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Unfolding the Eco-wave - Why Renewal is Pivotal
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Alexander Ryzhenkov Unfolding the Eco-Wave Why Renewal is Pivotal System dynamics is a method similar to econometrics and mathematical statistics. Normally it is used to provide a rigorous analysis of models in closed systems (a system that is artificially created to simplify certain conditions, so that other conditions can be examined in more detail). Here, however, it is used for the first time to study capital accumulation, and the economic cycles. It is well documented that econometrics and mathematical statistics have their limitations. For the first time Unfolding the Eco-Wave sets out to prove that system dynamics does provide a coherent structure, language, and process for learning about and explaining economic phenomena in a way that is impossible to achieve with mathematical statistics and econometrics. Finance/Investment
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COACHING, COUNSELING & MENTORING How to Choose & Use the Right Tool to Boost Employee Performance Florence Long gone are the days when managing meant simply telling people what to do. Managers today must master a host of other roles if they want to be effective leaders-including coaching, counseling, and mentoring. This is the first book to cover all three of these crucial skills, providing models for each role and showing readers how to adapt them to specific situations-and improve employee performance across all levels. Packed with self-tests, real-life scenarios, and hands-on, practical guidance, Coaching, Counseling & Mentoring will help managers, super visors and team leaders to:
** assess their own strengths and weaknesses in each area
** apply their coaching, counseling, and mentoring skills to teams as well as individuals
** use these techniques to improve their employees' performance on the job. FLORENCE M. STONE (New York, NY) is group editor of newsletters and journals for the American Management Association. Her previous AMACOM books include The High-Value Manager and The Manager's Balancing Act.
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Coaching, counseling, and mentoring - they're hot terms in current managerial lingo. But do you really understand the difference between these techniques? Do you know how important they are - and when and how to use them? Now, for the first time, there is a book that addresses all three of these crucial management tools. Coaching Counseling & Mentoring was written specifically to help you perfect these skills - and use them to improve employee performance across all levels.
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A good overview for managers.......2006-01-26
Along with the highly competitive market, comes the high competition for companies to recruit and maintain these top performers. Employees have more choices today. Employees who do not feel challenged, or adequately compensated, will move on. It is not just about money anymore, either. Keeping top performers is a lot more than just a salary figure. So, how do companies keep their best people?
According to author Florence Stone, the answer is by helping employees excel. Since most motivational experts agree that most people want to better themselves it does not require threats or force to get employees to improve. It does require a system that will allow them to grow.
This book is exactly about that. It is about how to coach, counsel, and mentor employees to success. These three areas each have a distinct role to play in any firm:
1. Coaching helps all employees. The art of coaching will improve employee's job performance, as well as give them greater potential to move onto more difficult assignments and jobs.
2. Counseling is used to address problem performers. More often than not, these employees have bad habits that have risen to the level of chronic. The author says that by investing ten percent of time on these people using counseling can save a firm from spending fifty percent of its time fixing problems in the future.
3. Mentoring, writes the author, is reserved for the most talented employees, the true top performers. These people will provide the greatest return on investment for time spent helping them advance. If these people are ignored, they will quickly leave the firm and find someone else to nurture and develop their talents.
Each of these areas requires different skills to be executed effectively. Those skills are presented in this book to help persons truly master the arts of coaching, counseling, and mentoring.
Coaching, Counseling & Mentoring: How to Choose & Use the Right Tool to Boost Employee Performance.......2005-09-21
Generally a good tool for assisting employees who need some direction to improve performance.
Very good Guide on the Theory AND the Practices.......2003-06-30
Knowing the distinction between the three roles and functions (see title) is essential to be any good at either or all. Dah...
And yet I wish more people would take the time and effort to get and read this book and know the differences.
This book not only provides sound theory on all three subjects, but it also provides very good practical advice on how to practice either.
If you want to be knowledgeable on these subjects, either for bettering your own performance as a manager or for knowing when and why to hire specific professionals, just read this book. Trust me.
