The Houghton Mifflin Brief Accounting Dictionary

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Written by the same author team as the prestigious American Heritage Dictionary, this dictionary offers definitions in clear, accessible English along with word entries, sample sentences, phrases, formulas, and equations taken from best-selling Houghton Mifflin accounting texts.

The Accounting Dictionary also features a pronunciation guide for each entry, grammar usage coding, idioms, and ample illustrations. This dictionary can be shrinkwrapped with any of Houghton Mifflin's accounting textbooks or sold separately.

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The Relationship-Driven Supply Chain: Creating a Culture of Collaboration Throughout the Chain
Stuart Emmett , and Barry Crocker
Manufacturer: Gower Technical Press
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Stuart Emmett and Barry Crocker, The Relationship-Driven Supply Chain: Creating a Culture of Collaboration Throughout the Chain [A book review from: Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management]
C. Lonsdale
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This collection of essays consolidates research on the current and future perspectives of international trade law, applicable to telecommunications services and audiovisual services in a context of convergence. The first part analyzes the current regulatory framework applicable to telecommunications services in the context of the WTO. The second part analyzes the current regulatory framework applicable to audiovisual services. Particular focus is on the impact of content regulation and network convergence on international trade rules.

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Three hundred spectacular views of Earth taken by the latest generation of satellites.

For orbiting satellites, no place on Earth is isolated. The Himalayas are as easy to photograph as Manhattan. While satellite images are important for science and technical needs, they can also be appreciated for their astonishing beauty.

Earth From Space shows how satellite imaging -- also called remote sensing -- works and showcases some of the most extraordinary photographs ever published.

In the mid-1990s a new generation of satellites began to orbit the Earth. More powerful and accurate than ever, they can record the effects of human and natural forces, and how the planet is changing through time can be clearly seen.

The book also dispels popular misconceptions like those used in Hollywood movies for dramatic effect such as exaggerated surveillance capabilities of orbiting satellites. However, what the satellites do see is nothing short of spectacular.

Earth From Space presents stunning color photographs of:

Coastal ports and major world cities
Military installations such as the Russian Pacific submarine fleet
Rebuilding lower Manhattan and the Pentagon after 9/11
Landscapes of wars including Iraq and Iran
Rain forests, wetlands, coral reefs, rivers and mountains
Effects of deforestation and desertification

Earth From Space covers subjects ranging from aeronautics to history to ecology with unforgettable illustrations - an expansive big picture view of the world.

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Earth From Space: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.......2006-02-22

The condition of the book is good.
It took about 10 days to delivery the book from US to Hong Kong. The delivery is quick.

The view from above.......2005-11-10

This collection of color satellite images is fascinating and awe inspiring. Dramatic images show weather phenomena like active hurricanes, forest fires and tornado paths. Rivers, oceans, lakes and deserts illustrate the varieties of our planet and other images show how man-made constructions have altered the earth. Especially distressing are images that show the effects of deforestation and oil spills. Cities like Paris and New York are featured as well as famous structures like the pyramids, Statue of Liberty, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in New Orleans and the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. City views alone would make a fascinating book - this volume shows aerial views of Paris, New York, Venice, San Francisco, San Diego, Pittsburg, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. One of the most memorable images is a photo of Earth taken at night showing city lights.

really nice visuals.......2005-05-22

Lots of computer graphic enhanced pics, Not alot of text, But it does have lots of pics of the natural world and human impact. A must for a geography lovers library.

The Latest and The Best .......2004-12-30

This book is incredible. To my knowledge there is no other collection available with such up-to-date (many were shot in 2003) and high-resolution photographs of our planet from space.

Most of the photos are mind-boggling. There are many instances of comparison shots that span decades. For example, a 1967 Rhodonia (province in Brazil) shot and a 2002 Rhodonia - the Amazonian deforestation as seen from space is shocking. This book is a fantastic resource for the conservation-oriented.

It is also a very aestetically pleasing book. While many photos show ecological damage, others show the wonderful wholeness of our planet. Shots of snow-covered North America (after a winter storm) were also very beautiful - I had never seen such a photo before, with great swaths of the Midwest covered in white. City shots are also very revealing.

You will have difficulty closing this book once it is opened. I give it my highest recommendation.

