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Empiricism and Language Learnability

By: Nick Chater,Alexander Simon Clark,John A. Goldsmith,Amy Perfors

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Empiricism and Language Learnability

By: Nick Chater,Alexander Simon Clark,John A. Goldsmith,Amy Perfors

This book explores one of the central theoretical problems in linguistics: learnability. Written by four researchers in linguistics, psychology, computer science, and cognitive science, it sheds light on the problems of learnability and language, and their implications for key theoretical linguistics and the study of language acquisition.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198734263

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Terrestrial Mammal Conservation: Global Evidence for the Effects of Interventions for Terrestrial Mammals Excluding Bats and Primates

By: Nick A. Littlewood,Ricardo Rocha,Rebecca K. Smith,Philip A. Martin,Sarah L. Lockhart,Rebecca F. Schoonover,Elspeth Wilman,Andrew J. Bladon,Katie A. Sainsbury,Stuart Pimm,William J. Sutherland

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Terrestrial Mammal Conservation: Global Evidence for the Effects of Interventions for Terrestrial Mammals Excluding Bats and Primates

By: Nick A. Littlewood,Ricardo Rocha,Rebecca K. Smith,Philip A. Martin,Sarah L. Lockhart,Rebecca F. Schoonover,Elspeth Wilman,Andrew J. Bladon,Katie A. Sainsbury,Stuart Pimm,William J. Sutherland

Terrestrial Mammal Conservation provides a thorough summary of the available scientific evidence of what is known, or not known, about the effectiveness of all of the conservation actions for wild terrestrial mammals across the world (excluding bats and primates, which are covered in separate synopses). Actions are organized into categories based on the International Union for Conservation of Nature classifications of direct threats and conservation actions. Over the course of fifteen chapters, the authors consider interventions as wide ranging as creating uncultivated margins around fields, prescribed burning, setting hunting quotas and removing non-native mammals. This book is written in an accessible style and is designed to be an invaluable resource for anyone concerned with the practical conservation of terrestrial mammals. The authors consulted an international group of terrestrial mammal experts and conservationists to produce this synopsis. Funding was provided by the MAVA Foundation, Arcadia and National Geographic Big Cats Initiative. Terrestrial Mammal Conservation is the seventeenth publication in the Conservation Evidence Series, linked to the online resource www.ConservationEvidence.com. Conservation Evidence Synopses are designed to promote a more evidence-based approach to biodiversity conservation. Others in the series include Bat Conservation, Primate Conservation, Bird Conservation and Forest Conservation and more are in preparation. Expert assessment of the evidence summarised within synopses is provided online and within the annual publication What Works in Conservation.

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Open Book Publishers

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1800640862

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Wiley The Complete Guide to Auditing Standards, and Other Professional Standards for Accountants 2008

By: Nick A. Dauber,Anique Ahmed Qureshi,Marc H. Levine,Joel G. Siegel

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Wiley The Complete Guide to Auditing Standards, and Other Professional Standards for Accountants 2008

By: Nick A. Dauber,Anique Ahmed Qureshi,Marc H. Levine,Joel G. Siegel

If you are an auditor or work frequently with auditors, you need quick answers on the latest auditing standards. Get the answers you need now to understand and comply with authoritative auditing standards. The Complete Guide to Auditing Standards and Other Professional Standards for Accountants 2008 is filled with charts, checklists, diagrams, report forms, schedules, tables, exhibits, examples, practice aids, and step-by-step instructions for your maximum ease of use.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470275936

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9780470275931

Anthropic Bias

Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy

By: Nick Bostrom

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Anthropic Bias

Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy

By: Nick Bostrom

Anthropic Bias explores how to reason when you suspect that your evidence is biased by "observation selection effects"--that is, evidence that has been filtered by the precondition that there be some suitably positioned observer to "have" the evidence. This conundrum--sometimes alluded to as "the anthropic principle," "self-locating belief," or "indexical information"--turns out to be a surprisingly perplexing and intellectually stimulating challenge, one abounding with important implications for many areas in science and philosophy. There are the philosophical thought experiments and paradoxes: the Doomsday Argument; Sleeping Beauty; the Presumptuous Philosopher; Adam & Eve; the Absent-Minded Driver; the Shooting Room. And there are the applications in contemporary science: cosmology ("How many universes are there?", "Why does the universe appear fine-tuned for life?"); evolutionary theory ("How improbable was the evolution of intelligent life on our planet?"); the problem of time's arrow ("Can it be given a thermodynamic explanation?"); quantum physics ("How can the many-worlds theory be tested?"); game-theory problems with imperfect recall ("How to model them?"); even traffic analysis ("Why is the 'next lane' faster?"). Anthropic Bias argues that the same principles are at work across all these domains. And it offers a synthesis: a mathematically explicit theory of observation selection effects that attempts to meet scientific needs while steering clear of philosophical paradox.

