Vegetation & the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: The First 400 Million Years

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Plants have colonized and modified the world's surface for the past 400 million years. In this book the authors demonstrate that an understanding of the role of vegetation in the terrestrial carbon cycle during this time can be gained by linking the key mechanistic elements of present day vegetation processes to models of the global climate during different geological eras. The resulting interactive simulations of climate and vegetation processes tie in with observable geological data supporting the validity of the authors' approach.

Cereals Seventy Eight: Better Nutrition for the World's Millions

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Cereals Seventy Eight: Better Nutrition for the World's Millions

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Chemistry for the million
Richard Furnald Smith
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How to Build a Million Dollar Technology Consulting Practice

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CPAs can learn technology consulting from The Master

How to Build a Million Dollar Technology Consulting Practice
James C. Metzler
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The primary objective of How to Build a Million Dollar Technology Consulting Practice is to show CPA firms how to plan, develop, and mature an IT practice niche. The methods and strategies outlined in this book are designed to help any firm be tremendously successful in IT consulting--whether the firm is starting from scratch or simply needs a jump-start. The chapters are in the order to create a strategic business plan. This edition also contains expanded sections on the business planning process and how to develop the annual operating business plan as well as the long-range strategic business plan. The book includes real-world experiences with specific stories from the authors IT practice so you can learn from their failures and successes. Strategies and discussion points, at the end of each chapter, guide readers through their meetings with partners and shareholders. Finally, the practice aids located at the end of each chapter and on the free, companion CD-ROM, provide a means for building a business plan and fast-tracking your IT practice.

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Title and text mismatch.......2000-06-21

The title is about sucessful technology consulting. The text is a list of stuff that has been used in numerous other books. There is nothing new or inspiring. This book is written specifically for the CPA (not mentioned in the title) and is not for the IT professional or general consultant. I am returning mine today - not something even useful enough for the bookcase.

CPAs can learn technology consulting from The Master.......2000-04-18

If you plan to self-direct your startup as a technology consultant, or just want to pick up some new ideas, get some expert help. Start with a book by one of the pioneers and major innovators of CPA firm technology consulting, James C. Metzler, CPA. This partner at Gaines Metzler Kriner & Co. in Buffalo, NY, holds nothing back in How to Build a Million Dollar Technology Consulting Practice. If you don't earn back the price of this book immediately, check your pulse. The worst that can happen is that you'll buy the book and decide consulting is not for you-and that'll save you thousands of dollars too. Metzler has held back none of his consulting management and marketing tips from dozens of meetings he attends every year. It's a great bonus now to have them collected into one solid book. Franklynn Peterson, Editor, CPA Computer Report, FP@CPAComputerReport.com

A New Unifying Biparametric Nomenclature that Spans all of Chemistry: The science of incorporating daily over 2,000 new names to a base of over 42 million compounds while still maintaining order

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A New Unifying Biparametric Nomenclature that Spans all of Chemistry: The science of incorporating daily over 2,000 new names to a base of over 42 million compounds while still maintaining order
Seymour Elk
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As a byproduct of historical development, there are different, unrelated systems of nomenclature for "inorganic chemistry", "organic chemistry", "polymer chemistry", "natural products chemistry", etc. With each new discovery in the laboratory, as well as each new theoretical proposal for a chemical, the lines that traditionally have separated these "distinct" subsets of matter continually grow more blurred. This lack of uniformity in characterizing and naming chemicals increases the communication difficulties between differently trained chemists, as well as other scientists, and greatly impedes progress. With the set of known chemicals numbering over 42,000,000 (in Chemical Abstracts' data base) and continually growing (about 2,000 new additions every day), the desirability for a unified system for naming all chemicals simultaneously grows. Moreover, in order to meet the requirements of disparate groups of scientists, and of society in general, the name assigned to a given chemical should, not only uniquely describe that substance, but also should be a part of a readily recognizable order for the entire field. For these purposes, a topology-based "bi-parametric" system of nomenclature is herein proposed.

