Management Accounting- Information Strategy November 2001 Questions and Answers (CIMA Q&A)

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Budgets are tight. Raises are low. How does an organization keep its workforce satisfied and productive under these lean conditions? Rewarding and Recognizing Employees shows everyone in the organization how to: initiate a dynamic reward/recognition program; maintain a dynamic reward/recognition program; create a working environment that will continue to make employees feel genuinely valued and appreciated.

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great book.......2000-11-30

This book should be read by everyone interested in managment

Rewarding and Recognizing Employees: ideas for Individuals, Teams, and Managers

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Rewarding and Recognizing Employees: ideas for Individuals, Teams, and Managers
Joan, Foreword by Ken Blanchard Klubnik
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An expert and illuminating review of the leading models of nuclear structure: effective field theories based on quantum chromodynamics; ab initio models based on Monte Carlo methods employing effective nucleon-nucleon interactions; diagonalization and the Monto Carlo shell model; non-relativistic and relativistic mean-field theory and its extensions; and symmetry-dictated approaches. Theoretical advances in major areas of nuclear structure are discussed: nuclei far from stability and radioactive ion beams; gamma ray spectroscopy; nuclear astrophysics and electroweak interactions in nuclei; electron scattering; nuclear superconductivity; superheavy elements. The interdisciplinary aspects of the many-body problem are also discussed. Recent experimental data are examined in light of state-of-the-art calculations. Recent advances in several broad areas of theoretical structure are covered, making the book ideal as a supplementary textbook.

The Nuclear Many-body Problem 2001; Proceedings.

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The Nuclear Many-body Problem 2001; Proceedings.
Croatia) Nato Advanced Research Workshop On The Nuclear Many-body Problem 2001 (2001: Brijuni
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This book explains the basic aspects of symmetry groups as applied to problems in physics and chemistry using a unique approach developed by the author. This approach includes working out symmetry groups and their representations, eliminating the undue abstract nature of group theoretical methods. The author has systematized the wealth of knowledge on symmetry groups that has accumulated in the century since Fedrov discovered the 230 space groups. He reconstructs space groups, unitary as well as antiunitary, based on the algebraic defining relations of the point groups. This work will be of great interest to graduate students and professionals in solid state physics, chemistry, mathematics, geology and those who are interested in magnetic crystal structures.

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Booher's Book is An Important Read.......2002-06-14

Booher's book is an important read for those who have any interest whatsoever in the evolution debate. Furthermore, he makes his points in a very decisive and convincing manner, echoing the growing chorus of scientists, researchers, scholars, teachers, and average citizens who are calling into question some of the extravagent claims made by hard-core naturalists.

At the heart of this book is a very serious and important question: What is science? Is science the measure of merely natural causes, or is it the search for the best explanation, the one which best fits the evidence? Why must we make the philosophical assumption that science can ONLY measure natural causes and not intelligent ones? Are naturalists saying that sciences such as Forensics and Archeology are really not scientific endeavours after all? Both those scientific fields are clear demonstrations of how the scientific method is used to discern natural causes from intelligent ones, but according to the naturalistic definition of science, they are endeavours which cannot possibly be labelled as science.

Whatever you currently believe on this issue, I encourage you to read Booher's book, examine his arguments, and decide for yourself what science can or cannot do. Don't let naysayers and critics convince you that this book is simply about science vs. creation. Nothing could be further from the truth. This book is really about the true definition and role of science, and, in that fashion, its an important and eye-opening book.

