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Computerized Bookkeeping in Laymens Terms
I received the book in a fast delivery without paying for premium shipping. The book itself is very through and complete. I am very excited and happy that I purchased this book as it is helping me get started with my own bookkeeping services company. The author is clear, concise and straight to the point. I would recommend it to others who are already using Quickbooks software and need that extra helping hand with their understanding of the software. It is not tailored to every person using Quickbooks, but offers great tips from an expert who was always putting out fires for her clients. I highly recommend this book over Quickbook's for Dummies because it gets to the point and you don't waste your time looking for what your looking for. My favorite chapter is chapter 9: Mistakes to Avoid, Trouble Shooting Guide, and Stupid Questions (that are not stupid at all). My best to anyone who is starting a business of their own and need to learn something about Quickbooks and how to manage their finances, remember it's better to hire a bookkeeper eventually once you get things started, save yourself time and frustrations down the road and before tax time.
Feathered Dragons: Studies on the Transition from Dinosaurs to Birds (Life of the Past)
This book is a nice collection of papers on dinosaur and bird relationships that was put together in combination with the then recent description of Bambirator. As such, there's a descriptive paper of this little Late Cretaceous dromaeosaurid, along with papers on theropod biology, interrelationships, and relationship to birds. Bob Bakker has a truly odd contribution in which he proclaims that Ceratosaurus was an aquatic, lungfish-hunting crocodile analog, Allosaurus inhabited "dens" and dragged carcasses back to feed chicks, and that complex ecosystems and interspecies relationships can be deciphered from examining isolated, shed teeth. his imagination is very fertile, but a more sober examination of the data feeding his ideas fails to support any of them. Regardless, Phil Currie, Mark Norrell, and others have some really good contributions in here and it is a great text that captures the brewing excitement of the previous decade, before so many featherd dinosaurs from China made such discoveries almost commonplace. There's nothing that today would be considered ground-breaking, but it's an interesting compilation that makes for good reading for interested amateurs or students of evolution and biology.
Feathered Dragons: Studies on the Transition from Dinosaurs to Birds (Life of the Past)
The first reports of "feathered" dinosaurs (aka dragons) came out of China in 1997. Here in the U. S., Dr. John Ostrom examined one he termed BABGIRAPTOR FEINBERGI in October, 1997, in Montana. At the Fort Lauderdale Convention Center in April, 2000, he gave thirty-five talks about his find. Michael W. Skrepnick made the unusual illustration of this 'find' which looks like a giant baby duck. This is the cover for "Feathered Dragons."Dr. Ostrom revealed finding a DEINONYCHUS in 1969, an unusual discover in paleontology which shows that dinosaurs were the logical ancestors of birds. Guess they at a lot to get so big.It was thought that they were a primitive form of Asian bird. The early dinosaurs had avian traits and could fly. They laid eggs like birds do, but fish do, too. They could be a combination of the two but how'd they get so large.The feathered COELUROSAURS were found in China and the SINOSAUROPTERYX were in Patagonia and Mongolia. The editors all all specialists in the field of dinosaurs. There were various contributors to this study of feathered "dragons.""Life of the Past" was by James O. Farlow.
A Genius in the Family: An Intimate Memoir of Jacqueline Du Pre
The brother and sister of the great cellist Jacqueline du Pre tell her life story. Du Pre who died tragically young was a cellist at the highest level. Her marriage to the conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim , and their musical friendship with Zubin Mehta, Pinhas Zukerman and others put her in the center of the music world's attention .This book tells the story of her life but somehow does not give us a sense of who she most deeply was . The legend tells of her beauty and her genius and her tragic death. And the brother and sister seem fair in describing their own complicated relationship with her in which they often played a fostering and supportive role. Perhaps the real inner life of Du Pre is not to be sought in the kind of biographical work written here, or for that matter in any literary work, but in the playing in her recordings where she was most alive. In one passage of the book she does speak about the way playing takes her above into another realm of joy. And by all accounts she was a tremendously passionate and powerful cellist. There are even critics who say that she played more of herself, than she did of the score before her. And that in repertoire she was not broad and innovative enough. In any case it seems universally agreed by musical cognescenti that she at her best was at the very highest level. I am no great maven here but I too can admit to being quite moved at the hearing of her playing of the Elgar Cello Concerto.The story of her marriage to Barenboim, their whirlwind life, its break- up is also told here in a very concise and limited form. Barenboim the bon vivant, the tireless promoter and player somehow may have been a bit too fast for the English country girl who according to her sister needed nine hours of sleep and not the four or five Barenboim did. In any case this part of the book is devastatingly sad as of course is the end.The brother Piers and the sister Hilary who wrote this book truly cared for and tried to help their sister. This book is part of their effort to keep her memory alive in the best way possible.
A Genius in the Family: An Intimate Memoir of Jacqueline Du Pre
This is a very personal and very sad book about the memories of English cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told by her brother and sister Piers and Hilary du Pré. From her childhood, to her deathbed, this book will move you to tears every time you read it. I highly recommened this book to anyone who is a musician (myself included) or anyone with passion for music.
A Genius in the Family: An Intimate Memoir of Jacqueline Du Pre
This is one of the most unforgettable books I've read. When it was published, I had the impression from the press that it was about the Du Pré family's bad feelings towards Daniel Barenboim who abandoned his helpless wife. That impression was completely wrong. Jacqueline's sister and brother don't say much about Barenboim. When they do, they only say good things about him. Barenboim was even interviewed by Hillary for this book. I don't believe at all he ever remarked "Couldn't they have waited until I was dead?" like someone wrote in Wikipedia. Hillary is an excellent writer. She describes everything so well that you almost feel as if you'd known Jacqueline personally.