Environmental Management Accounting: Informational and Institutional Developments (Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science)

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Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) is increasingly recognised as a distinguished tool of environmental management. It helps to integrate a company's environmental and business interests, whereby enhancing corporate eco-efficiency in terms of reducing environmental costs or making one's product more competitive.

This book gives a comprehensive coverage of the state of the art. It presents a number of EMA frameworks that companies can take as a basis for implementing their own specific EMA structures. Besides discussing environmental accounting issues within conventional management accounting, it gives a detailed picture of materials flow (cost) accounting as an alternative way of looking at the ecology-economy relationships at the corporate level. A fascinating case study shows how a large company (Siemens) applies materials flow accounting and what benefits it entails.

Applying EMA in an effective way may require the use of information systems. The book discusses the pros and cons of different strategies in this area: one may opt for a total integrated solution, partially integrated solutions or for a stand-alone system.
Governments may have good reasons to promote the application of EMA. The use of economic instruments to internalise environmental externalities (norms, ecotaxes and tradable permits) can be much more effective if the incentives they produce are not frustrated by a lack of adequate cost accounting. EMA can be of great importance here. The book discusses a number of these issues, gives information on how international and national organisations (such as in Japan) have taken steps to promote the adoption of EMA by the business community.

A final section presents a number of different topics such as how environmental costs can be of help in defining environmental management strategies, how to take environmental performance indicators a step further by developing sustainability indicators for product chains. A final chapter explores a possible theoretical foundation for research on why, how and to what extent companies adopt EMA. Such research may help to turn available insights as to what EMA should be into effective EMA strategies.
The book has been developed under the auspices of the Environmental Management Accounting Network (EMAN-EU). The chapters derive from a selection of papers presented at different EMAN meetings. The authors comprise a truly international group of EMA experts, among whom are the most prominent ones in the field.

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How do the EEO laws affect a company’s or an organization’s key personnel decisions? Popular in its first edition with readers who needed dependable information on this pertinent question. This new edition has been completely updated and revised for more accessibility. This edition continues the practice of providing readers with a framework for understanding each federal EEO law in terms of six key questions:

- Who has rights (protected classes)?

- Who has duties (covered entities)?

- Which practices are prohibited (covered practices)?

- How do claims reach court (administrative procedures)?

- What are the penalties for breaking the law (remedies)?

- How are claims decided at trial (judicial scenarios)?

These questions offer a way for untangling the overlapping and complimentary features of the EEO laws as a group even when these laws protect the same classes (such as race or gender). Besides the latest EEO law information and a new chapter that highlights the major changes in these laws, this new edition now includes:

- Introductory sections for each chapter provide an overview of the chapter’s content.

- Opening key questions arranged by chapter headings so that the reader knows where to look to find a quick answer.

- Summary tables highlight and compare key cases, legal scenarios, and key topics.

- Brief within chapter summaries recap the effect of a law or summarizes a major topic.

- Compliance issues are discussed at the end of each chapter along with a list of "Do’s and Don’ts".

- Discussion questions end chapters and offer stimulating ideas for class discussions or personal reflection

Written for non-legal students and practitioners, this book gives readers the tools for avoiding workplace discrimination and preempting the need for litigation.

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Eeo Law and Personnel Practices
Arthur Gutman
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Legal Aspects of Mental Capacity aims to explain the significance of the provisions covering decision making on behalf of mentally incapacitated adults to health care workers. It explores the background to the legislation including determination of capacity and the definition of best interests; analyses the key provisions of the Act including principles for governing decision making and the statutory duty to act in the best interests; and explores the role of various statutory bodies. The Mental Incapacity Act and Code of Practice will be included as appendices.

