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The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
This volume presents the facts about the authors, tales, and characters from ancient myth and literature, and also places these details in the wider contexts of the history and society of the Greek and Roman worlds. Cross-references, tables and maps are included to help with research. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461508488
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The Limits of Sino-Russian Strategic Partnership
Russia and China claim to have established a 'strategic partnership'. Jennifer Anderson argues that this relationship merely overlays a diplomatic agenda established in the late 1980s. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461717952
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The Oxford Book of Short Poems
Memorable, witty, bawdy, profound--the short poem observes no limits except those of length. They can range from subjects as diverse as a child's first words, a woman's feet, or human destiny. The verses within this collection vary greatly in theme, style, and tone, but in every case, brevity reveals the poets at their best, both as individual artists and as exemplars of their times. The short poem is often overlooked in verse collections, where poets tend to be represented by their Longer, more sustained work. Defining 'short' as any poem of under fourteen lines, P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie have chosen those poems they consider to be the best in the English language, from medieval times to the present day. Their selection extends from Chaucer to Philip Larkin, from Shakespeare to Emily Bronte, from Blake to Edith Sitwell, and from Yeats to Emily Dickinson, demonstrating the gradual changes in style, subject-matter, and tone from one generation of poets to the next. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461662549
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Food Society and Environment
This book concerns itself with food and hunger issues, primarily in America, but also as America is located in both history and a broader global system today. It focuses on food consumption and production in relation to history, society (including politics and economics), environmental impacts, and some ethical and social justice issues surrounding food. Chapter topics look at: Food as a Human Value and Problem; The Biological Base: Food, Humans, and Well-Being; Food and History: From Hunter-Gatherers to the Preindustrial West; Food and America: Early Industrial Era Transformation; Food in America and the World 1945-2001: Continuing Transformations; Foodways, Eating and Cuisine in America; Food, Population, and Environment; and Food, Ethics, and Social Justice. For individuals who find food issues fascinating because of their relationship to universal and basic human concerns. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461506145
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Student Text Volume B Understanding and Using English Grammar (Blue)
This classic developmental skills text is a comprehensive grammar reference as well as a stimulating, teveryable classroom text. While keeping the same basic approach and material as in earlier editions, the third edition more fully develops communicative and interactive language-learning activities. New features include: -- Numerous 'real communication' opportunities. -- More options for interactive work in pairs and groups. -- Additional open-ended communicative tasks for both speaking and writing. -- Expanded error-analysis exercises. -- Interesting, lively new exercise material. -- Shorter units for every class use. Second Edition Workbook, Chartbook, Teveryer's Guide, Transparencies, and Answer Keys can be used with the new Third Edition. Program Components: -- Student Book -- available in full and split editions. -- Workbook -- offers self-study practice (with answers provided) for independent study or classroom use. -- Chartbook -- a compilation of all the grammar charts from the Student Book, for easy reference. -- Ans - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461113115
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Way of Zen
Zen is referred to again and again in popular culture but how many people really know what it is? This guide offers basic background information on Zen history, philosophy, and practices as well as a practical introduction to meditation. It demonstrates how meditation can help us connect to every other and ourselves and live more fully. This comprehensive introduction contains all the information you need to gain an in-depth knowledge of Zen, including: what Zen is, where it originated, how it is practiced, its relevance for our life today and where we can find out more. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461715722
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Hidden Financial Risk Understanding Off-Balance Sheet Accounting
What went wrong and how to fix it " This is a book that well represents the skeptical, probing, and doubting spirit of the time. Professor Ketz explores the ways corporate management and auditors can ‘ spin’ financial reporting to misinform investors. It is written so that the individual investor can grasp the ideas but will be useful for investment analysts and audit committee members who need a lively briefing in how to spot questionable accounting." – – John H. Biggs Former chairman and Chief Executive Officer TIAA - CREF " Ed Ketz brilliantly illustrates how the improper application of accounting rules misleads users of financial statements. This book is an indispensable resource and greatly enhances one’ s understanding of the many obscure footnotes found in today’ s financial statements." – – Albert Meyer 2nd Opinion Research, Plano, TX It is now painfully clear that " earnings management" has manag little, other than some short-term gain for a handful of managers and a long-term catastrophic erosion of the public faith in financial reporting.But it is not too late for the accounting industry to turn back from the brink. Edward Ketz lays out several specific problems in the financial reporting arena, describes how the system failed to correct any of these problems, and suggests a compelling course of action for improvement in Hidden Financial Risk: Understanding Off-Balance Sheet Accounting. Chapter by chapter, Ketz explains how firms hide debt using: The equity method Lease accounting Pension accounting Special Purpose Entities and thenillustrates the failures of directors, auditors, regulators, and investors to detect and eliminate these tools of deception. He concludes by drawing upon his thirty years’ experience to propose how the industry can learn to identify fraud and ultimately restore investor confidence. Executives, accountants, and individual and institutional investors will find Hidden Financial Risk to be a powerful examination of the present, shifting accounting landscape. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461115384
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Writing Gnome Applications
(Pearson Education) A handbook for Linux programmers for using GNOME and understanding how to write real-world applications. Focuses on the essentials, teverying the how and why of every GNOME function, from menus and toolbars to X Window graphics. Softcover. DLC: Application software--Development. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461629519
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Real World Photoshop 4
Richly illustrated and full-color throughout, 'Real World Photoshop 4' is entirely updated to cover the new features of Photoshop 4, including Actions and Adjustment layers. Chapters feature discussions on acquiring images from scanners, video, and Photo CD, correcting the color and enhancing the quality of scans, retouching images, preparing files to be printed and more. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461629543
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Oracle8i(TM) Tuning and Administration The Essential Reference
Poring over the 30 volumes of official Oracle documentation is a daunting task for any Oracle database administrator (DBA). Oracle8i TM Tuning and Administration: The Essential Reference distills the essentials of what you need to know to perform your job intelligently and skillfully. Bypassing obscure technical details, this book answers three essential questions for every topic listed below: What is it? Why is it important? How do I use it? Less experienced DBAs can now acquire the framework they need to understand important details in the Oracle documentation. Advanced DBAs will find this book a practical reference to effective configuration and troubleshooting. Oracle8i TM Tuning and Administration covers the major areas for which DBAs are typically responsible: administration, sizing and configuration, monitoring, and application and database tuning for better performance. In addition, the book reviews fundamental Oracle concepts and summarizes the newest features of Oracle8i TM . Specific topics covered include: Security and auditing Administering tables, views, constraints, indexes, data files, log files, and more Free space search algorithm Using database blocks efficiently Optimizing space management Partitioning Database, process, and object limits Monitoring events, usage, waits, and log files Query optimization hints SQL statement tuning Diagnosing performance problems and detecting runaway processes Tuning the operating system, CPU, memory, and disk I/O Tuning Private SQL and PL/SQL areas Tuning and initialization parameters New features for bitmapped indexes The new SAMPLE function Advanced queuing and sort improvements Online index creation, rebuild, and defragmentation Statistics generation for long-running operations Concise and thorough, with an easy-access format, Oracle8i TM Tuning and Administration: The Essential Reference is the Oracle resource you will keep close at hand. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461629563
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Edge of Battle
With tensions escalating along the U.S.-Mexican border, the U.S. launches Operation Rampart under the command of Major Jason Richter and his Task Force TALON, who find themselves targeted by drug kingpin Enrique Fuera. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461716064
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