Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance: Special Issue, Enron

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The Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance - Special Enron Report delves into such critical topics such as how to prevent future Enrons, the lessons learned from Enron, the state of internal auditing, forensic accounting, internal control systems, technology and auditing, audit best practices and audit committees.

Can We Prevent Future Enrons?
J. Edward Ketz
Despite a rash of underauditing problems in recent years, the accounting profession has done little to stop their spread. The latest result is another disaster: Enron. Why had the United States had such a plague of questionable accounting? Exactly what went wrong with Enron? The author answers these questions and takes a sobering look at the implications - and what should be done.

Enrons Lessons: Rebuilding Internal Auditing Now!
Gordon Smith
The Enron debate proves that outsourcing the internal audit department is a bad idea. Now is the time to get rid of the outsourcing and strengthen your own internal auditing. The author gives some valuable tips on making it stronger, smarter, and flexible.

Will Technology Defeat Your Auditor?
Paul Munter
Enron is only the latest of a growing list of frauds that went undetected for years. Even if your auditor is honest, the widespread use of technology makes it tougher for him to ding the crime - and make the bad guys do the time. But what do you have a right to expect from you auditor?

This Is a Job for Superman: Calling in a Forensic Accountant
A. Carr Conway Jr. and Robert W. Rouse
Restatements of financial statements have become distressingly common in recent years. These restatements have involved small public companies as well as large well-known registrants. A large accounting firm reported that there were 233 restatements in 2000, double the number in 1997.

Stop Fraud Cold with Powerful Internal Controls
Tommie Singleton
Since the Enron debacle, companies are re-examining their internal controls. Sometimes managers see them as an obstacle. But it doesnt have to be that way. The author shows you how to build stronger internal controls that can enhance corporate objectives.

Internal Benchmarking: How to Be the Best - And Stay that Way Rob Reider Is there a formula for success? Some companies manage to succeed by dumb luck. Others use savvy business acumen and polished methods, yet fail miserably. But you can discover your own success formula using internal benchmarking, says the author. Heres how you do it.

Audit Committees: How Good Are They?
F. Todd DeZoort, Dana R. Hermanson, Richard W. Houston
Audit committees must bear some of the blame for recent corporate scandals. Perhaps they were asleep at the switch. But how much financial expertise do audit committee members really have? And how often do they discuss materiality issues with auditors? A national survey of 300 audit committee members provides some answers - and not all of them are comforting.

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Loyalty and The Loyalty Advantage are Invaluable

Excellent Resource - A MUST READ!

The Loyalty Advantage

The Loyalty Advantage: Essential Steps To Energize Your Company, Your Customers, Your Brand
Dianne M. Durkin
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The Loyalty Effect: The Hidden Force Behind Growth, Profits, and Lasting Value

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The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth

ASIN: 0814408176

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Though it may not be obvious, customer satisfaction and brand loyalty are directly connected to the passion and energy of an organization's employees. In The Loyalty Advantage, readers will learn how to create a loyalty-driven company and how to direct company culture and leadership to develop widespread employee enthusiasm. The book demonstrates how in-house dedication to employees translates naturally into superior customer service, which then creates brand loyalty.

Filled with practical tips and proven strategies, the book shows readers how to:
* create an environment that inspires passion for the brand and company loyalty
* encourage employees to help craft and become invested in the company's vision and values
* translate organizational values into superior products, customer service, and corporate profits

Using proven methods, The Loyalty Advantage shows how to create allegiance and translate it into bottom-line results.

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Loyalty and The Loyalty Advantage are Invaluable.......2005-05-08

What is most amazing about The Loyalty Advantage is that through detailed explanations, real case studies, and recent examples from companies of all sizes, author Dianne Durkin shows readers that loyalty truly matters in business and that it can be obtained.

Readers gain insights into the workings of some of the most well branded companies in the nation, and learn how and why these brands have come to be household names. The Loyalty Advantage shows that how we each treat each other, from CEO to secretary to part-time sanitation engineer, really does matter and it is quantifiable in the companies' profitability. You reap what you sew.

The Loyalty Advantage gives a great overview of how branding came to be such an important force in American business. The first part of the book is incredibly enlightening and interesting in its explanation of loyalty's evolution within our social and business cultures. The book shows that the meaning of and concern for loyalty is different according to the generations. This is important to anyone who manages people of different ages.

Finally, as a small business owner, what I found most valuable about The Loyalty Advantage is that the book showed how companies turned problems into successes and gave step by step explanations that I can relate to my own business. I am going to test The Loyalty Advantage's 12-step brainstorming session and it's five-step crisis management plan in my company immediately.

Anyone who runs a business, manages employees, or works with clients or customers needs to read The Loyalty Advantage.

