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Accounting Certification, Educational, and Reciprocity Requirements: An International Guide
Jack R. Fay Manufacturer: Quorum Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0899306403 |
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This unique international guide presents up-to-date, factual data on professional accounting throughout the world. It contains the certification requirements, responsibilities and activities of professional accountants, and information on accounting organizations and periodicals in over 100 countries. With current emphasis on globalization by many industrial and service organizations, accounting firms, and universities, the author has provided a resource for all those who participate in or who are interested in learning about globalization. Based on responses to his worldwide survey and other sources of information, the author presents material on reciprocity for professional accountants (the present state-of-the-art status of such policies); certification requirements for various levels or categories of professional accountants in different countries; primary functions of the professional accountants and the types of documents reviewed by them in various countries; current requirements for continuous education; names and addresses of organizations which control or supervise the accounting program in each country; and ethical standards for professional accountants. This guide book provides a wealth of information for consultants and executives involved, directly or indirectly, in globalization and could easily be used as supplementary reading in college-level international accounting and business courses.
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The Self-Managed Development Pocketbook (Management Pocket Book Series)
Fiona E Dent Manufacturer: Management Pocketbooks ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1870471660 |
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The individual's role in self-managed development: raising self-awareness (through skills audits, performance reviews and SWOT), reviewing self-perceptions (to increase awareness of new possibilities) and, finally, action planning (setting objectives and measuring commitment and motivation)
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The Healing Power of Breath: An Introduction to Wholistic Breath Therapy
Jonathon Daemion Manufacturer: Avery Publishing Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Accessories: ASIN: 1853270156 |
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THE BOOK OF BREATH - FROM CONCEPTION TO DEATH: This unique book explores the direct relationship between breath and relaxation, how breath affects our emotional experience - and the subtle links between breath and consciousness. Here is the first Book of Breath that offers an open, 'free-breath' process that anyone can use to discover (and integrate) powerful tools for Whole-Body Relaxation, powerful Emotional Release, Meditation, Breath Yoga, profound Sexual Intimacy, Conscious Conception, Natural Childbirth, Wholistic Healing, Integrative Psychotherapy ... AND MORE!This book reveals an open paradigm of Breath, Energy and Consciousness that any reader can use as a departure-point for endless self-evolution. In its extensive inclusion (and integration) of so many wholistic and spiritual modalities, this book is a truly limitless experience - and a continually exciting self-exploration!
DEEP INTIMACY & MAGICAL LOVEMAKING: Breath is always in the here-and-now. And so it can be our most direct, conscious path-way into deep intimacy with those we love. Awaken new sensitivity and discover the Deep Intimacy of Breath, Touch, Connection and Surrender - through sharing Tantric Breath Meditation, Conscious Conception, Natural Childbirth... and the endless magical journey of Tantric Sexuality.
This book provides the thread we need, to follow all our experience into the very center of Self.
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Space Based Astronomy: ISO, AGN, Radiopulsars and the Sun (Advances in Space Research,)
Manufacturer: Pergamon Press Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0080433103 |
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Paperback. This publication contains 46 papers presented at four symposia during the Thirty-first COSPAR Scientific Assembly, held in Birmingham, UK, in July 1996. The symposia themes reflected in the papers included: calibration and performance of the Long Wavelength Spectrometer (LWS) and Short Wavelength Spectrometer (SWS), ISOPHOT observations of dust around main sequence and evolved stars, AGN variability, particularly double-peaked emission lines as signatures of accretion disks in AGN, the "AGN Watch" and variability in blazars. An overview of the radio studies of pulsars was also given.
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Determination of Metals in Natural and Treated Water
T R Crompton Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0415250722 |
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Draws together the scattered literature and presents in a systematic fashion the latest available analytical techniques for detecting metals in non-saline and saline natural and treated water. Broad outlines of different methods and their applicability in certain situations are given allowing the chemist to choose appropriate test methods. This volume is an essential reference for environmental analytical chemists, toxicologists and the medical community in the water, agrochemistry, fisheries and waste management industries and the public sector, including enforcement and public health.
