Careers in Accounting, 2006 edition: WetFeet Insider Guide (Wetfeet Insider Guide)

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Despite the recent scandals, now is an excellent time to be looking for work in accounting. Clients need accountants in bad times and good, and accounting provides an excellent grounding in business fundamentals. This WetFeet Insider Guide explores the ins and outs of working in accounting, from the Big Four firms to smaller regional accountancies to in-house accountants.

Careers in Accounting, 2005 Edition: WetFeet Insider Guide (Wetfeet Insider Guide)

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Don't waste your money

Careers in Accounting, 2005 Edition: WetFeet Insider Guide (Wetfeet Insider Guide)
WetFeet
Manufacturer: WetFeet, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback

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Despite the recent scandals, now is not a bad time to be looking for work in accounting. Clients need accountants in bad times and good, and accounting provides an excellent grounding in business fundamentals. This WetFeet Insider Guide explores the ins and outs of working in accounting, from the Big Four firms to smaller regional accountancies to in-house accountants.

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Don't waste your money.......2005-08-10

Within just 30 minutes of reading this, I immediately decided to return it. If you're an undergrad majoring in accounting like I am, this book is totally pointless because they don't present any new info that you haven't already heard from your professors, alumni, or recruiters. Seriously this is hardly an insider guide; all the info in the book can easily be researched online by yourself. If you're smart enough to consider a career in accounting then you should be smart enough to find this info on the web or by talking to recruiters at your accounting club on campus. I'm especially disappointed with the info on the Big 4, it's really nothing but generic info. Bottom line is this is garbage, don't waste your time or money.

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Never again pay the sticker price, accept what is given or engage in an unproductive argument—when you could negotiate the outcome you really want.

With The Everyday Negotiator, even beginners can learn to understand the negotiation process and how to use it in everyday, real-life situations.

Practical tactics for work and life

The author presents two practical negotiation models: A quick model you can use in friendly, less involved negotiations and a comprehensive model you can use in complex, detailed negotiations in which the stakes are high.

The book is one of the most empowering you'll ever read. It walks you through every aspect of the negotiation process, providing proven tactics from beginning to end:

Preparation
Choose a strategy
Initial offer—getting started
Counteroffers—the give and take
Pressure bargaining
Key methods: Achieving progress
Reaching agreement

Each tactic is briefly defined and presented in both a work and life situation. The tactics can be learned quickly and applied immediately. You can read a few tactics in the morning and negotiate the deal you want that afternoon—that's how easy-to-apply the strategies presented here are.

Includes a self-assessment quiz and exercises to help you recognize and take advantage of every situation in which the ability to negotiate can enrich your life.

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Union Negotiations.......2004-09-24

During a recent labor contract negotiation between an IBEW Union and Utility Company, this book was a tremendous help. Our union came to the table with a new Business Manager, new Assistant Business Manager and most of the bargaining committee being first timers. To prepare ouselves we each read tactices from "The Everyday Negotiator" and discussed our strategy. We met with our constituents in the districts, looked at what other unions were coming away from table with and established our must have, could have and don't need list. This book is an excellent resource for negotiations and we utilized several tactics during our months of meetings with the company. We came away with a contact that was well received by our brothers and sisters. This is a must read book when preparing for negotiations.

excellent practical guide to success in the real world.......2004-08-25

This book provides wonderful insights and guidance on successfully negotiating just about anything with anyone. It is worth the modest cost. I have tried some of the recommendations with considerable success. The authors certainly have real world experience and wisdom. It is loaded very practical and useful material for any business, organization and individual.

Easy to understand and quickly apply........2004-08-22

The book is great for a beginning negotiator. The first chapter provides a model which explains the negotiation process, then the rest of the chapters include 50 easy to understand, practical tactics. Not a lot of stories about "how I did it", but well-written, "real world" examples. A great reference book.

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Continuing winner!.......2007-03-27

Awesome book! I'm so glad that I could finally get a copy of my own. Now I can return my friend's fourth edition book. I can't believe that this book is even more informative!

This is a question........1999-03-29

I would like to know if it is possible to find this book in Spanish. Thank you.

The absolute best source of complete ranching information.......1998-12-10

This book originally written in the fifties covers everything from feed to pasture to barn and corral design. If you're new to the ranching life or just want to learn about it, this is the "bible". Just excellent resource material !!!