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1136711007

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Football and the Law

By: Nick De Marco KC

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Football and the Law

By: Nick De Marco KC

Football is the biggest game in the world and the richest. This has contributed to the growth of legal issues and disputes in football and to an increasingly specialised legal services market in football. Since 2002, approximately half of all sports disputes before the Court of Arbitration in Sport (CAS) have been in football. Football and the Law provided the first comprehensive review of the law relating to all aspects of football in the world, including all the main regulatory and commercial aspects of the sport. With contributions from 67 of the leading experts in the field, it is a valuable resource to lawyers and others active in the football industry, as well as a vital source of material to students, legal practitioners and others who wish to learn more about the area. The work includes reference to the key legal principles, cases and regulatory materials relevant to football. The key developments for the 2nd Edition include: - Refiguration of European football/ ESL breakaway / new international structures - Independent regulation of football - Impact of Brexit Safeguarding – child abuse in football - Growth of racism and regulatory responses - FIFA banning 'bridge loans' (relevant to third party ownership) - FIFA's new plans to regulates agents and cap fees - Emergence of salary caps in football and legal challenges to them - Various high profile Financial Fair Play cases Class action in football re head injuries - Challenges to Owners and Directors test – calls for independent regulator - New chapter covering developments in CAS cases This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Sports Law online service.

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1526521830

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Alternative Clauses to Standard Construction Contracts

By: Nick Jones,S. Gregory Joy,Eugene J. Heady

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Alternative Clauses to Standard Construction Contracts

By: Nick Jones,S. Gregory Joy,Eugene J. Heady

In recent years, there have been many changes to the construction industry's standard form contracts, including the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and Engineer Joint Contract Documents Committee (EJCDC) documents. Additionally, a new family of contract documents, known as Consensus DOCS was created by agreement among various construction contractor, subcontractor, owner, and surety trade associations" " "Alternative Clauses to Standard Construction Contracts, Third Edition" provides instant access to amendments to AIA, AGC, EJCDC and Consensus DOCS for owners, architects and contractors. This unique resource covers all major documents in use throughout the construction industry and enables you to compare between the different documents. It delivers practice-proven amendments clause-by-clause. It tells you specifically what to insert and delete in order to reach the ends your client desires. And it goes so deep, it even covers contractors amendments for agreements with subcontractors. While it is absolutely essential to stay current with these standard agreements, it is imperative that everyone involved in negotiating and drafting construction contracts also have access to practice-proven modifications that strengthen the language on behalf of clients. If the other parties to your agreement have access to this book--and you don't--you're placed at a significant disadvantage every step of the way. Let the experts from Smith, Currie & Hancock provide you with invaluable support when negotiating or drafting construction contracts.

