Contribution margin accounting for small business.: An article from: The National Public Accountant

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Title: Contribution margin accounting for small business.
Author: John P. Walker
Publication: The National Public Accountant (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 1990
Publisher: National Society of Public Accountants
Volume: v35 Issue: n9 Page: p48(7)

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Direct Cost and Contribution Accounting (Wiley Series on Systems & Controls for Financial Management)

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Direct Cost and Contribution Accounting (Wiley Series on Systems & Controls for Financial Management)
G. Boer
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The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning presents an innovative approach that accelerates the transfer and application of corporate learning. The Six Disciplines provides the definitive road map and tools for optimizing the business impact of leadership and management training, sales, quality, performance improvement, and individual development programs. This important book presents the theories and techniques behind the approach and includes expert advice for bridging the “learning-doing” gap. The authors’ recommendations are illustrated with dozens of real-life examples from successful companies on the cutting edge of results-driven educational performance.

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Holy Grail of corporate learning strategy .......2006-10-22

I couldn't stop reading this book, it is a must for all people involved in corporate education. The simplified 6 D's set the tone/workframe for a compatible learning strategy that enbales organizations to maximize the value of their training investments. Full of useful tips, mine was the Impact Map where they explain how to follow up on the learning activities. The 6 D's are:

1- Define Outcomes in Business Terms
2- Design the Complete Experience
3- Deliver for Application
4- Drive Follow-Through
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Expert advice on selecting breeds, caring for chicks, producing eggs, raising broilers, feeding, troubleshooting, and much more.

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Didn't work for my learning style .......2007-07-18

I have been wanting to raise chickens for a very long time. I had this book for almost two years before I actually got chickens, and having had them for a month now, I've decided to give up on this book as it has helped me very little. I would expect books like these to have a more engaged percpeption of nature.
Unfortunately disappointing for me.

Nice and simple for the beginner.......2007-06-01

Good and simple book for the beginner. Helps you see that taking care of chickens is well within anyone's budget and time, no matter if you're living in the city or the country. Highly recommended!

Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens.......2007-05-12

The book was very concise and the information was very understandable. The layout of the book was excellent. It answered all of my questions. I recommend this book to those you are just beginning to raise chickens.

Helped a city slicker like me.......2007-04-12

Being raised in a city and not knowing what a real chicken looked like,
I needed some help before engaging in my new hobby of raising chickens.
I bought this book upon recommendation from others and overall am very
pleased. The book covers a lot of topics, many of which are not applicable
to me (how to slaughter and remove feathers, showing your chickens) but
I am glad the info is in there. Some people complain that there are not
color pictures of various breeds, but I didn't need that and you can look
online for nice pictures. My chicks are now 8 weeks old and healthy and
I am sure I owe a lot of it to this book.

Awesome source of info!!!.......2007-04-11

I bought this just after ordering my chickens from an online hatchery(which by the way had excellent customer service and all the chicks arrived healthy). I have read the book from cover to cover and feel confident that I will be able to raise healthier happier chickens because I have this book. The only thing I wish it had was colored photos of the different breeds. enjoy!!!

A Guide to Raising Chickens: Care, Feeding, Facilities (Storey Animal Handbook)

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My Chicken Bible
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Comprehensive, well-organised, and very readable.

A Guide to Raising Chickens: Care, Feeding, Facilities (Storey Animal Handbook)
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Expert advice on selecting breeds, caring for chicks, producing eggs, raising broilers, feeding, troubleshooting, and much more.

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My Chicken Bible.......2007-05-02

I hardly ever make a move with my chickens nowdays without checking this book again. It has more rips and dents, water stains, (and maybe even some chicken poop on it) Than any other book in my library. Once you buy this book, you will not be able to box it up or give it away!

Chicken.......2002-10-04

This is the most helpfull refference book Ive ever bought. It got me started on my poultry prodject for 4-H and has helped me for three years to continue to learn. Every time I've had a problem It or Dammero's other books has solved it. As the title sugjests it covers every aspect of raising poultry. I would sugjest this book for a beginner to a experienced poultry farmer. This book has been abig help.

An In-depth and Comprehensive Guide.......2000-09-12

Intrigued by the notion of fresh eggs and chicken provençale every Sunday, I bought this book to see exactly what raising chickens entailed. I was pleased to see that the book covers all aspects of the process. This is probably the most comprehensive book available on the subject.