Excellent book for the scientific mind........1999-04-03

This book reflects a process of discovery and learning by the author covering over fifteen years. Each and every year of effort and dedication is evident in the depth and breadth of knowledge and opinion brought together and interwoven in this volume. This book explores the complex relationships between data, extrapolation, and perceptions which underlie one of our most fundamental scientific endeavors, the understanding of our origins. This 500-page volume contains almost one hundred pages of accompanying notes to qualify and expand on the 18-chapter, 363 page in-depth examination of evolution and creation as a focus of scientific processes and attention. The author examines in tremendous detail the evidence underlying evolutionary theories and those aspects of science and psychology which have inculcated the domain of evolution with an almost unassailable mantel of truth, almost imbuing it with the status of scientific law. The author also introduces such explanatory insights as the principles of semantic illusion and the role such illusions play in assigning more credibility to science than might be deserved based on the data. This book is not your typical human factors book It is more bedrock in nature. The multidisciplinary perspective of the author as a human factors specialist, however, is reflected in the breadth of domains from which data, theory, and opinion are drawn. Beyond those interested in the evolution-creation dialogue, any researcher or practitioner of human factors and ergonomics, who, as a scientist, is interested in meta-science, the examination and understanding of fundamental concepts and tenets, processes and procedures of science and the scientific approach, this book is worthwhile. It is not a read for the faint-hearted. Like Godel, Escher, Bach or the writings of Thomas Mann, it is written for the effortful mind and is replete with data and reasoning which challenges the reader just as it clearly must have challenged the author to distill and organize it in such a cogent manner over so long a period of germination. Like the authors of such books as Tainted Truth or Lying with Statistics, Dr. Booher challenges scientists to take a step back and examine the relationship between data and truth in scientific endeavor. Pope John Paul II proclaimed that "Truth cannot contradict truth" and encouraged theists to embrace science as a tool in the search for truth. Dr. Booher offers the reader an opportunity to address some fundamental contradictions between scientific data, interpretation, perceptions, and beliefs which, when surfaced, force us to examine the rigor versus rigidity of our own scientific perspectives on the world and what we consider science and truth to be.

A scholarly scientific essay........1999-03-22

The author successfully dispels the myth that evolution is a proven scientific theory. As the author states, "no fossils whatsoever have ever been found that can be conclusively and unequivocally considered specific transitional forms." However, since there is no scientific alternative to offer, the power of this scientific essay may not penetrate minds predisposed toward the acceptance of Darwinian evolution. But we cannot continue looking under the lamppost for the missing links. What is particularly scholarly is the thoroughness with which he examines this question from many scientific disciplines. One way to test the merit of this book would be for the National Academy of Sciences to convene a panel of experts with representation from palaeontology, biology, psychology, anthropology, embryology, physiology, haematology, cytology, biochemistry, philosophy, linguistics, geochronology, cosmology, geology, and sociology to conduct a critical examination of the arguments as they are made through these various disciplines. If the book withstands such an excruciating analysis, then there ought to be a rather resounding proclamation that evolution still awaits the discovery of conclusive scientific evidence and, in the meantime, all scientific endeavors to account for our origins will be evaluated using the same scientific criteria.

Creationist Extremism.......1999-01-05

This book is a fine example of the mental gyrations someone will perform to rationalize their preconceived notions.

Booher identifies four semantic methods used by authorities in science to supposedly fool the uninitiated. He then proceeds to use these same methods, and many others (eg: guilt by association, dissembling, misrepresenting, vilifying, and condescending), in a vain attempt to discredit generally accepted scientific theories. In there place, he proposes alternate creationist theories which he supports using the same semantic methods he earlier condemned.

In spite of his PhD, Booher demonstrates repeated misunderstandings of the basic scientist mentality (ie: skepticism), the scientific method, the body of scientific knowledge, the social-political authorities of science, and particularly the interrelationships of all these facets of science. The true skeptic believes every "fact" is questionable and every theory is possible. The scientific method does not prove or disprove a theory, it supports or discredits a theory through experimentation based on hypothesis. Scientific knowledge is gathered based on skeptical acceptance of theories supported by the scientific method, as well as the consistencies between accepted theories. The authority on science is not any single organization, but includes a wide array of people representing numerous countries, institutions, and specialties.

However, Booher's real contention lies between Naturalism and Creationism. He proposes a science which uses design within its hypotheses. Yet he ignores the skepticism inherent to science. Naturalism seeks answers without any supernatural agents while Creationism assumes a supernatural designer. Creationism is based on the Authority of the Bible, but Naturalism is skeptical of all authorities, including the Bible and the existing body of scientific knowledge. Science through Naturalism therefore includes a self-checking mechanism, but Science through Creationism does not. The creationists' stance is further confounded by the political separation of church and state. Booher's true goal appears to be the introduction of creationist theories into the public classroom under the guise of acceptable science.

