Accounting, the Social and the Political: Classics, Contemporary and Beyond

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This book contains 35 carefully selected and abridged versions of scholarly financial and managerial research articles by world-class researchers ranging across a wide spectrum of the social, political and philosophical sides of financial and managerial accounting information and practices to focus on accounting's wider role and impact on organizations and society at large.

While each article was substantially culled in order to highlight its central findings and its unique approach, care was exercised to maintain the integrity of the authors' work. The result is a collection of readily accessible research including: classics and seminal articles, a selection of more contemporary articles, and recent articles that go beyond the conventional. Thus, the book pushes the boundaries beyond that of conventional accounting thought and research.

This anthology will be of interest especially to graduate students since it provides a broad sampling of influential research studies presented in a highly accessible format. It should also be of vital interest to sophisticated practitioners who are concerned about the current state of the accounting world in the wake of the recent cascade of so-called "accounting scandals". The hope also is to help bridge the gap between the practitioners' and the scholarly researchers' Worlds.

Accounting, The Social And The Political: Classics, Contemporary And Beyond

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Trevor Hopper Norman Macintosh
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Studies of Indian economic development have in large part concentrated on the role of British imperial intervention in the region. This book, while attaching due importance to the effects of British rule, focuses on other economic factors, such as agricultural techniques and the land-man
ratio, to analyze the agrarian history of the Bombay Deccan.

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Good resource material to supplement the classroom.......1998-07-19

ChemCom is a nicely organized book that provides real world examples of chemistry in action. It's environmental focus helps give it a "current events" style feel, which has increased my students' interest in learning chemistry -- and the activities and labs are great fun!

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Excellent text for Chemistry students w/o the math!!!!

Chemcom: Chemistry in the Community
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Excellent text for Chemistry students w/o the math!!!!.......1997-01-22

ChemCom is an excellent option for the high school chemistry teacher looking to build a larger base of students. With its "hands-on" approach to learning chemistry, more students (including those deficient in higher mathematics) can discover the "chemical" world around them. Through ChemCom's "real-life" examples and problems, all students can discover the 'ins' and 'outs' of chemistry

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This book, which has derived from UNEP-sponsored training courses in the subject, contains vital up-to-date information, presented by a leading team of international experts, on all the major parameters of plant growth and the effect upon them of global climate change. It will be an invaluable manual and reference source for students and researchers in plant science, ecology and environmental science.

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If at first you donÂ't succeed...read the directions is a humorous, yet serious look at the psychology of raising children in our modern society.

This book is based on the adventures of a father raising his two sons and discovering the Â“donÂ't get mad, get even mentality.Â”

If you ever wanted the answer to the question Â“whyÂ” read, If at first you donÂ't succeed...read the directions

All of these situations are approached in a unique, yet effective way by a cast of fictional characters that are loosely based on reality.

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The Civil War prison camp at Elmira, New York, opened on July 6, 1864, and closed the following July. During that single year, almost 3,000 Confederate prisoners died. The prison's death rate of nearly 25 percent was the highest of any camp in the North, compared to an average death rate of just over 11 percent in all Northern camps and about 15 percent in the South. Clearly, something went wrong in Elmira. Drawing on ten years of research, this book traces the story of what happened.

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Final Solution of Confederate POWs??.......2006-02-08

The subtitled of this book might bring a reflection that there was a "final solution" created by Northern government to the Confederate POWs problems and that the solution will take place at Elmira.

I think the author tries too hard to paint a gruesome picture of Elmira prison camp and tries too hard to compared it with some of the worst stuff that was going on in the south. Its like comparing apple and pineapple. Even by the author's account, most of the deaths at the prison camp was caused by illnesses and dieases, contributing factors may been prison officials indifference, ignorance and politics. Author stated that retaliation against southern mistreatment of northern prisoners had a major factor in determining treatment. Still, the photos I have seen of Confederate POWs coming out of Elmira contrast heavily to the human ruins that came out of Andersonville.

Its pretty obvious that the author do seem to be an authority on the Elmira camp but I questioned his objectivity and his perception. While Elmira may have been a callous disregard, Andersonville was a criminal disregard for prisoners' welfare. Author who appears to live in that area of New York State, can't seem to understand the difference between the two as some of the previous reviewers of this book. But the book reads very well, some parts seem to be bit redundant at times but I found it to be an interesting read despite of some objectionable opinions.