However, it will also open the eyes of anyone with romantic notions of chicken raising (like me). Personally, I've decided to stick to store bought. But for anyone serious about raising chickens, the purchase of this book is money very well spent.

My First Reference.......2000-05-20

I was a beginner and this book worked well for me. This book explains everything from incubation to chicks to health management, all at a beginners level. Highly recommend this book if your working on your first brood.

Comprehensive, well-organised, and very readable........2000-03-15

My 9-year-old daughter wants to raise chickens, and we bought this book to find out how to proceed. It has answered every question we had, and many we didn't know to ask! The book is so clear and easy to read, that my daughter read it cover to cover. But don't get the impression it is written for kids; it is intended for an adult reader, and has all the detail you could want.

This is an excellent piece of work, with information on every aspect of chicken raising from housing and disease prevention to the general management of a flock. It covers all the aspects of raising chickens from nearly every point of view: the backyard flock, small-time commercial operation, and show birds. Everything is written clearly and well-illustrated, and even sprinkled with occasional gentle touches of humor! An excellent reference book for any chicken owner to keep on their shelf.

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This latest edition of the proven and comprehensive treatment on the topic -- from the bestselling author of "Tapestry of Modern Astrophysics" -- has been updated and revised to reflect the newest research results. Suitable for AS0000 and AS0200 courses, as well as advanced astrophysics and astronomy lectures, this is an indispensable theoretical backup for studies on celestial body formation and astrophysics. Includes exercises with solutions.

An Introduction to Astrophysical Hydrodynamics

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Great as a teaching reference, but not as a stand alone text - way too broad

An Introduction to Astrophysical Hydrodynamics
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This book is an introduction to astrophysical hydrodynamics for both astronomy and physics students. It provides a comprehensive and unified view of the general problems associated with fluids in a cosmic context, with a discussion of fluid dynamics and plasma physics. It is the only book on hydrodynamics that addresses the astrophysical context. Researchers and students will find this work to be an exceptional reference. Contents include chapters on irrotational and rotational flows, turbulence, magnetohydrodynamics, and instabilities.

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Great as a teaching reference, but not as a stand alone text - way too broad.......2006-07-28

The level of this text lies somewhere in between a basic text on hydrodynamics and an advanced reference of use to graduate students and professionals. The author starts by deriving the basic equations of hydrodynamics, then discusses individual topics such as viscosity, supersonic flow, turbulence, and MHD. Some typical astrophysical examples of each of these phenomenon follow the basic discussion. This is not a good text from which to learn hydrodynamics. Fundamentally, way too much material is covered in this text, none of it very deeply. It is just too broad in my opinion. For teaching an undergraduate course, one would be much better off with a more conventional introductory fluid mechanics text such as Batchelor, perhaps gearing some of the lectures to the dynamics of compressible fluids. Basic ideas of hydrodynamics get lost in a sea of astrophysical applications. For a graduate level course, this book has some limitations as well as it doesn't really take the student close to the level of current research. This is only the starting point for an advanced student. One thing I found really annoying about this text was that the author spent too much time trying to write cute phrases (one section is entitled `A Quodlibet of Applications of Shocks to Astrophysical Problems', for example). This is a great reference/supplement for someone who is teaching a course in astrophysical hydrodynamics for ideas about topics and problems to discuss. A better title for this book may be `An Intermediate Survey of Topics in Astrophysical Hydrodynamics'.

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Steven N. Shore
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This book describes the current status and results of photoelectron spectroscopic techniques, both theoretical and experimental, that have been applied to the study of the cuprate ("high-temperature") superconductors. The techniques described include angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of valence electrons, core level spectra (XPS), and some special variations, such as resonance photoemission. Attention is paid to the difficulties in interpreting such spectra and to the problems obtaining good sample surfaces and high resolution, comparing results from other experimental techniques as well. The authors also outline expected future developments in the techniques. This book will be of great interest to graduate students and researchers in physics, chemistry and materials science with an interest in high temperature superconductors.

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The most complete manual of its kind, this handy book gives you all the formulas and calculations you are likely to need in drilling operations. New updated material includes conversion tables into metric. Separate chapters deal with calculations for drilling fluids, pressure control, and engineering. Example calculations are provided throughout.

