Wiley Ias 98: Interpretation and Application of International Accounting Standards 1998

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nice book.......1999-11-06

there is a lot to learn from this book

MORE EFFECTIVE THAN THE IAS PRONOUNCEMENTS.......1998-06-10

THE EXAMPLES ARE ESPECIALLY HELPFUL WHEN TRYING TO EXPLAIN IAS TO FOREIGNERS, OR WHEN YOU ARE TRYING TO RELATE THE IAS TO US GAAP. I FOUND THE COMPARISONS AND EXPLANATIONS VERY READABLE TOO. THANK YOU.

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A practical guide to creating a meaningful career path

While the desire to find fulfillment through work is overwhelmingly clear, knowing what direction to take often remains uncertain. With the help of The Ultimate Guide to Getting the Career You Want, readers will discover tools, concepts, and strategies for gaining career-building clarity. Dr. Karen O. Dowd and Sherrie Gong Taguchi, two experts in the field of career management, provide an accessible framework to help readers:

Overcome current job inertia
Understand what makes a job right or wrong for them
Include significant others in career decisions
Find work that fits within their life vision

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A Book for the Times--a Great Value.......2003-10-13

The employment market has been challenging over the past few years. Thousands upon thousands of people have been laid off, down-sized, mis-employed, under-employed. Recent surveys suggest that 30-40 percent of those who are employed are dissatisfied and looking for something better. What is better? It's more than just money.

As we sit on the threshold of another wide open labor market, filled with bountiful opportunities for exciting career development, this is the time to take a deep breath and determine where you really want to go with your work life. Who are you, really? What's important to you in a career? Why? What do you have to offer---what are your strengths, your core competencies...and how do they relate to what you'd like to do?

Curl up with this book and benefit from some enjoyable time with two authors who have invested a significant part of their lives counseling others in career design and development. In addition to other significant positions, Dowd served as director of Career Services at the Darden Graduate Business School of the University of Virginia and Taguchi served as director of the Stanford MBA Career Management Center. These backgrounds tell you that this book will be most valuable for educated professionals, though there is plenty of content to be helpful to less educated workers or those on the way up.

The book is organized in a comfortable, easy-to-use format. First the authors help readers understand their history-what brought them to where they are today. If you're like most people, the past hasn't always been pretty. Understood. Dowd and Taguchi put the good, the bad, and the ugly into perspective as they focus you toward the future. In the second section of the book, you'll gain some deep understandings of who you are now-what drives you, what's important to you. With this foundation in place, the authors take you into your future career, building your confidence along the way.

This book is not light, fun reading. You'll sit down with a serious how-to textbook that will take you through a tour of the career design and management process that will exceed anything you've done before. There's some deep stuff in these pages that make this book worth far more than the $14.95 list price.

As if the text weren't enough, you'll benefit from five appendices, notes, and an index. Lots of tips on websites, writing resumes and cover letters, opportunity evaluation guides, and compensation negotiation tips. Anecdotes, case studies, exercises, and exercises add even more. If you are analyzing where you want to go next in your business or professional career, invest some time with this book. If your work includes advising others on their careers, this book, dog-eared, belongs on your reference shelf.

Note: I am lead author of "Impending Crisis: Too Many Jobs, Too Few People" and a workforce futurist. With my understanding of what is coming in the job market, I'd recommend this book to everyone who wants to take advantage of the next hot employment wave. Prepare now: the opportunities are coming!

Great gift to family members or friends!.......2003-09-29

This book is filled with useful strategies and tips, exercises, and inspirational case studies. I am giving it as Christmas gifts to family and friends --just graduated to those who are in extended job searches.
This book is unique in that it guides you on how to incorporate your spouses and significant others in your career decisions, how to take risks, breaks, and recession proof your career for a lifetime. I especially enjoyed the in-depth chapter on how to develop a job search or career change action plan. Wow! Easy and interesting reading.

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Bought as a Gift for Blind Daughter.......2007-05-25

I bought this book as a gift for my 11 yr old Daughter who is Blind.

I think the idea of having pictures that she can feel that are also illustrated so that myself and anyone else reading the book with her can see is GREAT! There is also printed text on every page so that sighted people can read it as well.

Out of all of the braille books she owns or has borrowed this is the best one in my opinion.

She was absolutely enthralled by this book.The information is presented in a way that was easy for her to comprehend.When I ordered this books I wasn't sure how she would react to a non-fiction book. I was pleasantly surprised to see that she absolutely loved it. All braille books should be done this well.

