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Quantitative Methods: A Short Course
Jon Curwin , and Roger Slater Manufacturer: Int. Cengage Business Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1861529910 |
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This book has been written specifically to support shorter courses in statistics and quantitative methods, and aims to make accessible to students what is commonly perceived to be a very difficult subject. It provides revision for basic mathematical numerical skills, examines some simple statistical techniques, and introduces some basic quantitative modelling techniques. Each chapter is written in such a way as to be complete in its own right and approximately match a week of the study programme - students will be able to pick up this book at any point and make sense of the topic being covered. Key to this book is its excellent pedagogy. Learning objectives and outcomes are provided at the start and end of chapters; many worked examples are included throughout the chapters, with first-rate explanations; and numerous end-of-chapter questions are provided, with excellent accompanying answers.
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New quantitative methods in conflict resolution: application of analysis to military, political and other forms of competition (858): five-day short course, Jan. 13-17, 1969
Thomas L Saaty Manufacturer: University of California Extension ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007GMI0W |
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Parent's Guide to 8th Grade
Elizabeth Chesla Manufacturer: LearningExpress, LLC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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ASIN: 1576853829 |
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This reader-friendly guide aimed at concerned parents will help with challenges such as the sometimes-difficult transition from elementary school to junior high, the effect of peer influence on a child's behavior, and the stress caused by competition and standardized tests.
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The Word Whiz's Guide to New York Middle School Vocabulary : Let This Nerd Help You Master 400 Words to Help You Score Higher on the New York State 8th Grade Tests and Succeed in School
Chris Kensler Manufacturer: Kaplan Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0743211057 |
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Some kids collect baseball cards. I collect words.
Hi! I'm the Word Whiz. I'm in middle school, just like you, and I'm going to turn you into a Word Whiz -- just like me! I'm going to introduce you to more than 600 words middle school students need to know for New York State tests, in class, and when doing homework. Important words for important subjects, such as:
English Language Arts: paraphrase, alliteration, genre, metaphor, symbolism Math: convert, probability, hypotenuse, median, variable Social Studies: partisan, inalienable, imperialism, ratify, consequences Science: buoyant, neutron, friction, oxidation, synthesis
I've also included words commonly used in questions on New York State tests, including approximate, equivalent, and opinion.
My WhizWord lists have kid-friendly definitions and sample sentences, plus synonyms, antonyms, related words and meanings, and examples of how the words are used on the New York State tests.
I've also included all this extra cool stuff:
* WhizTips: helpful hints on how to learn words and ace tests. * WhizQuizzes: mini-quizzes to help cement the words in your brain. * WhizFacts: general good stuff to know about these words.
And that's not all! I also made up some really fun practice exercises. They will help you nail down these vocabulary words by relating them to things we're interested in, like TV, movies, sports, and music.
The words in this book will come in handy for the rest of your life. So let's get started!
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Kaplan No-Stress Guide to the 8th Grade MCAS, Second Edition
Cynthia Johnson , and Drew Johnson Manufacturer: Kaplan Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Accessories: ASIN: 0743214153 |
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More Confidence for an Awesome Score
Kaplan's No-Stress Guide to the 8th Grade MCAS (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System) is the ultimate guide to succeeding on the challenging exam now required for all Massachusetts 8th graders.
The No-Stress Guide to the 8th Grade MCAS combines a focused series of strategies specifically tailored for the Massachusetts exam with a humorous and engaging storyline. This essential guide includes:
* Review of all the content area objectives covered on the MCAS.
* Effective Test-Taking Strategies including time management, methods for tackling tough problems, and more.
* Extensive Practice on every type of question found on the MCAS.
* Humorous Theme using an original storyline designed to make important lessons memorable.
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Excellent Book.......2004-11-02
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Human Sexuality - Values & Choices - A Values Based Curriculum for 7th and 8th Grades (A Guide for Parents of Young Adolescents)
Forliti et al. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000K36BFK |
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Kaplan No-Stress Guide to the 8th Grade FCAT, Second Edition
Cynthia Johnson , and Drew Johnson Manufacturer: Kaplan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Find the Confidence to Ace the Test
Kaplan's No-Stress Guide to the 8th Grade FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test) is the ultimate guide to succeeding on the challenging exam now required for all Florida 8th graders.
The No-Stress Guide to the 8th Grade FCAT combines a focused series of strategies specifically tailored for the Florida exam with a humorous and engaging storyline. This essential guide includes:
* Review of all the content area objectives covered on the FCAT.
* Effective Test-Taking Strategies including time management, methods for tackling tough problems, and more.
* Extensive Practice on every type of question found on the FCAT.
* Humorous Theme using an original storyline designed to make important lessons memorable.
