Financial Accounting Practice Sets, Peachtree Edition (The Quick Notes Series : Designed to Make Learning Faster and Easier)

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This book contains two practice sets designed for beginning users of Peachtree (TM) Accounting 4.0 through 7.0. The first practice set, which covers making journal entries, a trial balance, and statements, can be done in about an hour. The second involves converting a merchandising company to Peachtree(TM) Accounting and three months of transactions.

Completion takes about 20 hours. Included is a complete review of debits and credits and trial balance solutions. This book is part of The Quick Notes Series. This series is for people who want help with college accounting, economics, and statistics courses and for people who want to advance their career by learning more about business.

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The volume contains ten articles, including a review article covering recent work on the interface between Jewish law and logic and mathematics. The other articles are diverse in their scope and focus, encompassing legal, historical, textual, comparative and conceptual analysis. The volume concludes with a survey of recent literature on biblical and Jewish law, and a chronicle section, which discusses recent developments and cases involving Jewish issues in Israeli and American courts, thereby making the Annual a journal of record.

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Biological control offers a promising alternative to chemical control which can have adverse environmental implications. This volume contains 16 articles describing the most modern topics in biocontrol of plant pathogens, including risk analysis for the release of microbial antagonists, genetic engineering and application of tissue culture.

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This books presents a wealth of information concerning the impact of industrial construction on freshwater ecosystems. It is based on the experience gained during hydroelectric power development in New Zealand, and provides an easily understood and convenient summary of these unique events.
Topics discussed include aquatic biology, hydroelectric resources in New Zealand, the legal and planning framework associated with their development, biological management and improvement techniques, and environmental impact assessment. Anyone with an interest in the twin issues of conservation and
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Magill's Survey of Science Volume 2. Earth Science Series. 525-1078. Earth's Differentiation - The Himalaya.
Frank Magill
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Magill's Survey of Science Volume 2. Earth Science Series. 525-1078. Hot Spots and Volcanic Island Chains - Micropaleontology.
Frank Magill
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Magill's Survey of Science. Earth Science Series. (Physical Properties of Minerals- Rock Magnetism, Volume 4 1681-2224)
Frank N. Magill
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Magill's Survey of Science: 2805-3199 A-Xenoliths Cumulative Index (Earth Science Series, Supplement , Vol 1)

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Relatively Speaking: Relativity, Black Holes, and the Fate of the Universe
Eric Chaisson
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With its hilariously honest look at the single male in America -- from his apartment furnishings to his career struggles to his dating habits -- Bruce Jay Friedman's book The Lonely Guy's Book of Life quickly became a hit when it first appeared in 1978, winning raves from critics and inspiring Steve Martin's classic cult comedy The Lonely Guy. Twenty years later, Friedman returned to the subject with The Slightly Older Guy, finding his quarry no longer alone and not so young anymore, but just as funny. Now these classic humor books are available together for the first time in a single paperback edition from Grove Press. With a new afterword about "The Considerably Older Guy," this edition deals with such topics as divorce and grandchildren. Offering advice on exercise (walk, don't run) and insomnia (read Solzhenitsyn), Friedman took the pulse of the aging American male -- and found him still in need of some good satire.

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From an old (formerly) Lonely Guy.......2005-09-30

This is a simply wonderful book - and the Slightly Older Guy is too - wry, amusing and touching. I love the books of Bruce Jay Friedman (who must be an Older Guy by now) and am always telling people to read him. But, here's the catch, in the UK he's not published (or so I believe). How come? His books - going way back - are great and he is one of America's treasures. Perhaps someone can explain....

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Going beyond the stereotypes of Kalashnikov-wielding Afghan mujahideen and black-turbaned Taliban fundamentalists, Larry Goodson explains in this concise analysis of the Afghan war what has really been happening in Afghanistan in the last 20 years, and why the future of Afghanistan matters.

Beginning with the reasons behind Afghanistan's inability to forge a strong state--its myriad cleavages along ethnic, religious, social, and geographical fault lines--Goodson then examines the devastating course of the war itself. He charts its utter destruction of the country, from the deaths of more than 2 million Afghans and the dispersal of some 6 million others as refugees to the complete collapse of its economy, which today had been replaced by opium poppies and heroin production. The Taliban, some of whose leaders Goodson interviewed as recently as 1997, now uneasily control roughly 80 percent of the country but themselves show increasing discord along ethnic and political lines. What happens in Afghanistan in the future will continue to affect stability and security in an increasingly important region of the post-Cold War world.