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Wolters Kluwer

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0735580669

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Machine Learning with Spark

By: Rajdeep Dua,Manpreet Singh Ghotra,Nick Pentreath

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Machine Learning with Spark

By: Rajdeep Dua,Manpreet Singh Ghotra,Nick Pentreath

Create scalable machine learning applications to power a modern data-driven business using Spark 2.x About This Book Get to the grips with the latest version of Apache Spark Utilize Spark's machine learning library to implement predictive analytics Leverage Spark's powerful tools to load, analyze, clean, and transform your data Who This Book Is For If you have a basic knowledge of machine learning and want to implement various machine-learning concepts in the context of Spark ML, this book is for you. You should be well versed with the Scala and Python languages. What You Will Learn Get hands-on with the latest version of Spark ML Create your first Spark program with Scala and Python Set up and configure a development environment for Spark on your own computer, as well as on Amazon EC2 Access public machine learning datasets and use Spark to load, process, clean, and transform data Use Spark's machine learning library to implement programs by utilizing well-known machine learning models Deal with large-scale text data, including feature extraction and using text data as input to your machine learning models Write Spark functions to evaluate the performance of your machine learning models In Detail This book will teach you about popular machine learning algorithms and their implementation. You will learn how various machine learning concepts are implemented in the context of Spark ML. You will start by installing Spark in a single and multinode cluster. Next you'll see how to execute Scala and Python based programs for Spark ML. Then we will take a few datasets and go deeper into clustering, classification, and regression. Toward the end, we will also cover text processing using Spark ML. Once you have learned the concepts, they can be applied to implement algorithms in either green-field implementations or to migrate existing systems to this new platform. You can migrate from Mahout or Scikit to use Spark ML. By the end of this book, you will acquire the skills to leverage Spark's features to create your own scalable machine learning applications and power a modern data-driven business. Style and approach This practical tutorial with real-world use cases enables you to develop your own machine learning systems with Spark. The examples will help you combine various techniques and models into an intelligent machine learning system.

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1785886428

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Bayesian Rationality

The Probabilistic Approach to Human Reasoning

By: Mike Oaksford,Nick Chater

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Bayesian Rationality

The Probabilistic Approach to Human Reasoning

By: Mike Oaksford,Nick Chater

For almost 2,500 years, the Western concept of what is to be human has been dominated by the idea that the mind is the seat of reason - humans are, almost by definition, the rational animal. In this text a more radical suggestion for explaining these puzzling aspects of human reasoning is put forward.

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0198524498

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An Introduction to Bayesian Inference, Methods and Computation

By: Nick Heard

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An Introduction to Bayesian Inference, Methods and Computation

By: Nick Heard

These lecture notes provide a rapid, accessible introduction to Bayesian statistical methods. The course covers the fundamental philosophy and principles of Bayesian inference, including the reasoning behind the prior/likelihood model construction synonymous with Bayesian methods, through to advanced topics such as nonparametrics, Gaussian processes and latent factor models. These advanced modelling techniques can easily be applied using computer code samples written in Python and Stan which are integrated into the main text. Importantly, the reader will learn methods for assessing model fit, and to choose between rival modelling approaches.

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Springer Nature

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3030828085

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Superintelligence

Paths, Dangers, Strategies

By: Nick Bostrom

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Superintelligence

Paths, Dangers, Strategies

By: Nick Bostrom

This profoundly ambitious and original book picks its way carefully through a vast tract of forbiddingly difficult intellectual terrain.

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0199678111

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Contemporary British Novelists

By: Nick Rennison

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Contemporary British Novelists

By: Nick Rennison

Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Iain Banks to Jeanette Winterson, Louis de Bernieres to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellent introductory guide to the contemporary literary scene. Each entry includes concise biographical information on each of the key novelists and analysis of their major works and themes. Fully cross-referenced and containing extensive guides to further reading, Fifty Contemporary British Novelists is the ideal guide to modern British fiction for both the student and the contemporary fiction buff alike.

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113460470X

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Insulin Pumps and Continuous Glucose Monitoring Made Easy E-Book

By: S. Sufyan Hussain,Nick Oliver

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Insulin Pumps and Continuous Glucose Monitoring Made Easy E-Book

By: S. Sufyan Hussain,Nick Oliver

This innovative new guide to the diabetes technology introduces both insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring to the range of healthcare professionals involved in diabetes care. It is the first book of its kind and covers the principles and step by step implementation of state of the art devices to support people with diabetes. With interactive clinical cases and worked examples it will prove to be an invaluable, practical guide. It will also prove highly informative for diabetes patients. - Complete, up-to-date guide to insulin pump initiation and getting the most out of pump therapy - A clear framework for systematic interpretation and making the best use of continuous glucose monitoring data - Tips for managing challenging glucose patterns including exercise, alcohol and fasting - BONUS access to the complete downloadable eBook version on Expert Consult - Complete, up-to-date guide to insulin pump initiation and getting the most out of pump therapy - A clear framework for systematic interpretation and making the best use of continuous glucose monitoring data - Tips for managing challenging glucose patterns including exercise, alcohol and fasting - BONUS access to the complete downloadable eBook version on Expert Consult (with print edition)

