Intermediate Accounting: Student Spreadsheet Applications, Template Software for Microsoft Windows

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A combination of narrative, cases, and experiential exercises, this book focuses on problems, issues, policies, and practices related to managing people in working organizations. It is designed to help potential managers develop the awareness, knowledge, and skills needed to solve human problems and to make appropriate organizational decisions. Approaches content from the perspective that human problems in organizations confront ALL managers, not only in human resource departments. Explores significant issues that are vital to the employee-employer relationships — e.g., equal employment opportunity and managing diversity, employee representation, managing employment, work performance and compensation. Each case is a written account of a situation that has actually confronted individuals. Includes not only the facts of the situation, but also the feelings, opinions, and prejudices of the individuals involved in the situation — that influenced their actions. Features cases and exercises that take place not only in business enterprises, but also in governmental agencies, educational institutions, and hospitals — and in various environments: plants, offices, manufacturing, retailing, services, etc.

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Three incredible adventures.

Three Adventures: Galapagos, Titicaca, the Blue Holes (The Undersea Discoveries of Jacques-Yves Cousteau)
Jacques Yves Cousteau , and Philippe Diole
Manufacturer: DoubleDay
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0385069219

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Steve Zissou?.......2007-05-10

It recently occured to me that the film "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou" (my personal favorite movie) is based largely off of the life of Jaques-Yves Cousteau. Anyone who knows the movie will see immediately the almost comic likeness of himself and Zissou. Besides that though, "Three Adventures" is filled with retro-esque pictures and commentaries about sea life. Sea life! Who doesn't love it? I know of no one.

Three incredible adventures........2005-01-14

For most people any one of the three separate adventures to; The Galapagos Islands, Lake Titicaca or the Blue Holes of Belize and the Bahamas would have been sufficient for a book in it's own right. With Jacques Cousteau, however, this is just another day at the office and once he has made the points he wishes to impart - it's always time to move on.

When my own second book "Diving Belize" was being written I had occasion to write to Jacques Cousteau with a number of questions. His personal reply is now framed and hangs on my study wall. It says much about this great man that he found time for such a personal reply.

Very few of those who visit the Galapagos Islands have any understanding of the special factors that exist there - factors that must always be conserved. What Cousteau has to say has not diminished with the passage of time. As far as Lake Titicaca goes, few divers get to visit there anyway and the message from this section of the book is probably the only appraisal of diving this high altitude lake. Of course, Belize and the Bahamas are very popular with scuba divers - but I wonder how many of those visitors know exactly what they are looking at when they first set eyes on those underwater stalactites at depths of over 50m (165 feet).

I remember returning from one such dive when one of our group let it be known he was very disappointed with the dive. When it was explained to him that it was impossible for stalactites to form in water and exactly how they had been created - then bent!, and then continued to form, he couldn't wait to get back into the water to take another look. This time he was not disappointed. I have also had the privilege of diving inside Ben's Cave in the Bahamas and the same comment applies.

Having been required to re-read this series of books for this (and other) book reviews, I am finding them all the more interesting because of the time which has elapsed since I read them last. In short, these books are timeless and I repeat my view that no scuba diver's bookshelf is complete without a copy of this and those other books in the same series. - but be quick, they will not remain available forever.

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Galápagos, Titicaca, The Blue Holes: Three Adventures (The Undersea Discoveries of Jacques-Yves Cousteau)

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Three incredible adventures.

Galápagos, Titicaca, The Blue Holes: Three Adventures (The Undersea Discoveries of Jacques-Yves Cousteau)
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Manufacturer: Cassell
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0304292591

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Three incredible adventures........2005-01-14

Three Adventures-Galapagos, Titicaca, the Blue Holes.

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Three incredible adventures.

Three Adventures-Galapagos, Titicaca, the Blue Holes.
Jacques-Yves & Diole, Philippe. Cousteau
Manufacturer: Doubleday & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O3OQ7Q

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Three incredible adventures........2007-05-15

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Three incredible adventures.

