2002 Miller Gaap Guide

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The Miller Governmental GAAP Guide is organized into four main sections. The first section (Basic Governmental Accounting Concepts and standards) describes the fundamental concepts and principles that provide the foundation for financial reporting by governmental units. Specific accounting and reporting standards are reviewed in the second section of the book (Governmental Accounts and Transactions). The third section (Funds and Account Groups of Governmental Entities) discusses accounting and reporting standards as they apply to the funds and account groups used by governmental entities. In the fourth, and final, section (Special Governmental Units and Agencies), the accounting and reporting standards applicable to special governmental units or agencies are delineated. The purpose of the Miller Governmental GAAP Guide is to provide a single reference that discusses all the promulgated accounting principles applicable to financial reporting by state and local! governments: GASB Statements, GASB Interpretations, GASB Technical Bulletins, NCGA Statements, NCGA Interpretations, and certain AICPA Statements of Position and Audit and Accounting Guides. These original pronouncements have been analyzed and restated in straightforward language to allow preparers and auditors of governmental financial statements to better understand the original promulgations. To facilitate research, major topics in the text are cross-referenced to the pertinent paragraphs of the original pronouncements. Illustrations, figures, and paragraphs called Observations demonstrate and clarify specific accounting principles.

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GOVERNMENTAL GAAP GUIDE - MILLER REVIEW.......2000-10-21

THIS GUIDE IS EXCELLENT FOR THE USE OF THE PRESENTATION OF GENERAL-PURPOSE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. IT GIVES DETAIL EXPLANATIONS OF HOW INFORMATION SHOULD BE PRESENTED. THE EXAMPLES GIVEN ARE WRITTEN IN A WAY THAT YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WITHOUT HAVING TO READ INTO THE EXPLANATION. UNLIKE SOME OF THE AICPA BOOKS THAT ARE OUT THERE, WHERE IT READS LIKE IT IS IN SOME OTHER LANGUAGE BESIDES ACCOUNTING. IT IS A VERY PRACTICAL GUIDE TO INCREASE THE CORRECT PRESENTATION OF YOUR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND ALSO AID IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CORRECT ACCOUNTING FUNCTIONS FOR YOU GOVERNEMTNAL SITUATION.

2002 Miller GAAP guide: Restatement and analysis of current FASB standards

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2002 Miller GAAP guide: Restatement and analysis of current FASB standards
Jan R Williams
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Innovative Employee Communication: New Approaches to Improving Trust, Teamwork, and Performance
Alvie L. Smith
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Trade
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ASIN: 0136405746

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Innovative Employee Communication : New Approaches to Improving Trust, Teamwork and Performance
Alvie L. Smith
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INNOVATIVE EMPLOYEE COMMUNICATION New approaches to improving Trust, teamwork and Performance
Alvie L. Smith
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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ASIN: B000Q7EN3C

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Experience the joy and awe of connection to the universe.

Humanity's success in controlling nature has led to a loss of our connection to the natural world. Astronomer Donald Goldsmith gives readers nine easy steps to connect directly with the universe by observing cosmic phenomena with their own eyes. Readers will learn to look at the stars with feelings of friendly recognition, leading to a sense of joy and awe currently missing from most people's lives.

Each of the nine steps involves a brief observation of the sky or another natural phenomenon (such as light, rock, etc.) and includes:

o A simple, moderate and advanced level of activity

o Accessible information on what to look for and what it means

o A meditation to relate what is seen to our place in the universe

Readers can make their own connections by personally experiencing the mystique of the universe. Examples include:

o Watching the sun rise and set on the same day to get a sense of a daily cycle

o Watching the moon wax and wane, and the tide rise and fall

o Observing the movement of the sun across the sky over a day, a week and a month

o Seeing light through a prism and observing its refraction

o Identifying Venus, the morning star and evening star

o Observing the composition of a grain of sand, whose atoms came from the stars

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Whoever marketed this book should be shot..........2006-06-24

I'm a big fan of naked eye astronomy, meaning I like observing the night sky without the aid of a telescope or star charts.

I've often asked myself the question...if you were blindfolded and transported to somewhere in the world away from civilization, what could you determine by looking at the night sky. I discovered the answer is more than you think, including clock time, calendar time, compass directions, and your approximate latitude and longitude (hence location on earth)

This is one book I'd highly recommend if you're interested is this type of information, along with Stikky Nights and The Stars by Rey. Among other things, it explains how to determine time by using the Big Dipper, compass direction in both the North and South hemisphere, and indirectly explains how to determine the calendar month and your latitude using the stars and constellations. It also gives one of the clearest explanation of the seasonal soltices I've ever read.

