Cashflow, credit & collection: Over 100 proven techniques for protecting & strengthening your balance sheet (The Entrepreneur's guide--)

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Written in a highly readable, practical style and loaded with hundreds of valuable cash management topics and examples, this hands-on manual provides: Hottest new tips; Trends; Tactics for improving you balance sheet.

Cashflow, Credit & Collection : Over 100 Proven Techniques for Protecting & Strengthening Your Balance Sheet

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Cashflow, Credit & Collection : Over 100 Proven Techniques for Protecting & Strengthening Your Balance Sheet
Basil P. Mavrovitis
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional Book Group
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In today’s economy, being innovative is the best way to keepahead of the game. Non-Stop Creativity and Innovation is alively, easy-to-use guide to unlocking your creative potential,thinking ‘out of the box’ and making new ideas really happen.

By using a unique, tried and tested model, the Uccello™ Process,you will be able to draw on your creative strengths to generatefresh, winning ideas. Whether you are looking to develop yourindividual, team or company’s creativity this book shows you howto experiment with your thinking, how to combine information toproduce truly original ideas, and ultimately how to implementthem successfully.

Packed full of helpful tips and techniques, it will prove invaluableat every stage of a project.

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This book provides an in-depth understanding of molecular recognition mechanisms in designing chromatographical processes for separations. The title explains the importance of chemistry in chromatography and molecule-molecule interaction mechanisms and extends the concepts of separation to isomers and chiral isomers.

"Chromatographic Separations Based on Molecular Recognition" discusses the theoretical interpretations of chromatographic retention processes, explains the molecular recognition concept for the separation of various isomers, and provides a foundation in separation science which will lead to a better grasp of other chemical fields and simplify the design and synthesis of novel stationary phases.

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* The electronic component of the book is based on the widely used and highly praised Mathematica software package.
* Each chapter of the bookis a Mathematica notebook with links to web-based material.
* The methods are applied to a range of problems taken from physics and engineering.
* The book covers elementary and advaned numerical methods used in modern scientific computing.

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Teacher & Engineer.......2005-03-04

This book is alright if you got it for a price around $20.

An excellent text as either an introduction or a reference.......2003-10-07

This book explains how to solve a variety of useful problems in mathematical physics with Mathematica. The clear and concise presentation of material facilitates rapid advancement in the subject. In addition, many interesting physical examples and problems are included. I highly recommend this book as a text for undergraduate mathematical physics instruction.

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succinct yet clear

Mathematical Methods using Mathematica
Sadri Hassani
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0387955232

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Intended as a companion for textbooks in mathematical methods for science and engineering, this book presents a large number of numerical topics and exercises together with discussions of methods for solving such problems using Mathematica(R). The accompanying CD contains Mathematica Notebooks for illustrating most of the topics in the text and for solving problems in mathematical physics. Although it is primarily designed for use with the author's "Mathematical Methods: For Students of Physics and Related Fields," the discussions in the book sufficiently self-contained that the book can be used as a supplement to any of the standard textbooks in mathematical methods for undergraduate students of physical sciences or engineering.

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succinct yet clear.......2003-12-25

I found the book to be very clear, and gives just enough of an explanation and examples to get one started and exploring. It certainly does not lead you by the hand, yet the author manages to pack in a lot of information. I found it to be one of the best introductions to Mathematica and higly recommend it to any science or math major.

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Of the thousands of people who escaped through the Pyrenees during World War II, at least one hundred owe their lives to a daring scheme that Belgian Charles Schepens masterminded in Mendive, a remote Basque village near the French-Spanish border. The story of this near-miraculous resistance effort, an epic undertaking carried out in plain view of the Nazis, is recounted in full for the first time in The Surgeon and the Shepherd, an incredible, true tale of wartime heroism.

In 1942, in coordination with the Belgian resistance, Schepens stage-managed a highly secret information and evacuation service through the counterfeit operation of a back-country lumbering enterprise. This book traces Schepens’s gradual transformation from an apolitical young ophthalmologist into double agent “Jacques Pérot,” and his emergence in the postwar period as a modern folk hero to the residents of Mendive. Woven into the account are the stories of a remarkable international cast of characters, most notably the Basque shepherd Jean Sarochar, regarded as a local misfit, with whom Schepens formed his most unlikely partnership and an enduring friendship.

