Simplified accounting for non-accountants

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Simplified accounting for non-accountants
Rick Stephan Hayes
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Everyone who works with people is realizing that the old autocratic method of leadership simply doesn't work. The way to win is to build a great team.

John C. Maxwell has been teaching the benefits of leadership and team building for years. Now he tackles the importance of teamwork head on, writing about teamwork being necessary for every kind of leader, and showing how team building can improve every area of your life.

Written in the style of the bestseller The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, this new book not only contains laws that you can count on when it comes to getting people to work together, but it tells them in such a way that you can start applying them to your own life today. And it's illustrated with great stories of team leaders-and team breakers-from history, business, the church, and sports.

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The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork Workbook.......2007-07-30

This is an excellent workbook to use to teach teamwork. The physicial quality of this book was very good. This was a used workbook. There were no marks of anykind. It wooked like new. Iam very happy with this workbook and would highly recommend it to anyone interested in working with others.

Good mix of factoids, inspiration and leadership pointers.......2006-07-18

Building on the successful formula of his earlier work, author John C. Maxwell (The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership) has delineated 17 "laws" for managers who want to develop successful teams. That number may be arbitrary, but Maxwell successfully uses his laws as a springboard to weave together inspiring tales from Navy Seals, mountain climbers, Colin Powell, George Washington, Jimmy Carter, major league coaches and others into punchy chapters that any aspiring leader can use. This book provides the right mix of factoids, inspiration and leadership pointers to make it a bestseller. Even better, coaches and leaders who use these tips should be able to build better teams. We recommend this book to coaches, mentors and team leaders.

Great change.......2006-06-26

This book has allowed my company to work as a cohesive unit and build teamwork. There is no more "the world revolves around me attitude"

The "laws" are indisputable for a reason.......2005-06-12

From the favorable reviews, I assumed that this would be an informative book. However, this is not the case. I learned very little in the course of reading the book, and here is why:

The laws are obvious. Anyone who has ever been part of a team and given even a little thought as to what elements make a team function well will be unsurprised by the list. The reason that the author says the laws are "indisuptable," is that the laws are so obvious that anyone can see that they seem to generally hold.

Don't waste your time with this book. Instead, check out "First, Break all the Rules," which is an innovative work that addresses management issues (including teamwork).

The Leadership Centre Says.......2005-03-16

As An Executive Coach, Management Team Builder and Leadership Development Trainer I contracted to coach a cost improvement team for six months. This simple book helped the team members (non of them managers) to understand and apply the principles of working as part of a team (which was in essence a task force to recommend change). Management was thrilled with the results and six months later the team is still making excellent recommendations and has introduced new team members to the process and (on their own)to Maxwell's book.

Learning the 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team (Student Workbook)

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Learning the 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team (Student Workbook)

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World Court Reports: A Collection of the Judgements Orders and Opinions of the Permanent Court of International Justice

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ASIN: 1575886472

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Though a well-regarded physicist Carl Sagan (1934-1996) was best-known during his life and best remembered now as a writer of popular nonfiction and science fiction, and as the host of the PBS series Cosmos. Through his writings and spoken commentary, he worked to popularize interests in astronomy, the universe, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. From the beginning of his public career, when he co-wrote Intelligent Life in the Universe with Soviet astronomer I.S. Shklovskii, to the very end as he worked on the 1997 film adaptation of his novel Contact, these were the subjects that absorbed him.

Yet this interest in space was not rooted in science fiction, but rather in his understanding of the smallness and vulnerability of humanity measured against the immense size and power of the universe. This profound philosophical humility, mixed with the personal exuberance he frequently showed in debates and in his groundbreaking television series Cosmos, comes through in Conversations with Carl Sagan. In this collection of interviews and profiles, Sagan discusses with verve the wide variety of topics on which he has written—the environment, nuclear disarmament, religion, politics, extraterrestrial life, astronomy, physics, robotics. Whether discussing his science fiction or his well-researched nonfiction works, his voice is one that embraces reason and skepticism.

