it is a very good book actually, but i'm having some difficulties in solving the exercise, so i think this book need a complementary book or some kind of manual or solution. But if there is, I would like to be informed about where i can get that kind of book. Thank U!

I used this book as my self-study material and I benefited from this book a lot. I would recommend using it either as a textbook for Advanced Accounting course or as a reference book for professionals. Here are the few points that I would like to share with you:

1.Logical order The order to display the topics in this book is logical and consistent. This is important for self-study users. At the beginning of each chapter, there's always a paragraph or two summarize the main points that are going to present in the chapter. This gives the reader a whole picture.

2. Clear explanation and examples The book uses easy explanatory languages and the examples are very representative. Each example, the author is showing us every detail steps, so it is easy to follow.

3.Relevant exercises and problems. At the end of each chapter, there are questions that can help to reinforce the concepts. Most questions can be found directly from the material. There are also exercises and problems that are related to the topic presented in the chapter. I remember there is an accounting book I used before that the problems required more knowledge than the chapter actually covered. This not the case in this book. Some of the examples in the chapter could be used as quick reference while working on the problems, too.

The only thing I would recommend, if I need to find some, is that I hope there could be more real life issues mentioned in the book. In this way, readers can relate the knowledge to daily life even closer.

This book caused a major stir when first released in the 60s. But labor history studies have changed a great deal since that time. The entire orientation of this book is patronizing to the amazing works of the IWW.

For example:

1) It completely ignores the IWW's international aspects, for example that the IWW had more influence in Chile and Australia than in the US and Canada.

2) It glosses over the IWWs activities during the 1920s, the Marine Transport Workers' control of the Wetsern Hemisphere's shipping, longshore workers in North America, the 1927 Colorado Miners' Strike, etc. etc.

3) It has no coherent understanding of why the IWW declined. How FDR worked with Lewis and the CIO to force unionization, the principled stands the IWW took to stop the rise of business unionism, and some buttheadedess by the IWW's membership.

It contains many good stories and is an OK overview. The definitive work is still waiting on the subject.

Historiographically speaking, this is THE book to read on the history of the IWW. There are other attempts worth reading, (Renshaw or Thompson for example) but for a solidly researched, brilliantly written academic study, this is the place to go. Renshaw's book includes a few things on the IWW oustide North America, and can be thought of as an easy to read summary, but as a historical research and analysis work, it is not in the same league. Thompson's official history of the IWW is a different attempt as well, as its focus is strictly an institutional history; it is not a work of historical research and analysis, it is written in the dry prose of a chronicler's accounts. You won't find in-depth analyses and a major historian's work there, although it has its uses. Given the fact that We Shall Be All was produced more than three decades ago, it still holds much better than a great many number of studies published in its time. In the absence of a new and comprehensive historical work on the history of the IWW, Dubofsky's book is still the major, requisite reading on the subject.

The text is very confusing.

The book is easy to understand, but there should be a solutions manual, or at least an answer key to the exercises. It has been very difficult for me to "learn the mechanics" and "apply the concepts" at the end of each chapter. The pace of the course allows the teacher to solve only 2 or 3 exercises in class, and the book certainly does not make selfstudy easy. Needless to say, that you can't learn financial accounting just by reading. To makes things even worse, a study guide, which does not refer to the same exercises in the book, is out of print.

Here is one of the best ratings for this book: most of my fellow MBA students are pathalogical whiners. Even they found this book to be very helpful.

I have a background in technical education and it looks to me like Jamie Pratt knows how to educate his students.

Enright in his novel portrays his Egyptian characters as type characters lacking essential individuality; they carry certain race typicality. They hold no status higher than that of maimed beggars, slavish servants, stupid servants, wild savages, swindling peddlers, ruthless murderers, ugly prostitutes as if there were all the people one is likely to encounter in Enright's Egypt. He calls them primitives, beasts, barbarians, and even satanic creatures. Moreover, Academic Year contains the negative stereotypes that embody all the vices traditionally associated with the oriental female: stupidity, ignorance, materialism, sensuality, and emotional detachment to the extent of claiming that prostitution in Egypt tells one about the position of women in Egypt. In addition, all through the novel Enright is fond of comparing the 'primitive' Egypt to the 'civilized' England. Such a comparative method is but a disguised racial prejudice.

Enright implicitly criticizes the Egyptian stupid nationalism which gives them the right to rule their own country without any British claiming that they are lacking or even devoid of ' strength of character, independence, governing capacity, discipline, self control and even sense of responsibility.

The 'bloody' riots that take place in Egypt are a point of interest for Enright to describe although he did not mention the real motives behind such demonstrations. Violence seems in his opinion, to give vent to their suppressed, perverted feelings and innate ruthlessness as if they enjoy disasters and blood.

Meanwhile, he ridicules the educational system in Egypt embodied in the feverish rituals of the final examinations, the force of oral examinations, the process of duplicating and marking the papers. He contents that such a 'great' literature as the English literature should be taught to a race whose literature is next to nothing, and alludes to the great part which England has performed in the work of 'enlightening modern Egypt'- a legacy of the common occidental mission to the orient.

His hostility to the Islam and the Muslims is very clear in the novel. He paints a picture which shows how Muslims are incapable of telling the truth or even of seeing it; they are fanatic and fatalistic, they are swayed by passions, instincts and unreflecting hatred of Christians and Jews. His hostility is clear from the titles of each chapter which are lines of verse from the holy Quran using them in an ironic way or as an ironic commentary on the content of each chapter.

Enright's tone has the vein of the high-handed attitude of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century European orientalism. His selection of incidents, language in narration, omission of certain details suggest attitudes and assumptions stemming from the cleverly-concealed prejudice and help to dramatize a contrast in the perceived characteristics of the race. He deliberately omits the good aspects of the Egyptian society. He fashions a technique allowing the reader only a single-faceted response towards the Egyptians. He leaves no space for the reader to comment but is commenting all through the novel. Though the novel is narrated in the third person singular, his voice is very clear in the novel.

Being a member in the Movement, Enright uses many of the aesthetics of the Movement in his novels. His attitude to the political realities of modern Egypt seems typical of the Movement, an attitude of disgust that one lives in barbarous bloody times. It is an anti-romantic novel depicting reality as it is. His disbelief in allusion and myth represents a important current of feeling within the Movement. His treatment of Egypt is concerned not with metaphysical absolutes or mythical assumptions but with hard-bitten realities and human relations. The Movement's ideology is reflected in Enright's debunking familiarizing treatment of nature; he condemns any appearance of nature-worship. The language he uses for describing landscape is extremely conventional. However, towards the middle of the novel he gets enchanted with the seascape embodied in the Mediterranean Sea.