Wiley CPA Examination Review Focus Notes: Auditing and Attestation
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    The new computerized CPA exam became effective in 2004. Focus Notes provides a review of all the basic skills and concepts tests on the CPA exam and teaches important strategies to take the exam faster and more accurately. The Auditing and Attestation section of the exam will cover auditing procedures, auditing standards generally accepted in the United States, and other standards related to attest engagements. Wiley Focus Notes are designed to provide that knowledge in formats that are easy to understand and remember.

    Introductory Financial Economics with Spreadsheets
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      Co van de Panne
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      Introductory Financial Economics with Spreadsheets combines the teaching and explanation of spreadsheets with the essentials of finance and economics in a highly visual, interactive, and project- based approach. Students progressively build skills in today's leading spreadsheet, Microsoft Excel 97, by proceeding through a variety of basic applications. Although Microsoft Excel 97 is used as the demonstrative spreadsheet, users of other spreadsheets will benefit equally from the book. This innovative publication includes an accompanying disk that provides the spreadsheet files on which the text is based and the data for the exercises and assignments following each chapter.
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      2003 Notary Law Primer
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        Progress in Pig Science
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          Body and Brain: A Trophic Theory of Neural Connections
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            The Culture of English Geology, 1815-1851
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              Simon J. Knell
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                Simon J. Knell
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                Adaptive Filtering and Change Detection
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                Adaptive filtering is a branch of digital signal processing which enables the selective enhancement of desired elements of a signal and the reduction of undesired elements. Change detection is another kind of adaptive filtering for non-stationary signals, and is the basic tool in fault detection and diagnosis.
                This text takes the unique approach that change detection is a natural extension of adaptive filtering, and the broad coverage encompasses both the mathematical tools needed for adaptive filtering and change detection and the applications of the technology. Real engineering applications covered include aircraft, automotive, communication systems, signal processing and automatic control problems. The unique integration of both theory and practical applications makes this book a valuable resource combining information otherwise only available in separate sources


                This text would prove to be an essential reference for postgraduates and researchers studying digital signal processing as well as practising digital signal processing engineers.

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                Adaptive filtering is a classical branch of digital signal processing (DSP). Industrial interest in adaptive filtering grows continuously with the increase in computer performance that allows ever more conplex algorithms to be run in real-time. Change detection is a type of adaptive filtering for non-stationary signals and is also the basic tool in fault detection and diagnosis. Often considered as separate subjects Adaptive Filtering and Change Detection bridges a gap in the literature with a unified treatment of these areas, emphasizing that change detection is a natural extension of adaptive filters, and adaptive filters are the basic building blocks in all change detectors. By providing a timely and innovative resource, applied engineers, researchers and postgraduate students studying DSP will all find this an indispensable and enlightening read! Presents a comprehensive and complete treatment of adapative filtering Provides a unifying framework for the theory of change detection based on a filtering approach Combines mathematical tools (algebra, calculus, statistics) and applications areas (airborne, automotive, communication systems, standard signal processing and automatic control applications) Features extensive examples and case studies which can be reproduced and investigated in an accompanying Matlab demo toolbox.

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                1 out of 5 stars Many issues, no information.......2005-09-09

                A lot of topics are represented, but non is really explained in depth. Mathematical background information are not given, a lot remains unproven, symbols within formulas remain unexplained and the Matlab toolbox is way too old. Contacting the author just resultet in getting a link that does not work any longer. Only positive thing to say: Many algorithms given. All in all a really very disappointing investment.

                1 out of 5 stars Matlab Toolbox.......2003-06-17

                The book is very hard to follow lots of theory.
                On top of that the author promises a Matlab toolbox
                so that you can get started and NEVER makes it available.
                I have even emailed him for it and the guy promised to
                send it, now he ignores my emails.

                bad author, slap slap... give me my money back.

