A fully revised guidebook on the basics of accounting-- updated to cover an increasingly complex financial arena In the wake of recent accounting scandals, most managers now realize they need to know more about the inner workings of finance. Many, however, don't know where they will find the time. The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Finance for Non-Financial Managers is designed to give readers a working mastery of all finance essentials in just 36 hours and has now been updated to help readers understand the substantial regulatory and practical changes that have taken place in the new world of business accounting. This hands-on workbook delivers its information in accessible and reader-friendly style, including self-study questions and case studies for each chapter. Information new to this edition includes: <ul>
<li>Key updates to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) </li>
<li>Sections detailing what auditing is and what auditors do </li>
<li>Entirely new sections on pro forma financial statements, stock options as an expense, and more </li>
</ul>

The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course In Finance for Non-Financial Managers

Business & Money

Cooke, Robert

Finance

McGraw=Hill

Within an hour of Mount St. Helens's eruption in May 1980, Charles Rosenfeld, who had been making airborne observations of the volcano, was on the scene witnessing the event and taking a series of spectacular photographs, many of which appear for the first time in Earthfire.  The authors trace the worldwide chains of cause and effect beyond Mount St. Helens, profiling other stratovolcanoes of the Cascade Range in the Pacific Northwest—mountains that have been active and may yet erupt again. They also explore tectonic processes, the Pacific "Ring of Fire," and new research on underwater volcanoes and hot spots.

Earthfire: The Eruption of Mount St. Helens

Science & Math

Rosenfeld, Charles

Earth Sciences

Mit Pr

Consultants from Canada and Belgium explain how companies can bring together functions that are frequently duplicated across divisions, subsidiaries, or operating units and offer the services more efficiently and at a lower cost through a shared services center. They set out the concept, and show how to assess it's viability for a particular organization and how to plan and implement it. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Shared Services: Mining for Corporate Gold

Quinn, Barbara

Kris, Andrew

Economics

Financial Times/Prentice Hall

Dr. Folkman's War: Angiogenesis and the Struggle to Defeat Cancer

In 1961, twenty-eight-year-old Dr. Judah Folkman saw something while doing medical research in a United States navy lab that gave him the first glimmering of a wild, inspired hunch. What if cancerous tumors, in order to expand, needed to trigger the growth of new blood vessels to feed themselves? And if that was true, what if a way could be found to stop that growth? Could cancers be starved to death? Dr. Folkman had ample reason to be self confident — second in his class at Harvard Medical School, he was already considered one of the most promising doctors of his generation. But even he never guessed that his idea would eventually grow into a multibillion-dollar industry that is now racing through human trials with drugs that show unparalleled promise of being able to control cancer, as well as other deadly diseases. For the creation of this book, Dr. Judah Folkman cooperated fully and exclusively with acclaimed science writer Robert Cooke. He granted Cooke unlimited interviews, showed him diaries and personal papers, and threw open the doors of his lab. The result is an astonishingly rich and candid chronicle of one of the most significant medical discoveries of our time and of the man whose vision and persistence almost single-handedly has made it possible. Dr. Folkman's radical new way of thinking about cancer was once considered preposterous. So little was known about how cancer spreads and how blood vessels grow that he wasn't even taken seriously enough to be considered a heretic. Other doctors shook their heads at the waste of a great mind, and ambitious young medical researchers were told that accepting a position in Folkman's lab would be the death of their careers. Now, though, the overwhelming majority of experts believes that the day will soon come when antiangiogenesis therapy supplants the current more toxic and less-effective treatments — chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery-as the preferred method of treatment for cancer in patients around the world, and Dr. Folkman's breakthrough will come to be taken for granted the way we now take for granted the polio vaccine and antibiotics. Dr. Folkman's War brilliantly describes how high the odds are against success in medical research, how vicious the competition for grants, how entrenched the skepticism about any genuinely original thinking, how polluted by politics and commerce the process of getting medicine into patients' hands. But it also depicts with rare power how exalted a calling medicine can be and how for the rare few—the brilliant, the tireless, and the lucky — the results of success can be world-changing. From the Hardcover edition.

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Random House]

"For decades, AMA -- and every other training organization -- has encouraged seminar participants to fill out a ""personal styles survey"" that focuses on the various ways in which people approach their work and relate to others within their organization. Now AMACOM is proud to announce that AMA has a survey of its own (for which we own the content) and one that is superior to the competition in a number of key respects! The AMA DISC Survey This new instrument measures four basic behavioral styles. The survey explains that each of these ""personality types"" has its strong points, as well as possible weaknesses. In this regard, The AMA DISC Survey is ideally suited for programs directed toward: * Personal development * Problem solving and decision making * Time management * Interpersonal relations * Conflict management * Team building * Organizational change Features Unique to The AMA DISC Survey * Work-related: The instructions and the items make it clear that respondents should focus on their on-the-job behavior within their current organization. * Self-scoring: The survey is printed on NCR (no carbon required) paper, which transfers people's responses to the survey to a scoring sheet underneath. This feature helps to minimize response errors while, at the same time, enabling respondents to score and plot their own results. * Efficient: The survey provides a time-efficient way for people to assess and learn about their styles. On average, it takes respondents a total of 20 to 25 minutes to complete the survey, calculate their scores, and plot the results. * Reliable and valid: The AMA DISC Survey meets the American Psychological Association's and the American Educational Research Association's standards for instrument construction and validation. A description of the norms, reliability, and validity of the survey is provided in both the Debriefing Guide and the Facilitator's Manual. The AMA DISC Survey Debriefing Guide The AMA DISC Survey is accompanied by (and shrink-wrapped with) a Debriefing Guide that can be used to facilitate discussion, interpretation, and application of the survey results. The Debriefing Guide consists of seven interactive modules that each take approximately 10 minutes to complete. The modules guide respondents in: * Understanding their personal styles and combination of styles * Analyzing the causes and effects of their styles * Identifying strategies for modifying their styles in ways that will enhance their personal and interpersonal effectiveness Features Unique to The AMA DISC Survey Debriefing Guide * Informative: The Debriefing Guide provides interpretive information for single styles and style combinations, as well as suggestions for enhancing personal and interpersonal effectiveness. * Interactive: Each module requires the respondent to work with the information that they have been provided. Thus, respondents are not just reading about their DISC styles; they are also applying what they have learned in ways that make the information more personally relevant. * Developmental: Two of the modules enable respondents to examine their results along the productive versus counter-productive aspects of each style. In turn, respondents can identify ways of developing the constructive aspects of their style, while, at the same time, reducing those aspects that are less effective. * Flexible: The Debriefing Guide is designed so that it can be used as part of the training program (as exercises) or can be completed by respondents on their own time (as follow-up work). Most of the modules are self-contained and therefore allow the program facilitator or the respondent to pick and choose the modules to focus on. The modules can also be used as the basis for various group activities, as described in The AMA DISC Survey Facilitator's Manual. The AMA DISC Survey is NOT available in AMACOM's regular retail outlets. To order a copy e-mail: pubs_cust_serv@amanet.org, call:800-250-5308, or fax: 518-891-2372."

AMA DISC Survey

Management & Leadership

AMACOM

The Visitation of London in the Year 1568

Travel

Legare Street Press

The Visitations of the County of Somerset, in the Years 1531 and 1573, Together with Additional Pedigrees, Chiefly from the Visitation of 1591

Benolt, Thomas

History

Nabu Press

The Visitations of Bedfordshire: Annis Domini 1566, 1582, and 1634

HARVEY, William

Owen, George

The Visitacion of Norffolk

Raven, John

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