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    Carl S. Warren , and Philip E. Fess
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    College Accounting. Text Bank. Chapters 14.26. 6th Edition. 1997 Edition
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      McQuaig & Bille
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      How To Think Like A Boss And Get Ahead At Work
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • Common sense management
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      		 How To Think Like A Boss And Get Ahead At Work
      Barry Eigen
      Manufacturer: Management Strategies, Inc.
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      ASIN: 1888475064

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      5 out of 5 stars Common sense management.......2000-10-20

      An excellent book that I intend to buy for all of my managerial staff. I wish it would come back in print!

      5 out of 5 stars "Real World 101" guide for recent grads entering workforce.......1997-03-29

      This book contains concepts that I had to learn 'the hard way', over many years. It explains office politics, how to understand what your boss wants/ needs from you, why hard work doesn't always get you ahead, and more! I have bought this book for 25 of my employees. I recommended it to the head of the engineering department at my university - they have used it for a senior-level seminar. I can't say enough about how readable, applicable and useful this book is! It is a refreshing change from most management books which spout terms like empowerment, and fill themselves with charts and grids. Barry tells it like it really is... find yourself a copy! Someone needs to pick up the paperback rights... it would be a top seller

      Fractals in Biology and Medicine, Volume II
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        Multiwavelength Mapping of Galaxy Formation and Evolution: Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Venice, Italy, 13-16 October 2003 (ESO Astrophysics Symposia)
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          Standards and Best Practice in Absorption Spectrometry
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              The Boys of My Youth
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              • I didn't get anything out of this memoir
              • fresh, surprising, raw, subtle
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              • Flashback
              		 The Boys of My Youth
              Jo Ann Beard
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              Jo Ann Beard beautifully evokes her childhood in the early '60s, a time in which mothers continued to smoke right up to labor, one's own scabs were deeply interesting, and Barbie dolls seemed to get naked of their own volition, knowing that Ken would be the one to get in trouble if they were caught. Beard's memories of the next 30 years are no less sharp and wry, powered by antic melancholy, perfect juxtapositions, and "the push of love." When she was little, "the words of grown-ups rarely made sense," and even now, with the exception of her best friend and a few colleagues, not much seems to have changed.

              In the title story, Beard and her best friend, now 38, still spend forever on the phone, an activity they perfected in junior high and that is now possible thanks to an office WATS line. Hindsight easily renders their seventh-grade ex nihilo obsession with a "ninth grader extraordinaire" foolish, along with most encounters with the boys of their youth. But their current relations with men are really no less absurd, as they realize while listening to Beard's latest possibility leave an answering-machine message: "I don't know whether to faint or kill myself. Elizabeth laughs unbecomingly. I put both hands around my own neck. We are no longer bored."

              The Boys of My Youth is filled with family picnics, small celebrations, and fragility. Beard knows that her teenage efforts to "have a better personality" were as futile as her later attempt at "practicing being snotty, in anticipation of being dumped by my husband," but that doesn't make her any less fond of her younger self. And she has the same affection, and irritation, for her family, who slowly emerge in story after story. In "Waiting," she and her older sister try to keep calm as their mother is dying: "I hold two fingers up to remind her of how much longer she needs to keep this up, to pay attention. She holds up one finger, guess which one, to remind me of who's the oldest, who's the boss. I would love more than anything to slap her."

              There isn't a weak piece in this collection, which includes the world's most perfect description of the agonies of having your hair washed--at age 3--and the ecstasies of one encounter near the Mexican border. "The car is a boiling cauldron. The coyote stands scruffy and skittish, like a wild dingo dog I met once, who bit everything in sight, wagging his tail like a maniac. Eric slides the camera to me and puts a hand on my arm. He whispers in my ear. I nod. I love dogs better than anything else on earth, next to cigarettes and a couple of people."

