The Design Selection and Implementation of Accounting Information Systems

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This completely revised, fourth edition of The Design Selection & Implementation of Accounting Information Systems focuses on AIS concepts that make students more marketable in the current accounting environment. Today, more than 90 percent of accounting systems are commercially licensed. This has driven a market demand for accounting graduates who can install, operate, and audit commercial accounting information systems. In contrast to traditional accounting systems texts that emphasize systems development, this text gives students the theoretical foundation and skills to conduct a requirements analysis, search for a commercial solution, and successfully implement the software package selected. The authors combine a strong presentation of essential AIS concepts with numerous examples of leading commercial accounting systems software.

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Strong, impressive resumes that lead to the right job!

Resumes for Re-entering the Job Market helps you write resumes that hit the target every time. It offers essential advice plus nearly 100 sample resumes and 20 cover letters tailored to your needs as you tackle on the job market once again. Includes a variety of resume formats, tips on highlighting strengths and using active vocabulary, and helpful worksheets for gathering personal information.

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Less than worthless.......2006-02-17

I gave this book one star because it does, in fact, contain sample resumes and cover letters. But it contains nothing else! And the examples look like generic resumes to me; certainly nothing geared toward those re-entering the job market.

The book is broken into three parts. The first is a few pages of work sheets where you write in your job history/experience/education.

The second part is devoted to sample resumes.

The last is a collection of cover letters.

But nowhere is there any information as to why these examples were used. This is just a trip through a personnel person's file cabinet, nothing more.

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Different diets work for different people. Otherwise, how could people advocating a Pritikin-type diet of high carbohydrates and low fat claim success when Atkins-diet followers also claim success with high fat and low carbohydrates?

Gittleman is in the more recently minted 40-30-30 camp. That is, she recommends a diet of 40 percent carbohydrates, 30 percent protein, and 30 percent fat for most men. Practically speaking, given the average diet of American men, this means eating a little less fat, a lot fewer carbohydrates, and a lot more protein. Still, she acknowledges that some guys will feel better and control their weight more easily with a different nutrient balance.

Much of the nutritional advice here falls into the haven't-we-heard-this-somewhere-before? category, including advice on eating foods in their least processed state and substituting some saturated fats for unsaturated ones, while altogether avoiding some fats, such as the hydrogenated, heart-clogging trans fats in margarine. Once past these basics, though, Gittleman looks at the major health problems facing men--prostate enlargement, heart disease, weight gain--and offers nutritional advice to combat them. For example, the section on heart health contains an illuminating discussion of cholesterol. She lists lots of factors that cause it to rise, but notes that eating eggs and other cholesterol-rich foods isn't among them--something many men don't realize.

Gittleman uses an eclectic array of sources to make her various points--including literature from the Balance Bar company, which makes nutrition bars with the 40-30-30 formula. Once that bias is accounted for, though (she cites studies that show world-class athletes performed better on the 40-30-30 diet), the information in Super Nutrition for Men will be useful to regular guys. --Lou Schuler

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By following the simple programs outlined in this clear guide, a man can become stronger and healthier than he might have thought possible. Here are innovative programs for protecting the prostate, healing the heart, supercharging sex, controlling hair loss, overcoming addictions, and reducing stress, with recommendations for eating at home and on the go.

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The Fabry-Perot Interferometer: History, Theory, Practice and Applications presents an invaluable introduction to the Fabry-Perot interferometer, including a brief overview of its history, a look at its applications, and plenty of practical advice on how to use the instrument.

Fabry-Perot Interferometers (Cambridge Studies in Modern Optics)

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Fabry-Perot Interferometers (Cambridge Studies in Modern Optics)
G. Hernandez
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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This book describes the Fabry-Perot interferometer and its variants as well as its use, optimisation and applications. The author begins with an historical perspective on the development of the instrument. Because of the quantitative uses of the device, the text tends to be mostly mathematical in its treatment. However, there is also much practical detail on the use and optimization of the Fabry-Perot interferometer and discussion of its classical uses (such as in metrology) and its contemporary applications (such as in lasers). In addition the book contains a comprehensive bibliography summarizing the extensive literature on the subject. This book will appeal both to high-resolution practitioners, such as spectroscopists, and to the laser community, since the Fabrv-Perot is not only an integral part of the laser but is also usea to characterize its optical and spectroscopic behaviour.

