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This tool is essential for anyone entering an MBA program. The MBA Survival Kit is a series of programs brought to you by the Graduate Management Admission Council and McGraw Hill/Irwin. This four CD program provides an introduction to Finance, Accounting, Quantitative Skills and Statistics topics and is designed as a review for those entering an MBA program. On average each CD contains 16-20 hours of self-directed learning that explores core quantitative skills used across functional business areas within distinctly different companies, with the user assuming the role of a consultant. The programs guide the student through two key areas of learning that reinforce student skill building using video, animation and consistent feedback. The training area provides a topic overview, animations and practice for that topic. The office area contains client cases. The user, in the role of a business consultant, works through cases in a virtual office setting, to reinforce the skills learned in the training area.
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Overpriced.......2007-02-27
The CD is a good introduction to Financial Accounting. I think it's overpriced for what you get though.
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* Discusses the important links among the accounting, corporate governance, and economic aspects of hedging.
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Title: Watching out for the alligators: Risk Management for fiduciaries.(Book review)(Book Review)
Author: Maryann Motza
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Government Finance Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: Government Finance Officers Association
Volume: 21
Issue: 2
Page: 59(2)
Article Type: Book Review
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Planetary Petrtology and Geochemistry: The Lawrencea. Taylor 60th Birthday (International book series)
Gregory A. Snyder
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Microscopic and Spectroscopic Imaging of the Chemical State (Practical Spectroscopy)
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Presents chemical state imaging methods useful on distance scales ranging from individual atoms to millimeters. This work is intended for chemists familiar with modern spectroscopies, but includes tutorial material on basic imaging processes for those with little background in the field.
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An introduction to the theory of Cartesian tensors, this text notes the importance of the analysis of the structure of tensors in terms of spectral sets of projection operators as part of the very substance of quantum theory. Covers isotropic tensors and spinor analysis within the confines of Euclidean space; and tensors in orthogonal curvilinear coordinates. Examples. 1960 edition.
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Introduction to Vectors and Cartesian Tensors
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In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex, thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific, was rammed by an angry sperm whale. The Essex sank, leaving twenty crew members floating in three small boats for ninety days. The incident was the Titanic story of its day, and provided the inspiration for Melville's Moby-Dick. The Narrative of the Wreck of the Whaleship Essex, by the ship's first mate, Owen Chase, has long been the fundamental account of the Essex's doomed voyage. But in 1980, a new account of the disaster was discovered, penned by Thomas Nickerson, the fifteen-year-old cabin boy who was steering the ship when the whale attacked. Now, Nickerson's harrowing tale can be read alongside Chase's in one authoritative edition, which includes more than a dozen other accounts from articles and newspapers, many of which have never appeared in book form.
"Here lay our beautiful ship, a floating and dismal wreck . . . at least six hundred miles from the nearest land and that land, too, in a direction rendering it impossible of aproach, being directly to the windward of us. And as the trade winds blow in the same direction the whole year around, this, of course, left us no hope in that direction. Our only chance was in a more distant land, in a more favorable position."--Thomas Nickerson
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Complete Collection of Personal Accounts of Essex Tragedy.......2002-08-21
This a terrific collection of personal accounts gathered together for the first time in one volume. For well over a century Owen Chase's story of the sinking of the whaleship Essex has been the only firsthand documented account. Now side by side with Chase's tale is fellow shipmate Thomas Nickerson's account of the sinking and trial of the Essex crew lost at sea. As is to be expected, the style of the period makes itself felt throughout via word choice, spelling, etc. but more so in Mr. Chase's recounting. The real gem in this volume is Nickerson's retelling of the tale from his point of view, in spite of the strange twists of phrase his warmth and humor show through. If you enjoyed Philbrick's "In the Heart of the Sea" and want to delve a little deeper and explore some of his resources this is the perfect place to start.
Wonderful material on the worst whaling tragedy of the 1800s.......2000-10-10
This book is a collection of accounts, remarks, annotations, and letters from the people involved in the tragedy, their rescuers, and other notable persons, which paints a vivid portrayal of the life of a Nantuckett whaler in the 1800's.
After having killed off the whale population in the Atlantic, the New England whale ships pushed farther into the ocean to find their prey - the spermacetti whale. Hunting grounds in the Pacific were discovered and, after a year's journey rounding South America in which it lost half of its boats in a sudden gale, the whale ship Essex set out to fill its hold with the valuable whale oil armed with only 3 small boats. During a hunt, one of the boats was stove by the death throes of a speared sperm whale and returned to the ship. While enacting repairs, the pings of the first mate's hammer attracted the attention of a large bull sperm whale, a creature uniquely designed for ramming. The bull made two charges, collapsing the bow of the ship on either side of the keel, and 20 men found themselves alone, in 3 open boats, deep in the heart of the blue Pacific, with only faint hopes of rescue.
The Essex did not sink immediately, and the men were able to salvage a few casks of water, some navigational instruments, and hard biscuits (which would later be fouled by ocean spray and induce dehydration in the men). The first mate also had paper and pencil, which he used for keeping a daily diary of their attempts to survive the ravages of storms, thirst, hunger, and attacks by killer whales and large sharks.
I read this book prior to reading "In The Heart of The Sea", also by Nathaniel Philbrick, and I was glad I did. The first-person narratives really bring home the tale, and Philbrick's other book helps fill in the historical background. I would recommend reading this book with a good atlas, so that you can plot the narrator's progress as he tries to bring his ship to South America, against the wind, the current, and his dwindling strength, and realize just how screwed these sailors really were.
Survivors Rule.......2000-07-06
I fall immediately under the spell of good sea stories. Essex is among the frontranks. Phibrick supplies a richly textured background to his subject. The author always respects his readers curiousity and interest. He presents various theories and sociological information in an even handed and non judgemental manner. My only regret was the unresolved nature of the ending. I sensed the author had run out of interest towards the end. Yet one must admit that life has a way of being existential and not part of a process but punctuated by moments of crisis and survival. One is left with a greater respect for men and whales.
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Excellent primary text....a relevation....an astonishing find..........2007-03-08
I re-read Moby Dick every year, and along with Charles Olson's "The Stormy Petrel and the Whale. Some Origins of Moby-Dick" Thomas Nickerson's THE LOSS OF THE SHIP " ESSEX" SUNK BY A WHALE AND THE ORDEAL OF THE CREW IN OPEN BOATS are the best texts for approaching the Essex tragedy and the poetics that led to the creation of Moby Dick.
Olson's voice is that of the poet, but a poet contemplating the plot of the prose poem Moby Dick.
Nickerson's voice is narrative memory, filled with 19th century language, subtlety, occasional lapses of education but then breathtaking prose. What is most stark is when Nickerson holds pain and passion in check and records with as much control as he can the bizarre and violent behaviour caused by the malnutrition magnesium deficiency of the crew, their trials with diarrhoea, blackouts, weakness, boils, and other maladies. And he records in detail their ultimate descent into cannibalism.
The Nantucket Historical Society should be applauded for their efforts in publishing this neglected monumental contribution to history and scholarship, and both economic historians and literary scholars of Melville will now enjoy decades of a refreshed primary source to engage their critical and scholarly analysis.
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Title: Nathaniel Philbrick: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.(The Loss of the Ship Essex: Sunk by a Whale)(Book review)
Author: Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
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Leviathan (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 8
Issue: 2
Page: 95(4)
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