This was not the direct intent of the book, which is more about appreciating the universe through direct observation, but the information is there, none the less.

This book was poorly marketed. (I picked it up in Barnes and Noble in the bargain section for $5.) It was released in hardcover, looks like a coffee table book, and can be easily mistaken as a book either for New Age gurus or elementary school readers. (Look at the cover.)

If this book were released again in softcover and marketed to amateur astronomers, my guess is it would be received quite favorably.

Recommended if you can find it.

Everything you have forgotten or should have learned in school........2005-11-28

For me, this book was delicious. I could hardly put it down. It is written intelligently and yet on a level that we can all understand. I was delighted to have concepts explained in the detail that I had never heard before or at least I don't remember having learned in school, probably because my teachers didn't really have a professional grasp on the subject that Dr. Goldsmith does. I have given the book as a gift to others who are in my position, i.e. they are enthusiastic learners who have been away from this subject for a very long time. I enjoyed the topics which include: the sun, the moon, calendars, the stars, the planets, the constellations, light, the calendar, the milky way, the zodiac, meteors, shooting stars, and more.
The book has beautiful photos and excellent charts, and doable exercises at the end of each chapter.
Thank you Dr. Goldsmith!

Maya Shamanism Today: Connecting with the Cosmos in Rural Yucatan

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Maya Shamanism Today: Connecting with the Cosmos in Rural Yucatan
Bruce Love
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ASIN: B000QSXA0S

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A comprehensive overview of techniques and systems currently utilized in predictive toxicology, this reference presents an in-depth survey of strategies, algorithms, and prediction methods to select, calculate, and represent the features and properties of chemical structures in biological systems. It provides sources of high-quality toxicity data, the most important commercial and noncommercial predictive toxicology programs, and advanced technologies in computational chemistry, biology, statistics, and data mining. Predictive Toxicology explores applications that go beyond classical structure-activity relationships and discusses programs such as OncoLogic, META, MC4PC, PASS, and lazar.

The Future of Predictive Safety Evaluation: Volume 1

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The Future of Predictive Safety Evaluation: Volume 1
D.V. Parke , and J. Marks
Manufacturer: Springer
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Hazards from toxic chemicals: Proceedings of the Second Annual Conferene on the Status of Predictive Tools in Application to Safety Evaluation

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Hazards from toxic chemicals: Proceedings of the Second Annual Conferene on the Status of Predictive Tools in Application to Safety Evaluation

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Long-Term Animal Studies: Their Predictive Value for Man (Centre for Medicines Research Workshop)

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Long-Term Animal Studies: Their Predictive Value for Man (Centre for Medicines Research Workshop)

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Predictive toxicometrics: basic methods for estimating poisonous amounts of foods, drugs and other agents,

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Predictive toxicometrics: basic methods for estimating poisonous amounts of foods, drugs and other agents,
Eldon M Boyd
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Structure Activity Correlation As A Predictive Tool In Toxic (Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology Series,)

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Structure Activity Correlation As A Predictive Tool In Toxic (Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology Series,)
L Golberg
Manufacturer: CRC
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ASIN: 0891162763

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This noteworthy volume is the first to consolidate information about the new methodology in the field of toxicology. The book presents the powerful new techniques involving quantitative structure-activity relationships. It details the necessary tools for setting approaches for the toxicological testing of chemicals and presents interdisciplinary information about this important methodology by scientists who are developing, perfecting, and applying this method. Written in a clear, to-the-point style, this impressive work covers all practical and theoretical aspects of the new technology and will be an excellent desk reference and supplementary tool for anyone in the toxicology field.

SAR modeling of genotoxic phenomena: the consequence on predictive performance of deviation from a unity ratio of genotoxicants/non-genotoxicants [An article ... Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis]

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SAR modeling of genotoxic phenomena: the consequence on predictive performance of deviation from a unity ratio of genotoxicants/non-genotoxicants [An article ... Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis]
H.S. Rosenkranz
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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ASIN: B000RQZ24Q