Improvement in suppression of pulsed Nd YAG laser light with iodine absorption cells for filtered Rayleigh scattering measurements (SuDoc NAS 1.15:113177)

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Improvement in suppression of pulsed Nd YAG laser light with iodine absorption cells for filtered Rayleigh scattering measurements (SuDoc NAS 1.15:113177)
Richard G. Seasholtz
Manufacturer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lewis Research Center National Technical Information Service, distributor
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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Sub-Hertz relative frequency stabilization of two diode laser pumped Nd:YAG lasers locked to a Fabry-Perot interferometer a final report to NASA for the SUNLITE program (SuDoc NAS 1.26:184957)

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Sub-Hertz relative frequency stabilization of two diode laser pumped Nd:YAG lasers locked to a Fabry-Perot interferometer a final report to NASA for the SUNLITE program (SuDoc NAS 1.26:184957)
R. L. Byer
Manufacturer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Technical Information Service, distributor
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Tunable UV filters contract report, contract NASW-5007, period of performance: 1 January, 1996 through 31 October 1996 (SuDoc NAS 1.26:202563)

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Tunable UV filters contract report, contract NASW-5007, period of performance: 1 January, 1996 through 31 October 1996 (SuDoc NAS 1.26:202563)
Marilyn E. Bruner
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Time-frequency analysis of multiple fringe and nonsinusoidal signals obtained from a fiber-optic vibration sensor using an extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer.(RESEARCH): ... from: Fiber Optic Sensors and Systems

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Time-frequency analysis of multiple fringe and nonsinusoidal signals obtained from a fiber-optic vibration sensor using an extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer.(RESEARCH): ... from: Fiber Optic Sensors and Systems
Gale Reference Team
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Fiber Optic Sensors and Systems, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2006. The length of the article is 629 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: Time-frequency analysis of multiple fringe and nonsinusoidal signals obtained from a fiber-optic vibration sensor using an extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer.(RESEARCH)
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Analytical description of a Fabry-Perot photoelectric spectrometer (AFCRL)

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Analytical description of a Fabry-Perot photoelectric spectrometer (AFCRL)
G Hernandez
Manufacturer: United States Air Force, Office of Aerospace Research, Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Upper atmosphere Physics Laboratory
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A computer-controlled triple-Fabry-Perot universal filter for solar research (LEST Foundation technical report)

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A computer-controlled triple-Fabry-Perot universal filter for solar research (LEST Foundation technical report)
Robert J Bray
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"Development of an ultrasonic and Fabry-Perot interferometer for non-destruction inspection of aging aircraft" final report for NASA Dryden Flight Research ... grant # NAG4-0012 (SuDoc NAS 1.26:207462)

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"Development of an ultrasonic and Fabry-Perot interferometer for non-destruction inspection of aging aircraft" final report for NASA Dryden Flight Research ... grant # NAG4-0012 (SuDoc NAS 1.26:207462)
Alphonso C. Smith
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From the analytical to industrial preparative scale, this work provides a praxis-oriented overview of packed column supercritical fluid chromatography. It discusses and evaluates established applications and techniques, up-to-date and promising developments, and commercial instrumentation devices for use in industry. The book also reveals possibilities for problem solving and future innovations.

Supercritical Fluid Chromatography with Packed Columns (Chromatographic Science)

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Supercritical Fluid Chromatography with Packed Columns (Chromatographic Science)
Klaus Anton
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More classics for environmental scientists from Wiley-Interscience… Trace Atmospheric Constituents Properties, Transformations, and Fates Edited by Stephen E. Schwartz Providing the only comprehensive coverage available of the chemical and physical processes involved in the formation of acid rain, this book details the transformation and deposition of atmospheric pollutants. Treats relevant laboratory and theoretical chemistry, field studies, and computer modeling methods, and includes coverage of the aqueous-phase chemistry of nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide, an analysis of soot and the analytical chemistry and health effects of inorganic and organic sulfur compounds present in ambient and industrial aerosols, and more. 1983 (0 471-87640-2) 547 pp. Systems Ecology An Introduction Howard Thomas Odum An integrated theoretical and applied introduction to systems ecology that uses energy diagrammatic language to explain basic concepts of systems, modelling, and simulation. Teaches energetics while at the same time dealing with the issues of organization, entropy, information, complexity, diversity, frequency, and power and the ways these determine the nature of real systems. Includes analog and digital computer modelling, enabling readers without prior programming experience to create computer models of ecological processes. 1983 (0 471-65277-6) 644 pp.