Boost employee performance.......2001-08-27
The book describes three different techniques that can be used to improve employee performance. Even though the book is written from a manager's perspective I found it to be interesting despite my limited experience in leading a group of people. The book is divided into three parts, where each part discusses one of the techniques. It starts off with Coaching followed with Counselling and Mentoring. I found that each topic is described with the same detail, and answered many of my questions. The book includes many real life examples to better explain how to handle different situations. It is easy to find specific information since the sections are organized the same way, and also includes a discussion about common traps and problems. You will also find a useful Index in the end of the book. It can be hard to differentiate between coaching and mentoring. After having read the book this is my interpretation of the terms. Coaching is a way to help and motivate the employee to excel in his current position. Like a sports coach you train the employee to do his job in the best possible way. Coaching is a process that begins before the employee starts working for the manager. This section discusses what to look for in a potential employee, and how to bring a new employee up to speed. Mentoring on the other hand is a way to stimulate your top-performers. Mentoring is limited to a few of your employees - employees where you see a special potential that need training to come to surface. A mentoring relationship is a relationship in which you do more than train the employee to do his job well. As a mentor you share your experience, contacts, wisdom to move the employee to the next level. This can be a useful way to keep top performers on your workforce when they feel they have reached the limit of their current position. Counselling is used to fix poor performance, and this section suggests how to approach an employee with a performance problem. Being honest and direct, and to handle the problem as soon as possible before it grows. A reader outside the States may find some of the legal advice to be less useful since different laws are effective in other countries.
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Written by one of the nation's leading environmental law firms, this handbook provides concise, easy-to-understand explanations of your state compliance obligations. You'll get complete coverage of hazardous and solid waste disposal; air, water, and natural resources regulations; the state organizational structure; required permits and reports; the relationship between federal and state regulations; and more.
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Under par.......2007-01-09
This item was in excellent condition. However, it took about 3-4 weeks to get, which was 1-2 weeks longer than was stated I would receive it.
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- Excellent Genetics for Beginnners book
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Genes and DNA: A Beginner's Guide to Genetics and Its Applications
Charlotte K. Omoto , and
Paul F. Lurquin
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Covering newsworthy aspects of contemporary biology -- gene therapy, the Human Genome Project, DNA testing, and genetic engineering -- as well as fundamental concepts, this book, written specifically for nonbiologists, discusses classical and molecular genetics, quantitative and population genetics -- including cloning and genetic diseases -- and the many applications of genetics to the world around us, from genetically modified foods to genetic testing.
With minimal technical terminology and jargon, Genes and DNA facilitates conceptual understanding. Eschewing the organization of traditional genetics texts, the authors have provided an organic progression of information: topics are introduced as needed, within a broader framework that makes them meaningful for nonbiologists. The book encourages the reader to think independently, always stressing scientific background and current facts.
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Excellent Genetics for Beginnners book.......2006-08-15
My dad has always been kind of an amateur naturalist, and he has recently been reading several of the various books by Richard Dawkins. As a biochemist working in the biotech industry, I have always encouraged him to read a little bit about molecular biology and genetics, field which I believe are important to learn about in order to gain a more complete understanding of how life really works. Recently, he asked me if I could recomend a good book on the subject of genetics. I found this quest not particularly easy. There are many excellent textbooks on genetics out there, but these are not really what I would call "armchair reading." Of course any college general biology textbook will have an excellent discussion of genetics and molecular biology - but again, too hard-core. One excellent book on genetics is the "Cartoon Guide to Genetics" by Larry Gonick and Mark Wheelis, but this book was written in 1991 and is now hopelessly out of date for this rapidly advancing field. Then there is "Genetics for Dummies," but I thought the title of this book would be a bit insulting potentially.
Anyway - I came across this book by Charlotte Omoto and Paul F. Lurquin. I would encourage anyone interesting in biology and genetics to pick up a copy of this extremely well-written little book. I think this book is absolutely perfect. It starts out with a short introduction on the history of the discovery of DNA, then goes into an introduction to basic genetics concepts, such as the use of the Punnett square predict genetic outcomes, recessive vs. dominant traits, sex-linked traits, etc. It gives lots of very nice examples of Mendalian traits in humans. In chapter 4, there is a very nice discussion of the molecular biology of genetics - which is such a beautiful theory that it is a shame that most people don't know much about it. Chapter 5 goes into the use of bacteria to make human proteins - an extremely important part of modern molecular biology research. Chapter 6 has a discussion about genetically modified foods. Chapters 7,8, and 9 discuss chromosomal abnormalities, mutations, and recombination - which is all very important for an understanding of human (and non-human) genetics. Chapter 10 is my favorite - it gives a very well written description of the Hardy-Weinberg theory of how genes propogate in a population. This is all tied in with the theory of evolution in chapter 11. Chapters 12 and 13 then go into newsworthy topics such as nature-vs-nurture and human cloning.
All in all, it is a very well written book which everyone should read. My only criticism is that the figures are not as good as they could be. The authors need to hire a good artist to help them with the next edition! I think they're clear enough, but they could have been made a lot nicer. Still - I give the book a five star rating.
