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The Real Life Guide to Accounting Research: A Behind-the-Scenes View of Using Qualitative Research Methods

• ISBN:
• 0080439721

A book that goes behind the more official presentations and accounts of research methods to explore the lived experiences, joys and mistakes of a wide range of international researchers principally working in the fields of accounting and finance, but also in management, economics and other social sciences. The authors of the articles in this book address a wide range of issues and obstacles that they have confronted at various stages in their...

Intangible Management: Tools for Solving the Accounting and Management Crisis

• ISBN:
• 0126633517
• Authors:
• Ken Standfield

For the recorded history of management, the world has managed value creation according to what can be seen, touched and proven. In today's knowledge-based economy, value creation is derived primarily from how well firms manage intangibles (knowledge, service, expectations, response time, innovation, change management, etc). The large capital outlays that signified the manufacturing economy are no longer required. In fact, such 'tangibles' now...

Modern Japan: A History in Documents (Pages from History)

• ISBN:
• 0195147421
• Authors:
• James L. Huffman

The civilization of Japan is an ancient one, and by the time the first Western visitors arrived in 1542, the Japanese people were as highly educated as any in the world and enjoyed a sophisticated culture. From the sixteenth century on, the country's history was shaped by a tension between its people's thirst to understand foreign institutions and customs and their determination to assert and preserve its native traditions. In Modern Japan,...

Dangerous Frames: How Ideas about Race and Gender Shape Public Opinion (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion)

• ISBN:
• 0226902374
• Authors:
• Nicholas J. G. Winter

In addition to their obvious roles in American politics, race and gender also work in hidden ways to profoundly influence the way we think—and vote—about a vast array of issues that don’t seem related to either category. As Nicholas Winter reveals in Dangerous Frames , politicians and leaders often frame these seemingly unrelated issues in ways that prime audiences to respond not to the policy at hand but instead to the way its...

What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa

• ISBN:
• 0300107803
• Authors:
• Mr. David E. Murphy

This extensively researched book illuminates many of the enigmas that have surrounded the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, offering keen insights into Stalin’s thinking and the reasons for his catastrophic blunder.  “If, after the war, the Soviet Union had somehow been capable of producing an official inquiry into the catastrophe of 6/22—comparable in its mandate to the 9/11 commission here—its report might have read a little like...

Psychology of Composition (Eisenstein Texts)

• ISBN:
• 041319650X
• Authors:
• Sergei M. Eisenstein, Alan Upchurch, Jay Leyda

The Soviet Military Experience: A History of the Soviet Army, 1917-1991 (Warfare and History)

• ISBN:
• 0415217202
• Authors:
• Roger R Reese

From its revolutionary inception in 1917 to its demise in 1991, the Red Army played a crucial role in all aspects of Soviet life. The Soviet Military Experience is the first general work to place the Soviet army into its true social, political and international contexts. This timely account includes discussion of: the origins of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army; the Bolshevik regime's use of the military as a school of socialism; the Second...

The Vest Pocket CPA

• ISBN:
• 0470168137
• Authors:
• Joel G. Siegel, Nick A. Dauber, Jae K. Shim

The newly updated fast-reference problem solver The Vest Pocket CPA-the convenient, comprehensive reference professionals have relied on for nearly fifteen years-is now updated in a new Fourth Edition to give today's busy executives and accountants the helpful information they need in a quick-reference format. Whether in public practice or private industry, professionals will always have this reliable reference tool at their fingertips because...

Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I

• ISBN:
• 0028639022
• Authors:
• Ph.D. Alan Axelrod

For history buffs, students, and anyone interested in the 20th century, this book reveals why World War I began, explores the "guns of August," describes the horrors of trench warfare and the first uses of poison gas, and explains why the Americans were so slow to enter the war. From the eastern front to the west, from Gallipoli to the Marne, from the Lafayette Escadrillo to Lawrence fo Arabia, the book tells the whole story of "the war to end...

The Elements of Style (4th Edition)

• ISBN:
• 0205313426
• Authors:
• William Strunk, E. B. White

The hardcover version of the most indispensable writing resource! Features a new Glossary of grammatical terms Includes a new Foreword by Roger Angell Retains the classic principles of English style You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style , the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. The revisions to the new edition are purposely kept minimal in...

Project Management Accounting: Budgeting, Tracking, and Reporting Costs and Profitability

• ISBN:
• 0470044691
• Authors:
• Kevin R. Callahan, Gary S. Stetz, Lynn M. Brooks

Praise for Project Management Accounting: Budgeting, Tracking, and Reporting Costs and Profitability "You don't need to be a Six Sigma Black Belt or a CPA to understand the principles and the practical tools presented by Callahan, Stetz, and Brooks in Project Management Accounting . Their approach focuses on sound financial practices that will improve the ROI of your project whether it is your first or your hundred-and-first experience."...

Pulmonary Infection in the Immunocompromised Patient: Strategies for Management

• ISBN:
• 0470319577

The immuno-compromised patient is more susceptible to a broader range of infections than others, and infections of the respiratory tract are among the first and most common to be encountered. In this book the authors review current options for management for a group of patients that present unique challenges to the clinician, and for whom the choices of effective therapy are often limited. Most up to date book available dedicated specifically to...

Valuation for Financial Reporting : Fair Value Measurements and Reporting, Intangible Assets, Goodwill and Impairment

• ISBN:
• 0471680419
• Authors:
• Michael J. Mard, James R. Hitchner, Steven D. Hyden

Essential procedures for the measurement and reporting of fair value in Financial statements Trusted specialists Michael Mard, James Hitchner, and Steven Hyden present reliable and thorough guidelines, case studies, implementation aids, and sample reports for managers, auditors, and valuators who must comply with the Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement of Financial Accounting Standards Nos. 141, Business Combinations; 142, Goodwill...

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Workbook and Guide: Practical insights, Case studies, Multiple-choice questions, Illustrations

• ISBN:
• 0471697427
• Authors:
• Abbas Ali Mirza, Graham Holt, Magnus Orrell

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Workbook and Guide is a one stop resource for understanding and applying current International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and offers: Easy-to-understand explanations of all IFRSs/IASs and IFRICs/SICs issued by the IASB/IASC up to March 2006 Illustrative examples Practical insights Worked case studies Multiple-choice questions with solutions Technically reviewed by Liesel Knorr,...

Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Effective Enterprise Risk Management

• ISBN:
• 0471726265
• Authors:
• Anne M. Marchetti

Designed to lead financial managers from initial compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, through ongoing maintenance and monitoring, Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance helps readers seize this opportunity to revitalize their business practice, drive greater performance, and transform their finance organization into a key contributor to the business. Focusing on the present and future financial road ahead, Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance explores...

Measure for Measure (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)

• ISBN:
• 0521670780
• Authors:
• William Shakespeare

Since the rediscovery of Elizabethan stage conditions early this century, admiration for Measure for Measure has steadily risen. It is now a favourite with the critics and has attracted widely different styles of performance. At one extreme, the play is seen as a religious allegory; at the other, it has been interpreted as a comedy protesting against power and privilege. Brian Gibbons focuses on the unique tragi-comic experience of watching the...

Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia

• ISBN:
• 0521780640
• Authors:
• Wendy Z. Goldman

In the annals of Industrialization, the Soviet experience is unique in its whirlwind rapidity. The vast transformations that shook Europe over the centuries--proletarianization, industrialization, urbanization--were telescoped into a mere decade. The working class grew at an unprecedented rate, changing in size and social composition, and in no other country of the world did women constitute such a significant part of the working class in so...

Seeing the State: Governance and Governmentality in India (Contemporary South Asia)

• ISBN:
• 0521834791
• Authors:
• Stuart Corbridge, Glyn Williams, Manoj Srivastava, René Véron

Poor people confront the state on an everyday basis all over the world. But how do they see the state? This book considers the Indian example where people's accounts, in particular in the countryside, are shaped by encounters staged at the local level, and are also informed by ideas circulated by the government and the broader development community. Drawing extensively on fieldwork conducted in eastern India, the authors review a series of key...

Managing Economic Volatility and Crises: A Practitioner's Guide

• ISBN:
• 0521855241

Over the past ten years, economic volatility has come into its own after being treated for decades as a secondary phenomenon in business cycle literature. This evolution has been driven by the recognition of the permanent negative effects of volatility on long-run growth and inequality, especially in poor countries. After presenting basic features of volatility, this volume investigates commodity price volatility as an absorber and amplifier of...

Modern Egypt: Studies in Politics and Society

• ISBN:
• 071463168X
• Authors:
• Elie Kedourie

ABC of Preterm Birth (ABC Series)

• ISBN:
• 0727917633

Preterm birth is a major challenge in perinatal health care. Most perinatal deaths occur in preterm infants, and preterm birth is an important risk factor for neurological damage, including cerebral palsy. This ABC covers all the latest information on this complex and multidisciplinary area from obstetric issues to immediate care of preterm infants, respiratory complications, and how to provide support to the parents and relatives of the preterm...

How America Gets Away With Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity

• ISBN:
• 0745321526
• Authors:
• Michael Mandel

* How impartial are war crimes tribunals? * Are all crimes against humanity treated equally? The trial of Slobodan Milosevic has raised the prospect of many former political leaders being tried for crimes against humanity. War crimes tribunals and the international criminal courts are supposedly independent mechanisms through which we can administer international justice, and through which tyrants and errant regimes can be brought to account....

The Road To Al-Qaeda: The Story of Bin Laden's Right-Hand Man (Critical Studies on Islam)

• ISBN:
• 0745321763
• Authors:
• Montasser al-Zayyat, Ahmed Fekry, Sara Nimis

The Road to Al-Qaeda is a controversial book. Written by an Egyptian human rights lawyer, it is the first English-language account of the development of tensions between violent and non-violent factions in radical Islamist movements, from the perspective of an insider. It is also a biography of one of the world's most-wanted terrorists: Egyptian-born Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri. Widely recognized as the man who will take over the leadership of Al-Qaeda...

U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East: The Role of Lobbies and Special Interest Groups

• ISBN:
• 0745322581
• Authors:
• Janice Terry

Millions of dollars are spent every year by companies and special interest groups attempting to influence government policy. They work behind the scenes, lobbying politicians to represent their interests. From tobacco companies, to energy companies, from anti-abortion campaigners to civil rights campaigners, the list is vast. And nowhere is their influence more keenly felt than on the issue of the Middle East.Israel is America's key ally in the...

International Accounting Standards: from UK standards to IAS, an accelerated route to understanding the key principles of international accounting rules

• ISBN:
• 0750682035
• Authors:
• Paul Rodgers

This handbook is aquick reference to International Accounting Standards and is designed for all those who interact with financial information, and need an accelerated route to understanding the key principles of international accounting rules. It is essential reading for all members of the management team. Members of any finance and accounting team will find it a practical summary of all the big concerns allowing relevant questions to be raised...

Drafting and Assessing Poetry: A Guide for Teachers

• ISBN:
• 0761948546
• Authors:
• Dr Sue Dymoke

Drafting and Assessing Poetry offers a range of teaching strategies for developing students' poetry writing skills, and guidance about assessment approaches. Critical commentaries combine with illustrations of successful classroom practice to consider this essential but under-explored aspect of English teaching. Based on theory but with a practical dimension, the book engages readers in current critical debates about poetry teaching and its...

Working with Spoken Discourse

• ISBN:
• 0761957723
• Authors:
• Professor Deborah Cameron

Working with Spoken Discourse provides a comprehensive account of the expanding multidisciplinary field of discourse analysis. Combining theory and practice it covers a wide range of material in a lively and accessible style. It discusses current approaches, concepts and debates in the field of spoken discourse and provides a grounding in the practical techniques of discourse analysis and how to apply them to real data. Working with Spoken...

QuickBooks Simple Start For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 0764574620
• Authors:
• Stephen L. Nelson CPA MBA MS

Get expert advice on daily, monthly, and yearly activities Define your business, maintain records, manage sales tax, and produce reports So you've pulled off the corporate highway and started your own business? Good for you! Now you need a small business accountant, and guess what? With QuickBooks Simple Start and this handy guide, it just might be YOU! Find out how to set up an accounting system, prepare invoices, pay expenses, organize your...

Windows XP All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 0764574639
• Authors:
• Woody Leonhard

Windows is the number one operating system in the world.  There’s a lot to Windows XP, with office productivity applications, multimedia features, the Internet, and security upgrades. Now and then, you probably wish you could call Tech Support. That’s when you’ll be grateful to have nine books about Windows XP in one — Windows XP All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, Second Edition .  It replaces a whole shelf of reference books and...

Writing Skills for the GRE/GMAT

• ISBN:
• 0768910943
• Authors:
• Mark A. Stewart

Describes the types of essay questions found on the GRE and GMAT, provides advice on writing issue and argument essays, reviews style and grammar, and offers examples of essays answering questions from the official list for each exam.

QuickBooks 2007 On Demand

• ISBN:
• 0789736322
• Authors:
• Gail Perry

QuickBooks 2007 on Demand is the ultimate reference for people who really want to learn how to use the most popular accounting program. Using a friendly seeit/do-it technique, QuickBooks 2007 on Demand gives you illustrated, full color, step-by-step explanations that put you in charge of your finances. Whether you keep this book right next to your computer for quick reference or use it to train others, you’ll find this is an indispensable...

The Philippines (Modern World Nations)

• ISBN:
• 0791080242
• Authors:
• Tammy Mildenstein, Samuel Cord Stier

; Excellent introductory texts.; These information-packed volumes provide comprehensive overviews of each nation's people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture; Full-colour illustrations and full-colour maps throughout Comprehensive overviews of each nation's people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture

Trauma and the Teaching of Writing

• ISBN:
• 0791462773

Deepening and broadening our understanding of what it means to teach in times of trauma, writing teachers analyze their own responses to national traumas ranging from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to the various appropriations of 9/11. Offering personal, historical, and cultural perspectives, they question both the purposes and pedagogies of teaching writing.

