Developments in Country Studies in International Accounting: Americas and the Far East (New Library of International Accounting)

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This important volume contains research articles about international accounting issues related to the countries of the Americas and the Far East.

The volume is divided into three parts. The first part focuses accounting regulations and policy choice. The second and third parts look at disclosure practices, the properties of accounting earnings, and the value relevance and informativeness of accounting information. Part II examines the Americas, whilst Part III considers the Far East.

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Extreme Facilitation picks up where other books on the topic leave off to present a revolutionary method that helps large, unwieldy, adversarial, and apparently dysfunctional groups achieve consensus and reach objectives on divisive and contentious issues no matter how long the group has been struggling. Throughout the book, expert facilitator Suzanne Ghais shows how extreme facilitation - which puts on the emphasis on creativity, flexibility, and customization - can change how group members interact with one another and how participants view the issues even in the most challenging and exceptionally difficult situations. Extreme Facilitation covers the preparatory phases of the process, including assessment, convening, and contracting. Ghais also offers vital information on process design and tips for handling situations that many facilitators find particularly challenging.

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As Good As It Gets.......2007-03-01

I love this book! I teach facilitation & have recommended Extreme Facilitation (EF) to my students. If you are an experienced facilitator, EF's insights will improve your practice; if you are a new facilitator or just thinking about learning the facilitator's skill set, EF will help you understand what the craft is all about; if you are a manager, or work with community/non-profit organizations, and have not used the services of a facilitator, EF will change your mind. Extreme Facilitation is important because once you know and use the facilitator's skills, you will save time, money & avoid a lot of the pain involved in getting two or more people to work out their differences & unite toward a common goal. Ms Ghais accurately demonstrates in words what a facilitator does and the benefits of using these skills. Her descriptions of the practice of facilitation, particularly of its role in conflict resolution, have a realness not found in many books.

On a Scale of 1-5, This Book is a 10.......2006-04-21

You don't generally think of books like this as "page-turners", but I could not put it down. In Extreme Facilitation, Suzanne Ghais has moved away from the cookbook (techniques-based) view of facilitation found in many other books and training materials, and has captured the core principles that underlie successful facilitation in extreme situations. For example -- there are no "difficult" people in a group; rather "difficult" behaviors reflect needs or interests that have not yet been identified or adequately addressed. Once these needs or interests are understood by the group and dealt with, the "difficulty" usually passes.

I started reading the book while stuck on a process design for a complicated project. The book's direct and insightful approach unlocked my creativity and allowed me to trust my instincts -- ie, the book facilitated my own thinking in the same way that "extreme facilitation" empowers difficult groups to work together productively. Ms. Ghais' approach to the topic is transformative.

Michele Straube, mediator/facilitator in Salt Lake City.

A WEALTH OF GOOD IDEAS, ILLUSTRATIVE STORIES, & USEFUL INSIGHTS!.......2005-08-27

The author has produced an extremely comprehensive and well written book on facilitating in the most challenging situations. Such situations call for more depth, adaptability and strategy than is addressed in other books on facilitation; this book's aim is to provide powerful, highly focused guidelines for the toughest facilitation challenges.

The author takes a situational-facilitation approach: the successful approach must be tailored to the unique nature of the facilitation challenges of the moment. Because the book focuses on the more contentious predicaments, conflict resolution is infused throughout this work.

The profile of the extreme facilitator is one who is an architect of custom processes, has a deep understanding of the group, can draw on a wide knowledge base of possible techniques, has a strong personal presence, and is able to employ all of the group's capabilities. This book delves into the critical details, providing guidance on preparing for and conducting the facilitation process, focusing on each of a groups capabilities-physical, intellectual, emotional, initiative, creative, and spiritual. The book is filled with a wealth a good ideas, illustrative stories, and useful insights.

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A fascinating introduction to the basic principles of orbital mechanics

It has been three hundred years since Isaac Newton first formulated laws to explain the orbits of the Moon and the planets of our solar system. In so doing he laid the groundwork for modern science's understanding of the workings of the cosmos and helped pave the way to the age of space exploration.

Adventures in Celestial Mechanics offers students an enjoyable way to become acquainted with the basic principles involved in the motions of natural and human-made bodies in space. Packed with examples in which these principles are applied to everything from a falling stone to the Sun, from space probes to galaxies, this updated and revised Second Edition is an ideal introduction to celestial mechanics for students of astronomy, physics, and aerospace engineering. Other features that helped make the first edition of this book the text of choice in colleges and universities across North America include:
* Lively historical accounts of important discoveries in celestial mechanics and the men and women who made them
* Superb illustrations, photographs, charts, and tables
* Helpful chapter-end examples and problem sets

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Needs a proof-reader.......2004-07-14

I read this book for pleasure as a first introduction to celestial mechanics (I am an astrohypsics major at my college), and found the selected topics coherently explained in comprehensible language. Perhaps more importantly, the mathematics (at least at the beginning) is covered more or less step-by-step - you won't get lost by any "it is therefore obvious..." and then a skip of five or six steps.
Unfortunately - - The books is rife with typos, and nothing so simple as a misspelling. At least every other page (and often several times on one page) an equation would have an exponent or operation error (such no division sign) and references in the explanations to earlier equations were regularly mistaken.
With a few more thorough proof-readings (and some more work on the second half of the book, which whizzes through a topic many times more complicated than the first half but in the same amount of time/pages), this book could easily move up to 5-stars.

