Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice (Cambridge Studies in Management)

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This book provides a socio-historical analysis of accounting. It is the first major collection to address the multiple arenas in which accounting emerges and operates. As accounting continues to gain in importance in so many spheres of social life, an understanding of the conditions and consequences of such a calculative technology is vital. This book demonstrates the value of analyzing accounting work in relation to developments in accounting, organizational analysis, sociology and political science, and provides a critical perspective on the conditions and consequences of accounting practices.

Determinants of changes in accounting practices: Accounting and the UK Health Service [An article from: Critical Perspectives on Accounting]

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Determinants of changes in accounting practices: Accounting and the UK Health Service [An article from: Critical Perspectives on Accounting]
M.J. Jones , and H.J. Mellett
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from Critical Perspectives on Accounting, published by Elsevier in 2007. 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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This paper uses the Social Forces Model to investigate the interplay between accounting change, institutional evolution and organizational transformations in UK healthcare delivery since 1800. At the same time, the catalytic role of individuals and events is highlighted. The reflexive organizational-accounting interactions are charted to reveal the changing nature of healthcare provision from communitarianism, through etatism to the (etatist inspired) market-based structure which, in turn, is now giving way to service provision based on local planning. By using a long time span it is possible to identify the modes of accounting which were present during the different phases of the development of healthcare. This analysis contributes to our understanding of the historical interplay of social forces by showing accounting as a technical instrument within an institutional setting, by highlighting the interactive nature of accounting and institutional change, by illuminating the role of individual action and by identifying the role of outside agencies.

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Fundamentals of Human Resource Management with Online Learning Center Code Card
Raymond Andrew Noe , John R. Hollenbeck , Barry Gerhart , and Patrick M. Wright
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, by Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart and Wright is specifically written to provide a complete introduction to human resource management. While it doesn’t cover the depths of human resource management theory, the book is rich with examples and engages students through application.

Fundamentals differs from the hardback textbook by the same author team. Instead of a higher level of theory that’s geared towards the HRM majors, this book focuses on the uses of human resources for the general business manager. Issues such as strategy are reduced to give a greater focus on how human resources management is used in the everyday work environment. It provides students with the background necessary to manage human resources effectively and to be able to distinguish good from poor human resource management practices and how they impact business.

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The year 2003 was the 50th anniversary of the seminal experiment of Stanley Miller. This was a unique opportunity for highlighting the current interest in this most interdisciplinary subject. The leading space agencies: the European Space Agency (ESA) as well as NASA, the American Space Agency, have planned missions that will elucidate some of the still unknown questions underlying research in the origin of life. New results are surpassing our ability to keep well informed: the reviews that we were presented at the Trieste meeting will bring the readers of this well-documented and timely book up to date in this fast-moving area.

An important component of the conference was the review of the Cassini-Huygens mission due to arrive in the Saturn system just one year after the conference convened in Trieste. There was particular interest in the status of the experiments that will take place inside the atmosphere of Titan, the large satellite, which is a testing ground for the theories and experiments in the field of chemical evolution.

The Jovian system is currently under study with the view of investigating the possibility of life underneath the frozen surface of the Galilean moon Europa; the ESA mission "Mars Express" and Mars Odyssey received special attention. Some of the world leaders in the field gathered in Trieste in September 2003 - that was a most timely date for reviewing recent data and discussing the prospects of future research.

Life in the Universe: From the Miller Experiment to the Search for Life on Other Worlds

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Life in the Universe: From the Miller Experiment to the Search for Life on Other Worlds
Joseph Seckbach
Manufacturer: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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ASIN: B000MUV8MC

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Almost all contemporary organic synthesis involve transition metal complexes as catalysts or particular reagents. The aim of this book is to provide the reader with detailed accounts of elementary processes within molecular catalysis to allow its development and as an aid in designing novel catalytic systems. The book comprises authoritative reviews on elementary processes from experts working at the forefront of organometallic chemistry.

