Accounting: Themes, Keys, Formulas, Glossary of Accounting Terms for Your Introductory College Course (Barron's Ez-101 Study Keys)

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Get an edge on your classmates!

How I found relief from obscure bookkeeping chores

Very helpful for college students

Accounting: Themes, Keys, Formulas, Glossary of Accounting Terms for Your Introductory College Course (Barron's Ez-101 Study Keys)
David Minars
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0812047389

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Get an edge on your classmates!.......2003-02-14

This is a great book for anyone interested in getting an edge on their classmates and thoroughly trampling the spirit of Ohana into the mud. It is particularly useful in take home exam situations where the professor has selected a dense and overly complicated text book and then failed to set appropriate expectations as to the nature of the test material. The book is well organized and to the point and will allow you to quickly and efficiently find the answers you are looking for - providing you with a powerful advantage over your classmates who are bogged down in the textbook. Forget teamwork - cast Ohana aside - buy this book today and keep it to yourself! Set the curve - don't be victim of it! (Note: team members may henceforth despise you and shower you in a white hot rain of criticism and hostile accusations which you shrug off but secretly find hurtful)

How I found relief from obscure bookkeeping chores.......2001-09-19

I had been looking for help in how to write off depreciation expenses. Simple question but after 40 years away from accounting it became a frustrating experience. I had purchased several other books and found no help. I even went to a college book store but found no real help. By more or less accident I sent for this book. It not only helped with my then current problem but has proved a real help in remembering all those little things from many years ago.
It is Accounting 101 and I am glad that someone has taken the trouble to write on these subjects.

Very helpful for college students.......1997-12-09

I am a 24 year old college senior. I have been going to school part time and working since I graduated highschool 6 years ago. Stretching my college career out like I have, makes Accounting 101 seem a million years ago. This book makes me feel more at ease about what I already know. It is a great review and a quick reference book. I'm not as nervous about attending upper level accounting classes with 19 year olds who still have basic accounting fresh in their mind. I use it alot!!!!!!!

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The Early Factory Legislation - A Study in Legislative and Administrative Evolution
Maurice Walton Thomas
Manufacturer: The Thames Bank Publishing Company Limited, Essex
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ASIN: B000H44UPA

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The Early Factory Legislation: A Study in Legislative and Administrative Evolution
Maurice Walton Thomas
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Non-agricultural Applications of Soil Surveys (Developments in Soil Science)

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Non-Agricultural Applications of Soil Surveys.

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Numerous improvements in our understanding of the mechanisms that underlie neuropathic pain states have come from the development of animal models, most of which involve partial peripheral nerve injury. The animal models have shown that nerve injury initiates a cascade of events resulting in altered neurochemistry and molecular biology of the peripheral neurons, the dorsal root ganglion cell, and changes in neurotransmitter and receptor expression in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. Moreover, nerve injury produces anatomical changes with functional consequences.
This volume summarises the current understanding of the pathophysiological processes in the peripheral and central nervous system that contribute to the neuropathic pain. It provides a timely review of neuropathic pain mechanisms, written by experts in the field.

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This book addresses managerial and technical aspects of the contamination of river basins in the former Soviet Union and Central Europe, and confronts them with case studies on similar problems in Western Europe and the United States. It describes the actual prevailing conditions and discusses the main lines of strategies, practices, and techniques that are essential for remediation.

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In Germany, the development of the first technologies of sonar and radar were interrelated. Following Christian Hülsmeyer's forgotten invention of the "Telemobiloskop" in 1904, two Berlin engineers, Paul Günther Erbslöh and Hans-Karl von Willisen, developed and built devices to locate targets accurately by reflections with underwater sound and radio waves. In 1934, they found their own company for this work, called Gesellschaft für Elektroakustische und Mechanische Apparate (GEMA), which became the birthplace of their famous Freya air-warning and Seetakt ocean-surveillance radars. Harry von Kroge has devoted decades to collecting a mass of statements and widely scattered documentary material about the evolution of GEMA's sonar and radar. GEMA: Birthplace of German Radar and Sonar, the English edition of von Kroge's first important, seminal work, discusses previously unavailable parts of the fascinating story of pioneering efforts in learning to see in the darkness. It relates the fascinating story of how German radar and sonar were developed in the years leading up to and during World War II. The author provides insights into the difficulties encountered on the way to the first promising results in target detection and ranging without optical visibility. The book includes rare technical descriptions as well as information about industrial and scientific cooperation involving secret equipment in Germany before 1945.

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The Bubble of Memory

Ate It Anyway: Stories (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)
Edward Allen
Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
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In the limbo bounded by rebellion and resignation, belonging and solitude, Ed Allen's middle Americans seem to be either freely adrift or uncomfortably vested in an exit strategy wholly inadequate for their circumstances. These sixteen darkly humorous stories gauga the tension between what we really feel and what we outwardly express, what we should do and what we manage to get done.

