The International Dictionary of Accounting Acronyms

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· Essential for busy executives in accounting and financial issues
· Almost 2,000 cross-referenced acronyms
The International Dictionary of Accounting Acronyms is a must for busy executives and professionals involved in a wide range of accounting and financial issues. This comprehensive reference will quickly help to define confusing acronyms casually used by the media and other professionals.

GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), FMT (Fair Market Rent), SEIA (Solar Energies Industries Association) and many more acronyms will no longer by mysteries.
The International Dictionary of Accounting Acronyms contains almost 2,000 acronyms and is completely cross-referenced for ease of use. Examples and graphic illustrations are used throughout to clarify definitions, and a special feature is an appendix of sources of additional information.

Dictionary of International Accounting Acronyms (International Dictionary)

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Dictionary of International Accounting Acronyms (International Dictionary)
Thomas W. Morris
Manufacturer: Financial World Publishing
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The International Dictionary of Accounting Acronyms

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The International Dictionary of Accounting Acronyms
Morris Thomas W.
Manufacturer: Glenlake , AMACOM
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A Guide For Managers Of Team-Based Organizations

One of few books to address the management issues of team-based companies, this work shows how to build an organizational infrastructure conducive to superior team performance. The work dispenses with the usual one-model-fits-all approach to identify six distinct types of teams?production, service, management, project, action, and advisory?and explain in detail how to design, implement, and manage the unique systems, policies, and practices that support each. The contributors?all leading consultants and researchers?draw from important case studies to present the best management practices of team-based organizations. Covers every nuance from management structuring to team staffing to information systems. Even shows how to create a physical facility that's right for teams.

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Required Reading.......2000-05-03

This book was required for my teams class but I found it to be quite informative. Some textbooks are difficult to read but this one proved to be different.

As a student, my review comes with apprehension since reading the book was required to succeed in the coursework. But, since I have it, it also serves as a good referernce for me.

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Very informative!

Good book to turn to for vaccine advice!

Finally, a balanced approach!

Not all that balanced

A Naturopathic Doctor's opinion

Vaccinations: A Thoughtful Parent's Guide: How to Make Safe, Sensible Decisions about the Risks, Benefits, and Alternatives
Aviva Jill Romm
Manufacturer: Healing Arts Press
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RAISING A VACCINE FREE CHILD

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ASIN: 0892819316
Release Date: 2001-09-01

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• A balanced, comprehensive guide to routine childhood vaccinations that offers parents the information they need to make the right choices for their child.

• Fairly examines the pros and cons of this highly charged issue.

Deciding whether or when to vaccinate a child is one of the most important--and most difficult--health-care decisions a parent will ever make. The recent increase in the number of vaccinations recommended and the concurrent controversies about whether vaccinations are safe or even effective have left many parents confused and concerned.

Midwife, herbalist, and mother of four, Aviva Jill Romm sifts through the spate of current research on vaccine safety and efficacy and offers a sensible, balanced discussion of the pros and cons of each routine childhood vaccination. She presents the full spectrum of options available to parents: full vaccination on a standardized or individualized schedule, selective vaccination, or no vaccinations at all. Negotiating daycare and school requirements, dealing with other parents, and traveling with an unvaccinated child are covered in detail. The book also suggests ways to strengthen children's immune systems and maintain optimal health and offers herbal and homeopathic remedies for childhood ailments. Emphasizing that no single approach is appropriate for every child, the author guides parents as they make the choices that are right for their child.

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Very informative!.......2007-09-05

I highly recommend this book to all new & potential parents. It is highly informative without swaying too much to either side of "to vaccinate or not". It gives the facts of each side and leaves the decision up to the parents.

Good book to turn to for vaccine advice!.......2007-06-07

This book offered balanced pros and cons on vaccines, which is great when everything from doctors' offices is solely pro vaccine. I have read several books on vaccines is this was the most helpful.

