Dictionary of Finance, The Penguin International (Dictionary, Penguin)

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The most up-to-date and authoritative dictionary of accounting available

A new addition to the Penguin reference list, The Penguin Dictionary of Accounting focuses on financial reporting with coverage of the relevant terms in tax, auditing and management accounting. The British-based book includes important US differences and analyses all terms used in International Accounting Standards, providing a broad international outlook. The Penguin Dictionary of Accounting is an essential read for the student and businessperson alike.

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The Penguin Dictionary of Accounting (Penguin Reference Books)
Christopher Nobes
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Crisp: Managing Upward: Strategies for Succeeding with Your Boss (A Fifty-Minute Series Book)
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An excellent guide if you're wishing to position yourself for upward professional mobility. This book introduces techniques for developing positive working relationships with those above you in the organization. It's not easy to “manage your boss,” but the tips provided will help you handle and offer both praise and criticism.

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Go ahead, get this book! It's an easy read and insightful........2002-09-04

`Managing Upward' A practical step by step guide for learning, or reminding of the many nuances of effective communication. It does this by focusing on the characteristics of good relationships, communication gaps, and misaligned goals and expectations between a worker and a boss. It strikes me, there doesn't seem to be many books as concise, quick to read, and solely dedicated towards addressing this single challenging issue.

The book includes many exercises designed to aid with self assessment with regard to understanding one's own ability to communicate and to comprehend the many facets of effective communication. If you are having difficulty in your relationship with your boss, all is not lost. This book can help you put matters into perspective and assist you in understanding the parts which may be missing, but are essential to good communication. I felt, depending on the scenario, some of the exercises may not be realistic to practice as described. One example was an exercise designed to be completed jointly by the worker and the boss - this might seem like a near impossible task in light of a serious communication issue. A worker may prefer taking a bone away from a ravenous dog, rather than handing their boss a questioner to fill out. All kidding aside - I do agree, regardless of the scenario, the exercises are all well suited to help build insight towards the particular facet of communication it addresses.

One insight I had about this book - it seems by it's title and design to imply it was written to cater to the worker's perspective towards understanding how to better communicate with their boss, thus enabling them to `Manage Upward'. I feel the the book is much more versatile - the concept of `Managing Upward' is a desirable dynamic for all involved. Managers who better understand the common road-blocks and essential elements to enable effective communication are better poised to produce it in their environment. If you are a boss and detect communication challenges among you and your staff, or you are just interested in fine tuning communication practices within your department, you'll enjoy this guide-book - a combination of unique and tried and true communication concepts. Don't be afraid to hand them out to your staff!

For you and your team.......2002-08-25

April, 2002
You should read Managing Upward by Patti Hathaway & Susan Schubert. The topic touches most everyone. Since I just changed jobs, it came at just the right time.

It has all the ingredients I look for in a book:
-- A relevant topic - like most of us, I have a boss.
-- Easy to read - without the fluff.
-- Short chapters I can read in those brief periods of idle time.
-- Practical suggestions I can immediately apply.

The one complaint is there are too many self-assessments. But don't let that stand in your way of a valuable addition to your library.

Not only do I recommend the book for you in dealing with your boss; I encourage you to provide copies for your direct reports.

Changing jobs and bosses.......2002-08-24

I have gone through a job change after seventeen years in the same department. A colleague knew my job skills and recommended me for a top-level position with an opportunity to grow. This book was particularly helpful to me. It reassured me that this move was the right move and for the right reasons. The book helped me see that I have increased my self-confidence and motivation. I have found that the new office staff and
I share the same big picture focus and work well as team players. The clean organizational goals and values provide me with a sense of direction, mission, and pride.

My supervisor is a perfectionist as the book describes: "Perfectionist
always find a better way to do something, and they have trouble knowing when to stop. They have high expectations for themselves and others."

The job change has reduced my stress and I can now reserve energy for tougher workdays. I enjoy my new job responsibility and can focus on the big picture. My supervisor has confidence in my job skills and my relationships with others.

