Cost Accounting Check Figures: Concepts and Managerial Applications

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Upgrade your leadership skills quickly and easily—and produce results in your organization with a lot less effort. Each book in this collection focuses on a specific area of leadership and managerial effectiveness and offers 101 actions you can accomplish today to improve your impact. The books are easy-to-read and written by experts with real-world experience. Packed with involving activities that encourage thought and action, the books offer techniques that have been tried and proven effective in Fortune 500 companies. Read each title from cover to cover or one action-at-a-time. Either way, you are sure to discover new and stimulating ways to unleash your best effort as a leader. Organize your presentation thoughts... present your ideas with impact... manage yourself and your audience. These 101 actions will help you overcome "presentation-dread." Get ideas on how to make your main point compelling, practice with tape recorders and video recorders, use memory joggers, create slides, and more.

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Luscious pictures, delicious recipes.......2001-02-11

This is a very thorough book, so there are berries here that you might not know about. There's a separate section for each of 18 different kinds of edible berries. Each section has its own recipes. And there are 13 sections about inedible, ornamental berries.

Plus, there is ample information about designing, planting and cultivating a berry garden, and preserving, drying and storing berries. Also, there's ample information about finding and harvesting wild berries and finding sources concerning berries.

Buy this book and you'll know your berries.

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Berry Garden: Cultivation, Decoration and Recipes
Rosemary Verey
Manufacturer: Time Warner Books UK
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Gardening & Horticulture | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0356179753

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Berries : Cultivation, Decoration, and Recipes
Mary Forsell
Manufacturer: Bantam Dell Pub Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OM2KK2

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The Berry Garden Cultivation, Decoration and Recipes
Forsell M
Manufacturer: Time Warner Books UK
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OVXSUY

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Das vorliegende Buch gibt eine Einführung in folgende moderne Verfahren der Proteinanalytik: Aminosäure-Sequenzanalyse, Prinzipien und Techniken der Chromatographie und Elektrophorese, Massenspektrometrie, UV/Vis-, CD-, IR-, Raman-, NMR- und ESR-Spektroskopie, Lichtstreuung, Sedimentationsanalyse, immun- und biochemische Verfahren, datenbankgestützte Strukturvorhersagen, chemische Modifizierung von Proteinen. Es verbindet eine abgerundete Darstellung von Theorie, Arbeitsmethoden und Meßverfahren mit einer kritischen Wertung der Möglichkeiten und Grenzen ihres Einsatzes. Es wendet sich an Studenten der Biochemie und verwandter Gebiete und alle in den Biowissenschaften Tätige.

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Dr Eddie Obeng at Pentacle The Virtual Business School has invented a New Organisation designed for the fast-paced, complex, global New World. An organisation which self organises. Several of Pentacle The Virtual Business School's clients have now implemented this New Organisation over the past six years with impressive results. This book is an introduction and guide to reasons and methods for evolving your current organisation to be in line with the challenges and opportunities you face in your New World.

Eddie Obeng and his team of virtual tutors will work with you and the key executives, managers and leaders in your organisation to help you create the solution for you. Alternatively, you can find out more about the New World management approach and how it applies to your organisation by contacting Pentacle. Dr Obeng also provides regular audio broadcasts/Webcasts and answers business-specific questions through Pentacle's on-line cyberclubs.

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"UNIQUE" might best describe the 531st Engineer Shore Regiment. In World War 11, it was perhaps the only U.S.Ground Forces unit to participate in all all major assault landings in the Mediterrean (NorthAfrica, Sicily and Salerno, Italy) and D-Day in Normandy.

The 531st was involved in seven campaigns with more than three years overseas service and was awarded a unit citation, the Crox de Guerre avec Palm, by the French government.

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best book on the 531st.......2004-12-13

I found this book while searching WWII books looking for information on my fatherinlaw. I was elated to find this book. We had scattered paperwork that mentioned he belonged to the 53st and we had his letters home. But we knew nothing about the engineers. How they formed, where they trained, where they went to battle. This book surely helped us find our way. From Mr. Garn's book we learned that he was with the first battalion as he moved inland with the Rangers in North Africa. My copy is so much highlighted and dogeared that I'm thinking of getting another copy just to put on the bookcase. Great read for those that want to know about the 531st Engineers.

