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Handbook for construction accounting and auditing
Henry G Pansza Manufacturer: Prentice-Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0133725731 |
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Coaching for Peak Employee Performance: A Practical Guide to Supporting Employee Development
Bill Foster , and Karen R. Seeker Manufacturer: Pfeiffer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0787951137 |
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Managers and supervisors need to sharpen their coaching skills if they want their employees to achieve high performance. This guidebook details what those in charge can do to develop their staff and help them meet, and even exceed, organizational expectations.
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Coaching for Peak Employee Performance : A Practical Guide to Supporting Employee Development .......2005-09-21
A great guide for identifying and developing individuals.......1999-02-06
Best of all, "Coaching for Peak Employee Performance" is realistic. While introducing mentorship /coaching, you set up the parameters and expectations as well as developing the assessment device.Focussed on the professional level, this guide can help maintain and develop any organizational relationship and adopting just a couple of the techniques can make you more effective.
Although basic and broad, "Coaching for Peak Employee Performance" is entertaining and really helps you wrap your arms around these concepts. It is such a good introduction that I gotta give it two thumbs up. DA>
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Buying and Setting Up Your Small Farm or Ranch
L. R. Miller Manufacturer: Small Farmer's Journal ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 188521006X |
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This large illustrated book offers some uniquely modern and helpful information geared towards assisting people to "land" a new small farm operation of their own. Beginning with the "what fors" and "where fors", and walking carefully through the pitfalls and challenges of the looking and buying process, this book could save the prospective farm buyer time, money and headache. If you are dreaming of a small "working" place in the country where you can grow your own food, and some to sell, this book will help mold your dreams into a working plan of action. If you're into the process of trying to buy a farm and stymied by all the gibberish and forms and sales people, this book should even the odds for you.Customer Reviews:
Not a practical guide.......2006-05-26
Very helpfull, very readable!.......2002-05-08
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Solar Magnetic Fields: Polarized Radiation Diagnostics (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)
J.O. Stenflo Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0792327934 |
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Magnetic fields are responsible for much of the variability and structuring in the universe, but only on the Sun can the basic magnetic field related processes be explored in detail. While several excellent textbooks have established a diagnostic foundation for exploring the physics of unmagnetized stellar atmospheres through spectral analysis, no corresponding treatise for magnetized stellar atmospheres has been available. The present monograph fills this gap. The theoretical foundation for the diagnostics of stellar magnetism is developed from first principles in a comprehensive way, both within the frameworks of classical physics and quantum field theory, together with a presentation of the various solar applications. This textbook can serve as an introduction to solar and stellar magnetism for astronomers and physicists at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level and will also become a resource book for more senior scientists with a general interest in cosmic magnetic fields.
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Solar Magnetic Fields : Polarized Radiation Diagnostics (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)
J.O. Stenflo Manufacturer: NY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MUBOQC |
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Dynamics of Surfaces and Reaction Kinetics in Heterogeneous Catalysis (Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis)
Manufacturer: Elsevier Science ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0444826092 |
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Many processes of the chemical industry are based upon heterogeneous catalysis. Two important items of these processes are the development of the catalyst itself and the design and optimization of the reactor. Both aspects would benefit from rigorous and accurate kinetic modeling, based upon information on the working catalyst gained from classical steady state experimentation, but also from studies using surface science techniques, from quantum chemical calculations providing more insight into possible reaction pathways and from transient experimentation dealing with reactions and reactors. This information is seldom combined into a kinetic model and into a quantitative description of the process. Generally the catalytic aspects are dealt with by chemists and by physicists, while the chemical engineers are called upon for mechanical aspects of the reactor design and its control. The symposium "Dynamics of Surfaces and Reaction Kinetics in Heterogeneous Catalysis" aims at illustrating a more global and concerted approach through a number of prestigious keynote lectures and severely screened oral and poster presentations.
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Introduction to Foliations and Lie Groupoids (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics)
I. Moerdijk , and J. Mrcun Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0521831970 |
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Based on a graduate course taught at Utrecht University, this book provides a short introduction to the theory of Foliations and Lie Groupoids to students who have already taken a first course in differential geometry. Ieke Moerdijk and Janez Mrcun include detailed references to enable students to find the requisite background material in the research literature. The text features many exercises and worked examples.Download Description
This book gives a quick introduction to the theory of foliations, Lie groupoids and Lie algebroids. An important feature is the emphasis on the interplay between these concepts: Lie groupoids form an indispensable tool to study the transverse structure of foliations as well as their noncommutative geometry, while the theory of foliations has immediate applications to the Lie theory of groupoids and their infinitesimal algebroids. The book starts with a detailed presentation of the main classical theorems in the theory of foliations then proceeds to Molino's theory, Lie groupoids, constructing the holonomy groupoid of a foliation and finally Lie algebroids. Among other things, the authors discuss to what extent Lie's theory for Lie groups and Lie algebras holds in the more general context of groupoids and algebroids. Based on the authors' extensive teaching experience, this book contains numerous examples and exercises making it ideal for graduate students and their instructors.
