Accounting and Its Legal Implications: A Guide for Managers, Business Owners, and Entrepreneurs (Business One Irwin Professional Accounting Library)

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Illustrate the need for change
Develop a strategy for implementing change
Understand the effects of change on the organization
Equip managers with the skills they require to ensure a smooth transition
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"McCook writes in a clear and effective style. His approach to the subject is neither overly theoretical nor oversimplified."

— Bulletin of the Pacific Circle

The process of nation-building in Latin America transformed the relations between the state, the economy, and nature. Between 1760 and 1940, the economies of most countries in the Spanish Caribbean came to depend heavily on the export of plant products, such as coffee, tobacco, and sugar. After the mid-nineteenth century, this model of export-led economic growth also became a central tenet of liberal projects of nation-building. As international competition grew and commodity prices fell over this period, Latin American growers strove to remain competitive by increasing agricultural production. By the turn of the twentieth century, their pursuit of export-led growth had generated severe environmental problems, including soil exhaustion, erosion, and epidemic outbreaks of crop diseases and pests.

This book traces the history of the intersections between nature, economy, and nation in the Spanish Caribbean through a history of the agricultural and botanical sciences. Growers and governments in Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Colombia, and Costa Rica turned to scientists to help them establish practical and ideological control over nature. They hoped to use science to alleviate the pressing environmental and economic stresses, without having to give up their commitment to export-led growth. Starting from an overview of the relationship among science, nature, and development throughout the export boom of 1760 to 1930, Stuart McCook examines such topics as the relationship between scientific plant surveys and nation-building, the development of a "creole science" to address the problems of tropical agriculture, the ecological rationalization of the sugar industry, and the growth of technocratic ideologies of science and progress. He concludes with a look at how the Great Depression of the 1930s changed the paradigms of economic and political development and the role of science and nature in these paradigms.

States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940

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States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940
Stuart McCook
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORQ28S

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Three diverse observers, all named Galileo, have studied the planet Jupiter and its wonderful moons, its exotic atmosphere, its tremendous magnetic field, and its gossamer rings. This book is a unique combination of history and science, presenting the proceedings of a conference honoring the achievements of Galileo the man and Galileo the spacecraft, and the promise of the new Italian National Telescope. Insights into the life and times of Galileo Galilei introduce the book, followed by overviews of the Galileo mission, spacecraft, navigation, telecommunications, and early science results. The book concludes with a series of papers describing the Italian National Telescope, Galileo. The book will appeal to a broad range of readers searching for an overview of the Galileo mission and telescope. Twenty-four pages of color and high-resolution black and white images are included. Also included is the text of an audience with Pope John Paul II. The Pope's audience and speech were an acknowledgement of the importance of science, and of the Vatican's changing perspective on ethics and morality in science.

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Covering theory, experiment, and application, this volume provides the user with a handy reference to all the terminology found in colloid and interface science literature. Focusing on terminology, rather than on symbols and units, the volume provides comprehensive coverage, including both current and older terms. Complete cross-references for important synonyms, abbreviations, and acronyms are included. Specific literature citations are given where the sources for further information are unique or difficult to find.

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Unlike any other story written about the Vietnam War, this book is written primarily for the parents, children and friends of the Vietnam veteran. Being a collection of 31 true stories, it details the adventures of my almost three years of combat as I mature from a green rookie into a hardened veteran. You'll laugh and you'll cry as you travel along with me and my buddies through the daily task of becoming men while most of our peers remain carefree back home in that distant land known to the sweat covered jungle fighters only as "The World". Learn how we sleep, what we wore and even what good old Army chow is like. Feel what it's like to read a letter from home, to walk down a jungle trail or ride on a 50-ton M48 tank as it slowly smashes its way through triple canopy jungle. More than anything else, this book tells it like it really was! Not like Hollywood wants to make it. Read about the good days and the bad, the happy and the sad, and of the days that will stay forever in your mind. Learn the meaning of the words pride, dignity and honor. What Are They Going To Do, Send Me To Vietnam? speaks for the men who even today can't find the words to tell it themselves. This is their story too.

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The Real Story.......2000-11-08

Finally a book that tells about the war without some overblown heroics. The story of one man and the close bonds that form with the people you relie on to survive. The days of boredom interrupted by moments of hell.

Newswatch UK review.......2000-07-12

Forget the high-budget, action-packed, grenade-fuelled war movies.

If you want to really know what the Vietnam War was like, you need to get hold of a copy of Jack Stoddard's 'What are they going to do? Send me to Vietnam?'

Stoddard arrived in 'the 'Nam' in 1968, a 22-year-old career soldier in his first war role.

