Intermediate Accounting: An Income Approach

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Human Relations: Strategies for Success covers both new and time-tested theories of human relations, and shows the relationship between human relations skills and career success in one-on-one situations, groups, and organizations. Self-esteem, self-awareness, attitude, motivation, and values are covered as the text explores the personal side of human relations and how it relates to management theory. Human Relations: Strategies for Success stresses the human relations skills and management principles essential to functioning successfully in a global business environment.

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Excellent textbook .......2007-01-11

I used this text in my honors sociology course last semester at Princeton. It was absolutely riveting. I found it to be, not only interesting, but very informative. The more I delved into this book, the more I learned about the behavior of my peers. More importantly, I learned about myself. I would definitely recommend this book for college curriculum, or even for personal reading. A must read.

not worth the money.......2005-11-17

I took this class as part of my undergrad work for a business administration degree and was greatly disappointed. It is written for a high school level course not a college level course. Two thumbs down.

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The study of complex physiological and metabolic aspects of human health can be powerfully enhanced by the use of user-friendly simulation software. This book and CD-ROM integrate the use of STELLA software into the teaching of health, nutrition and physiology, and can be used on their own in nutrition and physiology courses, or can serve as a supplement to introduce the role that simulation modeling can play. Dynamic Modeling in the Health Sciences presents key subjects ranging from the theory of metabolic control to weight regulation to bone metabolism, and gives readers the tools to simulate these dynamic processes with STELLAÊ

Nonlinear Biomedical Signal Processing, Dynamic Analysis and Modeling (IEEE Press Series on Biomedical Engineering)

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Nonlinear Biomedical Signal Processing, Dynamic Analysis and Modeling (IEEE Press Series on Biomedical Engineering)

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Featuring current contributions by experts in signal processing and biomedical engineering, this book introduces the concepts, recent advances, and implementations of nonlinear dynamic analysis methods. Together with Volume I in this series, this book provides comprehensive coverage of nonlinear signal and image processing techniques. Nonlinear Biomedical Signal Processing: Volume II combines analytical and biological expertise in the original mathematical simulation and modeling of physiological systems. Detailed discussions of the analysis of steady-state and dynamic systems, discrete-time system theory, and discrete modeling of continuous-time systems are provided. Biomedical examples include the analysis of the respiratory control system, the dynamics of cardiac muscle and the cardiorespiratory function, and neural firing patterns in auditory and vision systems. Examples include relevant MATLAB® and Pascal programs.

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Nonlinear dynamics
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Heart rate variability measures, models, and signal assessments
Origin of chaos in cardiovascular and gastric myoelectrical activity
Measurement of spatio-temporal dynamics of human epileptic seizures

A valuable reference book for medical researchers, medical faculty, and advanced graduate students, it is also essential reading for practicing biomedical engineers. Nonlinear Biomedical Signal Processing, Volume II is an excellent companion to Dr. Akay's Nonlinear Biomedical Signal Processing, Volume I: Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, and New Algorithms.

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Multiwavelength study of coronal structure a simultaneous observation from NIXT and YOHKOH : grant NAGW-4644 : final report for the period of performance ... through 09/30/97 (SuDoc NAS 1.26:207450)
L. Golub
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Plasma Loops in the Solar Corona (Cambridge Astrophysics)
R. J. Bray , L. E. Cram , C. Durrant , and R. E. Loughhead
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A comprehensive account of the properties of plasma loops, the fundamental structural elements of the solar corona. Plasma loops cover a wide range of sizes and range in temperature from tens of thousands to millions of degrees. They not only define the structure of individual active regions but connect different active regions--even across the solar equator. Loops also play an integral and decisive role in the enormous solar explosions called flares. Over recent years a wealth of space and ground-based observations of loops has been obtained in various widely-spaced regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. In this book the authors have selected the best observational material from the literature on which to base a detailed account of the properties of flare and non-flare loops. The book also explores the larger implications of the loop structures for our understanding of solar and stellar coronae. The text is enhanced by a large number of illustrations and unique and beautiful photographs obtained from the ground and from space.