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This digital document is a journal article from Mut.Res.-Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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SAR approaches to the study of genotoxic phenomena are finding increased applications. However, the data being modeled are frequently not considered optimal due to the small size of the dataset and an uneven distribution of genotoxicants and non-genotoxicants in the dataset. The effects of such imbalances on the performance of one SAR approach were investigated with respect to the modeling of the induction of unscheduled DNA synthesis in rat hepotocytes and of sister chromatid exchanges and chromosomal aberrations in cultural CHO cells. The analyses indicate that if genotoxicants exceed non-genotoxicants, the performance of the SAR model can be improved if the dataset is supplemented with physiological chemicals which are assumed to be non-genotoxicants. On the other hand, if non-genotoxicants exceed genotoxicants, it was found that the predictive performance of the resulting SAR model is not improved by removal of genotoxicants from the dataset to achieve a ratio of genotoxicants/genotoxicants of unity. Overall, the present analyses did not result in the development of SAR models of greatly increased predictivity. Conceivably, for the particular datasets and SAR paradigm the limit of predictivity has been reached. The possibility of investigating the use of a ''battery'' of SAR paradigms should be considered.

Biochemical, endocrine, and hematological factors in human oxygen tolerance extension (predictive studies VI), contract no. NAG-9-342 (SuDoc NAS 1.26:190341)

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Biochemical, endocrine, and hematological factors in human oxygen tolerance extension (predictive studies VI), contract no. NAG-9-342 (SuDoc NAS 1.26:190341)
Christian James Lambertsen
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Integration of biodescriptors and chemodescriptors for predictive toxicology: A mathematical/computational approach (NRRI technical report)

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Integration of biodescriptors and chemodescriptors for predictive toxicology: A mathematical/computational approach (NRRI technical report)
Subhash C Basak
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The Journal of Environmental Pathology and Toxicology. Predictive Tools in Application to Safety Evaluation (Carcinogenesis and Mutagenesis); The Mutagenic Properties of Chemicals; Report of the Subcommittee on Inhalation Toxicology

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The Journal of Environmental Pathology and Toxicology. Predictive Tools in Application to Safety Evaluation (Carcinogenesis and Mutagenesis); The Mutagenic Properties of Chemicals; Report of the Subcommittee on Inhalation Toxicology
Myron A. (editor) Mehlman
Manufacturer: Pathotox Publishers
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The Evolution of Metabolic Function presents comprehensive discussions on a variety of topics that will interest scientists and students studying the evolution of enzyme activities, the evolution of enzymatic pathways, and the evolution and development of metabolic functions. Laboratory experiments designed to develop new enzyme activities and new metabolic pathways are discussed. The most recent techniques comparing protein and gene structures are used to analyze and discuss the evolution and development of such metabolic functions as the bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system, the mandelate pathway of microorganisms, bacterial alcohol metabolism, and certain microbial amino acid biosynthetic pathways. The book also includes some unique speculations regarding the origin of early Archaean cells and the prebiotic evolution of complex molecules.

Origin and evolution of osmoregulatory mechanisms in blue-green algae (Cyanobacteria) as a function of metabolic and structural complexity reflections ... : final report (SuDoc NAS 1.26:180199)

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Origin and evolution of osmoregulatory mechanisms in blue-green algae (Cyanobacteria) as a function of metabolic and structural complexity reflections ... : final report (SuDoc NAS 1.26:180199)
NASA
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Everyone's A Caricature

Satire at its best

Thank You for Smoking

very smart book.

Smarmy, Trite, Dated

Thank You for Smoking: A Novel
Christopher Buckley
Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Thank You for Smoking (Widescreen Edition)

ASIN: 0812976525
Release Date: 2006-02-14

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"Nick Naylor had been called many things since becoming chief spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies. But until now no one had actually compared him to Satan." They might as well have, though. "Gucci Goebbels," "yuppie Mephistopheles," and "death merchant" are just a few endearments Naylor has earned himself as the tobacco lobby's premier spin doctor. The hero of Thank You for Smoking does of course have his fans. His arguments against the neo-puritanical antismoking trends of the '90s have made him a repeat guest on Larry King, and the granddaddy of Winston-Salem wants him to be the anointed heir. Still, his newfound notoriety has unleashed a deluge of death threats.

Christopher Buckley's satirical gift shines in this hilarious look at the ironies of "personal freedom" and the unbearable smugness of political correctness. Bracing in its cynicism, Thank You for Smoking is a delightful meander off the beaten path of mainstream American ethics. And despite his hypertension-inducing, slander-splattered, morally bankrupt behavior--which leads one Larry King listener to describe him as "lower than whale crap"--you'll find yourself rooting for smoking's mass enabler. --Rebekah Warren

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Nobody blows smoke like Nick Naylor. He’s a spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies–in other words, a flack for cigarette companies, paid to promote their product on talk and news shows. The problem? He’s so good at his job, so effortlessly unethical, that he’s become a target for both anti-tobacco terrorists and for the FBI. In a country where half the people want to outlaw pleasure and the other want to sell you a disease, what will become of the original Puff Daddy?