In "Celibacy-by-the-Atlantic," Phil negotiates a lingering, low-intensity regret brought on by the annual family get-together at his parents' beach house, where memories of his aimless, privileged adolescence mingle with forebodings of his aimless, privileged middle age. In "A Lover's Guide to Hospitals," Carl lies in bed, pining over a stillborn romance through a moody, post-op haze of painkillers. As a consoling needle through the heart, the object of Carl's unrequited affections also turns out to be his nurse.

In "Burt Osborne Rules the World," a precocious boy ponders his childhood in "a world protected against anything you could imagine doing to make it more interesting." Sensing that only more of the same awaits him as an adult, Burt charts a different course--as a class clown with a truly toxic sense of mischief. Others, like Lydia in "Ralph Goes to Mexico," assert their individuality more effortlessly, for they're just too naturally odd to be cowed by convention. Lydia's dilemma is whether she should have her leukemic cat stuffed and mounted or turned into a hat after he dies.

These lyrical tales celebrate the ordinary--and the not so ordinary--with a flourish of Nabokovian wit that combines grandeur, kitsch, and the author's broad empathy with his characters.

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The Bubble of Memory.......2005-01-27

A sad undercurrent meanders throughout Ed Allen's collection of short stories, "Ate It Anyway." The Flannery O'Connor award-winning volume for short fiction focuses on middle-class America and its failed quest for a meaningful and lasting happiness. The characters usually speak about their inner lives in a confessional-style prose. Often the protagonist will reminisce about a past that seemed so much better than it truly was.

The opening short story, "River of Toys," encloses a revealing thought, "A neighborhood is whatever anyone wants to remember about it." What makes the characters poignant is their self-knowledge of drowning in the mire of an average life they abhor. The notion is most striking in "Burt Osborne Rules the World." The short story's title soon becomes apparently oxymoronic as the character of the title's name laments, "I could have done a better job of being Burt Osborne." He peaks during sixth grade, the height of his unique individuality, and then dives headlong into mediocrity.

In short, Allen covers the terrain of an unfulfilled life like a consummate foreign correspondent. Memory turns out to be an ever-increasing bubble that holds characters within its isolated limited world of the past while pushing out the possibilities of living in the present and having any hope of a joyous future.

Bohdan Kot

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Enigma: How the Poles Broke the Nazis Code.......2007-09-26

Enigma: How the Poles Broke the Nazi Code (Polish Histories) This is an adsorbing and fascinating account of how the Polish cryptanalysis team started after WWI in intercepting and decoding German secret radio transmissions by developing their own "enigma" machine. It details the history of French involvement and British aloofness toward something that was NIH (not invented here) and therefore deemed of no use to them. It also shows the distrust between the Allied partners in WWII of sharing the decoded information and how to apply it. It shatters the belief that the British broke the "Enigma" code.

The Poles Solve ENIGMA...Placed in Broad Historical Context.......2006-11-01

The author Kozaczuk summarizes the facts: "As far as the first phase--fundamental to all further work--is concerned, it has been shown that the solution to ENIGMA, in all its manifestations during the years 1933-39, was a purely Polish achievement. The mathematical methods, Polish ENIGMA doubles, and ancillary technology, when passed on to the British, enabled them to exploit this achievement in record time." (p. 95). Among non-Polish sources that recognize the fact of the Polish achievement (although not necessarily without errors), Kozaczuk, in an Appendix to the book, discusses two books reviewed by Marian Rejewski (p. 257). In another Appendix, Christopher Kasparek and Richard Woytak provide further evidence for the same (p. 225). Finally, this book goes beyond ENIGMA by providing a good deal of auxiliary historical information.

Much of what has been written in the west about the German codes is sheer nonsense. For instance, the account of Poles physically stealing an ENIGMA machine from the Germans is a cock-and-bull story (p. 292). Unfortunately, the British seemed to feel no need to acknowledge their ENIGMA debts to the Poles (pp. 207-208). It is even more disturbing to read that, after Polish agents had stolen the components of a fallen V-2 rocket in German-occupied Poland and had arranged for these to be flown to England, British agents attempted to forcibly take away these components from the Polish agents. (p. 192).

There were about 10 to the 103 power different possible combinations in ENIGMA (p. 24). But, although machines may be ostensibly infallible, humans are not. The Germans had designed ENIGMA with certain intuitively-likely internal configurations, entered information into ENIGMA a stereotypic manner, and often got careless. Evidently, the Germans never had a clue that ENIGMA had been broken (p. 89).