Part biography, part spy tale, part cultural study, The Surgeon and the Shepherd is based on more than ten years of oral history research. The saga of a Belgian “first resister” who, by posing as a collaborator, successfully duped both the Germans and the local French Basque population, it offers a powerful and illuminating picture of moral and physical courage.

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Th Surgeon and the Shepard.......2006-11-06

The interaction of the local French working with a brave person combined to make this story of individual bravery inspiring. The unoccupied area of France during the first part of the Second World War provided opportunity for some to resist against Nazi oppression. It took those who were willing to take risks for the benefit of others that provides the satisfaction of the read.

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Doctor, humanitarian, adventurer

A beautiful book.

I couldn't put this book down

Daktari: A Surgeon's Adventures With the Flying Doctors of East Africa
Thomas D. Rees
Manufacturer: Sunstone Press
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ASIN: 0865343667

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In 1957 three plastic surgeons—Sir Archibald McIndoe, Dr. Michael Wood, and Dr. Thomas D. Rees, the sole surviving founder—began what was then called "The Flying Doctors Service of Africa." These surgeons devoted the full measure of their collective time, energy, and creativity to make their vision a reality: to bring specialist surgical care to Africa`s most remote areas and improve the lives of children and families who, through no fault of their own, experience extreme suffering and disfigurement. They were the first to bring reconstructive surgery to East Africa utilizing light airplanes and itinerant surgeons who would use their expertise to treat victims of burns, congenital deformities, trauma, animal bites, cancer, and deformities resulting from endemic tropical diseases.

With experience, and responding to the overwhelming health needs of the rural population, the parameters of what became the Flying Doctor Services of East Africa evolved to include public health, environmental medicine, training and education of health care workers, nomadic health care, and emergency medical response. Today, the Flying Doctors of East Africa through it's parent organization, the African Medical Research and Education Foundation (AMREF) is the largest indigenous international health development non-governmental organization in sub-Sahara Africa with a full-time staff of over 600, 96% of whom are of African origin. The Flying Doctor Services of East Africa has evacuated over 50,000 emergency patients from the bush to urban hospitals. It has flown over 12 million miles, and performed more than 50,000 major operations.

The dream of the three founding surgeons has become a reality.

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Doctor, humanitarian, adventurer.......2003-07-04

Daktari is a tribute to dedicated people who make their dreams come true through hard work, a passion for helping mankind and focusing on their goals. Tom Rees, a master plastic surgeon, could have lived in the lap of luxury every day of the year but chose to help others in the developing world of Africa. His experiences in forming the Flying Doctors of East Africa, an organization that grew from three founding doctors to a full time staff of over 500 people, is fascinating. Not only did he have adventures as a doctor, but as a pilot. Intrigue, perseverance and skill helped him help Africans better their lives through surgery. He found himself in political situations and in abysmal medical equipment facilities, yet he did what he had to do to get the job done.

I have known Tom Rees, as the chairman of plastic surgery, at Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital. He is a gentleman and always functioned with courtesy and kindness. I never knew he had such moxie till I read the book. His persistence in helping deformed Africans lead a better life is admirable. His style of writing is literarily pleasing and often poetic. "Several dry excavations pockmarked the river floor, mute testimony to the futility of their efforts to find water." Descriptions of the scenery and the people, as he journeyed toward his destinations, made me feel like I was on a safari in Africa. Details of the political and moral customs and policies gave me food for thought.

I enjoyed reading the adventures of Tom Rees, learning about Africa and its people, listening to the sincere, compassionate ideas he shares with us and closing a book with a feeling of thought, knowledge, hope and the satisfaction of a good read. Good job, Tom

A beautiful book........2003-03-23

This is a beautifully written account of a lifetime of experiences and lessons by a gifted man whose generosity and kindness shines through with good natured humor and sophistication.

I couldn't put this book down.......2003-01-01

Dr. Rees has not only lived the kind of life that all of us wish that we could have lived, he has also shown his gratitude for all his good luck by giving back to the world in great measure.
The book was really interesting and inspiring.