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Everyone's A Caricature.......2007-10-09

Thank You for Smoking is a collection of caricatures, each more clever than the other. The Mod (Merchants of Death) Squad is a great concept, and the cigarette, alcohol, and firearms pitchmen that comprise it are outlandish uber-parodies. The same with the Captain (Doak Boykin), the urbane, old moneyed, vaguely racist, mint julep drinking tobacco industry leader with the weak ticker. There's even a Malboro Man equivalent, the rugged Tumbleweed Man. All are so over the top as to be ridiculous, yet something tells me they're exactly as Nanny state politicians and class action attorneys picture them.

Of course, the politicians are just as unctuous- philandering liars who can be bought on short money. The histrionic anti-tobacco activists don't come off pure, either, exaggerating statistics and exploiting kids with cancer to further their aims. [After all, "smoking is the nation's leading cause of statistics."]

The character development was far and away TYFS's strength; the meandering, unrealistic plot was its weakness. The story line is pretty thin, and the book's climax is unfortunately its least believable aspect. In general, there is a huge conspiracy afoot that requires you to swallow an awful lot. Some characters and subplots are brought up without any development, such as Nick's son, and the idea of making a movie to revitalize onscreen smoking.

Still, the characters and their excellent dialogue alone make this worth reading. Major character and smoking spokesman Nick Naylor's charm, spin, and rationalization of why, for instance, cheese is worse for you than cigarette smoke, make for an unforgettable character. Buckley's use of imagined newspaper headlines, and fictitious dialogue from minor players like Larry King and Oprah are inspired.

Satire at its best.......2007-07-21

In the daily melodramas of Washington life--at least the stock versions offered by the hometown paper and the network news--the plots are predictable and the characters easy to read. We have good guys (public-interest lawyers, environmentalists, idealistic congressmen calling for an "expanded federal role"), and we have bad guys (pro-lifers, Second Amendment enthusiasts, people with Pentagon contracts). And then we have the really, really bad guys: the publicists, talking heads, and spinmeisters of the Tobacco Institute, the infamous lobbying arm of the tobacco industry.

Watching one of these poor souls bob and weave on MacNeil-Lehrer, or grimace through a grilling on the morning shows, you can't help wondering: What's it like to be so openly hated, so contemptuously disbelieved, as the fellow who drags himself from bed each morning to defend a product only slightly more popular than Thalidomide? Does his mom hate him, too? Does his wife believe him when he explains why he's late for dinner? Do the kids mind when the Discovery channel compares dad to Himmler? Has he never thought of chucking it all for an easier job--say, writing jokes for Elie Wiesel?

Not all of those human questions are specifically asked and answered by Christopher Buckley in Thank You for Smoking, his new satirical novel; actually, none of them is. But Mr. Buckley has set for himself the large task of entering that rarefied circle of PR hell where the tobacco spokesman resides, to give him flesh and depth, to show with some sympathy his inner life, to share his pain. And then to kill him off. Or almost kill him off.

Our hero is Nick Naylor, chief spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies (for which read: the Tobacco Institute). Like many spokesfolk, Nick is a journalist who failed upward. As a local Washington TV reporter he made the mistake one evening of announcing to a live television audience that the President had, in fact, died, when he had, in fact, not. For that minor error he was removed from the trade of journalism and entered the trade of public relations, where inaccuracy is more highly prized. The pay is better, too.

Nick's job of ceaseless prevarication does not especially trouble him. And Mr. Buckley records his dissembling with such precision, and such relish, that we won't be especially bothered by it, either. Here, to take one of his riffs at random, is Nick pleading for a ceasefire in the smoking wars, with Katie Couric (one of many media stars who make cameos in the novel): "Well, Katie, you can't spell tolerance without the t in tobacco. Our position all along has been, we understand there are people who care strongly about smoking. We're saying, Let's work together on this. Let's get some dialogue going. This is a big country, a great country, and there's plenty of room in it for smoking and nonsmoking areas."

The patter is worthy of Elmer Gantry or Professor Harold Hill. Like them, too, Nick is a bottomless fount of information. Did you know that smoking prevents Parkinson's disease? Scientific data suggest that it does. And smoking reduces the incidence of carpal-tunnel syndrome, since smokers take more frequent breaks from their computer keyboards. At the same time, bans on smoking in the workplace have led to an alarming rise in pneumonia, from thrusting smokers into the elements merely because they've chosen to enjoy a pleasurable recreational activity enjoyed by forty million other Americans.