Three Adventures: Galapagos - Titicaca - The Blue Holes
Jacques-Yves (et al) Cousteau
Manufacturer: Doubleday
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O6D57A

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Three incredible adventures........2007-05-15

Book Description

There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits of human foot speed, and in all of sport it was the elusive holy grail. In 1952, after suffering defeat at the Helsinki Olympics, three world-class runners each set out to break this barrier. Roger Bannister was a young English medical student who epitomized the ideal of the amateur still driven not just by winning but by the nobility of the pursuit. John Landy was the privileged son of a genteel Australian family, who as a boy preferred butterfly collecting to running but who trained relentlessly in an almost spiritual attempt to shape his body to this singular task. Then there was Wes Santee, the swaggering American, a Kansas farm boy and natural athlete who believed he was just plain better than everybody else. Spanning three continents and defying the odds, their collective quest captivated the world and stole headlines from the Korean War, the atomic race, and such legendary figures as Edmund Hillary, Willie Mays, Native Dancer, and Ben Hogan. In the tradition of Seabiscuit and Chariots of Fire, Neal Bascomb delivers a breathtaking story of unlikely heroes and leaves us with a lasting portrait of the twilight years of the golden age of sport.

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You'll Race Through This Book in a Four-Minute Mile.......2007-10-01

The Perfect Mile takes the reader into the intimate worlds of three extraordinary men, all from diverse backgrounds and continents. Even though you're familiar that Roger Bannister eventually came out victorious as the first man to fun the mile in under four minutes, the drama and tension of the runners' race to become the first to break the barrier will keep you turning pages almost as fast as the men were running around the track.
Without divulging too much, I will say that near the book's end, when two of the three men are racing in the 1956 "Mile of the Century," the other runner, who because of military obligations is not able to participate, is masterfully woven into the race, almost as if he were actually racing--how he would have run that race, how he would have positioned himself among the two others, and how he possibly would have won the race.

Sports Fans Beware; the Running Aspect of Bascomb's Novel is Less than "Perfect".......2007-05-21

There are certain barriers throughout life that are believed to be impossible to cross; some walls that people simply cannot get past due to physical or mental limitations. The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb tells a tale of one of those impossible-to-cross barriers, the four minute mile. Running a mile under four minutes was deemed impossible by nearly everyone ranging from well-known doctors to running experts to the common man. However in every generation comes those who challenge tradition, and the three who decided to challenge the four minute barrier were Roger Bannister, John Landy, and Wes Santee. Bannister a doctor himself who trained only during off hours, Landy a professional runner who dedicated his life to the mile, and Santee a college student who believed he was unbeatable. Bascomb's novel attempts to describe the courage and determination that these three men exuberated while trying to achieve something deemed impossible. However, he spends little time dealing with the actual training and preparation required to run a sub-four minute mile, and much more on the mundane daily life of Roger Bannister.

The novel is told mainly about Bannister's life, for he is the one who eventually becomes the first man to run under four minutes. It starts out with a young Bannister going off to college. Upon arrival he is asked if he would like to compete in any sports, and he chooses to run the mile. Though he is beaten by an elder man smoking a cigar both before and after the event, his talent is noticed and soon Bannister has a coach. From here on out, most people would expect the story to portray his great amounts of training, but instead we get a heavy dose of how boring it was to be a doctor back in the 1950s. Page after page the reader is bogged down with medical terms and descriptions of just how difficult it was for Roger to manage training and becoming a doctor. Maybe his life really was this boring, but did Bascomb have to making it seem this way? I spent the entire time reading this part of the book (other than the time I spent sleeping) thinking "my God I thought this book was about a runner!" When Bascomb does mention the athletic aspect of this book it is simply to list the times Bannister achieved as he slowly marched towards the four minute mile, no description of the races, just times.

After briefly covering the American Wes Santee's attempts at the four minute mile in college and John Landy's own struggle to break the barrier, the story once again turns back to Bannister. Finally the big day is upon him, although the conditions are less than ideal. It is rainy, which does not make for a quick pace, but Bannister wishes to continue nonetheless. He starts the day out like any other, and once again Bascomb seems to describe in detail every patient Bannister sees that day before heading out to the track. However he does finally manage to step onto the track with his two rabbits standing beside him ready to pace him through three of the four hopefully historic laps. Finally the reader is blessed with a description of the race. Bannister exhausts one of his pacers after a 1:58 split through the first mile and continues on through the third lap in three minutes even. As Bannister barrels through the line Bascomb does an excellent job of describing his collapse and nearly dead facial expression. Bascomb allows the suspense to mount as the reader anxiously turns page after page in an attempt to discover the final time. All Bannister heard was "3" and the crowd went wild. The reader eventually learns that his final time was three minutes and fifty-nine seconds, a new world record and the first sub-four minute mile ever recorded.

