The New Environment in International Accounting: Issues and Practices

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This volume thoroughly examines new devlopments in international accounting from economic and social, as well as from accounting viewpoints. It reflects the current tension between attempts at unification by international standard setters and the emergence of innovative forms of reporting, disclosure, and taxation, as various countries attempt to improve their reporting accuracy. The product of this tension is the gradual but steady emergence of new accounting, reporting, disclosure, and taxation techniques of importance to the accounting practices of every country in the international arena.

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The Only Way to Hire Winners

Hiring Winners : Profile, Interview, Evaluate: A 3-Step Formula for Success
Richard J. Pinsker
Manufacturer: The Saratoga Flier, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0971236402

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Hiring Winners describes the P.I.E. employee selection process, adopted by thousands of hiring managers. The hiring of a sales executive is followed through the book as an example of the compltere process. This is the seventh printing oh Hiring Winners, the first in paperback.

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Get hired by reading this book.......2000-04-02

This book is a great tool for discovery of what it is an excellent administator is attemping to find for an employee. As a potential employee about to be interviewed, this book provides a great source of information that you can use to your advantage in the process of the interview.

The Only Way to Hire Winners.......2000-01-07

Hiring Winners was not only an excellent read, it is also an excellent resource for your company.The format, questions examples, situation examples and the workshop guidelines have made hiring winners for my company much easier than I ever thought. It definately takes all of the guess work out of the hiring process and almost makes it a science, I refer to it often and have made the PIE system a must for our company.

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Health, Program Evaluation, and Demography (Research Instruments in Social Gerontology, Vol 3)
David J. Mangen
Manufacturer: University of Minnesota Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0816611122

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Research Instruments in Social Gerontology: Health Program Evaluation and Demography
Stanley
Manufacturer: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Trd)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 9995881527

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This volume, the proceedings of the 16th Florida Workshop in Nonlinear Astronomy and Physics, emphasizes the cross-disciplinary nature of much current research in astronomy and physics in the area of dynamics. Developments in one field can advance more quickly when information is available regarding parallel developments in other fields. This occurs not only by the exchange of methods and techniques, but also from conceptual refinements resulting from different perspectives on similar problems. Contributors to this volume include theorists and experimentalists from the fields of nonlinear dynamics, mathematics, galactic dynamics and structure, dark matter, plasma physics, accelerator beams, and statistical mechanics. Dynamical problems on all astrophysical scales are discussed from those of the sun and the solar system to cosmology. This is a particularly appropriate time to look at this subject because observations have provided compelling evidence that many galaxies are genuinely three-dimensional; that is, they are neither spherical nor axisymmetric, they typically have a central density cusp, and the center of the galaxy often contains a super massive black hole. Furthermore, the Hubble Space Telescope has produced exciting data about the spatial and temporal structure of cosmological space-time and especially about the epoch of galaxy formation. The meeting and the volume are dedicated to the memory of Professor Henry E. Kandrup, whose work was centered on stochastic problems in stellar dynamics. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/nyas. ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to the Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit www.nyas.org/membership/main.asp for more information about becoming a member.

Nonlinear Dynamics in Astronomy and Astrophysics: In Memory of Henry E. Kandrup

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Nonlinear Dynamics in Astronomy and Astrophysics: In Memory of Henry E. Kandrup
Henry E. Kandrup
Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MVAFLG

Nonlinear Dynamics in Astronomy and Astrophysics; in Memory of Henry E. Kandrup; Proceedings.

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Nonlinear Dynamics in Astronomy and Astrophysics; in Memory of Henry E. Kandrup; Proceedings.
Stephen T.gottesman Et Al
Manufacturer: N.Y. Academy of Sciences
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N6BKAU

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Presented in two parts, this first comprehensive overview addresses all aspects of energetic ion irradiation of polymers. Earlier publications and review articles concentrated on selected topics only. And the need for such a work has grown with the dramatic increase of research and applications, such as in photoresists, waveguides, and medical dosimetry, during the last decade.

The first part, Fundamentals of Ion Irradiation of Polymers covers the physical, chemical and instrumental fundamentals; treats the specific irradiation mechanisms of low- and high-energy ions (including similarities and differences); and details the potential for future technological application. All the new findings are carefully analyzed and presented in a systematic way, while open questions are identified.

The second volume, Transport Processes in Ion Irradiated Polymers deals with transport processes in both unirradiated and irradiated polymers. As both a review and a stimulus, this work seeks to contribute substantially to the literature and advancement of polymeric devices, from both the low- and high-energy regimes.

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Fundamentals of Grid Generation is an outstanding text/reference designed to introduce students in applied mathematics, mechanical engineering, and aerospace engineering to structured grid generation. It provides excellent reference material for practitioners in industry, and it presents new concepts to researchers. Readers will learn what boundary-conforming grids are, how to generate them, and how to devise their own methods. The text is written in a clear, intuitive style that doesn't get bogged down in unnecessary abstractions. Topics covered include planar, surface, and 3-D grid generation; numerical techniques; solution adaptivity; the finite volume approach to discretization of hosted equations; concepts from elementary differential geometry; and the transformation of differential operators to general coordinate systems. The book also reviews the literature on algebraic, conformal, orthogonal, hyperbolic, parabolic, elliptic, biharmonic, and variational approaches to grid generation. This unique volume closes with the author's original methods of variational grid generation.