Dave
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Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1895 edition by E. J. Brill, Leiden.
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Private Mail: Letters to Emily
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In Private Mail: Letters to Emily, the author tries to escape city life and failed relationships through a self-imposed exile in his hometown, surviving there by maintaining a link to his life in the city with letters to his friend Emily. Therein, he recounts the curious and illicit and often humorously-bizarre events unfolding around him using an almost addictive conversational style, making for an engrossing and entertaining read. Emily soon learns, as does the reader, that life in a small town is not as parochial and idyllically-simple as it's often made out to be.
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- A Vivid and Important Tale
- A human being survives an inhuman system.
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Trapped in the Cold War: The Ordeal of an American Family
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The disappearance behind the Iron Curtain of the American brothers Noel and Hermann Field in 1949, followed by that of Noel’s wife and their foster daughter, was one of the most publicized international mysteries of the Cold War. This dual memoir gives an intensely human dimension to that struggle, with Hermann narrating all that happened to him from the day he was abducted from the Warsaw airport to his release five years later, and Kate relating her unrelenting efforts to find her husband.
Thousands of potential victims of Hitler’s dragnet were rescued in 1939 and during World War II through separate efforts of the Field brothers. Arrested in Czechoslovakia in 1949, Noel was taken to Hungary and used as an example of American perfidy in show trials. Hermann went to Poland primarily to find out what had happened to his brother. After Hermann’s abduction, he was taken to the cellar of a secret Polish prison, where he was held for five years. He gives us a detailed account of his battle to survive, alternating despair and horror with mordant humor. Meanwhile, his family had no idea whether he was still alive and if so, where.
This moving story, based on detailed notes made by the authors during and shortly after the events described, presents an inside-outside counterpoint, as Hermann’s chapters on his inward journey in his cellar world alternate with Kate’s efforts in London to find him by scrutinizing accounts of political events in Eastern Europe for clues and penetrating the diplomatic corridors of power in the West for help. Hermann had been arrested by a Polish security agent who later defected and became one of the West’s most important informants on Soviet operations in Eastern Europe. The search for the Field brothers was complicated by their history of leftist connections, for this tense period in the Cold War was also the era of McCarthyism in the United States. The book ends with an Epilogue that analyzes the events of fifty years ago in the light of what we know today, as the result of newly available archival material.
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A Vivid and Important Tale.......2000-09-29
This account has a Kafkaesque quality of the rational man facing a totally irrational situation, trying to find meaning where there is no meaning, trying to seek understanding where there is no understanding. What is most vivid about Hermann Field's writing is his ability to convey a sense of immediacy. He brings us right into his prison cell with him. We share his bafflement about where he is, why he is there, and why interrogator "Cigarette" asks the questions he does. We also share his heightened sense of awareness of the minute details of his cell, from the number of pieces of straw on his mattress to the tiny friends he makes in his cell, beginning with the spider and continuing with the mice. We share his sense of grief and sorrow as the mice are brutally killed by the prison guards. Perhaps most striking is the immediacy he brings to the endless hours of interrogation. He allows us to feel his bafflement as his interrogators use every known technique to try to get him to confess. But confess to what? Surely there has been some giant mistake -- have they got the wrong man? Are we all lost in a world of delusion? He conveys a wonderful and dry sense of humor when he relates how his chief interrogator asks him, "What are you, actually?" He replies, "Well, surely you know that I am an architect." "'-- You're quite sure? Planning to build skyscrapers here? Not perhaps an archaeologist instead?' He gave a chuckle and looked at me as if we had a good mutual joke. His amusement had again spread to me." The excesses of Stalin are of course well known. What Hermann Field's book does, which I have not seen before, is to provide us with such a vivid account of the ripple effect of Stalin's monomaniacal desire to obliterate all enemies throughout the Soviet empire and the Soviet puppet states. I think this book is an enormously important contribution to our understanding of Stalinism and the Cold War. I have never come across a more enthralling account. Adding to the poignancy of the book is Kate Field's account of her bafflement at Hermann's mysterious disappearance and her ongoing struggle to search for clues as to whether he was alive or dead, and ultimately to bring him home.
A human being survives an inhuman system........2000-08-28
The book has two main threads: The geopolitics of the early years of the cold war and the experiences of a man arbitrarily imprisoned in Poland. It is written with striking honesty and intensity. The point of view is refreshingly different from the dogmatic positions of either of the superpowers at the time.