Thirty years later he was impelled to write this book after his young son asked him what the war was really like.

Stoddard took on a difficult task - how can you relate the fear, the courage, the comradeship, the desperate times, the deaths in mere words?

But Stoddard completes his task admirably.

What's so refreshing about 'What are they going to do? Send me to Vietnam?' is the fact it makes no judgements. There's no political wrangling, no debate over the rights and wrongs of the war.

This is a soldier's tale - straight from the horse's mouth.

Written in a pleasant and easy style, this book takes us through Stoddard's life in the 'Nam.

From his first day as a tanker when he was attacked by vicious jungle vines, to his life as a special combat soldier - entering dangerous areas to 'sniff out' the enemy.

He talks about his own personal battles - from the humorous incident when he suffers from haemorrhoids to the heart-wrenching descriptions of the death of close friends.

He chats about his fellow soldiers - and the camaraderie and genuine love that built up around them in the most inhospitable of conditions.

And he talks of the effect the war had on his life. How thirty years later he was drawn to the grave of dead friend, how he talked to the families of soldiers who were killed in combat, and how he misses the friendships and purpose a war situation brings.

It seems wrong to call this an entertaining book - but it is.

At times it's hard to believe what you are reading is fact, not fiction.

I also found it a hard book to put down. It's more a collection of stories than a formulated record but even so, Stoddard possesses a rare gift, in that he draws the reader in and won't let them go.

It's obvious he wrote this book as a kind of 'letting go' of his own memories - a burial of the past - but this is not a criticism, it merely makes the book even more readable.

No whining, no anti-war BS, no blame...just life as it was!.......2000-05-29

All Vietnam Veterans experienced the same war, but from a different perspective. Here is what I am talking about. As a helicopter pilot, I remember watching the Grunts and Tankers on the ground sitting on their tracks and thinking, "God!, am I glad I don't have to live like those poor bastards with all the dust, mud, bugs, heat and mines on the ground looking for the VC and Charlie." Little did I suspect that the Grunts and Tankers on the ground were saying, "God, I'm glad I am not one of those poor bastards who flys one of those frail little choppers, and have my as shot off by the VC as I fly around exposed in the sky!" You see what I mean? Perspective is very important.

So, do yourself a favor, whether you are a veteran or not. Pick up Jack Stoddard's book and read it. You will find easy reading with compact and colorfully graphic short stories which will amaze you. And, the stories will remind you that war, especially the unpopular Vietnam War, was fought by real men, just like you.

I wasn't there . . . but I loved someone who was........2000-05-03

This book is a must read for anyone who loved someone who served in Vietnam. As a young bride my husband, an Army NCO, was sent to a mortars unit in the Northern Highlands soon after our marriage. For me the war meant sending tins of cookies homemade filled with love and plastic baggies filled with baby pictures of our daughter as she grew up without her daddy. Thank goodness she was too young to remember watching the 6 o'clock news each night anxiously waiting for the map of Vietnam with the little explosion decals and hoping the bombing was not near the area of his latest letter. I knew my husband returned from this war a different man, but I never truly understood what it was like for him until I read this book. Jack tells his story so vividly I could actually picture my husband there in each chapter. Reading along, I was suprised at how powerful and moving an experience this was for me. This is NOT a depressing book, but if you loved someone who was there, I definitely recommend you keep some tissues handy.

reaction to war.......2000-04-30

This book accounts for the hard times that the people had to go through that were over there. It is told by a man who even wanted to go back after his tour was up. It tells you how the people lived and how they survived throughout the war.

What are they going to do, send me to Vietnam?: My recollections of a time so long ago

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What are they going to do, send me to Vietnam?: My recollections of a time so long ago
Jack Stoddard
Manufacturer: Sunrise Mountain Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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An autobiographical account of a once lively, gregarious woman's fatal encounter with a mystery disease, thought to be allied to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease), which inexorably robs her of the ability to speak, to breathe, to keep her balance, to make her body do as she wishes, even to use her eyes for more than a few minutes at a time. Enlisting the medical community's help in her battle to stave off speechlessness, she soon finds herself fighting two battles. This book describes in detail one of old age's ultimate exercises in solitary confinement.

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On a spring evening in 1972, a man climbed up an electricity tower outside Milan intending to place a bomb, but instead fell to his death. Notices in the next day's newspapers announced the botched action of an unnamed "terrorist." It quickly became clear, however, that this revolutionary was one of the most famous men in Europe.
Born into a wealthy and distinguished family, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli fought with the partisans against the Nazis, joined the Communist Party, then took over the family's financial empire after the war. In 1954 he founded the house that bears the family name and published the likes of Pasternak, Kerouac, Bellow, and Che Guevara. In the sixties he supported revolutionary movements in Europe and the Americas and befriended Fidel Castro. But in spite of his leftist sympathies, Feltrinelli wasn't proletarian enough to give up his yachts, sports cars, and lavish estates in which he dreamed up his schemes and projects.
Combining personal memories of his father with a carefully documented history of the period, Carlo Feltrinelli has written an unsparing, provocative, and above all deeply engrossing book.

