Industrial production measurement in the United States: Concept, uses, and compilation practices: reply to an inquiry from the Economic Commission for Europe

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Industrial production measurement in the United States: Concept, uses, and compilation practices: reply to an inquiry from the Economic Commission for Europe
Clayton Gehman
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The journal of public inquiry (SuDoc PR 42.8/4:)
U.S. Postal Service
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A synthesis of and inquiry into the contribution of double-entry bookkeeping to capitalism (Working paper - Academy of Accounting Historians)
James L Strachan
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Inquiry into the conduct of public business of the municipality of Calgary: The report of the honourable Mr. Justice W.G. Morrow
William George Morrow
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The Preparation of attorneys' responses to audit letter inquiries
George A Blackstone
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Accounting and Science: Natural Inquiry and Commercial Reason (Cambridge Studies in Management)
Michael Power
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521553253

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This volume is concerned with the intellectual intersections between the history and sociology of science and the history and sociology of accounting. The various chapters describe a broad shift from concerns for the scientific credentials of accounting to a recognition of the constitutive role that accounting plays for science. They explore the links between the ideals of scientific objectivity and different administrative and political values, look at laboratory practice in social context, and evaluate the emerging interest in the economics of science. The volume as a whole considers the implications of accounting for science, particularly given recent initiatives in the industrialized world to make science more accountable.

Campaign finance Congressional inquiries and related costs (SuDoc GA 1.13:AIMD-98-316 R)

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Campaign finance Congressional inquiries and related costs (SuDoc GA 1.13:AIMD-98-316 R)
U.S. General Accounting Office
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A critical inquiry into feasibility studies for automated business systsms;: A dissertation presented to the faculty of the Graduate School of the University ... for the degree of Doctor of philosophy

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A critical inquiry into feasibility studies for automated business systsms;: A dissertation presented to the faculty of the Graduate School of the University ... for the degree of Doctor of philosophy
Gordon Lloyd Nielsen
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Evolution of the Quality Control Inquiry Committee of the SEC Practice Section of the American Institute of CPAs

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New Irish Novel: Hugh O'Donnell's: '11 Emerald Street'
New Irish Novel: Hugh O'Donnell's '11 Emerald Street'

Evolution of the Quality Control Inquiry Committee of the SEC Practice Section of the American Institute of CPAs
R. K Mautz
Manufacturer: Public Oversight Board
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Marking the debut of a formidable new Irish writer, 11 Emerald Street is the story of an enchanting young Dublin boy, Robbie. His world, particularly the hospital with its heart-rending inmates and lascivious nurses, is brilliantly created.

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New Irish Novel: Hugh O'Donnell's: '11 Emerald Street'.......2004-05-11

Now listen to me, Mr Hugh O'Donnell. I'm a very busy man. I'm not important, I'm just busy. I only read novels during my summer holidays beside a swimming pool somewhere very warm. Somebody told me I had to read '11 Emerald Street' so I gave in to temptation and reluctantly abandoned marking mounds of exercise books and writing politically correct, positively motivating, reports on two hundred teenagers' academic progress.

Eight hours later I was fecken knackered. For the uninitiated, this is an Irish technical term describing a level of exhaustion reached when you're still reading at three in the morning even though you know you have to go tearing down the motorway at 6.55am to beat the worst excesses of the traffic at the M60/M61 Interchange.

I couldn't put the book down. I was pulled into the pages of the story and transported back to the Dublin of my childhood forty years ago. You're hooked from the very first page. Our hero, Robbie is sat in class and his teacher, Brother Finch, is a terrifying bully about to pounce on any poor eejet who looks crooked at him. If you haven't sat in a class like that, you haven't lived. Robbie survives to take us on a journey through the streets of Dublin and lets us peep into the world of his family, friends and enemies. The Demon Drink is ever present but somehow manages to avoid brutalising the story or stereotyping half the nation.

Hugh O'Donnell's skill in story-telling is that he remembers the little things we've long since forgotten and he brings them back to life in minute detail, almost in a stream of consciousness technique. At times he is weaving little anecdotes together to make sure we see Robbie and his family as real three-dimensional characters, the next minute he's painting detailed word-pictures of the whole neighbourhood.

