Accounting Research Methods: Do the Facts Speak for Themselves?

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This book is the first to provide human resources staff with everything they need to know to mine rich Internet sources.

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Not Just for HR Professionals.......2001-01-24

I bought this book thinking that it would help me gain more knowledge into the HR field and that the sites mentioned in this book would be useful. I have found out more on my own. Several times throughout the book they state that it is not really useful for HR professionals, or not just for HR professionals, or that HR professionals should atleast give it a once over. This book does not give 100 websites for HR professionals, but for others as well, and a lot not relating to HR (Human Resources) at all.

Essential reference for Human Resource managers........2000-05-04

Ray Schreyer and John McCarter's Best 100 Web Sites For HR Professionals tells how to navigate online resources to locate jobs and information. Human resource professionals receive facts on everything from finding recruitment services and legal facts to salary administration, with sites receiving critiques of content and information.

Hr professionals need a good infomediary!.......2000-04-23

This book provides an excellent list of Web sites for HR professionals. I recommend this book at any conference where I give an invited address on "Virtual HR" or "Virtual Entrepreneurship." The contents of this book could easily form the foundation for an e-commerce Web-site. Highly recommended!

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This practical book provides crucial information necessary to formulate diets with appropriate amounts of amino acids, minerals, and vitamins. The factors that influence how well animals obtain these critical nutrients and methods for determining bioavailability are reviewed in this comprehensive text. In addition, data from both ruminants and nonruminants are included as well as established estimates of bioavailability for particular feed stuffs and feed supplements.

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Amino Acids in Farm Animal Nutrition

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As the building blocks for proteins, dietary amino acids are of great importance in the feeding of farm animals produced for human consumption. Considerable research has been undertaken into the amino acid requirements of the various species of farm animals and there is now increased interest in the commercial production of pure amino acids as feed supplements. Written by leading authorities from the USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand, this book provides a comprehensive review of recent advances and current knowledge of amino acids in farm animal nutrition. The first five chapters consider general issues, such as methodology for amino acid analysis, utilization of precursors, ideal amino acid patterns and amino acid imbalances and toxicities. The remaining eleven chapters focus on particular species including pigs, poultry, ruminants and finfish. There is emphasis on modelling amino acid metabolism in various species and on determining optimum requirements and dietary balances. The book is aimed at advanced students and research workers in animal nutrition, for whom it represents a definitive work.

The Roles of Amino Acid Chelates in Animal Nutrition

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The Roles of Amino Acid Chelates in Animal Nutrition

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ASIN: 0815513127

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The latest research results on the roles of amino acid chelates in animal nutrition are covered in this book, with careful attention to scientific detail and accuracy. The book presents the work of 42 international contributors; and will interest nutritionists, veterinarians, and all those concerned with animal feeds and feeding programs—particularly those supplying mineral supplements to the diet in a form which can be absorbed readily and digested properly.

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The topic of this conference was GeV to TeV gamma-ray astrophysics. Existing GeV-TeV observatories are being improved, and new analytical techniques are being developed. New detection techniques are yielding first results. Major observatories, both on the ground and in space, will begin operation within the next five years. New theories and multi-wavelength observations point to observing strategies. Included are papers on Blazars and Bl Lacs, On Markarian 421 and 501, Supernova Remnants, Gamma Ray Bursts, Other Sources, Imaging Atmosphere Cherenkov Observatories, Other TeV Observatories, and Future Observatories.

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Seven Half-Miles from Home: Notes of a Wind River Naturalist
Mary Back
Manufacturer: Johnson Books
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Seven Half-miles From Home - Notes Of A Wind River Naturalist
Mary Back
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Fascinating Look at the Unknown Side of a Sport

Arrogant but likeable

Tell it like it is!

Good Read !

I'm a fisherman not a bookworm.... this was good!

Fishing on the Edge: The Mike Iaconelli Story
Mike Iaconelli , Andrew Kamenetzky , and Brian Kamenetzky
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Ike's Rules for Better Bass Fishing - Volume 1: Taking Luck out of the Equation

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Kevin Vandam's Bass Strategies: A Handbook for All Anglers

Sowbelly: The Obsessive Quest for the World-Record Largemouth Bass

Big Bass Zone: Catch Monster Bass

ASIN: 0553804456
Release Date: 2005-05-17

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With his colorful tattoos and booming hip-hop sound track, Mike Iaconelli has turned the world of big-money competitive bass fishing upside down. In Fishing on the Edge, Iaconelli tells his own story–and it’s a whopper: a Philly-born, Jersey-bred Yankee who’s been stealing the spotlight from bass fishing’s traditionally all-Southern anglers, attracting fans and dominating one of the fastest-growing sports in America.

