ENTERPRISE GOVERNANCE STRATEGIC OVERSIGHT, First Edition

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Enterprise governance is an inclusive framework which constitutes the entire accountability framework of the organisation. There are two dimensions of enterprise governance conformance and performance. At the heart of enterprise governance is the argument that good corporate governance on its own cannot make a company successful.

In the light of major corporate failures Enterprise Governance - Strategic Oversight does not pretend to provide a guaranteed formula for business success. However, it does present a useful tool in the form of the Strategic Scorecard to address what has proved to be a problematic area for companies (ie effective strategic oversight) and suggests that greater attention to strategic oversight will go some way towards ensuring effective conformance and performance.

Enterprise Governance - Strategic Oversight builds on initial project work which was undertaken by the Professional Accountants in Business Committee (PAIB) of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) of which CIMA played a leading role.

* Explains the concept of enterprise governance, demonstrating the importance of balancing the conformance and performance aspects of running a business.
* Explores the issue of strategic oversight and demonstrates its importance to the success of a business.
* Considers ways in which strategic oversight can be improved, in particular, through the use of strategy committees and the proposed CIMA Strategic Scorecard
* Provides a thorough discussion of the Strategic Scorecard and illustrates, using case studies, how it can be used in practice.

The Big Book of Jobs 2005-2006 Edition (Big Book of Jobs)
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College Majors Handbook with Real Career Paths and Payoffs: The Actual Jobs, Earnings, and Trends for Graduates of 60 College Majors (College Majors Handbook With Real Career Paths and Payoffs)

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Job seekers find the answers they need for a successful job search in this all-encompassing volume

Here's an unbeatable combination: up-to-date data from the U.S. Department of Labor, plus cutting-edge career strategies from VGM. The Big Book of Jobs lets job seekers save precious time by offering everything they need in a single volume.

The first section helps you explore various career options; write cover letters and resumes; build job-hunting networks; and master the interview. The second describes more than 250 career possibilities, providing such data as:

Working conditions
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An added bonus is a chapter coaching job seekers on how to read the Labor Department's often intimidating Occupational Outlook Handbook, a vital resource for any serious job hunt.

Whether a person is looking for a first job, seeking a career change, or worrying about the future of a specific field, this all-in-one resource is the best choice for complete, up-to-date career information.

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A brief, introductory astronomy book designed for readers with little or no scientific background, A Beginner's Guide uses an exceptionally clear writing style. The authors present a broad view of astronomy without complex mathematics, yet the book discusses important concepts without simplification. The book's organization follows the popular and effective “Earth-Out” progression, starting with our planet and then moving through the solar system. A study of the Sun as a model star follows, then the book covers the Milky Way Galaxy, cosmology, and the universe as a whole. Because of its easy-to-read yet comprehensive coverage of astronomy, this book can serve as excellent reference material for those readers interested in learning about our universe.

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Solid Intro Astronomy Book.......2007-03-28

This textbook presents information about the Earth, solar system, and universe in a clear manner that avoids technical jargon while staying scientifically respectable. The author demonstrates the practical uses of mathematics throughout the book and the end of chapter questions challenge the reader's grasp of the material. It's a rarity for such a readable book to be written by a person with this author's impressive educational creditials. I would definitely recommend this text and any other written by Chaisson.

good condition and speedy delivery.......2005-09-19

item arrived in 2 days and was in perfect condition. completely satisfied. would recommend to others!

Way too expensive for a paperback.......2004-08-27

Attractive book but not a good value. All the information is available for free on the internet where it is periodically updated and can be referenced for free without wearing out.

Astronomy Text Book.......2004-01-06

Text book arrived in excellent condition (brand spankin' new) and in a timely manner (about 3 business days). I got a great deal too! No problems whatsoever. Thanks a bunch!