· This is the first book that focuses on elementary processes in transition metal complexes for understanding catalytic mechanisms
· Provides detailed description of elementary processes involved in catalytic cycles by experts in the field
· Provides an overview of the mechanisms of various homogeneous catalyses

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Human beings have long nurtured conceits about their exalted place in the universe, but recent scientific advances challenge their claims to any unique gifts of rationality and expose weaknesses in outmoded, mechanistic models of consciousness. Through a fascinating exploration of the mental abilities of species ranging from bacteria to mountain gorillas, noted science philosopher James Fetzer updates and improves these obsolete conceptualizations and offers an important new theory of intelligence — one grounded in evolutionary theory and by which machines can be "intelligent" without possessing minds.

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The School is aimed at improving the level of knowledge of instrumentation with special emphasis on applications in particle physics, medicine, and industry. Participants are advanced graduate students or young researchers, the majority of them from technologically less advanced countries from all over the world, while the instructors are acknowledged experts in their fields.

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In Frontier Regulars Robert M. Utley combines scholarship and drama to produce an impressive history of the final, massive drive by the Regular Army to subdue and control the American Indians and open the West during the twenty-five years following the Civil War. Here are incisive accounts of the campaign directed by Major General William Tecumseh Sherman-from the first skirmishes with the Sioux over the Bozeman Trail defenses in 1866 to the final defeat and subjugation of the Northern Plains Indians in 1890. Utley's brilliant descriptions of military maneuvers and flaming battles are juxtaposed with a careful analysis of Sherman's army: its mode of operation, equipment, and recruitment; its lifestyle and relations with Congress and civilians. Proud of the United States Army and often sympathetic toward the Indians, Utley presents a balanced overview of the long struggle. He concludes that the frontier army was not "the heroic vanguard of civilization" as sometimes claimed and still less "the barbaric band of butchers depicted in the humanitarian literature of the nineteenth century and the atonement literature of the twentieth." Rather, it was a group of ordinary (and sometimes extraordinary) men doing the best they could. Other Bison Books by Robert Utley are Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent life, Custer and the Great Controversy: The Origin and Development of a Legend, and Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865.

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Soldiers out doing a job.......2006-01-22

Utley does an excellent job of showing what post-Civil War Indian fighters faced. First was the transition from the Union Army fighting Confederates to the U.S. Army fighting Indians.

Utley documents how that work was made much harder by the cheapness of the War Department and Congress. Downsizing the Army drastically to save money wasn't enough. Congress stuck most the infantry with leftover muzzleloaders rather than repeaters, meaning that their Indian foes usually (Winchester-armed themselves) could bring superior firepower to bear.

Meanwhile, the frontier Army had to go through the twists and turns of War Department, or Interior Department, twists and turns on Indian dealings, and in different high-level officers having different approaches not just to Indian fighting but to Indian truce and treaty negotiations.

Meanwhile, the grunt work, as typical, was to be done by the infantryman, not the cavalryman.

Read the whole story of his struggle to do his job in this book.

