Miller Not-For-Profit Reporting 2003: Gaap : Tax, Financia, and Regulatory Requirements

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This applied text, designed to increase the student's human resource skills, is a self-contained text, workbook, and study guide-all for one price. Written in a conversational style using stories, real-world examples, and humor, the book is sure to engage the reader. The authors include free-writes, case studies, projects, and personality tests to help students apply what they have read. The pages are perforated to make it easier for students to hand in their projects.

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Planetary Astronomy 101.......2004-05-13

This book provides an excellent overview of the evolution of human knowledge about the Solar System from the first observations in recorded history to the latter 1990s. Its emphasis is on communicating a basic understanding of planetary astronomy rather than focusing on scientific details. This makes the book an outstanding introduction to a complex and fascinating subject. The general public rather than astronomers and space scientists are the primary audience for this work, but conceivably specialists in the field could read this book with profit. Jurgen Rahe, NASA's late director of Solar System exploration, sponsored this work as a formal effort to provide general readers with a reliable, well-written overview of planetary astronomy. He succeeded in that objective as author Ron Schorn has published a fine entree to comprehending the breadth of the subject.

Of course, planetary astronomy is generally categorized as consisting of the outer planets and inner planets of the Solar System. Schorn begins with a discussion of the nighttime sky and what one may view there. While he discusses the possibilities for origins of the universe, and the galaxies on view every night, his focus is on what planets one might view with the naked eye, relatively simple telescopes, and then more complex instruments. At that point he journeys back in time to the earliest observations by the ancients and how they constructed their understanding of the universe based on astronomical observations. He then quickly moves forward to the twentieth century when understandings of planetary astronomy changed rapidly in response to ground and airborne observatories and especially space probes sent to the various planets of the Solar System.

Schorn discusses at some length the many spacecraft that have been sent to the inner planets by the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as European and Japanese consortia, traveling to Mercury, Venus, and particularly Mars. This book explains well the story of such missions as the Mariner series that journeyed to these planets, the two Viking spacecraft that landed on Mars in 1976, and plans for future explorations of the red planet. Some spacecraft have been sent, but far fewer, to the outer planets. Visits to the gas giants of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, and the small distant rock known as Pluto have been largely the province of the United States' efforts. NASA, for example, sent Pioneer 10 and 11 on a "windshield" tour of Jupiter and Saturn in the 1970s; following soon thereafter with Voyagers 1 and 2 that flew past the gas giants beginning in the latter 1970s through the 1980s. This activity, Schorn asserts, represents a golden age for Solar System exploration.

Schorn is at his best in discussing the decline of planetary astronomy in the early twentieth century--as astronomers led by Edwin Hubble focused their attention on galaxies beyond the Milky Way rather than on the Solar System--and its recovery in the 1960s as NASA reenergized planetary exploration with the first probes to Venus and Mars. This reemphasis on planetary astronomy was actually quite practical. The recently created NASA held a mandate to undertake exploration of the cosmos with both human and robotic spacecraft. Since the technical capability for planetary exploration existed, NASA's scientists focused their attention there. Even more important, according to Schorn, these scientists also emphasized lunar exploration as an adjunct of NASA's Apollo program to humans on the Moon. These efforts revitalized scientific study of the Solar System and yielded an enormous harvest of understanding about our immediate corner of the universe.

Easy to read and dased on a wealth of sources, both oral and written, "Planetary Astronomy" is a wonderful introduction to an enthralling subject. Enjoy!

Fascinating book by a knowledgeable insider!.......2003-04-03

This is a fascinating history of the field of planetary astronomy written by an insider. Dr. Schorn was once head of planetary astronomy for Nasa. As such, he's known most of major figures of the field from the last half of the 20th century. What distinguishes this book is it's very literary style. Dr. Schorn not only knows the field, he writes of it in an engrossing style that the layman can understand. If you have any curiousity about how study of the planets has grown, then languished for decades, only to re-emerge during the space age, then this book is for you.

