systems and their affect on the mass production of ready-to-wear clothing. It reviews methods for constructing new and adapting existing sizing systems, and the standardization of national and international sizing systems. The following chapters cover marketing and fit models and present an analysis of the grading process used to create size sets. This book is an essential reference to researchers, designers, students, and manufacturers in the clothing and fashion industry.

COTTON WARP SIZING HANDBOOK: A PUBLICATION OF THE HOUGHTON TEXTILE RESEARCH STAFF.

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COTTON WARP SIZING HANDBOOK: A PUBLICATION OF THE HOUGHTON TEXTILE RESEARCH STAFF.

Manufacturer: E.F. Houghton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000F4Z1JG

The materials used in sizing: Their chemical and physical properties, and simple methods for their technical analysis and valuation; a course of lectures ... at he Manchester School of Technology

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The materials used in sizing: Their chemical and physical properties, and simple methods for their technical analysis and valuation; a course of lectures ... at he Manchester School of Technology
W. F. A Ermen
Manufacturer: Van Nostrand
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B000878PSO

The sizing of spun yarns: With special reference to the specification, preparation and use of size mixings

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The sizing of spun yarns: With special reference to the specification, preparation and use of size mixings
Henry Hacking
Manufacturer: Scientific Era Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007ATACW

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Sizing: Materials, methods & machines
D. B Ajgaonkar
Manufacturer: Textile Trade Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007BF8KY

Slashers and slashing: A technical treatise on the art of slashing

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Slashers and slashing: A technical treatise on the art of slashing
A. E Silcox
Manufacturer: Fiber Pub. Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007EUJDM

Starches : Their Fluidity and Viscosity in Relation to Sizing Value for Textiles

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Starches : Their Fluidity and Viscosity in Relation to Sizing Value for Textiles
Walter A. Nivling
Manufacturer: Barr-Erhardt Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OUW36U

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Textile Sizing (No Series)
Bhuvenesh C. Goswami , Rajesh D. Anandjiwala , and David Hall
Manufacturer: CRC
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0824750535

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Helping you keep pace with rapid developments in the field, Textile Sizing documents the rapidly changing scenario in textile processing and research in sizing. The authors analyze new fibers, spinning methods, and weaving techniques affecting textile production and studies the impact of fiber properties, yarn quality, sizing processes and materials, and chemical and mechanical phenomena on efficient textile manufacturing and development. Numerous tables dispersed throughout the text provide specific guidance on the wide range of processes involved in textile sizing. Illustrating the necessity and value of sizing techniques in the modern textile industry, this reference helps you · Predict the efficiency of their sizing methods · Master process controls, warping and sizing operations, and modern instrumentation techniques · Analyze developments in draw warping and system sizing for reduction of operating costs · Understand the importance of desizing and its effect on size recovery and environmental pollution · Study the behavior of the warp during weaving and the structural differences between various yarns Textile Sizing is invaluable for physical, surface, colloid, textile, materials, polymer, plastics, and fiber chemists; industrial, manufacturing, textile, fiber, and composite engineers; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

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TEXTILE WARP SIZING
Seydel and Hunt
Manufacturer: Long & Clopton, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IQFFGA

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Textile Warp Sizing
Dr. Paul V. Seydel
Manufacturer: Long & Clopton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NW22WE

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Less than 150 years have elapsed since the publication of Darwin's seminal work on evolution by natural selection, yet in this short period of time evolutionary theory has transformed our thinking in all aspects of human endeavor. The rapid progress that has been made, particularly in the last decades, is reflected in this book, which illustrates many key advances in the field and provides a sampler of the diversity of questions and research approaches that constitute the modern study of evolution. With contributions from leading experts, "Evolution: From Molecules to Ecosystems" addresses issues ranging from the fate of mutations to the origin of new genes, from mechanisms of speciation to patterns of radiation after mass extinctions, from recent migrations to ancient relationships, from symbiosis to virulent disease, and from the origin of play to perceptions of beauty. The book is designed to be advanced and up-to-date, but at the same time accessible and relevant to readers from the fields of genetics, ecology, animal behavior, anthropology and evolutionary biology. It will be particularly useful as a companion text for introductory and upper level courses in evolutionary biology.

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Very educational and interesting.......2005-04-15

There are plenty of books for the layman about what evolution is. But how about a book for biology students? This one provides 23 interesting articles on evolution, with students and scientists in mind.

The first part is on the genetic machinery of evolution. That starts with an examination of the importance of various types of mutations: deleterious, "nearly neutral," neutral, and advantageous. We see the significance of random drift, and that there is a negative correlation between evolutionary rate and population size. Next is a discussion of the characteristic footprint left by natural selection in DNA sequences, and how this footprint can be detected from the analysis of intraspecific nucelotide variation. After that is a paper which addresses the extent and severity of deleterious mutations, and the reduction in overall fitness that ensues from them. This "mutational load" is shown to be less than had been previously estimated. The following topic is gene duplication. Many of the key evolutionary lineages of multicellular eukaryotes have experienced polyploidization at some point. Gene duplication clearly plays an important role in genome evolution and in all likelihood in phenotypic evolution as well. After that comes the issue of gene regulation: how have regulatory sequences evolved, mutated, and drifted? The section finishes with a paper on the relevance of the human genome project to evolution. We may find causes of suboptimality, infer nonorthologous gene displacements, learn about the origin of nonhierarchical distributions in character states, infer ancestral character states (my favorite), learn about the relative importance of neutral mutations (as well as of duplications, transportations, and gene and genome shuffling), and learn about the interaction between directional and stabilizing selection.

