Fundamentals of Intermediate Accounting, Solving Fundamentals Problems Using Excel for Windows

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Now you can get all the accuracy, authority, and student success of the best-selling intermediate accounting text in a brief, streamlined new version! The authors have made tough decisions about what material remains at the core of the intermediate accounting course, and what details (for example, methods of depreciation) are less important for today's student. The result of their work is the briefest two/three-semester intermediate text on the market. This new streamlined size will also allow you to introduce case material or special readings as you choose.

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Great book.......2006-08-07

This book helped me a lot on my excell projects for an intermediate accounting class I was taking in school.

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Why has the issue of learning and knowledge in organizations been the subject of such lively debate over the last 20 years? This book furnishes an answer to this question, supported with arguments, and founded on data and examples from empirical research.The author uses her detailed study of safety practices in different corporate settings to ground her theories of organizational learning. She shows how safety can be interpreted as an organizational practice and, using this example, she empirically describes how learning, knowing and organizing are practised. Her account centres on the transformative concepts of "knowing in practice " and the "texture " of organizational learning.This book gives readers a rich account or how organizations learn and how corporate practices and policies evolve, and in this way makes an important contribution to our understanding of organizational knowledge.

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Recent concerns about energy security in the developed world have drawn greater attention to agriculture's role as a producer and consumer of energy. Agriculturally derived energy sources such as ethanol, biodiesel, biomass, and windpower presently supply between 0.3% and 0.5% of the energy consumed in the U.S. While modest, the production of these energy sources has been increasing rapidly. Likewise, the agricultural sector is a modest consumer of energy (less than 2% of U.S. consumption), but comprises approximately 13% of farm expenditures. Organized into two parts, the first section of this book examines agriculture's role as a producer and consumer of energy, the integration of biomass energy into energy systems, a policy overview, and outlooks for energy production and consumption. The second section is a compendium of current research including: the economic viability of ethanol and biodiesel; energy conservation and efficiency in agriculture; new methods and technologies; and environmental impacts and considerations.

Agriculture As a Producer and Consumer of Energy (AAAS selected symposium)

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Agriculture As a Producer and Consumer of Energy (AAAS selected symposium)
William Lockeretz
Manufacturer: Westview Pr (Short Disc)
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Binding: Hardcover

General | Real Estate | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

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HOW MUCH ELECTRICITY CAN YOU GET FROM AN ELECTRIC EEL? WHEN CAN MISTLETOE BE THE KISS OF DEATH? HOW MANY SHEEP DOES IT TAKE TO GET ENOUGH WOOL FOR A SUIT? WHAT DID BOOK WORMS EAT BEFORE THERE WERE BOOKS? The mysteries of the natural world are endless, but your trusty manservant, Jeeves, has the answers to hundreds of nature's most fascinating mysteries. Based upon questions received at the popular Ask Jeeves® website, Just Curious About Animals and Nature, Jeeves is a fun and freewheeling safari of discovery that can tame even the most savage intellectual curiosity. Packed with incredible facts on everything from the size of a giraffe's tongue (yow, two feet!) to just how fast a fly can fly (4.5mph) to whether dogs have belly buttons (yes, they do), this is a book certain to both amuse and amaze. With a little help from everybody's butler, you'll unlock the secret behind the firefly's glow, wonder at the language of hippos, and scratch your head when you learn the truth about poison ivy. Certain to help you develop the kind of brainpower that will impress your friends and frighten your enemies, Just Curious About Animals and Nature, Jeeves is perfect for fans of flora and fauna, or for anyone who wants to know the whats, whens, whys, and hows of nature.

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Nice book but not great

Good reference.

Clear instructions reinforced with good diagrams and photographs

Excellent, well laid out and up to Date

Mountain Bike Maintenance: The Illustrated Manual
Mel Allwood
Manufacturer: Firefly Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Complete step-by-step guide, from simple repairs to major overhauls.

Mountain bikes endure a great deal of punishment.

Mountain Bike Maintenance explains how to keep a bike trouble-free on- or off-road.

From fixing flat tires to replacing worn brakes, from headset to chainset, this book is crucial for every level of mountain-biker from beginners to veterans.

Mountain Bike Maintenance shows how to:

Make maintenance a pleasure -- not a chore
Customize your bike for special conditions or a personal riding style
Increase a bike's speed
Do roadside repairs
Extend a bike's life.

