Confession And Bookkeeping: The Religious, Moral, And Rhetorical Roots of Modern Accounting

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Confession And Bookkeeping: The Religious, Moral, And Rhetorical Roots of Modern Accounting
James Alfred Aho
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20th century bookeeping and accounting; a treatise on modern bookkeeping, accounting, and business customs, as illustrated in the "business transactions" which accompany this text
James W Baker
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20th century bookkeeping and accounting: A treatise on modern bookkeeping, accounting, and business customs, as illustrated in the "business transactions" ... that teach bookkeeping and accounting
James W Baker
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20th century bookkeeping and accounting: A treatise on the principles of accounting and bookkeeping practice applied by modern bookkeepers and accountants
James W Baker
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20th century bookkeeping and accounting;: A treatise on modern bookkeeping, accounting, and business customs, as illustrated in the "business transactions" which accompany this text
James W Baker
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Accounting practice;: A comprehensive statement of accounting principles and methods, illustrated by modern forms and problems, (Modern business; a series ... ed. by J. F. Johnson. [vol. VI])
Leo Greendlinger
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Accounting, theory and practice;: A comprehensive statement of accounting principles and methods, illustrated by modern forms and problems, (Modern business; ... edited by J. F. Johnson. [vol. III])
Leo Greendlinger
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Book-keeping and accounts: A text-book for students (Modern commercial text-books)
Lionel Cuthbert Cropper
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Key to Modern illustrative bookkeeping: Complete course. Revised (Williams & Rogers series)
Louis Lafayette Williams
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Modern Bookkeeping and Accounting
Morris Miller
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From Losers to Winners: How to Manage Problem Employees and What to Do If You Can't.......2006-11-07

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From Losers to Winners : How to Manage Problem Employees... & What to Do If You Can't
V. Clayton Sherman
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Cosmology: An entry from Thomson Gale's Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 3rd ed.
K. Lee Lerner , and George W., II Collins
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The “Gale Encyclopedia of Science” is written at a level somewhere between the introductory sources and the highly technical texts currently available. This six-volume set covers all major areas of science and engineering, as well as mathematics and the medical and health sciences, while providing a comprehensive overview of current scientific knowledge and technology. Alphabetically arranged entries provide a user-friendly format that makes the broad scope of information easy to access and decipher. Entries typically describe scientific concepts, provide overviews of scientific areas and, in some cases, define terms.

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Collins Encyclopedia of the Universe

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Hardbound. This volume covers the dramatic advances which have been made in the last two decades in the understanding of isoprenoid biosynthesis at the chemical, biochemical, and molecular genetic level. Tens of thousands of isoprenoid metabolites - from pinenes to cholesterol, from ubiquinone to carotene, from phytols to prenylated proteins, from dolichols to gibberellins - have been isolated from essentially all forms of life, including prokaryotes, eukaryotes, and archaebacteria: from Escherichia coli to mammals, from extremophiles and fungi to marine and terrestrial plants. All of these isoprenoids can be derived from a single, five-carbon acyclic precursor, isopentenyl diphosphate. Early chapters in this Volume detail the key findings that have led to an understanding of the metabolic pathways leading to isopentenyl diphosphate, including both the classical route involving mevalonic acid as well as the recently discovered pyruvate-triose phosphate

Comprehensive Natural Products Chemistry : Isoprenoids Including Carotenoids and Steroids

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Comprehensive Natural Products Chemistry : Isoprenoids Including Carotenoids and Steroids
D. E. Cane
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Very Nice Introduction to Multivariate Analysis using SAS

Applied Multivariate Statistics With SAS Software

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Description: Real-world problems and data sets are the backbone of this book, which provides a unique approach to the topic, integrating statistical methods, data analysis, and applications. Now extensively revised, the book includes new information about mixed effects models, applications of the MIXED procedure, regression diagnostics with the corresponding IML procedure code, and covariance structures. The authors' approach to the information will aid professors, researchers, and students in a variety of disciplines and industries. Extensive SAS code and the corresponding high-resolution output accompany sample problems, and clear explanations of SAS procedures are included. Emphasis is on correct interpretation of the output to draw meaningful conclusions. Featuring both the theoretical and the practical, topics covered include multivariate analysis of experimental data and repeated measures data, graphical representation of data including biplots, and multivariate regression. In addition, a quick introduction to the IML procedure with special reference to multivariate data is available in an appendix. SAS programs and output integrated with the text make it easy to read and follow the examples.