Robbie's most endearing quality is the fact that he accurately recounts events for us so that we fully understand golliwogs and other facts of life, but he hasn't the foggiest idea of the deeper significance of the observations he makes. He is an innocent abroad and consequently causes havoc wherever he goes.
Humour leaps out at you. In fact, most of the time it's controlled, steady, but now and again, it catches you unawares and leaves you in hysterics. Wait 'til you read about the live goose in the parcel from Wexford...

And that's another startling thing that Hugh O'Donnell has done. He's captured the special relationship between the Dublin city dwellers and their families down the country. Those of us who emigrate to foreign shores leave behind our country and our loved ones. The move to Dublin from a farm in Kerry or Wexford is an equally traumatic and lonely experience. The writer gently touches on this theme and reminds us that the lines of communication between city and farm are still wide open.

Robbie's life is turned up side down when he suffers a head injury. His near-death experience has transformed him - he believes with a religious fervour that he has healing hands and he enthusiastically sets out to lay hands on those who need curing.

I got a bit of a fright at this point in the story. Was the author indulging in a little 'magic realism', was he asking us to suspend disbelief whilst he took the Irish novel to new areas? Had he created what a fella called Barth referred to as 'a text of bliss', a piece so difficult it almost defies comprehension? Rest easy, Hugh O'Donnell's feet are firmly on the ground. Robbie has total belief in his powers but to some extent, you're allowed to interpret the events in the rest of the story anyway you want. The humour remains but alongside the hilarity comes reality in the shape of suffering, often too close to Robbie for our comfort. If you want to know any more, buy the blooming book...

I loved the story because Hugh O'Donnell accurately re-creates the Dublin of the period, with its poverty, humour and its strength. It made me laugh, it made me think, it upset me. It allows fun to live alongside tragedy and permits our hero to grow up despite his best attempts to remain innocent. Buy the book now, especially if you have children at school. In a few short years, it will be on the secondary school Literature Syllabus in the English-speaking world and you can tell your hooligans you read it with weeks of it hitting the shops.

Well done, Hugh O'Donnell. don't publish anything for a few months. Let me get on with this marking...

New Irish Novel: Hugh O'Donnell's '11 Emerald Street'.......2004-05-10

I loved the story because Hugh O'Donnell accurately re-creates the Dublin of the period, with its poverty, humour and its strength. It made me laugh, it made me think, it upset me. It allows fun to live alongside tragedy and permits our hero to grow up despite his best attempts to remain innocent. Buy the book now, especially if you have children at school. In a few short years, it will be on the secondary school Literature Syllabus in Ireland, England and the States and you can tell your hooligans you read it with weeks of it hitting the shops.

Well done, Hugh O'Donnell. don't publish anything for a few months. Let me get on with this marking...

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Farm accounts and family budgets of cultivators in the Punjab 1954-55 (Board of Economic Inquiry, West Pakistan, Lahore. Publication)
Muhammad Shaffi Gill
Manufacturer: [s.n.]
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Self-Directed Work Teams: A Trainer's Role in the Transition
Ed Rose
Manufacturer: ASTD
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Leading Self-Directed Work Teams

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Empowered Teams: Creating Self-Directed Work Groups That Improve Quality, Productivity, and Participation (The Jossey-Bass Management)

ASIN: 1562861298

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Provide your organization with a blueprint for implementing self-directed work teams-the most productive and best held secret and organization can promote. Loaded with practical tips and strategies, explore a four-step process for managing cultural change to work team environment and keep the transition on track.

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The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the only book that teaches all the skills needed to live independently in harmony with the land harnessing natural forms of energy, raising crops and keeping livestock, preserving foodstuffs, making beer and wine, basketry, carpentry, weaving, and much more. This new edition includes 150 new full color illustrations and a special section in which John Seymour the father of the back to basics movement explains the philosophy of self-sufficiency and its power to transform lives and create communities. More relevant than ever in our high-tech world, The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the ultimate practical guide for realists and dreamers alike.

