Wiley GAAP for Governments 2005: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for State and Local Governments (Wiley Gaap for Governments)

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The most practical, authoritative guide to governmental GAAP

Wiley GAAP for Governments 2005 is a comprehensive guide to the accounting and financial reporting principles used by state and local governments as well as other governmental entities. Financial statement preparers, attestors, and readers will find its full coverage of authoritative accounting standards coupled with many examples, illustrations, and helpful practice hints extremely useful and user-friendly. Designed with the needs of the user in mind, a "New Developments" chapter keeps you informed of all the important developments in governmental GAAP during the past year. A look ahead to the status of current and future Governmental Accounting Standards Board standards and projects provides information on the very latest in standard-setting activities and covers:

GASB Statement 43 Financial Reporting for Postemployment Benefit Plans Other Than Pension Plans, which together with Statement No. 45 will radically change the accounting for OPEBs by employers and OPEB plans
GASB Statement 44 Economic Condition Reporting: The Statistical Section, which updates the comprehensive annual financial report requirements for the statistical section
GASB Statement 45 Accounting and Financial Reporting by Employers for Postemployment Benefits Other Than Pensions, which will have a major impact on the financial statements of many governmental employers and will require significant implementation planning
GASB Technical Bulletin No. 2004-1 Tobacco Settlement Recognition and Financial Reporting Entity Issues, which addresses the increasingly common use of separate legal entities to securitize the revenue stream from the state's tobacco settlement agreement
Exposure Draft Net Assets Restricted by Enabling Legislation—an amendment of GASB Statements No. 34 and No. 44, which addresses the circumstances in which a government's own legislation can restrict the use of its own resources
Exposure Draft on a Concepts Statement, Communication Methods, which will help the GASB determine where new accounting/disclosure requirements will be presented—basic financial statements, notes, and required supplementary information
Proposed Technical Bulletin, Recognition of Pension and Other Postemployment Benefit Expenditures/Expenses and Liabilities,which can have an impact on accounting for pension contributions on the modified accrual basis of accounting

Wiley GAAP for Governments 2005 strives to be a thorough, reliable reference that you'll use constantly. It's designed to be kept on your desk rather than on your bookshelf.

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Change your spending habits to achieve your personal and financial goals

The hardest part of personal finance for most people is living within their means. Spreadsheets, budgets, and tables make money management seem like hard work. In The MsSpent Money Guide, readers are introduced to an innovative approach that focuses spending habits to allow for everyday costs and future expenses while finding money for things you really enjoy.

MsSpent's bottom line is to help people have a more fulfilling life by helping them clarify their financial goals as well as develop systems and habits that manage their spending. We are all unique and there is no single way to manage money. The MsSpent Money Guide helps each individual discover a way that will work for them. Readers of all ages will benefit from MsSpent's message-if you are clear about your values, you will get more of the life you want with the money you have.

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Great way to rethink your money.......2003-03-17

I have the hardback edition of this book and love it - it still sits on my desk and I refer to it a fair bit. I like the way the author realizes that the eky to managing spending is more psychological than logical - and she gives easy to follow solid advice about how to get out of your own way and get into good habits.

My advice: if you want to get more for your money - Buy it!

The Ms.Spent Money Guide.......2003-01-05

Many book are interesting to read, and then you forget all about them. Not "The MsSpent Money Guide," which I refer to over and over again. It is a book that has changed my life. Most of us feel helpless before ubiquitous money problems. Deborah Knuckey's book teaches you that you can be in charge of your financial welfare, that you are the architect of your future, and that you can be as well off moneywise as you want to be. She says, "Why spend so much of your life working if you don't use your earning in a way that makes you ahppy? Even if you love your job, most work is siimply not that much fun that we'd do it purely for the joy of it. So take the payment for your work and put it to your own best use." Knuckey believes that each of us has different life values, and it is foolish to go along with everyone else's. What mattters, she writes, is that your spending fit your own needs and not that of the Joneses. Some people like fine clothes, others could care less what they wear. Some of us enjoy eating in fine restaurants, others prefer cooking at home.Whatever it is that you enjoy, that is what you should be spending your money on. What matters is not how much money you have, but that it is invested in what will make you happy. Deborah Knuckey will teach you haow to do it. Don't miss reading this book, if you want to enjoy life to the fullest.