Air Pollutants and Their Effects on the Terrestrial Ecosystem

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Air Pollutants and Their Effects on the Terrestrial Ecosystem
Sagar V. Krupa
Manufacturer: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
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Binding: Hardcover
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This four-volume work represents the most comprehensive documentation and study of the creation of general relativity; one of the fundamental physical theories of the 20th century. It comprises key sources from Einstein and others who from the late 19th to the early 20th century contributed to this monumental development. Some of these sources are presented here in translation for the first time. Einstein’s famous Zurich notebook, which documents the pivotal steps toward general relativity, is reproduced here for the first time and transcribed in its entirety. The volumes offer detailed commentaries and analyses of these sources that are based on a close reading of these documents supplemented by interpretations by the leading historians of relativity. All in all, the facets of this work, based on more than a decade of research, combine to constitute one of the most in-depth studies of a scientific revolution ever written.

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Good Psychological Fiction

I just don't get ...

Author should check a calendar before writing!

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The Doctor's Daughter: A novel by the bestselling author of Hearts
Hilma Wolitzer
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Release Date: 2007-03-27

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In her first work of fiction in more than a decade, award-winning novelist Hilma Wolitzer brilliantly renders the intimate details of ordinary life and exposes a host of hidden truths. The Doctor’s Daughter is a haunting portrait of a woman coming to terms with her family history and the fallibility of memory.

One morning, Alice Brill awakes with a sudden awareness that something is wrong. There’s a hollowness in her chest, and a sensation of dread that she can’t identify or shake. Was it something she’s done, or forgotten to do? As she scours her mind for the source of her unease, she confronts an array of disturbing possibilities.

First, there is her marriage, a once vibrant relationship that now languishes stasis. Then there’s her idle, misdirected younger son, who always needs bailing out of some difficulty. Or perhaps Alice’s trepidation is caused by the loss of her career as an editor at a large publishing house, and the new path she’s paved for herself as a freelance book doctor. Or it might be the real doctor in her life: her father. Formerly one of New York’s top surgeons, he now rests in a nursing home, his mind gripped by dementia. And the Eden that was Alice’s childhood–the material benefits and reflected glory of being a successful doctor’s daughter, the romance of her parents’ famously perfect marriage–makes her own domestic life seem fatally flawed.

While struggling to find the root of her restlessness, Alice is buoyed by her discovery of a talented new writer, a man who works by day as a machinist in Michigan. Soon their interactions and feelings intensify, and Alice realizes that the mystery she’s been trying to solve lies not in the present, as she had assumed, but in the past–and in the secrets of a marriage that was never as perfect as it appeared.

Like the best works of Anne Tyler, Sue Miller, and Gail Godwin, The Doctor’s Daughter is private yet universal, luminous and revelatory–and marks the reemergence of a singular talent in American writing.

From the Hardcover edition.

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worth the wait.......2007-06-07

Ms. Wolitzer has written a very good book about a woman who is trying to figure out which part of her life to heal first--her father's ailment, her marriage, her neglected spirit, her child's behavior issues. As we get to know her, we get to see ourselves and our own family's dynamics being laid before us.

Good Psychological Fiction.......2007-05-01

"The Doctor's Daughter" by Hilma Wolitzer is an intelligently written mystery of self-discovery. Ultimately, it is about a woman coming to terms with the person she has become.

In the beginning of the story, the protagonist, Alice Brill, has a strange, malignant feeling in her chest. The book takes us on a quest to find out what ails her. Is it breast cancer? Is it a failing in her marriage--a failing in her career? Why did her mother's literary career suddenly stop when she was a child? What seems to be dying inside her: Is it her body or her soul?

