CPA Exam Preparation: Business Law (Lambers Cpa Review 2002, 4)

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Volume Four of the Lambers CPA Review series contains 17 chapters devoted to Business Law topics on the CPA exam. The review material covers key topics such as contracts, sales, securities and bankruptcy. There are also over 700 past exam questions with solutions in addition to the review material.

Business Law: CPA exam preparation textbook and software edition

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Business Law: CPA exam preparation textbook and software edition
Michael Farrell
Manufacturer: Lambers CPA Review
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Textbook Binding
ASIN: 1892115255

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Business Law: CPA exam preparation textbook and software edition: Study with the Lambers CPA Review textbook and test yourself with accompanying computer software. The Lambers Business Law book contains review material, examples and practice questions with solutions from past CPA exams. The software allows you answer questions from past CPA exams in an interactive format. The software features a study mode and test mode. The study mode allows you to answer questions by topic while the test mode allows you to take a practice CPA exam.

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Work-family researchers have had much success in encouraging both organizations and individuals to recognize the importance of achieving greater balance in life. Work and Life Integration addresses the intersect between work, life, and family in new and interesting ways. It discusses current challenges in dealing with work-life integration issues and sets the stage for future research agendas. The book enlightens the research community and informs the public debates on how workplaces can be made more family sensitive by providing contributions from psychologists, sociologists, and economists who have not shied away from asserting the policy implications of their findings.

This text appeals to both practitioners and academics interested in seeking ways to create meaningful lives.

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New York Search and Seizure 2005 (New York Search and Seizure)

Manufacturer: Matthew Bender & Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 9990894612

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New York Search and Seizure 2005
Barry Kamins
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Binding: Hardcover

General | Law | Subjects | Books
General | Law | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0820568422

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The drug discovery and development process is getting longer, more expensive, and no better. The industry suffers from the same clinical attrition and safety-related market withdrawal rates today as it did 20 years ago. Industrialization of Drug Discovery: From Target Selection Through Lead Optimization scrutinizes these problems in detail, contrasting the promise of technology and industrialization with the challenges of using the tools available to their best advantage. The book explores early successes, examines the current state of the art, and provides a strategic analysis of the issues currently facing drug discovery. Introducing the historical background and current status of the industry, the book delineates the basic tenets underlying modern drug discovery, how they have evolved, and their use in various approaches and strategies. It examines, in detail, the regulations, requirements, guidelines, and draft documents that guide so many FDA actions. The editor devotes the remainder of the discussion to industrialization, compound and knowledge management functions, the drug screening process, collaboration, and finally, ethical issues. Drawing on real-life, from-the-trenches examples, the book elucidates a new approach to drug discovery and development. This modern-day, back-to-basics approach includes three steps: understand the science, unravel the story, and then intelligently apply the technology, bringing to bear the entire armamentarium of industrialization techniques, not just automation, to the discovery process. Using these steps, you can meet the goals of more specific targets, more selective compounds, and decreased cycle times. In effect, you can look for a bigger needle in a smaller haystack.

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In 1999, the board of education in Kansas voted to delete all mention of evolution from the state’s recommended science curriculum and also from its educational assessment tests. This decision, and similar decisions in other states, suggest the persistence of creationists and their ability to capture sufficient support to influence educational policies. Although evolutionary ideas have become increasingly important to many scientific fields, the creationists still have significant influence on science curriculum.

How have religious fundamentalists and right wing conservatives managed to have such influence? In this science-dominated age, why is there such opposition to the teaching of evolution? This book places the Kansas decision in the broader context of the controversy between creationists and evolutionists, as a group of religious fundamentalists who defined themselves as scientists have challenged the most basic assumptions of contemporary biology. Though motivated by religious beliefs, they have tried to bypass the Constitutional requirement for the separation of church and state as they seek to influence legislature and school boards. Looking at the people involved in this social movement and tracing changes in their arguments and strategies, this book links the creation-evolution controversy to broader questions about the meaning of religion in a secular science, public trust in science, and persistent concerns about its social and moral implications.

