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Elementos Para Una Teoria General de La Contabilidad
Carlos Luis Garcia Casella Manufacturer: La Ley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9505274807 |
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Leadership Games: Experiential Learning for Organizational Development
Stephen S. Kaagan Manufacturer: Sage Publications, Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0761917217 |
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Leadership Games presents 25 practical, inexpensive experiential activities designed to be used in various leadership training and development programs. This book centers on those areas of primary concern to today's managers-team leadership, risking innovation, fostering collaboration, managing conflict, and using diversity. The exercises are grounded in the management and educational literature, and for each exercise there is a set of explicit directions, cues on strategic considerations, including appropriate timing, indicators of successful application, and a rich sample of proposed questions that point the way to fruitful post-exercise discussions with participants. Author Stephen S. Kaagan has extensive experience both in the academic and consulting worlds, including being a past president of the Outward Bound program in Rockland, Maine. Leadership Games is unique in that it: + Explores both leadership development theory and offers practical suggestions + Provides much more than bare bones instructions on how to facilitate experiential exercises + Shows the link between the exercises and critical organizational challenges This book will be an invaluable tool for professionals and students interested in leadership, organizational studies, management, human resources, communication, gender studies, sociology, psychology, and education.
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Cyberspace Law: Commentaries and Materials
Yee Fen Lim Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0195558618 |
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Cyberspace Law: Commentaries and Materials provides a comprehensive and detailed study of this fast moving field of law. It has been fully updates to reflect recent changes in legislation and includes new chapters on Internet Taxation, Univited Material and Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGS).
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Global Intellectual Property Law: Commentary And Materials
Graham Dutfield Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1843769425 |
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The International Intellectual Property System: Commentary and Materials
Frederick M. Abbott , and Thomas Cottier Manufacturer: Kluwer Law Intl ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9041194223 |
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The 1990s will be remembered as an era of prodigious expansion in world trade. Suddenly -- for reasons encompassing irresistible new on-line technology, a vastly greater geographic reach, and sheer volume of goods and services -- the old intellectual property (IP) laws and protocols long respected by international business became woefully inadequate. As a result, this masterful one-volume introduction to the new global regime of IP law fills an urgent need. Immediately recognized as the landmark work in its field, The International Intellectual Property System gives business lawyers everywhere the organized materials and expert commentary they need to protect IP rights on a global scale -- and provides law students with an authoritative annotated survey of the relevant conventions, treaties, and laws both regional and national, as well as significant court interpretations in various jurisdictions. The book offers in-depth analysis of: + current international norms in the fields of patent, copyright, and trademark rights + national and most favored treatment in the granting of IP rights + regulation of IP rights in the European Union (EU) + enforcement under international legal instruments as well as under EU and US laws + such emerging areas as governance of IP rights on the Internet and in electronic commerce.
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Personal Property: Commentary and Materials
R.G. Hammond Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0195582179 |
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Does one have a property right in one's body parts? Who "owns" the airwaves? Can entertainers' claims of exploitation of their personality be expressed as a property interest? Personal property has traditionally been confined to legal obligations with respect to tangible goods. But personal
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Property Law: Commentary and Materials (Law in Context)
Alison Clarke , and Paul Kohler Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0521614899 |
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An innovative examination of the law's treatment of property, this student textbook provides a readable account of general property law principles. It draws on a wide range of materials on property rights in general, and the English property law system in particular, looking at all kinds of property, not just land. It includes the core legal source materials in property law along with excerpts from social science literature, legal theory, and economics, many of which are not easily accessible to law students. These materials are accompanied by a critical commentary, as well as notes, questions and suggestions for further reading.