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Fundamentals of Grid Generation
Patrick and Steinberg, Stanly Knupp
Manufacturer: CRC Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PRX0PU

Multigrid methods: Fundamental algorithms, model problem analysis and applications

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Multigrid methods: Fundamental algorithms, model problem analysis and applications
Klaus Stüben
Manufacturer: s.n
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007AZVF2

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In this acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award-winning motion picture, Larry McMurtry created two unforgettable characters who won the hearts of readers and moviegoers everywhere: Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma.

Aurora is the kind of woman who makes the whole world orbit around her, including a string of devoted suitors. Widowed and overprotective of her daughter, Aurora adapts at her own pace until life sends two enormous challenges her way: Emma's hasty marriage and subsequent battle with cancer. Terms of Endearment is the Oscar-winning story of a memorable mother and her feisty daughter and their struggle to find the courage and humor to live through life's hazards -- and to love each other as never before.

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Great service.......2006-03-16

Book was in perfect condition and the service was effecient. Thank you!

The "Houston Trilogy" happily comes to an end........2004-04-05

Every novelist of note has at least one work that represents the low mark in that author's career. With Larry McMurtry, I thought that novel was "Moving On", a lumbering work of uninteresting characters, rediculous plot lines and a writing style that could only be described as sophomoric. Then McMurtry decided to re-visit some of the characters of that earlier novel, throw in a few more from "All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers" and complete his so-called "Houston Trilogy". You would think that with the tepid results of the first two novels he would have given up on his idea and returned to the area that he can really write about: the vanishing frontier. But no, he had to finish his trilogy. In his preface to the book (an act of unmitigated audaciousness, by the way; as if the novel deserved a preface and as if the women characters created here could somehow be in the same league as Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina), McMurtry remarked that the novel was about the dilemma in which many women find themselves: stuck with a boring husband who happens to be a pretty good father. He questions, "Emma might with luck find a better husband than Flap, but can she realistically expect to better him as a father? Is anyone apt to love the kids as much as he does?" Only if he had written about that dilemma. On second thought, that dilemma never existed in the first place because Flap is not a good father and spends as much time away from home as he does with the family.

Instead the reader is "treated" to the story of an aging widow, Aurora Greenway, and her equally aging suitors and the activities that surround her vapid existence in 1960s Houston. Her daughter, Emma, occupies a secondary role in this portion of the novel and the action moves from dinner party to forays into the Houston suburbs, from one uninteresting character to the next, from the improbability of a millionaire who lives on the top level of a parking structure to a hastily concocted murder attempt - all I guess to try to maintain the reader's, as well as the author's, interest. But all this meaningless writing in search of a plot finally forces McMurtry to make a decision: either change course or follow Aurora's story until the author, himself, drops dead. So after 360 pages of a 410 page book, the story suddenly shifts to Emma and her pathetic life: infidelity, neurotic children, and finally cancer - all this, by the way, in fifty pages.

What amazes me is that James L. Brooks, the director and screenwriter of the movie, could have read this book and even considered making a film based on it. What he created, which is a testament to what good screen writing is all about, not only elevates McMurtry's novel from the humdrum but centers on the dilemma that the novel's author chose not to pursue. The scenes between the principal characters are often electric, capturing the anger, frustration, and love between wife, mother and husband, something that McMurtry only managed to duplicate only once or twice in the novel. One more point of irritation: the seduction scene between Danny Deck and Emma is taken almost word for word from "All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers", something akin to a college freshman composition student quoting himself in a term paper.

Oh the melodrama!.......2003-06-26

This novel is comprised of two parts. The first 9/10 of the book is basically a very long character development on Aurora Greenway, a spoiled Houston widow with no shortage of "suitors" who adore her and put up with her egomania and fits of exceedingly bad behavior. The remaining 1/10 of the book focuses primarily on Aurora's daughter Emma, who lives through a bad marriage and a series of disappointing affairs only to die of cancer slowly, surrounded by her mother, children, husband and lover.

The first part of this book was pretty entertaining. Aurora was someone who I would want to strangle in real life, but her suitors and housekeeper Rosie kept things rolling. I especially liked Vernon, her Texas millionaire oilman. However, no characters really seemed to do anything--just sit around having dinner parties, going out to breakfast, and generally behaving like spoiled brats at all times between and during.

If you have seen the movie by the same name, you know that the movie focuses mainly on this last 1/10 of the book--Emma's dramatic demise. I don't intend to make light of anyone's suffering, and certainly not of cancer, but this part of the book was overdone to the extreme, much like the Bette Midler movie "Beaches." I hate books and movies that seem to be written solely with the intention of getting a cheap cry out of you, and that's they way this part of the book read to me. Emma's speech to her son Tommy about how he should be nice to her because 10 years from now he will look back and regret mistreating her on her deathbed made me cringe.