Heidegger And Rhetoric (S U N Y Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

• ISBN:
• 0791465519

The Rhetorical Nature of XML: Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments

• ISBN:
• 0805861793
• Authors:
• J.d. Applen

The Rhetorical Nature of XML is the first volume to combine rhetoric, XML, and knowledge management in a substantive manner. It serves as a primer on XML and XML-related technologies, illustrating how the naming of XML elements can be understood as a rhetorical act, and detailing the essentials of knowledge management practices that illustrate the need for intelligently conceived databases in organizations. Authors J.D. Applen and Rudy McDaniel...

Storytelling in Alcoholics Anonymous: A Rhetorical Analysis

• ISBN:
• 0809323303
• Authors:
• Professor George H Jensen Phd

Based on an ethnographic study spanning four years, George H. Jensen's Storytelling in Alcoholics Anonymous: A Rhetorical Analysis calls upon Bakhtinian theory to analyze storytelling in AA. Jensen introduces his study with an analysis of "Bill W.'s Story" as it appears in the first chapter of AA's central text, Alcoholics Anonymous. Drawing on Walter Ong's work on orality and literacy, he argues that "Bill W.'s Story" as it appears in print...

Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation: Constructing the New Culture of Agriculture

• ISBN:
• 0813819474
• Authors:
• C. Milton Coughenour, Shankariah Chamala

A study of the sociology of conservation tillage in the United States and Australia, answering questions about the surprising trends, including what led up to the changes. Discusses only the sociological aspects of these agricultural trends, leaving other important aspects to other studies. DLC: Conservation tillage.

Exploration In The Age Of Empire 1750-1953 (Discovery and Exploration)

• ISBN:
• 0816052603
• Authors:
• Kevin Patrick Grant

Concentrating on the 18th through the 20th centuries, this comprehensive reference provides full coverage of European exploration and imperial expansion in Africa and Asia. Three major themes - motive, the influence of changing ideas on the conduct and understanding of exploration, and the impact of exploration on the politics of the European empires - are integrated into seven chapters and an epilogue. Exploration in the Age of Empire examines...

Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Lung (Lung Biology in Health and Disease)

• ISBN:
• 082479883X
• Authors:
• Rosen

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY. Surveys current knowledge on the epidemiology of HIV infection and examines HIV's effects on lung cell in addition to immune functions within the lung. Modified-outline format. Halftone illustrations. For practitioners and students. DNLM: HIV Infections--complications.

Attila and the Nomad Hordes (Elite)

• ISBN:
• 0850459966
• Authors:
• David Nicolle

Of all the conquerors who swept out of Central Asia, two names stand out in European memory – Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan the Mongol. Both are remembered for massacres and devastation; yet whereas Genghis is also famous for the laws he imposed on half of Asia and for the trade which flourished under Mongol rule, Attila's notoriety seems unrelieved by positive achievements. But what was Attila's short-lived empire really like? What happened...

Organic Fruit Growing (Cabi Publishing)

• ISBN:
• 085199640X
• Authors:
• K. Lind, G. Lafer, K. Schloffer, G. Innerhofer, H. Meister

Text presents the basics of organic fruit growing; covering orchard construction, cultivation, protection, and the commercialization of the organic products. For fruit producers and growers, and students of horticulture. English translation of the original text in German. DLC: Fruit-culture.

Quality Control and Production of Biological Control Agents: Theory and Testing Procedures (Cabi Publishing)

• ISBN:
• 0851996884

The use of biological control agents has been increasing worldwide and there are now many companies mass-producing such organisms, particularly for the control of insect pests. However, there is a great need for strict quality control in the production and use of these natural enemies, which include insect parasitoids, fungi and viruses. In this book, leading scientists from Europe and North America provide background theory and practical...

Process This: Undergraduate Writing in Composition Studies

• ISBN:
• 0874215951
• Authors:
• Nancy Dejoy

The modern process movement made great strides toward centering student discourses in composition classrooms, but the places for student discourses in the field of composition studies were left largely unexplored. In Process This, Nancy DeJoy argues that even recent revisions to composition studies—cultural studies, service learning, and social process movements—continue to repress the subjects and methodologies that should be central,...

Everyday Writing Center: A Community of Practice

• ISBN:
• 0874216567
• Authors:
• Anne Ellen Geller, Michele Eodice, Frankie Condon, Meg Carroll, Elizabeth Boquet

In a landmark collaboration, five co-authors develop a theme of ordinary disruptions ("the everyday") as a source of provocative learning moments that can liberate both student writers and writing center staff. At the same time, the authors parlay Etienne Wenger’s concept of "community of practice" into an ethos of a dynamic, learner-centered pedagogy that is especially well-suited to the peculiar teaching situation of the writing center. They...

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

• ISBN:
• 1406516961
• Authors:
• Faxian

A recording of the Chinese Buddhist monk's travels to bring Buddhist scriptures to India and Sri Lanka between 399 and 412AD.

How Xena Changed Our Lives: True Stories by Fans for Fans

• ISBN:
• 1550225006

Xena, the warrior princess, and her loyal companion, Gabrielle, have battled the airwaves for love, peace, and forgiveness and become modern icons for fervent devotees. These stories, written by fans, describe the impact the show has had on their lives, from people they've met, relationships cultivated with other viewers, and special encounters with the stars of the show in times of need. Other stories illustrate lessons learned and achievements...

Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP

• ISBN:
• 1590590961
• Authors:
• Matt Stephens, Doug Rosenberg

...from my experience, most teams that say they're doing XP don't actually do the practices. — Alistair Cockburn, Xp And The Cmm Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP (featuring Songs of the Extremos ) takes a satirical look at the increasingly hyped Extreme Programming methodology. It explores some quite astonishing Extremo quotes that have typified the XP approach&emdash; quotes such as, "XPers are not afraid of oral...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Accounting, 2nd Edition

• ISBN:
• 1592575307
• Authors:
• MBA, Lita Epstein, CPA, Shellie L. Moore

Updated information on new tax rates, forms, software, and more! A comprehensive overview of the monthly accounting process for small business owners and novice bookkeepers and accounting clerks, this book guides readers through the ins and outs of creating accounts, conducting transactions, handling employees and payroll, managing month- end procedures, and issuing financial reports. • Fully revised to reflect the latest laws and procedures...

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

• ISBN:
• 159315481X
• Authors:
• Vincent Bugliosi

Famed Charles Manson prosecutor and three time #1 New York Times bestselling author Vincent Bugliosi has written the most powerful, explosive, and thought-provoking book of his storied career. In The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder , Bugliosi presents a tight, meticulously researched legal case that puts George W. Bush on trial in an American courtroom for the murder of nearly 4,000 American soldiers fighting the war in Iraq. Bugliosi...

Iraq (Creation of the Modern Middle East)

• ISBN:
• 1604130210
• Authors:
• Heather Lehr Wagner

From the dawn of Western Civilization to the present day, events in Iraq have been at the center of world change. Iraq lies in the heart of the Middle East and is central to this important region in countless ways. The domestication of many plants and animals first began here. The world's first urban settlements and civilization were established along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what was then known as Mesopotamia. The hanging gardens of...

Bf 109 Aces of the Russian Front (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No 37)

• ISBN:
• 1841760846
• Authors:
• John Weal

The highest scoring aces of any aerial conflict were the Luftwaffe pilots involved in the bloody combats on the Russian Front. The most common fighter used by these pilots was the Bf 109, which was involved in the action from Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, through to the doomed Defence of the Reich in 1945. Units like JGs 5, 52 and 54 all flew the Messerschmitt fighter, progressing from Emil to Gustav variants. This volume includes all the...

Siege Weapons of the Far East (1): AD 612-1300 (New Vanguard) (v. 1)

• ISBN:
• 184176339X
• Authors:
• Stephen Turnbull

The prevalence of particular fortress types in medieval China, Mongolia, Japan and Korea demanded the evolution of different modes of siege warfare in each country. The wealthy walled towns of China, the mountain fortresses of Korea and the military outposts of Japan each presented different challenges to besieging forces, and this book reveals the diversity of tactics that were developed to meet these challenges. Most of the Far Eastern...

T-54 and T-55 Main Battle Tanks 1944-2004 (New Vanguard)

• ISBN:
• 1841767921
• Authors:
• Steven Zaloga

The T-54 and T-55 tanks are the most widely manufactured tanks of all time. They have become ubiquitous to wars around the globe since the 1950s, starting with Hungary in 1956, and including the the Arab-Israeli wars of 1967, 1973 and 1982, the Vietnam war of 1967-75, the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88, the Afghanistan conflict, Operation Desert Storm, the Yugoslav Civil Wars, and the recent conflict in Iraq. This book will examine the roots of this...

The Pacific War Companion: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima

• ISBN:
• 1841768820

Published to commemorate the 60th anniversary of V-J Day, 'The Pacific War Companion' brings together the perspectives and insights of world-renowned military historians. From the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor through the release of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the conflict in the Pacific was characterised by amazing tactical innovations in amphibious warfare and horrific battles that raged in the unforgiving climate of the...

Islam and Democracy in Iran: Eshkevari and the Quest for Reform (Library of Modern Middle East Studies)

• ISBN:
• 1845111338
• Authors:
• Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Richard Tapper

Hasan Yousefi Eshkevari is a former revolutionary and clerical reformer who became one of the Islamic Republic’s most outspoken critics. His ideas of "Islamic democratic government" have attracted considerable attention in Iran and elsewhere. In presenting a selection of Eshkevari’s writings, this book reveals a trajectory of dissent common to all Islamic nations today and makes a highly original contribution to our understanding of the...

Small Country Innovation Systems: Globalization, Change and Policy in Asia and Europe

• ISBN:
• 1845425847

This major new book presents case studies of ten small country national systems of innovation (NSIs) in Europe and Asia, namely, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden and Taiwan. These cases have been carefully selected as examples of success within the context of globalization and as 'new economies' where competition is increasingly based on innovation. To facilitate comparative analysis...

The Good Doctor's Guide to Colds and Flu

• ISBN:
• 0060762497
• Authors:
• Neil Schachter

The latest and most effective information on preventing and treating colds and flu Under the weather? Eminent lung specialist Neil Schachter, M.D., arms you with the knowledge you need to boost immunity and avoid illness. And when colds, flu, and other respiratory infections do strike, you'll know exactly how to relieve uncomfortable symptoms like congestion and fever. In this book you'll find: Treatment plans for the most common respiratory...

Smart Antennas for Wireless Communications: With MATLAB (Professional Engineering)

• ISBN:
• 007144789X
• Authors:
• Frank Gross

Smart antennas boost the power of a wireless network, saving energy and money and greatly increasing the range of wireless broadband. Smart Antennas is a rigorous textbook on smart antenna design and deployment.

The Complete Guide to Executive Compensation

• ISBN:
• 0071474072
• Authors:
• Bruce Ellig

ANSWERS TO EXCESSIVE EXECUTIVE PAY Charges of excessive executive compensation have filled the business press for a number of years, yet few understand why pay plans trigger such results.This desktop reference book is an easy-to-access, invaluable guide to structuring appropriate executive pay plans. Properly used, it will help avoid excessive executive pay resulting from poorly designed plans. Written by renowned compensation expert Bruce...

They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions

• ISBN:
• 0195064690
• Authors:
• Paul F. Boller Jr., John George

Abraham Lincoln never said, "You cannot fool all the people all the time." Thomas Jefferson never said, "That government is best which governs least." And Horace Greeley never said, "Go west, young man." In They Never Said It, Paul F. Boller, Jr. and John George examine hundreds of misquotations, incorrect attributions, and blatant fabrications, outlining the origins of the quotes and revealing why we should consign them to the historical...

Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power (Religion and Global Politics)

• ISBN:
• 0195144260
• Authors:
• Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr

Islamization is commonly seen as the work of Islamist movements who have forced their ideology on ruling regimes and other hapless social actors. There is little doubt that ruling regimes and disparate social and political actors alike are pushed in the direction of Islamic politics by Islamist forces. However, Islamist activism and its revolutionary and utopian rhetoric only partly explain this trend. Here, Nasr argues that the state itself...

The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev: The Central Committee and Its Members, 1917-1991

• ISBN:
• 0198297386
• Authors:
• Evan Mawdsley, Stephen White

This ground-breaking book examines the Soviet ruling elite over the entire period of Communist rule. It serves as a collective biography of nearly two thousand people who served on the Communist Party's Central Committee from 1917 to 1991. The book is based on archival research, only available after the collapse of communism, and extensive interviews with former Central Committee members.

People, Plants and Genes: The Story of Crops and Humanity

• ISBN:
• 0199207135
• Authors:
• Denis J Murphy

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the complex story of human-plant interactions, from the hunter-gatherers of the Palaeolithic Era, through to the 21st century and the molecular genetic manipulation of crops. It links the latest advances in molecular genetics with the science and history of plant domestication, the evolution of plant breeding, and the implications of this new knowledge for both the agriculture of today and the...

The Sites of Rome: Time, Space, Memory

• ISBN:
• 0199217491

Rome was a building site for much of its history, a city continually reshaped and reconstituted in line with political and cultural change. In later times, the conjunction of ruins and rebuilding lent the cityscape a particularly fascinating character, much exploited by artists and writers. This layering and changing of vistas also finds expression in the literary tradition, from classical times right up to the twenty-first-century. This...

Analysing Multimodal Documents: A Foundation for the Systematic Analysis of Multimodal Documents

• ISBN:
• 0230002560
• Authors:
• John Bateman

Analysing Multimodal Documents presents the first systematic, corpus-based, and theoretically rigorous approach to the description and analysis of multimodal documents. John Bateman introduces researchers and advanced students to a linguistically-based method of analysis that shows how different modes of expression--including language, rhetoric, images, typography, colour and space--go together to make up a document with a recognizable genre....