Both Alice and her husband are highly educated literary scholars who married with a lovely dream of supporting each other's successful literary career. But after more than two decades of marriage, Alice only sees herself as "a failed Scheherazade who couldn't keep anybody alive with her stories." Instead of creating literature, she earns her living as an editor, a book doctor. She buries her dream of creating her own works of fiction, instead she doctors others' works. Her husband also must bury his literary ambitions after the financial realities of their first child's birth make him take a position in his family's printing business.

The novel takes us on a journey of recollections through Alice's life. Along the way, we get to know her mother, the successful published poet who suddenly stops publishing. Why? We get to know her father, the brilliant, autocratic, narcissistic surgeon. All her life, Alice has a lived in the cocoon fiction of her parent's marital bliss. But is that true? She sees possibilities that all may not have been right with their marriage. Her father is now in a nursing home in the later stage of Alzheimer's, so he is little help in leading her toward the answers to her questions. There seems to be something important that happened back when she was a child that is somehow at the root of the blindingly white, bad feelings that keep reccurring. Along the path toward Alice's destiny with self-discovery, are subplots of therapy, lust, friendship, and marital infidelity.

"The Doctor's Daughter" is good, intelligent, psychological fiction. I look forward to reading more by Hilma Wolitzer. In my estimation, this author can rest assured that she is not, like her protagonist, "a failed Scheherazade."

I just don't get ..........2007-03-24

what happened with the mammogram? Must have had some meaning that went over my head - seemed like it had some importance but is never mentioned again after she misses her appointment. I enjoyed the book otherwise, although I agree with a previous reviewer that the timeline seems off.

Author should check a calendar before writing!.......2006-08-10

This book was just "all right" in my opinion. I had a nagging feeling in my chest, much like the main character, but for other reasons! The timeline did not make sense.

The character mentions finding an envelope postmarked November 18, 1963--her 10th birthday, meaning she was born in November 1953. Speed forward to the present where she is 51 years old and it's June. This would put us in June 2005. She mentions going to her mammography on Friday June 13th. This doesn't make sense to me because in 2005, June 13th was a Sunday!

It might be stupid to let this bother me, but I like novels to feel real. And this just left me unsettled, like the author didn't do her job to check dates.

Otherwise, this was an okay read.

Insulting to the reader.......2006-06-14

I must admit that I finished only 2/3 of this book, I just could not bear anymore, even as entertainment. It was that bad. But, from what I read, I advise that the plot is pointless and unrealistically laid down. The characters, especially the main character and her love interest, are very poorly developed. What is developed of the main character is unlikeable. The book has the tone of someone who is talking (i.e. writing), not because she has something to say (she doesn't), but because she likes the sound of her own voice. Wolitzer does know how to string words together well, but there is nothing upon which to hang those words, which is insulting to the reader.
I knew before I read the book jacket that Wolitzer much teach creative writing. It is obvious from the content of the book that she considers herself a literary giant and thinks that impressive. She should stick with that, her "novel" is beyond disappointing. I'm sorry but the comparison to Wolitzer to Anne Tyler is laughable.

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Taking an idiom literally
best novel of a great author
warm, satisfying porridge
Addicted to Trollope
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Doctor Thorne (Oxford World's Classics)
Anthony Trollope
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Doctor Thorne (1858) is the third novel in the "Barsetshire" series. Doctor Thorne adopts his niece Mary, keeping secret her illegitimate birth as he introduces her to the best local social circles. There she meets and falls in love with Frank Gresham, heir to a vastly mortgaged estate; yet Frank is obliged to find a wealthy wife, jeopardizing Mary's happiness until fate extends an obliging hand. Where fiery passion fails, understated English virtues of patience, persistence and good humor could yet prevail in this most appealing of Trollope's (1815-82) comedies.

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Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.

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Taking an idiom literally.......2007-06-06

When we ask someone if they are engaged, we are asking if they have made with their partner an explicit and reciprocal promise to enter marriage. When Mary Thorne is asked the question, she takes it literally and means something wholly different.

