Strategic Accounting for Managers: One Company's Road of Discovery

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Strategic Accounting for Managers tells the compelling story of the Multree family, owners of a small business that must face new business realities or succumb to business failure. This family's story is a clear, non-technical presentation of the management accounting issues managers need to know in order to remain competitive:

How do companies create value?
How much cash can we take?
Are we following the plan?
Will our people do this?
How do we begin the improvement process?
Which process should we improve first?
How can we control the change process?

Each of these questions-and many more-is answered as the Multree family travels a Road of Discovery from traditional to new managerial methods.

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Against the backdrop of South Africa's transition from apartheid, this provocative book explores the role of late twentieth-century constitutionalism in facilitating political change. While using South Africa as a case study, Klug's larger project is to investigate why there has been renewed faith in justiciable constitutions and democratic constitutionalism, despite their many flaws. This examination of South Africa's constitution-making process provides important new insights into the role of law in the transition to democracy.

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lessons learned.......2000-09-18

An essential look at constitution-making processes in South Africa, with excellent guidance for other constitutional democracies -- present and future -- on the politics of power sharing. An outstanding first book by well recognized scholar of the law and society movement and political activist during the years of apartheid.

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The emphasis in degradable polymers has changed since the first edition of this book. Biomedical and agricultural applications remain important topics of scientific and commercial interest in the second edition. However, an increased emphasis on composting as a means of recovering value from wastes has led to a new impetus to understand how plastics degrade in the environment and the implication of this for international standards. Polymers based on renewable resources are also a major topic in this edition but the debate continues about their long-term sustainability and ecological advantages over degradable man-made polymers.

Degradable Polymers will be of interest not only to academic and industrial scientists working on packaging, agricultural and medical applications of plastics but also to students of environmental science and legislators concerned with the effects of man-made materials in the environment.

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This book provides the history of the earth, which will enable the reader to gain an integrated overview for many different aspects of earth sciences. It is unusual in that it traces the earth's history through the tectonic evolution of the continental crust from the very beginning of the geological record. This book provides the history of the earth, which will enable the reader to gain an integrated overview for many different aspects of earth sciences. It is unusual in that it traces the earth's history through the tectonic evolution of the continental crust from the very beginning of the geological record.

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The Evolving Continents
B.F. Windley
Manufacturer: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Lawyers are real people but not nearly as real as circus performers. This is the story of a young lawyer, a beautiful circus performer and a murder. Typical fiction formulas are thrown out the mobile home window and the reader is taken through the hell of one lawyer's life. You meet circus folk, ventriloquist dummies, waitresses at adult bookstores, dirty old men who watch the fishing channel at boarding houses, and jurors. Accurate, honest and fictional. This is the book you'll suggest to others but deny reading.

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Extraordinary!.......2001-01-20

Excellently written. I give it five stars!

Perfect for the Twisted Mystery Lover.......2000-07-16

This is a murder mystery with about three other stories intertwined. The main character is a former circus performer, now lawyer accused of murdering his lion tamer wife's lover. The story is in the first person and uses footnotes as a comic device. On just about every page, there is some funny comment or tangent concerning the main text reflected in a footnote. I started looking forward to the footnote commentary. The story is internally consistent but strange and the courtroom scene was apparently written by someone with real experience. If you enjoy books like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, you'll probably like this. A good vacation book. I find myself re-reading the footnotes and certain sections for the passages I missed the first time.

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From one of Bosnia's most prominent poets and writers: spare and haunting stories and poems that were written under the horrific circumstances of the recent war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Semezdin Mehmedinovic remained a citizen of Sarajevo throughout the Serbian nationalists' siege and was active throughout the war in the city's resistance movement, as one of the editor's of the magazine Phantom of Liberty. Sarajevo Blues was originally published at the end of 1992 and was the first book in the Biblioteka "egzil-abc" series, published in Ljubljana, which provided a forum for Bosnian writers and translators under siege or living in exile. Semezdin Mehmedinovic says that "writing is, finally, quite a personal thing that doesn't make much sense unless you are practicing for the last word." For those Bosnians emerging from the siege or still in exile, these "last words" remain intimate possessions, one of the last bastions left against the commodification of tragedy.

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excellent.......2004-08-29

Deserves the highest praise. Well done. What's it about? Trying to hold onto your sanity while your world/life/existance is being ripped apart.