Final report plasma properties of hot coronal loops utilizing coordinated SMM and solar research rocket observations (SuDoc NAS 1.26:186094)

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Final report plasma properties of hot coronal loops utilizing coordinated SMM and solar research rocket observations (SuDoc NAS 1.26:186094)
NASA
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The content of this volume is designed to reach a wide audience, including those involved with relevant technologies such as electrophoresis and mass spectrometry, to those interested in how proteomics can benefit research. A wide range of techniques are discussed, each specifically designed to address different needs in proteomic analysis. The concluding chapter discusses the important issue related to handling large amounts of data accumulated in proteomic studies.

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* Discusses proteomics in the postgenomic age
* Includes various strategies for quantitative proteomics
* Covers the role of MS in structural functional proteomics and proteomics in drug discovery and bioinformatics

Advances in Protein Chemistry, Volume 65: Proteome Characterization and Proteomics. : An article from: Environmental Health Perspectives

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Advances in Protein Chemistry, Volume 65: Proteome Characterization and Proteomics. : An article from: Environmental Health Perspectives
Barbara A. Wetmore , and B. Alex Merrick
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Release Date: 2005-10-17

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This digital document is an article from Environmental Health Perspectives, published by Thomson Gale on August 15, 2004. The length of the article is 691 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: Advances in Protein Chemistry, Volume 65: Proteome Characterization and Proteomics.
Author: Barbara A. Wetmore
Publication: Environmental Health Perspectives (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 15, 2004
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Proteome Characterization and Proteomics (Advances in Protein Chemistry, Volume 65)

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Proteome Characterization and Proteomics (Advances in Protein Chemistry, Volume 65)
Richard D. Smith Timothy D. Veenstra
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Organic matter in aquatic environments consists mostly of large compounds which cannot be taken up and utilized directly by microbial cells. Prior to incorporation, polymeric materials undergo degradation by cell-bound and extracellular enzymes produced by these microbes; in fact, such enzymatic mobilization and transformation is the key process which regulates the turnover of organic as well as inorganic compounds in aquatic environments. This volume brings together studies on enzymatic degradation processes from disciplines as diverse as water and sediment research, bacterial and algal aquatic ecophysiology, eutrophication, and nutrient cycling and biogeochemistry, in both freshwater and marine ecosystems. Its scope extends from fundamental research exploring the contribution of microbial enzymatic processes to whole ecosystem functioning to practical applications in water biotechnology. The first comprehensive publication providing an overview of this emerging field of enzymology, Microbial Enzymes in Aquatic Environments will be of great interest to ecologists and microbiologists alike.

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Universally acclaimed when first published in 1955, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit captured the mood of a generation. Its title — like Catch-22 and Fahrenheit 451 — has become a part of America’s cultural vocabulary. Tom Rath doesn’t want anything extraordinary out of life: just a decent home, enough money to support his family, and a career that won’t crush his spirit. After returning from World War II, he takes a PR job at a television network. It is inane, dehumanizing work. But when a series of personal crises force him to reexamine his priorities — and take responsibility for his past — he is finally moved to carve out an identity for himself. This is Sloan Wilson’s searing indictment of a society that had just begun to lose touch with its citizens. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a classic of American literature and the basis of the award-winning film starring Gregory Peck. “A consequential novel.” — Saturday Review

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The Soul of a Hero Reborn.......2007-02-08

Tom Rath, a WWII veteran who survived against incredible odds, feels stressed, distant and unhappy. He has a wife and three kids and works in an unchallenging administrative job that affords him but modest pay and no real room for advancement. He tries for and gets what turns out to be an uncertain, but better paying, position at the United Broadcasting Corp. With his new salary and the sudden death of his 93 year old grandmother, his discontented wife decides to sell their modest house in a boring suburb and move the family into the estate Tom has inherited. Meanwhile Tom, feeling detached and cynical, struggles in his new job to provide what he thinks is expected of him. At the root of this are his growing WWII recollections of a long romantic affair with Maria and, later, of accidentally killing his best friend -both memories triggered by repeatedly running across a fellow war vet now working as an elevator operator in his building.

