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Barcharts, Inc ChatGPT for Business
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£10.63
Teacher Created Materials Fantastic Kids Business Sense
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£13.37
Teacher Created Materials Failure Business Blunders
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£11.05
Macmillan Learning Money Banking and Financial Markets
Book SynopsisThe breakthrough text that closes the gap between economic theory and the day-to-day behaviour of banks and financial markets.Working froma macro framework based on the Fed's use of interest rate, Ball presents the core concepts necessary to understand the problems of the stock market and the causes of recessions and banking crises
£74.69
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG The CPO
Book SynopsisIn the novel The CPO: Transforming Procurement in the Real World, we meet Thomas Sutter, a German-American living in Dusseldorf and working as a procurement manager for a major global automobile manufacturer, Autowerke. On a chance encounter while flying to Chicago, he meets the CEO of Heartland, a major food company in the U.S. Sutter impresses the CEO with his knowledge and, after a whirlwind courtship, he joins Heartland as its new Chief Procurement Officer, based in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Hired to transform procurement at Heartland, Sutter has an enormous challenge: to bring its procurement practices into the 21st century and save the company $5 billion. Despite the knowledge and experience he gained at Autowerke, Sutter fights over the next 18 months to find his place at Heartland, institute world-class procurement models and methods, win over the procurement teams and senior executives, and meet his goal. At first, his reputation--and his marriage--suffer, along wiTable of Contents44 chapters--titles to come.
£22.49
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Supplier Relationship Management
Book SynopsisThere’s a new buzz phrase in the air: Supplier Relationship Management (SRM). Corporate executives know it’s necessary, but there’s only one problem. Nobody yet knows how to do it. Or they think it’s all about bashing your vendors over the head until they reduce the price another 4%. Supplier Relationship Management: How to Maximize Vendor Value and Opportunity changes all that. Containing the best and most innovative advice from the operations and procurement experts at consultant AT Kearney, this book shows that SRM is at root a strategic discussion requiring cross-functional interaction and internal alignment at the highest levels. It requires an honest appraisal of the value that suppliers now bring to your firm, as well as their potential value. It then requires a frank and constructive business-to-business dialogue about how to improve the relationship. When this happens, a company reaps myriad benefits, ranging from new opportunityTable of Contents Procurement Success vs. SRM Failure Supplier Relationship Management To SRM and Beyond! Introducing Supplier Interaction Models The "Ordinaries" "Problem Children" The "Critical Cluster" Putting Supplier Interaction Models to Work The Role of IT in TrueSRM The "Difference" You Get from TrueSRM
£54.99
Apress Managing Projects in the Real World The Tips and Tricks No One Tells You About When You Start
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£30.39
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Broken Land
Book SynopsisThe winner of the 2017 Ernest Cole Award is Daylin Paul for his project, Broken Land. The project explores the other side of power. Set in Mpumalanga, home of 46% of South Africa's arable soil, it is also the area where nine power-burning coal stations are active.
£24.70
American Psychological Association Coaching Psychology
Book SynopsisCoaching Psychologybrings evidence-based methods and models to the practice of leadership coaching for professional and personal growth.The authors apply these tools with the aim of developing and improving the skills clients need to assume and/or be more effective in leadership positions in organizations. This concise guide offers psychologists a comprehensive overview of coaching psychology, from initial client contact to the conclusion of the engagement. It describes the assortment of tools coaching psychologists use, including models to guide the process; didactic exercises and other homework that requires self-reflection, video clips, journaling, and assessment inventories; and key stakeholder feedback for identifying the individual’s great strengths (their platform for achieving their best Leader self) and suggested areas for improvement. As the authors describe, the primary tool for facilitating learning is the coach’s self. RTable of ContentsSeries Editor's ForewordRodney L. Lowman Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Coaching Psychology: Individualized Leader Development 2. A Closer Look: The Coaching Psychology Engagement 3. Coaching Psychology Tools, Methods, Techniques 4. How Effective Is Executive Coaching? 5. How Psychologists Can Prepare for Coaching Leaders 6. Ethical and Professional Issues in Coaching Psychology Epilogue References Index About the Authors
£39.60
AuthorHouse How to Buy a Car and Save Megabucks
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£14.49
State University Press of New York (SUNY) Comparative Public Budgeting Global Perspectives on Taxing and Spending
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£25.62
State University Press of New York (SUNY) Massively Parallel Globalization Explorations in SelfOrganization and World Politics SUNY series James N Rosenau series in Global Politics
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£24.23
State University Press of New York (SUNY) Privatizing the Polity
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£54.20
State University of New York Press Supporting Shrinkage
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Taylor & Francis Inc Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in
Book SynopsisThe first edition of Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety took the medical and ergonomics communities by storm with in-depth coverage of human factors and ergonomics research, concepts, theories, models, methods, and interventions and how they can be applied in health care. Other books focus on particular human factors and ergonomics issues such as human error or design of medical devices or a specific application such as emergency medicine. This book draws on both areas to provide a compendium of human factors and ergonomics issues relevant to health care and patient safety.The second edition takes a more practical approach with coverage of methods, interventions, and applications and a greater range of domains such as medication safety, surgery, anesthesia, and infection prevention. New topics include: work schedules error recovery telemedicine workflow analysis simulation<Trade Review"The premise of the book is very timely and appropriate. The epidemic of medical errors has finally been well established and well publicized. Future efforts need to be devoted to improving healthcare, and this handbook covers salient points. There is an impressive array of contributors handling a broad spectrum of topics. The list of topics is extensive without any major deficiencies. This volume should make a substantial contribution to the field." — Harvey Murff, M.D., M.P.H., Center for Health Services Research, Vanderbilt University "The key feature is that it is comprehensive. The volume may be thick, but it can be one-step shopping for those who would want to find information for human factors related to patient safety and quality. I am not aware of any other sources that come close to this goal." — Yan Xiao, Ph.D., Patient Safety Scientist and Human Factors Engineer, University of Maryland "The premise of the book is very timely and appropriate. The epidemic of medical errors has finally been well established and well publicized. Future efforts need to be devoted to improving healthcare, and this handbook covers salient points. There is an impressive array of contributors handling a broad spectrum of topics. The list of topics is extensive without any major deficiencies. This volume should make a substantial contribution to the field."- Harvey Murff, M.D., M.P.H., Center for Health Services Research, Vanderbilt University"The key feature is that it is comprehensive. The volume may be thick, but it can be one-step shopping for those who would want to find information for human factors related to patient safety and quality. I am not aware of any other sources that come close to this goal."- Yan Xiao, Ph.D., Patient Safety Scientist and Human Factors Engineer, University of Maryland Table of ContentsIntroduction. Macroergonomics and Systems. Job and Organizational Design. Physical Ergonomics. Human Error. Human Factors and Ergonomics Methodologies. Human Factors and Ergonomics Interventions. Specific Applications.
