2003-2004 Pia Ratios All Printers by Sales Volume and Geographic Areas (Gatf/Pia Ratios)

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Provides ratios and statistics from responding U.S. and Canadian firms in six standardized sales ranges and 12 North American regions based on value added and sales. Balance sheet ratios, significant facts, and return on investment for all sales ranges and geographic areas are examined.

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This Training Manual explains how to use The Ethical Type Indicator with The Seminar on Ethical Reasoning —an experiential workshop in which participants discover, examine and explore their ethical values and inner ethical constitution.

Conduct a two-hour, half-day or full-day module in your organization to:

Demonstrate your commitment to ethical behavior
Provide a framework for understanding how ethical dilemmas can be confronted and resolved in a thoughtful and meaningful way
Inspire greater ethical conduct and behavior within your organization
Provide a new and different perspective on diversity and tolerance
Discourage wrongful, illegal and unethical conduct and save your organization in potential litigation costs

The Training Manual includes:

Background information on The Ethical Type Indicator
Detailed instructions for its use
The trainer's guide for conducting a seminar on ethical reasoning using The
Ethical Type Indicator
Seminar outlines
PowerPoint® slide show

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A half-century of rapid change and controversies.......2005-04-14

Excerpts from interviews with U.S. Forest Service chiefs whose tenures span fifty years create an intriguing history of the trends and developments of the U.S. Forest Service, a half-century of rapid change and controversies. From civil rights and wilderness management issues to environmental conflicts, The Chiefs Remember: The Forest Service, 1952-2001 bring a personal touch and is recommended reading for for any non-specialist general reader interested in the Forest Service's history or environmental policy development as a whole.

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A superb manual for safely practicing and honing one's navigational skills

One Hundred Problems in Celestial Navigation, Second Edition
Leonard Gray
Manufacturer: Paradise Cay Publications
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2007 Nautical Almanac, Commercial Edition

ASIN: 0939837331

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Traditional navigation with a sextant, an almanac, and a book of tables is still thriving, even with the availability of accurate, cheap GPS receivers. Batteries sometimes go dead, and electronic devices fail, especially in salt air. Also, it can be satisfying, and fun, to work out a position and plot it, all on your own - but getting good at it requires some practice.

100 Problems is a self-contained book of realistic celestial navigation problems, including excerpts of all the necessary Nautical Almanac pages and sight-reduction table, with answers and explanations. All of the regularly encountered navigation situations are covered, as well as those that are used only occasionally and whose routines may have been forgotten, such as the backsight, shooting an unknown body, finding Venus in daylight and storm avoidance. Procedures for all the needed methods are outlined in an appendix, for review and for reference, and a sight-reduction form is included. It may be photocopied, for non-commercial use.

In the problems, emphasis is on actual conditions at sea, so sometimes sights are poor or planned-for bodies are not visible. Errors are made - and an occasional blunder - as in real life.

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A superb manual for safely practicing and honing one's navigational skills.......2005-11-07

Even in a world with accurate and cheap GPS receivers, traditional navigation with a sextant, an almanac, and a book of tables is still an important skill - sometimes batteries go dead or electronic devices fail, especially in salt air! Written by experienced navigator Leonard Gray, 100 Problems In Celestial Navigation: Self Contained - With Answers is a compendium of realistic navigation problems, including excerpts of all required Nautical Almanac pages and sight-reduction tables, complete with answers and explanations. These problems cover all regularly encountered navigation situations, as well as those that are only occasionally used and often forgotten, such as backsight, shooting and unknown body, finding Venus in daylight, and storm avoidance. A superb manual for safely practicing and honing one's navigational skills.

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Interdisciplinary account of Ancient Greek History.......1998-09-02

The author has written an exhaustively detailed account of the colonization of the Greek peninsula and Ancient Greek Civilisation. He is combining historical and biological evidence and theory into a fascinating story starting with the unique environmental conditions at the end of the ice age. His arguments are quite convincing. His way of telling the story, however would have benefitted from less outrage against the usual Classicist ways of using historical evidence. He is far less critical against biological theory and this might be the only flaw in this otherwise truly excellent book. The reader should be aware of the scholarly character, however: This is not easy reading. it is worthwhile, however, and works like this will change our view of the past.