                4 out of 5 stars Adaptive changes and amological filtering.......2000-12-23

                While doing some time at our local pen, I came across this book. Since I'm doing a stint for the next 8 years (ineligible for parole.) I found my self drawn to this book. First of all the cover is a work of art. Monet and Renoir could do nor better, nor duplicate. The font the author used was glorious. It showed both power and sensitivity at the same time, what a wonder, wonderfont font. Oh how I love arial font. While reading this book, I began to wonder about my life, my family, and my cellmate Bubba. If this author could bring together both love, honor, romace, and a touch of circus life in this book, I believe that I could share my soul, and soap with anyone. I would rate this book a good solid "M".
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                  Fredrik Gustafsson
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                  On Spec: A Novel of Young Hollywood
                  Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
                  • A telling piece of satire
                  • A Fun Read in 2001, Fun Now . . . But Not As Much
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                  • Pointless and boring
                  • How realistic?
                  On Spec: A Novel of Young Hollywood
                  Richard Rushfield
                  Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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                  A brilliant, dead-on debut about what it takes to make it in today's Hollywood. On Spec follows the paths of six Hollywood hopefuls--a screenwriter, an agent, a development girl, an actress, a studio chef, and an aspiring producer--as they experience the pitfalls and payouts of life on the hollwood fast track. More than just a novel about the entertainment industry, On Spec is a parody of modern life, where winner takes all and the losers are tossed to the wayside without a second thought.

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                  4 out of 5 stars A telling piece of satire.......2006-03-01

                  Richard Rushfield tells On Spec in diary form from the points of view of five different people in the film industry of Hollywood, CA during the big blockbuster boom era of the 90's. The book is all about the shallow, materialistic, cutthroat and money/power-hungry world of cinema.

                  This book flew under the radar as it was released sometime around the 9-11-01 attacks, which stopped the world and so on, thus making a book like this come off as rather poor taste. It was not promoted much and quickly forgotten.

                  Which is a shame, because it's an entertaining gut-check on what Hollywood is really like. Though it's written as a farce, Rushfield is a former screenwriter and film assistant, and one has to conclude that there's a great degree of truth to his borderline-caricature characters. One can even speculate that the mystery assistant's experience with Todd Hirtley is based on personal experience.

                  The easy narrative makes this book a quick read. The book doesn't start slow, but it can be a bit disarming as you get to know the main characters. You may even need to go back and re-read the beginning chapters once you know who's who. The running gag in this book is that you see a scene from one character's POV, and of course the character speaks highly of him/herself, but then you cut to another character who starts by retelling the same scene, while speaking very badly of that previous narrator. That itself gives this book great entertainment value.

                  As the pitch and rewrite process continues in its train wreck way, the plot appears to spin its wheels in place, but things pick up and derail completely once production begins. The ending is open ended and epiloguish. The end result of the movie, like many of the book's moments, is laughingly predictable.

                  The characters are stock-typical, and it almost is what's best about this book, as their typicality leads to funny moments.

                  I strongly recommend you find a copy of On Spec and give it a quick read. You won't get James Joyce, but if you put your pretentions aside for a few hours, it may get you to laugh at our often laughable mainstream film industry.

                  3 out of 5 stars A Fun Read in 2001, Fun Now . . . But Not As Much.......2004-12-31

                  ON SPEC is a novel very much of its time and place. It had the misfortune of being released at a time when the US reading public wasn't in the mood for acidly funny satires of Hollywood development hell, not that most people care about that kind of thing anyhow, despite the recent book OPEN SEASON which purports to theorize that Joe Average knows about big box office. But Rushfield is a warm, compassionate writer with a knack for creating humorous characters, a kind of Max Shulman of the 1990s, and his book should have done better. Hell, even KENNEL BREAK wound up sounding like a good feature film. Its writer, Stu Bluminvitz, gets treated terribly by everyone around him (except his Mom and Dad) and yet, like Candide, he just doesn't seem to notice.