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You've got to hand it to Hiaasen: He's perfected a formula for crisply written, satirical crime fiction that makes the best use of imaginatively repulsive villains, as well as less thoroughly venal scoundrels and victims who ultimately overcome their antagonists, all while stumping for the preservation of Florida's environment, particularly the Everglades. In Skinny Dip, we find Chaz (who'd rather be golfing than puttering around the "hot, buggy, funky-smelling and treacherous" reaches of nature) falsifying water samples to help Hammernut turn the 'Glades into "God's septic tank." That scheme, though, is endangered not just by Joey's sudden disappearance, but by the suspicions of a python-loving police detective and Chaz's own outstanding inability to tame his Viagra-enhanced tumescence. Even by assigning Chaz a baby-sitter--the hulking, hirsute, and painkiller-addicted Tool--Hammernut can't keep his pet biologist out of trouble. As Joey and Stranahan unfold their revenge plot, and Tool's conscience grows in competition with Chaz's ego, the reader can only marvel at the extent of the train wreck ahead.

As much fun as Hiaasen has delivering Chaz his climactic comeuppance, what's missing from Skinny Dip is a more complex, more credible development of Mick Stranahan's character and the relationship he builds with the much younger Joey Perrone. Like Erin Grant, from Strip Tease, Joey has far more going for her than her bra-cup size; but "hero" Stranahan is of far less interest here than any of his fellow players. --J. Kingston Pierce

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Charles "Chaz" Perrone fancies himself a take-charge kind of guy. So when this "biologist by default" suspects that his curvaceous wife, Joey, has stumbled onto a profitable pollution scam he's running on behalf of Florida agribusiness mogul Red Hammernut, he sets out right away to solve the problem--by heaving Joey off the deck of a luxury cruise liner and into the Atlantic Ocean, far from Key West. But--whoops!--Joey, a former swimming champ, doesn't drown. Instead, as Carl Hiaasen tells in his 10th adult novel, Skinny Dip, she makes her way back to shore, thanks both to a wayward bale of Jamaican marijuana and lonerish ex-cop Mick Stranahan (Skin Tight, 1989), and then launches a bogus blackmail campaign that's guaranteed to drive her lazy, libidinous hubby into a self-protective frenzy.You've got to hand it to Hiaasen: He's perfected a formula for crisply written, satirical crime fiction that makes the best use of imaginatively repulsive villains, as well as less thoroughly venal scoundrels and victims who ultimately overcome their antagonists, all while stumping for the preservation of Florida's environment, particularly the Everglades. In Skinny Dip, we find Chaz (who'd rather be golfing than puttering around the "hot, buggy, funky-smelling and treacherous" reaches of nature) falsifying water samples to help Hammernut turn the 'Glades into "God's septic tank." That scheme, though, is endangered not just by Joey's sudden disappearance, but by the suspicions of a python-loving police detective and Chaz's own outstanding inability to tame his Viagra-enhanced tumescence. Even by assigning Chaz a baby-sitter--the hulking, hirsute, and painkiller-addicted Tool--Hammernut can't keep his pet biologist out of trouble. As Joey and Stranahan unfold their revenge plot, and Tool's conscience grows in competition with Chaz's ego, the reader can only marvel at the extent of the train wreck ahead.As much fun as Hiaasen has delivering Chaz his climactic comeuppance, what's missing from Skinny Dip is a more complex, more credible development of Mick Stranahan's character and the relationship he builds with the much younger Joey Perrone. Like Erin Grant, fromStrip Tease, Joey has far more going for her than her bra-cup size; but "hero" Stranahan is of far less interest here than any of his fellow players. --J. Kingston Pierce

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Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who doesn¿t know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he¿s found a way¿doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. When Chaz suspects that his wife, Joey, has figured out his scam, he pushes her overboard from a cruise liner into the night-dark Atlantic. Unfortunately for Chaz, his wife doesn¿t die in the fall.

Clinging blindly to a bale of Jamaican pot, Joey Perrone is plucked from the ocean by former cop and current loner Mick Stranahan. Instead of rushing to the police and reporting her husband¿s crime, Joey decides to stay dead and (with Mick¿s help) screw with Chaz until he screws himself.

As Joey haunts and taunts her homicidal husband, as Chaz¿s cold-blooded cohorts in pollution grow uneasy about his ineptitude and increasingly erratic behavior, as Mick Stranahan discovers that six failed marriages and years of island solitude haven¿t killed the reckless romantic in him, we¿re taken on a hilarious, full-throttle, pure Hiaasen ride through the warped politics and mayhem of the human environment, and the human heart.