Great Textbook.......2001-03-01

For anyone who has a vague interest in astronomy, this would be the book to read. Albeit not entirely simple, this is a relatively straight forward book that uses excellent examples to explain difficult concepts. There are many charts and diagrams. How exactly does a black hole work? What's the difference between a nova and a supernova (not as simple as you might think)? Why do we get meteor showers? There is a bit of mathematics involved, but nothing too intimidating. This is an excellent textbook. Best of all, a CD-ROM is included with lots of multimedia content, study questions, and links to more sources. Avoid other dry textbooks and purchase this one.

Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (5th Edition)

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Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (5th Edition)
Eric Chaisson , and Steve McMillan
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ASIN: 013187165X

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Awesome.......2007-05-25

The book was just as i expected!!! it was new, no marks, and no bent pages! it was a great price and it looks like i just bought it from a book store!! shipped really fast! THANKS

Publisher Fails!.......2006-04-19

This textbook is an adequate basic astronomy text that covers all of the bases and as might be expected has many updates reflecting recent research in the field. However, much of the really cool photography, demonstrations, animations, and illustrations are not in the book but are supposed to be on the web-site to which purchasers are given free access for more than an academic year. Although the book was released months ago, the web-site will not be available before the end of May 2006. The Prentice Hall Product Support people took over three weeks to find this out and were unable to offer any other solution to the problem which was shared by half of my class section. Do not purchase this book; it is a ripoff. If you must buy it, buy an older edition that comes with the CD (which the rest of my section purchased.) You won't have to deal with Prentice-Hall. Even better, try "Discovering the Universe" which is better written and comes with a CD.

A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science

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presents both practical and mystical aspects of numbers as they relate to nature
This book changed my life
A few gems--mostly blather
geometry for the art
Discover a hidden depth to numbers and geometry

A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science
Michael S. Schneider
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ASIN: 0060926716

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The Universe May Be a Mystery,
But It's No Secret

Michael Schneider leads us on a spectacular, lavishly illustrated journey along the numbers one through ten to explore the mathematical principles made visible in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, and the human body, expressed in the symbolic language of folk sayings and fairy tales, myth and religion, art and architecture. This is a new view of mathematics, not the one we learned at school but a comprehensive guide to the patterns that recur through the universe and underlie human affairs. A Beginner's Guide to Constructing, the Universe shows you:

Why cans, pizza, and manhole covers are round.
Why one and two weren't considered numbers by the ancient Greeks.
Why squares show up so often in goddess art and board games.
What property makes the spiral the most widespread shape in nature, from embryos and hair curls to hurricanes and galaxies.
How the human body shares the design of a bean plant and the solar system.
How a snowflake is like Stonehenge, and a beehive like a calendar.
How our ten fingers hold the secrets of both a lobster and a cathedral.
And much more.

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presents both practical and mystical aspects of numbers as they relate to nature.......2007-09-23

A Beginners Guide to Constructing the Universe shows the mathematical underpinnings of nature by explaining how nature makes use of the numbers 1 - 10 and also 12 and 13. For example number six is used by nature in the construction of many things including walls of cells as the six sided hexagon is a very stable geometric object. There is some focus on mystical aspects of math but not too much so that there ends up being a lot of practical knowledge to be found here. The Fibonacci sequence is presented along with the use it is put to by nature. There is a presentation of the golden mean also. I highly recommend this book to those who have had interest in math drilled out of them by the drudgery of unfocused arithmetic and algebra lessons. This book is a peak into the fascinating world of mathematics and should whet your appetite for more. One book to consider after reading this book is "Fascinating Fibonacci's" as it contains more detailed information on the material found in chapter 5 of this book.