How did Mike Iaconelli, a college-educated kid from New Jersey, come blasting into a sport
dominated by old-school stars like Gary Klein, Kevin VanDam, and Denny Brauer? How did Mike, aka “Ike,” take a secret childhood passion and turn it into a profession, earning million-dollar sponsorships and a storm of media attention, ranging from ESPN’s SportsCenter to profiles in The New York Times and Esquire? While Mike has attracted both fans and foes on the tour,
his success speaks for itself, especially his victory at the 2003 CITGO Bassmaster Classic, the Super Bowl of competitive fishing.

Forty-four million Americans fish, but no one does it quite like Mike Iaconelli. In Fishing on the Edge, he lets you in on the secrets to his extraordinary success–how he developed his “power” fishing style, how he attacks the water, positions the boat, and perseveres through those days when the bass just aren’t biting. With sidebar tips that can be used by any fisherman–from using spinner baits to picking out the right rod to his no-fail “secret weapons”–this is an intensive, informative, and often raucous journey through the life of a brash young man destined to do for fishing what Tony Hawk did for the X Games: take the sport to a whole new level. At the same time, it’s the compelling first-person story of a man who prepared carefully every step of the way, kept notes on every fish he ever caught, and executed the perfect plan to get to the top.

A tale of passion, competition, and extreme personality, Fishing on the Edge is a book for anyone who loves the sport of fishing, wants to turn a hobby into a career, or is simply fascinated by a man’s unstoppable drive to succeed.

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MIKE IACONELLI won the 2003 Bassmaster Classic. In only five years of professional fishing, he has won four majors and earned close to a million dollars. He’s been fishing regularly since he was two years old. His list of sponsors includes Dick’s Sporting Goods, Yamaha outboards, Ranger Boats, Mann’s Bait Company, Fitovers Eyewear, Stren fishing lines, Daiwa tackle, Tru-Tungsten weights, and Carolina Lunker Sauce. He lives in New Jersey.

ANDREW AND BRIAN KAMENETZKY are screenwriters and frequent contributors to a variety of magazines and websites, including ESPN The Magazine, ESPN.com, and Blender. They both live in Los Angeles.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Fascinating Look at the Unknown Side of a Sport.......2006-12-20

I found this book to be quite informative about the unexpectedly interesting sport of professional bass angling. The book is primarily about his journey from fun fisher to world champion professional angler. As it turns out, this backstage tour of a sport takes you through a lot of hard times, uncertainty, emotions, personal growth, and (of course) gossip. That being said I don't really agree with other reviews that you will learn much about how to fish from this book; he does spend some time talking about specific techniques but usually it is something to do with his "stone jig" which he created and he gets 18 cents for each one you buy.

I ended up with a largely sympathetic impression of Ike and his life journey thus far. I would say that it is true that at times there is a certain bravado that feels more like a marketing ploy than a glimpse of his true personality. But in the end, he is quite clear that he is interested in creating a brand of himself. At times his discussion of any negative emotional episodes and his role in them did seem a bit juvenille. You know? (You'll get that joke when you read the book.)

All in all, I enjoyed the book and would recommend it.

Arrogant but likeable.......2006-12-08

He's a little too high on himself, but the cockiness is backed up with consistently solid performance, so who's to judge?

Tell it like it is! .......2006-01-30

Say what you will....but MIKE IACONELLI KICKS BASS!!!
The only pro that gives you every single detail on how he works his magic out on the water. Great read ...insightful....delightful and sometimes.........its just freak'in hilarious. Hey, if your into bass fishing or not once you start to read you won't be able to put it down. Heck, I'll even go as far as to say if you don't like this book I'll re-fund your money.................JK.

Smitty

Good Read !.......2005-10-08

You don't have to be a fan of Ike to enjoy this book. You'll learn a lot about Mike and tournament fishing reading this book. I read this book in one sitting and have thought about picking it up for another round on several ocassions.

I'm a fisherman not a bookworm.... this was good!.......2005-09-18

Ike talks about his life, and career in vivid detail. From his earliest fishing memories to winning the Classic a couple years ago. My favorite thing about the book is the fact that he wants to make YOU a better fisherman/angler. He shares loads of valuable information, and demonstrates how it works.

