Milestones in the British Accounting Literature (Routledge New Works in Accounting History)

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Games are your answer!

They don't want to hear you lecture. They don't want to read an instruction guide. So how can you tell them what they need to know? You want bright smiles, not bored sighs. You want them to have fun, but you want them to learn as well. GAMES are your answer!

Games aren't just for kids. Games can help people learn business ideas: games can teach. Steve Sugar's adaptable designs put an end to tired, scripted business games. Sometimes you have a lot of games, but none of them ever seems to suit the occasion. Sometimes games suit the occasion, but are so rigid that the participants are bored before they've scarcely even begun. With Sugar's help, your games will always be both fitting and new. These aren't your average games. They're frame games, game shells to which you can add your own unique content.

With this simple book, you'll quickly create perfect games for every setting!

In this book you'll get:

An abundance of uniq ue and playful games. These content-reinforcing designs will increase the smile quotient of even the most hard-to-please audience.
A handy selection matrix. This tool helps you choose the games that suit your specific training needs.
A simple seven-step game implementation model. This plan shows you how to customize these designs for your own use.

As a student, Sugar used games to remember his schoolwork; as a teacher, he used games to energize dull lessons; as a trainer, he uses games to excite learners and accelerate learning. And now he offers you this invaluable treasury of his fluid game designs. Bring a bounty of frame game fun to your next training session or presentation!

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Games for Brain Dead Instructional Designers.......2005-10-09

You've reached that impass when you just can't think of another game or experiential activity -- that's when you need to dig out those really great training activity books like Games that Teach, by Steve Sugar. If you can't find something to use in his book, or something to modify, he'll certainly get your creative juices going again so you can come up with something on your own!

A superb tarining tool.......2005-09-15

Games that Teach is a wonderful book for designing interactive training sessions. The games are easily adaptable almost to any subject and situation. It's a simple book to use and implement but with great results in terms of teaching the key points in a content and entertainment in the classroom.
Y.Nevhiz Demirel,"DDE" Istanbul,Turkey

A wonderful teaching tool!.......1999-09-15

This book is a refreshing way to look at teaching. The creative games that fill the pages bring fun to learning. This book not only gives the reader wonderful games to use with his/her pupils, but step by step instructions on how to make these games effective. The games presented are broad enough to be used in almost any educational setting with any topic the facilitator is presenting. Most of the games are done within cooperative groups or teams, allowing for more group interaction and all around fun. This book is a must have for any teacher, workshop facilitator, or seminar presenter.

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Legalines: Torts : Adaptable to Fourth Edition of Henderson Casebook
Gloria A. Aluise
Manufacturer: Harcourt Legal & Professional Pubns
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0159001749

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Legalines gives you authoritative, detailed briefs of every major case in your casebook. You get a clear explanation of facts, the issues, the court's holding and reasoning, and any significant concurrences or dissents. Even more importantly, you get an authoritative explanation of the significance of each case, and how it relates to other cases in your casebook. And with Legalines' detailed table of cases, you can quickly find any case or concept you're looking for.

But your professor expects you to know more than just the cases. That's why Legalines gives you more than just case briefs. You get summaries of the black letter law as well. That's crucial because some of the most important information in your casebooks isn't in the cases at all… it's the black letter principles you're expected to glean from those cases.

Legalines is the only study aid that gives you both case briefs and black letter review. With Legalines, you get everything you need to know - whether it's in a case or not!

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Torts Henderson Edition (Blond's Law Guides)
Neil C. Blond , and Blonds
Manufacturer: Sulzburger & Graham Publishing
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Legalines: Torts: Adaptable to Sixth Edition of the Henderson Casebook (Legalines)
Gloria A. Aluise
Manufacturer: The BarBri Group
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ASIN: B000OTQFZ6

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Suggestions for teachers using Henderson and Pearson, The Torts process, (second edition 1981)
James A Henderson
Manufacturer: Little, Brown
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Suggestions for teachers using The torts process, (third edition 1988)
James A Henderson
Manufacturer: Little, Brown
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ASIN: 0316356166

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In 1913 amateur fossil hunter and archaeologist Charles Dawson found in a gravel pit the cranium and jaw of an entirely new species of humanoid, which became known as Piltdown man, which caused headlines worldwide as the missing link between man and ape. In 1952, it was exposed as a hoax. With eight pages of photos, this book is a wonderful detective story, and the first examination the convincingly fingers the perpetrator.

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Engrossing, and extremely well written.......2004-09-23

A fascinating study of the Piltdown tragedy. I approached the book because I wanted to confirm the innocence of Teilhard de Chardin as regards the whole affair, and indeed Walsh clears Teilhard completely to my satisfaction. But I found myself swept up by Walsh's account of this world famous hoax, and the people who were the first victims of it. It would make a terrific film. I recommend the book as a great read, and to anyone curious about any level of the famous incident. This is a place where the criminologist, the anthropologist and the historian -- and the psychologist -- come together. Simply superb.