Knowing How to Manage Upwards!!.......2002-05-09

As soon as I read the first page I knew this was a book for me! It is a book for everyone because we all have a boss of some sort. I wanted something to help me consciously improve collaboration with my boss plus ways to manage my work better. I have been a Staff Development Educator for over 20 years and have had many bosses. Each has had varied management and working styles. Health care has seen tremendous changes over the years. We all need streamlined work habits to get the job done. Managing Upward gives the reader strategies & tips on how to function in today's work environment, satisfying your own personal goals as well as supporting the organization's mission. Part of the book that I liked best was the section on how to have effective meetings with the boss. Most all of us use an agenda but the book suggested an outline to use for planning of these meetings. Start with "good news". Proceed to "business updates' and "problem solving issues". Next give "updates on projects" you are currently working on including your "action plan". End with listing agenda items for the "next meeting". This book helped me realize that following a meeting format helps save everyone's time. An effective meeting builds bridges of understanding between you and your boss and provides a trust level for both of you. Thank you for the opportunity to read this book and share my thoughts with you!

Succeeding with My Boss.......2002-05-07

I received and read this book with much anticipation, as I have felt for sometime now, that I am not succeeding with my boss.

While reading this book I quickly saw many comparisons, not only in my own attitudes and behaviors, but those of my boss, too. It is amazing when you see some of these things put in writing, just how much they fit what you are dealing with.

Some areas I found most interesting were:

· How Well Do You Express Yourself? - Not only did this help me evaluate myself, but I could also use them to evaluate my boss.
· Communication Gaps - This section really emphasized what I have believed for many years -- many people do not "hear" what is being said, - they may "listen," but lack the ability to hear. Listening and hearing are two completely different things. I liked the way this was illustrated in the sentences "...that if you rearrange the letters in the word 'listen,' you get 'silent.' and 'You cannot listen when you are talking."
· Criticizing Your Boss - Reading this section made me realize that my past experience of being a supervisor and manager sometimes makes me too quick and/or comfortable in providing criticism to my boss.
· How to Read Your Boss - One of my favorite sections. I will try my very best to put this to good use - although being 300 miles away from my boss, this is going to be difficult. This section also made me realize that the fact we are both "Perfectionists" may be part of the reason we don't always communicate well.
· Managing Time Management Monsters - Some of the barriers mentioned contribute to my situation - particularly "Lack of Information - I routinely find myself having to tell my boss to give me/us all of the facts", and "Unavailable Boss - due to changes in management structure we have gone from having a dedicated Unit Supervisor to only having a Manager, who not only has direct supervison of our Unit but also now must supervise another Unit and function as department manager at the same time.", and "Disorganized Boss - this is becoming more of an issue all of the time, because she has too many irons in the fire."

Perhaps two lines at the end of this book sum it up best: "It is your right and responsibility to manage your manager. It is part of your job." I now have more tools to help me manage my manager and in the process "Succeed with My Boss!"

Thank you Patti and Susan for a most insightful and interesting book. I highly recommend it to anyone having a struggle in their relationship with their boss. I am going to recommend it to many of my co-workers and my boss!

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Donald D. Clayton's Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis remains the standard work on the subject, a popular textbook for students in astronomy and astrophysics and a rich sourcebook for researchers. The basic principles of physics as they apply to the origin and evolution of stars and physical processes of the stellar interior are thoroughly and systematically set out. Clayton's new preface, which includes commentary and selected references to the recent literature, reviews the most important research carried out since the book's original publication in 1968.

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Just perfect!.......2003-01-23

A standard introductory textbook of nuclear astrophysics written by a real expert in a superb style. It has taught nuclear astrophysics to most of us and will teach many more. I keep refering to it all the time. It is my favorite. I warmly recommend it.

A standard reference on stellar structure and evolution.......2000-05-04

"Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis" is a standard work on stellar structure and evolution. It is clearly written and approachable even by a senior undergraduate. It is a "must" for anyone seriously interested in stellar astrophysics.

Please create an audio adaptation ..........1999-06-02

To the publisher I would appreciate it if the publisher could produce an audio adaptation of this book. I would love to listen to this while I drive to work and to let my 16 month old son listen to it as a bedtime story. Arnold D Veness

Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis

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Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis
Donald D. Clayton
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Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis

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Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis
Donald D. Clayton
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A Brief Overview of Technology That Touches Us All.......2002-12-21

As an engineer working in the plastics field for two score years, and as an amateur historian of the subject, I was attracted to Sparke's edited book, hoping to learn more about my chosen field. And I did. First off, the book is filled with gorgeous photos, surrounded, as it were, by easy-to-read text.

