Accountant's Handbook of Formulas and Tables

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Accountant's Handbook of Formulas and Tables
Lawrence Lipkin , Irwin K. Feinstein , and Lucile Derrick
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Trade
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0130029572

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Accountant's Handbook of Formulas and Tables Second Edition
Lawrence Lipkin
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HMTPLQ

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ACCOUNTANT'S HANDBOOK OF FORMULAS AND TABLES
Lawrence & Irwin K. Feinstein & Lucile Derrick Lipkin
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Int'l
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ASIN: B000KBZ018

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Accountant's Handbook Of Formulas And Tables
Lawrence Lipkin
Manufacturer: Prentice-Hall
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OHY9LK

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The foreign and domestic commercial calculator; or, A complete library of numerical, arithmetical, and mathematical facts, tables, data, formulas, and ... for the merchant and mercantile accountant
E. S Winslow
Manufacturer: The Author
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0008AXAYK

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The book I've wanted for twelve years!

Invaluable to all human resource execs!!!!!!

The Unofficial Guide to Hiring and Firing People
Alan S. Horowitz
Manufacturer: Macmillan Publishing Company
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ASIN: 0028625234

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The book I've wanted for twelve years!.......1999-04-20

I've been in the position of hiring a number of assistants -- and firing a bunch of them, too! -- and I can't say how much I appreciate having it now. Of course, if I had had Mr. Horowitz's advice all along, I probably would have been more intelligent about my hiring and have had less firing to do! I have the book on my office bookshelf. I'll be referring to it from now on.

Invaluable to all human resource execs!!!!!!.......1999-02-15

I just read through this easy to follow, easy to understand, easy to use book on the best methods of hiring and firing. I definitely recommend it to anyone in the position of having to hire and/or fire anyone!!! This is a useful guide that I will look at for guidance throughout my corporate career!

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The Unofficial Guide to Hiring and Firing People: D
Alan S. Horowitz
Manufacturer: Macmillan Publishing Company
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O93Z7C

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Space--the final frontier. It's as little as fifty miles away, and yet it is considered one of the most dangerous and remote of places. Popular television shows such as Star Trek and movies such as Apollo 13 and October Sky have fired the imaginations of would-be explorers. Alan Tribble has worked on the design and development of dozens of spacecraft, including the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station. A Tribble's Guide to Space is a how-to book that is firmly grounded in the realities of current state-of-the-art space engineering while tapping into the power of imagination that drives us to explore.

Alan Tribble offers a delightful guide to the nuts and bolts of space exploration, from how to get there to how to phone home and how to survive the harsh environment of space. Using examples from famous space missions, both factual and fictional, Tribble tackles fascinating real-world problems encountered in space exploration. Why do submarine hatches open inward and spacecraft hatches open outward? What do curveballs and satellites have in common? Why did Scotty, the chief engineer of the fictional USS Enterprise, always "need more power?" Why did the fire that destroyed Apollo I on the launch pad burn so furiously that no one could react fast enough to save the lives of the crew? In answering these questions, Tribble examines getting to space, from the physics of motion to the practical implications of Einstein's theory of relativity. He explores the basics of spaceships and starships, from power usage to navigation--all from the viewpoint of a spacecraft designer.

This book describes rocket science and more in a manner that captures the common excitement shared by anyone with an interest in space exploration. Armchair astronauts, engineers who work in a space company and anyone who has looked up at the sky and wondered how we will get there will find reading this book a wonderful and enlightening experience.

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easy and entertaining read.......2007-01-03

My husband bought me this book for my birthday, we are both engineers for NASA, and I truly appreciated the clear and concise way that Mr. Tribble presented the material. This is a great book for non-technical and technical people alike. A very pleasant, entertaing and informative read.

"Spaceflight for dummies" (not an insult!).......2001-02-15

Tribble parlays his name into an entertaining, lightweight overview of the history of space exploration and the basics of spaceflight science and engineering. I didn't find it too enlightening, but someone with limited prior knowledge about the subject would likely find it helpful.