An active promoter of science education and a recognized authority on science and its effects on humanity, Sagan used the interview form to elaborate on ideas that had been reduced to sound bites. His atheism, fueled by an agonizing sense of the vulnerability of the human race, touched off many fierce debates. Although a lifelong skeptic, this volume shows how Sagan clarified and refined his views, and expressed amazement that Earth, for all his belief in extraterrestrial life, encompasses everything about which he cared.

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It is 4 stars for the midia..........2007-05-13

... Not to Sagan. He is, as always brilliant and enthusiastic about science and our place in the cosmos, but the midia... well, the first observation on almost every article is about "his looks", for me, it is emblematic of the image obsession of the general midia: first the appearance, then the caracther. Most of the time, in the interviews, you almost can see the interviewer hardly listening to Prof. Sagan, as if looking at the clock and sometimes (lots of times) cuting his speak short, it is announcers time!
But you can't help getting a glimpse of this great man, shinning through the midiatic maze, if it is your first reading on Carl Sagan, buy others, this is it, just a glimpse, he is worth every word.

Nice piece .......2007-03-09

I love reading how the conversations really happened. He came alive again for me, his passion shines.

Interviews and profiles discuss all the interests he holds for environment, astronomy, physics, and social issues.......2006-05-21

Carl Sagan is best known for his hosting of the PBS series Cosmos but actually has a long history of work in the astronomy field, and an interest in science and space which extends from his childhood - so it's fascinating to learn about his efforts to popularize his interests in CONVERSATIONS WITH CARL SAGAN. Here interviews and profiles discuss all the interests he holds for environment, astronomy, physics, and social issues. Subject chapters blend with interviews to make for a fine survey.

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Great Collection of Interviews with Carl Sagan.......2006-03-22

As a communicator and popularizer of science Carl Sagan was probably the best known scientist of his time. Although a Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics, his speaking style and his far ranging thoughts about life here on earth and life elsewhere in the universe made him one of the most quoted scientists anywhere. Perhaps this was because of the great interest in space at that time, but that's not important.

Among the large volume and widely based writing that Dr. Sagan did, he also was interviewed by numerous people. Collected here in this book are sixteen interviews given over a period of twenty-six years. The content of the interviews are likewise far ranging. They cover scientific things like the posibility of life on Mars (we still don't know for sure), to life elsewhere in the universe, to communications with other species, the scientific method, religion and life in general.

Up until now these interviews were avaiable only from the individual sources, when available at all. It is great to see them in print once again.

Conversations with Carl: the many voices and varied opinions of Carl Sagan come alive again in this excerpt on the 10th anniversary of his death.(Excerpt): An article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA)

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Conversations with Carl: the many voices and varied opinions of Carl Sagan come alive again in this excerpt on the 10th anniversary of his death.(Excerpt): An article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
Tom Head
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This digital document is an article from Skeptic (Altadena, CA), published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2006. The length of the article is 4730 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Conversations with Carl: the many voices and varied opinions of Carl Sagan come alive again in this excerpt on the 10th anniversary of his death.(Excerpt)
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Date: March 22, 2006
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Begins with a historical overview by Henry Taube. Overviews the advances pioneered by Taube, including mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, charge transfer complexes, and p back bonding effects in metal-ligand interactions. Discusses applications of principles of electron transfer to diverse areas of chemistry and biology such as the selective and controlled oxidation of organic functional groups, polymerization catalysis, metal biological interactions with DNA, biological electron transfer reactions, and new imaging agents in diagnostic medicine.

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This slim volume contains some of Buckminster Fuller's most shining observations on his 87 years of living on Spaceship Earth. Includes a full listing of Bucky's patents, honorary doctorates, and published works.

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Absolutely timeless, wonderful!!.......2006-04-26

This book is the one to read if you seriously need an information-overload on positivity, and doing what needs to be done on this Spaceship Earth. Everyone is crew, no-one is passenger. The information contained within this _very_ short book, bears reading every year, every month.
Buckminster Fuller should be so much more appreciated than what he was while he lived, but more so, what is the point of being a fan, if one isn't finding what one can do based on one's own experience, and then doing it. Find what needs to be done, and do it!
I wish I could send this book to everyone I know and have them read it, re-read it, and re-re-read it, just to make sure the information contained here-in gets absorbed into one's mind also. It is not mere rational information, this is what he came up out of intuitive, experience-based thinking, using the right hemisphere instead of the left-hemisphere.
Let there be many more Guinea Pigs between here, and the forced re-definition of utopia.

