Managerial Accounting: Concepts for Planning, Control, Decision Making/Ready Notes to Accompany Managerial Accounting (Undergraduate Accounting)

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Building Effective Technical Training is a hands-on guidebook written by William J. Rothwell and Joseph A. Benkowski— two experts in the field of technical training— that includes a wealth of information, guidelines, and suggestions for creating and implementing technical training programs for organizations of all types and sizes. In addition, the book is filled with real-life examples and proven techniques from successful technical trainings and includes the authors' own lessons learned from professional lives dedicated to training.

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Highly recommended!.......2002-07-30

"Building effective technical training: How to develop hard skills within organizations" by Rothwell and Benkowski is intended for any worker who must apply devices (such as PC's, software) that "govern them and their work", engineers and workers who apply special knowledge in manufacturing settings, and MIS professionals who apply knowledge in high-tech companies. The organization of the book is logical walking the reader through the contents of this resource. Their "Lessons Learned" chapter (Part V) is particularly well done. The added bonus of a CD-ROM and Appendices (specifically IV) enhance an already highly useable text making it easier for those of us who straddle both the practitioner and academic worlds.

A browse review.......2002-05-09

I could not review the book because I have not seen or read it. In any case the cover and the title appear to be very good for particularly employers who may want high productivity from their employees and also for the employees who more often want more responsibility and advancements either in their present posts or to higher ones. The prints (electronic)appear reader-friendly.

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Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, established in 1965, continues its tradition of excellence with Volume 32, published in honor of Founding Editor Sir David Bates upon his retirement as editorof the series. This volume presents reviews of topics related to the applications of atomic and molecular physics to atmospheric physics and astrophysics.

ADVANCES IN ATOMIC, MOLECULAR, AND OPTICAL PHYSICS Volume 37

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ADVANCES IN ATOMIC, MOLECULAR, AND OPTICAL PHYSICS Volume 37
Benjamin Bederson
Manufacturer: San Diego: Academic Press, 1996
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000KNXL08

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Comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of onium ions-an indispensable reference for academic and industrial chemists

In Onium Ions, Nobel Prize-winning chemist George Olah joins forces with coauthors Kenneth Laali, Qi Wang, and G. K. Surya Prakash to offer an in-depth look at the chemistry and reactions of these important electron-deficient compounds. While other texts have covered various individual types of onium ions, this work addresses the structure and chemistry of numerous different classes of onium ions. Contents include:

Discussions of well-established classes of onium ions, such as azonium, oxonium, sulfonium, selenonium, telluronium, and phosphonium ions.

Coverage of more recent types, from siliconium, halonium, and carbonium to carboxonium, carbosulfonium, and carbazonium ions.

Clear explanations of definition, classification, preparation, and chemistry of each major group of onium ions.

An exploration of superelectrophilic activation of onium ions through contact with superacid media.

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The volume is a collection of 22 chapters written by leading experts and active researchers in the field focusing on various aspects of carbocation and onium ion chemistry. These include stable ion NMR studies, solvolytic and kinetic studies, computational work, and synthetic/preparative aspects.

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Onium Ions
George A Olah
Manufacturer: WILEY, JOHN @ & SONS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N64304

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tells the story well.......2007-01-14

What is impressive is how the author has told a story about wavelets, at a level that correctly communicates the mathematical essence. Where specifically the impressive achievement is that that level is for a first year undergrad. The maths discussed involves Fourier series [of course!], definite integrals, and simple matrix manipulations.

En route, she explains the Fast Fourier Transform. She credits Gauss as the original inventor, but does not mention Cooley and Tukey who independently rediscovered it, when computers were available to actually make the method practical. There's a hilarious little aside, when she does some approximations and credits this to "minor" administrative overhead. Where the humour is that universities typically charge 40% overhead on government grants! Must remember that.

Excellent Introduction to Wavelets.......2007-01-03

This is an excellent introduction to wavelets and also the Fourier Transform. The first part of the book is readily accessible to almost anyone who has a passing knowledge of high school math. The second half will mostly be useful to the more mathematically sophisticated. It is an ideal kick start for any one who has the requisite knowledge and is motivated to learn more about the applications and theory behind wavelets.

It is not likely that this book will satisfy all your needs if you intend to master this subject but if you are just getting started, I would start here.

