Mastering the Business of Writing: A Leading Literary Agent Reveals the Secrets of Success
Mastering the Business of Writing is an unusual opportunity for aspiring and established professionals to benefit from an insider's straightforward take on the business of being a writer. A leading literary agent covers approaching the various markets, negotiating successful contracts, benefitting from agents, handling legalities, and strategies and skills that will benefit writers in today's publishing market.
This book guides accountants through the processes they need to understand to develop and present a high-risk business proposal with success. This compact guide outlines every issue surrounding a business case, from profit benefits and beyond. Will the proposal change the way the business operates, and how can these changes be predicted? What risks are involved, how can they be understood, and how can they be prevented? Who will manage the investment benefit delivery? How can technology be best used to make the venture work? All are explained succinctly and illustrated ...
How Math Can Save Your Life: (And Make You Rich, Help You Find The One, and Avert Catastrophes)
Taking his lead from Freakonomics, mathematics professor Stein examines everyday, occasional, and inevitable life problems—what′s the financial benefit of a college degree over a lifetime? Is gambling more cost–efficient entertainment than a first–run movie? How much money does a hybrid car actually save?—through the lens of arithmetic, with enlightening, and sometimes surprising, results.
Mathematics and Beauty: Aesthetic Approaches to Teaching Children
Nathalie Sinclair makes a compelling case for the inclusion of the aesthetic in the teaching and learning of mathematics, and illuminates how the materials and approaches we use in the mathematics classroom can be enriched for the benefit of all learners.
Fantastic Voyage: How to Benefit from Cutting Edge Science and Add Years to Your Life
Live long enough to live for ever! Immortality is within our grasp. We are in the early stages of multiple profound revolutions spawned by the intersection of biology, information science and nanotechnology. With the decoding of the genome and our efforts to decode its expression in proteins, many new life-extending methodologies are emerging. This fascinating book brings it all together for the layman. Accessible and clear, Fantastic Voyage charts the progress that has been made and points the way to what is to come.