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Earth From Space: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Andrew K. Johnson
Manufacturer: Firefly Books
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Spectacular images using the latest satellite-imaging technologies.

With thousands of orbiting satellites regularly sending back computer-generated images, no place on Earth is isolated -- the Himalayas are as easy to photograph as Manhattan. In addition to providing data that is vital for science and new technologies, satellite images can also be appreciated for their astonishing beauty.

The newest generation of satellites is extraordinarily powerful and accurate, recording the effects of human and natural forces and showing how Earth continues to change over time. Earth from Space explains how satellite imaging works and showcases some of the most remarkable photos of the planet ever produced.

Along with clearly written background sections and informative captions, Earth from Space includes hundreds of stunning images, including:

Coastal ports and major world cities
Military installations such as submarine fleets
Rebuilding lower Manhattan and the Pentagon after 9/11/01
Landscapes of wars -- including those in Iraq and Iran
Rainforests, wetlands, coral reefs, rivers and mountains
The devastating effects of deforestation and desertification.

Fully revised and updated, Earth from Space covers a world of subjects -- from aeronautics to ecology to commerce -- through unforgettable images.

Groups Bringing Space own To Earth For Students.(Space Day and the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum): An article from: The Non-profit Times

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Groups Bringing Space own To Earth For Students.(Space Day and the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum): An article from: The Non-profit Times
Matthew Sinclair
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This digital document is an article from The Non-profit Times, published by NPT Publishing Group, Inc. on August 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1479 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: Groups Bringing Space own To Earth For Students.(Space Day and the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum)
Author: Matthew Sinclair
Publication: The Non-profit Times (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2001
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This comprehensive combination resource contains chapter summaries, important definitions, illustrations of major metabolic pathways, self-tests, detailed solutions to all end-of-chapter problems, and additional problems with answers.

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The service was good but .................2007-10-04

I ended up not really needing this book for biochemistry class and my instructor helps write the national exam so i'm in a good class! Know your organic chemistry-get a good study guide and have a good gen chem book to refer to-sometimes biochem aims a bit over your head!
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This book was originally published in 1986. It is reprinted here with a new foreword, extensive postscript detailing developments in the field since publication and a selection of more recent literature references. A recent excursion on the web in search of "compositional data" produced over 3000 entries within a great variety of disciplines. In agriculture, land use compositions; in archaeology, chemical compositions of ceramics; in developmental biology, shape analysis relating (head, trunk, leg) compositions to height; in economics, household budget patterns; in environometrics, pollutant compositions; in geology, major oxide compositions of rocks and sediment (sand, silt, clay) compositions; in literary studies, sentence compositions; in manufacturing, global car production compositions; in medicine, blood, urine and renal calculi compositions; in ornithology, plumage and artefact colour compositions of the greater bower bird and sea bird time budgets; in palaeontology, zonal pollen compositions; in psephology, US Presidential election voting proportions; in psychology and sociology, time budgets of various groups; in waste disposal studies, waste composition. There can be little doubt that appropriate statistical analysis of such compositions is a requirement of many problems in many disciplines. This book provides a clear and systematic account of statistical methods designed to meet the special needs of the compositional data analyst. From the motivation of a number of practical examples from different disciplines and from a re-examination of the difficulties inherent in the inappropriate standard methods, the author argues that any successful statistical methodology must be based on the simple perception that only the relative magnitudes of the components of a composition matter, not their absolute values. "All along Aitchison motivates his mathematics by showing how it can answer the real questions of scientists . . . An enthralling instance of statistics at the service of modern science." The Times Higher Education Supplement "This book is the definitive work in its area and is likely to be the standard reference for decades to come." Mathematical Reviews "This splendid monograph develops sensible models for distributions on simplexes." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society "It is very well written and provides the only unified approach in existence to the analysis of compositional data." International Statistical Institute

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excellent text, very well written.......2006-04-14

My research involves compositional data in psychology in the scaling of preferences measured as continuous variables, e.g., proportions of time allocated to a task. I remember well the first time I encountered compositional data, dealing with some priority allocations on different policy preferences several years ago. I didn't realize the key issue at the time, namely the fact that a sum constraint on a multivariate data vector totally changes the sample space. For instance, it induces negative correlations in variables one would logically expect to be positively correlated. This can be very confusing until you realize what is going on. Doing something about it, however, is more complex. Aitcheson's book gives you the necessary tools to handle the problem. (Unfortunately software solutions are rarer and you will likely have to do some programming of your own.) This book is, as the editorial reviews indicate, the standard reference in the field. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has a decent background in mathematical statistics. You certainly need to have a solid understanding of linear algebra and transformations of multivariate distributions to make your way through it, but it is very clearly written, the math is lucid, and it has the added benefit of Aitcheson's dry British wit throughout (presuming you enjoy that sort of thing).

