Payroll Accounting: A Complete Guide to Payroll, 1999

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Accountant.......2000-01-14

Some data seem out-of-dated. For instance, dollars amount of weekly wage range for exempt employees on p. 12, are absolutely below the standard average. Is it still a valid data, according to the Law?

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Manager's Pocket Guide to Documenting Employee Performance
Terry L. Fitzwater
Manufacturer: HRD Press
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Binding: Paperback

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101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems

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Manager's Pocket Guide to Employee Relations

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Manager's Pocket Guide to Dealing with Conflict

ASIN: 0874254477

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This step-by-step guide will help you document and change unwanted work behaviors before they become issues leading to termination. It is presented in a format that is easy to understand and apply. The guide presents specific measures for accurate performance documentation that will protect your organization against discharge litigation. Includes information on

A four-step progressive discipline process and how to apply it
Clarifying gaps in execution vs. gaps in knowledge
Self-discipline through PEP (Performance Enhancement Plan)
Clarifying position expectations to meet expected deliverables
Behavior modification through corrective, not punitive action
Development of a coaching leadership style
Performance process to isolate factors for improvement
A process for documenting performance issues
A look at the legal framework surrounding discipline
Pitfalls of the discipline process and how to avoid them

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Traditional American Farming Techniques remains as valuable today as when it was first published in 1916. More than a thousand pages brim with information - everything from the science behind crop rotation to the specifics of breeding better hogs; from raising perfect celery to maximizing yields in subtropical citrus groves; from growing and curing the best tobacco to making the best butter; from the care and management of draft animals to the details of replacing them with trucks and tractors; from improving farm soils to dealing with insect infestations and diseases of crops and livestock using methods today's organic farmers would recognize and approve.

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Best Book Available.......2006-01-31

This is the most extensive collection of agricultural knowledge over the past 100 years! Although much of the information seems quite dated, it is relevant seeing that many farming procedures today do not differ in techniques of the past. A good reference read as well for all of the "hobby farmers" and "professional farmers" alike

Old is new again........2003-01-07

Comprehensive work detailing many aspects of farming in the early 20th century. Reading it you find many of the same methods and techniques suggested in todays "sustainable agriculture" writings. For either a historical perspective or a practioner's this book is worth the money.

Traditional American Farming Techniques, Second Edition (Traditional)

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Traditional American Farming Techniques, Second Edition (Traditional)
Frank D. Gardner
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
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ASIN: 1599210797

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Traditional American Farming Techniques remains as valuable today as when first published in 1916. Its thousand pages brim with information, including many organic techniques. Topics covered range from crop rotation, raising vegetables, and maximizing yields to making butter, managing farm animals, maintaining tractors, and dealing with pests. With an inspiring new introduction from Mary Jane Butters, who praises the book as a “farming bible.”

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The failure of all attempts to unify gravitation with other fundamental interactions has lead to an abandonment of point particles and differentiable spacetime of General Relativity and Quantum Theory, including Quantum Field Theory. While Quantum Superstrings (or M-Theory) and other Quantum Gravity approaches work with a lattice like structure or extended objects, several unanswered questions remain.

The book describes another approach in which oscillators at the Planck scale from a background Quantum Vacuum are fundamental. We describe how this leads to the formation of the elementary particles, and also a cosmology that correctly predicted an accelerating Universe with a small cosmological constant, apart from other things.

In this context the nature of spacetime and gravitation are reexamined. While it is argued that spacetime has a chaotic underpinning on the one hand, gravitation has a distributional character on the other. It is shown how all these considerations are not only consistent but also explain several, otherwise unanswered features. Finally experimental tests for the near future are also discussed.