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Designed for a conceptual physics course for non-science majors, this text is shorter in length, appropriate for a one-semester course. It presents a good balance of quantitative and conceptual material, integrating simple math into the conceptual physics framework so students can see the practicality of physics and have a means of testing its validity. It also emphasizes the relevance of physics to our lives with many applied examples. Major topics include: motion, Newton's Laws, energy, optics, sound waves, electricity and magnetism, and atomic and nuclear power. An epilogue on general relativity and cosmology and sections on blue skies, heat and internal energy, speed, and velocity are included.

Facets of Physics : A Conceptual Approach

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Facets of Physics : A Conceptual Approach
Roger; Marshall (editor) Culver
Manufacturer: West Publishing Company
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Young Philibert learns what it means to be a citizen of the new Quebec. A savage, comic tale: the final novel in the "La Guerre" trilogy.

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Images of Kursk is an illustrated account of a pivotal battle on the eastern front during World War II. At Kursk, the Germans threw 900,000 men and 2,500 tanks against more than 1 million soldiers and 3,000 tanks of the Red Army in a savage battle of attrition.

Unlike many pictorial accounts of the war on the eastern front, Images of Kursk draws upon both German and Russian archive material. All the photographs of the Red Army at Kursk, moreover, are previously unpublished images. The book begins with the buildup of forces before the battle and then illustrates the offensive by two German army groups against the Kursk salient. The images convey the true scale, intensity, and horror of the fighting as the Germans tried in vain to batter their way through the Soviet defensive systems. A chapter is devoted to the climactic battle at the village of Prokhorovka, in which 1,000 tanks engaged each other furiously at point-blank range.

With authoritative text and extended captions,Images of Kursk is an enthralling pictorial record of the battle that shifted the strategic initiative on the eastern front to the Red Army for good. Written in an informative yet exciting style, it will appeal to military specialists and laymen alike.

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Soviet Propaganda Images of Kursk.......2007-04-22

The title of this book is completely misleading. It should be called "Soviet Propaganda Images of Kursk." The book is chock-a-block full of images relating to Kursk, but 80% or more of the pictures are from the Soviet perspective and most of these are obvious propaganda photos of German prisoners, destroyed German tanks and other armored vehicles, dead German soldiers, captured German weapons, "heroic" Soviet soldiers, Soviet partisans, Soviet officers, Soviet T-34s aplenty, etc.

Some of the chapters appear to have no photos at all from the German perspective. Exceptions are a chapter on re-arming the Wehrmacht in preparation for the battle and a chapter on the SS spearhead operations. But this only discloses that the author could have provide a more balanced photographic perspective but purposefully chose not to do so. Oddly enough, there isn't a single photo from the German perspective in the chapter on the great tank battle near Prokhorovka, 12 July 1943.

The book's saving grace is that the Soviet photos were previously unpublished and that does help enlighten the reader about the Soviet forces, particularly the unappreciated widespread use of Soviet women in the Red Army and the underpublicized vast numbers of tanks and other vehicles the Soviets received from the Allies (by mid-1943, the USA alone had shipped over 100,000 military vehicles to the Russians), without which the outcome of this battle (and many others to come) may have changed.

The book even includes photos of the Soviets anti-tank attack dogs, which were armed with bombs and trained, Pavlovian style, to run under tanks looking for food. Unfortunately for the starving dog, as it went under the tank a trip wire exploded the bombs, killing the dog. Unfortunately for the Soviets, the dogs could not be trained to distinquish a German tank from a Russian tank and the dogs often ran back into the Russian lines exploding themselves under Russian tanks, taking out the Soviet tank and crew as well. Because of this, the Soviets eventually gave up on anti-tank dogs.

