The Accountant's Handbook of Fraud and Commercial Crime

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Since the responsibility of detecting and preventing fraud now falls heavily on the accounting profession, the accountant needs this practical and complete tool for dealing with real and potential fraud. Helps accountants develop an investigative eye toward both internal and external fraud and provides information on how to cope with it when discovered. Preventive measures for avoiding fraud are also discussed. Contains forms, checklists and thoroughly tested material. Updates will include recent cases, new developments and new practice aids.

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Tedd Avey , Ted Baskerville , and Alan E. Brill
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This book examines work team coaching from the point of view of the workers, who address forty-five essential dos and don'ts. Their frank views are reinforced with vivid and memorable anecdotes from the workplace. The Dos and Don'ts of Work Team Coaching is intended to make the facilitator's job easier and enhance his or her ability to lead effectively.

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A very practical tool with good advice on work team coaching.......1999-01-25

This is a book you will probably want to buy in quantity. It's an affordable little 96-page compendium of the most relevant "Do's and Don'ts" of leading a group of people. What I like about this book is its simplicity. Each "Do" and each "Don't" is accompanied by a short story from real-life situations to help clarify the significant points. These are the issues that tend to get leaders in a lot of trouble, and Steve Herbelin has captured them nicely in this book.

Simple, direct, hits the target!.......1998-09-16

The dos and don'ts are direct, to the point and extremely practical for just about any kind of working environment. I especially like the abundance of true anecdotes that clarify and reinforce the points being made. I strongly recommend this book for team leaders as well as coaches!

Big things come in small packages!.......1998-09-12

I started reading this book with a bit of skepticism. After all, it's written by the workers. Right from the start, though, this book makes sense. Lots of sense. It presents a philosophical outlook on team leadership that gets to the core --- interpersonal relationships --- without using superficial analogies or inventing contrived structures. Just common sense about how to deal with people and situations in a real, straightforward manner. Over and over again I found myself thinking things like, "Yes, I know that. That's true. Right on!" It's mostly things that we already know, but maybe need a little book like this to give us the confidence to more often do the right thing and act the right way. If everyone applied the principles outlined in "The Dos and Don'ts of Work Team Coaching," the world would certainly be a better place in which to work. I'm going to keep it handy and read it again someday, and again.

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For 17 years readers have turned to Storey Books for advice on raising animals. Our Modern Way series of six books has sold more than 1,000,000 copies. In an effort to provide readers with the best how-to animal books on the market we are completely updating all six Modern Way titles and reintroducing them as part of our Guide to Raising series.

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a little technical for the amateur.......2007-10-05

This book has lots of good info., but I was hoping for more really basic duck help for the newbie, and instead there were pages and pages and pages of genetics, etc. I certainly found the book useful overall, but I wish it went into a little more detail on the most basic-type stuff.

Raising Ducks.......2007-05-29

This book was just what I expected and answered pretty much all my questions on raising ducks that I have so far.

Best duck book available.......2007-01-24

This book has something for everyone. If your buying ducks as pets or for a large scale operation this book will give you the knowledge you desire. It covers incubation, raising ducklings, feeders, waterers, housing, sanitation, breeds, behavior, genetics, anatomy of the duck, breeding, butchering, sexing, diet, and much more. Even more impressive than what this book covers in under 300 pages is how easy it is to read. Mr. Holderread has written book easy enough that a 12 year old can become a duck expert. If you are thinking or raising a couple ducks or hundreds this is the only book you will ever need.

Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks.......2006-11-10

Ideal for someone with no experience of raising ducks. Covered everything and was easy to understand.

Great for covering a small bit in all areas of ducks, .......2006-10-16

When I ordered this book I was looking for a really detailed book for the novice on rearing young ducklings for pets/eggs. This book covered a VERY basic bit (one small chapter on rearing ducklings) & after reading it I still felt like I didn't know enough about the actual rearing of baby ducklings. I also wanted photo's and info on the different types of waterers for baby ducklings and photo's of homemade brooders for small scale duck rearing. Which this book didn't have. I also wish this book had more information and more photo's of equipment needed for rearing mail-order ducklings. I felt that many parts of this book were more for those wanting to breed ducks on a bit larger scale. It has lots of information on duck genetic phenotypes, duck colors and basic duck genetics. Being someone who just wants a few ducks for pets, I felt this was a bit over my head and more for someone who wants to raise, show & sell ducks professionally.