In thus defending the right to smoke, Nick is cheered on by the MOD Squad--a small luncheon group that takes its name from its members' reputations as Merchants of Death. Charter members are Bobby Jay, of "SAFETY, the Society for the Advancement of Firearms and Effective Training of Youth, formerly NRTBAC, the National Right to Bear Arms Committee," and Polly of the "Moderation Council, formerly the National Association for Alcoholic Beverages."

I do not doubt that in the vast chow dens of Washington, some equivalent of the MOD Squad actually exists. "Their guests had come from such groups as the Society for the Humane Treatment of Calves, representing the veal industry, the Friends of Dolphins, formerly the Pacific Tuna Fishermen's Association, the American Highway Safety Association, representing triple-trailer truckers, the Land Enrichment Foundation, formerly the Coalition for the Responsible Disposal of Radioactive Waste, and others."

What brings this sad band of brothers and sisters together is their shared fate: to defend, for pay, the quotidian pleasures and practices of American life against the assaults of a new, aggressive, and spectacularly priggish political culture. But the MOD Squad's solidarity is sorely tested when the going gets even tougher, as it does when a band of anti-smoking zealots (or so it seems) kidnaps Nick and attempts to terminate him with extreme prejudice, by plastering him with (what else?) nicotine patches. From here the plot accelerates; I won't spoil your pleasure by telling you where it leads, except to say that you'll be amazed at where you end up.

Thank You for Smoking is at once a mystery, a political drama, and a knowing social satire of the first rank.

It's a dicey combination, and I can't think of another contemporary American novelist who could pull it off with such dexterity and high spirits. Mr. Buckley's ear for the cant of bureaucracy and publicity is pitch-perfect, and his rendering of the essential absurdity of so much of Washington life is unsparing but always humane. Christopher Buckley's Washington is much more entertaining than the stock version, and, I'm sorry to say, much more believable.

Thank You for Smoking.......2007-04-15

This is an entertaining film, worth watching. My main comment is that while called a satire, it serves as a very powerful public relations piece for the tobacco industry. Deep down, I think that tobacco money or influence was a big part of the reason why the film was made. If not, it is an unfortunate coincidence that the film is a strong criticism for anti-smoking activists and a strong justification for what the tobacco industry has done. And even worse, the film implies that the tobacco industry has been tamed by law suits and regulations, while in truth, the economic strength of the industry is greater than ever. While the film indicated that the "bad guys" have been punished, in fact, the industry boomed after the tobacco settlement. And the audience comes to love the man who advocates "trying yourself", "not being told what to do", and "choice" for a product that continues to increase nicotine in cigarettes even as it pretends to warn people of the dangers. As a film, this is very good. As a propaganda piece, it is a real work of art. Watch it and notice how you feel at the end. Who do you like? Who do you ridicule? If the film is done well, those feelings have been crafted by the story. The film is a real success, but I am sorry that this is the success that is sought. This is a film that promotes the tobacco industry.

very smart book........2007-03-19

this book is an incredibly good, slap in your face kind of book. the humor is so on and sophisticated that one would have to be insane not to like this book. the first thing i am going to say is that the the book ends way differently from the movie. if you have the time to read the book first, please do so. the story carried very well and i never really lost interest (like i do with most other books). the book really does hit the nail on the head with the portayal of special interest groups and how their hands are almost always in politics. the story was very well thought out and the plot was incredibly enjoyable. a very good book indeed.

Smarmy, Trite, Dated.......2007-03-16

There's nothing clever, insightful or entertaining about this novel. It's regurgitated College Republican pabulum that won't appeal to any intelligent person over the age of 22. The characters are two-dimensional cardboard cliches of DC reporters, lobbyists, and politicians along the lines of "Bullworth." Cynical adolescent smarm that will only intrigue those with the most rudimentary knowledge or education regarding politics.

Thank you for smoking: learning about politics.: An article from: Academic Exchange Quarterly

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Thank you for smoking: learning about politics.: An article from: Academic Exchange Quarterly
Clyde Brown , and David M. Paul
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from Academic Exchange Quarterly, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2006. The length of the article is 2959 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Thank you for smoking: learning about politics.
Author: Clyde Brown
Publication: Academic Exchange Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 10 Issue: 4 Page: 13(5)

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