The Complete Guide to International Financial Reporting Standards

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This comprehensive guide explains the principles of IAS, explains the accounting and disclosure requirements, and clarifies practical problems of compliance.

The Complete Guide To International Financial Reporting Standards Including IAS and Interpretation

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The Complete Guide To International Financial Reporting Standards Including IAS and Interpretation
Ralph Tiffin
Manufacturer: Thorogood
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ASIN: B000K07IOQ

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Logistics and the Extended Enterprise is the result of a four-year, $1 million research project devoted to the study of best practices in supply chain management—a necessity for companies that want to be competitive in a global business environment. Written by members of the University of Maryland's Supply Chain Management Center, this important book takes a first-of-its-kind look at supply chain and logistics/transportation management organization structure. It offers a paradigm for successfully implementing a global supply chain and explains the role logistics plays in enabling this approach.

The book answers the question of how organizations can best apply supply chain management practices to break down internal and external walls and become more effective extended enterprises, with a focus on lessons learned at some of the world's leading corporations. The authors gained first-hand insights into this subject through interviews, site visits, focus groups, and targeted surveys involving over 600 companies across a broad range of industries. This book summarizes their core research findings and conclusions, using case studies from such companies as Amoco, DuPont, Johnson & Johnson, UPS, Georgia Pacific, and others.

Logistics and the Extended Enterprise will provide the reader with both the conceptual and analytic tools necessary to manage a global supply chain and put a world-class logistics operation in place.

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Now in its 14th year, the NILOS Documentary Yearbook provides the reader with an excellent collection of documents related to ocean affairs and the law of the sea, issued each year by organizations, organs and bodies of the United Nations system. Documents of the UN General Assembly, Meeting of State Parties to the 1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention, CLCS, ISBA, ITLOS, Follow-Up to the UN Straddling Fish Stocks and Small Island States Conferences, Panama Canal, ECOSOC, UNEP and UNCTAD are included first, followed by the documents of FAO, IAEA, IMO, UNESCO/IOC. As in the previous volumes, documents which were issued in the course of 1998 are reproduced, while other relevant documents are listed.

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Free radical initiators–chemical molecules which easily decompose into free radicals–serve as reactive intermediates in synthetic methodologies such as organic and polymer synthesis as well as in technological processes, oligomerization, network formation, and kinetic research. The Handbook of Free Radical Initiators presents an up-to-date account of the physicochemical data on radical initiators and reactions of radical generation. Individual chapters include:

Dialkyl Peroxides and Hydroperoxides
Diacyl Peroxides, Peresters, and Organic Polyoxides
Azo-Compounds
Bimolecular Reactions of Free Radical Generation by Ozone, Dioxygen, Hydroperoxides, and Haloid Molecules
Free Radical Abstraction Reactions
Free Radical Addition Reactions
Free Radical Recombination and Disproportoination Reactions

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Dialkyl Peroxides and Hydroperoxides
Diacyl Peroxides, Peresters, and Organic Polyoxides
Azo-Compounds
Bimolecular Reactions of Free Radical Generation by Ozone, Dioxygen, Hydroperoxides, and Haloid Molecules
Free Radical Abstraction Reactions
Free Radical Addition Reactions
Free Radical Recombination and Disproportoination Reactions

Professionals and academic researchers in chemical engineering, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, plastics, and rubbers will find the Handbook of Free Radical Initiators to be a distinguished, vital resource.

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Handbook of Free Radical Initiators
E. T. Denisov
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUIF0K

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Handbook of Free Radical Initiators
DENISOV
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N58X1U

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In Stability of Life on Earth, Professor Kondratyev and his team show that the concept of biotic regulation is of fundamental importance in solving a wide range of environmental and other problems. They put forward a new approach to the solution of old environmental problems. Beginning with a look at the geographic environment and structural units within it, they show that ecosystems represent a set of homogeneous, closely-correlated communities of organisms and their environment. Biologists call such correlated communities ‘biogeocenoses’, and they are similar to the corporate structures in economic systems and interact competitively with each other. On the basis of competitive interaction in the biosphere, self-organisation and management take place. The authors show how human economic activity perturbed balances in natural biogeochemical cycles, eliminating and strongly modifying natural land cover, the 20 ^th Century being the time when human activities ‘collided’ with Nature. They consider scientific bases for the stability and sustainability of life, and demonstrate how the scale and intensity of human-induced destruction of Nature and resultant feedback mechanisms have continuously expanded. They consider the likelihood of increasing numbers of natural disasters as a result of such activities, and propose that sustainable development should become a principal research topic during the 21 ^st Century.

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The proceedings of the "Workshop on Gammasphere Physics" report on forefront physics done with Gammasphere and other large gamma-ray detector arrays around the world.

With the unprecedent capabilities of the new arrays high precision measurements provide new understanding of the properties of superdeformed nuclei, such as new symmetries and identical bands. For the first time links were found between superdeformed states and normal states in the mass 190-region.