Integrated Pest Management for Crops and Pastures (Landlinks Press)

• ISBN:
• 0643092579
• Authors:
• Paul A. Horne, Jessica Page

The book provides information about Integrated Pest Management (IPM) to farmers and also others such as agronomists and students. The authors describe an approach to pest management that can be applied to different farming situations. This approach is capable of incorporating new crops, products and techniques as they become available, and so will be useful even as farming changes. IPM is defined and compared to other options available to...

Microsoft Windows XP Step by Step (Cpg-Other)

• ISBN:
• 0735613834
• Authors:
• Online Training Solutions Inc.

MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP STEP BY STEP offers self-paced instruction to the beginning-to-intermediate user who wants to get the most out of Windows XP. This personal training system offers easy-to-follow lessons full of clear objectives, a wealth of task-oriented procedures, and dozens of real-world business scenarios. MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP STEP BY STEP consists of friendly, straightforward instruction with dozens of full-color screenshots and...

Microsoft Windows Security Inside Out for Windows XP and Windows 2000 (Bpg--Inside Out)

• ISBN:
• 0735616329
• Authors:
• Ed Bott, Carl Siechert

Hey, you know your way around a desktop-so now dig into the Windows operating system and really put its security features to work! Covering Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, and Windows 2000 Professional, this supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, checklists, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds-all in concise, fast-answers format. Learn the essential tools and techniques for tightening up...

Advanced Trading Rules, Second Edition (Quantitative Finance)

• ISBN:
• 075065516X

Advanced Trading Rules is the essential guide to state of the art techniques currently used by the very best financial traders, analysts and fund managers. The editors have brought together the world's leading professional and academic experts to explain how to understand, develop and apply cutting edge trading rules and systems. It is indispensable reading if you are involved in the derivatives, fixed income, foreign exchange and equities...

Accounting and Financial Analysis in the Hospitality Industry (Butterworth-Heinemann Hospitality Management Series)

• ISBN:
• 0750678968
• Authors:
• Jonathan A. Hales

The objective of this textbook is to teach students to be conversational in speaking "numbers." This means understanding fundamental accounting concepts, developing solid financial analysis abilities, and then applying them to understand and improve the operational performance of their hotel or restaurant. The book will accomplish this by studying the current practices of some of today's leading hotel and restaurant companies. Chapters will be...

Ethics, Computing, and Genomics

• ISBN:
• 0763736201

Comprised of eighteen chapters contributed by experts in the fields of biology, computer science, information technology, law, and philosophy, Ethics, Computing, and Genomics provides instructors with a flexible resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in an exciting new field of applied ethics: computational genomics. The chapters are organized in a way that takes the reader from a discussion of conceptual frameworks and methodological...

Platinum Edition Using Microsoft Windows XP

• ISBN:
• 0789727900
• Authors:
• Robert Cowart, Brian Knittel

While most Windows books concentrate on a ground floor approach, Platinum Edition Using Microsoft Windows XP takes an entirely different approach - one that assumes the reader is a bona fide Windows black belt who wants or needs to manage multiple users in a networked environment, turbocharge a Windows installation with registry tweaks or stop hackers in their tracks. This book doesn't waste time telling the reader how to simply live with...

Easy Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (2nd Edition) (Que's Easy Series)

• ISBN:
• 0789730367
• Authors:
• Shelley O'Hara, Kate Welsh

Easy Windows XP, Home Edition 2nd Edition covers more than 150 of the most important tasks, ranging from the simple features such as opening a folder to more advanced topics such as installing new hardware or restoring a system. This book uses visual learning to appeal to the most common users of Windows XP - the home user.

India (Modern World Nations)

• ISBN:
• 0791072371
• Authors:
• Douglas A. Phillips, Charles F. Gritzner

Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture

• ISBN:
• 0791463753

Art and Cognition: Integrating the Visual Arts in the Curriculum (Language and Literacy Series)

• ISBN:
• 080774218X
• Authors:
• Arthur D. Efland

An examination of the cognitive implications of education in the arts to see how, or whether, individuals can develop their powers of thought more fully through widening their understanding of the arts. The author discusses three problems that can affect the status of arts within the classroom.

The Russian Civil War 1918-22 (Essential Histories)

• ISBN:
• 1846032717
• Authors:
• David Bullock

The Russian Civil War was the most important event of its kind in the 20th century. It changed the lives of over half a billion people and dramatically shaped the political, human and economic geography of Europe, the Far East and Central Asia. Over a tempestuous four-year period the Communist Red Army and the loosely formed, anti-Bolshevist White Army battled in a war that would totally transform the vast Eurasian heartland and lead to...

Advances in Management Accounting, Volume 17

• ISBN:
• 1848552661
• Authors:
• Marc J. Epstein & John Y. Lee

"Advances in Management Accounting" ("AIMA") publishes well-developed articles on a variety of current topics in management accounting that are relevant to researchers in both practice and academe. As one of the premier management accounting research journals, "AIMA" is well poised to meet the needs of management accounting scholars.

Power And Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom: The Authority Project (New Writing Viewpoints)

• ISBN:
• 185359847X

Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom remaps theories and practices for teaching creative writing at university and college level. This collection critiques well-established approaches for teaching creative writing in all genres and builds a comprehensive and adaptable pedagogy based on issues of authority, power, and identity. A long-needed reflection, this book shapes creative writing pedagogy for the 21st century.

The Yin and Yang of American Culture: A Paradox

• ISBN:
• 1877864854
• Authors:
• Eun Y. Kim

This title uses the unique Asian concept of yin and yang to explain how American virtues and vices are opposite sides of the same coin. Unlike the dualism characteristic of the West, in much of Asia the forces of yin and yang are seen to co-exist in everything, and to complete each other to maintain cosmic harmony. Culture amd entity regarded as yin in one light can be regarded as yang in another. Eun Y. Kim begins by looking at America in the...

Windows XP Fast & Easy (Fast & Easy (Premier Press))

• ISBN:
• 1931841411
• Authors:
• Diane Koers

Relax. Learning how to use Windows XP is now a breeze. With this book’s step-by-step instructions, you’ll be sure to get the most out of what the popular XP operating system has to offer. Whether you’re starting with desktop basics or jumping ahead to networking, this book is the perfect tool for mastering the many features of Windows XP. Ready to start with the Windows desktop? Go to Chapter 1 Want to work with accessories like Paint?...

70 Japanese Gestures: No Language Communication

• ISBN:
• 1933330015
• Authors:
• Hamiru-aqui

Who needs to speak Japanese? There's a lot you can say with traditional hand gestures and body motions that are universal as well as uniquely Japanese. This whimsical look at "the language of no language" will teach you to hurl insults, flirt, agree, excuse yourself, cross the street, and even make promises-wordlessly! (And who is that stoic guy wearing a suit in all the photos?) Finally, a way to tell someone at a loud party, "Your underwear is...

A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy: 2 Volume Set (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)

• ISBN:
• 1405136537

This new edition of A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy has been extended significantly to include 55 chapters across two volumes written by some of today's most distinguished scholars. New contributors include some of today’s most distinguished scholars, among them Thomas Pogge, Charles Beitz, and Michael Doyle Provides in-depth coverage of contemporary philosophical debate in all major related disciplines, such as economics,...

Blood and Iron: The German Conquest of Sevastopol

• ISBN:
• 1574887963
• Authors:
• C. G. Sweeting

BLOOD AND IRON tells the story of one of the most dramatic campaigns of World War II, the German conquest of the Crimean Peninsula and the port of Sevastopol in 1941–42. Sevastopol was the world’s most strongly fortified city and home of the Soviet Black Sea fleet. As German forces penetrated deeper and deeper into Soviet Russia, their supply lines became vulnerable to attack from this Soviet stronghold on the Crimea. To remove the threat,...

Regional Economic Outlook Asia and Pacific October 2007 (World Economic and Financial Survey)

• ISBN:
• 1589066685

Economic developments in Asia have been positive so far in 2007. Growth has been stronger (and in many cases more balanced) than expected across much of the region, again led by China and India, and inflation pressures remain largely contained. Moreover, Asia weathered the recent financial turbulence relatively well. The outlook is favorable, with growth expected to decline only modestly in 2008 as foreign demand for Asia's exports slows. The...

Spin to Knit: The Knitter's Guide to Making Yarn

• ISBN:
• 1596680075
• Authors:
• Shannon Okey

Knitters who want new worlds to conquer can reach for this guide to handspinning their own designer yarns. A rundown on equipment introduces the drop spindle, supported spindle, niddy-noddy, McMorran balance, and yarn meter, while the following sections include choosing wool and other fibers, presenting knitting patterns suitable for handspun yarn, and in-depth profiles of real urban spinners. For crafters who want to experiment with...

Biomedical Image Analysis: Tracking (Synthesis Lectures on Image, Video, & Multimedia Processing)

• ISBN:
• 1598290185
• Authors:
• Scott Acton

In biological and medical imaging applications, tracking objects in motion is a critical task. This book describes the state-of-the-art in biomedical tracking techniques. We begin by detailing methods for tracking using active contours, which have been highly successful in biomedical applications. The book next covers the major probabilistic methods for tracking. Starting with the basic Bayesian model, we describe the Kalman filter and...

Digital Boudoir Photography: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Fabulous Images of Any Woman

• ISBN:
• 1598632205
• Authors:
• John G. Blair

Boudoir photography does not require its subject to be a beautiful, physically flawless woman. It does not require the use of extravagantly expensive equipments, props, and studio space. In fact, the very essence of boudoir photography is the idea that its subject is not a professional model and is not even necessarily in the boudoir. No longer confined to the idea of heavy makeup, lingerie, and the bedroom, the new age of boudoir photography is...

The 30-Second Storyteller: The Art and Business of Directing Commercials (Aspiring Filmmaker's Library)

• ISBN:
• 1598632264
• Authors:
• Thomas Richter

Imagine a job where you need to work only 10 days a year to make $100,000. A job that allows you to be a respected artist, a savvy craftsman, and a hip partygoer who hangs out with celebrities, superstars, and top models. No need to wear a tie and suit. No corporate office hours, and no supervising department heads checking your time card. At your command explosions occur, cars crash, helicopters swoop, and you are expected to spend a million...

Charmaine Solomon's Asian Favourites

• ISBN:
• 186508140X
• Authors:
• Charmaine Solomon

In this volume, Charmaine Solomon guides the reader step by step through Asia's most popular dishes. Recipes featured come from Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Sri Lanka, Japan, Korea and China. The more than 130 recipes include Tom Yum Goong, Laksa Lemak, Pho, Lamb Korma, Sushi, Fried Rice and Beef in Black Bean Sauce, and Solomon has included handy hints on how to take short cuts without compromising flavour by...

Reuters Financial Glossary

• ISBN:
• 1903684366

This comprehensive reference guide not only defines, but explains the mass of intimidating financial jargon that is an integral part of any business, finance or economy. This is a fully updated new edition of Reuters' comprehensive guide to financial terms, including explanations, illustrations, diagrams, tables and even equations and workings where necessary, to give the reader a thorough understanding and ready point of reference whenever they...

Schaum's Outline of Financial Management

• ISBN:
• 0070579229
• Authors:
• Jae K Shim

Designed for both undergraduate and graduate students, this popular study guide­­25,000 copies were bought of the first edition!­­ covers everything from financial analysis and forecasting, planning and budgeting to leverage and capital structure, mergers and acquisitions and multinational business finance. This closest-thing-to-a-personal-tutor includes many problems with fully worked out solutions and a comprehensive exam. It's ideal for...

Oracle Procure-to-Pay Guide (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)

• ISBN:
• 0071622276
• Authors:
• Melanie Anjele Cameron

Master Oracle E-Business Suite's Oracle Procure-to-Pay Drive better decision making and maximize asset usage with Oracle E-Business Suite's comprehensive end-to-end procurement solution. This Oracle Press guide details, step-by-step, how to streamline and optimize your enterprise acquisition cycle using Oracle Procure-to-Pay. Set up and configure each module, generate contracts and purchase orders (POs), perform automatic invoicing, process...

Oracle General Ledger Guide: Implement a Highly Automated Financial Processing System (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)

• ISBN:
• 0071622292
• Authors:
• Melanie Cameron

Master Oracle E-Business Suite's Oracle General Ledger Maintain a centralized, highly automated processing platform across a fully integrated set of Oracle E-Business Suite applications using Oracle General Ledger. This Oracle Press guide explains how to utilize Oracle General Ledger to distribute timely and accurate financial information enterprise-wide. Learn efficient techniques for creating transactions and budgets, defining custom rules...

Principles of Cash Flow Valuation: An Integrated Market-Based Approach (Graphics Series)

• ISBN:
• 0126860408
• Authors:
• Joseph Tham, Ignacio Vélez-Pareja

The valuation of assets, both tangible and intangible, is an important element of corporate finance. Putting a price tag on ideas is almost impossible, and in the new economy, where companies grow dependent on intangible assets all the time, market volatility can be attributed in large part to our collective ignorance of their value. There are two basic approaches to valuation: from financial statements to cash flows, and from cash flows to...

For Love of Country: An Essay on Patriotism and Nationalism

• ISBN:
• 0198279523
• Authors:
• Maurizio Viroli

Reconstructing the historical meaning of the terms nationalism and patriotism, Viroli shows how the two concepts have been used within specific cultural and ideological contexts. He reviews the political thought of modern and early modern Europe, with particular emphasis on France, Italy, England, and Germany, and comes up with a fundamental difference between patriotism and nationalism. Viroli argues that patriotism and nationalism are two...

