Real Estate Accounting and Mathematics Handbook (Real Estate for Professional Practitioners)

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Revised and expanded, this edition contains updated information on accounting and tax provisions, finance, available real estate software and financial calculations. Features a new chapter on real estate applications of the latest spreadsheet software including Quattro Pro 3.0. The accompanying disk includes appraisal and multi-component investment analyses, loan amortization schedules, a refinancing model, four graphs and more.

Handbook of Mortgage Mathematics and Financial Tables

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Handbook of Mortgage Mathematics and Financial Tables
Paul R. Goebel , and Norman G. Miller
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Oliver Wight is one of the pioneers of Manufacture Resource Planning (MRPII). Here he introduces the essential concepts and benefits of MRPII in a practical format with easy-to-follow question-and-answer format. Among MRPII topics covered are: how MRPII can benefit a business, the executive's leadership role in implementation, the requirements of a successful MRPII implementation, guidelines for making MRPII effective in any organization, and managing MRPII for long-term competitive advantage.

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Good Overview.......2002-04-05

I read this book AFTER reading MRPII: Making it Happen by Thomas F. Wallace, in an attempt to find something that would explain MRP II concepts to people I report to. It provided an easy to read, easy to understand overview of the benefits of MRP II, and helped to dispell many rumors (eg... the idea that MRP and Kanban are mutually exclusive).

I highly recommend this to anyone in a manufacturing environment who wants or needs to better understand the term MRP II. If after reading this you'd like more detail, Mr. Wallace's book (cited above) offers a solid method for implementation - from inception of the project to completion, including detailed examples, plans, and checklists.

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The Executive's Guide To Successful Mrp Ii
Oliver W. Wight
Manufacturer: Oliver Wight Ltd. Pub.
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Executives Guide to Successful Mrp II (Revised Edition)
Oliver W Wight
Manufacturer: Oliver Wight Ltd Pub
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The Executive's Guide to Successful MRP II (Oliver Wight Manufacturing)
Oliver Wight
Manufacturer: NY
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ASIN: B000MUBPPM

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Microbial responses to acidic and alkaline pH are important in many areas of bacteriology. For example, the mechanisms of resistance to acidic pH are important in the understanding of the passage of human pathogens through the acid of the stomach; and an understanding of microbial degradation of alkaline industrial waste is important for the environment.

Bringing together contributions from an international and interdisciplinary group of experts working on the many aspects of bacterial cellular responses to pH, this stimulating volume draws together new and innovative work in this area. It delineates both similarities and differences between mechanisms of tolerance and response, providing readers with an invaluable resource on the subject.

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This book discusses the application of geochemical models to environmental practice and studies, through the use of numerous case studies of real-world environmental problems, such as acid mine drainage, pit lake chemistry, nuclear waste disposal, and landfill leachates. In each example the authors clearly define the environmental threat in question; explain how geochemical modeling may help solve the problem posed; and advise the reader how to prepare input files for geochemical modeling codes and interpret the results in terms of meeting regulatory requirements.

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Physics for Scienctists and Engineers
Raymond A. Serway
Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace College Publishers
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Randall D. Knight
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Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach, Volume 3

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The Lau family travels to Antigua, Guatemala to visit their cousins. Although the Laus are Chinese and Buddhist, they adore the pageantry of Easter, and Easter in Antigua is exciting, with long, elaborate processions of penitents wreathed in incense and carrying colonial Spanish statues down the cobblestone streets of the city. The best part is seeing the elaborate carpets made of colored sawdust, which the processions walk over and destroy. On the morning of the most important procession, the heroine is invited to make her very own sawdust carpet. But why, she wonders, make something so beautiful, only to have it be ruined?

Guatemalan and Chinese religious observances, dragon boat races and Easter processions, piñatas, baptisms, and Chinese tamales all weave in and out of this story, which celebrates beauty, religious celebration, and tolerance.

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a guatemalan story! .......2006-07-19

Our family has enjoyed this book.
We spent 8 months living in beautiful Antigua last year and this book brought back memories for us!
As a mother of 5 Guatemalan children - I found this book a delightful way to introduce our children to the tradition of Semana Santa ( holy week).
We have enjoyed Ms. Carling's book and would recommend it to anyone hoping to introduce young children to the traditions found in Guatemala.

A Multicultural Holy Week.......2005-08-19

The girl's family is visiting her aunt's family in Antigua for Holy Week because her baby cousin is going to be baptized on Easter. The tradition of glorious sawdust carpets, temporary art (like Navajo sand paintings) meant to be destroyed by the processions, is seen though her eyes. She is sad at her carpet's destruction, but able by Easter to plan next year's design. The rugs, a neighbor tells her, are "offerings to life."