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Very Nice Introduction to Multivariate Analysis using SAS.......2000-02-11

The authors gave a short tutorial on the book at the Deming conference last year. I enjoyed the presentation and the book which is not expensive was discounted. I met both authors. They are experts in multivariate analysis having studied under C. R. Rao at Pittsburgh. The book provides lots of SAS code and does a good job of explaining how to set-up the analysis in SAS which would not be straightforward from the SAS manuals. The authors discuss diagnostics and with most concepts they explain them first for univariate problems and then show you how it is extended to the multivariate case. It is also one of the few books that deals with multivariate outliers. Outliers can be difficult to detect in regression and high dimensional multivariate data. I have some research experience in the area of outlier detection and can appreciate the way the authors deal with it.

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Mr. Feigon argues that the movements for which Mao is almost universally condemned today--the Great Leap Forward and especially the Cultural Revolution--were in many ways beneficial for the Chinese people. While not glossing over Mao's mistakes, he contends that the Chinese leader should be largely praised for many of his later efforts. In reevaluating Mao's contributions, this interpretive study reverses the curve of criticism. Feigon performs a service by reclaiming the historical context of Mao's crazed era. He has written a concise work that forces the reader to recall the circumstances that abetted Mao's reign. --Far Eastern Economic Review

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Provides a different view of the leader.......2003-01-11

Mao: A Reinterpretation is a new political biography of Mao which provides a different view of the leader as a committed revolutionary who contributed to China's history and culture. The real Mao wasn't a genius, nor the evil leader later biographies have portrayed. This reinterpretation examines both his life and the lasting effects of his ideals.

Mao - Stalinist totalitarian, populist rebel, or both?.......2002-12-08

Lee Feigon's book is not an in-depth analysis of the underlying Chinese and western political philosophies that influenced Mao. (For intro into that, see the outstanding _Maoism and Chinese Culture_ by Zongli Tang and Bing Zuo for the diverse Chinese philosophic influences; Maurice Meisner's and Nick Knight's writings for two opposing takes on the nature of Mao's Marxism; Stuart Schram for a general overview; Anita Andrew and John Rapp for an argument that Mao's ruling style was native autocracy). Feigon chooses to focus on the narrower questions--Was Mao China's Stalin, and his intra-party opponents always more benevolent? Was the Cultural Revolution simply a repeat of Stalin's purges of the late 1930s, or was their some other purpose?

In the 1970s, it was trendy to uncritically praise Mao's China as a new kind of society where everyone selflessly struggled for the common good and avoided the usual social blights associated with development. Even those with a more balanced view still understated the repressive side. Through the mid-1980s a more ambivalent view prevailed. Now, the common view is that Mao was a monster like Stalin who pushed more reasonable leaders like Liu Shaoqi out of the way in the process of destroying China. Some even say Mao was much worse than Stalin. Feigon's purpose is to argue against this new popular view. He does so well, but the book lacks balance, which is a significant flaw, and the fact that others like Jung Chang, Jasper Becker, Zhengyuan Fu or Steven Mosher are polemical in the other direction is no justification, nor is the fact that most people have heard that side repeatedly already. For this kind of subject matter, one should write assuming the book may be the only book on the subject for a particular reader.

Half of this book is a biography of Mao and a history of the Chinese revolution up to 1949. It seems directed at those with only a moderate degree of knowledge about 20th century China. Yet for the well read, a few conventional wisdoms are debunked. For more detail on this period, see Philip Short's biography.

For the post-1949 period, Feigon argues that: a) Mao and the PRC were Stalinist through 1957, after which Mao tried to break with Stalinism b) The break with Stalinism left an important residual impact that indirectly contributed to the struggle for democracy and modernization.

Feigon describes the establishment of a Soviet-style state in the early to mid-1950s, and how the 1956 "Hundred Flowers" period was a minor and very limited break with this model. The party pressured Mao to let them silence those daring to criticize the infallible Leninist vanguard. Unsurprisingly, Mao caved and endorsed the "anti-rightist" witch hunts of 1957-58, led with great relish by Deng Xiaoping. The "pragmatists" used the campaign to silence intellectuals and repress workers, even though Mao had insisted that workers be free to strike (later having it written into the constitution, which Deng removed in 1982).