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As the world moves toward renewable energy sources to combat environmental and power distribution issues, there has been a resurgence of interest in induction generators, particularly in their use in wind and hydropower generation systems. Induction machines operating as generators are rugged and cost effective, and with recent advances in control and optimization, the control design aspects are now moving from the laboratory to the desks of practicing engineers. Renewable Energy Systems: Design and Analysis with Induction Generators presents the first comprehensive exposition of induction machines used for power generation. Focusing on renewable energy applications, the authors address virtually all aspects of the design, operation, and analysis of these systems, from the very basics to the latest technologies, including: · New methods of characteristics testing, aimed at reduced test time, precision, and automation · Reactive compensation techniques · Control, including scalar control, vector control, and optimization techniques for peak power tracking control · Interconnecting induction generators to the main grid · Behavior in the presence of switched and controlled electronic converters · Using PSPICE, MATLAB, PSIM, C, Pascal and Excel for modeling and simulation Robust, economical, and low maintenance, induction generators hold outstanding potential for helping to fulfill the world's energy needs. This book provides the background and the tools you need to begin developing power plants and become expert in the applications and deployment of induction generator systems.

Solutions Manual for Renewable Energy Systems; Design and Analysis with Induction Generators

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Solutions Manual for Renewable Energy Systems; Design and Analysis with Induction Generators
m. godoy simoes and felix a. farret
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000U3017Y

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crc press, 166 pages, lots of facts and figures. in depth.

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"I am just one of many who experienced life on a submarine during World War II. Silent Running is a story sincerely told—free of any revisionism or cynicism—and I commend Vice Admiral Calvert for sharing this dramatic personal account of that difficult and exciting time." —President George Bush

"Hardened old sub vet that I am, I still felt the need for two weeks R&R after reliving Jim's only too realistic war patrolling adventures." —C. W. Nimitz, Jr., Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.)

"I believe it is the best personal account yet written on U.S. submarine operations in the Second World War. [Calvert] writes with lucidity and a rare candor. We get an extraordinary sense of what it was like, feeling the tensions and emotions, sharing the successes and disappointments, ... This is a true story with teal people, always gripping and sometimes tender. It is exciting to read and hard to put down. —J. L. Holloway, Admiral, USN (Ret.) President, Naval Historical Society, Chief of Naval Operations, 1974-1978.

"I knew Jim Calvert Throughout the war, and in this book he has told the submarine story in a way that catches the flavor and tang of the real thing. This is the way it really was." —Frederick B. Warder, Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.) Legendary W.W. II skipper of the Seawolf.

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WWII action at it's best.......2005-06-04

This book is a real page turner. I couldn't put it down. Calvert really pulls you into the action. I picked up this book after reading "The Terrible hours" and found that I enjoyed reading about submarines. I've also just started playing "Silent Hunter III" and wanted to delve into the WWII submarine environment. This books definitely puts right along-side Calvert. I really enjoyed the growth that the book follows as Calvert graduates from the Naval Academy, gets assigned to a new submarine as it is being contructed. His writing style that takes you from a young green officer to an experienced submarine warrior is a very nice touch. This really portrays the building of his character. After reading about Swede Momsen and James Calvert, I am ready to start building a WWII submarine library.

Excellent.......2005-04-12

I'll echo much of what has already been written. This book is an excellent account of one man's experience with WW2 submarine operations. The author made it to the level of executive officer on a sub by the end of the war (and went on to even more interesting events as told in his other book "Surface at the Pole").

The author writes clearly, interestingly, and honestly. The author covers most of his patrols (of nine if I remember correctly) in detail and even some of his personal events while on shore. He covers everything from the horror of being depth charged to the boredom and tedium of patrol.

Overall the author provides an interesting and enlightening account of US Submarine operations and what it was like to serve on a US submarine in WW2.

Outstanding .......2005-03-22

Great read.

As the only prior reviewer who failed to give it five stars noted , it is written in a very straightforward style. Most of the discussions regarding emotions are off the boat. It is not Tom Clancey but rather an account of real heros, fighting an extremely dangerous war, 8,000 miles from home and often hundreds of miles from any friendly ship.

I found the book captivating but it does require the reader to put himself into the account rather than having the book reach out to the reader with pages of descriptions of fear soaked sweat dripping from frightened sailors.

It is a book about the true meaning of being a warrior at sea, combat leadership, life aboard one of the best attack submarines, wartime love and the emotional conflicts and the technology of the era.