£204.25
Taylor & Francis Feedback Toolkit
Book SynopsisThis book provides expert guidance on using feedback as a performance improvement tool. It includes many simple tools readers can use to improve feedback in their work unit. The book suggests that feedback works best when the giver and receiver realize that they are in a dance together.Trade ReviewPraise for the Bestselling First Edition:… a well-organized guide for creating open and honest communication in the workplace. This clearly written book is like having your own personal coach assisting you with techniques that foster productive interactions.—Nedra Weinstein, Principal, Arden Consulting Table of ContentsUsing the Toolkit. About Feedback. When Feedback Works. What Gets in the Way. General Guidelines. Applying the Guidelines. The Importance of Dialogue. Tools for Giving Feedback. Learning from Mistakes. A "What Are We Doing" Meeting. Expectations for Exchange. Project Debriefing. How’s Our Team Doing? Management by Wandering Around. Positive Feedback for Teams. Conducting a Performance Review. Acid Bath Feedback. Providing Feedback as a Mentor. Open-Book Management. Tools for Receiving Feedback. Preparing to Receive Feedback. Guidelines for Receiving Feedback. Don’t Forget SARA (Surprise, Anger, Rationalization, Acceptance).Feedback from Staff. Feedback from Your Boss. Feedback from Peers. Feedback from a Coach. Feedback from Questionnaires.
£25.20
Temple University Press,U.S. What Workers Say
Book SynopsisWhat have jobs really been like for the past 40 years and what do the workers themselves say about them? InWhat Workers Say,Roberta Iversen shows that for employees in labor market industrieslike manufacturing, construction, printingas well as those in service-producing jobs, like clerical work, healthcare, food service, retail, and automotivejobs are often discriminatory, are sometimes dangerous and exploitive, and seldom utilize people's full range of capabilities. Most importantly, they fail to provide anyrealopportunity for advancement. What Workers Saytakes its cue from Studs Terkel'sWorking,as Iversen interviewed more than 1,200 workers to present stories about their labor market jobs since 1980. She puts a human face on the experiences of a broad range of workers indicating what their jobs were and are truly like. Iversen reveals how transformations in the political economy of waged work have shrunk or eliminated opportunity for workers, families, communities, and productivityTrade Review"Iversen probes the nature of working- and middle-class jobs via interviews with workers from a variety of different social, economic, and ethnic backgrounds.... This book will appeal to sociologists, social policy researchers, and anyone interested in how the predicaments of American workers may actually contain answers to how to navigate the uncertain waters of a rapidly evolving workplace. A timely and well-researched study."—Kirkus Reviews"[T]he book makes for engaging and enlightening reading, providing a sensitive, and often ennobling view of the contemporary economy from the ground up. Studs Terkel would have been pleased."—Social Forces"[T]his book tells stories drawn from 1,200 interviews and research studies Iversen and her colleagues conducted between the 1980s and 2019. The narratives, illuminating the difficult conditions of workers' working and personal lives, are the soul of the book.... Attuned to the problems of contemporary work and the policy solutions that might correct them, Iversen's book radiates empathy and hope for American workers. Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"[A] comprehensive analysis.... Iversen writes a primer for readers interested in the historical and contemporary realities of working people in the United States.... The strengths of the book may be in its readability, longitudinal nature, and the sheer amount of data that so clearly supports Iversen’s arguments."—Social Services Reviews"What Workers Say vividly describes workers’ experiences with the transformations of work in the United States since the 1980s. Contrary to the promises of the American Dream, the quantity and quality of jobs are insufficient to provide many workers with economic security and opportunities to utilize their capabilities. These workers’ accounts provide the impetus for reimagining what work is and how it can be expanded to include civil labor that is compensated by time or exchange, in addition to money.”—Arne L. Kalleberg, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies“In What Workers Say, Iversen brings new insights and commentary about paid work through an exhaustive review and reanalysis of her forty-plus years of interviewing low- and moderate-income workers employed in jobs across multiple industries. Her biographical-interpretive approach offers a new look at the labor market changes experienced by workers over the last four decades. She presents a thought-provoking remedy to the ongoing and persistent labor market challenges that so many workers face. By placing her contemporary notions into historical relief, she offers an expanded and reformulated set of ideas about a system of paid civil labor that in her view would work side by side with traditional market work to achieve a society that is at the same time productive and fulfilling for its members. What Workers Say ultimately reveals how changing labor market demands, managerial practices, and government policies have largely failed workers, their families, and the broader community.”—Julia R. Henly, Professor of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago
£19.19
Adams Media Corporation The Ultimate Marketing Plan
Book SynopsisThe ultimate, no-nonsense guide to help you market your product, build buzz, and make more money than ever from marketing expert Dan S. Kennedy.Let’s face it—the business world today is nothing like it was ten years ago. Marketing budgets are tighter, consumers are more skeptical, and social media has changed forever the way we talk to our customers. In this new edition of his bestselling The Ultimate Marketing Plan, industry expert Dan S. Kennedy integrates such tools as social media marketing, networking, and strategic memberships into a complete plan that will strengthen your customer base without breaking your budget. Packed with updated examples, marketing techniques, and contributions from experts, Kennedy shows you how to catapult your company to the cutting edge.
