Wiley Not-for-Profit GAAP 99: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for Not-for-Profit Organizations, 1999 Edition

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The essential reference tool for auditors of not-for-profit organizations. This comprehensive accounting and financial reporting guide is specifically for not-for-profit organizations and their auditors to use in the preparation of their financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). In a clear manner, this guide provides technical information for performing day-to-day accounting operations, accounting for complex and non-routine transactions, and preparing financial statements. Includes a financial statement disclosure checklist. Richard F. Larkin (Falls Church, VA) works in the Not-for-Profit Industry Services Group of Price Waterhouse LLP.

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This easy-to-read introduction to the role of the visual system in the workplace is designed to help many professional ergonomists and human resources professionals to appreciate more fully the relationship between good vision and the efficiency and safety of job performance. It is an accessible account which is illustrated with both low level drawings and technical figures. It also contains up-to-date look-up tables and guidelines and a discussion of related legislation across the international spectrum.; The book begins with a discussion of how the visual system works and an historical perspective of how it has evolved, before moving on to an examination of the specific interaction and functional vision of the eye in the workplace. The role of the VDT monitor is then examined, initially from the viewpoint of its regular interaction with the eye but also in terms of the causes, detection and treatment of VDT-related problems, including computer vision syndrome. Outside the office, a broader perspective of industrial vision is examined, including issues of eye safety and comfort. In the final part of the book a number of areas are discussed in which practical action may be taken to improve conditions for the eye in the workplace. These include environmental, physical and visual factors which can be improved for VDT use and general eye care, many of which are addressed by international standards and legislation.

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Although food-production systems for the world's rural poor typically have had devastating effects on the planet's wealth of genes, species, and ecosystems, that need not be the case in the future. In Ecoagriculture, two of the world's leading experts on conservation and development examine the idea that agricultural landscapes can be designed more creatively to take the needs of human populations into account while also protecting, or even enhancing, biodiversity. They present a thorough overview of the innovative concept of "ecoagriculture"?the management of landscapes for both the production of food and the conservation of wild biodiversity. The book:

examines the global impact of agriculture on wild biodiversity
describes the challenge of reconciling biodiversity conservation and agricultural goals
outlines and discusses the ecoagriculture approach
presents diverse case studies that illustrate key strategies
explores how policies, markets, and institutions can be re-shaped to support ecoagriculture

While focusing on tropical regions of the developing world?where increased agricultural productivity is most vital for food security, poverty reduction, and sustainable development, and where so much of the world's wild biodiversity is threatened?it also draws on lessons learned in developed countries. Dozens of examples from around the world present proven strategies for small-scale, low-income farmers involved in commercial production.

Ecoagriculture explores new approaches to agricultural production that complement natural environments, enhance ecosystem function, and improve rural livelihoods. It features a wealth of real-world case studies that demonstrate the applicability of the ideas discussed and how the principles can be applied, and is an important new work for policymakers, students, researchers, and anyone concerned with conserving biodiversity while sustaining human populations.

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Ecological Agriculture: A look inside the alternative.......2005-02-25

Ecoagriculture effectively addresses the ever-demanding needs of the world's population while incorporating strategies to conserve wild biodiversity. McNeely and Scherr assert, "the impressive gains for our species have often come at the expense of other species with whom we share our planet," and therefore, one of their goals tackles the process by which ecological agriculture can not only reverse, but also prevent such negative impacts. The book explores key social and ecological issues by extensively exploring the different approaches to ecological agriculture. Anyone new to the issues could easily become familiar with hot topics in ecoagriculture after reading this book.

McNeely and Scherr describe six strategies for the implementation of ecological agriculture while increasing food production. They divide them into two groups; three of them make space for wildlife within agricultural landscapes while the other three enhance the habitat value of productive areas. These strategies are described with a reasonable amount of detail and are followed by a total of 36 case studies. The strategies that are outlined include:
1. Creating biodiversity reserves that also benefit farming communities
2. Develop habitat networks in non-farmed areas
3. Reduce the conversion of wild lands to agriculture by increasing farm productivity
4. Minimize agricultural pollution
5. Modify the management of soil, water, and vegetation resources, and
6. Modify farming systems to mimic natural ecosystems.
The authors do a good job in providing examples from a variety of locations throughout the developing and developed world.

Despite successfully providing an introduction to the complex subject of ecological agriculture, McNeely and Scherr do a poor job of explaining the cause and effect of their strategies for ecological agriculture nor do they adequately address arguments of its skeptics. One obvious omission is a discussion of genetic modification technology. As well, many of the case studies presented in the book were not explained thoroughly and no negative effects were discussed. Often times the strategies employed in the case studies contradicted each other - for example at once advocating grass-fed livestock and silage-fed livestock. Obviously, there are many trade-offs in a subject as complex as ecoagriculture, but McNeely and Scherr never provide a matrix for evaluating these trade-offs.

The authors finish by laying out policies for implementing their six strategies. However, these suggestions are vague and overly optimistic. McNeely and Scherr's reliance on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to implement their strategies ignores the difficulty of combining these strategies with existing NGO programs. Since the issue of the environment and food security is such a divisive topic, a more pragmatic book would discuss ways of building consensus towards environmentally sustainable agriculture solutions.