There are ironies in this book. One of these is the fact that the Polish General Staff, thanks to ENIGMA having been solved by the Poles years earlier, had been able to identify 80-90% of the Wehrmacht forces surrounding Poland in August 1939 (p. 61, 66), yet this was of little military benefit to Poland in the massive ensuing German attack, as the promised French attack on Germany (p. 75) never materialized. Later, the Polish cracking of ENIGMA probably had played a more important role in the Allied victory in the Battle of Britain than the disproportionate number of "kills" inflicted by skilled Polish pilots (p. 187). The successful sinking of the Bismarck may owe to the Polish solution of ENIGMA no less than the tiny Polish destroyer Piorun having drawn the Bismarck's fire and thereby stalled for time. (p. 202). Still another irony is evident in Photo 13, which shows Hitler at his victory parade in Warsaw. The Fuhrer was strutting within sight of the building in which the Polish mathematicians had solved the ENIGMA before the war, thus sealing Hitler's eventual doom.

No account of espionage would be complete without discussion of traitors and collaborators. Of course, not all Polish service to the Germans was consensual. Far from it: "Volksdeutsche were citizens of various European countries, of German extraction, who, during the German occupation in World War II, officially declared themselves to be of German nationality and served the German authorities. In Polish Silesia and Pomerania, the Germans also used terror to force the populace of Polish descent to sign the Volksliste." (p. 221). Also, Kozaczuk writes: "Surveillance of a person suspecting of collaborating with the Germans was very difficult under occupation conditions." (p. 215). Although of course not written in this context, this fact addresses those who attack the Polish Underground for not assassinating more Polish informers involved in the denunciation of fugitive Jews.

It is clear that renewed German aggressive plans against Poland had long predated the rise of Hitler to power. Already by the late 1920's, all of the German political parties supported the wresting from Poland of those territories that had been under Prussian rule beginning with the time of the Partitions (p. 2). By the early 1930's, the Germans were actively and openly undermining Poland's half-rights to Danzig (Gdansk) (p. 11).

Finally, Kozaczuk provides a good description of the infamous Pawiak prison during the German occupation: "Named for its proximity to ulica Pawia--Peacock Street--the old czarist prison, built in 1829-35, would be blown up by the Nazis in August 1944, after they had processed one hundred thousand Poles--20 percent of them women--through it, murdering 37 percent of them outright and sending nearly all the rest to concentration camps." (p. 214).

Unknown Heroes of WWII.......2005-08-12

I doubt that one American in a thousand has heard about how the Poles cracked the inscrutable German Enigfma code, and thus contributed mightily to the Allied victory.

Unfortunately the code-breakers were unable to help Poland, their native land, but unselfishly transferred their knowledge to their British and French allies.

This book deserves wider publicity !

Interestingly written book about Polish contribution to finaly victory over Nazi.......2004-08-15

Poles were instrumental in breaking the German Enigma code. I am glad that this part of not really known history is being popularized in English language. I have to admit I am not a person who likes reading a military history. But this book is so interestingly written - with the whole background of the impending war and also with some sense of humor whenever possible. It tells the story of how Polish mathematicians got involved (much earlier than the mathematicians of other countries, also Great Britain) into the work on breaking the code and how they build the machines which were helping to solve the codes. When the war n Poland became imminent they simply gave these machines to their French and British allies. Their difficult stories how they continued working on decoding German secret messages and how some of them survived while others died during the war. The book contains also a separate chapter about English code breakers and how they helped to win the war. Even their personalities are described. Interesting read!

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Includes essays on Muslim perceptions of the West and Western impressions of the Muslim world in the Middle Ages, as well as a section on Arabs and Byzantines.

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This work studies abelian branched coverings of smooth complex projective surfaces from the topological viewpoint. Geometric information about the coverings (such as the first Betti numbers of a smooth model or intersections of embedded curves) is related to topological and combinatorial information about the base space and branch locus. Special attention is given to examples in which the base space is the complex projective plane and the branch locus is a configuration of lines.

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standard reference. NOT for highschool students.

The real projective plane
H. S. M Coxeter
Manufacturer: University Press
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Projective Geometry

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This introduction to projective geometry can be understood by anyone familiar with high-school geometry and algebra. The restriction to real geometry of two dimensions allows every theorem to be illustrated by a diagram. The subject is, in a sense, even simpler than Euclid, whose constructions involved a ruler and compass: here we have constructions using rulers alone. A strict axiomatic treatment is followed only to the point of letting the student see how it is done, but then relaxed to avoid becoming tedious. After two introductory chapters, the concept of continuity is introduced by means of an unusual but intuitively acceptable axiom. Subsequent chapters then treat one- and two-dimensional projectivities, conics, affine geometry, and Euclidean geometry. Chapter 10 continues the discussion of continuity at a more sophisticated level, and the remaining chapters introduce coordinates and their uses. An appendix by George Beck describes Mathematica scripts that can generate illustrations for several chapters; they are provided on a diskette included with the book. (Both PC and Macintosh versions are available) Mathematica is a registered trademark.