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Great book!.......2004-12-28

I spent over four months in Afghanistan this year, and this was one of the books I read in preparation. Though it is an academic work, I think it is probably the best book to read in order to get a really good understanding of Afghanistan's recent history and its culture. Highly recommended!

Read this book.......2002-10-04

Wow, what a scholarly survey of the Afghan civil war to include the Soviet occupation, the pursuit of power by the competing mujahadeen factions, and the rise of the Taliban. Goodson's tome provides the layman and the scholar a comprehensive account of the recent fighting in Afghanistan that offers a look into the unique nature of Afghanistan with regard to the deep ethno-linguistic cleavages.
The only negative I could see was that it was published about 10 months too early. The big question mark of the Taliban's future has been addressed to a large degree. I can't wait for an updated edition. I would recommend this book strongly to anyone that is curious about how things came to be in Afghanistan. A great companion book would be "Taliban" by Ahmed Rashid or "Fundametalism Reborn?" edited by Maley.

A worthwhile read.......2002-08-01

Larry Goodson's Afghanistan's Endless War is a gem that shines with solid research and clear prose. This survey of Afghanistan's past will assist anyone who wishes to grasp how this central Asian country became the center of US foreign policy recently. Goodson briefly examines Afghanistan's early history when the country hosted part of the famous silk trade route that connected the occident with the orient. Another section details England and the Soviet Union's reasons for establishing hegemony in Central Asia. Goodson provides solid reasons why each nation's conquest failed in Afghanistan. Lastly, the author presents an overview of Afghanistan just prior to September Eleventh and offers, albeit somewhat dated, future scenarios.

Goodson's purpose is to show how various events within Afghanistan's borders along with foreign intervention have shaped this nation. He contends that "Afghanistan has a singular importance to the region it touches" and does influence its neighbors as well as other foreign nations. The text is filled with facts that support this thesis. In the chapter analyzing the Post-Cold War era, Goodson describes how Pakistan, United States, Russia, Iran, China and others are devoting resources in the quest to determine Afghanistan's future. However, steering Afghanistan's social and economic environment is extremely difficult due to long standing traditions and local laws of indigenous tribes such as the Pushtins, Hazaras, Farsiwans, and among others that are often incompatible with different tribes. According to Goodson, Afghanis are seldom steamrolled or permanently purchased into allying with foreign nations.

Most readers will want information about the inception of the Taliban movement. Goodson argues that the Taliban started when Pushtin Islamic religious students attempted to bring stability to post-communist Afghanistan. Originally funded by the Pakistan government, the Talibans piled up military successes and ended some of the lawlessness and chaos that pervaded Afghanistan. Foes of the Taliban lost military size and strength because of perpetual fighting and later formed a loose coalition of tribes called the Northern Alliance. Although the Taliban never truly gained official recognition as the legitimate government of the Afghanistan, private donations increased to further Taliban control. Additional aid came from "Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries," regional mafia, "heroin smugglers, Osama bin laden," and Unocal (Union Oil). The giant US oil company, Unocal, hoped to build a natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan. Unocal gambled on the Taliban establishing stability to the region by defeating the Northern Alliance and oppressing the local population.

Goodson defends his thesis well throughout the text by showing how Afghanistan, a medieval country in the twenty-first century, is inextricably linked to the central Asian region and the rest of the globe. Equally convincing is Goodson's argument that Afghanistan suffers from weak state syndrome in a post-Cold War era. No longer are the two superpowers paying consistent attention to Afghanistan and smaller national powers intermittently commit resources that often perpetuate the imbroglio. Because Afghanistan must rely on outside and sporadic help, the nation fails to develop a strong central government that can "penetrate" local "society, regulate social relationships, extract resources, and ...use resources in determined ways."

One shortcoming of this book maybe, ironically, its attraction: the book is brief. Goodson glosses over some important topics. One example is when the CIA began training Afghanistan soldiers prior to the Soviet invasion. This event needed further explanation. Nevertheless, Goodson's Afghanistan's Endless War is a fitting place to begin comprehending the complexities of Afghanistan. This book is highly recommended

An academic work bogged down by poor delivery.......2002-02-25

I have to say before I start this review that this is not going to be nearly as glowing as the other reviews on this book. There's a good reason for that (in my opinion of course). My reason being that there is more to writing a book than painstaking research, which Goodson obviously went through in putting this research paper together.