The book is also about the endurance of the men who sailed on the submarines. Although the author does not dwell on the issue, due to the importance of their effort the subs were only allowed to remain in port for the few weeks it took to attend to the most critical reparis and replenishment. Then they returned to a very dangerous mission which began almost as they left port.

It's also a reminder of how much the strategy of submarine warfare has changed as our WW2 subs had very limited range and speed while submerged.

The author's story of their premature entry into Tokyo was great.

He only devotes a few words in the afterword to cover the balance of his distinguished military career which had seemed doomed by their prank trip to Tokyo.

This one really stands out........2005-01-26

This memoir is particularly well-written. It accomplishes the expected by displaying day-to-day life on a US submarine in WWII, but it does more by really capturing the voice of an innocent young man who still has a lot to learn about the world.

Calvert went on to quite a distinguished career in the Navy, but this book never hints at that, instead it paints a portrait of a very specific period of time in the author's life and doesn't bog the reader down with too much 20/20 hindsight and reflections, instead relaying the feeling of being in your early 20s and being involved in one of the highest-stakes contests ever fought in human history.

If you like memoirs, history, or WWII, this is a very well-told story that will appeal to you.

Gripping and Emotionally Moving.......2004-06-14

This could have easily been a dull and difficult read, but Calvert was not a dull man. To the contrary, this story puts you right in the action. Just like the AAF's B-24 Liberator bombers, the naval subs were often just as dangerous to our soldiers as the enemy was. Especially at the beginning of their service, Calvert shares how the Jack had many problems with its engines, at one point nearly getting stranded with no operable engines. On top of that, they had to endure intense depth charging. With all of this action, it's hard to relax - even while in the comfort of an armchair.

More than just a military tale, however; Silent Running has a real human side. Calvert takes the reader deep into his personality, allowing us to share in his fear and his courage. It is also a story of love and a sailor's struggle to stay faithful to his wife while facing death in a cruel war far from home. As he prevails over all, we are shown the tremendous character and tenacity of the men and women that fought and won the "Greatest War".

If you like this book, you must rent/buy/watch Das Boot (The Boat) directed by Wolfgang Petersen. Although, it is told from the perspective of the German submarine crew, it is a great aid to visualizing the experience of 1930-40's submarine warfare conditions and technology. It is, also, considered one of the greatest WWII movies made to date.

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Silent Running: My Years on a World War II Attack Submarine
James F. Calvert
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N6XY4K

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After more than fifty years of good health, anthropologist Paul Stoller suddenly found himself diagnosed with lymphoma. The only thing more transformative than his fear and dread of cancer was the place it ultimately took him: twenty-five years back in time to his days as an apprentice to a West African sorcerer, Adamu Jenitongo. Stranger in the Village of the Sick follows Stoller down this unexpected path toward personal discovery, growth, and healing. The stories here are about life in the village of the healthy and the village of the sick, and they highlight differences in how illness is culturally perceived. In America and the West, illness is war; we strive to eradicate it from our bodies and lives. In West Africa, however, illness is an ever-present companion, and sorcerers learn to master illnesses like cancer through a combination of acceptance, pragmatism, and patience. Stoller provides a view into the ancient practices of sorcery, revealing that as an apprentice he learned to read divining shells, mix potions, and recite incantations. But it wasn't until he got cancer that he realized that sorcery embodied a more profound meaning, one that every person could use: "Sorcery is a body of knowledge and practice that enables one to see things clearly and to walk with confidence on the path of fear."

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Conflict casts a spell.......2005-06-09

F. Scott Fitzgerald once said that "life was something you dominated if you were any good." Harry Crews noted in his book "A Childhood: The Biography of a Place" that "survival is triumph enough."

Author Paul Stoller's memoir of his cancer diagnosis and treatment wanders the vast middle ground between these two poles. And while you can't argue success in that he did get well from his lymphoma, as a reader I often wished he would "fish or cut bait" and for that reason I gave this meandering book three stars.

Stoller practiced and witnessed the powerful effects of sorcery to heal or to hurt while on an anthropology research mission in the African bush early in his career. It's a riveting story that Stoller has told before in some of his other books.