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702061255

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Resurrection

Extraordinary Evidence for an Extraordinary Claim

By: Nicholas Meader

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Resurrection

Extraordinary Evidence for an Extraordinary Claim

By: Nicholas Meader

The popular phrase, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” assumes all miracle claims have failed. If so, why waste time exploring the evidence for Jesus’s resurrection? Nick Meader applies his background in statistics and psychology to explore Carl Sagan’s catchy phrase. Should we assume that the laws of nature are all there is? Is Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection consistent with expectations of the promised Messiah? Setting aside these questions can often leave us talking past each other. Considering these questions helps us make sense of the evidence for Jesus’s resurrection. In these pages you’ll find: •a Bayesian argument for Jesus’s resurrection; •a multidisciplinary approach applying insights from biblical theology, psychology, philosophy, statistics, and religious studies; •a cutting-edge evaluation of psychological explanations for the evidence; •a novel argument for the existence of God.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666783072

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The Chicago Conspiracy Trial and the Press

By: Nick Sharman

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The Chicago Conspiracy Trial and the Press

By: Nick Sharman

This book analyzes the newspaper coverage of one of America’s most famous and dramatic trials–the trial of the “Chicago 8.” Covering a five month period from September 1969 to February 1970 the book considers the way eight radical activists including Black Panther leader Bobby Seale, antiwar activists Tom Hayden, David Dellinger, and Rennie Davis, and leading Yippies, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin are represented in the press. How did the New York Times represent Judge Hoffman’s decision to chain and gag Bobby Seale in the courtroom for demanding his right to represent himself? To what extent did the press adequately describe the injustice visited on the defendants in the trial by the presiding Judge, Julius J Hoffman? The author aims to answer these questions and demonstrate the press’s reluctance to criticize Judge Hoffman in the case until the evidence of his misconduct of the trial became overwhelming.

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1137559381

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Weighing the Evidence

How is Birthweight Determined?

By: Nick Spencer

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Weighing the Evidence

How is Birthweight Determined?

By: Nick Spencer

Rationalization is concerned with making the most effective use of the resources available. In many places where this process is taking place it is plagued with public opposition and misunderstanding. Hitherto rationalization in the acute care sector has primarily been concerned with closing sites closing beds moving beds between services and moving beds from one site to another. This book discusses the need for rationalization in the context of health service reforms and future strategy. It considers recent changes in the health service the case for rationalization health care needs the role of public relations the future of the acute care hospital site and facilities appraisal and the costs of rationalization. The text is essential reading for managers and clinicians involved in acute care services non-executive members of boards and trusts and students of health services management.

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CRC Press

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1315347938

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Contemporary British Fiction

By: Nick Bentley

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Contemporary British Fiction

By: Nick Bentley

This essential guide provides a comprehensive survey of the most important debates in the criticism and research of contemporary British fiction. Nick Bentley analyses the criticism surrounding a range of British novelists including Monica Ali, Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Sarah Waters and Jeanette Winterson. Exploring experiments with literary form, this authoritative book considers cutting-edge concerns relating to the neo-historical novel, the relationship between literature and science, literary geographies, and trauma narratives. Engaging with key literary theories, and identifying present trends and future directions in the literary criticism of contemporary British fiction, this is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of English literature, teachers, researchers and scholars.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137009659

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Linguistic Epidemiology

Semantics and Grammar of Language Contact in Mainland Southeast Asia

By: N.J. Enfield

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Linguistic Epidemiology

Semantics and Grammar of Language Contact in Mainland Southeast Asia

By: N.J. Enfield

This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian languages, concentrating on Lao, Vietnamese, Khmer, Kmhmu, Hmong, and varieties of Chinese. The book makes a significant contribution to empirical work on semantic and grammatical change in a linguistic area, as well as representing theoretical advances in cognitive semantics. Gricean pragmatics, semantic change, grammaticalization, language contact, and areal linguistics. The book also examines how changes in the speech of individuals actually become changes in large-scale public convention, 'language contact' is reconsidered, and traditional distinctions such as that between 'internal' and 'external' linguistic mechanisms are challenged. This groundbreaking new book is for specialists in Southeast Asian linguistics as well as scholars of descriptive semantics and pragmatics, grammaticalisation, linguistic change and evolution, areal linguistics and language contact, history and linguistic anthropology.

