Recounts how squirrels, robins, grasshoppers, and other creatures in an urban environment find their food and avoid being eaten themselves.

Bugs for Dinner (the Eating Habits of Neighborhood Creatures)

Children's Books

EPSTEIN

Literature & Fiction

Simon&Schuster Children's Publishing

In the modern economy, where most workers are knowledge workers, creativity and innovation are the most easily sustainable competitive advantages. In The Big Book of Creativity Games, Harvard trained psychologist Robert Epstein provides dozens of games and activities designed to stimulate creativity and generate innovation in the workplace. Dr. Epstein describes the scientific principles of creativity that underlie the games, and how these principles can be applied to tasks like problem solving, new product development, and marketing. Timely and innovative, The Big Book of Creativity Games is the ideal book for managers to turn to whenever they need: <ul>
<li>Games that are easy to lead and fun to play </li>
<li>Exercises that go far beyond standard brainstorming techniques </li>
<li>Innovation jump-starters for team meetings and work groups </li>
</ul>

The Big Book of Creativity Games: Quick, Fun Acitivities for Jumpstarting Innovation

Business & Money

Business Culture

McGraw=Hill

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO SMALL-CAP GOVERNANCE 
At a time when the U.S. economy is relying on small- and medium-sized companies to provide more jobs, the healthy functioning of corporate boards is more critical than ever. But the dialog on corporate governance has thus far focused predominantly on large corporations. As a result of "one-size-fits-all" governance, small-cap companies are routinely stymied by unique governance issues for which there has been no objective, practical guidance--until now. The Perfect Corporate Board offers best practices designed specifically for smaller companies. It identifies the key challenges board members of smaller companies face on a routine basis, and it provides the solutions to resolve them. The book is organized into three thematic sections: 
 Corporate Finance - selecting a financing structure, hiring the right investment bank, negotiating definitive terms 
 Capital Markets - the realities of smallcap equity research, communicating clearly with the Street, understanding trading volume, stock buybacks, and reverse stock splits 
 Professional Service Providers - hiring and managing investor relations firms, purchasing legal services, thinking like an institutional investor The Perfect Corporate Board is filled with "what if?" scenarios of small-cap situations with a corresponding summary of suggested analyses and more in-depth discussions of the reasoning behind them. If you are a small-cap director, The Perfect Corporate Board is the ideal tool for analyzing your governance challenges with an expertise previously unheard of. It serves as a resource you can return to again and again, as new governance issues arise. Praise for The Perfect Corporate Board “If you are a director of a small-cap company, you need this book.” Karen Kane, Board Performance Specialists “In a previous interview I did with the late David Thomson I asked him what he thought was the biggest deterrent to an emerging growth company’s success. To my surprise he said, ‘the corporate board.’ His response really got me thinking about why this is and why no one is really talking about it. Fortunately only a few months later, Adam Epstein wrote a great book talking about this topic as it relates to micro- and small-cap companies.” Ian Cassel, MicroCapClub “Epstein, a former hedge fund manager who advises small-cap boards, writes with the authority of an experienced investor in scores of micro-cap and small-cap companies, who has seen what can happen to companies with talented leadership and promising products, but which lack the kind of support from their boards that is uniquely needed by them.” Brett Goetschius, Growth Capitalist “I’ve already recommended the book to the board of one small-cap I recently invested in and to the CEO of a start-up I am considering. I’ll be expecting some interesting discussions with directors at both firms in the coming year, thanks to what I learned from The Perfect Corporate Board. Don’t go public without it.” James McRitchie, CorpGov.net “I wish I had read The Perfect Corporate Board years ago. Adam only wrote it last year. That’s my only excuse – if you are on a small-cap board and don’t read this then you will have no excuse!” Julie Garland McLellan “Adam has produced a first of its kind playbook specifically for ― a neglected segment which happens to drive most of today’s job growth and innovation ― small-cap companies. The Perfect Corporate Board is a remarkable new book.” Dean DeBiase, Reboot Partners

The Perfect Corporate Board: A Handbook for Mastering the Unique Challenges of Small-Cap Companies

Finance

A legal guide to drafting licensing agreements. Loose leaf binder hardcover.

Drafting License Agreements

Politano

Law & Business

This is a statutory supplement specially designed by law students for use by law students taking an Article 9 course. And with Article 9 Student Guide as the statutory supplement for your Article 9 course, your students will use Article 9 more because they will get more out of using Article 9. Article 9 Student Guide identifies the sections that law school courses emphasize and makes those sections more accessible for your students by adding - references to the sections that define key terms in that section; - brief descriptions of other sections that need to be read together with that section; and - student comments clarifying for law students what the Official Comments make clear only to commercial law mavens.

2008-2009 Students' Guide to Article 9 and Related Statutes

David, G.

Business

West

This text challenges the widespread perception that all boys are underachieving at school. It raises the questions of which boys? at what stage of education? and according to what criteria?

Failing boys?

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Open University Press

This text challenges the widespread perception that all boys are underachieving at school. It raises the questions of which boys? at what stage of education? and according to what criteria? The issues surrounding boys' "underachievement" have been at the centre of public debate about education and the raising of standards in the 1990s. Media and political responses to the "problem of boys" have tended to be simplistic, partial, and owe more to "quick fixes" than investigation and research. The book provides a detailed and nuanced "case study" of the issues in the UK, which should be of international relevance as the moral panic is a globalized one, taking place in diverse countries. The contributors to this book take seriously the issues of boys' "underachievement" inside and outside school from a critical perspective which draws on the insights of previous feminist studies of education to illuminate the problems associated with the education of boys. The text should be of interest to educators, policy makers, students and techers of education, sociology, gender studies and cultural studies and others interested in gender and achievement.

Failing Boys? Cl

Sociology

Open University

The Ince Affair

Signet

For many years the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) has been working to develop a set of accounting standards which can be used to bring about uniformity in financial reporting around the world. Wiley IAS 2002 provides the tools for understanding those standards and offers expertise on how to use and implement them. This book is a must for any company that operates globally. IAS is growing in popularity around the world and it is now important for all financial professionals to understand how to interpret and apply IAS standards

Wiley Ias 2002

Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

A one-stop resource for understanding current IAS guidelines As the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) makes progress towards widespread acceptance and use of its standards in practices, the need to understand the new standards increases. Wiley International Accounting Standards 2003 provides the tools for understanding those standards and offers expertise on how to use and implement them. This essential guide covers the new standard on accounting for agricultural operations, IAS 41, as well as new guidelines produced by the IASC's Standing Interpretations Committee. Reflecting the IASC's commitment to developing simplified accounting standards to be applied to emerging markets, new financial reporting techniques in this arena are also covered in detail. Wiley IAS 2003 is the only reference necessary for keeping up-to-date with the latest IAS regulations. Barry J. Epstein, PhD, CPA (Chicago, IL), is a partner at Gleeson, Sklar, Sawyers & Cumpata LLP in Chicago, Illinois. Abbas Ali Mirza, ACA, AICWA, CPA (Sharjah, UAE), is a partner at Deloitte & Touche in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Wiley Ias 2003

Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited, John

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