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Determination of Anions in Natural and Treated Waters and Determination of Metals in Natural and Treated Waters
T.R. Crompton Manufacturer: Spon Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0415258588 |
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Mathematics with Business Applications, Student Edition
McGraw-Hill Manufacturer: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0078692512 |
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Math with Business Applications is a comprehensive text that covers all the skills students need to manage their personal finances and excel at their first jobs and in everyday life. Math with Business Applications is a three-part program that takes students from basic math concepts to sophisticated financial strategies. Basic Math Skills reviews the fundamental math operations, Personal Finance teaches money management skills, and Business Math provides a thorough primer on launching and running a business. Math with Business Applications contains lessons, workshops, features and activities that comprise a well-rounded program.
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Mathematics with Business Applications: Student Edition
Ronald H. Pine Manufacturer: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0028147308 |
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Mathmetics with Business Applications helps you prepare your mathematics students for the world of business.
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Essentials of Math with Business Applications, Student Edition
Marceda Nelson Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0026434768 |
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This 8-12 week course, organized into 60 distinct Skillbuilders, is targeted toward students with lower-level math skills and can be used with individuals or groups. Students gain real-world math skills by working business problems and applications involving interest, discount, payroll, depreciation, retail selling, and checking accounts.
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Math with Business Applications Interactive Student Edition CD-ROM
McGraw-Hill Manufacturer: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: CD-ROM ASIN: 0078748054 |
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Student Solutions Manual Finite Mathematics with Applications for Business and Social Sciences Mizrahi and Sullivan 6th Edition 1992 Edition
William L. Hosch Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OHOVPO |
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Mathematics with Business Applications, Student Edition
LANGE93 Manufacturer: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000O98JBE |
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Mathematics With Business Applications: Student Activity Book/Teacher Annotated Edition
McGraw-Hill Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill (Tx) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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The Burning Generation: Memoirs of a Holocaust Childhood
Murray Weisman Manufacturer: PublishAmerica ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1588519996 |
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The Washington High Bench: A Biographical History of the State Supreme Court, 1889-1991
Charles H. Sheldon Manufacturer: Washington State University ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0874220807 |
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Churchill: The End of Glory : A Political Biography (Harvest/H B J Book)
John Charmley Manufacturer: Harcourt (on Demand) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0156001446 |
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No war aims save victory.......2006-01-11
More of an apologist for Chamberlin than anything else........2004-10-26
Flawed premise but some valid criticism of Churchill.......2003-12-18
After setting the stage by illustrating Churchill's early years as a relentless opportunist and self-promoter, Charmley begins to build his case that Churchill was not the great wartime leader that posterity would have us believe, and in fact did not even have a sound grasp of military operational strategy. The most glaring example is, of course, the Gallipoli Campaign, which was an unmitigated disaster and effectively ended Churchill's political career for more than two decades. Churchill had gotten his shot at the big time (by becoming First Lord of the Admiralty) and had blown it. When he got his second chance, he showed that he had learned effectively nothing in the intervening period about military operations. Throughout World War II, he would attempt to undertake various zany military campaigns, most of which were politely ignored by the Allied commanders.
While demonstrating Churchill's ineptitude in this area, Charmley (clearly a Neville Chamberlain apologist) builds a reasonably convincing case for Chamberlain, arguing that Chamberlain was using appeasement more as a tool for buying time than anything else. Far from being the naive optimist, Chamberlain was quite sure, argues Charmley, that Hitler was not to be trusted in any agreement. While giving Hitler what he wanted, Chamberlain was quietly building up Britain's military strength for the war he was sure to come. Because one cannot create a potent fighting force overnight, Chamberlain knew he had to buy time by whatever means necessary. Churchill, by contrast, was ready to rush into war with Germany in 1937-38, when Britain was in no way prepared to fight a continental war.