Good effort, but no.......2006-10-07

The author of this book states in the preface that her goal is to make wavelet theory accessible to the layman, without bombarding them with "paralyzing" "funny symbols or hieroglyphics" they haven't learned yet. I thought this was a wonderful idea, as I am a layman who never made it past high school geometry with an interest in learning all about the successor to the ubiquitous FFT used in engineering. Unfortunately, while she does manage to avoid using excessive amounts of "hieroglyphics" in the first part of the book, she makes up for it by throwing around a lot of mathematical terms which are never defined for the reader, so the net result in terms of comprehension is ultimately the same as if she had used the formulae, if not worse. Ms. Hubbard will dedicate three pages worth of text to an anecdotal retelling of some conversation that took place between two researchers in front of a Xerox machine, and then suddenly throw in one line at the end of all this nonsense about integrals and coefficients, as though the preceding story somehow prepared the reader for these terms well enough to divine their meaning from one terse little sentence devoid of any contextual clues. It may be presumptuous of me, but I don't think these words mean any more than the much maligned "hieroglyphics" would to the average layman this book is meant to be read by.

On top of that, the diagrams and illustrations are horrible, looking like something that came out of a dot-matrix printer in the late 70s, and ultimately illustrating nothing.

The world desperately needs a book that actually does what this one claims to. "Who is Fourier?" certainly managed to pull it off well enough for the Fourier Transform despite being translated from Japanese, so I'm certain it's possible even if Ms. Hubbard happened to fail miserably at her task.

Good for start.......2002-11-12

I was very happy reading this book. If you are familiar with the Fourier transform and don't know anything about wavelets, this is a book for you.

Actually, the book has got two parts. In the first part you can learn basic things about Fourier transform (about its usage but also about its limits), what we need wavelets for and what the wavelets are. It is explained in very simple language without any formulas. The second part contains basic formulas related to the topics in the first part. I find that the link between these two parts is very good. Also, the author gives physical explanation whenever it's possible.

If you are a specialist in the wavelets area, you probably know all these things but if you are new (like me!) you will find that this book is quite useful.

It can be done!.......2002-08-18

I am a math professor,-- and I often wondered if it wouldn't be possible to get some essential math ideas accross to almost anyone, --and with fewer equations. Ideas can be burried in symbolism;-- not always! But it does happen. Many of my colleagues tell me that if it were possible, then it would be done. The author of this lovely little book didn't take math courses (she says!). Professional mathematicians would most likely agree with me that she (the author) did in fact communicate the essential ideas behind wavelets (and did it well!);- and so she must have understood them!! Perhaps, anyone who really wants to, can penetrate a specialized math discipline;-- I would guess. Perhaps it is not even hard!? At least this book proves that it is not impossible to communicate
the beauty of math;--and its uses. Take a look at the book, and judge for yourself!
It is fun too!

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Two volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.

Chéri, together with The Last of Chéri, is a classic story of a love affair between a very young man and a charming older woman. The amour between Fred Peloux, the beautiful gigolo known as Chéri, and the courtesan Léa de Lonval tenderly depicts the devotion that stems from desire, and is an honest account of the most human preoccupations of youth and middle age. With compassionate insight Colette paints a full-length double portrait using an impressionistic style all her own.

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Love born of illusion.......2005-03-28

"Cheir" and "The Last of Cheri" could only have been written by a Frenchwoman, one who understood the notion of "love" created out of passion, money, beauty and artifice. Cheri, himself son of a courtesan, was the lover of Lea, a beautiful, older, worldly wise woman, who achieved independence and wealth in a pre-WWI society where men normally held all the cards. With his mother's blessing, Cheri takes up with Lea for a passionate six years, but eventually marries and leaves her. Cheri realizes he can't leave her behind though, and Lea discovers she's done the unpardonable--allowed herself to love. At the end of "Cheri" he returns, for one more night, but reality and age intrude in the morning, and in an excrutiating scene Cheri leaves again, this time for good.
Or maybe not, because the war, his marriage, the modern age, aren't enough to break the hold Lea has on his heart--but of course it's an illusion, there's no turning back. Life moves on, but Cheri remains mired in his youth, protected by money from having to move on. Cheri's life ends as he stares at a wall of pictures of Lea, a Lea who disappeared long ago.
Almost 100 years later, it's an image of love, of women, of aging, that's hard to relate to. But Collette does a beautiful job of evoking the time and place, the peculiar French sensibility of courtly, unreal, illusory love.