Fishing on the Edge: The Mike Iaconelli Story

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Fishing on the Edge: The Mike Iaconelli Story
Kamenetzky, Mike, Andrew, Brian Iaconelli
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Fishing on the Edge: The Mike Iaconelli Story
Mike Iaconelli; Andrew Kamenetzky; Brian Kamenetzky
Manufacturer: Delacorte Press
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Binding: Hardcover
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Twenty-five centuries ago Herodotus proclaimed Egypt "the Gift of the Nile." Imagine if he had enjoyed the perspective available in this outstanding book: the unparalleled view from the air.

Here is Egypt as it is rarely seen, in 178 remarkable color images by Guido Alberto Rossi, an Italian photographer well known for his aerial pictures, and lively and informative text by Max Rodenbeck, an American writer who has lived in Egypt for more than 25 years. Together, they bring to light the heritage of a great ancient civilization-and the beauty of a modern land.

Few places are as alive in the collective imagination as Egypt. Here is the valley of the Nile, with its temples and tombs of the pharaohs, the desert monasteries of the early Christians, the mosques and palaces of caliphs, sultans, kings, and presidents. Here too is modern Cairo, with its teeming throngs. Luminous colorplates display an extraordinary variety of desert landscapes, from sensuous dunes to ragged cliffs to gemlike oases, from the mountains of Sinai to the barren shore of the Red Sea. Only when seen from the air, as in the pages of this book, do Egypt's mystery and magic come completely to life.

GUIDO ALBERTO ROSSI covered the Middle East and Indochina for Italian magazines and newspapers until 1973. Since then, his work has focused on sports and travel, and he has been acclaimed for his aerial photographs of Florence, Venice, Rome, Tuscany, Mauritius, and Malaysia. Rossi is a director of The Image Bank, Italy, a photographic cooperative.

MAX RODENBECK moved from the United States to Egypt as a teenager. He has written short stories, feature articles, and guidebooks. Rodenbeck is Middle East correspondent for The Economist, and author of the recent well-reviewed Cairo: The City Victorious.

178 photographs in full color, 107/8 x 125/8"

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Not worth the shelf space........2002-07-25

This book was published in Great Britain by Thames and Hudson in 1991 as "Egypt from the Air". I have just checked out a copy of that book from a public library and my comments relate to that edition.

Only about one-third of the book is devoted to pharaonic Egypt.

The photographs are very grainy. Many were taken in the early morning and/or late afternoon and therefore have a pinkish hue.

The text is journalistic.

Flick through a library copy before you even consider buying this book.

Save your money for a copy of Dorling Kindersley's Eyewitness Travel
Guide to Egypt.

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Flown the Koopa

FLOWN THE KOOPA: NINTENDO ADVENTURE BOOK #8 (Nintendo, No 8)
Wayne
Manufacturer: Simon Pulse
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Binding: Paperback

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Flown the Koopa.......2004-01-17

An excellent book for any one who likes choose your own adventures

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Web Systems Design and Online Consumer Behavior takes and interdisciplinary approach toward systems design in the online environment by providing an understanding of how consumers behave while shopping online and how certain system design elements may impact consumers' perceptions, attitude, intentions, and actual behavior. This book contains theoretical and empirical research from expert scholars in a number of areas including communications, psychology, marketing and advertising, and information systems. This book provides an integrated look at the subject area as described above to further our understanding of the linkage among various disciplines inherently connected with one another in electronic commerce.

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Not for the Experienced.......2007-01-05

This book is not really for someone who has any experience in the world of online sales. With over 5 years experience in this field, I really did not learn anything new from this book. I could see a beginner finding use from what is discussed in this book, but if you already have experience with eCommerce, this book is not for you.

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Lead with vision, passion, integrity, courage and conviction and in doing so be fair, honest and consistent. (John de Villiers - 2004). ·

· Discover new and exciting issues regarding innovation, creativity and the transformation of purposefully directed thought into reality.
· Improve your successfulness as a manager or leader (as well as the successfulness of your organization).
· Enhance your focus and pro-activeness in developing and optimally using your mind to achieve your objectives.
· Develop a deep-rooted, principle-centered leadership approach while applying deliberately focused thought.
· Transform your thoughts and ideas into a tangible reality.
· Arrange your thought and ideas into a logical and easily understandable perspective.
· Fulfill a more meaningful role within the organization that you find yourself.

