Foundations for the Future: The AICPA from 1980-1995 (Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought, 2)

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Foundations for the Future documents the many significant events that impacted the accounting profession during the years 1980-1995. This time period was critical for our profession. The AICPA membership doubled and the nature of services offered to clients was dramatically transformed. The profession was on the cutting edge of the tremendous changes that occurred within the American business community during this time period.

This book tells the story of how the profession adapted to these changes and the challenges that accompanied them. It not only lays down the facts for future generations, but also portrays our profession as an important and exciting field in which to work.

Foundations for the Future: The AICPA from 1980-1995 (Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought)

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Foundations for the Future: The AICPA from 1980-1995 (Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought)
P.B. Chenok
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Despite clear evidence of a serious decline in morale, the major competitors in the law firm management marketplace have virtually ignored the motivational facet of current managerial theory and practice. As evidenced by a review of the literature dealing with law firm management, including major books, handbooks, and professional seminar outlines, there has existed until now no treatment of current management theory and practice as it pertains to law firms. In addressing human resources topics as they apply to the modern law firm, this book fills a genuine void in an area which is of major importance to law firms challenged to remain profitable in an increasingly hostile environment. Managing People in Today's Law Firm: The Human Resources Approach to Surviving Change provides a comprehensive treatment of critical aspects of modern management: motivation, communication, organizational culture, structure and strategy, power and politics, recruitment and training, the reward-performance-retention dynamic, performance appraisal, and planned change. Grounded in managerial theory and research, based on extensive practice, and exemplified by anecdotal "war stories," this book makes valuable reading for partners, associates, managers, and future members of law firms--and offers important ideas for motivating members of all professional service firms. Intended for law firms and lawyers within them, solo practitioners who contemplate joining with others in a firm partnership, law school libraries, and general and professional association libraries including bar associations on the state and local levels.

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If the National Security Agency (NSA) had wanted to make sure that strong encryption would reach the masses, it couldn't have done much better than to tell the cranky geniuses of the world not to do it. Author Steven Levy, deservedly famous for his enlightening Hackers, tells the story of the cypherpunks, their foes, and their allies in Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government. From the determined research of Whitfield Diffie and Marty Hellman, in the face of the NSA's decades-old security lock, to the commercial world's turn-of-the-century embrace of encrypted e-commerce, Levy finds drama and intellectual challenge everywhere he looks. Although he writes, "Behind every great cryptographer, it seems, there is a driving pathology," his respect for the mathematicians and programmers who spearheaded public key encryption as the solution to Information Age privacy invasion shines throughout. Even the governmental bad guys are presented more as hapless control fetishists who lack the prescience to see the inevitability of strong encryption as more than a conspiracy of evil.

Each cryptological advance that was made outside the confines of the NSA's Fort Meade complex was met with increasing legislative and judicial resistance. Levy's storytelling acumen tugs the reader along through mathematical and legal hassles that would stop most narratives in their tracks--his words make even the depressingly silly Clipper chip fiasco vibrant. Hardcore privacy nerds will value Crypto as a review of 30 years of wrangling; those readers with less familiarity with the subject will find it a terrific and well-documented launching pad for further research. From notables like Phil Zimmerman to obscure but important figures like James Ellis, Crypto dishes the dirt on folks who know how to keep a secret. --Rob Lightner

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From the author who made "hackers" a household word, a groundbreaking book about the most hotly debated subject of the digital age.

Crypto is about privacy in the information age and about the nerds and visionaries who, nearly twenty years ago, predicted that the Internet's greatest virtue-free access to information-was also its most perilous drawback: a possible end to privacy.

Levy explores what turned out to be a decisive development in the crypto wars: the unlikely alliance between the computer geeks and big business as they fought the government's stranglehold on the keys to information in a networked world.