Ms. Spent Is Right On The Money!!.......2001-06-14

I recently saw Deborah Knuckey on Oprah, and her appearance was fantastic! In fact, that is why I bought her book. Everything she said was quite true,and the best part about her book is that it is not a budget book or a "scrimp and save" type plan. She encourages people to align their money with their values. If buying lunch everyday is what makes you happy, then do it. But, if the $5.00 per day you spend is taking away from something you would rather enjoy - like a vacation at the end of the year - then try to find out where you can put your money to make yourself personally satisfied. I also enjoyed the fact that Knuckey never tells you precisely what to do with your money. She simply encourages you to realize and understand exactly where it all goes. I know I spend money, and then at the end of the week, I wonder exactly what I did with it. Knuckey encourages you to be proactive and fully understand that you spend your own money and should track it accordingly. Her advice about retirement plans also helped me. I am in my twenties, and I have never given much thought to my life at the age of 65, but now I realize that I can retire a millionare by investing one hundred dollars or less somewhere else, instead of buying things I don't necessarily want or need. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to become a conscious spender and try to make their money work for them, while remaining happy and enjoying life at the same time. Thanks for the advice Ms. Spent!

Everyone can relate to MsSpent!.......2001-06-14

...I don't make enough money to invest in more than my 401k, but she made me realize I can be happy with what I have and still enjoy life! I especially liked her chapter about 'when your means are not enough' because in the world I live in... they aren't! Thank you MsSpent!

This "Conscious Spending" Guide is Terrific!.......2001-06-05

Deborah Knuckey's "Ms Spent Money Guide" offers a very practical model for spending (and living) consciously, to take full advantage of your financial resources. I think her paradigm is extraordinarily helpful. We all think we know how we are spending our money, but few of us ever step back (beyond a Quicken report) to analyze truly whether the way we are spending our money is enriching our lives the way we would like. Ms. Knuckey's "consious spending" model is easy to understand and to apply day-to-day. The book is also very fun to read--she has a terrific sense of humor, and her logic is quite simple to follow. (Ms. Knuckey was delightful in her appearance on Oprah this week--she's very down-to-earth, and her book shows it). I highly recommend this book for anyone like me who isn't an abusive shopper/spender, but nevertheless hasn't paid enough attention to what I've bought over the years (thus resulting in some items in the garage, the basement and the closet that I never possibly would have bought if I had been spending "consciously"). Reading this book quickly and keeping Ms. Spent's model in the back of my mind has already started to help me avoid spending mistakes.

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This book, written by leading grain scientists from Europe and Africa, examines six such grains that have been important food crops in various parts of the world and have the potential for much greater and more widespread use. The chemistry, nutritional value, food processing technologies and potential applications of three true cereals: sorghum, spelt wheat and the major millet species, and three dicotyledonous pseudocereals: grain amaranth, buckwheat and quinoa are discussed. Just three cereal grains account for more than 75% of all grains produced worldwide. This causes high risks for the future of humankind via catastrophic food crop failures and is detrimental to our long-term health. In addition, the intensive cultivation practices needed to produce the required high yields of these cereals is frequently leading to environmental degradation, and they are often inappropriate in the Developing World.

Cereals and Pseudocereals (Underutilized Crops Series, No 2)

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Cereals and Pseudocereals (Underutilized Crops Series, No 2)

Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Hardcover

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The world continues to depend heavily upon a relatively small range of crops for food, fuel, fibre and industrial use, while many potentially good, economically acceptable alternatives exist. This book, which is the second in a series looking at underutilized crops, provides thorough details of those underutilized cereals and pseudocereals which are currently benefiting from research and others which have been neglected and deserve more research attention. Cereals and Pseudocereals considers in detail the potential for the following crops: quinoa, buckwheat, grain amaranth, triticale, fonio, intermediate wheatgrass and wild rice. Under the guidance of the International Centre for Underutilized Crops, the contents of this book have been drawn together by Professor Williams, who has wide research experience in the exploitation of new crops. The contents of this book will be of great interest and use to a wide range of people involved in work on the greater exploitation of currently underutilized crops, including upper level students in agricultural, plant and food sciences, researchers in development agencies and scientists working directly on improvement and exploitation of this group of crops.