Objective, Unsympathetic, and Brilliantly Delivered.......2005-01-25

Robert M. Utley offers the sequel to his _Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian 1848-1865_. In this second installment, Utley attempts to eradicate the myth of the frontier Army as blazing a path of glory westward that has been portrayed in Hollywood movies. Rather, he argues the frontier regular Army was only one of several contributing factors to the subjugation of the Native Americans. Other determinants such as westward expansion by waves of immigrants, and professional buffalo hunters attributed as much, if not more, to the Indian demise as did the soldiers. In a sense, Utley offers the antithesis to Dee Brown's _Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee_. The author highlights the Army's role as a frontier police force carrying out civilian policy that lacked cohesive strategy against the Native Americans. Utley begins with a general survey of the United States Army in the post-Civil War years. The author outlines the relationship between the War Department, its near autonomous bureaus, Congress, and the Executive Branch, with brief discussions into the tenures of Generals Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, command-staff functions, and logistics. Chapters on weapons & equipment, and outpost life round out the first half of the book. Utley remains objective and unsympathetic at times to Blue Coat and Indian alike. For example, in his discussion of General George Armstrong Custer's defeat at the Little Big Horn, Utley, a noted Custer scholar, blames the boy general for the debacle. The author cites several reasons for the defeat of the 7th Cavalry. On the surrender of Geronimo in 1886, Utley credits both Generals George Crook and General Nelson Miles equally for their improvisations in overcoming logistical hardships in the harsh Sierra Madre Mountains. Acknowledging that the elimination of the Chiricahua Apache from Arizona was the prerequisite for re-establishing peace to the area, Utley does not sympathize with Geronimo's plight. It was only after the removal of the Chiricahuas, hostile and neutral alike, argues Utley, that peace was finally brought to the Southwest. In the final episode of the Indian wars: Wounded Knee, Utley engages in mere semantics. The author depicts Wounded Knee as a "tragedy" not a "massacre," the term generally preferred by the Indians. Utley feels the idiom inappropriate because "massacre," points to "deliberate and indiscriminate slaughter" which, he feels this occurrence was not. Utley believes, the soldiers tried to restrain from firing on women and children, however, in the melee, hitting innocent non-combatants was unavoidable. In the chapter titled "The Problem of Doctrine," Utley sees the Indian wars of the late nineteenth century through lensesmirroring the war in Vietnam (this book was first published in 1973). Utley observes the U.S. Army applied conventional tactics in an unconventional war. He illustrates how hostile Indians were oftentimes indistinguishable from peaceful reservation Indians. The hostiles utilized guerrilla tactics-hit and run raids and disappeared into the night. By day, the warrior factions would easily blend back into the general Indian population. If this be the case, it can be argued that the United States military had learned nothing from its own history. Robert M.Utley, often seen on the History Channel, and preeminent military historian of the period, has once again consulted a vast array of archival material. His evidence is equally balanced between primary and secondary sources, with endnotes after every chapter. The author consults an impressive collection of Government documents including a detailed list of Congressional and Senate papers in an impressive bibliography. Generous, easy to read maps, and a peppering of period photographs make this an essential addition to any library.

A look at the real Frontier.......2005-01-12

This is a good book about the US Army, Indians and the early west after the civil war. It follows events and gives points of view that are not clouded by the normal politics or attitudes. It is a clear account with facts, the probable intentions based on facts, and the actions. It allows the reader to get a good sense of the period and actions. The book gives enough detail to back up the facts but does not go overboard. This is a good start at studying the time period and the US Army at the time. Being into history, it was highly informative. It is a great book for those who want to read about the period but not get heavily into research. It goes deeper than just a brief summary but I think it gives just enough to allow understanding. It is easy to read and flows from chapter to chapter.

An indispensable look at the frontier army.......2004-02-06

A great deal has been written about the United States Army during the Civil War. But tales of the postwar army can be just as thrilling as stories from the war, though this portion of military history is, sadly, often overlooked. Robert Utley attempts to correct this oversight in this excellent book, which deals with the nature, structure, and activity of the portion of the army engaged on the frontier from immediately after the Civil War until Wounded Knee. Arranged in an order that is easy to follow and is logical if not always strictly chronological, each major military operation against the Native Americans is handled with skill and sufficient detail. The result is a fascinating look at the army as a whole.

The main value of this book lies in the fact that it provides an outstanding overview of military operations as a whole (as opposed to books that treat just one battle or campaign). The work fills in many holes that will undoubtedly exist for anyone who has studied a part of the Indian Wars, and who would like to have a more general overview available to them. Anyone who has studied the Little Bighorn, for example, will find in this book a wealth of information that will explain in great detail many of the factors that led up to that action and also many of its ramifications. This book is essential to any study of Western history, especially military history.

The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891.......2003-10-28

Hefty 462 pages (incl. bibliography and index), by Robert M. Utley. This is part of the Wars of the United States Series.

The Frontier Regulars saw themselves as the advance guard of cililization, sweeping aside the savage to make way for the stockman, the miner, the farmer and the merchant.

This is a well-researched, and very well written volume, complete with footnotes, bibliography, and index.

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Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891
Robert Marshall Utley
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPU6DC

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Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891
Robert M. Utley
Manufacturer: MACMILLAN PUBLISHING CO., INC.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OLCDDW

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Good collection of Torah and Midrashic elements.......2007-03-21

I must say that I truly enjoy this book for what I would consider it to be, that is a collection of Biblical and Midrashic descriptions of the history of warfare in Israel. Now on one hand there are elements of this book that can be held into question depending on the view of history and scholarship you take. For example there are those who say that for example the Exodus never took place, and their view of a book like this will be of course formed around that view. There are those who believe the Exodus did take place and their view of this book will revolve around this angle. The one thing to remember is that archeology is not an exact science and it is not definitive. For example, there are those who say that Joshua never conquered the land of Israel, based on archaeologically. Yet, this is only based on what is assumed of archeology and assumptions of what the true interpretations of the Joshua are. Also, there are scholars for example who now believe that they have found evidence of the Exodus in a number of overlooked places.