And that is exactly what this is. A research paper. A thesis. A highly academic look through Goodson's eyes of where Afghanistan was, where Afghanistan is, and where it might be going (previous to 9-11 though). The ideas in the book are not terrible. But the lack of presentation and the lack of direction in drawing these facts together make this book an overly architected but poorly built book.

Words are chosen by an auther to deliver a point or a message, not to continuously annoy the reader at their lack of cohesive direction (the list of people and organizations is tough to stomach). While reading any narrative, for example, one might expect to find the expression, "neghboring countries" in the text somewhere. But throughout this book the expression is eschewed for such un-cohesive comments as "outside actors." The book rapidly sinks into academic rhetoric at an apparent lack of direction.

The first reviewer (Tom Lum Forest) nails it when he quotes Goodson and says that it is, "a solid if unspectacular style." In the quote he chooses, three consecutive sentences contain the expression, "Cold War." That's out of 3 sentences. As a reader, I need more than that. I need a delivery. I need to be sold on his message and works.

Again, there is a world of research in this book. But the delivery fails miserably and as one reviewer says, some may find it "sterile". You almost have to be a scholar on Afghanistan to read this book and delve into it without being defuddled by his local dialectual tidbits thrown in the text, which serve to do nothing more than derail his message.

Point is this. It's a graduate textbook with a soft cover. If you are immersing yourself in Afghanistan to write a book about the socio-political situation of the country, this is the book for you. If you want a warm up to the country and some general ideas about something you might not already have a wealth of information on, most certainly do not buy this book.

Goodson good at facts on the ground and global implications.......2001-12-01

"For weak states... [t]he end of the Cold War has revealed an international system that is flawed and troubled." "It was always assumed in the West that with the end of the Cold War would come the fundamental alteration -- even the end -- of the East European states. It was less well understood that the end of the Cold War could also sound the death knell for many weak Third World states." Larry Goodson writes about Afghanistan in a solid if unspectacular style. A survey of pre-Soviet Afghan history is followed by a detailed recounting of 20 years of war. He provides some basic facts about the country: there are no railroads and only one major highway, which now is more like a jeep track than a highway. Literacy is well under 10%, and life expectancy under 50. Irrigation has been destroyed. Potable water is available to 12% of the population, and almost 50% has been displaced. Two decades of war, supported by military aid, consumption-oriented economic aid, and refugee relief, have left an economy with no functional industry and only drugs, smuggling, and small-scale agriculture to sustain it.

The Cold War played out in the Third World (much the way that colonialism did during the Concert of Europe and its aftermath from 1815 to 1914) as Great Powers vying with each other through proxies in preference to direct conflict. Commercial interests played a secondary role. With the demise of the USSR, commercial interests have not moved to the fore. Rather, second and third-tier Powers have been freed to reenact proxy warfare in the weakest of states, like Afghanistan (and Zaire, Indonesia, etc.). The involvement of several interested outside parties, which he quickly surveys, makes de-escalation nightmarishly difficult, especially as the proxies fear wholesale exile or extermination (a fear with some basis).

"The Taliban lack talented political leadership, competent military performance, and ideological creativity," and were unlikely to form a stable state even if they had been completely victorious. "The Taliban have virtually no program with regard to more traditional areas of social policy, such as public health, infrastructure reconstruction, and education. In these areas the Taliban rely almost completely on outside organizations for assistance, both in keeping with Afghanistan's traditional governmental preference for a rentier economy and the Taliban's focus on warfare to the exclusion of all else... Herat and large areas of Kabul, for example, have had no regular supply of electricity for several years, and water throughout the entire country is unsafe to drink."

The Soviet policy of depopulating the countryside created massive numbers of refugees, most of whom fled to Pakistan. The Soviet unwillingness to invade Pakistan permitted refugee camps to serve as bases for insurrection. Refugee camps have 1,000 to 10,000 familles per camp. A typical village had only 100. Half the camp population are children. These are only a few of the facts to the author uses to convey the "vast cultural changes in the Afghan social framework."

Pakistan's willingness to host a refugee-based insurgency, with assistance from the US, Saudis, and others, has been the most important of factors enabling war to continue long after a locals-only war would have burned out. But Pakistan has paid a price, in the strengthen Islamist voice at home and in "the leaky weapons pipeline and burgeoning drug culture [that] had created a Pakistan rife with violence, crime, and corruption." "Corruption of the pipeline happened at all levels, and weapons destined for use against the Soviets ended up in the hands of Pakistani soldiers or drug traffickers, were sold in the arms bazaars of [Pakistan], or were stockpiled for later use. Estimates of how much aid actually leaked ranged from 20 to 80 percent but mujahideen combat commanders were vocal in their frustration at the lack of assistance."