Ironically, Hermann Field comes to be imprisoned because of his having aided communist refugees, among others, from Hitler's invasion of Eastern Europe. These refugees achieved positions of power after the war and are now to be purged by Stalin, with the aid of Hermann's coerced testimony. But Hermann, out of principal and loyalty to his friends, will not give false testimony. With no grounds for his arrest and no prospect of a trial, the Polish authorities have no choice but that Hermann should "disappear". This suits both sides since Hermann is regarded by the West as a fellow traveller, or even a communist spy who, like Philby, has rejoinded his masters in the Soviet Union.
Meanwhile Hermann languishes as a political prisoner and is forced to develop his mental resources to fight boredom and preserve his sanity. This he does with an extrordinary upwelling of creativity which allows him to retain his identity and his Quaker principals. The book also records the experiences of Hermann's wife, Kate, who struggles to bring up his two sons while working to keep his plight in the public eye. Throught his imprisonment, Kate had no definite evidence that Hermann was even still alive.
Hermann's eventual release, after nearly five years, is as much an accident of the cold war as was his arrest. Remarkably, at the end of it all, he retains his qualified admiration for the ideals of the communist revoultion.
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- People who are diffrent make a more interesting world.
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Oracle of the Ages: Reflections on the Curious Life of Fortune Teller Mayhayley Lancaster
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Mayhayley Lancaster was many things through her interesting life: lawyer, schoolteacher, political activist, fortune teller, numbers runner, and self-proclaimed "oracle of the ages." In this new volume of creative nonfiction, the people who knew her reflect on her personality, her politics, and her passions, offering the reader a chance to delve fully into Mayhayley lore and legend. Oracle offers strange and often hilarious stories of the poor Georgia South in the post-Depression era, and how the eccentric Mayhayley's charisma and mysterious powers cast a spell on all the people who knew--and inevitably misunderstood--her.
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People who are diffrent make a more interesting world........2003-02-17
Meyhaley Lancaster is truly the most weirdly interesting creatures to come along in the 20th century. what makes it more interesting, is that her nephew and i was very good friends .Joe Arrington was the son of Marvin and Mary Arrington ,born about 1927.There was nothing weird about joe but he said years after mehayles passing the locals kids were still finding coins under her cabin.
Great history book reads like a novel!.......2002-09-28
ORACLE OF THE AGES, REFLECTIONS ON THE CURIOUS LIFE OF FORTUNE TELLER MAYHAYLEY LANCASTER is a winner! The author, Dot Moore,
went to Savannah, Georgia in April of 2002 to receive the Hawes Award from the Georgia Historical Society. The Award is given each year for the "best book of local history" for the State of Georgia!
I understand that she researched this character and her background in Heard and surrounding Georgia rural counties for more than 20 years.
This book is easy to read. It is fun to read. I highly recommend
this book to anyone who enjoys stories about eccentric charachters and likes a good story.
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A must-have thriller!.......2002-02-27
I think that the person who wrote the review from Sharpsbug,Georgia is an absolute priss. He had no right to insult my best friend Dot Moore.If the priss is reading this then
I'm telling him that he is a very impolite young man and I hope he learned a lesson from this. So priss, next time think before you say something in public. By the way I read the book myself and it's a mind boggling thriller.
Stranger than Fiction.......2002-02-20
If you thought Southern Gothic was dead, forget it. Mayhayley Lancaster (1875-1955)of rural Heard County, Georgia, has got to be one of the weirdest people ever to walk the face of the earth. Despite being born missing an eye and poor as dirt, she strutted her stuff in high (if outlandish)fashion and died rich and notorious. Before it was over she had been a self-styled lawyer, schoolteacher, politician, fortune teller, psychic, and numbers runner. Her fame spread when her testimony in a sensational 1948 murder case led oficials to a body and sent the murderer to the electric chair. Author Dot Moore, herself a native of Heard County who as a child saw Mayhayley and heard some of the stories, has spent twenty years collecting information, examining the records, and interviewing people who knew the oracle of the ages." In straightforward prose, Moore combines fact and legend with invaluable collection of photgraphs to recreate a life that is almost too strange for words. The book is winning well-deserved prizes in history, for it is indeed the story of a time and a place as well as a life.
Mayhayley the Mysterious.......2002-02-12
Dot Moore has made me think twice about the possiblilty of physic experiences being real. Her personal experience with the wonderfully wierd woman is what I believe motivated the author to gather stories of the legendary figure from true believers in Georgia. Even Mayhayley's relatives were in awe of her, along with the local policeman who seemed to tolerate her oddness and protected her from thief. "A dollar for me, and a dime for the dogs" was her fee, an excellent marketing tool for that extra coin, if you ask me. Her "future telling" proved to be right on the money. I totally enjoyed the country rythmn of speech that shone through the storytelling.
