Matthew: 5036 books
Finding Success the First Year
A Survivor's Guide for New Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
New teachers have it tough. They have a very difficult and complex job, and they must learn how to do it in front of a studio audience of unruly adolescents, anxious parents, and watchful administrators. To help new teachers navigate this daunting backdrop, Finding Success the First Year is here to...
The Rise of Mutual Funds
An Insider's View
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
In 1940 few Americans had heard of mutual funds. Today U.S. mutual funds are the largest financial industry in the world, with over 88 million shareholders and over $11 trillion in assets. New and updated to reflect the crash of 2008, Matthew Fink's latest book, The Rise of Mutual Funds: An Insider's...
Your Guide to the CFP Certification Exam
A Supplement to Financial Planning Coursework and Self-Study Materials (2019 Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Your Guide to the CFP Certification Exam provides the essential tools you need to pass the demanding six-hour exam. CFP instructor Matthew Brandeburg helps you diagnose your problem areas and develop an action plan, so you can stay organized and face the exam with confidence. Whether you're challenging...
by Matthew Karp
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Most leaders of the U.S. expansion in the years before the Civil War were southern slaveholders. As Matthew Karp shows, they were nationalists, not separatists. When Lincoln’s election broke their grip on foreign policy, these elites formed their own Confederacy not merely to preserve their property but to shape the future of the Atlantic world.
by Matthew Abbitt
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
The majority of people already know how to predict. For instance, you can predict your age next year. Understanding and visualizing how this prediction works is very simplistic and opens the door for predicting many different types of data. This book is the "How To" for setting up and understanding a simple predictive model.
Overcoming Bias
Building Authentic Relationships across Differences
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Control, Conquer, and Prevail!
Everybody's biased. The truth is, we all harbor unconscious assumptions that can get in the way of our good intentions and keep us from building authentic relationships with people different from ourselves. Tiffany Jana and Matthew Freeman use vivid stories and...
by Matthew Smith, Jessica Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Choosing to start a business is a powerful decision. It brings with it a great sense of freedom, but also a great sense of responsibility. We know there’s a reason why you believe starting a business is right for you, but if you’re going to be successful, you need real advice from real business...
Creating Green Roadways
Integrating Cultural, Natural, and Visual Resources into Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Roads and parking lots in the United States cover more ground than the entire state of Georgia. And while proponents of sustainable transit often focus on getting people off the roads, they will remain at the heart of our transportation systems for the foreseeable future. In Creating Green Roadways,...
by Matthew O. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact behavior, which network structures are likely to...
Self-Esteem
A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Self-Esteem
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
If you struggle with low self-esteem, or you’re seeking positive and effective ways of building a healthy sense of self-worth, this much-anticipated fourth edition of the best-selling classic by Matthew McKay is your go-to guide. This fully revised edition features an innovative application of acceptance...
by Matthew S. Olson, Derek van Bever
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Very few large companies manage to avoid stalls in revenue growth. These stalls are not attributable to the natural business cycle. Rather, careful analysis reveals that the vast majority of such stalls are the direct result of strategic choices made by corporate leaders. In short, stoppages in growth...
Intelligent Internal Control and Risk Management
Designing High-Performance Risk Control Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Many people in organizations resent internal control and risk management; these two processes representing unwelcome tasks to be completed for the benefit of auditors and regulators. Over the last few years this perception has been heightened by the disastrous implementation of section 404 of the...
Game of Loans
The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
College tuition and student debt levels have been rising at an alarming pace for at least two decades. These trends, coupled with an economy weakened by a major recession, have raised serious questions about whether we are headed for a major crisis, with borrowers defaulting on their loans in unprecedented...
by Matthew Ashimolowo
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
In the past 25 years, organizational culture, systems and operations which were thought to be fail safe have been seen to collapse.
Major corporations have suffered from systems implosion. At the same time, nations like Iraq and Afghanistan have been invaded to bring about change, democracy and new...