Accounting and Financial Disclosure: A Guide to Basic Concepts (American Casebooks (Paperback))

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A working knowledge of accounting is essential to the practice of law. The purpose of this text is not to train readers to become accountants, but to make readers fluent in accounting, familiar with its vocabulary, knowledgeable about financial statements, comfortable with analysis of financial information, and aware of the strengths and limitations of the accounting process. The text brings together the central themes of accounting, and includes detailed discussion of the areas critical to income determination, including inventories and depreciation. Chapters are devoted to analysis of financial statements, cash flow, and the subject of reliability of financial information.

Accounting and Financial Disclosure: A Guide to Basic Concepts

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Accounting and Financial Disclosure: A Guide to Basic Concepts
Stanley Siegel
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A Chronicle of a Creative Company Combating the Cold War.......2000-10-24

The author documents the inception and extraordinary success of a small company that challenged the Cold War and sprung into becoming an accomplished enterprise. The author also managed to take a snoozing subject destined for insomniacs and transformed it into a charming book for history buffs and students of economic development and international business management. Readers for generations to come will continue to benefit from this company history and this authors wisdom.

Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community (Civil Society Series)

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Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community (Civil Society Series)
Thomas A. Lyson
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ASIN: 1584654147

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While the American agricultural and food systems follow a decades-old path of industrialization and globalization, a counter trend has appeared toward localizing some agricultural and food production. Thomas A. Lyson, a scholar-practitioner in the field of community-based food systems, calls this rebirth of locally based agriculture and food production civic agriculture because these activities are tightly linked to a community's social and economic development. Civic agriculture embraces innovative ways to produce, process, and distribute food, and it represents a sustainable alternative to the socially, economically, and environmentally destructive practices associated with conventional large-scale agriculture. Farmers' markets, community gardens, and community-supported agriculture are all forms of civic agriculture.

Lyson describes how, in the course of a hundred years, a small-scale, diversified system of farming became an industrialized system of production and also how this industrialized system has gone global. He argues that farming in the United States was modernized by employing the same techniques and strategies that transformed the manufacturing sector from a system of craft production to one of mass production. Viewing agriculture as just another industrial sector led to transformations in both the production and the processing of food. As small farmers and food processors were forced to expand, merge with larger operations, or go out of business, they became increasingly disconnected from the surrounding communities. Lyson enumerates the shortcomings of the current agriculture and food systems as they relate to social, economic, and environmental sustainability. He then introduces the concept of community problem solving and offers empirical evidence and concrete examples to show that a re-localization of the food production system is underway.

Cooperation in the Romanian Countryside: An Insight into Post-Soviet Agriculture (Rural Economies in Transition)

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Cooperation in the Romanian Countryside: An Insight into Post-Soviet Agriculture (Rural Economies in Transition)
Rachel Sabates-Wheeler
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ASIN: 0739110446

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The collapse of communism in Romania held the promise of a revival of private, small-scale farming; however, the Romanian transition experience has not fulfilled these expectations. This book explores why farmers continue to place land in cooperative forms of farming when theory suggests that private farming is more productive, and whether there are efficiency gains to be had from cooperative farming endeavors.

Cooperative Marketing (American Farmers and the rise of agribusiness)

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Cooperative Marketing (American Farmers and the rise of agribusiness)
United States
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Cooperatives and Local Development: Theory and Applications for the 21st Century

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Cooperatives and Local Development: Theory and Applications for the 21st Century

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Cooperatives in Agribusiness
Katherine L. Hanson
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The Evolution of Agrarian Institutions: A Comparative Study of Post-Socialist Hungary and Bulgaria

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The Evolution of Agrarian Institutions: A Comparative Study of Post-Socialist Hungary and Bulgaria
Mieke E. Meurs
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ASIN: 0472112090

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The Evolution of Agrarian Institutions studies the unexpectedly slow and uneven growth of private agriculture in postsocialist East-Central Europe. Comparing developments in Hungary and Bulgaria, Mieke Meurs offers an explanation for this slow growth and examines its implications for efficiency and income distribution in postsocialist agriculture.

With the collapse of the state socialist regimes in East-Central Europe, it was widely expected that collectivized agriculture would quickly be remade in the glowing image of China--a patchwork of small, privately run farms yielding rapid increases in output and incomes. However, the European experience has been quite different; while socialist collective farms have disappeared, collective forms of organization have persisted, and private farming has been slow to emerge. Meurs argues that an understanding of the causes of the slow emergence of private farming is essential to effective policy intervention in agriculture. This book contributes to such an understanding through analyzing variations in farm organization and rural market development and comparing agricultural restructuring in Hungary and Bulgaria.

The Evolution of Agrarian Institutions is unique in its combination of original survey data, published data on land use, and published historical data. It also tests two institutionalist explanations for the pace and direction of change in agricultural organization. This book will be of interest to economists, political scientists, sociologists, scholars working in the area of rural development in emerging countries, and anyone with an interest in transitional economics.

Mieke Meurs is Associate Professor of Economics, American University.