This book is filled with practical advice, new technologies, tricks, tips and shortcuts -- an essential reference for mountain bike owners.

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Useful Book.......2007-09-15

This is a great book for anyone interested in maintaining his mountain bike by himself. It is intended for someone starting out and the book also has recommendations for more advanced maintenance topics. There are lots of illustrations which is quite useful for a do-it-yourself book such as this one. The book even gives specific examples for some major brand item repair work. Highly recommended.

Nice book but not great.......2007-05-09

After reading the other reviews I was expecting this book to be the only book that I would need when it comes to mountain bike maintenance. However, I ended up being a bit disappointed.

The photos are fine and there is a lot of material included but the author is awfully verbose and some of the advice he gives contradicts with other repair manuals. Reading the book is akin to listening to repair advice by some friend who has fixed his own car a couple of times but who isn't really a car mechanic by training.

Sadly, I will still have to rely on a bike tool manufacturer's website for maintenance guides.

Good reference........2007-01-13

Loaded with nice full-color photographs and clear directions, this book is a great reference for anyone looking at performing some basic maintenance on his or her bike. The large page size definitely calls for a two-column text layout, but that's a minor quibble. Content is king, and the book delivers on its promise.

That said, the Park Tools website contains a good deal of the same info, and tends to be updated as trends and components change. The Park Tools book is also a good deal, and most local bike shops carry it (a good opportunity to support your local economy).

Clear instructions reinforced with good diagrams and photographs.......2006-08-04

Clear instructions on how the bike and associated parts work, how to fix with good drawings or photos to clarify the text.

A great asset to my bookshelf.

Excellent, well laid out and up to Date.......2006-07-17

This book is the best description of cycling maintenance that I have seen. Lots of clear pictures, great layout thorough explanation with great tips that come from experience. The best part about this book? It covers all this current technologies on bikes. Eg how to bleed hydro breaks, how to dismantle and service some common brand forks and rear shocks, sealed bearings etc. A lot of work has gone into this book and it deserves the 5 stars. Cheers.

Mountain Bike Maintenance The Illustrated Manual

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Mountain Bike Maintenance The Illustrated Manual
Mel Allwood
Manufacturer: Firefly Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Mountain Bike Maintenance: The Illustrated Manual
Mel Allwood
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Binding: Paperback

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All modern writing has been influenced from San Francisco?.......1998-12-27

It's hard to believe that San Francisco could be the origin of a majority of the important literary developments of the modern age-yet Mr. Herron has rolled out that ball of yarn for for the interest of tourist AND native to the City."Maltese Falcon" for instance; if you really trek down to the alley you'll be across the street from where Stevenson had his coffee. I freely engineered my ephemeral 1987 "CALIFORNIA STAR" against the template of the book-shoring up perfectly my thesis...Twain and the others were treasure hunters, and recorded the flotsam of their adventuring into Bohemia for the "big" story, as "detective novels." How many know the connections between the women writers and our modern civil liberties? Science fiction or facts? It's all there, and as good a way of seeing this magnificent state as pilgrimaging to the Missions once was popular-take the time to see where our most gifted writers had taken up residence-or went to carouse- and you can "Bogart" some atmosphere!

This Wonderful Book Sould Be Back In Print!.......1998-12-15

This book was THE great book for self-guided walking tours of San Francisco. Lost a copy of it myself and would love to find or buy another. This was a wonderful book that always led one to adventures. Why is this out of print?

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Emily Rankin is a normal sixteen-year-old girl, the daughter of orange ranchers in rural Visalia, California. She is a cheerleader and A student, and her boyfriend is the star center for the basketball team. She also has a new history teacher, Dr. Connell McKenzie, who is challenging Emily to think for herself.

To think, for example, about the fact that the president has been amassing troops in the Persian Gulf, and that war is imminent—but not inevitable.

The year is 1990. As a rare and devastating chill threatens to wipe out her family's entire orange crop and the rest of the Central Valley's economy with it, Emily must make a choice: to stand up for her values and risk losing her friends—her boyfriend included—or to keep the peace by not speaking out against the war.

