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Long-Term Leasing -- Accounting, Evaluation, Consequences
Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui Manufacturer: Quorum Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1567201474 |
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Leasing is by far the most important source of finance for various types of assets needed by firms, but this may cause problems. Among them are the decisions to buy or lease and the accounting decisions to capitalize or expense. Riahi-Belkaoui addresses both problems by examining the models and standards used both for management of and accounting for leases. In five chapters Riahi-Belkaoui covers the issues involved in leasing and financing decision models and offers a decision format to reconcile disagreements among various approaches to the lease-or-buy analysis. He examines all the techniques proposed for accounting for long-term leases as formulated by the Statement of Accounting Standards No. 13 and then looks at specific issues. In his final chapter, a unique contribution to the literature on leasing, Riahi-Belkaoui explores the economics of buying. This is a valuable resource for financial accountants, decision makers, and researchers interested in the management of leases.
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Teamwork from the Inside Out Fieldbook: Exercises and Tools for Turning Team Performance Inside Out
Susan Nash Manufacturer: Davies-Black Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 089106172X |
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In business as in sports, building and playing on a dream team is how legends are made. This book has just made it easier to create and sustain the kind of winning team that competitive business demands.
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Emerging Legal Certainty: Empirical Studies on the Globalization of Law (Onati International Series in Law and Society)
Manufacturer: Ashgate Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1840144203 |
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Cosmic Adventure: A Renegade Astronomer's Guide To Our World And Beyond
Bob Berman Manufacturer: William Morrow ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0688144950 |
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Easy to understand yet full of information.......2000-08-24
The best book I have read in many years.......2000-05-03
Not quite as good as Secrets of the Night Sky.......2000-01-19
That said, I had to laugh a bit on one thing. Mr. Berman makes a point in his book that many people, for whatever reason, seem to long for a link between science and religion, and he points out all the "new age" books, written by all sorts of religious apologists from various religious backgrounds, that attempt to put forth unsupported theoretical connections between the two. People, it seems, no matter their religion, cannot seem to let go of their own personal religious bias and seemingly feel a need to try to pick snippets of science to attempt to justify their own personal religious view.
To this a previous review responds, "Clearly, Mr. Berman is unfamiliar with how science supports my "true" religion, so let me explain it to you.......". Mr. Berman's case in point.
A five cent book in a twenty-five dollar wrapping........1999-08-08
Excellent follow-up to Secrets of the Night Sky.......1999-04-27
On Page 135, the author says quantum mechanics functions independently of time, this is not quite true. One astrophysicist explains, "Quantum mechanics is founded on the concept that quantum events occur according to finite probabilities within finite intervals of time. The larger the time interval, the greater the probability that event will occur...if t=0, the probability for that event occuring is zero" In other words, QM is dependent on time.
His statements about religion and science needing to be separated are a bit misguided. Perhaps he is unware of the historic intertwining of the two: religion once produced most of our greatest minds (Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Corpernicus,...). The two can, and do, work together well.
His inferrence that religion is nonrational shows his unfamliarity with true Christianity (books on the agreement/compatibilty of science/Christianity include "Show me God", "the "Genesis Question", "the Creator and the Cosmos", etc, and on its rationality: "Love God With all Your Mind").
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The Essential Guide to Environmental Chemistry
Georg Schwedt Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0471899542 |
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"This excellent and most reasonably priced guide is essential reading and a valuable reference source" (The ROSPA Occupational Safety Health Jnl. March 2002)The Essential Guide to Environmental Chemistry outlines the problems and issues facing the environmental chemist throughout the ecosystem. Presented as a pocket-atlas, this useful guide provides a concise overview of environmental pollution in air, water and soil as well as strategies for environmental analysis.
