I used it for the cost accounting class and though I found it helpful, I thought that there were too few problems given in the study guide and the ones there did not really reflect on the ones in the textbook. The summaries were well written and an excellent tool for review, but I think the problems should correlate more with what is in the text. I did get A in the class, but I've seen better study guides. Accounting is all in practice, so problems are more important than the terminology.

I have used an earlier edition and thought it was great, but this one is even better. Easiy to follow and effectively packs a tremendous amount if information between the covers. It really makes a compex subject come into focus. Can't think of enough good things to say about this guide.

Like math, the learning process for cost accounting is enhanced by working practice problems and applications. The Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis Student Guide and Review Manual provides excellent cost accounting material with solutions. I would recommend this guide to any student who is serious about learning and understanding the concepts presented in the related text book -- Cost Accounting, A Managerial Emphasis.

I picked up this book while traveling in Atlanta Georgia and finished it in a couple of days. I couldn't put it down; the stories were so engaging.

I don't often read short stories; they don't give me enough time to get to know the author's style. These short stories are are different. They pulled me in and I couldn't get enough. I highly recommend this one!

This book is a collection of short-stories accompanied by photograps of the suburban south. It is a very enjoyable read and explores issues such as what is it like to live in the south in the modern era. It was refreshing to read a book that had the viewpoint of many modern southern writers. The accompanying photographs help bring the stories to life. I highly reccomend this book to anyone who wants to gain insight as to what life is presently like in the suberban south.

truley a fine example, that helps to explain what soem of our modern thought is lacking. Nice moral debates that might make oyu question your own line of reasoning.

When I first bought this book, I wasn't sure if it was a collection of articles that simply addressed contradictory point of views on the subjects listed on the cover, or actual transcriptions of debates that occured in the past. I was very pleased to learn that it was indeed transcriptions of live debates that occured in the early part of the 20th century. There are three debates in all:

Has Life Any Meaning? - Between Frank Harris and Percy Ward, Sunday, April 11, 1920, Kimball Hall, Chicago

Debate on Spiritualism - Between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph McCabe, November, 1919, London, England

Is Evolution True? - Between George McCready Price and Joseph McCabe, Queen's Hall, Langham Place, London, September

Though the publishers at a casual glance (of their published books) seem biased towards a particular atheistic/materialistic point of view, they none the less reproduced a fair example of high class debates between learned men of both pro and anti-views on these subjects.

One particularly interesting aspect of this book was exactly what was used as evidence for both anti and pro views at that time. As an example, pro-evolutionist Joseph McCabe said the following:

"Now I come to man. There is a general opinion that a vast gulf separates man from the ape. It did one hundred yeas ago. It certainly does not today... Now we have men of the Stone Age carrying us nearer to the ape; the Piltdown man, and one or two others, going as far again in the direction of the ape"

Of course, as most people are aware, and as the publishers themselves noted, Piltdown man was a fraud and was uncovered as such in 1953. But being "undeniable" at the time, it was still a piece of evidence for Evolution.

Being a collector of books on the subjects of the origin and divisification of life and the existence of the supernatural, I was very pleased with this book and the disputants themselves. While the evidences used are outdated, it has quite a bit of historical value, whether one is interested in the discussions or the men debating. I personally highly recommend it, and believe it would make a good addition to any personal book collection.

I am reading this book simultaneously with Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit/Mind. It serves as a very helpful companion to enrich comprehension of the Phenomenology, specifically by providing an excellent overview of each area of dense terrain you must pass through certain parts of Hegel's densely abstract masterpiece. Hegel is incredibly challenging and almost painful in how much contemplative time and effort are required to grasp the meaning of many passages. However, it is all well worth it. When it begins to sink in, moments of becoming lucid to the self-presence and harmony of Knowing Absolute begin to flicker as sweet reward. H.S. Harris's book helps you get there.

This, along with vols II and III, is a remarkable and admirable work of scholarship. Hegel delivered his then unique course on the Philosophy of Religion on four occasions between 1821 and 1831. These three volumes essentially present all four lecture series. Although similarities run throughout, it is the development in his thought and change in emphasis (depending upon who was attacking him at the moment) that add to the fascination of this work. The footnotes are thorough. Comparatively easy to follow. Uniquely Hegelian mind stretching thought. Permeated with Hegel's own encyclopedic knowledge of everything (our Aristotle). Complements the Phenomenology and Logic. The Divine Spirit sees via us, and the resultant backflow is the Holy Spirit: that trinity again.

VIOLENCE IN INSTITUTIONS is written by four authors, all of whom are involved with the Mental Health Centre in Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada. Three of the authors are psychologists, the fourth is a staff instructor. As the authors themselves put it "the book is the culmination of over 15 years of effort on the part of the authors to understand the problem of violence in psychiatric institutions, and to develop a staff training course designed to control it."

The book is divided into three parts: 1. Literature review & background research 2. Description of a staff training course, including background and rationale 3. Information for those developing their own course and/ or preparing to act as trainers

In their introduction the authors clearly state their starting-point in suggesting that violence in institutions is in large part a product of the ways staff customarily deal with patients. Staff members may unwittingly provoke escalation and assaults. Therefore meaningful changes in the behaviour of patients might best be accomplished by modifying staff behaviour.

The book therefore mainly deals with changing behaviour, more so than with understanding behaviour.

The first part of the book which aims at understanding institutional violence is itself divided into three: a review of the literature, results of two (previously published) background studies and a selection of violent incidents which are described and commented on.