Keys to First Corinthians: Revisiting the Major Issues

• ISBN:
• 0199564159
• Authors:
• Jerome Murphy O'Connor

Jerome Murphy-O'Connor's reputation as a recognized expert on the Corinthian correspondence has been built on the original solutions he has offered to perennial problems. Brought together for the first time in one volume, each of the sixteen articles anthologised here deals with one or more verses in 1 Corinthians that have baffled scholars for generations. Throughout the collection the author dialogues with the opinions of colleagues,...

Unlocking Company Reports and Accounts

• ISBN:
• 0273632507
• Authors:
• Wendy McKenzie

This book provides an introduction to accounts and accounting practice. It provides a full explanation of the components of a balance sheet and profit and loss accounts, covering international differences. relevant accounting standards and creative accounting opportunities at every stage. Other issues include foreign currencies and accounting for acquisitions and mergers. An introduction to ratio analysis is featured to enable the reader to...

Student's Guide to Accounting & Financial Reporting Standards

• ISBN:
• 0273683500
• Authors:
• Geoff Black

"Students' Guide to Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards, 9th edition" is ideal for students of accounting and business studies at undergraduate level or those who are taking professional or technician level accounting courses. It will also be of use to postgraduate students and professional accountants. It is the market leading accounting standards text for students. Previous editions have gained the text a reputation for its...

Accounting and Finance for Non-Specialists

• ISBN:
• 0273702440
• Authors:
• Peter Atrill, Eddie McLaney

Now in its fifth edition, this successful text introduces the basic principles and underlying concepts of accounting and finance. It adopts a practical, non-technical approach, making it the ideal text for students from non-accounting disciplines. The text is written from a 'user' perspective, demonstrating ways in which accounting statements and financial information can be used to improve the quality of decision making.

Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics

• ISBN:
• 0300108869
• Authors:
• Nina L. Khrushcheva

Vladimir Nabokov’s “Western choice”—his exile to the West after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution—allowed him to take a crucial literary journey, leaving the closed nineteenth-century Russian culture behind and arriving in the extreme openness of twentieth-century America. In Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics , Nina L. Khrushcheva offers the novel hypothesis that because of this journey, the works of...

The Soviet-Polish Peace of 1921 and the Creation of Interwar Europe

• ISBN:
• 0300121210
• Authors:
• Jerzy Borzecki

The Soviet-Polish peace treaty of 1921, also known as the "Riga peace," ended the war of 1919–1920 and may be considered the most important Eastern European treaty of the interwar period. This deeply researched book offers the first post-Soviet account of how Bolshevik Russia and Poland came to sign the treaty—a pact that established the central part of the Soviet western border and provided Eastern Europe with a measure of stability that...

On the Ideological Front: The Russian Intelligentsia and the Making of the Soviet Public Sphere

• ISBN:
• 0300122411
• Authors:
• Stuart Finkel

Having emerged, exhausted but triumphant, from the bloody and divisive Russian Civil War, V. I. Lenin and his colleagues turned to eliminating perceived ideological foes from within. In On the Ideological Front , Stuart Finkel tells the story of the1922 expulsion from Soviet Russia of almost one hundred prominent intellectuals, including professors and journalists, philosophers and engineers, writers and agronomists. Finkel’s meticulously...

History's Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks

• ISBN:
• 0300135580
• Authors:
• Mr. Sean McMeekin

Historians have never resolved a central mystery of the Russian Revolution: How did the Bolsheviks, despite facing a world of enemies and leaving nothing but economic ruin in their path, manage to stay in power through five long years of civil war?  In this penetrating book, Sean McMeekin draws on previously undiscovered materials from the Soviet Ministry of Finance and other European and American archives to expose some of the darkest secrets...

Financial Liberalization and the Asian Crisis

• ISBN:
• 0333921585

The financial crisis that hit a number of economies of Asia in 1997 shocked the world. Financial Liberalization and the Asian Crisis rejects conventional explanations of the crisis as the outcome primarily of inefficient and corrupt economic systems in the countries concerned. It argues that the crisis was the result of premature and overly rapid financial liberalization in a world of increasing liquidity and volatility, and calls for a more...

Teeth (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology)

• ISBN:
• 0521837014
• Authors:
• Simon Hillson

Teeth yield remarkable information about animals as well as the health, hygiene and diet of ancient communities. In this fully revised and up-dated edition of his classic text, Simon Hillson draws together a mass of information on dental studies in archaeology and related disciplines. The book's treatment of mammals is extended to include mammals of North America and Asia north of the Himalayas. The form of roots are now detailed with figures...

The Cave of Fontéchevade: Recent Excavations and Their Paleoanthropological Implications

• ISBN:
• 0521898447
• Authors:
• Philip G. Chase, André Debénath, Harold L. Dibble, Shannon P. McPherron

This book provides a summary of the discoveries made during the course of excavations at the Paleolithic cave site of Fontéchevade, France, between 1994 and 1998. The excavation team used modern field and analytic methods to address major problems raised by earlier excavations at the site from 1937 to 1954. These earlier excavations produced two sets of data that have been problematic in light of data from other European Paleolithic sites:...

Motherland: Russia in the Twentieth Century

• ISBN:
• 0582438349
• Authors:
• David Marples

Assessing the legacy of the USSR and the changes that have been wrought over the last decade, this is the most complete history to date of the rise and fall of a great superpower. 20th century Russia is a colorful and dynamic story from Lenin's Revolution, the murder of the Romanovs and Stalin's gulags through to perestroika and glasnost. Russia is still in confusing state of flux, politically and economically, and this book unravels the chaos...

Marxism and Form

• ISBN:
• 069101311X
• Authors:
• Fredric Jameson

For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukács, and Jean-Paul Sartre--work that was, at the time, largely neglected in the English-speaking...

Globalization and Indigenous Peoples in Asia

• ISBN:
• 0761932534
• Authors:
• Dev Nathan

This book deals with two processes of globalization that are profoundly influencing the lives of indigenous people - the role of their resources in providing environmental services, and the civilizational changes caused by privatization. Examining how to deal with the exclusion of indigenous people in global flows in order to create a more equal and democratic alternative, the book goes beyond the trend for decrying globalization. Instead it...

Change Management: Altering Mindsets in a Global Context (Response Books)

• ISBN:
• 0761934685
• Authors:
• V Nilakant, S Ramnarayan

This book presents a new and fundamentally different way of understanding organizational change. The authors present a new model of change management which identifies four core tasks that are crucial to the success of any change initiative in organizations. These are: appreciating change, mobilizing support for change, executing change and building change capability. They contend that failures of change initiatives result from failure to manage...

Wiley Not-for-Profit GAAP 2004: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for Not-for-Profit Organizations (Wiley Not for Profit Gaap)

• ISBN:
• 0471473073
• Authors:
• Richard F. Larkin, Marie DiTommaso

The most practical, authoritative guide to not-for-profit GAAP Wiley Not-for-Profit GAAP 2004 is a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to the accounting and financial reporting principles used by not-for-profit organizations. It is written with the needs of the financial statement preparer, user, and attestor in mind. It provides a complete review of the authoritative accounting literature that impacts all types of not-for-profit organizations. At...

Schizophrenia (Psychological Disorders)

• ISBN:
• 0791085449
• Authors:
• Brigid M. Kane

Schizophrenia is a severe and debilitating disease of the brain that affects approximately 1 percent of the population worldwide. It can be devastating to those who suffer from it, as well as frightening and exhausting for their families. However, recent research on the causes of schizophrenia, its diagnosis, and the effectiveness of different treatments provides a more hopeful outlook for those affected. "Schizophrenia" describes the symptoms...

Reading Financial Reports For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))

• ISBN:
• 0470376287
• Authors:
• Lita Epstein

The second edition includes over 25 percent new and updated information including: New information on the separate accounting and financial reporting standards for private/small businesses versus public/large businesses Updated information that reflects the 2007 law on international financial reporting standards New content to match SEC and other governmental regulatory changes over the past three years New information about how the...

Frommer's Provence and the Riviera

• ISBN:
• 0764538241
• Authors:
• Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince

You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go—they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Every Frommer's Travel...

Peachtree For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 0470179880
• Authors:
• Elaine Marmel, Diane Koers

Not feeling too peachy about computerizing your accounting system? Relax! Peachtree For Dummies, 3rd Edition will show you how to set up your company in Peachtree and then use it to pay bills, invoice customers, pay employees, produce financial reports, and more. You’ll quickly discover how Peachtree can save you time, effort, and money so that you no longer have to do your accounting by hand or pay someone else to do it for you. Publishing to...

Milestones in Matrix Computation: The selected works of Gene H. Golub with commentaries

• ISBN:
• 0199206813

The text presents and discusses some of the most influential papers in Matrix Computation authored by Gene H. Golub, one of the founding fathers of the field. The collection of 21 papers in divided into five main areas: iterative methods for linear systems, solution of least squares problems, matrix factorizations and applications, orthogonal polynomials and quadrature, and eigenvalue problems an commentaries for each area are provided by...

Profits You Can Trust: Spotting and Surviving Accounting Landmines

• ISBN:
• 0131001965
• Authors:
• David Sherman, David Young, Harris Collingwood

Profits You Can Trust gives managers, directors, lenders, audit partners and analysts a clear framework to demystify global financial reporting in a market fraught with danger. Filled with provocative and enlightening examples, it offers a fresh perspective and clear guidance for everyone involved with financial reporting strategy and communication, as well as specific and easily understood questions that must be asked to avoid accounting...

Stability and Justification in Hume's Treatise

• ISBN:
• 0195146581
• Authors:
• Louis E. Loeb

David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature is famous for its extreme skepticism. Louis Loeb argues that Hume's destructive conclusions have in fact obscured a constructive stage that Hume abandons prematurely. Working within a philosophical tradition that values tranquillity, Hume favors an epistemology that links justification with settled belief. Hume appeals to psychological stability to support his own epistemological assessments, both...

"Evil" Arabs in American Popular Film: Orientalist Fear

• ISBN:
• 029271341X
• Authors:
• Tim Jon Semmerling

The "evil" Arab has become a stock character in American popular films, playing the villain opposite American "good guys" who fight for "the American way." It's not surprising that this stereotype has entered American popular culture, given the real-world conflicts between the United States and Middle Eastern countries, particularly since the oil embargo of the 1970s and continuing through the Iranian hostage crisis, the first and second Gulf...

The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis

• ISBN:
• 0300081227
• Authors:
• Professor Jerald E. Podair

On May 9, 1968, junior high school teacher Fred Nauman received a letter that would change the history of New York City. It informed him that he had been fired from his job. Eighteen other educators in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville area of Brooklyn received similar letters that day. The dismissed educators were white. The local school board that fired them was predominantly black. The crisis that the firings provoked became the most racially...

Imagining Native America in Music

• ISBN:
• 0300108931
• Authors:
• Michael V Pisani

This book offers a comprehensive look at musical representations of native America from the pre colonial past through the American West and up to the present. The discussion covers a wide range of topics, from the ballets of Lully in the court of Louis XIV to popular ballads of the nineteenth century; from eighteenth-century British-American theater to the musical theater of Irving Berlin; from chamber music by Dvoˆrák to film music for...

The Borderlands: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Divide

• ISBN:
• 0313339961

The more than 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border is a focus of intense interest today, as immigration, security, and environmental issues dominate the headlines. This is the first A-to-Z encyclopedia to overview the unique and vibrant elements that make up the borderlands. More than 150 essay entries provide students and general readers with a solid sense of the U.S.-Mexico border history, culture, and politics. Coverage runs the gamut from key...

Battleground: Immigration

• ISBN:
• 0313344132

Among the most tumultuous conflicts of modern America is the war over legal and undocumented immigrants currently residing within U.S. borders. Since the passing of the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act, America has witnessed an unprecedented flow of immigrants onto its shores, with increased diversity of race and culture. Battleground: Immigration examines the most critical issues surrounding immigration today, including effects on the...

Parapsychology: Research on Exceptional Experiences

• ISBN:
• 0415213592
• Authors:
• Jane Henry

Psychic and other exceptional experiences are surprisingly common but opinions as to their causes vary widely. Can tricks of the mind such as hallucinations, mistaken perception and errors of judgement explain such phenomena or does some yet to be understood non-sensory means of communication come into play? In Parapsychology, leading researchers from both the UK and the USA combine their expertise to form a lucid account of research into the...

Buddhist Rituals Death And Rebirth: Contemporary SRI Lankan Practice (Routledgecurzon Critical Studies in Buddhism)

• ISBN:
• 0415394961
• Authors:
• Rita Langer

In Buddhist thought and practice, death has always been a central concept. This book provides a careful and thorough analysis of the rituals and social customs surrounding death in the Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka. Rita Langer describes the rituals of death and rebirth and investigates their ancient origins, analyzing social issues of the relationship between monks and lay people in this context. This aspect is of particular interest as...

Deploying and Administering Windows Vista Bible

• ISBN:
• 0470180218
• Authors:
• Bob Kelly, Nelson Ruest, Danielle Ruest

Although analysts expect the majority of enterprises to tread slowly into migration, there certainly will be early adopters, as there are with any system or device. Because Microsoft has announced that it will support Windows 2000 only until the year 2010, enterprises using older versions of Windows will not have much time for leisurely testing and pilot projects before they need to seriously consider migrating to and deploying Windows Vista....

Cleaning Windows Vista For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 0471782939
• Authors:
• Allen Wyatt

Find out what you should clean, when, and how Dump programs you don't need, archive data, and bring order to your desktop Here's a handy household hint - getting control of all the clutter on your PC will make it run faster and more efficiently. This book is like a closet full of cleaning tools that help you organize your data and e-mail, archive the stuff you do need to keep, toss old cookies, tune up your file system, and much more. Discover...

