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Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis, by Blocher/Juras/Smith is
dedicated to answering the question: Why Cost Management? It
answers this question by providing cost-management tools and
techniques needed to support an organization's competitiveness,
improve its performance, and help the organization accomplish its
strategy. The text is written to help students understand the
broader role of cost accounting in helping an organization succeed
- not just the measurement of costs. While the text does include
coverage of traditional costing topics (e.g., job-order costing,
process costing, service-department cost allocations, and
accounting for joint and by-products), its primary strength is the
linkage of these topics, as well as more contemporary topics, to an
organization's strategy. And with Connect, an easy-to-use homework
and learning management solution that embeds learning science and
award-winning adaptive tools to improve student outcomes,
instructors receive a course solution that includes high quality
content and assessment paired with assignments that help students
build the skills they need to succeed.
Diversity-Sensitive Personality Assessment is a comprehensive guide
for clinicians to consider how various aspects of client
diversity-ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality,
religion, regionalism, socioeconomic status, and disability
status-can impact assessment results, interpretation, and feedback.
Chapters co-written by leading experts in the fields of diversity
and personality assessment examine the influence of clinician,
client, interpersonal, and professional factors within the
assessment context. This richly informed and clinically useful
volume encourages clinicians to delve into the complex ways in
which individuals' personal characteristics, backgrounds, and
viewpoints intersect. This book fills an important gap in the
personality assessment literature and is an essential resource for
clinicians looking to move beyond surface-level understandings of
diversity in assessment.
Charlie Parker is an African Gray Parrot. He entered the life of
Debby and Michael Smith three decades ago when, at the insistence
of their young son, Eli, they brought him home from a downtown
Manhattan bird shop. He has been an integral, and voluble, member
of the family ever since. Charlie's vocabulary is astonishingly
diverse and colorful. He can be demanding, squawking imperiously
"Clean my cage" or "Want some water." He can be brutally direct,
warning an aggressive business associate who had been yelling at
Debby "I'm going to kick your ass, you sonofabitch." He can be
mischievous, making meowing noises to a neighbor's confused dog in
the elevator. Charlie is a survivor. He ended up recovering on an
IV after the collapse of the World Trade Center filled the Smiths'
apartment with toxic dust. He is often an entertainer, with a
songbook that extends across "Home on the Range" to "The Yellow
Rose of Texas." And most of the time he is affectionate, often
hanging upside down against the side of his cage and demanding to
be tickled. In encountering Charlie's tales in this concise and
charming book, we come to realize that parrots are intelligent and
loving creatures, to an extent that, as the renowned avian
scientist Professor Irene Pepperberg points out in her
introduction, they cannot meaningfully be owned by humans but only
enjoyed as companions.
Over 440 vivid color images display the wide range of ceramics
produced by the English pottery firm, established by Josiah Spode
in the 1760s and continuing today. From historic blue and white
transfer printed wares of the early 1800s to popular dinnerware
patterns of the 1900s, this book includes sprig decorated wares,
delicate bone china table and tea sets, graceful figurines, and
sturdy stoneware candlesticks and loving cups. The famous and much
coveted patterns represented include Willow, Rosebud Chintz,
Patricia, and Tower. \nOrganized by periods of production, the
fascinating text provides a history of the Spode firm through the
centuries and its various name changes. Included are techniques for
dating Spode ceramics, makers marks, a bibliography, and index.
Values are found in the captions. This book is a must for everyone
who appreciates fine English ceramics.
Policy Analysis in the United States brings together contributions
from some of the world's leading scholars and practitioners of
public policy analysis including Beryl Radin, David Weimer, Rebecca
Maynard, Laurence Lynn, and Guy Peters. This volume represents an
indispensable companion to other volumes in the International
Library of Policy Analysis series, enabling scholars to compare
cross-nationally concepts and practices of public policy analysis
in the media, sub-national governments, and many more institutional
settings. The volume represents an invaluable contribution to
public policy analysis and can be used widely in teaching at both
graduate and undergraduate levels in schools of public affairs and
public policy as well as in comparative politics and policy.
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This important book
explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across
liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and
social philosophy, including liberal egalitarianism,
existentialism, and elements of post-modernism and
post-structuralism. These philosophies are applied to policy and
practice debates, especially concerning disability issues, but also
relating to gender and multiculturalism. It will be of interest to
academics and postgraduate students across a range of social
studies disciplines.
The American Congress provides the most current treatment of
congressional politics available in an undergraduate text. Informed
by the authors' Capitol Hill experience and scholarship, this book
presents a crisp introduction to major features of Congress:
parties and committee systems, leadership, voting and floor
activity. This text contains discussions of the importance of
presidents, courts and interest groups in congressional policy
making. Recent developments are also discussed within the context
of congressional political history. The seventh edition includes
complete coverage of the first Congress of the Obama presidency,
the 2010 midterm elections, healthcare reform and an early
perspective on the 112th Congress with a Republican majority.
