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Probably As Pertinent As Ever.......2001-12-14
I remember this interesting book from the 1970s. It begins with a corporate president interviewing three auditing firm representatives. The president asks, "How much is two plus two?"
#1 replies, "It's four."
#2 replies, "It ranges from three to five."
#3 replies, "What do you want it to be?"
Just guess who got the engagement. Given the recent fiasco at Enron, and the stuff that's starting to emerge over Arthur Andersen's ebola-virus-meltdown of an audit at Enron, "Unaccountable Accounting" might offer information that is as pertinent as ever in the book-cooking world of big business.
P.S. It's a good thing Andersen is a partnership, and not a publicly-held company. That way, there won't be a whole lot of damage to the public when the firm gets sued into oblivion over this Enron mess.
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Managing Global Supply Chains: Compliance, Security, and Dealing with Terrorism
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As well as changing people's lives, the events of 9/11 changed the world of global trade, including the way that supply chains come together and operate. This book sorts out all the issues and frames a comprehensive strategy for supply chain executives in successfully dealing with all the compliance and security changes of recent years, as well as the new bureaucracies with their host of .acronyms and abbreviations. Set up to be a single-source guide, this volume outlines issues, problems and changes in rules and regulations in a logical format, free from "legalese" and the over complexities created by recent government intervention.
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How has the global supply chain been affected by the world's shift toward globalization? How has the supply chain been affected by the widespread adoption of the Internet, the advent of e-commerce, the development of new software, and by international developments such as NAFTA, the euro and the WTO?
This book charts the evolution of the supply chain toward a more customer-oriented and flexibly designed mode, with the customizing of products and services to meet specific customer requirements and with outsourcing, strategic partnerships and the integration of operations.
Schary and Skjøtt-Larsen have fully updated their trail-blazing first edition, giving readers of this new edition not only an insightful overview of the conceptual foundations of the global supply chain, but also a welter of current examples to show that supply chains are not only a new way to supply markets but have become the core of corporate strategy itself.
The concepts the authors introduce include that of the supply chain as a process-a series of activities that can either be performed internally or outsourced to partner organizations. In their analysis of inter-organizational relations, they build on transaction cost analysis and network theory and examine how processes begin with distribution and follow the decision process through production to procurement of materials.
A separate section on management and strategy examines organizational forms and management tools and the authors conclude by considering likely future developments in supply chain operations and its interaction with corporate strategy.
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This digital document is an article from Transportation Journal, published by American Society of Transportation and Logistics, Inc. on June 22, 1996. The length of the article is 776 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: Managing the Global Supply Chain. (book reviews)
Author: Jon S. Helmick
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Date: June 22, 1996
Publisher: American Society of Transportation and Logistics, Inc.
Volume: v35
Issue: n4
Page: p58(2)
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This digital document is a journal article from International Journal of Production Economics, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The cost versus response trade-off is a growing logistics issue due to many markets being increasingly characterised by demand uncertainty and shorter product life cycles. This is exacerbated further with supply increasingly moving to low-cost global sources. However, the poor response implications of global supply are often not addressed or even acknowledged when undertaking such decisions. Consequently, various practical approaches to minimising, postponing or otherwise managing the impact of the demand uncertainty are often only adopted retrospectively. Even though such generic solutions are documented through case examples we lack effective tools and concepts to support the proactive identification and resolution of such trade-offs. This paper reports on case-based theory building research, involving three cases from the UK and USA used in developing a conceptual model with associated tools, in support of such a process.
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The Propagator's Handbook: Fifty Foolproof Recipes-Hundreds of Plants for Your Garden
Peter Thompson
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The Propagator's Handbook By Peter Thompson.......1999-12-26
I'm very interested in plant Propagation and this book was very good in explaining in lay man's term's.I was also interested to see the many way that a simple seed gerination can be achived.
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Food Phytochemicals for Cancer Prevention II: Teas, Spices, and Herbs (Acs Symposium Series)
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Food Phytochemicals for Cancer Prevention I: Fruits and Vegetables (Acs Symposium Series)
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Examines the health effects of phytochemicals in beverages, spices, and Oriental herbs. Features chapters on the suppression of active oxygen species by natural antioxidants. Reviews analysis and biological activity of phytochemicals in ginger, licorice, sesame, turmeric, and other Oriental medicinal plants. Presents recent studies of the health effects of green tea and tea polyphenols. Describes phytochemicals in food spices and coloring agents and their modulation of carcinogenesis as well as their biochemical, immunological, and molecular mechanisms.