              Beard often edges from serious laughter to high seriousness and back again. "The Fourth State of Matter" is perhaps the book's standout, a narrative about space physicists; invading squirrels; a beautiful, dying dog; a "vanished husband"; and, alas, a seminar turned 12-minute massacre. On November 1, 1991, she leaves work early and passes by the disappointed graduate student who will later that day gun down eight members of the University of Iowa physics depart. Her piece is complex and heartbreaking, a master conduit of emotion and information. As always, Beard knows the rich value of the minor ritual. Earlier, she had recalled playing "Maserati" with her collie: "I'd grab her nose like a gearshift and put her through all the gears, firstsecondthirdfourth, until we were going a hundred miles an hour through town. She thought it was funny." After "the newslady" finally confirms her colleagues' deaths, "Maserati" again figures: "We sit by the tub. She lifts her long nose to my face and I take her muzzle and we move through the gears slowly; first second third fourth, all the way through town, until what has happened has happened and we know it has happened."

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              Jo Ann Beard beautifully evokes her childhood in the early '60s, a time in which mothers continued to smoke right up to labor, one's own scabs were deeply interesting, and Barbie dolls seemed to get naked of their own volition, knowing that Ken would be the one to get in trouble if they were caught. Beard's memories of the next 30 years are no less sharp and wry, powered by antic melancholy, perfect juxtapositions, and "the push of love." When she was little, "the words of grown-ups rarely made sense," and even now, with the exception of her best friend and a few colleagues, not much seems to have changed.In the title story, Beard and her best friend, now 38, still spend forever on the phone, an activity they perfected in junior high and that is now possible thanks to an office WATS line. Hindsight easily renders their seventh-grade ex nihilo obsession with a "ninth grader extraordinaire" foolish, along with most encounters with the boys of their youth. But their current relations with men are really no less absurd, as they realize while listening to Beard's latest possibility leave an answering-machine message: "I don't know whether to faint or kill myself. Elizabeth laughs unbecomingly. I put both hands around my own neck. We are no longer bored."The Boys of My Youth is filled with family picnics, small celebrations, and fragility. Beard knows that her teenage efforts to "have a better personality" were as futile as her later attempt at "practicing being snotty, in anticipation of being dumped by my husband," but that doesn't make her any less fond of her younger self. And she has the same affection, and irritation, for her family, who slowly emerge in story after story. In "Waiting," she and her older sister try to keep calm as their mother is dying: "I hold two fingers up to remind her of how much longer she needs to keep this up, to pay attention. She holds up one finger, guess which one, to remind me of who's the oldest, who's the boss. I would love more than anything to slap her."There isn't a weak piece in this collection, which includes the world's most perfect description of the agonies of having your hair washed--at age 3--and the ecstasies of one encounter near the Mexican border. "The car is a boiling cauldron. The coyote stands scruffy and skittish, like a wild dingo dog I met once, who bit everything in sight, wagging his tail like a maniac. Eric slides the camera to me and puts a hand on my arm.He whispers in my ear. I nod. I love dogs better than anything else on earth, next to cigarettes and a couple of people."Beard often edges from serious laughter to high seriousness and back again. "The Fourth State of Matter" is perhaps the book's standout, a narrative about space physicists; invading squirrels; a beautiful, dying dog; a "vanished husband"; and, alas, a seminar turned 12-minute massacre. On November 1, 1991, she leaves work early and passes by the disappointed graduate student who will later that day gun down eight members of the University of Iowa physics depart. Her piece is complex and heartbreaking, a master conduit of emotion and information. As always, Beard knows the rich value of the minor ritual. Earlier, she had recalled playing "Maserati" with her collie: "I'd grab her nose like a gearshift and put her through all the gears, firstsecondthirdfourth, until we were going a hundred miles an hour through town. She thought it was funny." After "the newslady" finally confirms her colleagues' deaths, "Maserati" again figures: "We sit by the tub. She lifts her long nose to my face and I take her muzzle and we move through the gears slowly; first second third fourth, all the way through town, until what has happened has happened and we know it has happened."

              Customer Reviews:

              1 out of 5 stars I didn't get anything out of this memoir.......2007-08-30

              This memoir was highly praised by a book publication or two that I had read a review of the book in..it failed to deliver anything to me but a boring youth.