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The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to a Modern War
Samuel Hynes Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0140261540 |
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Having served as a Marine pilot in World War II and the Korean War, Princeton literature professor Samuel Hynes is closely acquainted with conflict. He collates his experiences with those of dozens of other witnesses--poets such as Wilfred Owen and Ernst Jünger, conscience-stricken warriors such as Ryuji Nagatsuka and Philip Caputo, and resistance fighters such as Lucie Aubrac and Elena Skrjabina. Many of these witnesses are men and women from all sides of many struggles and from whom we've not heard before. Their voices add weight to Hynes's ideas that war is strange and terrible, and is waged largely against the innocent and powerless.Book Description
The Soldiers' Tale is the story of modern wars as told by the men who did the actual fighting. Hynes examines the journals, memoirs, and letters of men who fought in the two World Wars and in Vietnam, and also the wars fought against the weak and helpless in concentration camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and bombed cities. Interweaving his own reflections on war with brilliantly chosen passages from soldiers' accounts, he offers vivid answers to the question we all ask of men who have fought: What was it like? In these powerful pages the experiences of modern war, which seem unimaginable to those who weren't there, become comprehensible and real. The wide range of writers examined includes both famous literary memoirists like Robert Graves, Tim O'Brien, and Elie Wiesel, and unknown soldiers who wrote only their war stories. Using these testimonies, Hynes considers each war in terms of its special circumstances and its effects on men who fought. His understanding of the psychology of warfare--and of each war's role in history--gives this study its intellectual authority; the voices of the men who were there, and wrote about what they saw and felt, give it its powerful dramatic impact.Download Description
The Soldier's Tale is the story of modern wars as told by the men who did the actual fighting. Hynes examines the journals, memoirs, and letters of men who fought in the two World Wars and in Vietnam, and also the wars fought against the weak and helpless in concentration camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and bombed cities. Interweaving his own reflections on war with brilliantly chosen passages from soldiers' accounts, he offers vivid answers to the question we all ask of men who have fought: What was it like? In these powerful pages the experiences of modern war, which seem unimaginable to those who weren't there, become comprehensible and real. The wide range of writers examined includes both famous literary memoirists like Robert Graves, Tim O'Brien, and Elie Wiesel, and unknown soldiers who wrote only their war stories. Using these testimonies, Hynes considers each war in terms of its special circumstances and its effects on men who fought. His understanding of the psychology of warfare--and of each war's role in history--gives this study its intellectual authority; the voices of the men who were there, and wrote about what they saw and felt, give it its powerful dramatic impact.Customer Reviews:
A Useful Gathering of Anglo American Tales.......2001-12-28
Ponderous account, but worthwhile.......2001-12-26
The concept of "war in the head" being formed by the books and movies soldiers watched growing up is useful.
Some peculiar opinions make it interesting and memorable, for example, he mentions twice that World War I is "our favorite war." News to me. Also, that all the dope-smoking in Viet Nam is a myth traceable to some articles in Esquire Magazine. Who knew?
At least two typographical errors in the text.
It is indeed "bearing witness to modern war.".......2001-01-27
Here, Hynes zooms out, assembling with great skill personal micro-views that together are a broad picture of war. His narrative weaves the recollections into a whole fabric.
Some sage once observed that old men start wars and young men fight them. Old men write glorious and expansive military histories, the young men who fought the battles write about the miseries of the battlefields -- and, occasionally the humor -- and the miseries of captivity. Soldiers who were unlucky enough to be prisoners of the Japanese became the real experts on the miseries of captivity.
This excellent book is marred at the end by an almost apologetic discussion of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That kind of warfare was unique, says Hynes, and so it was, being the only uses of nuclear bombs in world history. But what was the alternative? An invasion of a nation that had demonstrated repeatedly that every soldier would fight to the death? And at what cost, another several hundred thousand allied dead? Hynes writes:
"And although [the bombing] was an attack not on a specific military target but on a city, that was not new in August 1945; many cities were in ashes by then. But it was a strange, unique act of war; an action without a battle, without armies, without a visible enemy, in which neither courage nor cowardice mattered; an action for which there was no possible retaliation; an action so far outside the capabilities of armies up to then that it seemed like some catastrophic natural disaster -- only it was UNnatural. That was what was most disturbing about it, and still is. . . . So it was different from other bombed, burned-out cities, where there were guns and fighter planes to oppose the attack. . . It is more entirely a victim war than Auschwitz, where resistance was just barely possible and survival might be an act of will; more than the prisoner-of-war camps, helpless though those captives sometimes were. It was a unique event in the history of man's capacity to destroy his species."
By demonstrating that the U.S. DID have the capacity to level the entire island nation of Japan -- if not the ability to destroy the species of man -- a beaten but still ferocious warring nation was brought to the table.
The casualties in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined were perhaps less than the deaths in that single massacre in Nanking, China, where Japanese soldiers systematically killed between 100,000 and 300,000 men, women and children. Shot them one by one. But somehow, in Hynes's view, that kind of killing is war, where the unprecedented atomic explosions were not war, but something else, something UNnatural. I don't agree. Was the barbarism of the Japanese military during WWII natural? I don't think so.
