Cost Accounting for the Construction Firm (Construction Management & Engineering)

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In the tradition of the bestselling You've Earned It, Don't Lose It-an essential guide to retirement decision-making from a seasoned Uncle Sam-watcher and Money magazine writer and Washington Post columnist. "An invaluable resource for every American planning for a secure retirement." -Senator William V. Roth, U.S. Senate Finance Committee and creator of the Roth IRA. To help people make the right retirement decisions starting now, Ellen Hoffman has compiled in one book what all Americans, regardless of age, need to know about preserving their retirement income, promoting and maintaining their health, and protecting their home and assets. The nine easy-to-read chapters cover: Social Security, Pensions, Retirement Savings, Job Security and Age Discrimination, Medicare, Medicaid/Long-Term Care, Other Health Programs, Your Retirement Home, and Consumer Protection. Also included are three checklists of potential retirement-related tax savings.

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Good information for initial retirement planning.......2001-05-27

For those facing premature layoffs or are just beginning to consider their retirement planning, this book is the perfect source for basic information we all need to know.

Hoffman's book addresses fundamental issues and stimulates questions for those who have not thought ahead. It is a roadmap for initial planning and a resource index to other information sources.

I recommend this book to everyone who is being forced to consider retirement alternatives and the financial challenges earlier than they might have expected. It is easy to read and understand. Begin your homework now!

Informative Reference Manual.......2001-05-27

As a group benefits manager in a mid-size company, I recommend anyone over age 55 read this book. The chapter on Medicare has important information that the average person does not understand. Paying out-of-pocket medical expenses can be costly and can take a big bite out of retirement funds. It can also be difficult to get information from Federal government agencies especially in layman's language. I enjoyed reading the book and found it concise and informative. I will recommend the book to my friends as a quick reference manual to have on hand.

Bankroll Your Future Retirement With Help from Uncle Sam.......2001-05-17

This book has been enormously helpful to me and my family. It is especially useful in helping to solve complicated financial problems facing an elderly parent. Bankroll explains things in a way that is easy to understand and provides in-depth information that I can use. This book points out key issues that I would have otherwise missed that relate to social security and Medicare. In addition, it provides information on state programs like QMBY that I had never heard of before reading this book.

Between taking care of an elderly parent, work and family, there isn't time to search the web seeking possible answers to difficult financial problems. This book gets my five stars. Pam P.

Stumbles Out of the Gate and Then Collapses.......2001-05-08

You can't write a vast book based on half-vast ideas. But that didn't stop this author from trying to pass off a book filled with useless platitudes.

My guess is that it took her all of two days to write this trivial book. Seek some professional financial help at work or through one of the government agencies instead.

Also isn't it interesting that the only two reviews that praised this book are written by anonymous reviewers. Could those be from the author or her friends?

Retirees Are Not Stupid So Why Treat Us That Way?.......2001-05-06

Here is another book trying to make a buck off of us "poor, helpless old folks who are closer to retirement than to college." Well I've got news for this author: Retirement may be near but: We've got money. We've got brains. But we have little patience for silly books like this one that promise to reveal the big secrets to retiring wealthy--and in this case by doing it on the back of honest taxpayers. If only this book delivered but it doesn't.

Most of the "secrets" in this book are old or too impractical and timeconsuming to pull off. Besides, if President Bush gets his way and revises Social Security the rest of this advice will also be worthless. Stick with the advice you already know because if retirement is near you cannot afford to be rolling the dice with your nest egg!

Book Description

A classic text from one of the world's experts on bees. This comprehensive guide will give beginners all they need to start and maintain a healthy bee colony, while experienced beekeepers will find advice on expanding into new areas of the business and how to refine their skills. Subjects covered include: • Buying a colony of bees • Managing bees throughout the seasons • Selecting equipment and a good apiary site • Preventing swarming • Extracting, processing, and selling honey • Controlling pests, predators, and diseases • Rearing queen honey bees Photographs and technical drawings illustrate the text, and appendixes define technical terms, list sources of supplies, and tell you where to go to find more information. 49 black and white photographs, 3 illustrations, index.