Presented in easy-to-use, step-by-step order, Formulas and Calculations is a quick reference for day-to-day work out on the rig. It also serves as a handy study guide for drilling and well control certification courses. Virtually all the mathematics required out on the drilling rig is here in one convenient source, including formulas for pressure gradient, specific gravity, pump output, annular velocity, buoyancy factor, volume and stroke, slug weight, drill string design, cementing, depth of washout, bulk density of cuttings, and stuck pipe.

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All What you need and more.......2007-01-18

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Norton Lapeyrouse has done a good job accumulating those hard to formulas that you need in the middle of the night. We have all been on location and needed to calculate some aspect in drilling of a well and can't remember the exact formula. Well this book has just about everything you want. It ranks up there with Service Company's Tech Facts books and a more.

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Oliver Sacks's luminous memoir charts the growth of a mind. Born in 1933 into a family of formidably intelligent London Jews, he discovered the wonders of the physical sciences early from his parents and their flock of brilliant siblings, most notably "Uncle Tungsten" (real name, Dave), who "manufactured lightbulbs with filaments of fine tungsten wire." Metals were the substances that first attracted young Oliver, and his descriptions of their colors, textures, and properties are as sensuous and romantic as an art lover's rhapsodies over an Old Master. Seamlessly interwoven with his personal recollections is a masterful survey of scientific history, with emphasis on the great chemists like Robert Boyle, Antoine Lavoisier, and Humphry Davy (Sacks's personal hero). Yet this is not a dry intellectual autobiography; his parents in particular, both doctors, are vividly sketched. His sociable father loved house calls and "was drawn to medicine because its practice was central in human society," while his shy mother "had an intense feeling for structure ... for her [medicine] was part of natural history and biology." For young Oliver, unhappy at the brutal boarding school he was sent to during the war, and afraid that he would become mentally ill like his older brother, chemistry was a refuge in an uncertain world. He would outgrow his passion for metals and become a neurologist, but as readers of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat know, he would never leave behind his conviction that science is a profoundly human endeavor. --Wendy Smith

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Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals–also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, the author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded.

In Uncle Tungsten we meet Sacks’ extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother (who introduces the fourteen-year-old Oliver to the art of human dissection) and his father, a family doctor who imbues in his son an early enthusiasm for housecalls, to his “Uncle Tungsten,” whose factory produces tungsten-filament lightbulbs. We follow the young Oliver as he is exiled at the age of six to a grim, sadistic boarding school to escape the London Blitz, and later watch as he sets about passionately reliving the exploits of his chemical heroes–in his own home laboratory. Uncle Tungsten is a crystalline view of a brilliant young mind springing to life, a story of growing up which is by turns elegiac, comic, and wistful, full of the electrifying joy of discovery.

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Uncle Oliver.......2007-07-19

The relationship between uncle and nephew is the most precious. Why? Because nephews confide in uncles like they don't confide in a father or mother. And uncles are sort of pseudo fathers to nephews. The responsibility of an uncle is not less than a father: to inspire and stimulate the child wherever he resists parental influence. I would imagine the rapport between an aunt and a niece is the same way, looking up to the corresponding role model and same sex mentor.

Although Dr. Sacks paints a portrait of his extended family in this book, his Uncle Dave "Tungsten" is highlighted as an important source of inspiration. His retelling of his childhood and adolescence is fascinating. This is a beautiful book, sometimes overwhelming when scientific lingo becomes predominant but very warm and engaging. Even with a poor knowledge in chemistry -- my case -- it's immensely enjoyable. Dr. Sacks' childhood memories are colorful, jam-packed, very serious at times but also humorous, a bit like John Boorman's movie "Hope and Glory".

I wish all children were introduced to science like this!.......2007-05-15

Sigh...as a science educator who sees students turned off of science in spite of it being much more interesting and useful then English and history, it's frustrating to read about a child whose family managed to convey the fun of science. I've enjoyed Oliver Sacks books so much. He is such a great person, a great neurologist, a great writer who manages to introduce the world to his scientific world and keep them interested. Too bad we cannot get someone like Sacks to write some of our textbooks because they are too dry, without showing the practical applications of the science. Sack's was lucky in having a family with immense background in the sciences, who spent their entire lives performing or doing science in some way. Very few of us have access to the equipment and the materials needed to do lab science at home, but Sacks did have access to this stuff and he certainly made the most of it.

Sack's stories include information about his big family and their great variety of work in the sciences. His descriptions of his family members, his memories are filled with both love and awe for their patience with him and his interests in sciences which sometimes were not the same as theirs (his mom and dad wanted him to be a physician, and not a chemist).