To me, Part One, on prehistory through 1914, is most fascinating, quite accurate and replete with excellent photos.

Beyond that, however, I was disappointed, because the book emphasizes consumer products to the almost exclusion of industrial products. Now of course, we technical guys know all about how plastic pipe and siding carpeting has revolutionized the construction industry and about how plastics packaging has reduced produce spoilage and product pilfering. But these aren't as glitzy as lamp shades and plastic furniture and "Tupperware."

I guess this book fulfills a need if you're only interested in consumer products made of plastics. But this book offers little help to one who needs to know how plastics have revolutionized the world economy.

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This book will appeal to investigators in each of the scientific disciplines it integrates--evolutionary biology, ecology, salmonid biology, management, and conservation. Variation in salmonids can be used to illustrate virtually all evolutionary questions, and so the work will also attract general scientific interest by ecologists and evolutionary and conservation biologists.

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"The 2nd Battalion of the 7th Cavalry had the dubious distinction of being the unit that had fought the biggest battle of the war to date, and had suffered the worst casualties. We and the 1st Battalion."

A Yale graduate who volunteered to serve his country, Larry Gwin was only twenty-three years old when he arrived in Vietnam in 1965. After a brief stint in the Delta, Gwin was reassigned to the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) in An Khe. There, in the hotly contested Central Highlands, he served almost nine months as executive officer for Alpha Company, 2/7, fighting against crack NVA troops in some of the war's most horrific battles.

The bloodiest conflict of all began November 12, 1965, after 2nd Battalion was flown into the Ia Drang Valley west of Pleiku. Acting as point, Alpha Company spearheaded the battalion's march to landing zone Albany for pickup, not knowing they were walking into the killing zone of an NVA ambush that would cost them 10 percent casualties.

Gwin spares no one, including himself, in his gut-wrenching account of the agony of war. Through the stench of death and the acrid smell of napalm, he chronicles the Vietnam War in all its nightmarish horror.

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Great Vietnam memoir.......2007-01-27

I am actually a student of WWII, so this book (received as a gift) was something different to read. Larry Gwin's book was for me a startling introduction to fighting an often unseen enemy, in a jungle environment horribly alien for the young Americans who found themselves there. Pleasantly avoiding the politics of the war, and instead concentrating on one man's view of the combat, Gwin takes you from his naive first jungle patrols to his combat weary veteran status at the end of his tour. As the casualties mount, and the men around him either die, return wounded or get promoted, Gwin becomes increasingly important to the men around him - a cool experienced head in difficult times.

The language is plain and everyman, allowing the reader to move quickly through the book from one engegement to another.

A thoroughly enjoyable memoir, and an eye-opener to the horrors of air-cavalry combat in South East Asia.

A fine novel.......2006-02-09

Mr. Gwin did a fine job in expressing himself and explaining to those that didn't serve how the military works. The hurry up and wait the long tedious hours of waiting and the heart throbing miliseconds of tremendous fear. There were times in naming all his fellow warriors it become somewhat confusing as you did not know these people but you understand.Your people remain in your mind as the best and loyalest you ever knew. They are always with you and a week never passes that you do not recall them. A fine book I would reccomend to all.

Baptism: A Vietnam Memoir.......2005-10-27

This book is not in the same league as books like Nam , 365 Days, Dispatches and other eye witness accounts of the Vietnam War. It's filled with cliche's, especially when describing various actions the author took part in, and his description of some fellow infantrymen as 'cowards', particularly when his accusations are unsubstantiated is shameful. Read it on a long flight if there is nothing else in the airport bookstore, otherwise don't bother.

Real Good Book.......2005-08-17

the best part of this book is its everyman writing. No polished literature just a well written "what I went through" book. A real good read and difficult to put down.

Arc Light.......2003-10-06

"Arc Light" is a better read about the Vietnam War.

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Baptism a Vietnam Memoir
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Godsey, William D., Jr. Aristocratic Redoubt: the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War.(Book Review): An article from: Austrian History Yearbook
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Release Date: 2005-07-30

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The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the United States Federal Government.

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