I wholeheartedly recommend this book.

Amazing.......2006-09-22

This book is absolutely amazing. I ordered it for my blind grandson and then ordered another copy for myself. The text is accurate and the illustrations are amazing, awesome and out of this world. The illustrator has truly brought a new level of learning to the blind. Good Job!!!

Wonderful for all ages!.......2006-07-04

My 6 year old loves this book. Much of the content will be current and relavant as he gets older and while he may not understand everything now he certainly enjoys it. The book is great for all ages and I have learned quite a bit. Of his library of braille books, this is his absolute favorite!

Touch the Sun: A Nasa Braille Book.......2006-03-18

An excellent book to teach students who are blind or visually impaired about the sun. The tactile representations and the descriptor for each tactile representation are just what is needed to bring these abstract concepts home.

Great Book.......2006-03-16

Fun to read. Really enjoyed the illustrations. It was a whole new experience for me. Thanks

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Touch the Sun: A NASA Braille Book
Noreen Grice
Manufacturer: Joseph Henry Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OT0ZA2

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Principles of Adsorption and Reaction on Solid Surfaces

As with other books in the field, Principles of Adsorption and Reaction on Solid Surfaces describes what occurs when gases come in contact with various solid surfaces. But, unlike all the others, it also explains why. While the theory of surface reactions is still under active development, the approach Dr. Richard Masel takes in this book is to outline general principles derived from thermodynamics and reaction rate theory that can be applied to reactions on surfaces, and to indicate ways in which these principles may be applied. The book also provides a comprehensive treatment of the latest quantitative surface modeling techniques with numerous examples of their use in the fields of chemical engineering, physical chemistry, and materials science. A valuable working resource and an excellent graduate-level text, Principles of Adsorption and Reaction on Solid Surfaces provides readers with:
* A detailed look at the latest advances in understanding and quantifying reactions on surfaces
* In-depth reviews of all crucial background material
* 40 solved examples illustrating how the methods apply to catalysis, physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition, electrochemistry, and more
* 340 problems and practice exercises
* Sample computer programs
* Universal plots of many key quantities
* Detailed, class-tested derivations to help clarify key results

The recent development of quantitative techniques for modeling surface reactions has led to a number of exciting breakthroughs in our understanding of what happens when gases come in contact with solid surfaces. While many books have appeared describing various experimental modeling techniques and the results obtained through their application, until now, there has been no single-volume reference devoted to the fundamental principles governing the processes observed.

The first book to focus on governing principles rather than experimental techniques or specific results, Principles of Adsorption and Reaction on Solid Surfaces provides students and professionals with a quantitative treatment of the application of principles derived from the fields of thermodynamics and reaction rate theory to the investigation of gas adsorption and reaction on solid surfaces. Writing for a broad-based audience including, among others, chemical engineers, chemists, and materials scientists, Dr. Richard I. Masel deftly balances basic background in areas such as statistical mechanics and kinetics with more advanced applications in specialized areas.

Principles of Adsorption and Reaction on Solid Surfaces was also designed to provide readers an opportunity to quickly familiarize themselves with all of the important quantitative surface modeling techniques now in use. To that end, the author has included all of the key equations involved as well as numerous real-world illustrations and solved examples that help to illustrate how the equations can be applied. He has also provided computer programs along with universal plots that make it easy for readers to apply results to their own problems with little computational effort.

Principles of Adsorption and Reaction on Solid Surfaces is a valuable working resource for chemical engineers, physical chemists, and materials scientists, and an excellent text for graduate students in those disciplines.

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One of the best resources.......2007-09-29

This book is great. it is ideal for classes in kinetics and adsorption. It was very helpful for my graduate level courses in kinetics and chemical reactions. It is also ideal for those doing research in solid state and adsorption phenomena as well as catalysis and surface chemistry

Good book.......2003-03-21

It's a textbook for a course I'm taking, and I find it a good enough book... Useful, if not the most exciting thing I've ever read ;)

Good Review, Poor Writing/Editing.......2002-07-12

This text goes over most of the key concepts of surface reactions, but the large number of typos make it hard to read.

An excellent text book for surface chemist.......1999-08-27

This is a very comprehensive book on surface chemistry. It explains basic concept and related experimental results very well. The only thing I don't like is that he spent too much on his own theory on chemisorption, which still needs experimental proof. Nevertherless, this is a must if you intend to do some reserch on surface catalytic reactions.

