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How to Analyze Businesses, Financial Statements, and the Quality of Earnings
Joel G. Siegel
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How to Analyze Businesses, Financial Statements, and the Quality of Earnings
Joel G. Siegel
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How to Analyze Businesses, Financial Statements, and the Quality of Earnings
Joel G. Siegel
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How to Analyze Businesses, Financial Statements, and the Quality of Earnings
Joel G. Siegel
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Save your money if you are studying for the PHR or SPHR exams

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Study Guide for Mathis/Jackson's Human Resource Management, 11th
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Manufacturer: South-Western College Pub
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This useful study guide provides all the tools students need to maximize results in the classroom and on exams. Chapter objectives and chapter outlines aid students in reviewing for exams. Study questions include matching (10-15 per chapter), true/false (15 per chapter), idea completion (5 per chapter), multiple choice (25 per chapter), and essay questions (3 per chapter). Answer keys are provided for immediate feedback, reinforcing learning. Important issues associated with each case in the text further help students pull it all together.

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Save your money if you are studying for the PHR or SPHR exams.......2007-08-29

I brought this study guide in addition to the book to study for the PHR exam. I barely used it because I didn't feel this was a good prep tool for the exam. All the questions are laid out per chapter, which I am sure is good for it's intended purpose of classroom study in college, but not for prep on a test that is going to answer questions in all different sorts of order. Save your money to just buy the book and leave the study guide for the college students.

Good Resource for SPHR exam.......2006-06-30

I found this to be a very typical study guide - matching vocabulary, true/false, multiple choice, and a couple fill-in answers. It was useful as a review to the text to make sure I knew what the concepts were, but the SPHR exam goes beyond knowing the concepts to being able to combine and apply them. I would recommend this in conjunction with the text for a good review, but you will need to have a much more indepth understanding of the concepts to pass the exam.

A Complimentary Must Have.......2005-07-08

The Study Guide is the perfect companion to the Human Resources Management Tenth Edition textbook. The Study Guide provides excellent review questions in the form of True/False, Multiple Choice, Matching, Essay and Fill-ins. At the end of each question, the corresponding page number of the textbook is provided for quick reference/review. The study guide will test your ability to retain information. I highly recommend it, especially for those that are preparing for the PHR/SPHR exams.

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A true story about an innocent citizen, Mark Nelson, who was arrested by the FBI and accused of a heinous crime. Two days after his arrest one of the two actual criminals confessed to the crime and exonerated Nelson of any wrongdoing. The FBI, after already informing superiors that Nelson was guilty, kept him under arrest for over eleven months. This book is Mark Nelson's fight to restore his name, regain access to his twin daughters, and to put certain FBI special agents on trial for their abuse of power.

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The brief length and focused coverage of Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction have made this best-selling textbook the ideal complement to any biology or anthropology course in which human evolution is taught. The text places human evolution in the context of humans as animals, while also showing the physical context of human evolution, including climate change and the impact of extinctions. Chapter introductions, numerous drawings and photographs, and an essential glossary all add to the accessibility of this text.The fifth edition has been thoroughly updated to include coverage of the latest discoveries and perspectives, including:· New early hominid fossils from Africa and Georgia, and their implications· New archaeological evidence from Africa on the origin of modern humans· Updated coverage of prehistoric art, including new sites· New perspectives on molecular evidence and their implications for human population history.

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Informative but dull evolution book.......2003-05-30

I read this for a class, and I honestly tried to make this enjoyable but it wasn't. I learned a lot - but the delivery of the material was very droll. But it's a very informative book - providing you can stay awake.

A suitable background to "postcontroversial" issues.......2000-03-02

This book deserves its description as introductory,and therefore it shouldn't be confused with more advanced works,but within the outlined scope a very outstanding quality has been reached in elaboration of highly particular issues which are of crucial relevance for gaining threedimensional perspective-spatial,temporal and causal-not only in classical introductory remarks that are to be found in similar books,but also in succesfull blending of these with wealth of theoretical insights into evolutionary process and biocultural adaptation.Bibliographic entries are few,provided with each chapter,but this is not deficit for such brief book.Highly recomendable for primary knowledge of evolution-it is neither too simplistic,and also not too elitistic.

HUMAN EVOLUTION An Introduction to Man's Adaptations

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HUMAN EVOLUTION An Introduction to Man's Adaptations
Bernard G., Illustrated Campbell
Manufacturer: Aldine Publishing Company
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Anthony Clayton is an acknowledged expert on the French military and his book is a major contribution to the study and understanding of the First World War. He reveals why and how the French army fought as it did. He profiles its senior commanders - Joffre, Petain, Nivelle and Foch - and analyses its major campaigns both on the Western Front and in the Near East and Africa. PATHS OF GLORY also considers in detail the officers, how they kept their trenches and how men from very different areas of France fought and died together. He scrutinises the make-up and performance of France's large colonial armies and investigates the mutinies of 1917. Ultimately, he reveals how the traumatic French experience of the 1914-18 war indelibly shaped a nation.

