Mid-Market Comps 2003 (Valusource Accounting Software Products)

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MID-MARKET COMPS ARE A GREAT TOOL FOR MARKET DATA APPROACH METHODS AND EXCELLENT WHEN USED AS A SANITY CHECK FOR OTHER TYPES OF APPRAISALS.

MID-MARKET COMPS provides comparable business sales data on companies with a selling price between $1 million and $100 million dollars. Over 500f the transactions are below $10 million dollars. MARKET COMPS contains graphs and calculates analytical statistics for selected transactions.
New this year is a comprehensive video tutorial on the CD! It makes using Mid-Market data easy to understand, and provides a "cookbook" how-to approach.

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Customer Service Delivery taps into business, marketing, and psychological research and practices to provide a wealth of knowledge about customer service. With contributions from some of the best-known industrial and organizational psychology experts in customer service, this book brings together in one comprehensive resource a review of the best practices in customer service delivery. Customer Service Delivery also provides a framework for customer service as a process and an outcome. The authors address a wide range of topics that are crucial to today’s competitive business environment: customer expectations, loyalty satisfaction, product versus service delivery, measurement, brand equity, regional and cultural differences, and organizational impact. Customer Service Delivery explores human resource staffing practices and service delivery by including proven selection strategies for hiring top quality service workers, an analysis of the personality correlates of service performance, and a comprehensive review of assessment instruments that predict customer service performance. In addition, this important resource contains strategies and tactics to improve and manage service delivery and offers illustrative case examples of how organizations have successfully improved and managed customer service.

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Customer Service Delivery taps into business, marketing, and psychological research and practices to provide a wealth of knowledge about customer service. With contributions from some of the best-known industrial and organizational psychology experts in customer service, this book brings together in one comprehensive resource a review of the best practices in customer service delivery. Customer Service Delivery also provides a framework for customer service as a process and an outcome. The authors address a wide range of topics that are crucial to today's competitive business environment: customer expectations, loyalty satisfaction, product versus service delivery, measurement, brand equity, regional and cultural differences, and organizational impact. Customer Service Delivery explores human resource staffing practices and service delivery by including proven selection strategies for hiring top quality service workers, an analysis of the personality correlates of service performance, and a comprehensive review of assessment instruments that predict customer service performance. In addition, this important resource contains strategies and tactics to improve and manage service delivery and offers illustrative case examples of how organizations have successfully improved and managed customer service.

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By Professionals for Professionals.......2006-08-04

Sub-Title: Research and Best Practices (J-B SIOP Professional Practice Series)

Customer service is the last opportunity that a business has to convert a buyer into a repeat customer, the most valuable asset a company can have. The accounting statement entry 'Goodwill' really means the ability to sell more products to an existing customer base. Even when other aspects of the sale go bad, good customer service may be able to save the day, may be able to keep a customer that would otherwise be lost.

This book is perhaps the most complete analysis/description of the overall aspects of customer service available. It is a combination of research, of experience, of analysis, of theory, of practice. Each chapter is written by an expert in the particular specialty being described. It is part of the professional practice series for scientists, practitioners, managers, executives and academics interested in organizational behavior and performance.

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Handbook of Plant Virus Diseases presents basic information about viral-caused and viral-like diseases in many cultivated crops. The editors, internationally known plant pathologists, provide authoritative descriptive symptomatic signatures of virus diseases, to aid in the diagnosis and possible control of viruses. This handbook organizes cultivated plants into groups according to their final destinations and uses after harvest-a useful grouping system that indicates that some diseases, their resultant epidemiology, and control measures are characteristic within different groups.

