Accounting Handbook for Non-Accountants

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As a professional, you can't just apply your expertise. You need to present solutions in a way that best suits your clients. You have to work with a wide variety of people: team members, subject matter experts, top executives, and others. Working effectively with associates--while keeping an eye on budgets, schedules, and results--requires a collaborative outlook."Successful professionals today need more than technical skills-- they need to know how to foster and nourish relationships with clients. Consultative skills are essential in this process. The tools outlined in The Consultative Approach have proved to make a difference for our professionals in dealing with their clients."
--Jon Olson, partner, Arthur Anderson

"This book is rich, not only with specific suggestions and step-by-step instructions, but also with commentary and illustrations from [the authors'] own client organizations. It is a useful book about a very important subject."
--William Bridges, president, William Bridges & Associates

Working consultatively enables you to:

Know how to work effectively with all types of people
Use a strategic and collaborative communcation process
Apply your expertise in ways that show your value . . . and more!

The Consultative Approach is a how-to handbook that will enable you to reap the benefits of partnering. You'll find informative case studies, easy-to-use assessment tools, enlightening exercises, and practical worksheets. Plus, you'll get flow chart planning guides and a partnering strategy action plan that will enable you to chart your communication growth. The Consultative Approach has it all! Plot your path to consultative success with this comprehensive guidebook.

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Of considerable value to anyone working in an organization........1999-03-20

The book focuses on working with clients - any one with whom you work. Discusses partnering with others, and building trust and commitment. Covers the skills and techniques that make up the consultative approach, managing interpersonal relations with clients, and considers several types of partnering roles. Includes a glossary, resources and references. Our review finds that this is an informative book that offers considerable value to anyone working in an organization. Recommended.

An amazingly accessible guide on being with ANY client.......1998-08-30

It's really refreshing to read a "business" book in language that speaks in a balanced way to both the practicality of tools AND the more conceptual threads that weave the tools together. But then, this book is all about balance, and how we can begin to create balance in the workplace for our clients (and ourselves!).

A must read for any professional who wants to succeed.......1998-05-14

This book offers great tips and ideas for all professions who want to provide fabulous service and be more of a business partner

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Twentieth-century physics was a long, strange trip indeed. Stranger still is what might lie ahead. In this startling book, science writer Tom Siegfried takes us into a weird world of quark nuggets, selectrons, quintessence, and quantum cosmology and introduces us to some of the most imaginative ideas being batted about by scientists today, from funny energy to mirror matter to two-timing universes. In addition, he reviews theories of the past both proven and unproven-offering us a grounding in our scientific history as well as an informed and intriguing look at the possibilities of tomorrow.

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Passionless and paradoxical.......2005-03-05

"Strange Matters: Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time" Tom Siegfried

"Strange Matters" is a sweeping survey of some recent developments in theoretical physics. It is divided into three groups of chapters, entitled "Strange Matter," "Strange Frontiers," and "Strange Ideas." Each chapter connects a recent development with an earlier theoriest, for example "From Einstein's Greatest Mistake to the Universe's Accelerating Expansion."

This book is apparently intended for a general reader with no special training in physics. No math is used. That said, a reader who has already read a few books of this type will probably find the text both frustratingly generalized and annoying overinvested in a math that nevertheless does not appear. The truly general reader will likely find the text readable but dull.

That's an odd bunch of assertions, so let's take it from the top.

For starters, the writing style is somewhat funky. The author is by trade a journalist (he writes for the Dallas Morning News), and the writing is permeated with the style of contemporary journalism: lots of sentence fragments and comma splices, and nary a semi-colon in sight. The tone is aloof and unemotional, yet returns perennially to its preoccupations. The effect is like watching a CNN report done as a 300 page newspaper article. Readily graspable, but not very elegant or imaginative (that was a sentence fragment). Maybe I'm just oversensitive because I'm a teacher.

More importantly, however, the author has an annoying overinvestment in math that clouds the presentation with shaky reasoning. For example, one theme of the text is the capacity of math to "prediscover" elements of physical reality. Thus, Murray Gell-Mann "prediscovered" quarks, Pauli "prediscovered" neutrinos, and Einstein "prediscovered" gravitational lensing. But this is a distortion of language in service of a personal ideology, as American journalists are so prone to doing. When I am half-way to work I have not "prearrived"; when a woman is 4 months pregnant the baby has not been "predelivered." You are not "prefinished" reading this review. Neither does math prediscover anything, which is an oxymoron. The author is merely dressing up the plain idea of prediction.

