1998 Miller Gaap Guide: Restatement and Analysis of Current Promulgated Gaap (Miller Gaap Guide, 1998)

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1998 Miller Gaap Guide: Restatement and Analysis of Current Promulgated Gaap (Miller Gaap Guide, 1998)
Jan Williams , and Jan R. Williams
Manufacturer: Harcourt College Pub
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1998 Miller Gaap Guide: Restatement and Analysis of Current Promulgated Gaap
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Today's dynamic organizations must achieve positive results in record time - a challenge that requires managers to avoid problems before they arise and to solve these issues quickly. Human Performance Improvement (HPI) is a powerful tool that can be used to help build intellectual capital, establish and maintain a 'high-performance workplace, enhance profitability, and encourage productivity' - as well as increase return on equity and improved safety.

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Good HPI handbook.......2003-08-11

This book is invaluable for trainners,HR practitioners and line managers who are being introduced to HPI (Human Performance Improvement) principles and practice.

The authors, all consultants and training specialists, advocate the use of HPI(human performance improvement ),a tool they argue can help build intellectual capital and establish and maintain a "high- performance workplace, enhance profitability, and encourage productivity.I highly recommend this book

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Excellent history of astrobiology.......2005-01-24

Dick and Strick present a history of astrobiological research from the 1950's to the present time. The reader is treated - and I mean treated - to wonderful expositions of the politics and science of NASA's involvement in astrobiology. Featuring early origin of life research, the Viking mission, and the Mars meteorite (among other topics), this work will appeal to scientists and historians alike. Most importantly, it is accessible to non-specialists. Well worth picking up if you are interested in astrobiology and how important that field is to the future of NASA.

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Paradise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. In this compelling book, Beatriz Manz--an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala--tells the story of the village of Santa María Tzejá, near the border with Mexico. Manz writes eloquently about Guatemala's tortured history and shows how the story of this village--its birth, destruction, and rebirth--embodies the forces and conflicts that define the country today.
Drawing on interviews with peasants, community leaders, guerrillas, and paramilitary forces, Manz creates a richly detailed political portrait of Santa María Tzejá, where highland Maya peasants seeking land settled in the 1970s. Manz describes these villagers' plight as their isolated, lush, but deceptive paradise became one of the centers of the war convulsing the entire country. After their village was viciously sacked in 1982, desperate survivors fled into the surrounding rain forest and eventually to Mexico, and some even further, to the United States, while others stayed behind and fell into the military's hands. With great insight and compassion, Manz follows their flight and eventual return to Santa María Tzejá, where they sought to rebuild their village and their lives.

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Really excellent book.......2006-11-04

I bought this to accompany me on a trip to Guatemala. Although it was painful to read, it absorbed me in the country's history in a very enriching way, and altered my perspective considerably. I highly, highly recommend this book.

Understanding the genocide in Guatemala.(Book Review): An article from: National Catholic Reporter

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Understanding the genocide in Guatemala.(Book Review): An article from: National Catholic Reporter
Mike Smith
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Title: Understanding the genocide in Guatemala.(Book Review)
Author: Mike Smith
Publication: National Catholic Reporter (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 11, 2005
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Volume: 41 Issue: 15 Page: 6a(1)

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Modern society's utilization of fossil fuels has provided humanity with great benefits and many unintended consequences. What Energy Sources Should Be Pursued? examines the good and the bad inherent in all power sources including oil, nuclear, solar, hydrogen fuel cells, windmills, and others.

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Lots of views, no differentiation.......2006-07-26

If you want two different views on several energy topics (oil, nuclear energy, solar power, wind power, and hydrogen technology) but are not concerned about if the views are well-based, this is the book for you.

The problem is that there are a lot of big claims from both sides in this book and only one of the claims can be right, but this book offers no (good) way to differentiate which claims are true and which are false. For example, we have two chapter titles, "The World's Oil Supply is Plentiful" and "The World is Running Out of Oil," each that have completely contradicting conclusions, yet we are left to figure out which is true and which is false.

On a couple of the articles you can figure out which is credible and which is not. For example, the wind energy articles ("The Use of Wind Energy Should be Increased" and, not joking, "The Use of Wind Energy Should Not be Increased"), we can figure out which seems to be knowledgable by reading them carefully. For the record, many of the claims of the "Not" article such as the extensive extrapolations lack credability; the writer tried to compare Denmark to the United States when the physical size of the U.S. would help alleviate the problems at issue. Also, the "Not" article rants on and on about how we should increase energy efficiency, which we should, but that isn't what the issue is about (the author goes completely off topic multiple times as if to try to show he has some important knowlege instead of showing he has knowledge about the topic).

Anyways, it is an interesting read, but I would recommend checking out a copy from the library (just skip it altogether), unless this is just for research about the two different sides of the issue with no reflection on what is fact and what isn't. I'm going to look elsewhere for another book.

Three stars is since, under scrutiny, you can figure out that a lot of the anti-renewable energy papers are a lot of fluff with a couple legitimite complaints that are being resolved.

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