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Wonderfully entertaining.......2007-10-04

Joey Perrone is beautiful, rich and married -- but none of that helps her to cope when her husband, Chaz, tosses her off a cruise ship on their second anniversary. Fortunately, Joey was a competition-level swimmer back in the day, and the distant lights of the Florida coastline become much more attainable when she bumps into a floating bale of discarded Jamaican marijuana, which makes a pretty good raft when the chips are down.

When she's rescued by remote island dweller and former cop Mick Stanahan, Joey chooses not to contact the authorities about her near-murder. Instead, she decides a little psychological torture is in order while she tries to figure out just why Chaz opted for homicide over a no-fault divorce.

For Chaz, who believes (with good reason) that his wife is dead, there are very few good days in his future.

"Skinny Dip" is a wonderfully entertaining story, and I owe my enjoyment of it all to Ron, a pulmonary technician at Lancaster General Hospital. Ron, upon learning of my fondness for writer Christopher Moore, extolled the wonders of Carl Hiaasen -- all while putting me through a series of rigorous breathing exercises that left me gasping and reaching for a pen to jot down the author's name.

Hiaasen doesn't spin any modern folklore into his stories -- unlike Moore with his vampires, demons, trickster gods and the like -- but otherwise, the two writers could be spiritual twins.

Besides Joey, Chaz and Mick, Hiaasen peoples his story with a colorful array of supporting characters.

Karl Rolvaag is a Minnesota Norwegian cop, miserable living in the Florida heat, who's assigned to the case after Joey "vanishes" from the cruise ship. Red Hammernut is a thuggish Florida businessman/farmer who wants nothing to do with the federal government's efforts to save the Everglades at his expense -- and he's willing to spend a great deal of money and effort to circumvent them. Earl Edward O'Toole, hirsute and beefy, is addicted to pain-relief patches, collects roadside memorials and is willing to thump people as his duty or mood requires. And then there's Maureen, a lonely, feisty old woman, dying of cancer in a nursing home, who's willing to trade her meds for a little company and isn't afraid to get a little tart where bad manners are concerned.

Hiaasen gets extra points in my book for throwing in a few brief but informative rants on the state of the Everglades and the government's too-little, too-late attempts to preserve them. I knew a bit about their all-important natural diversity, but Hiaasen taught me a thing or two about the once-massive swamp's vital impact on both the ecological and economical viability of Florida's southern end.

Heck, a little consciousness-raising rarely goes amiss. In my native Lancaster County, where rich soil, ancient trees and pure water are often sacrificed to the cause of development, it's easy to empathize.

Bottom line, I thoroughly enjoyed this refreshing "Skinny Dip" in Hiaasen's imagination, and I am eager to read more from this clever and talented writer. It looks like he's been fairly prolific in recent years, so I expect I won't have to wait too long.

by Tom Knapp, Rambles.NET editor

Not his best.......2007-09-12

This is the weakest Hiaasen novel I have read to date which makes it very good instead of outstanding. If you haven't read it try Native Tongue first then this one

Turning the crank.......2007-09-06

Skinny Dip is a product of the entertaining Hiasen formula engine. A young married woman is unceremoniously dumped off a cruise ship by her husband of two years. She's fortunate to be rescued by a misanthropic retired cop who lives on a tiny island in the Florida Keyes. Yes, her husband is a jerk, but why did he want to kill her?

This book is by no means the strongest of Hiasen's (my favorite remains Native Tongue) but is still entertaining and provides the satisfaction of seeing the nature-hating polluters pay for their crimes.

Good read.......2007-09-02

Skinny dip is an enjoyable read. A man tries to murder his wife but she manages to survive and then tries to find out why he ants her dead.

It is classic Hiaasen- funny, easy to read and very ecological..His characters are well developed. Although very different from each other they tie very well together. For those new to Hiaasen, his style is different, sarcastic at times and adult but without, at any time, being vulgar. HIaasen is a regulal columnist for the Miami-Herald and he is pro-enviromental

This book is, sort of, a sequel to Skin Tight. You do not have to read that book before this one. The only advantage would be that you would understand Mick Stranahan better. You also have a brief apperance of the Governor who is a major character inStormy eather and Sik Puppy.