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Outstanding Summary of French Army During WWI.......2004-11-09

The book summarizes all the famous major operations of the French Army during WWI, along with numerous thoughtfully-included maps and photos. It goes into much greater detail about the formation of French strategy, tactical doctrine, leading personalities, organization, equipment, logistics, and, significantly, unit morale (including the 1917 mutinies). In addition, the book also has a nice set of appendices with the August 1914 order-of-battle as well as summary bios of leading French generals. The author, Anthony Clayton, also covers the power struggles at the top of the military hierarchy between major military figures along with increasing interference from French gov't officials. Clayton did an excellent job describing Petain, Joffre, Mangin, Castelnau, and Foch.

This book is an ideal introduction to the major challenges facing the French army during WWI and its response to them. An English-language book covering the French army during WWI is somewhat difficult to find compared to the numerous works on the British army, and I was highly pleased with the quality of this one. Excellent, well-researched work! I hope the author makes an in-depth follow up sequel to this one.

Almost one of a kind.......2004-04-22

As other reviewers have said, getting anything in English about the French army in WWI is difficult, especially compared to the numerous English and American accounts. I therefore snapped this book up immediately looking for an account of those little known engagements. It's a fine book, well researched and informative, well written for the most part. But it left me wanting more detail. It primarily looks at strategic and operational level action rather than the tactical. Excellent for understanding the French command. I was hoping for more of a Lyn MacDonald approach. Perhaps this author will see these reviews calling for a more detailed view and write another in that vein. I would certainly purchase it.

The French Army.......2004-01-07

I enjoyed this book very much. Almost everything I've read on the Great War has been from either the British or American point of view. The author states in the preface that little of the French experience from WWI has been translated into English. I was very pleased that a book about the war from the French point of view was written in English. France after all had the majority of the troops and suffered the most looses on the Allied side. I had hoped the author whould have gone into more detail on French equipment and weapons than he did, but that in no way detracts from this fine book. I highly recommad this work for anyone interested in WWI.

David Murphy

Great Effort but Too Short.......2003-12-05

In Paths of Glory, former Sandhurst professor Anthony Clayton provides the first complete history of the French Army in the First World War. While the narrative is a bit short (200 pages) and does not offer the depth necessary to analyze operations in detail, Clayton's work represents an excellent overview of the army that bore the brunt of the fighting for the Allies on the Western Front in 1914-1918. Clayton also makes the point that this army, much maligned because of its poor preparation for combat in 1914 and pitiful performance in 1940, still was capable of four years of sustained combat against the best army in the world. For readers accustomed to viewing the Western Front through German or British eyes, this volume offers a wonderful alternative.

Clayton begins Paths of Glory with a chapter on the French frontier offensive in 1914 and then backtracks in the second chapter to discuss pre-war strategy and doctrine. After this, Clayton then devotes one chapter to operations in each year of the war, plus a separate chapter on developments within the French army. There is also a separate chapter on peripheral operations involving the French (Gallipoli, Salonika, Italy, Africa and the Mideast). Appendices include order of battle in 1914, tactical organization, conscription and reserves, equipment, capsule biographies of the main French generals, and the career of a single French infantry regiment in 1914-1920. Clayton includes 14 simple sketch maps, which unfortunately only a few depicting operational movements or dispositions. The author also includes 43 photographs, ranging from leaders, to equipment to tactical scenes.

Clayton assesses the main French problem in 1914 as a failure of "strategic intelligence" in not anticipating that the main German army would fall in Belgium or that reserve formations would be used in the enemy's first echelon. This faulty intelligence assessment led to a rash offensive plan known as "Plan XVII", which was handicapped by rigid adherence to a faulty tactical doctrine, over-age commanders and inadequate heavy artillery. Despite all the French military flaws, the French army somehow survived the heavy losses in the frontier battles and managed to thwart the German drive on Paris by quick repositioning of forces. Clayton does not do a particularly good job of assessing how the French were able to avoid defeat in 1914, but tends to favor the "tough" no-nonsense leadership of Joffre, Foch and a handful of other French operational-level commanders. However, Clayton's defense of Joffre's command style rings hollow; certainly Napoleon would not have thought much of a commander who emphasized regular meals and uninterrupted sleep over visiting his troops.

Clayton focuses heavily on morale issues - always critical for French armies - in the chapters on Verdun and the 1917 mutinies. The mutiny is assessed as relatively limited in scope, but extensive in long-term effects. Perhaps the best chapters in Paths of Glory cover the post-mutiny period where Petain was able to lead the battered French army through a period of recovery. While Petain's later career as leader of Vichy France has darkened his name, his leadership abilities with a deeply-shocked army were astoundingly effective. Indeed, Petain was not only able to rebuild the French army's morale, but to re-equip and re-train the forces to fight a modern war; the result was a much more powerful French army in 1918 (although a brittle one).

Although Clayton offers some useful nuggets of information in places - such as information on French tank developments or the greater reliance on African troops - the volume is a bit too much of an overview, albeit with a Gallic perspective. Indeed, Clayton writes well and offers excellent insight about the fighting capabilities of the much-maligned French army, but the reader will come away from this book wishing that it had been 200 pages longer.

