Author:
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: street, journal, wall, book, stories, herd
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-11-25
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0743254201
ISBN-13: 9780743254205
For more than sixty years, The Wall Street Journal has prided itself not just on its serious journalism, but also on the whimsical and arcane stories that amuse and delight its readers. In that regard, animal stories have proven to be the most beloved of all. Now, veteran Journal reporter and Page One editor Ken Wells gathers the finest, funniest, and most fascinating of these animal tales in one exceptional book. Here are lighthearted, witty stories of breakthroughs in goldfish surgery, the untiring efforts of British animal lovers who guide lovesick toads across dangerous motorways, and th
Author: Tobias Hecht
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: street, brazil, northeast, children, home
Number of Pages: 279
Published: 1998-05-13
List price: $31.99
ISBN-10: 0521598699
ISBN-13: 9780521598699
Through innovative fieldwork and ethnographic writing, Hecht lays bare the received truths about the lives of Brazilian street children. This book changes the terms of the debate, asking not why there are so many homeless children in Brazil but why - given the oppressive alternative of home life in the shantytowns - there are in fact so few. Speaking in recorded sessions that participants called "radio workshops," street children asked one another questions that even the most experienced researchers would be unlikely to pose. At the center of this study are children who play, steal, sleep, dan
Author: Erik Bank
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: street, wall, life, need, working
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2004-02-07
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1403963770
ISBN-13: 9781403963772
Written by a former Managing Director at Merrill Lynch, Working the Street is the resource for readers hoping to build a successful career on Wall Street. It is not a "how-to" career book or a job guide. It doesn’t tell the reader who to contact for a job or what classes to take to prepare for a career in banking, and it is not a book about the technical "nuts and bolts" of Wall Street. What this book does tell the reader is about some of the "ins and outs" of Wall Street; about how things really work in the banking world; about some of the speed bumps to watch out for and some of the "l
Author: Karen White
Publisher: NAL Trade
Keywords: street, tradd, legare, girl
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-11-03
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0451227999
ISBN-13: 9780451227997
Acclaimed author Karen White returns with the sequel to the national bestseller The House on Tradd Street.Melanie has grown accustomed to renovating old houses, but she never imagined she’d have to renovate her own life to include her estranged mother. Ginnette Prioleau Middleton left Charleston thirty-five years ago. She’s returned wanting to protect the daughter she’s never really known after receiving an ominous premonition. Melanie never wanted to see her mother again, but with some prodding from her partner, Jack Trenholm, she agrees-and begins to rebuild their relations
Author: AA Publishing
Publisher: Aa Publishing
Keywords: street, britain, atlas, trucker
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-06-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0749556781
ISBN-13: 9780749556785
Fully updated for 2008, this essential reference includes truck and freight ferry routes, a route planner map, distance chart, and a road risk rating map designed to help you avoid Britain’s more dangerous thoroughfares. More than 1,600 bridge heights are shown, low bridge symbols are provided for all A and B roads, and minor roads more than 4 meters wide are identified. Network Rail’s 25 most frequently bashed bridges are also labeled, and large-scale district maps of London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, and Newcastle are provided.
Authors:Marc D. Street, Vera L. Street,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushki
Keywords: management, views, clashing, sides, taking
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2006-10-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0073527211
ISBN-13: 9780073527215
This Second Edition of TAKING SIDES: CLASHING VIEWS IN MANAGEMENT presents current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. An instructors manual with testing material is available for each volume. USING TAKING SIDES IN THE CLASSROOM is also an excellent instructor resource with practical suggestions on incorporating this effective approach in the classroom. Each TAKING SIDES reader features an annotated listing of
Author: Arthur Levitt
Publisher: Random House Audio
Keywords: street, fight, don, corporate, wall, america
Published: 2002-10-08
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 055375694X
ISBN-13: 9780553756944
Investors today are being fed lies and distortions, are being exploited and neglected. In the wake of the last decades rush to invest by millions of households and Wall Streets obsession with short-term performance, a culture of gamesmanship has grown among corporate management, financial analysts, brokers, and fund managers, making it hard to tell financial fantasy from reality, salesmanship from honest advice.In Take on the Street, Arthur Levittformer chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commissionshows how you can take matters into your own hands. At once anecdotal (names are named),
