Accounting and the Enterprise: A Social Analysis

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Written from a sociological perspective, Accounting and the Enterprise explains how the study of accounting is an important element in understanding the way in which modern enterprises and societies operate.

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Litigator, teacher, and scholar Stephen Kohn presents a comprehensive, unified examination of the 35 federal laws that protect whistleblowers and their rights, plus the common law protections available in each of the 50 states. For the first time in one easily accessed volume, readers will find the basic principles upon which all whistleblower law is premised. Mr. Kohn lays out the basic legal principles applicable to almost every whistleblower case, such as the scope of protected activity and who qualifies for protection. He shows what constitutes discriminatory conduct, what type of evidence demonstrates that improper retaliation occurred, the burdens of proof on both the employee and employer, how to calculate damages and attorney fees, common settlement and fundamental procedural issues, and much more, all in meticulously documented detail and a readable, engaging style. Built upon Mr. Kohn's extensive practical experience and his scholarly research and teaching, not only is the book an essential resource for study and analysis of whistleblowing issues, but it is also a step-by-step guide for conceptualizing and litigating them. Attorneys with specialties in a wide range of fields involving whistleblower law and related policy issues will find a thoughtful, comprehensive examination, and an immediately applicable courtroom aid. It will also be important for human resource executives, labor union officers and attorneys, government contractors, and recipients of government grants, university and government libraries, federal agency executives and specialists, public interest and "good government" organizations--and many others who have become fascinated by this relatively new, but long-time coming, branch of the law, how it developed, and how it is being applied today.

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Whistleblower Lesson #1 - Buy this book TODAY!.......2002-06-23

If you're a whistleblower, and you are not familiar with Concepts and Procedures in Whistleblower Law by Mr. Kohn, you are at a serious disadvantage already. I had no idea what I was up against. I was getting clobbered by the system at every turn. The information in this book evens the playing field quickly.
Mr. Kohn leads you through the maze of mistakes that you're going to make, and allows you to gain control of your situation.
It's written for everyone to read. I read it overnight.
When you get done reading it, get a copy for your lawyer.
The amount of information contained in this book will assist both of you immediately. A RARE find. Thank you Mr. Kohn.

S.O.S. A first hand review from a survivor :.......2000-12-03

This book is indispensible to an employee who is beaten down by the corporate world for reporting a violation in good faith of unethical or unlawful matter . I was cast into the stormy sea of politics without a hope of survival until I was tossed this book; my only life preserver in a corrupt world.

Regards and my respect to the author ;

S.O.S. A first hand review from a survivor :.......2000-12-03

Regards and my respect to the author ;

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A success in its first two editions and now revised and updated to include current medical and health-care information, this is the most comprehensive, contemporary, and readable health guide ever. It can help every reader lead a longer, stronger, and healthier life. Black-and-white and 4-color illustrations.

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A handy all-purpose home medical reference.......2007-08-18

{Review written June 2005}

This is a handy all-purpose home medical companion, which is useful for reading up on various problems and conditions as you, your family and friends encounter them in life.

Want to read up on the various forms of arthritis ? It's in there.

Diabetes ? Menopause ? Sprains ? Bloody Noses ? Sleep disorders ? Various surgical procedures ? Ditto.

It's a good all purpose resource. My copy cost me $1 at a yard sale, and it's been worth every penny, many times over ... even though it's slowly become a little dated since it was first published.

It's recommended, and used copies can usually be found for a pittance.

mayo clinic heart book.......2000-05-08

Very informative. I suffer from PVC's and try to get my hands on as much info as possible. I found this book to be very helpful in my understanding more on this condition.

The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Medical Guide

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The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Medical Guide

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THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS COMPLETE HOME MEDICAL GUIDE
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Manufacturer: CROWN
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ASIN: B000UUUTRY

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Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Medical Guide
Columbia University
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ASIN: 0517558424
Release Date: 1985-11-16

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The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Medical Guide
Donald F.; Weiss, Robert J.; Morris, Thoma Tapley
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The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons: Complete Home Medical Guide

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COMPLETE HOME MEDICAL GUIDE
Columbia University College Of Physicians And Surgeons
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The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Medical Guide to Pregnancy

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The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Medical Guide to Pregnancy
Donald F. (editor); Todd, Duane (editor); Subak-Sharpe, Genell J. (editor); Goetz, Diane (editor) Tapley
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The astronomy book I recommend most