              5 out of 5 stars fresh, surprising, raw, subtle.......2007-06-26

              Beard's intimate prose is unselfconscious and unabashedly focused on the moments in relationships which we rarely realize are the most important ones. The one exception is an essay in the middle of her novel which tells the story of a traumatic event in her adult life. Beard lapses into cliche not because she is incapable of better, but perhaps because all the words to describe such an event have been pre-ordained by the reporters and cops whose mouths form the syllables of murder. Even in the midst of cliche, and starkly plain language, she finds ways to remember details that evoke. A wonderful new book... everyone ought to read it.

              5 out of 5 stars My favorite book.......2007-03-23

              This is what writing means. Gorgeous, pitch-perfect prose. Sensory details that speak for themselves.

              3 out of 5 stars This was and okay book, but I expected more........2006-05-21

              It was a bit of a let down. I was more interested with the family/friends then with the author as a character. She didn't come through very well on paper.

              5 out of 5 stars Flashback.......2004-08-01

              Like a flashback, Jo Ann Beard's collection of short stories takes you back in time. My favorite story is "Cousins" and is about two best-friend cousins. At an outdoor Eric Clapton concert the girls ingest a mild hallucinogen and discover pieces of their childhood in the quilt spread on the ground. One girl feels her halter top is coming off. When she looks at her cousin she is "cupping clouds." Moments later her cousin says, "The clouds are cupping me now," and she wants someone to "Get them off." Beard writes, "A guy on the blanket next to us tries to hand me a joint. I can't take it because I'm holding my chest. He looks at me, looks at Wendell balled up on the ground, and nods knowingly. 'Bummer,' he proclaims."

              With an exquisite eye for detail and lots of humor, Jo Ann Beard inspires memories of laughter and friendship and the heartache of youth that is never matched in later life. Upon completion of this book, you will find yourself thanking Jo Ann Beard for taking you back to that magical place in time. "The Boys of My Youth" is worth reading and re-reading and sharing with your best friends.

              On my honor: A guide to scouting in the church
              Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
              • on my honor, a guide to scouting in the church
              • Why is Scouting used as the YM activity?
              		 On my honor: A guide to scouting in the church
              Thane J Packer
              Manufacturer: Bookcraft
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              ASIN: 1570084394

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              5 out of 5 stars on my honor, a guide to scouting in the church.......2005-10-09

              I have been a scout master and not a very good one. I was not a high achiever in Scouting. After being called to serve as a bishop I got this book and read it. I wish I had read the book long ago. It is a great help. I recommend it especially for those who are not avid and accomplished scouters. The link between scouting and the priesthood is explained and was very welcome to me. I have purchased 4 copies for my counselors and other good leaders that are not sufficiently informed about scouting.

              5 out of 5 stars Why is Scouting used as the YM activity?.......2001-04-05

              I have read this book several times and have bought copies as gifts for Scoutmasters, YM Presidents & Bishops. It clarifies why we use scouting and how it prepares a young men to serve successful missions. I have also loaned out my copy to friends. I think that this should be required reading for parents of Young Men and anyone else in the Ward.
              On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth
              Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
              • A Margaret-Mead-type of excursion
              • Academic, but very readable
              • A close look at Scouting: Sympathetic but provocative
              • On My honor
              		 On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth
              Jay Mechling
              Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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              ASIN: 0226517055

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              In a timely contribution to current debates over the psychology of boys and the construction of their social lives, On My Honor explores the folk customs of adolescent males in the Boy Scouts of America during a summer encampment in California's Sierra Nevada. Drawing on more than twenty years of research and extensive visits and interviews with members of the troop, Mechling uncovers the key rituals and play events through which the Boy Scouts shapes boys into men. He describes the campfire songs, initiation rites, games, and activities that are used to mold the Scouts into responsible adults.

              The themes of honor and character alternate in this new study as we witness troop leaders offering examples in structure, discipline, and guidance, and teaching scouts the difficult balance between freedom and self-control. What results is a probing look into the inner lives of boys in our culture and their rocky transition into manhood. On My Honor provides a provocative, sometimes shocking glimpse into the sexual awakening and moral development of young men coming to grips with their nascent desires, their innate aggressions, their inclination toward peer pressure and violence, and their social acculturation.