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The Present State of Consumer Theory
Timothy P. Roth
Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN)
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0819157090

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The central message of the first edition is echoed here in the second edition: the evolution of economics as an empirical science hinges importantly on the employment of realistic generative and auxiliary assumptions. This edition also includes an additional chapter of the New Institutional Economics. While demand theorists have generally not embraced the notion of cognitive limits, the new institutional economists regard economic agents as "intendedly rational, but only limitedly so." Contents: "Some thoughts on Models and Model Building; Ordinal Utility Theory; The New Approach; The Multi-Equation Utility Function; The Household Production Function; Procedural Rationality and the Technology of Choice; Bounded Rationality and the New Institutional Economics;" and "A Postscript on Empirical Demand Estimation."

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International relations at large and Africa's in particular are shaped by the actors' historical location, by what they offer economically and culturally, and by who they are socially. In international relations nations tend to deal with objective conditions as they are or as they are perceived. However, Lumumba-Kasongo demonstrates through case-studies of Liberia and Zaire/Congo that what "the objective conditions" are may not necessarily be what they ought to be in the national development process. The international struggle for power between the West and the East and their supportive brutal and oppressive states in the South, especially in Africa, created the extremely weak conditions that redefined international relations as the tools of domination, rather than the tools of understanding and cooperation. As Lumumba-Kasongo clarifies, Africa did not gain economically or developmentally from this struggle. An important work for scholars and researchers of contemporary Africa and international relations in general.

The Dynamics of Economic and Political Relations Between Africa and Foreign Powers: A Study in International Relations

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The Dynamics of Economic and Political Relations Between Africa and Foreign Powers: A Study in International Relations
Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Paul Hawken, the entrepreneur behind the Smith & Hawken gardening supplies empire, is no ordinary capitalist. Drawing as much on Baba Ram Dass and Vaclav Havel as he does on Peter Drucker and WalMart for his case studies, Hawken is on a one-man crusade to reform our economic system by demanding that First World businesses reduce their consumption of energy and resources by 80 percent in the next 50 years. As if that weren't enough, Hawken argues that business goals should be redefined to embrace such fuzzy categories as whether the work is aesthetically pleasing and the employees are having fun; this applies to corporate giants and mom-and-pop operations alike. He proposes a culture of business in which the real world, the natural world, is allowed to flourish as well, and in which the planet's needs are addressed. Wall Street may not be ready for Hawken's provocative brand of environmental awareness, but this fine book is full of captivating ideas.

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A visionary new program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet.

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Sustainability: Economic revolution - Ecological necessity .......2007-09-09

I discovered both this book and the author after watching "The Corporation", an award winning documentary about the genesis, evolution, and nature of the "dominant institution of our time". In one of the film's many compelling interviews, Ray Anderson, the CEO of the world's largest carpet manufacturer Interface, mentions that after reading Hawken's book he was so deeply convicted about the negative effects his company was having on the environment that he vowed to completely restructure the Interface business model. In a campaign called, "Mission Zero", Interface carpet has promised to "eliminate any negative impact our company may have on the environment by the year 2020." Needless to say, after hearing from Anderson that Hawken's book was capable of so dramatically transforming his managerial approach at Interface, I put The Ecology of Commerce at the top of my "to read" list. I would suggest that you do the same.

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The Ecology Of Commerce: A Personal Review.......2007-09-07

The best book I have ever read since June 1999 was The Sorcerers Apprentice by Tahir Shah. I have read hundreds since then. Some came close to displacing this book. But not one ever quite did.

Until August 2007 when I read this one. The Ecology Of Commerce by Paul Hawken.

The book is amazing piece of writing. A stunning piece of research. An exemplary piece of analysis. An inspiring piece of synthesis. The scope and breadth of the raw and polished material is stunning.

Levels of life from bacteria to the solar system; from subsistence markets to global money markets; from home gardening to food super marketing; from ecological disasters to ecological wisdoms; all levels of life are combed for threads that weave his compelling picture.

The highlights of this book are too many to itemise here.

At the heart of this work is the idea that over the agrarian, industrial and current information ages, the primacy of economy has overtaken the primacy of ecology in the bid to meet the (so-called) needs of 5.8 billion people breeding exponentially.

The top quintile metabolizes 83% of the world resources in the process while the remaining 17% is shared by the other 4.5 billion.

Economic practices and "principles" are outstripping the ecological resources of the planet faster than nature can replace them.

Hawken squarely points the finger at business for plundering these resources but makes the salient point that all these problems derive not from management problems per se but fundamentally from business design problems.