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not so essential.......2006-03-13
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Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology and Natural Selection
Lisa Sideris Manufacturer: Columbia University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0231126611 |
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In the last few decades, religious and secular thinkers have tackled the world's escalating environmental crisis by attempting to develop an ecological ethic that is both scientifically accurate and free of human-centered preconceptions. This groundbreaking study shows that many of these environmental ethicists continue to model their positions on romantic, pre-Darwinian concepts that disregard the predatory and cruelly competitive realities of the natural world. Examining the work of such influential thinkers as James Gustafson, Sallie McFague, Rosemary Radford Ruether, John Cobb, Peter Singer, and Holmes Rolston, Sideris proposes a more realistic ethic that combines evolutionary theory with theological insight, advocates a minimally interventionist stance toward nature, and values the processes over the products of the natural world.
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Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology and Natural Selection
Lisa H. Sideris Manufacturer: Columbia University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OPZXOE |
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Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology and Natural Selection
Lisa H.; Sideris, Lisa Sideris Manufacturer: Columbia University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OPZY98 |
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Techniques and Concepts of High-Energy Physics IX (NATO Science Series: B:)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0306457091 |
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Hell to Pay: A Novel of Responsibility
Brad Tassell Manufacturer: Writers Club Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0595099602 |
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Sometimes the worst jobs are given to good people. What would you do if just as you were getting a foothold in your career and lifelong dream, an Atlantic City Boardwalk gypsy tells you that your life is over as you know it, and please don't blame her?In this startlingly funny and amazingly inspirational journey we are given a ramblihng and hilarious view of a stand up comic who is chosen to be the world's most hated figure. Along the way he has to keep his life and sanity together. But how do you do that when your mentor is a urmudgeon with expensive tastes, and you have to start facing off with the most heinous criminals of our time? And worse yet, you have to go through it all alone. You will laugh and be inspired by this most important of tales.
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NIJMEGEN: U.S. 82nd Airborne Division - 1944 (Battleground Europe: Market Garden)
Tim Saunders Manufacturer: Pen and Sword ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0850528151 |
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The 82nd Airborne Division fought some of its most desperate battles in support of the British landings at Arnhem, yet these actions are little known today.. All of the units, personalities and actions of this hopeless struggle are covered in the acclaimed Battleground Europe style. This heavily illustrated work also contains a guide to the battle sites, monuments and local facilities as they are today.Customer Reviews:
Nijmegen Events.......2007-06-26
This Is the Way to Do Military History.......2002-05-27
Nijmegen consists of ten chapters, beginning with a short 17-page section on the strategic background of the Market-Garden plan. The remaining nine chapters cover each of the sub-actions that formed the Nijmegen fighting: the capture of the Grave bridge; the Maas-Waal canal bridges; the Molenhoek; the Groesbeek Heights; Bergen Dal, Beek and Devil's Hill; Nijmegen and the Waal bridges; capture of the Waal bridges; Lent and north of the Waal; and Oousterhout. There are also three appendices covering orders of battle, cemeteries and comparative rank structure. While an index is provided, there is unfortunately no bibliography. Most of the photographs in the volume while excellent will be familiar to readers of Robert Kershaw's It Never Snows in September, and Saunders has also culled that source for much of his information on the Germans around Nijmegen.
The actual coverage of each of the sub-action is simply superb. In the case of the seizure of the Grave Bridge by the 2/504th PIR for example, the author provides an annotated 1:50,000 scale map of the objective, 1944-vintage aerial photographs of the objective, eyewitness accounts of the action, photographs of key terrain around the objective and the aftermath of the action. Most of the other actions are equally supported by aerial photographs, excellent maps depicting tactical movements and dispositions, and photographs of key terrain features. Many of the smaller actions in this area, such as the fighting around Groesbeek Heights, are virtually ignored in other accounts. The incredible assault crossing of the Waal River by the 3/504th PIR is covered in great detail and the comments of the SS commander opposing it are telling: "crossing one of Europe's widest and fast flowing rivers in daylight was inconceivable and dismissed as suicidal." Consequently, the Germans were caught by surprise when the Americans actually did it.