A Review of "Adventures in Celestial Mechanics".......2000-12-09

This book is an introduction to celestial mechanics. It assumes some knowledge of calculus and vectors; given the subject matter, an unavoidable assumption. It contains a number of nicely chosen numerical and mathematical examples in each chapter so that the reader can see both application and extension of the results presented in the chapter. Each chapter ends with some problems, without answers, that continue to extend the basics from the main text. Each chapter contains references to books and papers that supplement and extend the subject matter of the chapter. It ends with a glossary, an appendix of physical constants, and an annotated list of books for further reading for the very interested reader. The book list is particularly valuable if the reader wishes to continue learning celestial mechanics; it covers elementary to advanced texts.

The first chapter provides a historical review of progress in celestial mechanics with a list of notable (dead) practitioners of celestial mechanics. A subjective list of living practitioners might have been helpful in this chapter. Chapters two through six establish the basis of orbital motion, starting with circular motion in chapter two. The mathematical basis for orbital motion is established in chapter three using the law of gravitation and Newton's laws of motion. Successive chapters generalize and expand on the results of chapters two and three. Chapter five introduces rockets and powered flight trajectories. Chapter six introduces parabolic and hyperbolic orbits.

Chapter seven discusses two topics of great practical importance, Kepler's law and Lambert's theorem. While both of these topics are several hundred years old they continue to be rich areas for current development in celestial mechanics. These two crucial topics are well covered. Chapter eight applies the previous material to the subject of orbital transfer; this chapter is the basis for flight between planets. Chapter nine digresses into spacecraft attitude dynamics, a complete discipline in its own right. It introduces the mathematics of the physical motion of a spacecraft about a local reference system. At 25 pages, it is a tight and tidy introduction to the subject. Chapter ten is titled "Planetary Exploration" although it also covers the creation of the solar system and trajectory modification by gravity assistance. More heavily illustrated than the other chapters, chapter ten's main topic is exploration of the solar system by spacecraft. Chapter eleven introduces perturbation theory; what happens to an orbit when more than two bodies make up the gravitational system. Chapter twelve applies perturbation theory to artificial satellites of Earth. (Chapters nine and twelve ought to make you appreciate how hard it is to get those great Hubble Space Telescope images.) Chapter thirteen must have been both the easiest and hardest chapter to write since Szebehely was one of the masters of this subject. It introduces the three-body problem and solar system stability with a nod to chaos theory.

All in all, this book is an excellent introduction to the topic of celestial mechanics. To the depth that the subject is explored, there are no loose ends. (The reviewer does regret that the Introduction from the first edition of this book was omitted from the second edition.)

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This monograph acts as a benchmark to current achievements in the field of Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry, often called CALPHAD which is an acronym for Computer CALculation of PHAse Diagrams. It also acts as a guide to both the basic background of the subject area and the cutting edge of the topic, combining comprehensive discussions of the underlying physical principles of the CALPHAD method with detailed descriptions of their application to real complex multi-component materials.

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Phase diagrams are used in materials research and engineering to understand the interrelationship between composition, microstructure and process conditions. In complex systems, computational methods such as CALPHAD are employed to model thermodynamic properties for each phase and simulate multicomponent phase behavior. Written by recognized experts in the field, this is the first introductory guide to the CALPHAD method, providing a theoretical and practical approach. Building on core thermodynamic principles, this book applies crystallography, first principles methods and experimental data to computational phase behavior modeling using the CALPHAD method. With a chapter dedicated to creating thermodynamic databases, the reader will be confident in assessing, optimizing and validating complex thermodynamic systems alongside database construction and manipulation. Several case studies put the methods into a practical context, making this suitable for use on advanced materials design and engineering courses and an invaluable reference to those using thermodynamic data in their research or simulations.

Thermodynamic Data, Models, and Phase Diagrams in Multicomponent Oxide Systems: An Assessment for Materials and Planetary Scientists Based on Calorimetric, ... (Data and Knowledge in a Changing World)

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This book presents thermodynamic data on oxides in the system MgO-FeO-Fe2O3-Al2O3-SiO2. These data are produced by a process of assessment that involves the integration of thermochemical (calorimetric) and phase equilibrium data. The latter have been selected from a number of publications in high-pressure research conducted at pressures and temperatures in the range of 1 bar to several Giga Pascals and 300 to 2500 K respectively. A unique feature of the database is that the assessment involves not only the thermodynamic data on pure end member species, but also the data on multicomponent solutions. Since the solution description follows the format used in the popular thermodynamic computational packages such as FACTSAGE, ChemSage and Thermocalc, the database is easy to incorporate in the currently used databases in these packages. The database is highly useful to those working in the field of metallurgy (e.g. slags) and ceramics. It is essential for all those who do thermodynamic modeling of the terrestrial planetary interiors.

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