NOW I KNOW THE REST OF THE STORY.......2002-11-26

My dad was in the 531st and as many soldiers did, only touched on a few thing's here and there. This book put's all the pieces together. I knew that his unit was important but, "DARN". I really recommend this book to anyone who wondered just what the hell these guy's did.

Told by One Who was Really There.......2002-01-23

The appeal of Ken Garn's account for me is that this is the definitive account of the enlisted man's WW II told by an enlisted man. There are many stories and histories by historians and retired generals, but they gloss over what the man under fire on the beach was thinking about. The story telling is straightforward, personable and engaging.

A Special Unit.......2000-01-26

A good read, given the rising interest in WWII. An amazingly detailed memoir of a man who survived four assault landings and seven campaigns in a special engineer unit which prepared invasion beaches for troop landing, including D-Day. It resonated with this vet of that war, but others will find it compelling as well.

Comments on "Storming Ashore".......2000-01-15

A gripping story of and by a living example of the "Greatest Generation". As an Air Force officer who flew bombing missions over Europe in World War II, I take my hat off to Ken Garn who stormed ashore in the greatest and possibly the most dangerous invasion of all time.

Joshua T. Winstead, Jr Colonel USAF (Ret.)

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R.N.: The Commitment, the Heartache, and the Courage of Three Dedicated Nurses
Jane F. Carpineto
Manufacturer: St Martins Mass Market Paper
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0312929188

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William Rhodes Davis was Adolf Hitler's main agent of influence in the United States. Among Davis's many nefarious deeds was his acquisition of much of the oil Hitler needed to start World War II and the delivery of five million dollars to the Republican Party for the presidential campaign of 1940. Davis was a superb manipulator who could beguile the Nazis while simultaneously receiving the assistance of labor leader John L. Lewis and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Thought to be the model for the American Nazi in the motion picture Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Davis was an enigmatic, larger-than-life villain whose story is told here for the first time.

This revealing book tells how powerful American, British and Mexican business and political leaders helped a talented and complex man serve Hitler while he made and lost and made again millions of dollars. It also looks into the Establishment's attempts to cover up the part that prominent American leaders played in Davis's activities and maybe his mysterious death. Mystery Man is a fascinating story of espionage, political intrigue, and corporate skullduggery that will add an exciting new element to our understanding of the war years.

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An Excellent Examination of a Nazi Opportunist.......2000-06-27

America has always been cursed with opportunists willing to do business with dictators. The current crop of people willing to profit from China - from President Clinton's apparent cash payments from the Chinese secret police to Republican businessmens' use of near slave labor to boost their profits - have their antecedents in William Rhodes Davis, who made a fortune supplying Hitler with the oil to launch World War II. There were many mysterious things about Davis - his relationship to FDR, his role as a Nazi agent, even his death. Mr. Harrington doesn't, can't give us the answers to everything, but he does a brilliant job laying out the facts that are known. The author is both an investment banker and a sensible man. Both are necessary skills to bring to a book like this. As an investment banker, he is anexcellent guide through the thickets of financial manueverings. As a sensible man, he weighs the information carefully and allows the reader to draw his own conclusions. I have only one quibble: he mentions that Sir Harry Oakes became associated with Davis shortly before Davis' strange death. Oakes himself of course figured in a strange murder case in the Bahamas shortly thereafter. I would have liked the author to see if there was any connection between the cases. That is the minorest of quibbles, however, and readers of this book will be able to reflect on just how many facets history has.

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Twenty Years Serving The N.Y.P.D.

At Long Last, the Truth about Bob Leuci...Perhaps

I absolutely loved this book!

The Best True Crime Novel I've Ever Read

Powerful Revelations

All the Centurions: A New York City Cop Remembers His Years on the Street, 1961-1981
Robert Leuci
Manufacturer: William Morrow
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Serpico Serpico

ASIN: 0380976269
Release Date: 2004-06-29

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His story was told in the bestseller and acclaimed film Prince of the City. He was a detective in the narcotics division of the New York City Police Department during the 1960s and 1970s -- its most explosive and dramatic decades. His name is Robert Leuci, and now he is telling his own story.