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Leon Trotsky and World War One: August 1914 - February 1917
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The First World War was one of the most important events of the 20th-century. It was also a crucial period in Leon Trotsky's political biography. This work is the first comprehensive examination of Trotsky's writings of 1914-1917 and the context in which they were produced. Its findings challenge Trotsky's autobiography and the standard account by Isaac Deutscher. Trotsky's war-time journalism is shown to be of continuing relevance to contemporary issues ranging from European unity to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans.
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- A little slow at times, but interesting
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A Gay Diary: 1933-1946
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The stirring chronicle of one man's remarkable life. Covering the years 1933-1946, Donald Vining's Diary portrays a long-vanished age and the lifestyle of a gay generation all too frequently forgotten. A touching and revealing volume documenting the surprisingly vibrant culture that existed decades before Stonewall, A Gay Diary is not to be missed by anyone interested in gay American history.
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A little slow at times, but interesting.......2006-04-19
The published version of Donald Vining's diary probably could have benefitted from a little judicious editing, but I still found it an interesting piece of history from one individual's point of view. After having read "Jeb Alexander"'s diary, I read this one and the utterly different ways these two men faced the world as gay men was striking and heart-breaking. Donald Vining coped much better and seemed to enjoy life and love. He, like Jeb, had his negative qualities that came through in the course of his diary entries, but he seemed for the most part a very likeable guy. He had the typical family problems with a spendthrift, irresponsible mother and absent father, but he learned how to be responsible at a young age and grew up fast--and remarkably self-aware. There are long sections of his work in theater, covering rehearsals and the like, which I found a little dull, but his relationships were interesting and his dating practices a little alarming at times. :) This diary will probably be of more interest if you find diaries fascinating, like I do. I am intrigued by lives lived in earlier eras and feel like you can pick up details of a time through diaries that you'll never find through any other research. If that's not for you, you might want to take a pass on this diary, because it is quite long and there are stretches where nothing much happens--as it goes with real life. :) Jeb Alexander's diary is better edited (maybe over-edited, really, because Jeb had a stronger writerly touch and knew how to make a diary interesting, even if life scared him into living it up less than he could have). I'd recommend Jeb's but if you can wallow through this one, you do get an interesting snapshot of life in the thirties. While I'm recommending diaries, I'd also like to recommend L. M. Montgomery's journals, which cover the late 1800's to the early 1940's and are an enjoyable and at times heart-wrenching read (although she wasn't gay, she did have a sort of friendship with a young woman who was extremely infatuated with her.) Montgomery's diary is wonderful with historical info, too.
I did enjoy this diary enough to seek out the second volume, interested to know what life held for Mr. Vining next. Unfortunately, the exorbitant prices of the subsequent novels are preventing me from reading them. I hope the publisher will re-issue these at a reasonable price so us late-comers can find and read them.
A Gay Diary Dissapoints.......1998-02-24
I was very disappointed with this book. This is, ostensibly, the story of an interesting person (Donald Vining) in an interesting industry (theater) in an interesting place (Yale and New York City) in an interesting time (1930s and 1940s). But this book came across like reading someone's DayRunner. I did this...I did that. People surface and disappear with no explanation. There is no attempt to analyze or even really comment on anything that is mentioned in the text; be it a play, a famous director, the author's motives or even World War II. For instance, it would have been interesting to understand what formed the author's pacifist beliefs and what effect holding these beliefs had upon him, his family, his friends or his career.
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- Voluntary Annual Report Disclosure by Listed Dutch Companies, 1945-1983 (Routledge New Works in Accounting History)
- Wertorientierte Unternehmenssteuerung: Festschrift für Helmut Laux
- What A Woman: A Financial Planning Guide for the Newly Independent
- Wiley CPA Examination Review, Volume 1, Outlines and Study Guidelines, 30th Edition, 2003-2004
- Wiley Gaap 97: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles 1997
- Zenvesting: The Art of Abundance & Managing Money
- A History of Accounting in America: An Historical Interpretation of the Cultural Significance of Accounting
- A Landmark in Accounting Theory: The Work of Gabriel A.D. Preinreich (Routledge New Works in Accounting History)
- Accounting, Accountants and Accountability: Poststructuralist Positions (Routledge Studies in Accounting)
- Accounting and Accountability in Transition Economies, Volume 6: Supplement 2 (Research in Accounting in Emerging Economies)
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