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The climate change debate has stimulated a controversy on the existence and size of potentials to reduce energy consumption at an economic benefit, so-called no-regret potentials. This book develops a theoretical evaluation framework with particular focus on transaction costs and real option theory. The resulting typology of no-regret potentials serves to re-evaluate the no-regret potential inherent in highly efficient electric motors and in energy service contracting. Both case studies confirm the existence of no-regret potentials, even if they indicate a certain spread of results around the original estimates. The book concludes with perspectives for deriving more aggregated model-based results.

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This short and concise textbook is intended as a primer on path integral formalism both in classical and quantum field theories, although emphasis is on the latter. It is ideally suited as an intensive one-semester course, delivering the basics needed by readers to follow developments in field theory. Path Integrals in Field Theory paves the way for both more rigorous studies in fundamental mathematical issues as well as for applications in hadron, particle and nuclear physics, thus addressing students in mathematical and theoretical physics alike. Assuming some background in relativistic quantum mechanics, it complements the author’s monograph Fields, Symmetries, and Quarks (Springer, 1999).

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Darby's Bar & Grill is "Cheers" written on twenty cups of Fuego de Machala and a Tamada's napalm pizza. Nobody knows for sure what keeps Darby's from collapsing into rubble, unless it's the building's fear of Lorenzo, World's Angriest Short-Order Cook. Through its doors pass Harry Kell, arch-intellect; ace pizza driver Kirby Dzerzhinsky and Melody, his biker-chick girlfriend; Beans Donovan, cemetery salesman extraordinaire; and Kathryn Vosjoli, who is what Scarlett O'Hara would have been like had she been raised by Mother Teresa. And this is not to mention (until now) the Vigilante, the Yellow Dumpster Rats, and the Giant, cockroach from Hell. From these ingredients, the author has created a world that's slightly west of wacky, hilarious, and ultimately touching, with a happy ending yet.

AUTHOR BIO: The author was not raised by wolves in the Alaskan wilderness, as some believe. He was raised in Franklin, Indiana, by wonderful human parents. He attended Franklin College of Indiana, where he earned a degree in computer information science, but studied everything he could get his paws on, including Shakespearean comedy, programming languages, history, geology, and accounting. After graduation, he moved to Lexington, Kentucky, where he attended the University of Kentucky, studying business management and (more importantly) creative writing. He has worked in a cafeteria, done college radio theater, tested printer performance for a major corporation, and worked in three different pizza joints. He has traveled all over Europe and the United States, and now lives in Winchester, Kentucky, with the most wonderful woman on the planet and her daughter, Amber. The author is ninety-seven years old, more or less. He has never been an assassin for the Department of Agriculture; stop saying he has.

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Probably the most famous tank of the World War II, the Tiger I was originally conceived in 1941 in response to the German Army’s experience in fighting British tanks and anti-tank guns in Western Europe and the North African desert. Following the invasion of Russia, the appearance of the Soviet T-34 and KW tanks lent a further impetus to the programme. The Tiger’s power and performance on the battlefield is emphasised by tables of relevant performance throughout the book, which clearly show the battlefield survivability of the Tiger and its superiority to many allied tank designs. This comprehensive and extremely detailed text is accompanied by a fine selection of black and white photographs showing the tank in use.

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Need more input.......2006-07-01

The tiger tank is one of the most recognized tanks of WWII.Having said that, this book is very good in showing all the technical details and developement history of the Tiger. The artist color profiles of various units and paint schemes are excellent. The B/W photos could do with some enhancement and the exploded view is very detailed. But as a hobbyist I would like to see more attention to detail ( mounting brackets, attachment points,interior, motor close-ups,etc) to balance out all the technical info. For the the price however you receive enough info to satisfy your curiosity.

Sloppy Proofreading Detracts from Content.......2002-07-31

Jentz is one of the finest armor scholars around and Osprey usually does a good job with many of their titles but the publisher made a mess of this one. The reader will be annoyed by glaring editing errors, mispellings, awkward paragraph formatting, and poor proofing. The production history of the vehicle could also have been presented in tabular form instead of chunks of text. There is good info here but you will have to tolerate the inexcusable editing.