- In this book, a new nomenclature system is proposed
- The new nomenclature is applicable to a three dimensional world, and is internally consistent
- This nomenclature unifies ALL branches of chemistry, removing the need for various presently existing sets of rules

Sts Version 2.0: Synthesis Tree Search in 2.5 Million Chemical Reactions/ for Chemreact41 Users

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Sts Version 2.0: Synthesis Tree Search in 2.5 Million Chemical Reactions/ for Chemreact41 Users

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STS is a new Windows program developed to retrieve Synthesis Trees or Reaction Trees for given target molecules. STS is based on the InfoChem Reaction Database which contains some 2.5 million reactions published between 1975 and 1991. Each molecule obtained in a tree - either as reactant in a synthesis tree or as a product in a reaction tree - may be expanded further. The molecule is used as a new target and the tree may be built to any depth and any size required. This version is for customers which already have purchased the InfoChem CD-ROM within the ChemReact product family.

Attendance at K'89 exceeds a quarter of a million. (International Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber): An article from: Plastics Engineering

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Attendance at K'89 exceeds a quarter of a million. (International Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber): An article from: Plastics Engineering
David F. Kates
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This digital document is an article from Plastics Engineering, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on December 1, 1989. The length of the article is 3486 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Attendance at K'89 exceeds a quarter of a million. (International Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber)
Author: David F. Kates
Publication: Plastics Engineering (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1989
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: v45 Issue: n12 Page: p42(5)

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Dusseldorf Hosts K 2001, the World's Largest Plastics and Rubber Show: More than 2700 exhibitors from over 50 countries--and a quarter of a million visitors--are ... An article from: Plastics Engineering

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Dusseldorf Hosts K 2001, the World's Largest Plastics and Rubber Show: More than 2700 exhibitors from over 50 countries--and a quarter of a million visitors--are ... An article from: Plastics Engineering

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This digital document is an article from Plastics Engineering, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on August 1, 2001. The length of the article is 2446 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Dusseldorf Hosts K 2001, the World's Largest Plastics and Rubber Show: More than 2700 exhibitors from over 50 countries--and a quarter of a million visitors--are expected to attend the Kunststoffe exhibition. (2001).(plastics conference information)
Publication: Plastics Engineering (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 2001
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: 57 Issue: 8 Page: 78(5)

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Medical Plastics Article Reaches Millions.(public relations and advertising of North American Precis Syndicate)(Brief Article): An article from: Plastics Engineering

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Medical Plastics Article Reaches Millions.(public relations and advertising of North American Precis Syndicate)(Brief Article): An article from: Plastics Engineering
James P. Toner
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This digital document is an article from Plastics Engineering, published by Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc. on October 1, 2001. The length of the article is 510 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Medical Plastics Article Reaches Millions.(public relations and advertising of North American Precis Syndicate)(Brief Article)
Author: James P. Toner
Publication: Plastics Engineering (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2001
Publisher: Society of Plastics Engineers, Inc.
Volume: 57 Issue: 10 Page: 58

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Million dollar student.(Vern Wilson's donation to University of Saskatchewan ): An article from: Canadian Chemical News

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Million dollar student.(Vern Wilson's donation to University of Saskatchewan ): An article from: Canadian Chemical News

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Chemical News, published by Chemical Institute of Canada on May 1, 2004. The length of the article is 409 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Million dollar student.(Vern Wilson's donation to University of Saskatchewan )
Publication: Canadian Chemical News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2004
Publisher: Chemical Institute of Canada
Volume: 56 Issue: 5 Page: 8(1)

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The truth of genetics is more fascinating than fiction........1998-09-22

A great introduction into the science of genetics, this book gives unexpected deep insights into evolution and biology. Reading it I was amazed at how much I didn't yet know, from jumping genes to the 'evolution of evolvability', even though I'm familiar with books in the same niche like Richard Dawkins' excellent volumes.

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Funny as Hell, True as Heaven

A Joy

My hero

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The Ginger Man
J. P. Donleavy
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ASIN: 0802137954

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First published in Paris in 1955 and originally banned in America, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is now recognized the world over as a masterpiece and a modern classic of the highest order. Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavy's wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American ne'er-do-well studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Dangerfield's appetite for women, liquor, and general roguishness is insatiable--and he satisfies it with endless charm. "Lusty, violent, wildly funny ... The Ginger Man is the picaresque novel to stop them all."--Dorothy Parker, Esquire

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Funny as Hell, True as Heaven.......2006-09-13

If there isn't a little Ginger Man in you, you're a bore.

