Professional Accounting and Audit in Australia, 1880-1900 (Routledge New Works in Accounting History)

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Australian literature on professional accounting and audit begins in 1880. The two decades to 1900 were a crucial period in Australian history, the boom years of the 1880s being followed by the severe recession of the 1890s and the federation of the Australian colonies as from 1 January to 1901. During this period numerous professional bodies were established, and the role of auditors was debated by accountants, bankers and others. There were no professional accounting journals but publication took place in banking and insurance magazines, commercial newspapers and general newspapers. This book reprints 65 articles from this turbulent period and hugely productive period in Australian Accounting and Auditing practices. The material reproduced is prefaced by a comprehensive introduction by the editors, who are established authorities on the history of professional accounting in Australia.

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A studious examination of ancient Irish law, its effect on Hindu Law, and how they had escaped influence from Roman law. Roman, Irish and Hindu Law are explained as they are examined. The result of a series of lectures delivered at Oxford University, dealing with Indian law, feudalism, enclosure, family, tradition, usury laws, Brehon law, institutions, settled property and women, sovereignty, empire, and much more.

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The great peculiarity of the ancient laws of Ireland, so far as they are accessible to us, is discussed, with much instructive illustration, in the General Preface to the Third Volume of the official translations. They are not a legislative structure, but the creation of a class of professional lawyers, the Brehons, whose occupation became hereditary, and who on that ground have been designated, though not with strict accuracy, a caste.

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Lectures on the early history of institutions

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Lectures on the early history of institutions
Henry Sumner Sir, Maine
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Lectures on the Influence of the Institutions Thought and Cultural of Rome on Christianity and the Development of the Catholic Church

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Lectures on the Influence of the Institutions Thought and Cultural of Rome on Christianity and the Development of the Catholic Church
Ernest Renan
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Lectures on the influence of the institutions,: Thought and culture of Rome, on Christianity and the development of the Catholic church (The Hibbert lectures)

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Ernest Renan
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The early history of the New Hampshire Medical Institution,: With a sketch of its founder, Nathan Smith ... being a lecture introductory to the eighty-third ... at Dartmouth College, July 31, 1879,

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The early history of the New Hampshire Medical Institution,: With a sketch of its founder, Nathan Smith ... being a lecture introductory to the eighty-third ... at Dartmouth College, July 31, 1879,
Oliver Payson Hubbard
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Early merchandising in Utah: An address by Dr. William R. Palmer (College of Southern Utah lecture series)

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Early merchandising in Utah: An address by Dr. William R. Palmer (College of Southern Utah lecture series)
William R Palmer
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Early Russian history: Four lectures delivered at Oxford, in the Taylor Institution, according to the terms of Lord Ilchester's bequest to the university,

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Early Russian history: Four lectures delivered at Oxford, in the Taylor Institution, according to the terms of Lord Ilchester's bequest to the university,
William Ralston Shedden Ralston
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Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth: Delivered at the Surry institution

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William Hazlitt
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In 1976, NASA's Viking orbiters photographed the surface of Mars and sent pictures back to Earth. What some people see in these pictures, a distinctly humanoid face, has been hotly debated ever since, prompting the question, "Are there artificial structures on Mars?" If you haven't heard of the face on Mars, then you haven't been paying attention to the news about the photos taken by the recent Mars Global Surveyor mission or Art Bell's late night radio talk show about paranormal phenomena or even the covers of the supermarket tabloids. The face is nearly everywhere.

The Case for the Face examines the original NASA images using a battery of different techniques, from stereo imaging to fractal analysis, in an effort to determine if the face is simply a trick of the light or a structure fabricated by an extraterrestrial intelligence. Rather than handing out unchallenged assumptions, The Case for the Face explains how the evidence is gathered, what tests are used for analysis, and gives the reader a crash course in geometry, Martian geology, and computer-image enhancement. The authors present a strong case for the belief that the face, and many other structures in the area, were artificially constructed. In doing so, they also make a compelling argument for opening a new era of manned space exploration and further investigation of this enigmatic portrait in stone. --Brian Patterson

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Just Read the Book.......2002-10-30

Don't let your preconceived notions about what is possible and what is not possible prevent you from reading this book. It is objective and reasonable and quite possibly the best book on the subject I have read. Keep an open mind and understand the scientists who wrote this book just want a chance for a scientific study of the evidence, but the current climate at NASA is denying them the opportunity. How many other marvelous discoveries have been lost to us because of other people's closed minds? Why is it so impossible for people to believe there may have been an ancient civilization on Mars? We have them on Earth! They came from somewhere! Let them have their objective investigation, but don't close the door on the means to find out the truth, one way or the other. If the truth is stifled then we all loose out on what may be the most profound discovery of human history. We need to know one way or the other!