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Perfect guide for beginner beekeeper.......2005-07-10

This provides details on how to start and maintiain a healthy colony. Includes buying, managing, choosing equipment, controlling pests, and all aspects of making honey. A good easy-to-understand guide for the beginner.

The New Incomplete Guide to Beekeeping.......2001-02-07

I have about 17 books on beekeeping related topics and I found this one to be the most lack luster of them all. Like the other reviewer said it touches briefly on all aspects of beekeeping but does not go into any real depth. I found its section on How To Get Started On Beekeeping pathetic. On installing a package of bees it offers six black and white photographs and a few lines of text underneath each picture to describe what is going on. That?s it!!. It does not mention anything about what to feed them once they are installed, your first inspection and what to look for, or a description of the equipment you will need to start your first hive. I think most beginners are very concerned about starting the process correctly and more attention should have been placed on the first few weeks of establishing a hive. Dr. Morse did not even go into the topic of establishing a colony with a nuc. Dr. Morse is a very well known and respected professor at Cornell University who I might call one of the founding fathers of modern beekeeping. Unfortunately, he wrote a crappy book that offers little to the new beekeeper. Two books I would recommend are John Vivian's "Keeping Bees". Although it is slightly dated when it comes to managing mites the rest of the book is invaluable as a source of information. Richard Bonney's two books on beekeeping are also very good.

incomplete guide to beekeeping.......1999-12-16

this is a good book for someone interested in beekeeping, but offers little to someone who is actually getting started in beekeeping. It contains an introduction to nearly every important topic in beekeeping, but is not in depth enough to help anyone who has bees and has questions about them.

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New Complete Guide to Beekeeping
Roger A Morse
Manufacturer: NORTON W W & CO
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K3K21E

Book Description

BL Includes the Latin computus compiled by Byrhtferth which has never been printed before A new edition of a difficult and neglected late Old English scientific text, which throws light on our knowledge of scientific scholarship in the eleventh century. The text is accompanied by a full Introduction, apparatus criticus and facing English translation, detailed Commentary, and an appendix containing the Latin computus which the Enchiridion was designed to elucidate, together with glossaries of the Old English and difficult Latin words occurring in the Enchiridion itself.

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This convenient, bench-top manual highlights typical preparative methods for a wide range of polymer types. The Sourcebook emphasizes practical laboratory procedures for a selection of syntheses that are representative of a given class of starting materials and polymerization techniques. The choice of material reflects the extensive industrial experience of the authors, saves on tedious literature searching when planning laboratory procedures, and includes specific laboratory directions that can be used as models for many related preparations.

Key Features
* Represents a"cookbook"in the best sense of the term
* Reflects the practical, industrial experience of the authors in the selection of materials
* Includes an extensive section on the methodology of emulsion polymerization
* Presents preparative examples that can be used as models for many related syntheses

Sourcebook of Polymer Laboratory Preparations

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Sourcebook of Polymer Laboratory Preparations
Wolf Karo Stanley Sandler
Manufacturer: Academic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OHG88C

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A below average text book

Sometimes annoying but instructive

A bad book for 7 th graders like me

Opinión general

Good book for applications of fractal geometry, but....

Fractals Everywhere
Michael F. Barnsley
Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0120790610

Book Description

This volume is the second edition of the highly successful Fractals Everywhere. The Focus of this text is how fractal geometry can be used to model real objects in the physical world.

This edition of Fractals Everywhere is the most up-to-date fractal textbook available today.

Fractals Everywhere may be supplemented by Michael F. Barnsley's Desktop Fractal Design System (version 2.0) with IBM for Macintosh software. The Desktop Fractal Design System 2.0 is a tool for designing Iterated Function Systems codes and fractal images, and makes an excellent supplement to a course on fractal geometry

* A new chapter on recurrent iterated function systems, including vector recurrent iterated function systems.
* Problems and tools emphasizing fractal applciations.
* An all-new answer key to problems in the text, with solutions and hints.