Excellent Resource - A MUST READ! .......2005-05-07

The Loyalty Advantage is an excellent resource for any company or individual looking to learn more about the value of loyalty in the business world. This book outlines the five essential steps to building the loyalty advantage process in order to create an environment that increases employee loyalty and customer loyalty, which then builds brand loyalty.

This book contains clear examples and captivating case studies from some of the most admired companies in America including Best Buy, Tiffany, Southwest Airlines and Whole Foods. With the most powerful form of marketing being positive word of mouth - who wouldn't want to increase the loyalty within their company? This book is a quick and easy MUST - READ! Fabulous advice!

The Loyalty Advantage.......2005-04-08

Bought the book "Loyalty Advantage" on Monday and finished it on Wednesday. This is a must read for owners that are concerned with employee turn over. I bought a second book for a friend that works for a major corporation, which should be a must read for them. Treating everyone with respect and honesty is a must. Great book which I had it 25 years ago to have my managers read it.

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More than 300 rare engravings and woodcut illustrations of astrological and astronomical subjects from around the world. Striking depictions of planets, the Milky Way, signs of the zodiac, comets, meteors, and other phenomena accompany a treasure trove of stories, lore, and mythical explanations of the nature and origin of astronomical phenomena.

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Provides a current view of activities related to the radiation chemistry of polymers, including mechanisms, processes, and applications. Emphasizes the fundamental aspects of polymer radiation chemistry and the technological significance of the effects of radiation on polymers. Discusses the fundamental processes by which radiation interacts with polymers. Highlights the mechanisms that create chemical changes in polymeric materials. Presents applications in the microlithography, aerospace, and biomedical fields and other applications of radiation modified polymers.

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The Best Guide to Microscopic Organisms for the Beginner.......2004-07-28

This is a fascinating book containing delightful descriptions of the microbial world. It would be hard to find a better introduction to the numerous, yet poorly known, organisms found in every conceivable part of the earth's surface and deep within its oceans and soils. Sagan and Margulis cover everything from viruses to lichens, including such weird life forms as mycoplasmas, methanogens, slime bacteria, crypters, ray beings, slime nets, cellular slime molds, sea whirlers and chytrids.

Sagan and Margulis provide a somewhat dated, but useful, annotated list of references and enough detail about the biology and observation of these organisms to whet the appetite for more. A short chapter on collecting and culturing the microbes is augmented by comments on collection and culture within the discussions of each taxon.

If I have a criticism (other than the fact that the taxonomy is somewhat dated) it would be that the authors should have included a note on safety, as some of the cultures can produce pathogenic organisms. Given these occasional "nasties" it would be worthwhile to emphasize some sanitary precautions. That said, the study of microscopic life is much under rated in the United States (much more popular in Britain!) and perhaps books like "Garden of Microbial Delights," along with a recently published guide to bacteria, may correct that imbalance. It certainly would not hurt if more people became more aware of the teaming billions of organisms in their world, including a host that we depend on for our very existence. If you are at all interested in the microscopic inhabitants of the real world, even if you are not interested in observing them, you should read this book.

Garden of Microbial Delights. A Practical Guide to the Subvisible World.

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Garden of Microbial Delights. A Practical Guide to the Subvisible World.
Dorion & Lynn Margulis Sagan
Manufacturer: Harcourt
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ASIN: B000OJE80A

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Meant to serve an "entertaining textbook," this book belongs to a rare genre. It is written for all students and practitioners who deal with Fourier transformation. Fourier series as well as continuous and discrete Fourier transformation are covered, and particular emphasis is placed on window functions. Many illustrations and easy-to-solve exercises make the book especially accessible, and its humorous style will add to the pleasure of learning from it.

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From the dawn of time, man's greatest enemy has been the unstoppable progress of male-pattern baldness. But ever since the first Neanderthal killed a ginger mammoth and put a lump of its pelt on top of his head, the human race has been fighting back. 10,000 years later mondern man's wig is a far cry from that early attempt. Believe it or not, all of the men pictured in this book are thought to be wearing wigs.

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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades (Oxford Illustrated Histories)

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Historical facts. No more.
High-gloss paper w/ a straight-forward approach to the Crusades
An excellent tome on the crusades to begin your historical journey!
Not a book for the general public
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades (Oxford Illustrated Histories)

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ASIN: 0192854283

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Written by a team of leading scholars, this richly illustrated book, with over 200 colour and black and white pictures, presents an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Crusades from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crusading ideas and imagery today.