Give Me a Break.......2000-08-27

I can drive to Utah and Arizona tomorrow and see over 1000 rock formations, in a 1-week trip, which all resemble something, from Snoopy on his doghouse(near Sedona), to giant mittens(Monument Valley), to huge arches and phallic symbols(Arches Nat'l Park). Oh, and there are also a million rocks that look like...uhhhhhh....nothing but ROCKS. Big surprise!

The truth is, human beings throughout history have some bizarre need to look at things in the natural world(rock formations, clouds, etc) and somehow correlate them to man-made formations or animated objects. When a rock or a volcano or a canyon or whatnot, especially in conjunctions with shadows, the right combination of light, and viewed from a specific angle or distance, looks like some kind of symmetrical man-made form, there is a word for this kind of phenomenon; COINCIDENCE. With the billions of rocks on this world and other planets, I find it quite comical that people are doofus enough to not realize that, given enough wind and rain and erosion, a LOT or rocks are going to look like something besides a rock.

Sober and provocative cosmic wake-up call.......2000-06-25

"The Case for the Face" is a thoroughly sensible and compelling account of a small handful of resarchers with the intellectual clout to tackle an enigma mainstream science has labled "off-limits": the possible existence of alien artifacts in our solar system. The contributors raise fascinating possibilities that we would be wise to examine in depth. Validating the existence of probable artificial structures on Mars is an opportunity we can't afford to miss through fear of offending the status quo.

DRY, IMAGINATIVE and very FACTUAL.......2000-03-21

This book is a valuable tool and aid to anyone interested in obtaining certain information about the anomalies located on Mars. Some chapters are very interesting and provide compelling evidence for alien artifacts while others are very dry leaving the reader slightly bored. The book can definitely be used as a research aid from the library, but I do not recommend it for casual reading purposes. Although quite imaginative and informative I believe there are probably better books to read on the Martian anomalies than this one. I would consider other sources before choosing to purchase this book.

This is a must read for every astronomer ........1999-03-09

The remarkable and revealing story of a group of dedicated scientists and engineers. Their testimony, details one of the most exciting and dramatic ongoing investigations of the 20th century. The compelling evidence for ancient alien ruins on Mars.

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In this richly illustrated book, Endres examines the lives of women working in the rubber industry during WW II and points out that women were not new to the factories of Akron. Years before the war, many women had been balancing their home lives with working in these factories—relegated to the lower paid “less skilled” jobs, which often required more manual dexterity than the jobs left for the “skilled” labor or men. Drawing upon heretofore unavailable archival materials and oral histories, this book offers readers a personal and scholarly account of the era and highlights the important role women played in wartime production and how their work affected their lives during the war and after.

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The Hidden Truth of World War I

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A readable, well-researched, and thought-provoking revisionist

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You've Got to be Kidding...

The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I
John Mosier
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Release Date: 2002-07-30

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Based on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Western front from 1914 to 1918 reveals how and why the Germans won the major battles with one-half to one-third fewer casualties than the Allies, and how American troops in 1918 saved the Allies from defeat and a negotiated peace with the Germans.

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The Hidden Truth of World War I.......2007-08-17

John Mosier has written a truly fascinating book on the First World War. It is an easy read and moves along quickly. It consists of seventeen concise chapters and covers the entire war. The ability to say something clearly and quickly is the mark of a good writer. Mr. Mosier truly fits this description. The reader should have a passing knowledge of the war before reading the book. The author presumes that the reader knows the major personalities such as Generals Foch, French, Haig, Lundendorff, Hindenburg, and Pershing to name a few. Of course, even those readers unfamiliar with the war will still enjoy this book.