In my opinion the best area of this book is the information on many different duck breeds. The information on the breeds included a description, varieties of the breed, selecting breeders, selecting & preparing each breed for show and some author comments.

Among the other info included in this book: butchering, duck health, showing, mixing rations and signs of vitamin and mineral deficiencies in ducks. There's also a nice chapter on predators of ducks. This book also has a nice Duck Breeder and Hatchery Guide source index which was very helpful.

Overall, I would buy this book again.

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Corrosion can be both costly and dangerous, resulting in product contamination or loss as well as structural instability and premature failure. This handbook contains information necessary for ensuring that, regardless of the structure being built, the materials selected for construction will minimize corrosion and its consequences. Nearly twice the size of its best-selling predecessor, the Corrosion Engineering Handbook, Second Edition has been updated and expanded into a set of three self-contained volumes. Each individual book offers detailed coverage tailored to specialists in the field. Taken together, this handbook set is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference in the field. Each book is focused on a specific area of corrosion science and technology: Fundamentals of Metallic Corrosion; Corrosion of Polymers and Elastomers; and Corrosion of Linings and Coatings. The handbook examines all the aspects necessary for understanding and mitigating potential corrosion problems. It covers mechanisms of corrosion and corrosion-resistant properties of various materials. It also contains detailed coverage of proper fabrication and installation techniques, methods for preventing corrosion, and techniques for testing and monitoring corrosion and processing conditions.

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The DECHEMA Corrosion Handbook provides a comprehensive collection of knowledge which is unique both in scope as well as content. Corrosion data and the chemical resistance of all technically important metallic, non-metallic, inorganic and organic materials in contact with aggressive media are covered, constituting the prime information source worldwide for the selection of materials for equipment in which corrosive media are handled or processed. Furthermore, methods of corrosion protection and prevention are also described.

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The horrors of war for a young woman.

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Private First Class Jessica Lynch's capture and rescue during the 2003 war in Iraq captured the attention and captivated the emotions of millions of Americans. Accounts of the actual events surrounding Lynch were wildly varied as some took her to be a symbol of American righteousness while others made her out to be a pawn of the US military. But the Lynch that emerges in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg's portrayal is an ordinary young woman caught up in an extraordinary series of events. Bragg, who had the cooperation of Lynch and her family in writing I Am a Soldier, Too intersperses her war story with a detailed portrait of the diminutive kid from Palestine, West Virginia who enlisted to see the world. What's truly remarkable about Lynch is how relatively unremarkable she is. She had a normal working class childhood, did fine in high school, performed capably in basic training, made some good friends, met a guy, and, like thousands of her contemporaries, was sent off to a war zone in the Middle East. But the story takes a sharp turn when her vehicle loses the convoy it was following near Nasiriyah, her four fellow soldiers are killed in the subsequent fighting, and Lynch is badly wounded and taken prisoner. Blacking out for three hours, she awakes in an Iraqi hospital where the tensions of war coupled with a lack of resources and a language and culture barrier make for a harrowing stay even as numerous medical personnel defy their own military to protect her and save her life. Finally, American troops captured Nasiriyah, kicked down the hospital doors (even as hospital workers tried to give them a master key) and airlifted Lynch out. Bragg also tells the story of the blue collar West Virginia town of Palestine and the Lynch family who the world watches, first as Jessica goes missing, then when she is rescued, and finally when she returns amid much fanfare. Bragg keeps the story telling pretty simple, avoiding an analysis of how the story was spun or the politics behind the war itself. In the end, Jessica Lynch is not, by her own insistence, a hero. Rather, she is a soldier with a remarkable story of survival to tell. Thankfully, she has now had the opportunity to tell it herself. --John Moe

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Rick Bragg lends his remarkable narrative skills to the story of the most famous POW this country has known.

In I Am a Soldier, Too, Bragg let’s Jessica Lynch tell the story of her capture in the Iraq War in her own words--not the sensationalized ones of the media's initial reports. Here we see how a humble rural upbringing leads to a stint in the military, one of the most exciting job options for a young person in Palestine, West Virginia. We see the real story behind the ambush in the Iraqi Desert that led to Lynch's capture. And we gain new perspective on her rescue from an Iraqi hospital where she had been receiving care. Here Lynch’s true heroism and above all, modesty, is allowed to emerge, as we're shown how she managed her physical recovery from her debilitating wounds and contended with the misinformation--both deliberate and unintended--surrounding her highly publicized rescue. In the end, what we see is a uniquely American story of courage and true heroism.