American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons

• ISBN:
• 0520246691
• Authors:
• Mark Dow

Before September 11, 2001, few Americans had heard of immigration detention, but in fact a secret and repressive prison system run by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has existed in this country for more than two decades. In American Gulag, prisoners, jailers, and whistle-blowing federal officials come forward to describe the frightening reality inside these INS facilities. Journalist Mark Dow's on-the-ground reporting brings to...

Granular Physics

• ISBN:
• 0521660785
• Authors:
• Anita Mehta

The field of granular physics has burgeoned since its development in the late 1980s, when physicists first began to use statistical mechanics to study granular media. They are prototypical of complex systems, manifesting metastability, hysteresis and bistability, and a range of other fascinating phenomena. This book is a wide-ranging account of developments in granular physics, and lays out the foundations of the statics and dynamics of granular...

Microsoft Windows Vista Step by Step

• ISBN:
• 0735622698
• Authors:
• Joan Preppernau

The smart way to learn the latest version of Microsoft Windows--one step at a time! Work at your own pace through the easy numbered steps, practice files on CD, helpful hints, and troubleshooting help to master the fundamentals of working with Windows Vista, including how to navigate the new user interface and how to use the new search features for finding anything on your desktop. You will learn how to manage files and folders to simplify your...

Windows Vista(TM) Resource Kit

• ISBN:
• 0735622833
• Authors:
• Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup, Jerry Honeycutt, Ed Wilson, Ralph Ramos, The Windows Vista Team

Get the definitive reference for deploying, configuring, and supporting Microsoft® Windows Vista(tm)--with expert insights from Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) and the Windows Vista Team. This official Microsoft RESOURCE KIT provides more than 1,500 pages of in-depth technical guidance on automating deployment; implementing security enhancements; administering group policy, files and folders, and programs; and troubleshooting for...

Researching Violently Divided Societies: Ethical and Methodological Issues

• ISBN:
• 0745318215

The late-19th century Rooseveltian perception of war as an ideal method of forging a nation's manhood has waned. The development of weapons of mass destruction, along with the increased media coverage of the consequences of war, have changed the nature of warfare. Politicians and the army are more concerned than ever to avoid casualties, at least on their own side. And with the development of communication, the horrific realities of violent...

People, Peace and Power: Conflict Transformation in Action

• ISBN:
• 0745318363
• Authors:
• Diana Francis

Millions of people around the world live in countries torn apart by war, where violence and suffering are part of everyday life. Yet in all those countries there are groups of people working for peace in the midst of war, standing up for human rights and decency. What difference can they make? What can be done to support them, and to help dialogue to happen in the midst of hostility and violence? This book examines these questions, focusing on...

Marxism And Media Studies: Key Concepts and Contemporary Trends (Marxism and Culture)

• ISBN:
• 0745319149
• Authors:
• Mike Wayne

Although media studies is a popular academic discipline, there are remarkably few books that analyse it from a specifically Marxist perspective. Mike Wayne's book is ideal for all students of media studies who are interested in bringing a radical political methodology to bear on their work. He presents an accessible guide to key Marxist concepts and shows how to apply them to contemporary cultural analysis.Drawing on Marx, Lukacs, Gramsci,...

Democracy and Regulation: How the Public can Govern Essential Services

• ISBN:
• 0745319432
• Authors:
• Greg Palast, Jerrold Oppenheim, Theo MacGregor

Essential services are being privatised the world over. Whether it's water, gas, electricity or the phone network, everywhere from Sao Paulo in Brazil to Leeds in the UK is following the US economic model and handing public services over to private companies whose principal interest is raising prices. Yet it's one of the world's best kept secrets that Americans pay astonishingly little for high quality public services. Uniquely in the world,...

The Replication of Violence: Thoughts on International Terrorism after September 11th 2001 (Critical Studies on Islam)

• ISBN:
• 074531953X
• Authors:
• Suman Gupta

An immense amount of media space has been devoted to the catastrophic terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. George Bush was quick to declare a 'war on terrorism' that may engulf many countries in addition to Afghanistan. But what does this say about Western perceptions of violence -- what does 'war on terrorism' mean?This book does not attempt to explain the momentous events of September 11th 2001. Instead it attempts to sharpen our...

Failing Peace: Gaza and athe Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

• ISBN:
• 0745322352
• Authors:
• Sara Roy

This book is the culmination of 20 years of research, fieldwork and analysis on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the impact of Israeli occupation. Discussion of Israeli policy toward Palestinians is often regarded as a taboo subject, with the result that few people -- especially in the U.S. -- understand the origins and consequences of the conflict. Roy's book provides an indispensable context for understanding why the situation remains so...

Access VBA Programming For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 0764574116
• Authors:
• Alan Simpson

* This friendly, easy-to-use guide shows experienced Access users how to use * VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) to build Access databases and applications, but also covers programming fundamentals for nonprogrammers * Includes practical, ready-to-use VBA code examples that readers can type or copy and paste from the Web into their own database projects * Explains basic VBA skills and concepts for nonprogrammers, such as procedures, variables,...

Manage Your Money and Investments with Microsoft Excel

• ISBN:
• 0789734281
• Authors:
• Peter Aitken

Sure you want to save money. We all do. But saving money is sometimes easier said than done. Did you know that there is a program probably already installed on your computer that can help you manage your money better? It's Microsoft Excel, part of the Microsoft Office suite. Manage Your Money and Investments with Excel can help you take control of your finances with Excel. Learn how to: Perform basic financial calculations. Track and analyze...

Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows Vista

• ISBN:
• 0789734729
• Authors:
• Robert Cowart, Brian Knittel

A new edition of this title is available, ISBN-10: 0789737817 ISBN-13: 9780789737816     Que crafted this book to grow with you, providing the reference material you need as you move toward Vista proficiency and use of more advanced features. If you buy only one book on Vista, Special Edition Using Microsoft ® Windows ® Vista is the only book you need.     Tired of the constant barrage of spam, spyware, viruses and other Net nasties? We...

How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses

• ISBN:
• 080783002X
• Authors:
• Mark M. Smith

For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses--not just their eyes--to construct racial difference and define race. His provocative analysis, extending from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century, shows how whites of all classes used the artificial binary of "black" and "white" to justify slavery and erect the political, legal, and social structure of segregation. Based on painstaking...

Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology

• ISBN:
• 0810385708

Accelerating New Food Product Design and Development (Institute of Food Technologists Series)

• ISBN:
• 081380809X

To compete in today's marketplace, food product developers are under pressure to create innovative new products at a time when there are demands on them to do more with less of everything. In Accelerating New Food Product Design and Development , a group of seasoned food industry business professionals and academics show today’s food scientists, technologists, and product developers the contemporary R&D processes they need to maximize speed,...

In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration

• ISBN:
• 081472745X
• Authors:
• Nancy Foner

"A luminous synthesis that, through astute comparisons, sheds a bright light on key questions about immigration. In a New Land is utterly refreshing." --Richard Alba, co-author of Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration "In a New Land is full of fresh information and new interpretations. Most remarkable is Nancy Foner's command of the vast social scientific and historical literature that bears on her subject....

The Spanish Civil War 1936-39 (Men-at-Arms)

• ISBN:
• 0850452821
• Authors:
• Patrick Turnbull

By the spring of 1936 it was becoming increasingly evident that Spain was heading for an armed clash between the forces of the extreme Left, led by 'Largo Caballero' – who, backed by the ultras and their militia groups intended to impose a Stalin-type Communist government – and the extreme Right: a clique of high-ranking army officers led by veteran General Sanjurjo, who planned a similar coup and counted on the support of anti-Communist,...

Nutrition and Behavior: A Multidisciplinary Approach

• ISBN:
• 0851996744
• Authors:
• J. Worobey, B. J. Tepper, R. Karanek

Despite their widespread coverage in the media, there is little emphasis on nutrition in books in psychology, and most textbooks in nutrition barely acknowledge that behavioral correlates of nutrient status. This book will provide interested readers in the fields of nutrition and psychology with information on how these two disciplines interface. Traditional topics (e.g., micronutrients, sugar, eating disorders) are addressed, as well as more...

No Such Country: Essays toward Home (Sightline Books)

• ISBN:
• 0877457964
• Authors:
• Elmar Lueth

No Such Country explores the idea of home—but a home without clear boundaries, a home in motion. A German who spent ten years in the U.S. and also witnessed the complexities of German reunification firsthand, Elmar Lueth writes about his idea of home, its shape and texture, which has shifted in unexpected and often startling ways. The autobiographical essays here focus on these shifts, tracing the geographical and psychological borders Lueth...

The Interpretation of Financial Statements

• ISBN:
• 0887309135
• Authors:
• Benjamin Graham, Spencer B. Meredith

"All investors, from beginners to old hands, should gain from the use of this guide, as I have." From the Introduction by Michael F. Price, president, Franklin Mutual Advisors, Inc. Benjamin Graham has been called the most important investment thinker of the twentieth century. As a master investor, pioneering stock analyst, and mentor to investment superstars, he has no peer. The volume you hold in your hands is Graham's timeless guide to...

Get Up and Go: Strategies for Active Living After 50

• ISBN:
• 1550024507
• Authors:
• Jim McDonald, Olga McDonald

There are many books directed at those who are retired or about to retire, and most of them focus on financial matters, food and nutrition, or the best places to settle down. Most fitness books are written for the serious fitness enthusiast, not your average North American annuitant. This is a book with a different goal. Get Up and Go motivates those 50 and over to become more physically fit and mentally active. Why? So they can live longer,...

Cultural Shaping of Violence: International Perspectives

• ISBN:
• 1557533733
• Authors:
• Editor, Myrdene Anderson

Violence and increasing public awareness of violence mark society's contemporary condition. Sept. 11, 2001 made this condition even more indelible. Cultural Shaping of Violence proposes that violence cannot be described, let alone understond or addressed, unless tied to the cultural settings that influence it. The book's 27 chapters, researched and written by 28 scholars of seven nationalities, document violence in 22 distinct cultural settings...

Taking Care of Yourself

• ISBN:
• 1564559920
• Authors:
• Andrew Weil

Since the beginning of the "natural health" revolution decades ago, Dr. Andrew Weil's groundbreaking books have helped millions to feel better, live longer, and avoid illness by integrating the best of modern medicine and natural healing practices. Now, with TAKING CARE OF YOURSELF, this pioneering Harvard-trained physician invites you to join him in a comprehensive one-on-one audio learning course. With Dr. Weil, you will learn the most current...

The Little Book of Yoga Breathing: Pranayama Made Easy. . .

• ISBN:
• 157863301X
• Authors:
• Scott Shaw

Pranayama, the practice of breath control, is detailed here in an easy-to-understand and even easier-to-practise format. Professional yoga instructor Scott Shaw introduces 16 breathing exercises and shows you how to get the best benefit from each of the forms by training, refining and witnessing your breath. Try one of the calming breaths, Nadi Sudi or the Nerve Purifying Breath. Have a long day ahead with no breaks until after dinner? Allow...

Microsoft Access VBA Programming for the Absolute Beginner, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 1592007236
• Authors:
• Michael Vine

If you are new to programming with Microsoft Access VBA and are looking for a solid introduction, this is the book for you. Developed by computer science professors, books in the for the absolute beginner series teach the principles of programming through simple game creation. Covering Access 2003, "Microsoft Access VBA Programming for the Absolute Beginner" provides you with the skills that you need for more practical Access VBA programming...

Jordan (Creation of the Modern Middle East)

• ISBN:
• 1604130180
• Authors:
• Hal Marcovitz

A tiny country roughly the size of Indiana, Jordan has enjoyed a stable government throughout its 80-year history and has been a significant force in a tumultuous part of the world. Led by Hussein ibn Tallal for more than 40 years, the country built a strong economy, expanded personal freedoms, and assumed a key role in Middle Eastern affairs. Jordan is home to the ancient city of Petra, an archaeological site that remained unknown until 1812....

The Maginot Line 1928-45

• ISBN:
• 1841766461
• Authors:
• William Allcorn

The Maginot Line, the massive series of fortifications built by France in the 1930s to defend its borders with Germany and Italy, is perhaps the most maligned collection of fortifications ever built. Despite being a technological marvel, and the most sophisticated and complex set of fortifications built up to that time, it failed to save France from crushing defeat in 1940. Yet there are those who argue that it accomplished exactly what it was...

Zeppelins: German Airships 1900-40 (New Vanguard)

• ISBN:
• 1841766925
• Authors:
• Charles Stephenson

On 2 July 1900 the people of Friedrichshafen, Germany, witnessed a momentous occasion - the first flight of LZ 1, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's first airship. Although deemed a failure, a succession of better craft (LZ2 to 10) enabled the Zeppelin to expand into the consumer market of airship travel, whilst also providing military craft for the German Army and Navy. The years of the Great War saw the Zeppelins undertake strategic bombing...

Food, Drink and Identity: Cooking, Eating and Drinking in Europe since the Middle Ages

• ISBN:
• 1859734618

Food and drink have provided fascinating insights into cultural patterns in consumer societies. There is an intimate relationship between food and identity but processes of identity formation through food are far from clear. This book addresses the place of food in the construction of identities: is food central or marginal to this process? Does food equally matter for all groups? Why would, in people's experience, food become important at one...

Thyroid Power: Ten Steps to Total Health

• ISBN:
• 0060082224
• Authors:
• Richard Shames, Karilee H. Shames

Fatigue; weight gain; depression; arthritis; high cholestrol; low sex drive; skin, digestive, and female problems; abnormal blood pressure -- all may be symptoms of low thyroid, one of the most misdiagnosed disorders in America. Thyroid Power can help you determine whether you're one of the millions who suffer from low thyroid. It discusses food, vitamins, and natural remedies that support thyroid health;explains how to avoid environmental and...