Not bad.......2007-07-18

The story is a good one...especially for anyone who has ever married a jerk like she did. All of the things she does to get back at him are VERY amusing.
Not entirely impressed with the ending, but still worth reading the book. And the ending wasn't BAD it just wasn't fabulous.

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Skinny Dip

Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0965919005

Chalking It Up: From Pink Slips to Skinny-Dips

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What a trip!
Awesome "Working Girl" Chick Lit
I've read this book 3 times....
A NOTE ON THE FIRST AMENDMENT
Self-Indulgence at Others' Expense

Chalking It Up: From Pink Slips to Skinny-Dips
Stephanie Bavaro
Manufacturer: Metropolis Ink/End Table Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0975126431

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Meet Heather Hall, a corporate rebel who meets her demise after committing infractions like defying the company's open-toed shoe policy, as she sashays her way through several different job disasters until she finds what she was meant to do all along. From the organized chaos of a downsizing software company to stay-at-home mommyville, Heather experiences one very puzzling, bizarre, funny year. FIC000000

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What a trip!.......2005-11-19

So funny! And true to life, I got a kick out of this book.

Awesome "Working Girl" Chick Lit.......2005-06-08

"Working Girl" Chick Lit is fast becoming one of my favorite sub-genres of chick lit. These novels usually feature women struggling to find their right career path, and in the process, go over a lot of bumps or end up having to claw their way up the ladder of success. This book is a wonderful example of such a novel.

Heather Hall, the main character, is what you would call a "corporate rebel". She has been working for a large corporation called Commerce World, and along with her friend Regan, is testing just how far she could go without getting "laid off" or fired. Since the company had been doing layoffs for some time, she fears her turn is coming up soon. Sneaking away on two hour lunches, watching movies during company time, and coming in late every day, Heather knows her number will be up soon. And sure enough, it is one day.

Knowing she's burned some bridges, Heather tries to find another job she is happy in and can make a decent salary at. It's not easy - the economy is terrible and she has a family at home that she must juggle along with her job. After flitting to a couple of other companies and not finding a job that is a good fit, Heather finally realizes where her true talents lie, and sets out to find true job satisfaction.

In this novel, Stephanie Bavaro has done an awesome job of chronicling the struggles of today's woman finding a job, keeping it, and attaining true job satisfaction. In this book you will find hilarious descriptions, interesting and witty dialogue and a down-to-earth and intelligent main character. Chalking It Up is the perfect chick lit read.

Be prepared to laugh when you sit down to read this novel - I cracked up with laughter more than once at the way Commerce World and some of its other employees was described, and some of the shenanigans that Heather and Regan got up to. I also loved the way their friendship was portrayed.

Bavaro's writing style is highly satisfying. She is one new author to keep an eye on - "Chalking It Up" is her debut novel and I certainly hope she plans to write more.

Overall, I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a stellar read. It's a hilarious, addictive, dead-on account of one woman's search for job satisfaction in today's less-than perfect economy that you don't want to miss.

I've read this book 3 times...........2005-02-13

and I'm still laughing. Lucy & Ethel have now reached the new millenium in the form of disgruntled corporate slackers. Gives us hope we can someday find happiness in our jobs and lives. I don't read much (and never would think to post a review) but felt the need to tell people how funny this book is.