The way business and economy is designed is the key problem. Bad business is the result of bad design. Bad business behaviour and impacts is the result of bad design.

What we need to do is redesign business and the role it plays in human life.

To quote Hawken: "At the heart of the (new) design is a system of commerce and production where each and every act is inherently sustainable and restorative. Business will need to integrate economic, biologic and human systems to create a sustainable method of commerce."

A litany of environmental disasters is chronicled as a necessary preface to solutions.

One hundred and fifty years ago there seemed no need to understand the relationship between business and a healthy environment because natural resources seemed unlimited.

Now the challenge is for business, the single biggest organism in this ecology of commerce, to redesign themselves because natural resources are depleting at alarming rates.

He suggests a set of 8 objectives to move this mission forward.

1. Reduce absolute consumption of energy and natural resources in the North by 80 percent within the next half of the century.
2. provide secure, stable, and meaningful employment for people everywhere
3. Be self-actuating as opposed to regulated or morally mandated
4. Honor market principles
5. Be more rewarding than our present way of life
6. Exceed sustainability by restoring degraded habitats and ecosystems to their fullest capacity
7. Rely on current income
8. Be fun and engaging and strive for an aesthetic outcome.

Hawken filled in a lot of gaps, and synthesised a lot of strands for me, in one powerful book.

One of the gaps he filled for me was the carbon-emission issue. (breathtakingly simulated at the breathing earth website).

Another for me was how green taxes would replace income tax so that the population can afford the real price of food and that tax breaks come on what you can restore and replenish the environment rather than on income.

Another was the tactics and strategies free market interest use to influence and direct public policy.

As I said to my partner, a great thing about this book was that it provided real information for things we suspected for years that we could only express to a slogan or sound bite level.

Also Hawken provides a framework for thinking and acting not only for business, but also for that scared entity for whom the shareholder claims to act.

Namely, the customer. Otherwise known as you or me.

This was a deeply deeply unsettling book. I don't think it was just my age. I think it was because the information is deeply disturbing to anyone who has just been reminded their children and their children cannot be guaranteed clean water to drink or fresh air to breathe.

It's as unsettling as being told your closest friend has cancer.

As Hawken said, the situation was far worse than he could have imagined.

This book had me checking not only my assumptions at the end of each chapter, but the assumptions of my assumptions too.

I'm a learn easy guitar teacher and I was wondering how everybody in the guitar users chain, from the virgin wood growers all the way through the value chain to the end user and teacher can act on the 8 objectives and produce ecologically inspired guitars. And music

Before reading this book such a question about guitar would never have occurred to me.

Wonderful Book!.......2007-06-04

This book is compelling and thoughtful. I find that the analysis is very well thought out and provides insight and solutions to the ecological disaster that we now face, not just a rambling list of how bad everything is and how hopeless our situation as a human race is.

Foundation Reference for Future of Business Without Waste.......2006-12-09

This is easily one of the top ten books on the pragmatic reality of what Herman Daly calls "ecological economics" (see my list of Environmental Security).

The author excels at painting a holistic view of the realities that are not being addressed by the media or by scholars in anything other than piecemeal fashion.

The bottom line: what we are doing now in the face of accelerating decay (changes and losses that used to take 10,000 years now take three years) is the equivalent of "trying to bail out the Titanic with teaspoons." On page 21-22 the author states that we are using 10,000 days of energy creation every day, or 27 years of energy each day.

This is a practical book. In brief, we can monetize the costs of the decay, we can show people the *real* cost of each product and in this way inspire both boycotts (of wasteful products) and boycotts (Jim Turner's term) of solar energy and long-lasting repairable products.

The author appears to be both pro-business and very wise in seeing that the cannot save the environment by destroying business, but rather must save business so it can save the environment--we must help business understand that doing more with less is what they must do to survive.

The author includes a recurring theme from the literature, that diversity is an option generator, and hence one of the most precious aspects of life on Earth. Diversity is the ultimate source of wealth, and anything that reduces diversity is impoverishing the planet and mankind. In a magnificent turn of phrase, the author states that the loss of a species is the loss of a biological library.

At its root this book is about missing information, needed information, about the urgency of making all inputs, processes, and outputs from corporate production transparent. He quotes Vaclav Havel on page 54 as saying that this is an information challenge, a challenge of too much (or too little) information and not enough actionable intelligence supporting sustainable sensible outcomes.

