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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom`s Cabin

2004 y.
Publisher: Pocket
Description: Enduring literature illuminated by practical scholarship. Harriet Beecher Stowe`s scathing indictment of slavery in the Old South, a novel that has become a landmark of American literature. Each enriched classic edition includes: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information. A chronology of the author`s life and work. A timeline of significant events that provides the book`s historical context. An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations. Detailed explanatory notes. Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work. Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction. A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader`s experience. Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0-7434-8766-4
Book size: 105х175; Page extent: 608.

 

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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom`s Cabin

2002 y.
Publisher: Wordsworth Classics
Description: `Uncle Tom`s Cabin` is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe`s rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery, and resoundingly concludes that only `repentance, justice and mercy` will prevent the onset of `the wrath of Almighty God! Формат: 12,5 см x 19,5 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-1-84022-402-3
Book size: —; Page extent: 480.

 

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Anton Chekhov
Uncle Vanya

1998 y.
Publisher: Dover Publications
Description: First produced by the Moscow Art Theater in 1899, Uncle Vanya is one of Chekhov`s greatest plays and a staple of the theatrical repertoire. Both structurally and psychologically compact, it is among the most expressive of the Russian playwrights dramatic works. Set on an estate in nineteenth-century Russia, this deeply emotional tale of misplaced idealism and unrequited love concerns the complex interrelationships between a retired professor, his second wife, and his brother-in-law and daughter from a previous marriage. In deceptively mundane dialogue, the characters reveal their private tragedies-weakness and inability to communicate-the failures that lead them to lives of frustration and despair. Nevertheless, Chekhov`s delineation of human frailties elicits sympathy for even the most irresolute and deluded characters, and the play`s underlying message is one of courage and hope. Essential reading for any course in modern theater, this absorbing play continues to be… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0-486-40159-6
Book size: —; Page extent: 64.

 

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Lisa Wheeler
Uncles and Antlers (Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover))

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description Once a year, every year, the seven uncles gather. Shaggy coats, scarves of red. Two tall antlers on each head. Is it their niece they`ve come to see? Surely, yes. Is it their job they`ve come to do? Most definitely. And is she eager to join in the fun? Absolutely! Here is a playful tribute to a famous team of eight relatives who, once a year, every year, bring delight to children. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0689864698
Book size: —; Page extent: 40.

 

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Uncommon Americans : The Lives and Legacies of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover (Contributions in American History)

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionThis first joint biography of the Hoovers will reshape Herbert Hoover`s image as a man who did little more than sit in the White House while the country suffered. Both Hoovers were dynamic, uncommon Americans who made enormous contributions to mankind, before, during, and after the presidency. Walch brings together contributions from leading scholars who have conducted extensive research into the lives of this extraordinary couple, placing them in a national and international context. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0275979962
Book size: —; Page extent: 328.

 

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Cynthia Heald
Uncommon Beauty: 7 Qualities of a Beautiful Woman

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1414300859
Book size: —; Page extent: 208.

 

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John McPhee
Uncommon Carriers

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: What John McPhee`s books all have in common is that they are about real people in real places. Here, at his adventurous best, he is out and about with people who work in freight transportation. Over the past eight years, John McPhee has spent considerable time in the company of people who work in freight transportation. Uncommon Carriers is his sketchbook of them and of his journeys with them. He rides from Atlanta to Tacoma alongside Don Ainsworth, owner and operator of a sixty-five-foot, eighteen-wheel chemical tanker carrying hazmats. McPhee attends ship-handling school on a pond in the foothills of the French Alps, where, for a tuition of $15,000 a week, skippers of the largest ocean ships refine their capabilities in twenty-foot scale models. He goes up the “tight-assed” Illinois River on a “towboat” pushing a triple string of barges, the overall vessel being “a good deal longer than… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0374280398
Book size: —; Page extent: 256.