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Set in a rural farming community in western Pennsylvania, this novel gives fresh voice to the great tradition of the American pastoral. The classic idyll goes awry when young Boyd Robison and his friends find a body in the local churchyard, causing Boyd and his buddies to take a closer look at the odd characters—and sudden suspects—in their close-knit community. Dry, understated wit and Boyd's naïve bravery turn this seemingly dark tale into a joyful and charming story about growing up in America's heartland.

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Boyd: poignant, loveable.......2003-12-19

As I read Rob Laughner's "Our Nun," not knowing at all what to expect but rather assuming it would be a murder mystery, I was most surprised to find that it was really all about a boy named Boyd. And once I got to know his character, was spellbound by him. His shy, knowing, wry, and exceptionally human presence weaves a sweet magic about this book, leaving the reader with a desire to see much more of Boyd. Anyone who's ever known someone like him, (farmkid doesn't really do the trick here) can't help but be pleased that Mr. Laughner brought him to life on these pages, happy to have another meeting, hoping that each page turned brings him closer into view. The book is amazingly difficult to describe: It's not "modern," not "old-fashioned," absolutely not "trite or simplistic," and not "sweet." It's just a really good read, a really good story, very real, and yet magical. I loved it. I will read it again. And I will tell everyone I know about it, because everyone, from age 10 to 100, will "get it" on some level, and like it! Just read it, and hope that we see more of Boyd soon...

Dazzled and laughing.......2003-11-25

Just read the first paragraph. Beautifully written first novels aren't often brave enough to be funny, too. But after the first paragraph you'll have to grant him three pages, then the chapter...and the next thing you know you're cheering him down the field as if he were your quarterback, the focus of tackles with the goal line approaching. No better novel about being a farm kid, about being eleven -- a murder comes as a bonus. Lewis Nordan fans will love it while aquiring a new favorite author.

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This a a sweet little memoir.......2004-08-29

This is an incredible true sweet tale of a little girl born with a physical disfiguration. Flannery O'Connor wrties a brilliant introduction and the story of this innocent little girl is irresistable.

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A Memoir of Mary Ann
The Domincan Nuns of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home
Manufacturer: A Chapel Book
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IOI89S

A Memoir of Mary Ann By the Dominican Nuns of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home, Atlanta, Ga

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A Memoir of Mary Ann By the Dominican Nuns of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home, Atlanta, Ga
Flannery, Editor And Introduction O'Connor
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus, Cudahy, New York
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PROUKO

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Memoir of Mary Ann, A
THE Dominican Nuns of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1131538129

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"On September 9, 1965, I flew at 500 knots right into a flak trap, at tree-top level, in a little A-4 airplanet—the cockpit walls not even three feet apart—which I couldn't steer after it was on fire, its control system shot out. After ejection I had about thirty seconds to make my last statement in freedom before I landed in the main street of a little village right ahead. And so help me, I whispered to myself: 'five years down there, at least. I'm leaving the world of technology and entering the world of Epictetus' "What Epictetus [told] his students was that there can be no such thing as being the 'victim' of another. You can only be a 'victim' of yourself. It's all how you discipline your mind."

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Excellent.......2006-07-29

This essay is a short, clear introduction to the philosophy of stoicism. It is proof that the ideals of the philosophy can be of real use outside the classroom. It is also an awe inspiring example leadership, patriotism, loyalty, and honour.

a tribute to a great American hero.......2005-08-22

it gives an approach to the war that is not normally available in the words of a ranking officer that lived through the most terrible of experiences.

Putting stoic theory to the test.......2005-01-18

I understand that the reviews are all over the place, you need to know what you are getting. If you are looking for an essay of surviving in the world of Epictetus this is IT, as I was looking for more reading by Stockdale, I was really moved by the "Thoughts of a philosophical fighter pilot" (in which you will find this essay as a chapter). If the essay is all you need to study, go for it, for a little more money go for the "Thoughts..."

This is not a story..........2003-11-07

as the previous reviewer states, but rather an essay. I mention that just to let you the would be buyer know, that you are getting a 21 page essay in a pamphlet format. It would have made a great book, and a great story. That is what I thougt I was buying. As for the essay itself; having read the sample pages, I was hoping for insights into how he used the philosphies of Epictetus to handle the events of his imprisonment. He does this only in a general sense.

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Gandhi was the creator of a radical style of politics that has proved effective in fighting insidious social divisions within India and elsewhere in the world. How did this new form of politics come about? David Hardiman shows that it was based on a larger vision of an alternative society, one that emphasized mutual respect, resistance to exploitation, nonviolence, and ecological harmony.

Politics was just one of the many directions in which Gandhi sought to activate this peculiarly personal vision, and its practice involved experiments in relation to his opponents. From representatives of the British Raj to Indian advocates of violent resistance, from right-wing religious leaders to upholders of caste privilege, Gandhi confronted entrenched groups and their even more entrenched ideologies with a deceptively simple ethic of resistance. Hardiman examines Gandhi's ways of conducting his conflicts with all these groups, as well as with his critics on the left and representatives of the Dalits. He also explores another key issue in Gandhi's life and legacy: his ideas about and attitudes toward women.