A Classic for 25 Years for the New Star Gazer - Same edition - Reprinted 32 times and counting

Accessible Astronomy

Knowing where you are

365 Starry Nights: An Introduction to Astronomy for Every Night of the Year
Chet Raymo
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Paperback

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THE AMATEUR STARGAZER'S ULTIMATE HOME COMPANION

365 Starry Nights is a unique and fascinating introduction to astronomy designed to give you a complete, clear picture of the sky every night of the year. Divided into 365 concise, illustrated essays, it focuses on the aesthetic as well as the scientific aspects of stargazing. It offers the most up-to-date information available, with hundreds of charts, drawings, and maps-that take you beyond the visible canopy of stars and constellations into the unseen realm of nebulae and galaxies.

This simple yet substantial text is full of critical information and helpful hints on how to observe the stars; describe their position; calculate their age, brightness, and distance; and much more. Whether you observe the sky with a telescope or the naked eye, 365 Starry Nights makes the infinite intimate and brings the heavens within your grasp. Keep this invaluable, informative guide close at hand, and you'll find that the sky is the limit 365 nights a year.

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Night Skies.......2007-06-08

The book is really interesting. I like how everyday is covered for the month and how it explains what a person can see depending on where you live in the world.

The astronomy book I recommend most.......2006-07-31

I have been in amateur astronomy for 17 years. "365" was one of my first books, and the one I purchase for friends who are clueless about the night sky. A wonderful introduction for the novice, or review for the experienced. Read it through and you'll be ready to give a planetarium show under the stars (or even in a planetarium). Its greatest shortcoming is the lack of an index, for which I remove one "star" from the rating. As planets are the "wanderers," you'll go elsewhere to find and study them (several web sites can help, or the astronomy magazines). The hand-drawn star charts in the book certainly suffice for learning the night sky. Again, the astronomy magazines are helpful in containing current charts for the season.
The book is not meant to read one night at a time, but in general guides you to what is a fun aspect of amateur astronomy: that the sky provides a calendar, a sense of changing seasons. This is the strength of the book: why your view of the sky changes over time, that is, over the course of the night and over the course of days to months, and changes with your location on earth. Raymo's writing is spectacular: his feet on Earth, his head in the universe!

A Classic for 25 Years for the New Star Gazer - Same edition - Reprinted 32 times and counting.......2006-07-19

Chet Raymo's illustrated guide to the night sky, 365 Starry Nights, is a delightful introduction to star gazing with binoculars or the naked eye. (365 Starry Nights may be too basic for telescope viewing.) This guidebook targets the amateur, the new observer that must begin at the beginning by becoming acquainted with the major features in the night sky. Fortunately, with Raymo's guidebook it is not all that difficult making friends with the brighter stars, as well as their rather arbitrary groupings into constellations.

365 Starry Nights: An Introduction to Astronomy for Every Night of the Year provides hundreds of hand-drawn sky charts, drawings, and maps that bring the Northern Hemisphere night sky alive. Simply turn to the page matching the date and begin reading. Raymo emphasizes those objects and starry patterns most visible, and thereby most easily learned by the new amateur. And learning the key features must come first. Star hopping from a known star to fainter stars or to Messier objects comes later.

Raymo's text covers a wealth of astronomical topics, not in detail, but sufficiently so for a new observer. Initially, I expected to move chronologically through the nights, but I quickly found myself enthusiastically jumping around from season to season, constellation to constellation, and topic to topic.

Most drawings highlight a small section of the sky, centered about a seasonal constellation. Other drawings illustrate magnified views of more distant stars and galaxies. Yet other charts and graphs help explain various astronomical concepts such as the apparent magnitude scale, dark line spectrum of stars, celestial navigation, Cepheid variables, and the spatial positions of the larger globular clusters associated with the Milky Way.

Key point: 365 Starry Nights is for the new amateur and it is a book that you will outgrow, perhaps fairly quickly. Even in the beginning you will probably occasionally need a more advanced guidebook and sky map to supplement Raymo's discussions.

My younger daughter, also a new amateur observer, bought a new copy of 365 Starry Nights at list price at the NASA visitors center in Houston. Her savvy father bought elsewhere a used copy in good condition for a pittance.

Accessible Astronomy.......2006-06-09

This book is such a friendly introduction to astronomy. You are given something to observe and think about each night of the year in the 365 essays, which are written in a personal, entertaining way. By all means purchase the book if you like it-- it's a great companion for the beginning skywatcher and lively reading for anyone interested in the night sky.