Want to know what it's like to be stuck in a city under seige? Want to know what it's like to be surrouned by enemy forces with nowhere to run or hide while they shell your town to rubble? Read this (fairly slim) volume then.

Man's inhumanity to man? It's here, baby--and the irony is just this: This sort of thing will keep on happening. We never learn. The sort of savagery depicted in this book is happening even as I write this in various other parts of the world. Never underestimate the cruelty of the human animal.

Excellent alternative view on war.......2004-07-21

Sarajevo Blues is a book that contains the writings of Semezdin Mehmedinovic, a Bosnian that lived through the turmoil in Sarajevo in the early 1990?s. The book contains a series of short stories and poems, most less than two pages in length.

This book is a very unique piece of literature. It is not a story of the siege, the fighting, and the dodging of snipers bullets the author experienced. The book does not tell a complete story of the war from beginning to end. I would equate the book to looking at a photo album and trying to piece together the details of a person?s life from the pictures.

The stories seem to be from the perspective of a photographer crossed with a stand-up comedian. By mentioning a comedian, I am not suggesting that the author tells funny tails of a tragic event, but rather the author seems to have unique observational skills that I have seen in comics. He is able to capture a moment in time like a photographer and analyze the ?photo? and observe events that most people would not even realized occurred (much like a stand-up comic). The result is a series of bone-chilling short writings that (to me) showed a side of war that I never thought about. One story discusses the idea that the enemy may wear the same sweater that you do. Another story discusses how casual war has become as the author writes about seeing a woman sunbathing, getting up occasionally to launch an artillery shell into the city, then resume sunbathing, just to repeat the process minutes later. Another, one line poem shows how casual humans take war when a person is called into the house because it is ?grenading outside?. One of my favorite writings, the author discusses the idea of photographers trading in death to make their livelihood.

This book is definitely not for everyone. If you are looking to research in the war in Sarajevo for an academic project, I would look elsewhere unless you have solid research on the topic completed already. I think this book can be compared to cognac. People who can savor its complexity will enjoy this book; to other people, the book will just be brandy. It is an excellent alternative viewpoint on war in general. The author does a splendid job bringing rarely addressed perspectives of war to light.

Elegant, passionate, and inspired prose!.......2004-02-24

Another awesome book that will help those of us in the West understand the horrific tragedy that was the Bosnia/Serb/Croation war of 1992-1995. The author grabs your heart from the first line...profoundly moving, even disturbing at times.

You don't want to read this book - so do.......2000-07-02

Sarajevo Blues is poetry and prose of the war in Sarajevo. It is written with the realism that one associates with Ernaux or Duras. As the author says in an interview at the end of the book: "We were completely attuned to the exterior world ... We had a real need for precision, with some belief that if we could put on paper precisely what was in the outside owrld that, in itself, would convey the emotional potential indispensable to poetry."

Thus this book makes its points simply - the cigarette wrapped in a death certificate, the recognition of the enemy in the same sweater that you wear, the pear eaten with the iman of the mosque ... the result is a book that will not permit you to view war in the abstract but rather forces you to look at war in the eyes of individual people who matter.

One of the most important books on the recent Balkan wars.......1999-04-13

A pearl of insight that should be read and reread by anybody interested in the recent Balkan wars appears on page 115 of "Sarajevo Blues." There we find, in an interview between translator Ammiel Alcalay and author Semezdin Mehmedinovic, the latter's comment that "Bosnian culture is inclusive, it includes the Bosnian Franciscan tradition (of Catholic mysticism), the Muslim Sufi tradition, and the Sephardic Jewish tradition; this is all part of my culture." This sheaf of poetry and prose sketches offers a modern transformation of such transcendental currents. "Sarajevo Blues," as it was called even in the Bosnian version, is legendary in the stricken city of Sarajevo, serving as a local souvenir for those who survived the brutal siege that struck the city beginning in 1992.

One of several disparate and more or less hurried editions, printed on the roughest newsprint and selling in the bookstores of Marshal Tito Street, retails for only three marks, or $1.80 -- a major investment for Sarajevans, who have few jobs and less money.

Mehmedinovic is a Muslim Bosnian living in the United States. Born in 1960, he was no longer young when the Bosnian conflict commenced, but his writing still bears the marks of the youthful American style -- brief but eloquent notes and comments -- that swept the world with the Beat revolution. With considerable effectiveness, Mehmedinovic has synthesized the sentimental traditions and idealistic illusions of the Sarajevans, the horrors of the war and the disillusionment of its victims with an indifferent world.