In the Cultural Revolution chapter, Feigon argues that Mao, realizing how entrenched and elitist the party's bureaucracy had become, came to believe only a period of (managed) mass rebellion could shake things up enough to prevent the permanent Sovietization of the PRC. Though Feigon concedes that the CR did not leave any lasting new institutions that could serve as even a basis for future democratic reforms, he argues for two positive political legacies of the CR: 1) a weakened bureaucracy 2) permanent infusion into the political culture the idea that the people have a right to criticize or rebel against autocratic or corrupt officials. Even the exiled dissident intellectual Fang Lizhi acknowledged the latter (though doesn't give Mao credit). The CR also wiped out a lot of rural illiteracy, bridged the rural/urban health care gap, and left a basic industrial base for the reformers to build on.

This argument has some validity, but is oversimplified. There was a lot of bottom-up populism, and the conservative (party-defending "red class") red guards were different from the rebel (anti-pre-CR officials) red guards and worker rebel groups, an often ignored fact. (The latter were the primary victims of the CR, at the hands of the anti-CR army). However, there was also a lot of unprincipled horizontal factional warfare (Andrew Walder has recently challenged the class-based "social interpretation" for Beijing). And more crucially, Mao was apparently no great friend of the rebels, double crossing them repeatedly and doing nothing to prevent their large scale repression and massacre. (For more on this, see Anita Chan "Dispelling Misconceptions About the Red Guard Movement", Journal of Contemporary China, Fall 1992; and Peter Moody Jr.'s follow-up, Fall 1993, and the classic volume on the CR by Hong Yung Lee). Further, exactly how anti-bureaucratic was Mao? The post-1969 reconstructed bureaucracy remained as enormous, intrusive, and arbitrary as ever (though particular rural micro examples can be found to support the argument, e.g. Han Dongping's village study, which Feigon cites extensively).

Should Mao get at least a little credit for planting the seeds of populist anti-Stalinist outlooks, even if he betrayed them, because others took them much further in 1974, 1976, 1979-80, 1989 and 2002, or was it all just a Legalist power play? This is an interesting question debated by scholars on Mao and the CR. Feigon's book is a contribution, though one-sided.

Mao and beyond.(Mao: A Reinterpretation)(Beyond Tiananmen: The Politics of U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000 )(Book Review): An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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Mao and beyond.(Mao: A Reinterpretation)(Beyond Tiananmen: The Politics of U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000 )(Book Review): An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Bruce Cumings
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Title: Mao and beyond.(Mao: A Reinterpretation)(Beyond Tiananmen: The Politics of U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000 )(Book Review)
Author: Bruce Cumings
Publication: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2004
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MAO: A Reinterpretation.(Book Review): An article from: Pacific Affairs

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MAO: A Reinterpretation.(Book Review): An article from: Pacific Affairs
Barrett L. McCormick
Manufacturer: University of British Columbia
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Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on September 22, 2003. The length of the article is 797 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: MAO: A Reinterpretation.(Book Review)
Author: Barrett L. McCormick
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2003
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Volume: 76 Issue: 3 Page: 459(3)

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SHOCKINGLY FRESH VIEW OF HISTORY.......2004-09-13

This is a book which once read, will never be forgotten. It is a close up view of American history at a time when our country was in turmoil. But be prepared for truth, because Pires does not flinch from showing all sides of the conflict with all their warts plainly visible.

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At any time, Benjamin Disraeli would have been a remarkable man; during the time in which he lived, he was extraordinary. At various times a solicitor, a speculator, a journalist, and a politician, Disraeli was also a writer. In fact, his early publishing success, with such novels as Vivian Grey, The Young Duke, and Alroy, offset his political defeats as he attempted to gain a seat in the British parliament. Of course, today Disraeli is better remembered as one of England's greatest prime ministers than as a writer--an injustice that Benjamin Disraeli Letters will hopefully do much to correct.

In this sixth volume of the great man's correspondence, as in the previous five, all of Benjamin Disraeli's many talents (and flaws) are on display. In addition to his political acuity, these letters demonstrate why "Diz" is so much quoted, even today, as he brings a novelist's merciless eye and facility with language to the wild and woolly world of British politics. Historians will be especially pleased with this collection, filled as it is with the business of running a government, but even more casual readers can take pleasure in the vivid portrait of the Victorian era that Disraeli so entertainingly evokes.

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Benjamin Disraeli, Queen Victoria's favourite prime minister, was, in the words of Robert Blake, 'the best letter-writer among English statesmen.'