I have my usual quibbles: Apollo 17 wasn't the first mission to depict the liftoff of the lunar module, just the most successful. And Tribble reports two "urban legends" as fact, one being the story that HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey was a deliberate one-upmanship on IBM (go back one letter in the alphabet for "IBM" to see what I mean), something Arthur C. Clarke denies. But as usual those are trivial. Overall, Tribble provides a clear, if basic, explanation of the key issues of space flight, and I didn't detect any errors in the core of his presentation.

Recommended for those looking for a basic introduction to space flight.

An Engaging Introduction to Issues of Spacefaring.......2000-11-15

_A Tribble's Guide to Space (How to Get to Space and What to do When You're There)_ is a succinctly and entertainingly written introduction to the core issues of manned and unmanned spaceflight, playing off the well- known technologies and plot devices of the Star Trek series. Author Alan Tribble, a Real Rocket Scientist, conveys to his reader what the main issues are, why they are issues in the first place, and what needs to be considered in addressing those issues. He does this

without scrutinizing any of his topics to the point of tedium. His discussion of orbits is a good example of how a topic progresses: he describes what an orbit is, gives something of the history and personalities involved in the development of our understanding of the physics of orbits, what it takes to get into orbit, why that depends on where you start from, and what the implications of all those things are. His discussion of orbits provides a useful vehicle for illuminating digressions on gravity, the history of rocketry, current launch vehicles and power sources, Trek power sources, and both real and fictional interplanetary and interstellar travel times. Along the way he uses examples from 20th century space endeavors, as well comparisons to Trek Mythology, to concretize these ideas. And that's all in Chapter 2! The remaining chapters are similarly rich in content, without being daunting, overburdened, or unduly academic, and cover the full spectrum of topics including the space environment, the uses of space, and manned and unmanned spacecraft design. Altogether, Tribble has produced an engaging volume appropriate for those seeking an introduction to the real core issues of manned and unmanned spaceflight. The book is most appropriate for the average intelligent (i.e., not adverse to thinking) person of high school age or greater, although I certainly would not hesitate to give a copy to an interested and motivated junior high student. One can only hope that this book will be well enough received to induce Tribble to write further on popular topics in the physical sciences.

No Trouble with Tribble!.......2000-10-19

Tribble's book is wonderful. It describes the many challenges that engineers have faced, and overcome, in getting humans into space; it also explains some of the truly fascinating questions that are now being answered because scientists have access to space-based laboratories.

It's superb reading, as Tribble not only discusses real-world science and engineering, he also mentions classic movies like 2001, October Sky, and - of course - Star Trek.

If you're at all interested in space, go buy a copy.

Best Science Book I've Ever Read.......2000-10-02

This book is destined to be a classic -- right up there with "The Tao of Physics" and "A Brief History of Time." Once I started, I could hardly put it down. My only regret is that the book got me so excited about the final frontier but I can't get there -- at least not for a while. But one thing I can do is share the book with my children, since I'm certain it's a lot more interesting than what they're reading in school. If you are a parent, I can think of no better Birthday, Christmas, or Hannukah gift for you to give your child than "Alan Tribble's Guide to Space!"

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Written by a leading expert in the field, this is a comprehensive review of the methods for preparing stereochemically defined fluorine-containing compounds of biomedical importance.

Fluorinated organic compounds are well known for their unusual reactivity but the growing importance of these compounds in the biomedical field has been accompanied by an increasing awareness of the necessity to synthesise and explore the biological properties of stereochemically defined fluoro-compounds. This is the first book written on this exciting area of research.

It contains:

* detailed reviews on stereocontrolled synthesis of biologically important compounds

* 21 chapters covering the main areas of asymmetric synthesis and biocatalysts where fluorine plays a key role

* mechanisms and methods for synthesizing fluoro-organic compounds

Written for professionals involved in organic, physical and organofluorine chemistry, natural product synthesis, biological, pharmaceutical and other life science related industries.