But there's more to it. The author's use of "prediscovery" is made possible by his belief that math forms the most basic level of reality in the universe. On virtually every page we read that nature totters after math like a toddler being led around on a leash by a calculator. If that judgement seems harsh or improbable, consider this quotation:

"So there is no mystery, [cognitive scientists] say. We impose our math on the world in order to describe it. That's why math works. Frankly, I am not impressed by this argument. Although it is surely true [...] that math is a human invention, it does not logically follow that the universe does not live by mathematical laws. The idea of math as a human invention may explain much of its success. But I do not see how it explains the way that math reveals unseen, even unimagined, features of reality. [...] But perhaps exploring the prediscoveries of the past and the potential prediscoveries of today can provide some clues to that mystery." (9-10).

I would call this a circular argument. First the author arbitrarily installs math at the centre of the universe, and then he invents the tool of "prediscovery" with which to authenticate that claim. My suspicion throughout this text was that the author is basically arguing from a Christian-creationist position, and this may not be wrong; we finally get to the bible in Chapter 8. Leaving this speculation aside, if you've read Spinoza or are familiar with Pythagoras, Plato, or de Chardin, there's nothing new here.

Anyway, if you do like math, as I do, you will also be disappointed. There are no equations to stare at and puzzle out. More pertinently, there is also no depth of detail in most of the chapters. When we encounter quantum entanglement or black holes, the author merely waves us by with a few fairly widely-known facts and more talk about the wonder of math. That's the journalistic writing style again.

Actually, I think its lack of wonder is my most serious complaint about this book. It's bad enough that it's a book about math with no math in it, but it's also a book about wonder with no wonder in it. There is little imaginative speculation, and even less marvelling at recent jaw-slackening developments in cosmology and theoretical physics.

If I had to sum up this book in a word, I would call it suburban. It is polite and accomplished, orderly and discrete. It is very organized and comfortable. You will not encounter anything shocking to middle-class sensibilities. You will not be asked to leave your driveway, though you *will* be asked to keep off the mathematical grass (it's just been sprayed!). But a suburb is also a limiting, troubled place, and throughout this book I was frequently reminded of the film "Pleasantville."

If you are looking for a book that's both more scientifically rigorous and less uptight, then I suggest either Brian Greene or Stephen Hawking. For a more personal account, try Janna Levin or George Gamow.

Disappointing, misleadingly tame, and cheesy.......2004-07-16

I'm fascinated by the peripherals of science--dark matter, black holes, string theory--so in theory I should love a book like this. In theory.

The universe is strange (thanks mostly to Quantum Mechanics). The title of this book implies an analysis of how strange the universe can be in the borderlands of science. However, if you want a book about how strange the universe *isn't*, than this book is for you. The title is betrayed by the tame speculations and interpretations of concepts that are better outlined in entry-level astronomy textbooks (like WIMPs and black holes). Siegfried's conclusions emphasize how unified and harmonic the universe is, how in sync the universe is w/ our math. That's fine, that's reasonable, it's also bait and switch. If you want an unprovocative book, get this. I expected a cutting-edge, substantive analysis of the "strange matters" out there, like dark matter, "cosmic fluid", string theory--an analysis that is unafraid to balance what we do know w/ what is possible. What I got was science for Victorian tea-sippers, biographies of the likes of Einstein (that's all fine and good...for books about EINSTEIN, this is a book about STRANGE MATTERS), and groaningly lame cultural references (that are allegedly, jokes). Behold, the first popular science book that has a footnote on Nancy Kerrigan! I really wanted an indepth and comprehensive analysis of dark matter, I didn't get it.

Also, I found Siegfried's writing uninspired and confusing, and I'm someone who has a basic understanding of the material. I don't know how much use it would be to someone who has just heard of the photoelectric effect and gluons. Of course, the bad jokes make you want to skip a couple of paragraphs and you get lost. I'd recommend "Borderlands of Science" by Sheffield instead as the text that fullfills the promise of "Strange Matters" title and subtitle. Also the works of Greene and Gribbin for string theory and black holes. "The Universe Next Door" by Chown, a book I haven't read, also looks promising. Skip this unless you've had a serious deficit of Nancy Kerrigan references in your life.

The strange and the stranger.......2002-12-13

Siegfried not only manages to make some very strange theories (like dark matter, superstrings, etc.) reasonably intelligible but also gives us an understanding of the kind of people who develop them. He also tackles some interesting questions, e.g. how can a set of equations (such as Maxwell's) turn out to yield more information than the writer put into them? How do pre-discoveries occur?

The book can be tough going at times but always interesting.

A personal note: many times when researchers are contending about esoterica, I found myself asking: so what? What difference do any of these issues make to people outside the field? Why should we care whether there are superstrings or not?

Great Book.......2002-11-12

Tom Siegfried really knows how to explain things. Parallel universes, superstrings, anti-matter--what the &$%! are all these things??? I admit at times I've always wondered whether the physicists are making it all up, it all sounds so odd. Siegfried, however, presents all these concepts lucidly, with flair and wit as a bonus. It is, indeed, a strange, strange world that we live in.