The review of the literature leads to the conclusion that institutions with a high level of violence have the following characteristics: - rapid turnover of large numbers of young individuals with histories of institutional aggression - many individuals with backgrounds of poor community adjustment - staff who are generally inexperienced and approach residents in an authoritarian manner while attempting to maintain control through the exclusive use of aversive or punitive consequences - an environment in which residents have fairly unrestricted and unsupervised access to each other in a crowded area with little structured activity, and in which assaultive behavior is excused and staff impose no cost for its occurrence. Many large correctional and psychiatric facilities or institutions for the mentally retarded have many or all of these characteristics.

Most literature is realting to violence in institutions is atheoretical in nature: violence is seen as a problem to be eliminated. Research on the effectiveness of strategies used to eliminate violence is therefore relevant as well. The authors provide a useful overview concerning the effectiveness of strategies used to prevent or stop violence. The conclusion must be that little is known about the effects of most of the strategies. The attempts to reduce institutional aggression include: - drug treatment, which meets with many difficulties while there is a lack of insight on what causes the effectiveness of certain drugs; - seclusion and mechanical restraint - behavioral treatments consisting of either suppressing aggressive behaviour immediately or teaching prosocial skills The authors synthesis points to a mixed strategy consisting of careful management of contingencies, cautious application of drug treatment, practices that reduce crowding and increase the stability of the social environment and increase of structured activities for residents. In line with their starting point, the authors find support for their idea that significant reductions in institutional violence could be achieved by a staff training programme aimed at teaching: - nonrestrictive, nonauthoritarian and nonprovocatiove ways of interacting with residents; - behavioural cues and situational characteristics associated with assaultiveness; - effective verbal strategies for use with highly upset individuals. The first of the two long-term studies discussed by the authors seems to indicate that frustration and anger arousal are important instigating components to the aggression of psychiatric patients. The second study on staff injuries indicates that restraint situations where staff physically control patients are more dangerous than assault situations.

So the authors see more than enough reason to present their staff training course as a useful means to prevent and control violence. Not surprisingly the course builds in many ways upon courses used by the police. The police is faced by similar problems in dealing with violence and has long ago found out that violence is the result of an interaction and rarely erupts without warning. In this light it is also enlightening to have knowledge of studies - also referred to in the book - where "normal" people are secretly admitted to psychiatric hospitals or are assigned a role of "guard" or "inmate" in a prison.

In general, VIOLENCE IN INSTITUTIONS is a highly readable book with an approach that for many professionals will be a fresh one. To professionals involved in instutions it can be useful. From a scientific point of view, possibilities for future research become visible. More systematic data are needed and more attention for a theoretical inbedding of different strategies used. In this respect sex-differences are interesting as well: in institutions (as in the real world), males (both male patients and male staff) are more likely to use violence. Almost completely lacking is attention for possible functions of violence. Although there is some space in the book devoted to the follow-up of violent incidents, in the form of negotiations and conflict resolution, more attention for processes of social repair and reconciliation seems in order.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it merely inconveniences the monkey. George always finds something intriguing to do, or look at or pick up, and it always leads to trouble. Luckily for him, people have a soft spot for curious little monkeys, so he never gets in too much trouble, at least not for very long.

In the first book, George's inquiring mind is responsible for his capture in Africa, and his trouble while staying with the man in the yellow hat. George watches the man pick up the phone, dial a few numbers, and talk to someone on the other end. Naturally, as soon as the man leaves George alone (big mistake), George decides to go dialing on his own. He calls the fire department, and they send over an engine and a squad of firefighters. They are none too pleased to discover it's a false alarm, and drag George off to jail. He escapes and has a few more adventures before the man with the yellow hat catches up with him. Then it's off to the zoo for George, until the next book anyway.

I'm convinced my three-year-old kid with the yellow hair is George's soulmate. He's dialed the fire department , too (although he had the benefit of speed dial), and we can't turn our back on him for a second or he gets into all kinds of trouble. No wonder George is one of his favorites!

I read a funny book about a cute monkey, it was called Curious George. This book was written by H.A. Rey. George is a monkey who is funny but pratical also. If there is trouble you probably would know George had something to do with it. Curious George is one of my favorite characters because he means well but he just like to get in trouble. The other character I like is the man in the yellow hat because he is the guy who takes care of George and when George does something this man makes him apologize to the people. I like all the Curious George books but this one is special. This one is special because George tries to be on the Fire Department. In the book George helps people but ends up doing it wrong. George learns his lesson by going to the prison. When he escapes he goes to the balloon guy and takes them from him. When George comes down he sees the man in the yellow hat and that the man had paid for the balloons and went home. This is why George is funny in many ways.

Nothing is sacred to the spectre of political correctness, so the negative reviews of "Curious George" shouldn't surprise me. The reviews likening George's story to the African slave trade are particularly puzzling: children do not think in those terms. I suggest that the folks who complain that it glorifies illegal animal trade read it more closely. George makes a lot of innocent mistakes, he doesn't mean to be bad, but the world is too fascinating for him to resist. He needs to have an authority figure looking out for him, and although he does try to get around the authority figure everyone knows the man with the yellow hat will save George from himself in the end. Yes, George is a monkey, but he is also a metophor for children everywhere. Every child in the world can relate to George, and that is why the books have remained popular for so long.

I loved Curious George as a child, and I am happy that my children love them as much as I do. If any book in the 4-8 age bracket deserves 5 stars it is Curious George.