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Goals and Economic Instruments for the Achievement of Global Warming Mitigation in Europe
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This book intends to bridge the gap between knowledge about global warming and practical implementation in the political process of the necessary measures for the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It therefore deals with climatology, economics and political science in five sections:
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Euripides' most important plays in one volume. Translations are taken in full text from other single volumes in the Focus Classical Library, by authors Michael Halleran, Anthony Podlecki, and Stephen Esposito, with notes and a new introduction. As with all Focus Classical Library titles, this anthology has been designed with the student of ancient drama in mind, including modern translations close to the original, informed by the latest scholarship, and with an extensive introduction, interpretative essay, and footnotes- all to the purpose of allowing the student to understand Greek drama, Greek mythology, and the context of Greek culture.
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Some significant cover damage, more than was described.......2007-09-27
I bought the book as "like new" so I had some high expectations. while my pages were unmarked and in order, the cover was bent, warped, dogeared, with rippled tears. Poor quality, and misfiled as "like new"
student review.......2004-12-08
I found all 4 plays in this book easy to read & easy to get into...this book was awesome & has made me a fan of Euripides.
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The Bacchae Media Hippolytus
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1994 Quality Paperback Book Club Edition; Translated with an Introduction by Philip Vellacott.
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The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is probably the world’s most advanced air superiority fighter/attack aircraft and is often seen thrilling air-show crowds around the world. It is currently in service with the US Navy, the US Marine Corps, the Spanish, Australian, Swiss and Canadian air forces. This title provides a detailed guide to modelling the Hornet in 1/48th and 1/32nd scales, covering a variety of colour schemes. The step-by-step modelling projects include a 'Gunslingers' F/A-18C USN Hornet from Operation DESERT FOX, an F/A-18D Hornet from the Royal Malaysian Air Force, a Navy 'Black Aces' F/A-18F Super Hornet and an F/A-18A ‘Top Gun’-school Hornet.
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An intriguing story of loyalty and patriotism, Secret Yankees brings to life the adventures of Atlanta Unionists during the Civil War, offering a perspective on the conflict that previous accounts have ignored. ("There were no Unionists in Gone with the Wind," Dyer points out.) Dyer draws on previously unpublished sources--including a long-lost diary and a work of purported fiction based closely on the experience of Cyrena Stone, a Vermont native- to recreate the drama, deprivation, and suspicion that marked the experience of the Union in the closing, and increasingly desperate, years of the war. Arrested on suspicion of spying (the penalty was death) but released by Southern authorities, her house destroyed by Union shelling during the vividly rendered fall of Atlanta, Cyrena Stone survived the war to see the triumph of the cause for which she had risked her life.
More than the story of heroic individuals, Secret Yankees provides an illuminating account of personal travail in the Civil War and a thought-provoking exploration of the nature and meaning of national loyalty in wartime.
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A superbly presented historical study.......2002-05-07
Secret Yankees: The Union Circle In Confederate America by Thomas G. Dyer (Professor of Higher Education and History, University of Georgia) is a superbly presented historical study of pro-Union sympathizers in Atlanta, Georgia. These are Civil War participants who have been largely overlooked and ignored in both traditional civil war studies texts and popular culture movies such as "Gone With the Wind." Dramatic and personal, with special emphasis on the life and struggles of Vermont native and Unionist Cyrena Stone, Secret Yankees is an incredible insight into a little-known aspect of America's deadliest war. Secret Yankees is a seminal and significant contribution to the growing library of Civil War literature and highly recommended for Civil War Studies supplemental reading lists and academic reference collections.
Yankees...in Atlanta!.......2000-12-08
Professor Thomas G. Dyer's book is a highly important and enjoyable work. All readers can benefit from this excellent work; however, for those with an interest in literary mysteries, Dyer's work offers a special treat. Who was "Miss Abby," the author of a "diary" dated at Atlanta, Georgia, 1 January through 22 July 1864? No one knew. In 1976, the University of Georgia library purchased the manuscript "diary" from a book/manuscript peddler without demanding its provenance, a decision soon to be regretted. The question of authorship was daunting indeed. Faced with a fictitious name and the swollen population of Atlanta toward the end of the Civil War, most writers would have surrendered--not so, this 20th century Sherlock. One would have thought that any stray Yankees in Atlanta would have fled like scalded rats with the first booming from Sumter, or that those remaining were securely confined in the local asylum. Not so, Dyer informs us. Yankees...in Atlanta! Aunt Pittypat would be appalled. In the early stages of his work, Professor Dyer was rightly concerned that the manuscript "diary" could be part of a published work. At an early stage he was also aware that, at best, the "diary" in the collection of the University of Georgia library was perhaps only a transcription of an unknown original document, which he yet thinks was a diary written by Cyrena Bailey Stone. After a careful search of all standard reference, and even rare sources, he found no evidence whatever that the "diary" had been published. However, as is often the case when doing original literary work, Professor Dyer's neck was stretched nicely across scholarship's bloody block. The ax fell. Well into the project, the manuscript "diary" in the University of Georgia library proved to be part of a 1903 novel, "Goldie's Inheritance/A Story of the Siege of Atlanta," by Louisa M. Whitney. To add insult to injury, there were three copies of the novel in the Georgia Room, University of Georgia (where Dyer is Professor of Higher Education and History), as is the manuscript "diary." In the words of a Confederate song writer to President Lincoln, it was "Root Hog, or Die!" Die, Dyer did not. As with Lincoln, he goes on to prove his worth by providing his readers with a new thought provoking view of Atlanta, the home of "Gone With The Wind," during the Civil War. Concerning this work, the following facts are most regrettable. Professor Dyer was not able to locate the supposed original diary of Cyrena Bailey Stone, nor was he able to locate a single example of her handwriting; hence, the manuscript "diary" in the University of Georgia library must remain in doubt, its provenance unknown. The fact that the heroine of this story, Cyrena Bailey Stone, the supposed author of the "diary," was a loyal Atlanta Yankee slave owner, and that other loyal Atlanta Yankees in her nest were also slave owners, would seem sufficient to undermine the basic premise of Professor Dyer's work. This may be so, at least in part. However, Professor Dyer's important contribution does not rest on the faults of the characters which infest his work, nor does it rely on the authenticity of the manuscript "diary" in the University of Georgia library. The thoughtful reader of Professor Dyer's superb work will soon learn why this is so. Working under the burdens I have outlined, Professor Dyer has produced an important seminal work. This work is a must for all readers of southern history.