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Down the Hill is Roy Stier's personal account of the evolution of early logging in the misty-green mountains of Washington.

It is a work that gives detail, character, and historical substance to the logging industry. The St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company is a true microcosm for a brash, new Western adventure which became the sprawling 20th century timber industry.

Filled with incredible historical photos, charming anecdotes, and absorbing narratives of the Pacific Northwest, Down the Hill is a unique, insider's perspective of this adventurous industry.

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Down The Hill: A True Story of Early Logging in The Pacific Northwest.......2005-09-06

I have read this book before and wanted a copy to keep in the family archives. Roy Stier is my second cousin and this is a true history of his branch of our family.

Logging From the Ground Up.......2000-03-13

Here's an excellent book about logging and lumbering in the greater Tacoma, WA area. It traces the arrival of those hardy men and women that carved a living out of this wild and untamed area. The author was personally involved as a child and spent a number of his early years in a variety of jobs from the ground up. It is also an excellent testament to the vision of some of those early lumbering businesses that started tree farms and re-forested large tracks of land long before it was a government requirement. If you're interested in the techniques of logging with the various apparatus or riggings and what each is called in the woods, this is the books for you. One thing you'll learn for sure is that no self-respecting logger would ever call himself a "lumberjack" and the only place you'd hear someone call "timber" as a tree falls is in the movies.

Down The Hill - True Story Of Early Logging In The Pacific Northwest

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Down The Hill - True Story Of Early Logging In The Pacific Northwest
Roy E. Stier
Manufacturer: Bookpartners, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K1QOCM

DOWN THE HILL: A True Story of Early Logging in the Pacific Northwest

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DOWN THE HILL: A True Story of Early Logging in the Pacific Northwest
Roy E. Stier
Manufacturer: Bookpartners Incorporated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NUMLAO

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As 1997 proved to be a roller coaster year for emerging markets, Global Development Finance 1998 (GDF), the most comprehensive and detailed publication on developing-country debt available, has kept up with the global economy's changing tide. This year's GDF (formerly World Debt Tables)
continues to be the World Bank's authoritative review of developing countries' external debt and financial flows, as it devotes special emphasis to the East Asian financial crisis. With its consolidated statistics for all developing countries, it is an indispensable reference guide for economists,
bankers, country risk analysts, financial consultants, and others involved in investment lending and capital flows worldwide. Analysis and Summary Tables examines recent developments in flows from international capital markets to developing countries. The publication provides expert commentary as it
covers trends in net official finance and aid allocation, efforts to assist the heavily indebted developing countries, and the increasing volume and scope of guaranteed activities. Appendices provide global privatization activity accompanied by tables highlighting portfolio investment and foreign
direct investment, and tables also focusing on debt burden indicators and country classification, and official and commercial debt restructuring.

World Resources 1998-99 (WORLD RESOURCES)

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A wonderful reference

World Resources 1998-99 (WORLD RESOURCES)
World Resources Institute , United Nations Environment Program , United Nations Development Program , and The World Bank
Manufacturer: A World Bank Publication
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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World Resources 1998-99 focuses on the critical issue of environmental change and human health. Drawing on the latest scientific data, this section explores how environmental conditions contribute to the current burden of death and disease around the world and how that may change over the coming decades. World Resources 1998-99 looks at several critical trends that are changing the physical environment and thereby have the potential to influence human health on such topics as the intensification of agriculture, industrialization, and rising energy use. As in previous volumes, World Resources 1998-99 also looks at the current state of the environment as it relates to population and human well-being, resources at risk, and consumption and waste. The book also contains the latest core country data from 157 countries and new information on poverty, inequality, and food security.

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A wonderful reference.......2000-05-11

This book is a wonderful reference book focused on the correlation between environmental change and human health issues world-wide. All of the sections are extremely well written, using clear, descriptive language. Each section also contains an ample amount of charts, tables, and graphs. While these are not as colorful as other books from the United Nations, the use of color is extremely effective. Just a glance at a chart yields its contents, a good time-saving technique for a researcher or student. Finally, there are over a hundred pages of data tables in the back. These tables make it easy to compare countries. Like the articles themselves, the explanations are clear and interesting. Overall, this book is a wonderful reference tool and would easily supplement a course on the global environment.

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