CRC Handbook of Viruses Infecting Legumes

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CRC Handbook of Viruses Infecting Legumes
John R. Edwardson , and Richard G. Christie
Manufacturer: CRC Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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This interesting handbook discusses 145 plant viruses in 27 groups and 31 unclassified viruses in naturally infected legumes. The viruses were observed in field infections of 281 species in 64 genera of the Leguminosae. The book presents information regarding resistance sources and resistance-breeding, vectors, seed transmission, and host ranges. Measurements of virus properties are organized in tabular form for particle dimensions, serological relationships, nucleic acid percentages, sedimentation coefficients of particles and nucleic acids, molecular weights of nucleic acids and coat proteins, optical density, and buoyant density. Handbook of Viruses Infecting Legumes is unique in that it relates inclusion cytology to plant virus detection, identification, and classification. Light and electron micrographs illustrate morphology, location, and staining reactions of inclusions. Of the 27 groups that contain viruses infecting legumes in nature, inclusions are diagnostic at the group level in 15 of these groups. Plant breeders, diagnosticians, plant virologists, and students of plant virology will find this an indispensable guide to legume viruses.

Graft-Transmissible Diseases of Citrus: Handbook for Detection and Diagnosis

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Indispensible for citrus research

Graft-Transmissible Diseases of Citrus: Handbook for Detection and Diagnosis
C. N. Roistacher
Manufacturer: Food & Agriculture Org
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 9251031827

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Indispensible for citrus research.......1999-01-24

This is the best and most valuable book I have bought for my work as a plant pathologist. Subjects are well-defined and easy to find. Lots of color pictures with good explanations. Text is well written and the information is to the point and clear. Each disease has its own chapter on how to detect using indicator plants. Separate chapters on biochemical detection, growing healthy plants in the greenhouse, grafting methods. Every person working with graft-transmissible diseases of citrus should have this book.

Handbook of Plant Virus Infections: Comparative Diagnosis

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Handbook of Plant Virus Infections: Comparative Diagnosis
Kurstak
Manufacturer: Elsevier Science Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0444803092

Index of plant virus diseases: Plant pests of importance to North American agriculture (Agriculture handbook / United States Department of Agriculture)

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Index of plant virus diseases: Plant pests of importance to North American agriculture (Agriculture handbook / United States Department of Agriculture)
Halbert Houston Thornberry
Manufacturer: Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007DQJD2

Curly top identification handbook: Nine crops

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Curly top identification handbook: Nine crops
Burton J Hoyle
Manufacturer: Division of Agricultural Sciences, University of California
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006WODR8

Plant Pests Of Importance To North American Agriculture: Index Of Plant Virus Diseases: Agriculture Handbook No. 307

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Plant Pests Of Importance To North American Agriculture: Index Of Plant Virus Diseases: Agriculture Handbook No. 307
No Author Given
Manufacturer: U.S. Agriculture
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GT3O7G

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From the thousands of digital images collected by NASA's unmanned probes since the 1960s, those bound in this volume are nothing less than works of art, selected for their beauty as much as their subject matter. The resulting book consists of two parts: the first is a spectacular visual tour of the solar system, with panoramic space scapes that each span four unfolding pages; the second is a series of beautifully written essays that explain the story behind these photographs, the history of the probes' journeys, how they work, and why they were built.

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Very interesting.......2000-07-06

This book provides some great information on seas serpents, giant squid, giant octopus and mystery creatures that are in the sea. My favorite chapeter is the one entiteld The Giant Blob, in this chapter he goes into totally unrecognizable creatures from eye witness reports.

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Go Heels!

If You Love Basketball

Well done

Great Way To Relive The Championship Season

Led by Their Dreams: The Inside Story of Carolina's Journey to the 2005 National Championship
Adam Lucas , Steve Kirschner , and Matt Bowers
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1592289185

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"Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skills to do difficult things easily." --Thought for the Day, March 22, 2005, Carolina practice plan

At the start of the 2005 season, the North Carolina Tar Heels were a talented yet dysfunctional team made up of gifted yet unfocused athletes. Head coach Roy Williams had his work cut out for him: to piece the team back together and inspire the players to use their adversity as the surest path to victory. On April 4, 2005, Carolina defeated Illinois in the championship finals. "How else could it have ended?" reflected forward Jawad Williams. "We've been the lowest and now we're the highest."