Customer Reviews:

A below average text book.......2006-11-13

Barnsley's book has a shortcoming common to many math text books -- it's poorly written. Barnsely's writing style is superfluous and rambling. What I learned from this book was in spite of Barnsley's writing, not because of it.

Furthermore, the book's illustrations are substandard. There are over five different fonts used in illustrations (including hand written text). This leads to confusion when you're unsure if the text in Barnsley's illustrations is referring to Greek letters or the conventional alphabet. Another shortcoming is that Barnsley intermingles end of chapter exercises with new concepts. You may have problems 1.1 to 1.5 reviewing what you've already learned, and then problem 1.6 introduces completely new material. This is a problem throughout the book, as important concepts are introduced in exercises or otherwise illogical locations.

On the positive side, solutions to most exercises are presented at the end of the book. Overall the book was useful, but learning the material was unnecessarily difficult due to the book's shortcomings.

Sometimes annoying but instructive.......2002-08-27

Although instructive, this book is sometimes annoying to read. The author seems to be playing his cards very close to the vest and not telling us everything.

For instance, there is little or no instruction on how to implement the IFS attractors presented as a panacea for data compression. This seems to be proprietary to his company. It also seems that hands-on manipulation is crucial to the images' production, contrary to the author's claims.

If you can understand the mathematics you may find the book useful, as I did when writing my book Fractals in MUsic.

A bad book for 7 th graders like me.......2001-11-28

this is a bad and very confusing book for a young student in, say... 7th grade, like me. The language is incomprehensible and there are no visual aids.

Opinión general.......2001-11-19

HUmmm!! parece interesante este librito. Pero la verdad busco uno donde encuentre aplicaciones a la ingeniería.
Estos libros de teoría suelen ponerse aburridos al no tener sufuciente información sobre aplicaciones.
De todos modos apenas lo tenga en las manos y lo mire doy una opinión más seria de este.

Good book for applications of fractal geometry, but...........2001-06-23

This is a good book on applications of fractals; the chapters on modeling natural objects with iterated function systems (IFS) and fractal interpolation are especially useful. Many standard topics are included, for example, fractal dimension, Julia and Mandelbrot sets, chaos and the shift dynamical system. Some of the illustrations are captivating.

However, the book is not well organized, and the writing is extremely wordy to the point of being irritating. Some paragraphs read as if they belonged to a "Dummies" handbook. Also, I have to agree with one reviewer that the treatment of fractal dimension is poor. For one thing, it does not fully develop the intuition behind the concept-- much less the math. This same remark holds for the chapter on chaotic dynamics.

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It is said that in order to completely understand a man you should probe the world as it existed when he was 19 or 20 years old--at the moment he became mature and autonomous as a man. Russell McLogan has done just that in this well-written autobiography. Drafted out of college at age 18 in 1944, he was trained as a rifleman and then sent to the Philippines as an infantry replacement. There he joined the battle hardened 6th Infantry Division on the Shimbu Line near Manila. Wounded in combat in northern Luzon, he spent 89 days in Army hospitals on Luzon and Leyte. When the atomic bomb abruptly ended the war, he was returned to duty just in time to sail off to Korea where he served in the Army of Occupation. Boy Soldier is about a young man's coming of age during this period of tremendous historical change. It includes much well-researched history of the Army's replacement training system, the Liberation of the Philippines, the dropping of the atomic bombs, the American-Russian occupation of Korea, and the Army's post-war demobilization--the people, places, and events that shaped a young life. Although written in a scholarly mode with endnotes, bibliography and index, it is very readable with the humor, violence, sexual situations and sometimes raw language as it actually happpened. Text is supplemented with 72 illustrations and 15 maps.