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Learn to live without fossil fuel.......2007-09-08

Great book for learning the basics of farm life. If you are getting started into the subject of sustainable living this is the perfect reference guide for you. You may require a companion book for plants more native to your climate (this book's perspective is in the UK). Insightful pictures and well written commentary make this book excel.

A well organized and complete guide.......2007-08-02

I was surprised to discover it is written sort of like a textbook. The more I look through it the more I like it. It's very practical and informative.

A Fun Coffee-Table Book.......2007-03-04

This book is great for just flipping through, day-dreaming about owning your own farm some day. Even for the current non-farmer, this book provides some practical tips on things almost anyone can do to be more self-sufficient. This book would be especially great for those who are intensive gardeners. But mostly this book provides ideas about certain aspects of self-sufficiency that the reader can then take and mold to their particular situation.

I'd like to address one point that some other reviewers have made in criticism of this book, namely that Seymour doesn't go into enough detail. Well, this is a coffee-table book that covers a fairly wide range of material. As such it can't (and shouldn't) go into deep detail. What Seymour does is get your imagination going. If you want to seriously implement some of Seymour's ideas you'll need to supplement this book with others that deal with the particular topic you're working on. To criticize Seymour for not going into detail on things is, I think, unfair.

This book would make a great gift for anyone who is interested in the self-sufficient lifestyle. I love flipping through the book whenever I feel like daydreaming about the fun work I hope to do some day on my own farm.

Extremely informative - Great reference.......2007-02-02

This book is an absolute necessity if you are going to be taking the plunge into self-sufficiency. It offers encouragement and guidance. It is realistic and full of traditional methods. It is a very handsome book, with lots of graphics and well written verse.

Simply cannot beat the price either. Simple, affordable, functional, and elegant - what self-sufficiency is all about.

Great Information.......2007-01-19

This book has a lot of information about self-sufficiency. It is great of anyone who is interested in becoming self-sufficient.

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Everything You Need To Know About Sky Watching and The Solar System, In One Package.

Starry Night has been created to give amateur sky watchers an easy and logical survey of what there is to see in the heavens and how to find it. The book explains what's out there, from the planets and other objects in our Solar System, to the constellations that fill the night skies, to far-distant objects such as quasars and galaxy clusters. It explains in simple text how the objects move through and about the sky, and how the movements of the Earth help create this perception. Starry Night lists key information about all of the constellations in the northern and southern skies visible in winter and in summer. Many easy-to-apply instructions are placed throughout the book for easy reference, such as figuring astronomical distances, how to view a solar eclipse, how to determine where the planets are in any given month, when and where to observe meteor showers, and how stars are named.

But the book is only half of the package. Its companion, the Starry Night disk, graphically displays all of the night sky objects an observer might want to view, from our Moon to the far reaches of our galaxy, and way beyond. The disk gives you information about how to properly use, align and focus your telescope, and shows what you should be able to view. You can tour the Solar System, the Milky Way Galaxy, and the distant universe without ever leaving your living room. Or, you can use this information to align and focus your backyard telescope to find precisely the object or phenomenon you wish to view. Want to see the rings of Saturn, the Orion constellation or the Horsehead Nebula? Read about it, find it on the disk, and view it in your own backyard.

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neat--the book and the cd-rom completely correlate.......2001-10-01

If you know nothing ABOUT STARGAZING, here's a chance to put your head and your PC together...the book is filled with sections that relate directly to the cd-rom enclosed. As a Mac user, it's nice to get a cross-platform product!

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An innovative, fascinating approach to an in-depth-study of electrocyclic reactions, a special case of the pericyclic reaction class. Theoretical methods at four different levels, namely, orbital symmetry conservation, the frontier orbital approach, Moebius-Hueckel and more sophisticated quantum-chemical methods, are used for the mechanistic investigation of these so-called 'no-mechanism' reactions. Each chapter details the underlying physico-chemical principles in a simplified, easy-to-follow manner and discusses latest advances in the field. A deeper knowledge of quantum mechanics is not required. Computer aided lessons containing animated models visualize and, such way, help to understand even more difficult mechanisms.

