Risk Management: The Bottleneck Is at the Top of the Bottle

The author outlines the reasons why management risk must be examined within the perspective of each company's business challenges. He suggests there is a synergy between shareholder value and business ethics. He also underlines the importance of honesty, the risks associated with short-sighted management and over-centralization, the benefits of innovative strategies and senior management's accountability for reliable financial reporting. The text is based on an extensive research project done by the author between 2000 and 2002 in the US, the UK, France, Italy and Switzerland. 

Bead Flowers

Using just small beads and wires, readers can learn to express their creativity by crafting beautiful roses, violets, carnations, tulips and other flowers.
 With easy-to-follow instructions and colorful drawings and pictures, BEAD FLOWERS guides readers through the basics, then goes on to offer instructions for creating festive arrangements for special events and occasions, including wedding bouquets, fruits and vegetables for Halloween decorations, Christmas trees and seasonal wreaths.

The Dictionary of Do’s and Dont’s

This book is an indispensable companion for all who care about saying what they mean and meaning what they say. It is a sophisticated guide to the conquest of jargon, clumsy locutions, tired words and phrases, and hackneyed cliches. This zesty work on good and bad usage is a needed corrective to the misuse and abuse of language. It includes hundreds of examples of the faddish and the too familiar, and offers wise and often witty counsel on how to use the English language with freshness, vigor, clarity, and confidence. Entries include Back Formations, Barnyard Metaphors, Crackerbarrel Terms, Drone Words, Dumbstruck Expressions, Fossil Phrases, Null Sounds, Toy Words, Tranquilizer Cliches.

English Grammar in Signs (Grammar Charts)

English Grammar in Signs (Grammar Charts)

 

Grammar Charts for wide-screen presentation

 

Chemistry, 2nd Edition (Taught By Professor Frank Cardulla)Taught By Professor Frank Cardulla

Many students struggle in high school chemistry. Even if they succeed in earning a good grade, they often still feel confused and unconfident. Why is this? And what can be done to help every student succeed in this vitally important course? Success in chemistry, according to veteran science teacher Professor Frank Cardulla, doesn't require any special intellectual gifts or talents or advanced mathematical skill. All it requires is a genuine understanding of the ideas that students encounter in the high school chemistry classroom.