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Historical facts. No more........2006-11-09

This is a very important book for people who want to know the facts without stories of romance and chivalry. It is very well organized with chapters dedicated to all the aspects of life from the time of the Crusades, aspects ranging from the military orders in various periods of time to the evolution of crusading literature. I recommend this book for people who need an overview of the period of the Crusades. It is also advisable, in order to comprehend the whole picture of the Crusades, to read opinions from the Muslim side. A very good book in this region is "Arab Historians of the Crusades" (The Islamic World Series) by Francesco Gabrieli.

High-gloss paper w/ a straight-forward approach to the Crusades.......2006-03-24

This is an intro book to the Crusades.
What I liked about The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades was it's very 'neat' look at history. It is a clean-cut array of events in prose form, with several pictures and illustrations, without moral position taken. This way, the reader can use the information given and put it into a context of discussion and a wider analysis of the time period covered. The only down-side was probably that, having used it in a classroom setting, I felt almost as if it were too 'story-book', too illustrative. The information, however, is substantial.

An excellent tome on the crusades to begin your historical journey!.......2006-01-10

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades introduced me to several aspects of the military campaigns and enduring influences they had which I had never been exposed. I have read other books on this topic and have learned a great deal, however, additional topics such as poetry, song and architecture were items which up until my reading of this book I had not even considered. After reading this book you will realize as perhaps as I that one has merely scratched the surface of Crusade history. I highly recommend this source if you would be interested in getting a bigger and better picture of this often misunderstood and oft-maligned period of history in western civilization.

Not a book for the general public.......2005-07-04

On the back cover you can read: "written by a team of leading scholars, this richly illustrated book.....presents an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Crusades from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1905 to the legacy of crusading ideas and imaginery today".
In fact it is a book written by scholars for scholars only and it is very different from the other many books about the Crusades that follow a cronological description of the history of the events that took place.
The book is composed of 15 chapters, written by different authors, that have little or no coordination at all, so it is no informative. The contents are very descriptive of the orientation of the book: ... Songs of the crusades, Architecture in the latin east, Images of the crusades in the 19th and 20th centuries, Revival and Survival (the orders today). As good scholars they authors also plague the book with a lot of fashionalbe, weird and mislead theories, very much repeated along the book like that the spanish reconquista was part of the crusades.
The book has many pictures, and some of the articles-chapters are interesting because they focus more deeply on a given issue, but it doesn't treat adequately the history of the crusades, the fears, pains, feats and ambitions of the crusaders, the way of life on the Holy Land, and the daily relationships between the several clashing cultures.

After reading the book you will not have a true picture about the flow of events that lead to the Crusades and their outcome. At the most it is a book for those that already have many other books on the subject, and want to have a look to its pictures and know a particular point of view of some of its authors.
Definitely not worth buying for the general public as one of the first readings.

Review of Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades.......2004-03-19

By:Jonathan Riley-Smith
Reviewed by:D. Wang
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades is a book about you want and don't want to know about the crusades. The book's opening chapters aren't about the actual military action at all. It's about the minds of the crusaders, the songs of the time, the Latin East. It's not until chapter nine that military orders, movements, and actions are mentioned. The book concludes with a comparison of modern day events and the crusades.

I liked this book because of the sheer amount of information. on page 86 it says "Men and women, including elderly crusaders, came to Jerusalem to end their days. The charnel chambers in the Hospitallers' ruined twelfth-century cemetry-church at Alcheldamach, just outside Jersalem, are still filled with the bones of pious Christians." It is extremely doubtful you will find this variety of information in a textbook.

This book really took the effort to find all the information possible. An entire chapter of the book is devoted to songs about the crusade. There are not many books about a series of wars where an entire chapter is devouted to songs. The book puts a lot a information and visual material in 436 pages. It is very easy to be overwhelmed, and the authors should have made it easier to comprehend.

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The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis has been called `the greatest of all medieval chronicles'. Written in Normandy between 1114 and 1141, it is a detailed history of the Norman people and their conquests, full of vivid, often penetrating portraits of the lives and characters of kings and queens, lords and bishops, simple knights, and humble villagers. The chronicle gives a unique, authentic picture of feudal society during a period of rapid change in church and state which saw the emergence of the Anglo-Norman realm, the spread of new forms of monasticism, and the launching of the Crusades. Published in 1968, volume II of Marjorie Chibnall's six-volume edition of the Ecclesiastical History is now available for the first time in paperback. `a superbly edited Latin text and a unique English translation of the work of a major historian' American Historical Review `Mrs Chibnall is giving us ... her edition of a classical medieval text which will itself become a classic of medieval scholarship.' Times Literary Supplement

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The Oxford History of the Crusades