 

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Lee Reich
Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden

2008 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Inspired by the local-food movement, many Americans are turning their yards into miniature orchards, growing apples, kiwis, peaches, and strawberries. Discerning gardeners—tired of the common blackberry—want something new. Jujube, juneberry, maypop, pawpa and shipova are just a few of the uncommon—and absolutely tasty—fruits that can be easily grown in the home garden. Lee Reich has chosen 23 fruits that offer mouthwatering rewards to anyone willing to veer off the beaten path. As useful as it is inspirin this new paperback edition emphasizes the practicalities of plant selection, cultivation, propagation, and maintenance. All plants were carefully chosen for their ease of care, ability to withstand cold, and flavor. Tips for using the fruits in the kitch are also included. After reading this delightful book, all gardeners will want to grow and enjoy these uncommonly delicious fruits. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0881929441
Book size: —; Page extent: 308.

 

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Mark Pendergrast
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World

2000 y.
Publisher: Basic Books
Description: Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in Abyssinia to its role in intrigue in the American colonies to its rise as a national consumer product in the twentieth century and its rediscovery with the advent of Starbucks at the end of the century. A panoramic epic, Uncommon Grounds uses coffee production, trade, and consumption as a window through which to view broad historical themes: the clash and blending of cultures, the rise of marketing and the “national brand,” assembly line mass production, and urbanization. Coffeehouses have provided places to plan revolutions, write poetry, do business, and meet friends. The coffee industry has dominated and molded the economy, politics, and social structure of entire countries.Mark Pendergrast introduces the reader to an eccentric cast of characters, all of them with a passion for the golden bean. Uncommon Grounds is nothing less than a coffee-flavored history of the world. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0465054676
Book size: —; Page extent: 554.

 

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Akiko Busch
Uncommon Life Of Common Objects: Essays On Design And The Everyday

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionWhat makes us love our things? Why do we attach certain sentiments to certain items? How is it that sometimes objects can tell stories more eloquently than people? These are questions explored and answered in The Uncommon Life of Common Objects. Author Akiko Busch devotes a chapter to each of 12 common objects, and discusses her and others` experiences that give everyday things their significance. Through her examination of: a video camera, a cellular phone, a vegetable peeler, a snowboard, a baby carriage, a chair, a refrigerator, a mailbox, a medicine cabinet, a cereal box, a backpack, and a desk, Busch illuminates the social and personal issues that shape our lives and the ownership of our things. Lovingly illustrated, always touching,sometimes nostalgic, and often hilarious, The Uncommon Life of Common Objects , is a topical reader that is at once a personal manifesto, a look at how design influences and responds to our changing lives, and a study of society… [detailed...]

ISBN: 193304506X
Book size: —; Page extent: 155.

 

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E. J. Hobsbawm, Eric Hobsbawm
Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: In the last forty years, Eric Hobsbawm`s writings on labor history, working people, and social protest have helped open new fields of study and secured his position as `the best known living historian in the world` (The Times, London). This engaging collection features twenty-six Hobsbawm essays covering the history of working men and women between the late eighteenth century and today, bringing back into print Hobsbawm`s pioneering studies in labor history along with more recent previously unpublished pieces. Uncommon People shows the range of Hobsbawm`s work, on such subjects as the formation of the British working class, revolution and sex, and socialism and the avant garde. From essays on Mario Puzo and the Mafia, to the Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano and the cultural consequences of Christopher Columbus runs Hobsbawm`s passionate concern for the lives and struggles of ordinary men and women. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1565844661
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Eric Hobsbawm
Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: Now in paperback, an engaging and eclectic collection of essays from `the best-known living historian in the world` (The Times, London). Uncommon People collects twenty-six essays by Eric Hobsbawm, `one of the truly great synthesizers of the last few centuries of European history` (Philadelphia Inquirer). It brings back into print his classic works on labor history, working people, and social protest, pairing them with more recent, previously unpublished pieces on everything from the villainy of Roy Cohnto the genius of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holliday. A true Renaissance man, Hobsbawm explores topics from Mario Puzo and the Maa to Tom Paine and the radical tradition. Highlighting Hobsbawm`s passionate concern for the lives and strugglesof ordinary men and women, Uncommon People offers both an exciting introduction for the uninitiated as well as a broad-ranging retrospective of the work of this `erudite and influential historian` (Los Angeles Times). [detailed...]