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To any one who studies the signs of the times, the emergence of the philosophy of Evolution, in the attitude of claimant to the throne of the world of thought, from the limbo of hated and, as many hoped, forgotten things, is the most portentous event of the nineteenth century. But the most effective weapons of the modern champions of Evolution were fabricated by Darwin; and the 'Origin of Species' has enlisted a formidable body of combatants, trained in the severe school of Physical Science, whose ears might have long remained deaf to the speculations of a priori philosophers.

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Darwin and the General Reader: The Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution in the British Periodical Press, 1859-1872

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Darwin and the General Reader: The Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution in the British Periodical Press, 1859-1872
Alvar Ellegard
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0226204871

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Drawing on his investigation of over one hundred mid-Victorian British newspapers and periodicals, Alvar Ellegård describes and analyzes the impact of Darwin's theory of evolution during the first dozen years after the publication of the Origin of Species. Although Darwin's book caused an immediate stir in literary and scientific periodicals, the popular press largely ignored it. Only after the work's implications for theology and the nature of man became evident did general publications feel compelled to react; each social group responded according to his own political and religious prejudices. Ellegård charts the impact of this revolution in science, maintaining that although the idea of evolution was generally accepted, Darwin's primary contribution, the theory of natural selection, was either ignored or rejected among the public.

The reception of Darwinism in the United States, 1859-1880

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The reception of Darwinism in the United States, 1859-1880
Edward Justin Pfeifer
Manufacturer: University Microfilms
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Beautifully Written

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Taking a trip back in time ...

A beautiful and well told tale

Easy, entertaining read

Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Susan Vreeland
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 014029628X
Release Date: 2000-10-03

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There are only 35 known Vermeers extant in the world today. In Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland posits the existence of a 36th. The story begins at a private boys' academy in Pennsylvania where, in the wake of a faculty member's unexpected death, math teacher Cornelius Engelbrecht makes a surprising revelation to one of his colleagues. He has, he claims, an authentic Vermeer painting, "a most extraordinary painting in which a young girl wearing a short blue smock over a rust-colored skirt sat in profile at a table by an open window." His colleague, an art teacher, is skeptical and though the technique and subject matter are persuasively Vermeer-like, Engelbrecht can offer no hard evidence--no appraisal, no papers--to support his claim. He says only that his father, "who always had a quick eye for fine art, picked it up, let us say, at an advantageous moment." Eventually it is revealed that Engelbrecht's father was a Nazi in charge of rounding up Dutch Jews for deportation and that the picture was looted from one doomed family's home:

That's when I saw that painting, behind his head. All blues and yellows and reddish brown, as translucent as lacquer. It had to be a Dutch master. Just then a private found a little kid covered with tablecloths behind some dishes in a sideboard cabinet. We'd almost missed him.

By the end of "Love Enough," this first of eight interrelated stories tracing the history of "Girl in Hyacinth Blue," the painting's fate at the hands of guilt-riddled Engelbrecht fils is in question. Unfortunately, there is no doubt about the probable destiny of the previous owners, the Vredenburg family of Rotterdam, who take center stage in the powerful "A Night Different From All Other Nights." Vreeland handles this tale with subtlety and restraint, setting it at Passover, the year before the looting, and choosing to focus on the adolescent Hannah Vredenburg's difficult passage into adulthood in the face of an uncertain future. In the next story, "Adagia," she moves even further into the past to sketch "how love builds itself unconsciously ... out of the momentous ordinary" in a tender portrait of a longtime marriage. Back and back Vreeland goes, back through other owners, other histories, to the very inception of the painting in the homely, everyday objects of the Vermeer household--a daughter's glass of milk, a son's shirt in need of buttons, a wife's beloved sewing basket--"the unacknowledged acts of women to hallow home." Girl in Hyacinth Blue ends with the painting's subject herself, Vermeer's daughter Magdalena, who first sends the portrait out into the world as payment for a family debt, then sees it again, years later at an auction.