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Successful Homework Habits: A Parent's Guide: Kindergarten - 8th Grade Edition
Dr. Bernadine Hoffman Manufacturer: AuthorHouse ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1420831143 |
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This book is full of practical ideas to help parents take the struggles out of homework time. Topics discussed in this book include: How to get your child to do homework without constant "nagging" How to avoid problems associated with long range homework projects How to prepare for tests How to supervise internet access How to approach your child's teacher And much more This book is designed to help today's parents have a positive influence on their children's development by using homework as a way to teach responsibility and other qualities. This book gives parents the tools needed to encourage their children to complete their own homework and get it to school on time.
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Kaplan No-Stress Guide to the New York State 8th Grade Tests, 2nd edition
Cynthia Johnson , and Drew Johnson Manufacturer: Kaplan Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
Accessories: ASIN: 0743214137 |
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Review. Strategies. Confidence. Results.
Kaplan's No-Stress Guide to the New York State 8th Grade Tests is the ultimate guide to succeeding on the challenging series of exams in English Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, and Technology now required for all New York 8th graders.
The No-Stress Guide to the New York State 8th Grade Tests combines a focused series of strategies specifically tailored for the New York State Exams with a humorous and engaging storyline. This essential guide includes:
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A Great book for 8th Graders.......2001-06-12
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Executive guide to Federal income tax planning for life insurance companies
Joseph L Pfeister Manufacturer: Touche Ross ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006E4QVO |
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Quality Management Benchmark Assessment
J. P. Russell Manufacturer: Quality Resources. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound ASIN: 0527762954 |
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This assessment is ideal for anyone who must develop a quality plan - whether your company is applying for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, pursuing ISO cerification, or simply assessing how your quality processes measure up against these two widely accepted sets of quality criteria.With a checklist of 256 requirements, Quality Management Benchmark Assessment (QMBA) provides the framework to:
* Identify quality management criteria for each business function.
* Direct corrective action and monitor progress.
* Use universal quality requirements while adding your own unique requirements.
* Prepare your organization for quality assurance certification.
* Evaluate your suppliers.
QMBA provides special insights on assessments for service organizations - either stand-alone companies or those internal to product companies.
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Quality Management Benchmark Assessment/Workbook
J. P. Russell Manufacturer: Quality Resources ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0527916420 |
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Ebusiness Technology Kit for Dummies
Kathleen Allen Manufacturer: Hungry Minds ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0764552619 |
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eBusiness Technology Kit For Dummies is the best resource for information on using computer technology to help your small business succeed. This book begins with defining the benefits of technology and equips you with information about the best tools to use for all types of small business. Find out why a technology strategy is necessary and how to incorporate it into a business plan. Learn how to plan for cost and execution as well as how to deal with technology consultants. eBusiness Technology Kit For Dummies will guide you step-by-step through the maze of computers, e-mail, and the Internet. Featured is a CD-ROM disk filled with interactive software, templates, exercises, and samples.
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Today the term "insider lending" conveys an aura of abuse and corruption, of unethical, if not illegal, behavior. In early nineteenth century New England, however, insider lending was an integral aspect of the banking system. Not only was the practice an accepted fact of economic life, but, as Naomi R. Lamoreaux argues, it enabled banks (at least in this particular historical context) to play an important role in financing economic development. As the banking system evolved over the course of the century, however, lending practices became more impersonal and professional.
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Train at Home to Work at Home: How to Get Certified, Earn a Degree, or Take a Class from Home to Begin a Work-At-Home Career
Michelle McGarry Manufacturer: iUniverse ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0595284507 |
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Begin a Work-at-Home Career with the Training and Education You Need!This unique guide provides comprehensive resources on more than 200 distance-learning programs that can teach you 27 of the most popular and profitable work-at-home careers.
Distance-learning programs have exploded in the last few yearscourses are now available online, via e-mail, via teleclass, through the mail, on audiotape, on videotape, and even on CD-ROM.
You can learn:
· graphic design at UCLA
· professional writing at Washington State University
· life coaching at CoachU
· Web site design at Penn State
· financial planning at University of Alabama
· interior design at the Art Institute International
· medical transcription at the Health Professions Institute
and many more. Plus, extensive resource lists (organizations, books, and Web sites) complete each section. Full contact information, tuition rates, and course descriptions make comparisons and contrasts a breeze.
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This Book Helped Find Me A Career.......2007-01-12
Good If You Have the Financial Resources........2006-03-10
A Great Resource Book.......2003-10-30
This book provides information on different work-at-home occupations. It does not provide information on how to perform those occupations nor does it pretend to provide any training. It is a resource book that points the reader to some of the better work-at-home ideas and how to get the training you will need in order to be successful at the venture.
Offers a wealth of practical advice.......2003-09-21
A Where To Look For Book Pertaining to Home Study.......2003-08-21
McGarry's main focus is to provide information about training and education for home careers.
As for the pros and cons of home businesses, and the how-to in setting them up, the author refers her readers to her section entitled "Michelle's Bookshelf and Bookmarks."