There are many interesting and important subplots, but the three interrelated central issues confronting Tom regard his attitude toward his wife, his employer, and his past (Maria and the son struggling to survive in post-war Italy). The tension and joylessness that pervade his life hinge on whether or not he can resolve these conflicts. He resolves the issues at home by standing up and fighting for passage of a school bond measure; the issue with his employer by being completely open and honest (instead of playing the cynical game he thinks he is expected to play); and the issue with his past, by committing to send $100 a month to help his son in Italy -and coming clean with his wife Betty about his affair with Maria.

In confronting every painful or difficult decision he knows to be right he goes through the same thought process that gave him the mental strength and self-control he needed in the war (1. "It doesn't really matter." 2. "Here goes nothing"; and 3. "It will be interesting to see what happens").

In my view, Wilson's thesis -especially given the happy ending -is that, by being honest and taking responsibility for your life and choices you allow everything to turn out -if not exactly how you expected- then at least for the best. Your life then becomes authentic and joyful, not merely a stressful, dutiful, and impersonal routine to be endured until things somehow work out (because they never will, and you will simply remain unhappy until you die).

In other words, by successfully confronting the past you reclaim the present (and future) -and every moment becomes precious once more.

Looking at the novel as a historical document, it gives me a deeper understanding of the sense of ennui or drift that many WWII vets underwent after returning from the war, and their feeling of being between wars -a desire to enjoy life now while there's peace, and not throw enjoyment of the now away on an ultimately futile or empty pursuit of title or status.

Implicitly, it communicates well the feeling of survival-guilt or a soldier's sense of unreality toward his surroundings after the unimaginable death and horror he has experienced during the war. Tom Rath must wake up from the past by developing a real connection to the world around him in the present. He resists the pervasive and lethal cynicism by playing it straight and taking full responsibility for his life.

Direct, searing.......2007-01-30

I read it many years ago and never forgot it. At the time Tom should have been too old for me to identify with, but the author created a man so human it was jarring. You worry about this character. Tom appears calm, but underneath the water his feet are churning and the reader churns with him.

still so painfully true..........2005-08-30

Sloan Wilson, to begin with, is a great writer. He is able to capture a mood, a tention and an empathy for his main character, Mr. Rath, that many authors simply can't. I found myself able to identify with this man (who is my age, 33, though male) so closely it was creepy. He is like me in his tendency to worry so much about the "what if's" in life, that sometimes he doesn't take the risks that maybe he should. Or, if he does take the risks, he is so nervous that everything will fall apart, he can't truly enjoy it. I found myself rooting for him, and feeling his anxiety at every work conference or family incident. I was glad when the story ended, and that it ended as it did, because I don't know if I could have taken any more stress. This book DID stress me out because it is so true, then as well as now. Definitely worth reading.

The man in the gray flannel suit.......2005-08-08

Sloan Wilson's novel is a must for everybody interested in contemporary Americal literature. Over the last years it has not lost any actuality.

A pleasant find.......2004-06-18

With so much being written about the "Greatest Generation" the story generally ends sometime around V-J day. Sloan Wilson's insightful novel gives readers an opportunity to see how a World War II veteran might handle the rat race in 1950s New York City.

Tom and Betsey Rath are married with three kids trying to keep up with the Joneses in their Connecticut suburb while Tom climbs the corporate ladder in Manhatten. The day to day conflicts are pretty interesting, but about halfway through the novel, Tom sees someone that brings his war past into the present.

The title of the book has come to mean the bland working man of the 1950s, but our hero Tom Rath is not bland. He has enough inner conflicts to field an Olympic team. Tom isn't some sycophant trying to get ahead, but a guy who killed and watched his friends get killed in the war. I wasn't expecting the depth of character.

The novel is written in clear direct language that makes it easy to follow the story and the real complexities of life. Stylistically, the omnipotent narrator is usually in the head of our hero Tom, but he occasionally jumps around to other minds for variation. Just as you've made up your mind about a simple character the narrator jumps into their skin and they too become a flesh and blood person.

The modern day criticism is that the novel has a happy ending, especially since happy endings are frowned upon in post-modern literature. But the important part of the book is not the resolution but the journey and Wilson gets the journey just right. I'm glad I gave the book a chance.

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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Sloan Wilson
Manufacturer: Simon and Schuster, Inc.
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
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What Shall We Wear to This Party?: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Twenty Years Before & After
Sloan Wilson
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