A Great Book!.......2002-11-11

This book is a wonderful adventure that takes you to the edge of forefront thinking and beyond, with all the historical background you need to make sense of it all. (I don't know what that negative reviewer was thinking: The New York Times was so inspired by this book it ran an entire essay based on this book in its "Arts and Ideas" section.) Siegfried is the best. Honest, clear, interesting, original. Everything you ever wanted to know about matters that are strange, and probably even true. Quark stars? Mirror matter? A universe shaped like a donut? How about multiple universes? Multiple dimensions? This isn't science fiction, folks. Just science writing at its best. The perfect holiday gift for everyone you know who's curious about the unreasonably fantastic universe we live in.

Strange Matters: Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time

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Strange Matters: Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time
Tom Siegfried
Manufacturer: National Academy Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSO43M

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Indicates the deviations in design practices between metals and plastics. Discusses the ways of circumventing ill effects on plastics as well as the corrective measures that can be taken. Covers choice of product material from the perspective of: favorable circumstances for application, design characteristics of each material, prediction of expected life, comparison, and relative costs. Includes detailed practical design problems.

Customer Reviews:

How to print in plastic.......2000-05-09

I just want to know on how to print in plastic bags and other plastic materials used for packaging.

and if you can help me then it will be a big help for our community.

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This publication reviews the foundations of ethics in the history of Western thinking. It connects these philosophical matters with evolutionary theory and contemporary bioethics, biology and medicine, posing new questions for the current dialectics between categorical and contextual ethics. Novel answers are presented from complexity theory — self-organization and nonlinear dynamics.

Harvesting the Heart: A Novel
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Picoult Makes You Think...

Thoughtful tale on motherhood.

A Wonderful Story

Feels like an early books by a wonderful author

Boring

Harvesting the Heart: A Novel
Jodi Picoult
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0140230270

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Picoult Makes You Think..........2007-10-05

This book discusses issues which many new mothers feel. While the character takes drastic measures while adjusting to motherhood, it validates a lot of the mixed feelings that most new mothers have. We rarely feel that we are doing it right, or that we are truly adequate parents. It also explores the problems that husbands and wives often face. Hopefully, women will remind their husbands that both parents need to parent their child.

Thoughtful tale on motherhood........2007-09-22

Fascinating window into the life of a motherless mother. Brought to life the hidden insecurities and questions that most women would encounter in the same situation. How does one be a good mother when one didn't have a mother of their own? Paige's mother abandoned her and her father when she was a little girl (5 I think) and the majority of this novel deals with Paige's eventual abandonment of her own son in an effort to reconnect with her mother and discover the truth that's been eluding Paige her whole life. Why? Why did she leave?
Touches on issues of feminism..abortion, choices, that women have more to offer than just maternal love but in the end we all know that if one has a child it is one's duty to love and raise it well, not run away to live a dream.
Worth finishing even though the ending somewhat predictable and anti-climactic.

A Wonderful Story.......2007-09-06

I have always enjoyed Jodi Picoult novels, but for some reason I missed this earlier work by her. But I'm glad I picked it up at the library, because it was a wonderful story. It's a moving story about people who change for the better and the story pulled me into it and tugged at my emotions. I found myself disliking Nicolas for the way he treated his wife, but still there were moments when I couldn't help but laugh at some of the characters in this book. The books moves along at a good pace and I would gladly recommend it to all.

Feels like an early books by a wonderful author.......2007-08-14

Jodi Picoult had a great idea for a novelette but she had to rill 450 pages. I kept thinking that it would be a better book if she developed Nicholas' parents mid-book. Told a bit more about the internal life of Paige's dad. She did a great job with the story of her first love.
Paige has so many contacts at the dinner and the clinic. These people would be there to support her. No where in the story do we have the
feeling that she disengaged with them.
Bottom line, Jodi does not write a bad book and she does like her formula. Many of us are going to read all of her books and this is just one more.

Boring.......2007-07-16

I loved "The Pact" and "Nineteen Minutes" and after reading the reviews I thought I'd like this one too. Boy was I wrong. I thought it was the most slow moving book in the world. I gave it 100 pages then quit and flipped to the end to see what happened. It was way too wordy and I was thinking, "Please hurry up and get to the point!!!"

I also felt this way about "Plain Truth." I liked it but it got to the point where I thought it was being drawn out and then the ending just abruptly happened and it wasn't even a good ending. You could kinda see it coming. Not too much of a surprise.