              On My Honor ultimately shows how the Boy Scouts of America continues to edify and mentor young men against the backdrop of controversies over freedom of religious expression, homosexuality, and the proposed inclusion of female members. While the organization's bureaucracy has taken an unyielding stance against gay men and atheists, real live Scouts are often more open to plurality than we might assume. In their embrace of tolerance, acceptance, and understanding, troop leaders at the local level have the power to shape boys into emotionally mature men.

              Customer Reviews:

              3 out of 5 stars A Margaret-Mead-type of excursion.......2005-05-23

              Mechling approaches his subject in an extremely scholarly fashion, which makes the book a bit schizophrenic between a journal article or thesis and a popular non-fiction-type of read. As it was published by the Univ. of Chicago Press, this isn't surprising. Some excellent nuggets on leadership and its various meanings; interesting sidelights on current controversies. However, nothing that would give a reader a sense of what scouting would be like or the type of boys scouting attracts/serves. A very fly-on-the-wall approach that allows the reader to draw his or her own conclusions.

              4 out of 5 stars Academic, but very readable.......2003-08-21

              Excellent study of the Boy Scouts at the turn of the century seen through the experiences of one troop at summer camp. Mechling's compression of twenty years into one narrative can be slightly confusing in places, but works well overall. Though he makes no effort to hide his personal views (supported by sociological reasearch and his own experiences as a Scout), he carefully illustrates the complexity of the issues confronting the organization as it heads into its second century. I could have done without the Freudian analysis of teenage boys' relationship to their bodies, but otherwise it's a very thoughtful and thought-provoking book.

              5 out of 5 stars A close look at Scouting: Sympathetic but provocative.......2002-03-28

              This is a very thoughtful, very provocative look at Scouting -- not only the Boy Scouts of America as an organization, but the experience of being a Scout for one troop of boys and their adult Scout leaders. The book keeps details of this experience in the foreground -- you really get to see what the Scouts do at their summer encampment, hear what they have to say, the kinds of jokes and stories they tell, and so on - but it also examines these details for what they reveal about young boys becoming older boys and older boys becoming men. All this works because the book is a good read, not only as a story (of one troop's summer camping adventure) but also as a meditation on adults and kids, American life in these modern times, and so on.

              Some readers and reviewers may try to pigeon-hole the book as a critique of Scouting, or focus only on the policy issues (i.e., how the BSA has handled issues of God, Gays, and Girls), but that's way off base. The author certainly gives some attention to these issues and he is critical of some official BSA positions. But he's also clearly sympathetic towards the Scouting experience, and he's smart about what's going on for kids of Scouting age. A fan of scouting who's taking a close look and asking important questions that go well beyond Scouting in their implications. Highly recommended.

              4 out of 5 stars On My honor.......2001-12-19

              This was the best book I ever read.It was very exiting for me to read.I loved that book,and I would prefor to read. It would be a good book report.
              The Boys of My Youth
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                		The Boys of My Youth
                Jo Ann Beard
                Manufacturer: Little Brown and Co. c1998
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                ASIN: B000ON35LY
                The Boys of my Youth
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                  		The Boys of my Youth
                  Jo Ann Beard
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                  The Boys of My Youth
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                    		The Boys of My Youth
                    Jo Ann Beard
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                    It's My Life: The Guide to Friendship
                    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                    • Exactly what my daughter needed
                    • It's My Life the Guide to Friendship
                    		 It's My Life: The Guide to Friendship
                    Deborah Reber , and Jennifer Castle
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                    ASIN: 1931843589

                    Product Description

                    Friendship is a fabulous, fantastic thing, but it can also be mysterious, unpredictable, and even painful. This book, based on "It's My Life," the popular PBS Kids Web site for tweens aged 8-13, tackles the big questions such as: "How can I make friends?"; "How can I help a friend in need?"; "What do I do when my friends and I get into fights?"; and "What if I feel like I need to end a friendship?" Filled with expert advice, comments from teens and tweens, polls, quizzes, journal pages, "Thinksheets" and more, "It's My Life: The Guide To Friendship" is a fun, engaging way for young people to explore the in's and out's, up's and down's of one of the most important parts of our lives.