Court's in recess.......2002-08-03

Walsh brings well-honed historical skills to this narrative of the famous Piltdown mystery. Found in a gravel pit in 1912, the skullcap and jaw turned paleoanthropology into a ferocious battleground for many years. Reputations were won and lost over interpreting the artefacts in the ensuing years. Walsh carefully outlines the personalities and the sequence of events leading to the finds. He describes how reluctantly many scholars accepted the original interpretations, until a "second Piltdown" overcame their misgivings.

Walsh's chapter "Challenging the Skull" is an excellent summation of the level of knowledge available at the time. The key issue was the "ape-like" jaw adorned with a significant canine tooth, also found at the site. Several scholars argued that such a tooth precluded the evidence of human chewing wear seen on the jaw's molars. The second "find" swept away these contentions, although the chewing mechanism was never worked out. Arthur Smith Woodward gave Piltdown the appellation Eoanthropus dawsonii honouring the finder of the skull. It became the centre of British anthropological ideas for many years.

In 1953, however, fresh doubts arose concerning Piltdown. Walsh leaps the intervening years abruptly to introduce Joseph Weiner. Weiner, disturbed by the lack of supportive data and the results of new dating technology began to delve more deeply into establishing whether the jaw and skull were truly from one individual. Close inspection revealed the tooth "wear" was the result of filing, not chewing! After four decades, Piltdown was exposed as a fraud.

Walsh examines the cases against the primary figures involved in the find and the campaign to establish its primacy in the anthropological scene. Charles Dawson, the original finder is first exonerated as being "too honest" for such an act. Weiner, who originally investigated Dawson, couldn't obtain more than circumstantial evidence. Walsh continues by recounting the several provoking assessments of other participants. He finds the most compelling Stephen J. Gould's implication that the French priest, Teilhard de Chardin was the perpetrator. Of all Gould's assaults on various scientific figures over the years, this one has always seemed the least plausible. Walsh also finds it unconvincing, criticizing the use of evidence or its lack. He critiques other accusations in the same way. Yet, when he finally settles back on Dawson, his own case is built on surmise and supposition. He is unable to actually demonstrate Dawson perpetrated the fraud. Walsh's case is built on past events and some shady dealings on Dawson's part. Of Piltdown, however, Walsh offers no solid evidence. The most significant aspect of his case is his failure to provide motivation. He builds a flimsy foundation of sibling rivalry, plausible, but unsubstantiated.

The glaring omission in this book is Walsh's failure to place Piltdown in its anthropological context. While the deception circumstances and his survey of those accused of it make compelling reading, the real mystery is why such figures as Woodward and Keith clung to Piltdown's morphology in the face of contradictory evidence. The real challenge to Piltdown came from South Africa with Raymond Dart's find of the Taung Child in 1924. Taung's discovery refuted Piltdown's large brain capacity and the belief that modern humans evolved in Asia or Europe. Woodward fought this analysis for years, vigorously defending his
"Earliest Englishman" against the African challenge. Woodward's ideal early man must be British. While Walsh's "detective story" makes compelling reading, his failure to provide in-depth motivation for anyone involved, even Dawson, still leaves too many questions unanswered. Given the number of tarnished reputations the affair produced, this is an unfortunate lapse. While Walsh has built a strong case, the jury remains unconvinced.

A wolf in sheep's clothing.......2001-07-25

In his Prologue, Walsh forcibly states: "The Piltdown fraud was nothing short of despicable, an ugly trick played by a warped and unscrupulous mind on unsuspecting scholars." He spends the remainder of the book sifting through evidence, eliminating suspects and finally exposing the forger and the web of deceit he wove. It is not surprising that among scientists (who must trust one another's honesty in order to advance the standing of knowledge), someone skilled at deception would pose a serious risk to the scientific method? And sure enough, the guilty party did not start with Piltdown, but had a long strng of fraudulent discoveries and plagarisms. Is it further any surprise that the guilty party was a lawyer?

I recommend this book highly to anyone who is interested in science or historical crime.

Unputdownable.......2001-07-12

This book is a treat. The sheer common sense and respect for the truth blaze through it. I was impressed by the depth of research and the quality of the analysis. I can't recommend it too highly. I have read other books on this subject but have found their arguments unconvincing. Very highly recommended.