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I Am a Soldier, Too The Jessica Lynch Story
The Jessica Lynch book, I am a Soldier Too, is about her time in Middle East, and her coming home. This woman was caught in route that every soldier has to go on. She was conveying in thirty-three vehicles operation. Lynch, was driving a truck, for the duration of five hours, and she was only going about nine miles. While driving the
trucks, her transfer case broke. This rode, was very tricky for all; the commander was only given a cd-rom, and a global position device. The commander only hoped he could skip Nasiriyah, which was the danger zone.
This battle in which many of the 507 Maintenance Company was attacked and killed was early in the war. This was a company of cooks, clerks and mechanics. The unit did not have any anti-tank weapons or grenades.
Their where a lot of thing that soldier needed such as more land navigation training, and armored Humvee, and bullet proof vests, in the start of "Operation Iraq Freedom".
Lynch wanted to serve her country, coming from a patriotic place, like Palestine, West Virginia. She entered basic July 20, 2001.She was only 18.She went to Ft Jackson were their motto read" Victory Starts Here". Her recruiter Sergeant Grady never lied, she joined to leave, Palestine, West Virginia for a little while and to see the world. Her birth control glasses, a army term referring to government issue glasses was what she got when she arrived, and a uniform that was to big but I guess the Army hoped she gain weight and get more muscle and fit into them. The drill sergeant saw her as weak, she learned Army values.
The continue decline of needs of factories, and factory workers, leads to little chances for young people trying to come up. This predicament only gives the young people of many rural areas, the military. They can only survive, and still be able to leave their matriarch or patriarch rule.
A soldier is not taught much in basic, often as a soldier you are told, you will get more when you get to your unit, or next time the unit decides to train on common task.
Jessica as a young private first class was really not given enough training, and being supply, often times is to busy to train. This really hurt this girl, in my opinion. She had a great fear of being left behind, and this fear is very normal.
The Iraq enemy was known for raping their captive women. This is always told by friendly, while discussing their enemy, throughout history. Although, during the time when Lynch was found, and brought to the hospital, in which she was treated, there was three hours lost, and some evidence of anal assault. Lynch is not sure what happened.
Lori Piestewa had slightly more ready to go being a Specialist, but had a shoulder injury. Piestewa had not pick up Lynch she would not be home today. The sergeant that went with lynch was put in anther truck.
One must think their where severely failure to this mission. Since this occurred basic training is longer, and most soldiers receive more land navigations training. The 507 Maintenance Company almost got wiped out; because of lack of basic convey proceeding.
The weapons soldiers used, has long history of failing soldiers in combat. The M-16 needs to go. No soldier could keep this weapon clean in any terrain, this jammed weapons makes people die
Basic convey proceedings include, having a working radio in every vehicle. Having flags on each vehicle, so they can be easily seen from a distance. Everyone traveling at a convey speed, establishing a catch up speed. Their must be a rally point for soldier, if some trucks get lost. Everyone who is part of convey, must know were they are going. It is also nice that everyone gets a, strip map. The soldiers must have grasp on mounted and dismounted land navigation. More Preventive Maintenance Inspection (PMI), these things did not happen in the beginning of the war.
Jessica Lynch was taken to a friendly hospital. The hospital she was in made her a POW. While there she thought she was being tortured. She had a lot of leg trouble and Iraq doctor almost, decided to take her leg. The doctor had put a rod in her leg that was the wrong size. Jessica had a nurse that would sing to her. Iraq tried to move her Iraq ambulance could not get threw American check point. Changed to Saddam Hussein hospital, nurse would sing to her. Losing classes made it hard for her to see, she was not sure why she was saved. Cut her leg off to transport her to make her dog and pony show she worried about Lori
While in hospital Lynch often times had thought of her friend Lori, Lori had a daughter named Carla and a son named Brandon and a son .Jessica Lynch did not know she died. The care Lynch got in hospital was the best the Iraq people had.
Jessica was missing in action. Her boyfriend, Reuben thought she was all right. The Lynch family watched the news, for clues, to what had happened to their daughter. But, the Lynch family really knew that the military gave bad news in person. The family really felt like she was alive because she had a ability to hide even just within herself helped her in Iraq, where Jessica was from, the mountains. The family would say she was "Country Tough".
Many things had to be done to the Lynch home for Jessica return. The whole neighborhood chipped in to make the home safer for Jessica. The town people were not sure how this girl would come back. A girl that got good grades in school, was a good kid and played basketball and softballs, Worried about her nails and hair, they were not sure how she would come home. The townspeople wanted to help the Lynch family, the father drove a truck, the townspeople wanted any way they can, since they can't go over their and do anything. The mom cut out horoscopes
Jessica injuries were right arm shattered, made it useless.3 places in spine. During the rescue a Special Forces soldier put a patch in his