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1135144613

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Effective Training

Systems, Strategies, and Practices

By: P. Nick Blanchard,James W. Thacker,Dana M. Cosby

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Effective Training

Systems, Strategies, and Practices

By: P. Nick Blanchard,James W. Thacker,Dana M. Cosby

Formerly published by Chicago Business Press, now published by Sage Effective Training: Systems, Strategies, and Practices is unique in its integration of theory with effective and practical training applications. Authors P. Nick Blanchard, James W. Thacker, and Dana Cosby examine the relationship between change management and training, introduce the ADDIE model as an overarching framework for the training process, and consider perspectives relevant to small businesses. Additionally, this text provides a step-by-step process for developing learning objectives and highlights the importance of integrating both learning and design theories in creating successful training programs. The Seventh Edition adds new material while enhancing the ease of reading and understanding. The end of each relevant chapter (needs analysis, design, development and implementation, and evaluation) features an example of the process of developing an actual training program (Fabrics, Inc.). At the end of each chapter are discussion questions, cases, and exercises to enhance understanding.

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SAGE Publications

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1071927817

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The Complete CPA Reference

By: Nick A. Dauber,Jae K. Shim,Joel G. Siegel

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The Complete CPA Reference

By: Nick A. Dauber,Jae K. Shim,Joel G. Siegel

The newly updated fast-reference problem solver The Complete CPA Desk Reference—the convenient, comprehensive reference professionals have relied on for nearly fifteen years—is now updated in a new Fifth Edition to give today's busy executives and accountants the helpful information they need in a quick-reference format. Packed with practical techniques and rules of thumb for solving day-to-day accounting issues, the new edition helps you quickly pinpoint what to look for, what to watch out for, what to do, and how to do it. In an easy-to-use Q & A format, it covers such useful topics as IFRS standards, internal control over financial reporting financial measures, ratios, and procedures. Includes complete coverage of the Risk Assessment Auditing Standards and Standards of the PCAOB Incorporates Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) throughout the book Adds new chapters on professional ethics and quality controls for CPA firms Features a new section on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Packed with checklists, samples, and worked-out solutions to a variety of accounting problems, this reliable reference tool is a powerful companion for the complex, ever-changing world of accounting.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111822440X

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Management Accounting, 4th Edition

By: Leslie G. Eldenburg,Albie Brooks,Judy Oliver,Gillian Vesty,Rodney Dormer,Vijaya Murthy,Nick Pawsey

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Management Accounting, 4th Edition

By: Leslie G. Eldenburg,Albie Brooks,Judy Oliver,Gillian Vesty,Rodney Dormer,Vijaya Murthy,Nick Pawsey

Eldenburg’s fourth edition of Management Accounting combines the basic technical issues associated with cost management, management accounting and control with more recent and emerging themes and issues. Management accounting is a compulsory element of the accounting major, and this text is written to cover the content typically taught in the two management accounting units offered in most accounting programs. The Management Accounting interactive e-text features a range of instructional media content designed to provide students with an engaging learning experience. This includes case videos, interactive problems and questions with immediate feedback. Eldenburg’s unique resource can also form the basis of a blended learning solution for lecturers.

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Wiley The Complete Guide to Auditing Standards, and Other Professional Standards for Accountants 2009

By: Nick A. Dauber

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Wiley The Complete Guide to Auditing Standards, and Other Professional Standards for Accountants 2009

By: Nick A. Dauber

This practical and effective 'how-to' guide helps auditors and CPAs apply and comply with authoritative auditing standards. It explains the standards and their requirements fully, using technical terminology only when necessary.

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047041152X

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Municipalities and Finance

A Sourcebook for Capacity Building

By: Nick Devas

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Municipalities and Finance

A Sourcebook for Capacity Building

By: Nick Devas

Finance is a critical issue for municipal governments around the world, and a major constraint on the delivery of pro-poor services at the local level. In many countries, decentralisation has brought the issue of municipal finance to the fore. This sourcebook provides a framework for analysing municipal finance capacity and ways of addressing financial constraints. The ideas come from real-life innovative practice in four countries - India, Brazil, Kenya and Uganda - with additional examples from elsewhere. Emphasis is given to how those innovations and improvements were developed and sustained. The book identifies a strategic framework for diagnosing municipal finance capacity and focusing financial goals. It applies the analysis to a number of critical areas of municipal finance including local taxes, charges for services, budgeting, cost control, accounting reforms and investment finance. This is the third in a series of capacity-building sourcebooks that includes Focusing Partnerships: A Sourcebook for Municipal Capacity Building in Public-Private Partnerships and Municipalities and Community Participation: A Sourcebook for Capacity Building.