Well written history!.......2001-09-27

This book is a good read for anyone who has a limited knowledge of astronomy, especially from a historical perspective. I would have rated it five stars, however I would have like to have seen a little more discussion about celestial mechanics (the movement, alignment, and rotation of the planets) along with illustrations. I found it somewhat cumbersome to intereperet some of the early models of the universe without charts or other illustrations. Overall though a very well written book.

one of the best books I read last year.......2000-03-30

This book is surprisingly well written and very engrossing. The author never gets ahead of himself--each new nugget of knowledge about the heavens above is evaluated using the science of the day, not with a modern bias. Consequently, you never feel that ancient astronomers were somehow stupid for missing things that are so "obvious" to us, such as the heliocentric model of the solar system or the nature of comets. The very first chapter is an especially good gem--it puts you in the shoes of someone two thousand years ago and asks "what could you logically deduce from looking at the heavens above?" Utterly captivating and a must-read.

Thoughful history of the evolution of planetary astronomy........1999-03-04

This book is a must as a historical reference. It offers a fresh insightful look at Planetary astronomy as it happened. Schorn has a way of keeping you on the edge of your seat at the turning points of discovery (i.e. Newton... sunlight through a prism... but spectroscopy wasn't to be discovered for another 2 centuries...), minutes, purpose and impact of the US/USSR space race...

PLANETARY ASTRONOMY FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE THIRD MILLENNIUM.

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PLANETARY ASTRONOMY FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE THIRD MILLENNIUM.

Manufacturer: Texas A & M University Press.
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The Emergent Manager examines the process of becoming a manager within organizations and considers how people relate the ways in which they 'manage' their lives to their development as managers in the workplace.

At the heart of the book is the idea of the individual engaged in a continual process of 'becoming'. Focusing on the reported experiences of managers, the book is richly illustrated throughout with examples drawn from a variety of workplaces, including the civil service, academia, the retail industry, construction and engineering, banking and the prison service.

Tony Watson and Pauline Harris together provide a new understanding of the nature of the management role and the ways in which people make sense of their lives as managers.

Accessible and innovative, this book will be of interest to students and academics in management and organization studies as well as practising managers.

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Although volumes have been written about World War II in the Pacific, very little has been published from the perspective of individual sailors. The Navy enlisted men interviewed for this book fought in some of the fiercest battles of the war, such as Coral Sea, Midway, and the Solomon Islands campaign. Some were eyewitnesses to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and many were part of the island-hopping campaigns of the Southwest and Central Pacific. Others were witness to or casualties of Japanese suicide attacks, and a few saw it all, from Pearl Harbor to the surrender at Tokyo Bay. These accounts of the men who faced the horror of combat head on vividly portray naval warfare up close and personal.

This collection of oral histories chronicles the bluejacket experience in graphic detail and without pretense. It offers a rare look at the war at sea and appeals to everyone interested military history and to general readers seeking to understand what war is really like. 29 photographs. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. 6 x 9 inches.

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Gives a human face to war.......2004-09-21

I read Bruce Petty's first book and knew then I would follow this writer wherever he might take me.

Bruce combines two valuable skills: That of a detective, with a gift of listening, allowing soldiers to relive the moment, telling their compelling and true accounts of combat.

Once again Bruce has given his readers the human face of a tragic time in history. It's an instructive and moving book and I recommend it highly.

I'm waiting anxiously to read Bruce's next book.

WWII Pacific Sailors Experiences Revealed.......2003-12-05

Each story reaches out to the reader to feel and see the experiences of the enlisted man and his shipmates. After reading this book, and each enlisted man's story, the reader can't help but feel a sense of pride and awe at the bravery and heroism of these men. Each chapter is written with an individual's experiences and memories accompanied by historical material to compliment their story. A must read for any WWII or naval history enthusiast.

