Elder Abuse: Concepts, Theories and Interventions (Chapman & Hall Series in Accounting and Finance)

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Key Concepts in Accounting and Finance is one of a range of comprehensive glossaries with entries arranged alphabetically for easy reference. All major concepts, terms, theories and theorists are incorporated and cross-referenced. Additional reading and Internet research opportunities are identified. More complex terminology is clarified with numerous diagrams and illustrations. With almost 600 key terms defined, the book represents a comprehensive must-have reference for anyone studying a business-related course or those simply wishing to understand what accounting and finance is all about.

The new importance of materiality: CPAs can use this familiar concept to identify key control exceptions. : An article from: Journal of Accountancy

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The new importance of materiality: CPAs can use this familiar concept to identify key control exceptions. : An article from: Journal of Accountancy
James Brady Vorhies
Manufacturer: American Institute of CPA's
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Accountancy, published by American Institute of CPA's on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 2952 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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Title: The new importance of materiality: CPAs can use this familiar concept to identify key control exceptions.
Author: James Brady Vorhies
Publication: Journal of Accountancy (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2005
Publisher: American Institute of CPA's
Volume: 199 Issue: 5 Page: 53(6)

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Following on from his two best-selling training titles 100 Training Games and 101 More Training Games, Gary Kroehnert has produced another set of fun, lively, educational games to enhance performance at work. 102 More Training Games introduces a whole new set of simulations, role-plays and exercises for trainers and educators to apply to all different work situations and types of organisations.

Gary has used his familiar tried and tested game categories which have proven to be successful and effective:
Icebreaker
Team building
Communication
Facilitator/presentation skills
Mid-course energiser
Problem solving
Learning
Perception
Evaluation
Self-management

The games focus on developing skills in communication, team work and perception in a fun, easy way, applicable to one-on-one or groups. This book is an essential tool for training managers, facilitators, supervisors, human resource managers and consultants in all fields of business and education.

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Useful off-shelf resource.......2002-01-14

The third in a series of interactive training game volumes by facilitator and author Gary Kroehnert, 102 Extra Training Games features useful off-shelf structured activities, learning games and instruments in ten categories: icebreakers, teambuilding, communication, presentation skills, energizers,problem-solving, learning, perception, evaluation and self management. Clear, informal and generally useful guidance on facilitating the activities is included. As the bound volume doesn't easily lend itself to high quality reproduction, I found the suggestions on reproducing visuals and handouts less credible. Today, many trainers will want to adapt these to electronic presentation formats or their own house style. For those using OHP, tearaway handouts and visuals would be a useful improvement.

As contributed activities form the bulk of the content, some activities (or variations) will be familar to experienced trainers and learning groups. Nevertheless, I found this volume useful. The informal style and sense of humor offers a refreshing antidote to other off-shelf training resources that take themselves too seriously. A few activities may be inappropriate where people are easily offended. 'Health warnings' are however included in the short trainer's guide for each activity. Let your good judgement be your guide.

Overall-recommended to new and experienced trainers alike who need off-shelf resources in the categories listed above. As with all learning resources, review the content first before you buy.

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102 Extra Training Games
Gary Kroehnert
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Book Company Australia
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OGD6EM

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Environmental-friendliness, issues of public health, and the pros and cons of genetically-modified crops all receive regular coverage in the world's media. This, in turn, has led to increased questioning and investigation of chemical pesticides. Stenersen's concise and timely introduction to chemical pesticides describes these compounds according to their mode of action at the cellular and biochemical level. Chemical Pesticides provides answers to questions such as why pesticides are toxic to the target organism and why pesticides are toxic to some organisms and not others. It describes how various poisons interfere with biochemical processes in organisms. The book also explores how resistance to pesticides develops, how resistance can be used to illustrate the theory of evolution, and how it can be used to produce herbicide-resistant crop plants. Legal matters and potential environmental problems are also discussed. By providing an integrated, yet simple description of modern chemical pesticides, the author provides a relevant text for professionals and students in biological disciplines such as biochemistry, medicine, agriculture, and veterinary science.

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The processes that space science missions follow, from proposal to a space agency, to successful mission completion, are numerous. The rationale behind approval of a mission and its payload cannot be presented in undergraduate courses. This book contains contributions from experts involved in today's space missions at various levels. Chapters cover mission phases and implementation, launchers and cruise strategies, including gravity assist maneuvers and different thrust scenarios. Although the book concentrates on the ESA program Cosmic Visions, its content is relevant to space science missions at all space agencies.