She thought of all the people in all the paintings she had seen that day, not just Father's, in all the paintings of the world, in fact. Their eyes, the particular turn of a head, their loneliness or suffering or grief was borrowed by an artist to be seen by other people throughout the years who would never see them face to face. People who would be that close to her, she thought, a matter of a few arms' lengths, looking, looking, and they would never know her.

In this final passage, Susan Vreeland might be describing her own masterpiece as well as Vermeer's. --Alix Wilber

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This luminous story begins in the present day, when a professor invites a colleague to his home to see a painting that he has kept secret for decades. The professor swears it is a Vermeer--but why has he hidden this important work for so long? The reasons unfold in a series of events that trace the ownership of the painting back to World War II and Amsterdam, and still further back to the moment of the work's inspiration. As the painting moves through each owner's hands, what was long hidden quietly surfaces, illuminating poignant moments in multiple lives. Vreeland's characters remind us, through their love of this mysterious painting, how beauty transforms and why we reach for it, what lasts and what in our lives is singular and unforgettable.

Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, the Christian Science Monitor, and the San Francisco Chronicle
Nominated for the Book Sense Book of the Year

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Beautifully Written.......2007-09-01

While this book was written beautifully; her research evident in all the stories, I didn't care for it. I was expecting another "Girl With A Pearl Earring." Even though it was brilliant the way all the stories led from one to the next, I would have preferred one long story. Vreeland is an excellent writer, I don't have complaints in that department, nor in any departmnt; it just wasn't my cup of tea. What it did do, however, is make me more curious about Vermeer's work. I plan to look up his paintings and enjoy his beautiful talent.

wonderful.......2007-06-13

A quiet, contemplative, and well-crafted series of stories that connect to form a complete experience of the nature of art. Very charming.

Taking a trip back in time ... .......2007-04-04

I love historical fiction because of books like this one... never ordinary... author Susan Vreeland tells the story that wants to be told... I wanted to read it backwards when I was done... to get all I missed... I still may! Especially recommended for artists!

A beautiful and well told tale.......2007-04-03

If you have time for only one book this season, make it this one. It is beautifully written and soothing to the mind and senses. The manner in which Vreeland tells this lovely tale is a new approach, one which works quite well. Reading Girl in Hyachinth Blue paints a picture in the mind as lovely as the art described in various chapters. This is a remarkable experience. Now go get the book and read it.

Easy, entertaining read.......2006-11-07

This simple story was easy and entertaining to read. It's art, it's art history and history in general. I liked the reverse timeline and having to think back to the last chapter read to see how this new chapter comes into play. I liked that each chapter was it's own story and even though the chapters were brief I felt I got to know the characters well. Being an artist and having studied art history I enjoyed the perspective of this book.

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GIRL IN HYACINTH BLUE
Susan Vreeland
Manufacturer: Review Great Britain
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0747270260

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Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Susan Vreeland
Manufacturer: MacMurray & Beck
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0965201732

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Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Susan Vreeland
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000R0YVQW

GIRL IN HYACINTH BLUE (A luminous tale about art and human experience that is as breathtaking as any Vermeer painting) " A little gem of a novel...(a) beautifully written exploration of the power of art. "

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GIRL IN HYACINTH BLUE (A luminous tale about art and human experience that is as breathtaking as any Vermeer painting) " A little gem of a novel...(a) beautifully written exploration of the power of art. "

Manufacturer: PENGUIN BOOKS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000FXY2OW

Madchen In Hyazinthblau / Girl in Hyacinth Blue

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Madchen In Hyazinthblau / Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Susan Vreeland
Manufacturer: Distribooks
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ASIN: 3453195728

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GIRL IN HYACINTH BLUE
VREELAND SUSAN
Manufacturer: MACMURRAY & BECK
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PGXSSU

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Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Susan Vreeland
Manufacturer: Penguin
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ASIN: B000RL2V18

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Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Susan Vreeland
Manufacturer: VIKING
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ASIN: B000QBUH7O

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Girl in Hyacinth Blue

Manufacturer: Review
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ASIN: B000GL7L5U

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