The boy who couldn't grow up.......2003-12-10

These two short novels by the French writer Colette cover a territory with which I have to admit to being completely unfamiliar, that of a young man's romantic education by a much older "kept" woman -- a lifestyle I assume to be uniquely French. "Cheri" is the nickname of the man in question (real name: Fred), and his protectress and instructress in the arts of Eros is named Lea, who, an implied courtesan like his mother Madame Peloux, is kept wealthy by one or more benefactors. Having grown up fatherless and free from discipline, Cheri is immature and spoiled, self-assured that he will be amply supported by his good looks and the middle-aged women who dote on him.

At twenty-five, after living with Lea for several years, Cheri decides to marry a rich, younger girl named Edmee, and Lea understands that the time has come to let him go. Their separation is not as easy as that, however; the bottom line is that he truly loves Lea, more so than he does Edmee. With Lea he has developed a special relationship that somewhat perversely combines aspects of mother-son, boyfriend-girlfriend, and teacher-pupil. His greatest chagrin is the realization that he was even naive enough to assume that he was Lea's first and only lover, never conjecturing the sources of her income.

Colette's apparent purpose in these novels is to display a dramatic transformation of character. At nineteen, Cheri is a joyful and frivolous youth; at thirty, a discontented and disillusioned man suffering from an idle lifestyle and a loveless marriage. He is unable to relate to his wife Edmee, who does charity work for a hospital and hobnobs with various public figures -- selfless gestures that are alien to his personality. His involvement in World War I has given him another hard lesson in maturity, and now he is lost in the new post-war society, a world that has no use for a thirty-year-old man who acts like a child and is hopelessly in love with a woman old enough to be his mother.

It seems to me that Colette's literary value lies in her skill at depicting early twentieth century bourgeois France in a clear, conversational style that is more accessible than the impressionistic difficulties of Proust and Gide. In my estimate, her closest contemporary English counterpart would be Somerset Maugham; both writers manage to extract colorful but realistic drama out of the lives of ordinary people using straightforward but intelligent and sensitive prose that often evokes a certain elegance of setting, but Colette's characterization and attitude are distinctly French. Her American counterpart would be more difficult to identify.

The bigger they areý.......2003-02-27

The first book, Cheri, is a rather trite love story about the affair of an older woman with her young lover. There are certain enjoyable sequences, and the sado-masochistic undercurrents keep things interesting, but the novel doesn't have much depth. It's the second novel, The Last of Cheri, where things truly get rich. Watch as the carefree, rich, beautiful Cheri slowly disintegrates into despair. The character, none too likeable in the first book, becomes almost sympathetic as he approaches his inevitable destruction. Money no longer interests him, his earlier hedonism no longer gives him the least satisfaction. Life, and his wife, have become a bore. Once having tasted the stratosphere of love, and loved the goddess Lea, existence in the ordinary can give him no satisfaction. All he has is memory. His best moments are behind him and the future can't offer anything to compare. All of his old acquaintances are busying and satisfying themselves with their grand little projects. These seem trivial to Cheri, even (especially!) his wife's noble charitable work. How pointless these endeavors are compared with love.

On the one hand it is almost satisfying to watch this shallow, callous young man's fall. He is the kind of person who, in the first book anyway, one would like to see get his. Yet one can not fail to sympathize, even empathize, with Cheri. We are not so different, we ordinary and haughty folk. We all feed on the same sustenance. Trying to live off memories, trying to revive the past and failing, these are things we humans do from time to time. For some, it consumes us.

Love Pierces Ennui.......2002-11-26

"Cheri" is the stronger of the two novels in this collection. Colette's deceptively simple prose records the ways of the heart, or at least the romantic behaviors of the rich and idle who have too little sense of purpose in life. "Cheri" begins with the awkward love affair already in progress. How the somewhat immoral pairing began is revealed in pieces throughout the chapters. As these disaffected people realize what their affair meant to each, the novel comes alive.

