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Intermediate Accounting: Analyzing and Solving Intermediate Accounting Problems Using Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows
David R. Koeppen , Donald E. Kieso , and Jerry J. Weygandt Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0471158895 |
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Changing Organizations: Practicing Action Training and Research
Raymon Bruce , and Sherman Wyman Manufacturer: Sage Publications, Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0761910069 |
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The "Action Training and Research" method of organizational development, pioneered by Neely Gardner in the 1960s, has become a classic methodology in public administration, despite the fact that GardnerÆs work was never published in book form. Raymon R. Bruce and Sherman M. Wyman have presented the power of GardnerÆs work in a form that speaks to the context of modern practice and scholarly thought. GardnerÆs methodology addresses how to change hierarchically structured public organizations whose management is rigidly vested in the status quo. He saw participative management as the key to achieving democratic organizations, reflecting the democratic values and norms of our society. He felt the devolution of management power in the organization enables the people doing the work of the organization to innovate and adapt to their "customerÆs" changing needs. It is, after all, those who are producing the goods and delivering the services that are best able to play a substantial and non-hypocritical role in the decisions concerning those goods and services, with the result that the most efficient and economic outcome will occur over time. The Action Training and Research approach focuses not so much on how to change organizations, but how to develop organizations that constantly change themselves. In this approach, each employee is a trainer and an agent of change. Remarkably, many of GardnerÆs principles are current todayùparticipative management, self-managed work groups and employees, outcome budgets, empowering the employee, and viewing the citizen as customer/owner. All provide a tool for organizational development in todayÆs public and private organizations. This volume will serve as a valuable guide to managers and consultants practicing organizational change in private and public sectors, at home or abroad. It will serve as an excellent resource to all students of action research methods.
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Changing Organizations: Practicing Action Training and Research. (Book Reviews). (book review): An article from: Human Resource Planning
Emma-Kristina Suprapto Manufacturer: Human Resource Planning Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0009F9ZFC Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Human Resource Planning, published by Human Resource Planning Society on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1007 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.Customer Reviews:
Great overview of AT&R.......2006-03-28
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Forensic Voice Identification
Harry Hollien Manufacturer: Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0123526213 |
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Eleven years after the publication of his seminal book, The Acoustics of Crime, Dr. Harry Hollien returns to share the benefit of over 40 years of experience in the field of forensic acoustics. Forensic Voice Identification fills the need for a new, comprehensive reference for professionals who work with recorded evidence, covering key areas such authentication of speech recordings, voice stress analysis, and speaker identification.
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Tom Owen voice identification & forensic audio & video analysis.(Homeland Security Watch)(Interview): An article from: The Forensic Examiner
Heather Barbre Blades Manufacturer: American College of Forensic Examiners ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008E3BAY Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from The Forensic Examiner, published by American College of Forensic Examiners on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 5448 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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Forensic Voice Identification
Harry Hollien Manufacturer: ACADEMIC PRESS INC@ ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000N643UE |
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Forensic voice identification
Lonnie L Smrkovski Manufacturer: Michigan Dept. of State Police ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006E62UW |
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Comets: Vagabonds of Space
David A. J. Seargent Manufacturer: Doubleday Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0385178697 |
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If You Talk to Animals: The Life of a Wildlife Rehabilitator
Cecilia Sanders Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0595330657 |
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If You Talk To Animals is a true story based on the experiences of Cecilia and Tom Sanders during a period of five years in the late 1980's. The Sanders are the sole operators of Wet Mountain Wildlife Rehabilitation.Experience the entire spectrum of emotion from heartbreak to the pure joy of being wild and free. Participate in the adventures of the wild orphans that come to the facility for nurturing and eventual release. Meet Jessica Fawn, a whitetail doe who inspired the author to write If You Talk to Animals. Discover incredible personalities and unique characters such as Tim Buck 1 and Tim Buck 2, Lawrence Elk, and Quilma the porcupine.
If You Talk To Animals will literally take you on the journey of a lifetime with wild orphans who will steal your heart with their antics. Follow them through their playful childhood into the wild world they were born to live in.