Reviewed by: Jessica DeLisi, Alan Heck, Matt Ortynsky, Rollie Berry, Kristin Hamilton, Kevin Waters, and Sarah Bauerle (Students in Environmental Issues Seminar, Villanova University)

Ecoagriculture-strategies to feed the world and save wild biodiversity. [A book review from: Biological Conservation]

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Ecoagriculture-strategies to feed the world and save wild biodiversity. [A book review from: Biological Conservation]
N. Ravenscroft
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000RR07CM

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This digital document is a journal article from Biological Conservation, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Ecoagriculture: strategies to feed the world and save wild biodiversity [A book review from: Journal of Rural Studies]

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Ecoagriculture: strategies to feed the world and save wild biodiversity [A book review from: Journal of Rural Studies]
C. Geisler
Manufacturer: Elsevier
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000RR0SW6

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Rural Studies, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The fateful dialectic: agriculture and conservation.(Book Review): An article from: Endangered Species Update

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The fateful dialectic: agriculture and conservation.(Book Review): An article from: Endangered Species Update
John Vandermeer , and Tom Dietsch
Manufacturer: University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00081V3Y8
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Endangered Species Update, published by University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources on July 1, 2003. The length of the article is 3650 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: The fateful dialectic: agriculture and conservation.(Book Review)
Author: John Vandermeer
Publication: Endangered Species Update (Newsletter)
Date: July 1, 2003
Publisher: University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources
Volume: 20 Issue: 4-5 Page: 199(9)

Article Type: Book Review

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With about 200,000 entries, StarBriefs Plus represents the most comprehensive and accurately validated collection of abbreviations, acronyms, contractions and symbols within astronomy, related space sciences and other related fields. As such, this invaluable reference source (and its companion volume, StarGuides Plus) should be on the reference shelf of every library, organization or individual with any interest in these areas.
Besides astronomy and associated space sciences, related fields such as aeronautics, aeronomy, astronautics, atmospheric sciences, chemistry, communications, computer sciences, data processing, education, electronics, engineering, energetics, environment, geodesy, geophysics, information handling, management, mathematics, meteorology, optics, physics, remote sensing, and so on, are also covered when justified. Terms in common use and/or of general interest have also been included where appropriate.

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This unique work brings together contributions from the world's foremost authorities on a subject of wide-ranging importance both to continued scientific investigation and major industrial processes. Carbocations are involved in petroleum cracking and refining, coal processing, polymerization chemistry, synthetically important solvolytic reactions, isomerizations and rearrangements, addition reactions, aromatic substitutions, and a variety of biosynthetic transformations.

Stable Carbocation Chemistry offers a broad and representative view of the entire field, including

Carbocation history and development
Generation of intriguing classes of carbocations and carbodications
Application and development of spectroscopic techniques
Use of long-lived stable ion conditions to carry out practical synthetic transformations
And more

Dedicated to George Olah for his pioneering and inspirational efforts in the field, Stable Carbocation Chemistry uncovers fertile ground for continued research and further practical application in this dynamic and still-growing field.

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STABLE CARBOCATION CHEMISTRY
Prakash
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N6DC4C

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Coverage is not standard for a discrete text.......2006-02-25

I teach a discrete mathematics course at the college level and have examined many discrete mathematics books looking for a suitable textbook. Quite frankly, this one is at the bottom of my list of selections as a text. Set theory, logic and functions are not given separate chapters. The book starts with chapters on election theory and fair division, topics that are not generally considered within the venue of discrete mathematics.
The chapters are:

*) Election theory.
*) Fair division.
*) Matrix operations and applications.
*) Graphs and their applications.
*) More graphs, subgraphs and trees.
*) Counting and probability.
*) Matrices revisited.
*) Recursion.

While the material on matrices and graphs is suitable, the emphasis is too great. In my opinion, spending time on the applications in this book is not a suitable use of time. There are so many other, more critical topics that students need to be exposed to.

Good for high school students, but not much else........2003-08-31

Discrete Mathematics Through Applications is a book designed to introduce high school students without much previous mathematical knowledge how to use discrete mathematics in the "real world." Each chapter begins with an activity for student groups to participate in, a few--usually two or three--examples, and a set of exercises to be worked out by the student on their own. The book gradually gets the user used to mathematical notation and inductive thinking and soon it comes instinctively. The chapters are as follows: Election Theory; Fair Division; Matrix Operations and Applications; Graphs and Their Applications; More Graphs, Subgraphs, and Trees; Counting and Probability; Matrices Revisited; and Recursion. Each of those chapters are organized into 5-6 subsections and a review. Among those sections include: graph coloring, euler circuits & paths, markov chains, group-ranking methods, and minimum spanning trees.

The biggest complaint I have about this book is that it weaves around too much. If you are already familiar with a concept or you figure it out half-way through the chapter, too bad! You have to keep reading because all of the exercises are based around the activities at the beginning of the chapter. Sometimes, the exercises even reference previous activities. That can get very frustrating.