The players come alive here in a narrative that reads like the best of futuristic spy fiction. There is Whit Diffie, the long-haired Newton of crypto who invented the astounding "public key"solution; David Chaum, whose "anony-mous digital money"actually threatened the global financial infrastructure; and "cypherpunks"like Phil Zimmermann, who freely distributed military-strength codes under the nose of the U. S. government. There is also the first behind-the-scenes account of what the secretive National Security Agency really had in mind when it created the controversial "clipper chip"-and how the Clinton administration bungled the operation.

Cryptography-the use of secret codes-has traditionally been the province of puzzle geeks and government spies. But just in time for the Internet-which radically alters the way we share information-a band of outsiders triggered a revolution in this once-cloistered field. But this was a revolution that the government wanted to kill....

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my question answered.......2007-03-20

The computer age is truly here. Our money, identity and privacy are truly exposed. Having heard about the National Security Agency's battle to prevent the public use of secure cryptography, I really wanted to know if I could trust our government to let me have secure privacy.
History is an excellent teacher. You just have to get the facts and judge for yourself. This book does just that. It tells it's story in an unbiased manner, truly believable and logical.
I have found my answer. Read it and find yours.

Crypto for the Common Man - A Great Intro.......2006-10-26

Beside Hackers, Crypto is arguably Steven Levy's strongest work. Like Hackers, Levy captures an intimate sense of detail about the characters who fought to bring strong cryptography to the public. Yet, at the same time, he manages to put together a more coherent, linear history than he achieved with Hackers.

In the end, I failed to sense the tension that Levy claims - certainly this was a David vs. Goliath fight, against such formidable and shadowy opponents as the NSA, however he never really establishes a sense of "Oh, Jeez! What if they stop the crypto heroes?" I never really felt like the outcome was in question - but again, that's light criticism when weighed against the strength of the book.

Crypto does a great job conveying a very technically difficult subject - cryptography - which is, of course, one of the skills that cements Levy among the best popular technology writers of our generation. Strongly recommended for anyone interested in technology in general - and, although probably a little technically light for those closer to the subject, it remains a great way to get closer to the people that made it happen.

Some parts Interesting, some parts boring.......2006-07-30

Now days, communications are more secure than ever thanks to the pubic key crytographic system and the work of those people involve in this story. As you will see, the more bits a key has, most difficult is to break the code, since to factorize a big prime number is almost impossible. Well, that is what we currently know. Although in this book you have this history, I think the author put too much detail in things we are just going to forget soon, making the book a little boring.

EXCELLENT and MOVING book about cryptography stars.......2005-08-12

This author made a boring subject come alive! In addition, the writing actually made some the people interesting who focused mostly or solely on cryptography...ordinarily I would ignore single focus persons. But this book talked about their successes in a succint way that interested me.

This is a GREAT author. I read his book about the Macintosh and that is why I purchased this book. I am adding AES encryption to a Windows CE device...so cryptography interests me. I also purchased Hackers and will read it later.

Well-researched account.......2005-05-24

Light-hearted by nature, Steven Levy gives everything the proper treatment in an often amusing way without being irreverent, and he becomes serious where warranted.

This book presents a balanced perspective from both sides: privacy advocates who do not necessarily trust the government, and government authorities terrified of losing their precious wiretaps and other snooping capabilities. The actions of a few self-righteous, overzealous mavericks on both sides are recounted.

Examples of successful U.S. government eavesdropping are mentioned; for instance, it was monitoring that revealed that the Libyans were the bombers of Pan Am flight 103. There is example after example of how the antiquated, rigid NSA position that "crypto is munitions" stifled the ascendant American software industry in the 1990's by restricting exports, giving foreign competitors the edge, while the rest of the world already had strong crypto anyway! Asinine inconsistencies in the old export restrictions are cited. The players of the NSA, NIST, and Congress are named and events, from assembly bills to telling conversations, are recounted. I think most crypto enthusiasts will find this recap informative. It certainly filled in a lot of gaps for me!

