CPA Examination Review: Auditing 1983

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a touch of the Irish.......2003-06-21

Poyntz brings the landscape, the bird, animal, and plant life, and the geology of the unique Burren to life with her sure grasp of detail and lively draught of wit. She loves the land of which she writes, and this shines through on every page. If you can't go and visit this magical place, reading Poyntz's diary entries would be the next best thing. If you've been there, this is a treasure box of memories.

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The Natural History of the Burren
Gordon D'Arcy , and John Hayward
Manufacturer: Immel Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0907151647

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In the world of competitive off-shore sailing, Christmas Day is thought of as Boxing Day Eve--that is, the eve of the annual Sydney-to-Hobart Race. One of the world's three major offshore races (along with the Fastnet out of England and America's Newport Race to Bermuda), the 630-mile course from Sydney, Australia, to Hobart, Tasmania, is a test of skills, guts, and endurance in notoriously unpredictable, fickle waters--and in any weather.

On Boxing Day, 1998, the 115 boats jockeying at the starting line off Sydney's Nielsen Park Beach had been warned that low-pressure weather systems were conspiring to guarantee a wild and chancy race. Yet few sailors anticipated the ferocity of the storm that descended around two o'clock the next morning, whipping up gale-force winds and waves tall enough to send 25-ton yachts "spearing into midair," then "plunging down into the trough ... like repeatedly launching a truck off a 30-foot ramp and awaiting the crash." The race quickly devolved into the worst sailing disaster in recent memory. Seven crews abandoned their boats. Over 50 sailors were rescued under near-impossible circumstances. Seven died, and five boats sank. Journalist Rob Mundle follows the dramatic struggles in Fatal Storm, skillfully re-creating from firsthand accounts the stories of bravery, luck, and folly that left a handful of sailors convinced they'd never go near the Hobart again. Yet as one veteran yachtsman lived to point out, "It's something you just have to do.... You can't be under the illusion at any time that it is safe." --Svenja Soldovieri

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"Harrowing shoreside reading."Booklist

"Should be required reading for all ocean sailors."Library Journal

The first book to recount the disastrous events of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart yacht race, Fatal Storm is sure to be a popular paperback selection. Rob Mundle takes readers through every white-knuckling hour of the gale that descended in the predawn hours of December 27, stretching over 900 miles from Australia to New Zealand, bringing with it hurricane strength winds and five-story waves. In all, 57 sailors were rescued, plucked from the decks of broken boats or from the sea itself under impossible conditions. Six sailors died.

A Sydney-Hobart Race veteran himself, Rob Mundle had total and unequaled access to the people behind the story. The result is a tale of extreme adventure, extraordinary will, and the overwhelming emotional tales of survivors, rescuers, and the bereaved.

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The Imperfect Storm.......2006-07-25

The Southern Ocean---that landless sweep of sea that girds the lower third of our planet and isolates Antarctica---is notorious for its evil weather. Huge rollers, unchecked by any landmass, roil around the circumference of the Earth, making this area one of the most daunting, hazardous and challenging for any mariner.

Once yearly on Boxing Day, the 630-mile Sydney-to-Hobart Yacht Race crosses a small portion of the Southern Ocean. One of the three great sport sailing events (along with the Fastnet and the Newport-to-Bermuda) the Sydney-to-Hobart has always had its fickle aspect, but never more so than 1998 when the entire regatta found itself trapped in an unforecasted cyclonic "bomb"---a small and unseasonable but virulent hurricane that produced 80 knot winds and steep hundred foot waves in the relatively narrow Bass Strait.

Although only six sailors died, most of the fleet was battered into kindling by the waves, tall as buildings, heavier, and with much more velocity. Author Rob Mundle, an experienced distance ocean sailor, does a fine job of reportage as he tracks and traces the fates of the various participants, including the Sea-Rescue parajumpers who leapt into the darkness of the angry ocean to save the hapless crews of the shattered boats.

FATAL STORM is well written and avoids becoming bogged down in too much nautical technospeak making it a good adventure story for the armchair enthusiast. The one drawback of FATAL STORM is that Mundle assumes the reader's relative familiarity with the meteorology, landforms, and idiosyncrasies of Australia's natural environment. For those of us not "Down Under" this makes FATAL STORM slightly more difficult to decode than it needs to be.