The book is divided into chapters from the build-up by both sides to the battle, the battle itself, and advances by the Soviets after the battle, when the Germans had to retreat back to their original lines and then beyond them, due in part to Hitler's decision to pull off the attack and transfer divisions to Italy to counter the Allied invasion of Sicily.

The book is well-written to the extent the reader is informed of the deployment of troops on each side during each stage of the battle, but there are only a couple of maps provided in the whole book and unless you're familiar with the battle it is hard to follow along. A map should have been included with each chapter, showing the status of the battle, troop movements, German advances, and the Soviet rings of defense, which were over 100 miles (180 km) deep and contained about 1.3 million soldiers.

The book is also somewhat misleading to the extent the reader is given the impression that the Germans are continuously suffering large losses (true) but the Russians are not (untrue). In fact, it is generally believed that in this battle the ratio of Russians killed to Germans killed was about 4:1. The ratio for Russian tank and other armor losses to German armor losses was even greater, about 5:1. The problem, of course, is that the Germans did not have the resources to replace such heavy losses, while the Russians did.

My View of Kursk .......2007-04-14

This was my first reading of the battle of Kursk. Most of my preconceptions about the battle was that it was a running series of tank battles over the Russian steppes. I was amazed that it was really about German attacks over pre-dispositioned Soviet defenses and then counterattacks. Okay, what little I knew was run over (pun intended). For most of the text I believe that the photographs were very appropriate. At the very least plausible. I bought this book because I wanted to know more about "the battle" and I gained a lot of perspective about it. The pictures are worth a thousand words and more. You don't have to be an expert to gain some of the "experience" these pictures have to tell.

Ultimately this book is about geography. Pictures are wonderful, but unless they are from satellites, they don't do much for placing you there. Maps with the PLACE NAMES and the inevitable broad arrows would be extremely wonderful and informative for this particular book. Did I enjoy it? Yes. No doubt. Did I wind up with a good idea of how the battle took place? No. I was so lost I thought I was in Los Angeles. The book is not misleading, it is about images, but in my mind it is written for geography, and a revision is needed with maps (and arrows).

This book is fundamentally successful because it creates a hunger to know more.

Kursk Photos.......2007-01-18

If you are interested in WWII tank battles on the Eastern Front, this is a must have book. There are pictures here, descriptive maps and accounts not to be found elsewhere. Highly recommended reading and collecting.

Fascinating Pictures.......2006-12-17

The title of this book says what it is, pictures from the battlefiend at Kursk. We have all heard of Kursk, the biggest tank battle ever, the fact that the Germans, more or less had to attack this bulge in their lines, and the Russians knowing they were coming fortifying the area up to a depth of a hundred miles.

What has been difficult to find was pictures of what was going on there at the time. And this book provides those pictures, and in spades. I don't have a count but guess that there are 300 pictures, almost none of which had I seen in other books. These pictures show what could not really be described

a unit of Russian women soldiers marching somewhere with all of their rifle receivers covered with an obviously specially made canvas guard, to keep out the rain I suppose.

a knocked out T-34 right next to a German Mk IV, both of them showing a lot of twisted up metal that indictes the relative forces being used in the fighting.

Shot up equipment by the ton.

Soldiers, of both sides, glad to still be allive.

This book is only a couple of hundred pages long, but if each picture is worth a thousnd words, it is a huge volume. Fascinating photographs.

Well, the pictures are nice.......2004-03-18

The book gives a good introduction too Russian and German artillery and tanks. After that it simply tells you that some corps attacked another with x amount of casualties on so and so day. Without any maps, (the book only has two), this long narrative is quite useless to the reader. Furthermore most of the authors conversions from kilometers to miles and meters to yards are incorrect, I found this quite disconcerting. I still found the book an easy read though, however this is probably because I don't mind reading about one attack after another written in laundry list fashion. Without maps though the reader will never remember any of the tactical situations described in the narrative. It is for these reasons that I gave the book only two stars.

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"Long before the Confederacy was crushed militarily, it was defeated economically," writes Charles L. Dufour. He contends that with the fall of the critical city of New Orleans in spring 1862 the South lost the Civil War, although fighting would continue for three more years. On the Mississippi River, below New Orleans, in the predawn of April 24, 1862, David Farragut with fourteen gunboats ran past two forts to capture the South's principal seaport.