                  It's a book which makes you wonder--why write at all? ON SPEC was advertised as being like Bridget Jones' Diary, but the truth is, it is more like a Terry Southern novel than anything written in the past thirty years. Some have evinced the novels of Bruce Wagner, but Wagner is playing in a different ballpark altogether. It is to Rushfield we turn to when we want to find how things were done under the desks of Hollywood bigwigs in the decadent days before 9/11.

                  5 out of 5 stars Laughed Out Loud.......2004-02-07

                  Read this book in tandem with Joe Eszterhas' Hollywod Animal, and you'll see that Rushfield is write-on. Toss in Hollywood Interrupted and you have the Unholy Trinity of Truth about this city--even though one --Rushfield's -- purports to be fiction. well maybe in parts, but like Dominick Dunne, this guy knows how to hide the truth in fictional frosting so he won't get his ass kicked, or worse yet have to start asking if you'd like that double latte decafe'd...

                  His stuff in Vanity Fair is funny too...

                  1 out of 5 stars Pointless and boring.......2003-12-03

                  Written in diary form, On Spec is a dull tale about modern Hollywood. It offers no insight, and is of a standard one would consider acceptable in a first year college creative writing class. Give this a pass and read Bruce Wagner's I'm Losing You instead.

                  5 out of 5 stars How realistic?.......2001-08-23

                  One problem with all these satires on the Hollywood scene is that the world described is so unfamiliar that we don't know what is being satirized and when the description is realistic. It's like Stella Fitzgibbon's "Cold Comfort Farm" or Lewis Caroll's verse parodies where we find the pastiche funny but don't know the originals. It's the story of the making of a movie flop told in the first person by the various characters (agent, actress, producer, writer, d-girl) involved. It is written in Californian with many obscure dialect words. Part of the merriment of the jest lies in the author's use of this patois. It includes an admixture of Spanglish and dropping the first syllables of words. I often suspected he introduced his own neologisms for comic effect. Above all it's very entertaining and very very funny.
                  On Spec - a Novel of Young Hollywood
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                    Richard Rushfield
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                    Night Stalkers: 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) (Power)
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                    Fred Pushies
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                    The 160th Special Operations Aviations Regiment specializes in carrying out its life-and-death operations under the cover of darkness, hence their nickname: "Night Stalkers." They are renowned for being swift, sure, and particularly deadly with their accuracy in using state-of-the-art aircraft and equipment to assist special ops from the air. Their specialty is covert insertion, re-supply, and extraction of Special Ops teams. They also take part in armed escort, reconnaissance, surveillance, and electronic warfare in support of missions.

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                    5 out of 5 stars Informative .......2007-03-21

                    I purchased this book in order to gain some knowledge about the 160th, since my son was recently accepted to SOAR. It provided quite a bit of information to me. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested about this elite group. I especially enjoyed the many pictures and the history of the 160th. I'm totally in awe!

                    5 out of 5 stars a special book............2006-12-18

                    This book was awesome! It detailed what the Night Stalkers do. It is very personal to me because a good friend's son was a Night Stalker. He was killed recently in Iraq while on a special mission hunting for Zarqawi. He personally recomended this book and so do I.

                    Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos
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                    • How to preserve a great American city...
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                    Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos
                    Sally A. Kitt Chappell
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                    ASIN: 0226101363

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                    At the turn of the last millennium, a powerful Native American civilization emerged and flourished in the American Midwest. By A.D. 1050 the population of its capital city, Cahokia, was larger than that of London. Without the use of the wheel, beasts of burden, or metallurgy, its technology was of the Stone Age, yet its culture fostered widespread commerce, refined artistic expression, and monumental architecture. The model for this urbane world was nothing less than the cosmos itself. The climax of their ritual center was a four-tiered pyramid covering fourteen acre rising a hundred feet into the sky—the tallest structure in the United States until 1867. This beautifully illustrated book traces the history of this six-square-mile area in the central Mississippi Valley from the Big Bang to the present.