Up to this point, Charmley's treatment of Churchill is reasonable from a scholarly standpoint. He can make coherent arguments and back them up with citations and evidence. However, Charmley's main beef with Churchill has never been that he was reckless & impetuous, or that he wasn't the great military mastermind. Charmley's problem with Churchill is that he lost the British Empire. At this point, Charmley's book begins to fall apart.
Charmley is writing from the perspective of someone who thinks the British Empire was a pretty neat thing, and wishes that Britain still had its empire, just like the good old days. In subsequent writings, Charmley has taken his argument even further, casting FDR as an anti-imperial villain who had, as one of his wartime goals, the deliberate destruction of the old colonial empires. In Charmley's opinion, the primary goal of the British High Command during World War II should have been the preservation of the British Empire. The defeat of the Nazis and containment of the Soviet Union? Sure, the British could have tried to do that also, but the preservation of the Empire was the important thing.
In fact, the British High Command was trying to do exactly that, and was continually butting heads with General George Marshall over priorities in strategy. The US wanted as its goal the invasion of Europe proper, and had hoped to launch the Normandy campaign in 1943, a full year before D-Day. The British, by contrast, favored a peripheral approach, sending valuable resources to reclaim portions of British territory that had been seized by Germany & Japan. The British also wanted opportunities for their commanders (such as Montgomery) to win glory on the field. The concessions the US made to Britain, it can be argued, prolonged the war in Europe by up to a year.
So Charmley's argument that Churchill did not do enough militarily to preserve the Empire is not particularly valid. Charmley probably understands this, because he also comes as close he can to stating (without actually doing it) that maybe, just maybe, Churchill might have been well-advised to cut a deal with the Nazis, keep the Empire intact, and focus on the real enemy, which was (in Charmley's conservative viewpoint) the Soviet Union. Charmley does not explicitly say this, because he would then run the risk of being lumped into the same category as the likes of David Irving. However, he makes this argument repeatedly, in as an oblique a fashion as he can muster.
The whole problem is that Charmley bases his argument on the premise that the British Empire could in fact have been saved, and this is where the biggest flaws in this book creep in. Charmley would like to ignore the fact that the British Empire had been slowly coming apart at the seams since the Boer War. Even during Victoria's reign, Britain had been struggling to provide the resources necessary to maintain Imperial control. The attrition of World War I was effectively the final nail in the Imperial coffin; it was only a matter of time before the inevitable occurred. One only has to look at post-war France, which tried to restore its colonial empire by force, to see how things probably would have turned out for Britain.
One can also ask the question, is Charmley's belief that the Empire deserved to be preserved valid? This is definitely a matter of perspective. Did the British Empire ultimately do more harm than good? Conservatives like Charmley and Thomas Sowell may think that the British Empire overall was a good thing, but I do not agree with that at all. When you get right down to it, the Empire was simply the subjugation by Britain of other peoples & cultures by naked military force. I don't recall too many subject people voluntarily entering the British Empire. If FDR wasn't bent on destroying the British Empire, he should have been.
While Charmley does provide some valid criticism of Churchill in this book, overall his most important criticisms are based on some seriously flawed premises. In the end, this calls into question the ultimate scholarly value of the book. While it has certainly been controversial enough, does this book truly contribute much to the scholarly debate over Churchill and the history of the 20th century? I don't believe so.
