Original Pronouncements 1999/2000 Accounting Standards As of June 1, 1999: Fasb Statements of Standards (Accounting Standards Original Pronouncements, Vol 1)

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These annual resources contain all the original pronouncements put forth by the FASB and AICPA. The FASB Original Pronouncements Volume I contains the Statements of Financial Accounting Standards issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board from its inception in 1973 to June 1, 1999. The FASB Original Pronouncements Volume II, the companion volume, contains material issued by the AICPA or its committees through June 1973 and by the FASB to June 1, 1999.

Original Pronouncements 1999/2000: Accounting Standards As of June 1, 1999 (Accounting Standards Original Pronouncements Volume 2)

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Original Pronouncements 1999/2000: Accounting Standards As of June 1, 1999 (Accounting Standards Original Pronouncements Volume 2)
Financial Accounting Standards Board
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Hold on to your talent! To get the best and keep them, managers should hire and lead like good coaches do.

Business leaders struggling to attract and retain skilled employees can learn valuable lessons from veteran coaches and sports team managers. These pros have developed engaging leadership styles over years of dealing with a shortage of skilled talent, great mobility, and a younger generation demanding greater personal fulfillment.

So how do business leaders engage their employees? Just like winning coaches do: by hiring talented people who fit, setting ambitious goals for winning, and creating chemistry and trust among the team.

Examining the highly successful methods of coaching greats Lou Piniella, Dennis Green, Phil Jackson, Scotty Bowman, and many others, The Engaging Leader helps today's business leaders learn to build on their strengths, focus on the long term potential of employees, hold themselves accountable, take risks, and develop superb communications with team members.

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Lacking any real insight.......2006-11-08

This book is filled with sports analogies which frankly get a little tedious after a while. I found the contents of the book to be little more than basic and was very disappointed especially given the other readers reviews. I would not recommend this book.

Too many sports analogies to reach a broad audience........2004-06-28

I picked up this book based on the title, which emphasizes "winning" with today's "free agent" workforce. I presumed this meant the focus would be attracting the right kind of talent, and keeping those people engaged. To be fair, the book does get into the concept of cultural fit and motivation, but does so in a way which will appeal to a limited audience.

Like many, I am a sports fan, and often use analogies of team sports to make leadership or team work comparisons in the workplace. However, I am careful to not overuse these, as many are not interested in team sports and may not relate. This book is all about sports. Literally. Every page relates business leadership concepts to sports figures, in every major sport. Often this works to make his points, but it is simply too much in my opinion. The leadership concepts get lost in what often reads more like Sports Illustrated, than a business leadership book.

The concepts themselves are sound. These include discussions on "urgency of engagement", "team chemistry", "talent assessment", "goal setting" and more. In particular the author does a wonderful job of stressing the balance of home grown talent, and external hires. However, if we boiled this book down to just the leadership aspects, without the sports, it would be about 20 pages long. What is left is sometimes quite insightful, and always sound wisdom on leadership, but you can see just where the focus is. If you are a die hard sports fan, the kind of person who watches ESPN all day regardless of what is on, then this is the book for you. You will relate to the analogies, and the leadership tips and discussions are excellent. If you are not a sports fan, you may want to try a different source.

The book is well written, flows smoothly, and never dry. The "study questions" at the end of each chapter are also excellent. Perhaps a title which links this book more directly to sports would allow for clearer expectations up front. Some good insights, but may not be accessible to a diverse audience.

Great Read!.......2003-04-27

The Engaging Leader is an intelligent and creative alternative to the masses of MBA style leadership tomes that we have all encountered.

Its focus is on two principal leadership types and the best approaches to refining these within an organizational context, filled with an always unique and diverse audience of employees. The book is helpful to the manager wishing to improve her performance as well as that of the company.

Replete with some cutting edge demographic and generational statistics, The Engaging Leader provides a potent refresher as to what an effective business leader needs to focus on in 2003 and going forward.

Sports fans will also be reloaded with great super bowl cocktail party fodder as Dr. Gubman highlights several sports analogies and offers his wisdom as to what many a coach should have done in the case of a losing record or amid other team related shenanigans. You will impress your friends with the knowledge and insights gathered from these passages.

Read on!

Fabulous, Fun Read.......2003-04-27

The Engaging Leader is an intelligent and creative alternative to the masses of MBA style leadership tombs that we have all encountered.