Despite Bascomb's superb description of the arguably most important race of the century, he neglects to give much other running-related information throughout the rest of the novel. Obviously the reader needs to know just how much Bannister had to balance on a daily basis, but there is little need to go into such detail. Many of Bascomb's readers are sports fans who have picked up the book because they truly love the sport of running and therefore want to hear tales of heart-stopping finishes and awesome performances. The energy Bannister put into his training and medical work is evident, and Bascomb does a superb job at portraying the human spirit through him. However, it would have been nice to have the story more related to the actual "Mile".

From: Colin Daileda

The perfect sports fan book.......2007-04-17

The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb is a perfect read for any sports fan. It is an exciting recounting of actual runners and their stories. I enjoyed this book that tells the story of three milers with a single goal: to be the world's first to break the four minute mile. The four minute mile was believed to be humanly impossible, until it was broken by a young English athlete named Roger Banister. Roger along with an American, Wes Santee, and Australian, John Landy all were ambitious, competitive, disciplined young men who wanted to show the world that the four minute mile was not impossible. But they also wanted to be the first to break the "impossible" barrier. The story takes place on three different continents as it follows the three athletes as they train and prepare for their next attempt on the barrier on the track.
Cries of encouragement from the fans and fellow runners pushed Roger toward the line. At this point he was beyond exhausted, yet there was no more pain he had simply used it all up. Yet he kept running on pure will, even as the distance from the tape appeared to get farther and farther away. Still he drove on three, two, only one more stride. He hurled himself at the tape. This is the description of my favorite scene in the book that I think will put a very good picture in anyone's head. This made me think of all the sacrifices that all athletes have to take to achieve any goal big or small. Yet many aren't willing to make this sacrifice.
I thought that Neal Bascomb did a great job writing this book he had many articles and transcripts and books to go through to find every detail about the runners and their background. He paints colorful pictures of the races in your head. There were a few parts that were hard to follow. I thought that this was a challenging book due to its length. I will definitely remember this book's descriptiveness in the future. I enjoyed learning all about the miles' history and it's very interesting origin. I think that any runner has to read this book, even if they don't like challenging books. They can still read it easily because there is little advanced vocabulary.

Probably a Better Movie than Book.......2007-01-24

What a great idea for a book. Three runners from different backgrounds and countries each competing to be the first man to run a four minute mile. I really wanted to like this book more than I did. After many, many pages detailing training, training, adn more training I began to skim in ernest.
By the time the featured race was run, I was all out of steam. I cannot put my finger on just what is wrong with the book other than it is really dry and boring. Maybe if the author had gotten more into the personalities and less into the training regimens. Anyway, somewhere they say it is "soon to be a major motion picture". Mabye the movie will be better.

Inspiring.......2006-09-16

If you run, competitively or not, you'll enjoy this book. It shows the level of effort and the perseverance required to attain a goal. I recommend it.

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unique photos, but better planners out there.......2006-02-19

I bought this planner because I usually get Sierra Club or Audobon and thought that Lonely Planet would also include cool pictures and be something a little different. I wasn't disappointed in that respect, but I'm giving it only three stars, because when I write in it (even lightly with pencil) my writing gets imprinted onto other pages probably with the ink from the pictures, so its a mess. And since its advertised as a 'diary' as well, that especially shouldn't fly. I have to treat it a bit gingerly, and that doesn't really mesh with my lifestyle.

Poor Ink Quality.......2006-01-26

The layout is nice and the pictures are beautiful, but I sincerely wish they'd used a different type of ink for the pictures. It rubs off onto the connecting pages causing a "carbon copy" effect. Anything you write on one page of the calendar will show up on the next few if there's a picture between. This even using a gel or felt tip pen with minimal pressure. After two weeks of using it, I'm about ready to give up and get something else.

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"Superb . . . The author is a genius."

--Philadelphia Inquirer

"[A] MOVING AND HEARTFELT STORY."

--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Seventeen year old Terry Browning has a problem. She is pregnant and doesn't know who the father is. But the big, tough question remains: Will she keep the baby or put it up for adoption? Her strict parents demand that she give up the child or move out. Then another teenage mom says maybe they can both rent a room and raise their babies together.

As Terry writes her thoughts down in a series of notebooks, hoping her baby will see it one day, she considers the most important question of her life and comes to realize some very important lessons about responsibility, honesty, and unconditional love.

"A REALISTIC, ACCESSIBLE NOVEL."

--Kirkus Reviews

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extreamly good book; every young adult should read it........1999-09-28

This book was amazing everyone should read it it teaches you a great deal aboout teen pregnancy and the responcibility of a single parent.

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Someone Else's Baby (Medical Romance)
Jean Evans
Manufacturer: Harlequin Mills & Boon Ltd (Large Print Books)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0263156834

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