ANNOYING EDITING DETRACTS FROM CONTENT.......2002-07-27

Jentz is one of the finest armor scholars around and the New Vanguard series is a budget edition for building a modeling reference library BUT the atrocious spelling, grammar, page/text layout & formatting sprinkled throughout the text seriously detracts from the value & enjoyment derived from perusing a well done reference publication. The editing is really inexcusable. Much information regarding production details could also have been presented more effectively in tabular form. The publisher did such a bad job on proofreading that only if you have a very high tolerance for the flaws and also believe that there are no errors in the factual content will it enable you to confidently accept the contents.

Great review of the Tiger.......2002-06-06

A great alternative to the expensive foreign imports today. Good information and color plates.

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Focus On World History: The Twentieth Century:grades 7-9 (Focus on World History)
Kathy Sammis
Manufacturer: Walch Pub.
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0825143713

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Please, don't stare. Dr. Jan Bondeson, author of The Two-Headed Boy and Other Medical Marvels, aims to humanize his subjects and move beyond the standard exploitation of people with extremely visible medical anomalies. Though one might say that he benefits from our undeniable fascination with the extraordinarily different, he writes brief but thorough biographies that show real, three-dimensional people underneath the hair and horns. His medical understanding rivals his historical acuity, and the reader will find the interwoven threads of science and culture breathtaking.

Perhaps most intriguing is Bondeson's analysis of eccentric tales with little or no physical documentary evidence, such as the egg-laying Scotsman or the Irish gentlelady who was said to have given birth to 365 babies at once. He finds many convincing after stripping them of contemporary superstition and embellishment; this should motivate greater interest in seeking out nonmedical anomalies for deeper research. Fans of good, old-fashioned freak shows will enjoy the profuse, often charming illustrations and the final chapter on men and women reputed to eat such delicacies as stones and live animals long before Ozzy Osbourne made headlines. The Two-Headed Boy and Other Medical Marvels will surprise those looking strictly for cheap thrills, though--the subjects are too human to treat lightly. --Rob Lightner

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A successor to his popular book A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, this new collection of essays by Jan Bondeson illustrates various anomalies of human development, the lives of the remarkable individuals concerned, and social reactions to their extraordinary bodies.

Bondeson examines historical cases of dwarfism, extreme corpulence, giantism, conjoined twins, dicephaly, and extreme hairiness; his broader theme, however, is the infinite range of human experience. The dicephalous Tocci brothers and Lazarus Colloredo (from whose belly grew his malformed conjoined twin), the Swedish giant, and the king of Poland's dwarf--Bondeson considers these individuals not as "freaks" but as human beings born with sometimes appalling congenital deformities. He makes full use of original French, German, Dutch, Polish, and Scandinavian sources and explores elements of ethnology, literature, and cultural history in his diagnoses.

Heavily illustrated with woodcuts, engravings, oil paintings, and photographs, The Two-Headed Boy and Other Medical Marvels combines a scientist's scrutiny with a humanist's wonder at the endurance of the human spirit.

Contents The Two Inseparable Brothers, and a Preface The Hairy Maid at the Harpsichord The Stone-child The Woman Who Laid an Egg The Strangest Miracle in the World Some Words about Hog-faced Gentlewomen Horned Humans The Biddenden Maids The Tocci Brothers, and Other Dicephali The King of Poland's Court Dwarf Daniel Cajanus, the Swedish Giant Daniel Lambert, the Human Colossus Cat-eating Englishmen and French Frog-swallowers

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Guilty pleasures justified.......2007-03-12

Jan Bondeson, a prolific, multilingual medical lecturer, has made a career of popularizing medical curiosities, but unlike other popularizes, he has also published technical studies of the same subjects -- some famous, some unearthed from ancient libraries -- in professional journals.

Thus, he brings a dose of medical sophistication and historical rigor to a topic that is, understandably, often treated shallowly.

As it turns out, not all the curiosities in "The Two-headed Boy" are medical. At least two are psychological only -- fakes.

The history of how fakes were understood before they were understood to be fakes has its own interest. Although the reader interested only in sensational freaks will find plenty of them here, lavishly illustrated, too, the presentation is likely to be offputting for the casual gawker. Bondeson himself has little use for such, whether rude yokels or elegant townies.

Well, it is a dangerous thing to delve into such a field without finding scoffers to point out that the writer and/or the reviewer may be deluding himself about his higher motives.