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Jabir ibn Hayyan, for a long time the reigning alchemical authority both in Islam and the Latin West, has exercised numerous generations of scholars. To be sure, it is not only the vexed question of the historical authorship and dating of the grand corpus Jabirianum which poses a serious scholarly challenge; equally challenging is the task of unraveling all those obscure and tantalizing discourses which it contains.
This book, which marks the first full-scale study of Jabir ever to be published in the English language, takes up both challenges. The author begins by critically reexamining the historical foundations of the prevalent view that the Jabirian corpus is the work not of an 8th-century individual, but that of several generations of Shi'i authors belonging to the following century and later. Tentatively concluding that this view is problematic, the author, therefore, infers that its methodological implications are also problematic. Thus, developing its own methodological matrix, the book takes up the second challenge, namely that of a substantive analysis and explication of a Jabirian discourse, the Book of Stones. Here explicating Jabir's notions of substance and qualities, analyzing his ontological theory of language and unraveling the metaphysics of his Science of Balance, the author reconstructs the doctrinal context of the Stones and expounds its central theme. He then presents an authoritative critical edition of a substantial selection of the text of the Stones, based on all available manuscripts.
This critical edition has been translated in its entirety and is provided with exhaustive commentaries and textual notes -- another pioneering feature of this book: for this is the first English translation of a Jabirian text to emerge in print after a whole century. An outstanding contribution is that it announces and presents an exciting textual discovery: the author has found in the Stones a hitherto unknown Arabic translation of part of Aristotle's Categories. Given that we have so far known of only one other, and possibly later, classical Arabic translation of the Greek text, Haq's discovery gives this book an historical importance.

Names, Natures, and Things: The Alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan and His Kitab al-Ahjar (Book of Stones). (book reviews): An article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society

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Names, Natures, and Things: The Alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan and His Kitab al-Ahjar (Book of Stones). (book reviews): An article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
Y. Tzvi Langermann
Manufacturer: American Oriental Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00096Q9QY
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from The Journal of the American Oriental Society, published by American Oriental Society on October 1, 1996. The length of the article is 807 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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Title: Names, Natures, and Things: The Alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan and His Kitab al-Ahjar (Book of Stones). (book reviews)
Author: Y. Tzvi Langermann
Publication: The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 1996
Publisher: American Oriental Society
Volume: v116 Issue: n4 Page: p793(1)

Article Type: Book Review

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Names, Natures and Things: The Alchemist Jabir IBN Hayyan and His Kitab Al-Ahjar (Book of Stones)

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Names, Natures and Things: The Alchemist Jabir IBN Hayyan and His Kitab Al-Ahjar (Book of Stones)
Syed Nomanul Haq
Manufacturer: Springer Dordrecht
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBR00A

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This collection of papers is edited by renowned business thinker Oliver Williamson, who is currently Transamerica Professor of Corporate Strategy at the School of Business Administration at Berkeley. The fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chester I. Barnard's remarkable and still influential book, The Functions of the Executive, was celebrated with a seminar series at the University of California, Berkeley in the Spring of 1988. Eight of those lectures are published here. The contributors include organization specialists and sociologists (Barbara Levitt and James March; W. Richard Scott; Glenn Carroll; Jeffrey Pfeffer), an anthropologist, a political scientist, and two economists (Mary Douglas; Terry Moe; Oliver Hart; Oliver Williamson). An important contribution to organization theory, this volume reports on recent progress in this field, and projects a productive research future.

Organization Theory: From Chester Barnard to the Present and Beyond. (book reviews): An article from: Journal of Economic Issues

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Organization Theory: From Chester Barnard to the Present and Beyond. (book reviews): An article from: Journal of Economic Issues
William M. Dugger
Manufacturer: Association for Evolutionary Economics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00092I5PG
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Economic Issues, published by Association for Evolutionary Economics on September 1, 1991. The length of the article is 1198 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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Title: Organization Theory: From Chester Barnard to the Present and Beyond. (book reviews)
Author: William M. Dugger
Publication: Journal of Economic Issues (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1991
Publisher: Association for Evolutionary Economics
Volume: v25 Issue: n3 Page: p893(4)

Article Type: Book Review

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Wellington landed in the Iberian Peninsula in the summer of 1808. Over the next six years his forces defeated the French occupation forces in a succession of brilliant campaigns as he defended Portugal, liberated Spain and invaded France. His operations helped topple Napoleon in 1814. When Napoleon escaped from Elba and regained power in March 1815, Wellington, without the strength of his Peninsula army, combined an inferior collection of contingents into an effective fighting force. His victory at Waterloo is the British Army's most famous battle. In The National Army Museum's Book of Wellington's Armies, Uffindell skillfully weaves together unpublished acounts from the museum's archive to give a comprehensive picture of this campaign. Drawing on dispatches and letters from military commanders, officers and ordinary soldiers, the book mixes riveting descriptions of battle with stories of endurance and bravery. Uffindell's work brings to life the forgotten voices of Wellington's army.

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This volume contains the letters written by the Austrian Romance scholar Leo Spitzer (1887-1960) to the Romance scholar and linguist Hugo Schuchardt (1842-1927). Apart from specialist discussions on matters pertaining to Romance Studies and linguistics, the letters provide a stylistically eloquent insight into the human, cultural and political aspects of the life of a Viennese Jewish intellectual from 1912 to 1925 who saw himself facing increasing academic difficulties, first in Austria, and then in Germany.

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Centennial Mountains environmental impact statement : final (SuDoc I 1.98:C 33/4/final)
U.S. Geological Survey
Manufacturer: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Butte District Office
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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