Financial Statement Analysis and Business Valuation for the Practical Lawyer, Second Edition

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Written expressly for business lawyers, this best-selling guide takes you step-by-step through the key principles of corporate finance and accounting. This Second Edition will update the title's content and provide additions to reflect post-Enron SEC and FASB rules and new rules regarding merger and acquisition accounting.

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Not Bad.......2000-04-25

May be too detailed for normal attorneys. Good use of real world examples but goes too quickly into higher level discussions. Could use a chapter or two on the fundamentals. Would recommend for beginning finance attorneys or "deal makers".

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Working Together gathers some of the best writing on working with diversity. This anthology honors a multiplicity of viewpoints as part of a larger evolutionary shift in expanding the planet's consciousness. Mikhail Gorbachev describes diversity as a key factor in creating a "new civilization"; anthropologist Riane Eisler proposes a partnership approach between men and women; and Suzie Williams offers diversity-based "recipes for synergy".

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Working Together: Producing Synergy by Honoring Diversity.......2007-02-01

I wish leaders of countries and corporations would read this book.

Creating synergy from different viewpoints.......2001-08-10

What makes a good anthology? This book is an admirable example. Internationally respected cross-cultural anthropologist and award-winning author Angeles Arrien edited this volume to create a text that speaks about diversity in its form and content. As contributors to this work, she brought together practitioners from the realms of diversity work, art, academics, business and world leadership (most notably Mikhail Gorbachev.) Diverse points of view on the subject combined with different writing forms and styles (conceptual, practical, parable and dialogue) create a vision beyond our grasp and how-to applications within our grip.

Ms. Arrien's introduction and the 18 articles expand our awareness for personal growth, interpersonal development and global consciousness. The anthology is not meant to be fully representative of the diversity field but it succeeds admirably in its purpose of creating synergy from different viewpoints and contexts. I was stimulated by the ideas and how the articles, each an entity in itself, opened me to greater understanding of the practicality of and avenues for diversity through synergy. The conviction of the contributors and the stories of how their lives have made a difference were deeply moving. Helpful to me as a practitioner is learning how to live with the paradox that is necessary to discover the opportunity for diversity. This is affirmed over and over by the many role models represented by the articles included in this book.

Giving voice to national and global diversity becomes more important as the voice of the US Federal government speaks more and more for big business and corporate interests. The focused and limited point of view of big business may yield short-term, bottom-line results, but it often creates long-term environmental and societal havoc in its wake. This text breathes vitality into the idea that diversity is not just an ideal to seek. It makes the case for diversity as good for business, as well. The synergy of differences is necessary to release creativity and the myriad beneficial results that multiculturalism and interdependence offer us.

You may notice two different publishers for this book and ask yourself if they are significantly different editions. In 1998, New Leaders Press published the hard cover edition with the subtitle "Producing Synergy by Honoring Diversity." Later, this small but notable publisher went out of business, so the hard cover is out of print. Berrett-Koehler Publishers recognized the contributions in this anthology and republished it in 2001. The original text remains, with the changes being updated biographical statements, a soft cover, and the subtitle "Diversity as Opportunity." I'm pleased the book is being re-released through a larger publisher. This book needs wider distribution because it is necessary now for diversity to be utilized as opportunity. I highly recommend Working Together as a useful resource.

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Working Together - Producing Synergy By Honoring Diversity
Angeles Arrien -
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Cultural Diversity as a Strategic Advantage

This insightful and practical work should be required reading for managers, physicians, nurses, allied health caregivers, and support staff, in order to overcome barriers to communication and change in dealing with an increasingly complex patient and employee base. I highly Andorse this excellent book written by these outstanding authors.

--Donald R. Oxley, vice president and executive director, Kaiser Permanente

As reflected in new cultural competency requirements for health care organizations, sensitivity to and understanding of cultural diversity have become mandatory for health care professionals. However, most health care professionals have little or no training on how to deal with the challenges of cultural diversity. With Managing Diversity in Health Care, you'll learn effective strategies fundamental to creating a culturally diverse health care organization.

This essential handbook provides you with the necessary knowledge and tools to become more responsive to culturally diverse patient and staff populations. The authors show how to build diverse teams, deal with the thorny issues of prejudice and bias, and communicate effectively within a diverse health care setting.