Nevertheless, as human beings with just one head (if that), our fascination for those with more than one is both very human and, if deftly handled, a legitimate exploration of social understanding as much as of organic pathology.

Bondeson is deft.

While it can never have been socially fashionable to grow up with two heads or covered with hair or sprouting horns, it was arguably worse to do so in premodern Europe. Almost all of Bondeson's examples come from Europe, although many of the older ones from regions where few English-speakers can navigate the libraries as well as Bondeson, a Swede, can.

In the old days of isolated villages, the life of a freak could be more or less tolerable or a hell on earth depending on the attitude of those who spread the news -- whether vicious gossips, humane farmers, greedy doctors or -- probably worst of all -- preachers. Bad enough to be born disfigured without some priest deciding you (or perhaps your mother) have sinned.

That we moderns are not always any more advanced is revealed in Bondeson's discussion of separating Siamese twins, the part of the book that can most easily claim the high ground.

Although "The Two-headed Boy" was published as recently as 2000, it is refreshingly free of po-mo claptrap. It is a surprise, a good one, not to have to endure trivial and shallow explanations that freaks are "others" whose social status is "gendered" or colonized or whatnot. In other words, Bondeson is an old-fashioned scholar, in the best sense of the word.

A sensitive treatment of a difficult subject.......2006-03-06

Especially interesting to me was the chapter on conjoined twins, and the stories about early attemps at separation - some successful, some not.

I, too had heard the story about the woman who had a litter of 365 - 182 male, 182 female, and one freemartin - and he's right, IMHO it was a hydatiform mole and nobody would mistake that for babies.

A Fascinating Book.......2002-06-19

Author/physician Jan Bondeson's work, THE TWO-HEADED BOY & OTHER MEDICAL MARVELS is itself a marvel -- it is a sensitive, humane discourse on cases in teratology (the study of congenital malformations). The word teratology derives from the Greek root 'terato' which is often translated as "monstrous" or "freak", however it also means "wondrous" and "marvelous". Dr. Bondeson never loses sight of his subjects' humanity and focuses on the wondrous aspect of teratology.

Dr. Bondeson's work is well-written and meticulously-researched. He discusses teratology cases from the Middle Ages through the Victorian Era, often providing contemporaneous illustrations and an occasional photograph. The book focuses records of multiple-headed individuals (conjoined twins), dog people (hirsuitism), and stone children (lithopedia), among other things. Dr. Bondeson examines and analyzes archives and reports of medical marvels which sound like legends, myths, fairy tales and ingeniously-contrived hoaxes. The book reads like a good mystery novel with Dr. Bondeson as the detective. He offers plausible medical explanations for accounts which, otherwise, would seem questionable, if not outright fanciful.

another great book from Jan Bondeson.......2002-03-22

although we are taught that our interests in "freaks" is wrong and twisted, Jan Bondeson challenges this idea and takes us back to a time when such curiosity was normal and accepted, and some freaks were like rock stars. This book is intelligent, well written, insightful and very interesting. With excellent research Mr. Bondeson shows us how these people lived, some of their joys and many of their sorrows. He deconstructs some of the mythology that surronds these people and their stories. He shows us formost that they are simply people. I highly recomment it.

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, published by Soil & Water Conservation Society on September 1, 1994. The length of the article is 5423 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: Soil and Water Quality: an Agenda for Agriculture (book reviews)
Author: Sandra S. Batie
Publication: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1994
Publisher: Soil & Water Conservation Society
Volume: v49 Issue: n5 Page: p456A(7)

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Soil and Water Quality: An Agenda for Agriculture. (book reviews): An article from: American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Betsey A. Kuhn
Manufacturer: American Agricultural Economics Association
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00092YI6Q
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from American Journal of Agricultural Economics, published by American Agricultural Economics Association on November 1, 1994. The length of the article is 1355 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: Soil and Water Quality: An Agenda for Agriculture. (book reviews)
Author: Betsey A. Kuhn
Publication: American Journal of Agricultural Economics (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 1994
Publisher: American Agricultural Economics Association
Volume: v76 Issue: n4 Page: p988(3)

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Soil and Water Quality : An Agenda for Agriculture

Manufacturer: National Academy Press, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
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