Excellent account of the French army during World War One.......2003-09-19

The author has done a splendid job of gathering his facts and doing his research. The book spells out the various campaigns, battles and commanders and the ordinary soldier. The book is rich with detail and informs the reader on the horrific conditions and enormous casualties the French suffered.
Easy to read and the chapters are detailed out well.
Worthy of any World War One bookshelf.

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Very Competent Overview
Good reference for modelers

The French Army 1914-18 (Men-at-Arms)
Ian Sumner
Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
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ASIN: 1855325160
Release Date: 1995-07-17

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Initially the strongest of all the Allied armies, France's metropolitan and colonial units bore the greatest burden during the first two years of the Great War, and made a great contribution to the final victory. In common with most European countries, the pre-war French Army was based on a system of national military service providing conscripts who could be subject to recall as reservists for several years after. However, the advent of war, the crisis in manpower, and the development of new tactics and weapons brought radical changes. The influence of these factors on the organisation, equipment, uniforms and tactics of the French Army during World War I is examined in detail in this title.

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Very Competent Overview.......2002-01-24

This of course, is far from a comprehensive work on the period. Its major emphasis is on the soldier's life and clothing and equipment while serving in combat, mainly on the Western Front but does cover the Balkans operations. The colonial forces except as they were used in France are ignored.
That said, this should satisfy the general reader mainly curious about the Great War.
Before the Great War of 1914, the French Army had yet to reform itself after the defeat of the Franco Prussian War. Though they had some excellent weaponry including the splendid French 75mm field gun, and the Hotchkiss heavy machine gun M1914, they lacked heavy guns and most of all, a modern appreciation that the outmoded doctrine of "l'audace" and always attack would win through. They seem to have completely ignored the lessons of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 which proved that the only way for infantry to survive cannon fire and machine guns was to go to ground especially when attacking dug in and barbed wire protected opponents. To compound all this, for political reasons, the Army had been unable to develop a new less visible field uniform and began the war wearing great coats of blue with red trousers; this of course, highly pleased the German machine gunners. By the end of 1915, they had adopted a horizon blue uniform and a steel helmet of rather complex construction with poor ballistic properties. Based on a French fire brigade helmet it at least was dashing. :-) (For some reason, the Paris Fire Brigade was then actually part of the Army.)
This work is a splendid example of the new emphasis of the publisher on producing comprehensive works in a handy cheap format compared with the earlier broad brush treatments which covered too much in too little detail.
The new emphasis is on sets and volumes covering various national armed forces in as much detail as is available, consistent with the current purpose of the works in the series, which have evolved from an original emphasis on serving the military miniature maker market into works intended to enlighten the general reader in enough detail to satisfy the merely curious and to point the way to further reading.
Most of us, including myself, have little need for, or the patience to read, voluminous studies, often in foreign languages, covering many eras and nations. My main interest is in the US forces, their allies and their enemies in the twentieth century.
This should be read along with the volumes on the Foreign Legion 1914-1945. (see my review.) If you want an introduction to the fascinating variety of clothing and equipment of the forces covered, this is for you.

Good reference for modelers.......2000-05-26

From the point of view of a modeler, this book is a great source on all details about WWI french soldiers. It has plenty of (black and white) photos as well as the usual Osprey center color plates, with complete explanations at the end.

For even more complete information on the French Army, I'd recommend adding another Osprey book: THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION 1914-1945.

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Paths of Glory the French Army 1914-18
Anthony Clayton
Manufacturer: Cassell
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An in-depth look at hidden prejudices against women in the scientific fields, and how women can overcome them.

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Despite the significant advances women have made in representation at all levels in other professional fields, women are still grossly under-represented in the hard sciences. Although the scientific community has assembled several panels and committees to address this problem, they have focused largely on early education solutions without accounting for the situation faced by women who are presently enrolled in science career tracks. Women in Science takes a personal look at the environment and challenges that women encounter in science. It is an innovative examination of the factors behind the low representation of women in scientific disciplines and, more broadly, other competitive professional career tracks. Led by the renowned interdisciplinary scholar, Angela M. Pattatucci, a group of 25 contributors, from diverse backgrounds and representing a cross section of points along the career continuum, provides a candid look at a scientific environment in which women are routinely judged more by stereotype than ability and are forced to travel the road to success in isolation. The book provides strategies for negotiating through gender-specific boundaries and showcases two programs designed to support women in establishing successful scientific careers.

Free of disciplinary jargon, Women in Science is intended for academics and professionals in a wide variety of disciplines, including women's studies, gender studies, communication, management, public health, and public administration.

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Strong Insights.......2003-11-17

Some impressive insights in this book. Particularly interesting are those of the undergraduate experiences of women in technical institutions, including young woman in male-dominated environment. I also think this book gives good insights to men in the scientific professions-- ie. how to keep the environment conducive to women and men alike.

A well written and extremely engaging book!.......1998-11-04

I strongly recommend this book! As the father of a young daughter, this well-written book was a real eye-opener. Pattatucci has a smooth writing style that makes it seem as if she is discussing the issues with you at your kitchen table over a cup of coffee. If you are a parent that is concerned about the education and future of your children, particularly your daughter(s), you should buy this book. It will show you what's on the horizon if you do nothing.

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