All the Centurions is Leuci's accurately and sometimes mercilessly remembered account of young manhood -- a tale filled with dreadful and daring adventures on the streets and in the courthouses of New York City. Leuci takes us into the world of the New York City Police Department at a time when the city was crumbling under its own weight, drugs were taking over the poorer neighborhoods, and crime was rampant on the streets and subways. But this is also a story of shattered illusions and personal loss, of endurance and healing, and, finally, of astonishing spiritual growth. Leuci describes his evolution from a naive rookie to a seasoned detective who believes that the only people he can trust are his fellow cops -- until he learns that even that might not be true.

Leuci remembers the incredibly heroic men and women who behaved more bravely than anyone thought possible -- police officers both celebrated and notorious, like Frank Serpico, Sonny Grosso, and Eddie Egan and Detective Frank King from the French Connection case; high-ranking lawyers like Alan Dershowitz, Rudy Giuliani, and Tom Puccio. Leuci also reveals the dark side of New York City's criminal justice system: the bitterness, poison, greed, untamed cruelty, and ambition that eventually overflowed into the alleyways, rooftops, precinct houses, and courtrooms of the city.

All the Centurions is an engrossing read filled with great chase scenes and intriguing dramas while being, at its core, the story of a man descending into a hell of his own making who ultimately finds the way out through truth and justice. This is a true story about the mean streets of New York that is as vivid and entertaining as the best crime novel.

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Twenty Years Serving The N.Y.P.D........2006-05-27

This excellent read chronicles the authors career in the NYPD between 1961 and 1981. He writes about his days from a naive rookie to his time on the Tactical Patrol Force and Narcotics enforcement, till he testifies before the Knapp Commission. He offers valuable insight to the culture of graft that permeated not only much of the N.Y. Police Department but the also much of the legal and political system at the time. Interesting as well are his observations on the young Rudy Giuliani.

At Long Last, the Truth about Bob Leuci...Perhaps.......2005-08-08

For the record: other reviewers have identified both this book and Robert Daley's "The Prince of the City" as novels, which neither are. Both--at least ostensibly--are nonfiction. This is an important distinction to myself or anyone that saw the 1981 film, were captivated by the story and wanted to know how much of what they saw was factual, as opposed to fictional affectations of artistic license.

My reading of Robert Daley's book sated most of my hunger in that regard, although effort was required. For whatever reason--though Daley had named the true names of all the players--pseudonyms were used in the film version. Reconciling who was who vis-à-vis characters in the book and their counterparts in the movie required concentration. And doubts remained: this was a book built foursquare upon interviews by Daley with a man who'd immersed himself in corruption, then sought redemption by exposing only a tiny fraction of his acts of misconduct, hoping his willingness to wear a wire, to ante his life onto the brutal 1970s poker game of heroin trafficking would make up the difference. Only when the walls of legal justice were closing upon him from all sides did he recant in full--which raised the possibility in my mind that he never truly did.

Whatever my suspicions, anyone who saw either the aforementioned movie or book MUST read this book. It brought closure to me, as I'm sure it did to Bob Leuci. Told in the gruff style to be expected from a man who was a New York City narcotics detective long before he became a writer--comma splices and use of the "F" word are ubiquitous--the truth of what a man who chose the life of a 1970s War on Drugs foot soldier had to undergo, the uncompensated sacrifices, the human filth they, by necessity, crawled into the gutter with, the forces larger than themselves that tweaked their perspective, their moral compass--become obvious.

There's troubling inconsistencies between "All the Centurions" and "The Prince of the City," both of which bill themselves as unvarnished fact: DeStephano--who along with a New York cop nearly ended Leuci's life before a mafia figure advised against it--was a bail bondsman in Daley's account. In Leuci's, he became a private investigator working for a bail bondsman.

In both the movie and Daley's book, Joe Nunziata, Leuci's NYPD mentor and role model, had vouched for Leuci's credibility to a nervous DeStephano, telling him that "...if Leuci's a rat, my mother's a rat." In Leuci's account, Nunziata made the declaration not to DeStephano, but before a barroom mob of detectives who'd come to doubt Leuci's loyalty and were screaming for his blood.

