The Kaleidoscopic Nature of Costs: Cost Terms and Classifications

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Winner of the first ever Institute of Management Accountants Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education, this modular series has generated interest from faculty in undergraduate and graduate accounting programs worldwide. This is an entirely modular based product offering short, individual chapters on traditional and innovative topics for managerial and cost accounting. These modules are complete with end-of-chapter material. Each module remains consistent according to a dual triangle strategic framework which is presented in the first module, Strategy and Management Accounting.

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Applies the theoretical concepts from Gagne's THE CONDITIONS OF LEARNING AND THEORY OF INSTRUCTION, FOURTH EDITION, to workplace training. Advocates nine events of instruction that should be employed in every complete act of learning. Provides a strong theoretical and research emphasis. Case studies have been selected from real-world military, government, and private sector settings. The most recent research and references in the field are cited.

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The Conditions for A Coma.......2006-08-17

I would call this "The Conditions for A Coma." The greatest utility I have ever found for this book was placing it on my nightstand, with George Bush's "A Charge to Keep." Seven minutes has been the record.

With more than fifteen years in training, I have not used the book as it was intended. If you have a college professor who makes you read this, I advise you to swear out a complaint as soon as possible.

Buy this at your peril. All the speed or caffeine in the world will not get you through this.

Heavy Going - But Worth It.......2001-05-16

Even a casual acquaintance with instructional design results in the mention of Robert Gagné's work. Gagné established that there are different kinds of learned capabilities, and that effective instruction requires a different approach (conditions of learning) for each. This book demonstrates how Gagné's theory can be used in the workplace to make training more effective.

This brief book is packed with information - you plow through rather than sailing through. However, it is well organized, authoritative, and worth the effort.

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This reference provides concise, up-to-date statements of the rules of law applicable to situations commonly encountered by police officers in the field. The rules are stated from the point of view of an officer on duty. Seven sections deal with the most common street situations—routine patrol and encounters with private persons, arrest, search and seizure, identification, interrogation, undercover investigation, and asset forfeiture.

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This student supplement to Astronomy: The Evolving Universe provides thirty-two hands-on activities for students of astronomy. Highly focused on central concepts in astronomy, each activity is linked to a section of the main text. The activities are designed to take 30 or 40 minutes of class time, and most require no special materials or extra resources. These class-tested activities form a key part of the innovative teaching strategies developed by Michael Zeilik.

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The long-awaited Third Edition of the classic in polymer synthesis Thirty years ago, the Second Edition of Preparative Methods of Polymer Chemistry further established its reputation as the laboratory bible for polymer synthesis. The last three decades have witnessed a deeper understanding of the principles involved in preparing and processing polymers, leading to tremendous advances in polymer synthesis. Guiding practicing scientists through the methods of synthesizing polymers, the Third Edition retains theory and vital protocols, while revising and updating the sections on synthesis, fabrication techniques, and characterization methods. Delving into the physical and chemical aspects of polymer processing, each chapter includes a discussion of the relevant background and principles, enabling the scientist to apply synthetic techniques intelligently. The Third Edition also contains sections on current topics such as:

Extended-chain polymer technology
High-temperature and high-performance polymers
Carbon fibers
Electrically conductive polymers
Group-transfer polymerization
Composites Preparative Methods of Polymer Chemistry, Third Edition provides essential information for both students and practicing polymer scientists.

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These volumes present the main classes of useful laboratory model systems used to study microbial ecosystems, with emphasis on the practical details for the use of each model. The most commonly used model, the homogeneous fermenter, is featured along with linked homogeneous culture systems, film fermenters, and percolating columns. Additionally, gel-stabilized culture systems which incorporate molecular diffusion as their main solute transfer mechanism and the microbial colony are explained. Chapters comparing model systems with "microcosms" are included, along with discussions of the value of computer models in microbial ecosystem research. Highlighted is a global discussion of the value of laboratory models in microbial ecology.