The Ultimate New York Body Plan: Just 2 weeks to a total transformation

• ISBN:
• 0071446494
• Authors:
• David Kirsch

A fast and proven two week program for the ultimate body transformation David Kirsch, personal trainer and a fitness guru of the TV show "Extreme Makeover," has whipped into shape some of the most famous bodies in America. Supermodels Heidi Klum and Linda Evangelista, as well as celebrities such as Liv Tyler, have turned to David Kirsch for his foolproof training regimen when they needed to get to their level of optimum fitness--fast. Now in The...

The Breastfeeding Mother's Guide to Making More Milk: Foreword by Martha Sears, RN (Breastfeeding Mothers Guide)

• ISBN:
• 007159857X
• Authors:
• Diana West, Lisa Marasco

Concerned about making enough milk for your baby? Wondering how to make more? Two lactation experts are here to help. Separate fact from fiction with help from this comprehensive book about improving low milk supply. Written by two leading experts who have been there themselves and officially recommended by La Leche League International, The Breastfeeding Mother's Guide to Making More Milk incorporates the latest research and discoveries about...

Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

• ISBN:
• 0192854577
• Authors:
• Bhikhu Parekh

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of opposing unjust laws by non-violent protest. He led the Indian National Congress party in three major campaigns against British rule, each culminating in his arrest. In Gandhi, a...

Introduction to Medieval Logic

• ISBN:
• 0198240260
• Authors:
• Alexander Broadie

Medieval logicians advanced far beyond the logic of Aristotle, and this book shows how far that advance took them in two central areas. Broadie focuses upon the work of some of the great figures of the fourteenth century, including Walter Burley, William Ockham, John Buridan, Albert of Saxony, and Paul of Venice, and deals with their theories of truth conditions and validity conditions. He reveals how much of what seems characteristically...

Shakespeare and Text (Oxford Shakespeare Topics)

• ISBN:
• 0199217076
• Authors:
• John Jowett

Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Shakespeare and Text is an indispensable and unique guide to its topic. It takes Shakespeare readers to the very foundation of his work, explaining how his plays first took shape in the...

Microsoft Windows Vista Unleashed

• ISBN:
• 0672328941
• Authors:
• Paul McFedries

A new edition of this title is available, ISBN-10: 067233013X ISBN-13: 9780672330131     Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ Unleashed   Paul McFedries   Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ Unleashed is a book for people, like you, who don’t consider themselves to be “average users.” It’s a book for anyone who finds that doing things the official way is slower, less efficient, and less powerful because Windows Vista was designed from the...

Constitutional Patriotism

• ISBN:
• 0691118590
• Authors:
• Jan-Werner Muller

Constitutional Patriotism offers a new theory of citizenship and civic allegiance for today's culturally diverse liberal democracies. Rejecting conventional accounts of liberal nationalism and cosmopolitanism, Jan-Werner Müller argues for a form of political belonging centered on universalist norms, adapted for specific constitutional cultures. At the same time, he presents a novel approach to thinking about political belonging and the...

Candle Power: Using Candlelight For Ritual, Magic & Self-Discovery

• ISBN:
• 0713727675
• Authors:
• Cassandra Eason

Use the ancient power of candles to carry out rituals, cheer festivities, celebrate rites of passage, and much more. Begin the candle enchantment by matching the color to the work you want to do; link candles to astrology; recall past lives; perform healing ceremonies; and overcome fears. Perfume the air with scented candles--each aroma has a special significance. Inscribe a candle with your deepest wishes. Captivating photographs and...

Travels to the Nanoworld: Miniature Machinery in Nature and Technology

• ISBN:
• 0738204447
• Authors:
• Michael Gross

The new science and technology of the incredibly small-and what it means for our future. Our lives are about to be changed by new technologies that operate on a scale too small to be seen by even the most powerful optical microscopes. Devices measured in nanometers-billionths of a meter-have set off a nanotechnology revolution. In Travels to the Nanoworld, Michael Gross takes us deep into this miniature universe and describes natural processes...

Understanding Homicide

• ISBN:
• 0761947558
• Authors:
• Dr Fiona Brookman

Understanding Homicide  is a comprehensive and challenging text unravelling the phenomenon of homicide. The author combines original analysis with a lucid overview of the key theories and debates in the study of homicide and violence. In introducing the broad spectrum of different features, aspects and forms of homicide, Fiona Brookman examines its patterns and trends, how it may be explained, its investigation and how it may be prevented. ...

Representing Race: Racisms, Ethnicity and the Media

• ISBN:
• 076196911X
• Authors:
• Professor John D H Downing, Professor Charles Husband

The Media play a diverse and significant role in the practical expression of racism and in the everyday politics of ethnicity. Written by two veterans of research on media and 'race', this book offers a fresh comparative analyses of the issues and sets out the key agendas for future study.

Postpartum Mood And Anxiety Disorders: A Guide

• ISBN:
• 0763716499
• Authors:
• Cheryl Tatano Beck, Jeanne Watson Driscoll

Designed for clinicians delivering postpartum care, including clinicians, midwives, OB-GYN nurse practitioners, and women's health practitioners, this text overviews the six different mood and anxiety disorders that may present during a woman's postpartum year. Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders focuses on assessment, screening tools, diagnosis, treatment, and implications for practice, and includes case studies to integrate the process.

Windows Vista Secrets

• ISBN:
• 0764577042
• Authors:
• Brian Livingston, Paul Thurrott

"If one book can help you master Vista, this is it." --Fred Langa, former editor-in-chief of Byte Magazine "These two know more about Windows than Microsoft does." --Chris Pirillo, editor of Lockergnome.com Go beyond Microsoft's Help guide and discover the true secrets of Windows Vista that are essential to power users. Written by two of the most recognized Windows authorities, this resource provides you with numerous tips, tricks, and...

Great Age Guide to Online Health and Wellness

• ISBN:
• 0789735326
• Authors:
• Sandy Berger

Que's Great Age Guides celebrate the vital role and lifestyle of today's young, active 50+ adults. Most well-known "middle-aged" people of sixty-five or seventy would have you believe that Great Age is so wonderful that all the years leading up to it are a waste of time! People in this great age are transforming retirement's traditional laid-back "golden years" in pure platinum. Great Ager's break retirement tradition by working well past...

Mairead Corrigan And Betty Williams: Partners for Peace in Northern Ireland (Modern Peacemakers)

• ISBN:
• 0791090019
• Authors:
• George Mitchell, Susan Muaddi Darraj

Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan were awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for their work to end the violence in Northern Ireland, a conflict dating back to the division of Ireland by the British in the 1920s. Williams and Corrigan joined forces in August 1976 in their West Belfast neighborhood, when a woman and three children out for a walk were hit by a runaway car. The car's driver was an Irish Republican Army gunman who had been shot by...

Global Neighborhoods: Jewish Quarters in Paris, London, and Berlin

• ISBN:
• 0791475514
• Authors:
• Michel S. Laguerre

Looks at how contemporary Jewish neighborhoods interact with both local and transnational influences.

The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq

• ISBN:
• 0807061476
• Authors:
• Helen Benedict

More American women have fought and died in Iraq than in any war since World War Two, yet as soldiers they are still painfully alone. In Iraq, only one in ten troops is a woman, and she often serves in a unit with few other women or none at all. This isolation, along with the military’s deep-seated hostility toward women, causes problems that many female soldiers find as hard to cope with as war itself: degradation, sexual persecution by their...

The Porning of America: The Rise of Porn Culture, What It Means, and Where We Go from Here

• ISBN:
• 0807061530
• Authors:
• Carmine Sarracino, Kevin M. Scott

From the popular Bratz dolls to the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, The Porning of America reveals that porn has become the mainstream—and the mainstream has become porn. Carmine Sarracino and Kevin Scott argue that porn has seeped into and been absorbed by every defining aspect of our culture: language, entertainment, fashion, advertising, sexual behavior, even politics. Cultural absorption is so complete that we no longer have to purchase...

Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence

• ISBN:
• 1844670058
• Authors:
• Judith Butler

One of America's leading intellectuals responds to the current US policies to wage perpetual war. This profound appraisal of post-9/11 America considers the conditions of heightened vulnerability and aggression that followed from the attack on the US, and US retaliation. Judith Butler critiques the use of violence that has emerged as a response to loss, and argues that the dislocation of first-world privilege offers instead a chance to imagine a...

Company Valuation Under IFRS: Interpreting and Forecasting Accounts Using International Financial Reporting Standards

• ISBN:
• 190564177X
• Authors:
• Nick Antill, Kenneth Lee M.a

Written by practitioners for practitioners, the book addresses valuation from the viewpoint of the analyst, the investor and the corporate acquirer. It starts with valuation theory: what is to be discounted and at what discount rate? It explains the connection between standard methodologies based on free cash flow and on return on capital. And it emphasizes that, whichever method is used, accurate interpretation of accounting information is...

Voices of Lung Cancer: The Healing Companion: Stories for Courage, Comfort and Strength (Voices Of series)

• ISBN:
• 1934184004

Provided by the patients, their friends, families, and caregivers of those diagnaosed with lung cancer, these very personal stories offer inspired insight into the ways families and professionals care for both themselves and the patient, gain a deeper understanding of the relationships, and learn to come to terms with the end of life. Included are essays by medical experts about the science of lung cancer, current treatments, choosing the right...

On the Nature of Prejudice

• ISBN:
• 1405127503

On the Nature of Prejudice commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Gordon Allport’s classic work on prejudice and discrimination by examining the current state of knowledge in the field. A distinguished collection of international scholars considers Allport’s impact on the field, reviews recent developments, and identifies promising directions for future investigation. Organized around Allport's central themes, this book...

A Wizard's Bestiary: A Menagerie of Myth, Magic, and Mystery

• ISBN:
• 1564149560
• Authors:
• Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, Ash Dekirk

Strange beasts of all kinds have crawled, run, swam, and flown through humanity's imagination and travelers' tales since the dawn of time. From Gryphons and Unicorns, to Dragons, Mermaids, and even more bizarre and fantastical animals, A Wizard's Bestiary takes you on a magical journey through the ages and around the world, to discover elusive creatures of myth and legend. Beware--here be Monsters! The first section lists over 1,000 fantastic...

Basics of Genealogy Reference: A Librarian's Guide

• ISBN:
• 1591585147
• Authors:
• Jack Simpson

This book offers novice and experienced reference librarians an introduction to tried-and-true genealogy techniques and resources. With the help of four case studies, Simpson outlines a basic starting strategy for conducting genealogy research. Later chapters deal specifically with genealogical librarianship: how to conduct a reference interview, continuing and professional development, and basic resources every collection should have. Charts,...

Beginning DirectX 9 (Game Development Series)

• ISBN:
• 1592003494
• Authors:
• Wendy Jones

As a beginning programmer, you've probably noticed how difficult it is to find introductory guides to game programming. If you're interested in learning DirectX and are looking for a book that helps you go beyond the 3D component of DirectX and gives you complete coverage of this amazing product, then look no further! "Beginning DirectX 9" gives you examples that build on previous chapters and culminates in the completion of a playable game.

Naked Vegas 5

• ISBN:
• 1592003664
• Authors:
• Doug Sahlin

Naked – Unveiled, exposed, uncovered. That’s exactly the approach taken with Naked Vegas 5. You won’t be confused with extra fluff or useless information. Instead, this unique guide provides you with basic yet in-depth material that encourages you to explore all that Vegas 5 has to offer. As you complete the creative projects that are inside, you’ll learn the skills behind Vegas, discovering how to apply smart production principles to...

Ableton Live 4 Power!

• ISBN:
• 1592005314
• Authors:
• Chad Carrier, David Hill

Get ready to make music that rocks using the amazing new features of Ableton Live 4. This comprehensive guide is designed to help you take full advantage of this revolutionary live performance and studio software. Written for all Live users, from digital audio beginners to seasoned pros, "Ableton Live 4 Power! explores each fundamental feature within Live and provides power-user tips and insider tricks for integrating Live into your home or...

Maran Illustrated Piano

• ISBN:
• 159200864X
• Authors:
• maranGraphics Development Group

Produced by the award-winning maranGraphics group, Maran’s Illustrated Guide to Piano is a valuable resource to a wide range of readers—from people who want to play a few songs for their family in the living room to those who aspire to become serious musicians. Maran’s Illustrated Guide to Piano shows the reader the best way to perform each task, while the full-color photographs, music examples and clear, step-by-step instructions walk the...

Britons in Anglo-Saxon England (Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies) (Pubns Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies)

• ISBN:
• 1843833123
• Authors:
• Nick Higham

The number of native Britons, and their role, in Anglo-Saxon England has been hotly debated for generations; the English were seen as Germanic in the nineteenth century, but the twentieth saw a reinvention of the German 'past'. Today, the scholarly community is as deeply divided as ever on the issue: place-name specialists have consistently preferred minimalist interpretations, privileging migration from Germany, while other disciplinary groups...

Silica-Based Materials for Advanced Chemical Applications

• ISBN:
• 1847558984
• Authors:
• Mario Pagliaro

This is the first book to address the hot topic of functional silica gels and their applications. Originally used mainly in chromatography, specialized silica gels have evolved into crucially important functional nanomaterials suitable for use in, amongst other things, chemical synthesis, analysis, purification, surface protection and drug release. The book demonstrates how chemists synthesize, from the bottom-up, tailor-made (nano) materials of...

Nanopathology: The Health Impact of Nanoparticles

• ISBN:
• 9814241008
• Authors:
• Antonietta M. Gatti, Stefano Montanari

Enormous funds are currently being invested in nanotechnology, yet very little is known about how its products and by-products can interfere with organisms, both end-users and people involved in their manufacture. Similar scenarios are already widely known in the history of science, such as the exploitation of radioactivity or the controversial issue of genetically modified organisms. As nanoparticles are more or less voluntarily produced, they...