£13.49
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Board Games
Book SynopsisSucceeding in today''s corporate and not-for-profit boardrooms is tougher than ever before, with new and established board directors facing myriad new and rapidly globalizing governance challenges. Directors and aspiring board candidates need a survival guide to beat the odds and avoid crisesthe best credentials and the best of intentions aren''t enough. This book is that guide.Board Games: Straight Talk for New Directors and Good Governance is an essential resource for any current or aspiring board director. It identifies the issues directors are most likely to face in today''s rapidly changing, potentially hazardous business environments, offering candid, well-informed insights that address emerging issues, potential conflicts, and real-board situations. Readers will learn how to be more effective, more informed, and more diligent directors committed to the shareholders'' best interestseven if that mindset challenges the interests of current management.This book shows nTable of ContentsForeword by Herb Kelleher Acknowledgments Introduction 1. How to Get Appointed to a Board When You're Not a Household Name: Bring Something the Board Wants but Doesn't Have 2. Putting Shareholders First . . . Not Last: The Case for Dividends and the Role of Independent Directors 3. The Hide and Seek Game of Corporate Finance: Understanding Balance Sheets and Corporate Economics 4. When Bad Things Happen to Good Boards: Protecting Shareholders and Your Reputation 5. Meeting Your Fiduciary Responsibility: Your Personal Declaration of Independence 6. The CEO as Board Chair: How Aligning or Separating These Roles Frames the Game 7. Getting CEO Search and Succession Right the First Time: Don't Fumble the Handoff 8. The Audit Committee: The Board's "Fire Department" 9. The Fantasyland of Executive Compensation: Directors Ought to Know How Much Is Too Much 10. Cybersecurity Is Every Director's Business: Why Cyberattacks Are Existential Threats 11. The Leadership That Boards Need Now: The Most Critical Dynamics on Today's Boards Are Human Ones Appendix I: Navigating the Morass of Corporate Jargon: Don't Choke on Alphabet Soup (A Glossary) Appendix II: Sample Balance Sheet Appendix III: Board and Committee Self-Evaluation Form Notes Index About the Authors
£43.00
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I
Book SynopsisThis volume is a ground-breaking contribution to enlightenment studies and the international and cross-cultural history of print. The result of a five year research project, the volume traces the output and dissemination of books and how reading tastes changed in the years 1769-1794. Mapping the book trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), a Swiss publisher-wholesaler which operated throughout Europe, the authors reconstruct the cosmopolitan elite culture of the later enlightenment, incorporating many engaging case studies. The STN''s archives are uniquely rich in both detail and range, and while these archives have long attracted book historians (notably Robert Darnton, a leading scholar of the Enlightenment), existing work is fragmentary and limited in scope. By means of comparative study, the author considers the entire book market across Europe, making local, regional and chronological nuances, based on advanced taxonomies of subject content, author information, markTrade ReviewA solid addition to the historiography of the Enlightenment and the general history of the book... This book would certainly be of interest to historians, literary scholars, database designers, and archivists. Selling Enlightenment can certainly be recommended for all types of research oriented academic libraries. * Libraries: Culture, History & Society *A striking achievement. Curran’s commendably exhaustive delving into the STN’s superb business archives and his use of digital humanities methodologies to form and to test hypotheses adds a renewed level of relevance to key questions about the European Enlightenment and the role of the STN within it. * Colin Jones, Professor of History, Queen Mary University of London, UK *For those with an interest in the history of the 18th-century book trade and the dissemination of knowledge in Enlightenment Europe, this is a work of major importance. Curran knows the rich archives of Neufchatel as well as anyone, and he communicates his important and provocative findings with liveliness and grace. * Darrin M. McMahon, Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor, Dartmouth College, USA *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. A Publishing House Across the Border? 3. Accounting for Books 4. Running a Publishing House 5. Business Networks 6. Literary and Book Trade Clients 7. Rivals or Allies: The STN and its Competitors 8. Getting to Market: The History of a Book 9. The Politics of Publishing Conclusion Bibliography Index
£90.00
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Database Marketing
Book SynopsisDatabase marketing is at the crossroads of technology, business strategy, and customer relationship management. Enabled by sophisticated information and communication systems, today''s organizations have the capacity to analyze customer data to inform and enhance every facet of the enterprise-from branding and promotion campaigns to supply chain management to employee training to new product development. Based on decades of collective research, teaching, and application in the field, the authors present the most comprehensive treatment to date of database marketing, integrating theory and practice. Presenting rigorous models, methodologies, and techniques (including data collection, field testing, and predictive modeling), and illustrating them through dozens of examples, the authors cover the full spectrum of principles and topics related to database marketing. This isTrade ReviewFrom the reviews: "This is an excellent in-depth overview of both well-known and very recent topics in customer management models. It is an absolute must for marketers who want to enrich their knowledge on customer analytics." (Peter C. Verhoef, Professor of Marketing, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen) "A marvelous combination of relevance and sophisticated yet understandable analytical material. It should be a standard reference in the area for many years." (Don Lehmann, George E. Warren Professor of Business, Columbia Business School) "The title tells a lot about the book's approach—-though the cover reads, "database," the content is mostly about customers and that's where the real-world action is. Most enjoyable is the comprehensive story – in case after case – which clearly explains what the analysis and concepts really mean. This is an essential read for those interested in database marketing, customer relationship management and customer optimization." (Richard Hochhauser, President and CEO, Harte-Hanks, Inc.) "In this tour de force of careful scholarship, the authors canvass the ever expanding literature on database marketing. This book will become an invaluable reference or text for anyone practicing, researching, teaching or studying the subject." (Edward C. Malthouse, Theodore R. and Annie Laurie Sills Associate Professor of Integrated Marketing Communications, Northwestern University)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Why Database Marketing.- Organized for Database Marketing.- Customer Privacy in a CRM Environment.- LTV Fundamentals.- LTV Advanced Issues.- LTV Applications.- Sources of Data.- Test Design and Analysis.- The Predictive Modeling Process.- Foundations of Statistical Modeling.- RFM Analysis.- Market Basket Analysis.- Collaborative Filtering.- Discrete Dependent Variable and Duration Models.- Cluster Analysis.- Decision Trees.- Neural Networks.- Machine Learning.- Acquiring Customers.- Cross-Selling and Up-Selling.- Frequency Reward Programs.- Customer Tier Programs.- Churn Management.- Multi-Channel Customer Management.- Acquisition and Retention Management.- Communications Design.- Multi-Contact Customer Management.- Pricing.- Glossary of Database Marketing Terms.- Index.