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The Piltdown Forgery
J. S. Weiner
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0198607806

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On 21 November 1953, one of the most fascinating puzzles in science was finally solved. Three scientists--Joseph Weiner, Kenneth Oakley, and Wilfrid Le Gros Clark--described their investigations into the important fossilized human remains found at Piltdown in Sussex in the early 1900s. Their conclusion was stunning: the remains, and the accompanying materials that supposedly verified them as ancient fossils, had all been faked. The discovery of Piltdown Man had been announced to the world in 1912 by an amateur fossil hunter, Charles Dawson, and the Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museum in London, Arthur Smith Woodward, who had found fragments of a thickset skull and an ape-like lower jaw, along with other bones and stone tools. These fragments pointed to a species of early human who had lived in England a million years ago-a 'missing link' between apes and modern man. But, as Weiner and his colleagues were to reveal in 1953, the skull was a recent one, and the jaw had belonged to an orang-utan. These and many other 'finds' from Piltdown had been deliberately stained and tampered with to make them appear ancient, and the scientific establishment had been well and truly fooled. Widely praised from its first publication in 1955, The Piltdown Forgery remains the classic account of this story and its many players. In this fiftieth anniversary edition, Professor Chris Stringer, Head of Human Origins at the Natural History Museum in London, provides an introduction to this famous story, and an afterword containing the latest detective-work. Ever-increasing technological powers may one day reveal who did what, and why, but until then this remains an engrossing tale of mixed motives, captivating trickery, and competing egos: a tale fit to rival the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (himself a player in this saga) at his best.

The Mystery Of The Piltdown Skull (Cover-To-Cover Books)

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The Mystery Of The Piltdown Skull (Cover-To-Cover Books)
Pat Perrin , and Wim Coleman
Manufacturer: Perfection Learning
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Piltdown A Scientific Forgery Based on research by Ian Langham (1942-1984)

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Piltdown A Scientific Forgery Based on research by Ian Langham (1942-1984)
Frank Spencer
Manufacturer: Oxford U.P.
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The Piltdown Confession: A Novel
Irwin Schwartz
Manufacturer: St Martins Pr
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THE PILTDOWN FORGERY
J. S. Weiner
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The Piltdown Inquest
Charles Blinderman
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Piltdown Man: The Secret Life of Charles Dawson (Revealing History)

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Piltdown Man: The Secret Life of Charles Dawson (Revealing History)
Miles Russell
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The Piltdown Forgery

ASIN: 0752425722

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The human and animal remains discovered almost 100 years ago at Piltdown, near Lewes in Sussex were at the time hailed as the “missing link” between ape and man. It was not until 1953 that modern analysis conclusively revealed an ingenious hoax. The perpetrator was almost certainly the antiquarian excavator Charles Dawson who, as Miles Russell shows, was responsible for 16 other archaeological forgeries during his lifetime.

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Science advancing on very thin ice

The Piltdown Men
Ronald William Millar
Manufacturer: Gollancz
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ASIN: 057500536X

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Science advancing on very thin ice.......2000-04-24

"The Piltdown Men" is a fascinating book by a very good investigative writer. It recounts the story of one of the most successful frauds in modern science, and takes a look at the group of men who were behind the initial "discovery" and who supported it. The culprit has never been found, but it is supposed that it must have been one of this group who first put the elements in place, and triggered the find.

At the same time, this is an interesting look at the state of palaeontology in the early part of the twentieth century. It was due in part to the need for just such a "missing link" that science found the so-called Piltdown Man so plausible. In addition, the fact that "he" happened to turn up on British soil was especially pleasing to the English school, which quickly took the fragmentary evidence under its wing, and proclaimed it loudly. There are a number of incidents related in the book, which make us wonder just how the fraud could have continued for nearly fifty years, as it did. It gives us pause to wonder about the veracity of any scientific assertion whatever, given the interplay of human pride and greed that may be involved. One of the participants in the initial story, who verified it and then supported it to some extent, was the French philosopher and theologian, Teilhard de Chardin. He was just one of several interesting characters who became involved in the story, and probably helped to give it credence.

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In one of the most spectacular cases of scientific fraud ever, ancient human skull fragments found in 1912 near the English town of Piltdown were proven a deliberate hoax 40 years later. However the identity of the perpetrator has remained a mystery. The recently published book The Piltdown
Forgery (Oxford 1990) reopens the case with a detailed examination of the evidence and a fresh attempt to name the hoaxer. This companion volume gathers together for the first time the relevant historical documents, presenting a selection of some 500 letters and other papers covering the period.
The material has been drawn largely from the archives of the British Museum (Natural History). The resulting fully annotated catalog provides a unique resource for those interested in the history of science as well as the basis for a reassessment of the Piltdown episode.

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Warm-hearted and brash, with an opinion about everything and a can-do attitude that infuses her with boundless energy and joy, Yente Telebente is a lively individual whose rich life vividly unfolds through a series of letters traded with friends and family.

We first meet Yente as a merry girl with the clear vision and steadfast determination to take her far beyond the streets of her home on New York's Lower East Side.

Yente's unique perspective of the world and her audaciously outspoken views are documented in lively correspondence that chronicle her coming-of-age, her struggle to attain middle-class security and her comfortable golden years happily ensconced in a Florida retirement community.

Yente expresses herself with infectious humor, feisty enthusiasm and scathing wit as we get a glimpse into the dynamics of her marriages and the depths of her enduring friendships. We come to appreciate her unconventional philosophies on health and happiness.

This hilarious novel brings a beloved character of Yiddish literature to a contemporary audience in a raucously entertaining narrative that portrays an unforgettably vibrant woman's journey through life.

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