5 Book Set By Jodi Picoult; Harvesting the Heart, The Tenth Circle, Picture Perfect, Vanishing Acts, Perfect Match

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5 Book Set By Jodi Picoult; Harvesting the Heart, The Tenth Circle, Picture Perfect, Vanishing Acts, Perfect Match
Jodi Picoult
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WX9N44

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Beating Heart Bypass Surgery and Minimally Invasive Conduit Harvesting: Cardiosurgical Techniques, Anesthesia Management

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Beating Heart Bypass Surgery and Minimally Invasive Conduit Harvesting: Cardiosurgical Techniques, Anesthesia Management

Manufacturer: Steinkopff-Verlag Darmstadt
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 3798513996

Book Description

In the early days of cardiac surgery, but also in the following four decades, median sternotomy and cardiopulmonary bypass were nearly always included in cardiac surgical procedures. Less invasive surgical techniques were developed with the aim of reducing perioperative trauma without compromising the surgical result, and things became more complex for cardiac surgeons. They now often had to consider the surgical access of choice and whether cardiopulmonary bypass should be used or not.

Since the mid 1990s, not only have several novel minimally invasive surgical techniques been presented, but also further refinements have been recommended from time to time.

This work comes to fill a gap in the field of coronary artery bypass grafting and conduit harvesting in cardiac surgery, by gathering the mature version of such new, less invasive techniques combining safety, effectiveness, simplicity, sometimes even reducing procedural costs and that always for the patient’s and for the surgeon’s sake.

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Harvesting the Heart
Jodi Picoult
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIVMOG

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Harvesting the Heart

Manufacturer: Allen & Unwin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1741142393

Harvesting Your Journals : Writing Tools to Enhance Your Growth & Creativity

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"DRAGONS HIDE THINGS, ESPECIALLY YOUR VOICE." A. Strickland
Reap the fruits of your seeds.

Harvesting Your Journals : Writing Tools to Enhance Your Growth & Creativity
Rosalie Deer Heart , and Alison Strickland
Manufacturer: Heart Link Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0965157628

Book Description

Harvesting Your Journals helps readers discover the hidden patterns and deeper meanings in their life's journey and in their history as writers. It enables them to identity the thoughts and feelings that sustain, inspire, or disturb them so they may understand the organizing principles and enduring values that guide them. Whether they consider themselves "writers" or not, users of this book will lean to celebrate their growth as writers, appreciating where they have been and clarifying where they wish to go.

Customer Reviews:

"DRAGONS HIDE THINGS, ESPECIALLY YOUR VOICE." A. Strickland.......2001-01-17

As a Literary Consultant I constantly look for inspirational texts to pass on to my clients so that they may improve their writings and journals. HARVESTING YOUR JOURNALS is a valuable tool for any writer, experienced or just starting out, male or female. I attended Alison Strickland's workshop at Skidmore College this year, held by The International Women's Writing Guild in August. Her methods are delightful and calming, bringing forth a new way of taking journaling to new heights. HARVESTING YOUR JOURNALS is a winner! I am looking forward to a sequel of this inspiring book. Literary Consultant-Trish Schiesser, Author of IDA'S RIDE and Editor of IN THE COMPANY OF WOMEN.

Reap the fruits of your seeds........2000-05-26

Ever wonder what to do with the stacks of filled journals you've filled? This book will lead you by the hand and gently help you to discover patterns in your life and offer suggestions to create a new story for your life.

Herb Chart for Harvesting and Preparation of Liquid Extracts.(Brief Article): An article from: Herbal Medicine: From the Heart of the Earth

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Herb Chart for Harvesting and Preparation of Liquid Extracts.(Brief Article): An article from: Herbal Medicine: From the Heart of the Earth
Sharol Tilgner
Manufacturer: Wise Acres Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00099P052
Release Date: 2005-07-28

Book Description

This digital document is an article from Herbal Medicine: From the Heart of the Earth, published by Wise Acres Publishing on January 1, 1999. The length of the article is 2143 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: Herb Chart for Harvesting and Preparation of Liquid Extracts.(Brief Article)
Author: Sharol Tilgner
Publication: Herbal Medicine: From the Heart of the Earth (Reference book)
Date: January 1, 1999
Publisher: Wise Acres Publishing
Page: 348

Article Type: Brief Article

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Assessment of the physiological stress of selected forest harvesting activities in the southeastern United States: Final report

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Assessment of the physiological stress of selected forest harvesting activities in the southeastern United States: Final report
Leo A Smith
Manufacturer: Southern Forest Experiment Station
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Jodi Picoult 4 Book Set; Plain Truth, Harvesting the Heart, the Pact, Vanishing Acts (Jodi Picoult collection)

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Jodi Picoult 4 Book Set; Plain Truth, Harvesting the Heart, the Pact, Vanishing Acts (Jodi Picoult collection)
Jodi Picoult
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000TOJULC

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This is a 4 book collection of Jodi Picoult books. All are large trade paperback editions.

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