Led By Their Dreams, a celebration of the Tar Heels' 2005 season, features interviews with the players and coach Roy Williams. It also includes Williams's famous inspirational quotes--his "Thoughts for the Day"--which often foretold something about to happen and always served to push the team toward better teamwork and, ultimately, the NCAA championship.

With full-color photographs throughout, postseason notes, a list of the honors and awards received by standout players, and a CD of the radio call of the championship game, this is the ultimate book for fans to remember the best team of 2005 and its return to glory.

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Go Heels!.......2006-03-24

There are two great things about this book. The first being the freshness of the information. When a team wins a championship, the win is almost covered to death so to speak, so I was definately pleasantly suprised when the book contained many stories that I had not yet heard. Secondly, and probably the best thing about the book was the complete Tarheel Sports Network radio broadcast of the Championship game and the post-game press conferences. This book is a must for any Tarheel fan, and the CD is something you will listen to over and over.

If You Love Basketball.......2006-01-30

If you love basketball you are going to enjoy this book. It's a play by play of a championship team, their trials, tribulations, and trophy.

Well done.......2005-12-28

I bought the book just because I am a fan, but I am very pleased with its overall quality. It's a well-made hardcover book with durable sewn binding. Printed on thick, glossy paper, the large color photographs look bright and extremely sharp. The book includes Woody Durham's broadcast on 2 CDs. The book is not organized into game-by-game stories like the News and Observer's book. Instead, it has two main sections. First is a section of essays on various topics like "Workdays in Maui," "Senior Day," and "Two Steps to St. Louis." Second is a section of essays by all five members of the coaching staff and eight of the regular players. The book also includes an essay by Dean Smith, a record of the season, and list of awards and honors.

Great Way To Relive The Championship Season.......2005-10-12

Instead of a game by game retelling, the book is more in story format. It's very well done.

Led by Their Dreams: The Inside Story of Carolina's Journey to the 2005 National Championship

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Led by Their Dreams: The Inside Story of Carolina's Journey to the 2005 National Championship
Adam Lucas
Manufacturer: Lyons Press, The
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MHMZWW

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Don't think for a second that you know Hava or her place in the world. Yes, she's an Orthodox Jew. But that doesn't mean she can't rock out. And yes, she has opinions about everything around her. But her opinions about herself can be twice as harsh. Now Hava's just been asked to be the token Jew on a TV show about a Jewish family, trading one insular community for another. As in Tanuja Desai Hidier's BORN CONFUSED, there is soon a collision of both cultures and desires -- with one headstrong heroine caught in the middle.

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Courtesy of Teens Read Too.......2006-11-27

Yeah, Hava Aaronson is an Orthodox Jew.

Yes, she attends a pretty gritty Jewish private school, and her life seems pretty complicated at times.

No, you shouldn't assume anything about her for even one second.

Hava, a seventeen-year-old Orthodox Jew living in New York, is going to spend the summer in Hollywood filming for a television series about the "comedic life" of an Orthodox family. Little does she know that she is the only Jewish person in the cast of this show--about a Jewish family.

In his debut novel, Matthue Roth portrays the thoughts of a teenage Jewgirl in stunning fashion, giving the readers great dialogue as well as utterly believable internal monologue. Hava is a character whose haywire thoughts and coming-of-age realizations are completely understandable and make the novel even more cool and fun.

Complementing the hilarious narrative are the stream of characters Hava is forced to interact with and the situations she manages to get herself into. Roth portrays Hollywood life through the eyes of a devout Jewish girl raised in New York in an almost satirical fashion, yet it is dead on and only makes everything even funnier and keeps the pages turning quickly.

Along the way, readers learn more than they probably ever knew about the Jewish religion and culture. Roth is able to tell a great story and at the same time push through some food for thought to his readers about the overlooked religion, as well as comparison from secular and orthodox lifestyles.