He writes of the prayerful burial of a Muslim martyred in the fighting: "Sorrow gathers in circles under the eyes; the men pass their open palms across their faces. As the rites continue, I feel the presence of God in everything; when this is over, I will take a pen and make a list of my sins." The one-paragraph text ends, "A cat jumps across the shadow of a minaret."

Elsewhere he describes how Serb terrorists expelled the mental patients from a suburban asylum, driving them into the city: "One of them -- holding the body of a dead sparrow by its claws -- came up to someone walking along King Tomislav Street and said, `You'll be dead too, when my army gets here.' " The combination of poignant and surreal details is characteristic not only of Bosnian war narratives but also of contemporary Bosnian writing in general, a field of literature unknown in the outside world until the war, but featuring great achievements of perception and lyricism.

If the war has had a positive aspect -- aside from the shutdown of old, polluting indus tries, which has allowed fish to reappear in the country's rivers for the first time in decades -- it is the introduction of Bosnian authors to foreign readers. (Recent volumes issued in English include an outstanding work, "Death and the Dervish" by Mesa Selimovic, a Muslim who wrote with great delicacy in the Serbian dialect, and who died in 1982. That book, published in 1996 by Northwestern University Press, describes the dilemma of an 18th century Bosnian Sufi dealing with governmental injustice.)

Mehmedinovic's sharp eye allows him to summarize three years of genocide in a few lines. He describes a Serb woman at an artillery post, whom he watched through binoculars as she sunned herself in a bathing suit. "She lies like that for hours," he writes. "Then she gets up, goes to the rocket launcher, pulls the catch and lets a shell fly at random toward the city." After the explosion, "she goes back, rubbing her body in suntan oil to fully give in to her own state of well-being."

He is devastating in his comments on foreign observers, voyeuristic correspondents and other spectators of Bosnia's torment: "I'm running across an intersection to avoid the bullet of a sniper from the hill when I walk straight into some photographers; they're doing their job, in deep cover. If a bullet hit me they'd get a shot worth so much more than my life that I'm not even sure whom to hate: the Chetnik sniper or these monkeys with Nikons."

Mehmedinovic's book is an incisive answer to the claim by the German philosopher Theodor Adorno that poetry could not be written after Auschwitz. Poetry survived Auschwitz, and poetry has survived the atrocities of Bosnia, but it is a grim genre of verse. As Mehmedinovic says, "When a ten-year-old kid asks if he's a Muslim and after getting a positive answer says, `I don't want to be expelled,' " -- from his home, not his school -- "then you know something horrible has happened to this people."

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Sarajevo Blues.(Review)(Brief Article) : An article from: World Literature Today

Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma
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Release Date: 2005-06-01

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Title: Sarajevo Blues.(Review)(Brief Article)
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1999
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 73 Issue: 4 Page: 773

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Sarajevo blues.(The View From Here)(Book Review): An article from: Poetry

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Sarajevo blues.(The View From Here)(Book Review): An article from: Poetry
Aleksandar Hemon
Manufacturer: Modern Poetry Association
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Poetry, published by Modern Poetry Association on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 816 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: Sarajevo blues.(The View From Here)(Book Review)
Author: Aleksandar Hemon
Publication: Poetry (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: Modern Poetry Association
Volume: 186 Issue: 1 Page: 55(3)

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Sarajevo blues: Pojmovnik opsjednutog (Biblioteka Savremenici)

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Sarajevo blues: Pojmovnik opsjednutog (Biblioteka Savremenici)
Semezdin Mehmedinovic
Manufacturer: Svjetlost
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ASIN: 8601031277

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Although much has been written about early Chinese and Japanese laborers in Hawaii, until now no comprehensive work had been published on first-generation Korean immigrants, the isle. Making extensive use of primary source material from Korea, Japan, the continental U.S., and Hawaii, Wayne Patterson weaves a compelling social history of the Korean experience in Hawaii from 1903 to 1973 as seen primarily through the eyes of the isle. Japanese surveillance records, student journals, and U.S. intelligence reports--many of which were uncovered by the author--provide an "inner history" of the Korean community. Chapter topics include plantation labor, Christian mission work, the move from the plantation to the city, picture prides, relations with the Japanese government, interaction with other ethnic groups, intergenerational conflict, the World War II experience, and the postwar years. The Isle is an impressive and much-needed contribution to Korean American and Hawaii history and significantly advances our knowledge of the East Asian immigrant experience in the United States.