This is also a financial problem that has not been monetized properly. Although E. O. Wilson takes a crack at the strategic or gross costs of saving the Earth in his book "The Future of Life," this author looks at the retail level and describes the waste inherent in our military system. He reminds me of Derek Leebaert's "The 50 Year Wound" when he notes that the US and the USSR spent over 10 trillion dollars on the Cold War, enough to completely re-make the entire infrastructure of Earth, including all schools. As I myself like to note, for the half trillion we have spent on the war against Iraq, we could instead have given a free $50 cell phone to each of the 5 billion poor people, and changed the planet forever.

The author is compelling in pointing out that conservation alone would save more energy than drilling in Alaska, and that President Reagan not rolled back gasoline mileage expectations, we would today be free of any dependency of Middle Eastern energy.

A good part of the book focuses on the need to eliminate waste, what some call "cradle to cradle" (waste must be fully absorbed of other pieces of the system), and where waste cannot be eliminated, to include the cost of its storage in the price of the product, requiring producers of products to take them back (e.g. refrigerators).

I am inspired by the author's view that not only is technology NOT a complete solution, but that full employment is possible if we REDUCE our excessive acquisition of technology that not only replaces humans, but also consumes energy and produces pollution.

This is an extraordinarily clever and useful book that fully integrates discussions of feedback loops and especially of financial and legal feedback loops that are now misrepresentative. One example the author uses is the GATT demand that there be no discrimination of "like" products based on methods of production. This is code for blocking labor laws by imposing high tariffs on products made by slaves or under sweatshop conditions.

I completely agree with one of the author's most important opinions, that we must end corporate claims of "personality" and the rights of a person. This has had two pernicious effects, the first allowing corporations to dominate the public debate; and the second of exempting managers from legal liability and transparency.

The book emphasized the restoration of human and natural capital as vital foundations for evaluating investments--this would dramatically reduce the financial criteria's dominance and emphasis on short-term returns that do not reflect the cost of natural resources and lost jobs to the future and the community.

Distressingly but importantly, the author notes that a major component of the cost of goods is in advertising, where corporations spend more on advertising than the government spends on all secondary schools, and on packaging, much of which is designed to last vastly longer than the contents.

I especially liked the author's suggestion that insurance costs be included in the price of homes and of gasoline, essentially making universal insurance affordable for all. I also liked his idea for indexing Nations by their sustainability, i.e. Most Sustainable Nation (MSN).

The author ends with a restatement of his three fundamentals:

1) End waste
2) Shift to renewable power (solar and hydro)
3) Create accountability and feedback

Although this book was published in 1993 and the author has now published "Natural Capital" (next on my reading list), I did not discover it until recently and am now very enthused about the author's newest project, the World Index of Social and Environmental Responsibility (WISER). I am certain in my heart that a bottom up Earth Intelligence Network is forming, and that end-user voluntary labor--social networks--are going to place enough information in the hands of individuals to restore participatory democracy and moral communal capitalism. This author is extraordinary in his understanding and his ability to teach adults about reality and the future.

An outstanding book about healing our environment and our indifference to the crises of planetary pollution.......2006-03-27

Our planet is threatened on the one side by pressures of overpopulation and on the other side by pressures of nearly exhausted natural resources and pollution that are threatening to make our world uninhabitable. Paul Hawken does a masterful job of explaining the problems we face and suggesting creative solutions to these problems.

Hawken points out that our pursuit of material gain has grown to be such an accepted goal and one that has been so successful for the industrial nations of the world, that it is difficult for most people to realize that the western standard of living cannot be sustained much longer.

Hawken suggests that it is entirely possible to create companies that are profitable but do not destroy the environment - either directly or indirectly. The problem in most Western countries is the limited vision of environmental proponents. They are doing a good job addressing recycling and reducing pollution, but are missing crucial broader principles.

Hawken recommends taxation on pollution. Hawken cautions that the public must stand vigilant guard on issues of protecting the environment, because our government is run by those who have vested interests in corporate profits rather than in the general good of all.

This is an outstanding book about healing our environment, the conduct of business, governmental management of both - and most importantly, about healing our indifference to the crises of planetary pollution and our limited healing of these problems. This book is very highly recommended - despite its publication a dozen years ago.

The Ecology of Commerce A Declaration of Sustainability

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The Ecology of Commerce A Declaration of Sustainability
Paul Hawken
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