Thus while the book do have some merits, comparing it with Andersonville isn't one of them. Making excuses for southern treatments of northern prisoners isn't one of them. Of 600,000 deaths during the American Civil War, most were due to illnesses and dieases and in hindsight, many of them could have been prevented through proper hygenic codes, better food, better clothing and more. Maybe Elmira could have been handled better but I have read where regiments have lost 20-30% of their numbers to the same causes in open camps, probably for the same reasons. Elmira may have been a bad place but I am sure most Union prisoners at Andersonville would gladly change places with their Confederate counterparts.

Doesn't obviate Andersonville.......2005-07-08

An interesting book, but it doesn't obviate the horrors of Andersonville or any other Confederate prison as some of the reviewers here contend. One need only read accounts of Union prisoners captured early in the war, especially at the Seven Days battles ("Fallen Soldier" by Andrew Roy comes to mind), to see that poor treatment of Federal POWs was a hallmark of Confederate captivity from almost the beginning of war and preceded the likes of Elmira by two years. Union soldiers who were exchanged and sent back home or returned to the army reported that Libby and the other tobacco warehouse prisons in Richmond were full of wounded men not being properly cared for, that prisoners had to sleep on floors covered with excrement, had bad drinking water, poor rations, and could barely even breath in the fetid atmosphere of buildings designed to store tobacco, not hold prisoners. This attitude toward Union prisoners, even while the exchange system was still operating, fostered a like-minded attitude in the North toward prisoners. I'm not saying that two wrongs make a right, but today's neo-secessionists blind themselves to the fact that bad treatment of prisoners was first initiated by the Confederates. I give this book two stars as a compromise: four-stars for the research, but only one-star for drawing narrow conclusions and obviously playing up to an audience of neo-Confederate revisionists who seem to think the only way to somehow explain Andersonville is to scream "Elmira" while deliberately forgetting about the early-war Richmond warehouse-prisons had no early-war Union counterpart.

Descriptive, fact based, and our shameful history........2003-02-18

This book provieds plenty of ammunition for debates, when people say how terrible Andersonville was.

The North NEVER had a food shortage, Never had an embargo, with-holding food, medicine or clothing. Yet, all this was PURPOSELY with held from the Southern POW's at NOT only Elmira, but other Northern POW camps for pure and simple revenge. This book contains the documents by General Halleck and Col. Hoffman, who ordered the suffering of these poor Southern soldiers.

Using information from this book, has already IN MANY OF MY DISCUSSIONS, quickly halted the accusations of The Terrible Southern POW camps.

The facts are extremely well documented, and the book, while a great read, does a vivid description of the horrors of Elmira. ( Called, "Hell-mira"--by the POW's) ( This book does include photos)

In conclusion, after reading this book, one may wonder how can civilized people, treat their fellow human beings this way. Unfortunatly, this is another chapter of Americas shameful history.

A visit to "Helmira...".......2002-07-09

Mr Horigan's detailed report shows the other side of the Andersonville(Ga) coin - the Northern prison at Elmira! While gut reaction to civil war prison life makes one usually think of the horrors of the Georgia settlement, Horigan deftly outlines the shameful treatment of Confederate prisoners at this installation in an area relatively untouched by the hardships of war. While one could argue many "excuses" for the ill-treatment of Federal troop at Andersonville, Horigan details that NO excuse could exist for the probably deliberate hardships suffered by those at Elmira. Adequate transportation and abundant food existed in the surrounding area, but little was done to offer humane treatment to the incarcerated. Horigan attempts to "name names" and offers insights into the real "villains" in this shameful episode.

Although the text reads a bit static or flat, Horigan makes his points with emphasis. The last chapter summary is well done, too. I'd have like a map or sketch of the grounds and environs, however.

'Elmira: Death Camp of the North' -- the name says it all.......2002-04-20

When talk turns to American Civil War prisons, its often the Confederate's Andersonville, Ga., site that comes first to mind and gets the credit for creating a hell-on-earth for captured soldiers. But Michael Horigan's 2002 book about a northern camp helps set the record straight: Elmira was just as bad and probably worse.