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Roman Cavalry Equipment
Ian Stephenson , and Karen Dixon
Manufacturer: Tempus Publishing, Limited
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Binding: Paperback

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Drawing on written records, coins, inscriptions, and other archaeological evidence, the authors present a detailed picture of how the Roman cavalryman and his horse were equipped.

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The first and only guide to the worlds premier surfing zones, specifically written for surfers, by a collaboration of the worlds leading surf experts. It's functional design with images from the worlds leading surf photographers and accurate relief and line maps, make it the indispensable and only complete world reference guide to wave sport locations.

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Surfers ! you'd better have it.......2007-09-26

If you need to prepare a surf trip, you want to go at the best (known) spot, or you're just curious to see how it looks like 10 000 miles away, go for it !

This book is really well made, nice text, all the details you need to know, beautiful pictures. You can feel it was made by surfers for surfers.

The first pages will give a bit about wave creating system, weather forecasting and wind satelite map reading.

Really Nice book. But don't fool yourself, the best secret spots won't be in there !

The World Stormrider Guide Volume 1.......2007-05-31

This and all the Stormrider Guides are truely great sources of information about surf travel. Cleverly put together, have beautiful illustrations, and are packed with all the necessary information you need to start planning your surf adventure and travel. Every surfer (young or old) should have all of them on the shelves of their personal library. Go ahead and invest. You'll be stoked, dude!

Cowabunga, nos vemos en el agua!

The book is awesome.. but...........2006-03-13

The book is awesome.. but.... the back cover is almost detaching fom the book.....

Good Overview.......2004-07-28

Cheers to the author for coming up with the first world wide surf guide book. The book includes helpful info on forecasting, how waves are created, and of course worldwide wave hotspots. It will be interesting to see a second edition of it since there are mistakes in the book. For example, for some areas the charts for best time of year to surf are off, to mention one Puerto Rico's. Also breaks are referred to by the wrong name sometimes and even the by month temperatures seem off (i.e Californias). I was eager to buy the book but once I saw the mistakes I decided to wait for maybe a corrected second edition. I recommend to the author that he researches the "hot spots" a bit more carefully. Also just for the sake of adventure a section discussing the potential of discovery around the world would be interesting to see, say the potential around the South Pacific, or Africa for new waves to be discovered. The book may work as a good beginners guide to where the waves are, but for a specific surf trip a more descriptive and more accurate guide would be invaluable.

best guide to world spots.......2003-07-26

although its not as in depth as europe or NA stormrider guiders, The world stormrider guide part 1 gives you some valueble information including color maps, when to go . It even tells you the science of surfing, how swells and tides work. If you are curious about the spots that are around the world, i recommend you buy this book.

The World Stormrider Guide Volume 2 (Stormrider Guides)

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You better have it !
The World Stormrider Guide Volume 2 (Stormrider Guides)
The book is awesome.. but....
Great book
Useful, but could be better

The World Stormrider Guide Volume 2 (Stormrider Guides)
Anthony Colas
Manufacturer: Low Pressure Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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The Journey Continues

Part two of the trilogy of World Stormrider Guides resumes the epic trip around the world's surfable coastlines. Exploring 80 entirely new surf zones across the established 9 continental and oceanic chapters, Volume 2 investigates the waves breaking on our expanding surfing frontiers. The Ocean Environment is studied in detail, providing an important overview of the pollution, erosion, access and hazards that affect surfers worldwide. In depth analysis of the surf breaks is enhanced by the addition of the unique Stormrider break symbols, supported by optimal swell and weather statistics, plus all the crucial travelling information. Detailed mapping and breathtaking photography ensure the World Stormrider Guides are the ultimate surf travel resource.