There are very few good picture books about Easter, outside of retellings of the Easter story itself, that give a hint at the feast's religious depths (Eric Kimmel's The Birds' Gift, Patricia Polacco's Chicken Sunday). This belongs on that select list. It's not for the sort of conservative Christian who looks negatively at other religious traditions. (On a shelf in the cousins' house, there "stood the Virgin of Guadalupe next to the Kuan Yin, our Chinese goddess. I thought they looked like friends. Incense swirled around them, bringing them together.") Liturgical Christians will appreciate it as the only picture book that connects Easter with baptism!

Alfombras de aserrín: Sawdust Carpets, Spanish-Language Edition

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Alfombras de aserrín: Sawdust Carpets, Spanish-Language Edition

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The Sawdust Festival
Sylvia Snyder
Manufacturer: iUniverse
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Drawing on memoirs, diaries, and letters of the time, this lively book explores what it was like to be a soldier on a Napoleonic battlefield. It considers the role of the artillery, infantry, and cavalry; the plight of the wounded; the way victories were decided; the mechanics of musketry, artillery, and cavalry charges; and much more.

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Somewhat Flawed But Well Worth Reading.......2006-01-01

Perhaps better named, "Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Peninsula War", as the focus is on the British Peninsula experience, supposedly due to a lack of sources elsewhere. The author provides a good analysis of why Wellington was victorious, and he gives a good discussion of light infantry tactics also. Throughout the book psychological factors in battle are always highlighted. The examples given concerning infantry tactics are very useful but somewhat confusing without maps, and it is difficult to remember what action the author is discussing, so I found myself re-reading sections just to clear these things up. Differing troop densities are briefly discussed but are not elaborated upon, and there is less than I would have liked on the interaction of arms, perhaps because this was less important in the Peninsula. As a result, grand tactics are hinted at but largely ignored. Sadly only around half of the book is on tactics, with the rest on the experience of battle, making it like "The Face of Battle" but once again mainly on the Peninsula. Long passages from participants are featured which are usually useful and entertaining, but which can become a bit tiresome. Despite its flaws, this book is useful and well worth reading.

A worthwhile read of the Napoleonic Era........2005-08-17

I found this book to be an enjoyable read not just research. I am currently in the process of rewriting a set of Musket Era wargame rules, to which I am co-author. Along with Philip Haythornthwaite's two volumes, "Napoleonic Cavalry" and "Napoleonic Infantry", I found this volume to be very helpful in understanding the ebb and flow of the battlefield.

Muir reinforced a theory that I had been formulating as to the importance of morale to the cohesion of a unit and that morale is the factor that can be checked to determine the success of any unit on the field. This book helped me in determining just when morale should be checked.

Now having read this book I am tempted to go back and re-read David Chandler's "Campaignes of Napoleon" with my new insight.

If you are interested in reading history this book may be just a diversion for you, it's a different point of view, but if you are interested in what was actually taking place on the battlefield and why, I think you will find this to be worthwhile time spent.

An Extended Version of the Face of Battle.......2005-02-22

Rory Muir's "Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon" is in many respects an extended version of the chapter on Waterloo in John Keegan's "The Face of Battle." Muir, the author of an excellent study of the Battle of Salamanca, draws on a variety of sources to describe how the combat arms of infantry, artillery, and cavalry accomplished their missions on the battlefields of the Napoleonic age. His book also provides insights into the human aspects of battle in that age, including the experience of the individual soldier. Muir's selection of sources is rather British-centric, although he does include some selections from the other major combatants (France, Prussia, Austria, Russia, Spain, for example). Perhaps reflecting the preponderance of British sources, many of the examples derive from the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign.
The discussion of tactics is at a fairly basic level, but does presume a general familiarity with the Napoleonic era and especially with the more important battles. There may be no great insights here for serious students of the military art or of the Napoleonic wars, but the book does provide very useful context for understanding the environment in which Napoleonic-era warfare took place. Although lacking the punch of Keegan's writing, Muir's prose is serviceable and easy to follow. Many of the first person accounts he includes are quite moving. The analysis sometimes seems anecdotal rather than systematic; this may have been a function of the limits of the available materials.
"Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon" may be most useful as a companion volume to the work of other authors who focus primarily on the strategic and operational levels of war. Muir has provided the astute reader with an appreciation of the capabilities and limitations of the combat arms in that time. Readers unfamiliar with the experience of combat should be forewarned that Muir's book includes some fairly graphic descriptions of the horrors of the Napoleonic battlefield.