This, the latest volume in the critically acclaimed Letters of Benjamin Disraeli series, contains or describes 951 letters (784 previously unpublished) written by Disraeli between 1852 and 1856. These years cover his first cabinet post, as chancellor of the exchequer, his attempts as House leader to unify the Conservative party, and his opposition to the Crimean War, both in the House and in his newspaper, The Press. Included are significant runs of correspondence, such as 63 letters (34 previously unpublished) to the 14th Earl of Derby, and 75 letters (none previously published) to Lord Stanley, the future 15th Earl of Derby, as well as more personal ones, such as 59 letters to the eccentric Mrs Brydges Willyams, the 'female Croesus' who offered Disraeli a substantial legacy. These illuminate anew both his public and private life, and show the strength of his resolve to reshape party policies to suit the age of industrialism and free trade. New light is also thrown on other matters, such as the supposed plagiarism in his panegyric on the Duke of Wellington. Ten appendices include full cabinet lists, Disraeli's own reminiscences of the period, and Stanley's remarkable verbatim notes of intimate conversations with Disraeli at Hughenden Manor.

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It is one thing for a television personality to openly proclaim her homosexuality; it is another for a priest to do the same. As homosexuals are increasingly gaining acceptance by secular society, organized religions face the options: accept, ignore, or condemn. When Barry Stopfel forced the Episcopal Church to decide, "ignore" was no longer an option. Under the polished writing of Will Leckie, Stopfel cuts a compelling figure, and as a catalyst in the Episcopal struggle, we see the dual story of a man's love for his Christian church and his church's difficulty with Christ-like reciprocation.

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No one should have to endure what Rev. Barry Stopfel and his gay companion Will Leckie have. As a Christian, Stopfel loves God; so much so that he committed his life to serving the church as an Episcopal priest. He has also committed himself to a relationship with the person he loves, Will Leckie. In his eyes, loving God and loving Will need not be mutually exclusive. And Barry and Will have paid a high price for their love of God and each other.

Until 1995, the personal cost was a private matter, which took its toll on each individually and on their relationship. But then the Episcopal Church decided to put retired Bishop Walter Righter on trial for heresy, because he had ordained Barry as an openly gay priest. All Barry wanted to do was serve the Lord he loved through full-time ministry in the church, yet his openly homosexual lifestyle forced him into the spotlight of theological and public debate.

Stopfel and Leckie's life together is a microcosm of our turbulent times. Homosexuality is a hot-button issue for us, and raises questions about legal recognition of same-sex marriages, health care and benefits for same-sex partners, job discrimination, homophobia, AIDS. This book boldly tells of the personal struggles of the authors and draws in readers with its wide-ranging implications.

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Highly recommended (and recommended...and recommended...)!.......1997-06-30

I just finished reading "Courage To Love" for the SECOND time (not bad, considering that I only purchased my copy a week ago!), and I have been enthusiastically recommending it to gay and straight friends of all denominations on discussion boards all over the Internet. This is truly a love story. Not only in the "traditional" sense (though it is that too...the love between Leckie and Stopfel comes through loud and clear on every page), but also in a much broader sense. The love of two men for their God and their faith, the love of the Christian people who rallied around them, the love of God for ALL His children...it's all there, beautifully written in a style that makes all the players come alive for the reader. No longer are "Stopfel," "Leckie," "Righter" and "Spong" mere names on a piece of paper...they are real people with real emotions and strong convictions. This is also truly a book about courage...courage that goes beyond even the incredible courage it takes simply to live as an openly gay person in today's society. The stakes for all the players were unbelievably high...loss of love, loss of personal security, loss of faith, loss of power and position. I think that anyone who thinks he or she is alone in the struggle against prejudice and fear would draw strength from Stopfel and Leckie's story. Most of all, however, this is a book about integrity. Despite the seemingly unsurmountable obstacles, Stopfel refused to repudiate either his calling or his being. At any time, he could have left Leckie, or claimed to be celibate, and his ordination would have proceeded without comment. At any time, he could have denied his calling to the priesthood and fallen back on a fairly lucrative career. At any time, Spong and Righter could have done the safe thing and washed their hands of the whole "issue." Instead, all involved found that the need to be true to their convictions outweighed the need to "play it safe." Mostly, this is a book about rights...not civil rights, but God's rights. Specifically, it is about God's right to call whom He will...his right to love and employ all his children despite the box in which society would like to confine Him. As I said, I have recommended this book highly to a lot of people...but mostly to straight people who are still struggling, in spite of themselves, with issues of homophobia. It is hard to read this book and maintain an "us-and-them" sort of dichotomy. The overwhelming message is, all people love and are loved. All people are, when all is said and done, simply people. And God, who made us all, loves us all.

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