Author: Now that the HiB vaccine has been around a little longer, can we have a Part II with more information on that?

Finally, a balanced approach!.......2007-05-16

Finally we have an excellent book that gives the pros and cons of vaccination for parents and medical professions to consider. Too many books are biased either for or against. This author gives you ALL the facts from both perspectives, and lets the parent decide.

As an adult with hearing loss courtesy of a vax, I'm already anti-vax, but it's great to have this educational material on hand to educate doctors, teachers, and interfering family members.

Not all that balanced.......2007-01-09

This book has some great information but isn't written in layman's terms. Therfore, portions of it can be difficult to understand for someone who isn't overly familiar with medicine. Also, the author definitely approaches the subject from the position that parents should not vaccinate, and I was hoping for a more balanced approach. I would recommend What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children's Vaccinations instead, which was written by a family practice doctor who began noticing adverse reactions following vaccinations. What Your Doctor... is much easier to understand and is written from a more neutral perspective.

A Naturopathic Doctor's opinion.......2006-12-14

This book is well-written and well-researched. It presents a fair and balanced vies and provides much-needed information which is not regularly provided by medical doctors.

The Immunization Decision: A Guide for Parents (The Family health series)

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An easy to comprehend overview.
Very useful and striaghtforward book!!
A very (_VERY_) rare objective look at this issue

The Immunization Decision: A Guide for Parents (The Family health series)
Randall Neustaedter
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An easy to comprehend overview........2002-11-11

This book was a great overview of why you should/should not vaccinate your children. I read the book in one day. I am waiting on another book that is newer for more up-to-date information, but I highly reccomend this easy to understand book.

Very useful and striaghtforward book!!.......1999-02-14

This was book was so incredibly useful in the decision to vaccinate or not. I had read many books before which were either vehemently against or vigorously for vaccinations. I was at my wits end trying to find a source which presented the information in an unbiased format- this book does exactly that. The author has no agenda, other than wanting people to make informed decisions, and he presents the information fairly. There are no scary stories to play on your emotions, which many other books do present quite often. As a parent this book was indispenible and I wish every parent could have it in their home library!! You won't regret purchasing and reading this book!!

A very (_VERY_) rare objective look at this issue.......1998-07-21

My wife and I figuratively nearly came to blows over the decision to immunize our children. It came down to the point where we _had_ to find an objective way to make a decision. So, as is our practice, we start reading books.

Only to find that every book written on this subject, on either side of the issue, is extremely inflammatory, biased, and inaccurate. I am not talking about a small sample of books -- the two of us read nearly a dozen books and several dozen articles. And our reading was doing more harm than good.

Until we found this book. This book finally gave us the objective information we were looking for, and we were able to make our decision.

The book is layed out with an introduction to general concepts, then a chapter per disease. Each chapter provides: 1) A description of the disease, with the range of effects observed from that disease, and the historical trend in the severity of outcomes from that disease. 2) A description of the efficacy ! of the vaccine (i.e. what is its effect on the number or severity of cases of the disease.) 3) A description of the range of other known effects of the vaccine, and the severity of those effects.

That is the essential material needed to make a decision about immunization, which is above all else a process of weighing one set of risks against another set of risks.

For those who wish to treat immunization as a decision, this book will help you do so.

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Astrobiology, a new exciting interdisciplinary research field, seeks to unravel the origin and evolution of life wherever it might exist in the Universe. The current view of the origin of life on Earth is that it is strongly connected to the origin and evolution of our planet and, indeed, of the Universe as a whole. We are fortunate to be living in an era where centuries of speculation about the two ancient and fundamental problems: the origin of life and its prevalence in the Universe are being replaced by experimental science. The subject of Astrobiology can be approached from many different perspectives. This book is focused on abiogenic organic matter from the viewpoint of astronomy and planetary science and considers its potential relevance to the origins of life on Earth and elsewhere. Guided by the review papers in this book, the concluding chapter aims to identify key questions to motivate future research and stimulate astrobiological applications of current and future research facilities and space missions. Today’s rich array of new spacecraft, telescopes and dedicated scientists promises a steady flow of discoveries and insights that will ultimately lead us to the answers we seek.