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                    5 out of 5 stars Exactly what my daughter needed.......2007-01-20

                    I bought this book for my 11-year-old daughter because she is a fan of the It's My Life website on PBS and is starting to have some problems with fights with her friends. She really enjoyed the book and we filled out a lot of the activities together. She especially liked the comments from other kids. I think she feels like she has some good "tools" now, we'll see if she can put them into practice. There is a lot of info and I'm not sure she digested it all completely, but I'm hoping she'll use it as a reference for any future problems. My only problem with the book was that I thought the illustrations were a little weird, but my daughter thought they were cool...so what do I know?!?

                    5 out of 5 stars It's My Life the Guide to Friendship.......2007-01-17

                    I am an elementary school counselor and I strongly recommend this book. This book really helps tweens deal with friendship issues, such as gossip/rumors, conflict and making friends. The book design, layout and illustrations are very appealing and the vital information makes this a must have for tweens.
                    Learning to Use My Bible: A Special Study for Elementary Girls And Boys
                    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                    • Perfect way to teach children how to use the Bible
                    		 Learning to Use My Bible: A Special Study for Elementary Girls And Boys
                    Joyce Brown
                    Manufacturer: Abingdon Pr
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                    5 out of 5 stars Perfect way to teach children how to use the Bible.......2006-11-10

                    Great guide for teaching children to use their Bible. Highly recommend
                    My First Pair of Shoes and the Little Altar Boy, Two Childhood Memories
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                      		My First Pair of Shoes and the Little Altar Boy, Two Childhood Memories
                      Henry Efesoa Mokosso
                      Manufacturer: Rivercross Publishing
                      ProductGroup: Book
                      Binding: Hardcover

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                      ASIN: 0944957080
                      My Pal Grubby
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                        		My Pal Grubby
                        Tony Lamke
                        Manufacturer: Dutch Creek Pr
                        ProductGroup: Book
                        Binding: Paperback

                        GeneralGeneral | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
                        MemoirsMemoirs | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
                        MidwestMidwest | State & Local | United States | Americas | History | Subjects | Books
                        ASIN: 1882203682

                        Book Description

                        This is the story of an inner city neighborhood. Blue collar, Catholic, hard working people during and after WWII. Specifically, it is about the author's best friend throughout grade school, a kid we nicknamed, Grubby. He was not very smart in the classroom, but he had a great adventurous mind. Each story is different and full of laughs. You might even shed a tear. Grubby got his name do to the fact that he had dirt in his ears the next day after we practiced football.

                        The Alpha Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Kit: Special Book Edition With Removable Forms (The Alpha Non-Lawyer Legal Kits)
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                          		The Alpha Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Kit: Special Book Edition With Removable Forms (The Alpha Non-Lawyer Legal Kits)
                          Kermit Burton
                          Manufacturer: Alpha Pubns of Amer
                          ProductGroup: Book
                          Binding: Paperback

                          BankruptcyBankruptcy | Business | Law | Subjects | Books
                          Private LawPrivate Law | Law | Subjects | Books
                          BankruptcyBankruptcy | Business | Law | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                          GeneralGeneral | Reference | Subjects | Books
                          ASIN: 0937434302

                          Book Description

                          The complete do-it-yourself Chapter-13 Bankruptcy Kit with all the Forms required to stop a real property foreclosure, garnishment of wages or bank account or the reposession of an automobile or household funiture under a Court supervised repayment plan in accords with Chapter -13 of the Bankruptcy Code, Includes completed examples of each form.
                          The Alpha Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Kit: Special Reference Edition (Self Help Legal Kit Series)
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                            		The Alpha Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Kit: Special Reference Edition (Self Help Legal Kit Series)
                            Kermit Burton
                            Manufacturer: Alpha Pubns of Amer
                            ProductGroup: Book
                            Binding: Paperback

                            BankruptcyBankruptcy | Business | Law | Subjects | Books
                            GeneralGeneral | Law | Subjects | Books
                            ASIN: 1571641297

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