Horigan spent years researching, lecturing about and writing "Elmira: Death Camp of the North" and he makes strong arguments that support the idea that Elmira's abuse of its prisoners was intentional, and the South's abuse of theirs was more a matter of a lack of resources and funds. He reports strong evidence to support his claims, including records that show the Elmira prison camp officers sat on a $239,000 fund without shelling out for food or clothing, and mail between officers showing bureaucracy at its worst.

In fact, much of the book focuses on the decision-makers at the camp, in Albany and in Washington who dragged their feet or ignored problems. It took them nearly half a year to approve a plan to drain Foster's Pond, an open cesspool that likely contributed to illness and disease. The commanding officer, Col. Benjamin F. Tracy, instituted a policy to reject about half the beef intended for Confederate prisoners, which Horigan says essentially helped starve many men to death. By the time the camp closed in July 1865 after just one year in operation, nearly 3,000 men had died there along the banks of the Chemung River.

Horigan's book is engaging, lively and well-researched. Later chapters reiterate earlier points without boring. Even if you're not into the Civil War or prison history, you'll find this book a good, brisk read.

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Elmira: Death Camp of the North.(Book Review)(Brief Article): An article from: Journal of Southern History
Jean Richardson
Manufacturer: Southern Historical Association
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Release Date: 2005-07-31

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Title: Elmira: Death Camp of the North.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Jean Richardson
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Date: August 1, 2003
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The World Crisis: Thirty Years of War, Famine, Plague, Regicide, And Radicalism, 1635-1665
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Wealth of insights.......2004-01-20

The book "The Origins of Aristotelian Science"
by Michael Ferejohn (1991) has a wealth of nice insights and it is ashame this is unavailable now. Here are some of the best I found:

p.2 Aristotle proceeds with showing how to do collecting and organizing data
-- "the two Analytics... seem to have very little to say about the investigatory methods .. but instead is from a standpoint of a "finished" science whose research is complete and is focused on patterns and how one proves (demonstrates) (deduction) "that certain independently discoverd particular facts ...follow from principles already in hand".

p41 Aristotle mimics Plato
Meno -- Must know all (the forms!) to know the particulars-- from definition to instance. But for Aristotle the real
knowledge is particular cases.

36 the issue of logical axioms
Non-contradiction and Excluded middle that the division "leave nothing out"

A is B and not B

Some B are A Some A are B
Some B are not A Some A are not B
(diagrams)

Some books are brown things.
Some brown things are books.

Some cows eat grass.

p 42 - 43
Plato -- You know universals and believe particulars.
Aristotle -- You know particulars and believe universals.

If we deny pre-existent knowledge, then where does knowledge come from? Since it only seems we perceive particulars then we intuit the connection that makes the universal that we know.

"META TON LOGON"
p. 52 not just a proposition but that "together with its account" which follows its logic "TO TI ESTI" (what-is-it)

p. 66 the minor premise should be better known than the major premise for it to be a good explanation of the conclusion -- even if both premises (demonstration) are true! (planets twinkle)

p. 69 for the predicate to be truly predicated of a subject it must be true in **

not all books are brown but all books have color

deductive -- all -- particulars

inductive particulars -- all
old ideas give new specifics

From what must be to new specifics that are.

New specifics from what is to what must be
new ideas (diagram)

p. 80 Categories Ia 20 - b9
four types of entity (i) things neither said of x or inhere in x, (b3 -
9)(ii) things said of (Ex)x but do not inhere in x ia 20-22, iii things that
inhere in (Ex)x but are not said of x, ia 23-9, and iv things that are both
said of (Ex)x and inhere in (Ex)x 1 a29-b3)

examples i primary substance -- the particular man, the particular horse

ii secondary substances (genera) (species) man, animal
iii nonsubstantial particulars soul, white

iv nonsubstantial universals (said of type3) color

Collected Logical Works Vol II George Boole Laws of Thought, Pascal started "probabilities."

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Title: The Origins of Aristotelian Science.
Author: Michael W. Tkacz
Publication: The Review of Metaphysics (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1993
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Volume: v46 Issue: n3 Page: p608(2)

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Michael: FEREJOHN
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