The author also manages to dig up new details about the fighting around Nijmegen that do not appear at all in other accounts. Due to the failure of British tactical communications at Arnhem, most people tend to believe that all Allied airborne units suffered from poor communications during Market-Garden. Not so. As Saunders convincingly details, the American 82nd Airborne Division's radios worked fine and the excellent division radio net allowed Brigadier General Gavin to shift his small forces around to fight off repeated German counterattacks. Furthermore, the 82nd Airborne exploited the still-functional Dutch telephone network and used it for communications, unlike the British. One episode that is rarely mentioned concerns the air-landing of Lieutenant General Browning's Corps headquarters near Groesbeek on 17 September 1944. Apparently, Browning wanted to be one of the first British soldiers to cross the German border and he and some of his staff members apparently made a brief sortie into the neighboring Reichswald to claim this honor. British records appear to corroborate this tale. If true, the schoolboy behavior of "Boy" Browning will surely further diminish that general's already poor reputation.
Saunders also addresses two controversial aspects of the Nijmegen fighting. Why did the 82nd Airborne not make a major effort toward the poorly guarded Nijmegen Bridge right after the airdrop? Only two companies were dispatched toward the bridge late in the day and they were stopped by hastily deployed SS reinforcements. Saunder's assessment is that while Gavin's overall generalship was excellent, that he erred on the side of force protection over mission accomplishment. Gavin wanted to secure his vulnerable flanks before pushing into the city and did not expect significant German defenses. This was a mistake, but an understandable one. Consequently, the 82nd Airborne did not secure the Nijmegen Bridge until D+3, which doomed the British effort at Arnhem. Commanders should keep Gavin's dilemma in mind when evaluating force protection versus mission accomplishment. The other controversy concerns the British failure to exploit the American seizure of the Nijmegen Bridges on 20 September; the Americans on the spot criticized the British armor units for failing to push on the 10 miles to Arnhem. Saunders effectively demonstrates that a successful push to Arnhem on the night of 20 September was unlikely for a number of sound military reasons, and probably would have yielded a column of burning Sherman hulks along the road to Arnhem. Nevertheless, the issue of exploiting fleeting opportunities - particularly ones that could decide battles - is a vexing one. To his credit, Saunders examines these controversial issues objectively. Nijmegen also has interesting points to make about the role of luck in combat, particularly concerning the German failure to destroy any of the primary bridges in the area.
Another fine addition to a wonderful series!.......2002-04-07
Tim Saunder's "Nijmegen" is the first of a trilogy of travel log/historical narratives about the fighting along the route to the Dutch city of Arnhem during Operation Market-Garden in Sept. 1944. The efforts of the U.S. 101st Airborne and British Guards divisions to secure the route from the Belgian border to the Dutch town of Veghel are covered in the second volume, "Hell's Highway." And a third volume, "The Island," will cover the action between Nijmegen and Arnhem. "Nijmegen," of course, covers the middle sector of the operation- the area between the Dutch cities of Grave and Nijmegen which was the responsiblity of the famed U.S. 82nd Airborne.
These books are part of a larger series called Battleground Europe whose purpose is to combine the historical narrative of a military operation with travel information for tourists wishing to view the battlefields. I was intially turned off by this concept because in my opinion the history detailed in most travel logs was often extremely lightweight and inaccurate. However, the purpose of the Battleground Europe series is to correct that perception of historical travel logs. I really can't say that the Battleground Europe Series are good travel books. They do have driving instructions, points of interest locations, very general lodging and eating recommendations, and photos of how these battlefields look today. But I can say that the books of this series are really, excellently detailed history books.
The books of this series are thin volumes with none of them being much more than 200 pages. The books themselves are physically small since they were designed to be travel books. Also, they're are plenty of photos, many of them historically rare, and maps spread throughout the books which further cuts down on the text. So what remains is a bare bones narrative which is occassionally intercut with veteran recollections. There is little analysis, although in "Nijmegen" and "Hell's Highway" the British author makes an occassional apologia for British XXX Corps. Also, no footnotes or bibliography are provided.