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ASIN: 0192803123

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Written by a team of leading scholars, this fascinating book presents an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Crusades, from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crusading ideas and imagery today. Reflecting the recent developments in crusade historiography, it covers crusading in many different theatres of war. The concepts of apologists, propagandists, song-writers, and poets, and the perceptions and motives of the crusaders themselves are described, as are the emotional and intellectual reactions of the Muslims to Christian holy war. The institutional developments - legal, financial, and structural - which were necessary to the movement's survival - are analysed. Several chapters are devoted to the western settlements established in the eastern Mediterranean region in the wake of the crusades, to the remarkable art and architecture associated with them, and to the military orders. The subject of the later crusades, including the history of the military orders from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, is given the attention it deserves. And the first steps are taken on to a field that is as yet hardly explored - the survival of the ideas and images of crusading into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Knightly Piety and the Lay Response to the First Crusade: The Limousin and Gascony c.970-c.1130 (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints)

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Knightly Piety and the Lay Response to the First Crusade: The Limousin and Gascony c.970-c.1130 (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints)
Marcus Bull
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ASIN: 0198203543

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This is a study of the religious ideas and motivation of the laymen who fought in the First Crusade (1095-1101). Marcus Bull argues that the laity's crusading zeal cannot be understood simply as a reflection of the preoccupations of educated ecclesiastics. His scholarly and sophisticated analysis shows that elements traditionally regarded as central to the crusade's origins - the Peace of God movement and the Spanish Reconquest - were in fact of minimal significance. Through a study of three regions in south-western France, Dr Bull uncovers the true dynamic of crusade enthusiasm: the beliefs and practices of pious laymen in intimate contact with local religious communities. He shows that the crusade was an expression of everyday, but genuine, piety. The crusade came to be one of the most important and enduring features of medieval civilization. This book sharply analyses the lay piety which underwrote centuries of crusading history, and makes an important contribution to our understanding of medieval religion.

English Society and the Crusade, 1216-1307 (Oxford Historical Monographs)

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English Society and the Crusade, 1216-1307 (Oxford Historical Monographs)
Simon Lloyd
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ASIN: 0198229496

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The crusades played a significant part in the history of later medieval Europe, yet the nature of the relationship between the crusading movement and the societies that sponsored it remains fragmented. This ambitious study provides unparalleled insight into the impact of the movement on one
such society, late 13th-century England, analyzing the effect of the crusading call upon people of the time, and assessing the factors and influences that conditioned their response. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Lloyd surveys the ways in which the crusade was promoted, preached, organized,
and financed, and considers these processes in their social and political context.

Fideles Crucis: The Papacy, the West, and the Recovery of the Holy Land, 1274-1314 (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints)

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Fideles Crucis: The Papacy, the West, and the Recovery of the Holy Land, 1274-1314 (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints)
Sylvia Schein
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ASIN: 0198221657

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This is a study of the crusading movement between 1274 and 1314. Based on a wide range of contemporary sources, it explores the concept of the crusade and its place in politics and religion. The idea of the crusade is examined within the context of the period, to uncover themes such as the policies of the papacy and of temporal rulers, economic enterprises and interests, pastoraux and religious movements, the activities of individual crusade-planners, and events in the Levant. Sylvia Schein challenges the view that the fall of Acre in 1291 was a watershed dividing the `classical age' of the crusade from the late middle ages, when the ideal had become sterile, the obsessive dream of a handful of individuals. She shows instead that the desire to recover the Holy Land remained powerful and pervasive, and was an important consideration in the policy-making of European rulers. Whether mystical or materialistic, the crusade mentality was a significant force in medieval Europe.

The Oxford Illustrated History of The Crusades

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The Oxford Illustrated History of The Crusades
Riley-Smith Jonathan
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades
Jonathan (editor) Riley-Smith
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades
Jonathan Riley-Smith
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This is the first systematic attempt to trace the beginnings of modern literary Yiddish, an issue of great significance in the linguistic, literary, and social history of the Yiddish language. The eighteenth century marked the turning point in the history of literary Yiddish, a period of rapid linguistic assimilation to German and Dutch in the West and, by sharp contrast, the increasing cultural autonomy of Eastern European Jewry. Books printed in the West reflected the impact of New High German and contemporary Western Yiddish. Books published in Eastern Europe, the new centre for Yiddish printing, used Eastern Yiddish both for new works and for new editions of old Yiddish works. Dr Kerler examines hitherto neglected Yiddish books from the period in order to analyse the linguistic changes manifest in both the transition and shift from old to nascent Modern Literary Yiddish within the broader context of genre and literary traditions and in the framework of Yiddish dialectology, grammar, and sociolinguistics. Many of the grammatical norms of nineteenth and early twentieth-century literary Yiddish are shown to have their origins in the eighteenth century. A major work of linguistic scholarship, The Origins of Modern Literary Yiddish is an important contribution to the study of the crystallization process of literary languages, highlighting in the case of Yiddish the dynamics of emergence in the absence of the usual governmental support.

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