Product Description: This book addresses the increasing need for a text related to endoscopic-based middle ear surgery, offering the reader a step-by-step surgical dissector that focuses on high quality images, illustrations, and videos. Written by well-respected physicians at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, who have spent years researching endoscopic middle ear surgery, this book discusses the important benefits of an endoscope compared to a microscope...read more

Introduction to the Audit Firm -- New Client Acceptance -- Engagement Planning -- Internal Control Structure Documentation -- Tests of Control -- Year-End Substantive Procedures - Accounts Receivable -- Completing the Audit Process.

The Cantonese Chinese were largely Toisanese peasant farmers from southern China and the original Chinese pioneers to the United States starting in the 1800s. Recruited as cheap labor to build the transcontinental railroad, they faced harsh discrimination and were viewed as an economic threat during the California Gold Rush. After its completion, they were omitted from the U.S. annals and the only national group ever to be barred from immigrating to the U.S. by the Chinese Exclusion Acts between 1882 and 1943. After World War II, they were then viewed as communist threats. As they migrated east to New York City, laundries and restaurants were the only occupations opened to them. They retreated to the safe havens of New York City's Chinatown or became the lone Asians in their neighborhoods in the outer boroughs. Their offspring are the voices in this book; they are the Chinese Americans growing up in New York City’s Chinatown between the 1940s and 1960s, a generation sandwiched between post-World War II (1941-1945) and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. What was life in New York City's Chinatown like during that time? Their stories are a psychosocial account capturing the bonds, the family and community networks, the struggles and the resiliency of growing up Chinese in New York City. Their parents came from working in the rice fields of southern China to toiling as laundry, restaurant, and garment workers in the United States. This generation went on to become upstanding citizens working in professional fields—mostly engineering and teaching. As a group, their accomplishments and achievements were unsurpassed. Because there were so few Chinese Americans outside of the laundries and restaurants, their entry into many fields were untraditional and exceptions. They often became the “first”. As Ted Ho, one of our participants, said: “And we did it in one generation!” Why this book about this group of ordinary people? Lest it be forgotten, we need to document these stories—struggles and accomplishments—of the early Chinese pioneers to the U.S. for the next generations. They grew up in a society intolerant of their differences—they were viewed as the perpetual foreigner and scapegoated by earlier immigrant groups. While the Toisanese were once the majority of the U.S. Chinese American population, they have been increasingly replaced by the Cantonese and Taiwanese in the 60s and 70s, by the Vietnamese Chinese in the 80s, and by “mainland Chinese” largely from Fujian province in 90s. This book is a psychosocial account of the resiliency and community networks amidst discrimination and assimilation in a bicultural world of Chinese Americans growing up in New York City in the 1940s-1960s—it is written in their voices. But it is also the story of all immigrants.

Product Description: It has been two years since Jason graduated. He and Richard have been attending college. Kailey and Dixie are working with Bill at the factory, running the office. Sue has begun teaching school. Pete and Mary continue to delay their wedding...read more

Product Description: Letters from a Sailor is based on 85 letters written by Conrad Lyman Ostroot, who served in the U.S. Navy during World War I. The letters are poignant, engaging, and captivating, giving eloquent expression to the humanity of a person who lived nearly a century ago—a person who comes to life in the words he wrote...read more