£999.99
Rowman & Littlefield Women Navigating Globalization
Book SynopsisThis up-to-date text offers a clear and cogent introduction to women in development. Exploring the global structures and processes that impede or support the empowerment of women, Jana Everett and Sue Ellen M. Charlton use a feminist lens to understand contemporary gender roles. Without such a lens, they argue, our understanding of globalization and development is incomplete, resulting in flawed policies that fail to improve the lives of millions of people around the globe. After a set of introductory chapters that conceptually frame the issues, the authors then investigate women's struggles within and against globalization and development through powerful case studies of sex trafficking, water, work, and health. These chapters, by using specific examples, develop the concepts of structure and agency, levels of analysis, and feminist approaches as tools to help students understand the complexities of development and alternative strategies. Through rich interdisciplinary analysis, EveTrade ReviewEverett and Charlton, pioneering feminist scholars of international development and comparative politics, provide a dynamic analysis of the mixed blessings for women of neoliberal globalization—that is, the capitalist marketplace operating within and across spaces of limited governmental regulation. Their writing is conceptually sound, clear, and accessible, with case studies on work, water, health, and human trafficking. While attentive to the big picture of institutions and public policies at national and international levels, the authors highlight women's agency in struggles to make a better and fairer world. -- Kathleen Staudt, University of Texas at El PasoWomen Navigating Globalization is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the complex interplay between gender relations and globalization that neither neglects the importance of local sites and struggles nor ignores their relevance to international policy. Everett and Charlton adopt a ‘gender-plus focus’ showing the imperative of addressing gender inequalities and injustices in relation to injustices based on race, class, nationality, sexuality, and disability as part of any development scenario—whether that relates to the problems of human trafficking, the management of natural resources such as water, the quality of work, or the conditions for health and well-being. Under the ambit of globalization, this empirically rich book encompasses a broader range of development dilemmas and of country experiences to address global policy debates as well as local struggles and realities. Deploying several feminist perspectives and the inspiration of women’s movements, we see that different ways of framing the problem can lead to different solutions in different development contexts—be it Bangladesh or Russia, India or Brazil, the United States or Chile. Above all, we learn that multilevel strategies are essential for bringing about more gender-equal, inclusive, and balanced global development. -- Jacqui True, Monash UniversityEverett and Charlton have written a clear, comprehensive analysis of globalization and development examined through the lens of feminist analysis. They begin with conceptual analyses of their terms, soundly documented and referenced with key studies. They embrace multiple forms of feminism as practiced differently in diverse world areas. The authors provide a balanced emphasis on top-down structures that shape lives and on the agency that women bring, individually and collectively, to their situations. Everett and Charlton ask and answer their key questions at different levels of analysis, from local and regional to national and international. In four chapters, before their conclusion, they offer innovative applications of these concepts in four areas and eight places: human trafficking (Russia and Bangladesh), water (Peru and South Africa), work (Brazil and India), and women's health (Chile and the African Union) . . . [T]hese experienced researchers/authors . . . analyze the material in a sophisticated yet accessible way, which will be of value to upper-division or graduate students and academics. The book is as comprehensive as Mary Hawkesworth's Globalization and Feminist Activism. Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Feminism and Development in a Global World Chapter 2: Navigating Globalization: Feminist Approaches to Development Chapter 3: Development, Globalization, and Power Chapter 4: Debates and Dilemmas: Global Sex Trafficking Chapter 5: Debates and Dilemmas: Water Chapter 6: Debates and Dilemmas: Work Chapter 7: Debates and Dilemmas: Health Chapter 8: Collective Action, Development, and the Challenges of Globalization
£30.00
Cambridge Scholars Publishing Innovative Business Practices
Book SynopsisThis second decade of the millennium finds the world changing at a once unimaginable pace.
