Author: James Borden
Publisher: NorthForest Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
The great detective thrills and beguiles in one of his greatest adventures… Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson have thrown themselves headlong into the swirling snowstorms and primeval forests of northern Minnesota in a singularly vexing case. The year is 1892 in the fledgling mining town of Gunflint City. Hardscrabble miners and well-monied speculators have joined forces to extract iron ore, preparing to send it to market on their new railroad line. Then disaster strikes: a founding partner has disappeared, threatening the collapse of the entire operation. By inference and deduction, Holmes suspects there is a cover-up. With his native cunning, by way of snowshoes and dogsled, the great detective strives to uncover a deep and tangled secret.
The Adventure of the Missing Partner
Author: James Borden
Publisher: NorthForest Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
The great detective thrills and beguiles in one of his greatest adventures… Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson have thrown themselves headlong into the swirling snowstorms and primeval forests of northern Minnesota in a singularly vexing case. The year is 1892 in the fledgling mining town of Gunflint City. Hardscrabble miners and well-monied speculators have joined forces to extract iron ore, preparing to send it to market on their new railroad line. Then disaster strikes: a founding partner has disappeared, threatening the collapse of the entire operation. By inference and deduction, Holmes suspects there is a cover-up. With his native cunning, by way of snowshoes and dogsled, the great detective strives to uncover a deep and tangled secret.
Publisher: NorthForest Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
The great detective thrills and beguiles in one of his greatest adventures… Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson have thrown themselves headlong into the swirling snowstorms and primeval forests of northern Minnesota in a singularly vexing case. The year is 1892 in the fledgling mining town of Gunflint City. Hardscrabble miners and well-monied speculators have joined forces to extract iron ore, preparing to send it to market on their new railroad line. Then disaster strikes: a founding partner has disappeared, threatening the collapse of the entire operation. By inference and deduction, Holmes suspects there is a cover-up. With his native cunning, by way of snowshoes and dogsled, the great detective strives to uncover a deep and tangled secret.
Scent of the Missing
Author: Susannah Charleson
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547488505
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A “haunting meditation on trust, hope and love” by a woman who adopts and trains a Golden Retriever puppy to become a search-and-rescue dog (People). In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Susannah Charleson’s attention was caught by a newspaper photograph of a canine handler, his exhausted face buried in the fur of his search-and-rescue dog. Susannah, a dog lover and pilot with search experience herself, was so moved by the image that she decided to volunteer with a local canine team, plunging herself into an astonishing new world. While the team worked long hours for nonexistent pay and often heart-wrenching results, Charleson discovered the joy of working in partnership with a canine friend and the satisfaction of using their combined skills to help her fellow human beings. Once she qualified to train a dog of her own, Charleson adopted Puzzle—a smart, spirited Golden Retriever puppy who exhibited unique aptitudes as a working dog, but was a bit less interested in the role of compliant house pet. Scent of the Missing is the story of Charleson’s adventures with Puzzle as they search for a lost teen; an Alzheimer’s patient wandering in the cold; and signs of the crew amid the debris of the space shuttle Columbia disaster—all while unraveling the mystery of the bond between humans and dogs. “A riveting view of both the human animal bond and the training of search and rescue dogs. All dog lovers and people interested in training service dogs should read this book.” —Temple Grandin, author of Animals Make Us Human
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547488505
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A “haunting meditation on trust, hope and love” by a woman who adopts and trains a Golden Retriever puppy to become a search-and-rescue dog (People). In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Susannah Charleson’s attention was caught by a newspaper photograph of a canine handler, his exhausted face buried in the fur of his search-and-rescue dog. Susannah, a dog lover and pilot with search experience herself, was so moved by the image that she decided to volunteer with a local canine team, plunging herself into an astonishing new world. While the team worked long hours for nonexistent pay and often heart-wrenching results, Charleson discovered the joy of working in partnership with a canine friend and the satisfaction of using their combined skills to help her fellow human beings. Once she qualified to train a dog of her own, Charleson adopted Puzzle—a smart, spirited Golden Retriever puppy who exhibited unique aptitudes as a working dog, but was a bit less interested in the role of compliant house pet. Scent of the Missing is the story of Charleson’s adventures with Puzzle as they search for a lost teen; an Alzheimer’s patient wandering in the cold; and signs of the crew amid the debris of the space shuttle Columbia disaster—all while unraveling the mystery of the bond between humans and dogs. “A riveting view of both the human animal bond and the training of search and rescue dogs. All dog lovers and people interested in training service dogs should read this book.” —Temple Grandin, author of Animals Make Us Human
Munsey's Magazine
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Arc Partner-country Statistics Useful for Estimating " Missing" Trade Data
Author: J. Alexander Yeats
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Bilateral Trade