This book changed my life.......2007-09-11

An amazing combination of mathematics, science, history, religion. As the story of geometry unfolds so unfolds many other stories of our universe.
Hint: invest in a compass, do the suggested activities and examples, have fun

A few gems--mostly blather.......2007-08-22

Reminds me of people who see number patterns in everything--even when it's mere coincidence. A few good ideas and concepts, but trying to tease them out is a chore. And some of the books statements are flat wrong--sorry, but nature is sometimes horribly prolific with resources, not studiously careful. If you are interested in a kind of metaphysical approach, it might be very interesting, but if you are interested in real numbers, real math, real life, um, not here. He points things out that are derived from a triangle or rectangle or the intersection of this or that . . . but really, the 'things' could be designed with other concepts in mind.

geometry for the art.......2007-08-03

I did very little geometry in school and as I was wanting to understand the golden mean I bought this book. I'm now on the number 5. This book discribes the making of the universe and how each number got its name. How everything starts from 1 and it goes on what 2 does and so on. It is deep reading but very interesting.

Discover a hidden depth to numbers and geometry.......2006-11-03

I always enjoyed geometry in school, and this book opened up a whole new depth to the subject for me.

Reading the book, I dug out my compass, pencil, straight edge and 30, 60, and 90 degree angles to perform the various exercises recommended by the author.

Constructing the various geometrical figures I found to be akin to creating mandalas. You create something originating in the abstract that becomes concrete, that in turn ultimately becomes personally meaningful.

Also, I learned to view several churches in town on a completely different level.

Reading this book, you will never look at the numbers one through ten in quite the same way again.

The numbers take on significance and hint at something sublime and even transcendent.

Through this book, I discovered the rich undercurrents of pythagorean number theory, and their application to the rich christian architecture of the medieval churches.

With all the fuss over feng shui, this book draws from our decidedly western tradition, revealing we have our own undiscovered architectural history that has yet to capture the popular imagination.

A wonderful introduction, chapter by chapter, number by number, to sacred geometry and the pythagoreanism that runs through it.

Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe

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Astronomy Today 5th edition
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Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe
Eric Chaisson , and Steve McMillan
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ASIN: 0131047639

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Chaisson/McMillan's writing style and pedagogically driven art program are recognized as being scientifically accurate yet accessible to non-science majors. The integrated media program contains the market's only E-book. It provides readers with innovative and interactive tools to learn and test their understanding of astronomy concepts. Topics covered include Astronomy and the Universe, Our Planetay System, Stars and Stellar Evolution, Galaxies and Cosmology, and more. For one or two-semester introductory astronomy course.

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New Book that was NOT a new Book.......2007-06-08

Simply put - I purchased this Astronomy book through Amazon because the price was the same as elsewhere but I would save on shipping. I expected a NEW book but received a Used Book in good condition.
The Book itself so far seems well laid out and interesting but the course I am taking has just reached the 1/3 mark toward completion.

For the Non-Science Major.......2007-03-08

This book is designed to be the astronomy book that non-science majors would use to meet their one-year of science requirement as part of their undergraduate degree. As such it is written without the mathematics content that would be normal in a course aimed at astronoly or physics students. In addition, this particular book has several advantages. To identify just a few:

1. Throughout the book there is an emphasis on teaching the scientific method. This area has been strengthened in this edition because (I'm guessing) the current attempts by the un-intelligent design people to disparage scientific theories.

2. Revised to include the latest discoveries being made by the Mars rovers and the down grading of poor Pluto to a minor planet.

3. Updating the current theories regarding dark matter and dark energy.

In summary this is a well written, well illustrated text, ideally suited for the non-scientists.

Astronomy Today 5th edition.......2006-03-11

I have had a lifetime love of Astronomy but have lacked the mathmatical background for a thorough understanding. Most popular books on the subject rarely cover the field in the manner that I desire. Astronomy Today is a textbook for a beginning course in astronomy at the college level and does, in fact, cover a great deal of information without the need for mathmatical knowledge. The authors express their ideas and information in clear, concise language and clearly manifest an enthusiasm for their subject. I have enjoyed the book immensely.