The Philosophy of Leibniz: Metaphysics and Language

• ISBN:
• 0195059468
• Authors:
• Benson Mates

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) is one of the most imposing figures in the history of Western thought. In this definitive treatment of his wide-ranging philosophical ideas, Benson Mates has brought his own formidable abilities to bear on the unwieldy--and virtually inaccessible--corpus of Leibniz's work. The result is an elegantly written and meticulously reasoned exegesis of the fundamental Leibniz, one that is destined to be a...

Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty

• ISBN:
• 0195084888
• Authors:
• Avrum Stroll

Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty was finished just before his death in 1951 and is a running commentary on three of G.E. Moore's greatest epistemological papers. In the early 1930s, Moore had written a lengthy commentary on Wittgenstein, anticipating some of the issues Wittgenstein would discuss in On Certainty. The philosophical relationship between these two great philosophers and their overlapping, but nevertheless differing, views is the...

From Morality to Virtue

• ISBN:
• 0195093925
• Authors:
• Michael Slote

In this book, Slote offers the first full-scale foundational account of virtue ethics to have appeared since the recent revival of interest in the ethics of virtue. Slote advocates a particular form of such ethics for its intuitive and structural advantages over Kantianism, utilitarianism, and common-sense morality, and he argues that the problems of other views can be avoided and a contemporary plausible version of virtue ethics achieved only...

The Paradox of Subjectivity: The Self in the Transcendental Tradition

• ISBN:
• 0195126904
• Authors:
• David Carr

Challenging prevailing interpretations of the development of modern philosophy, this book proposes a reinterpretation of the transcendental tradition, as represented primarily by Kant and Husserl, and counters Heidegger's influential reading of these philosophers. Author David Carr defends their subtle and complex transcendental investigations of the self and the life of subjectivity, and seeks to revive an understanding of what Husserl calls...

From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality

• ISBN:
• 0195129032
• Authors:
• Michael J. Klarman

Do Supreme Court decisions matter? In 1896 the United States Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that railroad segregation laws were permissible under the Fourteenth Amendment. In 1954 the Court's decision in Brown v. the Board of Education held that the same constitutional provision invalidated statutes segregating public schools How great an impact did judicial rulings such as Plessy and Brown have? How much did such Court decisions...

Color-Blind Justice: Albion Tourgee and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson

• ISBN:
• 0195181395
• Authors:
• Mark Elliott

Civil War officer, Reconstruction "carpetbagger," best-selling novelist, and relentless champion of equal rights, Albion Tourgee battled his entire life for racial justice. Now, in this engaging biography, Mark Elliott offers an insightful portrait of a fearless lawyer, jurist, and writer, who fought for equality long after most Americans had abandoned the ideals of Reconstruction. Elliott provides a fascinating account of Tourgee's life, from...

Pluralism and the Politics of Difference: State, Culture, and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective

• ISBN:
• 0198294263
• Authors:
• R. D. Grillo

This powerful new study examines pluralism in three settings: early states, modern industrial societies, and the contemporary `postmodern' world, each of which vary economically, politically, and in the space they allow difference. Identifying several kinds of pluralism, the author points to a range of choices facing us as we move into the twenty-first century, trying to reconcile the competing demands of universalism and difference.

Nationalism and the Irish Party: Provincial Ireland 1910-1916

• ISBN:
• 019927357X
• Authors:
• Michael Wheatley

John Redmond's constitutional, parliamentary, Irish Party went from dominating Irish politics to oblivion in just four years from 1914-1918. The goal of limited Home Rule, peacefully achieved, appeared to die with it. Given the speed of the party's collapse, its death has been seen as inevitable. Though such views have been challenged, there has been no detailed study of the Irish Party in the last years of union with Britain, before the world...

Agency and Autonomy in Kant's Moral Theory: Selected Essays

• ISBN:
• 0199288828
• Authors:
• Andrews Reath

Andrews Reath presents a selection of his best essays on various features of Kant's moral psychology and moral theory, with particular emphasis on his conception of rational agency and his conception of autonomy. Together the essays articulate Reath's original approach to Kant's views about human autonomy, which explains Kant's belief that objective moral requirements are based on principles we choose for ourselves. With two new papers, and...

Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management: Organizing for Innovation and Growth

• ISBN:
• 019954512X
• Authors:
• David J. Teece

How do firms compete? How do firms earn above normal returns? What's needed to sustain superior performance long term? An increasingly powerful answer to these fundamental questions of business strategy lies in the concept of dynamic capabilities. These are the skills, processes, routines, organizational structures, and disciplines that enable firms to build, employ, and orchestrate intangible assets relevant to satisfying customer needs, and...

The Flight of the Condor: Stories of Violence and War from Colombia (THE AMERICAS)

• ISBN:
• 0299223647

After decades of violence of all kinds, what remains are the stories. History is revised and debated, its protagonists bear witness, its writers ensure that all the suffering has not been in vain. These stories from Colombia contain pain and love, and sometimes even humor, allowing us to see an utterly vibrant and pulsating country amidst so much death and loss. We encounter townspeople overcome by fear, a man begging unsuccessfully for his...

The Theatre of Genocide: Four Plays about Mass Murder in Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, and Armenia

• ISBN:
• 0299224740

In this pioneering volume, Robert Skloot brings together four plays—three of which are published here for the first time—that fearlessly explore the face of modern genocide. The scripts deal with the destruction of four targeted populations: Armenians in Lorne Shirinian’s Exile in the Cradle , Cambodians in Catherine Filloux’s Silence of God , Bosnian Muslims in Kitty Felde’s A Patch of Earth , and Rwandan Tutsis in Erik Ehn’s Maria...

Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the Performer

• ISBN:
• 0300114907
• Authors:
• Boris Berman

Boris Berman, renowned concert pianist and teacher, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sergei Prokofiev. In this book, he draws on his intimate knowledge of Prokofiev’s work to guide music lovers and pianists through the composer’s nine piano sonatas. These cherished works, composed between 1910 and 1951, are today considered an indispensable part of the repertoire of every serious concert pianist.  The book, written with a...

Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-C)

• ISBN:
• 0300124473
• Authors:
• Dr. Alan Houston

This fascinating book explores Benjamin Franklin’s social and political thought. Although Franklin is often considered “the first American,” his intellectual world was cosmopolitan. An active participant in eighteenth-century Atlantic debates over the modern commercial republic, Franklin combined abstract analyses with practical proposals. Houston treats Franklin as shrewd, creative, and engaged—a lively thinker who joined both learned...

The History of Ukraine (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations)

• ISBN:
• 0313349207
• Authors:
• Paul Kubicek

Ukraine's struggle for a national identity plagued this former Soviet Union state long before the Cold War shook the world. Its central location between Eastern Europe and Western Asia invited many different cultures to settle the land, ultimately populating a powerful early medieval society known as Kievan Rus. However, readers will learn how Kievan Rus's Golden Age quickly crumbled with decades of Mongol invasions, Polish-Lithuanian...

Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research)

• ISBN:
• 0387708448
• Authors:
• Hernan Vera, Joe R. Feagin

The study of racial and ethnic relations has become one of the most studied aspects in sociology and sociological research. In both North America and Europe, many traditional cultures are feeling threatened by immigrants from Latin America, Africa and Asia. Sociology is at the hub of the human sciences concerned with racial and ethnic relations. Since this discipline is made of multiple paradigms and methodological orientations it has been able...

How to Price: A Guide to Pricing Techniques and Yield Management

• ISBN:
• 0521887593
• Authors:
• Oz Shy

Over the past four decades, business and academic economists, operations researchers, marketing scientists, and consulting firms have increased their interest and research on pricing and revenue management. This book attempts to introduce the reader to a wide variety of their research results on pricing techniques in a unified, systematic way and at varying levels of difficulty. The book contains a large number of exercises and solutions and...

Philosophers on Race: Critical Essays

• ISBN:
• 063122226X

This volume adds a new dimension to current research on race theory by examining its historical roots in the works of major Western philosophers. The essays included in this book span a wide range of topics, including the opposition between Greek and "barbarian" in the works of Plato and Aristotle, the notion of racial difference employed in medieval Islamic thought, as well as the existence of racial categories within the social contract and...

Hume's Enlightenment Tract: The Unity and Purpose of An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding

• ISBN:
• 0198250886
• Authors:
• Stephen Buckle

This is the first full book-length study in forty years of David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding-which, contrary to its author's expressed wishes, long lived in the shadow of its predecessor A Treatise of Human Nature. Stephen Buckle presents the Enquiry in a fresh light, aiming to raise it to its rightful position in the history of philosophy. He argues that the Enquiry is not, as so often assumed, a mere collection of...

Hume Variations (Lines of Thought)

• ISBN:
• 0199264058
• Authors:
• Jerry A. Fodor

Hume? Yes, David Hume, that's who Jerry Fodor looks to for help in advancing our understanding of the mind. Fodor claims his Treatise of Human Nature as the foundational document of cognitive science: it launched the project of constructing an empirical psychology on the basis of a representational theory of mind. Going back to this work after more than 250 years we find that Hume is remarkably perceptive about the components and structure that...

Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan

• ISBN:
• 0262032856
• Authors:
• Thomas F. Cargill, Michael M. Hutchison, Takatoshi Ito

Japan's financial institutions and policy underwent remarkable change in the past decade. The country began the 1990s with a heavily regulated financial system managed by an unchallenged Ministry of Finance and ended the decade with a Big Bang financial market reform, a complete restructuring of its regulatory financial institutions, and an independent central bank. These reforms have taken place amid recession and rising unemployment,...

Bond Pricing and Portfolio Analysis

• ISBN:
• 0262041855
• Authors:
• Olivier de La Grandville

This text makes accessible the most important methodological advances in bond evaluation from the past twenty years. With uncommon precision and a strong emphasis on the underlying economic fundamentals, Olivier de La Grandville presents a unified framework for understanding the basic tools of bond evaluation, including duration, convexity, and immunization. Among the book's most valuable contributions is a general immunization theorem that can...

David Hume: Reason in History

• ISBN:
• 0271022639
• Authors:
• Claudia M. Schmidt

"A courageous and valuable attempt to see Hume whole-to see the unity and consistency in his broad-ranging work as a philosopher, political analyst, economist, historian, and critic of religion."-David Fate Norton, McGill University and the University of Victoria, Co-General Editor of The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume In his seminal Philosophy of David Hume (1941), Norman Kemp Smith called for a study of Hume "in all his manifold...

Sealing Their Fate: The Twenty-two Days That Decided World War II

• ISBN:
• 0306816202
• Authors:
• David Downing

As the Japanese fleet prepared to sail from Japan to Pearl Harbor, the German army was launching its final desperate assault on Moscow, while the British were planning a decisive blow against Rommel in North Africa. The British conquered the desert, the Germans succumbed to Moscow’s winter, and the Japanese awakened the sleeping giant of American might. In just three weeks, from November 17 to December 8, the course of World War II was decided...

Historical Archaeology of Gendered Lives (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology)

• ISBN:
• 0387896678
• Authors:
• Deborah Rotman

During the last half of the nineteenth century, a number of social and economic factors converged that resulted in the rural village of Deerfield, Massachusetts becoming almost entirely female. This drastic shift in population presents a unique lens through which to study gender roles and social relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The lessons gleaned from this case study will provide new insight to the study of gender...

Hacking Exposed Windows: Microsoft Windows Security Secrets and Solutions, Third Edition

• ISBN:
• 007149426X
• Authors:
• Joel Scambray

The latest Windows security attack and defense strategies "Securing Windows begins with reading this book." --James Costello (CISSP) IT Security Specialist, Honeywell Meet the challenges of Windows security with the exclusive Hacking Exposed "attack-countermeasure" approach. Learn how real-world malicious hackers conduct reconnaissance of targets and then exploit common misconfigurations and software flaws on both clients and servers. See...

Windows 7 For Dummies Quick Reference (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 0470489618
• Authors:
• Greg Harvey

This handy reference covers all the must-know elements of Windows 7 The much-anticipated Windows 7 operating system brings lots of new elements to Windows, and you may have lots of questions. You'll find the answers quickly and easily in Windows 7 For Dummies Quick Reference - a concise, convenient reference you can keep by your PC. Windows 7 For Dummies Quick Reference covers all the information you need most often: tips on navigating the new...

Trading Chaos: Applying Expert Techniques to Maximize Your Profits (A Marketplace Book)

• ISBN:
• 0471119296
• Authors:
• Marketplace Books

TRADING CHAOS APPLYING EXPERT TECHNIQUES TO MAXIMIZE YOUR PROFITS Chaos theory now stands at the cutting edge of financial decision-making methods. The product of years of scientific investigation into unpredictable phenomena, it has the potential to offer traders entirely new perspectives on the movements of markets—and less risky routes to greater, more consistent profitability. Unlike other books on the subject, Trading Chaos takes chaos...

Building Winning Trading Systems with TradeStation

• ISBN:
• 0471215694
• Authors:
• George Pruitt, John R. Hill

Praise for BUILDING WINNING TRADING SYSTEMS with TradeStation ™ "This book will prove vital to all systematic traders. Pruitt and Hill share a wealth of innovative timing patterns and fully disclosed trading strategies. For TradeStation™ users, there are powerful tutorials on indicator design and system building. The authors’ vast expertise will benefit even practiced TradeStation™ veterans." –Nelson Freeburg Editor, Formula Research...

Individually Managed Accounts: An Investor's Guide

• ISBN:
• 0471238635
• Authors:
• Robert B. Jorgensen, Robert Jorgensen

Praise for Individually Managed Accounts "Individually Managed Accounts: An Investor’s Guide is a great step-by-step, how-to guide not only for high net worth investors but the professional advisors who serve them." –Leonard Reinhart, CEO and Founder, Lockwood Financial "Robert Jorgensen is really a leader in the area of individually managed accounts. This book is a great contribution to the rapidly growing body of knowledge on IMAs and the...