In addition to being an easy read, the book is extremely well documented. Each chapter concludes with several pages of endnotes. Thus, the author has produced a book for the casual reader who can just skip these last pages. For the more scholarly reader, Mr. Mosier provides easy access to his source material. In addition, the author provides a closing essay on hundreds of additional source documents. His essay is easily broken down into such categories as weapons, casualties, eyewitnesses to combat, and fighting in 1915 to name a few.

Mr. Mosier presents the argument that Germany won the vast majority of battles. He also states that the Americans, far more than the allied powers, were responsible for victory. His hypothesis seems to run contrary to the popular belief that the allies won the war with American help. The fascinating part of the book is that he makes a very convincing argument.

For example, when discussing the battles of the Somme or Verdun, he shows how the allies essentially massacred their own men through incompetent leaders. The allies failed to learn from their mistakes and thus failed to learn how to fight a modern war. The Germans, however, had better weapons, better leadership, and better tactics. More importantly, they learned from their mistakes and kept improving their performance on the battlefield.

The casualty statistics are extremely interesting. Depending on how the numbers are examined, German casualties were only a fraction of the number of allied soldiers killed. The allies won numerous pyrrhic victories and began to believe their own propaganda. Major defeats were withheld from their respective governments and minor territorial gains were billed as major victories. The author has positive things to say about the Americans in that they learned from the allied mistakes. Clearly the French and British would have lost the war had it not been for U.S. supplies and tactical proficiency on the battlefield.

Bottom line, this is a great book. It is easy to read, well documented, and sheds a fascinating new light on the war to end all wars.

A NEW LOOK.......2007-04-17

This book is a must for the serious student of WWI but the average reader will certainly get lost in the book and not get much out of it. The author does have some interesting insights in the book that makes it worth while. I can't readily remember another book that captures so many little insights which will enrich a reader's understanding of WWI. The author's work is well documented and heavily footnoted.

Some of his conclusions do cast a new light on events. I wouldn't say they are automatically right or wrong. It does get a person thinking. I liked his conclusions on the impact of the AEF to the war effort. To many authors in the past have totally forgotten this critical role of the AEF. The author does have some good thoughts on the role of German tactics and artillery. However it really only tells have of the story. His descriptions are a bit to academic and lack the emotion that is war.

Also I liked his insight on the evolution of doctrine. A reader through this book can see how the Germans developed. He shows how the Germans tactics early in the war evolved into the tactics of 1918 through isolated examples. The author also does present an interesting and not common perspective on the tank. He also shows very insightful work on the role of firepower for the Germans in creating combat power with less men.

The one big shortfall of the book is the loss of context. The author doesn't provide much text to tell the story. He tells just enough of the story to make his point then moves on. The reader who isn't familiar with the story of the Marne, Verdun, or the German offensives of 1918 will get lost. Also his abbreviated tales misses the role of the intangibles on war fighting. What I am talking about is how the role of fear either motivates or destroys men and governments. Decisions in war are more than math equations about ground covered and numbers lost.

Also the author seems to totally disregard allied sources. He definitely has a pro-German and a pro-US slant. He holds the Germans to a never do wrong standard but the allies are constantly flawed. He forgets how poor planning on the behalf of the Germans in the 1918 offensives after the break throughs destroyed their chances to end the war. Other authors would say they shot their load and did not have the power to finish the deal.

Through all of this tactical insight people forget that the Germans lost the battle that counts, the strategic battle.

This pick and choose facts of the battles could leave one to bring out the wrong lessons. To get a proper perspective a reader should read this book but also read some other books like 1918 to get a balanced perspective and then make their own opinions.

A readable, well-researched, and thought-provoking revisionist.......2007-01-13

As a complete history -- or even a complete military history -- of WW1, this volume will not serve. But if you have a reasonable general background on the war, Mosier's accounts and analyses of major (and some minor) battles are both revealing and thought-provoking. His meticulous research into actual casualty figures, for example, demonstrates that consistently German battle deaths were roughly half those of either the French or the British -- a fact which in itself is quite telling.

This is strictly a work on the Western Front; Russia, Austria, and Italy are covered only incidentally, and of course non-military factors -- e.g. the British blockade and German home-front Bolshevik agitation -- are mentioned not at all. In addition, the actual battles involving the AEF are not discussed in sufficient depth to explain in tactical terms the success of the Yanks where the British and French had failed. But overall a very readable, convincing, and worthwhile book.