I gave this book two stars because Booher at least did his homework, so it may serve as a semi-useful index. However, in the end he fails to support his point and in some areas of text he is virtually railing against the science establishment.

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With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is said by many to have written the great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their "own little corners," John Dos Passos was taking on the world. Counted as one of the best novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Library and by some of the finest writers working today, U.S.A. is a grand, kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation, buzzing with history and life on every page. The trilogy opens with THE 42nd PARALLEL, where we find a young country at the dawn of the twentieth century. Slowly, in stories artfully spliced together, the lives and fortunes of five characters unfold. Mac, Janey, Eleanor, Ward, and Charley are caught on the storm track of this parallel and blown New Yorkward. As their lives cross and double back again, the likes of Eugene Debs, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie make cameo appearances.

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A Brilliant, overlooked work of American fiction.......2006-04-15

When I first came across John Dos Passos' USA Trilogy (42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money) as a teenager I thought they were the most exciting books I'd read to date. I was enthralled by its scope, its style, and its highly politicized substance. Dos Passos' montage-style (that seemed to be some sort of homage to the great Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein) mixed interwoven story lines of fictional characters with brief contemporary biographies of famous contemporaries. To that he added "newsreel" items, brief inserts from news clippings of the day that gave some sense of the cultural and political world these characters inhabited. Last, Dos Passos added subjective, autobiographical snippets (the "Camera Eye") that served as some sort of exterior voice of the author. I was concerned when I picked up 42nd Parallel many years later that I would find that my excitement was more the product of teenage naivete than from reading a truly unique literary work. Happily, I was not disappointed to find that the USA Trilogy remains for me, a wonderful piece of writing, one that has fallen inexplicably out of the American literary cannon.

Seventy years later we think of American fiction from the 1920s and 1930s as being dominated by three writers, Faulkner, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald. It is not much remembered that at the time Dos Passos was thought of as an essential fourth. When 42nd Parallel was published Edmund Wilson's review went so far as to claim that Dos Passos was "the first of our writers, with the possible exception of Mark Twain, who has successfully used colloquial American for a novel of the highest artistic seriousness." Upon publication of The Big Money in 1936 Dos Passos made the cover of the August 10, 1936 issue of Time Magazine.

42nd Parallel is a wonderful title for Volume I of the Trilogy. The 42nd Parallel of latitude runs right through the heart of the USA. Starting from the west it forms the north/south boundary of California, Nevada and part of Utah from Oregon and Idaho. Running east it crosses Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, and the New York/Pennsylvania border. After cutting across Connecticut it reaches the Atlantic Ocean just where the Pilgrims landed, at Plymouth Rock.

Dos Passos' 42nd Parallel cuts a similar swath across the USA. Set roughly in the years from 1900 to the First World War, Dos Passos traces the lives of five characters, each from a different part of the country and each with a different class and cultural background. We are presented with the stories of Fainy McCreary (Mac), Janey, J. Ward Moorehouse, Eleanor Stoddard, and Charley Anderson. As the stories progress they converge (personally or geographically) and diverge sometimes as randomly as two ships passing in the night. We have a range of characters from a card carrying member of the International Workers of the World (Wobblies) in Mac to a budding man of wealth and importance in the new field of public relations (Moorehouse). Some hop trains and tramp from town to town looking for jobs or social unrest. Others strive for respectability and try to make a `nice' middle class life for themselves.

In between chapters Dos Passos provides us with biographical sketches of famed Americans such as Thomas Edison, Bob La Follette, Andrew Carnegie, and Luther Burbank. Also interspersed throughout the book are the Newsreels and what Dos Passos called "The Camera Eye" made up of his own musings on his life and times. All of the fictional characters live for the moment and don't engage in any literary musings on the meaning of life and their role in it. The Camera Eye seems, in many respects, to consist of Dos Passos setting out his own interior life, something missing from his characters. 42nd Parallel is a politically charged piece of work and is fully representative of the highly charged and turbulent early years of the 20th-century.