The book starts as a depiction of the rather narcissistic, self-interested duo-- a depiction that in the beginning is difficult to read because of the nearly sadistic egotism of the protagonists. It evolves into a searching examination of two profligate people unused to applying themselves to any ideal higher than their own gratifications. What they do to manage their dawning realization that they actually care for one another; why they let go of some of their self-delusions; how the love of each person is formed from the shallow and empty lives they led up to that point-- these are played out in heart-breaking scenes that give the novel its depth. "Cheri" depicts a certain time and place-- the French demimonde-- quite well while it is relevant to today's alienated and sometimes jaded moderns searching for, and evading, meaningful connections. This collection includes a well-written introduction by Judith Thurman that draws a thumbnail sketch of Colette's life and provides background information for the novel's setting.

A Boy and a Courtesan.......2002-05-04

The two "Cheri" books are a tribute to the power of love and the beauty of the human spirit, written as only the divine Colette could have done.

In 19th-century Paris, formidable courtesan Lea, a once-breathtaking and sought-after beauty, is still beautiful in middle age, albeit a bit wiser and more wistful. A friend, Mmm. Peloux, herself an aging courtesan, sends Lea her only son Fred (affectionately known as Cheri) to be groomed in the ways of the world.

Cheri, a selfish, self-centered young man in his 20s, is almost excessively gorgeous. And Lea, a woman who is well beyond the infatuation stage and certainly well aware of all of his many frailties, is simply besotted with him. Under her care, Cheri is spoiled, pampered, gifted with expensive presents, and indulged in every possible way, from sexual to culinary delights. In his own pompously careless way, Cheri loves Lea as well, calling her "noun-noun," and partaking of her generosity, in bed and out, like a child. And so goes the relationship--Lea, looking over her shoulder at approaching age and the subsequent loss of her looks; and Cheri, taking everything she has to offer with complete abandon. Until his mother declares him groomed quite enough--and arranges a suitable marriage for him with a beautiful young woman.

So ends Book I, "Cheri." "The Last of Cheri" is quite a different matter, as chilling in its way as "Cheri" is sensual. The mood of the book is a type of frantic fear. Lea, ever the no-nonsense realist (in her line of work, she has to be) knows from her mirror that her time as a beauty is gone. Without Cheri, the spectre of aging begins to haunt her in a very real way, and with a kind of real terror, she contemplates her lonely and manless future. Money will not be a problem; Lea has invested the gifts from her many celebrated lovers with care and a clear head. But loneliness and the very real anguish over losing her young lover are overtaking her.

Cheri has changed too. He is no longer the eager young satyr, but, trapped in a loveless marriage, the gorgeous, greedy child has become a gorgeous, cynical man, almost overwhelmed by ennui. Cheri is in a dangerous depression, but nobody, including Colette herself, had a name for that condition in high-society Paris of the 1800s! Colette describes Cheri's state in unflinching terms. He needs Lea. Lea needs him. Is it possible? Can she still be his mistress?

The answer to that question provides the denoument to what really, in the end, is a human tragedy. This doomed couple cannot possibly survive as they are, and they do not. One dies. One survives. And the reader cannot help but sigh for Lea and Cheri, two lovers whose affair of the heart is overwhelmed by the realitis of life.

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The Colette Omnibus - Cheri, the Last of Cheri, Gigi, Vagabond, Shackle
Introduced By Erica Jong Colette
Manufacturer: Nelson Doubleday
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IW051O

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Cheri and The Last of Cheri
COLETTE (tr. Roger Senhouse)
Manufacturer: Farrar Straus and Young
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000H3NBBA

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Cheri & Last of Cheri
Colette
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: 0345300572
Release Date: 1982-07-12

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6 Novels By Colette: Claudine At School, Gigi, Music-Hall Sidelights, Cheri, The Last of Cheri, Mitsou, Complete and Unabridged
Colette
Manufacturer: Modern Library
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000LL9L12

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7 by Colette: Gigi, The Cat, Cheri, The Last of Cheri, My Mother's House, Chance Acquaintances, The Vagabond
Colette of the Academy Goncourt
Manufacturer: Farar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J0XMA6

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Cheri & the Last of Cheri
Colette
Manufacturer: SIGNET BOOKS
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000SG2ID8

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Cheri amd The Last of Cheri
Colette
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OBZS0M

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CHERI AND THE LAST OF CHERI
COLETTE
Manufacturer: PENGUIN
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000S52TJ2

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CHERI AND THE LAST OF CHERI
COLETTE
Manufacturer: PENGUIN
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RYCAV6

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