A Paradox of Blind Astronomers!.......2005-06-23

This is an excellent textbook, but I deducted one star (from a possible five-star rating) because of the absurd comments made by the authors in the beginning of the book. In this fourth edition of Astronomy Today, a textbook published by Prentice Hall for college students, the authors open the very first chapter with the following statements:

"Of all the scientific insights attained to date, one stands out boldly: Earth is neither central nor special. We inhabit no unique place in the universe. Astronomical research, especially within the past few decades, strongly suggests that we live on what seems to be an ordinary rocky planet called Earth, one of the nine known planets orbiting an average star called the Sun, a star near the edge of a huge collection of stars called the Milky Way Galaxy, which is one galaxy among countless billions of others spread throughout the observable universe."

Huh!? Earth isn't special? Compare the other planets in our Solar System to Earth and tell us it isn't special. And Earth is "...an ordinary rocky planet..."? It's the only planet we know of with vast oceans of liquid water, a breathable atmosphere, lush vegetation, and a spectacular collection of life forms. The authors of this textbook must have been "out to lunch" when they wrote that trite introduction, or... this is just another deliberate attempt by "philosophers of gobbledygook" to strip the Earth of its special place in the universe and to squash any special characteristics that may differentiate it from everything else in the cosmos. I strongly suspect the latter viewpoint is the correct one.

The fact is the Earth is indeed a very special place, and the Sun is a very special star. In fact, the Sun-Earth relationship represents a very special arrangement that permits life to thrive upon our planet. Mercury, Venus and Mars may be nothing more than ordinary rocky planets, but Earth is truly unique from all the other planets in our Solar System, and may be truly unique in all the universe.

I stand by my initial rating of the textbook: 4 stars and an excellent read. I just have a wee bit of a problem with blind astronomers.

A joy to read!.......2005-02-18

This book is really outstanding! It contains 757 pages of text (not counting the preface and appendix), about 480 (mostly quite smallish) photos, some 400 drawings/figures/illustrations and almost 50 tables. The writing style is very clear, not at all dry or overtly technical. It is a joy to read this book. I know of no other book that clarifies all kind of astronomical subjects as thoroughly and understandably as this book (and I did read many books on astronomy.....). Highly recommended!

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Stargazing for Beginners
John Mosley
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An educational guide to stir interest in the stars

A Beginner's Guide to the Universe
Andrew Conway , and Rosie Coleman
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521806933

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A Beginner's Guide to the Universe is a fascinating introduction to astronomy and the wonders of the night sky. It begins by looking at the universe as a whole, describing what we can see in the night sky. The authors then go on to explore the planets of our solar system, from the hot world of Mercury near the Sun to the distant, frozen world of Pluto. Moons, asteroids, meteoroids and comets are described in detail, and objects outside the solar system are explained. Young readers will learn what stars are, and how they cluster together to form galaxies that allow us to map out the furthest reaches of our Universe. A key feature is a section in which John Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, answers astronomy questions posed by schoolchildren. This guide will also appeal to adults wishing to learn about astronomy for the first time. Andrew Conway is a lecturer in astronomy, based in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Open University, UK. He is an active researcher in solar physics, and has given many lecture courses on popular astronomy. He is also a regular guest lecturer at astronomical societies. Rosie Coleman is a primary school teacher in Scotland, UK, and has taught children for almost thirty years. She has given many educational talks, and produced material for use in schools throughout Scotland.

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An educational guide to stir interest in the stars.......2003-04-08

Written by Andrew Conway (a professional astronomer) and Rosie Coleman (a primary school teacher), A Beginner's Guide To The Universe is an amazing, fact-filled science book especially recommended for inquisitive young readers ages seven to fourteen, but which would be intrinsically interesting introduction for readers of any age or background. Color artwork and photography superbly enhance the enriching and informative text packed from cover to cover with information about the solar system, planets, galaxies, and beyond. An amazing and educational guide to stir interest in the stars, A Beginner's Guide To The Universe is enthusiastically recommended for personal, school, and community library Astronomy collections.

Astronomy Student Lecture Notebook: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe

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Astronomy Student Lecture Notebook: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe
Colleen Gino , McMillan , and Chaisson
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The Facts on File Atlas of Stars and Planets: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe

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Heather Couper , and Murtagh
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