Knowing where you are.......2006-01-12

I bought this book many years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. The book has a short entry for every day of the year. Some subjects might span more than one day, and so you can't help read forward a day or so. But not every night is a clear night, so this worked out well. After following the book for several months, one night I had the experience of walking outside and looking up in the sky and being overwhelmed with the feeling that I knew where I was in the universe in relation to the planets, the stars and the distant galaxies. The book is simple but it's wonderful.

365 Starry Nights - Introduction To Astronomy For Every Night Of The Year

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365 Starry Nights - Introduction To Astronomy For Every Night Of The Year
Chet Raymo
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365 Starry Nights: An Introduction to Astronomy for Every Night of the Year

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365 Starry Nights: An Introduction to Astronomy for Every Night of the Year
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365 Starry Nights: An Introduction to Astronomy for Every Night of the Year (Phalarope Books)

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365 Starry Nights: An Introduction to Astronomy for Every Night of the Year (Phalarope Books)
Chet Raymo
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An up-to-date, comprehensive guide to LITHIUM CHEMISTRY

Although lithium has been the subject of numerous individual studies, this intriguing element has rarely been examined from the broad perspective many researchers require. Lithium Chemistry: A Theoretical and Experimental Overview fills this void by providing the most thorough and up-to-date overview available of current theories and experimental data.

Supported by nearly two hundred illustrations, this book draws upon the expertise of prominent researchers in the field, and treats the full range of modern applications and techniques. The result is a unique and invaluable guide to lithium studies for researchers and graduate students working in the fields of organic, inorganic, and organo-metallic chemistry.

Lithium Chemistry: A Theoretical and Experimental Overview assumes a background in quantum chemistry and experimental physical chemistry at the graduate level and includes coverage of these major topics:

Bonding, structures, and energies in organolithium compounds
Theoretical studies of aggregates of lithium compounds
Comparison of lithium and hydrogen bonds
Lithium atom matrix reactions with small molecules
NMR of organolithium compounds
Aspects of the thermochemistry of lithium compounds
The structure of lithiated amines and lithiated ethers—from carbanions to carbenoids
Complexes of inorganic lithium salts
Structures of lithium salts of heteroatom compounds
Synthetic ionophores for lithium ions

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The dynamic development of various processes is a central problem of biology and indeed of all the sciences. The mathematics describing that development is, in general, complicated, because the models that are realistic are usually nonlinear. Consequently many biologists may not notice a possible application of theory. They may be unable to decide whether a particular model captures the essence of a system, or to appreciate that analysis of a model can reveal important aspects of biological problems and may even describe in detail how a system works. The aim of this textbook is to remedy the situation by adopting a general approach to model analysis and applying it several times to problems (drawn primarily from molecular and cellular biology) of gradually increasing biological and mathematical complexity. Although material of considerable sophistication is included, little mathematical background is required - only some exposure to elementary calculus; appendixes supply the necessary mathematics and the author concentrates on concepts rather than techniques. He also emphasizes the role of computers in giving a full picture of model behavior and complementing more qualitative analysis. Some problems suitable for computer analysis are also included. This is a class-tested textbook suitable for a one-semester course for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in biology or applied mathematics. It can also be used as a source book for teachers and a reference for specialists.

Biograph: A Graphical Computer Simulation Package with Exercises to Accompany Lee A. Segel's 'Modeling Dynamic Phenomena in Molecular Cellular and Biology'

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Biograph: A Graphical Computer Simulation Package with Exercises to Accompany Lee A. Segel's 'Modeling Dynamic Phenomena in Molecular Cellular and Biology'
Garrett M. Odell , and Lee A. Segel
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Professor Segel, author of the highly acclaimed Modeling Dynamic Phenomena in Molecular and Cellular Biology, in conjunction with Professor Odell, has now produced on disc a series of programs which, together with the accompanying manual, will form an invaluable teaching and research tool, designed to integrate computer usage into a course on mathematical modelling for biologists. They will not only introduce students to the subject, but also enable them to conduct their own computer simulations. Written in the powerful programming language ‘C’ and able to run on IBMAT equipped with a mathematics co-processor, the programs art- designed to allow students to choose from a variety of options at each stage. No previous programming experience is required. Included in each book is a form which can be returned to obtain a free copy of the disc.

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Larissa Miller's memoir recounts her childhood in postwar Moscow.

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