hand to keep her calm her. She said to the soldier am an American soldier too.
The army event of the 507 Maintenance Company there is phrase that was used to take the blame off other, and that is it was not a wrong turn but a missed one. The unit was hit by a rocket propelled grenades on a rode they should never have been near.
Two years, has gone by since March 23, 2003, when Lynch ordeal began. In March 2005, there was a two year gathering, in which Lori Piestewa was honored. Lynch was given an award, by the Native American Veteran Council. This was multi Native American Nation event.
The Siox and the Havasupai-Grand Canyon Tribe's tradition were represented, in the medal presentation.
A Foundation was made to help Carla and Brandon Piestewa.This is called the Jessica Lynch Foundation. Later the foundation also helps other military veterans children and other veterans with injuries, am sure we will hear more from Jessica Lynch in the future.

1)I Am a Soldier, Too, The Jessica Lynch Story, Rick Bragg, Alfred A .Knopf, Publisher, New York, 11/2003.

2) I Am a Soldier, Too, The Jessica Lynch Story, Rick Bragg (Audio book, author reads book), Random House Audio.2003 Jessica Lynch, 2003 Random House, Inc

I wonder if she gave the money back .......2007-04-25

I just saw on the news that she said this was fabricated. While I think what she went through was horrible, and she did survive it. There are a few issues. First of all she was out of it most of the time according to her. She did not fire a single shot. There were several real herose in the book who endured torture and stuff like that. It was dumb luck and she made money because of it.

The horrors of war for a young woman........2007-01-02

At first I didn't want to read this story. This woman was subjected to some great cruelity, and there is not much pleasure in reading about that. Lynch was a young West Virginian teenager when she enrolled in the U.S. Army. Her recruiter told her she could see a little of the world and earn some college money. Fast forward two years, and Jessica is in the battle of her life. Her humvee in racing away after an ambush and then an RPG slams into it causing her best friend to die and her to be critically injured. She is then subjected to three hours of cruelity by Saddam's Fedyeen. The Iraqi doctors at the hospital try to save her and then she is "rescued" by U.S. Special Forces. The rest of the story is about her homecoming.

Jessie's story shows the cruel nature of war. Some of her fellow soldiers were executed in front of her eyes. She was abused for three hours by the Fedyeen. Jessie wishes this war was never fought because she lost her best friend. It also shows the friendship and sympathy she gained nationwide and especially in West Virginia. A nice story about the difficulties of the Iraq War.

Jessica is a Soldier and a Hero.......2006-08-26

This book is just what it claims to be, The Jessica Lynch Story. And she IS a soldier. All the reviewers who have chosen this format to start spouting political agendas based on their own theories are in the wrong place. People read reviews to decide if they want to buy a book, if they want to hear a bunch of media spin and MIS-information, then they can watch TV or read the New York Times.
If Jessica had been a man and been rescued, that soldier would still have been given media attention, and probably a book deal. The battle that was fought during the time of her capture was one of the bloodiest and most deadly for our troops. Whether or not she actually fired her gun does not matter to me.
Any solder serving in our military is already a hero. Anyone brave enough to sign up and go to war for our freedom, including the rights to speak about whatever we want, are my heroes.
The people who sit home in front of their computers and televisions, spouting off arm-chair politics without knowing the truth are not educated enough in the facts to declare who is a soldier and who is a hero.
So while I got off track in trying to compensate for the political reviews, suffice it to say that this book is an easy read. Well told from a young girls' perspective and something I would have never wanted to endure as a 20 year old girl; Rick Bragg has the perfect style to compliment the story.

Soldier: 1.a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.2.an enlisted man or woman
Hero: a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal.