Vividly descriptive, The Night the War Was Lost is also very human in its portrayal of terrified citizens and leaders occasionally rising to heroism. In a swift-moving narrative, Dufour explains the reasons for the seizure of New Orleans and describes its results.

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The Best Book on the Fall of New Orleans.......2005-11-08

Dufour's book remains the best account of the fall of New Orleans in April 1862 to Admiral David Farragut's Western Gulf Blockading Squadron and (after the fact) troops from Gen. Ben Butler's Department of the Gulf. This is surprising considering the book was initially published in 1960. Dufour does an excellent job describing the preparation (more accurately the lack of preparation) for the defense of New Orleans from the declaration of secession to the eventual fall of the South's greatest city. He also describes the preparations in the North to subdue New Orleans, from the Department of the Navy to David Porter's mortar fleet to the naming of David Farragut to command the Western Gulf Blockading Squadron which took the city. Dufour has a very readable style and I was able to finish the book over several evenings. The book contains 354 pages of text, with the bibliography, notes and index filling the remainder of the 427 pages. Scanning through Dufour's sources, he has made good use of primary records in the form of diaries, newspaper accounts, and especially of the correspondence between the Confederate Government in Richmond and Gen. Mansfield Lovell, the commander at New Orleans. The lack of maps is a major flaw though, IMHO. The book contains only one map of the area around the two forts guarding the city (75 miles south), and it is not a very good one. You will want to have other maps of the area present when reading the book to have a proper grasp of the relationship of various places to one another. And the last shortcoming is the lack of any kind of Order of Battle. Dufour does give the number of guns in Fort Jackson, Fort St. Philip, and some of the ships in the text itself, but he does not go into any kind of detail. 427 pp., 1 map

Confederate New Orleans Falls.......2001-06-04

Charles Dufour's "The Night the War was Lost" is the best book written on the campaign for New Orleans in 1862. Dufour has done an amazing amount of research and combines correct historical facts in an easy to read format. This book answers the question how did New Orleans fall and how did the Confederate Government let its biggest city fall into the hands of the Yankees. A great book and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the story of Confederate New Orleans.

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THE NIGHT THE WAR WAS LOST
Charles L. Dufour
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The Iraq Debacle.(Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)(How America Lost Iraq)(Night Draws Near: ... Review) : An article from: The Progressive

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The Iraq Debacle.(Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)(How America Lost Iraq)(Night Draws Near: ... Review) : An article from: The Progressive
Matthew Rothschild
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Title: The Iraq Debacle.(Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)(How America Lost Iraq)(Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War)(Book Review)
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Date: November 1, 2005
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Mathematicians like to point out that mathematics is universal. In spite of this, most people continue to view it as either mundane (balancing a checkbook) or mysterious (cryptography). This fifth volume of the What's Happening series contradicts that view by showing that mathematics is indeed found everywhere--in science, art, history, and our everyday lives.

Here is some of what you'll find in this volume:

Mathematics and Science
Mathematical biology: Mathematics was key to cracking the genetic code. Now, new mathematics is needed to understand the three-dimensional structure of the proteins produced from that code.

Celestial mechanics and cosmology: New methods have revealed a multitude of solutions to the three-body problem. And other new work may answer one of cosmology's most fundamental questions: What is the size and shape of the universe?

Mathematics and Everyday Life
Traffic jams: New models are helping researchers understand where traffic jams come from-and maybe what to do about them!

Small worlds: Researchers have found a short distance from theory to applications in the study of small world networks.

Elegance in Mathematics
Beyond Fermat's Last Theorem: Number theorists are reaching higher ground after Wiles' astounding 1994 proof: new developments in the elegant world of elliptic curves and modular functions.

The Millennium Prize Problems: The Clay Mathematics Institute has offered a million dollars for solutions to seven important and difficult unsolved problems.

These are just some of the topics of current interest that are covered in this latest volume of What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences. The book has broad appeal for a wide spectrum of mathematicians and scientists, from high school students through advanced-level graduates and researchers.

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