A Joy.......2006-04-12

I read this book in awe, my jaw hitting the floor with each beautiful sentence that went by. Donleavy was a master wordsmith, who created an amazing character in Sebastian Dangerfied. He's pathetic, he's horrible, he's a waste of space, and yet Donleavy somehow makes him kind of likable, and finds the beauty in this very human story.

My hero.......2005-08-10

This was an almost incredible, maybe even impossible character and story if it wasn't for the fact that I've actually MET people like this -many were my friends... and me!

People going nowhere, people setting up scams to make the next meal, people not having a plot to their lives -even if they do they may as well not have one, and trying not to die with their pants down in the process. And in all this one has got to laugh at the preposterous hot waters they find themselves in; case in point, one Sebastian Dangerfield (the protagonist). Harsh situations that are all the funnier because they are creatures of the protagonist's own creation; not only making his own life but the lives of others miserable. He admits this himself throughout the novel and doesn't care to let one know, for he is the `ginger man'.

Sebastian Dangerfield is not completely callous, however. He is a complex individual; similar to the hero of 'The Catcher in the Rye'; that is if the latter were more... inclined toward whoring and boozing it up (my hero!). There are moments of deep feeling and even shock at the way the world has been let go to the gutter, and of course the culpability is on everyone. There are instances of very human qualities in the heart of this character -at least a longing for these, for despite it all things like love, warmth, friendship, simplicity, true joy, are all things awfully hard to come by... one has to wonder how true these are in our own lives. The author skillfully portrays it all with brilliant sentences that swing effortlessly from powerful poetics to sports-bar speak to choppy machinegun descriptions of inner and outer worlds (my hero!). All this is quickly missed if the reader is unimaginative, `slow', moralistic, and insensitive.

Nevertheless, none of the above should detract from what is the main feature of the novel: it is funny as hell!!! Read it.

Shake off the shock.......2005-08-04

Jump right in and be prepared at first to hate Dangerfield. He's everything you want to despise in a someday-will-be trust-funder jerk. The antics, strangely, will grow on you. After I finished I found myself reading certain choice chapters again (do you feel a breeze?--although my favorite- the Christmas tirade).

A worthwhile read that does not waste any time-- while giving us that aspire to write a fresh look, and those of us going after the Top 100 a checkmark....

Beastly lyrical.......2005-02-17

JPD launched a storied literary career with a masterpiece in The Ginger Man. Sebastian, which means "venerable," is a man perpetually on the brink of utter madness brought largely upon himself. He is a Trinity College Dublin man whose condition is given to "staving off starvation" and whose only option when things always get worse is to "cheer-up or die." When you consider that JPD was first a painter, it's understandable that his writing style is pointillistic. The syntax like Dangerfield is non-traditional presented like life itself in fragments of which to make sense. His little lines of stacked type at the end of each chapter are works of art in themselves: "All the way/From the land/Of Kerry/Is a man/From the dead/Gone merry./ This man/Stood in the street/ And stamped his feet/ And no one heard him." Here the work winds from prose to poetry to create an endearing human quality and even tenderness that enables us to forgive the ginger man for his outrageousness. What would he and his poor as Pozzo crones do with a lot of money? Drink at every pub from College Green to Kerry over the course of a year and then "I'll arrive on Dingle Peninsula walk out on the end of Slea Head, beat, wet and penniless. I'll sit there and weep into the sea." Very Dylan Thomas. A touch Kafkaesque. Joycean. JPD's Ginger Man is worthy of a higher position on Random House's "Best Novels of the 20th Century." His body of work, including "Darcy Dancer," "Balthazar B," "The Singluar Man," "The Onion Eaters," "Wrong Info at Princeton" and "Samuel S." is astonishing in its lyric virtuosity, power and originality. When will the mavens of Hollywood treat us to tales by JPD that shimmer and dance upon the silverscreen? And when will the good people in Stockholm see the light on JPD's vast, rich, enduring, literary legacy?