Managing the Risks of Payments Systems

• ISBN:
• 0471328480
• Authors:
• Paul S. Turner, Diane B. Wunnicke

Identify and manage payment risk The risks of payment systems have dramatically evolved…new laws, new technologies, new threats combined with the chronic problems of error, fraud, and security. Treasury and banking executives and their counsel ignore these risks at their peril. "We didn’t know" is no excuse. Managing the Risks of Payment Systems is the up-to-date, practical, authoritatively complete guide to managing the risks of payment...

The MsSpent Money Guide: Get More of What You Want with What You Earn

• ISBN:
• 0471396346
• Authors:
• Deborah Knuckey

Praise For The MsSpent Money Guide "An inspiring, sensible money guide that helps people learn how to spend without feeling guilty, deprived, or unhappy, and feel good about saving for their future. A wonderful book for anyone wanting to take charge and make the most of their financial life."– John Gray, author, How to Get What You Want and Want What You Have and Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus "Deborah Knuckey shows us that spending...

How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers

• ISBN:
• 0471478679
• Authors:
• John A. Tracy CPA

Hidden somewhere among all the numbers in a financial report is vitally important information about where a company has been and where it is going. This is especially relevant in light of the recent corporate scandals. The sixth edition of the bestselling How to Read a Financial Report is designed to help anyone who works with financial reports—but has neither the time nor the need for an in-depth knowledge of accounting—cut through the maze...

Driving Your Company's Value: Strategic Benchmarking for Value

• ISBN:
• 0471648558
• Authors:
• Michael J. Mard, Robert R. Dunne, Edi Osborne, James S. Rigby Jr.

Driving Your Company's Value: Strategic Benchmarking for Value is a step-by-step book presenting a valuation-oriented methodology that helps companies maximize shareholder value. It offers clear, concise, and concrete methods for management to create and preserve value, complete with case study applications. In an easy-to-read format, it brings together the aspects of the Financial Accounting Standards Boards' new performance measurements, the...

Budgeting Basics and Beyond

• ISBN:
• 0471725021
• Authors:
• Jae K. Shim, Joel G. Siegel

Budgeting Basics and Beyond , Second Edition provides managers with a hassle-free resource that’s guaranteed to make the budgeting process easier, less stressful, and more effective. This updated edition features new information on service and nonprofit applications, types of financial models, Web-based budgeting and planning solutions, and much more. From preparing and presenting budgets to monitoring results against budget figures and...

Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time

• ISBN:
• 0521003881
• Authors:
• Mary Waldron

This book presents Jane Austen as a radical innovator. It explores the nature of her confrontation with the popular novelists of her time, and demonstrates how her challenge to them transformed fiction. Mary Waldron shows how Austen's novels exemplify the strong skepticism about contemporary notions of the proper content and purpose of fiction that is evident from family letters and other sources. In thus identifying her literary motivation,...

God and the Reach of Reason: C.S. Lewis, David Hume, and Bertrand Russell

• ISBN:
• 0521880866
• Authors:
• Erik J. Wielenberg

C. S. Lewis is one of the most beloved Christian apologists of the twentieth century; David Hume and Bertrand Russell are among Christianity's most important critics. This book puts these three intellectual giants in conversation with one another on various important questions: the existence of God, suffering, morality, reason, joy, miracles, and faith. Alongside irreconcilable differences, surprising areas of agreement emerge. Curious readers...

Eight Steps to Seven Figures: The Investment Strategies of Everyday Millionaires and How You Can Become Wealthy Too

• ISBN:
• 0553456725
• Authors:
• Charles Carlson

Focuses squarely on the investing strategies and principles that ordinary people have used to achieve the million-dollar mark. CD-ROM. DLC: Portfolio management.

Windows Powershell Cookbook

• ISBN:
• 0596528493
• Authors:
• Lee Holmes

This Cookbook by Windows PowerShell team developer Lee Holmes provides hundreds of tested scripts that you can use right away to get Microsoft's new tool working for you. More than 150 recipes, combined with a concise task-based introduction to the Windows PowerShell scripting language and environment, make it the perfect look-up guide when you encounter a thorny problem, or need a quick solution. The ideal companion to any tutorial or...

The War Correspondent

• ISBN:
• 074531449X
• Authors:
• Greg McLaughlin

Based on original research and interviews with a range of journalists, The War Correspondent looks at the changing nature of war reporting. Technology has transformed the very way in which journalists report from wars. We have witnessed a change in the gender profile of war correspondents as more and more women enter the field - notably Christiane Amanpour (CNN), Kate Adie (BBC) and Maggie O'Kane (The Guardian). Increasingly, the profession is...

Israel and Palestine - Out of the Ashes: The Search for Jewish Identity in the Twenty-first Century

• ISBN:
• 0745319572
• Authors:
• Marc H. Ellis

As the world watches with horror the unfolding events in Palestine and Israel, Marc Ellis, a Jewish American scholar, examines what he sees as a crisis point in Jewish identity. In this book, Ellis offers a vision of Judaism that testifies to an ethical life in our era, based on the principles of justice and community upon which the Jewish faith was founded. Only by addressing the way in which those original principles are being squandered by a...

Marketing Plans for Service Businesses, Second Edition: A Complete Guide

• ISBN:
• 075066746X
• Authors:
• Malcolm McDonald, Adrian Payne

Marketing Plans for Service Businesses is based on the successful Marketing Planning for Services , which has been completely overhauled, updated and revised to give a new and authoritative guide to the challenge of creating marketing plans that produce significantly improved bottom-line results. It is written in a pragmatic, action-orientated style and each chapter has examples of marketing planning in practice. The authors highlight key...

The Larder Chef, Fourth Edition: Food Preparation and Presentation

• ISBN:
• 0750668997
• Authors:
• W K H Bode, M J Leto

The Larder Chef reflects the changing attitude to food and its preparation in recent years. While still retaining its practical approach, it recognizes current trends and fashions in food presentation and service style. A number of new illustrations have been added to the book for greater clarity. National Diploma students, apprentice chefs and catering students will find this manual particularly useful. * An authoritative, clear and practical...

Operations Management in Context, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 0750681985
• Authors:
• Frank Rowbotham, Masoud Azhashemi, Les Galloway

Operations Management in Context is a straightforward and accessible text which provides students with a good grounding in the theory and practise of operations management and its role within organizations. The structure is clear and logical, leading newcomers to this subject through the topics in a way to maximize comprehension, highlighting key issues and using case studies and examples from business to contextualize learning. Chapters are...

Value Investing for Dummies

• ISBN:
• 0764554107
• Authors:
• Peter J. Sander, Peter Sander

Value Investing For Dummies guides anyone from rookie to savvy investor through the often confusingmaze of value investments and value investing techniques. Turn here for clear explanations and solid advice on: Types of value investments -- from mutual funds and real estate to precious metals and commoditiesHow to become a value investor -- from making your picks to developing your investment styleInvesting for the long term vs. the short...

Gender Development

• ISBN:
• 0805841709
• Authors:
• Judith E. Owen Blakemore, Sheri A. Berenbaum, Lynn S. Liben

This new text offers a unique developmental focus on gender. Gender development is examined from infancy through adolescence, integrating biological, socialization, and cognitive perspectives. The book’s current empirical focus is complemented by a lively and readable style that includes anecdotes about children’s everyday experiences. The book’s accessibility is further enhanced with the use of bold face to highlight key terms when first...

Preharvest and Postharvest Food Safety: Contemporary Issues and Future Directions (Institute of Food Technologists Series)

• ISBN:
• 0813808847

While presenting the latest scientific research on the major pathogens associated with meat, poultry, produce, and other foods, Pre-Harvest and Post-Harvest Food Safety: Contemporary Issues and Future Directions goes beyond other professional reference books by identifying the research needed to assure food safety in the future. The editors and authors not only review the current, cutting-edge literature in each of their areas, but provide...

Before Intimacy: Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern England

• ISBN:
• 0816646325
• Authors:
• Daniel Juan Gil

Before the eighteenth-century rise of the ideology of intimacy, sexuality was defined not by social affiliations but by bodies. In Before Intimacy , Daniel Juan Gil examines sixteenth-century English literary concepts of sexuality that frame erotic ties as neither bound by social customs nor transgressive of them, but rather as “loopholes” in people’s experiences and associations.  Engaging the poems of Wyatt, Sidney’s Astrophil and...

Sexuation: SIC 3 ([sic] Series)

• ISBN:
• 0822324377

Contemporary discourse seems to provide a choice in the way sexual identities and sexual difference are described and analyzed. On the one hand, much current thinking suggests that sexual identity is fluid--socially constructed and/or performatively enacted. This discourse is often invoked in the act of overcoming an earlier patriarchal era of fixed and naturalized identities. On the other hand, some modern discourses of sexual identity seem to...

In Government We Trust: Market Failure and the Delusions of Privatisation

• ISBN:
• 0868409669
• Authors:
• Warwick Funnell, Robert Jupe, Jane Andrew

An examination of privatisation failures in Western liberal democracies and the ways in which they have exposed communities and governments to social, economic and political instability.

Who Pays for Bank Insolvency?

• ISBN:
• 140391740X

How to avoid taxpayers paying for bank failures and banking crises? This book provides a proposal and a critique by twelve independent experts. It is addressed particularly to the threat posed in Europe by having large international banks, a history of bailouts and limited means of resolving any future banking crises. It shows how political imperatives and legal constraints currently result in economic losses in many countries round the world.

Industrial Safety and Health for Goods and Materials Services (Handbook of Safety and Health for the Service Industry)

• ISBN:
• 1420053787
• Authors:
• Charles D. Reese

Industrial Safety and Health for Goods and Materials Services focuses on the safety requirements of the wholesale and retail trades, including warehousing. This detailed text describes the hazards associated with chemicals, compressed gases, and fire. In addition to discussing the ergonomics behind hand tools, ladders, machine guarding, material handling, and industrial trucks, the book: Addresses interventions and preventive approaches to...

How Women Make Money

• ISBN:
• 1550024930
• Authors:
• Julie V. Watson

How Women Make Money is an inspiring collection of profiles, anecdotes, and practical advice and guides that will help women take control of their lives and attain their financial goals. Whether you are starting a new business, growing an established one, supplementing a pension, working for "extras" for the family, or striving to fulfill a lifelong dream, this book will nurture your entrepreneurial spirit and give you the tools you need to...

The 21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires: How to Achieve Financial Independence Faster and Easier Than You Ever Thought Possible AUDIO

• ISBN:
• 1576751228
• Authors:
• Brian Tracy

oBy one of the world’s most widely-known business speakers and author of the bestselling Maximum Achievement (over 250,000 copies sold) o Provides a wealth of practical advice anyone can use to become a self-made millionaire o Over 2 million people have heard Brian Tracy speak and more than 1.5 million have purchased his audio and video programs The 21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires shows how anyone, no matter what their station in...

Vault Career Guide to Accounting, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 1581313284
• Authors:
• Jason Alba

Professional career guide from the Vault Career Library - from a look at the types of accounting, including tax and audit, to the types of accounting careers, including the Big Four accounting firms, and government work.

An Introduction to Credit Risk Modeling (Chapman & Hall/Crc Financial Mathematics Series)

• ISBN:
• 158488326X
• Authors:
• Christian Bluhm, Ludger Overbeck, Christoph Wagner

In today's increasingly competitive financial world, successful risk management, portfolio management, and financial structuring demand more than up-to-date financial know-how. They also call for quantitative expertise, including the ability to effectively apply mathematical modeling tools and techniques. An Introduction to Credit Risk Modeling supplies both the bricks and the mortar of risk management. In a gentle and concise lecture-note...

Challenges of Managing Information Quality in Service Organizations

• ISBN:
• 159904420X
• Authors:
• Latif Al-Hakim

Poor quality of data and information can have a harmful impact on decision-making and therefore on the overall effectiveness of an enterprise. Incorrect and misleading information associated with an enterprises production and service provision jeopardize both customer relationships and customer satisfaction, and ultimately have a negative effect on revenue. Challenges of Managing Information Quality in Service Organizations presents cases and...

Schaum's Outline of Statistics

• ISBN:
• 0070602816
• Authors:
• Murray R. Spiegel, Larry J. Stephens

This Schaum's Study Guide is the perfect tool for getting a handle on statistics. Fully stocked with solved problemsN508 of themNit shows you how to work problems that may not have been fully explained in class. Plus you get 694 additional problems to use for practice, with answers at the back of the book. Ideal for independent study, brushup before exams, or preparation for professional tests, this Schaum's guide is clear, complete, and...

Building Financial Models

• ISBN:
• 0071402101
• Authors:
• John Tjia

Financial modeling is essential for determining a company's current value and projecting its future performance, yet few books explain how to build models for accurately interpreting financial statements. Building Financial Models is the first book to correct this oversight, unveiling a step-by-step process for creating a core model and then customizing it for companies in virtually any industry. Covering every aspect of building a financial...

Personal Agency: The Metaphysics of Mind and Action

• ISBN:
• 0199217149
• Authors:
• E. J. Lowe

Personal Agency consists of two parts. In Part II, a radically libertarian theory of action is defended which combines aspects of agent causalism and volitionism. This theory accords to volitions the status of basic mental actions, maintaining that these are spontaneous exercises of the will--a "two-way" power which rational agents can freely exercise in the light of reason. Lowe contends that substances, not events, are the causal source of all...

Gender and Empire (The Oxford History of the British Empire Companion)

• ISBN:
• 0199249504

Focusing the perspectives of gender scholarship on the study of empire produces an original volume full of fascinating new insights about the conduct of men as well as women. Bringing together disparate fields - politics, medicine, sexuality, childhood, religion, migration, and many more topics - this new collection of essays demonstrates the richness of studying empire through the lens of gender. This more inclusive look at empire asks not only...

Hume's Morality: Feeling and Fabrication