Accounting is the most employable, sought-after major for 2009, according to entrylevel job site CollegeGrad.com. One reason for this interest is found in the statement by former Secretary of the Treasury and Economic Advisor to the President, Lawrence Summers. He noted that the single-most important innovation shaping our capital markets was the idea of generally […]
The 4th edition of the Longman Dictionary of American English has been researched and revised to meet the real needs of learners of English. The up-dated text now includes thousands of words for content areas such as Science, Economics and Social Science, as well as Word Origins and updated thesaurus boxes that give extra help […]
Samson was a dark and shadowy seven, and doll-faced Gypsy was three. It was Gypsy who started calling me Mibs, when my full name, Mississippi, became far too much for her toothsome toddler tongue to manage. But that had been a relief. That name had always followed me around like one of Fish’s heavy storm […]
Clarence Darrow’s assertion in the chapter-opening quotation is that laws should be created to serve the public. Because you are part of the public, the law is of interest to you. Those entering the world of business will fi nd themselves subject to numerous laws and government regulations. A basic knowledge of these laws and […]
A New Chapter: Practical Contracts The contracts chapters in this and other business law texts focus on the theory of contract law. And that theory is important. But our students tell us that theory, by itself, is not enough. They need to know how these abstract rules operate in practice. They want to understand the […]
As recently as 1995, a notable graphic designer declared that print was dead: the digital age! The Internet! The PDF! It seemed that the paperless vision of the future was upon us. A decade later now, in the early years of the twentyfirst century, this daring forecast appears to have been a bit premature. Walk […]
Chemistry is often described as the scientifi c study of matter. In a way, almost any study is a study of matter, because matter is the substance of everything. Chemists, however, are especially interested in matter; they study it and attempt to understand it from nearly every possible point of view. The chemical nature of […]
The Tenth Adaptation of Natural Chemistry continues Solomons/Fryhle’s customized of excellence in instructing and preparing school college students for achievement inside the pure lecture room and previous. Within the Tenth Version, almost all sides of the educating and discovering out reply has been revisited and redesigned to assist school college students in comprehending the fundamentals […]
My mother had been downright giddy when I was born on Halloween night. It was honestly like she’d won the supernatural lottery. She’d even named me Halloween, as if Halloween LaVeau was an easy name to walk around with. I guess she figured having that auspicious birth date meant my witchcraft talents would be extra […]
The field of distributed computing covers all aspects of computing and information access across multiple processing elements connected by any form of communication network, whether local or wide-area in the coverage. Since the advent of the Internet in the 1970s, there has been a steady growth of new applications requiring distributed processing. This has been […]
This 550 page book is aimed at existing C++/Qt programmers and presents ideas and techniques that are too advanced or specialized (although not necessarily difficult), for a first book on Qt. Qt has now grown to over 700 classes and well over a million words of documentation, far too much to cover in a single […]
Medical students who know me know that I spent A LOT of time tutoring students and helping others out. To this day, I get almost daily e-mails from many students, asking me how to study. I used to spend much of my time replying to each and every one of those e-mails, revealing my method […]