Worth a read.......2006-07-05

This is such a riveting story that it would be hard to write a bad book about it. Mundle is a fine writer, and the book is easy to read and a real page turner.
As a story teller though, he could use some improvement. For example, one of the yachts is capsized by a giant wave and a man thrown overboard. What happens to him? Will he drown in the stormy waters of Bass Straight? Or is he rescued? We turn the page to find... a quote from the man in question describing what was going through his head as he fell from the yacht. So he lives! Full marks for thorough research, zero for sustaining the tension of the story.

Another caveat for non boating readers. Mundle makes no attempt to explain any of the yachting jargon used throughout the book, so if you are a non boating person like myself, I would recommend reading with a copy of Wikipedia or the full Oxford dictionary by your side so you can understand terms like storm sail, jib, cockpit and many others that are used throughout the book. This will enhance your enjoyment of the book no end.

All in all a great read.

Inspiring and frightning.......2005-09-29

Rob Mundle is journalist and it shows. But behind the bonhomie and parochialism of the yachting scene insider there's an immediacy to this narrative, a rawness to the action and a fire in these heroics that combine to make Fatal Storm an inspiring read. There's something wild about this story, something that makes it different to Fastnet Force 10. There are moments in Fatal Storm when the sailors reading it will be afraid.

Great Read for a long airline flight.......2002-04-05

I finished this book on a flight from Sydney to Los Angeles...with one disaster after another occurring in this massive storm, the writer keeps the reader actively turning pages throughout the book. You would not believe the bravery of everyone involved, from the actual racing teams to the rescue teams, not one person was left unphased by this experience.

I am not an active sailor now, but with some experience in racing with a crew on sailboats, I found the account of this true story gripping.

Certainly, a fun book to read, even if you are not into sailing. It may even convince you to never go open ocean sailing!

Interesting.......2001-06-09

A pretty good read. The story jumped around a bit, but you can keep up with it. The map toward the start was a big help in locating where the accidents happened. The pictures could have used a little more explaining.

FATAL STORM : The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race

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FATAL STORM : The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race
Rob Mundle
Manufacturer: International Marine Camden 1999
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OLIHA0

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FATAL STORM :The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race
Rob Mundle
Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OGF9CO

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Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race
Robert; Mundle, Rob Mundle
Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OG3GZ6

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Reluctantly, Brandon and his would-be stepfather were three days into a "relationship-building" backpacking trek through the mountainous Bob Marshall Wilderness area of Montana when the imposed outing suddenly turned into a deadly struggle to save their very lives. Cut off by a fast moving forest fire, the two are forced through 80 miles of rugged wilderness during a four-day survival ordeal. Pursued by the raging fire behind and trapped by the backfires set by the firefighters ahead, the two consider the only escape route possible - running the savage BearClaw River on a primitive raft. But the BearClaw holds as many dangers as the fire itself, particulary through Hellgate Gorge and its most feared hydraulic, the Grinder. Then they discover they are also being relentlessly pursued. This is THE high adventure, wilderness book for young adults and adults who crave excitement and LOTS of it.

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Think twice before buying............2007-03-22

This was in his local paper today...

Registered sex offender penned kids' book

BY KAUSTUV BASU
FLORIDA TODAY

A registered sex offender arrested in Palm Bay wrote a children's book and held local book signings.

Ronald Eugene Schaaf authored a children's adventure book in 2004 and attended events at bookstores, where he signed copies for young fans.

Schaaf's arrest by Palm Bay police last week for lurking near parks and libraries stunned Susan Havel of Merritt Island, who realized the author had been near her children. She was among parents who took their children to Barnes & Noble Booksellers on Merritt Island in the summer of 2006 to attend a reading of "BearClaw" by Schaaf.

"I would have never allowed my children to purchase a book from him or speak to him had I known he was a registered sex offender," she said.

Police arrested the 60-year-old for going within 1,000 feet of a park and visiting areas frequented by children. His record includes a conviction for sexual battery and an arrest on the same charge.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement sex offenders Web site shows that Schaaf, who has a listed address in Melbourne, was convicted of aggravated sexual battery in Knoxville, Tenn., in 1985.

Kristen Perezluha, spokeswoman for the FDLE, said Schaaf was added to the sex offender list on Oct. 16 last year.