Good book but not based entirely on fact........2005-12-09

When I first heard about the Jessica Lynch incident, i thought like most other soldiers at the time we thought she was a hero. THat was untill the facts came out. I served with the rangers when the jessica lynch incident happened, and most of us had already heard about the mishap. When the facts finally came out most of us were angry. Ive read the ghost written book, and seen the ghost written movie. For those of you who dont know what ghost writter mean its a book about a person or biography that written bye another person without much or any input from the actual person. However the actual interviews and personal statments of lynch are mostly diffrent. After the stories of the other people involved in the incident came out i knew she was no hero and that the real heroes would never heard from.

The resons for Lynches hero status are for 3 reasons in this order.
Pretty face
A Women
Politics

For those of you who still believe shes worthy of a bronz star i will explain why she not. Most of these facts came from her interview with times and other television media (though i hate times i will use them anyway.) All these facts here down are by Lynches own admission.

1. Didnt fire her weapon. Most will say her m16 malfunctioned and it did, though the trouble it had was the most common malfunction and easily fixed, a bullet got stuck in the chamber. This problem is easily fixed and usually caused by dirt (aka) sand or not enough lube. (why they didnt maintian their weapons is another good question) Every person in the armed forces from navy army air force to marines is taught sports (slap pull observe release tap squeeze) in basic no matter what their mos. Its one of the most important facet of military basic training. If she wanted to fix it all she had to do was pull the chargiing handle back, but nope she paniced.

2. She tried to get another soldier in the humvee to fix it in panic but when they didnt (because they were to busy shooting) she threw down her weapon.

3. She then curled up in a ball and started crying

4. She had atleast 45 minutes to get over her sulking and atleast hand out ammo, reload weapons or even fix her own m16. (i might be wrong on time frame of ambush)

5. she countinued to sulk as each of her fellow soldiers died around her.

6. she surrenedered. Though i cant hold it against her for surrenedering.

7. she came back home proclaims herself a hero with help of media and makes million dollar book and movie deals off of her dead friend, which wouldnt bother me so much if she actually did something heroic. And do give me the bull she want to be left alone, got to here website aka shrine to herself and look at the opening picture.

Some of you might say well she never experinnced combat before and just broke down, while that may be true its not deserving of a heros status let alone a bronz star. She broke all of the core army values and then some.
What makes me mad is that she was made out to be a hero, though there were several others people during that incident that did way more then she did and are deserving of silver and other medals.

THe real heroes
The soldiers in her humvee that protected her and shot at the bad guys while she sulked.
Pfc Miller who was in a humvee few trucks behind her who deserves a silver star for taking out a mortar position with a "cough" malfunctioned rifle that he fixed.
the other soldiers who died fighing.
The rangers and seals who rescued her
If you can trust the story, the doctors who protected her.

The double standard

Though i cant remeber her name off hand, the black female pow and 2 other soldier who were captured while fighing long before Lynches story. They didnt get bronz stars or a heroes welcome, why because their not a pretty face.

And for those bush basher out there, no i dont think this was a propoganda thing to flm the rescue inbed reporters asked to come along with the rescue unit and they did. The hype over the incident was mostly the media doing, aka fox and cnn. The pentagon didnt put out the same number of release for the previous POWs.

If you want the truth about the incident read her interviews right after the incident aka times and walter i think was the other one. The book itself is a sham.

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This digital document is an article from Kliatt, published by Kliatt on March 1, 2005. The length of the article is 351 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: Bragg, Rick. "I am a soldier, too"; the Jessica Lynch story.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
Author: Raymond Puffer
Publication: Kliatt (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2005
Publisher: Kliatt
Volume: 39 Issue: 2 Page: 33(1)

Article Type: Book Review, Young Adult Review, Brief Article

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This autobiographical story takes the reader into the mind of the author, who is a lawyer from a well-known family from Lynn, Massachusetts in the midst of trying a murder case in the early 1970's, and the trials, tribulations and frustration, which he experiences at the hands of an insensitive judge. The author makes visits to the courthouse cafeteria, while awaiting the verdict of a man whose life is in his hands, and by means of flashbacks is attempting to understand how he got to where he is today. His reveries focus upon the problems facing a young lawyer in the 1960's from Lynn's ethnic melting pot, affectionately known as the "Brickyard", where the family chicken house was located, and who struggles to enter private practice as a solo practitioner. The author's recollections are replete with humorous anecdotal stories involving earlier cases, lawyers, judges and Damon Runyan-type clients and characters from Lynn and surrounding communities.

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