Idle Hands: The Experience of Unemployment, 1790-1990 (Modern British History)

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Idle Hands focuses on the experiences of working people in becoming unemployed, coping with unemployment and searching for work, and their reactions and responses to their problems.

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Idle hands : the experience of unemployment, 1790-1990

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Idle hands : the experience of unemployment, 1790-1990

Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000H5YOE6

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The unique, central concept of Techniques of Financial Analysis is the “business system,” an effective and intuitive way of visualizing the key areas of the typical business organization, and the related investment, operating, and financing decisions that drive its performance and value. This cash flow model (see Chapter 1) serves as the basic structure to which all analytical concepts and tools are related, so that the student is always aware of the larger operational and strategic context in which these techniques should be applied to properly understand the process of successful value creation in a business. Such contextual insight is critical in a specialized subject like financial analysis, which is generally taught in a dry, accounting-oriented fashion. The presentation has always been kept up to date and is carefully designed to help the reader visualize the linkage between management decisions and financial performance and value. Very importantly, the book demonstrates the modern requirement to distinguish between cash flow (economic) and accounting-based analysis. It helps the reader to interpret financial reports, develop integrated financial projections, understand basic financial modeling, evaluate business investment decisions, develop the implications of financing choices, derive the value of a business or a security, and understand the support role of economic analysis in achieving shareholder value creation. Every technique and measure is described and demonstrated in the context of the underlying key financial and economic concepts, but without delving into theoretical abstraction.

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Book is great, software related to the book is not.......2006-12-09

The graphical presentations and practical explanations are very helpful to valuation practitioners. I was so impressed I purchased the related software that is promoted in and modeled after the book. It never functioned correctly, and after a week of trying to reach technical support I finally reached them and they didn't really try to resolve the software's Visual Basic malfunction. Book is great, but ignore it's promotion of the software.

The Professor Says:.......2001-05-18

Having read his sixth edition, I was impressed enough with the 10th edition that I use it for the college class I teach. Unlike most books in this area, Dr. Helfert's book is easy to read and VERY practitioner oriented. I truly believe that if you have an interest in financial analysis, either as an investor or from the perspective of running your own organization, this is the single most valuable resource you could own. If I didn't believe that was true, I'd have my students using a different book.

Techniques of Financial Analysis with Financial Genome Passcode Card

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Techniques of Financial Analysis with Financial Genome Passcode Card
HELFERT
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OGFFHS

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Law changes as new developments affect society. The dawn of a new century provides a marking point for the evaluation of trends in law and policy. This book examines emerging issues that will shape society's rules and legal processes in the twenty-first century. By identifying developments affecting technology, demography, and politics, the authors evaluate impacts on law and criminal justice. Many of the issues discussed, including the expanding Latino population, new technologies for investigations, weapons, and executions, health crises in prisons, DNA testing, and the "war on terrorism," will have profound effects on the fates of individuals drawn into the justice system.

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Dictionaries are didactic books used as consultation instruments for self-teaching. They are composed by an ordered set of linguistic units which reflects a double structure, the macrostructure which correspond to the word list and the microstructure that refers to the contents of each lemma. The great value of dictionaries nests in the fact that they establish a standard nomenclature and prevent in that way the appearance of new useless synonyms.
This dictionary contains a total of about 27.500 main English entries, and over of 130.000 translations that should normally sufficiently cover all fields of life sciences. The basic criteria used to accept a word a part of the dictionary during the development period in order of importance were usage, up-to-dateness, specificity, simplicity and conceptual relationships. The dictionary meets the standards of higher education and covers all main fields of life sciences by setting its primary focus on the vastly developing fields of cell biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, immunology, developmental biology, microbiology, genetics and also the fields of human anatomy, histology, pathology, physiology, zoology and botany.
The fields of ecology, paleontology, systematics, evolution, biostatistics, plant physiology, plant anatomy, plant histology, biometry and lab techniques have been sufficiently covered but in a more general manner. The latest Latin international anatomical terminology "Terminologia Anatomica" or "TA" has been fully incorporated and all anatomical entries have been given their international Latin TA synonym. This dictionary will be a valuable and helpful tool for all scientists, teachers, students and generally all those that work within the fields of life sciences.

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Excellent choice - Certainly more than a reference work.......2006-01-26

This book is more than a reference book.
It is expensive but also one of its kind! Well organized, extensively covering all claimed scientific fields and has such a vast number of synonyms in each language (in English for example it presents over 22.000 cross-referenced synonyms) that could be also used as a scientific thesaurus.