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Devastating Critique of Creationism.......1997-04-04

End of story! Definitive arguments against Creationism by scientists, Christian theologians, and lawmakers. If every living Creationist read this book with an open mind, that would be the end of Creationism. Unfortunately, because of their psychological need for absolute answers, these people are constitutionally unable to read anything objectively that contradicts their so-called "literal" interpretation of the Bible, so the rational among us will be stuck with them until they all die out, which would be Darwinian evolution at its merciful best

Did the Devil make Darwin do it?: Modern perspectives on the creation-evolution controversy

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One morning I awoke and the sheep was gone

wild sheep chase for the identity of postmodern Japan

Classic Murakami, But Way Too Long

Another madcap inquiry into the mystery of existence...and sheep.

A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel
Haruki Murakami
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A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami’s international reputation.

It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company’s advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the demons deep within himself. Quirky and utterly captivating, A Wild Sheep Chase is Murakami at his astounding best.

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Excellent book. .......2007-07-31

I think Murakami is an excellent author. He has proven to contain more imagination in a single paragraph than other authors have in an entire novel.
If you haven't read any books by him, I recommend starting with this one.

PROS 1) Brilliant imagination. 2) genuinely intriguing and intelligent. 3) completely unique 4) mysterious in a very strange way 5) absurd humor 6) very strange

CONS 1) This book is a translation. I don't know about you, but I don't like translations. Yes, it's true, you lose something in translation. I find the prose in his book to be stale and uninteresting. This particular book isn't his worst translated novel, but it's still below my satisfactory level. You read Murakami for his imagination, not for his wirting style. 2) It's got a hard-boiled first-person narrative style. This could be a pro or it could be a con. For myself, I believe it is a con. In fact, if you absolutely despise the idea of a hard-boiled narrative you probably won't enjoy Murakami very much. 3) It's a bit too long. One downfall of Murakami, in my opinion, is that his novels are overwritten. I don't need every little mundane detail when I read a book. You decide whether that is a pro or a con yourself.

I recommend this book to anyone interested in magic-realism, bizarro fiction, subversive writing, and offbeat speculative fiction.

One morning I awoke and the sheep was gone.......2007-07-23

This is not the first time I'm reading this book but the first time I'm reading it after reading Dance Dance Dance which its sequel is.
I enjoyed it much better this time, finish reading after intensive 4 hours.

A Lonely 29 old guy meet lonely weird girl with ultra power ears. They enjoy chain-smoking and casual sex. A photograph of the wild sheep has appeared accidentally in a newsletter the guy had published. He is asked by a business man with plan face to go out on a quest to find the sheep. This is a mystery story with a long chase. On the way we meet interesting characters. One is called the Sheep Professor, another Rat, a rather nice fellow despite his name.
The story is both realistic and fantastic. It is humorous and surreal, and at the same time reflects loneliness, and longing for love.

I'm reading Murakami's books on the wrong order... if you think of reading this, you might consider reading 'Pinball, 1973' and Hear the Wind Sing first. 'The Wild Sheep Chase' is the sequel to Pinball, and is the third book in Murakami's "Trilogy of the Rat". Both 'Pinball' and 'Hear the Wind Sing' are out of print in the US and are available online for free.

wild sheep chase for the identity of postmodern Japan.......2007-07-07

The first book I read by Murakami,(South of the Border, West of the Sun) I hated. The second, (Kafka on the Shore) I had mixed feelings about. The third, I loved -- this was the third. A Wild Sheep chase is in my opinion a great place to start if one has never read Murakami before. It is easily accessible, intriguing, and interesting, while still being thought-provoking. The fact is, you can read this book on vacation for fun and you can also spend half a year exploring all of the allegorical possibilities.

