Author: T.C. Boyle
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: american, fiction, contemporary, stories, whiskey, river
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1990-05-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140119507
ISBN-13: 9780140119503

Eccentrics, charlatans, and decent, vulnerable people. You’ll find them all in this acclaimed collection of stories. From "Sorry Fugu," the tale of an improbable romance between a restaurateur and a food critic, to "The Little Chill," a chronicle of 60’s survivors in arrested development, these works are magical, surprising, haunting, and hilarious.

Authors:Gerald L. Manning, Barry L. Reece,
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: ninth, value, customer, creating, selling
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2003-06-24
List price: $146.70
ISBN-10: 0131009524
ISBN-13: 9780131009523

Selling Today: Creating Customer Value, one of the most popular sales information books on the market, offers readers a blend of time-proven fundamentals and new practices needed to succeed in today’s information economy. It emphasizes the need for salespeople to be guided by the new principle of personal selling: establishing partnerships that are maintained by customer value, created by the salesperson. This edition stresses the need for sales professionals to cope with new forces shaping the world of sales and marketing, and emphasizes the strategies for long-term success. It provid

Authors:Barabba, Vincent P. Barabba, Gerald Zaltman, Harvard
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Keywords: market, voice, hearing
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 1991-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0071032851
ISBN-13: 9780071032858

More than ever before, companies must listen to and correctly interpret the voice of the market. They must be fully attuned to the signals that come from customers, dealers, and competitors in order to make the right decisions. Firms that lose touch with the market, that either ignore or misinterpret meaning, will fail in today’s competitive environment. Hearing the Voice of the Market provides a detailed plan that enables managers throughout the organization to make more frequent and better market information.

Authors:Damiano Brigo, Andrea Pallavicini, Roberto Torresett
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: models, dynamic, wiley, series, correlations, finance, copulas, crisis, journey, cdos, credit
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2010-06-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0470665661
ISBN-13: 9780470665664

The recent financial crisis has highlighted the need for better valuation models and risk management procedures, better understanding of structured products, and has called into question the actions of many financial institutions. It has become commonplace to blame the inadequacy of credit risk models, claiming that the crisis was due to sophisticated and obscure products being traded, but practitioners have for a long time been aware of the dangers and limitations of credit models. It would seem that a lack of understanding of these models is the root cause of their failures but until now lit

Author: Nick Rennison
Publisher: A&C Black
Keywords: bloomsbury, reading, guides, read, guide, discover
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2009-11-23
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1408113953
ISBN-13: 9781408113950

Deciding what to read next when you’ve just finished an unputdownable novel can be daunting. The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide features hundreds of authors and thousands of titles, with navigation features to lead you on a rich journey through some of the best literature to grace our shelves. This greatly expanded edition features 40 new author entries including more recently established authors with a proven body of work: Monica Ali, Anne Enright, Jonathan Franzen and Marina Lewycka, more non-fiction writers (Roger Deakin, Robert Macfarlane, Graham Robb, Kate Summerscale), new sections

Authors:Marjorie Fuchs, Margaret Bonner,
Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
Keywords: grammar, focus
Published: 2000-06-02
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0201687062
ISBN-13: 9780201687064

Authors:Herbert Heneman III, Timothy Judge, John Kammeyer-Mu
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Keywords: organizations, staffing
Number of Pages: 784
Published: 2011-05-23
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0078112680
ISBN-13: 9780078112683

Heneman and Judge’s Staffing Organizations, 7/e, is based on a comprehensive staffing model. Components of the model include staffing models and strategy, staffing support systems (legal compliance, planning, job analysis and rewards), core staffing systems (recruitment, selection, employment), and staffing system and retention management. Up-to-date research and business practices are the hallmarks of this market leading text. In-depth applications (cases and exercises) at the end of chapters provide students with skill-building and practice in key staffing activities and decision-making. A