Hilarious characters, embarrassing and awkward adventures, Shabbos at Blue Hebrew House in Berkeley, the filming process of a three month long movie [no jokes here, three months long], and the introduction of a new kind of voice from a different kind of heroine in this crowded world, is just a taste of the fun you'll have while reading NEVER MIND THE GOLDBERGS.

Reviewed by: Long Nguyen

the most important jewish writer in america today.......2006-08-18

matthue roth is the most important voice in jewish literature today. he is our only hope for the future of this genre. he speaks to the outsiders, the disowned and the disenfranchised. roth tells us that it's okay to be alone and different, because we have truth, self-respect, and we know what is cool. in fact, the interminable struggle to decide who we are as people is well chronicled in each of his works. while his work is bittersweet, it ultimately conveys an optimism that only true bad boys and grrrls can comprehend.

the scarey aspect to his writing is how easy he makes it look.

this book celebrates the internal and external conflict and dynamics of coming of age in a place where one is a stranger, but where such stranger has been an outsider for her entire life. the heroine's strength shines through in this regard, and her struggles reflect a certain magical realism that makes sense in today's high-tech bizzarro world.

a must read for any true devotee of the principles of punk rock and hip hop, nevermind the goldbergs is such a good book that even johnny rotten could not be offended by the fact that roth parodied his seminal album in the title. the book stands alone, as it defines a personal but historical period of artistic angst in america.

the rest of us aren't all idiots.......2006-08-07

I enjoyed the charmingly disturbed heroine, and appreciated an updated view of New York teen orthodox life. Yet I finished the book with several kinds of disappointment. It's fun to see Orthodox teens are not what you might think. But the subsidiary message is that all other Jews are ignorant of their heritage and nonobservant. Truth is, Mr. Roth, many secular (and even atheist) Jewish young people study their Talmud, read Torah and understand history. However, like everyone including Orthodox Jews, they don't follow every law written down that might affect them. Overall, the story was compelling, but the heroine's conflict with her mother is introduced and resolved an an awkward and unconvincing way. Finally, excessive alcohol use, while apparently condemned in the wild Hollywood days, is winked at whenever Hava returns to the safety of the Orthodox world. Drunken teens don't have sex or do other dangerous things as long as they are with other observant Jews? I don't think so. Like the heroine, this book is not as good as it should be.

A lively, unusual story of a very modern punkish teen........2005-09-12

Hava is an Orthodox Jew who lives a tough life at an isolated private school - but now she's heading to Hollywood, where she'll be the only Jew on a TV show about a Jewish family. Her willful ways will change her life and make for complicated friendships in this lively, unusual story of a very modern punkish teen.

Hard Not To Love This Unique Teen Heroine.......2005-05-10

Never Mind the Goldbergs is a winding story of teen-ager Hava Aaronson, a New Yorker who moves to LA to co-star in a new sit-com about an Orthodox Jewish family. But Aaronson is not a professional actress; rather, she's an Orthodox Jew who is selected in order to lend the television show a little authenticity.

Hava is a fun and interesting character. She's very religious and traditional, but she's also a punk-rock fan and has a lot of personal attitude and style. She may keep kosher, speak Yiddish, wear long skirts and not touch boys. But she curses like crazy, sneaks into clubs, drinks alcohol and talks back to authority figures. And with a self-done haircut, a long black skirt covered by a green kilt and a short mini, her Orthodox look is anything but.

The book does a good job of showing a glimpse of Orthodox Jews and their community, rituals and ideas. It's easy to categorize and label religious people, even teen-agers, and define them by religion alone. Hava won't let the reader or anyone else do that to her. It's interesting to see her struggle with her faith, her relationship to God, her lifestyle, her career. It's also refreshing to see religious youths who not only pray, but act, make movies, rap, party, dance.

This is a coming-of-age story with a lot of gimmicks. It would be interesting enough to read about a punky Orthodox girl and her viewpoints and thoughts on boys and friends and parents and school and pop culture. Throwing in the Hollywood elements almost seems over-the-top. But if you go along for the ride, it's a fun trip.

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