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This book promotes a novel approach, by emphasising the physical concept of action, to complement that of energy. It aims to show that too much attention may have been devoted to energy in biothermodynamics and insufficient attention to action. This relative neglect may now be limiting our capacity to understand how ecosystems function, how they evolved and if they can be sustained, as human demands for food, shelter and transport increase. Ivan Kennedy introduces the concept of 'action', a thermodynamic property related to entropy, resulting from impulses of energy on matter producing force, based on the sole principle of the conservation of momentum. The significance of action was implied by Max Planck and Albert Einstein early in the 20th Century when they defined the quantum of action, h. The action resonance theory (ART) transcends disciplines and may reverse the alienation pointed to by C. P. Snow in 'The Two Cultures'. Originally designed to solve specific biological problems, such as ATP synthesis, its role in muscle function and nitrogenase activity, ART has universal significance for sustaining the earth's ecosystems in the face of global problems such as the greenhouse effect. Using an elementary mathematical treatment only, this book proposes that action resonance is valid from microcosm to macrocosm, providing a valid version of the unified field theory sought by Einstein and others.

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A big dissapointment.......2004-07-20

I was teaching thermodynamics for students in biology when I learned about this book searching for new materials for my course.
The subtitle of the book was appealing, the background of the author was also appealing and his claim that he had arrived to a new point of view based in his long experience were decisive for my decision.
There was just one worry, the last sentence in the back cover: "The author... proposes that action theory is valid from microcosm to macrocosm, providing a congent version of unified field theory sought by Einstein and others". Sounds too ambitious! and reminds me of a repeated pattern of illuminated individuals that pop-up at our University-offices to point out where Einstein was wrong or made the wrong choice.

After reading several chapters of the book I came to the following conclusions:
1. there is no useful material for teaching
2. the author has great difficulties explaining which his ideas are. All what I can see is vague intuition never made precise, much less translated into formulae.
3. The author leaves aside physical facts that contradict his ideas.

A big (also expensive) dissapointement!

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When Mother Nature rages, the physical results are never subtle. Because we cannot contain the weather, we can only react by tabulating the damage in dollar amounts, estimating the number of people left homeless, and laying the plans for rebuilding. But as John M. Barry expertly details in Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, some calamities transform much more than the landscape.

While tracing the history of the nation's most destructive natural disaster, Barry explains how ineptitude and greed helped cause the flood, and how the policies created to deal with the disaster changed the culture of the Mississippi Delta. Existing racial rifts expanded, helping to launch Herbert Hoover into the White House and shifting the political alliances of many blacks in the process. An absorbing account of a little-known, yet monumental event in American history, Rising Tide reveals how human behavior proved more destructive than the swollen river itself.

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An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of blacks north, and transformed American society and politics forever.

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.

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History repeats itself........2007-08-20

I happened to read this book when I was home from work waiting for Hurricane Katrina to make landfall (I live in Baton Rouge, 80 miles North of New Orleans). It was an ironic that I read this book that day. I had no idea of the book's relevance to that day's events. John Barry documents the events and reasons leading up to the great flood of 1927 in incredible detail. Being from South Louisiana, I knew a little about the flood, but most of what I thought I knew was not correct. The facts of what the US Corp of Engineers did or did not do is readily available from a number of sources. The Corp of Engineer's competence or incompetence is subject to debate (Well, It was subject to debate until August 29, 2005). The real revelations as far as I am concerned are the cultural and economic factors that Barry weaves into an enlightening book. It shows how the powers that ruled New Orleans (Canal Bank, Whitney Bank, Hibernia Bank and the Times Picayune Newspaper) deceived and lied to maintain their power and riches at everyone else's expense. St Bernard Parish (County to most of you) was sacrificed by bombing the levee system below New Orleans to take the pressure off of the New Orleans levees (as it turns out, unnecessarily). The amazing part of the book is the "how it changed America" part. From the creation of the Federal based welfare system, Herbert Hoover's rise to stardom and the ultimate election of Huey Long as Governor of Louisiana (and had he not been assassinated, may be President of the United States), the 1927 flood changed America more than any event I can think of other than the Revolutionary War and Civil War. This is a GREAT book worth your time to read. It is said that in order to know the future, you must study the past. Too bad we're still not paying attention !!!!!!!!!!!