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If you talk to animals.......2004-12-12
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A hand-book to the flora of Ceylon, containing descriptions of all the species of flowering plants indigenous to the island, and notes on their history, ... some of the more interesting species
Henry Trimen Manufacturer: Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh and Periodical Experts, Delhi ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006CIPGI |
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Michelin THE GREEN GUIDE Auvergne/The Rhone Valley, 2e (THE GREEN GUIDE)
Michelin Travel Publications Manufacturer: Michelin Travel Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 2061304028 |
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This title brings you two distinctive regions of central France in a single volume: the extraordinarily varied landscape of the Auvergne created by the activity of long-extinct volcanoes; and the fascinating Rhone valley south of Lyon as far as the Triscastin plain, a great artery of civilization influenced by over two thousand years of history.
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Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Rachel Cohn , and David Levithan Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0375835318 Release Date: 2006-05-23 |
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It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, who’s just walked in to his band’s show. With a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure set against the backdrop of New York City—and smack in the middle of all the joy, anxiety, confusion, and excitement of a first date.Customer Reviews:
Add to your "playlist".......2007-10-18
Lovin' the Playlist.......2007-09-19
cute .......2007-08-24
helps heal heartbreaks.......2007-07-22
An Amazing Story without the Profanity........2007-06-19
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Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800
Woodruff Smith Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0415933293 |
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Over the past twenty years, questions concerning the nature of early modern European consumption have increasingly become the object of critical focus for historians, cultural theorists, and readers interested in the history of material cultures. Why did such changes arise? Did they create a consumer society in the 18th century? What relationships did they bear to the Industrial Revolution, to colonialism, and to modernization in general.
In Consumption and the Making of Respectability, historian Woodruff Smith focuses on the radical alterations that occurred between 1600 and 1800 in European consumption of commodities produced overseas: cotton and silk textiles, sugar, pepper, spices, coffee, tea, porcelain, and tobacco. In analyzing these trends of consumption, Smith provides an extremely significant and seldom-investigated process of cultural construction: the tying together of several distinct cultural patterns during this century to create a culture of respectability and its impact on popular culture, trade, politics, social dynamics, and literature.
This original and thoughtful work provides a comprehensive and much-needed understanding of the origins of modern consumption and all of its cultural implications.
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Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Social History
Lisa Tiersten Manufacturer: Journal of Social History ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0007URMX6 Release Date: 2005-07-13 |
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Social History, published by Journal of Social History on December 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1306 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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Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990's
John Naisbitt , and Patricia Aburdene Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0688072240 |
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An invaluable guide to a rapidly changing world
Nearly two decades have passed since thepublication of the groundbreaking national bestsellerMegatrends--and a remarkable number of itscontroversial prophecies have come to pass. Nowthe forecasters who accurately predicted the shape ofthe '80s turn their sights on the coming new century.And what they see will astound, excite, and profoundlytouch the lives of each and every one of us.
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Some on the spot, some not.......2007-01-15
Basically correct about 1990 decade.......2006-04-30
Forrest for the trees.......2004-05-30
My most honest advice is: don't bother, and don't waste your time, unless you simply want to see how much they failed at what they intended to do. The writing is too simplistic and barely factual, and there's no serious authoring or editing effort behind this "book".
No more Mr. Wiseguy.......2004-04-30
The Global Economy.......2003-11-12
1992 reduction of trade barriers with twelve nations in the European Economic Community
1988 Australia and New Zealands free trade agreements went into effect
1988 Talks about a U.S Japan free trade accord
For a global economy-one marketplace-to work, we must eventually have completely free trade among the nations, just as we do within the nation-states themselves (John Naisbitt - Megatrend 2000)
The United States biggest import is money. Its largest export by far are bonds, stocks, and other financial instruments. The United States is the largest producer in the global economy, it represents 25 percent of the world production and 5 percent of the population. Any country that attempts to remain economically closed and apart from the global economy will be left hopelessly behind.