Daley had Leuci's cousin, a mid-level Mafiosi, doing a "Houdini"--disappearing, presumably murdered--a la Jimmy Hoffa (in the movie, his body was discovered beneath the lid of a trash can by a sanitation worker). Leuci makes no mention of the presumed event--an event, surely, of no small impact in his life.

Daley recounts Leuci parading a beautiful hooker--a trophy date--before his NYPD brethren in a bar. Leuci mentions the episode, but admits only that he recognized her attractiveness before sending her to jail.

If there are inconsistencies, then why does it bring closure? Good question. It allows me to make peace with incidents in my own life that, God help me, no one will ever know about. Robert Leuci is a far better man than I. If he's allowed an inner sanctum where he can be alone with insignificant--if embarrassing details of his life--then so can I.

I absolutely loved this book!.......2004-08-13

If you love stories about the mafia, police corruption and New York City's crime-ridden streets in the '60s and '70s -- and how could you not? -- you'll love this book as I did. Leuci's life story takes you into the heart of police and crime drama that most people are never exposed to, and he is very candid and real about his own flirtations with corruption over the course of his career as an elite NYC narcotics detective. I highly, highly recommend this book for the action, the insights and the look at a life story that is truly amazing. Reading Leuci's own words, it's easy to see why Robert Daly wrote a best-selling novel about him and Sidney Lumet made a critically acclaimed movie about him.

The Best True Crime Novel I've Ever Read.......2004-07-27

This novel was a page-turning, absolutely riveting account of Detective Robert Leuci's twenty years as a narcotics detective in New York City. And what an account...from inside stories about a young Rudy Guiliani to one-on-one conversations between Leuci and Mario Cuomo to descriptions of the Harlem Riots and undercover narcotics investigations that make you feel like you were there, this book has something for everyone. As if that were not enough, Leuci's life story takes the reader through his Hollywood experiences and even on stage with the Beatles. I highly recommend this book -- the best true crime novel I've ever read.

Powerful Revelations.......2004-07-25

The revelations in this book are not diluted by the distance of three decades. Rampant graft, dirty cops, obscene rationalizations and the grim necessity of fighting scum all play a part in this unflinching look at the reality of New York's war on drugs during the 60s and 70s. The author is painfully candid about his faults and his participation--he was corrupt and is not shy about saying so.

Now the author offers unique insight into how it happened, and in telling it, shows by example how we can prevent repetition of history. The author is at his strongest when blunt and forthcoming in his endearingly dry tone. He refrains from opining and offering simplistic answers or steps to prevent such events from continuing to happen in departments across the country--and in refraining, his statement is that much stronger.

A piece of American history told in brisk, compelling style. Excellent for crime libraries.

ALL THE CENTURIONS: A NEW YORK CITY COP REMEMBERS HIS YEARS ON THE STREET, 1961-1981 (THE REAL "PRINCE OF THE CITY" TELLS HIS STORY)

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ALL THE CENTURIONS: A NEW YORK CITY COP REMEMBERS HIS YEARS ON THE STREET, 1961-1981 (THE REAL "PRINCE OF THE CITY" TELLS HIS STORY)

Manufacturer: William Morrow New York
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IADQVC

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This annual conference is a global gathering of the world's leading scholars and development practitioners. Among the attendees are participants from developing countries, universities, think tanks, NGOs, and international financial institutions. These papers concentrate on issues like trade and poverty; Africa's future; rural or industrial development; education and empowerment; and investment climate and productivity.

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The World Bank's Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) was held in Bangalore, India on May 21-23, 2003. The ABCDE, one of the world's best-known conferences on development, was held for the first time in a developing country. 'Accelerating Development" was the theme of the 2003 conference. Eminent scholars and practitioners from around the world presented new research findings and discuss key policy issues related to poverty reduction at the conference. The ABCDE has been held annually in Washington DC since 1989; since 1999, a similar conference has been held each year in Europe. Starting with the 2003 conference in Bangalore, each of these conferences will be held in a developing country every other year. This change reflects the growing importance of research done in developing countries and the need to bring such conferences closer to participants in the developing world. Conference topics for the ABCDE in Bangalore included: Fostering Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Growth; Challenges of Development in Lagging Regions; Participation, Inclusion and Results; Scaling Up and Evaluation.

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