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John Murray Press Get Started In Shorthand Pitman 2000
Book SynopsisIs this the right book for me?Gain a working vocabulary in Pitman 2000 in clear and easy stagesShorthand is a valuable asset to everyone, young or old, in private or business life and Pitman 2000 is a system designed for easy learning, with a speed potential to meet the demands of a modern fast-moving world. Get Started in Shorthand: Pitman 2000 is a beginner''s guide to the basic theory and will give you a working vocabulary in Pitman 2000 in clear and easy stages.Each of the main sections contains a new set of sounds and rules, short forms, phrases and exercises, including audio exercises online. Review exercises give you the opportunity to consolidate material already covered, and a key to the exercises enable you to measure your rate of progress throughout the book. Written to make self-tuition both simple and stimulating and based on original Pitman Publishing material, this authoritative book is indispensable to anyone seeking a first oTable of Contents : Introduction : 1. Consonants and vowels : 2. Seven more consonants and indicating vowels : 3. Halving strokes : 4. The L hook : 5. REVIEW : 6. Third-place vowels : 7. Diphthongs and triphones : 8. The ST loop and the -STER loop : 9. S and Z : 10. Initial R hook to straight strokes : 11. REVIEW : 12. Final hook N to curved strokes : 13. Final hook N to straight strokes : 14. Suffixes : 15. Compound consonants : 16. Initial hooks to curved strokes : 17. Reverse forms of initially hooked curves : 18. REVIEW : 19. -SHUN hook : 20. F/V hook : 21. Doubling : 22. Prefix CON- or COM- : 23. Figures, negative words and vowel insertion : 24. REVIEW : Keys to the exercises
£15.29
John Murray Press Finance for NonFinancial Managers
Book SynopsisIs this the right book for me?The world of finance and accountancy can seem one of impenetrable mystery but it is one that many managers have to face in their day to day lives. With its comprehensive coverage of the subject, this book allows you not only to ask pertinent questions but also to understand the answers. Chapter by chapter, the workings of finance are mapped out and laid bare - the formal reports, the methods used to prepare the numbers and what accountants actually do every day.This edition is fully updated to reflect current allowances, rates and regulations and further information. It also includes even more questions (with comprehensive answers) to challenge the reader''s understanding. Finance for Non-Financial Managers includes:Chapter 1: The purpose of accountingChapter 2: Basic terminologyChapter 3: Accounting concepts and principlesChapter 4: The profit and loss accountChapter 5: The balancTable of Contents : The purpose of accounting : Basic terminology : Accounting concepts and principles : The profit and loss account : The balance sheet : The cash flow statement : Ratio analysis : Users of financial information : The general ledger : Costing : Standard costing : Variance analysis : Two more costing issues : The audit of annual accounts : Tricks of the trade : Financial information for managers : Capital investment appraisal: experts only? : Activities of an accounts department : Cash flow management : Corporate financial planning : Personal finance: income tax and national insurance : Personal finance: investment : Personal finance: capital gains tax and others
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John Murray Press Understand Tax for Small Businesses Teach
Book SynopsisUp-to-date advice on how to comply with tax law as efficiently as possible.Table of Contents : 1. Introduction : 1. Which taxes do businesses pay? : 2. How the tax system works : 2.Which taxes do businesses pay? : 3.How the tax system works : 3. Starting a business : 4. Profits : 4. Starting a business : 5.Profits : 5. Losses : 6. Equipment : 6. Losses : 7. Equipment : 7. Employees : 8 Premises : 8. Employees : 9.Premises : 9. VAT : 10. Pensions and insurance : 10.VAT : 11. Pensions and insurance : 11. Incorporating a business : 12. Closing a business : 12.Incorporating a business : 13.Closing a business : 13. Selling a business : 14. Passing on a business : 14. Selling a business : 15. Passing on a business : 15. Putting it all together : 16. Putting it all together : 17. Appendices : Tax rates and allowance : Key dates : Glossary : Quick definitions of the key phrases. : Further information :
£11.69
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Industrial Relations
Book SynopsisThis revised edition of Industrial Relations: Theory and Practice follows the approach established successfully in preceding volumes edited by Paul Edwards. The focus is on Britain after a decade of public policy which has once again altered the terrain on which employment relations develop. Government has attempted to balance flexibility with fairness, preserving light-touch regulation whilst introducing rights to minimum wages and to employee representation in the workplace. Yet this is an open economy, conditioned significantly by developing patterns of international trade and by European Union policy initiatives. This interaction of domestic and cross-national influences in analysis of changes in employment relations runs throughout the volume. The structure has been amended slightly. Britain is placed straight away in comparative perspective before attention focuses explicitly on employment relations actors, contexts, processes, and outcomes. Each of the chapters is wriTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. List of Common Abbreviations. List of Contributors. Preface. Introduction. 1 Work, the Employment Relationship and the Field of Industrial Relations (Trevor Colling and Michael Terry). Section One British Industrial Relations in Comparative Context. 2 British Industrial Relations: Between Security and Flexibility (Colin Crouch). 3 British Industrial Relations: The European Dimension (Richard Hyman). Section Two Actors. 4 Management: Caught Between Competing Views of the Organization (Keith Sisson and John Purcell). 5 State, Capital and Labour Relations in Crisis (Jason Heyes and Peter Nolan). 6 Trade Unions: Power and Infl uence in a Changed Context (Melanie Simms and Andy Charlwood). Section Three Contexts. 7 Public Sector Industrial Relations: The Challenge of Modernization (Stephen Bach). 8 Industrial Relations in the Private Sector (James Arrowsmith). 9 Multinational Companies: Transforming National Industrial Relations? (Paul Marginson and Guglielmo Meardi). 10 Industrial Relations in Small Firms (Monder Ram and Paul Edwards). Section Four Processes. 11 Negotiation and Collective Bargaining (William Brown). 12 Employee Representation (Michael Terry). 13 The Changing Legal Framework of Employment Relations (Linda Dickens and Mark Hall). 14 Legal Institutions and the Regulation of Workplaces (Trevor Colling). Section Five Outcomes. 15 Pay and Working Time: Shifting Contours of the Employment Relationship (Damien Grimshaw and Jill Rubery). 16 Industrial Relations and Economic Performance (Paul Edwards and Sukanya Sengupta). 17 Skills Policy and the Displacement of Industrial Relations: The Elephant in the Corner? (Ewart Keep, Caroline Lloyd and Jonathan Payne). 18 Equality and Diversity: The Ultimate Industrial Relations Concern (Deborah Dean and Sonia Liff). Index.