Handbook of Livestock Management (4th Edition)

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Good for beginners, too basic for more advanced people
clear illustrations, directions and descriptions

Handbook of Livestock Management (4th Edition)
Richard A. Battaglia
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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ASIN: 0131189336

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Discusses a wide range of species and topics, showing step-by-step how to perform the skills and techniques essential for those in animal management. Taking a hands-on approach, it reflects the author’s authoritative experience and emphasizes how to maintain and maximize an animal’s well-being and productivity. Over 800 illustrations, external parts and skeletal drawings, and new photographs offer readers a close look at each species and each livestock management technique. Features chapters on beef cattle, dairy cattle, swine, horses, sheep, goats, poultry, livestock restraint and herd health. Covers all aspects of each species from breeding and conception through their complete lifecycle. Recommends techniques that are best for both the livestock manager and the animal. Provides cautionary notes at appropriate danger points with each step-by-step procedure. Follows a predictable format that includes an introduction to each technique, lists of necessary equipment, a discussion of required restraint, cautionary notes at appropriate danger points, a description of the normal recovery sequence, and a discussion of postprocedural management. Excellent for those involved in livestock management.

Customer Reviews:

Good for beginners, too basic for more advanced people.......2005-12-10

I got this book for a livestock management class, glanced through it, and never looked at it again. It goes through how to handle all sorts of different animals, which is great for beginners, but way too basic if you've already worked with them. I wouldn't waste your money on it unless you are an absolute beginner in the animal science world.

clear illustrations, directions and descriptions.......2004-10-02

I loved this book when I used it for class, and kept it for reference afterwards. I really liked how direct and clear the infomation was, I felt that if the need arose, I would be able to appropriately execute a new restraint, etc based on this book. It has a good deal of very relevant information, especially for someone who might not be as familiar with handling a species, for instance a cow person who needs to help someone with their swine. And for someone who might not have been around livestock, there is a lot to learn as well with plenty of illustrations so even if you are still learning the terminology you can see what is being described.

Backyard Livestock: Raising Good, Natural Food for Your Family, Third Edition

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Everything you needed to know about raising your own animals
Everything to get started!
This is the best of the best
Great Starter Book!
Great resource book!

Backyard Livestock: Raising Good, Natural Food for Your Family, Third Edition
Steven Thomas , and George P. Looby
Manufacturer: Countryman
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ASIN: 0881507601

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This popular and widely praised book describes everything you need to know about selecting and raising small livestock.

Long the primary reference for anyone who keeps animals as a sustainable food source, this latest edition includes up-to-date information on breeds and breeding, feed, disease prevention, housing, and management. The book also includes a chapter on growing feed; appendices covering disease identification and treatment, manure, tanning, incubators, and injections; and a catalog of supplemental resources. Country Journal calls it "a handbook in the true sense of the word. You can pick it up and turn to any section to find quickly the information needed." 55 black & white line illustrations, index.

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Everything you needed to know about raising your own animals.......2007-03-31

This is by far the best book I have ever read on the subject of raising your own livestock. The author not only put great information into the book, he also wrote it by telling stories that helped me to better understand and retain the information. I bought the book to learn more about raising a few cattle for both milk and beef, but after reading about other livestock, my wife and I are looking forward to raising a few other types. It even tought us how to save money on feed by giving recipes and directions for getting your animals feed from nature. A must have book if you want to raise your own poultry, or livestock.

Everything to get started!.......2005-11-17

#1 goes into breeds, #2 goes into needs, #3 goes into purchasing AND how to CHOOSE healthy animals, #4 how to house and care for them!! Everything! I am sure there is more to each animal, but this is THE best intro book! I am so happy with my nrew load of reading materials!! I cant wait to get this all started!!

This is the best of the best.......2003-06-28

Anyone who would like to put a few animals in the backyard for eggs or meat or milk or everything altogether, will save hundreds of headaches, and probably hundreds of dollars, by buying this book and taking Steven Thomas's suggestions seriously. There are now dozens of these kinds of books out there, and I own a number of them (including "Barnyard In Your Backyard" which is nowhere near as good as this) but none of them comes close to "Backyard Livestock" for practicality of advice, conciseness of expression, and comprehensiveness. I have sheep, chicken, etc., and this has been far more reliable than any competing manuals that I own or know of. You can't not get it! It's indispensable.