ISBN: 1565845595
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Lynn Tillman, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen
Uncommon Places: The Complete Works

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Originally published by Aperture in 1982 and long unavailable, Stephen Shore`s now legendary book Uncommon Places has influenced a generation of photographers. Shore was among the first artists to take color beyond the domain of advertising and fashion photography. Uncommon Places --his visionary series of images of the American vernacular landscape of the seventies and early eighties--stands at the root of what has become a vital photographic tradition over the past three decades. Uncommon Places : The Complete Works presents an expanded, definitive collection of the early work of this major artist, much of which has never before been published or exhibited. In 1972 Shore set out with a friend for Amarillo, Texas and--like Robert Frank and Walker Evans before him--discovered a hitherto unarticulated vision of America via highway and camera. Shore approaches his subjects with cool objectivity, the photographs seemingly devoid of drama or… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1931788340
Book size: —; Page extent: 180.

 

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Peter Cochrane
Uncommon Sense: Out of the Box Thinking for An In the Box World

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: `Peter Cochrane is one of our most far-sighted visionaries, and brings brilliant clarity and focus to our understanding of ourselves and our technologies, and of how profoundly each is transforming the other.` -Douglas Adams, Author, The Hitch Hiker`s Guide to the Galaxy In Uncommon Sense, Peter Cochrane`s follow up to the radical 108 Tips for Time Traveller, Peter explains how very simple analysis allows the prediction of such debacles as the 3G auction and the subsequent collapse of an industry, whilst simple-minded thinking is dangerous in the context of a world that is predominantly chaotic and out of control. People balked when Peter suggested a wholesale move to eWorking, the rise of email and text messaging, and the dotcom regime mirroring the boom and bust cycle of the industrial revolution. His predictions of the use and growth of mobile devices and communication, or use of chip implants for humans to replace ID cards, passports, and medical… [detailed...]

ISBN: 184112477X
Book size: —; Page extent: 254.

 

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Doug Moe
Uncommon Sense: The Life of Marshall Erdman

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionA man who could build dreams…Mausas Erdmanas began life in America as a skinny sixteen year old with empty pockets. When he died as Marshall Erdman, he had built a lasting legacy of creativity and accomplishment. From his work with Frank Lloyd Wright to his unique Middleton Hills neighborhood concept, Erdman strove for perfection and beauty, and dedicated his life to achieving it. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1931599319
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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Gayle A. Pritchard
Uncommon Threads: Ohio`s Art Quilt Revolution (Ohio Quilt Series)

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Ohio’s long quiltmaking heritage prepared the way for the contemporary “pioneer” artists of the 1970s and 1980s, who, through individual vision and dedication, have created a new art form and added a new chapter to quilt history. Uncommon Threads: Ohio’s Art Quilt Revolution reveals for the first time the remarkable role Ohio artists, curators, institutions, and organizations have played in the evolution of today’s international art quilt movement. Against the backdrop of America’s counterculture and civil rights movements, author Gayle A. Pritchard’s compelling narrative threads its way through the emergence of the art quilt, from artists working in isolation to the explosive “big bang” of the first Quilt National and its inevitable reverberations. Pritchard provides a fascinating and personal glimpse into the private world of these unique artists through in-depth interviews, rare photographs, and abundant quilt… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0821417061
Book size: —; Page extent: 144.

 

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Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: It remains the U.S. Marine Corps.` bloodiest battle. Fifty years later, it is A.P. photographer Joe Rosenthal`s Pulitzer-winning photo of Marines raising the American flag on Mt. Suribachi that keeps the memory of Iwo Jima alive. Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue is a full account of the battle itself and of Rosenthal`s ten days on Iwo Jima as Marines fought against a murderous Japanese onslaught. It recounts the enduring legacy of `the photograph`-most recently in the historic picture of three firemen raising the American flag at the site of the World Trade Center, recalling Rosenthal`s timeless image of steely resolve in the face of tyranny. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0425209806
Book size: —; Page extent: 272.