Even before the war, Afghanistan was a weak state, with limited powers over and integration of its territory and people. In the early parts of the war, the existing ruling classes of tribal and elders and religious leaders were killed or exiled. "Group identity usually extends no farther than the qawm [communal group], which never extends beyond the tribal or ethnic group level and can be much narrower, depending on circumstances." Goodson's chief insight is that Afghanistan's breakdown is part of a worldwide pattern FAR beyond the West and Islam. Only US involvement can alter that pattern -- a prospect whose imminence seemed unlikely to him before 9/11/01. Even after it, that prospect is far from assured.

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Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban
Larry P. Goodson
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Afghanistan's Endless War : State Failure, Regional Politics and the Rise of the Taliban
Larry P. Goodson
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Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban
Larry P. Goodson
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This text will appeal to instructors who want a brief, balanced text that integrates the social as well as political history of western civilization. The many historical documents and statistical tables incorporated into the text enhance the discussion of everyday life among rich and poor and men and women, and children through all periods of European history. As they learn about kingdoms, intellectual movements, and the fine arts, students will also discover much about famous and ordinary people, their family life, sexuality, life expectancy, and daily concerns.

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great though dated reference to pattern recognition.......2000-08-04

This book was published in 1973 and there have been many advances since. Still I find it provides great exposition of the fundamental concepts. In fact the nearest neighbor algorithms that are now popular are covered in this book and date back to the work of Cover and Hart in the late 1960s. Those new to pattern recognition who think kth nearest neighbor rules are new should read this book to find out exactly when it was really thought up.

For a more up-to-date treatment, see McLachlan's recent book in the Wiley statistics series. However, this book provides valuable explanations of Bayes rules and shows pictorially what the boundaries look like for linear and quadratic classifiers. In fact I borrowed their pictures in Chapter 2 of my book on bootstrap methods.

great though dated reference to pattern recognition.......2000-08-04

Gotta have it.......1997-02-11

While it's becoming a little dated (no problem, v.2 is in the works), this is the "must have" book for anyone concerned with pattern classification and scene analysis - not just computer vision, but anything related to pattern classification. It introduces all of the basic techniques and approaches that anyone involved in data reduction and classification should be familiar with: contour search, interval splines, chain encoding, the effects of digitizing the input data, pattern representation and classification, etc. Get it. You'll be glad you did. -Drew

Multimodal Technologies for Perception of Humans: First International Evaluation Workshop on Classification of Events, Activities and Relationships, CLEAR ... Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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Multimodal Technologies for Perception of Humans: First International Evaluation Workshop on Classification of Events, Activities and Relationships, CLEAR ... Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International CLEAR 2006 Evaluation Campaign and Workshop on Classification of Events, Activities and Relationships for evaluation of multimodal technologies for the perception of humans, their activities and interactions, held in Southampton, UK, in April 2006.

The 29 revised full system description papers and 1 institutional paper presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. CLEAR is an international effort to evaluate systems that are designed to analyze people's identities, activities, interactions and relationships in human-human interaction scenarios, as well as related scenarios. The papers are organized in topical sections on 3D person tracking, 2D face detection and tracking, person tracking on surveillance data, vehicle tracking, person identification, head pose estimation, acoustic scene analysis, and other evaluations.

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Wetlands are widely recognized for their important role in sustainable landscape functions and for societal values derived from wetland-dependent processes. The wetland resource in the southern United States is particularly important because it comprises approximately 50% of the total wetland area in the nation. Eight southern states (Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia) contain approximately 7.8 million hectares of wetlands, approximately 21% of the United States total. Wetlands in those areas include many different types ranging from coastal marshes, bottomland swamps, pocosins, riparian zones, and mountain bogs. Most wetland research in the southern United States has focused on the coastal plan region or on the Mississippi delta, encompassing wetland types such as bottomland swamps, pocosins and flatwoods.
In September 1993, about 95 scientists gathered in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, for a conference on southeastern United States wetlands and to develop recommendations for future research programs. This book contains 20 papers that were presented at the conference and it is divided into six parts. Part I is a Conference Summary paper that reports major findings discussed at the conference. Parts II through VI contain papers divided into the topical areas of Wetlands Resources, Biogeochemical Processes of Wetlands, Wetland Vegetation Dynamics and Ecology, Managed Wetlands, and Wetland Restoration and Creation.

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