Mary Thorne is the niece and adopted daughter of the eponymous main character of the novel, Doctor Thorne. (If you'll permit an aside before proceeding, Trollope begins the novel by addressing the question of who is in fact the main character of his novel. He doesn't answer this question, rather he leaves the final verdict up to the reader.) Though a member of an ancient Barsetshire family, Doctor Thorne's material fortunes have fallen and he cannot hope to arrange a marriage of wealth for his niece. However, this hardly matters since the doctor wishes his niece happiness, not wealth, and when prospects of wealth do come her way, he is rather perplexed as to what he should do.

Another important character, young Mr. Frank Gresham, is in a similar situation, though in his case his fortunes are falling rather than already fallen. As Doctor Thorne does for his niece, Frank cares for his happiness rather than his wealth. Alas, Frank's family has decided he must marry money. He objects and declares his love for Ms. Mary Thorne. She reciprocates Frank's feelings for her but in the face of his family's opposition, and their accusations of impropriety on her part, she cannot accept his proposal.

And yet Mary declares herself engaged even when she's renounced her beloved. Her heart is engaged to his and she cannot move it. He may do as he pleases, he may follow the wishes of his family and marry another. It doesn't matter, her heart will be nonetheless engaged to his with no prospect of turning to another.

It is this precise use of words and this detailed development of a plot turning on the quite literal nuances of an idiom which make Anthony Trollope's books a joy to read. This chapter of Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire, his "Comédie Humaine", is as satisfying as the previous two, and I warmly recommend it.

Vincent Poirier, Dublin

best novel of a great author.......2007-01-06

OK, I'm a Trollope fan, and I sometimes wonder why these novels about social interactions 150 years ago interest me so much when I know I would have suffocated in such a rigid society.

First of all, Trollope describes human behaviour in a way I can understand better than any other novelist. I suffer from mild asperger syndrome, and am often baffled by peoples' behaviour in real life. I think I get some relief from this frustration by watching Trollope's characters while the author makes their motives clear and enables me to feel real compassion for them.

His novels reflect his belief that English gentlemen had found something close to the ideal system of values, and they explore the effects of someone violating those values, or of difficulties arising as they try to fit special circumstances into them.

In some of his other novels, he has been accused of antisemitism, and by modern standards there is some truth to this. I do not believe it was his intention to attack Jews, but in his efforts to plausibly create characters who did not behave like English gentlemen, he used the examples he saw of people who were raised in different cultures, but were to be found in London society. This issue does not arise in Dr. Thorne, partly because it is set in the country.

Dr. Thorne contains one scene that (to me) perfectly exemplifies his virtues. Dr. Thorne asks the heroine if she would like to be rich. She mentions a trivial luxury she would buy if she were. He offers to buy it for her. I will not spoil your enjoyment of her reply, but it moved me deeply.

I'm sure Trollope had no idea that this novel also illustrates why Britain later lost her world empire. It was written in 1858, twelve years before the Franco-Prussian war demonstrated that Germany was the rising power that must challenge England, thanks to the Prussian education system's emphasis on technical skills, but after Prussia had achieved a higher rate of economic growth than England.

A very successful railway engineer-businessman (a Bill Gates?) is drinking himself to death, and Dr. Thorne asks why.

'Oh my God! Have you not unbounded wealth? Can you not do anything you wish? anything you choose?'

'No' and the sick man shrieked with an energy that made him audible all throughout the house. 'I can do nothing that I would choose to do; be nothing that I would wish to be! What can I do? What can I be? What gratification can I have except the brandy bottle? If I go among gentlemen, can I talk to them? If they have anything to say about a railway, they will ask me a question: if they speak to me beyond that I must be dumb.'

It is not clear to me that Trollope recognized that this describes a limitation in the English gentlemen, let alone that this limitation would ultimately doom the empire. The US is definitely treating Bill Gates better than this.

warm, satisfying porridge.......2006-08-09

I'm reading about Barsetshire in the order intended. Doctor Thorne (third in the series) left me satisfied, and I can recommend it. It contains fewer of the engaging, and for me novel, nuances of 19th century Church of England politics. Instead it is a rustic tale, somewhat contrived, compensated by a set of plausible characters who held my interest. Ever since the author in the earlier "The Warden" effectively punctured my elevated opinion of C. Dickens, I've been contrasting the two contemporaries. Yes, Dickens remains one of my favorites. But, his caricatures are more exagerated than Trollope's; I can easily envision both the characters and dialogue as of the type that actually would occur, having known analogs in the rural area in which I was raised. No, it's not Great Expectations; but Doctor Thorne is good, and probably a better picture of 19th century England.