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The Ginger Man
J.P. Donleavy
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J. P. Donleavy
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Promises Broken: Courtship, Class, and Gender in Victorian England (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)

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Promises Broken: Courtship, Class, and Gender in Victorian England (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Ginger S. Frost
Manufacturer: University of Virginia Press
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The Ginger Man (Berkley Medallion)

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The Ginger Man
J. P. Donleavy
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A Dead Man's Apartment; Rosemary With Ginger; Face Divided

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A Dead Man's Apartment; Rosemary With Ginger; Face Divided
Edward A. Baker
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ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION - Volume 2, number 6 - November Nov - December Dec 1978: The Tryouts; Enumerators; Postage Stamps of Philo Tate; George Barr; First Star; As Chemist to Chemist; Man with the Eye; On the Q167 File; Last Master of Limericks

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ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION - Volume 2, number 6 - November Nov - December Dec 1978: The Tryouts; Enumerators; Postage Stamps of Philo Tate; George Barr; First Star; As Chemist to Chemist; Man with the Eye; On the Q167 File; Last Master of Limericks
George (editor) (Barry B. Longyear; E. E. Roberts; Martin Gardner; Ginger Kaderabek; J. P. Boyd; Isaac Asimov; Phyllis Eisenstein; John M. Ford; Garry R. Osgood; Edward Wellen; Jack Gaughan; Glen M. Bever; Bill Pronzini; Barry N. Malzberg) Scithers
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Desert Interlude, Mississippi Miss, Love, Texas, King of Kielder, the Only Man

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Emma Goldrick, Ginger Chambers, Margaret Rome, Rosemary Hammond Mons Daveson
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Father Takes a Wife : Family Man (Harlequin Superromance No. 647)

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Father Takes a Wife : Family Man (Harlequin Superromance No. 647)
Ginger Chambers
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An average read.......2005-12-24

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"If Sharon wants to be with you, that's all that matters."

Brave words, but it had seemed so straightforward in the beginning. After all, Hallie's wonderful new husband, Kyle, had every right to custody of his daughter. Still, what had ever made Hallie think the girl would welcome her with open arms?

It was hate at first sight--at least on Sharon's part. and the child's grandparents...! Not content with fighting tooth and nail to retain custody of Sharon, they were actively trying to poison Hallie's mind against Kyle. They'd hinted at terrible secrets in Kyle's past--dangerous secrets.

Well, Kyle had warned Hallie not to believe everything they told her. She remembered her blithe promise: "Nothing they say can ever change the way I fell about you." Now she wasn't so sure. Because Kyle WAS keeping secrets...

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This was an interesting book that kept me guessing until the end. Throughout it, Hallie struggles with so many questions that she can't answer. Did Kyle marry her for love, or was it just a ploy to help him gain custody of his daughter? What secrets is he keeping? Will Hallie be able to stay with Kyle once she finds out what they are? Will Hallie be able to win Sharon over? Will Kyle and Hallie's marriage survive?

Though the characters were not very deeply drawn, they were still likeable and quirky enough to keep me reading. The plot of this book was good, and I didn't have to push myself to read this. While this book didn't inspire me to run out and buy more of this author's work (and didn't make it onto my keeper shelf), it was still worth the time I spent to read it.

Storyline ...........2002-07-05

Since Amazon didn't post an editorial review, here's the description from the back of the book to help you decide if this book is for you: "If Sharon wants to be with you, that's all that matters." Brave words, but it had seemed so straightforward in the beginning. After all, Hallie's wonderful new husband, Kyle, had every right to custody of his daughter. Still, what had ever made Hallie think the girl would welcome her with open arms? It was hate at first sight -- at least on Sharon's part. And the child's grandparents ... Not content with fighting tooth and nail to retain custody of Sharon, they were actively trying to poison Hallie's mind against Kyle. They'd hinted at terrible secrets in Kyle's past -- dangerous secrets. Well, Kyle had warned Hallie not to believe everything they told her. She remembered her blithe promise: "nothing they say can ever change the way I feel about you." Now she wasn't so sure. Because Kyle was keeping secrets ... "

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