A NOTE ON THE FIRST AMENDMENT.......2005-02-06

This story should not be judged by the author's intent, as the intent is nothing more than wanting to write. No evil plan, no diabolical plot, no hatred towards anyone she knows. This book is a parody, a satire, not an autobiography...or a vendetta. Many companies across America have situations exactly like the ones described in this book as far as changes and reorganizations... Writers take bits and pieces of things that they may know, start with a nugget of an idea and then build from there. Writers draw on many different events and ideas, some that don't even happen to them. This is how the creative process is born. I have twins, and I wrote a story once about a woman selling one of her twins for cash..is it true? Many of the characters in Chalking it up are composites, not reflecting "real" people or how I really feel about them. To be comedic, the characters HAVE to be ridiculous. The character of Heather even admits she is acting immature and self-indulgent, and in the end, changes completely by realizing it. The "fringe" characters of managers etc.... are all cartoonish and not meant to be taken seriously. They are supposed to be outrageous and satirical, to further explain Heather's sense of alienation and disbelief at what has happened to her working environment and to further juxtapose the comedic situations. This is a free country, and people can write parodies if they so desire. It's the reason why people have died....so that people like me could enjoy the freedom to express themselves in writing a stupid little story. In fact, the only skewering of personal lives I see is the life of Heather. (Again, it is impossible to skewer the life of a fictional character.)
In my working life I have met and worked with many kind, fun and interesting people. NONE of the cartoony, ridiculous characters in Chalking it up reflect how I feel about any of them. They are simply characters. To the reviewer who thinks this is a verbatim chronicle of my life.... it's not. My God, if I did all of the things that Heather did, I'd have to be medicated. I like my neighbors and the town I live in. I've never suntanned on a road, or swam during the workday, or left my computer on at work while I sneaked off to California. My manager was not a huge frizzy red haired woman who didn't pay attention to her kids. Rather, in real life, my manager and I shared many stories about our children. But if I am going to write a story about a woman's inability to handle working with people, well, I wouldn't have much of a story if I made them all kind, fun and interesting, would I?
But I shouldn't have to justify or prove myself or any of that. But as far as Red Reeboks "stopping me from writing anything else..." well, thank God, this is America, and I'm not Salmon Rushdie. (By the way, Regan's future story has NOTHING to do with Commerce World.)
Again, I want all of my readers who think they know what this story is about (a few local people in the town of Columbus) to be open minded enough to not attribute the story to "them." And don't presume to judge "malicious" motivations. So...take this story for what it is...and laugh a little.

Self-Indulgence at Others' Expense.......2005-02-03

As an employee of the real-life Commerce World, I find it hard to approach this book with the sensibilities of a casual reader. Stephanie makes no attempt to fictionalize the people, places and events she depicts in her "novel." Names have been changed slightly, but job titles, locations and incidents remain intact. Stephanie savages real people, mocking their physical imperfections and speculating cruelly on their personal lives.

I struggle to understand her motives. She expresses bitterness about her job loss and fury that her employer would consider replacing her. Yet, she chronicles with glee a work history of embezzlement, fraud, trespassing, inappropriate customer treatment and office disruption. It appears to me that the biggest mistake made by Commerce World was not in providing her with a "boring job" and insufficient adult daycare. (Clearly, normal supervision afforded professionals falls woefully short of Stephanie's needs.) On the contrary, Commerce World's worst sin appears to have been committed by tolerating her rampant immaturity and failing to dismiss her for cause without severance.

If instead, I were a casual reader, I would observe that the book's inadequate character development and dear-diary-drone narrative are enough to drive anyone away. However, as I said, I am not. Thus, I urge you to avoid this book, not merely because it fails to entertain, but because I hope we can discourage Stephanie from further work of this kind. Rumor has it that she is attempting a second tome on the same subject matter, from her friend's perspective. I am no lawyer, but I cannot comprehend the purpose of libel law, if it is not to shield innocent people from this kind of abuse.

3 Book Set By Carl Hiaasen; Skinny Dip; Double Whammy; Hoot.

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3 Book Set By Carl Hiaasen; Skinny Dip; Double Whammy; Hoot.
Carl Hiaasen
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ASIN: B000WUIEQK

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3 Book Set By Carl Hiaasen; Skinny Dip; Double Whammy; Hoot.

Playgirl Magazine, issue dated June 1999: TWINS issue; Sunset Beach SKINNY DIP

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Playgirl Magazine, issue dated June 1999: TWINS issue; Sunset Beach SKINNY DIP
Playgirl Magazine Inc.
Manufacturer: Playgirl Magazine Inc.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VU4R76

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Skinny Dip
Carl Hiaasen
Manufacturer: Knopf
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OXCD8A

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Skinny Dip
Carl Hiaasen
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N6QMYE

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Skinny Dip
Carl Hiaasen
Manufacturer: Bantam Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000QRTPFS

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Strange and wonderful story telling.

Skinny Dip
Carl Hiassen
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KEYPKM

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Strange and wonderful story telling........2007-04-27

Hiassen is a genius. I love the odd characters in his books. You honestly don't know what to feel for them - hate, pity, admiration, disgust....you seem to go through any of these emotions at different points in the story for the same character. Skinny Dip was my first Hiassen novel and now I'm hooked. Sick Puppy is my current read and its just awesome.

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Skinny Dip
Carl Hiaassen
Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000SOS6P4

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