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Turn strategy into immediate action with diversity training made easy. This versatile collection of activities, resources, and training materials is designed to facilitate a successful training program in any kind of health care organization. This unique tool kit reinforces the concepts presented in Gardenswartz and Rowe's Managing Diversity in Health Care and presents practical, ready-to-use tools-including a disk containing computerized forms-ideal for creating customized training agAndas. The Managing Diversity in Health Care Workbook provides a complete program guide for developing and conducting successful sessions in diversity, team development, customer service and satisfaction, conflict resolution, and community relations.

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Valuable resource - a bit frustrating to use.......2000-10-16

There were some valuable activities in this manual. The biggest frustration was that not all of the resources are available on the disk. It only includes the activities but none of the lecture graphics or the sample agendas. I also found that the activities on the disk did not appear exactly as they do in the book. Some of the graphics were missing.

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The Correspondence of John Flamsteed discusses this leading figure in the final phases of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, presents his extensive correspondence with 129 British and foreign scholars all over the world, and touches on many of the scientific discussions of the day. This book, the last volume of the set, contains his letters from number 451 to 1250.

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In this volume, internationally renowned chemists recount their roles in the progress of chemistry research toward elucidation of biological processes. Beginning with a historical perspective on the development of X-ray crystallography, the reader is regaled with first-hand accounts of research milestones. Included are descriptions of the cutting-edge nuclear-magnetic-resonance and electron-paramagnetic-resonance spectroscopic techniques, the dynamics of ultra-fast reactions, and the central problem of molecular oxygen activation in biological processes. The roles of chiral auxiliaries in organic synthesis and of photochemistry in natural product synthesis are told, and innovations in combinatorial synthesis approaches are described. Contemporary issues in molecular recognition and modulation of molecular function are addressed, concluding with a missive regarding how the frontiers of medical ethics may be breached by molecular manipulations. The contributors, who number among the finest scientists in the world, including two Nobel Prize winners, are Peter B. Dervan, Jack D. Dunitz, Christian Griesinger, Jean-Marie Lehn, Thomas F. Prisner, Gerhard Quinkert, Peter G. Schultz, Helmut Schwarz, Dieter Seebach, and Ahmed Zewail. Additionally, there is a prologue by Albert Eschenmoser, for whom this collection was conceived, and an epilogue that contains facsimiles of notes from his landmark lecture 'Synthesis of Co-Enzyme B12: A Vehicle for Teaching Organic Synthesis'. This book is definitely a must for all who want to read, or to read again, where we stand in our chemical comprehension of the fascinating relationship between chemical structure and biological processes, how we got here, and what the future might hold.

Essays in Contemporary Chemistry: From Molecular Structure Towards Biology

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Essays in Contemporary Chemistry: From Molecular Structure Towards Biology
Gerhard Quinkert
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Biological and chemical processes play key roles in the treatment of domestic wastewater, and are becoming increasingly important in tackling the problems caused by industrial wastes. The first edition focused on microbial systems and wastewater processes implemented in a treatment plant. This revised edition incorporates components that cover the fundamental aspects of inorganic and organic chemistry relating to water treatment and pollution. It provides an understanding of the complex biological and chemical issues involved in environmental science and engineering.

Microbiology for Environmental Scientists and Engineers (McGraw-Hill series in water resources and environmental engineering)

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Microbiology for Environmental Scientists and Engineers (McGraw-Hill series in water resources and environmental engineering)
Anthony F. Gaudy
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education
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A good introduction to Kundera's work...

The book of silence and remembering

Solid Kundera, but not his best effort

Good, but Kundera has better

Strange and wonderful

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Binding: Paperback

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In one of the finer modern ironies of the life-imitates-art sort, the country that Kundera seemed to be writing about when he talked about Czechoslovakia is, thanks to the latest political redefinitions, no longer precisely there. This kind of disappearance and reappearance is, partly, what Kundera explores in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In this polymorphous work -- now a novel, now autobiography, now a philosophical treatise -- Kundera discusses life, music, sex, philosophy, literature and politics in ways that are rarely politically correct, never classifiable but always original, entertaining and definitely brilliant.

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Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.

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A good introduction to Kundera's work..........2007-01-29

This is one of Kundera's best works and a good place to start for an introduction to his fiction. I don't use the term "novel" because Kundera hesitates to use it. As he says in the text, this book is made up of little vignettes (with no common characters) which are different "variations" on the themes of laughter and forgetting. Like much of Kundera's work, it deals with the subjugation of the Czech people. When the Russians took over their country, they instituted a program of official "forgetting" - erasing the country's culture and history. The book is a good example of Kundera's philosophical style - with an emphasis on telling, not showing.