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standard reference. NOT for highschool students........2001-08-21

This book teaches the basics of projective geometry from an abstract and axiomatic approach. The book claims that any bright highschool student should be able to understand it, but it's more likely that a 3rd year undergraduate math major will have difficulty digesting the book by himself. This is because its axiomatic approach, plus it is written extremely succinctly. If you are going to read this book on your own, some experience with modern math and history of geometry is a good pre-requisite. The book by itself is an excellent work. I believe it is the only modern, strictly axiomatic approach to projective geometry of real plane. This is a standard reference to projective geometers. The software that accompanies the book is of no utility. It is written in 1993 era, requires you to have Mathematica, is not useful, and also because it comes in an early 90s 5.5" floppy disk. (I think it's on mathsource.com) If you want to learn projective geometry with some computer software enhancement, I highly suggest CabriGeometry II or The Geometer's Sketchpad, Cinderella or other similar ones. Note that projective geometry of lower dimensions is essentially theory of conic sections. Anyone who are serious about conics should study projective geometry. Projective Geometry in the 18th century were thought as the top most parent of all geometry and highly exhorted. --Xah Lee

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The Real Projective Plane
H.S.M. Coxeter
Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
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Binding: 3.5" disk

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The Real Projective Plane (First Edition)

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The Real Projective Plane (First Edition)
H. S. M. Coxeter
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NPMD3Y

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Natural History/Regional

The classic account of human impact on this vast wilderness area, now back in print by popular demand!

Along the Minnesota-Ontario border, in the days of voyageurs, tall trees were used as guideposts in the uncharted wilderness to help fur traders and explorers find their way through the maze of lakes and portages. Branches were cut, leaving the middle of the tree bare with branches above and below. Clifford and Isabel Ahlgren, two of the most knowledgeable ecologists of the area, use nine native trees to serve as lob trees for this book, an ecological history of human activity in the Quetico-Superior wilderness area.

"A fine, perceptive exploration. . . The wilderness is the Boundary Canoe Area of northern Minnesota, and 'lob trees' are used as a poetic way to link the results of historical and ecological research in this setting. This is a well-illustrated book, built to be carried in hand or pack, as one travels through the lands under discussion." The Canadian Field-Naturalist

"A remarkable book that is well researched, well illustrated, and well written." Inland Seas

"There is no one more qualified than the Ahlgrens to describe the ways human beings have affected the forest of this area." Journal of Forest History

Clifford and Isabel Ahlgren have retired from forest ecology after working many years at the Wilderness Research Foundation in Ely, Minnesota.

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Classic Naturalist Writing - Astute and Readable.......2006-10-20

When you arrive at your entry point in the Boundary Waters, put your canoe into the water and paddle across that peripheral lake to the first portage, you see yourself immersed in a pristine wilderness, largely untrammeled by human influences. Guess again. For all its beauty and grandeur, human influences are evident throughout the wilderness: from the herbaceous species you'll see on portages; to remnant patches of landscape plants where outfitters had their cabins; to red pine stands planted by old timber operations; to the changes in forest composition brought about by earlier logging and suppression of natural wildfires.

And it didn't start with the white man. Ahlgren's book illuminates the earlier influences from Native American tribes, first the Cree and Sioux, then the Ojibwe. He explains why different tribes succeeded each other in populating this area, and how their different ways of life affected their use of the land and their relationships with Europeans. The era of the voyageur fur traders, as it affected early settlement and resource use, is also covered.

The result is a fascinating history of human influences in a beloved wilderness, influences both faint and profound. It manages to be both philosophical and practical. It will invigorate your perception of wilderness.

Ahlgren has a scope of knowledge that allows him to distil volumes of research into a concise, readable, even poetic book. It is constructed around the theme of lob trees -- shoreline trees that were pruned just below the crown, to help the voyageurs in navigation. Ahlgren uses a different species of tree common in these sub-boreal forests to guide us through the voyage of understanding human influence in the Boundary Waters: jack pine introduces the chapter on fire disturbance; birch introduces a chapter focusing on Native Americans; white pine is the lob tree for timber, white spruce for pulpwood. This well-integrated thematic approach puts it in line with other classic naturalist writings such as Aldo Leopold's _A Sand County Almanac_.

Naturalist writing isn't just about bringing science to the masses. It's about sharing an appreciation of special places and phenomena -- appreciation in the sense of understanding and in the sense of valuing. As an exemplary contribution to this genre, this book should be of great interest to anyone who loves wilderness and wants to hone their vision when entering natural settings.

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Lob Trees in the Wilderness
Clifford and Isabel Ahlgren
Manufacturer: University of Minnesota Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OMHVLK

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