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The book provides an easily accessible computationally oriented introduction into the numerical solution of stochastic differential equations using computer experiments. It develops in the reader an ability to apply numerical methods solving stochastic differential equations in their own fields. Furthermore, it creates an intuitive understanding of the necessary theoretical background from stochastic and numeric analysis. A downloadable softward containing programs for over 100 problems is provided at each of the following homepages:

http://www.math.uni-frankfurt.de/~numerik/kloeden/
http://www.business.uts.edu.au/finance/staff/eckhard.html
http.//www.math.siu.edu/schurz/SOFTWARE/

to enable the reader to develop an intuitive understanding of the issues involved. Applications include stochastic dynamical systems, filtering, parametric estimation and finance modeling.

The book is intended for readers without specialist stochastic background who want to apply such numerical methods to stochastic differential equations that arise in their own filed.

Statistics Through Applications & Discrete Mathematics Through Applications, 2e

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Statistics Through Applications & Discrete Mathematics Through Applications, 2e
Dan Yates , Daren S. Starnes , David S. Moore , and Nancy Crisler
Manufacturer: W. H. Freeman
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Binding: Hardcover

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Discrete Mathematics Through Application

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Discrete Mathematics Through Application
Nancy Crisler
Manufacturer: Palgrave
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K6BYJA

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1344 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: My Odyssey through History: Memoirs of War and Academe.(Recovering the Past: A Historian's Memoir)(Book Review)
Author: Robert Durden
Publication: Journal of Southern History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 71 Issue: 4 Page: 958(3)

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This study of the personality and achievements of Florence Nightingale is based on extensive research and unpublished material. She achieved fame for her leadership of a group of British nurses during the Crimean War, and afterwards she dedicated herself to promoting public health. Following a collapse at age 37, she remained bedridden for more than ten years and became one of history's most famous invalids. Hugh Small has produced a new and startling explanation of Florence Nightingale's actions, comparing the conflicting contemporary accounts of what really happened in her hospital at Scutari during the war and uncovering an official cover-up of a public health disaster for which Nightingale felt personally responsible.

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Excellent.......2007-02-13

For the first time a well documented point of view of Florence as a human being, with all its implications.

Re-Inventing the Myth of Florence Nightingale.......2002-09-03

Inmy mind, this Nightingal biography is an extraordinary example of revisionism. Studying the professional career of the English heroine Florence Nightingale is mandatory in just about every accredited school of nursing because, after all, she gave respectability to her profession. Even Nightingale's mother would faint at the thought of her daughter being a "nurse", because respectable ladies in Victorian England just didn't do such things. Thankfully, Florence broke with her culture and created, what some would call, a new paradigm for women. Now, that's the way Florence Nightingale is presented to nursing students, but it's not the way author Hugh Small presents his argument in "Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel". Well, of course, somebody had to break the myth of Florence Nightingale. As an icon of Victorian culture and style, Nightingale had to be taken down a peg or two. Never mind, the memorial to Nightingale located in the middle of a group of stuffy old coffins in the crypts in London's St. Paul's Cathedral. Never mind, the enormous statue honoring Nightingale and the memorial to the Crimea, nearly causing traffic jams at the intersection where it is boldly located in downtown London. Never mind, the Nightingale Museum and its life sized display of three demensional shadow boxes located adjacent to St. Thomas Hospital in London. If the real Nightingale would please stand up, as Hugh Small describes her in his biography, the lady's myth would be on trail right now for genocide, having caused the deaths of thousands of British soilders in the 1856 Crimean War. The biographer Small, of course, anticipated just such a visceral reaction from Nightingale's cult, mostly nurses like myself, so he floods the book with lengthy documentation and footnotes to counter any dispute about the authenticity of his Nightingale research. In summary, if history addicts want to know about remote letters from people as memorable as Lord Palmerston and details of the NcNeill-Tulloch reports to Parliment about the Nightingale hospital, then, this book is definitely made to order. Of course, it's admirable to have a counter-cultural history published every 100 years or so about our sacred myths and legends. Hugh Small certainly deliveres a counter-cultural point of view, so for this I give him a nod of approval. Nevertheless, I didn't like reading "Avenging Angel", bcause the biographjy, I believe, belies the premise if its cover. Small sets the reader up for one expectation about the heroine Nightingale while actually undermining the reader's trust with absolutely mind startling information. So, I guess somebody had to eventually re-invent Nightingale. Too bad, the story is 150 years after the fact. Perhaps the best part of reading "Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel" is the reinforcement it provides to holistic healers and health care skeptics who instinctively seem to know that staying away from hospitals is better for your health and life longevity than relying on the curative treatment that may never come. Rating this book was difficult, but for historical data it gets a 5; for story value it gets a 1...."Data 5, Book 1"....so, I think a rating of 2 is fair.

A Thought Provoking Exposition........2000-01-09

Hugh Small's account of Florence Nightingales contribution in the Crimean war has made rivoting reading. His willingness to answer some of the hitherto unasked questions using thorough and reliable research is to be commended. He challenges many of the romantic notions of Florence Nigfhtingale whilst preserving her reputation as a remarkable woman with great political influence.

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