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St. Elizabeth's is a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. Life there is not unpleasant, and for most, it is temporary. Not so for Rose, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed. She plans to give up her baby because she knows she cannot be the mother it needs. But St. Elizabeth's is near a healing spring, and when Rose's time draws near, she cannot go through with her plans, not all of them. And she cannot remain forever untouched by what she has left behind ... and who she has become in the leaving.

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Another winner.......2007-07-18

This book was a good read and rates as high as her other books I've read: The Magician's Assistant and BelCanto. Patchett's style is unlike any other author I've read.

Every rose has its thorn.......2007-06-12

This marked my first foray into Patchett, and I feel fortunate that someone insisted I read it. For one, Patchett's style allows the reader to view this family life from three very different perspectives, which--as an afterthought--may enable us to personally wonder how our own patchworked families operate. Is everything as it seems to be? What do we hold out from one another? Do we really know or want to know all of the details of our spouses or parents? As an aside, the novel shows how unwed mothers may have felt during a time when they were shunned, forced to live secluded lives of "visiting" out-of-town relatives for six to eight months. I felt a sense of empathy for each character, including Rose who could never enjoy her life. Overall, this web is a gem.

Cheryl - Colorado.......2007-06-10

I really like Bel Canto but loved The Patron Saint of Liars. So many times a notable author's follow-up book is not good (e.g. Sue Monk Kidd). Ann Patchett's book was lyrical and moving. You feel each of the characters deep in your soul. A most incredible book! A must read!

Patron Saint of Liars: Patchett Teaches Life's Asymmetry.......2007-05-31

As she does in Bel Canto, Patchett draws her reader in with good prose and a compelling story. Whenever I had to leave Patron Saint of Liars, I marked time until I could get back and have Patchett tell me whatever she wanted to. But disappointment followed encouragement. Like her protagonist, Rose, Patchett leaves us three times, to enter abruptly into Son's life and then into Cecelia's, and then again at the end to form our own conclusions about so many issues she has raised. I yearned for resolution, for Son to tell Thomas and Cecelia the truth about Cecelia's father. I wanted Rose to come back or at least to explain why she left. But I've reconsidered: real life is not symmetrical or synchronous: sometimes there is no reason or resolution; sometimes we miss fulfillment by just seconds or hours. Prayers are not answered directly. And your deepest wish may not come true for you but for someone close to you, someone who has no use for it and no idea you ever dreamed at all. That's how Patchett rewards her reader. I think I can handle her next book now.

Loved it!.......2007-05-28

I love Ann Patchett's usage of language.
The characters were so complicated and hard to relate to:especially Rose. However, Patchett is able to entice us into her story.

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big disappointment
What a Pleasure
redemption and compassion
Just a long short story
LOVED THIS BOOK!!!

Liars and Saints: A Novel
Maile Meloy
Manufacturer: Scribner
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0743261984

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Opening with a wedding and ending with a funeral, Maile Meloy stuffs everything imaginable in between, and manages to maintain a cool, elegant prose style throughout. Liars and Saints, Meloy's debut novel, following her story collection Half in Love, chronicles the life of the Santerre family, who sin with the gusto of true Catholics. Written in a series of short story-like vignettes, the family's saga is told in turn by every member, from Yvette the matriarch down to T.J., her great-grandson. We start out with a relatively run of the mill family secret, when in the 1950s Yvette sends daughter Margot off to a French convent for the duration of her teenage pregnancy. As the decades pass, the transgressions become wilder and more melodramatic, as if the Santerres are trying to keep up with the times by way of their naughty acts. What makes the novel work is that all the while, Meloy maintains a quiet, slightly wry tone: illicit lovemaking and bloody mary mixing are recounted with the same equanimity. She also gets just right the tone of each era. When Yvette's other daughter Clarissa marries a jolly lawyer in the early 60s, he sends a telegram to Yvette: "HITCHED. THANKS FOR BEAUTIFUL DAUGHER. PROGENY PROMISED TO POPE." Likewise, in the 1970s the characters talk just groovy enough, and the 80s have a wised-up ring to them. Most multi-generational sagas are dull forays into sentimentalism, but in the aptly titled Liars and Saints, Meloy has written a corker. --Claire Dederer