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I'm eagerly awaiting the movie..........2006-08-12

Very rarely do you find a "history" book that sneaks the history in before you even know it. Russ McLogan does just that in "Boy Soldier." You find yourself caught up in the wonderful narrative of the life of the young boy-turned-soldier. The humor, the violence, the hasty training, are all described within the background of WWII. The historical, social, and political accounts are dead-on accurate--being told by someone who was actually there and has the scar to prove it. This is truly one history book that you will not be able to put down...written by a boy-turned-soldier-turned-historian.

A darn good read.......2006-06-29

A very interesting and well presented book about the liberation of the Philippine Islands and the history of the American 6th Infantry Division. The author does a very nice job of integrating daily life a soldier's story to produce a book that covers a lot of ground easily. I really enjoyed this book as there are not many first person accounts of the Pacific Theater, particularly, from men who where in the Army rather than the Marines. Also has nice description of the events of the war that paralleled the author's experiences.

Excellent Account.......2005-09-03

I was at the mall during Christmastime and he was sitting in front of the Border's Express. He seemed a little lonely, so I stopped by and talked to him. It was very interesting listening to him talk, especially as he looked up and noticed I was wearing a USS Enterprise Hat (CV-6, not the other) and he started to talk about the Battle of Leyte. After listening to him, I bought a copy of the book and he signed it.

When I picked it up and started to read it, I wasn't disappointed. It was a story I could relate to since he's from this area. He put stuff in comparison to stuff around Detroit and that made it seem more realistic to me. It was a very well written book and very well researched (because he put the bigger perspective with his story).

A Terrific Read.......2005-05-19

I enjoyed this book immensely, and strongly recommend it to anyone with even a passing interest in WWII. I'm a bit of a military history buff, and so have read a good deal on the subject. But I enjoyed Mr. McLogan's book the most, by far. Other soldiers' biographies I've read have covered simply the individuals' combat experiences. While these are always highly interesting, the author of "Boy Soldier" discusses not only his time in battle, but also the experiences he went through both before and after his time on the front lines. I found especially interesting his descriptions of his arduous infantry training, and the details he provided of the lengthy medical treatment he received after being wounding in Luzon. Of interest also were the behind-the-lines duties he had to perform when he first arrived in the Philippines. He also recounts, in detail, the sea voyage he had to endure en route to the Pacific theater and, after hostilities with Japan ended, his voyage to Korea. I learned a lot from this book. For example, I had always believed that all seriously wounded American soldiers in WWII were eventually returned back to the U.S. for hospitalization and rehabilitation. Not true, as it turns out. There are many other lessons in this book. As it is with watching a good movie, you don't want this story to end. It's one of the most entertaining and informative works I've ever had the pleasure of reading.

Phenomenal account of a life caught up in the whirlwind!.......2001-03-12

I had the honor of meeting Mr. McLogan at a book signing where his reading honestly convinced me to buy this book. I now cherish the signed copy I own. This book is exceptionally well written which honestly surprised me, Mr. McLogan is an engineer by trade (so am I). The writing is dynamic, captivating, vivid and sensory. This is an exceptional autobiography combining memories and official documents. This is a phenomenally written book about the life of a young man caught up in the turbulent 40's. That being said, this is not a war book, this is a book about a man's life. Mr. McLogan does not dwell on the time he spent in combat, but does cover that period as well. This book details his life before he was drafted, what training and traveling with the army was like, his wounding, recovery, and as an occupational soldier in Korea after the war and finally going home again. Mr. McLogan does not try to make himself a hero, and in my opinion, he doesn't have to, he simply is.
I have found no better written personal account of a young American's life during the war. This book took my breath away literally; especially the parts where the author reminisces about walking hand in hand with a high school sweetheart while sitting in a foxhole in the Philippines. Mr. McLogan was lucky enough to survive the ordeal and went on to be truly one of the heroes I have always looked up to. Not a war monger or a violent person, but simply a young man who answered his countries call, did his duty, stood his ground and came back and built a life for himself. I only wish my grandfather had written this book!