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on November 1, 2000. The length of the article is 551 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: Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta.
Author: Daniel E. Sutherland
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Journal of Southern History (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2000
Publisher: Southern Historical Association
Volume: 66
Issue: 4
Page: 879
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An Introduction to Discrete Mathematics, Formal System Specification, and Z (Oxford Applied Mathematics and Computing Science Series)
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Formal specification is the name given to the use of discrete mathematics in computer science for describing the function of both hardware and software systems. Poor specification often gives rise to severe problems in software and hardware installation. This textbook is an introduction to both the theory and practice of formal specification, and this new edition includes two new chapters on Z, one giving a number of small examples in Z, the other covering design and Z. Prerequisites in this edition have been kept to a minimum since Professor Ince is at pains to develop the techniques of requirement analysis and discrete mathematics that are needed. Throughout the book are numerous worked examples and exercises which include many real examples of software and computer systems.
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very clear exposition.......2004-12-03
This book is a very clear exposition on how tu use formal techniques like Z. It is both rigorous and clear. First the mathematical theory is introduced in a rigorous way and then it is explained how these techniques are applied in specifying formal models. The examples are also very good : small and clear, but containing enough information to learn the stuff..
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The authors of this 216-page book from InterpPress have been studying nature centers since 1996 when they surveyed 100 nature centers and interviewed leaders in the field. The University of Texas Press originally published How to Create and Nurture a Nature Center in Your Community in 1998, when it received first place in NAIs Media Award Competition. Since then, almost 3,000 copies have sold and traveled as far as Africa, Japan, and South America.
This revised edition provides up-to-date information and expanded discussion of topics key to nature center development. It outlines lessons learned since the first edition and important new developments in the field. The new edition includes updated information regarding organizations and resources, as well as expanded coverage of financial and organizational issues and government-based nature centers. The book, printed in full color, features more than 200 photographs.
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How to Create and Nurture a Nature Center in Your Community
Brent Evans ,
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"Every community needs a nature center just like it needs a school, church, and library. Nature centers teach environmental values. This book is a practical and usable guide to establishing and operating a nature center from authors who did it themselves and who studied dozens of other nature centers across the country. It is full of useful information, and a must read for anyone interested in nature centers." --John Flicker, President, National Audubon Society "The authors' love of nature and their labor of love in establishing the Cibolo Nature Center come through loud and clear. . . . They offer a wealth of wisdom based on their own experiences in a clear, readable style. They also present significant information on where help is available." --Michael Riska, Executive Director, Delaware Nature Society Preserving wild land as a community nature center can be a powerful antidote to the stresses of modern living. This practical handbook is designed to inspire, inform, and enable readers to create a local nature center, or help an existing nature center grow and prosper. It will be an essential resource for nature center pioneers, as well as volunteers, board members, donors, government officials, or new members who want to educate themselves about the operation and potential of a nature center in their community. Brent Evans and Carolyn Chipman-Evans give step-by-step instructions for creating and maintaining a nature center. They cover topics such as starting from scratch; gathering support; organizing the organization; building community; handling costs, budgets, and funding; managing land without managing to ruin it; and planning. Photographs, line drawings, and boxes with helpful tips amplify the entire book.
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Must Have!.......2005-02-28
You know you're not alone when you use this book to start a nature center in your community--it's being and has been done all over the world. Here's the guide you'll need. The authors, the Assoc. of Nature Center Administrators and National Audubon are to be applauded for their role in developing this excellent resource.
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