Geostatistical Analysis of Compositional Data (Studies in Mathematical Geology, 7)

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Geostatistical Analysis of Compositional Data (Studies in Mathematical Geology, 7)
Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn , and Ricardo A. Olea
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Clay paste mixtures identified by Neutron Activation Analysis in pottery of a Roman workshop in Bonn, Germany [An article from: Journal of Archaeological Science]

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Clay paste mixtures identified by Neutron Activation Analysis in pottery of a Roman workshop in Bonn, Germany [An article from: Journal of Archaeological Science]
A. Schwedt , and H. Mommsen
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Archaeological Science, published by Elsevier in 2004. 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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A series of four well-defined elemental patterns found among pottery of a Roman workshop site at Bonn could be identified as mixtures of two initial components in different mixing ratios. The detection method for such mixtures and its application to a databank of 137 chemical patterns, which have been found in the Bonn Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) databank of 2520 samples of pottery from Germany, is described. Finally, the possibilities of obtaining additional information by identifying groups as paste mixtures are discussed.

Statistical analysis of compositional data from Desmoinesian sandstones in Oklahoma (Evolution of sedimentary basins--Anadarko Basin)

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Statistical analysis of compositional data from Desmoinesian sandstones in Oklahoma (Evolution of sedimentary basins--Anadarko Basin)
T. S Dyman
Manufacturer: For sale by the Open-File Reports Section, U.S. Geological Survey
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Dating Dos and Don'ts.......2007-01-08

Ever date a guy who wasn't the greatest? Ever do that more than a few times? Ever wonder why you keep kissing frogs? This is the book for you. It is much more fun watching Sam's escapades in the world of frog kissing than suffering all those toads yourself.

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Interesting...but

An Excellent Study of the Details Behind this Disaster

In An Age of Glitz and Glamour!

In memory of my 3rd grade Teacher - Mrs Paula Neill

Inside the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire
Ron Elliott
Manufacturer: Turner Publishing Company (KY)
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The Fire That Will Not Die

ASIN: 1563112477

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Great Reminder.......2007-08-23

This is a book that covers an event I remeber as though it happened yesterday. I was at the Beverly Hills two weeks before the fire as a prom guest in the garden room. Mr Elliott did an excellent job of recounting the events of that May.

Interesting...but.......2007-01-10

As a disaster book fan, I was anxious to read a first person account of this deadly fire which, unlike most modern fires, killed a large number of people. The portion of the book devoted to the fire is alright, but spotty since it is, essentially, one man's recollections. I would have appreciated an overview. This did come later in the book during the inquiries but, by then, it had lost its dramatic impact. I also got a little tired of the narrator who, although happily married, seems to consider himself something of a babe magnet. Really, who cares?

An Excellent Study of the Details Behind this Disaster.......2007-01-06

The author of this book gives a precise and complete in-depth picture of the rise and fall of the Beverly Hills Country Club from its beginnings and growth, to its horrific end. As a long time employee of the club, Ron Elliot tells the story from an insiders first person point of view. You feel that you've been there since the Club's inception, getting to know the owners and the employees on a first name basis. You watch as the building is remodeled and expanded on multiple occassions, but without regard to fire codes for reasons unknown. This is an excellent read for fire fighting professionals as well, giving multiple examples of crowd response to an emergency and reinforcing the need for adherence to fire codes in construction, as well as on-going safety inspections. Everyone would do well to read this as a reminder to be aware of where the exits are when going out for an evening's entertainment. An excellent book. I highly recommend it.