Successful leaders and managers need to be intellectually powerful and radical thinkers capable of using their minds to obtain support and aligned commitment to achieve a common goal. This book can help you to develop the skills necessary to achieve this.

The bottom line is the expeditious, cost effective and sustained achievement of desired results!

Managers and leaders need to grasp the importance of intellectually equipping themselves as well as their team members. They also need to fully comprehend the immense value of developing intellectual capacity and optimally using the mental faculty and its prowess to conceptualise and transform thought into successful desired results.

Leadership @ the Speed of Thought is a book written by a South African author who understands the many challenges that are placed on a leader in the business environment. It provides practical information and tools aimed at sharpening ones leadership skills and improving ones intellectual processing abilities. It furthermore has the potential to make a huge difference in ones organization and could put both the organization and its leadership on the very cutting edge of their industry or chosen vocation.

This book is considered to be a "must read" for any leader or manager in any industry or service. In fact, although this book was written with leaders (or aspiring leaders) in mind, ideally it should be read by every employee presently fulfilling a management or supervisory type role - regardless of the industry or service.

Leadership @ the Speed of Thought is a pioneering venture that looks at new and exciting issues regarding the transformation of purposefully directed thought into a desired tangible reality and thereby improving the successfulness of managers and leaders, and the successfulness of their organizations.

The content of this book is insightful, stimulating and thought provoking, constantly encouraging and challenging leaders and managers to be focused and pro-active in developing and optimally using their minds to create successful organizations. The importance of practicing a deep-rooted, principle-centred approach while applying deliberately focused thought is also emphasized.

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When 51 nations gathered in 1945 to witness the birth of the United Nations, international business groups urged governments to ratify the UN Charter without delay. During the following 55 years, UN and business leaders dismissed each other when they were not engaging in a war of words. This book examines why the global order of the 21st century demands a new partnership between the UN and business. If the UN fails to engage the business community, it is likely to become irrelevant. If global corporations y refuse to support the UN, they will face a closing world with disastrous consequences for the prosperity of all. The UN and business are bound to work together, and indeed they are.

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A must read for anyone in international business.......2000-10-18

I had the pleasure to meet Sandrine Tesner in NYC last May, where she told me the book will be published and we talked about international business.

As business people we have the tendency to regard the UN as an international organization involved in the "big" issues.

Sandrine makes very clear in her book on how the world is becoming together and how a truly partnership is needed. Yes, business contribution individually can be regarded very small but as is rightly pointed is a very powerful mechanism to make small contributions to a better world.

The book is direct, very well written and ilustrates the powerful instrument that the UN can, and should be.

A must to any international business people.

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The travels that Childs recounts in this vivid narrative take him from places sometimes parched, sometimes swimming, from the depths of the Grand Canyon to the dry limestone tanks of the lava-strewn Sonoran Desert. As he travels, Childs gives a close reading of the desert landscape ("the moral," he writes at one point, "is that if you know the land and its maps, you might live"), observing the rocks, plants, animals, and people that call it home. Some of his adventures will remind readers of Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire--save that Childs writes without Abbey's bluster, and with a measured lyricism that well suits the achingly lovely back canyons and cactus forests of the Southwest. By turns travelogue, ecological treatise, and meditative essay, Childs's book will speak to anyone who has spent time under desert skies, wondering when the next drop of rain might fall. --Gregory McNamee

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The "essence of the American desert," as the subtitle of Craig Childs's book has it, is water. A desert, by definition, lacks it, but when water does come, it comes in torrential, sometimes devastating abundance. Childs, a thirtysomething desert rat with a vast knowledge of the Southwest's remote corners, knows this fact well. "Most rain falling anywhere but the desert comes slow enough that it is swallowed by the soil without comment," he observes. "Desert rains, powerful and sporadic, tend to hit the ground, gather into floods, and are gone before the water can sink five inches into the ground." The travels that Childs recounts in this vivid narrative take him from places sometimes parched, sometimes swimming, from the depths of the Grand Canyon to the dry limestone tanks of the lava-strewn Sonoran Desert. As he travels, Childs gives a close reading of the desert landscape ("the moral," he writes at one point, "is that if you know the land and its maps, you might live"), observing the rocks, plants, animals, and people that call it home. Some of his adventures will remind readers of Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire--save that Childs writes without Abbey's bluster, and with a measured lyricism that well suits the achingly lovely back canyons and cactus forests of the Southwest. By turns travelogue, ecological treatise, and meditative essay, Childs's book will speak to anyone who has spent time under desert skies, wondering when the next drop of rain might fall. --Gregory McNamee

Customer Reviews:

A touch of Abbey.......2007-08-27

I would agree this has a touch of Ed Abbey in it. It is educational and hisorical intertwined with interesting stories and a touch of suspense. If you love and cherish the beauty and harshness of the desert, you will appreciate this book.