However, the narrative format is very well done. Since "Nijemgen" only concentrates on a portion of the massive Market-Garden operation, it's able to offer a much more detailed description of the 82nd's fight than most books that deal with the operation as a whole such as Cornelius Ryan's legendary "A Bridge Too Far." Also, the attention to historical detail is impressive with the author giving the correct types of vehicles and planes present during the action. (He even corrects some of the veterans' recollections such as when an American veteran mistakenly recalls the Typhoons supporting his unit as "Spitfires." An understandable mistake since I'm sure that man had more important things on his mind at the time than figuring out what type of plane was blasting the German positions opposite, but it sure makes it confusing to those who want to know the actual details. Stephen Ambrose should take note because he unquestionally accepts often inaccurate veteran descriptions of every German tank being a "Tiger" and every German gun being an "88.")
These are really a terrific set of books for any serious WWII buff. Please do not be scared off by the Dietz covers or the travel log format since these are actually excellent military history books. If you're looking for a straight narrative and some very interesting historical photos then I cannot more highly reccommend "Nijmegen" and the Battleground Europe series.
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Creating the Other: Ethnic Conflict and Nationalism in the Habsburg Central Europe (Austrian History, Culture and Society)
Manufacturer: Berghahn Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1571813845 |
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Disraeli: A Brief Life
Paul Smith Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0521669901 |
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In this fresh account of Benjamin Disraeli's life, Paul Smith looks at his unique character as a fusion of Jewishness and Anglicanism, outsider and insider, nationalist and European, Romantic and Tory; and shows how this formed his "appeal as an original and a card, the most piquant joker in the pack", a faintly raffish outsider who scaled the highest peaks of public life.Customer Reviews:
Good, but not great.......2004-10-07
A Too Brief Biography.......2001-05-20
Disraeli: A Brief Life.......2000-09-05
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Disraeli: A Brief Life. (book reviews): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
Paul T. Phillips Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00097PO5K Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on August 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1304 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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Amazon Magic: The Life Story of Ayahuasquero & Shaman Don Agustin Rivas Vasquez
Jaya Bear Manufacturer: Libros Colibri ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0967425506 |
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Amazon Magic tells the life story of Don Agustin Rivas Vasquez, an ayahuaquero, a shaman skilled in the use of ayahuasca, a visionary and healing plant medicine. Told in his own words, Amazon Magic describes incidents from his childhood in a small jungle town beside the Amazon River, and his early and present day experiences with the plant medicine ayahuasca. The book recounts his days of being lost in the remote depths of the jungle which resulted in his living a year with an Indian tribe. This book provides a fascinating look into the cultural life of the Peruvian Amazon as seen through the eyes of someone who is an integral part of this life, and provides a rare insight into the forces that helped shape the life of a profound healer who is now highly regarded in many parts of the world.Customer Reviews:
One man's journey to magic, enlightenment, & healing.......2003-02-09
Brilliant! A must-read book!.......2001-10-26
Amazon Magic enables the reader to walk in the shoes of a shaman and understand his experiences and adventures...and his training and discipline to achieve his widely-regarded status as a profound healer. This reviewer was fascinated by not only plant medicines, but the spirits that reside in the jungle. And how ayahuasca, for instance, can help one see the spirits, and the demons. "Each of us has our demons, and ayahuasca shows them to us so we can face them and heal. Ayahuasca teaches us truth about ourselves".
Author, world traveler, artist and student of many spiritual cultures, Jaya Bear, felt drawn to travel to Peru after her husband died. She met Don Agustin Rivas Vasquez, and has continued to work closely with him since that time.
The result is Amazon Magic, a fascinating look at a culture and individual that have made an impact. Jaya Bear presents this revelation in an easily- read- and- understood fashion that captures Don Agustin's words, love and compassion!
Great jungle yarn.......2000-09-27
fascinating look at a true shaman.......1999-11-25
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