An Abridged Work.......2000-04-03
Misses the mark in trying to be a revisionist on Churchill.......1999-03-07
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Churchill: The End of Glory: A Political Biography
Winston S.] Charmley, John [Churchill Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace & Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KVIWV8 |
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Churchill, the End of Glory: A Political Biography. (book reviews): An article from: Daedalus
Noel Annan Manufacturer: American Academy of Arts and Sciences ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008VBSFC Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Daedalus, published by American Academy of Arts and Sciences on June 22, 1993. The length of the article is 4088 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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A review of John Charmley, Churchill, The End of Glory: A political Biography. (critical examination of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's foreign ... policy mistakes): An article from: Daedalus
Noel Annan Manufacturer: American Academy of Arts and Sciences ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008VBSFM Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Daedalus, published by American Academy of Arts and Sciences on June 22, 1993. The length of the article is 4088 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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CHURCHILL, THE END OF GLORY, A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY
John Charmley Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace and Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000VGH3P8 |
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From Thunder to Breakfast
Gene K. Garrison , and Hube Yates Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 140100377X |
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This book was written by Gene K. Garrison about Hube Yates, which, for the purposes of "From Thunder to Breakfast," took place when Hube was an excited 11-year-old ranch boy living in Guthrie, Oklahoma. The family of nine made the arduous and adventure-packed journey to Phoenix, Arizona in two covered wagons. The year was 1914.Yates eventually became a Phoenix fireman, horseman, part-time minister, hunting guide and dude wrangler. His experiences, from the hilarious to the heroic, lasted into his seventies, and so did his special gift for charming an audience. He had a great memory for detail, and described his adventures in a warm, down-to-earth style, full of image-rich phrases. A middle-aged cowboy was "all silver around the ears. He had gray-blue eyes as clear as crystal. He also looked like the kind of guy you'd like to have on your side if you had any trouble."
Although this sounds as though it's a man's book, Western style, reviewers, especially of the feminine gender, also see Yates' gentle, tender, caring side. True, he saved lives and won the Carnegie Hero's Medal for a dangerous exploit, but his sensitive, caring nature was disengaged only when he was going through a practical-joke period.
Hugh Downs wrote the foreword to this book. He said, in part, that Yates "is able to relate the simplest event with uncontrived humor that is simultaneously subtle and powerfully funny. " He didn't overlook Yates' character, adding, "Every subject or event that intersects his life, every experience he files in his almost computer-like memory is stamped with the grace of an outlook that is humane and helpful, devoid of self-centeredness or bitterness, and amused by most of the cosmic panorama."
Even though Hube Yates was a Southwesterner of the highest order, a man we should try to emulate, people were drawn to him because they loved to listen to him talk. Listening to him via the pages of "From Thunder to Breakfast" is the next best thing. Author Gene K. Garrison was careful to catch his speech patterns and colloquialisms. People who knew him can hear him talk when they read this book.
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Pull Up A Chair And Sit A Spell.......2007-09-26
An entertaining learning adventure........2003-02-24
Hube Yates recounts his many journeys and experiences in a factual and humorous manner. The writing mirrors his speech.
old-timer tales of another time & place - fascinating!.......2003-02-01
In 1914 Hube Yates was all of eleven years old when his minister father uprooted his family from the 160-acre claim he had homesteaded when the Cherokee Strip was run, & with his wife & six children, & two wagons pulled by mules, they headed out from Guthrie, Oklahoma to faraway Phoenix, Arizona.
Stories of another time in another place, told with a quiet, under-stated turn of phrase that demands you consider the twinkle in his eyes.
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Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter With Marx And Freud (Continuum Impacts)
Erich Fromm Manufacturer: Continuum International Publishing Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 082641897X |
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A wise book by a truly productive and wonderful human being........1999-06-30
A wise book by a truly productive and wonderful human being........1999-06-30
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Encounter with revolution (A Haddam House book)
Richard Shaull Manufacturer: Association Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007E2110 |
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The Victorian Encounter with Marx: A Study of Ernest Belfort Bax
John Cowley Manufacturer: I. B. Tauris ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1850436010 |
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Encounters With Communism
Nathaniel Weyl Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1413407471 |
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The Christian encounter with totalitarianism
Frank Hamlin Littell Manufacturer: Southern Methodist University] ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007FS2GW |
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Love in the 90s: B.B. & Jo - The Story of a Lifelong Love : A Granddaughter's Portrait
Keri Pickett Manufacturer: Warner Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: Accessories: ASIN: 0446520322 |
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Takes a Genealogist.......2000-08-26
Inspirational and a Truly Delightful Love Story.......2000-08-24
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