Great Starter Book!.......2003-05-13

To get information easily and quickly, this book is concise and informative. We bought this book when we first started our little farm and 10 years later are still referring to it! An excellent buy.

Great resource book!.......2002-05-02

This book was very beneficial in all aspects of raising small-farm animals. Great reference manual for beginners. I certainly listed this book in the resources directory of my new title, Farm Animals: Your Guide to Raising Livestock, because I felt it would be an awesome addition to my own farm related books!

Farm Animals: Your Guide to Raising Livestock

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Well written
There are MUCH better books of this type
Probably not worth your time
this is really awful
Want To Raise Chickens?

Farm Animals: Your Guide to Raising Livestock
Jeanie Peck-Whiting
Manufacturer: On The Farm Press
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Barnyard in Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, and Cows

ASIN: 0971617406

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From lists of fundamental start-up equipment to advice on charting income and expenses, this book guides small farmers through feeding, sheltering, and breeding cows, pigs, goats, rabbits, ducks, and chickens. Breeders and farmers learn the full scope of husbandry and care, including which records should be maintained-health records, breeding journals, milk sheets, and family trees-to which ointments, sprays, and syringes should be kept in the animal first aid box. Included are farrowing charts and pregnancy diaries that detail each step of gestation. Extensive details and instructions are provided on castration, giving iron, docking tails, and caring for newborns. Farmers' accounts, photos, a glossary of terminology, and a list of resources offer support to experienced and novice farmers alike.

Customer Reviews:

Well written.......2007-06-06

Please note that when I first came across this book, I found it in the library in the youth section. But considering I was a youth in regards to raising livestock, I found the book both well-written and very helpful--so much so that I have decided to raise small livestock and have moved on to more advanced readings. In a nutshell: This book is written for beginners and I derived much joy in reading it. Thank You.

There are MUCH better books of this type.......2006-02-08

I've been avidly reading all the small-farming books I can get my hands on over the past few months. I was pleased when I ran across this one at my local library, since it was not one I had seen before. I soon found out why I hadn't seen it mentioned elsewhere, however....

The writing is definitely subpar, not least because of the grammatical and spelling errors sprinkled liberally throughout. I couldn't help but wonder if the book had been edited at all - if it has, the editor should perhaps consider another line of work. It is very poorly organized and incomplete. The personal stories were uninspiring and, truth be told, did nothing to enhance the author's credibility.

I would venture to say that it would be nearly impossible for a novice to successfully keep livestock of any kind using this book as a guide. One would be far better off reading _Barnyard in Your Backyard_ and/or _Backyard Livestock_, followed up by the various Storey's guides for specific types of livestock (e.g., _Storey's Guide to Raising [Dairy Goats, Pigs, Chickens, etc.]_) for far better organized and complete information.

Probably not worth your time.......2004-12-31

Although the author's love of animals, her family, and farm life infuse the text of "Farm Animals", in my honest opinion, it's not enough to make it worth reading. This is underscored by the existence of such good alternatives.

My first complaint is the poor editing and proof-reading. The book is poorly organized and it's a rare page that doesn't have a grammatical error or typo that really does get in the way of the reader's understanding. The author's conversational tone often stretches what would be a short concise statement into a long and hard to understand exchange between author and reader. A serious investment in editing followed by thorough proof-reading would go a long way to improving this book.

But I can forgive poor writing and editing if there is some useful information or entertaining stories in the text. After all, I believe the modern small-scale farm is a worthy subject. The problem with "Farm Animals" is that there just isn't much that is useful or entertaining here. The book is mostly stories drawn from the author's farm, but rather than being entertaining or enlightening, many of the stories are downright horrifying.

An example is an account (the bulk of the text is made up of these stories) about Rosie, the author's sow. The author watches while Rosie gets more and more agitated as her male piglets are castrated nearby and (at the same time) a visitor antagonizes her. Eventually the sow turns on the author's daughter, trapping her in the shelter, and then attacks the antagonistic visitor. This story wouldn't surprise anyone familiar with pigs... Well, it is surprising that anyone working with pigs would make such obvious mistakes and then write about them in a book about how to raise farm animals, but the fact that the saw acted as she did is far from shocking.