Despite inconsistencies and limitations, and failures in his personal life, Gandhi has become a beacon for posterity. The uncompromising honesty of his politics and moral activism has inspired such figures as Jayaprakash Narayan, Medha Patkar, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Petra Kelly and influenced a series of new social movements -- by environmentalists, antiwar campaigners, feminists, and human rights activists, among others -- dedicated to the principle of a more just world.

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Useful and informative.......2004-08-14

For many years David Hardiman has been a leading scholar of the Indian peasantry. Now he has written his view of Gandhi and his politics. The Gandhi he presents is ultimately a man of high moral courage. But this is not to say that Hardiman has no disagreements with him. In his opinion Gandhi presented a "dialogic" vision, emphasizing tolerance and diversity of opinions. Hardiman then discusses such subjects as Gandhi's views on nationalism, the origins of his non-violent resistance, his criticisms of modernity, his views on sex and the family, his attitude towards the untouchables and the "tribal" minorities, his campaigns against religious hatred, the fate of Gandhian politics after his death, and the influence of Gandhi on the wider world.

What can we say about such a work? There are some flaws. The use of Bakhtin to support Gandhi's "dialogic" stance is a bit fasionable. The fact that Hindi Swarj is written in a dialogue does not necessarily mean much for its open-mindedness. After all, both Plato and Galileo used dialogues, but they both clearly meant to express one particular viewpoint. Hardiman says Gandhi supported Polish resistance in the second world war, but the reference is to a secondary source. Indeed, there is no systematic discussion of the Second World War, surely the acid test for any pacifist. The discussion of Gandhi's international influence is also weak, looking as it does at Petra Kelly, Martin Luther King, and others, including, somewhat oddly, Malcolm X. Hardiman's scholarship is rather thin here, relying on Stephen Oates' biography of King to discuss the American civil rights movement, and ignoring such key scholars as Dittmer, Garrow, Sugrue and many others. The concentration on individuals may lead many to ask whether non-violent resistance is better at saving the souls of its leaders than achieving its goals. The material preconditions for successful non-violent resistance are never really explored.

At the same time, however, Hardiman provides much useful information. Who would have known that Gandhi's assasin twice tried to kill him in 1944, and both times Gandhi allowed him to go free? Many people know that in South Africa Gandhi offered his services to the British during their wars. But Hardiman also points out how appalled Gandhi was when he learned that the British were callously torturing and killing Africans in the Zulu rebellion. Hardiman also uses his past experience in subaltern studies to provide useful historical background. We learn of the Indian origins of such non-violent practices as haunting the doorsteps of debtors and threatening suicide. We also learn of how Gandhi encouraged civil disobedience among women, and also the limited effect this had on Indian gender relations. Particularly helpful is his discussion of the struggles of the untouchables and the tribal communities, and Gandhi's varying, but increasingly supportive, reaction to them. We learn of how Gandhi supported tolerance and respect for other people's faiths, and we learn of a group of Muslims who adapted Gandhian methods to resist their exploitive communal leaders. We also learn about Gandhian politics after 1948. It is not an encouraging story. Gandhians tried to encourage landowners to donate land to the village as a whole. Many landowners made this promise (requiring a minimum of a fortieth of the village land) and TIME magazine praised it as an alternative to Communism, but few kept their promises. Gandhians also split over the 1975 State of Emergency. One leader supported Indira Gandhi's use of nuclear weapons, while the other leader, J.P. Narayan, formed a broad based movement against Gandhi's government, which unfortunately helped to indulge and legitimize the Hindu right.

Hardiman's portrait of Gandhi is a complex one. It is important to remember that Gandhi was more the Mendelssohn of Hinudism, rather than the Spinoza. Hardiman points out that while Gandhi was always hostile to untouchability he thought that caste could be worked with. Hardiman also points out that he became more liberal as time went on: where once he supported marriages only within castes, by the forties he encouraged Hindu girls to marry untouchables. Hardiman notes that Gandhi could be too indulgent towards Hinduism, but also points out that the Hindu right cannot (and often does not) claim him as a spokesman. Hardiman also discusses Gandhi's patriarchal attitude, and how his family suffered for his abstemious and dogmatic beliefs. He even went so far to suggest that fathers would be right to murder their raped "dishonored" daughters. But to view Gandhi as a life-denying asectic ignores his wit, his generosity, his open-mindedness and willingness to change his views. We can see this in his changing attitudes towards caste, ecumenism, and the tribal communities. Once mass rape erupted with partition, he pleaded with fathers to forgive their daughters. And, of course, there were his fasts in order to stop mass communal violence. For this and for other noble and heroic acts, he was foully murdered by a Hindu bigot.

Gandhi in His Time and Ours: The Global Legacy of His Ideas.(Book Review) : An article from: Canadian Journal of History

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Gandhi in His Time and Ours: The Global Legacy of His Ideas.(Book Review) : An article from: Canadian Journal of History
David M. Fahey
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Title: Gandhi in His Time and Ours: The Global Legacy of His Ideas.(Book Review)
Author: David M. Fahey
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 40 Issue: 2 Page: 397(2)

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