Questionable Sources, Good Contrast to Keegan's.......2004-02-16

In Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon Rory Muir explores what it's like to be a soldier during the Napoleonic wars. The book is divided into four parts. Part I describes the solder's feelings and reactions as they are about to face battle and on the battlefield. Part II describes the interaction between different sections of an army - artillery, infantry, light infantry, infantry combat (musketry, hand-to-hand combat, bayonets) and cavalry (cavalry vs. cavalry, cavalry vs. artillery, cavalry vs. infantry). Part III discusses the role of the General, the subordinate officers, morale and cohesion, and attitudes and feelings. Part IV discusses the aftermath of battle - the soldiers' feelings and reactions after winning or losing the battle.

The first thing the reader discovers is that, despite the title, the book is not about Napoleon's tactics or the experiences of soldiers in Napoleon's armies. Rather, it is about the tactics and experiences of British soldiers during the age of Napoleon.
Muir relies almost exclusively on British soldiers' experience, arguing that it is universally applicable. Relying on memoirs, diaries and letters of mostly British soldiers, he defends his premise, stating:

"I doubt that this emphasis [on British] sources greatly affects the result, for at this level of combat national differences mattered comparatively little: Russian, Scot or Portuguese, a line of horsemen galloping straight at you looks much the same, and the steadiness of your unit will depend on its confidence and training, its recent experiences and losses, not on its mother tongue."

While Muir assumed that the British experience was universally applicable, a premise I disagree with, it is doubtful that he would have found the reverse acceptable. Certainly, he would not have found the experience of the French, Russians, Prussians or Austrians as "universally applicable" and therefore indicative of the British experience. We will not know this, however, as Muir did not extend his research beyond British sources, except for a few minor French sources. Thus, the overall flavor of the book is Anglocentric.

Muir defends the Anglo point of view, stating:

"The Anglocentrism of [writers on the Peninsular Wars] approach was not simply the product of national bias ... but rather reflects the fact that for the period of the Napoleonic Wars there is an extraordinarily rich collection of first-hand British accounts of combat, which appears unmatched in any other language."

He cites the frustration other authors have encountered in their attempts to find sources of Napoleonic history comparable to British ones. He acknowledges one author was able to uncover significant new material in the French archives, but even then, he notes:

"[I]t is fair to say that it is seldom as rich and detailed as the British literature."

Muir attempts to extend John Keegan's chapter Waterloo and also attempts to emulate Keegan's style in discussing the glory and horror of the battlefield from the perspective of the combatant. However, Muir's book does not have the historical authenticity of In the Face of Battle. While Keegan's book relied on well-researched, factual evidence, which then were presented to the reader along with the author's analysis and conclusions, Muir heavily relies on soldiers' subjective recollection, recorded long after the events, as the basis of his book. There is no attempt to offer any corroborating evidence supporting this limited, inherently unreliable form of research. Muir's book thus dangerously approaches the realm of "historical fiction."

The book is fairly easy to read, except for Part III, dealing with Command and Control. This section discusses a number of different battles, and constantly shifts between them, making it very confusing. Otherwise, the book is written in fairly plain English.

I would not recommend this book as a study of Napoleonic Wars. As to its value as a book on British tactics and experience, I would still have reservations due to the inherent unreliability of Muir's sources. However it is a book that is a good contrast to Keegan's and serves as a reminder to the student of history to consider the reliability of the author's sources.

Very Informative, Densely descriptive..........2003-02-25

Rory Muir does an excellent, praiseworthy job with his book "Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon". Although he closely analyzes the British experience of war more so than the French, he comments in his preface that this is because there is abundantly more information from the British accounts from that time. Regardless, this is a valuable source for analyzing the age of Napoleon and follows in the path of Keegan's tour-de-force, "The Face of Battle".

Well Done!

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Tactics and Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon.(Review) (book review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Owen Connelly
Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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Title: Tactics and Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon.(Review) (book review)
Author: Owen Connelly
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 2000
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
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TACTICS AND THE EXPERIENCE OF BATTLE IN THE AGE OF NAPOLEON

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TACTICS AND THE EXPERIENCE OF BATTLE IN THE AGE OF NAPOLEON
Rory Muir
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon
Rory Muir
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Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon
Muir Rory
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Los Cinco Sentidos - Sense-Able Science: Explorando and Descubriendo Nuestros Cinco Sentidos
Carol S. Gossett
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Carol S. Gossett
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