"Fading Memories".......2003-11-29

This compilation of experiences opens a door that has been almost closed. You will read and share the experiences of enlisted men who smelled the cordite and blood. Related in a manner that dispels any notion that they are seeking an egoists desire for recognition. These men were there and they are telling it, "Like it was."

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Raise your Hispanic IQ with the definitive book on the basics of marketing to Hispanics. From understanding the differences between Mexicans and Cubans to practical considerations of translation and adaptation.

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Presents a full view of marketing for today's Hispanics.......2004-03-05

Juan Faura has an extensive background in marketing, specializing in marketing to the Hispanic population within the United States. He moves beyond the traditionally accepted stereotypical perceptions of the growing and changing Hispanic community. He has been able to expose the variety, or "flavor" of the Hispanic community for the richness it deserves.

His assertion is that the Hispanic community [one of the largest and fastest growing across the U.S.] of today is vastly different from the one that existed five years ago, and certainly alien to the traditional community of the 50s and 60s. He makes these distinctions in an easy to read, casual style. A marketing program must take into consideration the variances within this community in order to market more effectively.

He provides listings and contacts for the top 30 Hispanic Markets in the U.S., as well as an extensive appendix with Hispanic Chambers of Commerce from across the country. This is a must read for businesses that want to get an inside look into the Hispanic market to successfully expand their business opportunities.

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Descriptions of Indian peoples of the Northeast date to the Norse sagas, centuries before permanent European settlement, and the region has been the setting for a long history of contact, conflict, and accommodation between natives and newcomers. The focus of an extraordinarily vital field of scholarship, the Northeast is important both historically and theoretically: patterns of Indian-white relations that developed there would be replicated time and again over the course of American history. Today the Northeast remains the locus of cultural negotiation and controversy, with such subjects as federal recognition, gaming, land claims, and repatriation programs giving rise to debates directly informed by archeological and historical research of the region.

The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Northeast is a concise and authoritative reference resource to the history and culture of the varied indigenous peoples of the region. Encompassing the very latest scholarship, this multifaceted volume is divided into four parts. Part I presents an overview of the cultures and histories of Northeastern Indian people and surveys the key scholarly questions and debates that shape this field. Part II serves as an encyclopedia, alphabetically listing important individuals and places of significant cultural or historic meaning. Part III is a chronology of the major events in the history of American Indians in the Northeast. The expertly selected resources in Part IV include annotated lists of tribes, bibliographies, museums and sites, published sources, Internet sites, and films that can be easily accessed by those wishing to learn more.

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The Columbia Guide To American Indians Of The Northeast
Kathleen J. Bragdon
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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Binding: Paperback
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The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Northeast
Kathleen J. Bragdon
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THE COLUMBIA GUIDE TO AMERICAN INDIANS OF THE NORTHEAST. The Columbia Guides to American Indian History and Culture

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THE COLUMBIA GUIDE TO AMERICAN INDIANS OF THE NORTHEAST. The Columbia Guides to American Indian History and Culture
Kathleen J. Bragdon
Manufacturer: Columbia Univ. Press,
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N7INHW

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How far have OECD countries advanced in their move to a knowledge-based economy? Which new technologies are growing in importance? How far have information and communications technologies spread? How are these trends affecting the global interaction of economies, in trade and investment as well as science and technology? And how does this affect productivity and industrial competitiveness?

Over 200 graphs, many of which are new to this edition—the sixth in a series spanning a decade —provide a comprehensive picture of countries' performance in the areas of science, technology, globalization, and industry. New indicators address emerging policy issues: international mobility of researchers and scientists, innovation as measured by patent families, biotechnology, nanotechnology, new indicators on the information economy, the role of multinational enterprises, productivity, firm turnover, and industrial performance.

With the essential findings presented as bullet points and in methodological notes on indicators and data sources, this publication combines statistical rigor with easy access and readability.

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