 

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Tony Dungy, Nathan Whitaker
Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Super Bowla??winning coach and #1 New York Times best selling author Tony Dungy has had an unusual opportunity to reflect on what it takes to achieve significance. He is looked to by many as the epitome of the success and significance that is highly valued in our culture. He also works every day with young men who are trying to achieve significance through football and all that goes with a professional athletic careera??such as money, power, and celebrity. Coach Dungy has had all that, but he passionately believes that there is a different path to significance, a path characterized by attitudes, ambitions, and allegiances that are all too rare but uncommonly rewarding. Uncommon reveals lessons on achieving significance that the coach has learned from his remarkable parents, his athletic and coaching career, his mentors, and his journey with God. A particular focus of the book: what it means to be a man of significance in a culture that is offering young men few positive role models. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1414326815
Book size: —; Page extent: 288.

 

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Sophie Richard
Unconcealed: The International Network of Conceptual Artists 1967-1977 - Dealers, Exhibitions and Public Collections

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Is success in the art world all about talent - or all about who knows whom? This fascinating book may confirm what many suspect as it tells the story of the growth of Conceptual art in Europe from 1967 to 1977. Using meticulously detailed data, author Sophie Richard shows how a close-knit network of artists, dealers, collectors and curators, working with exhibition presenters and public collections, created a movement.Rather than taking the usual art-historical approach to chronicling a style or school, Richard follows the money and the connections. Using Conceptual artists like Carl Andre, Marcel Broodthaers, Gilbert &, George and Richard Long as examples, she traces the sales and exhibitions of each artist in selected European galleries and museums, compiling previously unpublished information on buyers, sellers and prices in comprehensive databases. From the First Cologne Kunstmarkt in 1967, to museum shows around Europe, to magazines publishing articles about these up-and-coming… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1905464177
Book size: —; Page extent: 512.

 

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A. C. Arthur
Unconditional (Indigo: Sensuous Love Stories)

2005 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 158571142X
Book size: —; Page extent: 299.

 

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John S. Sprinson, Ken Berrick
Unconditional Care: Relationship-Based, Behavioral Intervention with Vulnerable Children and Families

2010 y.
Publisher: —
Description: This clinician-friendly guide presents a model for engaging the most challenging children and families who are served by the child welfare, mental health, juvenile justice, and special educations systems. These children are among the most troubled clients that treatment providers will ever encounter. They have been failed by every adult, every treatment modality, and every system of care that they have encountered. Unconditional Care, a breakthrough guide from the founder and clinical director of California`s Seneca Center for Children and Families, offers both a theoretical model and practical guidelines for working with this most difficult group of children. The approach weaves together attachment theory and learning theory into a coherent relationship-based intervention strategy built around a no-fail policy: a child can never be discharged from a program for exhibiting the behaviors that resulted in the placement. Professionals working with these families instead focus on… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0199733031
Book size: —; Page extent: 304.

 

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Yvette Christianse
Unconfessed

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: A fiercely poetic literary debut re-creating the life of an 18th-century slave woman in South Africa. Slavery as it existed in Africa has seldom been portrayed?and never with such texture, detail, and authentic emotion. Inspired by actual 18th-century court records, Unconfessed is a breathtaking literary tour de force. They called her Sila van den Kaap, slave woman of Jacobus Stephanus Van der Wat of Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. A woman moved from master to master, farm to farm, and?driven by the horrors of slavery to commit an unspeakable crime?from prison to prison. A woman fit for hanging condemned to death on April 30, 1823, but whose sentence the English, having recently wrested authority from the Dutch settlers, saw fit to commute to a lengthy term on the notorious Robben Island. Sila spends her days in the prison quarry, breaking stones for Cape Town`s streets and walls. She remembers the day her childhood ended, when… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1590512405
Book size: —; Page extent: 360.

 

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Glenn Stok
Unconscious Doodles

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description`Unconscious Doodles` offers the reader the opportunity to see what can happen when one lets creativity come from the unconscious mind. The author provides inspiration on the creative process with Unusual Drawings, Descriptive Poetry, andWhimsical Stories. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1411627601
Book size: —; Page extent: 116.