I Disagree.......2006-10-11

I respectfully disagree with the first (& showcase) reviewer. If you are knowledgable about WWI, this is an interesting & provocative book. The author is a professor of English who has taken to writing military history, so the writing style is fluid and attractive. Its a good read. Now, you MUST know your WWI stuff, but if you do you will find this an enjoyable book. If you think the author's opinion about the superiority of the German Army, their actually winning the major battles, etc. is dubious and revisionist, you will start saying "what is an English prof doing writing military history?". But I've read about as much military history as anybody with my level of education (M.A.)has(for my age), and I say come on in- the more good writers that turn to military history the better (and its got to be more exciting than writing about English- yuck)!

You've Got to be Kidding..........2006-09-18

This is the worst volume I have ever read on the First World War. The author's premise is two-fold: First, the Germans didn't lose, and the American entry into the war was decisive for the allies to win. In short, you cannot have it both ways.

There are myriad errors of fact in this book, and it would merely be repetitve for this reviewer to go over them again. In general, the allied achievements are severely down played by the author, and German successes are amplified and their casualties are severely understated.

The Germans planned for a short, violent war in which they planned to hold the Russians in the east and decisively defeat the French and British in the west. While they did very well in the east, winning the great success at Tannenberg against the Russians, they failed in the west, the chief of the German General Staff failing to win a decisive victory and supposedly reporting to the Kaiser that the war was lost. In truth and fact, it was, because what happened next was four years of brutal trench warfare where yards of ground were exchanged for thousands of casualties.

This is down played by the author, as is the German defeat at Verdun. While the German might have been the deadlier fighter against the French and British, the Germans failed to win in the long run, and suffered a devastating defeat at the hands of the allies, and suffered just as terribly as a nation, if not worse, than the British and French.

Regarding the American intervention in the summer of 1918, while it was important to the allies in many ways, the AEF didn't get into the field until the late spring and summer of 1918, after the German offensives were spent. There is a case to be made that the Americans did make a decisive difference in the war, but the author overstates his case and neglects the blood and sacrifice of the British and French throughout the book.

There are better and more accurate books on the Great War to be had, and this volume has too many errors in fact to be a reliable reference work. It is not recommended.

The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I - How the Germans Won the Battles and How the Americans Saved the Allies

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The Hidden Truth of World War I
A NEW LOOK
A readable, well-researched, and thought-provoking revisionist
I Disagree
You've Got to be Kidding...

The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I - How the Germans Won the Battles and How the Americans Saved the Allies
John Mosier
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The Hidden Truth of World War I.......2007-08-17

A NEW LOOK.......2007-04-17

A readable, well-researched, and thought-provoking revisionist.......2007-01-13

I Disagree.......2006-10-11

You've Got to be Kidding..........2006-09-18

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Widely recognized as "one of the nation's foremost scholars on the slave era" (Boston Globe), Bancroft Prize-winning historian Ira Berlin has changed the way we think about African American life in slavery and freedom. This classic volume, now available in a handsome new edition, is an indispensable resource for educators and general readers alike.

Free at Last brings together some of the most remarkable correspondence ever written by Americans. These letters, personal testimonies, official transcripts, and other records convey the struggle of black men and women to overthrow the slave system, to aid the Union cause, and to give meaning to their newly won freedom in a war-torn nation. Drawn from the landmark reference volumes of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, this "work of deep significance for all Americans" (Washington Post Book World) offers a unique way of understanding emancipation.

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Basic Logic the Fundamental Principles of Formal Deductive Reasoning 2nd Ed.

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Basic Logic: The Fundamental Principles of Formal Deductive Reasoning
Raymond J. McCall
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Basic Logic, The Fundamental Principles of Formal Deductive Reasoning
Raymond J. McCall
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Basic Logic: The Fundamental Principles of Formal Deductive Reasoning
Raymond J. McCall
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Basic Logic: The fundamental Principles of Formal Deductive Reasoning
Raymond J. McCall
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Basic Logic; the Fundamental Principles of Formal Deductive Reasoning
Raymond J. McCall
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