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An everyman's guide to leadership.......2003-04-22

I've been a human resources professional for over 20 years, and Ed's book is a relief from the academic tomes that fill the bookshelves. It's very approachable, makes the point in a very compelling way how critical great leadership is today, and finds an everyday way to show what leadership means and the difference it makes. The sports analogies are entertaining, and the summary 'huddles' at the end of each chapter are simple and down to earth. Applause.

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Soil Fertility Evaluation and Control presents the theoretical background for practical applications of scientific work on soil fertility. The book emphasizes the use of response curves as the basic biological standard for both evaluation and control, and it discusses soil testing and plant analysis as secondary standards. The principal applications covered include fertilizer requirements, fertilizer evaluation, residual effects, fertilizer placement, liming, and economics of fertilization. Environmental aspects of plant nutrients and soil nutrient supplies as they pertain to crop production are also addressed. Most of the information in Soil Fertility Evaluation and Control is drawn from world literature, which makes it a valuable reference for soil scientists, agronomists, agriculturalists, foresters, and others interested in the evaluation and control of soil fertility.

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Different focus on soil fertility!.......2000-02-05

In my opinion, this book is an outstanding work on Soil Fertility because of its extensive revision on the pertinent literature. The professor C. A. Black came out with a brilliant book wich covers this issue in completely different way. This book is indispensable to researchers in soil fertility and plant nutrition.

Pasture species evaluation, pasture fertilizer requirements and weed control in the Solomon Islands (Technical report / Solomon Islands Pasture Research Project)

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Pasture species evaluation, pasture fertilizer requirements and weed control in the Solomon Islands (Technical report / Solomon Islands Pasture Research Project)
R. J. H Steel
Manufacturer: University of Queensland, Department of Agriculture
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0007C40J8

Regional pasture species evaluation, soil fertility assessment and weed control (Technical report / Solomon Islands Pasture Research Project)

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Regional pasture species evaluation, soil fertility assessment and weed control (Technical report / Solomon Islands Pasture Research Project)
M. A Smith
Manufacturer: Department of Agriculture, University of Queensland for Ministry of Home Affairs and National Development, Honiara, Solomon Islands and Australian Development Assistance Bureau
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ASIN: B0007C40JI

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Soil Fertility Evaluation and Control
Charles A. Black
Manufacturer: CRC Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MUXGWM

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Could Einstein have possibly anticipated directly testing the most captivating prediction of general relativity, that there exist isolated pockets of spacetime shielded completely from our own? Now, almost a century after that theory emerged, one of the world's leading astrophysicists presents a wealth of recent evidence that just such an entity, with a mass of about three million suns, is indeed lurking at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way--in the form of a supermassive ''black hole''!

With this superbly illustrated, elegantly written, nontechnical account of the most enigmatic astronomical object yet observed, Fulvio Melia captures all the excitement of the growing realization that we are on the verge of actually seeing this exotic object within the next few years.

Melia traces our intellectual pilgrimage to the ''brooding behemoth'' at the heart of the Milky Way. He describes the dizzying technological advances that have recently brought us to the point of seeing through all the cosmic dust to a dark spot in a clouded cluster of stars in the constellation Sagittarius. Carefully assembling the compelling circumstantial evidence for its black hole status, he shows that it is primed to reveal itself as a glorious panorama of activity within this decade--through revolutionary images of its ''event horizon'' against the bright backdrop of nearby, radiating gas.

Uniquely, this book brings together a specific and fascinating astronomical subject--black holes--with a top researcher to provide both amateur and armchair astronomers, but also professional scientists seeking a concise overview of the topic, a real sense of the palpable thrill in the scientific community when an important discovery is imminent.

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Concerning Melia's "Black Hole..".......2006-07-06

The best thing about this book is the series of photos at the beginning which focus in on Sagittarius A*. It is a little thin on theory (purposely); and at the end, he is a little too gung-ho about the ability of science to answer all questions. But in general it is an exciting subject and the author presents it very well.