In An Age of Glitz and Glamour!.......2003-08-12

This live account of a terrible story should serve to remind us why we have inspections and why politicians need to stay out of
the inspector's way! I bought my copy direct from the author and he signed it for me. To meet him and know his experience is a life changing event

In memory of my 3rd grade Teacher - Mrs Paula Neill.......2001-12-03

The memeory of my 3rd grade teacher, Mrs Paula Neill, inspired me to research this tradegy and, in the end, find and read this book. I can still remember the day that I found out she had died.....i was only 8 years old at the time, a 3rd grader at Taylor Mill Elementary, and it really affected me. She was one of the most compassionate and dedicated teachers I have ever known. She made me realize that there was nothing out of my reach nor anthing that I couldn't achieve if I just put my mind to it. Today I credit her with my success....

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A Century of Terror!.......2005-03-10

During a time when "war on terrorism" is a household word, many of us reflect on events that have touched our lives. The old questions of "who, what, when, and where" somehow have become more real as we ponder what would lead individuals to force the crash of planes into buildings. Why would young people become suicide bombers? To many of us, it's "not quite real." Many times, there are no answers.
The assassination of John F. Kennedy is one of those mysteries. He was murdered the year I started my career. We were all called into the boss' office and we stood, stunned, confused, and somehow, afraid. John S. Craig in Peculiar Liaisons: In War, Espionage, and Terrorism in the Twentieth Century brings back memories of that time. He provides no answers; however, he provides a consolidation of names beyond the one we all know-Lee Harvey Oswald. Many of us have been unsatisfied that one man was behind the assassination of Kennedy. Books have been written examining what happened and proposing alternatives to solve the mystery. Mr. Craig, however, has provided a major chapter bringing together facts-clues of those individuals who may have had ties to Oswald, highlighting, especially, David Ferrie, who may have been an accomplice. He's made a major effort to compile what factual information is available and present it for the reader's use-to consider or to research further.
Peculiar Liaisons reads almost like a novel. Indeed for those who buy this book to gain a deeper understanding of what may have brought about today's events, it captures our interest and provides sufficient narrative to satisfy our needs. However, historians will want to add this book to their personal library. By selecting personalities who have played major roles in the century's history, Craig has provided a significant research effort that pulls together important individuals who played roles, sometimes behind the scenes and with less notoriety.
Captain Dragutin Dimitrijevic, was the first highlighted in Peculiar Liaisons. Known as "The Bull" or "Apis," Dimitrijevic slaughtered the Serbian king and queen, and later formed The Black Hand (with the aim of uniting all Serbs). He recruited young men infected with tuberculosis and promised these men with terminal disease a way to "make a mark" for Serbia through assassinations of enemies. One of his liaisons, a teenager named Gavrilo Princip, assassinated Austria-Hungary's heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This act helped trigger the nightmare of World War I.
Chapter Two provides an excellent overview of two historical legends, the "Queen and Ace of Spies." Mata Hari is one of the most famous spies, having been featured in several movies and books. About herself, she said, "she was a much better harlot than traitor." Her supposed liaisons included the Ace of Spies, Britain's Sidney Reilly, Admiral Wilmelm Canaris, as well as many other high-level officials during World War I. Interestingly, their legends may have become so complicated that their allegiance is still in question--for which countries did they spy and to which countries were they loyal? Even today, their lives remain mysteries.
Tactical Deception, a skill much used throughout history, dates back to times surrounding familiar stories such as the Trojan Horse and the Japanese Ninja who used their stealth techniques in the twelfth century to gather intelligence for warlords. Participants in both world wars used deception as a major weapon. Thomas Lawrence-also known as John Hume and T. E. Shaw-used even the minor deception of different names to further his exploits. Most of us automatically picture this man with his Arabian robes and headdress flying behind, as he races across the desert as Lawrence of Arabia. Indeed the chapter covering his exploits and other operations at this time provide an exciting read.
Discussions and actions surrounding the development of bombs began in the late 30's.
Einstein wrote to President Roosevelt, which helped impel the creation of the Manhattan Project. The race for the atomic bomb was on! In 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The role of Colonel James Doolittle and others highlight this dramatic time in Chapter Four.
It turned out for me that I became intrigued with Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, who served as head of the German military intelligence bureau. We all remember Adolf Hitler and may also know about Reinhard Heydrich who carried out orders from Hitler and, on his own initiative, to cause the death of millions. Two excellent chapters report on involved individuals. It was a welcome note to me, of German descent, to learn that Admiral Canaris (and others) was anti-Hitler and worked to sabotage Hitler's plans as much as possible and was even willing to refuse direct orders to assassinate individuals.
Peculiar Liaisons, in focusing on involved individuals and their relationships, has provided a solid base of information beyond headlines and the average history text.
In addition to covering significant historical actions since the beginning of the century, including World Wars I and II, Craig includes small tidbits from his research that often bring a smile or cause one to ponder:
Zoroaster, a man born in the sixth century BC, in what is now Iran, claimed to be the spokesman of the one true God. Zoroastrianism was the principal religion in Persia for approximately one thousand years. Three major religions followed. Many wars have been fought, presumably based on religion.
The German government published an official statement that no proof of the guilt of Mata Hari, known as the Queen of Spies, could be found.
Officials considered bringing Major T. E. Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia, to provide a positive force to assist Hitler-that Lawrence was the kind of man who could have gotten Hitler on the right track. Lawrence was killed before this could occur.
Major R. Meinertzhagen, known as the Deception Master, once shared that when he met Hitler, Hitler came forward, threw up his arm and exclaimed "Heil Hitler." Thinking it odd to "heil" himself, he responded "Heil Meinertzhagen."
General Jimmy Doolittle led a volunteer group that was essentially a suicide mission, to exact retribution for the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Wernher von Braun, a captured Nazi, later became the chief designer of the rocket that sent Americans to the moon.
Fuchida, flight commander of the assault on Pearl Harbor, later was inspired by an American missionary, Jacob DeShazer, one of Doolittle's Raiders, and became a devout Christian and traveled the world teaching the message of forgiveness.
J.R.R. Tolkien, British author, used what he experienced and witnessed in the trenches and battlefields for material that went into The Book of Lost Worlds, the foundation of The Lord of the Rings, one of the most read pieces of fiction of the twentieth century.
Henry Ford financially backed Adolf Hitler. Hitler told a reporter that he regarded Ford as his inspiration.
Ustasha administrator Vjekoslav Luboric moved hundreds of typhus-infected inmates to war camps that had been disease free in order to spread the disease.
General Heydrich was dishonorably discharged from the German Navy.
Madame Kitty, head of "Salon Kitty," a bordello, used her women to spy on fellow Nazi officers for General Heydrich.
Kerry Thornley, a fellow Marine of Lee Harvey Oswald, said Oswald made such an impression on him that he wrote the novel, The Idle Warriors, months before Oswald's involvement in the assassination was known.
And so it continues...
Peculiar Liaisons is a significant research effort. Are today's actions molded from history? Perhaps, more specifically, are individuals, who may be viewed as heroes or enemies, depending upon your perspective or background, actually who influences us? John Craig has pulled together facts. Interesting facts. Horrible facts. His book can stand alone from which to learn. But, his references and selected bibliography provide a solid basis for further study. In the midst of the "War on Terror," Peculiar Liaisons should be on your bookshelf.