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COMMENTARY: Patent or Perish?(Intelluctual Property)(Editorial): An article from: Nanoparticle News
Manufacturer: Business Communications Company, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000ALOC3K Release Date: 2006-07-14 |
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This digital document is an article from Nanoparticle News, published by Business Communications Company, Inc. on March 1, 2005. The length of the article is 631 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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Attorney's Dictionary of Patent Claims: Legal Materials & Practice Commentaries, Set
Irwin M. Aisenberg Manufacturer: International Institute of Technology, Incorp ProductGroup: Book Binding: Ring-bound ASIN: 0820515469 |
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Real Property: Commentary & Materials
G. L. Certoma , P. J. Butt , and C. M. Sappideen Manufacturer: Gaunt Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 045520960X |
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The Universe Unveiled: Instruments and Images Through History
Bruce Stephenson , Marvin Bolt , and Anna Felicity Friedman Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 052179143X |
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Sextant, octant, armillary sphere; sundial, moondial, astrolabe. Premodern scientific instruments seem romantic and mysterious. Romantic because they can be very beautiful, works of art the like of which cannot be found among more practical, goal-oriented modern instruments. Mysterious because most of us no longer have any idea which instruments were which, or how they were used.At the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Stephenson, Bolt, and Friedman help curate one of the best collections of astronomy instruments in the world. The Universe Unveiled is a dazzling catalog of the most beautiful, ancient, and important objects from the Adler (the first planetarium in the Western Hemisphere) and other museums. Alongside hundreds of gorgeous, clear photographs, they have written a text that gives a real, though brief, idea of how the instruments, maps, and charts were actually used. Most of the objects were made in Europe between 1450 and 1800, but the authors also do a creditable job of discussing Chinese and Islamic astronomy. Altogether, the book is a rare combination of eye candy and intellectual nutrition, which could only really be bettered if it were packaged with the actual instruments. As is, it can make your hands itch with a kind of tactile curiosity, while it caters to your eyes and mind. --Mary Ellen Curtin
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The search for understanding creates more than answers; it also produces instruments, books, maps, and other tools made and used by those seeking knowledge. The Universe Unveiled uniquely focuses on these artifacts and devices resulting from the attempts to decipher the Universe from the late fifteenth to the early twentieth century. Beautiful, full-color photographs capture these extremely rare and sometimes unusual curios. Beginning with the discovery of ways to keep time, The Universe Unveiled depicts the shift from an Earth-centered understanding of the Universe to a Sun-centered view, the mapping of the stars, and the ever-expanding knowledge of the heavens using telescopes. It also examines the developing technologies of navigation and of the measuring and mapping of the Earth. In addition to rare European curios, the book is illustrated with non-Western and American works. With more than 250 full-color images, this unique volume will delight the inventive as well as the curious.Customer Reviews:
Delightful!.......2001-04-24
The Universe Unveiled.......2001-03-11
More Than A Coffee Table Book.......2000-12-16
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Managing the Analytical Laboratory: Plain and Simple
Clifford Nilsen Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Loose Leaf Similar Items: ASIN: 1574910159 |
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A clear, concise manual on how to run a quality control testing laboratory efficiently and in compliance with all regulations, this book provides hundreds of tips and techniques that help the reader focus on the essential elements of good laboratory management. It presents thirty-nine useful SOPs that have evolved from the author's years of practical experience. Fifteen case studies describe typical laboratory problems and offer possible solutions. From how to train analysts, to how to lay out the laboratory, to how to assure that samples are processed in a systematic manner, Managing the Analytical Laboratory: Plain and Simple covers it all.
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Best practical work on managing an analytical chemistry lab.......1998-07-16
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Trees of Life: Essays in Philosophy of Biology (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0792317092 |
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This volume contains papers presented by New Zealand and American philosophers of biology during a recent visit to New Zealand by Elliott Sober. Some of the papers reveal a unique local perspective on current debates. Robin Craw's highly original contribution to the `evolutionary' philosophy of science initiated by David Hull, applies to intellectual evolution the strongly biogeographic approach to the evolution of life that is a recognised New Zealand speciality. Other papers reflect past intellectual exchange between the two countries. Susan Oyama and Russell Gray's papers on the `developmental systems' approach to evolution, for example, are the outcome of several years of fruitful exchange. The remaining papers in the volume cover a wide range of topics. In addition to Sober's own discussion of post-sociobiological treatments of cultural evolution the volume includes Kim Sterelny's evaluation of `macroevolution', Paul Griffiths' analysis of adaptation and vestigiality, John Morss on the notion of ontogeny and Timothy Shanahan on the concept of drift.