Mental capacity: Medical and legal aspects of the aging

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Mental capacity: Medical and legal aspects of the aging

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Mental capacity;: Medical and legal aspects of the aging
J. Brooke Aker
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Starry, starry night..........2004-07-20

'The Milky Way' by Bart J. Bok and Priscilla F. Bok is a book a long time and two careers in the making. Bart Bok was a Dutch-American astronomer who taught at Harvard, then the Australia National University, and finishing his careere at the University of Arizona; he and his wife collaborated on this book in various editions, the first of which was in 1941. The last edition, the fifth, was published a generation later, in 1981 -- it was a standard text for stellar and local galactic study for undergraduate astronomy students, as well as a great text for general interest readers. The degree of information contained in the text is high, but it is presupposes no particular study beforehand; the mathematics and physics presented assume very elementary understanding, but not a high degree of familiarity.

Much of astronomy consists of observations of phenomena in our own galaxies; even with our most advanced observational tools, it is difficult to get much detail out of distant galaxies. As most galaxies fall into particular patterns of overall construction, by understanding what makes up our own galaxy, we are better able to understand what happens throughout the universe.

The Boks start by setting the stage with definitions, terminology, and general overviews, including nice composite photographs of the Milky Way, our home galaxy. Discussion of observational equipment and methods is also discussed here, so as to make it clear how we know what we know. Even so, this is an ever-changing field.

The chapters are well-organised. Chapters include data analysis and how to recognise differences in starlight; types of stars, nearby neighbours and the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram of stars; stellar clusters, pulsars and globular clusters; overall galactic motion through rotation and other stellar movements; the nature of the nucleus of the galaxy; instellar gas and matter; unique features of a spiral galaxy like our own; and finally, galactic changes and evolution, including stellar growth and decay.

This is more properly an astronomy text than an astrophysics text -- it certainly does not ignore astrophysical issues, but concentrates more on the structures and observable/observation issues -- dynamics and kinematics are not the focus here, but they are not ignored, either. The interested student will find this a good grounding from which to proceed to these more advanced topics.

In 1974, at the conclusion of the fourth edition, the Boks assumed they'd likely not need to do another edition for 15 years. This estimate turned out to be very wrong, as the pace of astronomical knowledge has increased, well, astronomically. This should be a caveat to those reading the text -- if the years from 1974 to 1981 were significant enough to warrant a new edition, there are doubtless other advances between 1981 and the present. Even so, this book remains a solid introduction to many of the basic structures and concepts, presented in a very readable and user-friendly format.

It is touching to read the dedication; Priscilla Bok passed away in 1975, and Bart Bok dedicates this book to her, with the inscription 'To Priscilla, with my love: This is the first time I have revised the book without her...' As it turned out, it would be the last revision, as Bok himself died a few years after this final edition. It remains a significant work that has influenced generations of astronomers; there are heavenly objects known by the Bok name -- spherical dark nebulae are known as Bok globules, after he first called attention to them during the 1940s.

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Now available for the first time, this valuable reference presents polymer solubility parameters and various polymer-liquid interaction parameters in an easy-to-use form. It critically evaluates and comprehensively compiles data from original sources. It presents these quantities polymer-by-polymer, alphabetically by polymer common chemical name, fully cross-referenced by systematic chemical names, alternative names and trade names. This one-of-a-kind handbook summarizes the relationship between the various quantities and their methods of determination. This resource is an absolute must for all who are interested in the chemical industry, specifically polymer chemistry, chemical engineering, applied chemistry, and physical chemistry.

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1858 edition by Mallet-Bachelier, Paris.

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A seminal work of twentieth century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett's first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater. The story line revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone — or something — named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as a somber summation of mankind's inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett's language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existentialism of post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.

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like a moth to a flame..........2007-09-28

I really can't explain my love of this play...at least not very well. I read this in a course centering on Faulkner, Joyce, and Beckett...so to say that we read some challenging texts is an understatement. This was a delightful breath of fresh air in its brevity but impressive in its complexity.