These stories do illustrate mistakes that the reader should try to avoid, and to the author's credit she does eventually make her point after each story's conclusion. However, it is surprising how many mistakes the author made in caring for her animals.

The book is definitely not competitive as a reference. Any of the Storey's Guides would be much more useful to the beginning livestock farmer or hobbyist. Infact, much of the books factual content will seem eerily familiar to anyone who has read the relevant Storey's Guides. There is some useful information here, it's just that the information is in no way complete.

In my opinion, this book would have been better if the author completely forgoed any intent to write an informative book. As a collection of funny stories about what *not* to do on the farm, it could have value. Even as a collection of stories about her farm raising experiences, it would be better, but by using stories to illustrate points about raising animals, it just doesn't work.

The book does paint a picture of a family trying to succeed at something they love. The author obviously holds a special affection for, and a desire to write about, both her children and her animals. A particularly important lesson that it does contain is to investing time early in an animal's life to help develope a (two-way) bond between itself and its caretaker. This is a point made in "Farm Animals" that I haven't seen given due attention elsewhere.

For the dedicated reader of literature about modern small-farms, this book has some value. But, in my opinion, most others should give it a pass.

this is really awful.......2004-01-03

This has got to be the worst book on "farming" I have ever read. Amazingly, the cover reads "Compared to All Creatures Great and Small" well yeah it compares...it compares POORLY.

If this were merely a memoir, I'd let the poor grammar and randomly-generated thoughts pass...after all, I'm not one to stifle creativity.

However, when someone passes off copious "borrowing" from Storey publications, inter-dispersed with reminiscing from their barnyard, and chock-full of misleading or mistaken "facts"...that's too much.

For instance:

Pg 37: "Make sure every animal has clean, fresh water daily. You wouldn't want to drink dirty defecated water..."
(Is she referring to drinking water fouled with feces? You'd think an author would phrase themselves better)

Pg 69: "If you stagger breeding dates, you could have milk all year long" misleading... does (except for the Pygmy breed) only come into heat in the fall - winter. I have never heard of any Dairy Goat breeding in the summer.

Pg 220: 1 gallon of milk does NOT weigh 8 lbs...A gallon of milk with 2% butterfat weighs about 10.2 lbs (by the way- NO mention of pasteurizing milk apparently this author is fine with Tuberculosis, Brucellosis, and Toxoplasmosis...all transmittable to people in milk, if your animals are infected)

Pg 246 "I keep a cheap pair of scissors on hand in case I need to cut away the excess skin around a wound. The scissors I use have a flat and a sharp edge" ?!?! Have you ever used a scalpel blade??? Try it sometime!

Overall, it is a difficult read given the poor grammar, fragmentary sentences, and general randomness of the (albeit few) nuggets of real information.

As an aside....I do like "chatty" books, and an informal read can be fun. This is neither.

A much better buy is Backyard Livestock by Steven Thomas. Don't waste your money with this one...

Want To Raise Chickens?.......2002-06-17

A quick fun book to read for anyone who's fantasized about raising livestock in their back yard, but never quite got up the nerve to do so. Full of interesting little tips, presented in a readable format. This is not the "dry" book you would expect.

In one barn: Efficient livestock housing and management

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In one barn: Efficient livestock housing and management
Lee Pelley
Manufacturer: Countryman Press
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Range and Ranch Wildlife, Sheep and Goat Handbook (1988 International Stockmen's School Handbooks)

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Range and Ranch Wildlife, Sheep and Goat Handbook (1988 International Stockmen's School Handbooks)
L.S. Pope
Manufacturer: Intl Stockmens Educ Fndtn
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ASIN: 0941471071

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Solar Livestock Housing Handbook

Manufacturer: Iowa State Pr
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Stud Manager's Handbook

Manufacturer: Westview Pr (Short Disc)
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The U.F.A.W. handbook on the care and management of laboratory animals

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The U.F.A.W. handbook on the care and management of laboratory animals
Alastair N Worden
Manufacturer: Livingstone
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The UFAW handbook on the care and management of farm animals

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Manufacturer: Williams and Wilkins Co
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ASIN: 0443007594

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