£39.89
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Methods and Microeconomics
Book SynopsisThis book consists of ten essays which speak to doing economics better. Includes an essay on social ecological economics Features an essay on the creation of money that arises not from markets but from holy debts to deities -a very provocative essay Includes an essay on Emily Balch, the first and only economist to get a Nobel prize Table of ContentsChapter 1. Lineages of Embeddedness: On the Antecedents and Successors of a Polanyian Concept (Gareth Dale). Chapter 2. Social Ecological Economics: Understanding the Past to See the Future (Clive L. Spash). Chapter 3. Would You Barter with God? Why Holy Debts and Not Profane Markets Created Money (Alla Semenova). Chapter 4. Human Capital: Theoretical and Empirical Insights (Germana Bottone and Vania Sena). Chapter 5. On Norms: A Typology with Discussion (Matthew Interis). Chapter 6. The Battle of Methods in Economics: The Classical Methodenstreit (Menger vs. Schmoller, Marek Louzek). Chapter 7. Emily Greene Balch, Political Economist (Robert W. Dimand). Chapter 8. Who Do Heterodox Economists Think They Are? (Andrew Mearman). Chapter 9. Microeconomics After Keynes: Post Keynesian Economics and Public Policy (Steven Pressman). Chapter 10. Morgenstern’s Forgotten Contribution: A Stab to the Heart of Modern Economics (Philipp Bagus). Index.
£73.76
Hodder & Stoughton The Stock Market Explained
Book SynopsisFully updated and revised for this edition, this is a beginner's guide to stocks, shares and all your investment choices from top financial guru Alvin Hall.Trade ReviewPraise for PLAN NOW, RETIRE HAPPY: 'Part of Alvin Hall's indisputable charm is to make the process of making pots of money look simple.' * Daily Mail *The most popular expert in the business. * Daily Express *Alvin Hall is the Mr Motivator of the money world. * Daily Telegraph *Not just a psychologist but a magician too * Evening Standard *
£10.44
Hodder & Stoughton The Art of the Loophole
Book SynopsisDavid Beckham's lawyer, 'Mr Loophole' reveals his legal secrets and how you can make the law work in your favour.Trade ReviewIt is exciting and dramatic; the lawyer labouring over statutes, rule books and manuals for speed cameras, and finding the legal point that will save the day. * Law Society Gazette *
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Hodder & Stoughton The Money Culture
Book SynopsisA modern resissue of a bestselling classic by the author of the #1 bestseller THE BIG SHORTTrade ReviewPraise for LIAR'S POKER: 'An amazing book, readable, funny and mind-boggling ... one of the great business books of all time' * Punch *Read all about it: headlong greed, inarticulate obscenity, Animal House horseplay . . . * The Sunday Times *Immense verve and wit * 20/20 Magazine *A highly immoral book * Daily Mail *Wickedly funny * Daily Express *As traders would say, this book is a buy * Financial Times *
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Hodder & Stoughton How Do We Fix This Mess The Economic Price of
Book Synopsis''Robert Peston''s compelling account of global financial meltdown is a must-read.'' ObserverWhat can we learn from the 2008 recession? ITV''s political editor explains the global economic mess and how to escape it - in his characteristically straightforward way. ''How do we fix this mess? I don''t know. But don''t stop reading now. Perhaps if we have a clearer understanding of what went wrong, we''ll have a better idea of what needs to be done. This book is a map of what needs to be fixed.''The record-breaking unbroken growth between 1992 and 2008 wasn''t the economic miracle that it seemed. It was based on a number of dangerous illusions - most notably that it didn''t matter that the UK and US year after year consumed more than they earned.But we couldn''t go on increasing our indebtedness forever. The financial crash of 2007/8 and the subsequent economic slump in much of the west was the moment when we realised we had bTrade ReviewRobert Peston's compelling account of global financial meltdown is a must-read... His discursive, conversational but entrancingly fact-studded trip around the disaster zone ought to be mandatory reading for anyone who wants to have a voice in where we go from here. * Observer *HOW DO WE FIX THIS MESS? is the book of the film and more... brought to life by war stories from the BBC, simple analogies and colourful language... he does know how to elucidate apparently impenetrable issues, and he guides us intelligently and entertainingly... readable and thought-provoking. * Financial Times *Robert Peston is not so much a journalist as a phenomenon... And now he has managed to fit in a book... that displays his gargantuan appetite for facts, numbers and economic and financial history... Peston's range is dazzling.... Peston is a BBC treasure - one of the journalists who justify the licence fee. If, every few years, he needs to breathe out and write a long book, we should encourage it. As they used to say in the pre-Twitter age, he knows his stuff. * New Statesman *'compelling reading'. -- Chris Mullin * The Observer *Reads like a wildly implausible financial thriller. * Independent *Lucid explanations... stark analysis of what the financial meltdown means for us... Peston's book is actually scarier than most descriptions I've read of the crisis. It goes way beyond Wall Street and City greed in its scope. * Evening Standard *He is good on the follies of the bankers... He is also good on the detail. Anybody who wants to know what a collateralised debt obligation or a credit default swap is will find it here. * Sunday Times *Essential reading... an excellent expose of the financial crisis. * Sunday Telegraph *Brilliant. I now understand everything. * Giles Coren *Robert Peston was the voice of the financial crisis, just as Terry Wogan will forever be the voice of the Eurovision Song Contest. Vocal tics and all, he's now an official national treasure. * Spectator *Mr Peston, an award-winning print journalist before he became the Business Editor of the BBC, has many strengths. Chief among these are his sources and a terrier-like determination to get the story. Mr Peston passionately articulates why everyone should be frustrated with the banking sector--and financial globalisation more generally. For a tale of how the British banks blew up, readers will find juicy details. * Economist *Robert Peston's great book on the world financial crash... 