                    Chappell seeks to answer fundamental questions about this unique, yet still relatively unknown space, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982. How did this swampy land become so amenable to human life? Who were the remarkable people who lived here before the Europeans came? Why did the whole civilization disappear so rapidly? What became of the land in the centuries after the Mississippians abandoned it? And finally, what can we learn about ourselves as we look into the changing meaning of Cahokia through the ages?

                    To explore these questions, Chappell probes a wide range of sources, including the work of astronomers, geographers, geologists, anthropologists, and archaeologists. Archival photographs and newspaper accounts, as well as interviews with those who work at the site and Native Americans on their annual pilgrimage to the site, bring the story up to the present.
                    Tying together these many threads, Chappell weaves a rich tale of how different people conferred their values on the same piece of land and how the transformed landscape, in turn, inspired different values in them-cultural, spiritual, agricultural, economic, and humanistic.

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                    4 out of 5 stars How to preserve a great American city..........2007-04-25

                    North America has at least one ancient pyramid. A dirt one. Situated within a very fertile region known as the American Bottom, the extent of its base overshadows even the Great Pyramid at Giza. And though some today might dismiss it as a weathered lump of soil - the elements have taken their toll - it once towered over North America's greatest medieval city. Known as "Monk's Mound," because a group of early 19th century monks set up shop there, the structure rises some 100 feet over the southwestern Illinois wetlands. Photographs can't capture its ominous girth. Nor can they convey the anti-gravitational energy required to ascend to the summit from which the St. Louis Arch is visible. The panoramic view from on top, a modern rural landscape punctuated with human-made dollops, belies a metropolis that once rivaled London and Rome in population. Between 900 and 1550, an estimated 100,000 - 150,000 people lived in this city now known as "Cahokia." But sometime in the mid-16th century, just before pointy French hats infiltrated Illinois, it was abandoned. Mystery shrouds Cahokia and its people. They left no known written or verbal records. To add to the mystique, no North American city equalled Cahokia in size until Philadelphia overtook it in the early 19th century. As a shadowy symbol of its former strength, North America's Great Pyramid still stands, miraculously, where it was built over a thousand years ago.

                    "Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos" provides a historical survey of the land and the mystery surrounding Monk's Mound from the Big Bang to approximately 2002. Why the author reached back to the nanosecond of creation remains a little obscure, but that tiny section leads to an interesting discussion of the topographical and geological formation of the American bottom. Thanks to many natural forces the ancient Cahokians, or "Mississippians," found rich fertile soil in the center of North America. They settled there sometime before 900 and fed their burgeoning populace from gifts deposited by glaciers millennia before. What happened at Cahokia afterwards remains, as said above, subject to speculation. Regardless, an entire chapter explores what might have happened based on the meager evidence archeologists have uncovered. Evidence exists for a stratfied society with social classes, an elite, and a worker class. Pottery and artifacts found at the site demonstrate sophisticated artistic skill. They played a game called "chunkey." Some evidence exists that Cahokians used mathematics to design their city, set up an astrological calendar, named "woodhenge," and fortify the inner city with a bastion-lined stockade. The book also explores theories for why Cahokia was abandoned. Everything from climate change, resource depletion, wars, and nutritional or sanitational problems receives at least a cursory analysis. In addition, the book cites the uncommon theory that the Cahokians simply "moved on." Maybe no tragedy occurred? Maybe they willingly abandoned their city?

                    The book's last four chapters discuss the evolution of the land known as Cahokia from the arrival of French explorers to the building of the Cahokia Mounds State Park's impressive six million dollar interpretive center. More than once either environmental or industrialization factors threatened Cahokia's survival. Voluminous sketches and photographs depict the changing landscape, and the names and stories of those who helped preserve the mounds receive adequate coverage. Railroad developers, airports, x-rated drive-in theaters, housing developments. All of these elements encroached on the dormant medieval city. How the mounds survived the political and cultural tensions of the last three centuries stands as a near miracle of vigilance. The book tells the whole story.