Farmers' union and federation advocate and guide (American farmers and the rise of agribusiness)

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Farmers' union and federation advocate and guide (American farmers and the rise of agribusiness)
William Henry Kerr
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Adaptive Approach for the Improvement of Fishery Statistical Systems in Mediterranean Countries (General Fisheries Commision for the Mediterranean: Studies and Review)

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Adaptive Approach for the Improvement of Fishery Statistical Systems in Mediterranean Countries (General Fisheries Commision for the Mediterranean: Studies and Review)
Food and Agriculture Organization , and Salvatore R. Coppola
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Farm co-ops face faults.(agribusiness)(the shake-up at Farmland Industries puts local co-ops on alert)(Company Profile): An article from: Farm Journal
Jeanne Bernick
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This digital document is an article from Farm Journal, published by Farm Journal Media on February 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1097 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.

From the supplier: Farmland Industries declared bankruptcy in 5/02. Farmland is the largest farmer-owned cooperative, but may emerge from bankruptcy as a high-margin food company.The company's structure is not yet known. The article discusses the effect of Farmland Industries' troubles on local co-ops.

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Title: Farm co-ops face faults.(agribusiness)(the shake-up at Farmland Industries puts local co-ops on alert)(Company Profile)
Author: Jeanne Bernick
Publication: Farm Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2003
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Volume: 127 Issue: 3 Page: 12(2)

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Commentaries on the Laws of England: A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769, Vol. 1
William Blackstone
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Sir William Blackstone and the Common Law: Blackstone's Legacy to America

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Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769) stands as the first great effort to reduce the English common law to a unified and rational system. Blackstone demonstrated that the English law as a system of justice was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent. Clearly and elegantly written, the work achieved immediate renown and exerted a powerful influence on legal education in England and in America which was to last into the late nineteenth century. The book is regarded not only as a legal classic but as a literary masterpiece.

Previously available only in an expensive hardcover set, Commentaries on the Laws of England is published here in four separate volumes, each one affordably priced in a paperback edition. These works are facsimiles of the eighteenth-century first edition and are undistorted by later interpolations. Each volume deals with a particular field of law and carries with it an introduction by a leading contemporary scholar.

In his introduction to this first volume, Of the Rights of Persons, Stanley N. Katz presents a brief history of Blackstone's academic and legal career and his purposes in writing the Commentaries. Katz discusses Blackstone's treatment of the structure of the English legal system, his attempts to justify it as the best form of government, and some of the problems he encountered in doing so.

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Should be required for all law students.......2006-04-02

I am a law student who read this edition of Blackstone's Commentaries for a jurisprudence course, and it was a great experience. Blackstone details the inner logic and principles of the common law and why it stands as an equal among Greek, Roman, and civil law. He also systematically details the logic and basis for the law of civil rights, property, civil procedure, and criminal law in England. These sections provided me with a much better understanding of the origin and rationality behind our system of law.

In addition he also explains the historical origins of the common law and the political structure of England's government at the time just before our nation's independence and why it had been superior, at that time, to any other form of government in all of Europe in the securing and preservation of human liberty. I highly recommend at least volume I to law students and even to any reader interested in better understanding the origins of our government. His explanations in particular will give you a much better understanding of how English government functioned and how our government distinguished itself in substantial ways from England.

Any scholar, student, or avid reader of political science, law, or history will benefit and enjoy this great literary work.

Ignore the earlier critique of the font, the facsimile of the first edition really transports you back in time and the font is not that difficult to navigate. The only real difference is "f" is used in place of "s" everywhere but in the last letter of words ("greateft" "fortrefs" "fubject" etc.). Generally it's very clear when the "f" is an "s" although there are a few confusing exceptions (e.g. "wife" is "wise" as in the "wife laws of England..."). The first edition included footnotes where Blackstone cited English, Latin, and Roman works and these are reproduced here as well.

"Buy another verfion.".......2003-03-10

I'm not so sure about the integrity of the publisher of a book that serves an aid to the wallet but an adversary to the eyes of one who is not so accustomed to reading such an esoteric font.

Widely Read in the Wild West.......2000-07-01

Blackstone was widely read in America for a century after it was published. Lawyers practicing in the West almost relied entirely on this and the Bible to defend or prosecute. This particular series of volumes is a reproduction of the original publication by Blackstone (which BTW had eight revisions while Blackstone was still alive). The print is large and dark (and very 18th century, i.e. ss is S (or f)), and makes for easy reading. The Editor's notes appear at the beginning of the book and are not intrusive of the volume itself. Overall a very nice reproduction and I found it a nice read.

Commentaries on the Laws of England, A Facsimile of the First

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Commentaries on the Laws of England, A Facsimile of the First
William Blackstone
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ASIN: 0226055477

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Perhaps the most important legal treatise ever written in the English language, Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69) was the first effort to consolidate English common law into a unified and rational system. Clearly and elegantly written, the work achieved immediate renown and exerted a powerful influence on legal education both in England and America. This handsomely produced, slipcased four-volume set includes facsimiles of the eighteenth-century first edition, undistorted by later interpolations.