As someone who accepts that the Torah is true, yet must be understood from the standpoint of MIDDLE EASTERN Jewish idiom, culture, and interpretation I will say the following. Wars of the Jews is based on the Biblical and Judaic account of the events it covers in terms of the ancient wars of Abraham until the 2nd Temple period. Another good book to have along side this book is Battles of the Bible by Chaim Herzog and Mordechai Gichon. Where Wars of the Jews deals mainly with the history as it comes from the Biblical and Midrashic text, Battles of the Bible also supply views from a modern militaristic view.

My suggestion is that you have to accept this book as a collection of accounts, which some may have to re-interpreted as more information comes to light while others are simply based on the information of the time.

An interesting book.......2004-10-26

Yes, it is interesting. But plenty of what is in it is dubious.

It starts out with the Exodus. With a huge army fleeing Egypt. There's no archaeological evidence for any of this, of course.

What it says about Biblical warfare is intriguing, but once again, I'd want to see independent confirmation of some of this before I fully accepted it.

Then comes Joshua's conquest of Canaan. That also has no archaeological evidence to back it up.

Finally, we get into an era where there's more and more evidence to back up what is being talked about. But by now, I think the main value of the book is to get the reader to ask a few questions that one might otherwise not have thought to ask. Here are eight examples:

1) Was there a Jewish revolt in 351 AD which led to the sacking of Tiberias?

2) Were there Samaritan rebellions against the Byzantines in 484 AD and 529 AD? Who led them?

3) Was there a Jewish and Samaritan riot against the Christians of Caesaria in 556 AD? Followed by a Jewish riot in Antioch in 608 AD?

4) Was Yemen a Jewish state in 525 AD, and if so, what wars did it get into?

5) Where can one find a more scholarly description of the final Zealot war, from 614 AD to 628 AD?

6) Who was Mahrab? Was he a powerful Jew who fought against the Muslims during Mohammed's lifetime? Did Mahrab really have a sister named Zainab who became one of Mohammed's wives but was executed for putting poison in his food?

7) Did Ethiopia have a Jewish Queen in 975 AD?

8) When did the Khazars convert to Judaism? The eighth century? The ninth?

Anyway, the book is fun to read. However, most of it is speculative at best.

A great destroyer of the steriotype of the cowering Jew.......2002-03-22

This book is a great introduction into an overlooked topic. Far too often, Jews and Gentiles alike are ignorant or choose to ignore the history of Jews as people willing to defend itself.

Unfortunately, this book sparsely documented and is rather jingoistic. This is not an academic work, but one meant for mass consumption.

Finally, certain subjects have inaccuracies. The section on the Khazars, for instance, is based on outdated research. The authors would have done well to read DM Dunlop's research.

I hope that this book is reprinted so that more people can read it. I also hope that someone does more serious academic work on this forgotten subject.

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Wars of the Jews: a Military History From Biblical to Modern Times
Monroe Rosenthal
Manufacturer: Hippocrene
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PWBTDA

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In the 1930s, William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) was known as "the gadget king" and he is still most widely remembered for his wonderfully humorous drawings and illustrations of highly ingenious contraptions. This book includes over a hundred of his original works.

Robinson's ambition was to become a landscape painter but he was forced to follow his brothers into book illustration, where his reputation was rapidly established. The creator of inimitable illustrations for poetry by Poe and Kipling, Andersen's Fairy Tales, A Midsummer Night's Dream, de la Mare's Peacock Pie, The Water Babies, and Perrault's Fairy Tales, he is ranked alongside Rackham and Dulac, achieving classic status around the world. He is also loved for the children's books that he both wrote and illustrated, The Adventures of Uncle Lubin and Bill the Minder.

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The art of William Heath Robinson: Guide to an exhibition in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, April 1-May 14, 1977
Alan Horne
Manufacturer: University of Toronto Library
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007AZDKK

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