The American Congress Reader provides a supplement to the popular
and newly updated American Congress undergraduate textbook. By the
same authors who drew upon Capitol Hill experience and nationally
recognized scholarship to present a crisp introduction and analysis
of Congress's inner mechanics, the Reader compiles the best
relevant scholarship on party and committee systems, leadership,
voting, and floor activity to broaden and illuminate the key
features of the text.
Party Influence in Congress challenges current arguments and
evidence about the influence of political parties in the US
Congress. Steven S. Smith argues that theory must reflect policy,
electoral, and collective party goals. These goals call for
flexible party organizations and leadership strategies. They demand
that majority party leaders control the flow of legislation;
package legislation and time action to build winning majorities and
attract public support; work closely with a president of their
party; and influence the vote choices for legislators. Smith
observes that the circumstantial evidence of party influence is
strong, multiple collective goals remain active ingredients after
parties are created, party size is an important factor in party
strategy, both negative and positive forms of influence are
important to congressional parties, and the needle-in-the-haystack
search for direct influence continues to prove frustrating.
Party Influence in Congress challenges current arguments and
evidence about the influence of political parties in the US
Congress. Steven S. Smith argues that theory must reflect policy,
electoral, and collective party goals. These goals call for
flexible party organizations and leadership strategies. They demand
that majority party leaders control the flow of legislation;
package legislation and time action to build winning majorities and
attract public support; work closely with a president of their
party; and influence the vote choices for legislators. Smith
observes that the circumstantial evidence of party influence is
strong, multiple collective goals remain active ingredients after
parties are created, party size is an important factor in party
strategy, both negative and positive forms of influence are
important to congressional parties, and the needle-in-the-haystack
search for direct influence continues to prove frustrating.
The House of the Lord invites readers to participate in a unique
journey: a deep exploration of the Old and New Testaments that
searches out and contemplates the reality of God's presence with
his people, with a particular focus on investigating God's
self-revelation in and through the biblical temple. The journey
represents a tour de force of biblical theology, guided by author
Steven Smith, a Catholic biblical scholar, seminary professor, and
expert on the temple and the Holy Land. In addition to the temple,
Smith observes the centrality of priesthood in both the Old and New
Testaments, exploring all four Gospels like never before, through a
temple lens. From Genesis onward, Smith carefully traces the
biblical mystery of the temple, including the Sanctuary of Mount
Eden, the tabernacle of the wilderness, the rise and fall of
Solomon's Temple, Herod's Temple in Jesus's day, and the heavenly
sanctuary of Revelation. Supported by a massive array of evidence
and details, from sources across two millennia of biblical
theology, this book will be read and read again for its value as a
reference work. The House of the Lord is for anyone who seeks to
understand more deeply the message of the biblical story.
Diversity-Sensitive Personality Assessment is a comprehensive guide
for clinicians to consider how various aspects of client
diversity-ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality,
religion, regionalism, socioeconomic status, and disability
status-can impact assessment results, interpretation, and feedback.
Chapters co-written by leading experts in the fields of diversity
and personality assessment examine the influence of clinician,
client, interpersonal, and professional factors within the
assessment context. This richly informed and clinically useful
volume encourages clinicians to delve into the complex ways in
which individuals' personal characteristics, backgrounds, and
viewpoints intersect. This book fills an important gap in the
personality assessment literature and is an essential resource for
clinicians looking to move beyond surface-level understandings of
diversity in assessment.
Wall Street has a history far richer than the Hunts' attempt to
corner the silver market and the development of the "junk bond."
Walter Werner and Steven Smith explore the relationship between the
securities markets and the historic development of the American
economy in "Wall Street," emphasizing the importance of the period
1790 through 1840. The book focuses on the corporate response to
the capital needs of the developing economy, and the role of the
securities markets in mobilizing and allocating that capital.
Werner and Smith argue that a long view of our corporate history
demonstrates that the line of development from the corporate system
of 1790 is direct and continuous. The authors contend there was no
corporate revolution; rather, each successive era set the stage for
the next, and all have built on the foundations laid during the
period from 1790-1840, which they call the Bank Age. The authors
view the history of the corporate system as a process of continuous
maturation where securities markets and public corporations have
always been of vital importance to each other.
"Wall Street" is written in non-technical language for the
general reader and provides insight into the early years of the
bull, the bear, and the buck.
Although the U.S. Constitution requires that the House of
Representatives and the Senate pass legislation in identical form
before it can be sent to the president for final approval, the
process of resolving differences between the chambers has received
surprisingly little scholarly attention. Hong Min Park, Steven S.
Smith, and Ryan J. Vander Wielen document the dramatic changes in
intercameral resolution that have occurred over recent decades, and
examine the various considerations made by the chambers when
determining the manner in which the House and Senate pursue
conciliation. Politics Over Process demonstrates that partisan
competition, increasing party polarization, and institutional
reforms have encouraged the majority party to more creatively
restructure post-passage processes, often avoiding the traditional
standing committee and conference processes altogether.
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Wives Who Pray (Paperback)
Annie Brown; Cover design or artwork by Steven Smith; Contributions by Marques Aaron Brown
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