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With her first novel, Liars and Saints, award-winning author Maile Meloy more than delivers on the promise of her highly acclaimed debut story collection, Half in Love. This richly textured novel tells a story of sex and longing, love and loss, and of the deceit that can lie at the heart of family relationships. Set in California, Liars and Saints follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present. In a family driven as much by jealousy and propriety as by love, an unspoken tradition of deceit is passed from generation to generation. When tragedy shatters their precarious domestic lives, it takes astonishing courage and compassion to bring them back together. By turns funny and disturbing, irreverent and profound, Liars and Saints is a masterful display of Maile Meloy's prodigious gifts and of her penetrating insight into an extraordinary American family and into the nature of human love.

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big disappointment.......2007-05-11

I was recommended this book and read it during a long flight. I found the characters to be sadly underdeveloped and did not feel that the growth of each characters was visible so by the end I didn't care about any of the family members. The end was a bit too dramatic and seemed like a "Lifetime" TV plot. The writing was good and so maybe the author's next attempt will show some maturity.

What a Pleasure.......2007-03-31

Beware: do not start this book unless you have the time to finish it. you will not be able to put it down, i promise.

i have never fallen so deeply in love with such a variety of characters. the story is sad and somehow uplifting, and i am so happy i didn't leave it crumbled at the bottom of my bag like so many of my reading assignments.

redemption and compassion.......2007-02-11

Maile Meloy's Liars and Saints snuck up on me. It's not a brash book. It does not force you to love it. It sits quietly with its hands folded in contemplation and waits for you to find what it is within it that moves you. And when you are moved by this book,you are most certainly moved.

Told in three parts (Part I about temptation--both resisting and giving in to it, Part II about an attempt at redemption through service or sacrifice and Part III about homecoming), Liars and Saints follows the Santerre family through several generations--each of them liars and saints, keeping secrets, making sacrifices, acting out of love. It is not a book that rests on plot but more on moments--little epiphanies that each of the characters experience, revealing to each his special purpose or understanding, providing grace.

In the beginning we see this with fighter-pilot Teddy revealing his understanding in that moment before he is launched. The moments are few--as they are in life--but when they come they bring clarity to the reader as well. There is Yvette's out of body experience, Clarissa's fear that God is calling her to be a nun after she weans her baby, Abby's decision to keep the baby even though it will kill her to do so.

In the end, we have a family, torn apart and cobbled back together, revealing the truth, seeking, once again, redemption and compassion from the only people who matter, each other.

Just a long short story.......2006-04-19

I bought this book as a light read while I was on vacation. The reviews were all good and the story line sounded interesting. However, to me this book was somewhat disappointing. I felt this was just a long short story, with too many characters left un or under-developed. That said, I do believe the writer is good and can engage the reader and did so in many parts of this novel (hence the 3 stars) but should have either shortened the time span of the story or added another 100 pages. Good first novel -- hope the author continues to build her novel skills with future works.

LOVED THIS BOOK!!!.......2006-04-08

Growing up Catholic myself.......this book really spoke to me! After I read the book, I actually went back and read the first few chapters again...so that I knew I didn't miss anything about the characters. I feel in love with each character, even though they all have their own faults. The book is about about human nature and about family and how life works. There are a few twists and turns in the book but I loved each one. I was disappointed to see that Maile Meloy wrote a second book based on the characters of Liars and Saints, but that it's totally different...not a sequel to Liars and Saints.

