Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios 2002 (With CD-ROM) (Almanac of Business & Industrial Financial Ratios, 2002)

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A great Reference source.......2003-03-27

This almanac uses 50 performance indicators to compare financial information on 192 industries. Industries included in this reference work include agricultural production, coal mining, ship and boat building, electrical contractors, fruit and vegetable preserving and specialty food manufacturing, and furniture and related product information. The information listed on these industries is in numerical format and includes revenue (such as net sales, rents, roytalties) operating costs (such as taxes paid, advertising, operating margin) and selected financial ratios (such as total asset turnover, inventory turnover, cash flow to total debt). ....

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The need to improve productivity, quality, and flexibility has led companies to examine their organizational structure-and to realize that creating the greatest value does not require them to own, manage, and directly control all their assets and resources. In this practical guide, learn how five case-study companies, including British Petroleum Exploration and Hughes Aircraft Company, successfully developed their own outsourcing frameworks.

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Regulation of minority faiths varies greatly around the globe, with some countries allowing them considerable freedom to exist, recruit new members, raise money, and use public facilities. Other societies are more closed to the presence of such groups, either native or foreign. The pattern of reactions to minority religious movements is not easily explained by reference to usual terms. Knowledge of historical factors in the various countries, coupled with a use of selected theories from sociology of religion and sociology of law, can assist understanding of the situation in various countries. Explicating these complex relationships is the challenge of this volume.

Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe presents, through the inclusion of contributions by international scholars, a global examination of how a number of contemporary societies are regulating religious groups. It focuses on legal efforts to exert social control over such groups, especially through court cases, but also with selected major legislative attempts to regulate them. As such, this analysis falls within the broad area of the sociology of social control and more specifically, legal social control, a topic of great interest when studying how contemporary societies attempt to maintain social order. The factual details about social and legal developments in societies where religion has been defined as problematic include Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

This book will be of interest to researchers and students in the sociology of religion, the sociology of law, social policy, and religious studies as well as policy makers.

Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Church and State

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Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Church and State
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Title: Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe.(Book review)
Author: Charles McDaniel
Publication: Journal of Church and State (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2006
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Volume: 48 Issue: 3 Page: 680(2)

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Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe (Critical Issues in Social Justice)

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Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe (Critical Issues in Social Justice)
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Organic compounds containing amino groups are at the center of modern organic chemistry, and are widely used in the pharmaceutical industry, crop protection, natural product chemistry, and in advanced materials. Modern methods for the introduction of the amino group are therefore of major importance to synthetic chemists and product developers.

Over the last decade, many methods have been developed to generate new C-N bonds. At the same time, the pharmaceutical and chemical industry was rapidly moving away from the development of racemic compounds to the direct synthesis of enantiomerically pure materials. The articles of this book, written by internationally recognized experts, thus focus on asymmetric synthesis.

The most recent catalytic amination methods have particularly revolutionized the chemistry of amino compounds - and you find them all in this first comprehensive overview.

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Modern Amination Methods
Italy) Alfredo Ricci (Universita di Bologna
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Surfaces and interfaces play an increasingly important role in today's solid state devices. In this book the reader is introduced, in a didactic manner, to the essential theoretical aspects of the atomic and electronic structure of surfaces and interfaces. The book does not pretend to give a complete overview of contemporary problems and methods. Instead, the authors strive to provide simple but qualitatively useful arguments that apply to a wide variety of cases. The emphasis of the book is on semiconductor surfaces and interfaces but it also includes a thorough treatment of transition metals, a general discussion of phonon dispersion curves, and examples of large computational calculations. The exercises accompanying every chapter will be of great benefit to the student.

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quite easy for physics graduate student.......2003-11-02

nice book. give you quite some idea on the theory.
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Puts a Smile on Your Face.......2007-07-29

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