BOY SOLDIER: COMING OF AGE DURING WORLD WAR II

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BOY SOLDIER: COMING OF AGE DURING WORLD WAR II
Russell McLogan
Manufacturer: Publisher Unknown
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000WQTPV2

Book Description

is a direct accounting of the war in the former Yugoslavia as seen through the eyes of a U.S. doctor who personally witnessed the atrocities of the war from the Croatian perspective. An onslaught of books have recently been published regarding the plight of the war in former Yugoslavia. Except for a few these books are written exclusively from the Serbian viewpoint. This book shows the other side of the story the Croation side with details of the war from an insider's view on and off the battlefield

Customer Reviews:

Paranoid ramblings.......2006-05-05

In the canon of conspiracy theories and hate mongering, Blaskovich's work stands as a classic. His contribution to historical dialog and insight is what Jeffrey Dahmer was to quality childcare.

Anatomy of Deceit is little more than a half-baked rationalisation for Croatian sponsored ethnic cleaning and a twisted apology for Franjo Tudjman's quasi-fascism. Substitute Tudjman's name with Pavlic's and we would be dismissing this work as Ustache state propaganda.

Add Blaskovich to the long list of reality-challenged doctors, poets and professors who have blighted the Balkans; maybe more effort should be given to analysing the combined effects their delusions have had on the region.

Awful.......2004-07-25

Under-researched, unedited, full of typos and errors. A right-wing physician returns from California to his native Croatia and writes a book about how evil Serbs are. Just racist nonsense by an outsider who really doesn't know much about the Balkans. Give it a pass. There are so many other books out there on the Yugoslav wars.

Nothing But The Truth.......2004-04-27

It is clear that Jerry writes the truth. He clearly captures and articulates the horror caused by the SERBS in Croatia. Serbophiles of course will have great disdain for such honesty. So if you are a Serbophile this probably is not the book for you, however if you want to gain a strong understanding of what took place in Croatia this book is for you, if you prefer a film please watch Harrison's Flowers (French Directed) it too will provide you with a disheartening sense of what the SERBS did in Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, as well as Kosovo, finally the world knows what they are capable of, although they did hide it well under the auspices of COMMUNISM.

Poor Research, Poor Book.......2002-06-11

This is not a serious book. The author clearly has a pro-Croat Serb-hating axe to grind. Living in California and making a couple of adventure tours to Croatia, he knows little about the region, its politics or history. The book is full of errors, factual, spelling, characterization, and historical. There are literally dozens of books out there about the 1991-95 wars that broke up Yugoslavia, and this may be the weakest. Try Marcus Tanner's, Laura Silber's, or Misha Glenny's. The biases and lack of serious scholarship, the self-absorbed authorship, and the Croat nationalist leanings of this text make it one to avoid.

The Screams of War.......2000-12-11

As an American born child growing up in a Croatian household, I always felt my parent's passion for Croatia. I had a deep longing to understand my parents and what they suffered as Croatians in Yugoslavia.

Throughout school and college I referred to myself as an American-Croatian. Many wouldn't know where or what that was, and some would question, "Don't you mean you're from Yugoslavia?" It was at that point my Croatian passion, knowledge and experience would be shared and told to all around me.

Jerry Blaskovich's, Anatomy of Deceit, is about his personal experience, passion and knowledge on Croatian history, the vicious war and what the distorted "Yugoslavian" government represented to Croatians in the United States and in Croatia.

Anatomy of Deceit takes the reader into the complicated realities of Croatian history and suffering. It disects the truth behind the distorted creation of Yugo and the Anti-Croatian propaganda machine. The reader is then launched into the atrocities of war. The destruction, killings, mass graves, and rapes by the Serbs come alive in these pages. The reader feels, sees, and smells the war through the eyes of a phyisican trying to makes sense, and escape the sreams of war. You hear these screams and feel the deep pain that lingers long after the book is finished.

As far as the proof reading errors, the publisher is responsibile and not the author, for editing of final proof. The content and message of Anatomy of Deceit goes beyond human spelling and grammar errors, it grips and ripes at the heart.

Croatians will never forget what they had to go through to be able to scream their name and not fear for their lives.

Zivoli Hravti!

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