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1136560777

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Bonney's Gynaecological Surgery

By: Tito Lopes,Nick M. Spirtos,Paul Hilton,John M. Monaghan

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Bonney's Gynaecological Surgery

By: Tito Lopes,Nick M. Spirtos,Paul Hilton,John M. Monaghan

Surgery is a core element of the clinical practice of gynaecology. Bonney's Gynaecological Surgery has been a firm favourite for gynaecological surgical practice since 1911. Specifically tailored for trainees in obstetrics and gynaecology, the text focuses on the most commonly performed procedures. The 12th edition will include a colour photo section. With greater emphasis on fundamental clinical skills and major updates on laparoscopic and robotic surgery, this classic text will be brought right up to date for the current trainee or junior consultant physician. Each chapter follows a consistent plan, guiding the reader through each procedure from anatomy and indications to post-op considerations and complications. The text is also accompanied by surgical illustrations of unparalleled quality, ensuring that this volume will remain a valuable resource for all clinicians specializing in gynaecological surgery.

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Creating Language

Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing

By: Morten H. Christiansen,Nick Chater

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Creating Language

Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing

By: Morten H. Christiansen,Nick Chater

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language is a hallmark of the human species; the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities is unique in the biological world. In this book, Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater argue that to understand this astonishing phenomenon, we must consider how language is created: moment by moment, in the generation and understanding of individual utterances; year by year, as new language learners acquire language skills; and generation by generation, as languages change, split, and fuse through the processes of cultural evolution. Christiansen and Chater propose a revolutionary new framework for understanding the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, offering an integrated theory of how language creation is intertwined across these multiple timescales. Christiansen and Chater argue that mainstream generative approaches to language do not provide compelling accounts of language evolution, acquisition, and processing. Their own account draws on important developments from across the language sciences, including statistical natural language processing, learnability theory, computational modeling, and psycholinguistic experiments with children and adults. Christiansen and Chater also consider some of the major implications of their theoretical approach for our understanding of how language works, offering alternative accounts of specific aspects of language, including the structure of the vocabulary, the importance of experience in language processing, and the nature of recursive linguistic structure.

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MIT Press

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0262535114

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Managing Uncertainty, Mitigating Risk

Tackling the Unknown in Financial Risk Assessment and Decision Making

By: Nick Firoozye,Fauziah Ariff

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Managing Uncertainty, Mitigating Risk

Tackling the Unknown in Financial Risk Assessment and Decision Making

By: Nick Firoozye,Fauziah Ariff

Managing Uncertainty, Mitigating Risk proposes that financial risk management broaden its approach, maintaining quantification where possible, but incorporating uncertainty. The author shows that by using broad quantification techniques, and using reason as the guiding principle, practitioners can see a more holistic and complete picture.

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1137334541

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Corporate Controller's Handbook of Financial Management 2008-2009

By: Jae K. Shim,Joel G. Siegel,Nick Dauber

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Corporate Controller's Handbook of Financial Management 2008-2009

By: Jae K. Shim,Joel G. Siegel,Nick Dauber

CCH's Corporate Controller's Handbook of Financial Management is a comprehensive source of practical solutions, strategies, techniques, procedures, and formulas covering all key aspects of accounting and financial management. Its examples, checklists, step-by-step instructions, and other practical working tools simplify complex financial management issues and give CFOs, corporate financial managers, and controllers quick answers to day-to-day questions.

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0808091727

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Revelation Revealed

Understanding the Book of Revelation

By: Nick Peros

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Revelation Revealed

Understanding the Book of Revelation

By: Nick Peros

Revelation Revealed is a study of the book of Revelation. It is not an “end-times” book in that it does not seek to identify current events in the light of Bible prophecy; rather, Revelation Revealed examines the book of Revelation itself—what are its key imagery and symbols? What do they mean? What are the timelines of the book? What is the sequence of events? What are the Days of Noah? Who is “the Beast” and how do we understand him? What is the “mark of the Beast”? How do we understand "Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes”? Is there a rapture? All of these questions, and many more, are addressed, with all questions being approached exclusively from the standpoint of Scripture itself—it is Scripture which answers these questions for us, and clear conclusions are reached. The events outlined in the book of Revelation are the most-prophesied events in the Bible, and Revelation Revealed shows that the book of Revelation is understandable, for God has given us all that we need in order to understand it.