The Commentaries is divided into four books. The first, introduced by Stanley N. Katz, deals with what Blackstone called "the rights of persons," what a modern lawyer would call constitutional law, the legal structure of government. Book II includes an introduction by A. W. Brian Simpson and describes the law of property. Book III, introduced by John H. Langbein, analyzes civil procedure and remedies. The last book, which is devoted to criminal law and procedure, includes an introduction by Thomas A. Green.

Now regarded as a literary, as well as a legal classic, Blackstone's Commentaries brilliantly laid out the system of English law in the mid-eighteenth century, demonstrating that as a system of justice, it was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent. Ironically, the work also revealed to the colonists the insufficiencies of the system and became a model for the legal system of the fledgling American nation in 1789. Supplemented with commentary by experts in the field, these classic facsimile volumes belong on every lawyer's bookshelves.

Volume I: Of the Rights of Persons (1765)
Volume II: Of the Rights of Things (1766)
Volume III: Of Private Wrongs (1768)
Volume IV: Of Public Wrongs (1769)

Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 1: A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769

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Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 1: A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769
William Blackstone
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ASIN: B000OOS108

Commentaries on the Laws of England & An Interesting Appendix to William Blackstone's Commentaries, Facsimile of the First American Edition in Five Volumes

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Commentaries on the Laws of England & An Interesting Appendix to William Blackstone's Commentaries, Facsimile of the First American Edition in Five Volumes
William; Joseph Priestley Blackstone
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ASIN: B000RJX2ZE

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Commentaries on the Laws of England, A Facsimile of the First
William Blackstone
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769

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Commentaries on the Laws of England: A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769
William Blackstone
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In Agriculture in Transition: Land Policies and Evolving Farm Structures in Post Soviet Countries authors Zvi Lerman, Csaba Csaki, and Gershon Feder study the land policies and farming structures of these newly emerging nations as components of institutional change in the rural sector - change from a centralized rural economy to a market-oriented economy.

Building Market Institutions in Post-Communist Agriculture: Land, Credit, and Assistance (Rural Economies in Transition)

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Building Market Institutions in Post-Communist Agriculture: Land, Credit, and Assistance (Rural Economies in Transition)
David A. J. Macey
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Editors David Macey, William Pyle, and Stephen Wegren, with a host of world-leading agrarian analyst and practitioners, unravel the shortcomings surrounding post-communist agrarian reform and answers how and why particular policies were adopted in Eurasia. Building Market Institutions in Post-Communist Agriculture draws on country-level case studies to analyze a range of initiatives that institutions have applied to agricultural economies. In this edited collection, contributors use a comparative analytical framework to project a universal process of agrarian transformation that continues to change the social, economic, and political characteristics of this part of the world.

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Defining Peasants: Essays Concerning Rural Societies, Expolary Economies, and Learning from Them in the Contemporary World

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Defining Peasants: Essays Concerning Rural Societies, Expolary Economies, and Learning from Them in the Contemporary World
Teodor Shanin
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Rural Reform in Post-Soviet Russia (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)

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Rural Reform in Post-Soviet Russia (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
Carol Walker
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Rural Reform in Post-Soviet Russia reviews change in agricultural and rural life since 1990 through historical, political, sociological, and anthropological investigation. The contributors' interest is not so much in agriculture itself but in agrarian issues such as the relationship between rural interests and changing Russian institutions, the economic and social organization of rural households, and the quality of life in rural families and villages.

Russia's Food Policy and Globalization (Rural Economies in Transition)

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Russia's Food Policy and Globalization (Rural Economies in Transition)
Stephen K. Wegren
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Russia's economic fate in the 21st century will be increasingly affected by international integration. Author Stephen K. Wegren focuses on Russia's food policies and their present and future effects on integration. Through an analysis of Russia's contemporary food policies and strategies, Wegren places Russia's economic development in a new international context.

Russian Agriculture During the War: Rural Economy ; The Land Settlement (Economic and Social History of the War, Russian Series)

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Russian Agriculture During the War: Rural Economy ; The Land Settlement (Economic and Social History of the War, Russian Series)
Alexis N. Antsiferov
Manufacturer: Greenwood Pub Group
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ASIN: 0837102863

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The Soviet Rural Economy

Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Transition, Institutions and the Rural Sector (Rural Economies in Transition)

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Transition, Institutions and the Rural Sector (Rural Economies in Transition)
Max Spoor
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Transitions, Institutions and the Rural Sector is a series of essays examining and analyzing the rural transformations in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The first part of the book presents comparative studies of agrarian reform during the past decade of transition, while the second contains detailed studies of individual countries.

Agri-industrial complexes: Recent structural reform in the USSR rural economy (Occasional paper / Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies)

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Agri-industrial complexes: Recent structural reform in the USSR rural economy (Occasional paper / Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies)
Valentin Litvin
Manufacturer: Wilson Center, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies
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