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Internal Friction and Ultrasonic Attenuations in Solids Including High Tc Superconductors: Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference Academy of (Materials Science Forum,)
L. B. Magalas Manufacturer: Trans Tech Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0878496238 |
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The Kindness of Strangers: A Novel
Katrina Kittle Manufacturer: William Morrow ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0060564741 Release Date: 2006-01-31 |
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Sarah Laden, a young widow and mother of two, struggles to keep her family together. Since the death of her husband, her high-school-age son, Nate, has developed a rebellious streak, constantly falling in and out of trouble. Her kindhearted younger son, Danny, though well behaved, struggles to pass his remedial classes. All the while, Sarah must make ends meet by running a catering business out of her home. But when a shocking and unbelievable revelation rips apart the family of her closest friend, Sarah finds herself welcoming yet another young boy into her already tumultuous life.
Jordan, a quiet and reclusive elementary-school boy and classmate of Danny's, has survived a terrible tragedy, leaving him without a family. When Sarah becomes Jordan's foster mother, a relationship develops that will force her to question the things of which she thought she was so sure. Yet Sarah is not the only one changed by this young boy, and as the delicate balance that holds her family together begins to falter, the Ladens will all face truths about themselves and one another -- and discover the power of love to forgive and to heal.
Powerful and poignant, The Kindness of Strangers is a shocking look at how the tragedy of a single family in a small suburban town can affect so many. Katrina Kittle has created a haunting vision of the secret lives of the people we think we know best. Through gripping and heartrending storytelling, The Kindness of Strangers shows that even after the most grave injuries, redemption is always possible.
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Disturbing Subject Matter.......2007-09-26
A book you can't put down.......2007-09-21
Haunting, stirring read.......2007-08-11
Beautifully written.......2007-08-11
Disappointing.......2007-08-08
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Kindness of Strangers (Skip Langdon Novels (Paperback))
Julie Smith Manufacturer: Fawcett ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0804112738 Release Date: 1997-05-28 |
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"A BREATHLESS THRILLER . . . Smith pushes her protagonist to the breaking point and the series to a new high water mark of suspense."Customer Reviews:
Steamy New Orleans and vivid characters.......2004-06-02
Jacomine, a liberal, civic-minded preacher in almost everybody's book, strikes Langdon as a dangerous psychopath. When her initial probes spur a relentless telephone campaign against her, complete with innuendo, slander and heated defenses of Jacomine, even Langdon is taken aback. But not deterred.
Smith's narrative weaves among the viewpoints of various characters, giving the reader an inside view of Jacomine's headquarters, civic projects and a converging subplot involving a doomed romance between an unhappy teenager and Jacomine's new press secretary.
As Langdon exposes Jacomine's past, the press secretary's misgivings about his boss and his illicit love collide. The climax rushes toward murder and kidnapping, culminating in a harrowing chase through bayou country in the midst of a hurricane.
Smith delves deeply into the hearts and psyches of her characters, letting their human motivations drive the plot. Her New Orleans is, as always, a vividly evoked cauldron of beauty, political corruption, cultural richness and steamy heat. Her plot hums with tension but it's Smith's seamlessly perceptive writing that sets this novel apart from the crowd.
Dreadful. Julie Smith Doesn't Miss a Cliche in this One.......2000-04-21
I found few redeeming features in this poorly written, badly plotted exercise in tedium.
Gripping and engrossing.......1999-03-22
It's true, as another reveiwer says, that Skip is less confident in this novel. But to me, this adds rather than detracts. Skip's uncertainty, false starts, and growing fear are realistic, and her sense of doubting her own reality increases the tension in the novel.
As often happens when reading series novels, the side plots and secondary characters often are more interesting than the primary puzzle. Smith's teenagers are particularly good -- she seems to me to be that rare adult who hasn't been struck with nostalgic amnesia about the pain of being a 15-year-old girl.
Beware, the ending does not "sew up" all the loose ends, so you'll have to be ready to move on to the next one in a hurry!
Never depend on the kindness of strangers.......1998-04-11
Smith has created a complex villian. who we will no doubt see again, as he embodies everything Skip is not. His character is evil incarnate and every scene he is in is at once riviting and repulsive. My reservation is that Skip seems to be losing herself in this latest story and that would be a crime.
Skip Langdon meets Evil, Greed and Corruption in New Orleans.......1998-04-11
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The Kindness of Strangers : A Novel
Katrina Kittle Manufacturer: William Morrow ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OF0V78 |
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