The book does not pretend to be a primer on cryptography. Levy does his usual admirable job of reaching out to the masses with lay explanations and clever analogies, but this being specialized math, it will at times go over the heads of some readers. Levy has a good sense of how far to take a technical explanation before dropping it; he doesn't go around the bend. Historical cryptographic systems recounted in David Kahn's tome "The Codebreakers" are now passe, not just because computers do it faster, but also due to relatively recent mathematical discoveries. The chronology of those discoveries is told along with the human stories behind them --of those who yearned to understand the art of secret writing and came to realize that it boils down to hard adversarial mathematics.

The human story throughout is one of unassuming, unlikely geniuses whose discoveries got no immediate fanfare, rather taking decades to catch on. Today (ironically now that the patents have expired) those discoveries are in use every day by most people using the Internet, a cellular phone, or any other wireless device.

The book is at times dull. To me, the accounts of legislative machinations were slow-going but I don't see how they could be made more interesting.

Jim Bidzos is finally vindicated as a real hero of the crypto revolution (after being portrayed in a bad light in a book on PGP). Diffie/Hellman/Merkle, the Cypherpunks, anonymous remailers, Julf Helsingius and Penet, David Chaum and digital cash protocols, court decisions, the Clipper chip --it's all here.

Did government spooks discover public key crypto first, in secret? The book ends with the interesting and hitherto unknown story of James H. Ellis of the General Communications HQ, the British cousin of the NSA.

An index, a small glossary, and an appendix of references are included. Well done!

The Privacy Poachers: How the Government and Big Corporations Gather, Use and Sell Information About You

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The Privacy Poachers: How the Government and Big Corporations Gather, Use and Sell Information About You
Tony Lesce
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The Assassination Materials Disclosure Act of 1992: Hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, ... John F. Kennedy, May 12, 1992 (S. hrg)

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The Assassination Materials Disclosure Act of 1992: Hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, ... John F. Kennedy, May 12, 1992 (S. hrg)
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A Little Knowledge: Privacy, Security, and Public Information after September 11

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A Little Knowledge: Privacy, Security, and Public Information after September 11

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With the growth of the World Wide Web and the signing of the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments in the mid-1990s, technology promised empowerment and freedom. The web held the potential to create an informed and engaged citizenry by providing the American voter access to a virtually unlimited world of data.

After the September 11 attacks, however, the accessibility of computer networks has come to be viewed as a vulnerability instead of an asset. The freedom offered by technology has increasingly been replaced with secrecy in the name of security. But this equation of secrecy with security threatens not only our liberty but our safety, as an ill-informed public has little faith in its leadership and is poorly equipped to evaluate its vulnerabilities.

A Little Knowledge describes how the current administration's campaign for unprecedented secrecy has affected the functioning of our democracy and recommends six critical tenets for framing a new, more open national policy on technology and public information. The book argues that citizens must assert the value of openness in formulating new and more productive approaches toward reconciling the imperatives of security and freedom.

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This digital document is an article from Georgetown Journal of International Law, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2007. The length of the article is 21238 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: Global solution for cross-border data transfers: Making the case for corporate privacy rules.
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Publication: Georgetown Journal of International Law (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2007
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Volume: 38 Issue: 3 Page: 449(50)

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Government Information: Access and Privacy

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Government Information: Access and Privacy
Christopher D. Woodbury , and Colin H. H. McNairn
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More information could mean less privacy: President Bush signed the E-Government Act to enhance public access to information after authorizing Homeland ... article from: Information Management Journal

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More information could mean less privacy: President Bush signed the E-Government Act to enhance public access to information after authorizing Homeland ... article from: Information Management Journal
Bob Tillman
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This digital document is an article from Information Management Journal, published by Association of Records Managers & Administrators (ARMA) on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1819 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: More information could mean less privacy: President Bush signed the E-Government Act to enhance public access to information after authorizing Homeland Security legislation that may threaten privacy. (Capital edge: legislative & regulatory update).
Author: Bob Tillman
Publication: Information Management Journal (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2003
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Volume: 37 Issue: 2 Page: 20(4)