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Patron Saint Of Liars:A Novel
Ann Patchett
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEV4CA

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Sibley's life related with style and authority.......2006-02-15

Rhoda Gilman has written an authoritative and interesting account of Henry Hasting Sibley's life. Although Sibley's entire life and career centered around the upper midwest, he was involved in a number of different activities, from the fur trade to representing Minnesota as its first state governor. He had many dealings with the Sioux (and other) Indians in Minnesota and the Dakota Territory, producing the "Divided Heart" of Gilman's subtitle.

Sibley was born in Detroit in 1811, a town known for its cultural diversity at the time, and he knew French and French ways. He first worked for the American Fur Company on Mackinac Island, but then was put in charge of the company's operations on the upper Mississippi. This is when he built his famous stone house at Mendota, across the river from Fort Snelling. He went to Washington in 1848 to help secure recognition of Minnesota as a territory. He was able to cede lands from the Sioux in 1851 and was elected first state governor in 1857. He opposed the harsh policies against the Indians popular with the federal government at the time, but to no avail. In 1862, as the head of the state militia, he was instrumental in subduing the Sioux at Wood Lake during the Minnesota Uprising. The following year he led an expedition into Dakota Territory to reduce the remaining Sioux. After this successful campaign he retired to St. Paul, where among other things, he was president of the Minnesota Historical Society for a number of years.

Sibley left all his papers to the Society and Gilman makes excellent use of them. She writes in a very forceful style and her book should remain the definitive biography of Sibley for years to come. Highly recommended.

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This is basically a true rendition of events, as I remember them, that occured while I grew up in the hills of southeastern Kentucky during the late 1930â€™s and early 40â€™s. The supporting characters are fictional, but the core cast is true to life. It is offered as a supplement to historical dataâ€”a personal testimony to give pause to pre-conceived notions about desolation and feelings of total despair among the mountaineer people. This unique post-frontier age of ordinary people molded the attitudes of a generation of young adults. It instilled pride in family, a love of freedom, exceptional work ethics, a certain amount of honesty and discipline, and an unwavering faith in God. It was quite a chore, but some of us were more than a little headstrong.

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A Wonderful Book.......2003-01-16

Appalachia: As I Remember It - by author Arnold Smith is a book about his life while growing up in Appalachia. It is beautifully written and each chapter is a separate story that is hilariously funny or very touching. This is an extemely enjoyable read, full of tales that recall the sweet and naive adventures of a boy growing up in much simpler times.

Appalachia: As I Remember It by Arnold Smith.......2003-01-16

Arnold's book is so funny I laughed out loud. I have added this treasure to my "bag of goodies" that I take into the classroom when I substitute teach.

Wonderfully and entertainingly presented.......2002-03-24

In Appalachia: As I Remember It, author Arnold Smith drew upon his memories of growing up in the hills of southeastern Kentucky in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Appalachia is an engaging story that is by turns interesting, informative, sad, funny, and eminently satisfying reading, a tale of life and family in a post-frontier age among mountain folk with strong traditions of pride in family, a love of freedom, exceptional work ethics, honest, discipline, and faith in the God of their forefathers. Written in a true storytelling fashion, Appalachia is a testament to a people and a way of life that is wonderfully and entertainingly presented from first page to last.

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This compelling volume offers the first full portrait of the life and work of writer Lillian Smith (1897-1966), the foremost southern white liberal of the mid-twentieth century. Smith devoted her life to lifting the veil of southern self-deception about race, class, gender, and sexuality. Her books, essays, and especially her letters explored the ways in which the South's attitudes and institutions perpetuated a dehumanizing experience for all its people—white and black, male and female, rich and poor. Her best-known books are Strange Fruit (1944), a bestselling interracial love story that brought her international acclaim; and Killers of the Dream (1949), an autobiographical critique of southern race relations that angered many southerners, including powerful moderates. Subsequently, Smith was effectively silenced as a writer.