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Conservatism used to equal an undeniable love for God, family, and our Republic. That was before the "neo" conservatives came, before William F. Buckley, Jr. was chosen by the liberal establishment as the chief spokesman for conservatives. From the 1960s to today, conservative Americans have been led astray by Buckley and other false conservatives who want to interject the U.S. government into almost every aspect of our lives. John F. McManus, president of The John Birch Society, presents a critical examination of Buckley's life and career, including Buckley's: promotion of liberal causes, from abortion, drugs, and pornography, to the Panama Canal giveaway; connections to the CFR, CIA and Yale's Skull & Bones Society; selection of ex-Communists, Trotskyites, and CIA veterans to staff National Review; and unwarranted attack on JBS founder Robert Welch to prove himself "acceptable" to the liberal establishment. Don't let yourself be fooled! By understanding how and why the New York-Washington establishment embraced Buckley and his so-called conservatism, you can avoid the traps laid down by similar false conservatives. Get your copy today!

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Understand the "Establishment".......2007-01-10

This is a great book to help understand the relationship of the Establishment Elite to the control of high government positions, the Major Media, and the use of that media in portraying false images (reputations) of various persons in positions of leadership and influence. And, of course, it shines a light on Buckley's phoney "conservatism" and allows you to also see through deceptions of other so-called conservatives who spout similar rhetoric.

Ultimate good ol' boy.......2004-08-27

This entertaining and well written book describes how a tweedy, misanthropic crypto-socialist became the preeminent spokesmen for the conservative cause. Starting with Buckley's connections at Yale and the Scull and Bones, the CIA, the Council on Foreign Relations and finally the Bilderberger Group, the book describes how Buckley successfully networked his way to celebrity.

The book poses and answers many questions: Buckley is a conservative so he supports limited government, right? Wrong. Buckley is a conservative so he opposes socialist programs, right? Wrong. Buckley is a conservative so he opposes abortion, drugs, prostitution, homosexuality, and pornography, right? Wrong on all accounts. So what kind of conservative is Buckley? He isn't one. As "Pied Piper of the Establishment" ably demonstrates he is a former conservative turned de facto socialist who has made a career out of silencing contrary opinion.

Totalitarian conservative?.......2004-01-01

In his introduction, John McManus quotes from a 1952 essay by William F. Buckley, Jr. published in the Catholic magazine Commonweal. Buckley wrote:

"...we have got to accept Big Government for the duration -- for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills, except through the instrument of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores..."

I had seen this infamous quote before I read McManus' book, but reading the book motivated me to check the original source in the local university library: McManus is quoting accurately and the quote is not taken out of context.

So, why would a writer, such as Buckley, who has made a career claiming to be an opponent of Big Government and a defender of traditional values and individual rights, endorse a "totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores"?

This is the question which McManus' book aims to answer.

McManus is President of the right-wing John Birch society, but, although I myself differ from McManus and his group on a host of issues (ranging from abortion and the Drug War to China policy), I found his book to be well-documented, accurate, and chockful of relevant facts.

Part of McManus' explanation rests on the fact, publicly acknowledged by Buckley, that Buckley was at one time a CIA operative; some of Buckley's closest political associates (e.g., James Burnham, Willmoore Kendall) were also CIA operatives. The CIA's penchant for clandestinely funneling money to useful intellectuals is now a matter of public record (see, e.g., Saunders' "The Cultural Cold War"). For example, the famous "Congress for Cultural Freedom," which published the internationally renowned intellectual journal "Encounter," was eventually admitted by all concerned to be a CIA front. McManus points out that it is more than credible -- given the CIA's admitted record with the CCF, "Encounter," etc. -- that Buckley, along with his flagship operation, the magazine "The National Review," was a CIA front.

To what purpose? Prior to Buckley, American conservatives had been anti-war and anti-militarist: the right-wing had opposed American involvement in both World War II and Korea.

Buckley changed all that.

Regardless of the possible CIA connection, the Buckley re-definition of conservatism served broader goals of the governing establishment. As McManus points out, Buckley's strategy consisted of "portraying the Red menace as nearly invincible. Americans could then be persuaded to accept higher taxation, increasingly onerous controls, and an array of international alliances leading to world government, all under the guise of opposing the external Soviet threat."