The book of silence and remembering.......2006-12-26

This is a very novel novel. If the novel, as an art form, is in essence a piece of work with something wrong with it, then this quirky book takes up all the possibilities inherent in that and weaves a magical piece of fiction out of several, recurring themes, like a musical variation.

Like the Unbearable Lightness of Being, the book tells the story of characters who occupy a curious, almost etheral existence as they grapple with the absurdities and terrors of Communist censorship in Czechoslovakia. Kundera's characters, certainly his male ones, are always highly intelligent and highly philosophical sexual beings. They love, they fret, and they die. There is much to be delighted about in this novel as characters struggle to find a voice in the face of censorship and are weighed down by the burdens of ageing and nostalgia.

Kundera is always souffle light in his style, but the very best literature of this vein (the Continental reflexive style) combines lightness with weight. And I found that many of the stories slipped out of my memory after sparkling and shimmering for the short time they remained in there. This is evidently a book I wil have to reread.

Also, try and pick up the edition with the author interview with Philip Roth at the back. Two great intellectual heavyweights ponder the architecture and themes of the novel, and life. Well worth reading if you can.

Solid Kundera, but not his best effort.......2006-08-14

I would have to agree with another reviewer that I would have perferred more storytelling in this book. The first chapter in which Tamina appears is magnificent--a simple and direct yet remarkably poignant story. Later in the book, however, Kundera lost my interest when his stories disintegrate into purely allegorical fantasy, and he rambles on about himself, Milan Kundera, a bit too much.

Kundera's mix of heavily symbolic story with philosophical musing was highly effective in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being." As for this book, I found much beauty in the first half, but had to force myself through the second half. I recommend "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," or "Immortality" before "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting."

Good, but Kundera has better.......2006-03-30

This is a good book. I would recommend "Identity" and "Ignorance" befor this one, however.

Strange and wonderful.......2005-12-03

The only other book I've read of his is The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which is one of my favorite books, and I've read other Czech authors as well, which I've always enjoyed. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting seems more like a collection of short stories than a novel, though with connecting themes familiar to Kundera's work: Prague in 1968, exile, sex, love, death, art and politics. This book uses much more symbolism than Unbearable Lightness, even venturing in magical realism at times. It is also much more 'intellectual' in the French sense than Unbearable Lightness. A good book, and worth the read, but I prefer more actual storytelling than this book provides.

The Book of Laughter & Forgetting: A Novel

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The Book of Laughter & Forgetting: A Novel
Milan Kundera
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Book of Laughter and Forgetting Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim

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Book of Laughter and Forgetting Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim
Milan Kundera
Manufacturer: ALFRED A. KNOPF
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ASIN: B000OKAZVA

Milan Kundera Das Buch Vom Lachen Und Vom Vergessen (Milan Kundera the book of the laughter and of forgetting)

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Milan Kundera Das Buch Vom Lachen Und Vom Vergessen (Milan Kundera the book of the laughter and of forgetting)
Franz Peter Kunzel
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Heute werden nicht viele solche bucher geschrieben voll von abgrundigem gelachter und gasattigt von gedanklicher erzahlerischer und also moralischer kraft. In zeiten erhohter ansteckunggefahr durch gleichgultigkeit und dummheit erscheint es zur starkung der seelischen abwehrkrafte aller gutwilligen und nachdenklichen vorzuglich geeinet. Mit unterhaltenden mebenwirkungen mub gerechnet werden. Frankfurter allgemeine zeitung Today not many such more bucher written fully of abgrundigem more laughed and gasattigt of mental erzahlerischer and thus moral strength. In times of erhohter infection danger through gleichgultigkeit and stupidity appears it to starkung the mental abwehrkrafte the all good-willing and thoughtful to before-resemble geeinet. On maintaining mebenwirkungen mub to be counted. Frankfurt general newspaper

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THE BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND FORGETTING
Milan Kundera
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJ6SNK

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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan. Kundera
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The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting
Milan Kundera
Manufacturer: Faber And Faber
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
Manufacturer: Penguin USA
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan/ Asher, Aaron (Trn)/ Asher, Aaron Kundera
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan; Asher, Aaron Kundera
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