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This book presents 18 articles by prominent mathematicians, dedicated to the memory of Alexander Reznikov (1960-2003), a brilliant highly original mathematician with broad mathematical interests. In addition it contains an influential, so far unpublished manuscript of Reznikov of book length. The research articles broadly reflect the range of Reznikov's own interests in geometry, group and number theory, functional analysis, dynamical systems and topology. In addition, there are surveys "Geometrization of probability", "Kleinian groups in higher dimensions", "(C,F)-construction of funny rank-one actions for locally compact groups", and some articles centering on Reznikov as a person.

Spaces of Kleinian Groups (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series)

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Spaces of Kleinian Groups (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series)

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The subject of Kleinian groups and hyperbolic 3-manifolds is currently undergoing explosively fast development, the last few years having seen the resolution of many longstanding conjectures. This volume contains important expositions and original work by some of the main contributors on topics such as topology and geometry of 3-manifolds, curve complexes, classical Ahlfors-Bers theory, computer explorations and projective structures. Researchers in these and related areas will find much of interest here from the explosion in the area over recent years, including important and original research from leading names in the field.

Two-Generator Discrete Subgroups of Psl (2,R) (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society)

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Two-Generator Discrete Subgroups of Psl (2,R) (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society)
Jane Gilman
Manufacturer: Amer Mathematical Society
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The discreteness problem is the problem of determining whether or not a two-generator subgroup of $PSL(2, R)$ is discrete. Historically, papers on this old and subtle problem have been known for their errors and omissions. This book presents the first complete geometric solution to the discreteness problem by building upon cases previously presented by Gilman and Maskit and by developing a theory of triangle group shinglings/tilings of the hyperbolic plane and a theory explaining why the solution must take the form of an algorithm. This work is a thoroughly readable exposition that captures the beauty of the interplay between the algebra and the geometry of the solution.

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The Madonna of the St. Denis Bar-bq is a true account of a parent-child relationship, beginning with the details of the death of the author's mother, Belle-Moue, and tracing her history back, chapter by chapter, to her birth some decades earlier. It reads like modern-day fiction, scored with factual information. The theme is universal. Authors from different cultural backgrounds have written about the life and death of a parent: Simone de Beauvoir and Michael Ignatieff, among others, have recounted the mother-to-daughter, mother-to-son legacy.

The setting for the book is regional: it is the life story of a Québécoise, in la belle province, from 1988 back to 1909. The plot includes a distinct dimension — the veritable influence of religion and government on 20th century French Canada and on women in particular — a subject about which Huguette O'Neil writes with convincing authority. An award-winning author, she is also a journalist and served as Director of Information for the Quebec Council on the Status of Women.

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Thurgood Marshall : warrior at the bar, rebel on the bench / Michael D. Davis and Hunter R. Clark
Michael D. (1939-) Davis
Manufacturer: New York, N.Y. : Carol Pub. Group
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000XKJM4C

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Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench
Michael D. Davis , and Hunter R. Clark
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Great Book.......2003-05-17

Thurgood Marshall was a remarkable man and his contributions are equally remarkable. Although he was handed the baton by other leaders of the NAACP, he ran just as fast as they and achieved much more. I liked reading this book largely because I am a future lawyer and am interested in this sort of thing. This book was also written by lawyers and the quality of writing is a bit dull. However, if you are into reading this sort of book, I do recommend giving it a shot.

Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench. (book reviews): An article from: The Mississippi Quarterly

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Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench. (book reviews): An article from: The Mississippi Quarterly
Shirley J. Portwood
Manufacturer: Mississippi State University
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from The Mississippi Quarterly, published by Mississippi State University on March 22, 1994. The length of the article is 1363 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench. (book reviews)
Author: Shirley J. Portwood
Publication: The Mississippi Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1994
Publisher: Mississippi State University
Volume: v47 Issue: n2 Page: p346(5)

Article Type: Book Review

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