400 information-packed pages... If Mr Peston has a lesson for us, it is that until we fix the banking system, we will have achieved nothing. * Irish Independent *'The author charts the past 20 years of steady economic growth and consequent bust, lucidly explaining the shortcomings of the banking system and the effects of globalisation, before returning to the present state of the UK, all invitingly.' * Sunday Telegraph *Praise for WHO RUNS BRITAIN? * . *A compelling portrait of early 21st century casino capitalism...essential reading. * Howard Davies The Times *This lucid and timely guide to the world of turbo-capitalism...absorbing book, essential reading for anyone who wants to know how the British economy now operates. * Peter Wilby, Guardian *A devastating account of Blair's producer capture by high finance...Peston navigates with ease the shark-infested waters of hedge funds, sub-prime borrowing, defined-benefit pensions and loans for honours. * Simon Jenkins, The Sunday Times *Fluent, incredibly up to the minute look at Britain...Peston, in relaxed, conversational; style is a great travelling companion along the highways of finance. * Observer *starkly lucid...Reading Peston's book, you can only be flabbergasted all over again at how Labour kowtowed to wealth, glorified the City and put the nations economic eggs into one dangerous basket of fizzy finance. * Polly Toynbee Guardian *'Peston catches the zeitgeist of Britain and the paradox that is Gordon Brown' * Financial Times *'engaging' * Harry Mount Telegraph *Robert Peston is very lucid on some of the biggest issues of the day. I thoroughly recommend it. * Scotland on Sunday *We are unfortunately still in the middle of this crisis. But at least we will have Robert Peston to give us that famous 'first draft of history' provided by excellent reporting. * Business Economist *One of the best accounts of the financial crisis, recession and how we get out of it. * Scotland on Sunday *
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Hodder & Stoughton The Supremes at Earls AllYouCanEat
Book Synopsis''Absolutely, positively an incredible read!!!! I found myself laughing out loud, yet also feeling pain for the Supremes as they faced life''s challenges... I am now a #1 fan!'' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Pull up a chair by the window table at Big Earl''s diner and meet the Supremes: three women from Plainview, Indiana, who''ve been best friends since their high school days in the 1960s. Through life''s ups and down the Supremes are always by each other''s side... There''s Clarice, a pious wife and mother who is struggling with her husband''s infidelity; Barbara Jean, who must confront the tragic reverberations of a youthful love affair; and Odette, whose fearlessness has saved her friends many times, but who now faces a terrifying situation of her own.Over iced tea and pecan pie, through forty years of marriage, children, happiness and the blues,
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Hodder & Stoughton Rock Stars Stole my Life
Book Synopsis''The book is f***ing BRILLIANT! Just arrived NYC and wanked myself laughing. Literally tears. Irritated looks all around. What a great writer you are. It''s a classic. You absolutely got the whole shite early 70s thing down precisely as it was. Names, smells, sounds, looks, the food, drink, girls, boys! Mega! Well done.'' - Bob GeldofIn a sodden tent at a ''70s festival, the teenage Mark Ellen had a dream. He dreamt that music was a rich meadow of possibility, a liberating leap to a sparkling future, an industry of human happiness - and he wanted to be part of it. Thus began his 50-year love affair with rock and roll. From his time at the NME, Radio One, The Old Grey Whistle Test and Live aid, he has been at the molten core of pop''s evolution, and watched its key figures from a unique perspective. This funny and touching personal memoir maps out his eventful journey in rock and roll.It tells stories and settles scores. It charts the peaks and disappointments. It flTrade ReviewFull of engaging asides and deft, sometimes unsparing pen-portraits, this autobiographical souffle ends with three passages of unexpectedly disturbing power, in which Ellen glimpses the fate of a form of entertainment that has lost the sense of purpose and proportion it possessed during the years when his own tastes were being formed...It is a tribute to Ellen's resilience that not even this sensory assault can erode the powers of humour and observation that make his book so enjoyable. * The Guardian *There's a misty-eyed reverence for the past in Ellen's entertaining memoir of five decades surrounded by music. * The Observer *Thumbs Aloft! For men of several generations, the most eagerly anticipated memoir of the year is Mark Ellen's Rock Stars Stole My Life! and it doesn't disappoint. Subtitled 'A Big Bad Love Affair With Music', Ellen's book describes in beautifully crafted gambols his time working for the music press, from the NME in the Seventies right through to The Word in the noughties, via Smash Hits, Q, Mojo, Select and all places in between. Ellen has been at the coalface of rock hackdom for 40 years, yet unlike many of his contemporaries, he has always viewed his relationship with the music industry - and the preposterous entertainers it throws up - as a ridiculous pleasure rather than a burden. Ellen is not only one of the nicest men in the industry, he's also one of its funniest writers, and this books picks away at the hand that has fed him for all these years with such humour, and such delicacy, that it becomes impossible to put down. Here is a man who presented Live Aid, who presided over the most popular music magazine in the world, and who unwittingly became one of the last people to interview Michael Jackson in print. And it is never less than hilarious. This book will make you laugh, make you cry with joy, and send you scuttling over to what is left of your record collection to look for an Elvis Costello album you probably have not played since it was released. -- Dylan Jones * GQ *So Ellen's book is a riotous, wildly enthusiastic look back over a constantly changing industry and the larger-than-life characters who have dominated it. As the image of today's stars becomes ever more tightly controlled, Ellen's experiences make him one of the few who can pull back the curtain to expose the smoke and mirrors of this most glamorous, exciting and tawdry of industries. * Express *Hilariously indiscreet * The Times *The must read book * Red *Hang on to the shirt-tails of this book and it leads you right the way through --breathlessly. It's terrific! -- Danny BakerRiotous, entrancing and wildly enthusiastic. Exposes the smoke and mirrors of this most glamorous and tawdry of industries. * Sunday Express *Hectic, quietly perceptive and in a writing style best described as Acid Wodehouse. * New Statesman *The unteachable in pursuit of the unquotable. Knowingly ridiculous and very funny. * Independent on Sunday *Immensely