Regardless of this objection, I consider "The Soldiers' Tale" to be an outstanding contribution to war literature.
Through the eyes of those who fought.......2000-02-27
The accounts bear witness to the difficulties men faced in World War II and Vietnam and is a discovery of mankind and how they act and react during times of intense struggle.
The accounts, filled with fear, anger, frustration and courage must be remembered and not just stored away on some dusty shelf. Within these pages you stare face to face into the brutal reality of survival versus death, and walk away with a glimpse into what it was like for those who were there.
A detailed examination of the soldiers'literature of war........1999-01-02
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Samuel Lynn Hynes Manufacturer: Penguin Putnam~childrens Hc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0670865850 |
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THE SOLDIER'S TALE : Bearing witness to Modern War.
Manufacturer: The Penguin Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000I8R8ZO |
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Fun Things You Can Do With A Catheter
Ted McGoron , and Ted J. McGoron Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0738808385 |
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This is a record of one man's experience with radical prostatectomy, the removing of his prostate, because of cancer. It is written with some humor and is meant to convince others of the importance and effectiveness of testing for prostate cancer and treating it when it is discovered.
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James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: A Life
Daniel Kelly Manufacturer: ISI Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1882926765 |
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Conservatism's Forgotten Man.......2003-04-29
Burnham's views on Congressional supremacy, his partial support for Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his views on racial matters would place him, broadly speaking, on the paleconservative spectrum. Burnham rejected neoconservatism when it first appeared as a distinct ideology in the 70s and his last public appearance, in 1983, was to accept an award from The Ingersoll Foundation, which is associated with a paleoconservative think-tank. In light of all this, it is a stretch for Mr. Kelly to suggest that Burnham was a proto-neoconservative.
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James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: a Life.(Book Review): An article from: Independent Review
Joseph R. Stromberg Manufacturer: Independent Institute ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008DWYTO Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from Independent Review, published by Independent Institute on June 22, 2003. The length of the article is 2060 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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Bury Us Upside Down: The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Rick Newman , and Don Shepperd Manufacturer: Presidio Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0345465385 Release Date: 2007-02-27 |
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They had the most dangerous job n the Air Force. Now Bury Us Upside Down reveals the never-before-told story of the Vietnam War’s top-secret jet-fighter outfit–an all-volunteer unit composed of truly extraordinary men who flew missions from which heroes are made.Customer Reviews:
The Big Picture.......2007-10-01
Very well done.......2007-07-12
The story of men who were Sierra Hotel.......2007-07-06
Pretty good read.......2007-05-16
Bury Us Upside Down.......2007-05-07
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The Misty Trail
Florence Miller , and Florence Foley Miller Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0738806803 |
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In this volume, the third, of her autobiography, the author describes the first five years of her married life, in California. With living still crude, most roads unimproved, and home conveniences mere dreams, they worked to build a life in this pristine state, still mostly untouched by man.Customer Reviews:
Great series of Early American Life.......2007-03-25
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Misty Trails: The San Luis Valley in Song and Foklore
Effie Aldrich Newcomb Manufacturer: Manson & Co. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NF54N0 |
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Misty trails: The San Luis Valley in song and folklore
Effie Aldrich Newcomb Manufacturer: Manson ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006CVUHE |
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10 titles misty of chincoteague, captain underpants and the attack of the talking toilets, sunset of the sabertooth,sunny, danger will robinson, the trail of the jedi, the big wave,greasy grimy gopher guts,my mom the frog,into the blue. (scholastic)
various ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000V1KKHG |
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ten scholastic books. this is great lot the books.clean entertaiment for kids, who like to read.several have the previous owner's name writen on the inside. most are in good condition while some are fair condition.
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Bury Us Upside Down: The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Rick (Author) Shepperd, Don (Author) Newman Manufacturer: Presidio Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OVZ7T4 |
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Global Change and Transformation: Economic Essays in Honor of Karsten Laursen (Copenhagen Studies in Economics and Management)
Manufacturer: Handelshojskolens Forlag ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 8716132157 |
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These economic essays elucidate phenomena of global transformation, unresolved transition problems and challenging uncertainties we observe throughout the global economy. Broad issues of theory and policy are tackled as the writers are stimulated by the new analytical puzzles into developing our conceptual and theoretical understanding of these phenomena. This book consists of contributions from thirty-one economists and social scientists from the US, Europe and Australia. The main interests of the authors lie in various branches of international economics and development studies, and all the authors share an aspiration to understand the behaviour of the major private and public actors: enterprises, statesand international groupings. TABLE OF CONTENTS: International contributors include: Heather Hazard Seev Hirsch Helen Hughes Anne O. Krueger Roderick Duncan Goran Ohlin Richard C. Porter Paul Streeten Lester D. Taylor Willy Van Ryckeghem
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Taking action: An educator's guide to involving students in environmental action projects
Darleen K Stoner Manufacturer: Project Wild ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006QJ1ZI |
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