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Getting Between the Balance Sheets
The Four Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Finance
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
For many entrepreneurs there is a mystique about finance -starting, growing and selling new ventures is tough enough. Yet with some focused financial knowledge you can run your company with less cash, grow it more quickly and make more money when it is sold. This book makes the dry world of finance easy to understand and relevant to entrepreneurs.
by J.D. Markel, A.H. Jr. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
During the past ten years a new area in speech processing, generally referred to as linear prediction, has evolved. As with all scientific research, results did not always get published in a logical order and terminology was not always con sistent. In mid-1974, we decided to begin an extra hours...
Transforming Undergraduate Education
Theory that Compels and Practices that Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
For those ready to participate in making transformative changes, Transforming Undergraduate Education provides evidence and case studies that suggest how steps can be taken and progress made. For those who are currently leading their campuses through a change in culture, this book offers support and...
Sovereign Wealth Funds
Legitimacy, Governance, and Global Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
The worldwide rise of sovereign wealth funds is emblematic of the ongoing transformation of nation-state economic prospects. Sovereign Wealth Funds maps the global footprints of these financial institutions, examining their governance and investment management, and issues of domestic and international...
Engineering Materials 2
An Introduction to Microstructures and Processing
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Engineering Materials 2 is one of the leading self-contained texts for more advanced students of materials science and mechanical engineering. The book provides a concise introduction to the microstructures and processing of materials and shows how these are related to the properties required in engineering...
by Jason D. Mycoff, Dr. H. () T. Reynolds, Janet B. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Understand the “how” and the “why” behind research in political science.
Step by step, Political Science Research Methods walks students through the logic of research design, carefully explaining how researchers choose which method to employ. The Eighth Edition of this trusted resource...
by Clyne G. H. Namuo, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Across the United States, community college leaders are struggling to meet their lofty missions with fewer resources than ever before. They face this fiscal crisis with resilience and determination. In this book, Dr. Namuo answers the primary question driving his research: “How do we, as community...
Kids Left Behind, The
Catching Up the Underachieving Children of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Examine critical studies on high-performing, high-poverty schools to identify how schools can fulfill the mission of educating all students to proficiency, especially students at risk. The authors compiled the most important research on how low-performing, high-poverty schools achieved radical improvements...
Finding, Preparing, and Supporting School Leaders
Critical Issues, Useful Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
With dwindling funds and resources, tougher state and federal standards, and fatigue from more regulations and testing, many school administrators are giving up _or 'crashing' and leaving their posts. This book examines the process of preparing, encouraging, and retaining quality leaders at the school...
Ranger
A Soldier's Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
On November 25, 1950, during one of the toughest battles of the Korean War, the US Eighth Army Ranger Company seized and held the strategically important Hill 205 overlooking the Chongchon River. Separated by more than a mile from the nearest friendly unit, fifty-one soldiers fought several hundred...
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy
Resource Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Elinor (Lin) Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her pathbreaking research on "economic governance, especially the commons"; but she also made important contributions to several other fields of political economy and public policy. The range of topics...
by Nuray Demirel, H. Sebnem Düzgün
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
A guide for students and professionals, this introductory course book covers the basic principles of remote sensing and its applications in mine environment monitoring. Building from a reader's basic knowledge of mine monitoring, it teaches how to implement remote sensing techniques and how to interpret the acquired data for different purposes. Fol
Story Stakes
Your #1 Writing Skills Strategy to Produce a Page-Turner that Transforms Readers into Raving Fans of Your Screenplay or Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
Make your story a page-turner; make a living as a writer.
Wouldn’t it be great if readers stayed up all night to finish your screenplay or novel?
After such an intense emotional experience, when they’re done with your story, these readers won’t quickly forget about it and reach...
Inciting Incident
How to Begin Your Screenplay or Novel and Captivate Audiences Right Away (While Accomplishing Your Long-Term Plotting Goals)
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013
*** REVISED & EXPANDED EDITION
Does Your Story Beginning Set You Up For Success…or Failure?
Beginnings are agonizing to write.
So much is at stake.
If you start your story in the wrong place, if it’s boring or bogged down by exposition, audiences will abandon...