 

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Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Rama Chellappa, Wenyi Zhao
Unconstrained Face Recognition (International Series on Biometrics)

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Face recognition has been actively studied over the past decade and continues to be a big research challenge. Just recently, researchers have begun to investigate face recognition under unconstrained conditions. Unconstrained Face Recognition provides a cmprehensive review of this biometric, especially face recognition from video, assembling a collection of novel approaches that are able to recognize human faces under various unconstrained situations. The underlying basis of these approaches is that, unlie conventional face recognition algorithms, they exploit the inherent characteristics of the unconstrained situation and thus improve the recognition performance when compared with conventional algorithms. Unconstrained Face Recognition is structured to met the needs of a professional audience of researchers and practitioners in industry. This volume is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0387264078
Book size: —; Page extent: 244.

 

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Unconventional Computation: 4th International Conference, UC 2005, Sevilla, Spain, October 3-7, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Unconventional Computation, UC 2005, held in Sevilla, Spain in September 2005. The conference formerly was named Unconventional Models of Computation (UMC). The 19 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. All major areas of unconventinal computing models are covered in theory as well as in experiments and applications. Topics addressed are: natural computing including quantum, cellular, molecular, neural and evolutionary computing, chaos and dynamical systems based computing, and various proposals for computations that go beyond the Turing model. [detailed...]

ISBN: 3540291008
Book size: —; Page extent: 267.

 

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Unconventional Computation: 7th International Conference, UC 2008, Vienna, Austria, August 25-28, 2008, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

2008 y.
Publisher: —
Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Unconventional Computation, UC 2008, held in Vienna, Austria, in August 2008. The 16 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are devoted to all aspects of unconventional computation ranging from theoretical and experimental aspects to various applications. Typical topics are: natural computing including quantum, cellular, molecular, neural and evolutionary computing, chaos and dynamical system-based computing, and various proposals for computations that go beyond the Turing model. [detailed...]

ISBN: 3540851933
Book size: —; Page extent: 259.

 

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David F. Swensen
Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment

2005 y.
Publisher: Free Press
Description: The bestselling author of Pioneering Portfolio Management , the definitive template for institutional fund management, returns with a book that shows individual investors how to manage their financial assets. In Unconventional Success , nvestment legend David F. Swensen offers incontrovertible evidence that the for-profit mutual-fund industry consistently fails the average investor. From excessive management fees to the frequent `churning` of portfolios, the relentless pursuit of profitsby mutual-fund management companies harms individual clients. Perhaps most destructive of all are the hidden schemes that limit investor choice and reduce returns, including `pay-to-play` product-placement fees, stale-price trading scams, soft-dollar kickacks, and 12b-1 distribution charges. Even if investors manage to emerge unscathed from an encounter with the profit-seeking mutual-fund industry, individuals face the likelihood of self-inflicted pain. The common practice of… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0743228383
Book size: —; Page extent: 403.

 

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Jeffrey G. Madrick, Jeffery Madrick
Unconventional Wisdom : Alternative Perspectives on the New Economy

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: Many policymakers, journalists, and members of the public at large are intimidated and mystified by the discipline of economics. The efforts of economists to make sense of interrelated, dynamic markets have lead to theoretical models and an analytic methodology that few outside the profession can begin to understand. Unfortunately, a pervasive economic illiteracy contributes to public confusion in public debates and confounds attempts to develop good policy. Policymakers and journalists who misunderstand economic concepts or are unaware of economic uncertainties make good decisions by accident rather than design. In this volume, edited by Jeffrey Madrick, many leading economists debunk conventional wisdom while clarifying distinctions between concrete evidence and theory that often fits poorly with real-world realities. Authors and topics include New York University`s Edward N. Wolff on wealth inequality, Anthony Carnevale and Stephen Rose of the Education Testing Service on… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0870784447
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Paul Beck
Uncover a Tiger (Uncover Books)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 1592237061
Book size: —; Page extent: 16.

 

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Kevin J. Clancy, David W. Lloyd
Uncover the Hidden Power of Television Programming: …And Get the Most from Your Advertising Budget

— y.
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ISBN: 0761915818
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Thomas Buckhoff
Uncovering Fraud : An Online Practice Case

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description This practice set can be used in an internal/external auditing course, a dedicated course in fraud examination/forensic accounting, or a criminal justice course encompassing criminal investigations. This practice set increases student competencies in the following areas: problem solving and critical thinking skills, computer skills, technical skills relating to the detection, investigation, and prevention of fraud, research and writing skills. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0324206194
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