By the time I was finished with the 42nd Parallel any qualms I had about revisiting Dos Passos had long since evaporated. I recommend this book to anyone who, like me, read the book many, many years ago. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who hasn't yet discovered The USA Trilogy. You won't be disappointed.

USA Trilogy - Part I.......2006-01-19

This first part of Dos Passos' acclaimed "USA" trilogy takes the reader from the start of the 20th-century up to America's entry in World War I through the alternating life stories of five regular (white) citizens. Had he stopped there, the book might have been perfect, but modernist experimentations creep in through the "Newsreel" and "The Camera's Eye" sections and muddy up the work. These are kind of abstract prose collages or montages comprised of headlines, snatched phrases of songs, news clippings, and random phrases -- presumably intended to convey some of the mood and seeming frenetic pace of the time. The fourth element in his brew are brief sketches of notable figures of American history (some more familiar to contemporary readers than others), including Thomas Edison, "Gene" Debs, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, Charles Steinmetz (pioneering electrical engineer) and more. However, if one can ignore all of Dos Passos' uneven futzing around with these various elements, there's quite a good social history underneath. When writing about his five core characters, he's very straightforward and proves to be an engaging storyteller.

Dos Passos uses his five characters to show the pre-war period as a time of great change in America, when the political field was still wide open and the opportunities for social mobility were a tangible lure to young people. Probably the closest to his heart is the first one we meet, a poor Irish-American apprentice printer from Connecticut named Mac. His picaresque adventures take him train-hopping around the country and into a turbulent Mexico, taking on odd jobs and working for the labor movement. Raised by Fenian rebels, he's a card carrying Wobbly and proud of it. The middle three characters are middle-class strivers. Janey is a Washington, DC stenographer whose halcyon days of youth end when her teen crush dies in a car wreck and her golden boy brother joins the merchant marine. Eleanor is a naive Chicago girl who is introduced into a "arty" set and eventually works her way up in the world to become a fashionable Manhattanite interior decorator. Both of these women's lives eventually intersect with that of J. Ward Moorehouse, an industrious Delaware boy who manages to latch on to a rich wife and leverages that to make a name for himself in advertising and public relations. A Minnesotan hick named Charley forms the working class bookend to the five characters. Like Mac, he wanders the country, living close the edge and picking up mechanic or carnival jobs where he can, and gets interested in the labor movement.

As the lives of these characters unfold over the decade and a half, we see the energetic face of modern America emerging. The rise and fall of unions, the rise of the working woman, the rise of advertising and media spin, the tension between government and the people, the rise of American hegemony and nationalism, and the inevitable class divide -- the one area that escapes major attention is race. Lest this sound rather dry and boring, the five characters go through personal and professional trials and tribulations familiar to our time. Playing an especially large role in the characters' lives are love and sex, the former generally playing out poorly, and the latter sordidly. There's an interesting tension that surfaces off and on through the lives of the male characters, in which females divert them from their avowed course. This is introduced very early in the book when Mac is warned by his father that he must stay away from women, because women will make you "sell out" and betray the revolution. The idea that a man can't be an effective revolutionary if he's got a woman to deal with is a recurring one -- which is not to say that women don't have their own problems throughout the story -- and it would be interesting to see a feminist analysis of the book. In any event, once you get used to the structure and style and concentrate on the core characters, it remains a very readable and important portrait of America's history from the perspective of a social revolutionary.

Great.......2005-02-16

if you like On The Road by Jack Kerouac, than you'll love this trilogy.

A parallel America.......2005-02-16

"The 42nd Parallel," the first volume of John Dos Passos's "U.S.A." trilogy, is a novel about America and Americans from the 1890s up to the first World War. That sounds ordinary enough, but "The 42nd Parallel"--the title possibly refers to the latitude of Chicago, Dos Passos's city of birth and where a good portion of the action of the novel takes place--is notable more for its style than for its content, not that the latter is uninteresting. Dos Passos invents five young people from different backgrounds and parts of the country and follows the courses of their lives until their destinies eventually intersect.