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Written partly in response to the criticisms of Uncle Tom's Cabin by both white Southerners and black abolitionists, Dred (1856) extends the plantation novel to examine, in the words of the author, "the views and reasonings of those who have bowed down to the yoke, and felt the iron enter their souls." Through the compelling stories of Nina Gordon, the mistress of a slave plantation, and Dred, a black revolutionary, Stowe brings to life conflicting beliefs about race, the institution of slavery, and the need for the radical action that erupted during the 1850s. Exploring the political and spiritual goals that fuel Dred's rebellion, she creates a figure far different from the acquiescent Christian martyr, Uncle Tom.

A bestseller in its day, and praised by many of Stowe's contemporaries including George Eliot, Dred deserves to be read in tandem with Uncle Tom's Cabin and for its compelling story.

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The other book by Harriet Beecher Stowe.......2006-03-16

While Uncle Tom's Cabin will likely remain Harriet Beecher Stowe's best known work, her 1856 novel Dred should not be overlooked. If you like this time period, you should like Dred. Stowe avoids the heavy-handed authorial commentary that characterizes Uncle Tom's Cabin; in other words, she lets the events of the story speak for themselves. The story is slow-burning plantation drama--again, if you're a fan of 19th century literature, you'll love Dred. Dred compares favorably to Moby-Dick, as both novels turn on gradual plots where the reader's bond to the characters becomes crucial. Because the plot takes awhile to develop, the true reward of the novel comes from watching the characters grow and evolve.

This edition features an introduction and notes by Robert Levine, which do a great job of placing Stowe's work in a historical context. Dred should appeal to students of 19th century literature, and anyone else with an interest in slavery and abolition.

Right On, Harriet.......2000-01-14

A compelling and highly readable indictment of slavery in America, "Dred" takes risks that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" did not. The ending of "Dred" is powerful and strong, unlike that of "Uncle Tom", which seemed to advocate ultimately that the slaves should be freed and encourged to return to Africa. Harriet Beecher Stowe is just as sharp in her criticism of the North and she is to the South. She is quick to condemn the passive profiteers of slavery as she is the slaveholder himself. I throughly enjoyed this book. I will read it a secod time.

The Great Dismal: A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir

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The Great Dismal A Carolinian's Swamp Memoit
American History Lovers must read this!

The Great Dismal: A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir
Bland Simpson
Manufacturer: Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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The Great Dismal A Carolinian's Swamp Memoit.......2006-09-01

Very interesting book. I enjoyed it immensely.
I was reared in that area and knew some of the people mentioned in the book. Now reside on the other coast.
It was like a trip home.

American History Lovers must read this!.......1999-02-16

To those who love American History will love the realistic and descriptive view of the Dismal Swamp. It is rich with events of African Americans as well, the connections the early settlers had with the Spanish, Native Indians, French, Dutch and Britsh. It describes the Dismal Swamp so well, I visualised being there myself and sharing the feelings of those worked, struggled and lived and died in the Swamp.

It is the story of a man who shared his love for the Swamp and the history behind it. I have made plans to visit there this Spring.

Take some time over coffee or tea and start enjoying your journey to the Dismal Swamp from the begining of George Washington personal interest in the Swamp to the 20th Century.

For anyone who has any roots to the Southwest region of Virginia, you will be pleasantly surprised. I found one of my husband's ancestors qouted in the book.

Holga Reyes

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Animal Tails of the Great Dismal Swamp
Waverley Traylor
Manufacturer: Waverley Traylor Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 097150685X

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This book presents many of the known animal legends and stories, which not only describe, but actually form the mystique of the swamp. Stories of those animals whose spirits and bodies still inhabit the swamp are documented here from traditional tales passed down from generation to generation of swamp dwellers.

Dismal Swamp Wildlife - Great Dismal Series Vol. I

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Dismal Swamp Wildlife - Great Dismal Series Vol. I
Albah Duke
Manufacturer: Adams Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K7PYWC

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Dred - A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Binding: Hardcover

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Dred a Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Manufacturer: Fireside Edition
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Dred V2: A Tale Of The Great Dismal Swamp

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Dred V2: A Tale Of The Great Dismal Swamp
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Binding: Paperback

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In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

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Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Co.
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Binding: Hardcover

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Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
Harriet Beecher STOWE
Manufacturer: Phillips Samson & Co.
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Binding: Hardcover

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Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Manufacturer: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
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