If, when reading this, you open up your interpretation beyond the obvious, you can riddle your mind with maddening contradictions and uncomfortable conclusions - aren't those the best kind of things to take away from a text? This play is suspenseful, hilarious, but most of all, extremely tragic. This may not be your cup of tea, but at least respect this web of futility that will either drive you to despair or to action. I mean, let's be honest...I'd like to see YOU try this :)

Masterpiece of Nothingness.......2007-09-20

Many parts of this play are comically driven - many are not. And, the majority are neither - or so Beckett may have said as part of his stylistic prank on the reader. Beckett had a target, and he would smile at his target as much as permitted. His dripping dialogue is often interpreted with misinterpretation, misidentification, miscue. That part of the play is resoundingly great.

To not have read this, but experienced it the first time as a member of the audience, may be asking too much of the auditory skills- asking them to constantly respond to clever and contrarian statements which spill off the characters' tongues almost every third or fifth line. One favorite discourse which evidences how fast and clever it can be: "We're in no danger of ever thinking any more." "Then what are we complaining about?" "Thinking is not the worst." "Maybe not. But at least there's that" "That what?" "That's the idea, let's ask each other questions." "What do you mean, at least there's that?" "That much less misery."

Reading thickly carved conceptions like that recited above can easily make one receive and learn more with each reading. This is one of those plays that I could read over and over again, and each time realize something totally new with each reading. This is a "deep" thinking piece of literature.

So who is Godot? Who knows. What does he represent? Who knows. What is the reason that Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot? Who knows. Are there religious interpretations? Yes. Is God recreated in Godot? After all, Estragon has a nickname - Gogo. Vladimir has a nickname - Didi. Is God a nickname for Godot? If you want to believe such, so believe. Possible religious interpretations are infinite. They absolutely exist. The book starts with discussion of the Bible, and reading of it and some misinterpretation of a proverb. But, beware. Beckett is a master of literary illusion - are the words delivered to portray their nothingness, or by their juxtaposition can the meaningless became most meaningful? Is the Bible part of that "nothingness?"

Sounds almost mean as much as words. The sound of Godot - pronounced the same in English as the original French (Irish Beckett lived in France and wrote in French) - is one example of sound perhaps trumping meaning or definition. One character - Pozzo - is called Bozzo (we grew up watching his cousin Bozo) and later Gozzo. Great inflection of sound. And, sound often is the core of comic reaction - some sounds are funny. Pozzo sounds funny, so does Bozzo, so do many other words in the play.

Admittedly, this is one book you need to read about after having been read. And, to do it justice, I will review this analysis by myself years down the road after I read it again. This could be fun. I can not fathom what it will mean to me then. Who knows.

Dumbest "classic" in 20th century literature.......2007-06-09

I first read this work as part of my Humanities class in high school. I reread again after college to see if several years of "higher education" would make my mind more receptive so great works of literature. Both times, I thoroughly hated this play and consider one of the dumbest pieces of literature commonly taught in schools. The plot is overly simple; two hobos (probably European) await someone (probably male) named Godot. Several others pass them by during their wait. Godot never comes, and the play ends right where it began. No introduction and no conclusion. However, there are supposed to be many meanings that can be had in this story. A common one is that Godot is God, and the hobos represent humans. This reviewer's opinion is that the plot is so simple, that one could draw whatever conclusions or meanings they wanted out of it. All in all, I did not gain anything from this work. Fortunately, it is short enough to get through quickly.

Waiting for the Point.......2007-03-17

Reader 1: It's going to come, I know it is.
Reader 2: Yes, I just know that it will come, and when it does, then we can move on.
R1: Yes.
R2: Right.
R1: I just wish the point would come.
R2: Maybe that is the point, that when it comes it will bring meaning to our lives.
R1: Perhaps.
R2: Yes, perhaps, but if there's no point, then why are we waiting?
R1: Maybe that's the point.
R2: It could be, but I still think we should just wait for the point. It definitely will come. I know it, I just feel it.
R1: But that, too, could be the whole meaning.
R2: Of the point?
R1: No, it's the waiting.
R2: Waiting for the point.
R1: What else could it be?
R2: But if the point has no meaning...
R1: Then maybe that's the point.
R1 & R2: Yes!
R2: But then, how can we be so sure?
R1: Maybe that's the point.
R2: Lots of other people think there's a point.
R1: True, but does that mean there's really a point?
R2: What other point could there be?
R1: Maybe that's the point, that people love things without a point.
R2: Could be.
R1: Is there any other possibility.
R2: No, but I still think that we should wait.
R1: Maybe that's the point.