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Abstract: Because many developing countries fail to report trade statistics to the United Nations, there has been an interest in using partner-country data to fill these information gaps. The author used partner-country statistics for 30 developing countries to estimate actual (concealed) trade data and analyzed the magnitude of the resulting errors. The results indicate that partner-country data are unreliable even for estimating trade in broad aggregate product groups such as foodstuffs, fuels, or manufactures. Moreover, tests show that the reliability of partner-country statistics degenerates sharply as one moves to more finely distinguished trade categories (lower-level SITCs). Equally disturbing, about one-quarter of the partner-country comparisons take the wrong sign. That is, one country's reported free-on-board (f.o.b.) exports exceed the reported cost-insurance-freight (c.i.f.) value of partners' imports. Aside from product composition, tests show that partner-country data are equally inaccurate for estimating the direction of trade. Why are partner-country data so unreliable for approximating missing data? Evidence shows: 1) problems in reporting or processing COMTRADE data; 2) valuation differences (f.o.b. versus c.i.f.) for imports and exports; 3) problems relating to entrepot trade, or exports originating in export processing zones; 4) problems associated with exchange-rate changes; 5) intentional or unintentional misclassification of products; 6) efforts to conceal trade data for proprietary reasons; and 7) financial incentives to purposely falsify trade data. The author concludes that efforts to improve the general quality, or availability, of trade statistics using partner-country data holds little or no promise, although this information may be useful in specific cases where the trade statistics of a certain country are known to incorporate major errors. Significant progress in ugrading the accuracy, and coverage, of trade statistics can be achieved only by improving each country's procedures for data collection.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Bilateral Trade
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Abstract: Because many developing countries fail to report trade statistics to the United Nations, there has been an interest in using partner-country data to fill these information gaps. The author used partner-country statistics for 30 developing countries to estimate actual (concealed) trade data and analyzed the magnitude of the resulting errors. The results indicate that partner-country data are unreliable even for estimating trade in broad aggregate product groups such as foodstuffs, fuels, or manufactures. Moreover, tests show that the reliability of partner-country statistics degenerates sharply as one moves to more finely distinguished trade categories (lower-level SITCs). Equally disturbing, about one-quarter of the partner-country comparisons take the wrong sign. That is, one country's reported free-on-board (f.o.b.) exports exceed the reported cost-insurance-freight (c.i.f.) value of partners' imports. Aside from product composition, tests show that partner-country data are equally inaccurate for estimating the direction of trade. Why are partner-country data so unreliable for approximating missing data? Evidence shows: 1) problems in reporting or processing COMTRADE data; 2) valuation differences (f.o.b. versus c.i.f.) for imports and exports; 3) problems relating to entrepot trade, or exports originating in export processing zones; 4) problems associated with exchange-rate changes; 5) intentional or unintentional misclassification of products; 6) efforts to conceal trade data for proprietary reasons; and 7) financial incentives to purposely falsify trade data. The author concludes that efforts to improve the general quality, or availability, of trade statistics using partner-country data holds little or no promise, although this information may be useful in specific cases where the trade statistics of a certain country are known to incorporate major errors. Significant progress in ugrading the accuracy, and coverage, of trade statistics can be achieved only by improving each country's procedures for data collection.
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.
Author: New York (State). Court of Appeals.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
Book Description
Volume contains: (Lonsdale v. Speyer) (Lonsdale v. Speyer) (Lonsdale v. Speyer) (Lonsdale v. Speyer) (Lonsdale v. Speyer) (Lonsdale v. Speyer) (Matter of Lore v. Forbes) (Matter of Lore v. Forbes) (Matter of Lore v. Forbes) (Matter of Lubinsky) (Matter of Lubinsky) (Matter of Lubinsky) (Matter of Lubinsky) (Ludwig v. National Casualty Co.) (Ludwig v. National Casualty Co.) (Ludwig v. National Casualty Co.) (Mannaberg v. Culbertson) (Mannaberg v. Culbertson) (Mannaberg v. Culbertson) (Mannaberg v. Culbertson) (Mannaberg v. Culbertson) (Mannaberg v. Culbertson) (Matter of Manufacturers Chemical Co.) (Matter of Manufacturers Chemical Co.) (Matter of Manufacturers Chemical Co.) (Matter of Manufacturers Trust Co. v. Bravin) (Matter of Manufacturers Trust Co. v. Bravin) (Matter of Manufacturers Trust Co. v. Bravin) (Matter of Manufacturers Trust Co. v. Bravin)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
Book Description
Volume contains: (Lonsdale v. Speyer) (Lonsdale v. Speyer) (Lonsdale v. Speyer) (Lonsdale v. Speyer) (Lonsdale v. Speyer) (Lonsdale v. Speyer) (Matter of Lore v. Forbes) (Matter of Lore v. Forbes) (Matter of Lore v. Forbes) (Matter of Lubinsky) (Matter of Lubinsky) (Matter of Lubinsky) (Matter of Lubinsky) (Ludwig v. National Casualty Co.) (Ludwig v. National Casualty Co.) (Ludwig v. National Casualty Co.) (Mannaberg v. Culbertson) (Mannaberg v. Culbertson) (Mannaberg v. Culbertson) (Mannaberg v. Culbertson) (Mannaberg v. Culbertson) (Mannaberg v. Culbertson) (Matter of Manufacturers Chemical Co.) (Matter of Manufacturers Chemical Co.) (Matter of Manufacturers Chemical Co.) (Matter of Manufacturers Trust Co. v. Bravin) (Matter of Manufacturers Trust Co. v. Bravin) (Matter of Manufacturers Trust Co. v. Bravin) (Matter of Manufacturers Trust Co. v. Bravin)
Coal Age
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
Vols. for 1955-1962 include: Mining guidebook and buying directory.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
Vols. for 1955-1962 include: Mining guidebook and buying directory.
Senate Investigation, 1895
Author: New Jersey. State House, Select Committee to inquire into the charges of extravagance in furnishing the
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Misconduct in office
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Misconduct in office
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
Report and Record of the Proceedings of the Select Committee of the Senate of New Jersey to Inquire Into the Charges of Extravagance in Furnishing the State House and Certain Other Charges Touching the Conduct of Public Officials, Etc
Author: New Jersey. Legislature. Senate. Select Committee to Inquire Into the Charges of Extravagance in Furnishing the State House and Certain Other Charges Touching the Conduct of Public Officials, Etc
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
The Irish Ecclesiastical Record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description