Schaaf was arrested by the Melbourne Police Department in January 2001 for alleged sexual battery of someone younger than 12.

"The state attorney's office tried to prosecute the case, but was unable to get the victim's parents to cooperate," said Detective Michael Casey of Melbourne Police.

Enjoyable from start to finish.......2004-08-07

This is not the type of book I would normally read, but I'm glad I took the time to read this one. Interesting story that kept my attention from start to finish. Character development is well done, as we learn throughout the book about what they are facing within themselves and their relationship as well as what they are facing externally as they struggle to survive one obstacle after another; raging wildfire, whitewater rapids, and a bear. Not at all "predictable", I found it hard to put it down as I wanted to continue reading on and find out what happened next all through the book. A good read that's worth taking the time for.

A great adventure tale.......2004-07-26

Bearclaw is an exciting wilderness adventure that kept me hooked. The action was intense - it really put me in the middle of the wild fire. It's a lot of fun to read.

Boot camp: we try out eight pairs of boots.(Product/Service Evaluation) : An article from: ATV Magazine

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Boot camp: we try out eight pairs of boots.(Product/Service Evaluation) : An article from: ATV Magazine
Chris Vogtman
Manufacturer: Ehlert Publishing Group
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Binding: Digital

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Title: Boot camp: we try out eight pairs of boots.(Product/Service Evaluation)
Author: Chris Vogtman
Publication: ATV Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2005
Publisher: Ehlert Publishing Group
Page: 56(4)

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The Charm of the Bearclaw Necklace
Margaret Zehmer Searcy
Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0882898213

The relationship between marine resources, subsistence hunting and fishing, and exploratory drilling northwest of Point Lay, Alaska at the near-offshore ... Kolache, Bearclaw, Eclair, and Bagel

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The relationship between marine resources, subsistence hunting and fishing, and exploratory drilling northwest of Point Lay, Alaska at the near-offshore ... Kolache, Bearclaw, Eclair, and Bagel
William F Gusey
Manufacturer: Shell Western E & P Inc
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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The rapid growth of regional trading relationships in Europe, Asia, and Latin America has raised policy concerns about their impact on excluded countries and on the global trading system. Some observers worry regional blocs. Others are hopeful that regional agreements will go beyond what was achieved in the Uruguay Round and instead become building blocks for further global liberalization and WTO rules in new areas. Jeffrey Frankel shows through extensive empirical analysis that the new breed of preferential trade arrangements are indeed concentrating trade regionally. He then assesses whether regional blocs are "natural" or "supernatural"â€"that is, whether they enhance or reduce global welfare. He concludes that a move to complete liberalization within blocs, with no reduction in barriers between blocs, would push the trading system into the supernatural zone of an excessive degree of regionalization. More balanced patterns of liberalization, however, give favorable outcomes. He considers regionalism at two levels: both the formal trading arrangements that are already in effect, and the broader continent-sized groupings that are under discussion (the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific).

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A bore but drives the point across........2007-01-05

I used this book for my dissertation. It makes sense as it is written just not a real page turner (what was I expecting).

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Developing countries frequently experience trade shocks and the policy implications of this have been debated for decades.This important book is Volume 2 of a comparative study covering 23 countries, using a common methodology to estimate the effects of shocks. The conventional wisdom has been that private agents, in particular peasant farmers, could not be trusted to use windfalls wisely. This was, and continues to be, the main rationale for stabilising taxation of export crops. The convention was also that windfalls accruing to the public sector were a bane since governments had low savings rates. The evidence in this definitive study supports neither generalisation. Trade shocks typically lead to high savings rates, irrespective of whether they accrue to private producers or to the government. However, the case studies find substantial policy errors so that windfalls are often not translated efficiently into permanent income increases and indeed often lead to a reduction in output. The studies argue for a drastic revision of the case for government action in response to trade shocks. Volume 1 deals with Africa, Volume 2 with Asia and Latin America.

TRADE SHOCKS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: VOLUME 2: ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA.

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TRADE SHOCKS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: VOLUME 2: ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA.

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HL1MOA

Trade Shocks in Developing Countries: Asia and Latin America (Trade Shocks in Developing Countries)

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Trade Shocks in Developing Countries: Asia and Latin America (Trade Shocks in Developing Countries)
Gunning Jan Willem Collier Paul
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press(UK)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OL1IQK

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