Sack's books are usually compendiums of short stories, which make for interesting reading. He has had so many intriguing forays into different fields of chemistry, and his ability to remember the textbooks and the books that famous scientists from that golden age in England and Germany are phenomenal in the recall. I remember the teacher in science who made such an impact on my perception of science, and I am only too aware of how short we are in obtaining good science teachers and introducing science programs into public schools. Maybe reading this book will encourage other young people with talent to look into science as a career possibility.

Karen L. SAdler

Memory is Precious.......2007-03-15

I loved reading this book for multiple reasons, but I will restrict myself to mentioning two. The first is that it is a well constructed story with excellent writing---a combination I cannot resist. The narrative moves at a pace to engage and captivate the reader without making the story just a rush to get to the next page. Writing that is thoughtful makes sure that the reader will savor and think about the events presented. This is worth a read merely to have the understanding of one more perspective presented well.

But there is more to the book that makes me give this an enthusiastic five stars. As a chemist I was delighted to read a book that gave insight into this space of history of the chemistry profession. The history is two-fold: first it is a history of childhood enthusiasm for science and second it is a history of chemistry in the middle of the 1900s. many a child is enthusiastic about something. For all those children who loved science but never had the means to explore this book will bring sadness at what they lost for not being given such freedom and support. But the book also brings joy at reading that someone, somewhere had the chance to be the brilliant child you always thought you were. Today we highly restrict certain chemicals and also have an emphasis on safety in working with all chemicals. Sacks presents a time period when chemistry and science in general was done with little concern for safety. Instead of glossing over things Sacks presents information and experiments without deluding the reading into thinking it was perfectly safe.

This book is an excellent exploration of multiple themes that are well worth thinking about. I challenge anyone to read it and not find something in it that doesn't provoke some thoughts about what you are doing now with what you are enthusiastic about or what you loved childhood and now have lost as an adult.

If you rated it poorly, you'll never understand........2006-07-15

I ran across this book quite by accident, on the bottom shelf of the Engineering section in the bowels of a major brick-and-mortar bookstore. Perusing the first few pages convinced me to give it a try. I was hooked, and devoured the book in two nights.

There are enough reviews here to give you a feel for the book. My only point for writing this is that those who have given the book poor reviews simply don't "get it", nor, likely, shall they. If you grew up with an avid interest in what makes the world work, wore out VHS tapes of Cosmos, and were reading Gribbin, Rucker, and Asimov (nonfiction) in second grade, you "get it" and will adore this book. Sacks's voracious appetite for knowledge at this young age mirrored my own, and his enjoyment of discovery for discovery's sake made me nostalgic of my own youth within the first few pages - an amazing testimonial of the timelessness of his relevance, given the nearly-50-year difference in our ages.

Note: I'm a professional manager of computer geeks, not a chemist.

A Chemical Childhood.......2006-05-28

Oliver Sacks is one of my favorite authors and I especially like his autobiographical-chemical tome "Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood." I read it a while back and never reviewed it, but on the second reading while flying from El Paso, Texas, to Washington, DC, recently I was so delighted with it that I thought that I would put in my 2 cents worth.

I was lucky enough to meet Oliver Sacks about the time I read this book the first time and had a chance to talk with him (with a group of students) for a few minutes after his lecture. He is certainly a very interesting man and well versed in a number of fields.

His book on his early life and his association with chemistry as a nearly all consuming hobby was in many ways somewhat echoed in my own childhood- except I became consumed by both astronomy and chemistry in my teens. Still, like Sacks, I performed a number of experiments with a friend of mine that would now curl the hair of any parent, and in the process learned a lot about chemistry (it was my favorite science after biological sciences in college). Also like Sacks I became a biological scientist, but in a different specialty. Unfortunately I had no relatives who remotely understood my interests and I do envy him for his uncles and even his parents, who were not always so supportive, but did give him a love of learning and science.

Sacks has written an account of his early life with its sorrows (being sent away to a boarding school run by a sadistic head master during the Blitz in London) and the ecstasies (chemistry, books, science history and even marine biology)of a young boy caught up in the pure love of science and life, despite the trials. The book is simply charming and shows what a resourceful child can do, even under often difficult times, to make his or her life interesting and even joyful.

I recommend this book highly. It will brighten up any reader's day.

Uncle Tungsten, Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (2001, Knopf) a Borzoi Book

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Enthralled by the Elements. (Chemistry).: An article from: American Scientist

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