A classic, but best for those who dig absurdism.......2007-02-05

Fifty years after its premiere, Samuel Beckett's play WAITING FOR GODOT has achieved classic status, yet it is a play more talked about than read or performed. Many people could tell the vague plot of two hobos waiting on a roadside for a man who never comes, a metaphor for the "waiting for God" that forms the duration of human existence, but much of the play remains unknown. Reading the play shows a different side of the play than popular imagination, though it will not be a rewarding activity for all.

The stage is simple. "A country road. A Tree". So is the casting. The repartee of hobos Vladimir and Estragon forms the bulk of the play's dialogue. Two other men, Pozzo and Lucky, twice stop by. Finally a Boy appears as a messenger from the mysterious Godot. Pozzo and Lucky are left out of most popular references to the play, but they form a vital part of its action. When we first meet Pozzo, he is a rich man, smoking a pipe, feasting on a whole chicken... and leading his servant Lucky around with a rope and barking orders at him. The choreographical duties imposed on Lucky are a tour de force of stage writing.

While drama is written to be performed, the text of WAITING FOR GODOT allows one to pick up on various subtleties missing from performance. One is amusing stage directions. When Vladimir says "I don't understand" and Estragon replies, "Use your intelligence, can't you?", there follows the direction "Vladimir uses his intelligence." In the theatre, many of the play's most profound comments come too quickly to be properly reflected upon and digested by the audience, but reading the play lets one proceed through Beckett's musings at one's own pace. Finally, reading the play lets one spot oddities about Beckett's own translation of the play from the original French, many slightly peculiar turns of phrase in English.

While the play's meagre plot of waiting for a God who never reveals himself is often seen as existentialist, reading the play reveals instead an absurdist perspective. Unlike those writers who felt that the absence of God forces Man to determine his purpose on his own, Beckett sees little possibility of purpose. Because of the lack of hope and the frustrations that fill the dialogue, WAITING FOR GODOT can be depressing and inexplicable to many. One's enjoyment from reading the play is dependent essentially on how comfortable one is with absurdism. Nonetheless, I'd recommend at least trying.

Waiting For Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

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Waiting For Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Samuel Beckett
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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

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Waiting for Godot: A Bilingual Edition: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

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Waiting for Godot: A Bilingual Edition: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Samuel Beckett
Manufacturer: Grove Press
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From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment by American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. Now in honor of the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth, Grove Press is publishing a bilingual edition of the play. Originally written in French, Beckett translated the work himself, and in doing so chose to revise and eliminate various passages. With side-by-side text the reader can experience the mastery of Beckett's language and explore the nuances of his creativity.

Upon being asked who Godot is, Samuel Beckett told Alan Schneider, "If I knew, I would have said so in the play." Although we may never know who we are waiting for, in this special edition we can rediscover one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.

Waiting for Godot;: Tragicomedy in two acts

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Waiting for Godot;: Tragicomedy in two acts
Samuel Beckett
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Waiting for Godot : A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Samuel Beckett
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WAITING FOR GODOT A tragicomedy in two acts [First Edition] 1st

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WAITING FOR GODOT A tragicomedy in two acts [First Edition] 1st
Samuel BECKETT
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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

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Theatrically entertaining "Waiting for Godot" features two readers who know how to parry and spare their lines for best effect. "...one of the most noble and moving plays of our generation, a threnody of hope deceived and deferred but never extinguished; a play suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity; with phrases that come like a sharp stab of beauty and pain."....The London Times

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts [The Folio Society]

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Samuel Beckett
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