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You better have it !.......2007-09-26

The World Stormrider Guide Volume 2 (Stormrider Guides).......2007-05-31

The book is awesome.. but.... .......2006-03-13

The book is awesome.. but.... the back cover is almost detaching fom the book.....

Great book.......2005-09-12

This is a great guide with specific details and great photos would reccomend to anyone.

Useful, but could be better.......2004-11-13

The first 'World Stormrider Guide' (Volume 1) to world surf spots was a little bit better than this one, primarily because both the pictures and quality of the surf breaks listed were consistently better.

In this edition, it seems some surf spots are listed to sell copies based on population, rather than surf quality (eg Texas, Perth-except Rottnest Island), or because of tourism (eg Venezuela -"waves are always small"), or because that is where the compilers thought they would like to have a holiday to research the information. And this leads to the second problem-some of the pictures are not up to the standard of a surf publication-many look like they were taken on a single day-stop on a surf trip, which were obviously not even close to the better days of surf at the spot. (Crumbling 2 foot beach breaks do not exactly make a publication). Everyone knows surf pictures are usually exceptional for a particular spot, but at least they know how good it can get.

The detail is as good or better than the first (ie water temperature, swell size, consistency, wind, costs, local stuff, spots highlighted in bold), but the pictures could definitely have been outsourced a bit more. (Hell, I've got better pictures on some spots on some of these-Lennox Head for example is rated as "one of the best right hand points in Australia" (in the top ten or so, along with the likes of Angourie, Burleigh, Kirra, Snapper, National Park Noosa, Winkipop, Bells, North Point, Mays)-yet the picture shows dribbly 3-4 footers-I've got pics which are better). And also, it isn't much value listing so MANY places which are at best average, or too inconsistent (eg like a number in the Carribean-obviously for the American market, the Seychelles-"very small", Northwest Phillippines and Vietnam-"always small"). A few average spots is ok, (or a really good spot but which is inconsistent), but there is too many spots which basically show you that it isn't worth going there (at least to surf, that is). Who wants to travel around the world to surf expensive 2 foot dribblers? (I can get that on an average day in Sydney). Quality, cheap, and uncrowded is what everyone wants-as well as the all-important consistency-ie often breaking!.(Hell, I know some spots in Australia that get absolutely epic, but only a couples of times a year!). In this respect a little more attention could be paid to details on consistency in general-it gives swell consistency/month, but a bit more detail here could be useful-something like actual number of good surf days/each month etc.

Particularly inviting were places like New Zealand (the place in general just gets better the more you look at it-like the first place shown after the inside cover-Mangamaunu Point-looks good), Peru/Lima area, Baja California (with the `seven sisters' stretch of pointbreaks), the `epic' Kumari Point in the Andamans (we'll have to their word for it, the pics look good, but not excellent), Rapa Nui, mainland Sumatra, Philip Island (I've seen better pics), Byron Bay (I've got better pics), Garden Route South Africa (poor quality pics, but there are some good waves on this coast), and the whole pacific side of Central America. Numerous other places like Madagascar, various Pacific Islands, Oman, Brazil, Venezeula, northwest Philippines, Vietnam, northern Spain, Angola, etc didn't exactly overwhelm with quality shots.

A final issue is that always difficult one, the "secret spot". I am one of those people who think the surf is for everyone, and you may as well show on the map where the spot or picture shown actually is. There are several spots described, some with pictures, but which are not shown on the accompanying maps (eg the Philippine Dream-pic looks good anyway, and "Secret Spot" South Africa). (They also say in Volume 1 that they are keeping some spots secret). There is also the annoying occasional picture which has no reference to where it is at all. Some people might like surfers to drive past `their' world-class spot, but it is pretty frustrating to go half way round the world, spend hard earned money, get home and find out you missed the best spot, and you can't go back. And there is always the paradox that others (eg businesses) might want the spot known. Who benefits from the secret? Not you, me or the local businesses-a small group of local surfers only. Also, the world is a big place, and more world-class spots might thin things out a bit, and moreover eventually they are going to find out anyway.