The arrangement of the listing of occupations and businesses are in alphabetical order, covering such occupations as: bed and breakfast owners, bookkeeping services, catering services, childbirth educators, child day care providers, desktop publishers, editorial services, graphic designers, financial planners, home inspectors, image consultants, indexers, information brokers, medical billing and coding, and many more.
Learning institutions offering programs pertaining to the various careers are listed with their addresses, phone numbers, web sites and email addresses.
This is followed by an indication of the courses offered, the types of certifications or degrees attainable, costs, number of credits required for completion, if there is email support, what learning materials are included, information concerning exams, delivery methods, and other pertinent data.
For example, if you were interested in becoming a paralegal, we are informed that the University of California, Los Angles, is one institution that you may want to consider.
This university offers two certificates with different concentrations: an Attorney Assistant, Litigation Option certificate and an Attorney Assistant, Corporate Option certificate. The cost of the program is $3, 750.00. On the other hand, you may wish to follow the program offered by Ashworth College in Norcross, Georgia, which approaches the course in a different manner.
One caveat, as the author mentions, "verify that what you're learning is satisfactory to the industry standards. Check with national associations if this program will satisfy their certification requirements. Ask industry leaders if you need a Bachelor degree, or if a certificate will suffice. Do you need in-office experience in this field before breaking out on your own?"
At the end of each career segment the author provides references to various books as well as E-books, organizations, and web sites, where the reader may further his or her knowledge concerning a particular occupation.
One of the drawbacks of books of this nature is that some of the information provided becomes quickly obsolete.
In order to deal with this problem, the author offers a free e-mail newsletter that will update readers on new programs, old programs no longer available, new tuition rates, new phone numbers and other pertinent information.
Replete with a great deal of information reflecting the author's many hours of meticulous research, this book will prove to be invaluable to anyone contemplating working from home, or wishing to improve their skills.
As an added bonus, the author provides an eleven- page bibliography, as well as a listing of recommended web sites. ...
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Pictorial Metaphor in Advertising
Char Forceville Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 0415128684 |
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Pictorial Metaphor in Advertising, Charles Forceville argues that metaphor can occur in pictures as well as words and draws on relevant studies from various disciplines to propose a model for the identification, classification and analysis of "pictorial metaphors." Forceville shows not only how metaphor can occur in pictures, but also provides a framework within which these pictorial metaphors can be analyzed.
The theoretical insights are applied to thirty advertisements and billboards of British, French, German and Dutch origin. The detailed analyses of the advertisements suggest how metaphor theory can be employed as a tool in media studies, shedding light on where general agreement about the meaning of pictorial metaphor can shade over into other more idiosyncratic but equally valid interpretations.
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Charles Forceville provides us with a method of detecting the metaphors which exist within pictures, particularly in advertising.Customer Reviews:
Excellent book on metaphor and visual images.......1999-09-26
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Pictorial Metaphor in Advertising
Ch Forceville Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MUUDJQ |
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Emergency Planning Guide for Utilities
Samuel Mullen Manufacturer: Pennwell Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0878144137 |
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Emergency Power Planning Guide for Water & Wastewater Utilities
Manufacturer: American Waterworks Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 158321321X Release Date: 2003-12-06 |
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This book reviews the causes and effects of power outages and establishes treatment system plans that are reliable and resistant to vulnerabilities, in order that water and wastewater utilities can properly respond to these events. Financial and public health risks are addressed to assist facility planners and operators when considering the multi-faceted issues that pertain to standby power options. By providing a basis for the planning that ensures safety and reliability, the book is intended to provide education on the need, costs, and options related to standby power supply.
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Disaster planning: A guide for utility fleets
Nancy Coe Bailey Manufacturer: Public Utilities Reports ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0910325561 |
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Computer-Managed Maintenance Systems
William W. Cato , and R. Keith Mobley Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0750674733 |
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Effective resource management and reliable equipment are essential for optimum plant performance. Computer-Managed Maintenance Systems goes beyond the simple selection and implementation of a CMMS. It also defines the changes in infrastructure, management philosophy and employee skills that must be implemented to gain maximum benefits from the CMMS. The book is designed to address the information needs of all levels of plant management.
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Computer-Managed Maintenance Systems in Process Plants: A Step-by-Step Guide to Effective Management of Maintenance, Labor, and Inventory in Your Operation
William W. Cato , and R. Keith Mobley Manufacturer: Gulf Professional Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0884151379 |
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A CMMS is an integrated set of computer programs and data files used to efficiently govern the massive amounts of data generated by maintenance, inventory control, and purchasing. With a CMMS in place, you will effectively manage both the human and capital resources in your plant. Now you can: trace materials used and track their costs; maintain optimum, cost-effective inventory levels; better utilize labor; automatically create maintenance histories; and make maintenance cost data readily accessible in a variety of formats.Books:
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