readable. A series of golden ages witnessed first-hand. * The Observer *A cultural history of music fandom in a period of fascinating flux. * MOJO *Mark Ellen: the man with the best job ever! * Elle *A fantastic read -- Simon Mayo * BBC Radio 2 *Ellen not only has a tremendous eye for the glorious absurdity of the music industry, but a treasure chest of funny and occasionally touching anecdotes . . . he balances a fan's enthusiasm with sparkling reverence . . . Rock Stars Stole My Life! Is an upbeat and immensely readable account of a joyous addiction. * Mail on Sunday *The collection of people who cross Ellen's path - Blair, old housemate Anton Corbijn, Ellen's girlfriend Anji Hunter, Neil Tennant (who worked on Smash Hits), John Peel, Geldof - is enough to keep you turning the page. Having such a funny, charming guide doesn't hurt either. * The Independent *(a) wry, funny book * The Sun *Mark Ellen had us laughing all the way through. * Stylist *Your book is a joy. -- Jeremy Vine * BBC Radio 2 Arts Show *The book is f***ing BRILLIANT! Just arrived NYC and wanked myself laughing. Literally tears. Irritated looks all around. What a great writer you are. It's a classic. You absolutely got the whole shite early 70s thing down precisely as it was. Names, smells, sounds, looks, the food, drink, girls, boys! Mega! Well done. -- Bob GeldofMade me laugh out loud. -- Adam Boulton * New Statesman *Rock Stars Stole My Life reminds us that [pop music] can also be joyously ridiculous...Ellen relates a blessed life...with playful wit and indefatigable good humour. * Guardian *This year's most breezily entertaining pop memoir.... Ellen sails through pop history with an infectious joie de vivre that sends laughter tumbling from every page. * Daily Mail *entertaining... describes his past encounters with comic candour. * The Times *There's a misty-eyed reverence for the past in Ellen's entertaining memoir of five decades surrounded by music. -- Ben East * The Observer *
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John Murray Press Catching the Wolf of Wall Street
Book SynopsisRead what happened next in the follow-up to the bestselling The Wolf of Wall Street, now a major motion picture directed by MARTIN SCORSESE, starring LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, JONAH HILL, JEAN DUJARDIN, KYLE CHANDLER and JOANNA LUMLEY.In the 1990s Jordan Belfort became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper. He was THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, whose life of greed, power and excess was so outrageous it could only be true; no one could make this up! But the day Jordan was arrested and taken away in handcuffs was not the end of the madness.Catching the Wolf of Wall Street tells of what happened next. After getting out of jail on $10 million bail he had to choose whether to plead guilty and act as a government witness or fight the charges and see his wife be charged as well. he cooperated.With his trademark brash, brazen and thoroughly unputdownable storytelling, JoTrade ReviewWhat separates Jordan's story from others like it, is the brutal honesty. * Leonardo DiCaprio *Still a hustler, still a salesman - and also a hell of a writer. * Kirkus reviews *spankingly candid insights into sex, drugs and rocky stockbroking. * GQ Australia *Salacious reading. * The Star-Ledger *
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John Murray Press The Inner Lives of Markets
Book SynopsisThink Freakonomics meets The Undercover EconomistThe Inner Lives of Markets is a journey into the mysterious corners of everyday economics. Who buys, who sells, why it matters, when it works, and what to do when it breaks.Trade ReviewAll of the economics covered in this delightful book is described clearly and with a lovely lightness of touch. * The Enlightened Economist *They start to make the case with a quick, and exceedingly engaging, tour of economic history... the book does a good job of showing the limitations of narrow economic theory, since markets rarely feature rational people with perfect knowledge. -- Gillian Tett, Financial Times
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John Murray Press The Inner Lives of Markets
Book SynopsisThink Freakonomics meets The Undercover EconomistThe Inner Lives of Markets is a journey into the mysterious corners of everyday economics. Who buys, who sells, why it matters, when it works, and what to do when it breaks.
£15.00
Amberley Publishing Doncasters Collieries
Book SynopsisThe illustrated history of the Doncaster collieries
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Amberley Publishing Middlesbroughs Iron and Steel Industry
Book SynopsisThis fascinating selection of photographs gives an insight into the history of the iron and steel industry around Middlesbrough.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Slate Mining in the Lake District
Book SynopsisIn this illustrated history, Alastair Cameron explores the history and heritage of the slate mining industry in the Lake District.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Film and Television Star Cars
Book SynopsisPaul Brent Adams looks at the exciting world of collectable die-cast star cars.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Ore Mining in the Lake District
Book SynopsisAlastair Cameron and Liz Withey explore the fascinating world of metal mining in the Lake District.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Quarrying in Cumbria
Book SynopsisThe story of how stone was won is an important part of our disappearing heritage: this book explores the rich legacy of quarrying across Cumbria.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Westbury Cement Works
Book SynopsisWith an array of original and archive photography, take a fascinating look at the history behind the famous Westbury Cement Works.
£13.49
Amberley Publishing The North British Locomotive Company
Book SynopsisColin Alexander and Alon Siton present a lavishly illustrated exploration of one of Britain's greatest locomotive companies.
£13.49
Amberley Publishing Triumph 1300 to Dolomite Sprint
Book SynopsisExplore the engaging story of Triumphâs successful mid-sized saloon cars from the 1960s to the 1980s.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Staffordshire Coal Mines
Book SynopsisA well illustrated look at the history of coal mining in Staffordshire, a key part of industry around such towns and cities as Stafford and Stoke.
£14.39
Amberley Publishing Aveling Porter
Book SynopsisUtilising the stunning photographic collection of noted preservationist John Crawley, with most images previously unpublished, Old Glory magazine editor Colin Tyson tells the story behind the most iconic manufacturer of steam traction engines.
£13.49