The Rising Tide.......2007-02-18

I've barely dipped into the first chapter of this, plus reading at random to wherever the book fell open, and I'm awed. Barry's attention to detail and exhaustive documentation of his sources are exemplary. It is also a darn good read, and it is his thoroughness which makes it that way -- the principal players stand out like characters in a good novel. There was recently a PBS special (I believe it was The American Experience) on the history of New Orleans, and although Barry appeared in it, not nearly enough attention was paid to the 1927 flood, especially to some of the most unsavory aspects such as the machinations of the local power structure. Other than the pleasure of reading this book, I highly recommend it because we had a replay of this in Katrina with a similar display of greed, insensitivity and incompetence. And if it can happen in New Orleans, it can happen anywhere!

The Great Flood.......2006-12-14

I had never heard of the Mississippi flood before picking up this book and I am surprised that I had never hard of it after reading about it. This is arguably the greatest natural disaster to hit the United States until Hurricane Katrina. To see the response of the government then and now there are shocking similarities The army corp of engineers makes a similar performance and it is through private enterprise and local political networks that areas are saved. One of the sadder points in the book is the treatment of African Americans and southern racism in this time period is clearly displayed in most areas. The flood which wiped out parts of Mississippi and spread down to New Orleans was catastrophic. Seeing the idea of detonating levees and sacrificing areas of save others were tough choices that have implications in the post Katrina world. This is a highly recommend book that will make one think about natural disaster response from a truly catastrophic event.

They're Gonna Wash Us Away - The Rest of the Story.......2006-11-02

Randy Newman told the story of the great Louisiana flood of 1927 in a few memorable but not very historically accurate verses. Barry tells it with painstaking research and narrative of 75 years surrounding and including 1927. He opens with the civil engineering debate that raged for years about how to "control" the Mississippi River--levees or controlled drainage. Once the flood happens he focuses on how people dealt with it as it was happening (race relations in the early 20th century were sorely tested) and afterwards (St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes, having been sacrifice to "save" New Orleans, were left almost low and dry when it came time to distribute money for recovery---sound familiar?) One memorable theme is that nature is unsympathetic to political compromise. Barry rivals David McCullough in the genre of popular history writers.

Outstanding Piece of Work in History, Politics and Humanity.......2006-10-26

Mr. Barry has done an exceptional job of weaving the elements of modern life together, natural disaster, power, money, politics, race together to tell an ingrossing and disturbing story, one that is a relevant today as it was when it happened in the late twenties. America is still affected by what happened then and faces many of the same challenges today--Katrina and whenever or whereever there is great human suffering brought on by natural disaster. (Just wait until the New Madrid earthquake occurs again. That may be the only natural disaster that could rival this flood and its effect on our nation, society and culture.)

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely, and money--having it--makes that corruption and the arrogance that comes with it, even more dangerous, despicable and deadly. We face all of those issues and threats today, and it is not limited to a political party, but rather to class,to wealth and, sadly and alarmingly, to those we "elect" to represent and protect us.

This book is a sobering look at America as it was, and, sadly, as it is. Political parties do not matter....This not about man's highest, nor is it about man's lowest. It is about man as he is...

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. (book reviews): An article from: The Mississippi Quarterly

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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. (book reviews): An article from: The Mississippi Quarterly
John Opie
Manufacturer: Mississippi State University
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Binding: Digital

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Title: Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. (book reviews)
Author: John Opie
Publication: The Mississippi Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1998
Publisher: Mississippi State University
Volume: v51 Issue: n2 Page: p339(3)

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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America.(Review) (book review): An article from: Journal of the American Planning Association
Raymond J. Burby
Manufacturer: American Planning Association
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This digital document is an article from Journal of the American Planning Association, published by American Planning Association on June 22, 2000. The length of the article is 1775 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: Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America.(Review) (book review)
Author: Raymond J. Burby
Publication: Journal of the American Planning Association (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2000
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: 66 Issue: 3 Page: 337

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RISING TIDE: THE GREAT MISSISSIPPI FLOOD OF 1927 AND HOW IT CHANGED AMERICA.(Review) (book review): An article from: The Oral History Review

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RISING TIDE: THE GREAT MISSISSIPPI FLOOD OF 1927 AND HOW IT CHANGED AMERICA.(Review) (book review): An article from: The Oral History Review
Kimberly K. Porter
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This digital document is an article from The Oral History Review, published by Oral History Association on January 1, 2000. The length of the article is 1183 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: RISING TIDE: THE GREAT MISSISSIPPI FLOOD OF 1927 AND HOW IT CHANGED AMERICA.(Review) (book review)
Author: Kimberly K. Porter
Publication: The Oral History Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: Oral History Association
Volume: 27 Issue: 1 Page: 163

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Rising Tide The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

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Rising Tide The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
Barry John
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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