The general academic consensus is that this book explores the search for the identity of Japan in a postmodern world. There are several different interpretations, however -- see Dances With Sheep: The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki (Stretcher)

It's important to note that this book is the third book of Murakami's Trilogy of the Rat (although the first two are out of print because Murakami considers the fledgling novels weak) and there is also something of a sequel (Dance, Dance, Dance -- also recommended but very different).

Classic Murakami, But Way Too Long.......2007-05-04

I'm going to make this brief in honor of how much shorter the book should have been. I love Murakami and did enjoy this book, but frankly, the whole thing seemed like a short story that ballooned into a novel. I can't help but think Murakami was sitting around one day, came up with a great idea, then decided to write about it only to find that he had written a novel-length piece that he had originally intended to be 40 or 50 pages. The story centers on a guy who gets a postcard from a friend of some sheep that he puts in an ad. Unfortunately, this starts a series of bizarre events that lead to a stunning conclusion (I would say more, but you really have to read it to get a sense of how hard it is to capture the small details Murakami includes in this story). I think what may have eventually turned me off to this book is the ending and Murakami's desire to explain everything to us, something that is not present in his later books. But everything he writes is enjoyable, so this is a chance to see a writer growing and improving his craft over time.

Another madcap inquiry into the mystery of existence...and sheep........2007-04-14

Murakami is an acquired taste, but fortunately he's very easily acquired. His novels are typically a mixed bag of comic absurdity, pathos, suspense, and philosophical speculation but written in a straight-ahead, colloquial style. *A Wild Sheep Chase* is no exception. Here a struggling adman ends up recruited by a mysterious client in black to find a sheep that has appeared in an insurance company advertisement our hero's firm has designed. The sheep in this ad is special...it takes over people's consciousness.

That's the least of what you need to know to understand what kind of novel *A Wild Sheep Chase* is. And yet for all its imaginative "wildness," the novel has a traditional, hardboiled-style first-person narrative that easily draws you into the story. In fact, I'd say that three-quarters of the pleasure of this novel comes from spending time with the likeable, hard-luck narrator. Witty but not a wisecracker, laid-back but no Joe Cool, fatalistic but not cynical, he's a guy who is thoroughly convinced of his mediocrity and okay with it. He's got the kind of applied equanimity to life's vicissitudes that you wish you had, taking things as they come, taking things as they go. He knows life is heading for loss and sadness, but he's not whining about it. If he's not the kind of guy you could ever be, than he's the kind of guy you wish you had for a friend--and that makes spending 350+ pages in his company a pleasurable experience. And that's a good thing because if I had one criticism about *A Wild Sheep Chase* it's that it's about 70 pages too long. In the last third of the novel, there's a lot of description of the narrator sitting around waiting for the climax to occur when it could have occurred pages and pages beforehand. Well, as I said, he's pleasant enough company so it wasn't intolerable. Still...I got a little tired of hearing what he cooked for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, how long he slept, what things he saw upon looking out the window.

And, as for the climax...well, don't expect the usual resolution in a Murakami novel. The original mystery--or what seemed to be the original mystery at the start--has a way of shifting around to become something else entirely. It's the kind of mystery where the search becomes even more important than the answer and the answer is often left open to a good deal of reader interpretation. In this instance, however, things seem even more obscure than usual and I found the resolution of the novel unnecessarily muddied. In a novel that depends a lot on chance, coincidence, and the arbitrary, the pay-off struck me as a little too much dependent on all of these. Perhaps something was lost in the translation from the Japanese, but I found the ending of *A Wild Sheep Chase* rather unsatisfying.

These caveats aside, Murakami is more than just a mystery writer. With his reality-bending plots, ambiguity, and philosophical questioning, he is a genuinely thought-provoking literary artist and a *A Wild Sheep Chase* is an ultimately intriguing, rewarding, and, perhaps most of all, fun read.

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