The second part is about molecular variation and evolution. That includes a discussion of the evolution of virulence in AIDS viruses, the evolution of the plasmodium parasites (which cause malaria), and the evolution of symbioses in insects (the conquest of insect intercellular habitats by bacteria).

Part Three deals with the ecological and biogeographic context of evolutionary change. While evolutionary biology is a study of how organisms evolve, evolutionary ecology is a study of why they evolve. That means looking at both abiotic and biotic drivers of natural selection. And we see a little of how a single genotype can produce different phenotypes in different environments. If there is a predictable change in the environment (such as the annual cycle), genotypes can adapt very well to it (consider the summer diopause of cyclopoids). Next there are a couple of articles on the evolutionary peculiarities of cyclical parthenogens (species that more or less regularly alternate between sexual and parthenogenetic reproduction). There are about 15,000 species of cyclical parthenogens, with rotifers and aphids being well-known representatives of them. After that is an article about how ecosystem-level phenomena (habitat persistence) may shape the dispersal strategies of populations, and what consequences these dispersal strategies may have on gene flow and genetic differentiation of populations. The final article in the section is on using molecules to understand the distribution of animal and plant diversity. That means a fascinating tracing the progress of DNA sequences through the Pangea continent era (about 225 million years ago), the production of the Alps, Himalayas, and Andes mountain ranges (all in the past 35 million years or so), the production of the Hawaiian chain of islands (in the past 30 million years), and the series of ice ages in the past two million years.

The fourth part has papers on speciation and major evolutionary events. The first of these is about allopatric speciation (where total geographic isolation of populations causes the formation of different species due to the effects of random genetic divergence). But how often are these "isolated" populations truly isolated? It appears that in many cases, isolation is not complete, and sexual selection plays a major role in the ensuing speciation. The next paper attempts to summarize the evidence that hybrids are not evolutionary dead ends, but actually a positive source of evolutionary innovations. That leads to a discussion of mobile DNA sequences, called transposons, which can transpose copies of themselves throughout the genome. The idea is that hybridization can induce high transposition rates. That means high mutation and rearrangement rates. Selection effects and increased fixation by drift in small hybrid populations then lead to introgression or to speciation. Then there is a paper on cooperation and conflict during two major evolutionary transitions, prokaryotic to eukaryotic and unicellular to multi-cellular. It is pointed out that natural selection not only fails to maximize fitness in the "Prisoner's Dilemma" game, it minimizes it. The next paper discusses the molecular evidence on the origin and phylogenetic relationships among the major groups of vertebrates. The phylogeny of vertebrates is relatively well known given their fossil record. The final paper in the section discusses mass extinctions. Some clades survive with little change in long-term patterns. Some die. Others diversify. Some suffer setbacks and then recover (in some cases, genera disappear from the fossil record prior to the extinction and reappear late in the recovery period). And some survive the extinction but perish in the recovery (dead clade walking).

The last part has four intriguing papers about behavior, evolution, and human affairs. The first of these is on how evolution may explain play. After all, it uses up energy to play. Why is it worth doing? The next paper is on the evolutionary psychology of human physical attraction and attractiveness. The third paper is about the genome view on human evolution. And the final paper is an attempt to find a Darwinian account for human creativity. Here, the claim is made that we have no way to be sure that Kasparov's method for finding a good chess move is entirely unlike the means exploited by Deep Blue. Good. I have now found a statement in this book that I can strongly disagree with and be confident that I am right. I highly recommend the book in spite of this.

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EVOLUTION:FROM MOLECULES TO ECOSYSTEMS
MOYA/FONT
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OLCBNY

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The Chicken from Minsk really gives your brain a workout...

Ever so much fun for the curious of all ages...

The Chicken from Minsk: And 99 Other Infuriatingly Challenging Brain Teasers from the Great Russian Tradition of Math and Science
Yuri Chernyak , and Robert M. Rose
Manufacturer: Basic Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0465071279

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The Chicken from Minsk really gives your brain a workout..........1999-06-27

As a survivor of the course based on this book and taught by Yuri himself at MIT, I must say that The Chicken from Minsk was a true challenge. The great thing about it is that it builds critical thinking skills while making even the nastiest math and physics (shall I dare say?) fun!

Ever so much fun for the curious of all ages..........1995-12-30

The former Soviet Union had a much more mathematically rigerous tradition in physics than did the rest of the world. These problems are word problems, and they will make you sweat. Ideal for the curious of all ages, but especially for teens, to keep their curiosity alive. I think highly of this book-gave 7 copies away this holliday season.

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Excellent and thought provoking.

Challenging Problems for Physics.
Raymond A. Serway , and Boris Korsunsky
Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace College Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Excellent and thought provoking........1999-10-15

Dear Amazon, I am looking for "Instructor's Manual to Accompany Challenging Problems for Physics" by Boris Korsunsky and "Instructor's Manual with Solutions" by Steve Van Wyk, Ralph McGrew, Ray Serway and Louis Cadwell. I could not find these on your site. Please advise.

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Challenging Problems for Physics.
Raymond A.; Korsunsky, Boris Serway
Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace College Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OA2CXE

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An original look at what visitors to Scotland want answers to. A few of the topics covered include: Swearing, Why drive on the wrong side of the road?, Are Brits more polite?, Whisky, Real ale, and much more. Irreverent and entertaining, this is the one book every visitor to Scotland must read!

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