The military draft, the Great Society, federal control of scientific research and higher education, etc. -- to use Buckley's phrase, "a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores," all justified by the need to confront and out-compete the Soviet Union.

To anyone who suggests that this was not simply a ruse aimed at maintaining political power, McManus points out that the Buckleyites even "red-baited" McManus' own far-right, rabidly anti-Communist John Birch Society! In October 1965, Buckley's "National Review" accused the Birchers' founder, Robert Welch, of following the "pacifist-Commie line" because Welch had expressed some well-founded doubts about the ill-fated U.S. adventure in Vietnam.

What were Buckley's personal motivations? McManus quotes an early Buckley associate, Medford Evans: "The reluctant conclusion that I have reached is that William F. Buckley Jr. is and has been driven by vanity, ambition, and greed to seek a place in the Establishment which he professes -- or once professed -- to oppose."

McManus also quotes the populist Kevin Phillips who more colorfully hints that Buckley's actions were due to personal status insecurity (the Buckleys were "New Money," not old wealth):

"There was, of course, a time when Bill Buckley was anti-establishment -- back in the long-ago days when he was an Irish nouveau-riche cheer leader for Joe McCarthy. But since then he's primed his magazine with cast-off Hapsburg royalty, Englishmen who part their names in the middle, and others calculated to put real lace on Buckley's Celtic curtains."

Certainly, Buckley's little magazine has, since its inception, reeked of a certain pseudo-sophisticated air that falsely suggested to its readers that the magazine could elevate them to a higher realm of elite taste and intellectual sophistication.

So Bill Buckley is not a real conservative but merely a willing tool of the anti-conservative establishment. Does it matter? Buckley is, after all, now in his dotage -- the influential conservatives nowadays are Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, etc.

The answer is that Buckley, for good or ill, succeeded in shaping the American conservative movement in his own image. If they are not quite Buckley's clones, Limbaugh, Hannity, and Coulter are nonetheless his ideological descendants. Buckley himself will doubtless soon be dead, but his influence lives on.

Furthermore, just as Buckley and his cohorts found the Cold War to be a useful excuse for creating a "totaliatrain bureacracy within our shores," so now a newer generation of faux conservatives is using the threat of Islamic terrorism to squelch any authentic anti-establishment, Constitutionalist elements on the Right and to re-establish a Buckleyite "totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores." History does repeat itself.

For further discussions, from varying perspectives different from McManus', of Buckley's dominating influence on the American conservative movement, I recommend Raimondo's "Reclaiming the American Right," Nash's "The Conservative Intellectual Movement in American Since 1945," and Gottfried's "The Conservative Movement."

Bizarre Book Bashes Buckley.......2003-03-13

In one of the most bizarre books I have ever read, John Birch Society honcho John F. McManus puts forth the wackiest conspiracy theory imaginable--that the renowned conservative polemicist William F. Buckley has for more than fifty years served as an agent for a cabal that aims to set up a Communist world state.

This cabal, which he dubs "the Establishment," is run by a group of influential conspirators whom he calls "insiders." A number of organizations including the the United States Central Intelligence Agency, the Council on Foreign Relations--an influential think tank--and even college fraternities such as Yale University's Skull and Bones Society are also part of the Establishment. McManus contends that the conspirators recruited Buckley and then assigned him the mission of taking over the conservative movement so as to lead it astray, and that for more than five decades, Buckley has faithfully served the Establishment by enthusiastically carrying out this assignment.

While his book is well-written and readable, the evidence McManus presents to back up these sensational charges is rather wanting. Most of it comes from secondary sources, many of which are publications of the John Birch Society itself. Sometimes he uses no evidence at all, as when he asserts, without an iota of proof, that the Central Intelligence Agency must have financed National Review, the opinion journal which Buckley helped to start.

McManus' use of facts is also highly selective. For example, in trying to portray the Skull and Bones Society as an arm of the conspiracy, he cites the names of a number of "Bonesmen" who, he asserts, are doing the conspiracy's work. However, he fails to mention that Senator Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio), a leading conservative whom he regards as a hero, as well as President William Howard Taft--not exactly a lion of the Left--were also members.