                    Though Cahokia was designated an international UNESCO site in 1982, it remains a relatively obscure North American attraction. Archaeologists seem more interested in the site than historians. And they haven't hesistated to dig. Some amazing things were unearthed at Mound 72, including possible evidence of human sacrifice. The book has the details. Plus, inexplicable stones were detected inside of Monk's Mound while extracting core samples. Theories abound. But even considering those hordes, archaeologists think they have unearthed only one percent of the information that Cahokia holds. Perhaps as more discoveries unfold, Cahokia will finally enter the American historical annals and history books as the first known great North American city. Until then, it remains somewhat of a secret to those not living in the St. Louis area. "Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos" provides an easy to read non-technical introduction to an exceedingly important North American landmark. After finishing it, go climb Monk's Mound for the full effect.

                    5 out of 5 stars ancient american city.......2002-03-15

                    This is a stunning book, in every way: lavishly illustrated and a gorgeous, full-color design. Sally Chappell, who writes for the Travel Section of the New York Times, tells a fascinationg story of a sophisticated ancient culture and empire that thrived along the Mississippi valley between 1100 and 1500, at the same time that the Aztecs were coming into power in Meso-America and the Incas in South America. Cahokia was the major city of this empire, and in 1200 its population exceeded that of London in Europe. Chappell tells the story of this historic site near St. Louis, with its fabulous monumental architecture, relgious traditions, and trading networks. But Chappell takes it well beyond the story of the Native Americans. She explores how the site evolved over time, was influenced by French explorers, was used during the Civil War, and what became of the site in the 20th century. An amazing story of both a place and "place."
                    Earth architecture. (Archaeology).(book on ancient New World city)(Book Review): An article from: American Scientist
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                        SAK Chappell
                        Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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                        The Arcturus Adventure - An Account of the New York Zoological Society's First Oceanographic Expedition
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                          The Arcturus Adventure - An Account of the New York Zoological Society's First Oceanographic Expedition
                          William Beebe
                          Manufacturer: G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York
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                          THE ARCTURUS ADVENTURE, AN ACCOUNT OF THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S FIRST OCEANOGRAPHIC EXPEDITION
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                            THE ARCTURUS ADVENTURE, AN ACCOUNT OF THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S FIRST OCEANOGRAPHIC EXPEDITION

                            Manufacturer: Putnam's sons
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                            The Arcturus Adventure, an Account of the New York Zoological Society's First Oceanographic Expedition
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                              The Arcturus Adventure, an Account of the New York Zoological Society's First Oceanographic Expedition
                              William Beebe
                              Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons
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                              ASIN: B000NQA7TU
                              THE ARCTURUS ADVENTURE. AN ACCOUNT OF THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S FIRST OCEANOGRAPHIC EXPEDITION.
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                                THE ARCTURUS ADVENTURE. AN ACCOUNT OF THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S FIRST OCEANOGRAPHIC EXPEDITION.
                                W. Beebe
                                Manufacturer: Harper Colophon Books
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                                ASIN: B000WQL4P2
                                The Arcturus Adventure: An Account of the New York Zoological Society's First Oceanographic Expedition
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                                  The Arcturus Adventure: An Account of the New York Zoological Society's First Oceanographic Expedition
                                  William Beebe
                                  Manufacturer: G. P. Putnam's Sons
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                                  ASIN: B000HDJ3DA
                                  The Arcturus adventure; an account of the New York Zoological Society's first oceanographic expedition
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                                    The Arcturus adventure; an account of the New York Zoological Society's first oceanographic expedition
                                    William Beebe , and Ruth Rose
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                                    Incident at Eagle Ranch: Predators As Prey in the American West
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                                      Incident at Eagle Ranch: Predators As Prey in the American West
                                      Donald G. Schueler
                                      Manufacturer: University of Arizona Press
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