But that forceful and richly-detailed storytelling is incompatible with his modern-day story about the Western medicines used to diagnose and treat his illness. Stoller practices the beliefs of sorcery without embracing the practice. It casts a bad spell over his story since it seems ridiculous to separate beliefs from practice - something even the sorcerers told him. His conflicted character dominates this work.

Conflict may have been the center of Stoller's illness but it really shouldn't have been at the center of his triumphant recovery.

A unique ability to handle cancer's special challenges.......2004-10-10

Cancer and sorcery would not seem words to be used in the same subtitle at all, yet yoga-practicing anthropologist and sorcerer Paul Stoller found himself in an unusual position when diagnosed with lymphoma, and used the lessons of West African life and health to beat his disease. Ironically, the Songhay sorcery he studied professionally led to a unique ability to handle cancer's special challenges, and his lessons are imparted in Stranger In The Village Of The Sick, a deft blending of autobiographical memoir and anthropological healing insight.

Stranger in a strange land.......2004-08-30

"Stranger in the Village of the Sick" is a memoir by anthropologist Paul Stoller about his experiences as a newly-diagnosed cancer patient. He juxtaposes with these with reflections on his earlier experiences as a student of sorcery in Africa. In 2001, the previously healthy Stoller was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma (slow-growing follicular B-cell lymphoma to be exact). As for many--if not most--cancer sufferers, this diagnosis came like a bolt out of the blue, causing the author to reevaluate his life, his experiences, and his way of looking at the world. As Stoller notes, his form of cancer is ultimately "incurable" but at the same time, "highly treatable." In other words, Stoller was told, he coulld, with treatment, expect many more years of active life. Stoller underwent cutting-edge chemotherapy, which put his disease into remission.

The facts of Stoller's diagnosis and treatment provide only the bare bones of the book. Most people find it impossible to confront a potentially lethal disease without having their view of themselves and their lives changed. For many, this leads to a deepening sense of the spiritual and an appreciation of the moment. For the author, it led him to return to his memories of earlier anthropological fieldwork among the Songhay of Niger. As a young man, he had several extraordinary and frightening encounters with sorcerers. He developed a healthy respect for their powers and become an apprentice sorcerer himself. His book, "In Sorcery's Shadow" (with Cheryl Olkes) was the result of that experience. As he notes, he THOUGHT he understood the Songhay worldview and the way of Songhay sorcery.

But, as Stoller discovered, his earlier understandings of Songhay sorcery and society were only superficial. As a young man, he had been incapable of grasping the deeper philosophical currents. As he went through his diagnosis and treatment, his earlier Songhay mentor, Adamu Jenitongo resurfaced in dreams and memories. Stoller found himself recalling his earlier experiences and comparing Songhay attitudes toward life, death, and illness with those of modern American society. He found much of value in the stoic Songhay attitude toward the hardships of life. According to an incantation Stoller had been taught by his mentor, men have "thirty points of misfortune" and women "forty." Each point is a crossroads, where each person must decide which new path to choose and how to travel it. Songhay accept that these cannot be avoided and, in fact, that illness and misfortune are always present. This, as Stoller explains, is very unlike American views, in which illness is not a normal part of life, but instead, something that must be fought and eradicated. Stoller also points to the social web that ties Songhay society together far more tightly than do similar ties of family and friendship in the United States. Looking again at an incantation that he has known for years, he comes to a new understanding of how the Songhay view themselves as part of an ongoing stream of existence and how this perspective influences their lives.

There is much to recommend in "Stranger in the Village of the Sick." Stoller's parallel accounts of his experiences as American patient and Songhay sorcerer's apprentice are fascinating, although at times the juxtaposition seems a little contrived. As an anthropologist, Stoller';s insights on the American health care system and American attitudes towards cancer are interesting, although not especially startling to those who have done work in the area. But his comparison of Songhay attitudes and American is invaluable. As is normal for most members of most cultures, we forget that there are other ways of seeing the world. Although most American cancer patients will find Songhay ways foreign, there are still elements of wisdom in the Songhay perspective. Whatever Stoller's ultimate fate, he has done a service in writing of his experiences

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