I had a hard time accepting this book's structure. So little happened in the majority of the novel and so much happened at the end. The akward structure and forced tearjerking made me less appreciative of all the good writing that came before the sapply finale. I have to admit that this book kept me entertained, but great literature it's not.

Great Book about a Few Special Women!.......2003-05-25

How can a man write so well about women and their day to day experiences, attitudes and emotions with such humor and understanding? It's almost uncanny. Wonderful story, much better than the movie. A great read!
Evelyn Horan - children's author
Jeannie, A Texas Frontier Girl, Books One-Three

pretend you never saw the movie and..........2002-09-11

This book is really good. I love the movie; I have seen it a million times. I thought I would get the book and see what I had been missing all these years. When I read the first chapter, I have to admit, I was disappointed. I could see the book is ENTIRELY different. So I just pretended that the movie wasn't based on the book, and I laughed my way to the end of the story. I suppose the question I have now is, what in the world were "they" thinking when they changed the story so much for the film? It is great just as it is.

Evening Star, The Novel Sequel to Terms of Endearment

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Evening Star, The Novel Sequel to Terms of Endearment
Larry McMurtry
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JD51SO

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Terms of Endearment: A Novel
Larry McMurtry
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PKWN0A

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Terms of Endearment A Novel
Larry , inner flap DJ Crease McMurtry
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster, NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JD5OR2

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The Rants, Raves & Thoughts of Fidel Castro is the latest title in a brand new series of thoughtful, and thought-provoking titles dealing with some of the less appealing dictators and terrorists of our time. The goals and inspirations of this new series on the modern world's terrorists and dictators is to explain, in their own words and in the words of others, what makes them so ruthless. The books demonstrate what a talented group of free-thinking writers and graphic designers can do with access to a database of information and a limitless imagination about how to let the words of these powerful, psychotic people reveal who they are, what they believe and what they hope to achieve. The Rants, Raves & Thoughts of Fidel Castro lets you step inside the head of Cuba's notorious dictator, from his views on the United States, capitalism, communism, and the Cuban Revolution.

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Rant Raves and Thoughts Indeed........2002-10-18

Take a trip into the mind of the man, his words and his thoughts, in this little book you will find an impressive repertoire of the best diplomatic Insults in a way that only Fidel can, But you will also find jokes about him and his revolution, this is a fun little book that takes no prisoners, buy it you will love it.

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Run - do not walk - to Possum Walk Road.......2000-05-17

For anyone interested in quilt history or the history of quilters, this is a terrific book. Its focus is on an (in)famous Texas quilter named Martha Mitchell, who lived in Huntsville Texas, after 'emigrating' from Kentucky in 1939. The book is interspered with 'Martha-isms' that are both charming, witty, oldfashioned, yet surprisingly 'modern.' The book skips easily over time and place, sometimes discussing her background and childhood, and other times, her marriage, career and rebelliousness towards some of the expected womanly behaviors of the time. She was a naturally feisty woman, who only became moreso in her old age. The best part of the book, though, is the photography. In addition to photos of Martha at various stages in her life, it also includes over 30 full color photos of her quilts. Many are close enough to see her quilting stitches, and some include her beautiful hands as she worked on her quilts. This is a most charming book about a singularly charming woman. I heartily recommend it. As an aside, PBS did a documentary on Martha in 1985, which is still available on videotape.

Martha Mitchell, story of a lifetime quilter.......2000-04-08

Interesting story, her first quilt at age 9 while living in Kentucky, in her lifetime she made over a 100 quilts, over 40 color pictures, and many black and white, also details the so called woman,s place such as her husband did not want her to wear bright colors, etc. in Kentucky all the civil service jobs at that time went to men, when she moved to Texas , she was able to go to work right away. The pictures, tell the story more as well as the text. The quilts are mostly traditional patterns, she had a very creative touch.

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Lord North was in many ways a most successful politician. Prime Minister for an unbroken twelve years, his management of both parliament and of the business of government was adept. He enjoyed the confidence of King George III, not always an easy political ally, avoided factional strife (having no political following of his own), was notably uncorrupt and made virtually no enemies. In many ways he epitomised the political outlook and aristocratic assumptions of the eighteenth century.He is, however, principally remembered for presiding over Britain's loss of her American colonies. Lord North: The Prime Minister Who Lost America is a scholarly but highly readable account of his life. It includes a full study of the American War of Independence, examining it from the perspective of the British government as well as from the colonial standpoint. No senior politician had visited America and few had a proper knowledge or understanding of Americans. Too often the colonists were regarded as unruly and ungrateful children, with whom compromise was either a sign of weakness or the betrayal of the principle of parliamentary sovereignty. Highmindedness contributed to the final humiliation, as did ignorant overconfidence. Military defeat, to a country that had become preeminent in Europe by the end of the Seven Years War, was not entertained as a possibility.

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Aide and executive secretary to AA's co-founder Bill W. for 20 years, Nell Wing shares her memories and impressions of 42 years of involvement with the Fellowship.

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