Hopefully the third edition will have some better pictures/surf spots- there are plenty around.

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World Stormrider Guide: Vol 2
Antony Colas
Manufacturer: CORDEE
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K1ZD8S

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From differentiation to integration - solve problems with ease

Got a grasp on the terms and concepts you need to know, but get lost halfway through a problem or, worse yet, not know where to begin? Have no fear! This hands-on guide focuses on helping you solve the many types of calculus problems you encounter in a focused, step-by-step manner. With just enough refresher explanations before each set of problems, you'll sharpen your skills and improve your performance. You'll see how to work with limits, continuity, curve-sketching, natural logarithms, derivatives, integrals, infinite series, and more!

100s of Problems!

Step-by-step answer sets clearly identify where you went wrong (or right) with a problem
The inside scoop on calculus shortcuts and strategies
Know where to begin and how to solve the most common problems
Use calculus in practical applications with confidence

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From differentiation to integration - solve problems with ease Got a grasp on the terms and concepts you need to know, but get lost halfway through a problem or, worse yet, not know where to begin? Have no fear! This hands-on guide focuses on helping you solve the many types of calculus problems you encounter in a focused, step-by-step manner. With just enough refresher explanations before each set of problems, you'll sharpen your skills and improve your performance. You'll see how to work with limits, continuity, curve-sketching, natural logarithms, derivatives, integrals, infinite series, and more! 100s of Problems! Step-by-step answer sets clearly identify where you went wrong (or right) with a problem The inside scoop on calculus shortcuts and strategies Know where to begin and how to solve the most common problems Use calculus in practical applications with confidence

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Perfect Dummy Book Companion.......2007-04-11

I got this workbook to go with the Dummies Calculus book as a suplement to my classes. It really helps to have additional problem made for you for practice. It has helped me study for tests countless times!

Good transaction.......2007-02-15

The book came in on time and the supplier was prompt with the whole deal. Actual description described by the seller was what came.Keep it up!

Calculus.......2007-01-05

Great book helped me through a mid-term when the teacher had lost me and most of the class. so good classmates wanted to borrow it.

Good Practice for Beginning Calculus!.......2006-10-27

This workbook is an excellent companion to Ryan's book _Calculus for Dummies_. In fact I might go so far as to say the two should be considered one volume. In this book you'll find the extra exercises and problems that may not have been copious enough in the _Calculus for Dummies_ book alone. And of course he also walks you through the solutions. I might have wished for more problems instead of the space to actually work them in the text, but that is a minor detail. Overall this is part of a set that serves as an excellent introduction / preview / study aide to beginning calculus. Although I suppose this work could be used alone by someone just wanting to brush up on their calculus via some worked problems. Either way its a good buy.

Calculus Workbook for Dummies.......2006-03-15

I think this book is very informative and provides for a clear understanding of fundamental Calculus that ordinary text books just cannot compete with.

Physics Workbook For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))

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Physics Workbook For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))
Steve, Ph.D. Holzner
Manufacturer: For Dummies
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ASIN: 0470169095

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From the author of Physics For Dummies-nearly 45,000 copies shipped-a hands-on guide to understanding and solving physics problems

According to the American Institute of Physics, more than 35 percent of high school students take a physics course before they graduate. Physics Workbook For Dummies continues our successful series of math and science guides, offering practice physics problems in a workbook format. Our workbook series has a proven track record and Physics Workbook For Dummies not only helps readers learn to solve a range of physics problems, but also presents techniques for memorizing the most commonly used equations and formulas. Readers can practice on hundreds of beginning to advanced physics problems, review key physics concepts, and get complete answer explanations for all problems featured in the book.

Steven Holzner (Ithaca, NY), author of Physics For Dummies (0-7645-5433-6), taught physics at Cornell for over 10 years. He also taught at MIT and has written more than 95 books about computer programming.

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