McManus also flays Buckley's longtime associate, James Burnham, for having once been a Trotskyist--although he had long since repudiated Trotskyism and had become a noted anti-communist by the time he teamed up with Buckley--and condemns Burnham's book, The Web of Subversion, a bestseller in 1954, for not having hewed to the Birch party line. However, McManus fails to note that for several years, the John Birch Society itself published and distributed this very same book! Perhaps being a Bircher, like being a liberal, means never having to say you're sorry.

And so it goes. Although McManus is a skilled communicator who can write slick prose, he presents a highly distorted portrait of William F. Buckley that is simply not true to life. While his book is of some usefulness in that it presents some of the Old Right's criticisms of Buckley's style of conservatism, McManus' flawed analysis and his selective use of facts to fit his bizarre conspiracy theory diminish its value. McManus may have come out swinging, but he failed to land a glove on William F. Buckley.

Who knew Buckley was that far to the left?.......2003-02-24

Though I too was once under the sway of William F. Buckley, the litany of left-wing positions Buckley took over the years has killed off any admiration I could ever have for him. And it has ruined any chance of his obtaining a sizeable following from anyone younger than the blue-haired crowd. His wit is gone, his columns are now virtually unreadable, and he increasingly bears both a physical as well as philosophical resemblance to Teddy Kennedy.

Buckley began to champion an increasing number of far left causes in his syndicated columns in the 1980s and 1990s: foreign aid to Russia, federal gun control measures, legalized prostitution, legalized drugs, support for "gay rights" legislation, etc. An old saying relates that if you have a reputation for arriving at work early, you can show up as late as you want. Buckley acquired a reputation for being conservative and has subsequently been as liberal as he wants. Which is to say, shockingly liberal. Buckley is in fact to the left of much of the Democratic Party.

McManus has dug up many more leftist positions from Buckley than even I had seen, including even some early positions Buckley took in favor of legalized abortion. No longtime conservative reading McManus' book would fail to be amazed at the sheer volume of left-wing positions Buckley has been taken. And more than a few would doubt the veracity of the book, if not for the fact that it is painstakingly documented with footnotes.

I believe the most damning Buckley position McManus cites is an article he wrote for Commonweal magazine in 1952, claiming that "we have got to accept big government for the duration" of the cold war.

Buckley subsequently created his National Review magazine in 1955 with a coterie of ex-Trotskyite leftists and friends from Buckley's work in the CIA.

Perhaps the most important part of this book is that McManus makes a credible case that National Review was never a publication of the right, although National Review nevertheless published a number of excellent essays in the 1950s and 1960s. National Review with William F. Buckley at the helm did more to harm and split up the right than any other publication.

The only criticism of this book that could be made is that the subject of this biography, William F. Buckley, Jr., is no longer worth the attention given by this book. Buckley's luster with the conservative movement began to evaporate during the 1970s, which was about the time he started to write for Playboy and Penthouse magazines.

It's ironic that the author of this book was once a big fan of William F. Buckley. Buckley's National Review even published a letter to the editor from John F. McManus, in which the author attacked the John Birch Society he is now president of. How times have changed, both with McManus and with the ever leftward moving William F. Buckley.

By way of disclosure, I should add that I am a former employee of the John Birch Society and that this book begins with a long quotation of one of my columns in The New American magazine (a JBS-affiliated publication for which I still occasionally write).

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William F. Buckley, Jr.: Pied Piper for the Establishment
John F. McManus
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Almost there........2002-10-01

Psychic Tristan Rimbaud tried to convey his early experiences with the paranormal in this book with a varied effect. I have heard Tristan on several radio show's ( he's everywhere at this point ), and I must say I was impressed by his accuracy and compassion for the callers. It's nice to see someone so young work at something like this and be good at it. The book could have technically been better. But, I think it's important to remember that a late teenager was behind the pen. I am looking forward to future book releases by Tristan because I can see him developing into quite an established writer. Is that my psychic ability coming out? Maybe I should ask Tristan.

Psychic ..........2002-06-14

Tristan Rimbaud tries to share with the reader his life and development of his psychic abilities. I believe that HE believes in his abilities, but whatever message he is trying to communicate gets lost in his poor writing. Bad grammer and illogic distract the reader from the message. ... If you're interested in psychics and their abilities, I would suggest one of John Edward's books.

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