Addicted to Trollope.......2006-06-23

DOCTOR THORNE is the third installment of Anthony Trollope's Barchester Cycle, preceded by THE WARDEN (ISBN#0140432140) and BARCHESTER TOWERS (ISBN#0192834320). You don't have to read the first two installments in the cycle to enjoy DOCTOR THORNE, though they are highly recommended, and will give a good background as to the goings-on in Barchester at the time that the tale commences.

Dr Thorne is the oldest son of a respected prebendary (some position in the Church of England), and elder brother to Henry Thorne, a notorious drunk and cad. The Thorne family can trace its noble roots to times before the Norman invasion of England, and they are very proud of it. (If you have read BARCHESTER TOWERS, you may recall Dr and Miss Thorne of Ullathorne - cousins of this Dr Thorne.) Though he is not heir to the estate of Ullathorne, Dr Thorne is still highly respected in Barchester as a doctor, and welcomed at his ancestral home.

But then trouble. Henry Thorne has seduced, drugged, and impregnated a young seamstress, Mary Scatcherd. Her brother Roger, also a notorious toper, is furious, and kills his sister's seducer. Though Miss Scatchered has not been disgraced by the affair, she too must leave town, should she have any hope of a normal, happy life. Her fiance begs her to leave the child behind in England and emigrate to America to start over. Dr Thorne arranges for legal representation for his brother's murderer, sees that Roger gets a short prison term, and takes it upon himself to raise his brother's daughter. Dr Thorne leaves Barchester for Greshamsbury to start anew, after disowning his family at Ullathorne, and establishes himself with the Greshams of Greshamsbury, the wealthiest 'commoners' in the county. Or they used to be.

Over the years, Frank Gresham, Sr. has mortgaged the estate to the hilt. He has been horrible at managing his funds, and with ten children and a wife who insists on spending as though they had all they wanted, he is broke. Worse for him htough, is that his only son, Frank, Jr., has come of age and is ready to find a wife.

His mother and countess-aunt have agreed: if the estate is to be spared, Frank must marry a rich woman. They scheme and contrive to marry off the young heir, but to no use. Frank, ignorant as everyone else is of the story of her birth, is in love with Dr Thorne's niece: poor, illegitimate Mary Thorne. And then the novel begins.

Trollope has created another masterpiece here: never have I endured so much suspense reading a what amounts to a romance novel (though, their is plenty of politics and legal scandal for those who enjoy that too.) There are perfectly orchestrated twists, cliffhanging moments that will have you on the edge of your seat, and plenty of dramatic irony. Of course, it all turns out alright in the end - it always does, but you won't believe it until the last page.

They really need to put a warning label on Anthony Trollope's novels that reads 'Careful: Addictive, may cause sleepless nights becuase you can't put it down.' Great novel, extremely entertaining, and highly recommended.

Unfortunate.......2005-08-29

I am so sorry that I bought this book. It is unfortunate that you do not have a Penguin or Everyman's Library edition. First of all the book is too large to read in bed. Secondly, whoever did the proofreading should be fired. There are so many typographical errors that it really upsets and disturbs the reading. If the postage were not so expensive from Israel, I would return the book to Amazon.

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Doctor Middleton's Daughter V1: A Novel
W. Thomson-Gregg
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0548361290

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In Three Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

Doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme (The Faust Gambit Part 2)

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Doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme (The Faust Gambit Part 2)
Vishanti) Roy Thomas(Faust , Dann Thomas(Faust) , and R J M Lofficier (Vishanti)
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
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Binding: Comic

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Doctor's Daughters
Frank Gill Slaughter
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Binding: Hardcover

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The doctor's difficult daughter (Harlequin romance)

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The doctor's difficult daughter (Harlequin romance)
Jan Haye
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Doctor Warrick's daughters;: A novel, (Wright American Fiction)

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Doctor Warrick's daughters;: A novel, (Wright American Fiction)
Rebecca Harding Davis
Manufacturer: Harper
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ASIN: B00087G50Y

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