Rose Gladney has selected 145 of Smith's 1500 extant letters for this volume. Arranged chronologically and annotated, they present a complete picture of Smith as a committed artist and reveal the burden of her struggles as a woman, including her lesbian relationship with Paula Snelling. Gladney argues that this triple isolation—as woman, lesbian, and artist—from mainstream southern culture permitted Smith to see and to expose southern prejudices with absolute clarity.

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How Am I To Be Heard? Letters of Lillian Smith. (book reviews): An article from: The Mississippi Quarterly
Will Brantley
Manufacturer: Mississippi State University
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B00092Z1R6
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from The Mississippi Quarterly, published by Mississippi State University on September 22, 1994. The length of the article is 3566 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: How Am I To Be Heard? Letters of Lillian Smith. (book reviews)
Author: Will Brantley
Publication: The Mississippi Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1994
Publisher: Mississippi State University
Volume: v47 Issue: n4 Page: p661(8)

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HOW AM I TO BE HEARD? LETTERS OF LILLIAN SMITH

Manufacturer: North Carolina UP North Carolina
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IAY9VS

HOW AM I TO BE HEARD? LETTERS OF LILLIAN SMITH. Edited by Margaret Rose Gladney.

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HOW AM I TO BE HEARD? LETTERS OF LILLIAN SMITH. Edited by Margaret Rose Gladney.
Lillian. Smith
Manufacturer: UNC Press,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RIHLNO

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HOW AM I TO BE HEARD? LETTERS OF LILLIAN SMITH. Edited by Margaret Rose Gladney.
Lillian. Smith
Manufacturer: UNC Press,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N73DDG

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A Remarkable Woman, a Remarkable Story........2001-08-28

Tiny (Georgia Ann Thompson) Broadwick was the first woman to jump from an airplane, the first person to jump from a float plane, the first to make an intentional water jump from an airplane and the first to make a manually-operated parachute jump and all these records were prior to 1915. Tiny Broadwick demonstrated that parachutes could be used repeatedly, that escape from a damaged airplane was possible, that you would not pass out in freefall and that a woman could do something most men would not do. This book recounts history of a person that deserves greater recognition. It is easy and fun to read. As a skydiver (1,200 jumps, D-454), pilot (SEL & gliders, hang gliders and paragliders),author and publisher of seven books on parachutes and skydiving, I recommend this book to those interested in aviation and pioneering women. --Dan Poynter, Parachuting, The Skydiver's Handbook.

One Worth Having.......2001-07-19

This small book presents the story of Tiny Broadwick (true name Georgia Ann Thompson), pioneer parachutist. Ms. Roberson has made an honest and capable attempt at telling us about Tiny's life and her book has many uncommon images of Tiny. The book suffers in its fact checking, however, as at least one of the "firsts" claimed for Tiny was not hers. Self-effacing as she was, Tiny would have been among the first to correct such erroneous enthusiasms. Still and all, while the reader may have to exercise caution about the captions under photographs and should be careful of accepting without question all of the dates and events presented, this is certainly a book well worth having, reading and enjoying.

First Lady Early Bird.......2001-06-09

I started reading this book at nine in the evening and couldn't put it down. I first learned a little about "Tiny's" career back in June of 1997. I had started to build a website which featured the career of my father-in-law, Walter E. Lees, a member of the Early Birds of Aviation. He had soloed in 1913 and references to Tiny kept popping up among his collection of memorabilia. I finally accumulated enough bits and pieces to build a page for her on my "Early Bird" site, but it only told a part of her story. This book, by Elizabeth Roberson, with its many anecdotes and photographs, satisfies my curiosity about the life of this unique woman. I can recommend it very highly to all aviation history buffs or to anyone who is interested in the story of a remarkable person.

Tiny Broadwick: The First Lady of Parachuting

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Tiny Broadwick: The First Lady of Parachuting
Elizabeth Whitley Roberson
Manufacturer: Pelican Pub.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K4UEN4

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