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"O, privacy" Canada's importance in the development of the international data privacy regime.: An article from: Georgetown Journal of International Law

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"O, privacy" Canada's importance in the development of the international data privacy regime.: An article from: Georgetown Journal of International Law
Jennifer McClennan , and Vadim Schick
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This digital document is an article from Georgetown Journal of International Law, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2007. The length of the article is 10528 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: "O, privacy" Canada's importance in the development of the international data privacy regime.
Author: Jennifer McClennan
Publication: Georgetown Journal of International Law (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2007
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Volume: 38 Issue: 3 Page: 669(25)

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Overseas outsourcing of private information & individual remedies for breach of privacy.: An article from: Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal

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Jennifer Skarda-McCann
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This digital document is an article from Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2006. The length of the article is 15616 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: Overseas outsourcing of private information & individual remedies for breach of privacy.
Author: Jennifer Skarda-McCann
Publication: Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2006
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Volume: 32 Issue: 2 Page: 325(41)

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Personal but not private: a federal judge strikes down a law restricting access to motor vehicle records.: An article from: American Journalism Review

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Personal but not private: a federal judge strikes down a law restricting access to motor vehicle records.: An article from: American Journalism Review
Jane Kirtley
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This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on November 1, 1997. The length of the article is 791 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: The New York Times ran a story on Sep. 15, 1997 about how investigators can gain access to private information such as the date of birth, Social Security number, and phone numbers from government records. Just before this story, a District Judge ruled in Columbia, South Carolina, that government information obtained by private means is not protected under the Fourteenth Amendment. If any information is personal, that does not make it offensive or private.

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Title: Personal but not private: a federal judge strikes down a law restricting access to motor vehicle records.
Author: Jane Kirtley
Publication: American Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 1997
Publisher: University of Maryland
Volume: v19 Issue: n9 Page: p50(1)

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A Great Cosmic Companion

Enjoyable way to learn astronomy

Very interesting, but kept easy

A FAQ lacking organization but having great content

The Astronomy Cafe: The Best 365 Questions and Answers from "Ask the Astronomer"
Sten F. Odenwald
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A Great Cosmic Companion.......2001-04-24

The cosmos are very perplexing, as well as awe-inspiring, and its wonderful how this book packages this very scientific information in a friendly and approachable way. Many people like myself, who are not scientists but who yearn to learn the basic theories, look up at the night sky and wonder how planets, stars and galaxies came to be and exist. This book is a great Cosmic Companion which guides you through the stars in a comprehesible fashion: although space terminology can get complex, it is easy to follow along with Dr. Odenwald's voice of the book. If you love interesting details about the heavens, then this book is perfect for you: you'll ingest this neat info so quickly, that your mind will be like a miniature black-hole, and the details will be unable to escape from your mind's event horizon. It's a wonderful book that I feel can be used to teach younger students many important and fascinating facts; I say this as an experienced teacher and journalist. It helps us to understand the ever chaotic cosmos a whole lot better.

Enjoyable way to learn astronomy.......2000-11-27

This reference consists of 365 questions submitted by the public and Odenwald's answers, taken from the author's "Ask the Astronomer" internet website. These questions cover topics from the solar system to galaxies to the Big Bang. The general reader may find this easy to read reference an enjoyable way to learn about these topics.

Very interesting, but kept easy.......2000-07-22

I am only 11, and I thought this book was very easy to understand, but he kept it interesting. I recomend this to kids my age, as well as adults. (My Gramma found this and liked what it was, so she got it for me.)

A FAQ lacking organization but having great content.......1999-07-07

In his frequently asked questions book, Odenwald doe s an excellent job at answering technical and rather pseudoscience sorts of questions. However, while Odenwald does show he knows what he's talking about, his writing style and organization leave much to be desired.

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