The incorporation of the Greek, Italian and Latin languages in this singe volume is without doubt a great accomplishment since all the previous languages are source languages of scientific terminology of the fields of life sciences.
Although most scientific dictionaries lack grammatical information, this book presents a clear brief info that is very helpful for all those trying to compile scientific texts in a foreign language.

Closing this review it would be a mistake to overlook that in its 2590 pages one can find the modern translation of almost any term -from- and -to- any language between English Greek German Italian and Latin.

Recommendation is guaranteed since it is already trusted by major libraries worldwide:

US National Library of Medicine
US Library of Congress
Harvard University Library
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MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Library
Oxford University Library
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EMBL Heidelberg Germany Library
German National Library of Medicine
Chicago Public Library
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Pennsylvania State University Library
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Japanese Osaka Medical College Library
Japanese National Institute of Informatics Library
Japanese AICHI University Library

If I could recommend other dictionaries then those would be: (Elsevier's) Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary and (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins) Stedman's Medical dictionary.

Elsevier's Dictionary of Aquatic Biology

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Elsevier's Dictionary of Aquatic Biology
N.N. Smirnov , and A.N. Smirnov
Manufacturer: Elsevier Science
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0444827757

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Elsevier's Dictionary of Aquatic Biology contains terms related to marine and freshwater animals and plants and their environment. Terms from general biology and those related to water in some way or another are widely represented. Terms from the following applied fields are included:

Water quality assessment, water purification, biotechnology, aquaculture, and - above all - commercial fisheries, and fish culture. Also included are main terms of laboratory technique and seamanship currently used in texts on fisheries and marine expeditions, as well as names of fishes, mammals, amphibians, waterfowl and water plants, and some geographical names, as far as they present difficulties for translation.

The dictionary stems from the senior author's 40 years of experience as a professional translator and a professional biologist in the field of aquatic animals and plants. The junior author, a specialist in algology and mycology, also participated in all aspects of the compilation of this dictionary.

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Biology is an extensive subject that has undergone a vast expansion and so comprises not only such conventional aspects as taxonomy, morphology, biochemistry, functional physiology, and ecology, but also the rapidly expanding new fields of cell biology and molecular biology. This dictionary attempts to provide a comprehensive coverage of biological terms, recognising also that the interface between biology and other sciences, such as chemistry and physics as well as medicine, is becoming less distinct and includes terms from these other areas.

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Presented in this dictionary is a concentrated listing of all main terms from various biological fields. It combines terms from both fundamental and applied biology, i.e. from commercial fields dealing with biological processes or biological products. All branches of theoretical biology, methods, and laboratory techniques are covered. The following applied fields are represented: medicine, veterinary science, agriculture, forestry, hunting, fish culture, biotechnology, food industry, nature conservation, and environmental assessment. Special attention is paid to two-word terms with personal names, which make a special difficulty in translation. Scientists, translators, and specialists dealing with applied fields will find this dictionary invaluable.

Elsevier's Dictionary of the Genera of Life: In English (with definitions)

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Elsevier's Dictionary of the Genera of Life: In English (with definitions)
S.A. Tsur
Manufacturer: Elsevier Science
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0444829059

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This dictionary is the alphabetical compilation of most of the recognized genera of life, as we know it on earth, of the animal and vegetable kingdoms. The Latin names of more than 5,280 animals and plants, bacteria, fungi and other parasitic forms of existence are listed, together with at least one example of their respective species.

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The dictionary contains terms covering all fields of biology, from cytology and molecular biology to genetics and behavior, with special reference to zoology. Attention is focused on applied fields too, such as pathology, veterinary science, biological aspects of medicine, phytopathology, agriculture, forestry, biotechnology, nature conservation, etc., as well as descriptive terms commonly used in biological literature.

The dictionary will be useful to translators and scientists dealing with various fields of fundamental and applied biology.

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Elsevier's Dictionary of Biology in English/ German/ French & Spanish
Guenther Haensch
Manufacturer: French & European Pubns
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 082880785X

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Elsevier's Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Medicine Vol. 3 Biology Genetics and Biochemistry in English French German Italian and Spanish
A. F. Dorian
Manufacturer: French & European Pubns
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0828893128

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Elsevier's Dictionary of Biology : In English (with definitions)
R. Tirri
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUH1LO

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