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For many years, as a direct result of international governmental concern, the nuclear power industry has been at the forefront of industrial safety. This text represents a cross-disciplinary look at the human factors developments in this industry, with wider applications for the entire industrial sector. Technical, psychological and social aspects of industrial safety come under the scrutiny of scientists and engineers from an array of different backgrounds. The contributors are international safety scientists from the USA, Japan and Europe, and their chapters deal with a variety of issues: from theoretical aspects of applicable cultural models, to reviews of actual safety performance in specific plants.

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The Most Timely of Human Factors Research in Nuclear Power.......2000-10-10

The book is a compilation of 22 "human factors" research projects in nuclear power plants, performed to address the issues of safety and risk reduction. The papers are written by a variety of internationally known nuclear experts, and represent the most current studies available in one source. The focus of the research is the affects of human interaction with engineered technology.

Unfortunately, because of the narrow scope of interest in this book, it is unavailable in most academic libraries. This is probably the most expensive book I have ever purchased. With that in mind, I must say I have no regrets. To purchase these studies separately through information services such as NTIS, would like cost about $40 each ($880 total). The information is solid and credible, and will likely serve as validators to my masters thesis.

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Designing visual displays and system models for safe reactor operations based on the user's perspective of the system
S. Alenka Brown-VanHoozer
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