Global Economy trends 1) Privatization of Business 2) Bankruptcy 3) Stock Markets 4) decreasing reliance on the blue collar worker 5) increased reliance on telecommunications and technology 6) Decreasing size and importance of unions 7) elimination of the command economies 8) the rising growth rate of the pacific rim - the shift from European production to Asian production and wealth (China, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore). The pacific rim is experiencing the fastest period of economic growth more than five times of the industrial revolution. China and the four tigers have learned to skip over the industrial revolution and enter the informational revolution.
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MEGATRENDS 2000-NEW DIRECTION
JOHN NAISBITT Manufacturer: WM MORROW & CO, ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000M0DIY8 |
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Megatrends 2000
John & Aburdene, Patricia Naisbitt Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OLRHJM |
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megatrends 2000
Manufacturer: william morrow ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000HRPCBS |
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Megatrends 2000 Ten New Directions for the 1990's
Naisbitt John and Aburdene Patricia Manufacturer: William Morrow ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000LC5IYA |
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Megatrends 2000 Ten New Directions for the 1990's
John Naisbitt Manufacturer: Morrow ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000HB2XNE |
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MEGATRENDS 2000. Ten New Directives for the 1990s.
John and Aburdene, Patricia Naisbitt Manufacturer: Morrow ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000W2IJKE |
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Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990's
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000H1N0L8 |
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Megatrends, 2000
John; Auburdene, Patricia Naisbitt Manufacturer: Morrow/Avon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0283060166 |
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Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990's.: An article from: The Futurist
Edward Cornish Manufacturer: World Future Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008KMDZW Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from The Futurist, published by World Future Society on May 1, 1990. The length of the article is 1809 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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Dollarization, Currency Blocs, and U.S. Policy
Adam S. Posen Manufacturer: Institute for International Economics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0881322857 |
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Introduction to Water in California (California Natural History Guides, 76)
David Carle Manufacturer: University of California Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0520240863 |
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It takes 8 gallons of water to grow a tomato; 616 gallons to make a burger patty. In fact, the food each of us consumes per day represents an investment of 4,500 gallons of water, according to the California Farm Bureau. In this densely populated state where it rains only six months out of the year, where does all that water come from? This thoroughly engaging, concise book tells the story of California's most precious resource, tracing the journey of water in the state from the atmosphere to the snowpack to our faucets and foods. Along the way, we learn much about California itself as the book describes its rivers, lakes, wetlands, dams, and aqueducts and discusses the role of water in agriculture, the environment, and politics. Essential reading for a state facing the future with an already overextended water supply, this fascinating book shows that, for all Californians, every drop counts.Customer Reviews:
Essential reading if you live in California.......2005-09-19
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Trees and shrubs for dry California landscapes: Plants for water conservation : an introduction to more than 360 California native and introduced plants which survive with limited water
Bob Perry Manufacturer: Land Design Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding Similar Items:
ASIN: 0960598812 |
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Nice pictorial reference.......2000-09-06
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California, 1847-1852. Drawings by William Rich Hutton reproduced from the originals in the Huntington Library. With an introduction by Willard O. Waters.
William Rich (1826-1901). HUTTON Manufacturer: The Huntington Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OX8VWM |
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WATER DEBUTS ELECTRONIC BILLING/PAYMENT.: An article from: Productivity Software
Manufacturer: Worldwide Videotex ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008ECN0I Release Date: 2005-07-29 |
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This digital document is an article from Productivity Software, published by Worldwide Videotex on February 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1137 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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Introduction of eastern fish into the waters of the Pacific slope: With an account of operations at the United States Salmon Breeding Establishment on ... held in New York Feb. l0th, 1874
Livingston Stone Manufacturer: Printed by the Forest and Stream Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0008AD59K |
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Introduction to State of California water resources programs
Alfred R GolzeĢ Manufacturer: State of California, The Resources Agency, Dept. of Water Resources ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007HA7TU |
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Understanding California water: An introduction to major agencies, projects, and controversies alphabetically arranged
Erwin Cooper Manufacturer: The Author ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006QSQIQ |
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