Desert solitaire . . ........2006-12-26

This book by naturalist Craig Childs belongs on any Edward Abbey bookshelf, where writers have fallen in love with the desert Southwest and portray it eloquently on the printed page. Childs is more scientist than environmentalist, but he has Abbey's fascination with wilderness adventure, which takes him in search of what he regards as the most elemental aspect of the desert - the water to be found there. These searches take him far into remote areas of the vast Colorado River watershed, mostly in Arizona, including the canyons that feed into the Grand Canyon.

The book is divided into three sections: still water, streams, and flood. We discover that if one knows how to search for it - and the first inhabitants of these areas did know - there is water to be found in plentiful supply. Likewise, there are spring-fed streams that flow during certain seasons, and in and along both kinds of water there is a host of different life forms, plants and animals, each place representing a specific and evolving ecosystem. Childs' eye and ear for detail and his scientific knowledge join to create vivid accounts of the discoveries he makes as he explores. We learn, for instance, how pools of rainwater in the desert wastes become populated with forms of aquatic life and how these survive, even through long periods of extreme drought.

For me, a particularly harrowing adventure was his exploration of a system of caves from which a stream of ice-cold water emerges high on a canyon wall near the Grand Canyon. Others include his pursuit of floods in the making in this same system of canyons following summer cloudbursts, and he underscores the perilousness of his curiosity by describing the deaths of other hikers and campers taken by surprise by flash floods. Often he travels alone for days and weeks at a time; sometimes he takes along a companion. What he writes of his experiences is consistently full of wonder, as well as a realization that human interference with the natural order (pumping from aquifers, as just one example) is rapidly and permanently altering ecosystems that have adapted to the desert environment over millennia.

One of the best books i've read, period........2006-08-02

gorgeous language and imagery. an amazing adventurer (but the adventures aren't really the point) and incredibly in tune with his foibles, strengths and desires. if i could follow in even 1/100th of his footsteps (literally and metaphorically)...

The Fundamental Life Source of the "Wasteland.".......2006-03-04

Although I had planned to do so, I had not gotten around to reading this wonderful book until I had some time while I was waiting in an airport recently. I immediately understood the author's reverence for the waters of the desert because I grew up in southwestern Arizona and intimately know some of the places he mentions, as well as others that he does not. The water tanks of the area near and on the Camino del Diablo and the life-giving stream called Sycamore Canyon are well known to me and I am very familiar with tadpole shrimp and some of the other smaller organisms of the tinajas, playa lakes and puddles. Indeed, Craig Childs has caught the not so easy to define wonder that one feels when seeing water in the desert. "The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert" voices what many desert rats (as I was when I was younger) would have difficulty saying- that water in the desert is almost a holy entity, a substance that defies definition (despite our knowledge of the chemical structure) because it is manifestly the material of life.

As a scientist I can find fascination with the multitude of creatures that live in the springs, creeks, rivers and tinajas, but the awe goes much deeper than just collecting facts, necessary and interesting as they are. It is, as Childs has so eloquently described, a visceral feeling that one gets- a deep satisfaction - when one sees the surface of deep and cool pools of water in hidden rocky tanks (such as Tinajas Altas, which I have not seen, but have been close to, or another group he does not mention, Cinco Tinajas in Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas, which I have seen), or of a stream flowing in a thin sheet over the bedrock of a desert canyon, as in Sycamore Canyon.

I have only one very minor bone to pick. He says his mother was born in the Sonoran Desert, but no part of that desert reaches the Texas-Mexico border. I think he means Sonoran Life Zone. But this is a minor quibble in a book that is a gem of writing about the natural world of the North American deserts.

Read this book if you would understand the reverence for water that is engendered by a life in the desert.

very good.......2004-12-03

I was surprised that I liked this book as it started out so slow. But stick with it. It's fascinating.

Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert, Signed, First Edition

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Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert, Signed, First Edition
Craig Childs
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