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1666735426

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Victory in the Falklands

By: Nick Van Der Bijl

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Victory in the Falklands

By: Nick Van Der Bijl

The Hundred Days that saw the British response to General Galtiere of Argentinas invasion of the Falklands are for many British people the most remarkable of their lives. It describes the dark days of early April, the feverish response and forming of the Task Force, the anxieties and uncertainties, the naval and air battles that preceded the landings by 3 Commando Brigade and 5th Infantry Brigade. The extraordinary battles such as Goose Green, Mount Tumbledown, Wireless Ridge etc are narrated fully but succinctly. This is a very balanced overview of a never-to-be-repeated but triumphant chapter in British military history.

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Pen and Sword

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1844154947

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Loos 1915

By: Nick Lloyd

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Loos 1915

By: Nick Lloyd

In little over three weeks of intensive fighting, which not only witnessed the first British use of poison gas, but also the debut of New Army divisions filled with citizen volunteers, British forces at Loos managed to drive up to two miles into the German positions. However, they were unable to capitalise on their initial gains. After suffering nearly 60,000 casualties (three times the number suffered by their opponents) and being driven from the German lines in disorder, bitter recrimination followedNick Lloyd presents a reassessment of the Battle of Loos, arguing that it was vital to the development of new strategies and tactics. He places it within its political and strategic context, as well as discusses command and control and the tactical realities of war on the Western Front during 1915.

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The History Press

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0752496557

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The God Beyond Belief

In Defence of William Rowe's Evidential Argument from Evil

By: Nick Trakakis

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The God Beyond Belief

In Defence of William Rowe's Evidential Argument from Evil

By: Nick Trakakis

This study of Professor William Rowe’s defense of atheism on the basis of evil assesses the literature that has developed in response to Rowe’s work, closely examining two strategies: mystery – the idea that God may have reasons beyond our comprehension for permitting evil; and theodicy - explanations as to why God allows evil to flourish. The book unearths difficulties in both, concluding that the God of theism must be "beyond belief.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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140205145X

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Introduction to Prisons and Imprisonment

By: Nick Flynn

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Introduction to Prisons and Imprisonment

By: Nick Flynn

Published in association with the Prison Reform Trust, and one of a series on criminal justice and the penal system, this book covers the history of imprisonment in England and Wales, prison conditions, the prison population, and regimes from reception to discharge.

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Waterside Press

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1906534284

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Environmental Archaeology

Theoretical and Practical Approaches

By: Chris Turney,Matthew Canti,Nick Branch,Peter Clark

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Environmental Archaeology

Theoretical and Practical Approaches

By: Chris Turney,Matthew Canti,Nick Branch,Peter Clark

Environmental Archaeology: Theoretical and Practical Approaches outlines and assesses the various methods used to reconstruct and explain the past interaction between people and their environment. Emphasising the importance of a highly scientific approach to the subject, the book combines geoarchaeological, bioarchaeological (archaeobotany and zooarchaeology) and geochronological information and examines how these various aspects of archaeology may be used to enhance our knowledge and understanding of past human environments. Drawing from both the practical experiences of the authors and cutting-edge research, Environmental Archaeology: Theoretical and Practical Approaches is a valuable contribution to the subject. It will be essential reading for students and professionals in archaeology, geography and anthropology.

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Routledge

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1134664516

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Entrepreneurship and Institutions

The Causes and Consequences of Institutional Asymmetry

By: Nick Williams,Tim Vorley,Colin Williams

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Entrepreneurship and Institutions

The Causes and Consequences of Institutional Asymmetry

By: Nick Williams,Tim Vorley,Colin Williams

Entrepreneurship does not occur in a vacuum. The institutions which provide the framework for economic activity matter. As countries around the world strive for economic growth, this book examines how institutional arrangements are critical in fostering entrepreneurship. Through 12 case studies drawn from Asia, Europe and America the book demonstrates how different institutional arrangements impact the nature, scope and scale of entrepreneurial activity. Each chapter highlights how the prevailing formal and informal institutional arrangements interact, and how this has consequences for the development of more entrepreneurial economies. By synthesizing empirical and theoretical insights the book explores how fostering more entrepreneurial economies is as much a question of institutional alignment as it is the creation of more supportive formal and informal institutions.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1783486929