The first to be introduced is a poor kid from Connecticut by way of Chicago named Fenian "Mac" McCreary who, starting out as an apprentice printer not unlike Benjamin Franklin, travels from city to city hopping trains and falling haplessly into a variety of odd jobs--assisting a con man, writing propaganda for a labor organization--until he ends up in Mexico running a bookstore on the fringe of a revolutionary movement. Then we meet Janey Williams, a middle-class girl from Washington, D.C., who makes a living as a stenographer while she is looking for a husband.

Next is a diligent, intelligent boy from Wilmington, Delaware, named J. Ward Moorehouse who after some bad luck in his career and his marriage becomes a successful public relations consultant for corporations. Eleanor Stoddard, a Chicago girl who dreams of a fashionable and cultured life for herself, breaks the social and economic barriers and becomes a highly reputable interior decorator in New York. Finally, Charley Anderson, a North Dakota native, struggles to find and keep work as a mechanic while he roams the country as a vagrant, ultimately volunteering for the ambulance corps in France as the United States enters the European war.

What all these people have in common is that they each epitomize some facet of the new American socioeconomic picture of the emerging twentieth century--the socialist, the working single girl, the corporate image softener. The novel reflects the changes America was undergoing at the time, especially in light of the problematic relations between labor, industry, and government, and the country's potential position as a new global superpower awaiting the biggest, bloodiest war the world would witness to date. Dos Passos wrote this in 1930, so of course he had the benefit of some hindsight; there was no second world war, nor even yet the threat of one, to obscure his vision of the era.

The narratives of the main characters alternate with "Newsreels" that provide glimpses of contemporary events, headlines, and snippets of popular songs; sections called "The Camera Eye" which record random prattle from snapshot subjects and look like modernist prose poems; and brief versified sketches of actual personalities and prominent figures of the day who shaped American history, from Eugene V. Debs to Thomas Edison to Charles Proteus Steinmetz. The novel is experimental in structure, but Dos Passos is breezily conversational in his prose, telling pure stories with natural drama; there is no unbelievable comedy or tragedy here, no sentimentality or jingoism, just life as it is lived.

Difficult but rewarding.......2004-08-09

To read John Dos Passos' "The 42ND Parallel" is a unique reading experience that I highly recommend, though not to everybody. It is a great book, but very intellectual, slow and sometimes confusing --therefore it requires a lot of concentration from the reader. But those who adventure this superb work are likely to be very pleased. This is a great portrait of the USA circa 1900 --a remarkable read.

To begin with, the format of the story can be a major drawback. Not only is it segmented, but also, from time to time, sections that haven't much to do with the narrative itself pop up. Sections named "Newsreel" and "Camera Eye" may not make the main narrative --or narratives --move on, but they are important to set the mood and give historical background to the reader. They can put off the reader, or helpful, it only depends on how much one likes historical context.

Each main character is a book itself. They have long stories that are told from the beginning. Each one has his or her main conflicts, supporting characters and so forth. But the closer we get to the end, the clearer it is that all the storylines will get together in the end. And this is one of the biggest accomplishments of Dos Passos. Many writers try to do this kind of device and fail --they are neither convincer, nor surprising. But this is not the case in "The 42ND Parallel". You may have a feeling the narratives will eventually meet each other in the end, but the end is so engaging that surprises us.

Since "The 42ND Parallel" is the first installment of a trilogy, clearly, it has no ending so to speak. The narratives come to a finale, but still there is water to pass under the bridge. The last paragraph is the perfect hook for the next novel. It leaves the reader with a natural excitement to read "1919".

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This book examines the phenomenon of reservation of title clauses in commercial contracts and looks at the impact of these clauses upon the transactions of which they form a part. With the aid of data gathered from a field survey it also examines the impact of these clauses in situations of insolvency and the strategies employed by insolvency practitioners to counteract their effect. This subject is of increasing interest and importance for legal teaching and research and the book meets the demand for an integrated, readable study of insolvency practice.

Reservation of Title Clauses: Impact and Implications, by Wheeler

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Reservation of Title Clauses: Impact and Implications, by Wheeler
Sally Wheeler
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