Very excited about this book.......2004-08-27

This is an exciting book for just about anyone interested in astronomy.
First of all I'd like to express all my admiration, the book is really
wonderfully written, witty, elegant, always
crystal clear and never boring, a real pleasure for the
mind. Second of all it's a real surprise to see how close
astronomers are to actually seeing a black hole. Since things
are changing so fast, does the author plan on writing an updated
edition soon? It seems that a new edition would be necessary
in a few years.

passionate, he is - but it's hard to follow.......2004-05-09

Apparently Sgr A* is shrinking - at various points in the book, it's described as the size of Mars' orbit, the size of Mercury's orbit, and several times the diameter of the Sun. Then there's the "how fast are the nearby stars going", in units of millions of kilometers per hour in one chapter, and kilometers per second in another - unit confusion! It's an enjoyable book, but somewhat choppy in nature - he introduces a segment on Hawking radiation, then mentions that it's totally useless in detection for supermassive black holes. The descriptions of Sgr A* are well done at the various wavelengths and very helpful; the background on why each wavelength conveys certain information was particularly excellent.
Now: why go to Australia to look at the Milky Way?

Fascinating indeed.......2004-02-01

The subject of this book has been one of my abiding interests since high school. My daughter strongly recommended it to me, with the assurance that it contained one of the best descriptions of general relativity for the layman, woven into the captivating story of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Finally, someone who is directly involved with frontline research on this topic has taken the time to write about it in language that nonexperts can understand. Why is it that others don't do the same?

Amazing Detective Story.......2004-02-01

Hooray for Carolyn Collins Petersen, who wrote a review of this book for the January issue of Sky and Telescope. She absolutely captured the essence of this worthwhile read, and convinced me to pick up a copy of my own. I agree with her assessment wholeheartedly. Melia's book is a detective story, but more than that, it's an up-to-date account of what black hole astronomers are aiming for. The only thing I was somewhat disappointed with was that the last chapter ended too early. The subject of supermassive black holes in general deserves a lengthier discussion.

Evolution of Interstellar Matter and Dynamics of Galaxies (Center for Theoretic)

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Evolution of Interstellar Matter and Dynamics of Galaxies (Center for Theoretic)

Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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This volume contains the proceedings of the international workshop on the evolution of interstellar matter and dynamics of galaxies held at the Center for Theoretical Study in Prague in May 1991. All of the invited lectures are included, covering a broad area embracing star formation inside molecular clouds, HI supershells in interstellar space, and the dynamical evolution of the interstellar medium in galaxies.

Back to the Galaxy (Aip Conference Proceedings)

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Back to the Galaxy (Aip Conference Proceedings)
Stephen S. Holt
Manufacturer: American Institute of Physics
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The Center of the Galaxy (International Astronomical Union Symposia)

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The Center of the Galaxy (International Astronomical Union Symposia)

Manufacturer: Springer
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The Center, Bulge, and Disk of the Milky Way (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)

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The Center, Bulge, and Disk of the Milky Way (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)

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Our view of our Galaxy has recently been undergoing an increasing divergence from the traditional standpoint. In this book ten authors discuss in eight chapters how the conceptions of the Milky Way have moved in new directions. Starting with the inner parsec and the Center of the Galaxy, the book gradually moves on to the bulge and its relation to the globular clusters and to the disk, of which the presence of a bar is argued. A new look on the HI distribution in the disk, a synthesis of molecular line surveys and the study of stellar populations are discussed in the last three chapters.

The Central Regions of the Galaxy and Galaxies (International Astronomical Union Symposia)

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The Central Regions of the Galaxy and Galaxies (International Astronomical Union Symposia)

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Advanced technologies in astronomy at various wavelengths have provided us with high-resolution and high-quality data of the central regions of nearby galaxies and of the Milky Way Galaxy. These data, both for the Galaxy and extragalactic centers, are now quite suitable for detailed comparative study. This IAU symposium was aimed at understanding the general characteristics of dynamics, ISM physics and magnetic fields, activities including inflow and outflow, as well as starburst, in the `galactic centers'. Special attention was also given to several cases for massive black holes in galaxies and the Galaxy, and to understanding the physics of nuclei associated with black holes.

From the Girls in the Galaxy: Journeys to the Center of Ourselves

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From the Girls in the Galaxy: Journeys to the Center of Ourselves
Sara Harrell
Manufacturer: New Chapter Pr
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Binding: Paperback

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the lighter side of women, relationships.......2004-09-23

Sara's book is one of the more enjoyable books of poetry that you can pick up and read in a quick sitting. She has a unique perspective on life and shares it with humor and insight. Enjoy it.