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An Introduction to Behavioral Economics

By: Nick Wilkinson,Matthias Klaes

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An Introduction to Behavioral Economics

By: Nick Wilkinson,Matthias Klaes

The third edition of this successful textbook is a comprehensive, rigorous survey of the major topics in the field of behavioral economics. Building on the strengths of the second edition, it offers an up-to-date and critical examination of the latest literature, research, developments and debates in the field. Offering an inter-disciplinary approach, the authors incorporate psychology, evolutionary biology and neuroscience into the discussions. And, ultimately, they consider what it means to be 'rational', why we so often indulge in 'irrational' and self-harming behavior, and also why 'irrational' behavior can sometimes serve us well. A perfect book for economics students studying behavioural economics at higher undergraduate level or Master's level. This new edition features: - Extended material on heuristics and biases, and new material on neuroeconomics and its applications - A wealth of new topical case studies, such as voting behavior in Brexit and the Trump election and the current obesity epidemic - More examples and review questions to help cement understanding

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137524138

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Exercise Physiology

for Health and Sports Performance

By: Nick Draper

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Exercise Physiology

for Health and Sports Performance

By: Nick Draper

Exercise Physiology for Health and Sports Performance brings together all the essential human anatomy and applied physiology that students of exercise science, physical education and sports coaching need to know. Written in a friendly, accessible style and containing a wide range of features to help develop understanding, this book provides a complete one-stop-shop for exercise physiology. The book is split into two key parts. Part One introduces the fundamental principles of nutrition, biochemistry, cell biology and the energy systems. Part Two builds on this foundation by applying the theory to exercise and sports performance in practice. With this innovative approach, the text enables you to become confident in your knowledge and understanding of energy generation and training principles for all sports. Including coverage of exercise in extreme environments and applications of physical activity for health, this will be the only exercise physiology textbook you will need!

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Routledge

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1317902602

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The Busy Vet's Guide to Cytology

What Do All the Blobs Mean?

By: Nick Marsh

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The Busy Vet's Guide to Cytology

What Do All the Blobs Mean?

By: Nick Marsh

The Busy Vet’s Guide to Cytology is an in-practice guide to using cytology in everyday veterinary practice. It outlines the basics of cytological examination and explores how to work with cytology results as a diagnostic tool alongside other treatments and assessments. The Guide also covers: acquiring and preparing cytological specimens, staining slides and microscope use, and interpreting samples from common locations. Addressing general principles of veterinary cytology and then taking a body – system approach applied to all veterinary patients, the book ends with working with labs, a round-up of difficult cases and digital cytology. The Busy Vet’s Guide to Cytology is accessible and digestible – an indispensable aid to vets in practice. 5m Books

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5m Books Ltd

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178918360X

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Geography in Secondary Schools

Researching Pupils' Classroom Experiences

By: Nick Hopwood

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Geography in Secondary Schools

Researching Pupils' Classroom Experiences

By: Nick Hopwood

Explores how pupils experience and think about geography as a school subject.

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A&C Black

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144119908X

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Events Management

An Introduction

By: Charles Bladen,James Kennell,Emma Abson,Nick Wilde

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Events Management

An Introduction

By: Charles Bladen,James Kennell,Emma Abson,Nick Wilde

Contemporary events management is a diverse and challenging field. This major new introductory textbook is the first to fully explore the multi-disciplinary nature of events management and to provide all the practical skills and professional knowledge students need to succeed in the events industry. The book covers every type of event studied on an Events Management course, including sports, music, the arts, corporate events, tourism, and the public and voluntary sectors. It introduces the key issues facing the contemporary events industry, from health, safety and risk management to sustainability to developing a market-oriented business, with every topic brought to life through case-studies, personal biographies and examples of best practice. Written by a team of authors with many years of industry experience, it introduces the practical skills required in every core area of events management, including marketing, finance, project management, strategy, operations, event design and human resources. A companion website for the book includes a dazzling array of additional features, including self-test questions, audio interviews with key industry figures, additional case-studies and PowerPoint slides for each chapter. Events Management: An Introduction is the essential course text for any events management program.

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